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Southeast Texas schools collect money and toys for CASA kids' Christmases
Some Beaumont Independent School District students and Lamar University algebra students are making Christmas merrier for children in foster care this year by collecting toys and donations for CASA's annual toy drive.
When Lamar students delivered toys to the CASA of Southeast Texas office, Professor Gary Brice was there. Brice is very familiar with CASA of Southeast Texas — he and about 20 of his students recently participated in CASA's Superhero 5K, and thought it would be a great idea to help the children that CASA serves with a Merry Christmas.
Brice contacted Eleanor Johnson, program director of CASA, about how his five college algebra classes could help.
"The Lamar algebra classes purchased Christmas gifts for Jefferson County children who are in foster care but are placed with relatives, who often receive no compensation from the state. This act of kindness alleviates a little of the financial responsibilities the families face when children are placed in their home. Now they can have a Merry Christmas in their own village," said Johnson.
Brice reported that approximately 100 students participated in gathering money, looking over the list from the families and going out to purchase the toys. The five families that the students are helping have 12 children ranging in age from 11 months to 16 years. Students raised about $1,000 to present a happy Christmas.
Students gathered all the toys and made the delivery to CASA of Southeast Texas on Wednesday, Dec. 4, to the CASA office at 2449 Calder Ave.
CASA of Southeast Texas' 2013 Toy Drive wrapped up Monday, Dec. 9. During the weeks preceding, hundreds of toys and gifts for children in foster care were collected by students at Monsignor Kelly High School, Smith Middle School, Ozen High School, West Brook High School, and Sallie Curtis Elementary School in Beaumont; Helena Park Elementary, Highland Park Elementary, and Nederland High School; and Port Neches-Groves High School in Port Neches. CASA staff picked up toys from the schools and gathered them at the CASA office on Calder Avenue in Beaumont. The drive provided a wonderful opportunity for students at the seven schools to help make Christmas bright for children that are victims of abuse or neglect. Over the course of two weeks, West Brook students alone collected gifts for 196 children 18 years old and younger.
Following the arrival of several hundred toys at the CASA office, staff sorted them by age group as they prepared for Phase 2, which began on Tuesday morning, Dec. 10, when the CASA volunteers came in to select toys and gifts for the children with whom they work, and did a little present wrapping.
The most rewarding part of this entire process is Phase 3, which is the actual delivery process. The CASA volunteers are still working as Santa's helpers to distribute the gifts, helping to assure that these children who have already suffered so much will be remembered on Christmas Day.


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Motorcycle collides with car in Manchester; man injuredBY DOUG ALDEN
New Hampshire Union Leader
September 16. 2013 10:37PM
MANCHESTER _ A man driving a motorcycle was injured in a collision with a car Monday night, police said.
Sgt. Shawn McCabe said the accident happened at the intersection of Kelley and Laval streets on the West Side around 7 p.m.
The motorcyclist's right leg was seriously injured and he was taken to Catholic Medical Center.
McCabe said investigators were still trying to determine the cause of the accident.

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An interview with Margaret Roach of A Way to Garden
Our July Design Evening was fun and informative, with Margaret Roach as the evening's featured guest. We heard Margaret speak about her gardening lifestyle and about how to have a garden wherever you live. Click above for photos from her home garden and below for a video about her life and the 6 seasons (yes, 6) in your garden's year. Click here for upcoming Design Evening details...Guest: Margaret Roach
Margaret is the former garden editor of Newsday newspaper, and her 30-plus-year career also included an editing stint at The New York Times. Today, she lectures about what she calls "horticultural how-to and woo-woo," consults, and stares out the window a lot, as it's still hard to believe she's upstate–and not back in her old city life."


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German industrial production, exports down in May
BERLIN (AP) — Germany's industrial production and exports dropped further than expected in May, official figures showed Monday, but economists argued that the disappointing data were more a result of volatility than a sign of serious risks.
Industrial production in Europe's largest economy was down 1 percent in May compared with the previous month, the Economy Ministry said — worse than economists' prediction of a 0.5 percent decline. That followed a 2 percent gain in April, revised upward from the initial reading of 1.8 percent.
Earlier Monday, data showed that exports from Europe's biggest economy were down 2.4 percent on the month in May. Economists had forecast a flat reading.
Germany so far has weathered Europe's debt crisis relatively well — helped by its traditional export strength and a robust job market that is fueling domestic demand.
The economy returned to modest growth in the first three months of 2013, after contracting during last year's final quarter, and analysts expect it to pick up further. A closely watched survey showed German business confidence edging higher in June.
Still, Monday's data — which come on top of an unexpected 1.3 percent drop in May's industrial orders — added a downbeat note. The slip was led by a fall in demand from other countries in the 17-strong group of European Union counties that use the euro and from Germany itself.
Alexander Koch, an economist with UniCredit in Munich, argued that "the weakness in all three data reports has to be rated as a technical correction rather than an end to the recent recovery trend."
He argued that a recovery in construction, increasing consumer spending and an overall upward trend in manufacturing back expectations that the economy grew by 0.6 percent in the second quarter, after expanding by only 0.1 percent in the first.
Stocks trading on Germany's main DAX index Monday appeared unaffected by the raft of disappointing figures, with shares up 2.3 percent in early-afternoon trading.
ING economist Carsten Brzeski said German monthly data have been very erratic lately but "the sound fundamentals of the economy have not disappeared."
"We still think that at the end of a weather- and holiday-driven rollercoaster ride, the German economy should finally return to full strength in June," he said.
Germany's exports have been helped by strong demand from beyond Europe. In year-on-year terms, exports were down 4.8 percent in May— led lower by a 9.6 drop in demand from other countries in the eurozone, while exports to countries outside the European Union were down only 1.6 percent.
Germany's BGA exporters association pointed to Europe's weakness and a soft patch in China to underline the importance of negotiations on an EU-U.S. trade agreement that were starting Monday. Its head, Anton Boerner, said that "everything should be done to ensure that this historic chance is not missed."


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CONCORD – Tuesday night Carl Carlson was arrested by members of the U.S. Marshals – N.H. Joint Fugitive Task Force in Barrington, N.H.
Carlson, 36 whose last known address was in Nashua, had been wanted on two outstanding arrest warrants. The first was a warrant issued out of the Hillsborough County Superior Court for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender stemming from multiple N.H. convictions in 1998 for Felonious Sexual Assault. The second warrant was a Probation Violation issued by the Rockingham County Superior Court which was part of Carlson's sentence for Witness Tampering.
Carlson was arrested without incident on Nuthatch Loop in Barrington. Although the arrest was without incident, Carlson was found to be in possession of pills in a small bag in one of his pants pockets. These pills will be analyzed by the lab and additional charges may be filed. Carlson's was transported to the Hillsborough County Jail in Manchester for processing and holding pending his initial court appearance.
Last night's arrest was a culmination of the efforts of members of the U.S. Marshal's Fugitive Task Force from N.H. State Probation & Parole, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, along with officers from the Barrington Police Department.
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CONCORD – Tuesday night Carl Carlson was arrested by members of the U.S. Marshals – N.H. Joint Fugitive Task Force in Barrington, N.H.


