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|July 15, 2013
Shale skeptics take on Pickens as gas fuels policies
|Where others see a U.S. energy revolution of cheap and abundant fuel, David Hughes sees a short-term bubble that will bring higher economic and environmental costs.
The Canadian geoscientist, founder of the consultancy Global Sustainability Research, is part of a movement pushing back against conventional wisdom that the U.S. is on the verge of energy independence amid surging oil output and a 100-year supply of natural gas.
Projections of 2,384 trillion cubic feet of gas supplies provide false confidence because they don't adequately account for the cost of production declines of as much as 47 percent a year that come with drilling in shale, Hughes said.
While President Barack Obama endorses the use of more gas as a power-plant fuel and the U.S. considers expanding gas exports to exploit the current glut, shale skeptics such as Hughes and Bill Powers, a director of Calgary-based oil and gas producer Arsenal Energy Inc. (AEI), warn that consumers and industry will feel the pain of rising prices when supplies fall short of estimates they say are based on a mistaken belief that the torrid growth seen in the past five years will continue.
"Human nature doesn't change, and we extrapolate recent trends far into the future even if those trends are woefully unsustainable," said Powers, author of "Cold, Hungry and in the Dark: Exploding the Natural Gas Supply Myth." Advances in shale-gas technology won't continue forever, he said, "and we're probably seeing them reach their maximum potential as far as production growth goes."
Fast Fade
Wells drilled into the hard rock of shale produce a burst of oil and gas after being hydraulically fractured --- a technique that cracks the rock to release hydrocarbons. The flow rapidly diminishes as gas must migrate farther through the rock to reach the fracturing site where it can enter the well. To counter the declines, companies drill more wells, longer wells, and intensify the fracking process, all of which can raise costs.
About $42 billion must be spent every year just to offset decline rates in shale gas wells that generated revenue of about $33 billion in 2012, Hughes estimated in a report earlier this year for the Post Carbon Institute, which advocates options for a more sustainable world.
Proceeds from higher-priced petroleum liquids contained in the most lucrative wells have helped offset the deficit for now, though the industry faces higher costs from increasingly uneconomic wells as the best prospects are exhausted, he said.
Wrong Assumptions
To Hughes, cheap gas and abundant gas are "mutually exclusive" in the long term. Instead of providing a reason to accelerate fossil fuel use, new supplies of crude and gas from shale fields just give the U.S. more time to develop alternative energy solutions, he said.
According to Arthur Berman, a Houston-area geologist and director of Labyrinth Consulting Services, basing U.S. policy on what he sees as overly optimistic supply and low-price projections is foolish.
Shale production mushroomed in the past decade as producers expanded the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing --- fracking --- to wrest oil and gas from previously impermeable rock. Gas output in the U.S. climbed 25 percent from 2007 to a record last year, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration data.
In April, the Potential Gas Committee, which issues a biennial report with support from the Colorado School of Mines, said the U.S. had a technically recoverable resource base of 2,384 trillion cubic feet of gas at the end of 2012, while other estimates claim the resource can last 100 years, the committee said on its website.
Decade Low
The surge in supplies pushed prices down to a decade low last year below $2 per million British thermal units --- a price that only added to gas's appeal as consumers and industry switched to the cheaper fuel to save money.
T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire who advocates a plan to replace imported oil with domestic natural gas, says gas should become the preferred fuel in vehicles. At the same time, the continental U.S. may see as many as six gas export projects built, sending offshore as much as 10 billion cubic feet a day of gas by the end of 2022, according to one prospective exporter, Freeport LNG Development LP, in an interview last month.
Decline rates cited by the skeptics already have been incorporated into many supply estimates, said Erica Bowman, chief economist at America's Natural Gas Alliance, an industry group whose members include Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK), Apache Corp. (APA) and Devon Energy Corp. (DVN)
Affordable Prices
"We have a very large, abundant supply of natural gas, and we have it at prices that are very affordable, and honestly, we have so much supply that we need the demand outlets," said Bowman.
Skepticism about shale's potential was raised as early as 2009, when Berman drew rebukes from Chesapeake and Devon for his work questioning the projections for shale gas as overly optimistic. Berman, who was among the first to point out the steep declines in production after a well is drilled, continues to sound the warning bell for policy makers about what he sees as unrealistic estimates.
"They've got sugar plum fairies dancing in their heads about this infinite supply and how much money we're going to make and the net for the U.S. economy," Berman said in a July 2 phone interview.
Decline Rates
Wells drilled before 2012 in the top U.S. shale gas areas indicate an average field decline of 37 percent a year, according to data compiled by Hughes. That includes 47 percent in the Haynesville Shale, which includes part of Louisiana, and 29 percent in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale.
Gas prices rose this year to more than $4 per million Btu before subsiding to a current level of about $3.60. As lower-quality wells raise the cost of production and tighten supplies, gas may rise to $6.50 in 2018 and to $8 or more in 2022, with spikes into double-digit prices possible within five years, Hughes says. Powers, the author, also said gas prices may surge into the double digits in the future.
Jeremy Grantham, who co-founded global investment manager GMO LLC, is another sharing that bullish view, estimating in an April report that gas prices may triple from last year's low in five years, to about $6 or $7.
Gas remains far from parity with oil on an energy-equivalent basis, Pickens said, which would require gas prices of about $16 per million British thermal units when oil is at $100 a barrel.
"I'll never see $16 natural gas in my lifetime," Pickens, 85, who scoffs at the pessimism of skeptics, said in a July 12 interview.
Cheap Production
ICF International, an industry consultancy, estimated in a report that the U.S. and Canada have 1,500 trillion cubic feet of gas that can be developed at a cost of $5 or less per million Btu. That includes about 800 trillion cubic feet of shale gas, ICF said.
For now, low prices have flattened U.S. gas production as producers divert their resources to drilling for more profitable oil. Yet output still is "kind of hanging in there," said David Pursell, a managing director at Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. in Houston.
Daily U.S. gas output is forecast to be 70 billion cubic feet in 2013 and 70.4 billion cubic feet next year, compared with 69.2 billion in 2012, according to a July 9 outlook from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, or EIA.
Crude Growth
The expected growth rate is stronger for crude, which is trading for more than $100 a barrel in New York. The EIA forecasts the U.S. daily output will average 7.3 million barrels this year and 8.1 million barrels in 2014, compared with 6.5 million in 2012.
Hughes said U.S. policy priorities should include measures to reduce energy consumption in transportation, such as encouraging the building of higher-density communities that require shorter commutes. That would make renewable fuel options such as wind and solar more viable to help supplement oil and gas.
Gas prices at less than $6 won't generate as much production as people expect, he said.
"At those prices, gas production will decline in the U.S.," Hughes said. Production would grow at higher prices, but at a significant cost to the economy. The problem with the hype, Hughes said, is that it predicts we'll have both: "cheap and abundant."


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Theres a car park there, just dont leave any valubles cuz scabs will probably come f**kin flog stuff out in the holiday and that.
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Late last year, just before the Federal Reserve began its scaling back on monthly Treasury bond purchases, the conventional wisdom was that interest rates would rise and bond prices would fall. Invariably, the consensus opinion was — at it has been since quantitative easing began in 2008 — "interest rates have nowhere to go but up."
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Yet, like so many times before, the logic of conventional wisdom was dead wrong. And this time is no different.
