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Whistle-blower AT&T technician Mark Klein says his effort to reveal alleged government surveillance of domestic Internet traffic was blocked not only by U.S. intelligence officials but also by the top editors of the Los Angeles Times.
In his first broadcast interview, as seen tonight on Nightline, Klein describes how he stumbled across "secret NSA rooms" being installed at an AT&T switching center in San Francisco and later heard of similar rooms in at least six other cities, including Atlanta, San Diego, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, San Jose and Seattle.
"You needed an ordinary key and the code to punch into a key pad on the door, and the only person who had both of those things was the one guy cleared by the NSA," Klein says of the "secret room" at the AT&T center in San Francisco.
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The NSA is the National Security Agency, the country's most secretive intelligence agency, charged with intercepting communications overseas.
Klein says he collected 120 pages of technical documents left around the San Francisco office showing how the NSA was installing "splitters" that would allow it to copy both domestic and international Internet traffic moving through AT&T connections with 16 other trunk lines.
"It's gobs and gobs of information going across the Internet," Klein says.
President Bush has acknowledged he authorized the NSA to intercept the communications of people with known links to terrorist organizations "into or out of the United States," but that "we're not trolling through the personal lives of millions of innocent Americans."
Intelligence experts say the NSA has the means to filter out suspect communications with sophisticated machines that spot key words, names, addresses or patterns.
Eventually, Klein says he decided to take his documents to the Los Angeles Times, to blow the whistle on what he calls "an illegal and Orwellian project."
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But after working for two months with LA Times reporter Joe Menn, Klein says he was told the story had been killed at the request of then-Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte and then-director of the NSA Gen. Michael Hayden.
The Los Angeles Times' decision was made by the paper's editor at the time, Dean Baquet, now the Washington bureau chief of The New York Times.
Baquet confirmed to ABCNews.com he talked with Negroponte and Hayden but says "government pressure played no role in my decision not to run the story."
Baquet says he and managing editor Doug Frantz decided "we did not have a story, that we could not figure out what was going on" based on Klein's highly technical documents.
The reporter, Menn, declined to comment, but Baquet says he knows "Joe disagreed and was very disappointed."
Klein says he then took his AT&T documents to The New York Times, which published its exclusive account last April.
As the new Washington bureau chief of The New York Times, Baquet now oversees the reporters who have broken most of the major stories involving the government surveillance program, often over objections from the government.
After The New York Times story appeared, Klein filed an affidavit in a lawsuit against AT&T brought by a civil liberties group, Electronic Frontier Foundation.
The NSA says it will not confirm or deny the existence or the purpose of the "secret rooms," but in a filing in the court case against AT&T, Negroponte formally invoked the "state secrets privilege," claiming the lawsuit and the information from Klein and others could "cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States."
Klein says what he knows won't help terrorists.
"The only people that are being kept in the dark is the American people who are being misled and not realizing, not being told that their private information, that their liberties are being destroyed and tramped on," he said.


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TFT: Suburban wasteland
As alluded to at the end of this crackplog, my company just opened a physical office in a truly awful part of the suburban wasteland. Today was the test case for "how bad is the trip home on the bus", after getting rides to/from work with my wife and a travelling coworker all of last week (not so bad in the morning; but awful in the afternoon, especially for my wife, who had to invest 30-40 minutes getting to the office to pick me up to then spend 30-40 minutes going home). Ironically, this would be a great bike commute, if I could still ride my bike any non-trivial amount.
I'm still not sure how often I'm going to need to come in, but there's a sliding scale here - at some point it'd require us to get a second car, which I don't want to do for many reasons, not least among them financial (we couldn't have taken our trip to Hawaii if we'd had a second car payment, after all). There's a certain number of days per month on which we could tolerate a both-ways drive (very little); a larger number where we could tolerate a drop-off in the morning and a bus ride home (determining that right now); a larger number which might be achievable on something like a scooter, if I can get past some emotional barriers; and anything else requires that second car. At which point I also have to consider other options, because if I have to lay out the money and time for two cars, might as well look for somewhere that can make up the gap (or maybe downtown, or at least in a less awful suburban part of Austin where you can actually take the bus).
I am writing this on the bus - filling in links later. It's a crackplivebusblog!
Google transit called this trip a 10-minute walk, a 26-minute bus ride, a transfer, and another 20ish minute ride from there, the last leg being one on which I can take about six different routes home, so no worries there. I was highly dubious of google's estimation of the walk, having ridden this route many times on my bike, back when I still could, so I gave myself 25 minutes to walk and 5 minutes to wait (buses can and sometimes do arrive early).
Update on the next day: Now google is accurately saying 19 minutes for the walk. Huh.
Walking trip: Got to the elevator at 4:03 (after having to run back in and use office phone to call home, since cell phone battery had died). Started on the long, not so scenic, walk through suburban Westlake. Guh. No sidewalks, of course, on Allen (behind the Westlake High tennis courts and other fields). Pretty decent sidewalks after that on Pinnacle, which I took the rest of the way down. Walked past some middle schoolers who will doubtlessly be telling their friends they saw a Real Adult Walking - must have been a bum or a predator. Got to the bus stop at 4:20. Whoops - although google was way too optimistic, I was a bit on the pessimistic side. Would budget 20 minutes for the walk next time, if it happens, plus the 5 minute wait.
