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Great post! +5
I see you're determined to become a PSU expert.
Also for Stacker users like me, and Silverstone TJ-07 and those cases which supports two PSU's, make sure you utilize it and maybe you could save some cash. Using a fanless and an older Enermax (26A on 12V) right now in mine. Going to dedicate one to a second-wave DirectX 10 card and the CPU, and will be running drives and motherboard off the other.
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I'm actually aiming to increase EVERYONE'S knowledge about PSUs. I think having as much information about a product before you buy is key to making the right purchase. Its pretty depressing seeing people buying $70 power supplies to power $2000 of equipment. If I can help at least one person make the right decision, I'll be happy.
Good to see someone else is choosing to talk about PSUs seriously
Quote: (SKYMTL w Nov 28 2006, 08:38 AM)Its pretty depressing seeing people buying $70 power supplies to power $2000 of equipment
Agreed. Good links btw and + 5 to you.
I'm personally picking up the Silverstone Zeus ST75ZF for it's great price to performance ratioThis message was modified by the poster at 11 28, 2006 09:13 AM
Just stick around jonnyguru.com for all PSU related stuff, you can find all these reviews linked there as well
I am actually going to update the original post whenever there are any new, good reviews of PSUs out there.
The whole crop of "We hooked this PSU up to a 7900GTX SLI system and it ran it perfectly for a whole hour! Editor's Choice!!!" reviews do NOT constitute good reviews in my book so you will never see me linking one. The only reviews you will see me post are the fully-loaded, O-Scope reading, transistor analyzing ones.
Glad to see you have changed
Quote: (Mr. Admiral~X~™ t Nov 28 2006, 08:56 AM)Just stick around jonnyguru.com for all PSU related stuff, you can find all these reviews linked there as well
All the jonnyguru reviews are linked at the bottom of the first post. In addition, Jonny has already complimented Xbitlabs for a great review roundup and good testing methods. This message was modified by the poster at 11 28, 2006 09:20 AM
SKYMTL, +5 again. You continue to amaze me. Great work!
Also have you found any Nmedia reviews?
I'll be buying an Nmedia tonight considering my Antec 450W took a shiite on me. Serves me right for lauding its robustness. I'm buying the Nmedia to use it and start a review myself. Then I'm probably going to a Zeus and donating the Nmedia to Jonnyguru.com to review.
Stupid Antec PSU.....
Good to see this is a sticky though.
I was wondering what you were thinking about the Pc Power and Cooling Power supplies. They were the first to sell the 1kwatt psu, and the packaging they use for their power supplies is better than any other company... I could not see those anywhere in your links, even though they have a serious reputation for the only product they make, power supplies.
I will of course be adding power supply review which include the PCP&C but I had to get on here for long enough to order a new PSU. OCZ GameXstream 700W...I just couldn't pass up the price. PCP&C make the best PSUs around.
Now I have to get off this computer as I've got a 7900GTO, OC'd X2 3800+ and 2 HDs running off of a modded 250W PS.
Wish I had read this before I bought my OCZ Gamestream 700W on sale.
Can't complain it for the price, but it might have issues if I push it beyond 600/650W.
Amazing post + 5
SKYMTL said:
Quote: (SKYMTL @ Nov 28 2006, 03:15 PM)Then I'm probably going to a Zeus
Can you report back on the noise factor on the Zeus. I'm looking for a power supply now as my Seasonic 500Watt just died.
Many of these highly rated power supplies such as the Zippy, Silverstone, and PCP&C seem to only offer noisy 80mm fans. Those with 120mm fans seem alot quieter.
I just can't see myself spending upwards of $200 for a noisy powersupply.
I didn't go with the Zeus. I picked up the OCZ GameXstream 700W mostly because of the price.
I'm working on updating the original post right now. I'm adding a bit more info and making it a bit easier to access.
sweet, your post made it to the sticky section.
In case nobody has noticed, we created three new forum categories yesterday.
PSU Discussions
CPU Discussions
VGA Discussion
Once we get a coupole more things tweaked this post can be a sticky under PSU Discussions instead of the main area (as it would eventually have to be removed).
Updated original post with more info and made it easier to read with listings under alphabetical order. More to be added soon.
Nice post! Here are some points for you :)
Must be nice to have all that time to assemble this information.(just jealous)
Thanks for the links, especially xbit and jonnyguru. I haven't been in the market for a power supply in a long time (over two years), and before I've been using silentpcreview as the site for most of my readings on power supplies. It's great to see these other sites so we can get second, or third opinions on the power supplies.
Thanks alot for the Info. Good Stuff and Honest. I had an OCZ 520 powering an AMD Dual Core, 4800 with 2 gigs of OCZ Ram, Ati x1900xtx, 2 Raptors and a CD and DVD burners OC to 2600Mhz. Nothing but Cold Boot Problems. THe review sites said this 520 unit was more than enough to power this setup. Wrong.Wrong Wrong.
I bought OCZ 700 Gamestream, Cold Boot Gone. THose Ati x1900xtx love lots of extra power.
Quote: (stoanee @ Nov 29 2006, 07:24 PM)Must be nice to have all that time to assemble this information.
To tell you the truth, I have been compiling that info for more than a week. I've been bringing it to the office (where I hardly have any time) and back home with me on a flash drive. Now its up and to add stuff to it will be realitively easy.
I have been recomending the OCZ GamerXStream 700W like crazy and I didnt even own one. I just bought one hoping to get it tomorrow. Ill give you guys and SKYMTL an update soon
you should also include some other reviews aside from xbit. ie.
Nice one SKY! +5 for the awesomeness!
SKYMTL you are my hero
thanks so much!
Wow, first off great post.
Im currently building from scratch and this thread was very helpful.
Maybe I should be posting this elsewhere, but I have not found any reviews for this PSU
OCZ GameXStream 600W ATX12V 24PIN SLI Ready Active PFC ATX Power Supply 120MM Fan Black
Im considering it because it comes at a discounted price when bundled w/my CPU
X1950PRO -or- EVGA 7900GS GPU
2 GIGS Corsair PC6400 DDR2-800RAM
Western Digi. 250gig HD
running in a ASUS P5W DH Deluxe ATX LGA775 mobo
ANy thoughts?
Thanks again for this great post!


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Lou Ferrigno, Adam Corolla, Penn Jillette, And Aubrey O'Day Chat About Celebrity Apprentice
January 05, 2012 02:30 PM by Lisa Princ
The new cast has been announced for NBC's Celebrity Apprentice, and if that was not enough to excite you, you are in luck, as we have some of the new contestants' thoughts to share with you. That's right – Adam Corolla, Lou Ferrigno, Penn Jillette, and Aubrey O'Day sat down to chat about the show in a recent press interview. What did they have to say about the new season? You'll have to read on to find out!
The new season of Celebrity Apprentice premieres Sunday, February 12th, and if you can't wait, you are in luck as a few of the contestants sat down for a press interview today. Adam Corolla, Lou Ferrigno, Penn Jillette, and Aubrey O'Day shared some thoughts on the upcoming season for you! Unfortunately, Lou Ferrigno had a bad connection, and did not answer many questions, but the others had plenty of answers! Check out their press conference below.
Question: This question is for everyone. Can you talk about what you have found be your strong suit when you're competing?
Aubrey O'Day: My strong suit is that I'm able to manipulate all the boys, right guys?