In January, the Fed reduced its monthly QE-bond purchases to $65 billion per month. Instead of crashing like many people expected, ETFs tied to the performance of long-term Treasury bonds like the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) suddenly jumped almost 6% in January. The SDPR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), by comparison, fell 2.59%. Who could've foreseen such a berserk outcome?
During its just completed FOMC meeting, U.S. policy makers agreed to cut QE even further – to $45 billion. How did the bond market react? Prices moved higher while yields marched lower. The sheer madness of what shouldn't be happening keeps happening!
Now with 2014 almost half way over, the yield on 10-year and 30-year U.S. Treasuries has done the exact opposite of what most analysts predicted; by sliding in the vicinity of 12-13%.
Meanwhile, traders in Treasury bond ETFs that go long with leverage have been printing money. The ProShares Ultra 20+ Yr Treasury ETF (UBT) and Direxion Daily 20+ Treasury Bull 3x Shares (TMF) are sitting on YTD gains between 21% to 33%. Not a bad year for four months of work. UBT uses 200% daily leverage while TMF uses 300%.
The only places within the U.S. equity market where stocks have been keeping up with the sizzling performance in long-term Treasuries have been with utilities (XLU) and REITs (VNQ). Both sectors have been the beneficiaries of tame interest rates, which attract dividend investors looking for more yield.
For Treasury doomsayers, the great collapse of unmanageable public debt will have to wait. Market prices are the boss, and right now the bond market isn't done dismantling all of the logical conclusions and conventional wisdom about what comes next.
"As investors, we also always have to be aware of our innate and very human tendency to be fighting the last war. We forget that Mr. Market is an ingenious sadist, and that he delights in torturing us in different ways," said Barton Biggs.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A heinous 1992 priest-abuse complaint "fell through the cracks" at the Philadelphia archdiocese, leaving the accused pastor to continue leading a suburban parish for three more years, according to testimony Thursday in a clergy-abuse trial.
Monsignor William Lynn, the longtime secretary for clergy at the Roman Catholic archdiocese, is charged with child endangerment and conspiracy in his handling of sex-abuse complaints about priests.
Prosecutors read some of Lynn's 2002 grand jury testimony aloud to jurors to bolster claims that he and others kept predators in ministry to protect the church from scandal and costly lawsuits.
A seminarian in 1992 told Lynn and Lynn's boss, the late Monsignor James Malloy, that he had been raped throughout high school by Rev. Stanley Gana. The seminarian, who testified in person this week, gave Lynn and Malloy the names and parish of two other potential victims.
In his 2002 testimony, Lynn acknowledged the archdiocese never tried to contact the potential victims or to ask Gana's colleagues if they had seen anything untoward at the rectory. Lynn testified that therapists had advised the church not to contact potential victims to avoid re-victimizing them if they had "moved on."
Still, Lynn conceded that Gana should have been sent for a psychiatric evaluation.
"In reality, it fell through the cracks because I switched jobs at about that time," said Lynn, who succeeded Malloy that year as secretary for clergy.
The two church officials did question Gana, who denied the allegations. According to Lynn's testimony, Gana said he'd made a lot of enemies and his affection had been misconstrued, and he called one of the other potential victims "perverse" and "very disturbed."
Malloy told Gana to avoid contact with the seminarian because the allegations, if true, might be criminal. Lynn agreed with the assessment, according to his testimony. Asked why he didn't notify police, Lynn testified: "Because we weren't required to."
Gana remained pastor of Our Mother of Sorrows in Bridgeport until 1995, when a second accuser came forward. He was then sent to a church-run treatment center. He was deemed an alcoholic, not a pedophile — even though the accusers said he rarely drank.
According to the 2005 grand jury report, Gana quit another church-run, inpatient therapy program in 1996 and moved to a house he owned in Orlando, Fla. A nun soon called the Philadelphia archdiocese to complain he was living with young boys from Slovokia, the report said.
Gana agreed to go into a treatment program near Toronto, where a second psychologist said he was neither a pedophile nor a danger. He was assigned to a monastery until 2005, and defrocked in 2006.
Gana is now 69. It's not clear where he's living, and The Associated Press could not locate a current phone number for him.
Early in his career, in the early 1970s, Gana worked as a high school and Boy Scout chaplain.
The seminarian said he was assaulted by the 300-pound Gana several times a week in the early 1980s in northeast Philadelphia — at the parish rectory, at Gana's farmhouse near Scranton and on trips. He and the second victim said Gana took turns sleeping with them and a third boy at the farmhouse on a regularly scheduled "rotation."


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More than a third of people younger than 35 think they'll retire before they turn 60, a report released Wednesday by the BMO Retirement Institute found, but a quarter haven't started saving.
The report, "Broadening the Approach to Preparing for Retirement," found 88% of respondents between ages 18 and 34 said retirement planning is "important" and 60% say it's "interesting," but only 45% are currently saving in a traditional or Roth IRA. Thirty-seven percent are members of a company pension plan, and 46% say they have other savings, like savings accounts and mutual funds. Twenty-five percent of respondents are not saving at all.
Just 21% said they've spent some time thinking about how much they'll need for retirement.
"There is an obvious dichotomy between what young people think about retirement and what they're actually doing to prepare for it," Tina Di Vito, head of the BMO Retirement Institute, said in a statement. "While it's encouraging that young adults appreciate the importance of retirement planning, there's clearly a disconnect between the concept and then putting the tangible pieces in place, such as determining how much money you'll need and starting to save. This is especially concerning given that so many expect to retire before the age of 60."
By comparison, just 3% of respondents over 55 said they'd retire before they were 60. The majority, 65%, said they would retire between age 60 and 69, compared with 57% of young adults. While a third of boomers said they would work past age 70, just 8% of young adults expect to work so long.
The report notes that young adults' long time frame to retirement will "require a special approach" to encourage planning.
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More professional education, such as retirement planning seminars, are less effective. Although 34% of respondents said they attend seminars, just 28% said they've taken action as a result of what they learned there.
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A portion of Highway 12 in Rogers was shut down early Friday morning after a high-speed chase ended in a fatal shooting.
According to a press release, at approximately 2:07 a.m., an officer with the Rogers Police Department checked out with a grey 1993 Toyota pickup at the north end of Lake Atalanta Park near the Highway 12 entrance.
The officer reported the vehicle fled the scene just after he made contact. The vehicle fled east on Highway 12 driving at speeds ranging from 10-50 mph. The pursuit continued to the area just east of the Highway 12 Bridge near Heritage Bay Road and ended when the vehicle stopped in the middle of the road.
Officers reported hearing a gun shot from within the vehicle and returned fire. The Toyota rolled off the road and came to a stop near the shoulder of the road.
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" They went from thinking of a project as a data set to the actual people and problems behind them."
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The offices in downtown Chicago have all the trappings of a fashionable web startup: brightly colored walls covered in Post-it notes, bundles of cords on the floor and ceiling, a well-used pingpong table.
But a closer look at the graphs taped to the walls and the code scrolling across the monitors reveals a purpose deeper than the usual tech company concerns. Instead of tracking online commerce, these programmers, computer scientists, statisticians, and social scientists are tackling real-world problems in education, health care, disaster relief, and city services.
The vibrant atmosphere was home to the first summer of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Fellowship, a University of Chicago program that brought 40 undergraduate and graduate students to Chicago. In partnership with non-profit organizations and government agencies, the fellows are building data-driven tools to improve city services, predict medical emergencies or crime, measure the impact of early-childhood interventions and energy-efficient buildings, and much more.
