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Where will Obama side on mud puddles?
Where will Obama side on mud puddles?
This probably doesn't interest anyone but me, but I suspect it will shut down my logging business. I currently have logging operations in 14 states. I am a very small operator in comparison to the big guys, but I currently employ 33 people, 12 full time and the rest part time or on a contract basis. I can't imagine how many people are employed in the entire logging industry.
I only cut hardwood and typically plant at least five trees for every tree that I harvest. Last year I preserved over 285 acres of naturally forested lands (legally in a preserve) and maintained over 600 acres of natural forest, removing undergrowth and dead trees. I did develop 22 acres into commercial real estate, but I have easily planted enough trees to cover that area five to six times. Without people like me, and other people in the logging industry, our privately owned natural forests would be in pretty bad shape.
I think this is a perfect example of how the Obama administration is over regulating everything.
Sam I agree with you 100% Over regulation and growing government is the Death of this country. Im sure Obama will beat his chest that he added new Jobs ya know the job's to regulate you and the loggers!!! Im sure this story will get NO traction and all people will want to talk about is how Newt's ex wife said this or How Mit's Dog trainer said that! Or the speaker of the house has got a fake Tan. How many Job's Did NoBamma's Pipe line veto cost us? How come this is not a story when lack or loss of job's are on everyone's mind. Obama is to busy flying around the country in our $187 thousand dollar per hr campaign office called (Air Force One) thank you tax payers we are funding his overpriced flying Limo so he can charge $3,000 a plate speaking engagements that all go to his war chest called his RE-Election campaign.
How is 35 years of EPA interpretation Obama's fault? OK, I can see that you are looking for a President to change that but you are fooling yourself if you think the GOP will do anything. Ron Paul would certainly give it a go, but the rest of the bunch is too busy doing deals behind your back. Their public face is as phony as a wooden nickle. It's incredibly naive to blame Obama for the same thing anyone in DC would do. The GOP ain't going to do jack for any industry that isn't lining their pockets. Better open your pockets deep Sam, because your industry is outgunned by the big boys.
WRT the pipeline... cracking that shale oil is an environmental nightmare. I think the American people should make serious efforts to reduce consumption before heading in that direction. if you want to destroy the environment, at least demonstrate a serious effort to change our gluttonous consumption of oil.
Well, didn't Obama appoint anyone in the EPA?
This is exactly in my wheelhouse. If his EPA region 9 is an example we're F'd in no uncertain terms. EPA has provided support to Cal/EPA specifically the State Water Board to really restrict storm water runoff. We're in a very heated battle right now where labor and business are together fighting the promulgation of these permits and regulations that have standards far stricter than background and if looked at as a whole are leading to no-discharge where all water, including storm runoff must be treated. Washington state adopted similar standards and almost every permit is in dispute as there is no way to comply.
"WRT the pipeline"
The shale oil will be exploited by the Chinese instead. The policy of hoping to reduce our level of consumption by limiting our production of oil, is not working. The result is the continued dependance on Middle East oil. The longterm result is a cost in young American lives.
This is a ridiculus decision by Obama.
Only after the last tree has been cut down
Only after the last river has been poisoned
Only after the last fish has been caught
Only then will you find you cannot eat money
-- Cree prophecy
And while you may associate these forestry conditions with only logging one must remember all the utility rights-of-way on forest lands and the conditions of these permits as proposed would have a noticeable impact on you utility bill.
Other things impacted, public road construction would get less for more as the treatment systems required for these permits would blow out the costs.
Not to mention there's no scientific evidence to support the need to move to permits as stringent.
I have already answered this, but let me explain it further. Obama, through his nomination to head the EPA and input, is driving these regulations. Obama placed Lisa Jackson as the head of the EPA, effectively controlling the direction the EPA would take. The Obama administration, including Lisa Jackson, has used the many government bureaucracies to effectively take control of huge sectors of the economy, including auto and oil businesses. If you don't believe this, I would call you naive. If you don't understand it, I will try to help you.
Futhermore, I'm not sure if the following statement that you posted is meant to be a low blow to me or what;
^I didn't post that. But the point of my post is that Obama is status quo.
Sam, it isn't guys like you, it's the big dogs in the game that screw it up for everyone. I appreciate you replacing the trees you cut down and don't have a problem with the way you run your business. But I do have a problem that you root for the big dogs that are the ones screwing you in your business.
It's not just the big dogs. Here's the Economic Impact Analysis for Boatyards in Washington State, who was the first to employ the new NPDES permits. Not on page 11-12 the compliance costs both annual and one time capital expense, annualized at $19,400 to $52,000 for small boatyards. This is not cheap nor is compliance feasible at this time regardless of the imposed permit requirements.
Nice strawman...
Sam, why does Obama have to make a stand? can't the courts just throw it out? and Obama say nothing.
John, just saw gasland, and fracking is FRACKED UP! and then all the companies deny its destroying the environment, this is much more important than mud puddles. The epa should not let any company destroy any river in the U.S.
A friend of mine owns a logging company and has been researching the possibility of relocating to Brazil because of costs. Anyway, his argument is at least the logging companies replant. The construction of things like shopping malls have just as much negative environmental impact as logging, but the media or EPA doesn't say anything about them. It' similar to the left attacking the oil companies for oil spills, but what the media doesn't tell is that more oil and fluids are leaked out of our cars every year than what was spilled by the EXXON Valdez. Rant over.
I disagree that Obama is midlle of the road. He may appear that way now because we have a conservative majority in Congress and about to have another election, but if he were middle of road, we would not have the Health Care law going to the Supreme Court.
"It' similar to the left attacking the oil companies for oil spills, but what the media doesn't tell is that more oil and fluids are leaked out of our cars every year than what was spilled by the EXXON Valdez. Rant over."
