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'Iran says talks could be West's last chance'
Talks next week between Iran and major powers concerned about its nuclear programme could be the "last chance" for the West, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying today.world Updated: Jan 12, 2011 13:07 IST
Talks next week between Iran and major powers concerned about its nuclear programme could be the "last chance" for the West, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Official news agency IRNA quoted Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, as saying that once Iran is able to make its own fuel for a medical research reactor, which it has said will happen this year, it may not return to negotiations if the talks in Turkey fail.
"It might be the last chance because by installing fuel rods produced by Iran into the core of the Tehran Research Reactor, probably parliament will not allow the government to negotiate or send its uranium outside the country and the Istanbul meeting might be the last chance for the West to return to talks," IRNA quoted Soltanieh as telling
French media.
The comment comes a week before Iran meets the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany in Istanbul on Jan 21-22. Those countries want assurances that Iran is not developing nuclear weapons.
A similar round of talks concluded in October 2009 with a tentative pact for Iran to export some of its low-enriched uranium in exchange for higher enriched, 20% uranium, for the Tehran reactor which makes medical isotopes.
But that deal -- meant as a confidence building measure leading to further talks -- unravelled when Tehran backed away from the terms, ultimately leading to a new wave of sanctions which some analysts say helped push Tehran back to the negotiating table.
Acting foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Saturday that Iran would be able to make its own fuel for the Tehran reactor later this year, making any fuel swap deal "lose its meaning".
Western analysts say Iran sometimes exaggerates its nuclear advances to gain leverage in its stand-off with the West.
"The passing of time is not to the advantage of the other negotiating party and (they) should swiftly make the best of this opportunity," Soltanieh was quoted as saying.
"We consider the possession of peaceful nuclear technology, especially uranium enrichment for peaceful purposes and under the supervision of the IAEA as our absolute right ... By no means will we give up on our undeniable peaceful nuclear technology."
The UN Security Council has called on Iran to suspend its uranium enrichment, which can produce fuel for nuclear reactors, and, if done to a much higher level, for nuclear bombs.
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New power station kicks in
MATT Walker showed government officials, industry representatives and farmers around his $546 million workplace for the official opening of the Braemar Two power station yesterday.
The acting manager fielded questions from Minister for Infrastructure and Planning Stirling Hinchliffe on the inner workings of the station.
Representatives from owners ERM and Arrow Energy were also in attendance to get a closer look at the coal seam gas operation.
Mr Hinchliffe said the power station would cut carbon emissions by up to 50 per cent and water consumption by up to 90% compared with coal-fired stations.
"The addition of Braemar Two to the Queensland power grid will help deliver a long-term, reliable and secure power supply to the market," Mr Hinchliffe said.
Landholders and ancestral landholders local to the site 40km south-west of Dalby were also invited to inspect the station.
ERM Power chairman Trevor St Baker said it would provide three per cent of the combined electricity requirements of Queensland and New South Wales.
"By using cleaner burning coal seam gas as a fuel source instead of coal, the power station addresses the increased demand for lower carbon electricity in Australia's eastern states,'' Mr St Baker said.
Braemar Two has been producing electricity since June 12 this year.

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Overview of Six Sigma
This overview of Six Sigma is a brief explanation of the basic concepts, meant as a quick reference guide.
What is Six Sigma?
Six Sigma is an effective business process improvement methodology.
It is not the Business of Quality.
It is the Quality of Business
It focuses on customers needs.
Customers can be:
Six Sigma was developed at Motorola. It has since helped a number of world-class organizations, including General Electric, become more cost-competitive while achieving strong growth.
Why do Six Sigma?
Make us meet our customers increasing expectations
Boost our growth in line with that of our core customers
Enhance the value of the Company
Provide a consistent methodology of improvement
Six Sigma definitions
Sigma measures how far a process or product deviates from a target goal.
One Sigma = high variance from the goal (many defects)
Six Sigma = low variance from the goal (few defects)
In other words:
Six Sigma = 3.4 defects per million opportunities
Four Sigma = 6,210 defects per million opportunities
Three Sigma = 66,807 defects per million opportunities
Six Sigma is -
a statistical bench mark
sigma stands for variance of a measurable characteristic
The overview of Six Sigma improvement methodology is DMAIC
Identify the product or process to be improved and top few critical to quality (CTQ) customer requirements.
Quantify how the process performs today and set improvement goal
Identify the input variables that affect the CTQ's the most
Determine solutions for controlling the key process input variables, quantify their impact and compare to goal.
Implement process design modifications and standardization methods for maintaining the improved performance level over time.
Six Sigma is Data Driven..
Initial process performance is quantified to establish baseline.
Data collection is planned to ensure it is information rich and statistically significant.
Data is appropriately graphed to unveil information.
Inferences are made using sound sampling techniques.
Causes are verified with data.
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NHL Green Legacy Tree Project set for Fridayby NHL Green
At the 2012 NHL Draft in June, NHL Green announced the launch of the Legacy Tree Project, an initiative designed to help revitalize urban environments supporting premier NHL events. On Friday October 19, volunteers will gather to line the streets in Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood with 30 mature trees donated by the NHL Foundation.
In cooperation with the Pittsburgh Penguins, the city of Pittsburgh, Tree Pittsburgh and TreeVitalize Pittsburgh, the trees will be planted a few blocks from the Consol Energy Center, host facility for the 2012 NHL Draft and the first NHL venue to achieve LEED Gold certification.
"We believe these trees serve as a visible reminder of the NHL's commitment to our local environment," said Bernadette Mansur, Executive Director of the NHL Foundation. "The NHL Green Legacy Tree Project is an example of our efforts to enhance the health, livability, and long-term sustainability of NHL communities."
More than 40 volunteers from the community, including Penguins staff and employees at the University of Pittsburgh, plan to participate. A variety of species, including evergreens, elm, Japanese lilac and hornbeam, were chosen for the site by Tree Pittsburgh's staff arborist.
The tree-lined streets, parks and hillsides of Pittsburgh are not only a point of community pride, but they also offer benefits to residents -- helping to reduce local carbon dioxide levels, improve air quality, and mitigate storm water runoff. When fully mature, a single tree can absorb approximately 180 pounds of particulate pollution per year. According to the Arbor Day Foundation, a mature tree can store up to 100 gallons of rainwater during a large storm, preventing that water from overflowing city sewer systems.
The trees will be planted adjacent to the Hill House, a non-profit which combines health, education and human services agencies under one roof, serving as an effective advocate for more than 70,000 local residents annually who are seeking to improve their lives.
Tree Pittsburgh is an environmental non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the City's vitality by restoring and protecting the urban forest through tree maintenance, planting, education and advocacy. TreeVitalize Pittsburgh is a campaign to plant 20,000 trees throughout the Pittsburgh region in order to improve quality of life and the environment. Together, these organizations will coordinate the planting, care and maintenance of the trees.
Fans who wish to participate or donate can contact Tree Pittsburgh (treepittsburgh.org) to volunteer. Tree planting will take place on Friday, Oct. 19 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.