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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Perennial or shrub, generally resinous
Stems < 2.5 m, leafy
Leaves generally sessile or short-petioled
Inflorescence: heads radiate or discoid; involucres obconic to bell-shaped; phyllaries in several overlapping series, linear to oblanceolate, generally recurved
Ray flowers 025; corollas < 9 mm, yellow
Disk flowers 460; corollas 410 mm, gradually flared from middle
Fruit 110 mm, 45-angled; pappus of 2060 bristles, 2.512 mm, white to reddish brown
Species in genus: 13 species: w North America
Etymology: (Barclay Hazard, 19th Century CA botanist)
Reference: [Clark 1979 Madroño 26:105127]
Perennial or subshrub 25 dm, glabrous to scabrous-glandular, resinous
Leaves 2550 mm, widely oblong to oblanceolate, acute, serrate
Inflorescence: heads radiate or discoid; involucre 812 mm wide, bell-shaped; phyllaries grading into leaves, 512 mm, linear-lanceolate, acute, sometimes recurved
Ray flowers 0 or 518
Disk flowers 1530
Fruit 510 mm, glabrous, 5-angled; pappus 710 mm, brownish
Chromosomes: 2n=8
Ecology: Open coniferous forest
Elevation: 10003500 m.
Bioregional distribution: Northwestern California, Sierra Nevada
Distribution outside California: Oregon
Synonyms: Haplopappus w. A. Gray
Ray flowers 518
Fruit 58 mm
Ecology: Habitat of sp.
Elevation: 12003500 m.
Bioregional distribution: Sierra Nevada
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Paul and Scott reacted differently to Clint Eastwood's performance last night; Scott loved it, Paul didn't. I didn't know what to make of it. But it apparently got to Barack Obama; he tweeted in response that "this seat is taken." So the empty seat (with its own teleprompter) has quickly become a campaign theme. Glenn Reynolds noted conservative mockery of Obama's seat tweet, and posted this beautiful photoshop by one Ronnie Schrieber:
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Dallas Cowboys assistant special teams coach Keith O'Quinn was promoted to special teams coordinator and assistant coach Ben Bloom was named linebackers coach Tuesday, Jan. 30, according to sources.
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Dallas Cowboys assistant special teams coach Keith O'Quinn is nearing a promotion to special teams coordinator, according to team vice president Stephen Jones.
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The Dallas Cowboys have named assistant wide receivers coach Keith O'Quinn as their new assistant special teams coach.
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|Cowboys | Several assistants without contract for 2012
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The Dallas Cowboys have several assistant coaches without a contract for 2012, and head coach Jason Garrett is hopeful they'll be able to return. Secondary coach Dave Campo, Running game/offensive line coach Hudson Houck, Secondary/safeties coach Brett Maxie, assistant offensive line coach Wesley Phillips, offensive quality control/wide receivers coach Keith O'Quinn and running backs coach Skip Peete are the coaches who are without a deal. "I feel great about our staff and how we've worked really hard, and again, we'll address that at a later time," Garrett said Monday, Jan. 2.
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Six students inducted into KC's inaugural National Technical Honor Society
Kilgore College inducted six new members into its first chapter of the National Technical Honor Society on Nov. 18 at KC—Longview.
Inductees met the standards of a minimum grade point average of 3.5 and enrollment in a workforce program at the college.
The NTHS, established in 1984, has 3,400 member schools and colleges in the United States and abroad.
The Society seeks to honor student achievement and leadership, promote educational excellence, award scholarships, enhance career opportunities and help colleges build and maintain active partnerships with local business and industry.
NTHS inaugural members at KC:
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Kilgore: Cotina VanLove Dotrey and Hans William Schleimer
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Just in case you missed my intro, I'm Nicole! I would like to learn Latin (as well as I possibly can) before I transfer to a University.
For those of you who have already started learning Latin, which textbook would you recommend?
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Many of our leaders and citizens in Rockford are angry and resentful of the recent Forbes' article listing Rockford as one of the most miserable cities in the U.S.
Many of our leaders and citizens in Rockford are angry and resentful of the recent Forbes' article listing Rockford as one of the most miserable cities in the U.S.
I choose to accept Forbes' assessment as a positive critique of a city which is still struggling to find itself after experiencing many years of success and growth. Like many "rust bowl" cities in America, Rockford has been decimated by economic and social changes that we did not anticipate nor develop strategies to overcome.
In Theodore Levitt's book, "Marketing Myopia," he asserts that businesses and leaders suffer from short-sightedness and failure to determine what business they are truly supporting. He prophesied that the railroads would falter because their leaders saw themselves in the railroad instead of the transportation business. He also stated in his Harvard Business Review report that other American businesses would decline and go out of business because of this myopia.
Rockford has suffered marketing myopia as well because we keep seeing ourselves from the past as a manufacturing mecca. Instead, we should be asking the questions: What are our assets? What are our community needs? How can our young leaders help us to develop a new marketing strategy?
What have other cities done to re-invent/transform their local economy?
Levitt's book should be read by all of Rockford's leaders and applied to our marketing strategies.
I can remember when Pittsburgh was considered a miserable city because of its decline in steel production. Fort Worth, Texas, was considered a deplorable, outpost cow town before the city leaders collaborated on how to change their strategic focus.
Houston underwent a drastic decline during the petroleum fallout in the '70s and '80s. Today, they are thriving metroplexes because of their foresight in attracting diverse companies/industries to create a sustainable growing economy. Their civic and business leaders had the courage to radically change how they saw themselves. Sometimes, critics can help us to envision who we really are and dare to dream who we want to become.
Criticism like Forbes can be positively viewed as a wake-up call for Rockford's best and brightest to use our collective creativity to fuel a new strategy of change and inclusion. We must start asking our young people what they envision Rockford becoming.
We have a beautiful river which can be used to attract recreation, commerce, work and play. We have vast amounts of unused land and historic buildings which can attract young entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. We have wonderful roads which provide easy access for national transportation firms to establish regional and national hubs. We have an outstanding health care industry. What we need now is collaborative courage, positive thinking and action.
Dr. Kenneth Board is the senior pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church of Rockford and an adjunct seminary professor at Northern Seminary, Lombard. His column will appear weekly. If you would like to comment email email@example.com.


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CHICAGO (AP) -- Officials at several Illinois agencies are reviewing programs for students in
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elementary school that left dozens dead, including 20 children.
Gov. Pat Quinn announced Tuesday that agencies including the Illinois
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Quinn says the state has increased emergency preparedness over the
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Somebody needs to ass fuck him in prison, and when he cries about it we can point to the inanity of the Bible as an excuse.-Nam
Why did he smile at the camera as he walked out of the court room?
What did this five month old baby do that deserved discipline? What? Cried? Pooped? Spit up?
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
Edetanlen faced murder charges. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter and several counts of child cruelty. "We are asking for 18 years to serve," Racine said, and the judge agreed.
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At 12:41 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 18, Grand Island Fire Co. rescue personnel responded to a two-car motor vehicle accident at the intersection of Baseline and Alvin roads. The force of the impact caused one of the vehicles to roll over, although the driver was able to escape from the wreckage prior to the arrival of responders, according to Deputy Fire Chief Matt Osinski.
One driver, 22-year-old Cassandra Coffee of Grand Island, sustained minor injuries despite being a rollover victim, and she declined hospitalization. The other driver, 59-year-old Mary Zulawski of Grand Island, also sustained minor injuries and declined hospitalization treatment after evaluation by GIFC medics.
Grand Island Fire Chief Kevin Koch reports that this was the second serious rollover incident within a four-day period and that seat belts and air bags "probably saved lives." Meanwhile, following triple fatalities on the I-190 on July 9, Grand Island firefighters/medics have had to contend with 12 other motor vehicle accidents. Although most of these occurred during broad daylight, when driving conditions were favorable, driver inattention appears to be a major contributing factor. Keeping alert at all times and driving defensively would go a long way towards cutting down these senseless accidents, he stressed.


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THQ looks to flex its brain power with the release of Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?: Make the Grade this fall. The new brain-busting sequel to last year's Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? game will be available nationwide for Nintendo DS, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2, Xbox Live Arcade, Windows PC and PC download in October. With the hit television show returning to FOX on September 5, Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?: Make the Grade gives fans and gamers alike a chance to be a virtual contestant on one of television's most academically challenging shows.
In Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?: Make the Grade, contestants of all ages have the chance to prove their smarts in a game where every question is based on grade school curriculum and the answers are "elementary." Contestants will choose their partner from five all new brainy 5th graders and test their skills in over 23 subjects while earning coveted gold stars on the way to the virtual Million Dollar Question. Throughout the game, just as on the television show, Jeff Foxworthy encourages and teases the contestants with his trademark brand of humor.
Contestants playing the Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2, Windows PC and PC downloadable version of the game will be challenged by over 6,000 questions in 23 subjects including Animal Science, Cultural Studies, Grammar, Music, Reading, US Geography, Vocabulary, Health and Astronomy. Four exciting game modes will put contestants' skills to the test: contestants can go head-to-head against friends in the Academic Academy Mode or see who can answer questions the quickest in the fast-paced Flashcards Mode. Spelling Bee Mode challenges contestants to quickly identify misspelled words, while the Homeroom Mode gives contestants the opportunity to play just like they do on the actual show. The Nintendo DS version of the game boasts 3,000 new questions and gives players the opportunity to partner with 5 unlockable bonus classmates. A brand new multi-player mode allows contestants to play head to head against their friends, or pass and play to see who's the smartest.
Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?: Make the Grade for Xbox Live Arcade allows players to challenge themselves with over 6,000 questions through three unique game modes -- Single Player, Local and Xbox Live Multiplayer. Players can earn Gold Stars as they answer grade school questions on their way to the virtual Million Dollar Question.