You do realize that the amout of oil spilled by the Valdez was concentrated to an area of about 11,000 square miles while the amount of "oils and fluids leaked out of our cars every year" is distributed through an area of about 3,794,101 square miles? I would say the reason the media doesn't tell us that is because most of the people, with even a third-grade level of mental capacity, could tell that this argument is probably one of the dumbest you could pose.
It's a great argument... the sum of a couple million people polluting is more than one corp, so what worry about one corp? Or 2 or 3.
The people who are sending the hc bill to the SC aren't middle of the road.
So you are saying that if I read the one document you linked to I will get a comprehensive overview of all the EPA policies for the last 35 years? I'm thinking not.
If you are trying to convince me that Obama is worse than everyone else over one issue, that isn't going to happen. Everyone has their bitch.
And that's a strawman, welcome to logic. Last year with the backing of US/EPA 11 rulemakings and permits were opened for revision in California, this has NEVER happened in my bosses 35 years of environmental compliance work.
I sympathize with you being concerned with something that impacts you directly. I can even agree that the govt is being abusive. OTOH, there are many things that I think the govt is abusing and it didn't start with Obama. It simply isn't possible for me with the information I have to take your issue and put it into perspective with all of the other govt abuses and come to a conclusion that Obama should be singled out as distinctly worse than those before.
I negotiate on behalf of over 30 companies environmental compliance and these policies. Your apathy for what's happening or blind defense of a President that you may feel in unduly under attack is why these abuses are allowed to continue. And maybe I'm more sensitive to it as this is what I do but as a citizen I've seen my utility rates go up without cause or increased usage due to these mandates that happen at all levels of government, most of which are not improving environmental quality or they do it in the most expensive manner. I do not feel as though this administration or the previous one have been good stewards of the public trust or monies. I do feel that the SOTU was dishonest in regards to regulatory reform just as my Governor and State Legislators have been.
"could tell that this argument is probably one of the dumbest you could pose." Pollution is pollution and everyone who drives contributes to that problem, and once again, relocating jobs overseas raises its ugly head.
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This whole birther b.s. is a ridiculous waste of time.
On another note, though, I just came across this picture about a presidential makeover and had to post it. Whadya think????
Oh, and wrong thread for the birther b.s., I know - was wasting time reading some of that crap and mean to post there.
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I got it from Holland and barrats when i tried once before to up my fibre. yeah, i reckon berries would be good too, ive just got a thing for crispy apple at the moment. Goes lovely with cinnamon too. It felt like a really luxurious breakfast, weird as that sounds, but i do miss that porridge texture.
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m) MARKET STREET : This street is named from the market that was held on the Bartholomews in front of the old Town Hall from about 1730, but the northern part, once known as Golden Lion Lane, was partially developed around the seventeenth century with further growth in the latter eighteenth century; building in the southern part was stimulated by the presence of the market, and was further encouraged by the new market hall that opened in 1774. Market Street then came to be the principal street for food shops, particularly meat and dairy produce. In 1984 though, the southern half was completely obliterated by the construction of Bartholomew Square and the Hospitality Inn, but the northern part of Market Street , together with Brighton Place and Nile Street , was pedestrianised in February 1989 (formally inaugurated April 1989). {10,14}
That part to the north of Brighton Place, the former Golden Lion Lane, is lined with late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century buildings. The Market Inn changed its name from the Golden Fleece in 1990. A four-storey, listed, brick building with two first-floor bow windows, it was once known as the Three Chimneys because the owner was the Prince of Wales's chimney-sweep. Nos.3-7 are faced with mathematical tiles , and the eighteenth-century nos.48-48a are also listed. The bridge over the street linking two buildings of the Hanningtons store was constructed in 1989. {15,44}
At the junction with Brighton Place, Market Street widens out to form one of the most attractive parts of Brighton, and is lined with late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century listed buildings. No.11 has a bow window and is faced with mathematical tiles with flint on the eastern side. The mid-nineteenth-century no.47, unusual in red and grey chequered brick, is also listed. The Sussex Tavern faces both Market Street and East Street , and was said to be the haunt of smugglers; it was known as the Spread Eagle until 1816. The Pump House , nos.44-46, dates from at least 1776 and possibly from much earlier. Probably named from the town well that once stood nearby on the Knab, the present facade of black mathematical tiles and bow windows dates from the early nineteenth century. Adjacent are the shops and offices of the Nile Pavilions, designed in a mixture of classical and Art Deco styles by the Robin Clayton Partnership and erected in 1987-9. {44,123}
To the south of Brighton Place, nos.18-22 Market Street are a row of rather plain buildings, but no.23 is faced in black mathematical tiles and is listed. No.24 is rather ugly, but has a good ironwork and glass canopy over the pavement and elaborate decoration above the door. On the western side, no.41 is a four-storey, early-nineteenth-century, listed building with bows and glazing bars. {44}
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I grew up in Nile Street, leading into Market Street, in the 1950s and 1960s. The southern end of Market Street always had a bombed-out appearance with the remains of the market used as a car park and some small crumbling WW2 concrete buildings in a weed-strewn wasteland, until the whole area between Black Lion Street and Market Street south of the Town Hall was swept away in the disasterous 1984 redevelopment.
Roughly where Nile Street joined Market Street, on the opposite side of the road from Nile Street (eastern side of Market Street) was a cheap cider bar that in the early 60s often had the odd late evening punch up. Next door to the south was the Nanking Chinese Restaurant, a towering building that has now been gutted and turned into an up-market shopping arcade but in 1947 or 1948 was apparently the first Chinese restaurant in Brighton. I remember three generations of Chinese working (and possibly living) there and private Chinese New Year parties (regular patrons invited) where your drink would be topped up with whatever bottle was to hand.
Incongruously, next to the Nanking, on the corner, was the SPCK Christian Bookshop. Since the Teds, Mods and Rockers often drank or fought in the cider bar and ate afterwards at the Nanking (sometimes running up Nile Street to avoid paying but pursued by cleaver-waving Chinese cooks). I wonder if either of these places ever exchanged customers with the SPCK?