First bus leg:
- 8 people were on the #30 bus as it pulled up (exactly on time at 4:33). I made 9.
- 5 more people got on at Walsh Tarlton and Bee Caves. Total on bus counting me now 14.
- 1 more guy got on in the weird office park at the end of Bee Caves. 15 people on the bus now. Bus goes through a road at this complex and then turns up Spyglass to make a short loop in the wrong direction, at least for me.
- 1 more got on somewhere along Spyglass at one of the apartment complexes. 16 people now!
- #17 got on at Spyglass / Barton Skyway.
- At Spyglass, near north intersection with Mopac, one got on and one got off. Still 17.
- Turned back onto southbound Mopac at 4:44. Guess that loop was worth it after all. Stopped for a couple minutes at the Bee Caves light, and then another 3 got on! We're essentially at standing room now - one standing, although there are a couple of seats left. 20 passengers.
- At 4:48, we turn into a bus bay to pick up a guy with a bike. That makes 21 passengers.
- We cruise through Zilker Park without stopping and arrive at Robert E Lee at 4:51. Not a good day to be hitting the park anyways - but someday remind me to write a crackplog about how the city needs to jack up the parking prices there in the summer quite a bit higher. Still 21 passengers. A Barton Hills bus (#29) turns off Lee with about ten people on board that I can see (maybe more).
- Amazingly, they're still working on that Villas of Lost Canyon project. We arrive at the backup for the Lamar light at 4:53 and almost hit a bicyclist stopped in the right lane for no apparent reason. We're back in civilization, as I see real adult people with apparent jobs walking about like actual pedestrians. Hooray! Stuck for a bit behind our friends on the #29 as they load a bike. Boo. Driver may not make my promised 4:59 drop-off if he keeps this up.
- 4:54: Somebody finally pulls the chain to be let off in front of the Armstrong Music School. Down to a mere 20. The bus is practically empty! The suburbanites are right!
- 4:55: Lady gets off at the corner of S 1st. Down to 19 people! I think I see a tumbleweed.
- 4:58: D'oh. Somebody signals they need off just past Riverside. Going to be hard to make my best transfer at this rate. Time to hibernate the laptop now, though; the rest of first leg is from memory. About 10 people got off at that stop! Holy cow. Down to 7 passengers now. All of those passengers walked over to S Congress to hop on one of the many buses that pick up on the other corner, by the way.
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The wait: Had my bus been just a minute earlier, I could have immediately jumped on the 4:59 #7 bus which was a few minutes late. Rats. As it turns out, my #5 bus was quite a bit more late.
Second bus leg (transcribed today from yellow legal pad - since the ride was way too jerky and crowded to crack open the laptop):
- 5:10: Bus arrives; I board. About 15 people on the bus.
- 5:11: 14 people still on at 7th/Congress.
- 5:13: 3 more get on at 9th/Congress.
- 5:14: One got off at 10th/Congress
- 5:16: 3 got on as we turned in front of the Capitol at the bus stop that our asshat governor is forcing to move. There were about 30 people there at that time. Up to here, 'rapid bus' on this corridor would have saved about 30 seconds of the 4 minutes it took to traverse Congress which is actually a bit better than I would have guessed. Not that the #5 would get that treatment anyways, but it was something to look at while we were stuck in traffic with the #1/#101, which would be the rapid service. Streetcar would have been no better than the bus I was on in this part of the route - but at least no worse.
- Note for comparison's sake that light rail on this route ala 2000 would have probably taken about 2 minutes. About two stops; no being stuck behind cars or other buses. Moving on...
- 5:17: Lavaca at 12th and 13th, one got on at each. Ride is getting even jerkier and crappier. Good thing I didn't take out the laptop.
- 5:18: One more gets on at 16th.
- 5:18-5:24: We're stuck in a very long backup from the light at MLK/Lavaca. This is where LRT would really have helped. As it turns out, streetcar would have been even worse because we saved a minute or two at the end by prematurely jumping into the center lane (bypassing a stop on the right where nobody was waiting). The streetcar, stuck on the tracks in the road, can't make that decision. This helped a bit because the primary backup from this light was traffic heading to I-35 - the tailback in the right lane was about a block longer than the one in the center lane and moving much more slowly too.
- 5:24: Driver guns it to try to make up some time, as by this point we're really really late. Note: this is why people who say you shouldn't have rail until you can run the buses on time are idiots - the driver did everything in his power, but all the cars and a few other buses made it impossible for him to meet his schedule.
- 5:26: We slowly approach light at 21st/Guadalupe, having been stuck through several light cycles. Now we see why "Rapid Bus" won't work at all - and the same thing would apply to "Rapid Streetcar". The entire corridor is congested - we can rarely make the first green light we see all the way past UT, and quite often don't even make the second one. At this point, a whole ton of people get on, and the bus is now standing room only, with 3 people standing and every seat full.
- 5:29: Stuck short of 24th. Once again, rapid bus shows its uselessness - as we could have held that light green till the cows came home, but the traffic from 26th through 29th would have still stopped us dead. At this point we're probably more than 10 minutes behind schedule.