"The goal for the program was to find people who are interested in data and analytics and want to use those skills to help society," says Rayid Ghani, fellowship director and researcher with the Computation Institute and the Harris School for Public Policy. "The easy path for these students would have been to go get an internship at an Internet company or a finance startup. They instead wanted to do more; they felt it was important for them to do something that actually had an impact, rather than optimizing ads and selling more clicks."
Ghani, who joined the University of Chicago earlier this year, was inspired to create the fellowship following his work as chief data scientist for the 2012 Obama for America campaign. Ghani and the campaign's data analytics team created new tools that used social media and email to raise funds, recruit volunteers, register voters and get supporters to the polls. After the election, Ghani sought to transfer that model of data-driven solutions and creativity to broader social issues; Google Chairman Eric Schmidt provided funding and agreed to be an advisor for the fellowship program.
The University of Chicago and offered a logical home for the fellowship, with multiple centers focusing on data-driven approaches to policy, urban design, and city operations. Co-organizers of the fellowships included the Computation Institute, the Urban Center for Computation and Data, and Chicago Harris,
"This is one of the few places that I've seen around the world where we have the right expertise in the systems sciences and the social sciences to bring together, and answer these questions in a way that's much more holistic than just looking at one or the other," says Charlie Catlett, UrbanCCD director.
Tapping into an eager tech community
The organizers of the Data Science for Social Good fellowship knew they struck a nerve when they received more than 550 applications in only two weeks. From that pool, Ghani, Chicago Harris graduate student Matt Gee, alumnus Juan-Pablo Velez, and several other volunteer data scientists from the Chicago community chose the inaugural class of fellows: undergraduate and graduate students with backgrounds in computer science, statistics, public policy, and social science, including some from as far away as Israel and Mexico.
When they arrived in Chicago, the fellows were organized into 12 teams, each working on a project with a nonprofit or government partner. Partners were chosen from those that possessed real problems with social impact, a willingness to share data and interact with the fellows, and a commitment to using the new tools beyond one summer.
Even with those stringent qualifications, it wasn't difficult to find willing organizations, ranging from the NorthShore University HealthSystem and the Mesa Public School District to Chicago Department of Streets & Sanitation and the Chicago Transit Authority to the Qatar Computing Research Institute and The Case Foundation.
A broad range of impacts
At a special "data slam" event Aug. 20 at the Gleacher Center, the teams presented colorful Chicago maps, information-rich prototypes, giant "hairball" networks, and insightful Chicago maps in explaining the fruit of their summer's work.
One team tackled the educational issue of "under-matching," the missed potential when under-privileged, qualified high school students fail to enroll in high-caliber colleges. Working with Mesa Public Schools and other school districts, fellows Edward Su, Nihar Shah, and Min Xu used data on grades, attendance, discipline, test scores, and more to identify kids at high risk of under-matching.
"This way we hope that we can find those students and intervene, preventing themselves from selling themselves short, and redirecting them toward brighter futures," says Edward Su, a graduate student at MIT.
Another team—fellows Kayla Jacobs, Nathan Leiby, and Kwang-Sung Jun, and mentor Elena Eneva—used computational techniques to help sort text messages and tweets during crises and emergencies. Their partner, the nonprofit organization Ushahidi, launched in response to violence following the 2007 elections in Kenya, offers an open-source tool that maps and reports user-submitted reports during natural disasters, environmental emergencies, or other situations in which information is scarce. But since most of these submissions must still be manually read and sorted by human volunteers, the fellows are developing a tool for automatically categorizing messages according to language, location, and other criteria.
"We think our impact is to take a system that is important and useful, but has trouble to scaling, and use a computer to provide that scale," says Leiby, a software developer who has worked on projects in India and Haiti. "So instead of spending their time processing the reports, the volunteers can respond to them."
Closer to home, fellows worked with data from the City of Chicago to evaluate and improve city services such as trash collection and streetlight outages, while another team created a tool to help the recently launched Chicago bike share program Divvy anticipate when bike stands will become overcrowded or empty. Another project built a model for the Cook County Land Bank to suggest the abandoned properties to purchase and redevelop that will make the greatest positive impact on surrounding neighborhoods.
A new language of data and social good
As the projects took shape, the fellows not only learned their way around new software, analytic methods, and programming languages, but also how to learn from and work with partners on the specific problems that they face.
"It's great to be able to hang out at the office and chat all day about machine learning or what binary classifier I want to use," says Jacobs, a graduate student in computer science at Technion: Israel Institute of Technology. "But in order to make those solutions actually have an impact, it's important that the stakeholders, that the people using those solutions understand what they're getting and why it matters to them."
Beyond the predictive models and analytic tools that will result from this summer's work, Ghani hopes that the fellowship will help seed a new international community of data scientists ready to attack social issues and work with social good organizations.
"A lot of the fellows, when they came in, really cared a lot about technical problems," Ghani says. "But they went from thinking of a project as a data set to the actual people and problems behind them and the impact. I think that's what's needed to create this set of people who care about the problem not just as a technical problem, but as something that has a much broader social impact."
Originally published on September 9, 2013.


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Dramatist Mike Daisey said his much-anticipated Steve Jobs monologue will proceed with its theatrical debut this week despite news of the Apple CEO's medical leave. If the early reviews are anything to go by, the show should make a splash.
Daisey, who has been described as "one of the elite performers in American theater," said in a blog post and in an email to his fans today that that his show "The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" will open as scheduled this Thursday at the Berkeley Repertory Theater despite Jobs' health problems:
There's a palpable sense of loss and change as the tech industry struggles to know what this will mean for its future. We stand at a crossroads, and it is my sincere belief that this story, capturing both his genius and his stubbornness, his brilliance and his ridiculousness, can help turn our attention to how the tech industry can grow up and begin to take responsibility for its decisions.
The official opening follows experimental previews off Broadway in New York and in far-flung venues like Bangalore, India and Cape Cod. The early notices have been good. "The audience was in splits, drawn in and riveted," wrote one audience member published in The Hindu. "Most of us in the audience will never look at our gadgets and our ways of life as we did before he spoke." A reviewer who caught a preview in Massachusetts called it "a very funny and entertaining evening with a serious message." Jobs may be less appreciative: Daisey is reportedly giving out the CEO's email address and asking audience members to contact him about the all too lamentable working conditions at factories making his products in China. Which is perfectly fine, as long as they can handle Jobs' agile replies.
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LHSAA Playoffs Move Into Quaterfinal Round
Four teams from the Acadiana area remain alive, as the 2012 Louisiana High School Athletic Association football playoffs enter the quarterfinal round on Friday night.
The state title dreams of the Teurlings Catholic Rebels are still alive in class 4A, with the Notre Dame Pioneers still in contention in class 3A, along with the Vermilion Catholic Screaming Eagles and the Westminster Crusaders in class 1A.
Two other schools with some local flavor, Jennings and Basile, are still going strong in the class 3A and class 1A brackets, respectively.
Top-seeded Archbishop Rummel highlights the class 5A schedule, as they travel to take on 9th-seeded Ouachita Parish.
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In class 4A, 4th-seeded Teurlings is on the road to take on 21st-seeded McDonogh 35.
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Moving to class 3A, second-seeded Notre Dame hosts 26th-seeded Iowa, while 13th-seeded Jennings will be at 5th-seeded Livonia.
