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Cellhire says new 4G MiFi will revolutionise how construction site offices operate in the absence of phone lines
Posted by Internet Business Press in Cellhire on September 4, 2015
September 4th 2015. York. Cellhire, the UK-based leader in international mobile telecoms solutions, has announced a 4G MiFi – a mobile, wireless router – that will revolutionise how construction site offices operate in the absence of phone lines.
"Many building sites have an office centre but no phone lines. Our 4G MiFi offering enables multiple smartphones, printers, tablets, laptops etc to be used just as they are in a traditional office," says James Hepton, Head of Online & Marketing, Cellhire plc [cellhire.co.uk]. "On-site offices can have high speed phone line quality data communications and web access when they use a SIM with the MiFi."
Where there is a poor or no 4G signal, the MiFi reverts to 3G. Further flexibility is provided by Cellhire's SIMs, which come in 5GB and 8G sizes and can be hired for any number of 30 day slots.
"Construction companies can keep their MiFi and SIM for as long as they like on a rolling contract, which, given how long some construction projects can take, is a big benefit to them," says Hepton.
The MiFi bills the user the monthly fee until it's no longer needed and is returned. Cellhire's SIMs are among the keenest-priced – and, in parts of Europe and internationally, the lowest priced – giving users a wide range of SIM options to choose from to suit their budget and destination.
The Cellhire 5GB UK SIM costs £19.99 for 30 days, and the 4G MiFi £19 for 30 days. The 8GB UK SIM is £29.99 for 30 days. Both SIMs are 4G when used with the MiFi, except if the MiFi has to revert to 3G. The prices include VAT, making them cheaper for VAT registered construction companies.
About Cellhire
Founded in 1987, Cellhire is a specialist global service provider and a leading supplier to organisers and businesses during events such as the Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup, UEFA Euro finals and The Cannes Film Festival. The company's success is built on providing the very best wireless solutions available anywhere and the company prides itself on being easy to do business with.
In 2005 Cellhire won the Queens Award for International Enterprise as a result of its success as a specialist in the delivery of communications solutions for events around the world. Cellhire's commitment to delivering the highest standards of customer service is underlined by the its continued attainment of ISO 9001:2008, the internationally recognised quality standard. Cellhire has service agreements with more than 100 network partners in more than 40 countries, ensuring coverage is truly global.
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LOS ANGELES — A family member has identified a 24-year-old man who died after he was ejected from a party bus and struck by vehicles on Highway 101 near Universal Studios.
City News Service reports the father of C.J. Saraceno says he was told his son was changing the music near the front of the bus when it turned, causing him to fly through the door.
The incident occurred shortly after midnight Sunday in the freeway's southbound lanes. California Highway Patrol says the victim was ejected from the limousine bus and landed on the freeway. He was subsequently struck by motorists.
It was unknown how fast the bus was traveling.
No one has been arrested.
The victim had moved to Los Angeles from Connecticut two years ago.


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The real problem with PCH
October 24, 2012 § 49 Comments
Another person was killed riding her bicycle on Pacific Coast Highway last week, not too far from Cher's compound. Reports say she clipped a mirror on a parked car, veered out into the lane, and got hit and dragged to death by a bus.
"It was a tragedy and a very sad event," said Malibu City Councilmember Skylar Peak. Yes. It was. As opposed to being a tragedy and, say, a happy event.
"It was a very, very sad and tragic loss of what seemingly was a wonderful young woman," said Councilmember Laura Zahn Rosenthal. Yes. And how nice of you to say "seemingly."
It was sad and tragic, just like the other sad and tragically dead cyclists who have met their end on PCH, and just like the ones who will die there in the future. What's really tragic, though, is that there's no end in sight.
What's killing cyclists on PCH?
The root causes of most bike-car accidents are twofold: Most cyclists are not particularly good bike handlers, and PCH is essentially a narrow, obstacle-filled road with speeding cars, trucks, and buses. It doesn't take much, especially when PCH cyclists are often enthusiasts who are going hard, for a biker to lose control.
It might be a mirror, an opened door, debris, a pothole, uneven surfaces, longitudinal cracking in the pavement, wide "tire traps" around manhole covers, a howling onshore wind, the air vortex from a fast passing large truck, another cyclist, a moment of inattentive wobbling, a parked car, a parked trash can, a mechanical failure, a flat tire, something getting caught in the spokes…it's an endless list. To make sure these predictably unpredictable hazards don't crash you out takes skill; it takes the skills of constant alertness, of being able to react quickly without losing control, and of being able to forecast problems and avoid them before they occur.
These are precisely the skills that most cyclists lack, and they often lack them to a shocking degree. The average cycling enthusiast is a terrible bike handler for many reasons. They tend to start later in life, when the learning curve is steeper. They tend not to have a background in moto or BMX, two-wheeled activities conducive to great bike handling skills.
They've never raced, and so don't have a lot of experience crashing and avoiding crashes. They don't train with large groups, so they're not on a state of constant high alert, or accustomed to being surrounded by reckless, unpredictable idiots who can crash them out at a moment's notice. They cycle for exercise, not for errands or commuting, so they don't have a lot of experience using a bike for transportation and learning the survival skills that go with fighting traffic in a morning and evening commute.
They don't have a skilled mentor from whom to learn.
PCH is a high-skills corridor. The deaths there prove it. And although thousands and thousands of people ride PCH every year and never get hurt, I'd hazard a guess that everyone who rides it much at all has a long string of stories about near-misses and the mishaps of others.
So that's part of the problem: High-skills corridor, low-skills users. Bam.
The other 90% of the problem
However, it's not the kooky wankers whose wheel you wouldn't want to follow on a dare who are killing themselves. They're being run over and killed by cars, trucks, and buses. And as the NRA would say, cars don't kill people. People kill people.
They're right.
Because however inept the average cycling enthusiast is, the average driver is far worse. More damning, terrible driving skills in America can't be excused from lack of practice. It seems that no matter how many years people drive, the roadways are still cluttered with terrible drivers.
The comments from idiots like "Hellwood," a Malibu type whose philosophy is that PCH is too dangerous for bikes, prove the point. Most drivers, Cher included, simply don't know what to do when they come upon a bicycle, whether it's in the lane, on the shoulder, or straddling the two. A skilled driver wouldn't even shrug: He'd see the bike far in advance, move over, pass the bike, and get back into his lane.
He might be slowed down a few seconds, if at all.
This, of course, hardly ever happens. Tottsy Dundershoot is barreling along in his restored Chevelle SS with the top down and "WHOA! What the fuck! A bike!!!"
Yikes! Hit the brakes! Or better yet, veer! Or better yet, accelerate, buzz, honk, and wave the middle finger! Get flustered!
None of these reactions is the reaction of a skilled driver. They're the reactions of an unskilled, easily unnerved, easily frightened driver. And it's no different on the freeway, where no one understands what a "passing lane" is, and where 999 drivers out of 1,000 believe that the far left lane is the "fast lane," meaning "the lane I stay in because I'm going faster than the guy I just passed."
Drive the autobahn and you'll get a quick education in real driving skills. You hit the left lane to pass, then get the hell out. Autobahn driving, if you're going fast, is a series of passes followed by returning to the slower lane until you have to pass the next person. It requires constant attentiveness, the ability to see what's going on well ahead of your own car, and the patience and skill to seamlessly pass, return, pass, return, pass, and return over and over and over again.
In Germany, that's one of many skills that make up the ability to "drive" a car.
In America, we don't drive cars. We point them.