- 5:32: Finally made it to near the Dean Keeton / Guadalupe intersection; finally about to leave the "rapid bus" route (and also the light rail route). Note that light rail as planned in 2000 would have breezed through this stuff - making a couple of stops, but never getting stuck in traffic. The driver really goes fast on Dean Keeton - feels like 45, although it's very hard to tell.
- 5:34: We pull over near the ped bridge over Dean Keeton and pick up a few more people. About 5 people standing now.
- 5:36: Finally on the way home. No more delays/obstructions.
- 5:38: Three people, including yours truly, disembark. Some of the remaining standees find seats. Bus has improved to only 9 minutes late, thanks to some speeding and 'flexibility'.
Things learned:
- Don't trust the pedestrian part of google transit's directions. I kind of suspected this before, but they clearly assume you can take a bees'-line. It would be a much better idea if they were to assume you had to take the same route as your car - they'd be erring in the conservative direction if at all - which is definitely the better way to err when walking to a bus stop!
- They might be able to run the #30 a bit more often, if this is any indication. At least a bit more frequent during rush hours, as the people on the bus were (mostly) clearly headed home from work.
- As another commenter alluded to on his blog, this is the kind of thing Ben Wear should be doing from time to time.
- Rapid Bus is shelved, of course but today's experience yet again confirms how useless it would be. Likewise, streetcar on this corridor in a shared lane would be an absolute disaster - even worse than the bus. Broken record time: Light rail as conceived in 2000 would have greatly helped this corridor - giving people a transit alternative which would be superior to the private automobile and FAR superior to slow, unreliable, jerky buses or streetcars.


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TAMPA — Angelo Crowell's journey to the NFL was tough enough, beginning with a childhood during which his family struggled to make ends meet.
And for the new Bucs linebacker, spending the past year out of football after knee surgery tested him again, "a really, really frustrating" situation that ultimately rekindled his passion for the sport.
Crowell was a defensive captain for the Bills in 2007, when he led the team in tackles with 140. But it was the seven-plus months of rehab, and not playing on Sundays, that gave the 6-foot-1, 238-pounder a chance to sit back and realize "how much the game meant to me."
Now Crowell, 27, who will compete for the strongside linebacker job, is healthy and ready to take his career to the next level.
"In my standards, (2007) isn't good enough anymore," Crowell said.
"I'm going to be a different player from what I was then. I expect myself to be better than 2007."
That could be a boon for the Bucs, who welcome the laid-back leader and hard-hitter who is known for his work ethic and determination.
"(He can) find laughter and joy in just about everything," his father, Napoleon, said.
Those qualities were embedded during Crowell's youth. With seven children living in their three-bedroom Winston-Salem, N.C., home, Crowell's father and mother, Patricia Brown, worked multiple jobs. Napoleon, a longtime pastor who founded a church, also delivered newspapers. Patricia worked at a warehouse and McDonald's.
But there were times the family was without power, without a refrigerator.
"There were times we didn't know how we were going to make it," said Crowell's brother, Germane, 32, a former receiver for the Lions.
"Times I knew my mom and dad didn't know how they were going to make ends meet. It was a time where we were living right at poverty. All the meals we had sometimes were the meals that mom brought home from McDonald's."
"The only thing we always had was family," Angelo Crowell said. "Just seeing my parents work ethic, I wanted to be successful to make them proud."
And Crowell also wanted to make a name for himself, getting out of the shadow of Germane, who also starred at Virginia before playing five seasons with the Lions.
The brothers are close. Germane worked out with Angelo while he was at Virginia. They would watch film together. Germane would run routes against his brother.
Crowell was drafted in the third round by the Bills in 2003 and worked his way up from special teams to become a three-year starter. But in 2007 training camp, his left knee began to bother him. He played through it. But after last season's training camp, he elected to have arthroscopic surgery a few days before the season opener — surprising the Bills, who put him on injured reserve.
Crowell's contract expired after last season, and the Bucs signed him in March. His rehab now complete, Crowell got the green light medically to participate in last week's Bucs practices.
"There's no substitute for experience," Bucs linebackers coach Joe Barry said. "A guy could have great feel. He could have great toughness and all that stuff; great speed. There's nothing that beats actually doing it on Sundays, and (Crowell) has done it and done it on a high level."
Speaking of Sundays, Napoleon is the bishop of the church he founded, where Germane is a pastor. His mother teaches children who have who have behavioral issues.
"I help them realize the talent within themselves," she said. "They ask about my kids."
After all, they're living proof.
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Raleigh, N.C. — The Wake County Board of Commissioners will talk Tuesday about ways to improve the county's transit system, including an option that would create an independent panel of experts to advise the board on the best path forward.
Tuesday's meeting is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m.
The ongoing debate about how best to serve the county's growing population has centered recently on whether or not to build a light rail system similar to what Charlotte offers its commuters.
Proponents of light rail say it could help Wake County roadways deal with huge growth expected in the next 10 to 20 years. Others have questioned a light rail's efficiency because of Wake County's "sprawled metropolitan area."
Wake Up Wake County, a transit advocacy group, says they have been waiting about two years for county commissioners to publicly discuss the issue.
"The current Wake County plan, the first phase is just bus and commuter rail," Karen Rindge said. "But the light rail is certainly the vision for the future."
