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Businesses with a sound credit rating currently located in Missouri that have retained at that site the level of employment for at least one year, and a minimum of 100 employees for two consecutive calendar years preceding the year in which the application for the program was made. In addition, the business must make a capital investment of at least one million dollars to acquire long-term assets.
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SALT LAKE CITY — National Park Service workers were busy Friday reopening eight national recreation sites in Utah that were closed for 10 days due to the federal government shutdown.
People clapped as the visitors center at Capitol Reef National Park opened its doors Friday afternoon, said Leah McGinnis, park superintendent.
"We had people waiting outside our barricades when we opened. We had a bus in our parking lot within the first 15 minutes. People were anxious to get here," she said.
About the only thing missing were the signature pies at the Gifford Homestead because there wasn't time to bake.
"We didn't have pies this afternoon," McGinnis said. "We'll have those (Saturday) morning."
Cars also lined up outside Zion National Park, which opened Friday with limited services. Trails that don't require permits and the Zion-Mount Carmel Highway were open.
Both visitor centers, Kolob Canyon, the south campground and the Zion-Mount Carmel tunnel opened Friday afternoon. The park's shuttles and Zion Lodge will open Saturday morning.
"I'm sure they're scrambling like mad to get things working," said Dean Cook, president of the Zion Canyon Visitors Bureau.
Utah reached an agreement with the Department of the Interior late Thursday to fund five national parks, two national monuments and one national recreation area for up to 10 days.
"This is a practical and temporary solution that will lessen the pain for some businesses and communities in Utah," Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said in a statement.
- Arches National Park
- Bryce Canyon National Park
- Canyonlands National Park
- Capitol Reef National Park
- Zion National Park
- Cedar Breaks national monument
- Natural Bridges national monument
- Lake Powell
Gov. Gary Herbert said Utah sent the Interior Department $1.67 million Friday morning to set the reopening in motion. The state agreed to pay $167,000 a day in operating costs for up to 10 days. Herbert said he expects the parks to be fully operational Saturday.
In addition to Capitol Reef and Zion, the state will cover operating costs at Arches, Bryce Canyon and Canyonlands national parks, Cedar Breaks and Natural Bridges national monuments and Lake Powell.
"The phone has been ringing off the wall ever since last night's or this morning's announcement that they're going to open the park," said Michael Hayworth, who works at the North Lake Service Center at Bullfrog Marina. "We have not gotten any official word."
Hayworth said he doesn't expect the boat ramps to open until the park service gets containment measures back in place for the invasive mussels that attach themselves to watercraft.
"I don't see anything being launched for at least two days," he said.
Aramark, a facilities management company at the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, said it's open for business at Lake Powell.
"Our intent is to have a majority of our Lake Powell operations on North Lake (including Defiance House Lodge, Bullfrog Marina and boat rentals) and on South Lake (Lake Powell Resort, Wahweap Marina and boat rentals) up and running later (Friday), with the expectation that all facilities and services will be fully operational and available by Monday," according to company spokesman Dave Freireich.
It's been very unnerving and frustrating for a community like ours. Right now, we're just excited about trying to salvage what we can in the month of October after the bloodletting.
–Dean Cook, president of the Zion Canyon Visitors Bureau
Lance Syrett, general manager of Ruby's Inn just outside Bryce Canyon, said he's glad to see the hotel's lobby empty because for 10 days people were hanging around with nothing to do.
"We're just staying so happy down here we're going to pass out. That's how great it is," Syrett said Friday. "I'm walking through the hotel right now, and it's basically a ghost town because everybody's inside the park."
In Springdale just outside Zion National Park, Cook was ecstatic about the reopening news.
"Once the euphoria wears off, I think I'll get back to normal," he said.
Cook, general manager of the Best Western Zion Park Inn, said the closure has been tough on businesses in the small town.
"It's been very unnerving and frustrating for a community like ours," he said. "Right now, we're just excited about trying to salvage what we can in the month of October after the bloodletting."
October is traditionally a busy month for Springdale and helps get motels, restaurants and tour companies through the lean winter season.
If the government shutdown remains in place after Oct. 20, Herbert said Utah would consider funding on a day-to-day basis.
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"We can keep it open as long as we feel necessary," he said Friday.
Utah won't get back the money it puts up to reopen the recreation sites without an act of Congress.
Members of the state's congressional delegation have initiated legislation for repayment.
"We're going to try. We'll do everything we can," said Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah. "I've assured the governor we would lead that charge, but there's no guarantee with the federal government. All the parties recognize that."
Stewart said it's money well spent even if the state isn't reimbursed. Utah will be more than repaid in the economic activity that's restarted with opening the parks and bringing tourists back, he said.
Herbert, too, said he knows the state might not see that money again. But "we're losing millions of dollars a day when they're closed, so putting out $167,000 a day to return millions into the economy certainly is a good bargain."
House Speaker Becky Lockhart, R-Provo, said it's clearly the obligation of the federal government to operate the parks, and she wants to see the state get its taxpayers' dollars back.
Stewart said in addition to seeking reimbursement, he'll pursue legislation that would allow the state to immediately fund the national parks and be reimbursed should another federal shutdown occur.
"The reality is we'll probably find ourselves in this position again," he said. "We want to legislatively put a piece in place that brings some certainty to that situation."
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On a hill overlooking the New River, a couple of miles from Radford University, are some buildings that used to house troubled minds. Now the abandoned dormitories and offices that used to be the Saint Alban's psychiatric center house rumors and graffiti. The patients are gone but a fascination with the place remains.
Radford University students inside the Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Department are leading interested parties on tours of what some say is a haunted spot. They're hoping to stop the destruction caused by those interested in the building's past while helping new owner, Tim Gregory finance restorations.
The group is eager to remain involved in the project that steals their Saturday mornings, giving enthusiastic visitors a tour of what some describe as the Pulaski haunt. They've memorized the history, reciting dates and plans to any ready to listen. And above all, they see Gregory as nothing more than amazing.
Gregory was once a patient at the hospital when he was 13 years old for treatment of his Asperger's syndrome. He described himself as fortunate and "spoiled rotten" during his stay at the hospital. He has fond memories of the facility and has big plans to preserve the history as well as the buildings.
"Me and my wife got a chance to look at the building and I knew we needed to get it because they wanted to tear it down so I couldn't let that happen," Gregory said. "So it's not exactly like buying the home place but it's as close as you can get."
He purchased the property for $500,000 back in 2008 from an auction of the Radford University Real Estate Foundation. The sale also included the nearby King House, which was the family home of Dr. J. C. King after his family moved out of the center.
Gregory hopes to turn the property into a conference center with 80 guest rooms, several classes devoted to healing, lectures, motivational speakers and offices for those involved in holistic medicine. He anticipates drawing visitors in with the building's rich history.
St. Albans was originally opened between 1892 and 1911 as the St. Albans boy's school. Five years later the hospital opened its doors in 1916 with the help of Dr. J.C. King.
Patients described it as a peaceful place, where they were healed holistically and without medication. Gregory often warns those seeking the ghosts and spirits they've heard rumors about to book a tour and not break into St. Alban's. He occasionally haunts the buildings himself, late at night, protecting his one-time home from vandals and nosey students.
Gregory often catches students creeping into the abandoned building and on occasion has restrained trespassers until the authorities could arrive. Gregory jokes now about the fear he caused one young man who was so frightened by Gregory's appearance in a dark room, long beard and all, that the young man urinated himself.
Catching those who break in is just a hobby but the big picture is a restoration. And that restoration is his dream. The vandals have caused unbelievable damage. After the building sat abandoned for 6 years it undoubtedly needs a great deal of restoration.
"[We're] having these tours so people know what we're doing out here," Gregory said. "Because they go back and tell their friends that we're actually fixing it up, it's not falling down. That's the most important steps we're taking. It's just getting information out to lighten the place up."
