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The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library has acquired the papers of American writer, poet, naturalist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams.
The author of more than a dozen books including The Secret Language of Snow (1984), Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (1991), Desert Quartet: An Erotic Landscape (1995), Leap (2000), and Finding Beauty in a Broken World (2008), Williams calls attention to the relationship between our natural environment and social justice. A fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has testified before Congress on women's health, committed acts of civil disobedience to protest nuclear testing in Nevada, and served on the boards of The Wilderness Society, the Nature Conservancy's Utah Chapter, the advisory board of the National Parks and Conservation Association, and on the President's Council for Sustainable Development. She has collaborated with artists and photographers such as Mary Franks, Emmet Gowin, Richard Misrach, Meridel Rubenstein, and Debra Bloomfield. Her essays on ecological and social issues have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Orion, and The Progressive. In 2006, The Wilderness Society presented William's with its Robert Marshall Award, the highest honor the society bestows.
Ms. Williams, whose ancestors were among the earliest Mormon pioneers to settle the valley of the Great Salt Lake, grew up in Utah. She graduated from the University of Utah in 1978 with a degree in English and a minor in biology. She taught on the Navajo reservation at Montezuma Creek, a settlement of fewer than 500 in the southeast corner of Utah, and earned a master's degree in Environmental Education in 1984. From 1986 through 1996 she worked as curator of education and naturalist in residence at the Utah Museum of Natural History. Ms. Williams, who was recently a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College, is currently the Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah.
"For more than a quarter of a century," observes George Miles, William Robertson Coe Curator of the Yale Collection of Western Americana, "Terry Tempest Williams has written lyrically about life and the landscape of her Utah home. She has joined with artists, writers, and scientists to increase our appreciation of the wonder and fragility of the world we inhabit and to make us more aware of how the damage we cause that world rebounds to harm us individually and to diminish our society. Her diaries, journals and drafts reveal the extraordinary originality of her creative process while her correspondence with colleagues from around the county illuminates the concerns and efforts of a generation of American environmental activists."
Ms. Williams' papers, which comprise 204 boxes, arrived in New Haven this summer. The library's archivists are organizing the papers and preparing a guide to them, after which they will be opened for consultation.
Questions about the Williams' papers may be directed to George Miles, Curator of Western Americana, at firstname.lastname@example.com or to Nancy Kuhl, Curator of American Literature for Poetry, at email@example.com.
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Beginning in August, cartons will be accepted in Allen's single stream recycling bins.
Now that more and more consumers are purchasing products in cartons for convenience, the City of Allen will partner with CWD and the Carton Council to be able to accept cartons in the existing curbside recycling program.
Examples of cartons that are able to enter the recycling stream are ones that used to contain juice, milk, cream, soy milk, soup and broth, egg substitute, and wine. There are no requirements to rinse your cartons. As long as the carton is empty, it is okay to place it in your blue polycart.
In Allen, the results of adding cartons to the list of curbside recyclable materials will decrease the amount of waste sent to the landfill as well as provide an ideal material for recycling into tissues, napkins and other paper products.
For more information about carton recycling, visit RecycleCartons.com.
Follow the link below to learn more about single stream recycling in Allen.
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Grooveshark Employee Trashes the "Clowns" and "Dumbasses" in Charge
Somehow, despite being sued into the middle of the Earth's core and losing its fan base, music-streaming site Grooveshark is still technically in business. But according to this employee account, the company is a septic tank of mismanagement, assholes, wasted money, and anti-morale.
The unnamed employee says they anonymously published to Pastebin "so I won't be sued into oblivion." After reading through the rant, it's hard to imagine the place will be around much longer:
Grooveshark employee here. I'm posting this anonymously so I won't be sued into oblivion. They will sue you into oblivion.
It's bad. Really, really bad. So bad I figured I should do something.
> 10 people laid off mid-June
No one was spared. Senior engineers and people who were here for less than a year were both kicked out.
Sam (our fucking CEO) lied about our valuation back around October. He told us point-blank we were worth $375 million. Bullshit. We barely rake in $13 million a year and we're being sued to hell, how the hell are we worth 28x that?
Hey investors! We have a deal for you: Sam and clown circus are trying to raise $60 million for the Series B. $30 million of that will go to paying off the major music labels because Sam was caught red-handed uploading pirated music to his website. The rest will be spent helping us pivot from being ad-based to subscription-based in a market full of strong competitors that aren't being sued to hell. Ready to invest?
Our positive Glassdoor reviews are nearly all fake. Really. If you scroll back through to the reviews written in February, you'll see a bunch of "Work here! It's awesome!" reviews that Adrian-Hayes Santos ordered out of us since HR was convinced no developers wanted to work at Grooveshark because our Glassdoor rating wasn't high enough. How about our pay motherfucker? Is $40,000 really compensation for spending 50-60 hours a week here doing hard work? You want to read an honest review? See this one (I know exactly who wrote it):
The people who make all the decisions are all Greek culture and smooth-tongued PR fucks. From that controlling bitch Julia Anderson over at QA to our laughable excuse of an in-house lawyer Jeff to the 40+ year old frat bros Todd Chase and Dan Rua. You know you're working on illegal shit when Dan Rua's in the house. Guy worked on Napster too. God help you if you're not drinking with these douchebags, because you're probably next on the chopping block.
In addition to being all Greek fucks and suits, the executive team is incompetent. They went on a hiring spree getting 10-20 people on board from a guy who used to work on the original Mac team to a bunch of HR clowns. Now, I'm not a math guy, but let me figure this out:
1) Revenue is constant
2) The company is already just barely scraping by
3) You go on a hiring spree
These dumbasses were so confident they would get funding that they decided to start hiring immediately. Fuck. You. Guys. We lost a lot of good people because of you fucks.
Interestingly enough, the HR people who do fucking do nothing got to stay. The guys who did actual work got fired. This used to be a really fun environment instead of a corporate hellhole. All our perks are gone or meaningless too and we've all got paycuts. Morale was low before, but now it's in the dumps.
We don't have the money to keep people on for next to nothing, but we do have money for instigating lawsuits that they kindly don't mention to us ever:
Oh, and last bit. Grooveshark operates by social blackmail. You don't let anything out because your friends work at the company, and you don't want bad things to happen to your friends, right? Sorry guys, but you've already been fucked. Alex Shifrin's already cheated you out of your stock options, and Sam's going to keep lying to you. I'm tired of seeing good people getting hurt because of these douchebags, and it's going to hurt before it gets better. I'm working here until I can find a decent job somewhere else where I won't have to sell my soul anymore.
There's no way to verify this disgruntled staffer's claims, but the coworkers he calls out are indeed Grooveshark employees. And besides, who would ever pretend to work at Grooveshark?
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It's weird to read the New York Times to find this article on Ansel Adams on the front page. What did we just do? We spent two days in Yosemite with Michael Adams, Ansel's son, who spent the better part of two days showing us around.
I shot a TON of Qik/cell phone video with Michael. We also did a bunch of "pro" video with our expensive HD camcorders, those will be up soon as part of a new show for DSLR photographers that'll be on FastCompany.tv. Titled "PhotoCycle." We haven't set a start date for that, yet, more on that later. A special thanks to Marc Silber (he's the professional photographer who'll host PhotoCycle) because he's the one who did the work to arrange this trip.
Ansel Adams Gallery now has a blog, too. One reason I was there was to film Ansel Adams Gallery, which is one of America's most beloved family businesses and has been operating in Yosemite Park for 102 years.