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Professor Miho Fujiwara received her B.Ed. degree in English language education from Hiroshima University, Japan and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Georgetown University.
Professor Fujiwara offers the following classes at Willamette University:
- IDS101 College Colloquium
- JAPN201W Modern Japanese Society and Culture
- JAPN240 Japanese Language and Culture
- JAPN331/332 Third Year Japanese I/II
- JAPN430/431 Japanese Reading and Composition I/II
- JAPN432/434 Conversational Japanese I/II
- ASIA/CHNSE/JAPN499W Senior Seminar
She received two teaching awards: Jerry E. Hudson Award for Excellence in Teaching (2009) and Mortorboard Professor of the Year (2009).
Dr. Fujiwara's research interests center on application of linguistic theories to practical Japanese language teaching as a second language. Her major fields of specialties are: first and second language acquisition studies, Japanese linguistics (morphology, discourse), and cognitive linguistics.
Professor Fujiwara and four Japanese Studies and Asian Studies major students received the ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Research Fellowship to conduct research in Japan in 2009. She also enjoys working with students for the Carson Undergraduate Research Grant.
She supports students' activities and is an advisor for the Japan Studies Student Leaders (JSSL), Taiko Club and Sanshin Club.
Dr. Fujiwara's service and contribution to the on and off campus communities include: Department Chair (2006-2013), Faculty Council (2009-2011), Vice President, Association of Teachers of Japanese in Oregon (ATJO) (2009-2011), and Board Member, Confederation of Oregon Foreign Language Teachers (COFLT) (2009-2011).
She also served as an interviewer for the Japan Exchange & Teaching (JET) Program, a judge for the Portland's Japanese Consular Office's Japanese speech contest, and a reviewer for professional journals and conferences in her field
External Grants and Fellowships
Miho Fujiwara, Japanese & Chinese. Salem-Kawagoe Sister Cities, Inc., Grant to Promote Japanese Culture, $300, April 2017.