My great-grandfather is listed in Kelly's as being a jewellery manufacturer at 23 Market Street. His name was Spyridion Marketis born 1842 in Zante, Greece.
My Great Grandfather lived at 33 Market Street in the middle 1800s and was employed as a servant.
My g g grandfather and his son, both named George Lower were bakers at 48/49 Market Street in the 1860s.
I am researching my wife's family tree (Nicola Morton-Smith) and was delighted to find this page, even more so when I read the comment by Vic Phillips (23/04/2005) about his GGGgrandfather having the bakery at 49 in 1860. The census for 1841 and 1851 shows that my wife's GGGgrandfather, Harry Slaughter, was the baker before Vic's. Perhaps someone could let him know just out of interest. Is number 49 still standing by the way? Thanks, and again, extremely good site.
My grandfather and grandmother ran the Pump House till the early fifties. Fishermen walked up from the beach after landing their catch and into the pub-seaboots,oilskins and fish scales included. I was aquainted with the pub from pram time till early fifties when my grandfather died and my gran gave the pub up to Forfars. When the Nanking Chinese restaurant opened, the first manager [Mr Mann] lodged in the pub with them. The oak panels in the bar were upstairs painted dark green till Forfars cleaned them up and moved them downstairs. When the panels were dismantled from the walls, the fireplace which is also downstairs was found behind them. My grandparents names were Sidney and May Ramsey. Regards
I've added a photo under the title 'G W Lower' to the site which shows my nana outside. I am also a descendant of the Lower's.
I'm doing some research into the Titcomb family, and I believe that no. 48 Market Street was an antique shop run by E.M. and L.M. Titcomb, which specialised in toys and dolls houses in the 1950s.
Hi Jennifer, it was not until around 1958 that Titcomb's took over the premises at 48, Market Street, probably moving there after previously having a shop at 42, King's Road. The business was only there for a short time, closing its doors around 1963. Regards, Andy
Does anyone remember around 1971, a film showing Gilbert O' Sullivan riding a bike down Market Street to the soundtrack of 'Matrimony?' It was when it was a proper road and he rode down towards East Street. I can't seem to find it on Youtube and I'm sure it was in black & white.
Thank you for the details. As a young child I visited Brighton and was taken to the Chinese restaurant by a lady who had been a missionary in China. Knowing name and location of restaurant adds to memories - visit was around 1950.
Hi, The Nanking resturant, 21-22 Market Street, was opened by my Grandfather, Mr. Chong Kai Yan. He came to England in 1925 by simply deciding to walk off the ship he was on, he was a Chinese merchant seaman, when the ship was at the docks in Liverpool. During the Second World War he ran a Chinese restaurant in London. He survived a bomb blast by being late one day, and missing his usual bus which was hit by a bomb. He remembered all the American GIs that were over in England back then, they were great tippers. After the war was over he went back to China to find my Grandma and my Dad. He was also a brain cancer survivor. The surgeon back in the 50s remarked that he was "a lucky devil". Had he been in China, he would probably have not survived. Back then England had the best medical care in the world. Eventually he settled in Brighton and opened the Nanking, and Chungking Chinese restaurants. Back then Chinese restaurants were priced at the cheap end of the market, the "McDonalds" of the day. The restaurant was also run by my Dad, with Mum helping out on Fridays and Saturday nights, the busiest days of the week. Eventually the American fast food restaurant invasion took over and the restaurant was sold. The ground floor was cleared and paved as an open entry way to the shopping arcade although the upper floors remained. Our family is still in the hospitality business. My brother owns and runs a hotel in Umbria, Italy, near the town of Montone. The hotel's name is Moravola.
I've just discovered my ancestors lived at 21, Market Street. Robert Hughes and his family lived there for quite a while. Robert was a poulter by trade with his wife, Francis, nee Gibbs. Robert died at his residence 1871, aged 78 years. His Father, Robert, was a butcher. I'm still doing a lot of research on the area, but my location makes it hard since I'm in Australia.
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Ancient Mummies from Around the World Show Heart Disease Could Be a Natural Part of Aging
London – Even with no big macs or marlboros, the world's ancient residents still had to deal with the woes of heart diseases.
According to the biggest-ever hunt for the condition in mummies, some 4,000 years ago people had clogged arteries.
Researchers say the findings suggest that heart disease may be more a natural part of human aging rather than something directly tied to contemporary risk factors like smoking, eating fatty foods and not exercising.
CT scans of 137 mummies showed evidence of atherosclerosis, or hardened arteries, in one third of those examined, including those from ancient people believed to have healthy lifestyles. Atherosclerosis causes heart attacks and strokes. More than half of the mummies were from Egypt while the rest were from Peru, southwest America and the Aleutian islands in Alaska. The mummies were from about 3800 B.C. to 1900 A.D.
"Heart disease has been stalking mankind for over 4,000 years all over the globe," said Dr. Randall Thompson, a cardiologist at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City and the paper's lead author.
The mummies with clogged arteries were older at the time of their death, around 43 versus 32 for those without the condition. In most cases, scientists couldn't say whether the heart disease killed them.
We may have oversold the idea that a healthy lifestyle can completely eliminate your risk.
The study results were announced Sunday at a meeting of the American College of Cardiology in San Francisco and simultaneously published online in the journal Lancet.
Thompson said he was surprised to see hardened arteries even in people like the ancient Aleutians who were presumed to have a healthy lifestyle as hunter-gatherers.
"I think it's fair to say people should feel less guilty about getting heart disease in modern times," he said. "We may have oversold the idea that a healthy lifestyle can completely eliminate your risk."
Thompson said there could be unknown factors that contributed to the mummies' narrowed arteries. He said the Ancestral Puebloans who lived in underground caves in modern-day Colorado and Utah, used fire for heat and cooking, producing a lot of smoke.
"They were breathing in a lot of smoke and that could have had the same effect as cigarettes," he said.