Thomas Hawk, my favorite photographer that I watch on Flickr, put up a single photo from the two days and it already has gotten 50 votes on Flickr as "favorite." Getting a "favorite" on Flickr is really hard, and to get 50 for one photo of something as photographed as Half Dome is demonstrates Thomas' skill and popularity as a photographer, it was a real treat to get to follow him as he made images in Yosemite.
One really big thrill for all of us? They opened the Glacier Point Road just for us. There wasn't another soul in place for 13 miles of road. Totally amazing once-in-a-lifetime experience of Glacier Point. We also made our own history: we did the first cell phone live video from Glacier Point thanks to Qik. It's amazing that we had a live audience around the world while filming these videos.
The New York Times had a separate article about Flickr. Here's Thomas Hawk's feedback about that (he was one of the photographers quoted in it).
So, why a Kodak moment? Well, Michael Adams told me that Ansel Adams did a lot of work for Kodak. He shot a few of the Colorama ads for Grand Central Station in New York. Did you know Kodak has a blog now? I like the Kodak blog a lot, it gives me some great ideas for photos.
Little known Scoble trivia: I used to help run a camera store, LZ Premiums (now long gone) in the 1980s and was responsible for buying all the Kodak film and darkroom supplies. I saw someone walking out of the Ansel Adams Gallery with a yellow box of Kodak printing paper and it took me back to the hours I spent in a darkroom and all the friends, photos, memories I made back then.
This was — by far — the most special two days I've had outside of getting married or watching my two sons being born. I told someone I would have traded my Davos trip (which was freaking awesome) for hanging out with Michael Adams for 24 hours. It was that good and I can't wait to show you the videos and more of our photos. Thomas Hawk told me he'll have his photos up soon, along with a writeup of the two days.
Now, go back and read the New York Times article, and listen to it come alive thanks to Qik videos done on my cell phone.
Michael Adams, Ansel Adams' son, in front of the family business, the Ansel Adams' Gallery.
The famous Tunnel View, where Ansel shot his famous Storm Clearing photo. In the video we meet a tourist who took a class from Ansel and he tells us about that experience. I talk with Thomas Hawk about this view, and we find some other things to shoot as well.
Video from a meadow shooting Yosemite Falls.
Half Dome from the Bridge. In a second video Michael Adams tells what a photo from this bridge meant to his mother.
You've seen the famous photo, Moon and Half Dome, here you see where to shoot it, and we talk about some of our experiences making new images there, but also hear Michael's stories about the photo and what it meant to him (it was used on his wedding announcement).
Up at Glacier Point we had the whole place to ourselves, so I made a TON of video.
Glacier Point 1.
Glacier Point 2.
Glacier Point 3.
Glacier Point 4.
Glacier Point 5.
Glacier Point 6.
In the videos you'll learn that Michael is an interesting innovator in his own right. He was a fighter pilot, then went to medical school and now teaches medicine while also keeping memories of his father's work alive and well.
I don't know how I'll top this in my career. Hope you enjoy this as much as we did (and there's a LOT more to come from this two-day experience).
I also put up a bunch of photos on my Flickr stream and I'm sure that Thomas Hawk will have a lot more of his own.


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Firefighters continued strengthening containment lines around the 1,906-acre Colby Fire smoldering in the foothills at the northern edge of the San Gabriel Valley Saturday as the last remaining evacuees from Azusa received word they could return home.
The wildfire was 61 percent contained Saturday, leaving firefighters with eight miles of containment lines yet to complete, Angeles National Forest officials said.
Residents of the Mountain Cove neighborhood of Azusa — the only neighborhood still under evacuation orders Saturday — were advised they could return to their homes at 6 p.m. And officials announced the fire was expected to be fully contained by Wednesday.
"Today's fire operations will be primarily focused on reinforcing containment lines along the fire's northern perimeter and cooling hot spots," ANF spokeswoman Jamie Uyehara said.
"There were some flare-ups last night," Uyehara said. Firefighters also lit controlled burns overnight to clear excess fuel from the path of fire.
Firefighters made "excellent progress" overnight, "taking advantage of the lower temperatures and favorable wind conditions to successfully perform firing operations and reinforce containment lines where possible while working in steep rocky terrain," U.S. Forest Service officials said in a written statement.
"The fire growth potential is medium," the forest service statement said. "Fuels remain extremely dry and humidity anticipated in the single digits. Winds are expected to be lower than yesterday at 10 to 15 mph."
Firefighters worked Saturday in temperatures around 87 degrees.
More than 1,100 personnel continued working the fire Saturday, including 45 hand crews, 104 fire engines and four bulldozers, officials added.
Three water-dropping helicopters and four air tankers were also on-hand should they be needed, though they were also available to be called upon to fight fires elsewhere, Uyehara said.
In addition to fire fighting aircraft, the skies above the fire were occupied with helicopters being operated by Southern California Edison to replace power poles damaged by the fire, Uyehara said.
"The incident team was able to save some of the other poles," she added.
Despite damage to the electrical infrastructure, only 33 SCE customers were without power in Azusa and Glendora Saturday, according to the utility. All power was expected to be restored by Saturday afternoon.
The fire destroyed five homes in Glendora and damaged 17 other structures since it ignited just before 6 a.m. Thursday near the Colby Trail. Three young men have been arrested on suspicion of starting the fire with a campfire that got out of control and are being held in lieu of $500,000 bail each pending their initial appearances in federal court.


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Congress has backed a resolution condemning white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other hate groups following a white-nationalist rally in Virginia that descended into deadly violence.
The House approved the measure by voice vote Tuesday, one day after the Senate also cleared it by voice vote with little fanfare. The resolution now goes to President Donald Trump, who has been criticized for his response following the violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.
Trump asserted there were good people on "both sides" of the Charlottesville rally and bemoaned rising efforts to remove Confederate monuments as an attack on America's "history and culture."
Democratic Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine, of Virginia, had introduced the measure along with four colleagues from both parties. The resolution recognizes a woman who was killed and 19 other people who were injured Aug. 12 after a car allegedly driven by a neo-Nazi slammed into a crowd of demonstrators protesting the rally in Charlottesville.
The resolution describes Heather Heyer's death as a "domestic terrorist attack" and acknowledges two Virginia state troopers who died in a helicopter crash while monitoring the protests.
The resolution urges Trump and his administration to speak out against hate groups that espouse racism, extremism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and white supremacy. It also calls on the Justice Department and other federal agencies to "use all resources available" to improve data collection on hate crimes and "address the growing prevalence of those hate groups in the United States."
The resolution was backed in the House by Virginia Reps. Tom Garrett and Gerry Connolly, with support from the entire Virginia House delegation.
The joint resolution is supported by a range of civil rights groups, including the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the Anti-Defamation League and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.


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Too Much Overtime May Raise Depression Risk
Jan. 25, 2012 — Working 11-hour days may seem the norm in this economy, but regularly logging long hours can more than double a worker's risk of depression.
People who routinely put in more than 11-hour days more than double their chances of major depression, compared to employees who typically work about eight hours a day, a new study suggests.
Long workdays take a physical toll on the body, but there's been mixed evidence of their effects on the brain. And little is known about the link between long work hours and depression.
This research looked at more than 2,000 British civil servants who had no mental health problems when the study began in 1991, and whose average age was 47. About six years later, 66 cases of major depression were found in the workers after they received mental health screenings.
Men and women who worked more than 11-hour days had a more than twofold increased risk of depression, compared to public employees who spent less than eight hours at the office.
The civil servants who were more likely to become depressed were typically younger females in lower job grades who used alcohol moderately and also had a chronic disease.
The research appears in the online journal PLoS ONE.
Long Hours and Depression
A variety of genetic, physical, and emotional factors can make a person vulnerable to depression. At the workplace, the prolonged stress felt by people with long hours is one of the contributing factors to depression.