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Canadian Pirate Party Shows Guts, Launches New BitTorrent Tracker to Help Artists
P2P can be good for musicians, wants to prove Canadian Pirate Party The Canadian Pirate Party (CPP) is determined to make its point and what better way to show that P2P can be indeed useful to artists than launching a BitTorrent tracker, Zeropaid reports. With the declared purpose of reforming copyright and facilitating access to
Top 10 Most Downloaded Movies via BitTorrent
TorrentFreak has published the data they collected with the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent for the week ended September 27th. All the films included in this chart are DVDrips (unless mentioned otherwise). From this week's five new apparitions, three have jumped right on the podium – at the top we have the leader,
Wondering which Movie to Go Watch? Showtimefu.com Helps You Out
If you're a cinephile then this just may be to your liking. Here comes a new site worth checking out. Showtimefu.com generates a dynamic list of showtimes based on either a ZIP code or a specific address that you enter just like any other type of search. The results you are given (very quickly I
New Router from Fon Offers Transmission & Rapidshare Support
Recently, Fon launched its newest router – Fonera 2.0N which does seem quite interesting at a first glance. Priced €79 ($100), the new router was designed with a built-in download manager for one-click hosting sites; moreover, it includes Bittorrent client Transmission, enabling users to download content to an external hard drive connected via USB even
Court Takes Away the Assets of Pirate Bay's Potential Buyer
Things went from bad to worse for Global Gaming Factory X – it's like since it planned to buy The Pirate Bay nothing good came its way. The latest problem to hit the company was CEO Hans Pandeya losing control of his assets. After a Swedish court found that Pandeya is well in debt owing
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text: The University of Auckland has teamed up with pilot MOOC platform FutureLearn and is expected to start delivering some courses on the platform shortly. FutureLearn is a private company wholly owned by the Open University and with over 20 UK and international university partnerships, as well as institutions with archives of cultural and educational material, including the British Council, the British Library, and the British Museum. It's a small step for the University which has been in the past, according to various statements by vice-chancellor Stuart McCutcheon, hesitant to jump on the MOOC bandwagon. It will be extremely interesting to see how this pans out over the back-drop of a university which seems to be increasingly in a phase of creating new physical spaces with both the demolishing and rebuild of the Science faculty and the purchase of a significant space in Newmarket.


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Fisherman like farmer is a rough job: people go fishing very early in the morning but the fishing net are not always full of fishes. Now fishing has become an industrial activity made with big fishing boat, but fishermen still exist in seaside villages. Many pictures are taken in Liguria, a region in northern Italy close to the sea where fishing is still an important economical resource; there are also photos coming from China. If you want you can see images of China fishing net, that is fixed woody structures that hold horizontal nets in the category dedicated to Kochi.
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Author:Valentina Sannicolo.
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Best features of previous Marquis lines blended with TRON and the Death Star
By Michelle L. Cramer
The world doesn't need another boring box of hot water, says Jim Johnston, vice president of marketing for Marquis. Which is why Marquis, the Independence, Oregon, hot tub manufacturer, started developing a new line of hot tubs in late 2014.
"We saw an opportunity to introduce a distinctly modern design language and a truly innovative hydrotherapy system concept for the mid price–point category of the market," Johnston says of Marquis' new Vector21 hot tub series. "We felt our midrange e-Series was not as dynamic, creating the opportunity to design the Vector21 to drive new activity for our dealers in that midrange price area."
Utilizing its Dealer Advisory Board, Marquis set parameters for feature sets and price targets that assured it positioned the series on the spectrum of products and prices dealers wanted to offer. Additionally, focus groups were shown elements of components and vessel lines throughout the development process to be sure Marquis maintained the desired visual impression.
Almost every part of the Vector21 line is new, so various elements throughout the production and assembly process either had to be revised or developed, says Sam Collins, senior vice president of Marquis manufacturing. "We spent a great deal of time engineering the hydraulic operation of the units and, as a result, are able to operate every seat without sacrificing performance," Collins says. "Additionally, each seat can adjust the water flow to tailor the individual needs of the bather, allowing almost infinite adjustability."
"A couple of our concepts were still beyond the engineering timeline capabilities," Johnston says. "As a result, we have next-generation concepts in development for future innovations."
One development that did fit the timeline for the Vector21 series is the Variable Velocity Valve (V3) system, which channels a pump's water production from a single to several locations, including all jet pods, with a simple throttle control. Other changes include footwell therapy and conal, directional and orbital jet pods. The V3 throttle and the jet pod formations are all part of what Marquis calls Vector Optimized Laminar Therapy — or the V.O.L.T. system.
Two models are on the market (V94 and V65L) and two will be unveiled at the International Pool | Spa | Patio Expo in New Orleans this November (V94L and V77). Upon completion of the series, Marquis anticipates six total units released, though details about the final two will not be available until spring 2017.
Donny Stiver, outdoor living sales manager for Idler's Home in Paso Robles, California, (a Marquis dealer since May 2013) says that the Vector21 series is the next full evolutionary step in the hot tub industry.
"Marquis has taken some of the best features from both its Signature and e-Series lines, put them in a blender, added a stylistic dash of TRON, the power of the Death Star and out came Vector21," Stiver says. "The 45-degree angels of the Vector21 line make for a very sexy, yet masculine, 21st-century aesthetic."
Three days after putting the units on display, Stiver sold a V65L, and two days later sold a V94. Idler's Home participated in the California Mid-State Fair over the summer and, out of the 60 Marquis tubs sold, 15 were Vector21 units. In a countywide population of about 170,000 people, Stiver counts the response of his market as excellent.
"As far as I have researched, no one can match the pure power and deep tissue massage that Vector21 can produce with the V.O.L.T.," Collins says. "Especially when you see the Whitewater4 footwell jet in the V94 running at full boar and mounding water up through the water line like a volcano."


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As for Main Street Georgetown, HELLO, CUTENESS. When you look up Georgetown "shoppes" online, it will appear they offer about ten stores. Oh, no. They have everything, and the stores are all so deep. It's like entering hundreds of Narnias. Before shopping, however, we stopped for lunch at Pinstripes, which also boasts locations in Illinois, Kansas, and Minnesota. Seriously, this place is the best place I have ever ordered food, and most of you know how many food allergies I have. I ate the maple glazed salmon with avocado salad and quinoa; they let me do butter instead of a maple glaze. On top of the great food, it also offers bowling and bocci! Indoor bocci pits? Whaaaaat? I loved the restaurant so much that when our friends from New York visited, we took them there for lunch on Saturday. These friends are serious foodies, and they raved about the food and atmosphere. Win. We all high fived at the end of the meal.
Meeting up with a fellow blogger for the first time is sort of like preparing for a first date. When Whitney said the same thing to me at lunch, I knew we'd be forever friends. We both changed outfits about five times before settling on what we'd wear for our outing in Georgetown. SO MUCH PRESSURE. I opted for this skirt with a black shirt and my giraffe necklace. When Whitney and I went into Aldo, the sales girl said she had the same skirt that Whitney also has in another color. I remarked that I would love it more if it had pockets. She said, "that's weird. Mine has pockets." I decided to investigate that very moment. And what do you know? IT HAS POCKETS. I have owned this skirt for an embarrassing amount of time not to notice that the pockets were so well-sewn shut that they existed at all. Clearly, Whitney is good luck.
Here's what I wore on my two trips to Georgetown in one week.


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Finding God In
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, far into the future you will gradually, without noticing it, live your way into the answer.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, Letter 4 (16 Jul 1903) trans. by M. D. Herter Norton (1993)
"I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?"
~ C.S. Lewis


text: I wasn't 100% sure about these jersey dresses when I first noticed them on the Dorothy Perkins website, but I had a look at them in the flesh today, and, well, let's just say the green one has just been added to my "things to buy on payday" list. The jersey material felt good quality – not like that "spit peas through it" thin jersey you sometimes see on floral dresses – and while the dresses are empire lined, the shape is narrow enough that they won't make you look pregnant – always a bonus, I find. Also, while the print is bold and eye-catching, it's not that wild and kerrazy mis-mash of colours we've been seeing around lately, so it's going to be a helluva lot easier to get away with. Even if you're me.


