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Google will drop online checks for revoked website encryption certificates in future versions of its Chrome browser after it decided that the process no longer offers any tangible benefits.
For about a decade now, browsers check the validity of a website's secure sockets layer (SSL) certificate by polling online revocation databases when a user attempts to connect to a secure HTTPS server. A certificate could be cancelled by a Certificate Authority (CA), and thus wind up on a certificate revocation list, if it was faulty or compromised in some way. Cancelling a certificate, or failing to validate it, should therefore warn the visitor to be wary of the site.
However browsers will still establish a connection even if this validation process fails. This behaviour is needed in case users attempt to connect from within heavily firewalled networks, such as public Wi-Fi hotspots and corporate environments: punters might have to sign into an HTTPS site while traffic to other services, including the CAs' verification servers via the online certificate status protocol, are blocked.
Halting access to a HTTPS-secured website if a revocation check failed would leave users unable to connect to sites if the relevant CA was down for any reason, another bad idea.
The problem is that hackers can use a variety of tricks to cause the revocation checks to fail, something that would be ignored in the same way as if a CA was down or a user was signing into a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Google software developer Adam Langley compared such "soft-fail revocation checks" in this scenario to a "seat-belt that snaps when you crash". He argued: "Even though it works 99 per cent of the time, it's worthless because it only works when you don't need it."
SSL revocation checks also provide a false sense of assurance because attackers capable of spoofing websites and forging certificate credentials are also more than capable of replacing the warning that a certificate is invalid. In addition, ordinary users typically ignore such warnings.
Bringing SSL certificate checks in-house
"While the benefits of online revocation checking are hard to find, the costs are clear: online revocation checks are slow and compromise privacy," Langley explains in a blog post. Checks can make SSL pages slower to load and create a potential means for CAs to compile logs of user IP addresses and the sites they visit - a privacy risk in itself.
Instead of relying on online certificate revocation list checks, future versions of Chrome will instead use an update mechanism to maintain the list within Chrome itself. This will become the norm but Google hasn't decide whether to ditch these online certification revocation checks entirely.
"There is a class of higher-security certificate, called an EV [Extended Validation] certificate, where we haven't made a decision about what to do yet," Langely explains.
Browser vendors in general responded to last year's DigiNotar hack by revoking certificates from the firm via a browser-based software update. Langely is proposing a more lighter weight method of revoking certificates so that lists can be updated on the fly, without requiring a software update.
"Our current method of revoking certificates in response to major incidents is to push a software update," Langely writes. "Microsoft, Opera and Firefox also push software updates for serious incidents rather than rely on online revocation checks. But our software updates require that users restart their browser before they take effect, so we would like a lighter weight method of revoking certificates."
It's unclear over what timescale Google intends to introduce the certification revocation check changes but a spokesman for the web giant said that this would probably happen over a matter of months. ®


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In an effort to help investors find the best exchange-traded funds and notes, Morningstar has announced the winners of a new awards program for U.S. ETFs and ETNs as well as ETF providers.
The 37 winners, named at the Morningstar ETF Invest 2012 conference in Chicago on Thursday, were chosen from among a pool of 400 ETFs. The annual awards, based on data as of June 30, recognize category winners for retail and institutional investing objectives based on performance and cost along with a track record of at least three years.
The awards are a first for the ETF industry, and winners will be recognized on the Morningstar web platform's quotes pages where investors can easily see them, according to Paul Justice, Morningstar's director of research for passive funds, North America. ETF providers were not aware before the Thursday announcement that Morningstar was introducing an awards program, he said.
"Certainly, investors are looking at the ETF space, and it's difficult to distinguish funds on a more granular level," Justice said at a press conference. "These ETF awards will bring out the top performing funds."
ETF analyst Mike Rawson said Morningstar analysts were pleased with the results of their quantitative process in picking the winners because the results followed their intuitions—and to be sure, there were some surprise winners. For example, Vanguard's Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) won the retail award in the Large Blend category, even though many investors might have expected SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) to have snagged the top honor. (SPY did win the institutional award in the category.)