Skilled drivers relish using their skills
Like road cyclists who enjoy a tricky descent, or mountain bikers who get a kick out of negotiating difficult terrain, skillful drivers enjoy using their skills. Driving situations that require forecasting, reaction, avoidance, coordination, and thought make driving fun.
This is the antithesis of how people drive on PCH. They point, mash the pedal, and scare the fuck out of themselves when anything unexpected happens. You know, unexpected things like bicycles, of which there are thousands every single weekend.
Frightened, inept, barely-in-control car pointers are not dangerous because their cars are big, moving fast, and weigh thousands of pounds. They're dangerous for the same reason that a clumsy, unskilled idiot is dangerous with a loaded gun: He doesn't really know how to use it.
The toxicity of "My Space"
Partnered up with a laughable set of driving skills, the PCH car pointer becomes even more deadly due to his xenophobic sense of space. The roadway is his turf. Anything that is smaller and slower than him is a foreigner without an entry visa. When his space is invaded, his cloddish driving skills combine with his outrage at something being where he thinks it doesn't belong, and cause him to freak out.
In order to make PCH safe for cyclists, it doesn't require any new studies or infrastructure or laws. It requires something even costlier and more impossible to attain: The admission that bikes in the middle of the road, even erratic and badly handled ones, are a piece of cake for anyone who pretends to be a skilled driver, and the realization that as a cyclist the biggest hazard to your health on PCH may well be the way you ride your bike.


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PITTSBURGH -- Wide receiver Mike Wallace hasn't participated in any of the Pittsburgh Steelers' offseason activities, but he'll arrive in town Monday night and report to the team facility Tuesday, two team sources confirmed.
Wallace has not signed his $2.742 million restricted free-agent tender.
NFL.com and NFL Network's Ian Rapoport recently reported Wallace had informed some of his Steelers teammates that he intended to rejoin the team this past weekend.
"We're excited to get Mike back. I talk to him all the time, and you know he's one of us," quarterback Ben Roethlisberger told NFL.com and NFL Network's Kimberly Jones during halftime of the Steelers' 38-7 preseason victory over the Buffalo Bills on Saturday. "He's one of our boys, we are like family. So when he gets back, we are going to be excited."
Steelers wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery on Monday echoed Roethlisberger, saying there wouldn't be any hard feelings when Wallace returns.
Wallace caught 72 passes for 1,193 yards and eight touchdowns last season, when he made his first Pro Bowl.


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American National Standards Institute
This article needs to be updated.(July 2020)
|October 19, 1918[1]
|Nonprofit organization
|Legal status
|501(c)(3) private
|National standards
|Washington, D.C., U.S.
|125,000 companies and 3.5 million professionals[2]
Official language
President and CEO
|Joe Bhatia
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI /ˈænsi/ AN-see) is a private nonprofit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States.[3] The organization also coordinates U.S. standards with international standards so that American products can be used worldwide.
ANSI accredits standards that are developed by representatives of other standards organizations, government agencies, consumer groups, companies, and others. These standards ensure that the characteristics and performance of products are consistent, that people use the same definitions and terms, and that products are tested the same way. ANSI also accredits organizations that carry out product or personnel certification in accordance with requirements defined in international standards.[4]
The organization's headquarters are in Washington, D.C. ANSI's operations office is located in New York City. The ANSI annual operating budget is funded by the sale of publications, membership dues and fees, accreditation services, fee-based programs, and international standards programs.
ANSI was most likely formed in 1918, when five engineering societies and three government agencies founded the American Engineering Standards Committee (AESC).[5] In 1928, the AESC became the American Standards Association (ASA). In 1966, the ASA was reorganized and became United States of America Standards Institute (USASI). The present name was adopted in 1969.
Prior to 1918, these five founding engineering societies:
- American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE, now IEEE)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
- American Institute of Mining Engineers (AIME, now American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers)
- American Society for Testing and Materials (now ASTM International)
had been members of the United Engineering Society (UES). At the behest of the AIEE, they invited the U.S. government Departments of War, Navy (combined in 1947 to become the Department of Defense or DOD) and Commerce[6] to join in founding a national standards organization.
According to Adam Stanton, the first permanent secretary and head of staff in 1919, AESC started as an ambitious program and little else. Staff for the first year consisted of one executive, Clifford B. LePage, who was on loan from a founding member, ASME. An annual budget of $7,500 was provided by the founding bodies.
In 1931, the organization (renamed ASA in 1928) became affiliated with the U.S. National Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), which had been formed in 1904 to develop electrical and electronics standards.[7]
ANSI's members are government agencies, organizations, academic and international bodies, and individuals. In total, the Institute represents the interests of more than 270,000 companies and organizations and 30 million professionals worldwide.[2]
Although ANSI itself does not develop standards, the Institute oversees the development and use of standards by accrediting the procedures of standards developing organizations. ANSI accreditation signifies that the procedures used by standards developing organizations meet the institute's requirements for openness, balance, consensus, and due process.
ANSI also designates specific standards as American National Standards, or ANS, when the Institute determines that the standards were developed in an environment that is equitable, accessible and responsive to the requirements of various stakeholders.[8]
Voluntary consensus standards quicken the market acceptance of products while making clear how to improve the safety of those products for the protection of consumers. There are approximately 9,500 American National Standards that carry the ANSI designation.
The American National Standards process involves:
- consensus by a group that is open to representatives from all interested parties
- broad-based public review and comment on draft standards
- consideration of and response to comments
- incorporation of submitted changes that meet the same consensus requirements into a draft standard
- availability of an appeal by any participant alleging that these principles were not respected during the standards-development process.
International activities[edit]
In addition to facilitating the formation of standards in the United States, ANSI promotes the use of U.S. standards internationally, advocates U.S. policy and technical positions in international and regional standards organizations, and encourages the adoption of international standards as national standards where appropriate.
The institute is the official U.S. representative to the two major international standards organizations, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), as a founding member,[9] and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), via the U.S. National Committee (USNC). ANSI participates in almost the entire technical program of both the ISO and the IEC, and administers many key committees and subgroups. In many instances, U.S. standards are taken forward to ISO and IEC, through ANSI or the USNC, where they are adopted in whole or in part as international standards.
Adoption of ISO and IEC standards as American standards increased from 0.2% in 1986 to 15.5% in May 2012.[10]
Standards panels[edit]
The Institute administers nine standards panels:[11]
- ANSI Homeland Defense and Security Standardization Collaborative (HDSSC)
- ANSI Nanotechnology Standards Panel (ANSI-NSP)
- ID Theft Prevention and ID Management Standards Panel (IDSP)
- ANSI Energy Efficiency Standardization Coordination Collaborative (EESCC)
- Nuclear Energy Standards Coordination Collaborative (NESCC)
- Electric Vehicles Standards Panel (EVSP)
- ANSI-NAM Network on Chemical Regulation
- ANSI Biofuels Standards Coordination Panel
- Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP)
Each of the panels works to identify, coordinate, and harmonize voluntary standards relevant to these areas.
In 2009, ANSI and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) formed the Nuclear Energy Standards Coordination Collaborative (NESCC). NESCC is a joint initiative to identify and respond to the current need for standards in the nuclear industry.
American national standards[edit]
- The ASA (as for American Standards Association) photographic exposure system, originally defined in ASA Z38.2.1 (since 1943) and ASA PH2.5 (since 1954), together with the DIN system (DIN 4512 since 1934), became the basis for the ISO system (since 1974), currently used worldwide (ISO 6, ISO 2240, ISO 5800, ISO 12232).