During the time when Radford University owned the property, it was left unused and asking for trouble. RU once made use of the property allowing art students to graffiti and damage parts of the building for displays. It still holds the remaining projects inside many of the rooms, however many tour guides point out the destruction is hard to separate from the vandalism that occurred afterwards.
"It's such a historical building and I don't think people realize that, because I didn't realize that until I started getting involved with it," CEO Bobbie Wolfe said. "When you damage it, it just costs more money for Tim to put back into the building and it's just not a good thing to do."
Through the crude spray paint, holes in the walls, broken staircases, uneven floors, shattered windows and overgrown landscapes tour guides, visitors and volunteers see Gregory's dream clearly. The creeping vines even seek solace inside the walls of Saint Alban's.
Grand staircases, square footage and a maze of rooms keep their eye on the light at the end of the tunnel.
Hidden Treasures:
St. Alban's is full of abandoned treasures. Several columns support the roof and balconies of the buildings. During renovations they were covered and protected with Styrofoam keeping many of them in perfect condition today. Only a handful have been lost to age.
Du ring the transformations over the years a set of skylights were also covered up in the main sitting room in one of the buildings. Drop ceilings were installed in most of the buildings, lowering many ceiling heights and covering up the buildings treasures.
The Cage:
What most would assume is a rooftop patio is what tour guides refer to as "The Cage." An area atop on of the buildings of Saint Alban's was caged off to allow patients in the closed wards their daily outdoor time without fear of endangerment.
Gregory plans to remove the cage and replace the broken tile and add planters, giving future visitors a place to drink coffee during the mornings.
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Saint Alban's was constantly referred to as "a place of healing" for those that needed it. It wasn't a stranger to many celebrities; Johnny Cash was rumored to have booked a room in Saint Alban's alcohol unit but later refused his stay.
The unit had it's own personal entrance behind the facility where according to nurses many limousines would drop off patients.
One patient of Saint Alban's who was under the direct care of Dr. King found herself at odds with the hospital's founder. She found herself at the center for anorexia and obsessive compulsive disorder. Before breakfast each day the girl would have her room in order and King would mess it up while she ate. He supposedly did it to keep her on her toes and encourage her to push her anger outside her body.
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Gregory explained to the tourists his appreciation for Dr. King's facility. He would act up when he learned of his release. The youngest patient, Gregory would pretend to run away from the grounds of St. Albans, however, he would take his time and practically walk just to ensure he would be caught.
After hearing of his release on another occasion, Gregory ran screaming and slammed his head into a hallway vending machine, knocking himself out. His determination to stay within the walls of Saint Alban's is comical to him now.
Gregory's fascination never falters. As the class takes tourists through, Gregory delves into the building, memory first and guides guests through the web of hallways. His paths almost always intersect the students and he won't hesitate to inform visitors of his future plans for each room of the center.
Curious minds aren't the only ones seeking the tours. Nurses and other workers from Saint Alban's past have booked tours with Tim and his guides. One accompanied a tour and did not hesitate to point out flaws in the building's history.
One nurse had tears in her eyes as she noticed the overwhelming amount of destruction within the building.
The rush of a ghost story will still draw in visitors. One couple come to St. Alban's to record their findings as amateur ghost hunters, wande ring from the set path of the tour and taking in every inch of the building.
They aren't the only one looking for ghosts. A small child clung to an Ipod running a ghost finder App into the electroshock therapy room.
Gregory sees a different side of the paranormal aspect of Saint Alban's.
"Do I believe there's a lot of spirits in Saint Alban's? Yeah, I do." Gregory said. "Do I belive there's monsters—reach-out-and-get-you kind of things going on? No, I don't go there too much. But I do believe there's a lot of spirits here… It was a place of healing for a long, long time. If I went to the other side, I'd probably want to go to a place like this and hang out too."
Electroshock Therapy:
One technique that was used on many patients during the operation of Saint Alban's was electroshock therapy. Gregory received 21 shock treatments over the course of his stay. The treatment was said to help Gregory's condition by inducing grand-mal seizures that changed the way his brain processed functions.
Electroshock therapy had been given a bad rap after the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" forced unnecessary shock treatments on patients, one nurse said as she explained the technique and reasons behind the treatment at Saint Albans.
The center will be renamed the St. Albans Center for Research and Enlightenment. As those who ventured into the buildings returned from their journey most felt the need to step in and get involved.
"It's such a historical building and people don't realize that—I didn't until I started getting involved," said CEO Bobbie Wolfe.
After the university failed to do anything with the building, students have stepped in and hope to make St. Albans a vital part of the community once again. They encourage others to help make sure the building is appreciated and preserved, taking the history to heart.
That's exactly what this project is doing as it pulls at the heartstrings of the community.
"[A maintenance man who worked on the property for 30 years] cried so much… because they had to leave the building," Gregory said. "And if it meant that much to the people who worked there you can imagine what it meant to people who came here to heal. And I get stories everywhere you go if you bring up Saint Albans—whether it's WalMart, Lowes, wherever—everybody's got a story—a good story about Saint Alban's."
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Warsaw, Poland: A quarter century after Poland embraced democracy, President Barack Obama held up this nation Wednesday as a guidepost for neighboring Ukraine as it seeks to fend off an insurgency widely believed to be backed by Russia that has rekindled Cold War-era tensions across Europe.
Obama also offered high-profile gestures of American support for Ukraine, holding talks for the first time with the former Soviet republic's new president-elect and announcing long-sought assistance for the Ukrainian military, including body armor and night vision goggles.
"The people of Ukraine are reaching out for the same freedom and opportunities and progress that we celebrate here today - and they deserve them, too," Obama declared in a rousing address to 6,000 people gathered in an outdoor square in the heart of Warsaw.
The celebration marking the 25th anniversary of Poland's first partially free election was the centerpiece of Obama's two-day visit to Warsaw.
Shortly after his remarks, Obama traveled to Brussels for a meeting of the Group of Seven major industrial nations, where leaders were expected to issue stern warnings to Russia but hold off on imposing further economic sanctions. Upon his arrival in Belgium, Obama met briefly with King Philippe and Belgian Prime Minister Elio Di Rupo.
Obama will close his trip in France on Friday, marking the 70th anniversary of the D-Day invasion during World War II. At the ceremony, Obama probably will have his first face-to-face interaction with Russian President Vladimir Putin since the crisis in Ukraine unfolded earlier this year.
Putin's annexation of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine as well as other threatening moves have rattled Poland and its neighbors, many of which have historic ties to Russia, but also deepening relationships with the West.
Seeking to offer assurances to those nervous nations, Obama vowed to come to the defense of Poland and other NATO allies, declaring that an attack on one member country would be an attack on them all. He also reaffirmed his commitment to seeking congressional support for up to $1 billion for a "European Reassurance Initiative" that would boost the American military presence on the continent.
"After investing so much blood and treasure to bring Europe together, we refuse to allow the dark tactics of the 20th century to define the 21st," he said.
Earlier Wednesday, Obama met for the first time with Petro Poroshenko, the billionaire candy maker who handily won Ukraine's presidential election last month. The talks were an attempt to bolster the legitimacy of Ukraine's new government, which Russia is yet to recognize.
Poroshenko will be inaugurated on Saturday with Vice President Joe Biden and other Western dignitaries on hand. Sitting side-by-side with Obama, Poroshenko thanked the U.S. for its support for "the Ukrainian people, for freedom, for democracy."
While Ukraine's successful elections were an important milestone, Poroshenko faces enormous challenges stabilizing his country's economy, ensuring a steady flow of energy supplies and tamping down violence stirred up by pro-Russian separatists who have occupied eastern cities.
Obama's critics contend he has failed to provide the Ukrainian military with the assistance it needs to push back against those insurgents. Up until now, U.S. assistance has been largely limited to clothes, food and radios.