Rawson said at the press conference that in the Large Blend category, if retail investors were to have only one ETF in their portfolio, he would recommend Vanguard's VTI over SPDR's SPY.
"VTI is the quintessential ETF," Rawson wrote in a comment for Morningstar. "It holds virtually the entire U.S. stock market for the incredibly low cost of just 0.06%. In fact, over the one-year period ended June 30, 2012, VTI underperformed its index by only 0.03%, costing investors even less than its stated expense ratio, while providing adequate liquidity and tight tracking to its index. However, it trades only about 1.9 million shares (or $140 million in value) per day, making it less suited for institutional investing relative to SPY."
The best ETF providers in five U.S. asset classes were as follows:
- Commodities: iPath ETNs
- International Stock: iShares
- Sector Stock: Vanguard
- Taxable Bond: iShares
- U.S. Stock: Vanguard
The new Morningstar Awards for ETFs and ETF providers consider the total cost of ETF ownership, based on an ETF's estimated holding cost, tracking volatility, and market impact cost; the ability of the ETF to track its index; and risk-adjusted returns.
Click here for a full list of the retail and institutional Morningstar Category Winners.
Check out complete coverage of Morningstar ETF Invest Conference 2012 and in-depth ETF news at AdvisorOne.


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-- Married to Austin Ruse, president of Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute
-- Refers to trans kids as "opposite-sex students who claim a gender contrary to their biology"
-- Suggests that a transgender child who identifies as a girl is really a boy in need of a father: "And one final thought: No mention is made anywhere of the boy's father, and his utter absence from news stories strikes me as a classic "elephant in the room," or in this case, not in the room. Dare I state the obvious, unspoken truth? This poor little boy desperately needs a father."
-- Says it "can be child abuse" to support a transgender child (6:12-6:18)
-- At FRC's "Justice Sunday" event, bemoaned courts that have "enshrined homosexual activity" into law
-- Reffered to scientifically discredited "ex-gay" teaching as merely a "resource" and "other perspective" on par with those that "[promote] the homosexual lifestyle as natural and positive"
-- Credited for sparking a national boycott of The Girl Scouts because of that organization's supposed "left wing agenda." Cites merely having "people on their board that are also on the board of the Human Rights Campaign and push for same-sex marriage" as examples.
--Has described her policy work with FRC as "almost like working for the church" (at :47)


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Chicago-area Residents and Visitors Invited to Celebrate Sight with Complimentary Vision Screenings, Activities and Prizes for the Entire Family During Taste of ChicagoPINELLAS PARK, Fla., July 10, 2012 – To kick-off the next stop on its 2012 Sightseeing City Tour, Transitions Optical, along with Visionworks, today announces the Top 10 Sights to See in Chicago, and brings an exciting, interactive experience area aimed at educating consumers of all ages about the role of proper eye care and eyewear in seeing all of the 'sights' around you – whether on vacation or in your own backyard – to Taste of Chicago, July 11 – 15.Leading up to Taste of Chicago, Transitions Optical, in conjunction with national travel expert and National Geographic best-selling author, Marybeth Bond, identified the Top 25 Sights to See in Chicago and encouraged Chicago-area residents and tourists to vote on which of those made up the Top 10. After receiving nearly 2,000 votes, the Top 10 Sights to See in Chicago are Millennium Park, Navy Pier, Shedd Aquarium, Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Art Institute of Chicago, Skydeck Chicago, Wrigley Field, 900 North Michigan Shops, Buckingham Fountain, and Lincoln Park Zoo.Transitions Optical's on-site experience will invite event attendees to celebrate sight by offering the opportunity to have their photos taken at a kiosk against the scenic, Chicago-themed background of their choice; the chance to win prizes including the Ultimate Sightseeing Dream Vacation to the Galapagos Islands; giveaways with healthy vision and sightseeing tips, and much more. "Participating in Taste of Chicago and highlighting the Top 10 Sights to See in the city provide relevant opportunities to raise awareness about healthy, enhanced vision and the role it plays in 'sightseeing,'" said Dan McLean, marketing manager, communications, Transitions Optical. "Throughout the festival this