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Consumption and sales keep pace with supply
FOLSOM, Calif. (June 16, 2016) – The blueberry industry is projecting a 25 percent increase in North American production over a four-year span, growing from 750.2 million lb. in 2015 to 940 million lb. in 2019¹. North American production for 2016 is projected to again surpass 750 million lb., with global production anticipated to surpass 1.4 billion lb.
Soaring demand has created a nearly billion dollar industry in the U.S. Top-producing regions include California, Florida, Georgia, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon and Washington.
As the industry, led by the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council (USHBC), promotes blueberries as healthy lifestyle staples, North American consumption and purchases continue to keep pace with supply. Specifically:
- North American per capita blueberry consumption grew nearly 50 percent between 2010-2015²
- Fresh blueberry sales at U.S. retail amounted to $1.5 billion in 2015, up 7 percent versus 2014, making blueberries #2 in fresh berry dollar sales³
- Frozen blueberry sales reached $189.6 million in 2015, up 4 percent versus 2014, making blueberries #2 in frozen fruit dollar sales³
- In 2013, Americans were nearly twice as likely as they were in 2004 to buy blueberries in the coming year and 84 percent cited awareness of blueberry health benefits, up 115 percent over 20044
Growing Export Markets
North America isn't the only market of focus for the blueberry industry. Approximately 10 percent of the total U.S. highbush crop is exported each year, with fresh exports totaling more than 79 million lb. in 2014, up 60 percent from 49.3 million lb. in 20055.
The USHBC aims to increase industry export figures substantially in the coming years by expanding existing export markets and opening new markets where fresh blueberries from the U.S. aren't currently available, including Australia, Chile, China, Philippines, South Africa, South Korea and Vietnam.
1Cort Brazelton – North American Blueberry Council 2014
2North American Blueberry Council 2014
3IRI: Freshlook, Total U.S Multi-Outlet, DE 12/27/2015 http://ridethebluewave.com/market-research/
4Hebert Research U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council 2013 Consumer Usage & Attitude Study: http://www.blueberrycouncil.org/blueberry-marketers/
5NABC Statistical Record 2014


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I made huge plans for 2015 as usually. I am not sure how I will manage to achieve them all but I will try. The main goal is that I should enjoy my sewing.
The next goal is to win our bet with Semeon that I can make 50 items in 2 years so 15 items should be finished till end of June. I hope the victory will be mine !%)
Also I want to control my fabric stash(this is most difficult) and budget, last year my sewing expenses were too big. I plan to sew not only from Burda, to sew to other persons, to sew some man's clothes, lingerie, a dress per season(at least), finish some old UFOs, use some vintage patterns, learn how to make welt pocket, stop to fear garments with buttons (I don't like buttonholes), make a leather jacket and a wool jacket. I want to knit a hat or maybe two and try to start sweater. Uhh, big plans! And I want to blog regularly%)
Hope I will make again Me Made May and two more challenges - Burda Challenge(I will sew from January issue in January and so one) and Vintage Pledge(I plan to make 2 vintage items). Happy sewing!
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Summary of 2014
Before making some plans for 2015 I would like to summarize last year's sewing. 2014 was not too sewing year because of different reasons. The main one was overseas moving, I got my sewing space only in May. Also on the new place you had to do a lot of stuff instead of sewing.
Totally I finished 13 items ( and started some more%). 4 items were not for me. I made 2 kid's skirts, friend's skirt and cushion for our couch. 2 items were half-made in 2013 and I finished them. 2 items were refashioned.
I made 7 skirts (3 - not for me), 1 t-shirt, 1 dress, 1 turtleneck. 2 refashioned items were skirts too%)
I used 3 Burda patterns, 1 Ottobre, 1 KwikSew, 5 self-drafted or without pattern.
I bought a lot of beautiful fabrics, failed in Summer Stashbust 2014, participated in Spring Sewing Swap 2014.
My favorite made is summer dress, I should blog it%) And I should make more sack dresses, they are so comfortable!
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This small province of Igdir, which recently was a district of Kars, lies as a fertile plain on which fruit and, unusually for this geographical region, cotton grow between two lofty locations in Eastern Anatolia. In the northwest, at a distance of 180 kilometers extends the high plateau of Kars province which previously comprised this district inside its borders. In the southeast, on the other hand, stands Mount Agri (Ararat), as the highest mountain in Turkey, rising magnificently beside this new province.
The Bible relates that when the flood waters receded, Noah and his family descended from Mount Ararat toward the fertile Igdir plain. From here, their progeny settled to the south and west along the Firat (Euphrates) and Dicle (Tigris) rivers, establishing the second generation of mankind. From this plain, you have the best view of Mount Agri with the ever present snow over its slopes and peaks.
Olive groves cover this area, and the dove, which allegedly brought an olive branch to Noah, is believed to have taken it from this wide grove.
Harmandoven (or Ejder) Caravanserai was built in the 12th century by Serafettin Ejder Bey during the Seljuk period on the Batum-Tabriz silk road axis. It's located 30 kilometers from the city center and was restored in 2010 then opened to the public.
Other monuments to visit near the city include Urartian rock monuments and the Karakale (Black Castle). In Karakoyun village, on the road between Igdir and Aralik, you should stop at the impressive 15th century cemeteries with Karakoyun (black ram) monumental tombstones. These tombstones were made with black basalt stones from Ararat mountain and decorated with ram-head friezes. They were dedicated to brave men and heroes, and also to young people buried there.