The new $5 million assistance package is relatively modest and is unlikely to significantly change the trajectory of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. White House officials said Poroshenko pressed Obama for even more military help, though they said the Ukrainian leader stopped short of asking for lethal aid.
White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said the president was "very open" to discussions on more ways to bolster Ukraine's military but continues to be focused on non-lethal assistance.


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Hickson Compact Group 87: A Minuet of Four Galaxies
This troupe of four galaxies, known as Hickson Compact Group 87 (HCG 87), is performing an intricate dance orchestrated by the mutual gravitational forces acting between them. The dance is a slow, graceful minuet, occurring over a time span of hundreds of millions of years.
The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) provides a striking improvement in resolution over previous ground-based imaging. In particular, this image reveals complex details in the dust lanes of the group's largest galaxy member (HCG 87a), which is actually disk-shaped, but tilted so that we see it nearly edge-on. Both 87a and its elliptically shaped nearest neighbor (87b) have active galactic nuclei which are believed to harbor black holes that are consuming gas. A third group member, the nearby spiral galaxy 87c, may be undergoing a burst of active star formation. Gas flows within galaxies can be intensified by the gravitational tidal forces between interacting galaxies. So interactions can provide fresh fuel for both active nuclei and starburst phenomena. These three galaxies are so close to each other that gravitational forces disrupt their structure and alter their evolution.
From the analysis of its spectra, the small spiral near the center of the group could either be a fourth member or perhaps an unrelated background object.
The HST image was made by combining images taken in four different color filters in order to create a three-color picture. Regions of active star formation are blue (hot stars) and also pinkish if hot hydrogen gas is present. The complex dark bands across the large edge-on disk galaxy are due to interstellar dust silhouetted against the galaxy's background starlight. A faint tidal bridge of stars can be seen between the edge-on and elliptical galaxies.
HCG 87 was selected for Hubble imaging by members of the public who visited the Hubble Heritage website (http://heritage.stsci.edu) during the month of May and registered their votes. The HST exposures of the winning target were then acquired in July 1999 by the Hubble Heritage Team and guest astronomers Sally Hunsberger (Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona) and Jane Charlton (Pennsylvania State University).
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This is such a Beautifully written story and message - your family is lucky you are preserving these important memories - thank you for sharing. Do you know what happened to baby Thomas?ReplyDeleteReplies
Paper & Roots Genealogy, Thanks very much for your lovely comments. Yes, I do know what happened to little Thomas. The very sad details are outlined on the civil registration record of his death. Thomas Christopher Ball died in St. Ultan's Hospital, Dublin on 18 September 1928 at the age of 10 3/4 months. For the last 23 days of his life Thomas was very sick; he died of "Chronic Enteritis and Cardiac failure". It's hard to imagine a little one dying in such a way.Delete
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In March 2010, members from the EPP, S&D, ALDE, Greens/EFA and ECR groups founded the "Friends of Turkey" group in the European Parliament. Seventy-seven MEPs joined and were active members during the 7th legislative term (2009-2014). Mr Alojz Peterle (EPP) was elected as chairman of the group.
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Typical and expected......the yanks would always want to keep such a leverage to twist our arm whenever the need arises.
However, three proposed for Pakistan last fall have effectively been blocked as the proposed bill continues to languish in committee without being put to the full US Senate.Neither Pakistan's Defense Ministry nor the Navy replied to any request for comment on the issues surrounding the Perry acquisition plans.Former Australian defense attache to Islamabad, Brian Cloughley, said conditions attached to their transfer "were deliberately made impossible."
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They aren't sanctioning anything, all they are saying is that we aren't giving it to you for free anymore. This is old news though, Kerry-Lugar Bill.
3 stripped down Perry class frigates is hardly modernization. They were stop gaps provided we installed advanced equipment on it.
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The Americans also put a damper on a standard FMS proposal for the sale of artillery to Pakistan. To be very frank, the US don't want to see Pakistan's conventional capabilities to improve. It doesn't serve their interests to see a strong Pakistan, be it economically and much, much less militarily.
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- Brown was married to Lewis' cousin Rusty Brown
- Rusty Brown's sister Myra Gale Brown was 13 when Lewis married her
Rock 'n' roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis is married for a seventh time -- this time to the ex-wife of a cousin whose sister Lewis wed when she was 13 -- his representative said Thursday.
Lewis, 76, married Judith Brown, who was previously married to his cousin, Rusty, on March 9 in Natchez, Mississippi, according to his representative Maureen O'Connor.
The flamboyant piano player known as "The Killer" pushed the rock envelope with his 1957 hit singles "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" and "Great Balls of Fire," but marital scandal stalled his career. His third marriage (when he was 23) was to a 13-year-old cousin, Myra Gale Brown.
Rusty Brown is Myra Gale Brown's brother, O'Connor said.
Lewis and his sixth wife, Kerrie McCarver, were married for 20 years and had a child. They were divorced in 2004, according to Spinner.com.


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If you've been able to muster up the strength to watch this year's NLCS -- and it's perfectly understandable if you haven't, given how Game 5 of the NLDS ended -- you've seen quite a compelling series between the last two World Series champions, each of them making a desperate push to reach the Fall Classic again.
You also might have emerged from all this contemplating a simple, and perhaps painful, question: Would the Nationals have won this thing had they simply not blown a six-run lead to the Cardinals 10 days ago?
There's legitimate reason to believe they would, in fact, have won the pennant and secured a date with the Tigers in the World Series.
There's obviously no way to know how a series that never took place would have played out. But given the way they handled the Giants during the regular season, and given the way that potential NLCS would have set up, the Nationals certainly would have been in a favorable position.
The Giants, make no mistake, are a resilient bunch and got some fantastic pitching performances from Barry Zito and Ryan Vogelsong to win Games 5 and 6 and stave off elimination. But they haven't done much of anything at the plate, aside from Marco Scutaro and Pablo Sandoval, and will enter Game 7 with a .241 team batting average and paltry .369 slugging percentage in the series.
The Nationals, meanwhile, feasted on Vogelsong during their only encounter this season, racking up eight runs on nine hits Aug. 13 against what was then the NL's ERA leader.
But the biggest advantage the Nationals would have had in this phantom NLCS would have been their home-field advantage. The Giants' pitching staff fared far better at AT&T Park this season (3.09 ERA) than it did away from that spacious ballpark along McCovey Cove (4.29 ERA).
And unlike the case in the actual NLCS against the fourth-seeded Cardinals, third-seeded San Francisco would not have held home-field advantage against Washington. Games 1, 2, 6 and 7 would have been played at Nationals Park, which you have to believe would have favored Davey Johnson's club.
Not only because of the Giants' road struggles this season, but because of history. Home-field advantage may not mean much in the best-of-five Division Series, but it means a whole lot in the best-of-seven Championship Series and World Series.
There have been only 23 Game 7s played in baseball over the last 30 years. And in those winner-take-all showdowns, the home team is 18-5.
History, then, would have been on the Nationals side had they found themselves in position to host Game 7 of the NLCS tonight.
That game, of course, isn't being played on South Capitol Street. It's being played on the other side of the continent, in front of a rabid San Francisco fan base that figures to aid the Giants' cause.
That may still be a bitter pill for the Nationals and their fans to swallow, recognizing just how close they were to finding themselves in this very position right now instead of watching it all unfold on television.
But if you've refused to partake yourself over the last week, do yourself a favor and tune in to Game 7 tonight. These classic October battles, as pointed out above, simply don't happen that often. And they typically produce some of the most memorable games in baseball history, whether it was rookie David Price preserving the upstart Rays' ninth-inning lead against the mighty Red Sox in 2008 or Aaron Boone taking Tim Wakefield deep into the Bronx night in 2003 or Sid Bream sliding in just ahead of Barry Bonds' throw to the plate in 1992.