week, we hope to remind people to take care of their eyes so they can enjoy all of the 'sights' in their lives, whether traveling or at home."Marybeth Bond – who is also known as "The Gutsy Traveler" and has been to more than 90 countries – will be visiting the Top 10 Sights to See in Chicago, documenting her experience at these locations and sharing how healthy vision has impacted her own travels."Having traveled around the world, I know how important it is to take care of your eyes," said Marybeth Bond. "Without proper eye care and eyewear, your ability to see and enjoy the sights – whether you are on the road, in Chicago, or in your own backyard – can be affected."Joining Transitions Optical on-site at Taste of Chicago is Visionworks, offering complimentary vision screenings to children and adult attendees as well as distributing coupon offers."With more than 30 Visionworks stores in the Chicago area, we are thrilled to be a part of this exciting event with Transitions Optical" said Joseph Plott, director of merchandising, Visionworks of America, Inc. "To commemorate the event, we will be providing a special offer on Transitions® lenses to Taste attendees and hope to provide free vision screenings to more than 500 members of the Chicago area community."The Food Network's Chef Robert Irvine, host of Restaurant: Impossible, will join Transitions Optical and Visionworks at Taste of Chicago on Sunday, July 15, to discuss the relationship between a nutritious diet and healthy eyesight and to share his own stories about the importance of healthy, enhanced vision in his own life and career. Chef Irvine will also be available for autograph signings and photos with Taste of Chicago attendees on-site at the Transitions adaptive lenses tent.Hundreds of people have already learned more about the connection between healthy, enhanced vision and sightseeing at City Tour stops in Miami, Dallas and Seattle; the tour continues in New Orleans this fall. To find out when the Sightseeing City Tour will be near you, to vote and enter the Sight of the Day Photo Contest, visit www.seemoresights.com.About Transitions Optical, Inc.Transitions Optical is a joint venture of PPG Industries, Inc. and Essilor International. The first to successfully commercialize a plastic photochromic lens in 1990, today the company is a leading provider of photochromics to optical manufacturers worldwide. Transitions Optical offers the most advanced photochromic technology in the widest selection of lens designs, materials and brand names. Transitions® lenses are the ideal everyday choice for healthy sight. They are clear indoors and at night. Outdoors, they automatically darken as light conditions change. Transitions lenses provide visual comfort, and enhance visual quality by reducing glare and enhancing contrast, helping you to see better today. Transitions lenses block 100 percent of harmful UVA and UVB rays – helping to protect the health and wellness of your eyes – so you can see better tomorrow as well. For more information about the company and Transitions lenses, visit Transitions.com or contact Transitions Optical Customer Service at (800) 848-1506 (United States) or (877) 254-2590 (Canada).


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By Roger Curtis, president, Michigan International Speedway
What should have been a shining moment for the sport of NASCAR and all the racetracks, especially those in the Midwest, has sadly, potentially, put all of us back several steps – maybe even years.
A sellout NASCAR race at Kentucky Speedway should have signaled the continuation of great things for race fans in the Midwest and for our sport.
Unfortunately Saturday' night's events became an exercise in blame and unpreparedness – and race fans, corporate partners, media and drivers were caught in the middle.
As a track promoter I am saddened and embarrassed about what happened this weekend. To think all the hard work that we've done here at Michigan International Speedway and other tracks have done could be so quickly erased by Saturday's events. That speedway, having been open for racing since 2000, should have known the challenges it would face when it tripled in size.
Just to be clear: This isn't about kicking a race track when it's down. We all make mistakes and MIS has certainly had past issues with traffic.
And it isn't about trying to sway a Kentucky Speedway ticketholder to come to Michigan – though we will be happy to treat them the way they should be treated should they want to give us a chance.
It's about apologizing and doing what's right when you are clearly in the wrong. It is about having your priorities right in the first place – on the fan experience.