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In class 2A, top-seeded John Curtis will host 25th-seeded Riverside Academy.
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Finally, in class A action tonight, 3rd-seeded Vermilion Catholic will host 6th-seeded West St. John, while 10th-seeded Westminster Christian hosts second-seeded Haynesville, and 13th-seeded Basile plays host to 5th-seeded Kentwood.
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It's a sad but true fact of the visual effects business that some wonderful designs are lost forever in the rush from one project to the next. Especially on TV shows that didn't air a full season, some amazing vehicle designs were put on a shelf and promptly lost to the ages.
Such was the fate of many ships seen in tantalizing glimpses on Firefly. Luckily, we don't know the meaning of the word "insouciance" (no, really, what does it mean?). We do, however, know the meaning of the word "surrender". We're just, you know, not really inclined to do it. Read the rest of this entry »


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While visiting an antique shop, I discovered a way to store all that indispensible small stuff that used to clutter my workshop. On display was a rotating bolt cabinet from an old-fashioned hardware store. When I got home, I design-ed this carousel that rotates on inverted swivel casters. It's easy to build, because there's no complicated joinery. All the parts are cut to size and assembled with glue and screws.
My design requires 1-1/2 sheets of plywood, a quarter sheet of 1/8-in. hardboard, six swiveling casters, a 1-1/4-in.-dia. hardwood dowel and a 3-ft.-long 2×4. I used Tapcon cement anchors to bolt this baby to the floor. I got everything I needed at my local home center for about $140.
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1. Cut and smooth the round carousel bottom (A) and base (B).
2. Drill 1-1/4-in.-dia. holes through the centers of both pieces.
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5. Attach the two shelf/upright assemblies to the wide upright (E). Note: These assemblies must not be mirror images!
6. Fasten the carousel bottom to the completed shelf assembly.
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8. Attach the six feet (F). If your bin is going on an unfinished cement floor, use pressure-treated 2×4 stock for the feet.
9. Attach the center foot (H) to the base and glue in the dowel (G).
10. Position the base and level it with shims.
11. Anchor the base to the floor.
12. Drill a 1-1/4-in. hole in the glued-up mounting block (J) and fasten it to the carousel bottom.
13. Mount the carousel on the base.
14. Glue and screw the shelf edges (K). Cut them to length after installation.
Assembly is easy, because everything is screwed and glued. Stagger the shelves and fasten them to the two narrow uprights. Then fasten these assemblies to the wide upright.
The carousel rides on casters and rotates on a large wooden pin.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and recreate multimillionaire aviator Howard Hughes' record-setting cross-country flight in the plane that transformed commercial air travel.
The Kansas City museum's Constellation, or "Connie," is one of only a handful of the 856 that were built and is still airworthy — with a little work. The museum is planning to fly it on April 17, 2014 — the 70th anniversary of the 1944 inaugural flight piloted by Hughes and TWA president and co-founder Jack Frye. The nonstop flight took 6 hours and 58 minutes, cutting the time of previous coast-to-coast flights in half.
"It was a major leap forward, which is why we want to do the flight because it was so significant in the development of the airline industry," said John Roper, the museum's vice president of operations. "It was more than national travel; it ushered in global travel."
The museum will recreate the journey with the aid of a copy of the original flight log, beginning in Burbank, Calif., and ending in Washington, D.C. Along the way, it will pass over the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and the Virginias.
Roper said he hoped that a few celebrities who are aviation enthusiasts would join a volunteer crew of pilots, flight engineers, mechanics and flight attendants.
"What we are really trying to do is by getting the aircraft flying is to bring attention to a time in the airline industry when air travel was much more luxurious and it was elegant affair and there was some romance to flying on the airlines," said Roper, himself a pilot who wants a chance to fly the Connie himself.
Eventually, the advent of jet airliners made the plane obsolete, and it stopped transporting passengers in the late 1960s. It continued to ferry freight for a while longer. The museum obtained its Constellation in 1986, spent two years restoring it and flew it until 2007, when finances dried up as the economy faltered.
The plane, a Model L-1049H, was one of the last Constellations off Lockheed's assembly lines in 1958. It's painted in TWA colors because the former airline, which once was headquartered in Kansas City, relied so heavily on the plane in its early years.
The museum is seeking out corporate sponsors and collecting smaller donations from former Connie pilots and fans of the plane through pilot and aircraft associations.
Roper said the museum plans to spend around $1 million to make the plane ready for flight. The remaining money would be used to cover the cost of operating the plane. In addition to recreating the 1944 flight, the museum plans to spend a couple months beforehand stopping in different cities in the western U.S. and then touring cities in the eastern half of the county afterward. The crew that accompanies the plane will talk about the history of the airlines and commercial aviation aircraft.
"Hopefully, this is going to be one those things that captures the heart of America a little bit," Roper said. "We definitely intend to have the aircraft be an ambassador to Kansas City and promote the history of the airline industry in Kansas City because TWA started here in Kansas City."


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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission won an appeals court ruling that may allow it to collect illegal proceeds from money managers who engage in insider trading even when their firms got all the profit.
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan yesterday upheld a lower court's finding in an SEC lawsuit that Joseph Contorinis, an ex-Jefferies Paragon Fund money manager convicted of insider trading in 2010, must turn over $7.2 million he made for the fund and an additional $2.5 million in interest. The decision could affect future insider trading cases and offers the government "another avenue" to put money managers on the hook for profits, said Marc Agnifilo, a New York defense lawyer who wasn't involved in the case.
"Although Contorinis did not pocket the profits from his trades, it was he who utilized the inside information, executed the trades, and secured the resulting profit for the benefit of his clients," the appeals panel said in its 2-1 ruling.
Contorinis, 49, is serving a six-year prison sentence for his role in the scheme. Jurors found that he traded on tips from an associate director of mergers and acquisitions at Zurich-based UBS AG. (UBSN)
The former associate director, Nicos Stephanou, who testified against Contorinis in exchange for leniency, said he passed inside tips to the fund manager about Cerberus Capital Management LP's bid to buy grocer Albertson's Inc. in 2006. At the time, Contorinis's hedge fund held more than $70 million in stock in Albertson's, then the second-biggest U.S. grocer.
Criminal Case
In 2012, the appeals court threw out a judge's order in Contorinis's criminal case requiring him to forfeit $12.6 million in profits and losses avoided by the fund from his insider-trading activities, because the gains were "never possessed or controlled by himself."
The lower court later ordered him to forfeit $427,875 in the criminal case.
Yesterday's ruling shows that the court may allow gains from insider trading on behalf of funds to be recovered from individuals in civil proceedings even if that money can't be sought in criminal forfeiture actions, said Jonathan Marks, another New York defense lawyer who isn't involved in the case.
"Criminal forfeiture will be limited to the amount of money that went into their pockets," Marks said of insider trading defendants. "But since it is very common for the SEC to bring a parallel civil action in an insider trading case, they still have a lot to worry about."
Roberto Finzi, a lawyer for Contorinis, didn't immediately respond to a phone call seeking comment on the ruling.
Case Law
In yesterday's ruling, the appeals court said case law already has established that people who provide tips for insider trading can be ordered to disgorge profits even if they didn't make money from the transaction.
"Indeed, to the extent that this case can be distinguished from the tipper-tippee situation, the case for disgorgement is stronger here," the court said. "Contorinis had greater control over the Paragon Fund's illegal profits than a tipper does over a tippee."