Previous studies have found evidence of heart disease in Egyptian mummies, but the Lancet paper is the largest survey so far and the first to include mummies elsewhere in the world.
Dr. Frank Ruehli of the University of Zurich, who runs the Swiss Mummy Project, said it was clear atherosclerosis was notably present in antiquity and agreed there might be a genetic predisposition to the disease.
"Humans seem to have a particular vulnerability (to heart disease) and it will be interesting to see what genes are involved," he said. Ruehli was not connected to the study. "This is a piece in the puzzle that may tell us something important about the evolution of disease."
Other experts warned against reading too much into the mummy data.
Dr. Mike Knapton, associate medical director at the British Heart Foundation, said calcified arteries could also be caused by other ailments including endocrine disorders and that it was impossible to tell from the CT scans if the types of calcium deposits in the mummies were the kind that would have sparked a heart attack or stroke.
"It's a fascinating study but I'm not sure we can say atherosclerosis is an inevitable part of aging," he said, citing the numerous studies that have showed strong links between lifestyle factors and heart disease.
Researcher Thompson advised people to live as healthy a lifestyle as possible, noting that the risk of heart disease could be reduced with good eating habits, not smoking and exercising. "We don't have to end up like the mummies," he said.
Based on reporting by the Associated Press.
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12th Youth Song and Dance Celebrations is Here I`ll stay.The celebrations take place 30.06-2.07.
What is Youth Song Celebration
The tradition of Song Celebrations dates back to 1869, however the first Youth Song and Dance Celebration took place in 1962 in Tallinn. With few exceptions the number of singers has been growing gradually, reaching 30 000 singers in 2014. The Youth Celebrations are special because more young composers, conductors, singers and dancers get a chance to show new artistic developments.
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The tradition of Song Celebrations dates back to 1869, however the first Youth Song and Dance Celebration took place in 1962 in Tallinn. With few exceptions the number of dancer has been growing gradually, reaching 8500 dancers in 2014. The preparation of the dances starts years before and the selection process for accepted groups happens few months before. Dancers from all over Estonia come to Tallinn weeks before to put together a performance that will be carried out three identical times.
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- The Youth Song and Dance Celebrations only take place every five years.
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- Meet 40000 dancers and singers at a time.
- Five kilometers of procession.
- The stage can fit up to 20000 singers and the whole area of the grounds can hold 120 000 people.
- UNESCO World Heritage Event.
- The unforgettable Estonian National Clothes.
- Tradition dating back 1896.
- Best time to visit Estonia.
- Summer, sun, beautiful songs, interesting dancers, friendly spectators, fantastic view on the sea- what a great way to experience the most important cultural event of Estonia.
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The Dance Celebration takes place in Kalevi stadium and can hold up to 11 000 spectators. The Dance Celebrations holds three performances. Dance Celebration places are seated, the higher seats offer a better view on the dancers and their movements.
The Song Celebration takes place in a large venue and is divided between seated and non seated tickets. The seated places are close to the stage and all the rest is free space, where you can sit or stand wherever you wish.
The Procession does not require a ticket, just find a spot on the five kilometer stretch from city center to the Festival Grounds.
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We can design in any style to suit any environment, from sophisticated and simple to the intricate and ornate. At this stage we zero in on the perfect fit for both your taste and budget.
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Each individual piece of glass is hand cut in our shop from sheets of art glass. We use only premium art glass and 90% of that glass is manufactured in North America. The individual glass shapes are perfectly and precisely shaped to fit the design.
This is the process that gives 'Leaded Glass' its name. The individual pieces of glass are held together by strips of lead channel that connect and 'lock' the glass into its rightful place. This is perhaps the most time consuming stage of fabrication. Each joint must be masterfully executed with perfect mitre joints and a true fit.
Each and every lead joint must then be soldered together for strength. This process occurs on both the front and the backside of the leaded glass panel. There can be up to 500 solder joints in a single panel. An 8' dome has 8 such panels + 1 center panel adding up to more than 4,000 solder joints!
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Billy is a remarkable teenager. Where did you find him?
I'm a casting director, and I was casting a film on location in Maine. There were some small parts that I thought I would love to give to a non-professional to be an extra or a featured extra. So, every day I sat in the lunchroom of the high school where we were shooting. I hadn't been in a high school for like 15 years, and I was introduced to Billy one day, and as soon as he opened his mouth I was filled with curiosity, I was filled with inspiration, I was filled with ... respect and admiration.
High school is where we learn as kids to adapt and often go against who you truly are in order to get your needs met. It's a survival technique. And Billy was someone who didn't know how to do that, and didn't feel he should do that. But at the same time I was so perplexed by him. There were moments where I thought, my God, he's brilliant, and then there were moments of, okay, is he strange? Is he dangerous? I felt all these different things.
The other kids at the school were like, why are you talking to him, saying, he's a jerk, he's a weirdo, he's a freak, he's dangerous. I think when we meet someone different we're conditioned by the way our society works- and one of the ways we learn about someone is through other people. I asked about Billy and people used words that made me even more confused.
I didn't want to label Billy because I saw the universal story, and the humanity in him that I think is in all of us. And the point of this story is to see that no matter who we are as humans, we are all trying to have the same experience in terms of wanting to find love, wanting to be accepted, to be heard and understood, but we all do it in different ways.
This film shows that just because someone does it different than you, doesn't make them bad or wrong, it's just we all have our own paths of getting to the same place.
It's such an intimate portrait. How did you get Billy to let you into his world?
Well, it's interesting. What I've learned is the most important thing in your project is intention. People can sense if your intention is genuine and clear and sincere and comes from a good place, and people can sense if it doesn't. I feel like my intention was really clear, which was to give Billy a voice. I felt like he deserved to be heard, and that he had a voice and could speak for many other kids that weren't being heard. To me this story speaks to all humanity.