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Transport analysis guidance: WebTAG
WebTAG provides information on the role of transport modelling and appraisal.
This content contains guidance on the conduct of transport studies. The guidance includes or provides links to advice on how to:
- set objectives and identify problems
- develop potential solutions
- create a transport model for the appraisal of the alternative solutions
- how to conduct an appraisal which meets the department's requirements
Projects or studies that require government approval are expected to make use of this guidance in a manner appropriate for that project or study. For projects or studies that do not require government approval, TAG should serve as a best practice guide.
The department endeavours to keep the guidance up-to-date in light of new evidence and developments in best practice modelling and appraisal methodologies. Changes are released through an orderly release process, giving users early sight of changes and when they are to be released definitively. Users working on longer-term business cases should refer to the proportionate update process when considering incorporating these changes into their analyses.
For users wishing to understand how the new structure relates to previous version of WebTAG a archived version of the previous WebTAG site is also available.is available. An
This overview provides general introductory information on the role of transport modelling and appraisal, and how the transport appraisal process supports the development of investment decisions to support a business case.
Guidance for the senior responsible officer (SRO)
This guidance is for project promoters and sponsors who manage and oversee those projects as a whole.
It provides knowledge on how the evidence derived from the transport appraisal process can be used to support the transport business case and inform the decision-making process. It introduces the high-level concepts of transport appraisal and modelling, the important outcomes required and the main risks to monitor and manage.
Guidance for the technical project manager (TPM)
This guidance is for technical managers that oversee the detailed modelling and appraisal work.
It provides more detailed knowledge on the key components of the transport appraisal process – including options development analyses and appraisal – describing how the concepts of transparency and proportionality should be applied. Overall, this should enable those managers to programme and manage the deliverables and resources more effectively. This identifies the main outputs expected in transport business cases and provides checklists of those expectations in more detail.
Transport appraisal process
This guidance gives a more detailed description of the transport appraisal process, including more detail on the 3-stage process of option development, further appraisal and implementation/evaluation.
Proportionate update process
This guidance provides an overview of the department's process for updating guidance, when guidance is intended to become definitive and how analysts should go about adopting changes to guidance in a proportionate manner.
Guidance for the appraisal practitioner
These guidance documents inform practitioners of best practice in preparing the necessary outputs for the appraisal of transport schemes and policies.
A1 cost-benefit analysis
These guidance documents give advice on the principles of cost-benefit analysis in transport appraisal, the estimation of scheme costs and the calculation of direct impacts on transport users and providers.
- TAG unit A1-1 cost-benefit analysis, May 2018
- TAG unit A1-2 scheme costs, July 2017
- TAG unit A1-3 user and provider impacts, March 2017
A2 economic impacts
These guidance documents give advice on the appraisal of the wider impacts, regeneration impacts, and dependent development impacts, of transport interventions.
- TAG unit A2-1 wider economic impacts appraisal, May 2018
- TAG unit A2-2 induced investment, May 2018
- TAG unit A2-3 employment effects, May 2018
- TAG Unit A2-4 productivity impacts, May 2018
A3 environmental impacts
This guidance provides advice on the appraisal of the environmental impacts of transport interventions. It deals with impacts on both the built and natural environment and on people. The environmental impacts covered in this manual are noise, air quality, greenhouse gases, landscape, townscape, the historic environment, biodiversity and the water environment. The guidance discusses the relationship between environmental impact appraisal (as set out in this unit) and environmental impact assessment and the need to tailor the level of appraisal to the stage of development of the proposal.
A4 social and distributional impacts
These guidance documents give advice on the appraisal of the social impacts and distributional impacts of transport interventions.
- TAG unit A4-1 social impact appraisal, December 2017
- TAG unit A4-2 distributional impact appraisal, December 2015
A5 uni-modal appraisal
These guidance documents give advice on issues specifically relating to cases where only one mode of transport is explicitly modelled. Guidance is provided for active modes (eg walking and cycling), aviation, rail and highway interventions and on the use of marginal external congestion costs to estimate decongestion benefits resulting from mode switch away from car use.
- TAG unit A5-1 active mode appraisal, May 2018
- TAG unit A5-2 aviation appraisal, May 2018
- TAG unit A5-3 rail appraisal, May 2018
- TAG unit A5-4 marginal external costs, May 2018
- TAG unit A5-5 highway appraisal, January 2014
Appraisal worksheets
Worksheets used to present evidence for each impact:
- Appraisal tables
- Economic impacts worksheets
- Environmental impacts worksheets
- Social and distributional impacts worksheets
- Proformas
Guidance for the modelling practitioner
This guidance informs practitioners of best practice in transport models that provide evidence for use in the appraisal of transport schemes and policies.
M1 modelling principles
This guidance provides an introduction to transport models, modelling data and forecasting. It aims to help practitioners understand the general principles of transport modelling and the department's forecasting approach. It also identifies the main sources of transport data that are available to practitioners developing transport models and address the methods used for gathering data including survey methodology.
- TAG unit M1-1 principles of modelling and forecasting, January 2014
- TAG unit M1-2 data sources and surveys, January 2014
M2 demand modelling
This guidance provides advice on the development of variable demand models. This covers scoping the need for such models, their specification, development, calibration and validation, and ensuring fitness for purpose in forecasting.
M3 assignment modelling
These guidance documents give advice on developing, calibrating and validating highway and public transport assignment models. It provides advice on aggregate highway assignment models, for both general and specific purposes, which represent average conditions over the modelled period. It also provides detailed advice on methods for public transport passenger assignment models.
- TAG unit M3-1 highway assignment modelling, January 2014
- TAG unit M3-2 public transport assignment modelling, January 2014
M4 forecasting
This guidance provides advice on using transport models to prepare future forecasts of demand and supply. This includes guidance on the use of the department's demand projections in the NTEM dataset. Furthermore, forecasting is, by nature, uncertain, and this unit gives guidance on how various sources of uncertainty should be taken into account throughout the forecasting process.
M5 advanced modelling techniques
This guidance provides advice on using advanced modelling techniques. These techniques include modelling the impacts of parking policies and park and ride schemes and incorporating the impacts of smarter choice initiatives in existing modelling tools.
- TAG unit M5-1 modelling parking and park-and-ride, January 2014
- TAG unit M5-2 modelling smarter choices, January 2014
- TAG Unit M5-3 supplementary economic modelling, May 2018
WebTAG data book
The TAG data book includes all of the appraisal and modelling values referred to in the guidance in one workbook.
Software tools
To support transport business case development, the department has produced a suite of tools to enable the appraisal of transport policy and interventions. The purpose of these tools is to ensure a consistent approach in transport appraisal, as well as reducing the cost of carrying out the analysis.
- TEMPRO (Trip End Model Presentation Program)
- DIADEM (Dynamic Integrated Assignment and DEmand Modelling)
- COBALT (COst and Benefit to Accidents - Light Touch)
- TUBA (Transport Users Benefit Appraisal)
Supplementary guidance
This guidance provides further information on more specific areas of modelling and appraisal methods that WebTAG users may find useful.
- SI NTEM sub-models, July 2016
- SI mixed logit models, January 2014
- SI bespoke mode choice models, January 2014
- SI land use/transport interaction models, January 2014
Forthcoming changes
The forthcoming changes document provides a list of all the approved alterations to guidance and values, where to find them and when they are planned to be released.
If you wish to be notified when additional information is available and new TAG units are released, please complete the subscription form.
You can use our contact form to ask a question, report a problem or suggest an improvement we can make to WebTAG.
Last updated 31 May 2018 + show all updates
- May 2018 WebTAG updates.
- TAG unit A1-1, A4-1, A5-1, A5-3, data book, environmental impacts worksheets, advice for the technical project manager and advice for senior responsible officer updates.
- Forthcoming changes to wider impact guidance released.
- TAG units A1-2, A5-3, A5-4, M4, TAG data book and 'Forthcoming changes' updated.
- TAG unit A1-3, TAG unit M2 and TAG data book updates.
- Updated forthcoming changes, unit 2-3 and SI NTEM sub models.
- Autumn 2014 updates released.
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Development of Quantum Mechanical Methods for Very Large Molecules and Biochemical Theory.
"A New Look at an Old Reaction: The Potential Energy Surface for the Thermal Carbonylation of Mn(CO)5CH3. The Role of Two Energetically Competitive Intermediates on the Reaction Surface, and Comments on the Photo Decarbonylation of Mn(CO)5(COCH3)," A. Derecskei-Kovacs and D. S. Marynick, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 122, 2078-2086 (2000).
"A Theoretical Study of the Molecular and Electronic Structures of Neutral Silver Bromide Clusters (AgBr)n, n = 1-9," H. Zhang, Z. A. Schelly and D. S. Marynick, J. Phys. Chem., 104, 6287-6294 (2000).
"Azido Derivatives of Low Valent Group 14 Elements: Synthesis and Characterization of [(n-Pr)2ATI]GeN3 and [(n-Pr)2ATI]SnN3 Featuring Heterobicyclic 10-p-Electron Ring Systems," A E. Ayers, D. S. Marynick and H. V. R. Dias, Inorg. Chem., 39, 4147-4151 (2000).
"Conformational Preferences of C2X4-Bridge Bimetallic Transition Metal Complexes," L. W. Mire and D. S. Marynick, Inorg. Chem., 39, 5970-5975 (2000).
"Copper and Silver Complexes Containing Organic Azide Ligands: Syntheses, Structures, and Theoretical Investigation of [HB(3,5-(CF3)2Pz)3CuNNN(1-Ad) and [HB(3,5-(CF3)2Pz)3AgN(1-Ad)NN (where Pz = pyrazolyl, and 1-Ad = 1-adamantyl)," H. V. R. Dias, S. A. Polach, S.-K. Goh, E. F. Archibong and D. S. Marynick, Inorg. Chem., 39, 3894-3901 (2000).
"The Ability of Fullerenes to Act as h6 Ligands in Transition Metal Complexes. A Comparative PM3(tm)-Density Functional Theory Study," S. K. Goh and D. S. Marynick, J. Comput. Chem., 22, 1881-1886 (2001).
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"Methyl Migration in (CH3)Co(CO)4: A Detailed Density Functional Study," S. K. Goh and D. S. Marynick, Organometallics, 21, 2262-2267 (2002).
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"Electron Spin Resonance Studies of Substituent Effects. 6. Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Ortho and Substituent-Induced Cis-Trans Isomerization in 1-Phenyl-1,2-Proopanesemidiones," E. Thomas Strom, D. S. Marynick, and B. S. Snowden, Jr, Arkivoc, xiii, 178-185 (2003).
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"Computational Estimates of the Gas-Phase Basicities and Proton Affinities of the Six Isomers of Dihydroxybenzoic Acid," F. A. Yassin and D. S. Marynick, Molecular Physics, 103, 183-189 (2005).
"A Computational Study of Matrix-Peptide Interactions in MALDI Mass Spectrometry: The Interactions of 2,5- and 3,5-Dihydroxybenzoic Acid with the Tripeptide Valine–Proline-Leucine," F. H. Yassin and D. S. Marynick, J. Phys. Chem. A, 110, 3820-3825 (2006)..
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"Science Teacher of the Year," The University of Texas at Arlington, 1979-80.
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== What is the blackboard ==
== What is the blackboard ==
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== Creation and lifecycle of blackboard ==
== Creation and lifecycle of blackboard ==
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What is the blackboard
The blackboard holds the records while they are pushed through a pipeline. Pipelets are invoked with a blackboard instance and a list of IDs of records to process. The pipelet can then access the blackboard to get record metadata and attachments. The blackboard The blackboard hides the handling of record persistence from the services. For example it can be configured to hold only the record metadata in memory, but to put the attachments in the BinaryStorage service to save memory, if large attachments are used or many records are processed at the same time. Or it could get a record from a RecordStorage service on demand and write it back if processing is done (however, in SMILA 1.0 we do not use the RecordStorage by default anymore).
Creation and lifecycle of blackboard
For blackboard creation we use a BlackboardFactory service running as a declarative service.
- The factory can create blackboard instances which are either "transient" (pure in-memory implementation, not using any storages) or "persisting" (linked to binary storage and optionally to record storage). The client selects which kind of blackboard it wants to use. A persisting blackboard can only be created successfully, if at least a binary storage is known. Creation of transient blackboards is always possible.
- For each "session" an own new blackboard instance is created that manages only those records worked on by this request. A session is for example:
- a single task list execution of a QueueWorker router or listener (i.e. add/delete one record in Connectivity, or processing one input record from a queue message and manage all additional records created by the invoked workflows)
- a single search request in the search service.
- After the session the blackboard instance is released completely, thus freeing any memory resources automatically without interfering with other blackboard sessions.
BlackboardFactory interfaces
interface BlackboardFactory { /** * create a new non-persisting blackboard instance. * This method must always return a valid empty blackboard instance. */ Blackboard createTransientBlackboard(); /** * create a blackboard able to persist records in storages * @throws BlackboardAccessException no persisting blackboard can be created, because * not even a binary storage service is available (record storage remains optional) */ Blackboard createPersistingBlackboard() throws BlackboardAccessException; }
Usage of blackboard
Record lifecycle on the blackboard
A record may be put on the blackboard using one of the following operations:
- create(String id);
- Creates a new record with the given id. No data is loaded from persistence. If a record with this ID already exists in the storages it will be overwritten when the created record will be committed. E.g. used by Connectivity to initialize the record from incoming data.
- load(String id);
- Loads record data for the given Id from persistence. Used by a client to indicate that it wants to process this record.
- copyRecord(String id, String copyId);
- Creates a new record using copyId and copies all metadata from the record with 'id' to it. Attachments are not copied.
- <tt>setRecord(Record);
- Puts the record on the blackboard, saves record attachments to BinStorage, and replaces actual record attachments values by null.
- synchronizeRecord(Record);
- Assumes that a record with the same ID as the given one already exists on the blackboard or in the storage. Loads the record from the storage if needed and updates its properties with the properties of the given record.
A record may be removed from the blackboard using one of these operations:
- commit(String id);
- Saves the record including its attachments to storages and removes the record from the blackboard.
- invalidate(String id);
- Removes the record from the blackboard. If the record was created newly (not overwritten) on the blackboard it will be removed completely. The record is not removed from persistence, though.
- removeRecord(String id);
- Removes a record completely from blackboard and all persistence layer.
Record access
- Record getRecord(String id);
- Gets the record with its complete metadata. You should not rely on the record having all attachment values attached, only the names will be available. Use the blackboard attachments access methods to access attachments. If the record is not yet loaded in the blackboard, the PersistingBlackboard will return null, if it has a RecordStorage set and the record does not exist in record storage. If it doesn't have a RecordStorage a new record is created automatically. The TransientBlackboard creates a new record, too, if necessary. If you change the record metadata, you change the record stored on the blackboard, too, so you don't have to call setRecord() to write back the changes explicitly.
- AnyMap getMetadata(String id);
- A shortcut for getRecord(id).getMetadata()
- Record getRecord(String id, String filterName);
- Creates a copy of the record with only those metadata elements allowed by the named record filter. Changes done to the filtered metadata are not applied to the original record automatically.
- Record filterRecord(Record record, String filterName);
- Applies a record filter known to the blackboard to a record which does not have to be loaded on the blackboard.
Attachments management
There are following methods for working with Record attachments in the blackboard:
- setAttachment(id, name, byte[]);
- setAttachmentFromStream(id, name, InputStream);
- byte[] getAttachment(id, name);
- InputStream getAttachmentAsStream(id, name);
- boolean hasAttachment(id, name);
Attachments are not stored anywhere in the blackboard, they are saved to BinStorage directly and the actual attachment value in the corresponding record is replaced by null. It is highly recommended to use only Stream methods to manage attachments because loading the whole attachments in memory will cause great memory consumption and may cause application crashes.
Usage of blackboard notes
Notes are additional temporary data created by pipelets to be used in later pipelets in the same workflow, but not to be persisted in the storages. Notes can be either global or record specific (associated with a record ID). Record specific notes are copied on record splits and removed when the associated record is removed from the blackboard. Each Note has a String name and Serialaizable value. There are following methods for working with Notes:
- boolean hasGlobalNote(name);
- Serializable getGlobalNote(name);
- setGlobalNote(name, value);
- boolean hasRecordNote(id, name);
- getRecordNote(id, name);
- setRecordNote(id, name, value);