In a dissent, U.S. Circuit Judge Denny Chin, who served on the same panel that rejected the criminal forfeiture amount for Contorinis, said that the disgorgement order "penalized" the defendant rather than returning him to the status quo.
Disgorgement "is not intended to be punitive; it is remedial in nature," Chin said.
The case is SEC v. Contorinis, 12-01723, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (Manhattan).


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He went to bed one night in late 2010, living in his Greenpoint apartment on India Street, confident and ready to pack up his guitar and pursue a more stable lifestyle away from the dive bars and grungy rock clubs of Brooklyn. However in the morning, he awoke with nothing but new beats and musical inspiration on his mind.
Little more than two and a half years later, the now seven-piece electronic-punk, high-energy, and yes, fist-pumping, rock band with deeply rooted influences in groups like Depeche Mode and New Order, have taken the NYC rock scene by storm and are preparing to record their second full-length album.
Stuart put the new group together with Radio America band mate Jesse Reno on bass; Kendra Jones and Bradley Peterson singing lead vocals; drummer Shin Kamei on drums, violinist Hilary Davis and Adina Benno on keys.
Today they are touring on a new single, "Goodbye to All That," and just played to a sold out crowd with the band Future Bible Heroes at the Bowery Ballroom, located at 6 Delancey St. in Manhattan.
I sat down with Stuart at S'Nice café near Washington Square Park in the West Village to discuss his band, his roots in Brooklyn and the vision that brought this newly formed group to where they are today.
How did Cold Blood Club first begin?
My old band had broken up, and I had a really good night and a real heart-to-heart with my friends in Racoon Fire, and I sort of had this peaceful sensation that I was just going to give up music.
It's too far to go through the highs and lows in the other projects I've been in, but people get disappointed as musicians, and I was like, 'okay, I had some things that were kind of successful and I should be kind of happy to be out seeing my friends that don't seem resentful that they're still doing it,' and decided I will be a weekend warrior when it comes to music.
What would you have been if you gave it up?
I don't know, I would have figured something out. If you're a creative guy, you can fall into something else.
You had no solid plans of what you would do though?
Yeah, I just wanted to do something else. I went to bed feeling that. But when you ask me about being self-reflective on what I would do, I woke up the next morning and walked over to my laptop and started programming beats and writing songs immediately.
So it's fair to say you didn't get that far?
No, I just woke up the next morning and was like, 'what am I going to do?' But then I just said, 'this is what I do.'
Would you say that was a significant point in your life?
Oh yeah, absolutely.
Was that the point when you noticed that this is what you were going to do no matter what happens?
It's funny you should say that. I had this really brilliant roommate, he's a filmmaker, and ironically on a moment when one of my old bands could have made a move and done something, and I was a little nervous about what I was going to do.
He was like, ' Tom,' in his very artsy Italian way. His name is Roberto. He goes, 'Tom, what will happen if your band becomes successful?' I was like, 'I don't know, I guess I will keep making music.' He goes, 'Exactly. And what will happen if your band is not successful?' And I'm like, 'Well, I guess I will just keep making music.' And then he said, 'Exactly, so you have nothing to worry about.'
And I just don't think I listened to him until years later.
So after you woke up and started making beats, you formed your new band? How did you go about that?
I called Kendra, our singer, and she and I had a long-standing thing for while and we always joked that I would write her a record sometime, because she has always been around music and had a great musical ear.
After she positively responded to that and we started putting music down, I wanted a male voice because I didn't particularly feel like singing. So I called up Brad, who had been a singer in one of my early bands called Earlymay and he had been through a really rough place, living on his own in Bushwick, kind of between relationships and periods in his life. But I called up Brad and asked him to do some singing, even though he had done it already and left music and built up another life. But he was all about it.
Brad and Kendra came by on Saturday mornings and stayed through the early evenings and we would sit around and I would have my plan for the week. They would come in to try and bang out some stuff and we built up a bunch of demos. Kendra was really excited and started promoting and it was just like putting the ball in the pinball machine. Before we knew it someone was asking us if we wanted to play a show, even though we only had like six or seven songs. The drummer and the bass player and the keyboard player in the band were my MacBook.
I called up Jesse, who I played with forever; he was the bass player in my former band Radio America, and I was like, 'we're supposed play this show at The Delancy, and I think I need a bass player, so could you help me out?'
And that was the first show.
So how long has the band, Cold Blood Club been together now?
About a year and a half. The band you know now, with Shin and Hillary, would have been in January 2012. We played a show at Pianos. That first whole year was just an exercise in figuring out what we wanted to do. None of us knew ourselves.
So do you feel like you just kind of accidentally created a band?
Well, that was the joke of our name, The Cold Blood Club.
When did you first get into music?
Jesse and I first started playing guitar together when I was like 11. I come from a pretty musical family, so I started playing piano when I was like five.
Where are you guys from?
Jesse and I are from central Massachusetts near Worcester.
And you came to Brooklyn together?
Well, I went to college at Fordham and came back to go to grad school at NYU. When I came back, Jesse came with and we moved to Astoria. Jesse still lives in the same place and I lived there for like five years. We moved down with a drummer back when Radio America was a very serious thing to us. This is back when we were playing the circuit in Boston and I convinced them to come down and play in New York.
Where did you find influence for the type of music you guys play?
With my old band, we got into this habit of trying to boil the ocean too much I think, we had three songwriters in the band and there were a lot of influences on the table and I think it had a tendency to make everything a little beige.
And for this one, I had been so brokenhearted about the end of that project, just the way that it ended, but I didn't want to have anything to do with rock-and-roll music and even just listening to it upset me. I just started listening to this dance music that I hadn't paid attention to in forever.
Which groups were you listening to?
I was listening to a lot of new wave that I hadn't really gotten into, like some Belgian dark wave bands and a lot of New Order in a way that I never really investigated it before. At the same time I had been listening to a lot of pop music like Mike Snow and a lot of that Swedish stuff. I've been made fun of, for good reason many times over, for my obsession with Robin.
I was also listening to a lot of the DFA stuff and I think that's what gave me the confidence to say, ' I really want the sound to be this big, but can I get six or seven people to do it?' That made me feel like this could be done and I could referee it.
How did this all translate to your new band?
It's still all very beat-oriented and with a reflection over this city. I feel like NYC has this sound about walking around and it's all beat, on top of beat on top of beat, and I like to write in these parameters of something I can walk around the city to.
What kind of rock influences do you have, because it does have this punk rock feel to it?
Yeah, I was a punk rock kid for sure. I still say my favorite record ever made is London Calling. Even though it evolved from a very punk place, it's all beat-oriented.
Stuart and the band have 12 songs ready to take into the studio this summer to record their next album, "Tear Down the Maps."


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Creating care packages for our troops
Although the war in Afghanistan is winding down, we still have troops deployed.
And these men and women, particularly those on the front line, still need us.
One effect of the troop drawdown is many of the FOBs – forward operating bases – have stopped serving hot breakfasts to troops, many of whom work 12-hour shifts. Most affected are the troops who go on duty at midnight, and those who end their shifts then.
Let us emphasize that they are not necessarily going hungry -the military is substituting "Meals Ready to Eat" in lieu of the cooked meals the troops previously received.
MREs are nutritionally complete and include an entree, a side dish, beverage and, usually, a dessert. MREs offer an adequate amount of calories and, according to returning veterans we know, some don't taste too bad.