Yes, it may still be painful to realize the Nationals could -- perhaps should -- have been the ones playing tonight. But nothing is going to change that now. Might as well enjoy the high drama of a Game 7 involving two franchises that have been staving off elimination all month and now meet in the ultimate pressure cooker of a ballgame.
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ZoddAlmighty wrote:The community is really small and that is pretty much why it wont matter to have a market like that.
Warframe market functions because you have time limited items that some times do not show up for years.
Everything here is available if you want to put time into it to farm it. Therefore prices are pretty much always the same with some exclusions.
Well, some items are more rare than others, that is the sole reason why we have really big fluctuations in prices. That and the fact that people just do not to farm certain crafting materials so they offer a better price to buyout everything there is on the market.
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I had the privilege of touring basecamp for Oracle TeamUSA and then walking around Americas Cup Park. Excited doesn't even begin to describe the awesome-ness of the tour of where the AC72 boats are kept, where the team trains and where the immense entourage of staff, engineers and support personnel keep things moving.....extreme performance at their finest.
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Good tidings seem in order for the LTL segment of the trucking industry, with tonnage volumes increasing – helped along by a growing capacity crunch in the TL sector combined with an uptick in re-shoring activity – which is being followed by rate increases.
Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) for example recently announced a 4.3% general rate increase starting May 1 as Todd Polen, the carrier's VP of pricing, noted that "customers are asking for more capacity" plus more value added products and services."
"In order to meet that demand and deliver on the promises we have made to our customers, we must continue to build our network and systems," he explained in a statement.
"Our philosophy is to take a fair and equitable approach that minimizes the impact to our customers' budgets yet at the same time, supports the value proposition we promised to the marketplace," Polen pointed out. "Therefore, this increase is necessary to offset the rising cost of new equipment, escalating insurance costs, securing new service center capacity, continuing to develop state-of-the art technology, [plus] providing for competitive wages and benefits."
Wall Street investment firm Stifel Nicolaus & Co. noted in a recent research missive that it believes LTL pricing overall should increase 3% to 4% this year, even with overall U.S. gross domestic product growth still expected to slump along at a rate of 2% to 2.5%.
Stifel's outlook for LTL industry tonnage through 2016 is for a continuation of this "slow recovery" pace unless of course a tighter capacity situation emerges in in the TL sector – a tightness the firm said may not truly manifest itself until ELDs (short for electronic logging devices) become mandatory and enforceable, which will likely be sometime in 2016.
For 2014, Stifel expects a roughly 2% to 3% uptick in both volume and yield growth for the LTL segment, adding that LTL tonnage grew 4.4% year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2013 followed by more tonnage gains in the first quarter this year.
On the pricing side, the firm said LTL yields grew only 0.2% in in the fourth quarter last year although reported yields varied somewhat due to freight profile changes, which was a deceleration from the 1.8% year-over-year yield growth reported third quarter last year.
In Stifel's analysis, one of the reasons for what it calls this "yield/price mismatch" is the increasing penetration into the LTL freight market by third-part logistics (3PL) providers, which means even if the same freight is still hauled by the same carrier the shift of the primary shipper relationship erodes margins for the carrier.
Stifel added that while large national accounts are not giving much in the way of rate increases and are typically much less profitable customers for the carriers, the firm thinks those larger shippers will need to accept larger-than-average increases once capacity tightens significantly, as the cross-subsidizing done by the small shipper is decreasing and industry consolidation is increasing.
Even with all of that good news on the table, Stifel still cautions that the potential for things to turn sour – especially in terms of broader U.S. economic trends – remains a constant underlying worry.
"We caution that, although industry fundamentals are good now and our outlook through 2016 is for continued growth in pricing and volumes, a few negative surprises could cut valuations significantly," the firm noted in its research update.
"Now in the fifth year of an economic recovery – sluggish as it may be – we are modeling growth for three more years, yet we are much less confident in our 2016 estimates, as a deceleration in U.S. economic growth would not surprise us, given continued limited real wage growth, job growth, population growth, and potential stimulus withdrawal and rising interest rates," Stifel pointed out.
"[But] over the longer term, through the cycles, we believe that the U.S. energy sector growth, re-shoring of manufacturing, industry consolidation, regionalization of distribution, and capacity tightening in the TL sector should benefit LTL operators," the firm said.
Thus while it may not be picture perfect news, it still should be welcome enough for the LTL sector – especially as the chances of raising rates and making them stick now appears to be better.


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Who here would like to see the "Filmation" Power Sword come with a He-Man figure or in a weapons pack?
It should be doable. Adora came with one and He-Man appeared with it in MANY of the MOTU mini-comics. The best shot of it I've seen so far is on page 4 of the Leech one.
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FORTUNE — In Oct. 2010, Apple (AAPL) offered to license its portfolio of smartphone patents to a major Android phone manufacturer for $30 per unit — a figure it said it was willing to reduce to $24 as part of a patent cross-licensing deal.
On Saturday, Apple announced that it had signed a 10-year cross-licensing deal — the terms of which are confidential — with a second Android phone maker.
The first company was Samsung, which chose instead to take its chances in a California jury trial that resulted in a $1.05 billion judgement it is currently fighting to reduce.
The second was HTC, the very first Android maker Apple sued for allegedly "ripping off" the iPhone.
In a deal that caught industry watchers by surprise, Apple and HTC agreed Saturday to dismiss all their pending lawsuits and to cross license "current and future patents" for the next decade — thereby ending more than two and a half years of acrimony and litigation.
In retrospect, the deal makes a lot of sense, both for HTC and for Apple.
- Unlike Samsung, whose smartphone sales have reportedly overtaken the iPhone, HTC's share of the global smartphone market have been shrinking rapidly (to 4% last quarter from 10.3% in the same quarter last year, according to IDC)
- Its revenue and profits have fallen four quarters in a row
- It already lost one patent fight with Apple at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), leading to a temporary ban on the sale in the U.S. of two of its newest phones
- It lost a high-profile countersuit, suggesting that the $300 million it spent on a portfolio of patents to gain leverage against Apple might have been wasted
- A preliminary ruling in yet another Apple lawsuit was due from the ITC in two weeks
Apple, for its part, has made it clear that it prefers settlements to the wave of lawsuits Steve Jobs initiated and which Tim Cook has described as a "pain in the ass." HTC no longer poses the threat it did when Apple first sued it in March 2010. Although Jobs complained bitterly at the time that the company was "steal[ing] our patented inventions," HTC's imitations were never as brazen — or well documented — as Samsung's.
Although neither side will say what there terms of the deal struck Saturday were, an HTC spokeswoman told the
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that the company doesn't expect the license agreement to have an "adverse material impact."
We can probably assume that Apple settled for something less than the $24 per unit it demanded of Samsung. (Microsoft is reportedly charging Windows Phone 8 licensees $10-$15). According to IDC, HTC sold 7.4 million smartphones last quarter. At $24 per phone, that would have worked out to nearly $180 million.
I'm not an accountant, but for a company that announced last week that it sold $588 million worth of smartphones in October — down 60% from last year's $1.5 billion — $180 million every three months sounds pretty material to me.
Unless, that is, HTC is planning to shift its smartphone efforts from Google's (GOOG) Android platform and to someone else's — say, Microsoft's (MSFT).
UPDATE: In a note to clients Monday, Sterne Agee's Shaw Wu estimates the licensing fee to AAPL to be in the $6-$8 per phone range, which means about $180-280 million in annual revenue given the 30-35 million Android smart phones HTC will likely ship in 2013. More important, he believes the deal provides a "blueprint" for future settlements with Samsung and Microsoft.


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Quick meal ideas for your busy week
A little forethought will help you roll out tasty meals all week long
There's no need to sacrifice taste for speed when it comes to making dinner for you and your family. Bring healthy, quick meals to the table all week long with the following tips and tricks.