Penn Jillette: I would say my strong point is simply not die. I mean if I do deep breathing, stay alive, let the (eso) depletion happen, not dying is all you have to do, the same as being shipwrecked. Your only heroic is not to die.
Adam Carolla: You know, it is about survival more than it's, you know, you're not there to thrive. You're there not to be eliminated and not to have a stroke. And I don't want to give away too much but I was one of those things during the course of the show.
Question: Lou can you talk about the experience was different than what you expected when you first signed on?
Lou Ferrigno: Well first of all, I was on the show with a bunch of great talent, great people, great friends. It was very difficult and very challenging. I learned a lot but I really had a lot of fun. And it's tough. But basically it's like a chess game.
Question: This one is for everyone. Who surprised you the most on the show?
Penn Jillette: I was a little surprised by Paul Senior. You know, Paul Senior was a guy of a stupid show that just yelled a lot and meant nothing to me. And he turned out to be a very good friend and really smart and really savvy and really, really kind and measured. And I appreciate all those things. And that was kind of a shock. A lot of the other people on the show I knew before I went in. And a lot of the people on the show acted the way that I could have predicted. But Paul Senior was a real surprise for me.
Adam Carolla: I was surprised that Clay Aiken was as gritty as he was. Like I knew Clay Aiken was, you know – I knew the guy had the competitive spirit because he did another show that we won't mention that involved the competition. But I didn't know the guy other than is his huge candy consumption had a lot of just roll up his sleeves and great – well you don't normally associate Clay Aiken with that kind of guy you'd want on your football team but to me it was Clay Aiken.
Question: Can you all talk about how you chose your charities?
Penn Jillette: My charity was Opportunity Village which is a – it's a charity for intellectually disabled result adults in the Las Vegas area. And it's a real important paradigm. It's a new way of thinking of getting people back into the culture. And you take wonderfully successful things that people for whom tying their shoes and cooking breakfast is a difficult thing to not be warehoused to be a part of society. But all of that is just the intellectual justification. The real reason in my heart is that it was an Elvis charity and all those scarves that Elvis gave out from the stage were made at Opportunity Village. Every time Elvis kissed one of those scarves and threw them out in the audience that was something made by Opportunity Village. So I was on Celebrity Apprentice fighting for the charity that Elvis Aaron Presley would have fought for.
Adam Carolla: For me it was Catholic Big Brothers not even because I'm Catholic, just because I was part of the program many years ago. And I just saw what a positive change it could create in a young child's life.So for me it was pretty simple. I just picked a charity that I myself was a Catholic Big Brother way back in the early and mid-90s. And it just seemed like a logical choice.
Aubrey O'Day: This is Aubrey. I chose GLSEN which stands for the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network because I experienced bullying growing up. I'm sure a lot of the celebrities on the actual show experienced not fitting in at one point or another. I felt like it's also something that is very relevant now in pop culture and something that we've seen a great deal of. And as someone that's experienced it and someone that's involved with a lot of charity I felt like it would be the strongest representation of what's popular now to stand up for and defend and really have a voice for.
Question: What was something that you learned about yourself from doing The Celebrity Apprentice?
Aubrey O'Day: I learned that I was a lot better at being like real-world jobs than I thought. I think when you're in entertainment long enough you get used to the hustle and bustle of what it takes to survive in this world. And although it is a reality show and it's something in an entertainment world, the jobs that we were doing were for actual companies and we were building products and branding and really creating a name for a company and it was a serious job and they were looking for serious results. And I think that it was really fun to be able to learn other things that I was good at.
Adam Carolla: I found out that I was basically a puss who couldn't handle 6-1/2 hours of sleep six days a week and needed a TiVo and/or DVR apparatus not more than 3 feet away from me no matter where I was. So for me I found my weaknesses instead of my inner strengths.
Penn Jillette: I found that if I really focused and the stakes were really high I could stay in a room with Clay Aiken without swallowing my own tongue. It's a miracle. I look back on it my friends are just gob smacked that I was – that I didn't just run out screaming.
Question: This question is for Penn. Why not just use mind games and magic to win?
Penn Jillette: Because no one knows what game you're playing. It's an arbitrary game without rules. I can't tell you the game – the rules of Texas Hold 'em. I cannot tell you the rules of Celebrity Apprentice. It's an arbitrary capricious thing. So if there aren't rules you can't cheat. If there were rules I would have cheated.
Question: So does that mean you didn't use any magic or mind games?
Penn Jillette: I – it turns out I did do magic, I did do juggling, I did do fire eating. But in terms of mind games it was mostly just, you know, being in a tiger cage and numb.
Question: Can you give us any tidbits on what we can expect this season on Celebrity Apprentice?
Aubrey O'Day: Well this season we had a bigger cast. We had the biggest cast we've ever had. I think we started off with what, 18 people guys, nine and nine? And usually they start off I think with six and six. So we had a much bigger season. We had. I think crazier challenges in a lot of ways than I've ever seen on other past seasons. Also, I mean it's a bunch of Type A personalities that think they are the biggest star in the room and think that they know everything and think that they're right and you're watching all of them fight to stay in that night. So it's interesting TV started off I think with a lot of really great stars. I think there is a bigger star power on the guys cast than there was on the girls clearly. And I think that it was really interesting to see everything go down. I definitely think that the girls need much better TV than the guys and will be the reason why everyone tunes in besides Penn and Adam Carolla who are amazing.
Question: Did you have a particular strategy going in, and did that end up changing?
Adam Carolla: I did not personally other than, you know don't get everyone to hate you the first week. But you learn. You learn pretty quick that whatever you had planned at the beginning is probably only good for a couple of days and then it just becomes…a kind of Chinese fire drill at least in my opinion. If you're too rigid in your plan it's not going to be able to – you're not going to be able to fully apply it to whatever it is you're doing. So for me half a plan to start with and that quickly went out the window.
Penn Jillette: My plan was actually from the philosopher Mike Tyson who said everyone has a plan until they get hit. And everybody does have a plan until they get hit. And the instant that something doesn't go the way you planned especially with this particular group of people all plans go out the window. I believe that some people that what is a little bit depressing about working on the show is that even people who suspend their morality completely and are willing to do anything don't do it well enough to do damage. I saw people who were willing to do anything to win and you could see that clearly that they had let go of their morality completely and they still didn't win. I mean it's like a guy who decides to rob a liquor store with a shotgun and everybody looks at him and goes get out of here and he goes okay. He's already done the moral transgression and he still failed at his task.
Aubrey O'Day: Yes I agree with Penn and Adam. I don't think that this is a show that you really can be strategized with.
Question: Can you share some of the wildest things we can expect to see this season?
Aubrey O'Day: I think that this season is definitely the most wild season of Celebrity Apprentice that there has been. There's a lot of fights early on. There's a lot of fights throughout. We have the biggest cast we've ever had in Celebrity Apprentice history. We start out this year with 18 people. There are obviously a lot of really big names on the men's side. The men's side definitely started off with a stronger name representation then the women's side. And I think that probably the women delivered the show this year in regards to the drama because we were definitely acting like females which I hate to admit that. And there's a lot of shocking language. There's a lot of shocking accusations. And there's a lot of shocking fights that go down. And I think that it will be the best season in Celebrity Apprentice that there ever has been.
Adam Carolla: I'll tell you I know we're not supposed to give away too much but somewhere around Episode 5 Clay Aiken announces he's straight. And I know he just shocked the world there. But he's – he went into the closet and announced he was straight. So look forward to that.