"Long working hours are likely to be related to less time to relax and less sleep," says study researcher Marianna Virtanen, PhD. She is a team leader of the Work and Mental Health team at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health in Helsinki.
"It is also possible that excessive working hours result in problems with close relationships, which in turn, may trigger depression," Virtanen says.
The current economic climate has millions of people working extremely long hours — or holding two or three jobs just to make ends meet. Many of us are working too much. So how can you tell if all those hours are affecting your mood?
Some warning signs for depression include trouble sleeping, feeling stressed, being irritable and dissatisfied, or lacking pleasure in those things that usually make you happy. You may also make more mistakes on the job, or have trouble getting organized or concentrating.
Workaholics are not immune to depression, but Virtanen suspects it might take them longer to develop depression because they probably find their jobs more rewarding than people who may be forced to put in longer hours.
Although this research was done in the 1990s, these days technology tethers us even closer to our jobs. "Work is no longer so much tied to time and place," Virtanen says. "This may make some people feel highly attached to their work tasks outside of their usual working hours."
Although the study only looked at public employees in white-collar jobs, it's unclear if similar results would be found in blue-collar or private-sector workers.
Better Work-Life Balance
Of course, working long hours is not the only reason people become depressed, but the study raises awareness that it can play a role, says Randy Auerbach, PhD, who researches depression at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass.
Auerbach said the number of cases of depression found were reasonable for this population, and that the researchers did a good job accounting for other factors that may contribute to depression, such as economic status, alcohol use, social support, and gender.
The reality is that employees are often driven to work more to hold on to the job and income they have. If it doesn't seem feasible to cut back on your hours, Auerbach says, then ask yourself, "What can I do to put my mental and physical well-being first?"
Longer work hours could result in less time with your loved ones and less time to invest in your self-care. Sleep often slides, as do plans to exercise and eat healthy foods. Time with family and friends may take a back seat.
Yet these are many of the healthy ways that buffer against stress and let people blow off steam.
"It's important to have periods with less pressure at work and shorter hours," Virtanen says. Her other tips for work-life balance include making a distinction between work and leisure, not skipping your vacation time, and taking care of your health, especially sleep and exercise.


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Book examines effects of Eden on modern human existence
Artists, including Michelangelo, generally have portrayed the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden as a calamity, fraught with violence: angels with swords drawn, banish the terrified and downward-looking couple on a road to nowhere. Paradise was lost in an act of disobedience.
But Robert Pogue Harrison, author of the new book "Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition" gives the scene another reading, with an assist of other writers and poets.
"As I see it, the fall liberated humanity from an environment that was altogether sterile and without issue," Harrison writes in an e-mail interview from Rome, where he's spending the summer. "Our basic humanity was perhaps out of place there."
Early on in "Gardens," Harrison, a professor of Italian literature at Stanford University, posits the question: Did God create Adam to keep the garden or shield him from the reality of the world?
He surmises that the primordial couple were beneficiaries of, but not caretakers in, Eden, and that the overprotection extended to the serpent's trickery.
"Through the fall, humans became creatures of care. They became caretakers," Harrison writes. "It is only through care that our deepest human potential comes to fulfillment.
"Care has no place in Eden, whereas it has its proper home on the earth, which calls on humans to cultivate its soil and become its custodians.
"The gardener is for me a figure for this postlapsarian creature of care."
That caretaking is not only central to gardening — it is the definition of who we are as humans, toiling "in the sweat of one's brows," he writes.
Though admittedly not a gardener himself, Harrison — born in Turkey to an Italian mother and an American father — draws on the familiar (Dante and Homer) and the not-so-familiar (Wallace Stevens and Karel Capek) in talking about the passions, devotion and daily solicitations that define a gardener's relation to his or her plot of cultivated soil.
Harrison writes that Capek's book, "The Gardener's Year," especially is a form of education, detailing "a gardener's love affair with the earth."
Capek, an early-20th-century writer and playwright, was an obsessive gardener in Prague who realized, Harrison writes, that "gardening was a year-round cultivation."
"Capek's profound suspicions about modern technology (most notably in his play 'R.U.R.,' in which the word "robot" was coined) have to do with the fact that there is no gardening ethic in technology," Harrison writes. "Technology is impatient, desirous to speed everything up and to obtain instantaneous results.
"The gardener learns the lesson of patience, without which nothing in his garden would ever come to fruition."
Today's unconstrained consumerism, he says, "seems to be driven by a remorseless will to recreate an Edenic condition on Earth, a condition in which the citizen would have no greater obligation than to consume, rather than husband, the resources of the earth. More and more, thanks to the advances of modern technology, it seems that things are provided for us freely, without assumption of responsibility on our part."
Islamic carpet gardens, the parks and groves of the Greek schools and British college gardens all get treatment in Harrison's fourth book, as do "makeshift gardens" — compositions that have sprung up in urban areas and may not be limited to leafy vegetables and flowers, but often have included stuffed toys, piles of leaves and recycled trash.
Harrison features the story of two transplanted Southerners who started a garden in a median in the tough Bayview District of San Francisco where old batteries, mattresses and fast-food flotsam once ruled.
"One of the lessons of the community gardens is that gardening is not only the work of cultivation, but also of restoration, call it even redemption," Harrison writes. "That a garden could spring up — thanks to the efforts of an entire community — where discarded things were dumped by careless individuals serves as an allegory of sorts for us today.
"One could say that humanity has fouled much of its habitat that what is now called for is a massive communitarian effort of restoration and re-cultivation of those place that have become, allegorically speaking, like garbage dumps."
But about re-creating Eden, Harrison writes to be careful what you wish for.
"The paradox of the age, is that we are profoundly conflicted when it comes to Eden. On the one hand we dread it; on the other hand, we chase after it.
"One of the perverse consequences of this paradox is that the path back to Eden is littered with ruins, corpses and destruction. Our attempts to re-create Eden amount to an assault on creation.
"That is the danger of the era."
By Robert Pogue Harrison,
University of Chicago Press, $24
Steven Spearie is a freelance writer who can be reached at 622-1788 firstname.lastname@example.com.


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By Kirsten Massebeau
BP is right on the heels of Shell Oil in the race for oil in the Fragile Arctic region. Shell has been given permits to begin seismic testing and exploration drilling in the Chukchi Sea and the Beaufort Sea both to begin on July 1,2012, through October 31, 2012. British Petroleum (BP) is also requesting a permit to begin a seismic survey in the fragile Simpson Lagoon in the Beaufort Sea a small and pristine habitat teeming with life. BP is known for their environmental disaster in the Gulf Coast that is still suffering from the spill, "Dolphins and fish are dying at distressing rates as oil and dispersants from BP's 2010 spill lurk in Gulf waters and south Louisiana marshes"source.
If BP is awarded this permit both Shell Oil and BP will be doing seismic surveys during the same period in the Beaufort Sea for and estimated 50 days. Two of BP's ships will be firing air guns 24 hours 24 a day at dB levels of >160dB sometimes creating blasts as high as 230dB flooding the shallow Simpson Lagoon and Barrier Islands with sound for several months Source.
What is a seismic survey? "Seismic surveys are used to locate and estimate the size of offshore oil and gas reserves. To carry out such surveys, ships tow multiple air gun arrays that emit thousands of high-decibel explosive impulses to map the sea floor. The auditory assault from seismic surveys has been found to damage or kill fish eggs and larvae and to impair the hearing and health of fish and marine mammals, making them vulnerable to predators and leaving them unable to locate prey or mates or communicate with each other. These disturbances can disrupt and displace important migratory patterns, pushing marine life away from suitable habitats like nurseries and foraging, mating, spawning, and migratory corridors. In addition, seismic surveys have been implicated in whale beaching and stranding incidents" source. "The source level of most air gun arrays can be 200dB or higher. For comparison, a loud rock concert is about 115dB and a jet engine at 100 feet is about 140dB. A typical seismic air gun array pulled by a ship might fire its compressed air bubbles into the ocean five or six times a minute — more than 7,000 shots in 24 hours"source. To see an air-gun underwater explosion click on this link .