Commission Chairman Joe Bryan said the board's goal is to address the issue this year. The possible creation on an independent transportation panel could help leaders make sure they're heading down the right track. Commissioner Paul Coble suggested the formation of the independent panel during the board's Aug. 19 meeting.
"This is making a decision for the long-term," Bryan said. "Let's make sure we get it right."
Rindge said the current draft plan, which includes a light-rail system stretching from Cary Parkway up Capital Boulevard into north Raleigh, needs to be reviewed fully.
"How much more money are we going to spend?" Rindge said. "How much more time are we going to spend? Triangle Transit looked at this and provided input, and they even hired local consultants to look at bus and rail needs."
Recently, the Regional Transportation Alliance, a group that serves as the business voice for transportation initiatives across the Triangle, took a position saying the current draft plan for Wake County is not the most effective or viable option.
"You have got to have a good plan to start with before you can go to the public and say, 'Are you willing to support it?'"
John Pucher, a professor in the Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University in New Jersey, said in March that the county is not suited for a light rail system.


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Division I college football players are professionals. They are given room, board and health care in exchange for their time, and served by tutors, coaches and trainers. They are paid only if they work. If a star receiver decided to focus on academics and scale back football practice, he would be dropped from the team and lose his scholarship. His "student" status is a cover for the university to avoid paying him as much as he would earn on a competitive market.
In amateur sports, the players are unpaid. The coaches are usually unpaid as well, or else modestly paid to promote exercise, community spirit and friendly competition. In amateur sports the competitors do not spend a great deal of time practicing, since they are playing for fun and have work or school full-time. Division I college football is not an amateur sport.
But college football players earn little for their work, because the employers collude through the NCAA to cap wages.
If university departments all agreed to cap the pay of new hires, they would be sued and fined. Anti-trust law requires that they compete, allowing aspiring young professors to benefit from their own marketable talents.
Anti-competitive behavior is just as harmful to athletes. But the NCAA cartel evades the law by mendaciously classifying full-time athletes as students.
In this economically unjust environment, Northwestern University quarterback Kain Colter has gained legal standing to form a union with his teammates. If the law will not come to the players' aid by breaking the NCAA pay cap (an ongoing lawsuit may do so), they want to use the union in a tug-of-war with the university to marginally improve their pay.
But unionization cannot fully deliver economic justice in the sense of allowing players to reap the rewards of their own talent and labor. Unions typically negotiate uniform group benefits — in this case, they want health insurance for football-related injuries, a reasonable request. But the benefits will always be limited if they must apply equally to all players. Complicating matters, the current allowance for unionization applies only to private universities, not state schools.
Rather than fight through years of lawsuits, the NCAA should take leadership and change its rules to allow schools to pay players on an open market. There are reasonable rules and regulations that the NCAA may impose as a sports league, for instance requiring that contracts are signed for a minimum of a year or that players can play only four years in the league. None of these should prevent a school willing to pay a million dollars for a star quarterback from doing so.
One objection to the idea of a free market is that it may upset the competitive balance of college football. What competitive balance? Teams from the SEC have won seven of the last eight title games and there is no pretense of parity. At least in a competitive market, fans willing to buy tickets will watch better teams.
Another objection is that schools will not be willing to pay athletes in less-popular sports. But that's fine; the existing NCAA pay cap has no effect there anyway, so little would change if those sports were opened up to competitive wage bidding. What would wreck the less-popular sports is wholesale unionization that required equal pay or benefits to all athletes.
A final objection is that explicit professionalism would corrupt the spirit of the game. If you want to watch true amateurs compete for the love of the game, there are spirited Division III teams all around. But if you want to watch professional-level football in a professionally sized stadium, you should support paying the players whose full-time job it is to entertain you.
- Salim Furth is a senior policy analyst in macroeconomics at The Heritage Foundation.
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A 43-year-old Lodi man was killed in a construction-related accident just south of Merced, according to the Merced County Coroner's Office.
Jose Jimenez, 43, a 15-year Teichert Construction employee, died at the scene at about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday after he was pinned between a piece of heavy equipment and concrete, according to the San Joaquin County coroner's office. He was an operating engineer, according to Loran White, a vice president and spokesman at Teichert's corporate office in Sacramento.


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There's that one dreaded spot we've all experienced alike in San Francisco: an open house.
It's those Saturday mornings you spend next to 50 San Franciscans shoving past you with their credit reports and pay stubs, vying for the city's last 500-square-feet of squalid paradise.
It's as depressing as the housing market itself.
But we're here to point out that (very thin) silver lining to this dark reality. Lovely, the latest app in apartment hunting, has done some research, analyzing data from 80,000 rental listings to determine which neighborhoods you're most likely to score your next pad.
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Hi Harald,
I'm planning to get the same fluid head (700rc2) for my glidetrack. Wouldn't the Pan Lock lever hit the carriage surface when you tighten it? Or is the lever repositionable by pulling first? I know the QR lever lock is…Not sure about the bottom lever though. Nice demo video btw!
Actually guys, you will find that the little leaver you show, CAN be re-positioned to anywhere on the clock face by simply lifting and turning the lever part (it is on a spring). Make sure it is tight, then pull it outwards and you will find you can have it positioned anywhere you like. Hope this helps.
Everbody seems to miss this important detail on Manfrotto kit.