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Im gonna round up this week with the biggest news of them all – DominicanPoison aka Miss Issy, finally launched her official website last night @ MissIssy.com!!!… I've been a fan of this big breasts/round ass Latina sexbomb from Dominican Republic since the first time I saw her LIVE on webcam… for years I was hoping she would get a bit more serious and start doing more than irregular cam show, and it looks that finally that day has come… for now she only has a blog page there, but seeing how active she's been on Twitter lately (you gotta love those candid photos she's been adding there), I have a feeling she has even bigger plans than this… but, no matter what, I just wanted to share my happines with you, about seeing this magnificent big tits dream babe getting the attention she deserves.. so please, visit Miss Issy's official website now, and leave her a nice, supporting comment, cause we need to let her know how special she is, and how much more of her we need on daily basis.. and lof course, don't forget about her DominicanPoison webcam shows, cause I dont remember her being online as much as I've seen her lately.. and also, the outfits she's been wearing lately are nothing but mind blowing.. tight fishnets, short skirts, tiny bikinis/tops, Miss Issy is on fire with blowing everyone away with those huge natural tetas and that big round butt she LOVES shaking so much!..
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Medical questions & health advice by board certified doctors
"My tongue is swollen and hurts. How do i help the pain?"
I'm 21 and i just got over a sinus affection and now my tongue is swollen at the back making it very painful to swallow and talk. I've been gargling salt water and peroxide and taking aleve for the pain.
So sorry to hear that you have had to overcome first a sinus infection, and now this, something that could be much more serious. As it is possible that this swelling could become very serious (even if it is also possible that is could be just a sore throat), you need to speak to your doctor immediately. The major concern is that you might have an infection or abscess of your epiglottis, your tonsils, or another part of your throat that could potentially block off your airway. Obviously, this would be an emergency, and so you need to speak to your physician or go to an emergency room/urgent care immediately. While salt water, peroxide, and aleve are excellent steps to take with a simple sore throat, a simple sore throat should not leave your tongue feeling swollen. As the area around the back of your tongue is a confined space, any swelling that occurs in that region will restrict the amount of air that can pass through. Some infections will form along the floor of your mouth, and the associated swelling can push your tongue up and into your airway. Others make it difficult for you to swallow your secretions, and they tend to pool and prevent a risk to your airway as well. Please speak to your doctor or see a physician in some way immediately until you know that your specific condition is not something more serious.
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The Toledo Blade is reporting that the current generation Jeep Liberty assembly shut down will be August 16. I think we are going to see the boxy Liberty transform itself into a much more car like vehicle...think about Hondo's redo of the CR-V and Ford's redo of the Escape and I think you see the trend for what compact SUVs are going to look like. I think it's a mistake but then I'm still a big fan of the original classic Cherokee look.
Jeep will stop building the Liberty sport utility vehicle on Aug. 16, a move that will eliminate some jobs at local suppliers that did not get contracts for the incoming model. However, other suppliers stand to add workers when Jeep begins producing the next-generation replacement in 2013.
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No one has ever bought a Liberty for the gas milage, right?
Consumer Reports recently announced their best and worst new cars for fuel economy - naming the Jeep Liberty as "Worst in Class" for the "small SUV" category. The Liberty was tied with the Dodge Nitro SLT at 16mpg. The Ford Escape Hybrid took top honors in the category with 26mpg.
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The full list of vehicles is available in the magazine's July issue on sale June 7th.
"Hybrid and diesel vehicles provide better fuel economy than conventional cars, but they usually cost more to buy, and as gas prices rise, the pay-back time gets shorter," said David Champion, Senior Director of Consumer Reports Auto Test Center in East Haddam, Connecticut. "All-wheel drive usually reduces gas mileage by about 2 mpg while a manual transmission can improve fuel economy by 1 to 2 mpg."
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Nice article from Automotive News about Muaro Pino, the guy in charge in Chrysler's assembly where the Liberty is assembled and his drive (pun intended) to improve quality.
The World Class Manufacturing system is Fiat's adaptation of the Toyota Production System. WCM, as it's called, is designed to root out waste, cut costs, reduce accidents and increase efficiency. Fiat is putting it in place in all Chrysler plants.
As manager of the two Toledo plants, Pino's mission is to improve the quality of the Dodge Nitro and the Jeep Liberty and Wrangler. In Consumer Reports' 2010 ratings, the Nitro and Liberty siblings finished next to last and last in the small-SUV segment. The Wrangler Unlimited was dead last in the mid-sized, two-row-SUV segment. All three vehicles were marked down for fit and finish and reliability.
Pino has much to do, and he must do it fast. "We are in the middle of a tempest," he says, describing the pace of change.
Built like a tight end, Pino is an imposing 6 feet 4, with broad shoulders, dark eyes and a bald head. His sonorous baritone carries over the din of the busy factory floor. He has the stage presence of an actor and frequently refers to himself in the third person.
Posted by nashman on 2010/5/1 13:18:00 (3116) reads
The Detroit Free Press is reporting that the Jeep Liberty might soon be replaced by a Alfa Romeo crossover vehicle:
A Chrysler plant will produce a crossover for Alfa Romeo, possibly on the same Fiat-based platform as the replacement for the current Jeep Liberty SUV.
Much of the article sounds like speculation...
Posted by mike on 2009/7/11 21:54:00 (2383) reads
Workers at the Chrysler Assembly plant in Toledo, Ohio thought they were going back to work this week to restart assembly of the Jeep Liberty and Dodge Nitro. Unfortunately, they were notified that the plant wouldn't open back up until July 27.
Chrysler had intended to recall laid-off workers at the plant for three days of prep work before resuming production, Chrysler spokesman Max Gates said. Workers at that factory have been idled since Chrysler sought bankruptcy protection on April 30.
When workers return, Mr. Gates, said they will continue making 2009 model year vehicles for a short time before switching over to 2010 models.
Thanks to The Toledo Blade for the heads-up.
Posted by mike on 2009/6/30 9:07:52 (3077) reads
A recent survey by AutoPacific found that Jeep Liberty owners are perfectly happy with their vehicles:
Two Chrysler Group LLC vehicles are on AutoPacific's 2009 Ideal Vehicle list. According to the survey released today, owners of the Jeep(R) Liberty and Dodge Challenger say they are driving a vehicle that meets, or even exceeds, their expectations, meaning those vehicles are perfect just the way they are.
"We are very pleased that the Jeep Liberty and Dodge Challenger have won high praise from their owners. In fact, this is the second year in a row the Jeep Liberty has earned this honor," said Doug Betts, Senior Vice President - Quality, Chrysler Group LLC. "
This study is confirmation that we understand the needs of our customers, and are designing and building vehicles that they are proud to own. Because of their positive experience, these consumers become promoters for our brands and in this difficult market, their endorsement is priceless."
According to the survey criteria, an Ideal Vehicle is one that meets owners' expectations for the product when they acquired it. AutoPacific asked owners to indicate their desire to change their vehicle in 15 different categories ranging from power and acceleration to safety features and storage after having owned and driven their vehicle for 90 days. The buyers who are happy with their vehicle just the way it is, the ones least likely to desire change, are driving their "ideal" vehicle.
The Jeep Liberty earned top honors in the Mid-Size Sport-Utility Vehicle category for the second year in a row. It was also recognized as the top rated vehicle in AutoPacific's 2009 Vehicle Satisfaction Award research last month. The Jeep Liberty has remained a leader in the mid-size SUV market since its introduction in 2002. All-new from the ground up for the 2008 model year, the Jeep Liberty continues to offer legendary Trail Rated(R) Jeep 4x4 capability combined with a new level of on-road refinement and innovative features.
Do you drive a Liberty? Is it your ideal vehicle? If not, what changes would need to be made to make it "ideal"?
Posted by mike on 2009/5/25 10:25:46 (2156) reads
From Chrysler's press office comes the latest installment of "Under the Pentastar". In this week's edition, "a new Chairman, dealer right-sizing, new fuel standards and more awards."
Posted by mike on 2009/5/19 10:12:57 (2609) reads
From a Chrysler press release
Owners of the all-new 2009 Dodge Ram and the Jeep® Liberty have spoken. Owners gave top ratings to both vehicles in AutoPacifics 2009 Vehicle Satisfaction Award research. The all-new 2009 Dodge Ram won the Large Pickup Truck category, beating the new 2009 Ford F-150, while the Jeep Liberty placed at the top of the Mid-Size Sport-Utility Vehicle (SUV) category.
The opinions of our owners are what really matter, so this is a great win for our all-new Dodge Ram and Jeep Liberty, said Doug Betts, Vice President and Chief Customer Officer, Chrysler LLC. This award confirms that we are making significant changes and improvements in vehicle quality that are being recognized by our customers.
AutoPacific's Vehicle Satisfaction Award (VSA) is an industry benchmark for objectively measuring how satisfied an owner is with his/her new car or light truck, and reflects the opinions of consumers nationwide. Owner satisfaction is measured across specific areas related to a vehicle's operation, comfort, safety and the overall purchase/lease experience. Now in its 13th year, the VSA surveys more than 25,000 consumers. The 2009 ratings reflect input from buyers and lessees of new vehicles acquired from September through December 2008.
Since its introduction in 2002, the popular mid-size SUV Jeep Liberty gives off-road enthusiasts and owners their own sense of personal freedom and capability that can only come from the Jeep brand. The Jeep Liberty offers legendary Trail Rated® Jeep 4x4 capability combined with a new level of on-road refinement and innovative features.
Posted by mike on 2009/2/26 20:22:26 (2819) reads
Larry Printz of the Grand Forks Herald really like the 2009 Liberty - it's one of the most gushing reviews we've seen to date. The worst thing Mr. Printz could find to say was that the "stiffer bolstering on the Liberty's cloth seats would be appreciated" - oooooo, burn!
The squared shoulders mirror the vehicle's handling. This is a real truck, not a suburban poseur in big boys' clothes more fit for traversing the Farm Fresh parking lot than some wooded knoll. It's a trail-rated Jeep, and for Jeep lovers, that's good news.
The Liberty feels like the Jeep that it should be. Yes, you hear the engine when it's pressed for power. Yes, the body will lean going around corners. Yes, there's nosedive while braking. And, of course, there's some body movement over bumps.
But that's on the road. Take the Liberty off road, and you'll understand the suspension calibration. Its joyful play-in-the-dirt persona is intrinsic.
Balancing off-road agility and on-road comfort is handled without the bells and whistles of other SUVs. It works perfectly well, thank you.
Check out the entire review.
Posted by l1ghtfoot on 2009/2/17 8:05:44 (3022) reads
Autoblog has a story on a Liberty-based truck one-off from Beijing Auto Works.
It seems that at some point, they considered building the pickup, but then cooler heads prevailed. They recently gave their concept to the China Military Museum.
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Charlotte's near-freezing temperatures Thursday morning seemed like quite a shock after weeks of 70s and 80s in March and early April, but it could have been worse.
In fact, it has been worse.
Mecklenburg County commissioner Bill James, who has a real interest and a good understanding of all things meteorological, passed along an item he found in a history book of Mecklenburg County. It was an excerpt about a big snowstorm on April 15, 1849.