That's why I'm upset.
It is bad enough the racetrack went into the weekend knowing traffic was going to be worse than they had previously had with other series. But to think Bruton Smith made light of it with the media, and then pointed the finger at the State of Kentucky when posed with traffic questions is unfathomable.
We work tirelessly with our legislators and local officials to ensure traffic moves efficiently and safely. We collaborate with local communities, our state, public safety officials and first-responders to ensure an event at Michigan International Speedway is a true public-private partnership; and not a business threatening to hold its region hostage to meet our demands.
It appears the mentality at some other racetracks today is to see how much money they can make off a fan. Their line of thinking is to ban coolers, have fire sales on last-minute tickets, build, build, build without thinking, thinking, thinking, and blame others for their mistakes.
Don't get me wrong: We are not perfect. But we listen to our fans, we recognize our shortcomings and we try to overcome them so race fans don't feel the burden. Most importantly, we learn from them so those mistakes don't happen again.
Michigan International Speedway is sincere when we say we want to do things for our fans to grow our business. That's why we lowered ticket prices for all our loyal fans, why we launched a Fan Appreciation program, why we have a Fan Advisory Board, why we allow larger coolers in the grandstands, why parking is always free and plenty, why we have invested more than $60 million in our facility the past four years, why we continue to work with the State of Michigan, the Michigan Department of Transportation, the Michigan State Police to manage race-day traffic and why we have real race fans give a Fans' Trophy to the winning driver in Victory Lane.
We try really hard to educate our fans on traffic and our facility, have a system of feedback and information sharing with all our guests, and we listen to our guests about changes we need to make to grow our business. Fans are our bottom line.
On behalf of the MIS staff, I apologize to all the race fans whose expectations were not met this weekend, but also to those who read all the stories and were taken back by the treatment other people received.
That is not how we do business at our racetrack – and it's certainly not indicative of how every track operates. I hope fans recognize this and realize the vast majority in this great sport (not just tracks, but NASCAR officials, drivers and owners, as well) are working hard for the fans and do have their priorities right.
We do not take our guests for granted and we pledge to do everything we can every day to make your experience at MIS the best it can be.
We won't undercut our loyal customers with a knee-jerk ticket offer to make up for what happened on Saturday. But we will match what our loyal customers received by offering any race fan who has not had their expectations met at any racetrack with our lowest ticket price of the season for seats in Turns 1 and 3. Send us your race ticket and you can purchase a reserved ticket for $45 for the August 21 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway.
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Roger Curtis, the president of Michigan International Speedway, is a 20-year veteran of motorsports administration. Before his time at MIS, Curtis was at Auto Club Speedway in California, Richmond International Raceway and Watkins Glen International in New York.
Involved in motorsports since 1991, he has owned his own motorsports marketing and communications company and has worked with Bobby Allison Motorsports, Bill Davis Racing and NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Bobby Dotter.
He's a NASCAR fan and counts family time, the outdoors, music and cooking among his many interests.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of SpeedwayMedia.com.


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The eye is a delicate thing. Most ocular implants that get too hands-on with your squishy sightballs cause rejections problems, but a new implant developed by the Boston Retinal Implant project shrinks the components significantly, allowing your eye to take on its cyborg enhancements without casting them off violently as unwelcome invaders.
For people with retinal diseases like acute macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa, vision is impared because the retina's photo-sensing cells become unreceptive to light; however, the nerves leading from the eye to the brain (the most Monster cables) are generally left in good shape. Implants like this one stimulate the sleepy retina cells with electric current, which is generated from the wirelessly-powered coil surrounding the iris and processed by a microcontroller in the tiny titanium case that sits on the outside of the eyeball.