Aubrey O'Day: And then Clay Aiken and I also made out in the finale too and Penn danced. He did the jig.
Penn Jillette: The other thing is that the really interesting thing that's way out of character for Trump and for NBC is that one of the tasks actually involved getting rid of mosquitoes in sub-Sahara Africa and curing malaria. We kind of crossed over into the Bill Gates area and we're doing a lot of epidemiology and biology on this. But I thought was fascinating that from the first time in history celebrities actually got together and cared about another person. But that was just for only like four hours.
Question: Last season Gary Busey and Meatloaf were so volatile. Who were the volatile ones this season?
Aubrey O'Day: Arsenio Hall. Arsenio Hall.
Question: Was there any tension or table flipping between Teresa and Victoria Gotti throughout the season? Did you guys get to see any drama unfold between the two of them?
Aubrey O'Day: No those two were pussycats and all we're about to do is show the world that those two definitely weren't of the stars of the show and that people were crazier than them.
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Quidseeker Says:
January 6th, 2012 at 1:49 pm
What was that rambling paragraph at the beginning by Jillette? That made no sense whatsoever….."your only heroic is not dying", okay, I nominate this line as the forerunner for the least logical/coherent of 2012…and early pick-horse I know….
Dave R Says:
February 20th, 2012 at 2:56 am
I've enjoyed Celebrity Apprentice in the years, but have become more and more disappointed how it's become who you know (with money) than what you know.


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Chaordix, a Calgary company that specializes in crowdsourced market intelligence, has announced the launch of Gienow Pulse, a project leveraging collaboration between Gienow Windows and Doors and its customers. Gienow is a Canadian manufacturer and supplier of window and door products to builders, contractors, retailers, and homeowners.
"We are very excited to hear what our valued customers have to say and the feedback we receive will help us provide products and services specifically tailored to the unique needs of the renovation marketplace," said Tom Mawhinney, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Communications for Gienow. "It is by understanding our markets' needs that we have achieved the top tier of the construction and renovation manufacturing business, and our ambition is to stay there for a very long time."
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Can you get pregnant after having thyroid removed?
I had my whole thyroid removed two weeks ago, I was wondering if anyone has had children after something like that, and was it hard getting pregnant? Thanks
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shouldn't be a problem.. be sure your tsh is between 1 and 2.. your dr. might say it's normal if it's anywhere under 5 but really for maximum fertility it needs to be under 2. also when you do get pregnant be sure you have your tsh checked every 2 weeks the first couple trimesters. Dr.s will say every month is plenty but mine jumped 10 pts in less then a month so I'd get it done more then 1x per month. It's very very common to have to have your dosage upped during pregnancy, early pregnancy almost everyone's tsh goes wacko. I"ve been raised from 125 to 137 to 150 all in the first 8-10 weeks of pregnancy.posted 08/05/2011 by SallieSmith
I had my thyroid removed three and a half years ago, and when my husband and I wanted to try for another baby, we were worried. The doctors just told us to stay on top of my thyroid meds and be optimistic, that it would be more difficult but not impossible. We started trying around January and by July were starting to lose hope. Some family issues came up and we stopped focusing everything on becoming pregnant. I found out I was pregnant in September, and I am halfway along now. The best advice I would give is to keep solid track of your cycles, know as soon as possible when you conceive, and call your thyroid doctor as soon as you can. The sooner and more often you have your thyroid hormones checked and adjusted, the more healthy your pregnancy will be.posted 01/07/2012 by deejhorner13
I've gotten pregnant after having my thyroid removed but it ended in miscarriage. The doctor says that as long as my levels are regulated by taking the thyroid pills then I shouldn't have a problem carrying to term when the time comes.posted 08/01/2011 by ilovemymarine2000
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UN Observers on Mission-to-Fail in Syria Lag on Staffing
The United Nations has recruited only half the 300 military observers it needs to staff its unarmed monitoring force in Syria, a cease-fire mission that one Security Council diplomat said is designed to fail.
The UN is making repeated calls to member states seeking personnel as it tries to deploy the full force by the end of May, said Herve Ladsous, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations. The 24 monitors now deployed are tailed by Syrian police as they try to assess the cease-fire, which Ladsous said both sides are breaking.
The deployment is hindered by the acknowledgment of U.S. and other Security Council diplomats that the mission is likely to fail and that its purpose is to convince Russia and China that stronger measures, which they previously blocked, are needed to force President Bashar al-Assad to stop killing his opponents and civilians. The U.S. will not support extending the mission beyond an initial 90 days if Assad isn't meeting his obligations, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice said last month.
"The point of the mission is not for what the observers will see or do, but instead for what it will allow you to do in the coming months," said Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a policy group in Washington.
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This week's attacks on the Syrian central bank in Damascus and three blasts in the northern city of Idlib represent attempts by backers of regime change to undermine UN envoy Kofi Annan's peace plan, Russia's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website today, condemning the "terror" assaults.
Syrian rebels killed 15 soldiers in an ambush near Aleppo, Al Arabiya television reported today, while Al Jazeera said Assad's security forces killed five people. The military is targeting three Damascus suburbs with heavy machine guns and missiles, the Local Coordination Committees of Syria said today on its website.
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The UN monitors are meant to calm the fighting so that talks can begin on implementing Annan's six-point plan.
"If this Kofi Annan plan fails, if this monitoring mission fails, we're going to be back in the UN Security Council, we're going to be looking at Chapter 7," U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said last week.
With 24 monitors in place, they are able to visit only a few sites each day, Ladsous said. "We need more from member states," he told journalists at a briefing in New York.
Most Council ambassadors are unhappy with the time needed to get the force in place, said another Security Council diplomat. At least 362 people were killed in fighting between April 16, when the first monitors arrived, and April 27, Eric Austin, a spokesman for Amnesty International, said in a telephone interview.
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"A lot of countries don't want to send their people into a place where there is no protection for them, and to be used rather badly by the Syrian government," William Durch, director of the Future of Peace Operations Program at the Stimson Center, a research group in Washington.
"Their mission is to guard a cease-fire and there isn't one," he said. "It can't work."
Each soldier or civilian assigned by a UN member state to a mission needs permission from his or her home country, a bureaucratic process that can take weeks, even before training begins, said Andre-Michel Essoungou, a spokesman for the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations. Among Security Council members, only China and Russia have supplied personnel.
The monitoring mission's commander, Norwegian Major General Robert Mood, is in Syria and due to report back to the Security Council later this month. Syria has refused to grant visas to three proposed observers despite a clear statement last month by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that Syria would not have such a veto. Syria also blocked the UN from using helicopters, and talks on a legal foundation for the mission remain incomplete, Ladsous said.
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"Any block to that freedom of movement is reason to re-evaluate the mission," said Bill Flavin, a former U.S. special forces officer who now studies peacekeeping at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
The Syrian government and rebel groups agreed last month to a cease-fire, and Assad promised to withdraw heavy weapons and troops from populated areas. That hasn't happened, Ladsous said yesterday.
If violence continues, "what the UN usually does is say we are going to withdraw the observers and go back to the Security Council saying the whole game is off," Flavin said.
Even when the monitoring mission is fully staffed, the UN will still need to bring tremendous pressure on Assad, said William Nash, a retired U.S. Army major general who led U.S. peacekeepers in Bosnia in 1995-96.
"Somebody needs to talk real dirty to Assad and say there's no evidence that we are gonna quit," said Nash. "But to do that, Russia and China need to see that we made a good faith commitment to make it work."