Imagine the damage the air guns will do to a shallow fragile, coastal environment of the Simpson Lagoon, "The survey area in Simpson Lagoon has water depths of 0 to 9 ft between the shore and barrier islands and 3 to 45 ft depths north of the barrier islands"source.
BP plans to use three seismic ships that will carry a total of 40 air guns some of which will fire simultaneously for 24 hours a day. "Again, the advantage of source vessels alternating shots is that more data can be acquired in shorter time. Seismic data acquisition is a 24 hour per day operation"source.
How many cetaceans and pinniped is BP asking to expose to greater than 160dB of sound? These number are for the Simpson Lagoon area not including the barrier islands. To see incidental take number for barrier islands follow this link. In addition, what will happen to the algae, phytoplankton, krill, fish, squid and other diverse marine life of this Arctic region? Home to Bow head, Beluga and gray whales this is an area so sensitive that no commercial fishing has been allowed under National Marine Fisheries Ruling established in 2009 source. When so little is known about the sea life and eco-system in this remote part of the world is it really prudent to open it up to oil and gas exploration? There are few protections for even dolphins and whales protected marine mammals. Marine Mammals Observers (MMO) are stationed two to a ship watching for whales. This crude form of monitoring does not take into account underwater activities of cetaceans and other sea life. There is little known about Simpson Lagoon and Barrier Islands, "Information on fishes in coastal waters of the Alaskan Arctic is outdated or nonexistent" source.
Is the risk of an oil spill worth it? Isn't the death of just one whale from air guns or an oil spill too much? Isn't the death and destruction of the algae, and other nutrients and low level life on the ocean floor too much? Isn't allowing BP to do seismic testing or any kind of oil exploration in the Arctic Beaufort Sea asking too much?
What can you do? Send NOAA/NMFS an email asking not to award BP the permit for a seismic survey in the Beaufort Ocean. Comments and information must be received no later than May 31, 2012. Comments should be addressed to: Tammy Adams, Acting Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, Office of Protected Resources, National MarineFisheries Service firstname.lastname@example.com or 1315 East-WestHighway, Silver Spring, MD 20910. The mailbox address for providing email comments is source.


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Officials: 1.8M pounds of ground beef recalled
DETROIT (AP) — Officials say a Detroit-based business is recalling about 1.8 million pounds of ground beef products sold for restaurant use in four states that may be contaminated with the bacteria E. coli.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Monday that affected Wolverine Packing Co. products were produced between March 31 and April 18. They were shipped to distributors in Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service says 11 illnesses have been identified.
The products bear the establishment number "EST. 2574B" and will have a production date code in the format "Packing Nos: MM DD 14" between "03 31 14" and "04 18 14."
E. coli can cause severe cramps, nausea and diarrhea, as well as other complications.


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• 4 6-oz. wild Bay of Fundy salmon filets, skin and all bones removed
• 1 head radicchio lettuce, cut in half
• 2 T olive oil
• Fine sea salt, to taste
• Ground fresh black pepper, to taste
• Peach Barbecue Glaze, recipe to follow
Fire up the grill. Brush the salmon filets and radicchio lettuce with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Place the salmon, flesh side down and the cut side of the radicchio on the grill.
After 2 minutes, turn the salmon and radicchio about 90 degrees, keeping the flesh side down, to create a checkered mark. After another 2 minutes, and depending on preference, turn the salmon over on the skinned side. Repeat the process for the radicchio.
Remove the radicchio from the grill and julienne with a sharp knife; refrigerate. Save for salad. Before removing the salmon from the grill, brush generously with the Peach Barbecue Glaze. Serves 4.
• 2 large heads of romaine lettuce, outer leaves removed
• 6 oz. Smoky Red Chili Dressing, recipe to follow
• Salt and Pepper, to taste
• ½ cup San Pedro, Cotija, or Mexican Farmer's cheese, crumbled
• Radicchio, grilled (see salmon recipe above)
• ½ cup tomatoes, diced
• ½ cup fresh hearts of palm, julienned
• ½ cup pomegranate seeds, optional
Wash and dry the romaine lettuce; cut into 1" dice. Refrigerate. Place chilled romaine leaves in a large bowl; add dressing in small amounts and toss lightly. Add salt and pepper, to taste. Add half of cheese and the radicchio and toss again. The leaves should be coated lightly with dressing.
Divide salad equally onto 4 plates and sprinkle remaining cheese, tomatoes, hearts of palm and pomegranate (if using) on top of salads.
Parker County Peach Barbecue Glaze
• 5 ripe peaches, peeled, pitted and cut into small cubes
• 1 cup onion, finely chopped, cold smoked for one hour
• 2 tsp. minced garlic
• 1 cup fresh orange juice
• ½ cup brown sugar
• 2 T malt vinegar
• 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tsp. Tabasco sauce
• 1 T minced jalapeño
• 1 T fresh lime juice
• Salt to taste
Combine the first eight ingredients in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat and bring to a boil. Turn down heat to a simmer and cook mixture for 20 minutes. Add peach mixture to a food processor and blend until mixture is smooth. Add jalapeño, lime juice and salt and pulse the food processor a few rounds until mixture is well combined. Check seasoning.
Smoky Red Chili Dressing
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 5 cloves hot smoked garlic
• 2 hot smoked shallots, minced
• 1 hot smoked red bell pepper, seeds removed
• 2 anchovy filets
• 2 T Dijon mustard
• 1 T Worcestershire sauce
• 2 tsp. sherry vinegar
• 1 tsp. smoked paprika
• ½ tsp. Sriracha sauce
• ¾ cup grape seed oil
• ¾ cup olive oil
• 2 red jalapeños, roasted and minced
• 1 T cilantro, chopped
• 2 T lime juice
• Salt to taste
In blender, combine mayonnaise, garlic, shallots, red bell pepper, anchovies until pureed smooth. Add Dijon mustard, Worcestershire, sherry vinegar, smoked paprika, and Sriracha. Blend until mixture is smooth. In a small stream, slowly add oils until dressing is emulsified and creamy. Remove mixture from the blender into bowl and fold in chopped jalapenos, cilantro, lime juice and salt to taste.
Putting It All Together
Place the salmon next to the salad and serve immediately.
From Fearing's Restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton, fearingsrestaurant.com.


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Taylor Swift's Parents Reportedly Separated
In an interview with the New Yorker last year, Taylor Swift admitted that some of the songs on her upcoming album are sad. Unfortunately, rumors this week indicate that Swift may not have been singing from her own painful relationship experience, but rather from the knowledge that her parents' marriage was on the rocks. According to a recent report, Swift's parents have separated.
It's hard to imagine country music's sweetheart — who has swept plenty of awards shows since she entered the country music scene in her teenage years — experiencing the sadness and pain that comes with a difficult divorce. In the press, the young 22-year-old singer seems like a happy-go-lucky star who has the world at her fingertips.
According to the unconfirmed report from Star magazine — via Radar Online — Swift's parents, Andrea and Scott, were married for 25 years before they decided to part ways. The Swifts are rumored to have separated sometime within the past two years, but they have kept their marital issues from the press.