Billy's imaginative world is his sanctuary even though he knows that none of the people in it - like King Kong - are real. But still he wants to be a superhero; he wants to rescue a damsel in distress. He doesn't think the same way we do and he doesn't understand and see things the same way. And he's gleaned so much information from movies and books about social situations that these people have been his resource. He imagines, what would Cary Grant do in this situation? Because he doesn't know how to do it the way we do it, but he knows that in order to survive in this world he's got to know how to do it, so if he's going to learn from anyone he wants to learn from these people. And because of this, the rest of the world doesn't always understand and him, he goes to that other place and says I'll go hang out here for a little bit.
And at the same time he's very quixotic.
He is like a young Don Quixote. There's a lot in the film about perception, and I think all of us perceive things in a certain way, and we only see what we wanna see, or what we can see at the moment that we're in. And I think the thing with Billy is he just does things in an extreme way. Billy really sees the good in everyone. He's a glass-half-full kind of guy, unless you're performing some kind of injustice. He can't stand people that break the rules, or doing something to hurt someone. But otherwise he's gonna give someone the benefit of the doubt. I think he really just wants to be a good person and he cares so much.
I say sometimes I feel like the qualities that Billy possesses are these innate qualities that all of us come into the world with. And then we learn over time how to build up defenses and get callous to those things because you need to survive in this world.
It's like he knows that the world can be an awful place, but he doesn't want to go over to the "dark side."
Yeah. And that's the mystery factor of this movie. That's the tension that's always underlying in this movie that's sometimes uncomfortable. It's like...will he just stay like this, or will it finally get to him one day and he'll break, or he'll go to the other side because how long can this be sustained in a world that's not tolerant or accepting of the way he sees the world, or the way that he exists in it?
For me, Billy is about a bigger story. It's a story about finding tolerance and acceptance and beauty in this world. And sometimes it doesn't look nice, and sometimes it makes you really uncomfortable. But there are gems within it. And that's what life is. It's opening up to places and experiences that don't make us so comfortable and aren't as obvious in the pre-packaged ways that we get things delivered to us in certain mediums. There is magic around us all the time. And I hope that people can see that in this film. It's about the dark and the light in all of us, and accepting that and understanding that that is what makes us who we are.
What do you hope people will take away from the film?
I wanted to give everyone else the gift that I experienced, having the opportunity to reflect on my own life through Billy's eyes. I always say that my intention was to give Billy a voice - and he gave me one. And when I say I hope Billy's story "inspires people," I don't mean that in terms of to inspire them to like be a better person, but inspire them to look at the world differently; to experience life in a new way; to look at themselves and to hopefully expand our tolerance and acceptance and see the beauty and the less obvious in life.


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The new Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police promised a break from the tenure of his predecessor Sir Ian Blair as he was unveiled as Britain's top police officer today.
Sir Paul Stephenson, flanked by Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, and Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, on the steps of Scotland Yard, declared that he would take a new approach to the country's most senior policing job.
"Ian Blair did it his way. I was a loyal deputy. Now I am going to do it my way," he said.
Sir Paul, who has been Acting Commissioner since Sir Ian was forced to resign last October, was the agreed choice of both Ms Smith and Mr Johnson, who met on Monday to conclude the two-month appointment process.
In clinching the appointment, he pipped Sir Hugh Orde, the Chief Constable of Northern Ireland, to the £254,000-a-year post.
Telling reporters that he was "hugely proud" to be given the job and wanted to be "intolerant of violence, no matter where that violence comes from", he said: "My agenda for the coming years is straightforward. It is about solving crime, securing our streets, convincing all our communities that we are on their side and delivering the policing they want and being intolerant of violence in any form."
How about the violence of state-sanctioned theft of our money? Oh right, every kind of violence apart from that one.
The signal that Sir Paul would follow a new direction in leading the Met will particularly appeal to Mr Johnson who forced Sir Ian out of his job last October. During his era as chief, the force was widely pilloried by some, with Scotland Yard appearing to lurch from one crisis to the next.
He really covered himself in glory with the Damian Green thing, didn't he? Managed to get Teflon shoulders and leave some other cunt carrying the can. Expect some serious briefing from "friends of Bob Quick" in the future.
Ms Smith and Mr Johnson were anxious to emphasise that they had been unanimous in agreeing on the new Commissioner's appointment.
"Sir Paul offers the expertise and the leadership needed to inspire confidence across the entire police service and most importantly amongst the people of London," the Home Secretary said.
No he fucking doesn't. He's a corrupt remnant of Blair's time.
Mr Johnson added: "I want to plant my flag very firmly in Jacqui Smith's remarks and stress this was a matter of almost glutinous cross-party consensus."
Fuck off, Boris. You're either a fool for believing that, a fool for being conned into this, or you've got some kind of schlenter going on which is not in this country's best interests.
Sir Paul has effectively been running the Met, the country's biggest force, since Sir Ian was ousted. During his tenure, big operations against youth crime have cut the level of stabbings and teenage murders.
However, his period as Acting Commissioner was marred by the arrest by Scotland Yard anti-terrorist officers of Damian Green, the Conservative frontbencher, and the search of the MP's House of Commons office during an inquiry into Home Office leaks.
The fallout from the operation - for which it emerged police did not have the correct documentation - was so catastrophic, that Sir Paul considered withdrawing his application and conceded privately that he had been damaged by the affair.
The affair led to Sir Paul clashing with Mr Johnson for intervening in a continuing police operation after the London Mayor suggested that the investigation into Mr Green would not come to anything.
How unlikely is it that Jacqui Smith is rewarding him for that little episode, eh? Quick took the blame, gold handshakes all round, and Paul has his arse firmly in the driving seat. Smart politics, pity we wanted a policeman.
Sir Paul left the post of Chief Constable of Lancashire to become Sir Ian's deputy in 2005 and has established himself as a vital cog in ensuring that the Met runs relatively smoothly despite its well-publicised troubles.