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Katrina Archival & Historical Record Team (KART)
AST3 Sara Faulkner (ATC Mobile)
(rescue swimmer)
Interview date: 4 OCT 05
Time: 27:01 min
AST3 Faulkner was recognized as one of the female heroes of the hurricane by Glamour magazine in a Nov. 2, 2005 ceremony in New York City. She was part of an H-65 evacuation crew that flew to Jacksonville, Fla., before the hurricane. After the hurricane hit, the crew was notified to move farther west, so they flew to Panama City where they refueled and thought they would be on standby. Instead, they were told to get airborne immediately because the CG had already received 100 distress calls and people were dying. The crew flew into the tail end of the hurricane as they made their way to ATC Mobile. Once there, they were relieved and another crew immediately went to NOLA. Faulkner flew four missions, with at least 52 hoists. She had two medevac hoists in Mississippi the day after the hurricane, followed by 48 hoists on Wednesday and two on Thursday. She would confer in advance with the crew to determine the rescue plan, and once Faulkner was on the ground they would use hand signals, which were particularly hard to see with her gloved hands when she was obscured by balconies – the flight mechanics would just get a glimpse of her wrist. On Wednesday, she hoisted 25 off of a second story balcony, followed by about 25 hoists in deep water at the same complex's tennis court. She had concerns about entering the foul water but didn't hesitate because the evacuees hadn't hesitated. She used a "quick strop" – a strap on her hook – to conduct the hoists because it was the quickest way. Her most useful training was the assertiveness training she received at rescue swimmer school, which enabled her to exercise her authority to assign who she was evacuating first. Her most memorable rescue was from a second-story balcony. As Faulkner began straddling the balcony, a woman came forward and thrust her baby into Faulkner's arms, essentially dangling the baby over the balcony. Faulkner had no way to secure an infant and could only grip it tightly as she was hoisted, spinning on the way up. Once in the helo, she checked the baby over to be sure she hadn't crushed it. Faulkner conducted three more infant hoists, and after the first, they weren't quite as scary. A male evacuee at the tennis court helped her organize everyone and he knew women and children should go first, he went last and asked, "Did I tell you I love you?" Some of the evacuees seemed surprised – even pleased – that she was a female rescue swimmer, but no one commented on it. Most of the evacuees she hoisted were taken to the "Cloverleaf" at I-10.
Quote: "The first balcony we went to we specifically picked because we saw women and children there. So it took me awhile to get lowered down and in position … and there's—boom—baby in my arms. Our rescue devices are too small for babies, so I had to hold him in my bare arms, and just the look on the mother's face …"
Click here to access a video clip of this rescue, narrated by AST3 Faulkner.
Q: Please state your first name, last name, and spell out your last name.
AST3 Faulkner: Sara Faulkner; F-A-U-L-K-N-E-R.
Q: And what is your rating or specialty?
AST3 Faulkner: I'm an Aviation Survival Technician Third Class and I'm an aircrew rescue swimmer.
Q: And how long have you been in the Coast Guard?
AST3 Faulkner: Nine years.
Q: Nine years. And could you give us an overview of your career; how you came into the Coast Guard, why you came into the Coast Guard and what you've done so far leading up to your assignment here in Mobile?
AST3 Faulkner: Okay. I've sort of always had an interest in the physical part of the military. I always thought boot camp would be cool, which is strange for a girl, and then I found out I was a pretty good swimmer and then I was in high school and found out I was a very good swimmer, and so I just kind of put the two together. I was a Sea Cadet also and went on some Coast Guard training with the rescue swimmers and convinced myself I didn't want to join the Navy anymore because I wanted to be a Coast Guard rescue swimmer. Then more motivation was that there weren't any female rescue swimmers and so I went into that to make that happen.
Q: So when you went to Rescue Swimmer School what were some of the requirements in being accepted and what did you have to do when you were there?
AST3 Faulkner: Well it was tough and actually I took two years longer than I probably, you know before I even put my name on the list because I was so paranoid about physical requirements. I wanted to make sure that I was ready. Luckily I was stationed in Barber's Point so I had a huge training ground and warm water in the ocean to swim in and stuff. So the swimming part wasn't a big factor but I was really worried about my upper body strength and so I worked on that a lot with just the push-ups and pull-ups and stuff like that is what I really worked on. And then in "A" School I think I struggled equally with my male counterparts on everything, so I was ready for it.
Q: And what kind of requirements; how many push-ups and give us some specifics?
AST3 Faulkner: Fifty push-ups straight - and those are the male kind - and then you have two minutes rest, 60 sit-ups – everything is two minutes rest – then you do five pull-ups, five chin-ups, a 500-yard swim in under 12 minutes, a 200-yard buddy tow and four underwater laps. Each one has, it's 25 yards underwater. Each one had 30 seconds rest.
Q: Alright. And getting to Katrina; when were you first notified about your participation in rescue operations and did you do any preparation for this?
AST3 Faulkner: Yes, I actually was on the [HH-]65 evacuation and crew or one of them that went to Jacksonville, Florida. So we waited there while the hurricane was going on and we were just basically on standby waiting to come back. We received word that it was supposed to move a little farther west and we moved to Panama City and we expected to sit there for a few hours. We landed, got fuel, and we were thinking we were going to be there for a while waiting for a call. The pilot in command made a call to let them know that we were on land and they said, "Get airborne immediately, people are dying", so it was kind of like . . . and I think they said that they had already received 100 distress calls and this was only a few, well I guess it was about the end of the hurricane. So we rode the tail of it back and the pilots had to pick their way carefully through the storm and we landed, and actually I was relieved; actually our whole crew was relieved, and another crew took our helicopter immediately and went to New Orleans. And so I returned the next day.
Q: Now how many search and rescue missions did you fly in total during this time?
AST3 Faulkner: Four.
Q: Four missions, and did you know approximately how many hoists that you were involved in?
AST3 Faulkner: I know that I was involved in at least 52 hoists. Forty-eight of those were in one night and then two were the day after. That Tuesday I did two and then 48 and then I did two after that.
Q: And were you in the water a lot or were you just going on rooftops for the . . . ?
AST3 Faulkner: The first two were in Mississippi. Those were both, well actually one was in a boat on land where it just happened there and people used it as a search and rescue platform because it had a radio.
I did a rooftop; the next Wednesday I did 25 off a second-story balcony and then I did about 25 in the water up to here in a tennis court.
Q: Really [chuckle]?
AST3 Faulkner: Well we actually took the 25 people, landed, had to get fuel, and then we went and we were like, "Let's go to that same apartment building because we know the drill. We'll just find some more people on balconies because we've got that pretty down." And then they all came down the stairs and flooded the parking lot and I was like, "Shoot, that complicates things." And then actually if they were going to do something and go in the water the fact that they went into the tennis court, which was completely clear and probably no debris because it was fenced off, it was actually a good idea on them, and it was actually pretty quick to pick them up. It was just the water wasn't very nice.
Q: Yes, I was going to ask you about going down in the water. Did you have any concerns regarding that?
AST3 Faulkner: Yes I did. I didn't hesitate going in the water because those people then, you know, and obviously they just needed to get out of there. So I made the decision that I would go down there and put them on the "Quick Strop" because that's the fastest thing and we only had a certain amount of time to get like all of these people out of there. So I said, "Let's just do the "Quick Strop", and if you don't know it's a strap that hooks onto the hook and you can actually send it down so it's by far the fastest one and you just put it under their armpits and cinch it.