"The Swifts stopped wearing their wedding rings," the 'Star' source revealed. "They haven't filed for divorce because they don't want it to damage Taylor's career."
As for Swift, well, she's apparently dealing with her parents' separation like any young woman close to her family would. "She's been going through a lot," the source continued. "The new album will showcase the pain of her parents' separation."
The 'Story of Us' hitmaker's rents have allegedly kept their problems out of the public eye in order to save her career, but the Star story makes it sound like it was the singer's busy schedule which contributed to the stress of her parents' marriage.
"Andrea being on tour with Taylor full-time has really been hard on her relationship with Scott," the unnamed commenter adds.
It's hard to say exactly what is going on between the Swifts — if anything — at this point, but our thoughts are with the family if they are truly navigating through a difficult time.


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Errors in the Apocrypha
The apocrypha (απόκρυφα means "hidden") is a set of books written between approximately 400 B.C. and the time of Christ that is rejected by the Protestants and officially accepted by the Roman Catholic Church in 1546 as being inspired. These books are Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (also known as Ecclesiasticus), and Baruch.
But if the Apocrypha is a Scripture, then it should not have any errors. But since it does have errors, as will be demonstrated below, this puts into question whether or not the Roman Catholic Church has properly used its self-proclaimed position as the teaching authority of the Christian Church. If it can error in such an important manner as what is Scripture, can it be trusted to properly teach the Christian Church? The following references can be verified at http://www.newadvent.org/bible.
Problems in the Apocrypha
When we look into the apocrypha itself, we find numerous problems. For example, we see it advocating magic where the smoke of a fish heart on a fire drives away devils.
Condones the use of magic
Tobit 6:5-7, "Then the angel said to him: Take out the entrails of this fish, and lay up his heart, and his gall, and his liver for thee: for these are necessary for useful medicines. 6 And when he had done so, he roasted the flesh thereof, and they took it with them in the way: the rest they salted as much as might serve them, till they came to Rages the city of the Medes. 7 Then Tobias asked the angel, and said to him: I beseech thee, brother Azarias, tell me what remedies are these things good for, which thou hast bid me keep of the fish? 8 And the angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a little piece of its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of devils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to them."
Is it true that the smoke from a fish's heart, when burned, drives away evil spirits? Of course not. Such a superstitious teaching has no place in the word of God.
Teaches that forgiveness of sins is by human effort.
Salvation by works:
Tobit 4:11, "For alms deliver from all sin, and from death, and will not suffer the soul to go into darkness."
Tobit 12:9, "For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting."
We know from Scripture that alms (money or food, given to the poor or needy as charity) does not purge our sins. The blood of Christ is what cleanses us, not money or food given to poor people. "but if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin," (1 John 1:7).
Money as an offering for the sins of the dead:
2 Maccabbees 12:43, "And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection."
Can anyone truly accept that money isn't offering for the sins of dead people? Such a superstitious and unbiblical concept has no place in Scripture.
Historical Errors
Wrong historical facts:
Judith 1:5, "Now in the twelfth year of his reign, Nabuchodonosor, king of the Assyrians, who reigned in Ninive the great city, fought against Arphaxad and overcame him."Baruch 6:2, "And when you are come into Babylon, you shall be there many years, and for a long time, even to seven generations: and after that I will bring you away from thence with peace."
The book of Judith incorrectly says that Nebuchadnezzar was the king of the Assyrians when he was the king of the Babylonians.1
Baruch 6:2 says the Jews would serve in Babylon for seven generations where Jer. 25:11 says it was for 70 years. "And this whole land shall be a desolation and a horror, and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years."
Obviously the apocrypha has serious problems. From magic, to salvation by works, to money as an offering for the sins of the dead, and blatant incorrect historical facts, it is full of false and unbiblical teachings. It isn't inspired of God. Likewise, neither is the Roman Catholic Church, which has stated the Apocrypha is inspired. This shows the Roman Catholic Church is not the means by which God is communicating his truth to his people, that the Magisterium has erred greatly, and that it is infested with man's false tradition, rather than God's absolute truth.
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"In this kind of weather, if you land in the water, you're going to die," Visa Parviainen said to the hot air balloon's pilot. Parviainen was clinging to the balloon's basket last autumn, flying high above the small lakes near Lahti, Finland, on his way toward 7000 ft. His plan upon reaching that height was to detach himself from the balloon and fly over the landscape, as parallel to it as possible. In preparation for this event he had outfitted himself in a black helmet with small, sweptback wings--or possibly ears--giving him the appearance of a not-too-distant cousin of Mighty Mouse. The resemblance was enhanced by the larger wings attached to his suit--a red BirdMan S3 wingsuit, to be exact. On his feet he wore boots with a patch that read "Danger."
The footwear was aptly labeled. Wingsuits are by now a common sight to sky divers at drop zones all over the world, but the boots were another matter. Attached to them were two small jet engines he hoped would propel him through the sky.
Parviainen climbed down onto a platform hanging on the outside of the basket and waited until the balloon reached the right altitude. Then he switched on the jets, scooted off and fell away.
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For centuries before ungainly "aeroplanes" arrived on the scene, people tried to fly wearing wings more like those used by Icarus--with similarly dire results. Take, for instance, Eilmer of Malmesbury, "The Flying Monk" of the 11th century, who leapt from a monastery tower and reportedly flew for 240-odd yards before falling to the earth and breaking both legs. Or mathematician Giovanni Battista Danti of Perugia, who in the 15th century strapped on a pair of wood and feather wings, and flew over the town square before crashing into the roof of St. Mary's church and breaking a leg. Or the Grenoble surgeon Charles Bernouin, a more direct precursor of Parviainen's, perhaps, who in January 1672, wearing wings and a rocket, leapt from a tower and flew till he fell and broke his neck.
The invention of the airplane didn't end the quest for personal, birdlike flight. While Wright brothers forerunners such as Otto Lilienthal jumped from hilltops, a new breed of canvas-clad batmen soon began using the newfangled flying machines as launching pads. At best, the pioneers glided for a few seconds before deploying parachutes; at worst, they ended up dead. Batmen had their heyday in the '30s and '40s, but every decade since has had its practitioners. The art remained a largely lethal and futile endeavor until the mid-1990s, when a French sky diver named Patrick de Gayardon invented the ram-air wingsuit. Older wings typically consisted of a simple layer of cloth attached to poles along the arms. Like a modern parachute, Gayardon's equipment had two layers of fabric that formed long cells. These inflated during flight to create true airfoils. Gayardon, too, died in a crash: After more than 500 winged jumps, he accidentally sewed his parachute into its container while making modifications. By 2000, however, a company called BirdMan Inc. was selling wingsuits all over the world.
No matter how much they flit about the clouds, though, the birdmen only fly downward. The best of them achieve a glide ratio (forward movement to descent) of 2.5:1. Until birdmen evolve hollow bones and much longer arms, they won't rise without engines.
That's where model airplane jets come in. Over the past decade, companies such as Advanced Micro Turbines have made ever smaller, lighter and more powerful engines. Parviainen isn't the only wingsuiter to think of using the jets to increase his forward velocity and generate lift. But he was the first to brave the jets' flames and give it a try.
The engines couldn't be tested from a plane because they have trouble igniting in high winds. So Parviainen spent hours firing them while perched on a platform outside a balloon basket. For fuel tanks he had two hot-water bottles filled with kerosene stuffed inside his wingsuit. The bags collapse as the fuel is used, keeping air from mixing dangerously with the gas. During the flight, Parviainen planned to hold a dead man's switch: As soon as he let go to open his parachute the jets would cut off, preventing him from setting the canopy on fire.