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Like every Mercury, the newly designed 2010 Mercury Milan intends to be a more refined, up-market restatement of its Ford sister car, in this case, the Ford Fusion. Where base models of the Ford are thrifty and flintily efficient, the Milan offers more than a hint of luxury and style, and at bargain prices.
From outside, the Mercury Milan features a unique, toothy grille that growls with aggression. The sleek nose and canted headlight-surrounds express a dynamic, sporting character, and the car's flanks have a similarly attractive muscularity. In the homogenized world of low-priced mid-size sedans, the clean world-car looks of the Mercury Milan stand as a thoroughly convincing American alternative to the Honda Accord, Toyota Camry and other midsize sedans from Japan.
The Milan interior is similarly striking. Featuring what Mercury calls a more technical look, the dashboard and interior are highlighted with stylish satin aluminum metal trim. Attractive black pebble grain covers the dash surfaces, which are fully equipped with added-value comforts and conveniences. Leather seating is standard in most models, another testament to Mercury's upscale aspirations.
The 2010 Milan provides an excellent array of powertrain choices. For those intent on green fuel efficiency, the Milan Hybrid has been rated by the EPA at a spectacular 41/36 mpg, City/Highway. For more power-hungry drivers, Milan's top-of-the-line 3.0-liter Duratec V6 delivers a forceful 240 horsepower and 222 pound-feet of torque. And for those who want good fuel mileage without paying the Hybrid's hefty price premium, a 2.5-liter four-cylinder like the one in our test vehicle delivers 175 horsepower, 172 pound-feet of torque and more than enough acceleration to keep pace with the race. Further, EPA rates the four-cylinder at 22/31 mpg, sensational figures in any mid-size sedan. For perspective, the diminutive, notably fuel-stingy Mini Cooper S only gets 23/32 mpg.
Mercury Milan is a capacious, handsome and winsomely efficient design that can go toe to toe with any mid-size low-price family sedan in the world. Even its four-cylinder variant provides vigorous performance. And its handling, stability and list of features, including available all-wheel drive, put it very high on our list.
Mercury Milan and Ford Fusion are intimately related, sharing their structure, overall appearance and much of their equipment. But in the styling language of Ford designers, the Mercury is intended to make a dramatically different impression than the Fusion. The Fusion's front fascia is understated, with an all-business grille like a three-blade razor. By contrast, the Milan displays a huge gleaming grin that leads directly up-market toward Lincoln luxury.
Milan and Fusion exhibit the same athletic, ready-to-pounce stance. And no wonder. Both are bona fide world cars, with well-polished over-the-road agility and more than enough performance to make that agility relevant.
The Milan, with its luxury keynotes, is more grandiosely American than the Fusion, its Euro sister, but it still has the crisp look and sporty stance that owe a debt to Ford's profitability designing, building and selling cars worldwide. The Milan's aggressive grille and racecar-like undergrille aren't just for show, either; this is a contemporary mid-size sedan that is meant to devour large portions of interstate and look great doing it.
On its left-rear flank is Ford's capless fuel filler, one of those ideas that's so bright it hurts. Why didn't someone think of this decades ago?
Our Mercury Milan Premier test car with four-cylinder engine was neither the top of the Mercury line nor its bottom, yet its interior felt distinctly like a Mercury, delivering a little luxury at a bargain price.
The leather seating our Milan Premier was first class. The side bolsters and seat cushion lateral support were firmer than the Ford Fusion's. They hold the driver comfortably in place no matter how vigorous the maneuvering gets. Their leather seating panels were interspersed with breathable inserts in the center and back—good when the heat starts to climb.
The rear seats are really two semi-buckets flanked by a slab over the center hump to allow seating for three. Lateral support is minimal for the two primary back seats, while the center seat is for volunteers only. (Milan seats up to five.) On the plus side, the rear combines ample roominess for two with easy ingress and egress.
The black pebble grain dash was classy and rich looking. The instruments, distinguished from the Ford Fusion's by a clever faux three-dimensional appearance with a halo-like illumination of needles and dials, were attractive and effective in all but high daylight. In the latter, however, the speedometer numbers were hard to make out. Instrumentation was reasonably complete and included a water-temperature gauge. The message center below the speedometer can be configured to display average mpg, elapsed time, trip odometer for two different trips and fuel miles to empty. Switchgear is chrome trimmed, substantial and confidence inspiring.
The steering wheel contained cruise control and audio settings, and the adjusters were properly designed so that one doesn't inadvertently brush them while turning, accidentally re-selecting the audio. Excellent. And the optional Sony 12-speaker/six-CD audio with Sirius satellite was equally impressive.
Soft ambient lighting is available, providing cozy pale-blue illumination for the center console cupholders and other tasks that do not require turning on the interior lights.
The trunk offers a generous 11.8 cubic feet of stowage with low lift-over.
Concealed behind the Milan's surrounding interior panels is a full complement of front, side and curtain airbags. The car scored high marks in government crash-safety ratings: a maximum five stars for driver and passenger frontal crashes, five stars for front-seat side crashes, and four stars for rear-seat side crashes and vehicle rollover.
Our Milan Premier was a vigorous performer despite using the 2.5-liter Duratec four-cylinder instead of the more powerful 3.0-liter V6. In times past, the four-cylinder engine might have been chosen only because it was cheaper, obliging buyers to accept weak performance as an unhappy financial trade-off.
In the Milan, however, this smaller, 2.5-liter engine is a win/win. It costs less initially, provides entirely adequate performance, and delivers a stellar EPA-rated 31 mpg on the highway and 22 mpg in town. Unless you're Parnelli Jones, there is no downside.
Throttle response from the 2.5-liter engine was immediate, linear and smooth, and its ample 172 foot-pounds of torque ensured good acceleration from any low speed. Engine noise was audible, though not unpleasantly so, during acceleration. At highway cruising speeds, however, engine noise, wind noise and outside racket were negligible. This is a very quiet sedan.
The Milan's handling suggests anything but a bargain-priced midsize sedan. Its electrical variable-assist power steering is crisp and just weighty enough to deliver good feedback. Cornered vigorously, the chassis is well damped, without being in the least harsh or stiff. In fact, driven hard, the Milan is more agile, with less body roll, than either the latest Honda Accord or Toyota Camry. First rate.
All Milan transmissions are six-speeds, whether manual (in the base model) or automatic. Our automatic shifted deftly, almost undetectably. However, when low range was selected manually or the transmission was asked to kick down for acceleration, it proved slow and disappointingly balky in doing so. Overall, we rate the automatic highly and think it is an excellent choice for either engine.
The ABS four-wheel disc brakes did their job unobtrusively and effectively. The pedal was easily modulated to adjust braking force, and when asked, it provided powerful stopping. In addition, the brake system does double duty, serving as the operative force in the car's on-demand electronic stability control and traction control.
The Mercury Milan is a comfortable, roomy, well-tuned and safe driving machine with spirited, sporting road manners. It delivers finesse and sophistication well beyond that of many of its Asian competitors. And with optional all-wheel drive, it will offer dependable all-season transportation.
Ted West filed this report to NewCarTestDrive.com after his test drive of the Milan Premier.