But it was bad; I mean the smell and the taste [chuckle] were alarming to say the least, and I was thinking the whole time that, "This is bad. This water is really bad." And I also felt really bad for the people also because they didn't even seem to notice, you know. And I had to take a shower when I got home. You know those people probably didn't for about a week so I was worried about them getting sick.
Q: Well there was a lot of chaos going on at the time. How did that affect you; just your training kicked in and you could just block it out and focus on the mission that basically was going on?
AST3 Faulkner: Well I think your senses were heightened as far as your scanning and your listening; all those were heightened. And yes, it was just your head in the game, completely focused.
Q: Now what would you say was the most useful aspect of your training that kicked in? I mean is there one particular thing that in your past that you were trained in that just kicked right in and you really relied upon?
AST3 Faulkner: Probably at Swimmer School they, you know I'm not by nature a very authoritative person but they teach you, "Don't let these people get the best of you. Even though they're stronger than you or bigger than you, you are the one in control and command", and that probably, if I hadn't had training I probably could let them get the, you know kind of manipulate the situation, and a lot of them tried too like, "I'm going", and I'd have to yell them and tell them to get back, and "No, women and children first." And so having that kind of training where I could really use like body language and my voice to assist what the Coast Guard is doing, I think that was probably the most important thing.
Q: Now when you would go down to assess the situation you had communications with the pilot, is that correct?
AST3 Faulkner: No.
Q: Okay, how did you communicate with the pilot if you were down below?
AST3 Faulkner: We would hover over the scene for a while and the whole time we would discuss our plan. So we'd say, "Okay, this is what we're going to use", and I had two flight mechanics which was great. Having two was really good because when you are working with so many people one can busy himself with hoisting and me and the other one can secure the cabin and the people and really let us go and get more people while he gets everybody settled. So we would discuss all that and then we really didn't need communication. It's all hand-signals from then on.
Q: Now what seemed to be the most challenging part of each of these missions or an unusual aspect to the mission?
AST3 Faulkner: The fact that when I did the ones off the balcony, well actually they all presented their own difficulties. Trying to put somebody in a basket on the roof without the basket sliding down is difficult without yourself not falling off also. But probably the hardest thing was when I did like balcony ones, once I got under the roof they couldn't see me and probably for them to get a signal from me, like it was just, I don't know to describe it but it was kind of blind for the helicopter. They didn't know what was going on and then all of a sudden the flight mech said he would just see, he couldn't see my hand because I had a black glove on and he would just see one little chunk of my wrist pop out from underneath the helicopter and he knew, "Okay, I can start hoisting now." So that was kind of scary; like I was worried about them maybe hoisting earlier, the helicopter moving and us falling off the balcony or something like that but it didn't happen.
Q: So you were able to, because of the Coast Guard's flexibility, make on-scene decisions you say in a group . . .
AST3 Faulkner: Yes.
Q: . . . keep within the Coast Guard guidelines for flight procedures and record-keeping; all that was adhered to. And as far as treatment of victims, how was that handled? You're trained in First Aid?
AST3 Faulkner: We're EMTs. Actually my first two rescues were both medivacs which were both elderly women who then really had a hard time. They'd actually been exposed to the hurricane in the water for hours. And so for those people we didn't pick anyone else up. We just treated those people and took them to a hospital because it was in Mississippi so there were hospitals still working and stuff, so we just took them.
Q: Now when you picked them up, were they in a building or outside?
AST3 Faulkner: One family was in a boat. It wasn't their boat but they found it and the daughter started just pushing buttons on the radio and then we eventually found her. And we took the mom and we were out of fuel so we couldn't take the two daughters but they got picked up by a sheriff in his boat.
And the other one was a 77-year old woman on top of a roof who had obviously been in the hurricane too and that's just where the hurricane put her.
Q: Was she conscious when you found her?
AST3 Faulkner: She was conscious but she wasn't doing well. She actually had emphysema and needed an oxygen tank and didn't have that and might have had edema. There was definitely something wrong with her legs. They were very swollen.
So we just focused on those two medivacs and we didn't pick up anybody who just needed to get out of there because those were definitely priorities.
Q: How many people could you count in one shot that you picked up and evacuated?
AST3 Faulkner: Twenty-Five was the most on one shot.
Q: Okay, and where did you take most of the persons that you retrieved?
AST3 Faulkner: I don't know where it is but I think it was the I-10 where all our helicopters and some, I think they were Army, were just dropping them off on the I-10. And there were some ambulances and busses there for them.
Q: Yes. And now people needing medical attention; were you going to hospitals also in the area?
AST3 Faulkner: Well I did have some people who needed medical attention but they weren't as bad off as those two women who definitely needed to go to a hospital. We just kind of told them, "Look, hold on five minutes and you will have an ambulance", and they seemed relived by that, like, "Okay, I can do that. You know I can hang on for five more minutes", And you know their family was like, "We're going to make it." I'm like, "You guys are going to have water and medical; ambulances, in five minutes", and they'd be like, "Okay, I can hold on."
Q: Well I've heard that you hoisted like really big strong men and things like that. Can you explain how those rescues are performed?
AST3 Faulkner: Those were also done with the "Quick-Strop" and that is scary, but where the device is made there's a strap that goes underneath their legs so there's not really any way they can fall out. So I definitely made sure that I took the extra time just to put that on [chuckle] and a few of those ones I was very glad that I did because they were just so big I couldn't hardly get my legs around them, because that's part of what holds them, you know, on . . . .
Q: So you put them in this strap . . .
AST3 Faulkner: Strop.
Q: Strop, and you attach it and then you hug around them as they go up to keep them in place and not moving around when they go up.
AST3 Faulkner: Yes.
Q: Okay.
AST3 Faulkner: But some of them were so large I couldn't do that [chuckle]. I mean things were just, you know . . . .
Q: So what did you do, just let them go up by themselves?
AST3 Faulkner: Oh no, they were still attached to me; I just couldn't wrap my legs around them and get a good grip on them. And also the "Quick Strop" has a slide-keeper and you have to put your hand on it so it doesn't creep up and they could fall out so you only have one hand to do anything and that one is used to cover their head. So if you're spinning or kind of cockeyed because they grabbed you over your leg you're just at the mercy of the helicopter to hopefully get you to stop spinning.
Q: Now did any of the people that you rescued make comments like, "You're a female. You're a rescue swimmer"? Were they surprised?
AST3 Faulkner: I think they were surprised but no one said anything about me being female but I do think they thought it was pretty cool [chuckle]. Some of them had smiles on their faces like, "This is neat." They didn't say anything about me being female but one guy was like, "Did I tell you I love you", and stuff like that, so it was neat.
Q: Okay, well why don't you tell us a bit about the actual rescues; like memorable rescues that you were involved in, and remember, we can cut the camera at any time.
AST3 Faulkner: This is the one I always get choked up on. That first balcony that we went to we specifically picked it because we saw women and children there. So it took me a while to get lowered down and in position and as soon as I kind of straddled the balcony – I'd grab onto it and then I'd sit on it – they put a baby in arms. And our rescue devices are too small for babies so I had to hold him in my bare arms [tearful], and just the look on the mother's face. You don't hang a baby over a second story balcony and she just shoved him to me, you know, and I kind of kicked out from underneath the roof because I didn't have any free hands to even give a signal, and you know they hoisted me up and we started spinning. And I was just so afraid of him wiggling and loosing my grip on him because he maybe would start to freak out or whatever, but he didn't thank goodness. But I actually had to check him and make sure he was okay because I made sure I wasn't crushing him because I was holding onto him so tight. That was hard but I did three more after that and I wasn't as nearly freaked out, but that first one was scary [tearful].