But "hot chow" – such a little luxury – MREs are not.
The hot meal reductions began in January with what some have called "the drawdown diet" expanding this month to include the elimination of Marine "midrats" – hot midnight breakfast and dinner rations – as well as the 24-hour sandwich bar at Camp Leatherneck, according to press reports.
The men and women serving overseas probably view the hot meal cutbacks as just another sacrifice.
We, though, think it's an unnecessary one.
In fact, it makes us wince.
For those who would like to help make things a little more palatable for those serving, the Military Support Group of Lee Memorial Health System is collecting goods for care packages.
We think this is a wonderful idea.
The support group received a letter from Camp Spann asking for help with their pantry and "any assist from the community would be greatly appreciated," drive organizers said.
According to a release from the group, the following items have been requested:
* Single serving instant oatmeal and breakfast foods
* Drink mixes, singles are preferred
* Coffee whole bean or ground small bags
* "Energy drinks" such as Red Bull, V8, Monsters, Gatorade (small sizes, please)
* Gloves, colors preferred: black or neutral colors
Items can be dropped at various locations. Here in the Cape, goods can be left at Cape Coral Hospital Human Resources (south end of Hospital near doctor's offices) Benefits, 424-3500.
Other locations include:
-Fountain Court/College Parkway, Pat Dolce, System Press & Publication, 454-8766.
-Gulfcoast Hospital Elaine, Administration, 1st floor, 343-0430
-HealthPark Medical Center- Guest Services Department 1st floor, 343-5210.
-Lee Memorial Hospital, June or Dustin in Central Services, 3rd Floor MOB, 343-2812.
-Santa Barbara Campus Central Business Office, 242-6038
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We are closely monitoring the local, state, and federal requirements and guidelines with respect to carefully reopening our stores with a focus on the safety of our customers and employees. Please see below for a list of Clarks stores that have reopened, as of 8/04/2020.
Alabama - Bridge Street Town Center, Foley Outlet, Riverchase Galleria
Arkansas - Little Rock
Arizona - Arizona Mills, La Encantada, Scottsdale Fashion, Tanger Westgate Outlet
California - Broadway Plaza, Cabazon Outlet, Camarillo Premium Outlet, Carlsbad Co Stores, Citadel Outlets, Folsom Premium, Gardens On El Paseo, Gilroy Premium Outlets, Las Americas Outlets, Napa Premium, Outlets At Livermore, Petaluma Village, Plaza San Clemente, University Town Center, Vacaville Outlets
Colorado - Colorado Mills, Outlets at Castle Rock, Park Meadows, Shops At Briargate, The Shops At Centerra, The SoNo Collection
Connecticut - Clinton Crossing, Danbury Fair Mall, Evergreen Walk, Farmington Valley, Foxwoods, The SoNo Collection, Westfarms Mall
Delaware - Christiana Mall, Tanger Outlet Center
Florida - Boca Raton Town Center, Daytona, Dolphin Mall, Cordova Mall, International Plaza, Florida Mall, Miami International, Orlando Premium Outlet, Orlando Prime, Tampa Premium Outlets, St Augustine Premium, Ellenton Outlet, Sawgrass Mill, Silver Sands, Outlets At Vero Beach, Palm Beach Outlets, Miromar Outlets
Georgia - Commerce, Mall of Georgia, The Shoppes At Atlanta, Lenox Square, Locust Grove, Dawsonville Outlet, Tanger Outlets of Savannah
Hawaii - Waikele Premium Outlets
Illinois - Chicago Prem Outlets, Downtown Naperville, Fashion Outlets Of Chicago, Westfield Old Orchard, Woodfield Mall
Indiana - Edinburgh Premium, Lighthouse Place
Kentucky - Oxmoor Center
Maine - Kittery Outlet
Maryland - Annapolis Mall, Arundel Mills, Clarksburg, Hagerstown Outlet, Mall in Columbia, Montgomery Mall, Queenstown Outlets, Tanger National Harbor
Massachusetts - Assembly Row, Burlington Mall, Lee Outlet, Marketplace Center, Natick Mall, Solomon Pond Mall, South Shore Plaza, Wrentham Village Outlet
Michigan - Great Lakes, Partridge Creek, Prime Outlet Birch Run, Twelve Oaks
Minnesota - Albertville Outlets, Mall Of America
Missouri - Branson Tanger Outlet, Osage Beach Premium, St.Louis Premium Outlets
Mississippi - Gulfport Prime, Tanger Memphis
New Hampshire - Merrimack Premium, Settlers Crossing
New Jersey - Atlantic City Walk, Bridgewater Commons, Cherry Hill, Gloucester Premium, Jackson Prem Outlets, Jersey Gardens, Jersey Shore Outlets, Newport Centre, Quakersbridge Mall, The Grove At Shrewsbury, Union Hill Shoppes, Westfield Garden State Plaza, Willowbrook Mall
New York - Carousel Center, Crossgates Mall, Eastview Mall, Madison Avenue, Palisades Center, Ridge Hill, Riverhead Outlet, Roosevelt Field Centre, Smith Haven Mall, Third Avenue, Walden Galleria, Waterloo Premium Outlet, Woodbury Commons Premium
Nevada - Fashion Show Mall, Las Vegas Premium Outlet N, Las Vegas Premium Outlet S
North Carolina - Ashville Outlets, Charlotte Premium Outlets, Carolina Premium, Crabtree Valley Mall, Tanger Mebane
Ohio - Aurora Farms Premium, Cincinnati Premium, Columbus, Franklin Park, Jeffersonville Outlet, Southpark Mall
Oklahoma - Oklahoma City Shops
Oregon - Columbia George Premium, Woodburn Premium Outlets
Pennsylvania - Broadway And Center Square, Grove City Outlet, King of Prussia Mall, Lehigh Valley Mall, Outlets At Hershey, Oxford Valley Mall, Park City Center, Philidelphia Premium, Ross Park Mall, South Hills Village, Susquehanna Marketplace, Tanger Outlet Center, Tanger Pittsburgh, Tannersville Outlet
Puerto Rico - Barceloneta Outlet, Mayaguez Mall, Plaza Carolinas, Plaza Del Caribe, Plaza Del Sol, Plaza Las Americas, Plaza Rio Hondo
Rhode Island - Garden City Center, Providence Place
South Carolina - Haywood Mall, Hilton Head, Charleston Outlet, Myrtle Beach Outlets, Tanger Outlet Center
Tennessee - Opry Mills, Sevierville Outlet, Wolfchase Galleria
Texas - The Shoppes At El Paso, Northpark Center, Memorial City Mall, Houston Galleria, The Domain, Barton Creek Square, Allen Premium Outlet, Grand Prairie, Katy Mills, Houston Premium Outlets, Tanger Galveston, San Marcos Outlet, Shops At La Cantera, Southlake Town Square, Stonebriar Center, Rio Grande, Round Rock Outlets
Utah - Traverse Mountain, City Creek Center
Vermont - Manchester Square
Virginia - Fair Oaks Mall, Leesburg Premium Outlets, Pentagon City, Potomac Mills, Tysons Corner Center, Williamsburg Prime Outlets
Washington - Bellavue Square, North Bend Premium, Seattle Premium Outlets, Southcenter
Wisconsin - Johnson Creek Premium, Pleasant Prarie Outlet
Explore the rich heritage and expertly crafted shoes and sandals from Clarks at all of the Clarks stores. Immerse yourself in the rich history and see for yourself Clarks commitment to footwear that not only looks good but feels good too. Every Clarks store offers the mens and womens shoes you love, like their iconic Desert Boots, Wallabees, and Cloud Steppers™.