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Handling Specialty worked with Lockheed Martin, a major aerospace/defence company in the US, to custom engineer and manufacture a material handling system that would move highly sophisticated wing assemblies for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter along an assembly line in their Fort Worth, Texas facility.
One part of this system is the transport dolly. The dolly is a mobile platform fitted with a scissor lift capable of holding, elevating (vertical position) and then tilting and holding the wing at 90 degrees (wing in horizontal position), once it has entered the vertical assembly platform (also engineered and manufactured by Handling Specialty). Handling Specialty carefully engineered this lift to safely and steadily hold this valuable and technologically sophisticated wing assembly in an offset center of gravity position.
The wing is loaded onto the dolly by overhead conveyor, using tooling that attaches to the lift. The dolly is then towed by an AGV under the vertical assembly station, where the lift rises through an open section in the platform. Once the wing has cleared the platform deck, the lift tilts the wing 90 degrees, so technicians can continue its assembly.
To ensure safety and accuracy, the dolly is equipped with locator pads on its sides to allow for positioning of the dolly within +/-.125" once it is docked. The docking station (also engineered and manufactured by Handling Specialty) is composed of a guide rail datum pad, a rail with spring bumpers, a wench and a bump crane.


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January 23. 2013 7:31PM
Russian iconography program offered at St. Elizabeth Seton Church in Bedford
BEDFORD - The St. Elizabeth Seton Women's Guild of Bedford presents a free cultural program - Russian Iconography: 1,000 Years of Tradition - at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5 at the St. Elizabeth Seton Church, 190 Meetinghouse Road.
Traditional Russian icon painting is one of the great artistic movements and has been a living and evolving art form for more than 1,000 years.
Russian icons reveal a deep inner spirituality, incomparably matched by an intrinsic rhythm of line and harmony of coloring.
Using numerous exhibits, including examples of her own work, Marina Forbes will examine the history of icon painting in Russia and will discuss the unique multiple nature of the icon as a sacred object, a product of an artistic tradition, a work of art with its own inherent aesthetic value, and a major example of our world cultural heritage. Anyone who has personal icons may bring them for examination and comment.
Forbes is a lecturer, historian and award-winning artist who has written extensively on Russian traditional arts, history and the rich tapestry of Russian culture.
She is licensed with the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and is featured on the New Hampshire Council on the Arts Rosters for Arts in Education and Traditional Arts.
Each year, Forbes leads cultural tours to Russia, where she regularly updates her scholarship, gathering photos and documents, visiting craft factories, GULAG sites and monasteries, and interviewing journalists, political figures and scholars on the current state of affairs in Russia.
She has a distinctive ability to generate energy and enthusiasm in the audience and to bring the rich fabric of traditional Russian art and folklore to life for children of all ages through memorable and thought-provoking programs.
Her talks are sometimes a little bit funny, sometimes a little bit sad, but always unmistakably Russian.
This program is free and open to the public and it was made possible through a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council.
For more information, call 332-2255.


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State Says Odor no Threat from Bridgeton Landfill
BRIDGETON, Mo. - State tests show that the odor from the Bridgeton Landfill outside St. Louis is not a health threat.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Department of Natural Resources on Friday released a summary of recent air sampling results from the landfill. The samples showed "concentrations did not exceed a level of concern for public health." One sample collected near the landfill boundary, however, had a benzene concentration above the level considered safe.
An area deep within the inactive landfill has been smoldering for more than two years, emitting a foul odor that has generated several complaints.
Landfill operator, Phoenix-based Republic Services Inc., says it's spending millions of dollars to address the problem.
An environmental group says more testing is needed.


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Dec 18, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Dude your a class act. Thanks man!!!!!!! V/R Dave
Mar 23, 2009 at 10:30 pm
hey bro, how is mr. wong doing?
Feb 17, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Nice. You look like the Stieg on Top Gear. You should start seeing the GT-R around. Spring is coming and we'll be driving. Cant wait winter was too long!


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November 18. 2013 10:29PM
In Windham, I-93 work is loud and clear
By APRIL GUILMET
Union Leader Correspondent
— Residents living along Interstate 93 in Windham continue to express frustration over the lack of options available when it comes to the highway's escalating noise problem.
On Squire Armour Road, where ongoing construction on I-93 has caused the noise source to creep closer and closer to residential back yards, residents reported trucks working right outside their windows in recent weeks.
"It's been a little loud, but we know that part is temporary," Squire Armour Road homeowner Nathan McNulty said on Monday. "But the coming winter season definitely highlights just how much the DOT has deforested this area."
McNulty said he's hoping some newly planted shrubs and trees would ultimately serve as a noise barrier, at least in the warmer months.
Contacted on Monday, Peter Stamnas, project manager for the $800 million highway widening project, said the plantings were recently installed as part of the construction project, mostly in response to residents' requests for a sound wall.
McNulty said a number of those trees were planted around the end of the cul-de-sac at Squire Armour Road.
"The idea is they're supposed to grow in and eventually block out some of the highway, but we shall see," he added.
Meanwhile, in Concord, a special legislative committee continues to work toward a more concrete solution.
Headed by Rep. Kevin Waterhouse, the committee completed its report in late October and as it stands now, the plan is to present committee findings before the state Transportation Committee sometime in early 2014.
A noise impact study and barrier evaluation was completed at Squire Armour Road in fall 2011.
Results of the evaluation confirmed that the noise levels at many of the neighborhood's homes exceeded the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) noise abatement criteria.
However, as Commissioner Christopher D. Clement Sr. previously noted, it would cost the state up to $45,000 per household to install a sound barrier, which far exceeds the state's $30,000 per household limit.
Committee officials plan to recommend an increase to that household limit before legislators in Concord sometime this coming January and preliminary discussions indicate that the increase will likely be approved.
However, it may be a case of too little too late for the Squire Armour Road residents.
Contacted late Monday evening, Waterhouse stressed that the legislation suggested wouldn't likely provide any immediate relief to those already affected by project noise.
Still, the committee hopes to remain active and continue working with the DOT for the foreseeable future.
"The state certainly acknowledges that noise from the project qualifies the neighborhood for a barrier, but they still haven't met the threshold of cost versus the number of homes affected," Waterhouse said.


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Starting this year, the winner of the Dutch Design Awards will be decided by the public with a new specially created prize, the Public Award.
The finalists include Rogier Wieland with his video dedicated to Moleskine Extra Small Planners, a blend of stop-motion animation and manual creativity: 533 animated pages, 25 frames for 1 second of animation. The behind-the-scenes story is told in this video.
Voting is open until October 29. To participate, click here.
The Dutch Design Awards are presented during Design Week in Eindhoven, which is becoming widely known as the most innovative design event in the world.