Q: Do you want some tissue? We can stop the camera and get you some tissue?
AST3 Faulkner: Sure [chuckle]. But yes, it was tough. Just that one; that's the one that just sticks in my mind because that was like, and then I was like, "Oh shoot, I better check him to make sure his eyeballs haven't popped out of his head [chuckle].
Q: Alright. Now are there any other rescues you would care to tell us about?
AST3 Faulkner: The comment I made about that person who said, "Did I tell you I love you"; I wish I could meet him in real life because he – it makes me choked up too – he made it so much easier for me to save him and save 25 other people because I'd tell him what I needed and he would give it to me and he would have everyone organized, and I didn't have to tell him – his name was Gary – and I didn't have to tell him, you know, "Women and children and elderly first", and he was the last person to go up. And I mean by the time we had three or four people down and he was giving them the speal instead of me and I could focus on hooking them up, and he was awesome. I wish I could meet him. That would be great.
Q: Now when you came back here to the station what was the mood; how did you . . . were you quiet or how did you feel?
AST3 Faulkner: Well you know I didn't see anything that was terrible, and my flight crew did such a great job. I think we were all just really tired but kind of had that sense of like, "Wow, we really accomplished something good. Good job everybody." It wasn't' like an upset like, "That was not a good experience."
Q: Well were you shocked when you went to New Orleans and saw the devastation?
AST3 Faulkner: I was what I thought was prepared or as best I could imagine something just from hearing what other people had told me, and my chief actually asked me, you know, "No offense but are you ready? You're probably going to be hoisting about 50 people", and I said, "I'm ready", and that's exactly what I did. But it was tough to see the houses and cars underwater and then when it got dark to see the flashlights everywhere. And I just wanted to tell, like we could tell those people, "We see you. We see you. We're going to get to you as soon as possible but turn your flashlight off, save your batteries, because we might not get to you until tomorrow night and you might need that." So that was tough to see these flashlights like waving everywhere.
Q: Now you saved a few animals while you were there.
AST3 Faulkner: Yes, actually that same one with the guy Gary, they asked me, "Can we bring our pets", and I asked him what kind of dog - I don't know what he said or I couldn't hear him and then I saw it walk by and it was huge – and I was like, "No, I can't take your dog", and he actually had to convince his wife to come because she was going to stay with the dog. So that was tough and I felt like the bad guy there but we did get his cat and a Chihuahua and they were in the same cat carrier so it was kind of funny. But as far as animals, those are the only ones I picked up.
Q: Now is there anything you'd like to add to this that we haven't covered?
AST3 Faulkner: I don't think so. I think you covered everything.
Q: Now I understand you're going to be on "Glamour's Woman of the Year". How did you get contacted by the magazine; what happened there?
AST3 Faulkner: Public Affairs Headquarters called me and said, "You need to call us as soon as possible", and to be honest I thought it was people here that just wanted to do like one of these interviews and so I was like, "ooohh". Then she said something about Glamour Magazine and I was like, "Oh", and called her right back. I don't know how they found out about me. Maybe they just called the Coast Guard and said, "Hey, do have women who participated", and they knew and gave them my name. So Public Affairs got my story. They told Glamour and Glamour was like, "Definitely we want to have her as one of the Women of the Year and it's our little thing is, Female Heroes of the Hurricane." But it's not just me; it's a police officer, a nurse and a female minister.
Q: Have they interviewed you yet?
AST3 Faulkner: Yes.
Q: Okay, and they're going to have a ceremony when?
AST3 Faulkner: Its November 2nd in New York City.
Q: At Lincoln Center?
AST3 Faulkner: In the Lincoln Center.
Q: Very good. I guess that's it. Thank you very much.
AST3 Faulkner: You're welcome.
Q: Good job.
AST3 Faulkner: Thank you.


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PEER-2002/21, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2002-12, 372 pages (400/P33/2002-21)
The workshop was organized to meet the needs and opportunities for research and practice in performance-based engineering. The objectives of the workshop were threefold: (1) to discuss different perspectives on performance-based engineering as it is applied to new and existing concrete buildings in Japan and the United States; (2) to exchange the latest findings related to the same subject; and (3) to enhance communications and promote opportunities for new and continuing collaboration. Sponsors of the workshop were the Japan Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture; the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center; and the U.S. National Science Foundation. The workshop covered the following topics: systems analysis; demand estimation; frame tests; axial capacity of columns; performance assessment; column tests; and beam-column joints. Plenary sessions covered the state of the art of seismic design in the U.S. and Japan and workshop resolutions. Twenty-six papers are published in the proceedings.
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Web browsers ostensibly provide strong isolation for the client-side components of web applications. Unfortunately, this isolation is weak in practice; as browsers add increasingly rich APIs to please developers, these complex interfaces bloat the trusted computing base and erode cross-app isolation boundaries.
We reenvision the web interface based on the notion of a pico-datacenter, the client-side version of a shared server datacenter. Mutually untrusting vendors run their code on the user's computer in low-level native code containers that communicate with the outside world only via IP. Just as in the cloud datacenter, the simple semantics makes isolation tractable, yet native code gives vendors the freedom to run any software stack. Since the datacenter model is designed to be robust to malicious tenants, it is never dangerous for the user to click a link and invite a possibly-hostile party onto the client.
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John R. Douceur, Jon Howell, Bryan Parno, and Michael Walfish. Refactoring the Web Interface, 24 October 2011.


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ROCKFORD (RFD) -- The Chicago Rockford International Airport (RFD) announced that Rockford AirFest 2012: A Celebration of Freedom will be held on June 2 – 3, 2012.
Tickets go on sale December 16th starting with the Stocking Stuffer Sale. During this sale, general admission tickets are only $4 for adults and $3 for children, 5 – 12 years old. Sale ends at 11:59 p.m. on December 24th.
Discounted tickets are available during regular business hours at all Rockford Area Culver's Restaurants, Wisconsin Taco John's and the AirMenities Café inside the RFD Main Terminal, which is open from 7 a.m – 2 p.m. on Monday - Friday. Tickets are also available online at www.flyrfd.com. Convenience fees apply for online purchases.
The featured performer for AirFest 2012 is the USAF Thunderbird Demonstration Team. The U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute team will also perform. Information on additional performers will be provided as it becomes available. Other AirFest activities include static aircraft displays, children's activities, concessions and more.
AirFest 2011 drew about 60,000 people.
Dates for the 2013 AirFest have also been secured for June 1-2, 2013. The 2013 AirFest will feature the US Navy Blue Angels.


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Kendrick Lamar was just a tyke when Snoop Dogg spit his inaugural verse on Dr. Dre's "Deep Cover" single in 1992, but 20 years later, the young Compton spitter has earned the California rap icon's respect with the release of his debut album good kid, m.A.A.d city .
"I love Kendrick Lamar, I love his success, I love his story, his hustle," the newly christened Snoop Lion told MTV News on Thursday evening at the Andaz Hotel in New York. "Standing for something and being his own, tryin' to hold this thing up as far as the West coast and now we got somebody that can really run with it from a young perspective and put a different point of view."