- A standard for the set of values used to represent characters in digital computers. The ANSI code standard extended the previously created ASCII seven bit code standard (ASA X3.4-1963), with additional codes for European alphabets (see also Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code or EBCDIC). In Microsoft Windows, the phrase "ANSI" refers to the Windows ANSI code pages (even though they are not ANSI standards).[12] Most of these are fixed width, though some characters for ideographic languages are variable width. Since these characters are based on a draft of the ISO-8859 series, some of Microsoft's symbols are visually very similar to the ISO symbols, leading many to falsely assume that they are identical.
- The first computer programming language standard was "American Standard Fortran" (informally known as "FORTRAN 66"), approved in March 1966 and published as ASA X3.9-1966.
- The programming language COBOL had ANSI standards in 1968, 1974, and 1985. The COBOL 2002 standard was issued by ISO.
- The original standard implementation of the C programming language was standardized as ANSI X3.159-1989, becoming the well-known ANSI C.
- The X3J13 committee was created in 1986 to formalize the ongoing consolidation of Common Lisp,[13] culminating in 1994 with the publication of ANSI's first object-oriented programming standard.[14]
- A popular Unified Thread Standard for nuts and bolts is ANSI/ASME B1.1 which was defined in 1935, 1949, 1989, and 2003.
- The ANSI-NSF International standards used for commercial kitchens, such as restaurants, cafeterias, delis, etc.
- The ANSI/APSP (Association of Pool & Spa Professionals) standards used for pools, spas, hot tubs, barriers, and suction entrapment avoidance.
- The ANSI/HI (Hydraulic Institute) standards used for pumps.
- The ANSI for eye protection is Z87.1, which gives a specific impact resistance rating to the eyewear. This standard is commonly used for shop glasses, shooting glasses, and many other examples of protective eyewear.
- The ANSI paper sizes (ANSI/ASME Y14.1).
Other initiatives[edit]
- In 2008, ANSI, in partnership with Citation Technologies,[15] created the first dynamic, online web library for ISO 14000 standards.[16]
- On June 23, 2009, ANSI announced a product and services agreement with Citation Technologies to deliver all ISO Standards on a web-based platform. Through the ANSI-Citation partnership, 17,765 International Standards developed by more than 3,000 ISO technical bodies will be made available on the citation platform, arming subscribers with powerful search tools and collaboration, notification, and change-management functionality.[17]
- ANSI, in partnership with Citation Technologies, AAMI, ASTM, and DIN, created a single, centralized database for medical device standards on September 9, 2009.[18]
- In early 2009, ANSI launched a new Certificate Accreditation Program (ANSI-CAP) to provide neutral, third-party attestation that a given certificate program meets the American National Standard ASTM E2659-09.
- In 2009, ANSI began accepting applications for certification bodies seeking accreditation according to requirements defined under the Toy Safety Certification Program (TSCP) as the official third-party accreditor of TSCP's product certification bodies.
- In 2006, ANSI launched www.StandardsPortal.org, an online resource for facilitating more open and efficient trade between international markets in the areas of standards, conformity assessment, and technical regulations. The site currently features content for the United States, China, India, Korea, and Brazil, with additional countries and regions planned for future content.
- ANSI design standards have also been incorporated into building codes encompassing several specific building sub-sets, such as the ANSI/SPRI ES-1, which pertains to "Wind Design Standard for Edge Systems Used With Low Slope Roofing Systems", for example.[19]
See also[edit]
- Accredited Crane Operator Certification
- Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (IEST)
- Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM)
- ISO (to which ANSI is the official US representative)
- National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- Open standards
- ^ "Minutes". American Engineering Standards Committee (AESC): 1. October 19, 1918.
- ^ a b "ANSI Membership – A Value Proposition". ANSI. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
- ^ ANSI 2009 Annual Report
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Dec. 3, 2012 By Brenda Goodman, MA — Most teens with mental illnesses don't take medications for their conditions, a new survey finds.
The study contradicts reports of widespread and indiscriminate pill-popping in high schoolers. If anything, researchers say, many kids may not be getting enough help for real problems that are affecting their lives.
"The one thing that we heard over and over when we started this study was that parents are getting their kids prescriptions for stimulants so they can do better on the SATs," says researcher Kathleen Merikangas, PhD, chief of the genetic epidemiology branch in the intramural research program at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Md.
But researchers, who questioned teens for the study, say they found no evidence of that trend.
"I was surprised that the rates were as low as they were. I thought the frequency of medication use was lower than we would have expected," Merikangas says.
She points out that not treating mental health problems in teens can often lead to serious problems. They include failing grades, disruptive or criminal behavior, substance abuse, and suicide.
"As a society, we need to think about access to care before all of these bad outcomes occur," Merikangas says.
Psychiatric Medications in Teens
Previous studies have relied on insurance claims to estimate rates of medication use in children and teens. Those studies have found sharp rises with psychiatrists prescribing to kids, especially poor children.
One 2006 study found that prescriptions of psychotropic drugs written to teens had shot up 250% between 1994 and 2001. It's not always clear from claims data why the drugs are prescribed or even if they're taken.
The new study, published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, took a different approach.
Researchers surveyed more than 10,000 teens in the U.S. who were between the ages of 13 and 18. The teens were carefully selected to reflect the makeup of the general population.
Researchers interviewed the teens at home and asked about any symptoms of mental problems in the past year that had been severe enough to affect their day-to-day functioning. When they reported taking medications, researchers had them produce the pill bottle so they could write down the drug name.
About half the teens in the study met the criteria for a mental disorder, and 22% were classified as being severely affected by their problems.
Despite that, only 14.1% of kids had taken any kind of psychotropic drug. The highest rates of medication use were in kids who met the criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Nearly 1 in 3 kids with ADHD reported taking a psychotropic medication. About 1 in 5 had been prescribed stimulants to help manage their condition.
In contrast, teens who were anxious, depressed, or bipolar were less likely to be prescribed a drug that could help. About 11% of teens diagnosed with an anxiety disorder were prescribed medications. About 20% of kids with depression or bipolar disorder were taking a mood-altering medication.
The study also found that the majority of kids who had been prescribed a psychotropic drug had a mental disorder severe enough to disrupt their day-to-day lives.
Many Kids Need Better Mental Health Care
"Not only were they not overprescribed, one could say that this group was inadequately treated," says Victor Fornari, MD, director of the division of child and adolescent psychiatry at North Shore-LIJ Health System in New Hyde Park, N.Y.
Fornari, who wasn't involved in the research, praised the study for its careful methods. He says it reflects attitudes he often sees in his own practice.
"There's enormous resistance. Many families, maybe 50%, refuse treatment, even when they are told their child has a psychiatric disorder," Fornari tells WebMD.
Health coverage may be another factor behind the lower-than-expected rates of medication use seen in teens.
In an editorial on the study, David Rubin, MD, a pediatrician at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, points out that many middle-class families simply can't afford mental health care. These teens are often covered on their parents' private insurance plans, which rarely cover mental health visits.
"The take-home message is that as a country it should bother us that many children do not have access to the appropriate services they need, and that rates of medication use (whether high or low) are really a symptom of a mental health system that does not meet the standard of what any parent — whether rich or poor — would hope for their children if they were in crisis," Rubin says.