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Full service boutique hotel set in Albany's Historic State Street District.
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To respond to a competitor's series of product announcements, Cisco wanted to produce a live event for its global salesforce quickly. Ordinarily, presenters needed to travel to a Cisco Media Network studio to participate in a live event. To avoid delays and save on the expense of satellite provisioning, Cisco IT used its WAN to transmit signals from the event to the central studio and from the studio to viewers worldwide, using intranet and Internet VPN connections.
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Layne Christensen Co. announced that on Aug. 23, 2013 the board of directors elected John T. Nesser III as an independent director, effective Sept. 5, 2013. Nesser will fill the vacancy created by the retirement from the board of Jeffrey J. Reynolds on June 6, 2013.
Layne Christensen Co. announced that Martha R. Vance, CPA, has been named vice president, chief accounting officer, effective July 8, 2013. Vance will report to James R. Easter, Layne's CFO.
Layne Christensen Co. announced the launch of the water transfer business within the Layne Energy Services Division. Layne is currently providing these services for its clients operating in the Permian Basin.
Layne Christensen Co. named James R. Easter the chief financial officer, effective May 6, 2013.
Layne Christensen Co. announced that its board of directors has approved the relocation of the company's global corporate headquarters from Mission Woods, Kan., to The Woodlands, a suburb of Houston. The move is expected to commence in spring 2013 and be completed by winter 2013.
The move will involve most executive positions in Layne's corporate leadership, as well as certain other management and staff positions. Most senior executives from Layne's six divisions will ultimately consolidate into the Houston headquarters.
Layne Christensen Co. announced that on Oct. 1, 2012 it sold all of the exploration and production (E&P) assets of its Energy Division to LR Energy Inc., a portfolio company of Longroad Capital Partners III, L.P., for $15 million. Layne intends to use the proceeds from this transaction to pay down outstanding debt and for general corporate purposes.
Layne Christensen Co. announced that Islamorada, Village of Islands, Fla., has approved a design-build-operate contract with Reynolds Water Islamorada LLC for a centralized wastewater system. The system will satisfy the village's requirement to implement a mandate from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to eliminate all residential septic systems and private wastewater treatment plants in the Florida Keys by Dec. 31, 2015.
Layne's Heavy Civil Division will perform the work on this project.
Layne Christensen Co. announced that it has acquired the remaining 50% interest of Costa Fortuna Fundacoes e Construcoes Ltda that it did not previously own. Layne acquired its initial 50% interest in Costa Fortuna in July 2010.
Layne Christensen Co. announced that the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) has awarded Layne Inliner an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for sanitary sewer repairs, replacement and renewals in environmentally sensitive areas. The contract has a value to Layne Inliner of up to $70 million, with a WSSC option for an additional $10 million in work.
Layne Christensen Co. has announced the opening of its Center of Excellence Facility in Phoenix. With a 130-year commitment to the water industry, this newest addition to the company's footprint is strategically positioned to provide sustainable and economical water treatment solutions for both industrial and municipal applications.
Recognizing the growing population and the unique water chemistry challenges of the desert, the facility accommodates regionally specific water treatment needs while also adding 40 highly skilled positions.
Meadors will expand Layne Christensen's geographic coverageLayne Christensen Co. has announced the acquisition of Meadors Construction Co. Based in Jacksonville, Fla., Meadors expands the geographic coverage of Layne Christensen's water infrastructure business. Meadors will be consolidated with Reynolds, Inc., Layne Christensen's heavy/civil construction arm, bringing additional revenue exceeding $25 million annually. The acquisition was funded from Layne Christensen's current cash balances and net of cash; Layne Christensen remains debt free.


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Jon Jones and Chael Sonnen's chummy relationship has pretty much come to an end as we get closer to UFC 159.
While the two were filming the Ultimate Fighter 17, Sonnen (notorious for playing head games with his verbal sparring) was cordial, helpful and very positive.
Now that the taping is over, Sonnen is back at it, putting together an epic poem that slammed Jones on UFC Tonight. He also is doing a daily countdown to his fight on Twitter that usually includes a barb or two. But so far, it isn't getting to Jones, as he told mmafighting.com.
"Chael's [mouth] doesn't bother me at all," Jones said. "I think if I was to take it personal, if I wasn't to understand it, it would bother me. But I have a pretty clear understanding of who Chael is, what he's accomplished, and my understanding kind of takes the power away from his words and his persona. You can see that the talk has picked up a little bit. But Chael is in the 'promote fight' business. I guess that's how he got in this situation in the first place. I'm in the 'remain champion' business. So, I'm excited. I'm excited to go out there and do what I do best, and that's win championships."Tags: Chael Sonnen, jon jones, mma, MMA NEWS, UFC 159, ufc news


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Masculinity. It's not just for dudes anymore. Actually, it is but the very notion of dudeness as we know it is changing and evolving, as Ask Men's Great Male Survey, 2012 edition, has found.
Randy Blythe Supporters to Hold Vigil in Front of U.S. Supreme Court
While Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe remains in a Czech prison, facing manslaughter charges stemming from an incident where a fan died after an alleged onstage altercation with Blythe in May 2010, his hometown supporters in Richmond, Va. continue to do their part for him. Friends of Blythe are staging a vigil out front of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, July 22 from 1PM to 3PM ET.