Kendrick and Snoop both share the same mentor: Dr. Dre. In 1993, Dre oversaw the release of Snoop's classic debut Doggystyle, and since then, the Good Doctor has kicked off the careers of rap greats Eminem, 50 Cent and Game. Kendrick Lamar is just the latest. GKMC has been dubbed an instant-classic by some critics and is projected to move over 225,000 copies in its first week of sale.
There have been some detractors. Shyne jumped on Twitter and called good kid "trash," but by-and-large fans and artists alike are giving Kendrick props for the audio-cinematic debut that puts an emphasis on multi-layered rap lyrics and detailed storytelling. Game is one of those supporters, as he immediately jumped in defense of his young buddy.
"Personally, I think Shyne should just back away and let the kid breathe and if not, I don't know, we might find ourselves face-to-face or sh– that nobody really wants to see happen," Game said.
Snoop isn't choosing sides, but he is in full support of K-Dot. "I mean, this is awesome for me, myself as one of the OGs in the game to sit back and watch the young homey have his way and really dazzle the people with great music, with a great show and a new sound," he said.
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May 30, 2016
Meridian, Miss. Meridian police are calling the public's attention to another scam making the rounds in this area right now.
Police say people in this area continue to receive letters from companies claiming they have won a sweepstakes.
Some of them even have checks enclosed.
The letters ask you to deposit the check and then send them back a fee for processing.
But the check later bounces and you're responsible for the money.
"If they get one of these in the mail throw it away," said Capt. Dean Harper. "If they cash that check at their local bank, the local bank is going to expect their money out of them."
Harper says a quick Internet search of the name of the company will usually confirm that it is a scam. But any time a sweepstakes requires any kind of fee, police say you can rest assured it's a scam.
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Federal Jobs Training Program – "Waste, Mismanagement, and Even Corruption"
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has put out yet another excellent report on waste, fraud and abuse in federal job training programs. The report titled "Help Wanted" describes specific instances of "waste, mismanagement, and even corruption." This report proves, in addition to other reports by Senator Coburn, that the government is a poor allocator of resources. The Coburn report indicates that these federal jobs training programs are | Read More »


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By Lena Mitchell/NEMS Daily Journal
CORINTH – Corinth officials are making it clear to volunteer members of city and city-county boards that they are interested in how the groups can help invigorate the local economy.
As the mayor and aldermen met this week with board members of the Corinth-Alcorn County Airport and Corinth Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, they asked each group how it could produce more revenue.
The airport's 6,500-foot runway and advanced weather monitoring and other systems put it far ahead of other airports of similar size, said board member Waco Epperson.
The airport can accommodate many of the small jets and aircraft used by businesses and industry site selection companies, he said.
A good source of revenue for the airport, said board member Lynn Lamb, would be offering flight instruction, but there's no indication that Corinth has the market to support it.
Plans are under way to install self-service fueling for general aircraft that fly into the airport, which will generate additional income, and other attractions are being explored such as fly-ins, balloon races and air shows.
No operations funds could be used to support any of these entertainment events, said business manager Donna Griggs, so the challenge – a huge one – would be attracting sponsors to support the event.
One issue from a tourism perspective that surfaces repeatedly is the absence of liquor sales in the city.
It is not an issue that is going away, said Judge John Ross, who is a member of the CVB board, but said he was speaking as an individual.
However, CVB board members Ricky Marcele, who manages the Hampton Inn, and Luke Doehner, owner of The General's Quarters, said they have lost a significant amount of business because Corinth does not offer legal liquor sales.
Since Corinth's 2 percent tourism tax is divided between the CVB and the Crossroads Arena, aldermen asked how the CVB board could help the arena with producing major events.
While the CVB was supporting arena events regularly by funding some of its advertising, board President Chris Porterfield noted that they had not received a request for support since the arena manager's position was vacated about 18 months ago.
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Detectives are investigating after a body was found floating in Lake Okeechobee.
A fisherman made the discovery Monday morning at the Pahokee Marina and called 911.
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Traci Ludlum
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39 years of age
Aaron McQueen
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Naylor, Georgia resident
Valdosta, Georgia - January 6, 2012 -
On January 5, 2012 at approximately 1748 hours, the Valdosta Police Department responded to 340 Norman Drive in reference to someone grabbing the victim's purse in the parking lot of the Wal-Mart. Officers arrived and spoke to Traci Ludlum who stated that her purse was in her shopping cart and as she pushed it up to her vehicle an African American male grabbed the purse then ran and jumped into a vehicle. Several witnesses described the vehicle as a, gold in color Jeep with a Cook County license plate. An Officer spotted the gold Jeep Laredo a short time later and conducted a traffic stop. There were five occupants inside the vehicle. One of the passengers, Aaron McQueen, was identified as the offender. McQueen was arrested for Robbery by Sudden Snatching and an active arrest warrant for Parole Violation. The driver of the Jeep, Martin Tillman, African American male, 19 years of age, a Lakeland, Georgia resident, was arrested for Driving on a Suspended License. Some of Ludlum's property was found in the roadway where it had been discarded and it was returned to her. Other property belonging to Ludlum was found inside the Jeep. The other passengers of the Jeep were questioned and released. Ludlum was not hurt during the incident.
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Iowans Explore Ancient Wisdom and Peacemaking
Democracy Movements in the Middle East
Lydia Kirior on social work and social change
Originally from Kenya, Lydia Kirior served her MSW practicum internship this summer with AFSC Iowa. Lydia has a bachelor's degree in social and religiuos studies and hopes to "educate myself and go back home to work for social change and fight for justice in my community."
During her time at AFSC, Lydia helped organize this public forum on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD.
Ice cream social brings Iowans together
Faith in a Changing Climate
Robert Reich to Speak at Drake
Des Moines Catholic Worker 35th Anniversary
Interfaith Service for 10th Anniversary of September 11
Ancient Wisdom and Peacemaking
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Geral Blanchard, left, visits with friends in Africa as they teach him about peacemaking and healing.


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Part of the The Magic of Disney Animation, this interactive attraction is a drawing class led by a Disney-trained artist. Guests learn to sketch a Disney character, and they get to keep the artwork they create.
If you do not want your artwork to get wrinkled badly during the rest of the day as you tour the park, a cast member at the attraction's store may be able to provide a bag for it.
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Classes take place approximately every 30 minutes, and their hours may be shorter than the park's. Classes often fill to capacity. A cast member at the attraction entrance will give you an indication of whether you will be able to get in the next show. Note that the last few people to enter the class may be stuck using a handheld drawing board rather than the more professional-looking permanent desks.
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Trucks use diesel fuel not gasoline - MEMO to Wall Street Journal editors
MEMO WSJ Editorial: Your page A8 piece on spiraling fuel costs of truckers this morning is a neat enough little survey but what kind of idiot there decided to illustrate it ("Burning up: The price of gasoline in May in selected countries" in your US print edition) with a chart of gasoline prices?
Guys, here's what's under the hood of trucks - compression ignition engines, not spark ignition. Different fuel: diesel, not gasoline.
Different fuels, different markets, different prices.
Diesel also known as distillate goes as diesel for trucks, locomotives, maritime engines and also home heating oil. By contrast gasoline is just used in cars and other light duty motor vehicles. The markets are quite different and hence the prices move differently too.
Diesel fuel as recently as a couple of years ago was cheaper than gasoline in the US. This week DOE reports the US price of diesel averaged $4.732/gallon, $1.906 more than the same week a year ago. That's a price hike of 67.4% in US$s.