I found several other accounts of the same storm, and interestingly, it appears to have developed in a year much like 2012. Temperatures had been unseasonably mild in March and April, but very cold air spilled into the South in the second week of April. It's not clear exactly what happened, but based on the results, we can guess.
There are published accounts of a big snowstorm that struck April 14 and 15 in parts of Louisiana, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas. So we can assume that low pressure formed in the Gulf of Mexico and tracked across the Deep South, into the cold air that had pushed southward.
Mid-April snow in Florida? Just imagine that!
But the Carolinas took a hit.
The Mecklenburg County account, in the book that Bill James found, describes it this way:
"Everything in the way of vegetables was well advanced in the spring of 1849. The farmers were ready to give corn its first plowing when the snow came. It fell very gently, no crust on top.
"It was so piled up in the apple blossoms that they looked like snow balls. All vegetation was killed, no fruit that was in bloom escape being killed. The great crop of Mecklenburg blackberries alone escaped, of all our fruits.
"It was not until mid-summer that the trees made a respectable shade, or the cattle could make a tolerable living in the range at large."
That account says 5 inches of snow fell.
Meteorologist Don Sutherland, who has published a number of books and blogs, notes an account of the storm in the Camden (S.C.) Journal:
"It commenced with a slight fall early in the morning (April 15) and continued to increase in quantity until 2 or 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when it fell in large flakes, as in mid-winter ... The housetops were covered with snow, which had not melted on Monday morning (April 16). A mid-winter scene in early spring is a sight that we do not remember to have seen at any former period."
The S.C. Department of Natural Resources says 6 inches of snow was measured in that storm in Columbia.
So it appears the April 15, 1849, event was a storm that hit South Carolina and the southern edge of North Carolina.
The National Weather Service's records for Charlotte go back only to the winter of 1878-79. Since then, the record snow in April was 3.5 inches, on April 9, 1880.
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The Great April 15 Snowstorm
Charlotte's near-freezing temperatures Thursday morning seemed like quite a shock after weeks of 70s and 80s in March and early April, but it could have been worse.
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- Anonymous said...
Bill James!
Right on, baby!
Right on, right on, right on!
Word to your Mother!
- April 12, 2012 at 11:05 AM
- Anonymous said...
What a nice fantasy, considering how we're bound to have 30 days of temps over 100 this year.
- April 12, 2012 at 2:55 PM
- Anonymous said...
Now if we could only bury Bill James in that snow...
- April 12, 2012 at 3:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
And we all know that if such a freak event happened this year, the greenies would be calling it climate change instead of weather.
- April 12, 2012 at 3:19 PM
- Komodoman said...
Anon @3:19 - Climatologists base their opinions on careful analysis of data and trends. Your simplistic insult is typical of those who have no factual data to support their claims.
- April 12, 2012 at 3:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
Steve, what do you know about Dr. Denis O'Donoghue, who came to Charlotte in the late 1800s to run the weather bureau? I believe he was also a physician.
- April 12, 2012 at 5:04 PM
- Unknown said...
Thank you Steve, for another good weather story. I remember an early April snow storm in 1984 or 1985, can't be sure which year. I have a photo of my kids playing in it. Mother Nature is a great trickster!
- April 12, 2012 at 8:31 PM
- Anonymous said...
My memory says it was about April 15, 1983 and the ground here was covered. We prepare tax returns so I remember the day well. The next day, I traveled to work at a power plant in PA and there was about a foot of snow there.
- April 12, 2012 at 9:52 PM
- I'm A Robot said...
Irregaurdless, it's going to be in the 80's within a couple of days.
- April 12, 2012 at 11:52 PM
- Anonymous said...
Yup, global warming is absolutely true...it will destroy us all. So let's ruin our economy because it is coming real fast. We certainly should stop coal mining and all oil exploration since those are all contributing....then the rest of the world continues to use fossil fuels unabated and we are the only ones to get excited and ruin our future.
Yup, when we repeat it the appropriate number of times it becomes a fact.
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thanks for illustrating the issue in your post!
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purpose of my function GScholarScraper is to retrieve titles - just because this is the
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My function is good for a quick summary and illustration of a query-result.
Tony's function is evidently better if you want to pull all fields of a given query (authors, titles, abstracts,..)
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I just don't get apocalyptic Christianity.
So, Partner and I were driving around, and we saw this completely cheesy sign for a church calling itself Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry. I looked it up, and it comes across like the same type of scam church that Sarah Palin's involved with: demonic possession, witchcraft, gays are satanic, et cetera. They're one of a plethora of Christian movements out of Africa (Nigeria, in this case)– a subject that requires its own piece– but what's most interesting is that they have a ministry group calling itself "God's Violent Army" that drapes itself in, well, violent rhetoric:
"Praise God, Its time for the equipping of the saints and trainings warriors for the end times. Teaching you to take it by force. The bible says "from the days of John the Baptist the Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence and the violent taketh it by force' …… We're equiping people that will be a terror to the kingdom of darkness."
Sure, we can take this two ways, that all of this is metaphorical and they're talking about waging "spiritual warfare" against Satan, and their violent acts constitute fervent praying– but this sort of rhetoric is only a few minute changes from being applied to less esoteric and far more prosaic matters. Suddenly, Satan manifests itself in a physical form, and there's a ready crop of True Believers ready to wage a very literal violent struggle against this embodiment of evil. This pattern appears time and again in religious movements when some external presence applies stress to the workings of the group, such as was the case of the Vatican waging war against "satanic" states that did not bend to its will, or when certain cults attracted federal investigations.
Of course, Satan is very real to the True Believers in these cults because of constant reinforcement of popularly accepted suggestion. It's easy to see how this works: you go to a prayer meeting receptive to the idea that you'll see an actual miracle happen in front of your eyes– and because you turn off your skepticism and are ready to believe, a Verifiable Miracle *does* happen right before you. This allows you to grant power and authority to the minister, preacher or whoever is in charge of the prayer meeting, because, after all, they performed a Verifiable Miracle, and who are you to oppose them? As these authority figures now speak for the authority of God Himself, you're led down the path of believing everything they say, because as these authority figures are only repeating the Word Of God verbatim, it must be Truth. It's then that people are most susceptible to being convinced that some bloated, bureaucratic government agency is the right arm of Satan himself and must be violently resisted in order to avoid having one's soul devoured and their family cursed for seven generations. Hence, Jonestown residents had to drink the Flavor-Aid to save their souls from the US Government and $cientology had to declare open season on its critics.
The reason for this sticking in my craw might just be a cultural discrepancy– mainstream churches here simply don't advertise the fact that they have prayer groups calling themselves "God's Violent Army" and this sort of rhetoric may be commonly accepted in Nigeria. What's causing concern in my mind is the obvious similarity in titles and subject matter between this group and the infamous "Lord's Resistance Army" of Uganda, whose rhetoric is also heavy on the apocalyptic end-times Christianity stuff. The major difference–so far, anyway– is that "God's Violent Army" isn't a heavily armed paramilitary army that's guilty of an endless list of war crimes.
I should really start reading more about the history of post-colonial Africa. That continent has been used as a puppet and proxy for other world powers for so long I shouldn't be surprised that the socio-political climate is far more complex than anyone can comprehend.
Call Me A Fucking Killjoy Already
Well, here then is a predictable missive about how this is just another episode in the gigantic fantasy television play that is our life. Perfectly scripted. Of couse, I'm playing my part too, offering up the joykilling skepticism that exists to temper the runaway exuberance of our team winning the championship or cup or golden calf. Look, life, even in its most unpredictable moments, is still predictable. We have a few centuries of written data to suggest how we as a whole and we as individuals might respond in certain situations, so this coming predictability was predictable in and of itself. Meta-predictability. What a world.
I have watched too many B-movies about dystopian futures to not know how this will all play out:
-Media will produce more analyses and "ground breaking exclusives" within the space of a week than there are hours in a month.
-Game studios will break their fucking necks to produce Call Of Duty: Abbottabad
-Two big movie studios will produce documentary-style "adapted from true events" feature films about this, while every other studio will scramble to produce formulaic Rambo-style movies where one oily muscleman kills every terrorist in the world with his glistening pecs. The only difference will be the amount of tannerite and gasoline used in the explosions.
-Pundits and other people who are paid to emit noises for an hour while a camera is pointed at them will argue the merits of not torturing Osama to death, not being brutal enough, and how the entirety of western society is wholly in the pocket of Islam because the SEAL team of professional killers acted as professions would be expected to act and handled the body according to Islamic law.
-Good ol' boys will drink just enough sterno to get their dander up, finally figger out that since th' moozlimes aint got thr pope leader feller no more, they be all set t' tell them ragheads what done fired em from the gas station what fer. They will display true Aryan courage and virtue by drunkenly blundering up to their local mosque or masjid and scrawling hateful messages that would be truly threatening if they were only spelled correctly. Perhaps one of these proud pro-democracy vanguardists will attempt to set fire to or otherwise vandalize these inanimate buildings, in their delirium that destroying a building really does damage a thought process.
-The streets will be filled with people who are generally apolitical, but in the absence of a winning sports team have a deep need to satisfy their desire to hoot and holler while hanging from lightposts.
Obama's speech wasn't very long. Given to a quiet room of cameras, the local stations have already taken Obama's speech and mixed in cheering and crowd noises. I'm certain the crowd singing the National Anthem had absolutely nothing (read: absolutely everything) to do with its placement in the background of one of the slower portions the speech. The packaging and shrink-wrapping has begun even before Osama's exit wounds have had time to cool. Here's your Enemy Of Democracy ™, packed when picked to preserve flavor and freshness. Fine execution, although I could wish for the news stations to hire producers with a little more mixing acumen; whomever WTOP has as its overnight producer apparently couldn't stop masturbating with a flag long enough to wipe his patriotic red-white-and-blue jism off the console to realize that a crowd of a thousand drunken frat boys chanting U S A detracted from the overall gravity of the statement. Oh well, that's what you get. Next time.
This will be the summer of victory parades, with the Decisive Event happening right on schedule before the start of summer. This way, the National Mall can be packed full of Authentic Military Gadgets before the summer heat can set in. Muncie, Zanesville, San Jon and Rolla can all have their own National Days where everyone can feel good about waving a flag again.
The heat will come. The thunderstorms will wash out the humidity and the pollen, the sun will shine and the earth will continue to rotate about its axis.