The Met faces a series of major challenges. The terrorism threat has waned but preparations for the security operation at the London 2012 Olympics are lagging behind schedule amid wrangling over budgets.
Organised crime is a threat - especially drugs, arms and people-trafficking - but one that politicians have paid less attention to because of a concentration on neighbourhood policing. The Met will also have to brace itself for a potential rise in burglary and street robbery as the recession bites.
Sure. Because the middle classes are all going to turn into feral scrotes, aren't they?
Immediate reaction to his appointment was mixed this morning. The Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo), along with the former London Mayor, Ken Livingstone, welcomed the move.
Anything Ken likes is a bad thing. So that's another strike.
"He brings a wealth of professionalism and experience in UK policing into this challenging role," Ken Jones, the Acpo president, said. "The business of policing our capital, protecting Londoners and leading the Met is in good hands."
More egregious mutual masturbation from the head of a private company that is also a quango sucking up your tax money. Fuck off, you unelected thief.
However, Brian Paddick, an ex-assistant commissioner and Liberal Democrat mayoral candidate, said the necessary reform of the police service would "take a backseat" under Sir Paul.
"I think he is more likely to work with the predominant macho male culture than Sir Ian Blair was and therefore he will be more popular with the ground floor but not necessarily for the right reasons," he said.
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Skywatch Friday - Monsoon skies in Sri Lanka
Did you think that fabulous vistas of monsoon can be seen only in India? If yes, you may be wrong. We will tell you why.
Two years back we were traveling in Sri Lanka during Christmas holidays. A week before we landed the nation had bountiful South east monsoon. Parts of Northern Sri Lanka was flooded.
The rains had reduced when we landed but skies were not clear. During our ten day travel in a self drive car - best thing to do being small distances and lovely roads - across the country, we did experience showers at many places. Yes, we could not enjoy its lovely beaches as sea was rough.
The small nation of Sri Lanka is a blessed land. A country of beautiful landscapes. It turns greener and charming when it rains. What we could not get out of the sea we got out t its lovely mountains, valleys.
Here are few pictures capturing the monsoon in Sri Lanka......
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If you want to explore Monsoon in India you may please click on this post in this blog
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You may also be interested to take a look at the following posts on Sri Lanka in this blog. Please click on them to get details.
Cricket Club cafe in Colombo - Eat, drink and watch Cricket here!
Lovely St Clair's falls - Niagara of Sri Lanka!
Gregory Lake - Serene and Scenic
A Home in the Hill country - Do you want to live here?
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These documents and links provide resources about local governments throughout California. Included are publications from the California Attorney General's Office on transparency and ethics laws. These resources will be of primary use to grand juries in support of their investigations leading to final reports, but may also be useful to anyone interested in the particular form of local government or in good government generally.
Title 15 Minimum Standards for Local Detention Facilities
These two documents from the Board of State and Community Corrections describe the standards that can be used for Grand Jury detention facility inspections
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General Law City vs. Charter City
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Laci Dumped At Scott Fishing Spot?
However, the expert later acknowledged he could not reproduce the trajectory for Laci's body, only a possible path for the body of the fetus, leaving unanswered the key question he had been asked to determine — exactly where Laci's body had been dumped in the bay.
Prosecutors claim the fetus was expelled after her death while her body lay weighted to the bay floor.
Ralph Cheng, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and an expert on bay tides and currents, said that based on winds and tidal information, he predicted the fetus' body — whether still inside Laci or not — had been placed into the bay between Brooks Island and the Berkeley Marina.
However, Cheng added that his theory was "not a deterministic prediction," calling it the "highest probability" location.
"Can you predict with any certainty within inches or feet where these bodies would have started from?" asked prosecutor Dave Harris.
"No, I'm afraid not," Cheng replied.
Defense lawyers later attacked his findings as conjecture.
Prosecutors allege the 31-year-old former fertilizer salesman killed his wife in their Modesto home on or around Dec. 24, 2002, then dumped her weighted body into the bay. Her badly decomposed remains — and that of her fetus — washed up in April 2003, not far from the marina where Peterson launched his boat that Christmas Eve morning for what he said was a solo fishing trip.
Defense lawyers maintain someone else abducted and killed Laci, then framed their client after learning of his widely publicized alibi.
Peterson told authorities he was fishing around the Brooks Island area in the bay.
Prosecutors claim an April storm churned up the waters, dislodging Laci's body from the bay floor. Cheng said his scientific data supports such a theory.
On cross-examination, defense lawyer Mark Geragos quickly attacked Cheng's findings as "assumptions."
"Most scientific information is based on assumptions," Cheng said.
Geragos then noted this was the first such study Cheng had ever performed.
"You've never done any study in San Francisco Bay that has anything to do with bodies or things of that size, correct?" Geragos asked.
"That is correct," said Cheng, who typically studies environmental factors in the bay.
"Basically all of this is largely uncertain, correct?" Geragos asked.
"That is not correct," Cheng replied. "Nothing is 100 percent."
"So it's probable, it's not precise, is that a fair way to characterize it?" Geragos prodded.
"Yes," Cheng replied.
Geragos also noted that one of Cheng's own theories for how the bodies could have washed up apart from each other is that they were placed into the bay separately, supporting the defense theory that the fetus was born alive after Laci disappeared. Such a theory, they say, proves Peterson couldn't be the killer, given Laci's Feb. 10 expected due date.


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KN: My Heart Is Like a Zoo is a great blend of creativity and emotional intelligence. How did the idea for this book develop?
MH: While in San Francisco for my brother's wedding, I was inspired by a public art exhibit called "Hearts in Union Square." On the plane ride home, I started to put together a story about the wedding that moved from one heart illustration to another. One of the pictures in the story was an elephant seal — a sight to see in the San Francisco Bay area. From there, I instinctively began making other animals out of hearts without any idea of what they might become. Four years later, I began to picture them in a book called "My Heart Is Like a Zoo."
KN: Why did you choose to focus on hearts instead of another shape?