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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com May 20, 2009 According to Army Times magazine, The 75th Ranger Regiment is scheduled to battle test the Special Operations Combat Assault Rifle (SCAR) very soon. The Rangers will reportedly be taking 600 FN SCAR rifle/carbine/subcarbine/SBR (Short-Barreled Rifle) weapons packages into battle, but DefenseReview doesn't know how many of these are the …Read More »
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By David Crane defrev (at) gmail (dot) com Photo(s) Credit: Doug Richardson, Special Weapons for Military & Police (SWMP) May 13, 2009 Updated on 5/15/09 And, speaking of Charlie Cutshaw articles, we might as well mention Mr. Cutshaw's cover gun article on the Vltor/POF 6.5 Grendel (a.k.a. 6.5mm Grendel a.k.a. 6.5G a.k.a. 65G) semi-auto-only direct-gas-impingement (DGI) AR-15 tactical carbine/rifle for …Read More »
LMT MRP Piston/Op-Rod System vs. HK416: 2,000-Round Head-to-Head Test
By Chen Lee a.k.a. "SMGLee" All photographic images contained in this article were taken by Chen Lee, and are the exclusive property of Chen Lee. Chen Lee owns the copyright on these photos. February 16, 2009 Following the success of British SA80A2 project that HK did for British MoD, HK carried that momentum to the AR-15/M16 platform as the next …Read More »
Lancer Systems L5 Translucent Polymer 30-Round Magazine for Tactical ARs
By David Crane defrev at gmail dot com December 30, 2008 As long was we're on an M4/M4A1 Carbine (and semi-auto tactical AR-15 carbine) and 4179 STANAG box magazine kick, we might as well cover the Lancer Systems L5 Translucent Magazine (30-round 5.56mm NATO polymer magazine) in a little bit more detail, particularly since it's already been mentioned in previous …Read More »
Fusil-USA Spring-Steel 30-round AR-15/M16 Magazine: Best Steel AR Mag?
By David Crane defrev at gmail dot com December 29, 2008 If you're looking for an alternative to standard USGI 30-round AR-15/M16 magazines, but you'd prefer to stick with metal mags instead of going polymer with the MagPul PMAG, TangoDown ARC mag, or Lancer Systems L5 Translucent Polymer Mag for your tactical AR-15 carbine, Fusil-USA, LLC has just the thing …Read More »
AR-15/M4/M4A1 Carbine Reliability Issues: Why They Occur, and Why They're Our Fault!
Why M4's have reliability issues…and why it's our fault! By Michael Pannone December 24, 2008 I fired 15,000 rounds through a semi-automatic M4/M4A1-type direct-gas-impingement (DGI) carbine in 31 weeks without a single malfunction attributable to anything except bad ammunition or bad magazines, with a grand total of 9 malfunctions. The least number of rounds fired between cleanings was 960 rounds, …Read More »
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By David Crane defrev at gmail dot com November 24, 2008 Updated on May 6, 2009 Ever since he won the presidential election, the press has been following President-Elect Barack Obama around Chicago like a bunch of hungry (and annoying) puppies. Whether he's going to his transition office in the Kluczynski Federal Building in the Loop (dowtown Chicago professional district, …Read More »
Colt ERC (Extended Range Carbine): Long-Range, Select-Fire Carbine/Rifle
By David Crane defrev at gmail dot com Colt Defense's last new offering is the Colt Extended Range Carbine (ERC), which is a 5.56x45mm NATO (5.56mm NATO)/.223 Rem. select-fire, match-grade rifle/carbine designed to allow the end-user to engage targets in excess of 600 meters away when utilizing a 16-inch (16") barrel, and in excess of 650 meters when utilizing a …Read More »
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Kent State Geography Welcomes Three New Faculty
Andrew Curtis, previously an Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, works in the area of mapping disasters and health. He continues to work in post-Katrina New Orleans, has close research ties with public health, and is a former director of a world health collaborating center. He works on both chronic and infectious disease, and just returned from mapping Cholera in Haiti. Andrew is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed publications and the author of three books.
Jacqueline Mills, joins us from California State University, Long Beach where she was an Assistant Professor. Her research involves the integration of geospatial techniques to understand implications of derelict landscapes for socially vulnerable populations, specifically women and children in urban and post-disaster environments. She has authored over 20 peer-reviewed publications and is the author of one book.
Jennifer Mapes, previously an assistant professor at Plattsburgh State University, is a major contributor to the teaching mission of the department. Both her teaching and research focuses on small towns. She is particularly interested in the redevelopment of downtown Kent which she plans to both research, and use as a study site in her classes.


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A hit at the South by Southwest Film Festival two years ago, Keven McAlester's doc about the Papa of Psychedelia, Roky Erickson, at long last gets its proper release. But time has done McAlester a tremendous favor: Had he shot the film too soon, he would have been forced to depict Erickson solely as he's been portrayed over the past 20 years -- a damaged wreck living in squalor, a forgotten influence with rotten teeth. But McAlester got there at the right time, as Erickson was taking control of his life (with help from baby bro Sumner) and returning to the stage, where he's now performing complete concerts for the first time in decades. Erickson's tale is heartbreaking and uplifting -- redemption to the nth degree. Bonuses with recent footage and archival performances augment a perfect disc. -- Robert Wilonsky
The Stranger (Fox)
Legend has it this is the movie Orson Welles loathed the most -- the MGM studio job he took to prove he could play the game on a budget and a stopwatch. It's certainly not his best, but The Stranger -- among four movies released this week under the "MGM Film Noir" banner -- remains engaging and enjoyable 61 years later, perhaps because even then it suggested that sleeper cells nap among us: in this case, a Nazi (played by Welles) playing Yankee history prof till the start of the third World War. G-Man Edward G. Robinson travels to Norman Rockwell country to track down a disappeared war criminal engaged to a Supreme Court Justice's daughter (Loretta Young). The beginning's a mess; the middle, a drag; the end, a hoot. But for all Welles' sneering, the movie's beautifully made. -- Wilonsky
The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark (Shout!)
I never understood the Mystery Science Theater 3000 phenomenon -- the joy the cult took from listening to strangers blather over bad movies. Now that MST3000's done, Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, and Bill Corbett have rechristened themselves the Film Crew, and it's back to improvising (this stuff isn't funny enough to suggest it was thought of in advance) one-liners over Z-grade novelties. The stinker on this disc is 1968's Hollywood After Dark, starring Golden Girl Rue McClanahan as a wanna-be actress reduced to stripping -- and, yeah, that's reason enough not to watch the thing. That said, there are a few good gags here and there -- like the protracted stripping scene one of the guys says is what "you'd get if Darren Aronofsky had directed Flashdance." That's as funny as it gets. -- Wilonsky
Home Run Derby: Mickey Mantle (MGM)
From 1959 to 1961, Mark Scott hosted the greatest TV show a boy could dream of: Home Run Derby, which pit two big-name sluggers in a dinger showdown. There wasn't much more to it except some prize money ($2,000 to the winner, plus potential bonuses, with a thou to the loser) adding tension to an otherwise routine slugfest. By today's standards, the show is fairly dull -- a parade of fouls and grounders, with the occasional it's-outta-here to liven things up. But there's something awfully charming about seeing Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays, Ernie Banks, Hank Aaron, Harmon Killebrew, and others aw-shucks-it up on a suburban ball field. Oh, to be a kid on the other side of that wall, shagging the batting-practice balls of Home Run Derby champs on their way to immortality. -- Wilonsky


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Yahoo Who Made More Than Marissa Mayer Leaves With $20 M. Stock Bonus
Henrique De Castro has been pushed out of Yahoo on a plank lined with RSUs. The chief operating officer, whom insiders described as a "dead man walking," is leaving with a $20 million stock bonus after working at the company for a little more than a year.