"With this flight we had three goals," Parviainen told me. First, to see if he could get the equipment to work. Second, to learn if the jets were powerful enough. Finally, Parviainen was seeking the answer to a basic question: "Is it possible to handle this, or is it going to be a disaster?"
Disaster did not strike. After he turned on his jets and fell away from the balloon, Parviainen's wings filled with air and he started to glide. Before long, his jets were pushing him across the sky. "I started to follow my altimeter and I noticed already at 200 meters below the balloon, it started to be horizontal flying," Parviainen said. "After that I followed the altimeter approximately half a minute, with no real loss of altitude." That was it. Parviainen had just become the first person to fly more or less horizontally using nonrigid personal wings, no wider than his arm span, for a significant length of time. However many modifiers one needs to describe the feat, humans had come one step closer to the dream of birdlike flight.
Parviainen then tried to climb. As he raised his angle of attack, he felt his wings lose lift and he entered what could have been a deadly stall. But with more than 200 wingsuit jumps under his belt, Parviainen reacted instantly, diving to pick up speed and to let his wings regain their lift. He flew for a total of 2 minutes before opening his parachute.
Parviainen made several more flights before it became too cold. This summer, he plans to be back, using new engines with nearly double the thrust--30 kilos each. The primary goal is pure fun, but he also hopes to fly longer and to achieve enough lift to climb. Eventually, Parviainen may tackle one of the birdmen's last barriers: landing without a parachute. Once he has jets strong enough, he imagines taking off from a cliff. He'll have plenty of room to drop and open a canopy in case of trouble. But if all goes well, he will fly back to the cliff's edge to land.
Some will say he's crazy. But, he reasons, that's what they told him about using jets. "You know those people--they can't imagine how it's going to be possible. The truth is, when it's done, they say, 'Oh, it's done that way.'"
Winged Pioneers
Clem Sohn
In 1935 Sohn became the first man to jump from a plane wearing wings. Two years later, at an air show in Paris, Sohn died when his parachute and reserve failed to open.
Tommy Boyd
Boyd's career in the 1940s and '50s lasted longer than any other batwing jumper's. He attributed his success--and longevity--to the absence of any spars in his wings.
Tom Sitton
An aeronautical engineer, Sitton used single-layer batwings and ram-air wings of his own design. Now in his 60s, he is developing a set of semirigid wings.
Sky diver Visa Parviainen, perched outside the basket of a hot air balloon, prepares to test fire two tiny jet engines attached to his boots. His quest: to become the first person to achieve level flight while wearing a fabric wingsuit. PHOTOGRAPH BY JUGE HEIKKILÄ


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Welding: Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
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Fillet Welding Symbols 1
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Understanding Welding Prints
You'll learn to identify common part views found on a welding print.
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You'll identify various components of a welding print.
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You'll identify dimensioning styles used on welding prints.
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E. A. Smith
E. A. Smith is a fanfic author and former moderator at the PPMB.
Biographical Information[edit]
Born and raised in Athens, GA, E(ric) A(dam) Smith earned a BS in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and an MS (and ABD) in Astrophysics from Vanderbilt University. In 2008, after three years of teaching part-time, he accepted a position as a full-time Lecturer in Physics and Astronomy at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, GA.
Writing History[edit]
E. A. Smith began writing fiction shortly after learning to read at the age of three, and began to take his writing seriously at the age of 17, writing his first novella. An attempt at a novel soon followed, along with several shorter works, and he has many story ideas left to pursue. An idea for a Daria college-era fanfic series formed shortly after he discovered Daria fanfic in early 2002, but he did not begin act on these ideas until January of 2005, when he wrote the Love's Labours Trilogy, a series of three interconnected short stories that took some of his older fanfic ideas and spun them in a new direction. Seven Days, Nowhere Man, and The Tempest (a direct sequel to the original trilogy) followed in the next few months. After this, Smith's output slowed considerably, and he produced only two fics between October 2005 and March 2007—So Long As Men Can Breathe, another college-era work, and Good Intentions, Smith's only fully canon fic. Smith plans no more fics for the immediate future, but has several ideas in various stages of development, to be fleshed-out when inspiration strikes.
Smith's fics are all angst-driven to various degrees, and focus more on the inner life and struggles of the characters (especially Daria) than on external plot (though Seven Days could be considered an exception to this rule, as it is easily the most plot-driven of all of Smith's fics). This is especially true of the Love's Labours Trilogy and its sequel The Tempest, which are written in first person from Daria's perspective, a style that naturally steers the story towards the examination of Daria's thoughts and motives rather than actions. These fics, along with Good Intentions, have also been described as "Daria mental-torture fiction", because they involve Daria facing the results of and trying to rectify her own character flaws, a painful process driven by very angst-ridden circumstances. A partial departure from this trend is So Long As Men Can Breathe, which—though still angst-driven—concerns both Daria and Jane struggling with the nature and use of their creativity and art, rather than negative aspects of their characters. Despite their sometimes-depressing tone, Smith's fics (again, except for Seven Days) end on a hopeful and redemptive note.
Because of his interest, both academic and personal, in the art and craft of writing fiction, E. A. Smith conducted a series of interviews with various fanfic authors concerning their best and most popular works, using questions of both his own devising and those submitted by fellow fans. These interviews can be found at The Contrarian's Corner and Glitter Berries.
Daria Fanworks Awards[edit]
- Favorite New Author
Bibliography of Major Works[edit]
College-era Fics:
- Love's Labours Trilogy
- The Tempest
- So Long As Men Can Breathe
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By Tom Cohen
Get real, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told America on Monday in proposing a scaled back, modern military that would cut the Army to its pre-World War II size, retire the A-10 "Warthog" attack jet and reduce some benefits for fighting forces.
"This is a budget that recognizes the reality of the magnitude of our fiscal challenges, the dangerous world we live in, and the American military's unique and indispensable role in the security of this country and in today's volatile world," Hagel said in unveiling the Defense Department spending plan for 2015 and beyond.
"There are difficult decisions ahead," he added. "That is the reality we're living with."
Downsizing due to modernization and budget constraints began under Hagel's predecessor, Robert Gates, and the proposal outlined on Monday described a new phase in the transition.
"Not a war-footing budget"
"For the first time in 13 years we will be presenting a budget to the Congress of the United States that's not a war-footing budget," Hagel said in response to reporters' questions. "That's a defining budget because it starts to reset and reshape."
Under it, the former senator from Nebraska said the military would become a smaller, more tactical force capable of fighting on one war front and maintaining effective defenses for a second while shifting to more specialized capabilities.
"Our analysis showed that this force would be capable of decisively defeating aggression in one major combat theater - as it must be - while also defending the homeland and supporting air and naval forces engaged in another theater against an adversary," he said.
The proposal endorsed Monday by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, who appeared with Hagel at the Pentagon news conference, is certain to face strong opposition in Congress - especially with midterm elections coming up in November.
Hagel's budget will be formally proposed next week and legislators from states or districts with major military bases or a heavy presence of contractors are expected to rail against it.
In recent years, Republican hawks have battled military force reductions under President Barack Obama's attempts to reduce defense spending as part of overall deficit reduction.
Conservative Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a possible GOP presidential contender in 2016, questioned the planned cuts in forces at a time of varying threats and a U.S. shift in emphasis to the Asia-Pacific region, saying it "does not make strategic sense."
"It's going to be a far slimmer military," noted CNN Military Analyst and retired Maj. Gen. James "Spider" Marks, predicting a rough reception in Washington. "This is the toughest part - the political part."
Retired NATO commander: It's necessary
Retired Army Gen. George Joulwan, a former NATO supreme allied commander in Europe, said he thought the changes were necessary.