MH: I have little collections of pictures made from many different shapes. The heart is particularly effective because it has circular, straight and pointy parts within it.
KN: How did you decide which animals to include?
MH: I began with about 75 animals and grouped them according to the kinds of feelings they might represent. I wanted to represent a wide variety of feelings and characteristics. I chose animals that I liked visually and that seemed unique in some way. Toward the end, as I was tweaking the text, I had to change a number of animals because the rhythm just didn't work. For example, one of my favorite animals was a sneaky raccoon. But "sneaky as a raccoon" didn't flow well because the beat is on the wrong syllable in raccoon.
I wrote a blog post about the animals that didn't make the cut for the Greenwillow blog:
KN: The sparse text rhymes and is alliterative at times. Were those poetic elements always part of the text, or did you add them over time?
MH: Initially, I didn't plan to use rhyming text, but as the book unfolded, I could see that I needed to break the long list of animals into sections. The rhymes help to emphasize this.
The alliteration occurred naturally. I like that it is there, but I didn't change any words in order to create that effect.
KN: Is there anything else you'd like to tell us?
MH: A few weeks before I planned on showing the book, I noticed that about a third of the animals were overworked to the point that they seemed lifeless. I rebuilt them from scratch so that they were less animal and more heart.
Anyone interested in learning more can visit myheartislikeazoo.com.
KN: Thanks for the interview!
MH: Thank you.
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"What year will it be when your children will be the same age as you today?" asked Jacques Attali, Founder and President of "Positive Planet". Though we face many difficulties, the positivity of youth brings a brighter vision for our future—as envisioned by this question from the keynote address at the Seventh International Forum of NGOs on "Youth and their Social Impact", organized by UNESCO and the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee in partnership with the Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Foundation (MiSK), and held on 3-4 May 2017, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The NGO UNESCO Forum 2017 brought together over 400 NGOs from over 70 countries and over 2,000 delegates, 70 per cent of whom under the age of 35. It was addressed by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova and several high-profile speakers, including Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis, and Justin Smith, chief executive officer of Bloomberg Media Group.
A first in the Arab region, the forum covered topics such as youth engagement and its potential for social change, optimizing the impact of the digital native, cultural diversity as an essential dimension of intercultural dialogue, among others.
The predominant theme was "Youth matter", in recognition that young people are the custodians of a common future. Speakers addressed the need to communicate with youth in their own language, to reach out and support them so they could be engaged both vocally and practically. Creating incentives for youth participation could start with simple initiatives such as asking young people to volunteer, and might also include more complex actions such as valuing youth as a resource, giving them the opportunity to turn volunteering into a career, and granting employees time off to participate in social work.
With their motivation and commitment, youth can turn dreams into reality, as well as shape a better future for our world. By transforming youth from job seekers to job makers and using technology as means and not as an end, young social entrepreneurs can revolutionize their societies. Not only do we need a good education system to provide youth with the necessary knowledge and skills, but also an inspiring one, focusing on inclusion, tolerance and education for sustainable development.
I was part of the panel on "The Voice of Youth: Their Vision of Social Change", in which seven young people from around the world were given the opportunity to voice their impressions on the forum. Though perhaps lacking in experience, we, the youth, have the passion, creativity and capabilities to incite the change we need in society. Having learned so much over the past two days, I encouraged the young women and men attending the forum to use this new knowledge to take action, and most importantly inspire others.
Overall, this forum represented an indispensable step to ensuring active youth participation, and should serve as a foundation to future youth collaborations for a more sustainable world. It shed a positive light on the years to come, with youth being the leaders of today and tomorrow.
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Rind Al Hage from Lebanon is one of the winners of the English language group of the Many Languages, One World (MLOW) 2016 contest. After travelling to New York and participating in the Many Languages, One World Global Youth Forum, she became an advocate for international youth and sustainability, giving speeches at UNESCO Beirut and the 6th international forum of NGOs. She considers herself as an active citizen of the world


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. One of a set of points on a scale arrived at by dividing a group into parts in order of magnitude. For example, a score equal to or greater than 97 percent of those attained on an examination is said to be in the 97th percentile.
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- n. Any of the ninety-nine points that divide an ordered distribution into one hundred parts, each containing one per cent of the population.
- n. Any one of the hundred groups so divided.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In percentage: as, percentile measurement.
- n. See the first quotation.
- n. In mathematics, a point upon a curve of errors which corresponds to a certain percentage of the total number of observations under discussion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total
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America leads the world in percentile behind bars, thanks to ongoing persecution of hippies, radicals, and non-whites under prosecution of the war on drugs.
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` ` Mid-70 percentile is not going to be good enough.
Apparently he defines good teachers as those whose students improved the most in percentile rank over the school year and bad teachers as those whose students dropped the most in percentile rank over the school year, which seems like it would grossly exaggerate the performance difference between good and bad teachers, because the teacher is just one tiny variable in a system with a lot of noise — and because percentile scores aren't z-scores.
Feb. 6, 2009: At a checkup with a new pediatrician, Amy Seery, Ayub's body mass index indicates he is above the 95th percentile, which is defined as obese.
Twenty-seven percent are above 95th percentile, which is considered obese, and 6 percent are morbidly obese, Neal said.
In their paper they define a family as "low income†if its income is below the 30th percentile, which is around $28,000.
Compared against the model's years of record 1918-2006, this corresponds to a probability of 54.5 percentile, which is slightly above median rainfall of 19.28 in/yr for years 1918-2006.
'' We do see kids that have a BMI in excess of the 95th percentile, which is considered overweight, throughout all of their childhood years. ''
The SI refers to a couple of correlation benchmarks as 90\% and 95\% percentiles (actually Mann calls this "significance", but I'm going to use the more neutral term percentile for now.)
Scores such as percentile ranks, grade equivalence and standard scores differ from one another in the purposes they can serve and describe achievement in different ways.