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An opportunity has arisen for a corporate solicitor to join our client's commercial boutique in central Manchester. The role will suit a well-versed corporate solicitor who is looking to work alongside the firm's senior partners and is able to hit the ground running.
The firms Manchester office has a close-knit team with big plans for the future They have a relaxed and friendly culture providing a level of flexibility and opportunity which will be missing in bigger practices. It is very much a meritocracy giving talented individuals the ability to rise quickly and achieve the recognition they deserve.
Many of the firm's lawyers come from national firm backgrounds and bring large firm experience to a wide range of commercial clients. The clients are predominantly entrepreneurs, investors and developers across a wide range of business sectors including technology, healthcare, professional services and property development and much of the work is multi-million pound M&A.
The successful candidate should have a solid corporate background and you will be at ease and comfortable with business development. You will need to relish responsibility and autonomy but will also want to be a team player, as you will be working alongside the partners right from the outset in a supportive and collegiate environment. The experience you will gain working alongside industry leading professionals will be invaluable as your career develops.
The firms offers a great work-life balance in an open and honest environment and you can expect to receive a handsome remuneration package as well as top rate benefits.
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Dan Adamini, the Michigan Republican Party official whose social media posts calling for "another Kent State" spurred a firestorm, was right about one thing: "It was stupid, it was poorly done," he said of his posts on Twitter and Facebook.
Adamini, in an after-the-fact attempt at an apology, said his goal "was to stop the violence by protesters, not commit violence against protesters," but added, "I never should have tried to say that in 140 characters or in a Facebook post."
Right again.
Kent State University President Beverly Warren couldn't have chosen a better word for Adamini's Tweet -- "One bullet stops a lot of thuggery." She called it "abhorrent."
The events of May 4, 1970, cost four young people their lives, resulted in the injury of nine others and profoundly altered both Kent State and the Kent community, which found themselves with a place in history that they never sought because of a series of events that no reasonable person could ever wish repeated.
We can't imagine how calling for "another Kent State" can be considered as a deterrent to violence.
We doubt that Adamini, who formerly chaired the Michigan GOP and is now state party treasurer, has ever set foot on the Kent campus. It's a good bet, too, that he has only a cursory grasp of what occurred there nearly a half-century ago. Otherwise, he would have understood how hurtful, insulting -- and, yes, abhorrent -- his trivialization of this tragedy is to those who continue to work to heal the wounds of May 4.
Kent State, in its response to Adamini's posts, stated that May 4 "was a watershed moment for the country and especially the Kent State family," a day that saw the loss of lives "that still pains the Kent State community today." It extended an invitation to him to tour the KSU campus and the May 4 Visitors Center to gain a perspective on the events of 1970 and their aftermath.
The May 4 Task Force, the student organization that has coordinated the campus observance of the 1970 tragedy for more than 40 years, has extended a similar invitation, urging Adamini to attend this year's commemoration program.
We hope that he considers coming to Kent this spring to see why it is so important that "another Kent State" never happens again. And why comments like his are the reason why May 4 -- even with the passing of nearly 50 years -- cannot be "forgotten."
Adamini, in response to the uproar he created, remarked, "We've got too much hate in the world. The hatred really has to stop. I'm sorry I played a role in the spawning of hatred."
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Tis the season for savvy home buyers
Hauling yourself out of bed on weekend morning to traipse through yet another open home can be a test of willpower.
It is even harder when the rain is bucketing down and it is colder than a brass monkey's proverbials outside.
Many aspiring home buyers are growing tired of the hunt, with relatively lean pickings available in some cities.
But those who wrap up warm and pull on their gumboots at this time of year are likely to be rewarded for their efforts.
"It's almost like the best time to judge a house is actually on the worst day," says Properazzi commentator Alistair Helm.
"It's also the least likely day that anyone else is going to be looking or negotiating."
The slower winter months give one the opportunity to be a smarter buyer, he says.
The supply of new properties does dry up a bit but not as much as you would expect.
Realestate.co.nz figures show that almost 10,000 new listings come to the market each month in June, July and August - or about 300 each day.
There were actually more listings last winter than there were this summer.
Sellers usually prefer to list their properties in spring, because they are much more presentable when the sun is shining and the flowers are starting to bloom.
That means some of those who sell in winter are doing so because they have to - whether that be a life event, pressure from their bank, or a change in jobs.
A search of Trade Me's property section reveals 200 mortgagee sales and more than 1500 listings where the seller is described as "motivated".
Helm reckons you may have more scope for negotiation if the seller needs to flick it off urgently, so their loss can be your gain.
Real Estate Institute chief executive Helen O'Sullivan says she is not sure if the theory of buyers hibernating over winter holds true this year, especially in Auckland and Christchurch.
She does not think winter home-hunters will be able to pick up a bargain but they might get the next best thing - a buy.
"At the moment, the challenge is being a successful bidder," O'Sullivan says.
In Wellington, where residents are more accustomed to inclement weather, buyers' agent John Welch reports there is still plenty of activity.
"We went around and looked at some open homes on Sunday," he says. "It was terrible weather, raining, but it was standing room only in at least a couple of the properties we went to."
Even if you can't count on reduced competition, there is another excellent reason to stick with the chase.