A regulatory filing shows that De Castro also earned $39.2 million in 2012, in the form of cash and stock after he joined the company, which made his compensation higher than Mayer's. De Castro had been Google's vice president of Google's partner business solutions worldwide and was brought to Yahoo to "help revive growth at a Web company beset by sagging sales."
As Kara Swisher wrote last week, remarking on De Castro's absence as CES:
That pressure to perform in the ad space has caused a lot of tension inside Yahoo, said a multitude of sources, especially between Mayer and COO Henrique De Castro. Sources present at a number of meetings both attended said the relationship had become less cordial than previously and that Mayer has begun to significantly insert herself in content and media efforts.
Mayer brought De Castro over from Google, where she was also an exec, last year, with the hope that he would be able to turbocharge the struggling ad business at Yahoo. Despite a giant paycheck she gave him and a lot of internal rejiggering, that has not happened as yet, and it has caused the persistent rumors of his departure to surface periodically inside and outside the company.
The reason he's being thrown overboard now, Swisher explained today, is:
Because Yahoo is set to announce its quarterly results later this month and most expect them to continue to lag the Internet industry badly once again. A person close to the Yahoo board had told me a week ago that De Castro's fate would be settled before that report came out.
The exec with the prickly personality and Mayer, who is well known for playing favorites sounds like a bad corporate romance. But it looks like De Castro made a killing in the divorce.
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Another First Kiss Friday and it's always a pleasure to welcome back Jasmine Haynes who writes incredible erotica stories. Today, she gives us a the first kiss scene from her eBook, The Girlfriend Experience, which is currently #FREE. Jasmine is also offering a giveaway to one random comment of an eCopy in the Courtesans Tales series entitled Payback. Get busy leaving those comment and get out a fan. You're going to need it after reading this scene. Happy reading!
Chase had experienced paid companions, but none had been like Marianna. She wasn't practiced. She was real.
From her magic picnic basket, she'd pulled a bowl of sliced peaches and two champagne flutes. She plopped a slice in each glass, then handed him one, which he filled, followed by the other. Tapping her flute to his, she saluted—"Cheers"—and swallowed a quarter of the glass, then closed her eyes, tipping her head back. "Oh God, that's good. I haven't had champagne like that in ages."
He'd have thought she had it all the time.
She opened her eyes. "You haven't tasted."
"I was watching you."
She was still a long moment, regarding him, assessing his words. Then she must have decided she liked what he'd said, because she graced him with another of her smiles and held out the plate of drumsticks.
"One drumstick, then a peach slice. It's to die for."
He chose a piece of chicken, the scent mouthwatering. Like her. "Delicious," he said, licking the stickiness from his fingers.
Instead of giving him the peach bowl, she selected a slice, then fed it to him. After the tang of the teriyaki, the juicy peach was heaven. He savored it along with the flavor of her skin, sweet as the peach. He'd never cheated on his wife. He hadn't had sex with another woman in over twenty years. Since Rosie died, he couldn't even remember thinking about sex.
But he thought about it with Marianna, enjoying the image as much as he had the peach.
She ate a slice herself, and he took pleasure in the sensual cast of her eyelids, the low, throaty moan of appreciation. Then, going down on her elbow beside him, she pushed the plate of chicken at him. "Eat. I made a lot."
He ate, but he liked it better when she fed him.
"So tell me what you do." She nibbled daintily on a drumstick without getting messy.
"Business." He didn't want to talk about work. That would only lead to bad memories.
She dropped her chin to give him a look through her eyelashes. "That's illuminating."
"Sorry." He stroked a lock of hair from her cheek. Touching her skin, he wanted more. He wanted her to touch him. "I haven't done this in a long time. I'm not good at making conversation, and I'm a little nervous."
"Done this?" She flipped her palm out expressively.
He held her gaze. "Gone out with a woman."
"Are you recently divorced?"
A pulse beat at his temple. He thought about lying. "My wife died a year ago."
She gasped. "Oh, I'm so sorry." She laid her hand on the blanket a scant inch from his, their fingers almost touching.
He thought of telling her the truth about why Rosie died. But then maybe he didn't really know the why of it. He only felt the guilt in his gut. Dammit, he was not going there now. He wanted to pretend for a little while longer that he wasn't a basket case.
As if she understood how close to the darkness he was at that moment, she smiled gently. "Got any kids?" she asked.
Marianna could only hope the question would save the situation. Chase's sudden smile dazzled her, the abrupt change amazing. Thank God, because she'd totally blundered that one. Isabel should have told her he was a widower. She wondered why he didn't wear a ring. You took it off for divorce, but not for death. But hell if she'd ask that.
"I've got a daughter," he said, a beam of light in his eyes. "Krista. She's a sophomore at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo."
She gasped. "Oh my God, she's a Poly Dolly."
He chuckled. "I've never heard that one."
She felt the mood lifting. "I graduated years ago. Maybe they don't use it anymore. But it's sure better than being called an Aggie." In the midst of taking a peach slice from the container, she glanced up in case she'd offended him. "Not that I've got anything against Aggies." Cal Poly had been a big agriculture university even when she was attending.
He snagged a piece of chicken. Another good sign. "Don't worry, she's not an Aggie. She's doing graphic design."
"So tell me what she looks like."
He lips creased in a doting-dad smile. "She's beautiful." Everything was different about him when he spoke of his daughter. He came to life. His eyes brightened.
"Duh," she said. "With your DNA, I'm not surprised."
Chase licked teriyaki from his fingers, and she had the most incredible urge do it for him. Suck his fingers clean. Her face heated. So did everything else.
"Is that a compliment?" he asked.
"Yes, you're very handsome." Pretty damn hot, actually.
He blinked, then his mouth curved in a sexy half smile. "Thank you." His lips glistened with a touch of lingering teriyaki. Marianna wanted a taste of that, too.
He was obviously grieving for his wife. He didn't want a real girlfriend. He wanted someone to ease the loneliness for a little while. And she'd almost botched everything totally. She'd even had trouble thinking of things to talk about. Which shouldn't have been a problem since she had to make small talk all the time with potential buyers. Chase unnerved her in a way Brock Ransom hadn't. Perhaps because this was more like a date. A blind date one of her friends had set her up on.
And because Chase was much more devastatingly attractive.
She searched for something scintillating to say. "So, Cal Poly is my alma mater, but I'm a real estate agent now." Oh God. She closed her eyes and waited for him to say, But I thought you were a whore.
He didn't. Instead, he lifted her chin with the tip of his finger, waiting until she opened her eyes.
"I think we should start over." His eyes were a gorgeous bottle green.
"We should?"
"Yeah. Here I am with a beautiful woman who's prepared a delicious feast for me and I'm making her struggle to come up with conversation."
He had the most amazing eyelashes, thick, dark. "It's not your fault." It was her job to be scintillating. She sucked at being a courtesan. Though the thought of that particular word under these circumstances brought a smile to her lips.
He raised one brow. "Tell me."
Her face always gave her thoughts away. Why not tell him? "I was thinking that I sucked at being a courtesan." Her smile grew, then she laughed.
"An interesting choice of words." His eyes deepened to an earthier shade.
"Then I realized that's what I'm supposed to do."
"You are a very naughty woman."
She loved the way he said naughty. He stroked a finger down her throat, then slowly pulled away, leaving her skin tingling.