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At a small press gathering on September 30, Microsoft showed what is an early version of the next edition of Windows, and tricked everyone by calling it Windows 10 instead of the chronologically appropriate Windows 9.
As this event was catering to the enterprises, there was emphasis mostly on the features that will make existing Windows XP and Windows 7 customers not hesitate to move to the next version of Windows. Microsoft officials admitted that Windows 8, and even Windows 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Update are too different from Windows XP and Windows 7 and customers are staying away from upgrades because they will need a lot of training hours to train their users.
Along with revealing some of the key updates to Windows, and in a big departure from the past, Microsoft also announced that technically savvy users as well as IT Pros in enterprises can enroll in a Windows Insider program which will allow them to download the Windows 10 bits starting October 1. These Windows Insiders will then have access to the latest bits and will be able to provide feedback directly to Microsoft during the preview.
Windows 10's consumer features will be discusses in early 2015, the developer story will be discussed at //Build, Microsoft's developer conference, in April. The final version of Windows 10 is expected to be available later in 2015.
Let's look at what was revealed in terms of Windows 10 at the event:
Start Menu
Perhaps one of the most wanted (and missing) features in Windows 8.x was the ever-familiar Start Menu. The Start Menu is back, but instead of simply being a Windows 7-style Start Menu, it is now going to have some Live Tiles next to the list of programs and folders. In addition, the Start Menu's "shape" is customizable so if you desire a flatter and wider Start Menu, you can simply drag its boundaries and make it flat.
The search functionality in the Start Menu is back, and in addition to searching for files and folders on the local PC, the feature will search the web too, just like the main search feature that exists in Windows 8.x today.
Windowed Metro Apps
Another very highly requested feature from non-touch device users and users with large screens is the ability to run Metro apps in their own windows instead of defaulting to full screen. Despite improvements in snap mode in Windows 8.1, it wasn't enough and by making Metro apps work seamlessly in their own windows which can be resized without affecting the usability of the Metro apps, Microsoft is taking care of the power users.
Snap Assist
Windows 8's Snap mode has made incremental improvements over time. With Windows 10, it gets even better so it will now be possible to snap up to 4 apps on one screen. The screen is now going to be divided into quadrants and each snapped app can occupy a quadrant or two. In addition, Snap Assist enables the best utilization of the screen real estate by snapping apps to appropriately fill the screen space.
Task View
A new button will be present on the Taskbar which will enable viewing open apps/applications as well as any virtual desktops in use.
Virtual Desktops
In Windows 10, one will be able to create multiple "desktops" much like Mac OS X and Linux, to isolate the work based on any organizational aspect like work vs home, projects, etc.
One Store, One App Model
Microsoft also said that with Windows 10, it won't be truly "one operating system" but it will be one product family with a common app development model and a common store. This way, Windows 10 will be able to run on "things" (from the Internet of Things) to ruggedized embedded systems, to phones and phablets to tablets and 2-in-1 devices to PCs up to 85″ in screen size.
In all this discussion about Start Menu and full-screen apps, the lines between a normal non-touch PC user and a tablet user are clearly drawn. However, what happens when someone uses a hybrid or 2-in-1 device like the Surface or one of the many detachable or convertible devices? In such situations, Windows 10 will invoke Continuum. This feature detects a touch screen usage and converts the use to a tablet use and if a keyboard or mouse is then detected, it prompts to switch to a PC use (and vice versa).
This is nicely demonstrated by Joe Belfiore in the video below (courtesy The Verge):
Here's Joe Belfiore from the Windows team, walking through the new features:
And here's a walkthrough of Windows 10 provided by Microsoft to Geekwire's Blair Hanley Frank:


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Madden NFL 16 Ultimate Team 2,200 Madden Points
Have you ever dreamed of throwing a Hail Mary from Tom Brady to Calvin Johnson? Or wanted to combine eras with NFL Legends like Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders playing alongside Aaron Rodgers and Richard Sherman? This can become reality when you build your Ultimate Team in Madden NFL 16*!
*Internet connection and Origin account required. Must be 13+ to create an account.
Madden NFL Ultimate Team combines the strategic team-building fun of Fantasy Football with the award-winning gameplay of Madden NFL. Collect players and build your team through opening packs, upgrade your team by finding bargains in the auction house, and then dominate your competition on the field in authentic Madden NFL gameplay.
Madden NFL Ultimate Team is packed with daily updated content, including: collections, solo challenges, and a complete multiplayer head-to-head "Seasons Mode," which lets players challenge their friends' Ultimate Team for ultimate bragging rights! With Madden Ultimate Team, the football season never ends.
STEP 1 "Let's get started" - Purchase a Madden NFL 16 copy (X360, XBOX One, PS3, PS4). Then start playing MADDEN ULTIMATE TEAM mode included in MADDEN NFL 16.
STEP 2 "Select Your Style" - Select your Play Style to get your team started. Do you want to Ground and Pound with players like Marshawn Lynch? Or would you rather air it out with Aaron Rodgers and the Long Pass? Choose the style that you play and get ready with a starter team of base players. It is up to the player to earn, buy, trade and sell the virtual player items in order to build their Ultimate squad.
STEP 3 "Boost Your Squad" - Choose to get a head start in MUT by purchasing PlayStation or Xbox Gift Cards to redeem for Madden points within the game.
STEP 4 "Pick your pack" - Use Madden points online and pick the Pro Pack, Gold Value Upgrade pack, or a special time Limited Pack to boost your MADDEN ULTIMATE TEAM.


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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Any pig shown at a Utah fair or livestock show must go directly to slaughter under a new emergency order from the state veterinarian's office.
The Tuesday order aims to limit the spread of a deadly swine virus that's killed 7 million pigs nationwide in the last year.
The Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus, or PED, is not a threat to humans or other animals.
Assistant state veterinarian Warren Hess tells the Deseret News (http://bit.ly/1hYxunU) the step is needed to protect Utah's pork industry.
The mandate starts May 1. It requires a veterinarian's inspection for all hogs and pigs entering Utah to ensure the animals have not come in contact with the virus in the past 30 days.
Officials say it has spread to 30 states but has not reached Utah.


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By Kevin Kelly
Catholic Key Associate Editor
KANSAS CITY — Patrons of a troubled nightclub that was the scene of a joint raid by Kansas City police and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents were held inside the club for up to five hours while the federal agents checked their fingerprints on an ICE computer for outstanding immigration warrants, according to a witness.
Speaking to The Catholic Key on the condition of anonymity for fear of further reprisals, a man who was detained and fingerprinted inside the club but charged with no crime said he was not allowed to leave for nearly four hours.
A friend who was with him at the Club Oasis, 2805 Southwest Blvd., when the raid began shortly before midnight Oct. 24 was not released until 5 a.m. Oct. 25.
The source, who speaks English with a heavy accent, said that both he and his friend were given written instructions to appear for a hearing Oct. 26 at the federal Department of Homeland Security's Citizenship and Immigration Services office in Platte County, near Kansas City International Airport.
Another Latino, who spoke English without an accent, was allowed to leave shortly after the raid began after showing police an out-of-state driver's license, the source said.