This iteration is the first to have components small enough to be mostly external, which is less complicated from a bio-rejection standpoint. So to go where lasers can't, hopefully Eye 3.0 tech like this will pick up the slack. [Technology Review]


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In what could be considered the feel good story of the summer, one of our very own followed his wakeboarding dream to Florida. Brandon Judd was featured in WakeWorld's November 2009 Rider Link interview. After we interviewed him out in San Diego, Brandon and his wife decided to pack up the wakeboards and head east to follow his dream. Few people can actually say that they have followed their dream, or at least attempted it, but Brandon was going to be one of those few. That Rider Link interview helped to jump start Brandon's wakeboarding career in Florida by landing him a coaching job at The Wakeboard Camp. So in December of 2009, Brandon hit the road and moved to the wakeboarding mecca known as Clermont, Florida. He began coaching in February. Shortly after that he also landed a job at Orlando Watersports Complex (OWC) as a cable operator and also got some time in working with Kyle Schmidt at Learnwake.com. If that isn't a big enough list of achievements, Brandon has also been working on his graphic arts skills, becoming proficient enough to design a custom WakeWorld board graphic that was put on a CWB Transcend and given away to a lucky winner of a WakeWorld contest! He's also done the graphic for the 2010 Wakeology Stoke 132 and an upcoming 2011 Wakeology line of boards. Impressive to say the least. Keep an eye out for this kid who has been infiltrating the wake industry as both a rider, coach and designer. This brings us to the summer of 2010. In a strange stroke of luck, Greg Solesbee of Solesbee Auto Crafts in Yorba Linda ran across a random online friend request from Brandon that eventually led to them to becoming friends in real life. Greg is an avid wakeboarder that can usually be found in his X-Star on Lake Elsinore early in the morning. Greg would normally make a pilgrimage to The Wakeboard Camp for a week to progress his riding, but with the current economy that has become a little difficult. After a few discussions with Brandon, it was decided to bring The Wakeboard Camp to California for a week of instruction on Lake Elsinore. Between Greg and Brandon, the networking began and 30 people between the ages of 6 and 60 came out to get some instruction from Brandon. A gift bag was given out to each rider, which included a free one-week subscription to LearnWake.com, The Book DVD demo reel and 15% off coupons to Wakesports Unlimited. Randall Harris came out one of the days and was nice enough to chat with the riders for a bit and let them watch as he took a set. Wakesports Unlimited provided enough gear to pack the boat full for everyone to try, including demo boards from Humanoid. With riders learning to get up for their first time to riders learning their first inverts or spins, it was a huge success for everyone. Probably the single biggest misconception associated with "coaching" is that it is only for advanced riders. Have you ever thought of how many crashes or other injuries you have sustained while trying to learn that new trick. Have you calculated how much gas is used in the boat turning around to pick you up for yet another try gone wrong. Well, maybe that money would be better used for getting some professional instruction. With proper instruction you'll often learn faster and sustain fewer injuries. Not to mention the fact that the single biggest reason that we wakeboard is to have fun, and what could be more fun than taking some time off and spending it at a wakeboard camp, be it a day, a week or even more. Consider including a little professional help in your future and I'm sure your body and newly-acquired bag of tricks will thank you for it!
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Vail Daily columnist Butch Mazzuca: We should be the model for the world
After returning from Vietnam in 1970 and before being discharged from the Marine Corps, I briefly and fortuitously became involved with multi-level marketing. (A friend invites you to see a "business opportunity." You in turn contact five of your friends, and so on.)
I used the word fortuitous because the individual who sponsored me introduced me to the efficacy of positive thinking. Reflecting back, I probably spent as much time with my sponsor incorporating ideas from various self-help books as I did trying to build the business.
I can see the covers of those books today: "The Magic of Thinking Big," "Think and Grow Rich," "How to Win Friends and Influence People," and the "Lead the Field" messages by Earl Nightingale.
Self-help books aren't everyone's cup of tea. Nevertheless, and without realizing it at the time, applying the principles contained in those books provided the foundation I needed for the job market I was to enter 11 months later.
Each author's message was presented differently, but each book was underpinned by the belief we lived in a country where anything was possible, and more importantly, that we were masters of our own destiny.
I was 25 when I was discharged from the Corps. My bank account had just under $2,000. I had a new wife and no clue as to what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. Nonetheless, I never doubted I would be successful.