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Creeping away... and please remember to enter for a chance to win a bunch of great e-books! The rules are simple: http://ruth-barrett-spiritedwords.blogspot.com/2011/12/welcome-to-12-days-of-creepfest.html The prize includes the first of the groundbreaking Zombie Bible series by today's guest Stant Litore. His zombie books are terrifying, toothsome reads... but there is a heart and soul and eloquence that I find unique in the genre. Here's Stant with his heartfelt take on "My true love gave to me..."
I'm going to say a word about the most beautiful gift I have ever received for Christmas. It came with love, it came with a delicious kiss, and it also came with enough courage and trust that it shook my heart. The moment is so personal and has such a halo in my memory that it feels quite awkward inviting other people to hear about it, especially as I'm likely to paint that halo in such grayscale that I deprive it of any of the beauty others might see. Still, I have to try.
The Christmas after our first date and our first kiss, the woman I later married gave me a book. A holy book, actually, sacred in my faith. Now she and I are of entirely different faiths. In fact, we are about as different as it is possible to be and still speak the same language. I'll tell you what I mean. I grew up butchering livestock and frying bacon in as much grease as possible; she is a vegetarian who makes falafel on the weekends. I grew up with wetlands outside our back door and my father always had a shotgun handy; my wife is as city as they come, and didn't use to know what a possum was. I rise early; she sleeps late. I could go on. But man, we are in love and have been for a number of years. And to come to the point, we are of entirely different cultural traditions and different faiths. We look at the world differently.
That made dating a bit rocky at first. I think we were each a little fearful that the other might try to convert us. Or fearful that all our dark fears and dread about the other's view of the world, all of our stereotypes, might at any moment be terribly confirmed. And that brings me to Christmas.
This was in Colorado, and the windows were so iced over they might crack if you tapped them. We stole away from the world to find some time just the two of us together, with a poinsettia to serve as a Christmas tree, and she offered me as a gift a holy text. I will never forget the look in her eyes, or the words she wrote inside the cover. Today that book is beaten up pretty badly, and I kid you not I have held the spine together with green duct tape, but it is the most meaningful gift I was ever given. Because her eyes said to me: I am not willing to be afraid of how different you are. I love you.
This story has a happy ending. We wrote our own wedding ceremony weaving together our traditions in a grand duet, and even had two officiants who read the ceremony together in their own duet. I set aside my fear of her ways, too.
There's a lot of fear in our world right now. There always has been. And I'm not going to hand you platitudes; my writing isn't about that, and I'm not about that. Some differences really are insoluble. And just settling for saying that every way of life is equal cheapens all ways of life and too often becomes a way of avoiding the topic and dismissing a conversation you don't want to have. But I will say this, and it might be an important time of year to say it. Often you learn more about your spirituality, your convictions, and what matters to you from people with other ways than you ever do from the community you already know. And life is only really exciting and sexy when there's some friction. Just remember that you're out to dance with your fellow human beings, not clobber or be clobbered. This isn't survival of the fittest; it's which pairs stay until the last dance.
Stant Litore writes about the restless dead. His Zombie Bible series retells old biblical tales as narratives of humanity's long struggle with hunger and the hungry undead. His first book is an Amazon horror bestseller and you can find it here:
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- AnonymousDecember 18, 2011 at 10:28 AM
Inspiring as always, Stant. I don't particularly want to get married, but your story does give me hope that I might one day find someone to put up with me, too.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Jason. Pretty much the only thing I've learned about life so far is that nothing is ever set in stone and life will continue to shock and surprise you. - StantReplyDelete
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This has current relevance because the lack of working class radicalization and mobilization in the English-speaking world means that Marxism has largely become the preserve of academics. Marxism is no longer the ideology of the leading edge of the working class movement. On the one hand it is important that someone keeps alive the ideas of working class revolution and the powerful critical and theoretical tools of Marxism to analyze capitalism. On the other hand the dominance of intellectuals has a high cost.
I have seen over the years a number of arguments about how professors (and teachers) have become proletarianized, their control over their conditions of work eroded. There has been much discussion and analysis of how they face job instability and a curriculum, particularly amongst teachers in elementary and secondary education, that is more tightly controlled by the state. For sure neo-liberalism has eroded the conditions of work of teachers and professors. But, nonetheless, they continue to enjoy privileges and conditions of work that make them unique from other workers and this shapes both their consciousness and practice to the detriment of Marxism. I want to focus on professors here though a lot of this – other than ideological/theoretical production and its impact on consciousness – can also be said about teachers. The first thing that ought to be apparent is that teachers and professors are supervisors. They have a power over their students as the object of their work that is unique amongst workers. They develop a habit of speaking and being listened to, of disciplining others with deadlines, threats of punishment (even if they choose not to use that power), and grades that can determine the future success of their students. For most workers, their day-to-day work lives are about evading power, resisting discipline and even cheating the grading process. They have power over no one, except insofar as they bond together to resist their managers through implied or actual threats of strike action, workplace slowdowns, etc. To say that this doesn't effect consciousness is to deny material reality.
It is true that the conditions of work of academics have been undermined with tenure becoming more difficult to attain as neoliberalism (and now with Massive Online Open Courses gaining popularity). But the irony of this increased competition for the privilege of a job for life is that it is likely to make academics more subservient to the more odious aspects of academic life, in particular the tendency towards splits over minutiae as well as the tendency to sycophancy towards those with tenure.
The tendency of Marxist organizations led by professors to split and fracture is a direct result of the fact that professors prove their merit at work by demonstrating the novelty of their ideas. You are expected to specialize to the point of spending your life exploring a niche discipline that is usually utterly obscure to the broader population. And you become successful insofar as you can generate some original idea that sets you apart from other academics. The easiest way to do this is not to use an existing methodology to more profoundly understand society so that the masses can more effectively win change. Rather, like the perpetual cycle of the fashion and consumer-products industry, you must come up with something unique – a fusion of this and that thinker, finding the fault in some elevated member of a canon or another professor who is respected in your own field. This leads to a pressure to seek out difference as an end in itself. Novelty sells books, gets you on panels at academic conferences and, ultimately, is how you get to be the head of your department, get tenure, junkets, sabbaticals, etc. For workers, being different and challenging the company's methods gets you fired. In a similar vein, professors are rewarded for individual effort and work. If they can increase their output of books, papers and placement on prestigious academic panels, they are more likely to receive significant material rewards. For most workers, while some might be promoted to management, rewards accrue to the degree that workers can come together collectively to resist the discipline and conditions of the workplace. You want a raise – you go on strike or form a union. Professors want a raise – publish a book.
Professors have prestige. It may be more difficult to get a full appointment now than it was in the 1980s but the goal of every academic is that position in which people look to you for your ideas. Most workers have no illusion that doing their job well will get them listened to in anything more than the most cursory, tokenistic way (I remember well the suggestion box at Kodak Canada – you dropped in your ideas and never heard from them again). And, of course, it isn't the sessional professors with unstable employment who, by and large, provide the modern ideological development of Marxism – it is the tenured professors with prestige and job stability.
And those professors have far more free time than do workers. Teachers get two months off every summer and professors get upwards of four months with a year off out of every five to pursue their field and publish a book. Most workers get two to three weeks off if they're lucky. That has an impact, combined with the pressure to differentiate, in allowing academics to play a destructive role. Literally, they have more time to muck about.
Of course, I'm not the first person to notice this pattern. Besides Lenin, assuming the apocryphal story is true, Tony Cliff also wrote about the role of the intelligentsia in the context of third world revolutions as a critique and updating of Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. This relatively recent article described Cliff's argument about the intelligentsia as follows:
"The desire of this group is always to rise above society. These tendencies can be checked when the intelligentsia are involved in mass politics, but when they are free of the constraints and discipline of a wider movement, 'they show clearer and much more extreme tendencies towards elitism, arbitrariness, as towards vacillation and splits'."
As this quote suggests, it is not to say that professors (and teachers) can't be useful participants and even leaders in the socialist movement. They have the luxury of developing ideas and analysis, with access to research assistants and other forms of resources, which are out of reach for the vast majority of workers. But their habits of domination and elitism, deriving from their day-to-day practice are a strong pull and leads them towards practices that are destructive to the socialist movement. They must be held to account in a profoundly sharp way. Like union officials – and the reality is that the most activist-inclined leftist or Marxist professors have a relationship to the workers movement that is mediated through the union bureaucracy – they are prone to high-handed methods and unused to democratic accountability. Challenge your professor and you're likely to get a failing grade.
Insofar as they are allowed to hold offices of responsibility in the socialist movement they must be disciplined by the workers and not the other way around. Their habits of unquestioned authority from students who are desperate for good marks, especially grad students who hope to be the next in line for these positions, must be constantly challenged. The only real way to challenge the bad habits of intellectuals – the tendency to splitting over personal slights elevated to the level of theory, to authoritarianism and command rule, etc. – is a mobilized and confident working class with an organized leadership of worker-intellectuals, whose authority comes not from social power but from the respect of leading collective struggles. I'm often reminded of a story told to me by a postal worker militant who reminisced about my grandfather, also a militant. In the 1970s, when the postal workers were a powerful and leading edge of the Canadian working class, wildcat strikes were a regular occurrence. They would keep their bosses in line by having one of them pick a fight with a supervisor and when the supervisor lost their temper and disciplined them, the whole workplace would walk out (and go sit on a patio and drink beer). Workers who will risk their jobs to challenge people who have real social power over them will also challenge the pretensions of professors who want to provide ideological leadership to the movement.
And that brings us to the problem of today: the working class is not confident and mobilized. There are no significant rank-and-file movements in the English-speaking world, outside of a few pockets. The passivity of the working class has left Marxism to be the preserve of a few workers, students and academics, which gives the academics greater weight inside of Marxist organizations. That leads those organizations to becoming sclerotic and bureaucratized, to become inculcated in habits of deference and prestige mongering, where the brilliance of this or that individual is valued over the collective experience of the worker-members. And, of course, where individual "brilliance" and "achievement" become more highly valued, these traits tend to accrue to those from higher social classes, who have the confidence to dominate through wit and rhetoric. It isn't an accident that few people from working class backgrounds become professors and where they do it usually is the result of "fitting in" to the predominant modes of advancement and recognition. From being the servants of the workers' movement, giving it ideological strength and depth, they become more like a form of gout, weakening and hobbling the movement further, causing splits, acrimony and cliqueism (after all, in academia, currying favour, aka brown-nosing, is the next best thing to splitting hairs when it comes to winning personal advancement).
A quick survey of most Marxist organizations in the western world will illustrate this point. Until the working class begins to move in a serious way the tyranny of the intelligentsia will continue to make Marxism a form of career advancing rhetoric that lacks the kind of life that is necessary if it is to be a vital movement. Like my previous discussion of revolutionary bureaucracy, the lack of struggle can only lead to the dead hand of orthodoxy and cliqueism. To be a vital and revolutionary ideology, Marxism will have to smash the domination of what Lenin called the "committee men" and academics, whose experience tends to lead them towards a natural alliance. They will have to fear and revere the working class more than the dean of their department, the heads of the academic publishing houses or, indeed, the full-time leadership of revolutionary organizations.