The source said that at least 200 patrons were inside Club Oasis when the raid began. He said that at least 100 of them were given the instructions to appear at the office in Platte County and charged with no other offense.
Suzanne Gladney, immigration attorney for Legal Aid of Western Missouri, confirmed that at least 60 Club Oasis patrons appeared at the Citizenship and Immigration Services office as directed. She said more people were issued the written instructions to appear, but could not say how many.
"I think we are talking between 60 and 100 people," Gladney said.
Those people were in addition to the 23 people who were arrested and taken into police custody at the club that night, Gladney said.
Private immigration attorney Angela Ferguson said that the number of people who appeared apparently overwhelmed the Citizenship and Immigration Office.
"They were surprised," she said. "They had to call the (ICE) officer who issued the instructions at his home and tell him to get over there."
Ferguson said the people who reported were separated into smaller groups and given new dates to report.
Kansas City police continue to characterize the Club Oasis raid as a routine "tavern check" at a nightclub that had been the subject of numerous police calls.
On his Internet blog, Kansas City Police Chief James Corwin called the Club Oasis action one of 324 "tavern checks" that local police have made in 2010.
He also said that the Club Oasis check "by far yielded the greatest amount of arrests and drugs recovered."
Corwin listed 28 violations charged against patrons or employees of the Club Oasis — four arrests for drug possession, four arrests for underage drinking, 13 arrests of people who had previously been deported, four arrests of people with outstanding deportation warrants, and three arrests of people who are under deportation proceedings for a past criminal history.
Both Ferguson and Gladney said that the people ordered to report later then released were not arrested and not charged with any other offense.
Corwin described a tavern check on his blog, Chief Corwin's blog, in a post entitled "Club Oasis tavern check."
"During such a check, detectives enter a business that is licensed to serve alcohol and check the IDs of all patrons to ensure that the establishment is conforming to the law. The IDs of all patrons are checked to see if they have any warrants," Corwin wrote.
"The Vice section conducts about 30 tavern checks a month and has done 324 so far this year," he said.
The anonymous source told The Catholic Key that there were some 200 people inside Club Oasis when Kansas City police, identified by markings on black flak jackets, appeared and secured all exits.
"We were just partying and dancing. There was no trouble that night," the source said.
"They came in and turned off the music. Then they told everyone that they were going to check everybody's identification," he said.
He said that people began to panic, and two people tried to leave before a police officer "pointed a weapon at them, it looked like a rifle" and ordered them to stay.
A Club Oasis employee tried to calm the crowd, the source said.
"He told us not to worry, that all they (police) were going to look for was underage drinkers," the source said.
At about that time, agents wearing jackets with "ICE" on the back entered the club with electronic equipment, which the source said was "computers."
The source said that both Kansas City police and ICE agents made a quick check of identification, and told about half the people that they could leave.
One of them was the man who spoke unaccented English, the source said.
"He showed them (an out-of-state) driver's license, and they told him he could go," he said. "They must have believed he was American."
The source said that he also showed his driver's license.
"I showed them, but they asked me if I had my papers. I told them no, so they told me to stay," he said.
One by one, he said, the approximately 100 people remaining in the club were fingerprinted electronically, and their fingerprints checked against a database.
"They had a computer," he said. "You put your fingers on it and your picture would show up if you had been deported."
The process, he said, took hours. When he was finally checked at about 3:30 a.m., the check showed no warrants against him and he was released. But he was still given instructions to appear at the Citizenship and Immigration Services office on Oct. 26.
A friend was one of the last to be checked, the source said. "He told me he couldn't leave until 5 in the morning," he said.
The source said he took Oct. 26 off work and reported to the office as instructed.
"A lot of people came to the place," the source said. "They only took us in about 20 at a time, and they told us to come back later."
He was given another instruction to appear in November, the source said.
The source said that he knows it is common for ICE agents to check for immigration status and work permits of employees at businesses.
"But this was a club," he said. "We didn't know they could do that."


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X-Ray Gun Can Search for Drugs, Money, Weapons
We may not have x-ray specs — but now we have have the world's first handheld x-ray gun, which enables police to search for explosives, guns and drugs in inaccessible places.
American Science & Engineering developed the device, known as the Mini Z, using the same Z Backscatter technology as the large scanners at airports. The beams are not strong enough to penetrate organic tissue the way a medical x-ray does; instead, they scatter off surfaces they encounter.
It took the company seven years to miniaturize the technology into a 9-pound handheld device, according to the blog Defense One. It can scan cramped environments, such as the interior of a boat, or a wall that might have contraband hidden in it.
The beams only travel a few feet, however, which means police will still need a warrant to search an apartment.
The Z Backscatter rays highlight organic materials, as well as metallic objects. It can see currency, weapons and drugs. It can even spot a 3D-printed plastic gun, according to the Daily Mail. A tablet attached to the device displays an image in real-time, allowing quick scans of an object from different angles. Operators require little to no training, and Defense One points out they don't even need to be literate to use the scanner.
AS&E CEO Chuck Dougherty told the Mail that the Mini Z system is "a game-changer for law enforcement and border security officials who are constantly challenged to quickly and accurately detect potential threats in hard-to-reach environments."
On the Mini Z website, you can simulate scanning a port, airfield, border or city.


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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) Jared Berggren scored 12 of his 13 points in the second half, Ryan Evans had 10 points and 15 rebounds, and Wisconsin held Nebraska to one basket over the last 6:19 in a 47-41 victory Sunday.
The Badgers (11-4, 2-0 Big Ten) won their fifth game in a row and held their ninth straight opponent to 60 points or fewer.
The Huskers (9-6, 0-2), coming off a 70-44 loss at Ohio State in their conference opener, have averaged just 42 points the last four meetings with the Badgers.
Berggren missed all four of his first-half shots but made six in a row to start the second half as the Badgers asserted themselves inside.
Ray Gallegos and Dylan Talley scored 12 points apiece and Brandon Ubel added 10 for the Huskers.
Ubel hit a 3-pointer for Nebraska's only basket after Gallegos had given the Huskers a 38-37 lead with 6:19 left.


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Women & Wine on Wednesdays
A Business & Social Network for Women
Women & Wine on Wednesdays connects women:
for building new relationships and for re-connecting old ones, through a unique facilitated forum each month, serving to fulfill an ongoing and critical need for women to share resources and discover new opportunities, by providing access to a larger network of both business and social connections, for the growth and support of their professional and personal lives.
It's the ideal opportunity for women who are striving to balance their own needs with those of their family, their jobs, and community involvement, as well as maintain their own personal overall well-being. Today's fast-paced schedules don't allow much time to gather in a comfortable, unstructured environment, but many studies have shown the importance of doing so to create a healthy and successful lifestyle.
Wine, for centuries, has proven to liven the senses, cause thoughts to flow, and enhance friendly idea exchanges – so wine is a perfect accompaniment, blending to foster a relaxed and welcoming environment
for sharing resources, idea exchanges, and a great reason to take time for yourself.
Come enjoy a glass of wine and take advantage of this unique opportunity to catch up with old friends and to meet some new one
– exchange ideas, share resources, discover new opportunities –
in a comfortable and welcome atmosphere.
The mission of Women & Wine on Wednesdays is simply to provide a monthly forum for women to connect.
Events are held each month on the third Wednesday. There are no dues or fees to participate.
Christy Hackenberg Linda Brewster-Meffert Sandra Lombana Gaby Tillero
Co-Founder Creator Co-Founder Co-Founder