Prepare, prepare, prepare
A little forethought at the start of the week will help you roll out tasty meals all week long.
- Steam a bunch of vegetables, such as broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, and new potatoes. Use them in stir fries, soups, and pasta dishes throughout the week.
- Purchase premade fajita mix including seasoned and marinated peppers, onions, and chicken or beef strips from your local grocer.
Stock your pantry
A well-stocked pantry with basic and specialty items helps you get cooking fast.
- Keep on hand packaged or homemade stocks, jarred pesto, sun-dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts, stir-fry sauces, frozen pie crusts, pizza dough, canned beans, pasta, ravioli, tortellini, tortillas, and hard cheeses.
- Your weekly shopping list may include eggs, fresh greens, fruits and vegetables, tofu, soft cheeses, meats and poultry, and other perishables.
Put it all together
You prepped, planned, and shopped. Let the cooking begin.
- Ravioli salad: Cook ravioli or tortellini and toss with steamed vegetables, greens, and salad dressing of your choice. Top with Parmesan cheese.
- Soup: Sauté olive oil with onions and garlic. Add leftover steamed vegetables (choose one or use mixed vegetables) and packaged broth. Bring to a boil and then turn off heat. Let soup cool before blending. Add spices, light cream, or milk if desired, and you've got homemade soup. Serve with bread and a tossed salad.
- Fajitas: Lay out a buffet for making your own fajitas or burritos. Have on hand warmed tortillas, refried beans, shredded Monterey Jack cheese, avocado slices, salsa, and sautéed onions, peppers, and garlic. Add tofu, tempeh, or chicken or beef strips. Top off with chopped greens and tomatoes, and a dollop of sour cream or yogurt.
- Pasta primavera: Cook fresh or dried bow tie pasta. Coat with olive oil and set aside. Steam or roast asparagus. Sauté onions and shiitake mushrooms in olive oil until tender. Combine pasta, asparagus, mushrooms, and onion and add a drizzle of olive oil and grated Parmesan cheese.
- Pizza: What's a week without pizza? Use your purchased dough and roll out a thick or thin crust. Spread with tomato sauce, grated cheese, and fresh vegetables. Liven it up with sun-dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts, or pesto sauce. Or try a white pizza with olive oil and a combination of cheeses, such as goat and Parmesan. Top with caramelized onions and sautéed mushrooms.
Kathleen Finn is a freelance writer and marketing consultant in the natural health industry. She longs for a well-stocked pantry.
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AMSTERDAM - Paul Hiltemann had already noticed a darkening mood in the Netherlands. He runs an agency for people wanting to emigrate and his client list had surged.
But he was still taken aback in November when a Dutch filmmaker was shot and his throat was slit, execution style, on an Amsterdam street.
In the weeks that followed, Mr. Hiltemann was inundated by e-mail messages and telephone calls. "There was a big panic," he said, "a flood of people saying they wanted to leave the country."
Leave this stable and prosperous corner of Europe? Leave this land with its generous social benefits and ample salaries, a place of fine schools, museums, sports grounds and bicycle paths, all set in a lively democracy?
The answer, increasingly, is yes. This small nation is a magnet for immigrants, but statistics suggest there is a quickening flight of the white middle class. Dutch people pulling up roots said they felt a general pessimism about their small and crowded country and about the social tensions that had grown along with the waves of newcomers, most of them Muslims."The Dutch are living in a kind of pressure cooker atmosphere," Mr. Hiltemann said.Continue reading the main story
There is more than the concern about the rising complications of absorbing newcomers, now one-tenth of the population, many of them from largely Muslim countries. Many Dutch also seem bewildered that their country, run for decades on a cozy, political consensus, now seems so tense and prickly and bent on confrontation. Those leaving have been mostly lured by large English-speaking nations like Australia, New Zealand and Canada, where they say they hope to feel less constricted.
In interviews, emigrants rarely cited a fear of militant Islam as their main reason for packing their bags. But the killing of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh, a fierce critic of fundamentalist Muslims, seems to have been a catalyst.
"Our Web site got 13,000 hits in the weeks after the van Gogh killing," said Frans Buysse, who runs an agency that handles paperwork for departing Dutch. "That's four times the normal rate."
Mr. van Gogh's killing is the only one the police have attributed to an Islamic militant, but since then they have reported finding death lists by local Islamic militants with the names of six prominent politicians. The effects still reverberate. In a recent opinion poll, 35 percent of the native Dutch questioned had negative views about Islam.
There are no precise figures on the numbers now leaving. But Canadian, Australian and New Zealand diplomats here said that while immigration papers were processed in their home capitals, embassy officials here had been swamped by inquiries in recent months.
Many who settle abroad may not appear in migration statistics, like the growing contingent of retirees who flock to warmer places. But official statistics show a trend. In 1999, nearly 30,000 native Dutch moved elsewhere, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics. For 2004, the provisional figure is close to 40,000. "It's definitely been picking up in the past five years," said Cor Kooijmans, a demographer at the bureau.
Ruud Konings, an accountant, has just sold his comfortable home in the small town of Hilvarenbeek. In March, after a year's worth of paperwork, the family will leave for Australia. The couple said the main reason was their fear for the welfare and security of their two teenage children.
"When I grew up, this place was spontaneous and free, but my kids cannot safely cycle home at night," said Mr. Konings, 49. "My son just had his fifth bicycle stolen." At school, his children and their friends feel uneasy, he added. "They're afraid of being roughed up by the gangs of foreign kids."
Sandy Sangen has applied to move to Norway with her husband and two school-age children. They want to buy a farm in what she calls "a safer, more peaceful place."
Like the Sangens and Koningses, others who are moving speak of their yearning for the open spaces, the clean air, the easygoing civility they feel they have lost. Complaints include overcrowding, endless traffic jams, overregulation. Some cite a rise in antisocial behavior and a worrying new toughness and aggression both in political debates and on the streets.
Until the killing of Pim Fortuyn, a populist anti-immigration politician, in 2002 and the more recent slaying of a teacher by a student, this generation of Dutch people could not conceive of such violence in their peaceful country.
After Mr. van Gogh's killing, angry demonstrations and fire-bombings of mosques and Muslim schools took place. In revenge, some Christian churches were attacked. Mr. Konings said he and many of his friends sensed more confrontation in the making, perhaps more violence.
"I'm a great optimist, but we're now caught in a downward spiral, economically and socially," he said. "We feel we can give our children a better start somewhere else."
Marianne and Rene Aukens, from the rural town of Brunssum, had successful careers, he as director of a local bank, she as a personnel manager. But after much thought they have applied to go to New Zealand. "In my lifetime, all the villages around here have merged, almost all the green spaces have been paved over," said Mr. Aukens, 41. "Nature is finished. There's no more silence; you hear traffic everywhere."
The saying that the Netherlands is "full up" has become a national mantra. It was used cautiously at first, because it had an overtone of being anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim. But many of those interviewed now state it flatly, like Peter Bles. He makes a long commute to a banking job in Amsterdam, but he and his wife are preparing to move to Australia.
"We found people are more polite, less stressed, less aggressive there," Mr. Bles said. "Perhaps stress has a lot to do with the lack of living space. Here we are full up."
Space is indeed at a premium here in Europe's most densely populated nation, where 16.3 million people live in an area roughly the size of Maryland. Denmark, which is slightly larger, has 5.5 million people. Dutch demographers say their country has undergone one of Europe's fastest and most far-reaching demographic shifts, with about 10 percent of the population now foreign born, a majority of them Muslims.
Blaming immigrants for many ills has become commonplace. Conservative Moroccans and Turks from rural areas are accused of disdaining the liberal Dutch ways and of making little effort to adapt. Immigrant youths now make up half the prison population. More than 40 percent of immigrants receive some form of government assistance, a source of resentment among native Dutch. Immigrants say, though, that they are widely discriminated against.