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Edward M. Rose
Does your nonprofit have an annual budget that is prepared by your executive director and financial administrator?
Are the assumptions upon which the budget is based vague, not clearly identified or documented?
Finally, is the budget an effective tool to monitor activity throughout the budget year, identifying problems or opportunities that should result in timely changes in planned activities?
This article will address these and other issues to consider in planning, executing and maximizing the benefit of a strong budgetary process.
Who should be involved in the budget process?
Every person who is responsible for specific activities of the nonprofit should determine the annual budget for their areas of responsibility, clearly document the assumptions upon which the budget estimates are made, and monitor the accuracy of the budget estimates throughout the year.
Let's call these individuals line-item or program owners.
Every line and program in the annual budget should have an owner, and every program should have a budget. Program leaders should be the owner for their respective program's income and expense line items.
Only in this manner can board leadership understand what each program costs or how it benefits the agency as a whole.
Most accounting systems, such as QuickBooks, have the capacity to track both budgets and actual income and expense, by program. This is a valuable tool, and should be used.
Finally the board should be asked for input for any items or projects they may wish to be considered for the new budget. This way the board becomes part of the budgeting process.
Documentation of budget assumptions
Each line-item or program owner should clearly document, in a supporting schedule to the annual budget, the basis and assumptions for the significant proposed budget lines.
This is critical both in understanding the basis for the proposed budget and in monitoring the accuracy of the annual budget estimate throughout the year.
Summary for budget development and approval
Every line item for income and expense not included in program budgets, and program budgets themselves, should include the following information (in this case, assuming a June 30 fiscal year end):
- Name of line-item or program owner
- Actual results through March 31
- Budget for current fiscal year
- Projected actual results for current fiscal year
- Budget for next fiscal year
- Assumptions supporting proposed budget for next fiscal year
Monitoring the budget during the year
Budgets and actual results should be critically reviewed on at least a quarterly basis throughout the year, with each owner participating in the quarterly review for the line items and programs they are responsible for.
Based on a current evaluation of assumptions made with the budget initiation by the owner, and the balance in each line item or program at the current quarter end, the owner should make a critical projection as to what the line-item or program balances for their responsibilities will be at year end.
Once all line-item and program-projected year-end balances have been compiled, the executive director and other appropriate agency leadership will have the necessary information needed to make informed operating decisions regarding changes that should made to achieve overall financial objectives by year end.
Budget preparation time table
It is important to start the process early enough so that at least a preliminary budget approval is made by the board before the new-year starts.
Budget adjustments can be made after the beginning of the year for matters that cannot be finalized beforehand, such as some state or federal grant approvals.
Assuming a June 30 fiscal year, the finance or budget committee of the board should finalize a budget plan no later than March 31.
The Plan should be distributed to all program and line-item owners, with detailed instructions and deadlines for exactly what information shall be expected, and when.
Copies of assumptions used in the current year should be distributed to each owner for updating in the new budget.
Each owner should, during the month of April, update the assumptions for the line items and programs that they are responsible for.
Based on the results through the third quarter, each owner should both project results for the current fiscal year, and propose budgeted amounts for the next fiscal year, supported by updated assumptions.
The finance or budget committee should review the newly compiled budget in April or May and present a first draft to the board for its preliminary review.
Modifications based on the board's review can then be considered, where appropriate, and a final budget submitted to the board for approval at its May or June board meeting.
Many different people in an organization are responsible for various specific activities. Budget development and monitoring of the budget should follow those activity responsibilities.
Edward M. Rose is a retired certified public accountant and a consultant with the Executive Service Corps of the Triangle in North Carolina.