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Shares of Akamai Technologies, Inc. (AKAM - Free Report) skid 15.7% ($6.53) in after hours trading on the heels of fourth quarter results, in which the content delivery network solutions provider failed to beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of revenues.
However, earnings of 43 cents per share comfortably exceeded the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 6 cents. Earnings per share ("EPS") include stock-based compensation expense and amortization of capitalized stock-based compensation, but exclude amortization of other intangibles, restructuring charges, acquisition related costs and legal settlement charges
Earnings excluding all aforementioned charges and benefits came at 54 cents per share, up 20.0% from 45 cents earned in the year-ago quarter. Earnings also surged 25.6% sequentially and were well above management's guided range of 48 cents to 52 cents per share. The significant improvement in EPS was primarily driven by strong revenues and operating margin growth.
Total revenues jumped 16.7% year over year and 9.4% quarter over quarter to $377.9 million, which fell slightly short of the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Total revenues also failed to beat the mid-point of management's guided range of $373.0 million to $385.0 million. The miss was primarily due to lower-than-expected e-Commerce traffic level during the holiday season compared with the year-ago quarter.
Revenues from content delivery solutions grew 11.0% year over year and 5.0% sequentially. Cloud infrastructure solutions increased 20.0% from the year-ago quarter and 12.0% sequentially. Higher adoption of cloud infrastructure services (60% of the total revenue) and increased demand for security solutions (5 times year-over-year growth) were the main revenue drivers in the quarter.
Industry wise, Enterprise was the fastest-growing vertical in the quarter. Revenues jumped 27.7% year over year and 11.0% sequentially to $52.7 million, driven by continuing shift to the cloud-based applications and increasing demand for Akamai's security solutions.
Commerce was the second fastest growing vertical, with revenues increasing 16.8% from the year-ago quarter and 21.4% from the previous quarter to $89.8 million. The strong growth was driven by increasing demand for security as well as website acceleration solutions.
Revenues from Media & Entertainment increased 15.1% year over year and 6.3% quarter over quarter to $158.1 million.
High Tech climbed 12.9% from the year-ago quarter and 5.9% sequentially to $59.9 million, driven by higher software download volumes and increasing sales of cloud infrastructure solutions.
Public Sector increased 14.4% year over year but declined 6.5% sequentially to $17.4 million in the reported quarter. The sequential decline resulted from the timing factor as several government projects were completed in the last quarter.
Region wise, revenues (excluding impact of currency) from North America (71% of total revenue) jumped 15.0% year over year and 9.0% sequentially. International revenues (29% of total revenue) jumped 22.0% on a year-over-year basis and 10% sequentially in the quarter. Resellers represented 23% of total revenues in the quarter.
Gross margin expanded 210 basis points (bps) year over year and 230 bps sequentially to 68.1%. The strong growth was primarily attributable to improving server network efficiency that continues to pull down costs.
Total operating expenses as percentage of revenues surged 130 bps on a year over year basis and 20 bps sequentially to 45.1%. The year-over-year growth in expenses was primarily due to higher sales & marketing (S&M) expense, up 200 bps in the quarter. Research & development (R&D) expense increased 70 bps in the quarter. However, general & administrative expense (G&A) declined 20 bps in the reported quarter.
Sequentially, the modest growth in operating expenses was driven by higher S&M, which increased 60 bps and fully offset a 20 bps decline in both R&D and G&A, respectively. The higher S&M expense reflects continued headcount investments focused on sales capacity.
Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) margin increased 20 bps year over year and 50 bps sequentially to 45.8%. Operating margin expanded 80 bps from the year-ago quarter and surged 210 bps sequentially to 25.3%. The strong growth was driven by higher gross margin base and lower-than-expected increase in operating expenses.
Net income margin increased 50 bps on a year over year basis and jumped significantly from 15.6% posted in the previous quarter to 19.8%.
Balance Sheet & Cash Flows
Akamai exited the quarter with cash and cash equivalents (including short-term marketable securities) of $437.6 million compared with $465.2 million in the prior quarter. Akamai generated cash flow from operations of $146.9 million in the reported quarter versus $141.5 million in the previous quarter. Akamai repurchased 800K shares for $30.0 million in the quarter.
Akamai expects revenues in the range of $352.0 million to $362.0 million for the first quarter of 2013. This represents 13.0% to 16.0% year-over-year growth. Akamai expects GAAP gross margin of approximately 73.0%. Operating expenses are projected to be up about $4.0 million sequentially. Akamai expects adjusted EBITDA margin to be in the range of 42.0% to 43.0% for the first quarter.
Earnings are expected to be between 50 cents and 52 cents per share, including tax charge of $26 million to $29 million. Akamai forecasts capital expenditure (excluding equity-based compensation) of approximately $65.0 million to $70.0 million for the forthcoming quarter.
Our Take
We believe that strong demand for cloud infrastructure solutions, security, mobile products and online video will drive top-line growth going forward. Akamai's superior content delivery platform has been chosen by the likes of Apple (AAPL - Free Report) and News Corp. due to its ability to provide high-quality service at a much lower rate compared to its peers. Akamai's dominance in the web application business, where it serves companies such as eBay (EBAY - Free Report) ), is a significant growth catalyst going forward.
Akamai continues to manage its server networks in an efficient way, which is expected to reduce depreciation expense going forward. This will further boost gross margins. Moreover, aggressive share repurchase (its board of directors recently authorized a $150.0 million extension of the program) will boost its profitability in 2013.
However, intense competition has kept pricing under tremendous pressure, which is a significant headwind going forward. In order to differentiate its products, Akamai is significantly investing in R&D and is also expanding its sales force through new appointments. This may hurt margins going forward.
Moreover, Akamai's first quarter top-line growth is expected to be negatively impacted by foreign exchange headwind, difficult comps and winding down of some unprofitable contracts. Thus, we prefer to remain on the sidelines for the time being.
Currently, Akamai has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
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