Gasoline? That's now $3.937/gallon nationwide average. That is up over the same time last year 72.8c/gallon, a price hike of 22.7%.
Increase in the trucker fuel of $1.91, 67%, vs your gasoline up 73c, 23%.
Forward this to the CORRECTIONS people and hope that Rupert M doesn't see it. He goes crazy over this kind of amateurism at a supposedly serious paper.
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Steve Davis: Thoughts On Terrell Suggs' ArrestSteve Davis comments on Terrell Suggs being arrested.
Was Suggs' Injury The Achilles Heel For The Ravens Organization?Bisciotti said he definitely underestimated the impact of losing Suggs in Week 1. Losing him in week one had an obvious trickle down effect on the entire defense and team.
Terrell Suggs Dissapearing Act A Non-IssueWith the Ravens in the middle of a bye-week, players are ready for some much needed R&R. But the front office will receive no such leisure as they make attempts to fix what appears to be a pretty banged up roster.
Baltimore Ravens Fill Roster With Jason Babin After Suggs' Season-Ending InjuryAfter opening the season in Denver with a loss, the Baltimore Ravens are staying out on the west coast preparing for their next game. This week the Ravens take on the Oakland Raiders, with each team looking to even their records with a win.
NFL Week 1 Injuries & How They Affect Your Fantasy SeasonWeek 1 of the NFL season brings plenty of injuries, here's what you need to know.
Ravens Grades: Defense Thrives In Denver, But Offense Can't Make The GradeThe Baltimore Ravens lost a tough defensive battle on the road against the Denver Broncos to open the 2015 season, but is it time to hit the panic button with this offense?
The Best Of The Scott Garceau Show Week Of 8-24-2015Angry fans, bobble head curses and Zach Wilt headline this weeks episode of the Best Of The Scott Garceau Show.
Pros & Cons At Opening Of Ravens Training CampMore news from training camp, cornerback Lardarius Webb failed his conditioning test, which kept him off the practice field when training camp began this week in Owings Mills and earned him a spot on the physically unable to perform list until he passes.
Update From The Raven's Nest With Aaron WilsonRavens insider for the Baltimore Sun, Aaron Wilson joined the show to give us his take on the Ravens as they prepare for training camp to begin.
Steve Davis: Nice Honor For YandaPro Football Focus named Marshall Yanda number five in its Top 101 Players in the NFL.
Baltimore Ravens Release Top 10 All-Time Fan FavoritesThe Ravens asked PSL Owners to vote on their favorite all-time Ravens in franchise history and released the Top 10.
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What to Eat in Toronto: The Best Fusion Food in Canada
"Good food makes us happy," states Susur Lee, Toronto's superstar chef who has won countless accolades, including the highest rating ever for a plate on TV's Iron Chef America. Lee's imaginative cuisine, blending Chinese flavours with French technique, was at the forefront of a new wave of fusion cuisine that's now become entrenched in Toronto's culinary scene.
Lee's legacy is still going strong at his family's newest restaurant Bent. More casual than his previous establishments, it serves up a wide selection of smaller dishes designed for sharing. Here, comfort foods like braised short ribs are served alongside sashimi delicacies from the Raw Bar.
Each dish has a touch of unexpected flavour, which is typical of this culinary master who believes that "each bite should involve all of our senses and tastes."
Though Lee may be the father of Toronto's fusion scene, there are plenty following in his footsteps. Chef Grant Van Gameren has been heralded as the next Susur Lee by Toronto Life Magazine, and his latest venture Bar Isabel has been listed as one of the city's best new restaurants several times over. This cosy and unpretentious eatery is known for serving up dishes with a twist – a Spanish twist in this case. Tapas of cured meat, cheeses, and seafood are served up alongside a legendary late-night chef platter. The cocktails, courtesy of mixologist Michael Webster, are also among the best in town.
Oddseoul, owned and run by Leeto and Leemo Han (Korean brothers who grew up in Philadelphia) is another local favourite, with dishes that incorporate the brothers' interpretation of both American and Korean cuisines, sometimes in the same dish. Korean/Mexican fusion is on the menu at Barrio Coreano, recently opened in Toronto's Koreatown district. After sampling their grilled octopus with wasabi salsa tacos and Soju Sangria, you can always head for a nearby Korean karaoke bar and sing your heart out in their private disco-ball adorned rooms.
How about the combination of Hungarian and Thai food? The aptly named Hungarian Thai Bar and Eatery in Kensington Market serves up combo plates of spring rolls, cabbage rolls, chicken pad thai and schnitzel. It may seem a little odd somewhere else, but not in this downtown neighbourhood in the heart of multicultural Toronto.
With more than 140 languages spoken and half the population born outside the country, Toronto has been serving a range of authentic cuisines for many years. Gizelle Lau, a Toronto food writer and photographer, says that whether you're looking for "Vietnamese pho noodle soup, Neapolitan-style pizza, Korean pork bone soup, Japanese ramen, Greek gyros or Indian dosa - you can get the real deal in the city, usually at a very reasonable price."
She adds that fusion is an exciting part of today's food scene in Toronto, which is thriving thanks to so many new restaurants and chefs looking to make a name for themselves.
Lau believes that it's the city's diversity that makes the food truly stand out internationally. "It creates a city of people who embrace and discover influences and cuisines from around the world," she says.
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The preference for males among some Asian-American immigrants has resulted in significant deviations in the proportion of baby boys to baby girls, according to research conducted by professors Lena Edlund and Douglas Almond of Columbia University. More boys than girls are born in the United States, by a ratio of 1.05 to 1. Studying 2000 census data, the pair of economists discovered that among American families of Chinese, Korean and Indian descent, the likelihood of having a boy increased to 1.17 to 1 if the first child was a girl. The ratio for a third child was 1.51 to 1 in favor of boys if the first two children were girls. Demographers say the lopsided ratios reflect the use of sex-selection techniques such as in vitro fertilization, sperm sorting and abortion.
Joyce Moy, executive director of the Asian American/Asian Research Institute of the City University of New York, says some family values prevalent in China, Korea and India have seeped into American culture among even young immigrants, despite the fact that historic reasons for the male preference are less relevant in the U.S.
One Chinese-American mother who was interviewed for the story claims it's a couple's parents who apply the most pressure to bear male offspring. That would explain why even Asian-Americans born and raised in the U.S. might exhibit a strong preference for boy babies. Some commenters at the Times verified that that's the case.
Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg, medical director of the Fertility Institutes, a clinic that offers sex-selection procedures (though not abortion) said, "Culturally, there are a lot of strange things that go on in the world. Whether we agree with it, it's not harming anyone." I suppose in a vacuum sex-selection procedures do not harm anyone, unless you count the massive gender imbalance and resulting social unrest in places like China. The devaluation of girls and woman is harmful, but misogyny is the cause; sex-selection procedures are the effect. I also disagree with the doctor's implication that male supremacy is a foreign concept, practiced in "strange" far away places then exported to the U.S. Please. Americans are less accepting of abortion as a means of seeing their sex preferences to fruition.
I don't find it difficult, as a feminist, to reconcile my support for abortion on demand with my disgust towards sex-selective abortion. Anti-choicers like to play gotcha with this issue, though their accusations of pro-choice feminist hypocricy are easily refuted. I don't wish to see girl babies born into families who won't cherish them. "Every child a wanted child." It would be unwise to cut off the supply of sex-selection techniques before the demand has dried up. Destroy sexism and the practice will all but disappear.