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The Art Galleries at Bucknell University are pleased to unveil the Spring 2013 Exhibition Schedule!
Jim Campbell: At the Threshold
January 16 – March 24
Campbell's custom electronic sculptures and installation have made him a leading figure in the use of computer technology as an art form. Campbell combines traditional media, such as video, with his own inventions. He is expanding video in particular, as medium, using it to posit questions about time, memory, and perceived reality in the vocabulary of the electronic age or perhaps, more accurately, the post-electronic age. He welcomes viewers for whom the silent, static work of art is often no longer engaging, employing methods of communication familiar to people who grew up not only on television, but on Nintendo and the Internet. He is on the forefront of interactive work. Yet Campbell does not limit his viewership to the children of cyberspace. His work has a timeless quality in its ideas, its conceptual concision, and its apparent simplicity.
Anna Kell: Pentimenti
January 16 – March 22
What does nature look like in your living room? Are there flowers on the couch, butterflies in the wallpaper or seashells on a lamp? Artist Anna Kell asks us to consider how nature is depicted in our homes and question what that means. After a more traditional start painting images of nature as she saw it, Kell began to question this idea of "nature." Rather than looking at reflections of herself in the way a rock eroded or a plant grew, she realized that the unnoticed representations of nature in everyday objects might have something to say about society in general. "I am looking at these objects from almost an anthropological point of view," she says. "I am assuming that if I examine them in a certain way, they will tell me something about the culture in which they are made."
April 10- June 30
The Downtown Art Gallery
Elliot Anderson is an artist working with interactive technologies, curator, educator and software engineer. He has been involved professionally in the field of computer technology since the early 1980's. Working as an engineer he developed interactive computer graphics for flight simulation, medical technology, cartography and industrial use. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art and directs the Electronic Media program at the University of California Santa Cruz.
Bill Domonkos is an experimental filmmaker and video artist. His work combines computer animation, still photography, live footage and manipulated archive film footage. His work has been broadcast and shown internationally in cinemas, film festivals, galleries and museums.
Splintered: The Annual Student Exhibition
April 8- April 30
The Samek Art Gallery
Works in sculpture, video, painting, and printmaking by seven senior undergraduate and three graduate art students at Bucknell University. Instructed by Assistant Professor of Art, Anna Kell. This year's Annual Student Exhibition is curated by the Samek Art Gallery's Graduate Assistant of Curatorial Studies, Alex-Rae Campbell.


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Coos County campground owner vows business as usual despite fire; PorcFest X to go onBy Bill Smith
New Hampshire Union Leader
May 26. 2013 4:35PM
LANCASTER - Despite a fire that destroyed a large building on the property, the owner of Roger's Campground says it will be business as usual at the White Mountains resort during the summer season.
A fast-moving fire destroyed a building used for bingo, maintenance and housing a pool filter early Sunday. Structures used for guests were not affected.
The New Hampshire State Fire Marshall's Office is investigating the cause of the fire, and the structure won't be taken down until the investigation into the cause is completed.
But owner Crosby Peck said summer activities at Roger's will continue to despite the fire.
"The building really doesn't affect anybody's plans," said Peck, who has been an owner of the business for 16 seasons. "It won't affect anything as far as the campground or the motel or anything goes."
Part of the building housed the campground's maintenance equipment which had been cleared out as part of an ongoing project and had not been moved back inside.
"We're going to have an awesome 2013 season," said Roger's general manager Samantha Desroches. "We are 100 percent moving forward; in the grand scheme of things this is very small."
Members of the Free State Movement, which encourages people who share the group's libertarian outlook to move to New Hampshire, plan to gather at the site in three weeks for its annual Porcupine Freedom Festival.
Desroches and Peck said the fire will not affect the plans made by the group for use of the facility during the 10th annual event, dubbed PorcFest X by organizers.
"There's no need for a change in plan for anybody," Peck said. "We're sure we will put this back together."
No injuries were reported in the fire, which brought multiple calls to the Lancaster Fire Department.
There were no issues with visitors spending Memorial Day weekend at the camp.
"Everybody was extremely supportive and very easy to deal with" Deroches said. "And of course we have an amazing fire department."


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Sexy off the shoulder neckline, pretty lace stripes and a figure-conforming stretch make this bebe top an easy go-to. Try it with a bold-hued skirt and sky-high sandals for a quick going-out look or to work with your suiting staples. Center back to hem:
- 92% nylon, 8% spandex
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Rated 4 out of 5�by mpl Run Small "The top is soft and very nice, but it runs small. I usually wear XS and sometimes XXS, but I couldn't barely breath in the S. I love this top but it will have to go back to the store and upgrade to the larger size." August 1, 2012
Rated 5 out of 5�by bella*trainer*italia AMAZING! I'm going to wear this black/nude top to a business dinner with a group of male business associates. Ill be wearing this tucked into the black midi skirt and a pair of nude pumps. This is a top that can go with just about anything from work to play and two friends went online to buy it after seeing it. Its very form fitting but very elegant and understated also. I'm 5'4 125 39D-26-39 and purchased this top in the small with the XXS midi skirt to show off my tiny waist :) and own the night muahhh! Grab it while its available because it won't last. Debating on wearing the shiny rose/nude skinny belt to match the pumps and the lining of the top...hmmm. BTW it runs the same size wise as the dress version that only comes in black. It is very form fitting and because it's a petites and only has two sizes...the small is really fitted...just FYI July 19, 2012
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Installing coreboot on machine using a CF
The image linux-nokia-ip530-coreboot.img is a 32Mb image which can be placed on the standard CF card. This image was initial intended for the nokia-ip530, but can be used for upgrading, testing and developing coreboot on a x86 system. This is not a distrubution, but a lean and mean installation with a stable kernel. It uses the serial port as its main console at 115200n81. And its easy to personalize for developming and testing needs. For personalisation, just compile the kernel on a development system and copy the bzImage file to the CF filesystem.
#[sudo] dd of=/dev/<cf-card-device> of=./linux-nokia-ip530-coreboot.img
Download 32Mb CF card image (7.9Mb)
When you start from the CF card the EXTlinux loader is used to load Linux, just give ENTER
When the kernel is starting you see the console log on the serial port. And last a console prompt.
No user login and/or password is required.
The flashrom utility is already on the CF card image, so only need to replace the coreboot image with your coreboot rom image for your board.


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Hey guys.
I just listed a bunch of vintage sealed star wars figures for sale with the rest of the collection being listed tomorrow night (4/17). I'm also selling a complete set of MOC 1980 Remco Universal Monsters. Thanks for looking and if you have any questions, please ask me through ebay.
- Joe
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(Model years 2019 - 1926 including exotics and classic cars)
Chevy Prices & Values: Chevrolet was started by a Swiss race car driver and is now a division of General Motors. Chevy's vehicle line-up is distinctly diverse: there's the electric Chevy Volt, the Silverado 1500 truck, the urban Chevy Sonic, and always the large-scale "truckwagon" Chevy Suburban. Get started on your research for a new Chevy below or browse Chevy deals.