"Whether it's smart or not is yet to be seen. But I think it's necessary to do, given the constraints that we face fiscally within the United States," he told CNN.
For now, the Pentagon budget for the rest of this fiscal year and for 2015 is about $500 billion for each, as set by a congressional compromise in December.
Hagel acknowledged the changes he proposed mean assuming more risk, but said the military would be better situated to respond to the evolving security challenges facing the country.
The recommendations in the budget plan for 2015 and ensuing years "favor a smaller and more capable force - putting a premium on rapidly deployable, self-sustaining platforms that can defeat more technologically advanced adversaries," Hagel said.
He added that the proposal includes "important investments to preserve a safe, secure, reliable, and effective nuclear force."
All military forces, both active and reserve, would be cut under the budget plan.
It calls for reducing the Army to a level of 440,000 to 450,000 troops, which would be the lowest total in more than 70 years. At its height, the Army had 570,000 troops after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and currently has about 520,000.
According to Hagel, the budget proposal protects funding for cyberwarfare and special operations, and preserves money for the controversial and costly F-35 fighter jet.
Warthogs retired?
His plan would retire the A-10, which Hagel called a 40-year-old, single-purpose aircraft designed for Cold War operations, at a cost savings of $3.5 billion over five years.
Separately, Hagel said 900 additional Marines would be assigned to bolster security at embassies around the world under his proposal.
Diplomatic security has received close scrutiny since a terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012 killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.
Also, Hagel said the plan envisions increasing special operations forces from 66,000 today to 69,700 in the future to better meet tactical needs of a modern military requiring counterterrorism and crisis response.
Other provisions would reduce some benefits for military personnel, resulting in them having to shoulder more of their housing and medical costs. Reducing the federal subsidy to commissaries would mean smaller discounts for groceries on U.S. bases.
Through his remarks, Hagel warned that if Congress fails to eliminate planned across-the-board spending cuts beyond 2016, the military reductions would be on a greater scale and significant enough to compromise U.S. national security.
Some of those forced cuts, known as sequestration, were eased for this year and next under the budget deal worked out by Congress in December.
CNN's Halimah Abdullah and CNNMoney's Jennifer Liberto contributed to this report.
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La calidad es una de nuestras principales preocupaciones y es por eso que disponemos de un sistema de calidad para el mecanizado de piezas bajo plano mediante maquinaria convencional y CNC que está avalada con certificado ISO 9001:2008 concedido por BUREAU VERITAS.
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Reparacion urgente de lavadoras en Madrid, servicio técnico ofrecido por la empresa Abeto Hogar S.L., contamos con un servicio urgente de reparacion de lavadoras, todos sabemos el contratiempo que causa que cualquier electrodoméstico se averíe, pero cuando se trata de la lavadora nos parece que la suciedad ha invadido la vivienda y no hay nada en ese momento mas importante que reparar la lavadora.
Muestrario de piezas que podemos realizar en corte por hilo. Contamos con un EQUIPO de profesionales cualificados y especializados en la fabricación de piezas mecanizadas y mandrinados de todo tipo en pequeñas series. Responde a procesos de conformado de las piezas metálicas no fundidas, y comprende procedimientos como la laminación, el forjado, la sinterización, el trefilado el doblado.
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It is about time we started to change our ways when thinking of our elite military forces. These thirteen years of war have really taken a toll on not only the budget but the standards the military represents as well. Back when this all kicked off the flood gates opened allowing almost anyone to join and in a time of a troubled economy a job in the military seemed so secure and promising. However the truth is that this line of work is not meet for just anyone it takes a lot of determination and self-control. This massive force calls for a much bigger budget, but if the soldier is not devoted why should the military devote to them? Main focus is that allowing the military to be cut will ensure that only the best of the best remain therefore making all the branches more elite and not wasting a cent of the hard earned paycheck. It's all about making the cut where it makes the most sense for everyone not just a particular group. With a smaller force and smarter decisions on the training and equipment that actually has the best results rather than just checking the block would without a doubt bring a higher rate of success to the table. As a final note, service members give back more than plenty for everything they do and taking from their benefits should not even be considered.
Hagel is right, we have this dinosaur military , only using its so-call smartest weapons on wedding parties and killing women and children, and continue to believe that real terrorist wear dress. lol
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The American people want a military that seems to the rest of the world like it can be in all places at all times(even if it really can't). The cutbacks just show one more area where the rest of the world is going to get close or perhaps pass us by one day. Perception is a powerful thing, and we're cutting back while China and Russia aren't.
With Russia up to their old tricks, seems like a perfect time to cut back our defense???????
This is the new reality, because of the nature of the new beast in the world. Terrorism will be dealt with much more on a local scale, maximizing the combat special forces to the full capability of personnel and equipment. There was no reference to dismantling the naval capabilities, which is still the largest navy and amphibious fighting force on the planet. It is better to optimize your miltary and get rid of redunant and costly overspending that is currently taking place just to make a congressman or woman, as well as senators who try and manipulate the voting public. The people at the top of the military understand this much more then poiticians who will cut of their nose to spite their faces.
Silly! Only God can make a congressman or congresswoman.
Conflict heating up yet again, what a wonderful time to undermine the trust the military has in its government to provide the benefits and pay they promised. I sure hope nothing terrible happens while we're all heading for the exit for jobs that pay commensurate to our skills and experience and the job's requirements.
Minimum wage's buying power gets eroded over time by inflation and that's not cool, but when the Pentagon does the same thing with pay raises below increases in the cost of living, that's completely fine.
US companies use federal welfare programs to subsidize their low wages and that's an outrage, but US troops redeemed $104 million in food stamps at commissaries last year and it's completely fine to increase their grocery bills by 20%.
It's a crying shame but time to get moving on the Key Stone Pipe Line ! Remember those gas pump lines during Carter we all sat in ? Can it happen again ?
Tell a lie long enough people will believe it. It was Nixon who failed to provide leadership in the mid-East in the early seventies. OPEC was in charge 1973 and decided to embargo oil to punish the US for sending arms to Israel. Carter just happen to be in office when the Arabs who were P.O.'s at the Shah of Iran for not joining OPEC lead a take over of that country. We were getting a hell of a lot oil from the Shah but that just stopped over night. Fear drove the price of oil out of sight on speculation. That was the second crisis for consumers and the one the Republicans like to drag out when its time to trash Carter for all that had happen since 1973.
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I think there are dumb cuts and smart cuts but right now not interested in any cuts ! "Glasnost and Perestroika" as it relates to Ukraine and Putin ! Houston now sings ...."Oh say can you see....." National Anthem. One billion to Ukraine in a loan guarantee from US ? Really and with Putin's military pretty much in charge. Explain how that deal is going to work out for US tax payer and the Ukraine people as we support their energy from Russia.
Hagel is secretly working for the Republicans. Military cuts at mid-term elections guarantees a sweep of the House and the Senate. Thanks Hagel!
Spare the A-10, but close ALL military bases in Europe and quite a few others abroad. Europeans despise US bases on their soil, it fosters anti-Americanism, they're expensive, and most importantly countries like Germany can defend themselves on their own, they don't need US babysitting.
It's a win-win-win for the US and Europe
Crazy if any civilian thinks mil is getting rich off BAH. Anything rentable around mil bases is overpriced... just like housing. In case, civilians are unfamiliar, army military housing is disgusting. Over run by pests, black mold, houses sliding off foundations; ceilings falling in, electrical "issues"; permanently wet carpet accompaning wet breaking furniture; constant doc visits b/c your family is living and breathing in former tenants dirt, animals, and always present mold; your house "looks" like a typical block out of the "hood". Commissaries are a joke.