My first job didn't pay much in salary. However, I doubled it with sales commissions in my first year as I continually applied the lessons learned from those books.
Three years later, I was receiving job offers. I accepted one from an international insurance brokerage that asked me to open an office in Denver, which I did.
There were rough spots in the early days. I mean when our entire staff consisted of an assistant and me, and we were competing with established firms with numerous specialists. Success wasn't guaranteed. Nonetheless, we grew and prospered, never doubting the end result.
When I retired in 1999, our office employed 65 people and was considered one of the premier insurance brokerage houses in Denver.
So why did I use almost half this commentary writing a mini-biography? I wanted to illustrate that never once during my career did I ever worry about my future. I never doubted that living in America, if I applied basic principles and took responsibility for my actions, opportunity would always be there.
Recently, I was watching a political talk show with my 92-year-old father-in-law, who unexpectedly reproved, "Who cares who wins this election? It's not going to make any difference anyway."
I was speechless. After collecting my thoughts, I asked Mort how long he had felt this way. He replied that during the past few years the situation in this country has gotten so bad he didn't believe anyone could turn it around.
My father-in-law's words weren't just sad, they were tragic. He had lost hope. I've heard similar comments from young people, as well, and that's even more depressing. What happened to the America where people believed in a better tomorrow?
The words "it's not going to make an difference anyway" epitomize the true malfeasance of this administration. Its ideology and attendant policies have sucked the very spirit from millions of Americans. Never in my lifetime have I experienced such pessimism about the future from so many diverse sources.
Many foresaw this state of affairs when, in one of his first statements as president, Barack Obama dismissed the notion of American exceptionalism, a notion that emphasizes that with hard work, perseverance and taking personal responsibility anyone could realize their dreams.
Condi Rice, Sonia Sotomayor and Steve Jobs weren't born with silver spoons in their mouths. Yet each has been enormously successful and did so by earning their success themselves. Their respective accomplishments included being held accountable for the consequences of their actions, a concept that appears to have lost currency under this administration.
At some point the president must take personal responsibility for what has occurred on his watch. This blame your predecessor drivel has not only gotten old, it also demeans the office. The president seems not to understand the Founders envisioned a nation of equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.
For more than 200 years, America has been the economic model for the world, but that's changed during the last three and a half years.
My greatest apprehension is for our grandkids, because unless we change course now, I fear Mr. Obama will finish transforming us from the land of opportunity where upward mobility has been a way of life for 230 years into a European-style socialized democracy with diminished economic opportunities and where government, not the individual, is pre-eminent.
Quote of the day: "Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' exactly what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?" — Thomas Sowell
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In November 1993, the City of Port Colborne implemented a program of universal water metering on all services in the municipal distribution system. Prior to the water meter program, only certain industrial, commercial and institutional customers, including the bulk water haulers, (approximately 360 out of 6,000 connections) were metered.
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Meter technology has advanced since the early 90's, and as radio frequency (RF) meters became more affordable, the City purchased and installed RF meters in new homes and replaced any failed analog meters with RF meters. Before the meter project was initiated in January 2015, approximately 12%, or 750, of the City's 6,000 water meters had been upgraded to RF meters. They were not installed in a specific location, but were scattered throughout the City.
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The process to create additional Employment Lands within the City of Port Colborne began with a study in 2010. This study identified several parcels of land on the east side of the Welland Canal north of Second Concession Road. Of the several parcels identified, Site 4 contained City owned lands that are capable of being serviced for future industrial development.
AECOM completed a presentation of the preliminary design and developable lands at the January 26, 2015 Regular Meeting of Council.
Staff have been actively working with AECOM to finalize the Master Plan Project Report as well as the detailed design of the water and sanitary services for the area. The Draft Master Plan Project Report and 90% Detailed Design Drawings were reviewed by City Staff in March 2016. The Master Plan Project Report will be available for Public viewing later in 2016.