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The assisted suicide legislation is out and neither side is happy, this my friends is not the end but the beginning of many court battles. What about conscience rights? And why are activists upset? Where do they want to take this next?
Warren Kinsella joins Brian with a political round-up. Faith Goldy has details of her trip to Halifax to investigate the refugee bullying story and do cabbies need to be compensated for Uber? All that plus your phone calls.


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The process of remembering what I always knew I knew.
Throughout most of my life, I had reoccurring nightmares and flashbacks of the same haunting scenes. The dreams and flashbacks were as real as life, if not more so. The instant that the memories flashed before my mind, my mind would tell me the scenes were real memories, but a second later another part of my mind would pull the curtain and tell me it was nothing, nothing at all. Sometimes I would faintly hear a voice like a screaming whisper echoing across my conscious mind like a shooting streak of lightning. "Remember to remember." it said. Then like a fly swatter, another part of my mind would try to murder the words and tell me that I never heard those words at all. But, deep in my soul, I knew I had said those words to myself…sometime long ago…so I wouldn't forget….just before I forgot….forgot what?…I wondered. Maybe it was nothing, nothing at all. ~ Carolyn Hamlett ~
An example of the process of memory recovery
~ Carolyn Hamlett ~


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I was just reading over my consent paperwork, and the page on Wavefront-Guided Laser Vision Correction Surgery has this statement:
"The Visx Star S4 & WaveScan WaveFront System is approved for up to -6.00 D of myopia, with or without astigmatism up to -3.0 diopters."
My myopia is -8.5 on the right eye and -6.75 on the left eye. Does this mean I am not a good candidate for the Wavefront? That is what my surgeon is doing, and having read this now I am concerned I am not a good candidate. I went in last week for my pre-op consultation and had to do the wavefront scans twice because they didn't get a good scan the first time. Should I be concerned about this?


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As a daily user of Ubuntu, I have few complaints. With that said, however, the X window system is… dated. It's pretty much rock solid out of the box, is fairly well maintained, and has few issues in my experience.
Mark Shuttleworth of Canonical/Ubuntu sees X being replaced by a "younger" display server called Wayland, possibly as soon as Ubuntu 11.10.
Wayland is based on GL, which means the eye-candy we're used to seeing in other OS's will be easy to implement, out of the box, in Ubuntu.
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Gunpowder / Joe Hill
PS Publishing / December 2008
Reviewed by: Blu Gilliand
Joe Hill has made quite a name for himself writing stories with more than a hint of darkness. So it should come as no surprise that his first foray into Science Fiction, that world of gleaming metal and starlight, has more than its share of shadows. In Gunpowder, the shadows aren't filled with ghosts and beasts, however; they're filled with bad decisions, regret, and the inherent danger of power in the hands of children.
Gunpowder, the planet, is so dubbed by its would-be makers, a group of children engineered to be psyformers, those who can make and remake reality with their minds. Perhaps someone thought placing such power in the hands of children was smart; after all, children rarely dwell in personal agendas and political bickering. But children dwell often in the land of imagination, and these children - these boys, for they are all boys on Gunpowder, with the exception of protector/mother figure Elaine – like to dream of things like knifeblade grass and arsenic rain.
Their job, their reason for being, is to make the planet habitable. They are one of many groups scattered across the void, trying to make worlds where people can live. They are happy there; even Charley, for whom The Talent never properly manifested, finds peace among his brothers. But as so often happens, that peace is fleeting; one day a new leader arrives, one bringing terrifying gifts and news of war. The boys have another purpose, it seems, and like it or not, they are about to be called to duty.
Hill builds tension from all sides, driving characters and readers alike to the inevitable breaking point with precision. Just like the boys of Gunpowder, we know things are going to go change the moment that approaching skyboat lands – and probably not for the better. This is Lord of the Flies for boys who don't need – and don't want – to be rescued. By the end of the story, new leaders are indeed in place on Gunpowder, but it's not the leaders anyone intended.
With each new piece of output, Hill is showing that he is a natural-born storyteller. Novel, short story, comic or collaboration, he seems to have an intuitive sense of what makes each particular medium work. Hill has hinted that Gunpowder may be the first in a series of stories revolving around these psyformers, and the payoff of this novella certainly leaves that door swinging wide. But if he never revisits this world – which would be a shame, to be sure – there's enough here to stand on its own. Gunpowder is a fine addition to Hill's bibliography, and belongs on the shelf of anyone who likes a good story.
Purchase Gunpowder by Joe Hill.


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Planning, Research and Institutional Effectiveness Committee (PRIEC)
The mission of the Planning, Research and Institutional Effectiveness Committee (PRIEC) is to ensure that the college maintains a set of ongoing and systematic institutional processes and practices that include planning, the evaluation of programs and services, the identification and measurement of outcomes across all institutional units (including learning outcomes in instructional programs), and the use of data and assessment results to inform decision-making. All of these activities are accomplished with the purpose of improving programs and services and increasing student success and institutional quality. [i]
In the past there was a Student Learning Outcomes Assessment Committee (SLOAC), made up primarily of faculty. This committee was to insure the review and institutionalization of Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) for all courses and programs was completed.
In 2010 the committee charge was broadened to include oversight of all College planning processes, including Program Review. The name of the committee was revised to the Institutional Effectiveness Committee (IEC) and an Institutional Effectiveness Coordinator position was created.
In 2015, as part of the College's reflection and assessment of committee charges and processes College Council reaffirmed the committee charge and revised the committee name to the Planning, Research, and Institutional Effectiveness Committee (PRIEC). The single coordination position was converted into three positions representing student services and the two academic divisions.
__________________________[i] Definition provided by the Center for Applied Research, and the Institute on Best Practices in Institutional Effectiveness.


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Find your dot
If you're stuck at home, afraid to go out in ice-a-geddon, try your luck locating yourself here.
If you're stuck at home, afraid to go out in ice-a-geddon, try your luck locating yourself here.
Interesting to see so many dots in the Rose City Cemetery. It looks like there are more than 50 people there. Homeless? Self reported false address? Or are they simply registered to vote in Chicago?
That's wild. It even show some dots where there were homeless camps in 2010 near our house. Not sure if these are random placements of points bases on density per block, but they look pretty close to where they were before the Port of Portland posted the land.
Still a lot of open space in the Western US.
Part of the Census this last time 'round included obtaining a GPS reading on your front porch. I know, because I walked many Portland neighborhoods recording these coordinates. PDX seemed to mess with obtaining the coordinates of houses within the flight path.
That makes me feel as special as I am.
Very cool, simply amazing that someone did that.
Plenty a room in the zoo.
oh this is hilarious and amazing- we live way out in the hinterlands of Mt Shasta and yep- there are our two dots all by themselves! and a little further over are our nearest neighbors!
Can't zoom in enough. And map won't stay in one spot.
The farm on Oswego Road north and our neighbors aren't on there.
Yeah I'm not on it, neither is my grandfather. North of me there is a prison, it shows up as a squared block of closely spaced people.
The open space comment seems strange, you know this is just a census map right? Those spaces aren't open, as in much of it is in use some way or another.
Jo- I'm well aware it's a census map. Other than the urban pockets, the population density is extremely low compared to rest of the U.S.