"I haven't done anything naughty"—she fluttered her eyelashes—"yet."
Holding her gaze, he dipped into the bowl of peaches and held one out to her. "Eat this."
Entranced, she took the fruit from his fingers as if he were a hypnotist. A drop of juice slid off her lip. His eyes glued to her, she licked it up.
"Now suck this." His tone was smoking as he stretched out his hand.
She drew his finger into her mouth and sucked off all the leftover nectar. So good, she had to close her eyes to savor his taste mixed with the peach and teriyaki.
"I would say you were a perfect courtesan," he whispered.
Her body was suddenly a blaze of sensation, a flush along her skin.
Like Sleeping Beauty, she needed his kiss and she needed it now.
Putting her hand on his face, she gave him her lips.
Tentative, sweet, a delicious combination of peaches, teriyaki, and hot male desperation. She swept her tongue across his lips, asking. He parted for her. She'd never felt so in control of a kiss, not the aggressor so much as the director. Touching his tongue with hers, she quickly backed off, teasing. He watched her, his eyes smoky with desire. She leaned in again and gave him her mouth. When she would have pulled away once more, he slid his fingers through her hair, held her to him, and the kiss became his. He used his tongue, his lips, sipped her, tasted her fully, teased, then rolled her under him.
Angling his head, he took her deeply. The crush of his body heated her inside and out. She forgot it was about money. She forgot he was a stranger. She wrapped her arms around him and kissed as if she were the longtime girlfriend he'd fantasized about. He groaned, holding her still. Just when she couldn't bear another moment without his hands all over her, he backed off, then laid his forehead to hers, eyes closed.
"Christ," he murmured, his breath fanning her cheek. "You make me feel starved."
"I've got more food."
He chuckled, real laughter, no cutting it off. "Food is not what I'm hungry for."
The Girlfriend Experience (Courtesans Tales, Book 1)
By Jasmine Haynes
Romances to make you blush set in a glitzy, sensual world of powerful people and the courtesans they'll pay anything to have.
An exclusive and secret agency, for over two hundred years Courtesans has specialized in providing entertainment of a sexual nature. Its clients are rich, powerful, and influential men and women, and one only meets a courtesan through referral from trusted sources. Courtesans facilitates bringing together men and women to satisfy any sexual need imaginable, matching the perfect courtesan with just the right client. The agency prides itself on training its courtesans, male and female, to interpret and fulfill its client's greatest fantasies, even the secret ones no one dares to say aloud. The price is high, but everyone who's ever had the pleasure of a date with a courtesan will agree, the fantasy is worth every penny. And sometimes it changes your life.
To Marianna, money is the measure of a person's worth. Even as a child, she learned that from her father, a self-made man. When an old college friend tells her about life as a courtesan, the fabulous dates, opulent trips, valuable trinkets, and how much a man is willing pay to have a beautiful woman on his arm, Marianna wants it all. Thrust into a world of powerful men, suddenly she holds all the power. And all the worth.
Until she finds herself falling for her "date."
A widower, Chase has sought to ease his guilt and pain in relationships without commitment or expectation. And especially not love. Until he discovers Marianna and begins to treat her like his girlfriend rather than a paid courtesan.
Now Marianna stands to learn the biggest lesson of all, that money doesn't buy self-worth. It certainly can't buy love. And money becomes the reason she'll lose Chase, the very man who is worth everything.
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Courtesans Tales in Order
The Girlfriend Experience
Triple Play
Three's a Crowd
The Stand-In
Surrender to Me
The Only Way Out
The Wrong Kind of Man
No Second Chances
NY Times and USA Today Bestselling author Jasmine Haynes loves giving readers sexy, classy stories about real issues like growing older, facing divorce, starting over. Her books have passion, heart, humor, and happy endings, even if they aren't always traditional. She also writes gritty, paranormal mysteries in the Max Starr series. As Jennifer Skully, she writes laugh-out-loud romantic comedies laced with a heavy dose of mystery. Look for Jennifer's new series written with Bella Andre, starting with Breathless in Love, The Maverick Billionaires Book 1. Having penned stories since the moment she learned to write, Jasmine now lives in the Redwoods of Northern California with her husband and their adorable nuisance of a cat who totally runs the household. Join her newsletter for updates on contests, new releases, and freebies by going to www.jasminehaynes.com.
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Since Nightingale is a fork of Songbird, we were using Songbird langpacks.
Now that we are working more deeply on the software, we feel we need our own localization system.
Songbird currently uses a custom Ruby web platform hosted at translate.songbirdnest.com to allow contributors to translate strings, but there are lot of issues :
- The website is not open sourced and hasn't evolved in a long time
- Translations are never frozen, meaning everybody can edit the current locales
- There are no real teams for localization, a Google group songbird-l10n was created to attempt fixing this but it was abandoned
- Some locales are absent
- Some langpacks don't include Mozilla strings, meaning preferences interface, download windows, etc. will be in English
- The platform is unable to export langpacks without missing strings (they are replaced by en-US strings instead)
- No clear changelog for each locale
The localizations themselves also have some issues :
- Some strings are no longer used but are still proposed for translation, some are duplicates
- "Songbird" is still present in places (instead of brandShortName)
- Some specific symbols/punctuation characters are not respected (ellipsis)
- Some strings refer to closed source add-ons
- There are only 4 files to cover all localizations (while Firefox uses ~50 files, depending on the window or feature)
Good points in the localizations:
- The en-US source files weren't touched for 1 year, so we don't have to deal with including recent changes
- Lots of locales are already 100 % completed
- Some unimplemented features already have strings ready like Podcasts or Equalizer presets
- The langpack download system is already working well with Nightingale
Who are the translators ?
Some translators were Mozilla contributors, so it's easy to contact them, though most of them gave up, because Linux support was dropped.
For the next version of Nightingale, we want to fix all these issues by handling the localizations on the Babelzilla platform.
Babelzilla fixes many issues :
- It will soon be open sourced since Mozilla add-ons developers use it
- It's much more powerful, and is able to import/export data
- It allows team work, frozen strings, fixed release dates…
- Many more locales are covered
- Translators can easily contact each other
- A topic is created to cover each translation
- We have much more control on the entire process
Aside from Babelzilla, we will also store locales in our GitHub repo so we can keep track of what's changed. Scripts will be added to easily build langpacks out of source files.
An attempt was done in the past to use Babelzilla to fix the French localization in Songbird, and it was helpful in comparison to POTI's translations website. As part of the French community I was also able to meet with most of the contributors – a real plus when working on a project like this.
Moreover, we are choosing this platform because it's already known by add-ons translators/developers and because of friendship with people who are running it.
If you want to help, you can look at opened issues here on GitHub :
You don't necessarily need to know how to code to help us clean up the current localizations. If you want to help translate, pick up your language skills and try to contact the past Songbird localizers! 🙂
We also want to know what localization strings add-ons developers need – we will try to gather data on which are the most used, and if it's worth including them directly in the application.
Like before, we are contributing back all of our changes to Songbird, and you can check this metabug which covers our Songbird patches.
We really want Songbird to take a look at our clean-up proposition since it helps a lot of the translators and also improves performance (Loading smaller files instead of a big file with all of the strings).
We also want to reduce compatibility breakage for add-ons developers. It means we will not change string ID's – we'll also provide documentation on how to best support both apps in the same add-on.
Thanks for reading, and if you have any questions feel free to ask in comments, forums or over IRC !
-GeekShadow and the Nightingale Team


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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Board of Education will get an update this week on school-related legislation and an effort to develop new standards to guide science instruction in the state.