Ms. Konings said the Dutch themselves brought on some of the social frictions. The Dutch "thought that we had to adapt to the immigrants and that we had to give them handouts," she said. "We've been too lenient; now it's difficult to turn the tide."
To Mr. Hiltemann, the emigration consultant, what is remarkable is not only the surge of interest among the Dutch in leaving, but also the type of people involved. "They are successful people, I mean, urban professionals, managers, physiotherapists, computer specialists," he said. Five years ago, he said, most of his clients were farmers looking for more land.
Mr. Buysse, who employs a staff of eight to process visas, concurred. He said farmers were still emigrating as Europe cut agricultural subsidies. "'What is new," he said, "is that Dutch people who are rich or at least very comfortable are now wanting to leave the country."Continue reading the main story


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I'm talking about Facebook.
I wish I could wring the neck of the person that first insisted a year ago that I join. 'Its the best fing, eva!' they said.
One year later and I have learnt (or is it learned? anyway):
1. Facebook eats time like vibrators eat batteries…not that I would know. People tell me these things you know, erm, anyway, people rarely actually spend their time COMMUNICATING with each other. They spend all their time getting cyber pets and feeding them, uploading 'going out' photos to prove they have a life, playing quizzes – something like –
Q1: From what sitcom do Monica, Phoebe, Rachel, Ross, Chandler and Joey appear?
a. Friends
b. CIS Miami
c. Law and Order
You know, that level of challenge.
So once people have spent their entire evening (or work day for most of them) redecorating their home page, it is covered in squeaky irrelevant add ons and applications. Boring! Even if you only killed an hour a day on Facebook thats 7 hours a week, thats time to do something useful like – I don't know, hunt rabbits. Anything but buy your boss Indiana Jones Fedora as a gift whilst feeding your pet giraffe sushi and asking all your fifty friends to do so too.
2. Facebook as a networking tool would work, yes. But it isn't for a lot of people is it? Instead, all the plebs from school that you spend ten years trying to forget about suddenly add you, because they want to add as many friends as possible. They don't even remember what you look like but they need, they crave double figures where their 'friend' list is concerned.
What's worse than having a friends list full of people you hate? People you are completely indifferent too I guess. My list is/was full of them. I don't really care what Susana had for breakfast, or if she thinks all men are wan*ers, or if she's really happy the constipation is over. Because I never really cared about her anyway, but if she's in my list, that means she's my friend and I am forced to read about her.
Which reminds me – people become so self absorbed with their profile pages they start to think maybe the ARE important. They are so important that they update their status five times a day.
Carly is……………….bored
Carly is……………….eating breakfast
Carly is……………….upset after arguing with her boyfriend
Carly is……………….feeling better now
Carly is……………….engaged
Carly is……………….no longer engaged
Carly is……………….bored again
Most people have banal lives. So keep your banlity to yourself because NO ONE CARES.
I guess with the exception of about three people, the rest of the friends I had on my list I could take or leave. After all, if someone means enough, you would have kept in touch in the first place, no?
3. The wall, the wall.
A friend's sister had a birthday recently. Wish her happy birthday! I said to my friend. Her response was, 'My sister said why didn't she wish my on my Facebook wall?'
Because once you have a wall, you are supposed to do everything on it – it is all for show. Popular people have lots of messages from their cray-zee friends of course.
The wall is like airing your dirty laundry – don't ask me why you can't send a private message. Or why you can't text or call. Don't ask me why it has to be in full glare of friends and family – the fact it using the wall is not easier than sending an email.
I guess if people want showy, virtual happy birthdays these days, then thats what they can have, along with their virtual birthday cake, their virtual chocolates from Godiva and the virtual Balenciaga handbag I bought for you. Generous of me, no?
4. Sharing photo albums is a big thing on Facebook. I have to say, it has given me pleasure to go through the albums of others and laugh at how god awful they are. There is a thing called, Photoshop, people. Or more importantly, there is a button on your camera called DELETE. I suggest that when you have a photograph that exposes your rolls of fat spilling over your thong, you press that button. Don't inflict it on others, and their sore, itchy, hayfever ridden eyes.
Whats even worse if there is a TAG function – so someone else can upload an incriminating photograph of you from 1986 and tag you so that everyone, even your stalker, can identify exactly who you are. Thanks for that.
I only had one photograph of myself on it so it is extremely irritating when other people think they have the right to put a photo of you up. Always the ones of you in a bad pose. Always the ones, where you clearly did not want your photo taken because 85% of your body is turned away from the camera and your hand is reaching up to cover your face, but no, they have to upload it anyway.
Especially when the postee doesn't even feature in the photo themselves – they just want to show everyone what YOU look like. Hey, if they like to be looked at, why wouldn't you? Why would you care about a little thing called privacy?
5. You can join but you can't leave. You can only deactivate your account, which essentially like not leaving at all. If I were to log in tomorrow everything would be as it was today even if I deactivated. How irritating! I think if I can join then I should certainly have the option to get rid of everything on there. More to the point, they still send you updates and news even when you deactivate your account! Unacceptable. There is a great post
about how much trouble someone had to go to in order to leave Facebook. T'was not easy and I don't think I have the energy to go through it all…
Maybe I should go back and mess up all my data, then deactivate. I resent the fact that they think they are so great that I would need the account again. Hmph!
Well thats another thing to add to the hate list:
Customer Service
The injustice of it all
Pregnant women
Bleach on hair


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'Boris island' decision 'in autumn'
A decision on whether or not the so-called "Boris island" option of a new Thames Estuary airport is to be added to an official airport expansion shortlist will be made in autumn 2014, the head of the Whitehall-appointed Airports Commission said today.
Chaired by former Financial Services Authority chief Sir Howard Davies, the commission has already shortlisted Heathrow and Gatwick Airports as possible sites for a new runway by 2030.
The estuary airport plan, favoured by London Mayor Boris Johnson, failed to make the shortlist in last month's interim report but the commission promised to look further at the scheme.
Today, announcing the future work of the commission in an "appraisal framework" timetable, Sir Howard said a decision on whether to add the estuary airport option to the shortlist would be taken in "early autumn".
Addressing an aviation conference in London, Sir Howard said the estuary scheme, costing as much as £112 billion, presented "many challenges and risks", adding that the cost looked "rather daunting".
He also said that, in studying the estuary option, the commission would have to "look at the implication of closing Heathrow and London City Airports".
Mr Johnson is bitterly opposed to a new, third runway at Heathrow and favours, instead, a brand-new airport in the Thames Estuary .
Earlier this week it was revealed that Mr Johnson had written to Sir Howard asking him not to sideline the estuary plan.
Launching the commission's interim report last month, Sir Howard said the estuary airport plan could cost as much as £112 billion - much more than either the Heathrow or Gatwick options.
He also said the construction challenge in building a new estuary airport would be "massive".
An extra, third runway at Heathrow was given the go-ahead by the Labour government in 2009, but scrapped by the coalition Government when it took power in May 2010.
In a letter to Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin, the 2M group comprising a number of local councils said that Sir Howard had shortlisted potential sites for new runways before assessing their environmental impacts or delivery costs.
Ray Puddifoot, leader of Hillingdon Council in west London and a 2M spokesman, said: "In any scenario, expanding Heathrow will have the most severe noise and air quality impacts. Its location guarantees this. It's astonishing that Heathrow can be shortlisted without understanding the true costs of mitigating the environmental and community damage that expansion would bring."
Ravi Govindia, leader of Wandsworth Council in south west London, said: "Sir Howard is proceeding as if people's attitudes to noise hadn't changed since the early 1980s. We have urged the commission to order a new social study now so that the noise standards are based on credible evidence of community impact."