"Looking at a property in the middle of winter . . . you're actually looking at it warts and all, at its worst," says Braziers Property Investments principal Tony Brazier.
It is not a hard-and-fast rule but he says sellers usually prefer to wait until they can display nice photogenic properties, well lit with pretty flowers out front.
"As opposed to shortly, the only photos we're going to get is with a foot of snow around the place."
June and July are actually among Brazier's busiest months.
That is because his clients are property investors who have long since cottoned on to this savvy practice.
It allows them to get a feel for dampness, lighting, warmth and drainage issues, he says.
"Rather than looking at it in the height of summer, when the windows are all open and it's as dry as a bone."
A builder's report will set you back from $500 to $1500, so it is useful to have some idea of whether the house is shipshape before you investigate further.
In hilly Wellington, Welch keeps an eye out for any sign of dodgy green stuff growing in the shade and other potential flaws.
"There are smart vendors who will present a property to take away any negatives," he says.
"The old saying: putty and paint make it what it ain't, always holds true."
ConsumerBuild's checklist for home buyers suggests looking out for mould, swollen skirtingboards and stained window or door trims inside.
Outside the house, pay attention to overflowing gutters, the sealing of pipes coming out of the house, and clearance of the cladding from both the ground and the roof.
Of course, there is a difference between minor fixes and actual structural problems.
"If you want to be a savvy buyer, you need to look past the superficial things," says Helm.
"It's a bit risky to rule out everything just because there's a bit of condensation on the window."
For those who have stayed active throughout the winter and still failed to lock down a home, Helm offers some words of consolation.
"It's like you've jostled to the front of the pack in the marathon," he says.
"As soon as the gun goes for the spring release of new listings, you're up to date, you know what's been in the market, you know the pricing."
So don't wait for the long sunny days, when even the most dodgy dunger looks like a million bucks.
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Developers of a new £29 million Cycle Superhighway between Bradford and Leeds have been accused of taking a "cavalier attitude" to the concerns of residents and businesses affected by the scheme.
Councillor Andrew Carter, who represents Calverley and Farsley and is leader of the Conservative group on Leeds City Council, said the Thornbury to Stanningley section of the 14-mile route would cause major safety issues and a negative impact on trade.
Stuart Andrew, Conservative MP for Pudsey, Horsforth and Aireborough, has echoed the concerns, but CityConnect, the organisation heading up the project, said the scheme had been "carefully considered" to accommodate parking and loading facilities for local businesses and residents.
The proposals, submitted by Bradford Council, Leeds City Council and the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, include largely segregated cycle provision which will see the route take over part of the carriageway in areas such as Bradford Road in Thornbury.
Half metre sections of kerb between the cycle track and road are designed to increase safety for cyclists, but Cllr Carter said there was an "obsession with moving the scheme forward" despite major issues for residents and business owners.
"From Stanningley to the Bradford boundary there are a whole string of issues," he said. "Residents and businesses need parking spaces on the highway and are understandably really concerned.
"We were assured these concerns would be addressed, but we are getting more complaints from residents on a daily basis.
"Residents will have to park outside of the cycleway and further into the road, which is just not safe.
"They are taking a cavalier attitude to small businesses, but we are not prepared to accept a single job being placed in doubt through lost trade."
Michael Blackburn, who has lived on Womersley Place, just off Bradford Road, for the past 30 years, said: "It's not just about not being able to park, it's unsafe.
"They've said the restrictions are for our safety and benefit, but people will end up parking and trying to get out of their cars in the full lane of the carriageway."
Malcolm Dytor, postmaster at Woodhall Park Post Office on Bradford Road, said: "It's bound to have an effect on the business if people can't park.
"Some of our customers are in their 70s and 80s, and for them to be trying to get out onto to a three-lane highway from essentially the middle lane of the traffic will be horrendous on this road.
"It's an accident waiting to happen."
Mr Andrew said he had requested a meeting with City Connect to discuss the concerns, and had not ruled out referring the matter to the Secretary of State.
Ginny Leonard, communications and engagement project manager for CityConnect, said that while it was understood there was a level of local opposition to the project, 16 consultation events had been carried out on the Thornbury to Stanningley bypass section, with 78 per cent of residents said to be in favour of the scheme.
"We are unaware of concerns over any major safety issues," she said. "We have had two independent safety audits, neither of which have flagged up major issues.
"Any objections to the scheme have largely been associated with parking.
"The CityConnect scheme was successful in demonstrating a new approach to cycling in Leeds/Bradford, and consequently it is important that the scheme reflects a safe, segregated facility."


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I came apon an interesting article supporting my thesis. Its based around the cause of acne, but it has the facts....
On a personal level, I drink tons of milk (ranging around a gallon a day), and have bad facial, chest and back acne.
Please do a little research and time in.
"We've heard it over and over again: diet has nothing to do with acne. However, there are a handful of doctors who believe that what we eat may indeed affect our skin. And they're not pointing fingers at chocolate and potato chips, but instead at milk. That's right -- the wholesome drink that we've always considered healthy is at the center of an acne controversy.
Researchers claim to have found a correlation between milk intake and the incidence of acne. It seems milk drinkers develop more severe acne than non-milk drinkers. One study, published in the May 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, looked at the diets of teenaged boys. The young men who drank the most milk also tended to have the worst acne.