The board is meeting Tuesday in Topeka, then moves Wednesday to state schools for blind and deaf students in the Kansas City area.
Several education-related bills are under consideration in the Legislature, including one that would make it easier to open charter schools.
The board has been receiving regular updates on science standards, even though a final vote isn't expected until at least May. Kansas and 25 other states are working on common standards for possible adoption in their public schools.
Past work on science standards in Kansas has been overshadowed by debates about how evolution should be taught.


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- Bird feeders that can be accessed only by birds and squirrels
- Ornamental plants
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- Bird feeders that can be accessed by bears, deer, raccoons, skunks, and other wildlife
- Salt licks
- Grain, hay, and any other food items that may attract wildlife
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- Store all garbage in a bear-resistant container or enclosure.
- If your garbage containers are not bear-resistant, you must keep them inside a bear-resistant enclosure. These containers may only be outside the enclosure between 5:00 a.m. and 9:00 p.m. on the day of waste pickup.
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Dead Deer Disposal
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- If the deer is located in the middle of the road, or otherwise poses an immediate human safety concern, call 911.
- To dispose of the deer yourself, you can drop it off free of charge at the Missoula Landfill at 3737 Coal Mine Road between 7:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
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Eric Barker is my namesake. My mom and dad used to visit him and other fixtures up in Big Sur back in the 1950's. I have only recently discovered his work. Here is a poem of his:
Lines for a favorite cat:
Escaping for twelve years
The nearly always imminent deaths,
My wary and beautiful cat
Died last night
In the teeth of a masked
And murderous coon.
Loudly caterwauling his rage and terror
At the full moon
As she turned away
Her blandly betraying bitch face
From the floodlit death arena
Roller of bobbins, balls, dice,
Devilish feather-strewer!
Old three-striker at gopher holes.
This is the way things are:
I have carried your bedding of ferns
To the deep hole I have dug, crossed
Your paws in the way
You used to sleep.
This is the way life is,
And I must make do somehow,
Without you,
Even making a pet, perhaps, of your enemy
The coon, who has cleaned your dish
And is already picking the lock
Of the back door
With dexterous and beseeching hands


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12th November, 2012
By Chido Onumah
I sympathize with Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, ex-Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and more recently Chairman of the Petroleum Revenue Special Task Force (PRSTF). It is often said that once bitten twice shy. That best describes the situation Ribadu found himself a week ago during the submission of his committee's report to the president.
Nine months ago when the public awoke to the surprise appointment of Nuhu Ribadu to head the PRSTF, it set tongues wagging. Many Nigerians had questioned the wisdom in accepting the job. The objection ranged from the fact that the committee was set up by the Minister of Petroleum Resources (who is deeply enmeshed in the controversy that dogs the oil sector) and not the president, to the fact that for an administration with a predilection for committees, this may just be another committee. The cynics had argued that it was an attempt to shore up the government's integrity deficit and boost its anti-corruption credentials.
I was one of those who had some reservations about Ribadu's appointment, but I did not make my feeling public. Even though I had worked with him closely at the EFCC and much later during his presidential campaign, I didn't attempt to discuss his new job with him. I assumed that as a man of strong convictions, he had his reason for accepting the job. I met Ribadu in late August. Prior to that meeting, we had not seen for eight months since the public presentation of my book, Time to Reclaim Nigeria, in Abuja, on December 15, 2011, which meant there was a lot of catching up to do. Part of our discussion centred on his committee's work. He expressed his frustration and explained some of the problems his committee encountered. He hinted about the pecuniary influence from oil "stakeholders" and the possibility of divided allegiance of some members of the committee.
Listening to him, I got a feeling that his was a committee primed to fail. I saw a man tormented by betrayal, yet upbeat. What was of interest to him was what to do to curb the monumental fraud his committee had discovered in the oil industry. He sounded to me like someone who knew the inevitable outcome of the report, but wanted to give the administration the benefit of the doubt.
Looking back, I am not sure he knew or felt at the time of our meeting that the government was contemptuous enough to undermine the report of a committee it set up. I left him and looked forward to the submission of his committee's report. The submission of the report turned into a fiasco, predictably so. So much has been written about the events surrounding the presentation of the PRSTF report to President Jonathan on November 2. What is missing in the narrative is the complicity of the Presidency, the Minister of Petroleum Resources and major oil multi-nationals in the effort to scuttle the work of the PRSTF.
For a man who promised to do things differently, President Jonathan is awfully predictable. Last week, as the nation waited patiently for the submission of the PRSTF report, I had noted that we would be treated to the same rhetoric that has become the hallmark of the Jonathan administration. It was exactly what happened; except that this time, the president conspired to embarrass himself and the entire nation.
When Reuters first put the PRSTF report in the public domain a little over two weeks ago, the Presidency promised that there was no attempt to "cover up" the findings of the committee. Diezani Alison-Madueke, Minister of Petroleum Resources, said a committee had been given ten days to look at the report and make some "input". The minister had received the report more than a month earlier, but decided to sit on it.
So what happened? Here is my take: I think the government was caught in a bind, it panicked and the result was the embarrassing situation that played itself out on 2 November. The Presidency, it seemed, had been wondering what to do with the PRSTF report since August when it was submitted to the Minister of Petroleum Resources. A minority report by members who weren't "comfortable" with the main report may have been an option. But once the report became public, it changed everything. Enter Steve Oronsaye and Bernard Otti.
It is instructive that the report the Minister of Petroleum Resources promised would be ready in ten days was not presented to the president as expected. Instead, Oronsaye and Otti made themselves available or were recruited to wreck the final report submitted to the president. Their only reason: "the process adopted by the committee in arriving at its report was flawed".
Oronsaye's verbal diarrhea at the submission of the PRSTF report could only have come from a man who had the backing of the Presidency. "What I am saying is that the President has said come and submit the report, so what, if we are not ready, we are not ready," Oronsaye asserted confidently and condescendingly. "When I say so what, the President has spoken, we should be man enough to tell the President that we are not ready. That is the reason why you are handing over a report that is not process driven."
Two things are at play here. One, only a man that is incredibly reckless would speak the way Oronsaye spoke before the president. I don't think Oronsaye is a reckless man considering he is a career civil servant who rose to become the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation. The only other thing is that his comments were carefully scripted and contrived. This was evident when he offered the coup-de-grace in these words: "I don't know what the report contains. Therefore, in my view, I do not think the report should be accepted at this time, I challenge any member of this committee to take me on."
Expectedly, Nuhu Ribadu, the committee chairman, took him on. As it turned out, Oronsaye and Otti, barely participated in the committee's work. According to Ribadu, "He (Oronsaye) was not at the inauguration and he never participated in the deliberations of the committee. The only time he came was when we wanted to start deliberations on recovery and he came on behalf of one company, Addax Petroleum, which is owing $1.5 billion. That was the only time he came. In fact, he scuttled the payment of the $1.5 billion."
Whether it was for financial gains or compensation for their appointments while serving as members of the PRSTF– Oronsaye became a member of the board of the NNPC and Otti became a director in NNPC– both of them have written their names in infamy. So long as their sense of propriety did not detect a conflict of interest and instruct resignation from the committee so long will they remain on the wrong side of history. They sold their conscience and mortgaged the future of their children for lucre.