Yesterday the London Assembly passed a motion reaffirming its opposition to the expansion of Heathrow and suggesting that more use could be made of spare capacity at other airports serving south-east England.
Assembly member Caroline Pidgeon, who proposed the motion, said: "I am really disappointed to see Heathrow back on the table."
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg declined to "categorically rule out" a third runway at Heathrow, but said he would not back it if it was shown to increase noise pollution or air pollution.
Richmond Park Tory MP Zac Goldsmith, a vociferous opponent of Heathrow expansion, ambushed the Lib Dem leader on his weekly phone-in show on LBC 97.3 radio to challenge him definitively to rule out support for a third runway, regardless of the recommendations of the Davies Commission.
Liberal Democrats have a long-standing position of rejecting a third runway, but Mr Goldsmith said there was now "a lot of confusion" over their stance because they had given their support to the commission's work.
Mr Clegg said: "The reason we have always ruled out Heathrow expansion is the environmental impact, because of the impact on air pollution and noise pollution, particularly on people living under the flight paths.
"Clearly any suggestion which leads to expansion of Heathrow which increases the existing levels of air pollution and noise pollution, entirely consistent with what we have said for years, we will reject."
But Mr Clegg said he would consider the findings of the Davies Report and base his decision on the evidence.
"I am a person who tries to be led by the evidence. I will look at it," he said. "But I don't think I can be any more unambiguous by saying the reason we have always opposed Heathrow expansion is because of the effect on the environment, noise pollution and air pollution. Anything that does that in a bad way is something we are clearly going to reject."
At today's conference Sir Howard said that in considering options for airport expansion it was necessary to "ensure all decisions are sensibly and soundly based and not vulnerable to legal challenge".
On the estuary airport option, the commission will look at such areas as surface transport, environmental implications, socio-economic factors and operational feasibility.
Sir Howard said that with the estuary option there was the "simple challenge of distance", with the schemes being some way from central London . He added: "The economic implications are quite serious as well, such as what would be the effect of closing Heathrow and London City airports."
Publishing the commission"s "way-forward" plans Sir Howard said interested parties would have until February 28 to comment and then the promoters of the Gatwick and Heathrow schemes would be invited to submit more detailed plans of their proposals.
Sir Howard said his team would look into the Heathrow and Gatwick plans in more detail than was possible during work to produce the December 2013 interim report where around 50 options had to be considered.
The plan was to be able to make a final recommendation in the summer of 2015, "that will allow a new government to hit the ground running".
Sir Howard said Heathrow and Gatwick were the most credible locations for a new runway by 2030, adding that "which of them is more credible will depend in part on how demand develops".
He added that although the commission had not found the claims on the shortlist from Stansted and Birmingham to be "very persuasive", it was nevertheless vital that these and regional airports grew as the chosen new runway would not be operational until the late 2020s.


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Albers finds Majors not so easy against White Sox
MINNEAPOLIS -- As the proverb goes, "All good things must come to an end."
While poet Geoffrey Chaucer didn't have baseball in mind when he penned that phrase in 1374, the words are no less applicable when discussing Andrew Albers' near-flawless Major League debut.View Full Game Coverage
MINNEAPOLIS -- As the proverb goes, "All good things must come to an end."
While poet Geoffrey Chaucer didn't have baseball in mind when he penned that phrase in 1374, the words are no less applicable when discussing Andrew Albers' near-flawless Major League debut.View Full Game Coverage
Entering Saturday night's outing against the White Sox with 17 1/3 scoreless innings, Albers' joyride hit a massive speed bump. He coughed up a run in the first, then allowed his first long ball -- a three-run homer to Dayan Viciedo -- as the big blow in a four-run fourth inning for the visitors, who claimed an 8-5 victory over the Twins.
"Fourth inning, I believe [Albers] had two outs, 0-2 count on [Adam] Dunn and ended up giving up four runs after that," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "He needed to make one more pitch in the inning."
"You gotta be able to find a way to put that inning away," Albers said. "This game comes down to about four or five pitches and a couple plays. That's how it goes some nights."
Viciedo has three homers against the Twins this season, with all three blasts coming at Target Field.
"[Albers] moves the ball well," Vicideo said through interpreter and White Sox coach Lino Diaz. "You can't really go out of the zone or feel desperate with him. You've got to pick and choose the pitches you're going to hit on him."
In the eighth, left fielder Josh Willingham lost Dunn's fly ball in the Target Field lights, allowing it to drop for a double to score Chicago's sixth run.
"I couldn't see it," Willingham said. "I promise you, if I could've seen it, I would've caught it."
The magnitude of that play wasn't fully realized until the bottom of the inning, when Ryan Doumit blasted a two-run homer -- his first since July 13 -- to pull the Twins as close as they would come.
"It's dusk. If you're down on the field level, you can't see it," Gardenhire said. "The ball went up and it disappeared from everybody in the dugout. As soon as it was hit, we knew we were in trouble.
"Some unfortunate stuff. What you gonna do? You lose the ball. If you can't see it, it's hard to catch."
Chicago's Alejandro De Aza answered with his own two-run homer in the ninth off reliever Casey Fien for a three-run margin.
The Twins wounded White Sox starter Chris Sale early, but they weren't able to deliver the knockout blow.
Trailing 1-0 in the third, Minnesota got to Sale for the only time. Joe Mauer plated two runs with his 34th double. Willingham followed with a double to left-center to score Mauer.
"We got some runs on [Sale]," Gardenhire said. "That [third] inning, we hit about 9,000 feet of fly balls out there that didn't go out of the ballpark. He hung in there pretty deep in the game, too, with a lot of pitches."
Albers threw up three scoreless frames after the fourth inning to keep the Twins within striking distance. But Sale scattered five hits after the third to help secure his ninth victory.
"Early on, I was struggling with my command, falling behind a lot of hitters," Albers said. "I just didn't have a lot of rhythm. The first three, four hitters I had a tough time hitting the outside corner. I had a lot of three-ball counts tonight. That makes for a tough day. Luckily after the home run, I was able to settle down a little bit and find a little bit of rhythm."
"Well, we won. So anytime you come back with a 'W' you always feel good about it," Sale said. "Obviously, there's some things I'd want to change, especially in that third inning, but at the end of the day, a win's a win. The music's playing. People are smiling. We're good to go."
Kerry Walls is a contributor to MLB.com.


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Ever wonder what made Suzanne Collins come up with the idea for "The Hunger Games"? It's a pretty terrifying story: Teenagers are set loose in the woods and forced to fight to the death.
Hmm, maybe that year Collins' dad spent in Vietnam has something to do with it.
Her next book may shed some light -- although it will be an unusual light. "Year of the Jungle" is an autobiographical book about the year Collins was in first grade and her father was a soldier in Vietnam. But it's a picture book. For little kids.
Wait, what?
In its news release about the book, publisher Scholastic explains: "In Year of the Jungle, when young Suzy's father leaves for Viet Nam, she struggles to deal with his absence. What is the jungle like? Will her father be safe? When will he return? The months slip by, marked by the passing of the familiar holidays and the postcards that her father sends. With each one, he feels more and more distant, and when he returns, Suzy must learn that even though war has changed him, he still loves her just the same."
That's certainly, um, heart-warming.
Scholastics' David Levithan emphasized the way Collins has been able to honestly portray the effects of war to young audiences -- before "The Hunger Games," she published "The Underland Chronicles," a series for middle-grade readers. "Now she has done it for a younger age group, in a way that is sympathetic rather than scary, relatable rather than raw," Levithan said. "This is something that Suzanne, as a military child, lived with for many years, and it's something that all families will be able to share, whether they have a personal connection to the military or not."
"Year of the Jungle" is for ages 4 and up. It is illustrated by James Proimos and will be published Sept. 10.