I want Hagel to come live in an elisted's typical three bedroom house at Ft Polk and then hear how he still wants us to live on post.
What are we thinking!?! Why do the men and women that protect us and keep us free get punished because our government leaders are STUPID!!! the pay cuts should come from Congress and the president (no more 100s of million dollar trips to Africa) they cant even do their job, the government shut down because of them. if the Solders failed at their jobs like our "leaders" we would all be dead! God Bless America and please help us all!
The new reliance on technology vs. numbers of troops or materiel might be reasonable if you believed that millions of lines of code in everything from satellites to vehicles could never be compromised.
One virus that takes out the banking system could render US DOD useless.
Thank you KSM it is clear Michael has no clue what he is talking about. If I made that much I would be rich. It is because I manage my budget and limit my spending as a responsible adult I am able to buy a house and afford a mortgage. Just so you know also those numbers are not just for housing but they cover other expenses like utilities and insurance. I made 39000 last year so any of you who think I get payed well to work 15 plus hours a day with no overtime you are a fool. I like the benefits but I love serving with my brothers and sisters way more.
When factoring pay for the military, factor in pay and benefits, TAX free most of it, including spouse, most pay no tax. Where is the pay derived from...taxes.
Either increase taxes or decrease spending...you can't keep growing deficits or we won't have a country to defend,
Military personnel do pay taxes just like you and I. THEY DO NOT PAY TAXES WHEN SERVING IN A COMBAT ZONE. As for their his/her spouse who may be working at local store while they are away. They are not tax exempt, they pay their taxes just like any other employee of that store.
I'm military, and I definitely do pay taxes. You have no idea what you're talking about.
And even if no military member paid a penny in tax, it would be a grain of sand on the beach of money that our government wastes.
We're not overpaid for what we're asked to do, not even close. I accept far less than I could earn in the civilian sector largely because it's a very steady, stable job. These cuts attack my trust in that stability and leave me with no choice but to prepare myself to exit as soon as possible. I'd rather stay but at this point, I do not trust the Pentagon to make good on the deal we've made. These cuts will drive mid-career enlisted and officers away from the ranks in droves and that will cripple the military for far longer than getting rid of some hardware we probably don't need.
Does anyone here seriously think that Chuck Hagel will get his way over these badly needed cuts in military spending? As great of an idea as it is, the majority in Congress won't go along as they're paid not to. The M.I.C. will never stand for it and will pay any amount of money to block it!!!
This smells like what Jimmy Carter was trying to do but failed when he was defeated after his first term, everyone knew Carter was weak and that is why Afghanistan was invaded in 79 and look at the mess that started. If the dems have their way China will own the pacific.
China owning the Pacific, ralph? Hardly! The right-wingers in Washington would rather eat cow manure than give up the Pacific, Europe or the Middle East!!! Get real ralph, please.
I would oppose the cuts if we had leadership with the guts to use a military. Right now our politicians are more worried about world opinion than defense. So we're losing wars and fighting battles for other nations.
It's time for cuts.
Let's see
The average compensation pkg for Military personnel = $99,000. I don't have a problem with since they literally put their lives on the line.
The average Fed Govt worker as an average comp package of $114,500....
While the people making the Decisions have an average comp package of about $286,000 – these are the flipping politicians...
While the Average Private sector workers' (ie: the average Taxpayer) comp package is about $87,800.
John Q Public is about ballpark with GI Joe and GI Jane, meanwhile The Politicians and their paper pushers make a LOT more than us the tax payers, yet we Public Sector and the Military are the ones that are said to be making too much.
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The only two options that I am aware of to reduce the deficit are 1) Increase Taxes or 2) Decrease spending. Do I agree that the defense spending should be cut? Not necessarily. But cuts have to happen because no one will be happy with tax increases. We've dug ourselves into such a huge hole, I'm not sure there is a good solution at this point.
Why are our military members, our military retirees, our veterans, and their family members being punished because President Obama, elected officials, political appointees, and General/Admiral lap dogs can't figure out how to manage a budget?
They aren't being punished any more than people are being punished when they are laid off from a business that is losing money hand over fist. Waging war is not supposed to be a primary employer. America can't afford the military it maintains, and spends more than the next 13 countries combined on defense. Most of those countries are allies and none are considered enemies. This nation can't afford to maintain its roads, bridges, schools, has millions on food stamps, and heck it even struggles at times to service its own debt. Why should that money be flushed on maintaining an army that has no purpose? We look a little silly flexing our military muscle, when every other country knows what a shambles our economy is in, largely because we insist on flexing our military muscle. Republicans and Tea Partiers want all this money shaved from bloated government and yet nothing shaved from what is likely the single greatest contributor to our nation debt. The reality is that we can't possibly get our economy or fiscal house in order without drastically reducing military spending. Any fiscal conservative understands this.
Read the whole story... Cutting the number of troops down isn't going to save money because they plan on spending more money on more advanced toys like drones, etc. There will actually be an increase in spending. The economic impact this will have goes way beyond 100,000 people losing their jobs. The Bases that are shut down will impact communities and people in the private sector will lose jobs because of this. This is a president that knows how to destroy jobs cause he definitely can't create any.
Generally, military families are well supported with $$$, education, housing, allowances, training, health care, etc. Just because they can't manage their money, it is not my problem.
It's not your problem but it's someone else's. Military families of deployed servicemembers sometimes lose their loved ones mentally, physically, or don't see them on and off for years due to multiple deployments. What's wrong with compensating those and the families of those that have sacrificed more than you ever will?
This is dangerous ground. Can some defense progams be cut, sure. But to reduce troop levels is really dangerous ground. We did this prior to WWII and look how many lives we threw away in the pacific to buy us time time to rebuild our forces. We did the same thing prior to the Korean War and were damn near driven out of there. Remember, the Pusan Perimeter? In Iraq, and presently Afghanistan we are using Reserve and National Guard units to supplement active duty personnel. Say they cut down manpower levels to pre WWII. Then let's say for example, North Korea decides to invade the South. We will not have enough manpower to deal with it, which means the Draft will have to be re-instated immediately. Because, regardless of how many planes, ships, and tanks we have, you still have to put a large amount of troops on the ground. So Washington had better be careful on what they do, because it could have on adverse effect on alot of people if they get it wrong.
You do know there is a ten year call back, so even if we are invaded we still have the people on stand by if needed?
The first thing to cut are these pseudo welfare handouts in the mil called " housing" allowances.
$21 billion wasted each year
Tax free
Upwards of $3,000 for single volunteers who could and should be living on their ships and bases
From $3,000-$6,000-$9,000, YES $9,000 a month TAX FREE to two volunteers who opt to get married
Google "basic allowance for housing 2014" and see these handout tables for yourself, remember that these two married volunteer couples get TWO. Repeat TWI OF TGESE TAX FREE monthly handouts for their ONE FAMILY UNIT!
Soon will come cries and whines from those riding this $21 billion per year and growing tax free gravy train.
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Look at the military BAH rates. Very few people get $3000+. Here are a few examples of actual rates:
Brig. Gen (O-7) in Colorado Springs gets $2217
Sgt. First Class (E-7) in Colorado Springs gets $1599
Brig. Gen (O-7) in Washington D.C. gets $3162
Sgt. First Class (E-7) in Washington D.C. gets $2565
Brig. Gen (O-7) at Ft. Bragg gets $1908
Sgt. First Class (E-7) at Ft. Bragg gets $1512
Brig. Gen (O-7) at Ft. Hood gets $1923
Sgt. First Class (E-7) at Ft. Hood gets $1395
And, a dual military couple only earns ONE housing allowance. Most installations have gone to privatized housing, so you still have to pay. They charge you whatever your BAH rates is.