President Jonathan, in his characteristic tepid response to official sleaze, "urged Nigerians not to be distracted by the small disagreement, but to focus on the subject matter of the committee which is the sanitisation of the Petroleum Sector for the benefit of Nigeria and Nigerians". The president said he was "not surprised there are disagreements between the members of the committee on the Petroleum Revenue Task Force. It is about money. There are some lapses and probably not everyone agreed". He advised any member of the PRSTF "who had a contrary opinion from those expressed in the report to submit his opinion to him through his chief of staff or the Minister of Petroleum Resources".
Clearly, we have heard the last of the PRSTF report, going by the president's dismissive response. Like Ribadu, I weep for Nigeria!
•You can reach Onumah on this e-mail address: [email protected]


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Coming on DVD: April 20,2010
Review by Dana Chaffin
Lord Save Us From Your Followers will be released on DVD April 20, 2010. This is a humorous and insightful documentary about how America views Christians. It answers the question, "Why is the gospel of love dividing America?" The film does not add to the fight between "Us" vs. "Them", but has a conversation with those who believe and oppose the Christian faith. It is very entertaining and is meant to wake the Church up to see how others view our tactics.
"No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument."
-Phillip Yancey, author, Rumors of Another World
Lord Save Us From Your Followers is a thought provoking documentary that demonstrates how Americans view Christianity. It does not add fuel to the fire, but shows both sides and how their tactics are being viewed from the other side. It is very surprising that statistics show that 9 out 10 Americans claim to be Christian. So what's all this "Cultural Wars" fighting about? The writer/director, Dan Merchant, explains that a lot of the groups, in this so-called fight, cannot think outside their own beliefs. Most are not willing to have a conversation with anyone from the other side, so we just shake our fists and scream our beliefs expecting to be heard. I can not see any evidence that this is working. People are talking about Christians from Politicians to athletes and preachers to students, but are they speaking of them positively? This film uses interviews on the streets, with people opposing Christianity, with celebrities, and even an unusual confessional booth to show how each side sees the other. It makes viewers stop and really think about how Christianity is being portrayed and is this how Jesus would approach it? But some believe today there are so many issues – homosexuality, abortions, various other religions – how can we get our values across? Through the interviews you will see that we are not doing it very well! I think Dan Merchant says it best "I found that most people that have a problem with Christians don't have a problem with Jesus!"
Lord Save Us From Your Followers is a must see for both Christians and non-Christians. It does not condemn either side, but in fact shows how we can improve our relationships. Isn't that what Christianity is all about? It proves that actions speak louder than words and that whoever screams the loudest does not win! How did Jesus' message of compassion, love, mercy, and empathy turn into fighting? This film clarifies that as Christians we must act like Him! Please visit www.lordsaveusthemovie.com to find out more information. *Top


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Joseph French likes to tweet.
He tweets the weather: "Fair and pleasant."
He tweets his official duty for this Sunday: ""We were inspected this morning by our inspecting officer at nine o'clock both camp and person."
And he tweets what he did next: "Then we went to church."
Routine tweets from French, who has mastered the 21st-century technology very well — especially since he's been dead for approximately 100 years.
Private Joseph French is tweeting his way through the Civil War right now, thanks to a Bangor Museum and History Center volunteer who discovered that the young man from rural Chesterville in Franklin County could have been a mid-19th century tweeter.
Mark Nicklawske, a journalist for 25 years in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, moved to Bangor when his wife, Jennifer Moore, accepted a University of Maine professorship. An adjunct professor at UMaine, Nicklawske teaches sports in journalism.
"I've always been kind of a history buff" interested "in the Civil War a little bit," he said. "I was looking for some volunteer things to do." When visiting the Bangor Museum and History Center at 159 Union St., he chatted with Curator Dana Lippitt.
"They were doing a Civil War exhibit" titled "Bullets and Bandages," and Lippitt told him about the four diaries that Joseph French had kept, Nicklawske said.
"His materials were collected through the GAR (Grand Army of the Republic)," said BMHC Executive Director Jennifer Pictou. "We have their very fine Civil War collection."
Lippitt asked Nicklawske if he could transcribe the diaries. He agreed to do so, then started visiting the museum weekly to translate the writing and word-and-sentence usage that soon led to an interesting surprise.
"I take a magnifying glass and try not to cross my eyes," Nicklawske described how he carefully and patiently transcribes the "small writing, all in pencil. So many times his writing is so small you can't read it; once you figure out a word, you realize what he's saying.
"I'm learning that my perception of the Civil War foot soldiers, I never really knew what they did," he said. "I'm learning how boring it [army life] was, really, for long periods of time. [Then] all of a sudden, there's a lot of activity and life-threatening incidents going off around him.
"It sounds so much like life now. They're playing baseball, they're playing dominos, they're cooking blueberries and things we serve today, they're taking the train," Nicklawske said. He has transcribed the diary entries covering French's enlistment in the 4th Maine Battery and his initial training at Augusta.
When the artillerists finally went to war, they boarded a train in Augusta and "arrived in Washington three days later," Nicklawske said. "They were able to get around quickly and move quickly."
Although French "wasn't directly involved in any huge battle, at least not yet," he "had a lot of things to say about Antietam" in September 1862, Nicklawske said.
He has "been playing with Twitter on my own. I write a blog and then tweet what I write" so friends in Minnesota can learn about his blog's latest posting.
Sometime earlier this year, Nicklawske realized that "what he [French] is really doing is tweeting. His writing is only one or two sentences, every day, usually limited to about 140 characters, right around that threshold.
"It occurred to me that I could put this on Twitter," Nicklawske said.
"One day he said to me, 'Jennifer, do you realize he [French] is tweeting?'" Pictou recalled.
Using the TweetDeck app, Nicklawske recently started "setting up a whole bunch of tweets to go off at different times. I can sit down for a couple of hours and put in 25 to 30 tweets; they will go off automatically in the next few weeks.
"My plan is to [have French] tweet two or three times a day right now and catch up to the point where I can tweet on the same day as 150 years ago," Nicklawske said. "Right now I need to catch up. I'm banging them up right now; hopefully we'll catch up early next year."
Joseph French's first tweet occurred on "1-1-62 [Jan. 1, 1862]," when "I am @Augusta and now taken down w/ the #measles. I was carried to the hospital at night, DM wasn't with me. GF came to c (see) me."
Nicklawske cannot confirm the identities of "DM" and "GF."
A day later, according to French's next tweet, "The measles were all over me and I felt a little better. Oliver and Sophie were in to see me. It is very cold."
And he tweeted about the harsh reality of war on "1-3-62," when "I feel about the same. One fellow died here today with diptheria (sic). The boys had stood guard down @camp tonight but were released."
Through January and February 1862 French tweets about the unusually heavy snowfall and the bitter cold. He tweets about his trip home to Chesterville in February, then tweets about an interesting Feb. 26, when "I got a pass & went up to the state house." Afterwards he tweets that "From there I went down onto the Cavalry grounds to see the boys. Then I went down the street and got my picture taken."
Nicklawske has been "intrigued" with his transcription project, which he indicated has "been a challenge."
He "just started trying to get [Twitter] followers" in early October; by Oct. 17 the French tweets had 18 followers, and that number could rise as Civil War buffs in Maine and elsewhere learn about French's high-tech communications from 150 years ago.
"There isn't a lot of Civil War history on Twitter," said Nicklawske. "I didn't find anybody who's directly tweeting a diary [written] out there in the trenches every day."
To follow French's wartime adventures on Twitter, use the hash tag @PvtJosephFrench. To follow those same adventures on a computer, log onto twitter.com/PvtJosephFrench.