This supports the results of previous studies, during which teenage girls were asked to keep food diaries and monitor breakout activity. Again, girls whose diets were rich in dairy products had more severe acne than the rest.
Of all dairy products, milk was the worst offender. Chocolate milk, cottage cheese, and sherbet also had a negative effect on the skin. But other dairy products didn't seem to cause breakouts.
Interestingly, skim milk induced breakouts more often than whole milk, so it seems fat content in milk isn't the culprit. And those who took vitamin D supplements didn't have more breakouts, so vitamin D isn't thought to be the cause either.
Fatty foods also didn't trigger breakouts. And the foods that many people associate with causing acne -- chocolate, pizza, soda, and French fries -- didn't seem to increase breakout activity at all.
Why would certain dairy products contribute to acne? Some think it's the hormones found in milk. Milk contains androgen hormones, which have long been associated with the formation of acne breakouts.
Testosterone is an androgen hormone, and it is strongly linked to acne development. It's most often thought of as a male hormone, but women produce testosterone too, although in lesser amounts.
Testosterone, through a complicated chain reaction, creates di-hydrotestosterone (DHT). DHT stimulates the sebaceous glands, creating an oilier skin that is more prone to pore blockages and, ultimately, pimples. Milk naturally is filled with hormones, including DHT. It's possible that milk contains enough hormones to have an effect on the body, including the skin. People who are genetically predisposed to acne breakouts may have a stronger reaction to the hormones in milk, according to some researchers.
Many dairy farmers also give their cows additional hormones to stimulate milk production and enable the cow to produce more milk. As a result, most milk is very high in IGF-1. IGF-1 is a growth factor that peaks in the human body during adolescence, when acne is usually at it's worst. It is believed that IGF-1, along with testosterone and DHT, trigger acne breakouts.
In two previous studies, high milk consumption was linked to high IGF-1 levels. Again, skim milk was associated with higher IGF-1 levels than whole milk.
The processing of skim milk may explain why it is linked to acne severity more often than whole milk. Whey proteins are added to give skim milk a creamier consistency. Some speculate that these proteins impact acne development.
Of course, not everyone who drinks a lot of milk breaks out in pimples, and many disagree with these findings. The Dairy Council counters that the results are skewed, citing the fact that in one study, adult women were asked about their dairy intake during the years after they left high school.
And many medical professionals are wary of the conclusions being drawn, because they don't take into account other factors that may influence acne severity. They're also quick to point out that the studies don't link milk to acne development -- they only establish a correlation between milk consumption and acne severity.
The biggest problem for researchers is proving their controversial theory. There is no way to do a double-blind, randomized controlled trial (considered the gold standard in research), because there is nothing that can be used as an adequate placebo for milk.
But some doctors are taking a new view of how diet affects the skin, and this no-dairy philosophy has its believers. Some dermatologists say they have had some success in having their patients cut milk and dairy from their diets.
There is still no hard evidence proving milk consumption causes, or worsens, acne. Much more research is needed before this theory can be proven. However, decreasing milk intake may be helpful, especially for those whose acne isn't responding well to more conventional treatments.
In the meantime, you can stick to the advice that doctors have given for years: avoid any foods that seem to worsen your breakouts whether that be pizza, chocolate, oranges, or dairy products. "
Increase Testosterone, DHEA, IGF-1 With Milk
Dairy is a trigger for many. Although having milk after you lift will help build muscle, if you are getting acne it is not worth it really. I would drop the milk and try protein shakes mixed in water. I stay clear with whey shakes mixed in water and rarely have milk. I know of other people who say whey breaks them out, though. I do fine with it though. Everyone is different when it comes to acne.
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i'll be honest i just skimmed the article in 3 seconds, and i'll write this quick
diet is 100% the cause of my acne, dandruff, sebehorric dermatitis, reddish complexion, and even gray hair.. high carb specifically. when trying to bulk i was in the dermatologists office each week getting cortisone injections b/c of the cysts i had. when i diet with less than 200g carbs a day it diminshes, my hair turns back to its normal color and i can actually get a tan.. it may not be the milk itself but high insulin levels all the time. milk is very insulinogenic
edit: for what its worth right now i'm on quite a bit of testosterone myself with something else.. carb intake controlled and no acne
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i would only say correlation is not causation. could be a million reasons why acne kids also tend to drink milk.
me for one, even at 25, still get some acne. however, it is always WAY worse when i have big shifts in the intensity of my training. i was abroad this summer and the training suffered, came back with a passion to my local gym (great place) and broke out like a 16 years old again. mostly gone now.
lots of gym rat kids drink milk. just an example.
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I read that it's the iodine in milk which causes acne. If you make sure you are taking a multi without iodine and reduce milk consumption, you should notice a dramatic decrease in breakouts. I have done both and I'm having great results acne-wise. I still get significant sources of iodine from other dairy products like cottage cheese, whole eggs, and egg whites. I'm sure I'm getting enough, but I'm not overdoing it. If you are not willing to give up milk or other products with iodine, organic apple cider vinegar helps as well.


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The doors opened for the 11th season of the ever-popular spring-summer event on Saturday at Millennium Plaza Park, and the thousands of patrons were greeted by a record-setting 86 booths.
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