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Multitarget Projects
Have you noticed that previous releases of Visual Studio only supported one version of the .NET Framework? For years, my desktop was swarming with shortcuts to different versions of Visual Studio based on the projects I maintained at the time: Visual Studio 2002 for .NET Framework 1.0 applications, Visual Studio 2003 for .NET Framework 1.1, and Visual Studio 2005 for .NET Framework 2.0 applications. Finally, Visual Studio 2008 introduces a cool feature called "multitargeting" that lets us create applications for specific versions of the .NET Framework.
Multitargeting brings two main benefits to the table:
- You no longer need to install two or more different versions of Visual Studio to deal with the various clients and projects.
- You are no longer subliminally invited to upgrade to the next, super-cool version of .NET because of the new, super-cool time-saving features of the next Visual Studio. One IDE fits all .NET Frameworks, you could say. All frameworks? Well, not exactly.
Multitargeting in Visual Studio 2008 starts with .NET 2.0 (Figure 1) and should continue for most of the foreseeable future versions. Significant changes in the Common Language Runtime (CLR) that occurred between .NET 1.1 and 2.0 made it impossible to extend multitargeting to just any existing versions of the Framework. The nice thing about multitargeting is that any piece of the Visual Studio 2008 UI adapts to the target platform. The toolbox of controls, compiler settings, the list of assemblies to reference, IntelliSense on objects, and, of course, binaries are all specific to the selected platform.
The target platform is not a definitive choice. At any moment, you can upgrade or downgrade to any of the supported targets. You do this from the property pages of the project in the Solution Explorer (Figure 2).
Should you install Visual Studio 2008 if you're mostly maintaining existing .NET Framework 2.0 applications? Clearly, the big news about Visual Studio 2008 is the support it offers for 3.x .NET applications. However, even from a platform-agnostic perspective, there's something it offersan improved set of facilities with a particular attention to web developers. JavaScript debugger, CSS, master pages designer, and LINQ helper tools are all features available independently from the target platform.


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A Commitment to Excellence through Diversity
UC Irvine is committed to excellence through diversity and to the goal of reflecting diversity in our faculty, student and staff populations, as well as our teaching, research and public service endeavors.
Advisory Council on Campus Climate, Culture & Inclusion
As part of a UC-wide initiative, this multiconstituency advisory committee monitors and considers the interpersonal and intergroup atmosphere on campus, and advises the chancellor on ways to further the spirit of inclusion and community.
Office of Equal Opportunity & Diversity
OEOD is responsible for the campus's compliance with federal and state laws and university policies and procedures regarding discrimination, retaliation and sexual harassment. OEOD works to promote and integrate the principles of equal opportunity, affirmative action, nondiscrimination and excellence through diversity using sexual harassment prevention and diversity trainings, complaint resolution, consultation on EEO/AA and diversity-related issues, as well as collaborations with other departments and organizations.
Faculty & Staff Diversity Affinity Groups
These groups foster cross-departmental social interaction, professional networking, cultural competencies, recruiting and mentoring. Diversity affinity groups also offer the UCI community at large an opportunity to consult with group members as an information resource.
Center for Educational Partnerships
CFEP creates collaborations that support preparation for and success in higher education. Its focus is on equity and access for all students in order to achieve UC's goal of academic excellence.
UCI ADVANCE Program
This program carries out the campus's commitment to gender equity and diversity among faculty through a team of equity advisors who monitor recruitment activities, coordinate advising for career advancement, and counsel faculty regarding equity, including salary.
Diversity Opportunities
The Diversity Opportunities database connects faculty with the wide range of offices, programs and initiatives that promote equity, diversity and inclusion.
Diverse Educational Community and Doctoral Experience (DECADE) Program
DECADE aims to increase the number of minorities and women underrepresented in their disciplines receiving doctoral degrees at UCI.
Partnership for Adaptation, Implementation & Dissemination
PAID is a National Science Foundation-funded program that assists senior administrators, deans and chairs in advancing gender equity and diversity among faculty. Supported by a three-year grant and operated in partnership with UCLA, UC Riverside, UC San Diego and UC Santa Barbara, the program features a leadership component – Leading through Diversity – which concluded January 2010.
Vendor Diversity
UCI's Small Business Program helps departments establish and maintain access to equal opportunity for the purchase of goods and services in accordance with university policy. The Small Business Coordinator participates in outreach activities that strengthen the university's relationship with the small business community.
University of California Diversity Website
UC is committed to achieving excellence through diversity in the classroom, research lab and the workplace. It strives to establish a climate that welcomes, celebrates and promotes respect for the contributions of all students and employees.


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At least three men were shot and taken to hospitals tonight in the West Englewood neighborhood, according to the Chicago Fire Department and police.
The shooting occurred in the 5900 block of South Wood Street, according to the Chicago Fire Department.
An EMS Plan I, which automatically sends at least five ambulances to the scene, was called about 7 p.m. and secured about ten minutes later, according to the Fire Department.
One 23-year-old man shot in the torso or abdomen was taken in serious-to-critical condition to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County, while a 20-year-old man was taken in fair-to-serious condition to Holy Cross Hospital, according to the Fire Department and police.
The condition of the victim at Holy Cross had stabilized, according to the Fire Department.
A third person, 15, walked into Holy Cross Hospital with a wound to his leg.
Chicago Fire Department Chief Juan Hernandez said two additional victims, both men, were shot during the incident but got to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County on their own. Their conditions were not known immediately, according to Hernandez. Police said they were never notified of additional victims.
Police News Affairs Officer Daniel O'Brien said preliminary police information indicated there were only three men shot, two of whom were in their 20s and taken via ambulance to Stroger and a third who "self transported" to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition with a gunshot wound to the lower leg.


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Tips for Finding a Rental Apartment in Uptown New York
If you're looking to rent an apartment in the uptown New York area, it's important to determine what your must-haves are and to get to know the area to which you may be moving. Uptown has many benefits, and the apartment search can even be fun!
If you're looking to rent an apartment in the uptown New York area, you're going to want to have a strategy. Here's some advice to keep in mind as you embark on your search.
Figure Out Your Priorities
Your first step in the uptown apartment hunt should be to determine what your must-haves are.
Do you need an elevator building, or would you be comfortable with a walk-up? Uptown New York has many beautiful, quiet side streets with charming walk-up buildings.
Are you looking for a more populated area, or something in a quieter neighborhood? Uptown is a mix of both. On the east side, the subway is on Lexington Avenue, so the further east you go (toward York and East End Avenues), the quieter and less crowded it becomes. Conversely, the closer you are to any subway stop, the more businesses you'll find nearby.
When thinking about a long-term rental uptown, here's something to bear in mind: The city is currently in the process of building a subway uptown on Second Avenue, which means that there will be major construction activity going on in the years ahead. Upon its completion, subway travel will be much more convenient for East Siders, as per the MTA.
Use Your Network
Another good strategy for renting an apartment in uptown New York is to ask around, because some great rentals never make it to the web. If you ask friends, they may also be able to vouch for a certain building or landlord. Word of mouth is often the way to find a great deal. Brokers can be helpful as well. If you do decide to use a broker, contact the person well in advance, but be ready to move quickly. When you find the right rental, there's often a great deal of competition, so you have to be ready to pounce.
See For Yourself
Another thing that can help is to simply hit the pavement. Walk around and look for signs on buildings. This is also a great way to get a sense of the vibe of each location, so you can start to get a feel for the area to which you might move. This could be the most enjoyable part of your search — strolling around uptown is a great way to spend a day.
As you explore, you'll learn that renting uptown puts you close to both Central Park and the quieter Carl Schurz Park, with its gorgeous views of the East River. The Upper East Side is full of wonderful little shops and cafes, as well as great restaurants. Museums include the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim on the east side, and the Museum of Natural History on the west side.
There's no shortage of wonderful things to do uptown, and getting to know the area can transform the apartment search from daunting task to fun activity.


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