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An excerpt from this excellent article by Robert Reich:
"The key reason why the recovery is so anemic is that so much income and wealth are now concentrated at the top is America's the vast middle class no longer has the purchasing power necessary to boost the economy.
The richest 1 percent of Americans save about half their incomes, while most of the rest of us save between 6 and 10 percent. That shouldn't be surprising. Being rich means you already have most of what you want and need. That second yacht isn't nearly as exciting as was the first.
It follows that when, as now, the top 1 percent rakes in more than 20 percent of total income -- at least twice the share it had 30 years ago -- there's insufficient demand for all the goods and services the economy is capable of producing at or near full employment. And without demand, the economy doesn't grow or generate nearly enough jobs.
Wall Street is part of the problem because it's responsible for so much of the concentration of income and wealth at the very top -- and for much of the distress still felt in the rest of the economy after the Street nearly melted down in 2008.
The Street has turned a significant part of the economy into a giant casino involving mammoth bets with other peoples' money. When the bets go well, the rich owners of the casino (Wall Street executives, traders, hedge-fund managers, private-equity managers) become even richer. When the bets go sour, the rest of us bear the costs."
Update: here's a link to an interview/discussion with Paul Krugman on the difference between supply-side economics and austerity and looking at demand and governmental policies for stimulating the economy:
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Jedi, first, thanks for catching my spelling error. Fool-hardy it is!
I agree about creating our own communities; I had to end my membership in unhealthy, destructive relationships and burn the bridges behind me. I have never regretted it.
Perhaps an internet community gives us the kinds of support and encouragement that is so easily weakened by unhealthy traditions and values. I feel inspired by those I have met here and look forward to more possibilities as we progress.
Oh yeah, and I found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartalism
I'll have to read through it all when I have more time.
Elizabeth Warren: 'Libor Fraud Exposes Rot At The Core Of The Financial System'
""The Libor scandal is more than just the latest financial deception to come to light. It exposes a fraud that runs to the heart of our financial system," writes Warren, a long-time Wall Street critic who is running for the U.S. Senate in Massachusetts.
"The Libor fraud exposes rot at the core of the financial system," Warren writes.
Sixteen major banks, including Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, and Citigroup, are under investigation for allegedly rigging the Libor, a benchmark interest rate that banks set and use to lend money to each other. It is the basis for hundreds of trillions of dollars' worth of loans and derivatives and its manipulation possibly cost some cities and states millions of dollars.
Matt Taibbi has also pointed out the far-reaching ramifications of the Libor manipulation, telling the news show "Democracy Now!" that "[e]ven the tiniest manipulation downward, when you're talking about a thing of this scale, would result in tens of trillions of dollars of losses.""
"Super-Rich Hold Up To $32 Trillion In Offshore Havens"
"The study estimating the extent of global private financial wealth held in offshore accounts - excluding non-financial assets such as real estate, gold, yachts and racehorses - puts the sum at between $21 and $32 trillion.
Private wealth held offshore represents "a huge black hole in the world economy," Henry said in a statement."
Walmart's Stock Surge Reflects Hard Times for the Cash-Strapped
"Walmart's numbers are considered bellwethers for the retail industry. But on the other side of the equation, when Walmart sees its earnings improving, the theory goes, it's often because times are tougher for the nation's financially strapped.
Walmart's stock surge followed the retailer's healthy first-quarter earnings report.For the most recent quarter, which ended in April, the discounter posted its biggest comparable-store sales gains in three years.
Meanwhile, poverty in America is poised to reach its highest level since 1965, the Associated Press reports. The poverty rate is expected to reach 15.7%, up from 15.1% in 2010, according to a survey of economists, think tanks and academics."
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Friday, August 26, 2011 - Tomek Kubovy - EROTIC SOLO
In casting tonight, Geoff says his favorite is Julius Cesta. I concur wholeheartedly.
Michal Kourek is from Prague. He is a good looking guy, with quite a good body. He is also well endowed, though unfortunately he shaves down below. He also has a very nice ass, with a tight looking pucker hole.
Julius Cesta is from Prague. He is a very cute, handsome looking guy. I really like his face, in particular. But he also has a good enough body and a nice hard cock. Looks like he has a beautiful ass too.
Petr Stolek is from Jilove u Decina. He looks very good in his casting. With a nice handsome face and a slim build and a very big cock indeed. He also has a great ass, which spreads very well.


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HOUSTON (AP) — A 15-year-old girl suburban Houston girl who survived an attack in which her parents and four younger siblings were killed says she's on the road to recovery.
The Houston Chronicle (http://bit.ly/W7DO9W ) reports that Cassidy Stay also thanked first responders Saturday during a gathering in her hometown of Spring to honor her and her family.
Stay was released from a hospital Friday, two days after the attack in which her skull was fractured by a bullet graze.
Authorities say her aunt's ex-husband, Ronald Lee Haskell, stormed into the family's home Wednesday and fatally shot her parents and four siblings, who ranged in age from 4 to 13 years old. They say Stay survived by playing dead and called police to warn that Haskell intended to go to her grandparents' house next.
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NEW YORK -- Five Democrats fighting to become the city's next mayor sparred over housing costs, police tactics and term limits at their first debate Tuesday evening, but they agreed on one thing: They don't want to talk about Anthony Weiner's sex life anymore.
The televised debate came hours after release of a new poll that showed the roller coaster ride of the candidates since Weiner, who was forced to resign his congressional seat in June 2011 over a sexting scandal, entered the race in May. Weiner, who once led the Democratic field, now is in fourth place, with support from only 10% of likely Democratic primary voters, according to the Quinnipiac University poll.
Christine Quinn, the City Council speaker who was the clear front-runner until Weiner joined the race, has fallen to second place behind the city's public advocate, Bill de Blasio, who had the support of 30% of likely voters to Quinn's 24%. In third place was former comptroller William Thompson with 22%, and in fifth with 6% was John Liu, the current city comptroller.
In the brief opening statements at the start of the hour-long debate, the candidates all portrayed themselves as champions of the middle class — the children of teachers, social workers and immigrants who can relate to the struggles of working people trying to survive in a city where the average apartment rent is more than $3,000 a month.
"We're living a tale of two cities," said de Blasio, a fierce liberal who, despite his strong poll showing, did not come in for the majority of ribbing from other candidates. Instead, they focused on Quinn, for her role in extending mayoral term limits to give Michael Bloomberg his third term, and for not vowing to replace police commissioner Ray Kelly if she wins the election.
"He has become the face of an abusive … policy," Thompson said of Kelly, who has credited the police department's use of the tactic of stopping, questioning and frisking people in mainly minority areas with bringing down crime. Opponents say it amounts to racial profiling. A federal judge Monday ruled that the practice was violating the constitutional rights of the mainly black and Latino young men subjected to random stops and frisks and appointed an independent monitor to help usher in reforms.
Quinn insisted that her role on the City Council gave her the expertise to oversee the issues facing New York, and she said she had saved 4,100 teachers from being laid off and proved herself a friend of labor and the middle class during her tenure.
As for Kelly, Quinn said: "I think everyone on this stage agrees … he has done a terrific job." But she said she did not support the way his department used stop-and-frisk to combat crime and vowed to reform it if elected.
Later, Quinn took one of several stabs at Weiner after he claimed the high moral ground by noting that he had apologized repeatedly for his sexting habits. Quinn, Weiner said, had not apologized for backing Bloomberg in 2008 to overturn a 1996 public vote limiting elected officials to two terms in office. That enabled Bloomberg to win his third term.
"I think it's very clear to all New Yorkers that neither me nor anybody else on this stage should be lectured by Anthony Weiner about what we need to apologize for," Quinn said.
All of the candidates vowed to do more to improve public schools, develop affordable housing and create jobs that pay more than minimum wage. Weiner proposed having police wear lapel cameras that would serve as watchdogs for communities distrustful of officers over the stop-and-frisk issue. De Blasio said he wanted to raise taxes for New Yorkers earning more than a half-million dollars a year.
Liu, expressing skepticism at some of his rivals' assertions, said at one point: "Are we at a mayoral debate or the Twilight Zone?"
Each of the candidates was asked whether Weiner should quit the race, and while they did not all demand he leave, they agreed that the attention focused on his scandalous past was diverting attention from city issues.
"Please don't ask me any more questions about him," Liu said of Weiner, who last month admitted that he had pursued sexually charged online relationships even after quitting Congress and entering therapy to save his marriage and salvage his career.
"I don't want to talk about Anthony," said Thompson. "I want to talk about the future of New York."
Only de Blasio called for Weiner to leave the race, "for the good of the city."
"We should not be talking about one individual and their personal life. We should be talking about all 8.4 million of us," he said.
Weiner brought up the scandals himself, in his opening statement, declaring at the outset that he had made mistakes but that voters, not his critics, should decide if they want to give him another chance.
The only light-hearted moment in the fast-moving, sometimes biting debate came in the final minutes, when the candidates were asked to reveal something about themselves that people might be surprised to learn.
"I'm not a natural redhead," said the flame-haired Quinn, who if elected would be the first woman and the first openly gay person to lead the nation's largest city.
Weiner disclosed that after midnight on Mondays, he plays ice hockey, "probably the only 130-pound Jewish kid in the city" to do so.
The famously low-key Thompson said that "in almost any sport I've ever played, I'm incredibly competitive," while Liu revealed that he's an avid surfer, skier and skateboarder.
De Blasio, who at 6'5" towers above the other candidates, said he had gone to high school with basketball Hall of Famer Patrick Ewing.
"He made it to the NBA, but I didn't," de Blasio confessed.
The five will face off in a primary on Sept. 10. If none of them wins 40% of the vote, a runoff will be held in October.
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Can't Get Bread Flour
I live in rural Central America and the local people really enjoy the Americano baked goods I make. In most recipes, I found I can substitute AP, but am afraid to try others as I have no access to bread flour. Does anyone know of a viable substitute that would not include a 12 hour ride on a chicken bus to the next country over (If they even have it). Thanks and Feliz Navidad y Feliz Año Nuevo from the third hut from the river just past the palm trees.
I forgot to mention in the origal post, we do not have postal service here, so ordering over the internet is not an option.