Notice of Completion January 19, 2017
Master Plan Project File Report January 2017 Vol 1
Master Plan Project File Report January 2017 Vol 2
Report 2016-212 Project Status Update Report December 2016
Report 2015-181 Progress Update October 2015
Report 2015-15 Progress Update January 2015
Report 2013-28 Site Servicing for Phase 1
Water Distribution System Infrastructure Needs Study
The City of Port Colborne is responsible for water distribution to approximately 19,200 residents. The City's current Water Distribution System Infrastructure Needs Study (WDSINS) was completed in 1996; the majority of the recommended capital upgrades have been implemented.
The City of Port Colborne initiated a WDSINS in 2012 that investigated alternatives for a long range capital and operating plan for the City's potable water distribution system.
Subsequently, a WDINS was budgeted for in the Financial Plan, and was budgeted to be completed every 5-6 years in the future. Undertaking an INS every 5-6 years will ensure that the most up-to-date information is available for the preparation of the Financial Plan (which has to be re-submitted with the license renewal every 5 years), and will result in more meaningful projections and expenditure forecasting.
The WDSINS provides the City with strategies necessary to manage infrastructure improvements and growth in the most effective and efficient manner. The study also identifies the individual projects required to complement these strategies, and prioritize these projects based on need.
The study was conducted in accordance with the Master Plan Approach of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (Class EA) process.
The WDINS was completed in 2014. Engineering & Operations Department-Engineering Division Report 2014-31 was presented to Council in September 2014.
Report 2014-31 Water INS Update
Report 2012-08 Water INS Award
Notice of Public Information Centre
PIC Nov 24 2014
Notice of Study Completion
Storm Sewer System Infrastructure Needs Study
The City of Port Colborne covers an area of approximately 12,380 ha with a serviced area of 2,388 ha and a population of approximately 19,200. The City provides storm drainage through a network of storm sewers, ditches and municipal drains.
The City of Port Colborne initiated a Storm Sewer System Infrastructure Needs Study (SSINS) in 2012. The objective of the Study is to undertake a comprehensive analysis and review of the City's existing storm sewer network to identify existing and potential future deficiencies in the collection of storm water runoff and address storm water discharge quality.
The City is committed to developing a comprehensive plan that will incorporate all facets of the management, expansion and funding of the Storm Drainage System over a 25 year timeframe.
The Study provides the City with strategies necessary to manage infrastructure improvements and growth in the most effective and efficient manner. The study will also identify the individual projects required to complement these strategies, and prioritize these projects based on need.
The study was conducted in accordance with the Master Plan Approach of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (Class EA) process.
The SSINS was completed in 2014. Engineering & Operations Department-Engineering Division Report 2014-32 was presented to Council in September 2014.
Notice of Public Information Centre
PIC November 24 2014
Notice of Study Completion
Final Report Storm Sewer System INS
CSO Management Plan (Inflow & Infiltration Reduction Program)
In conjunction with the Regional Municipality of Niagara, the City of Port Colborne is committed to reducing unnecessary sewage treatment costs, the potential for basement flooding, and combined sewer overflows, by reducing infiltration of storm water to the sanitary sewage collection and treatment system through its Extraneous Flow Reduction Program. It is estimated that the City spends approximately $ 1 Million each year treating storm water in the sanitary system. These costs are directly absorbed through the City's water and sewer rates.
Sewer Use By-Law
City of Port Colborne Council acting on recommendations from Senior City Staff recently passed a Sewer Use By-Law in support of the Extraneous Flow Reduction Program, making participation in the program mandatory for private property owners to allow City Staff, or those appointed by the City, to inspect private sewer services and private property for sources of extraneous flow. The purpose of the private service inspections is to assess the condition of the private sewer lateral on your property and determine if any repairs or modifications are necessary to disconnect any sources of rain water. Should the inspection indicate that repair work is necessary, financial assistance is available through the new Sewer Use By-Law , and is anticipated to be sufficient to cover most, if not all costs.
Extraneous Flow Reduction Program - Nickel Area and Omer Area
The City has completed the studies in the Nickel and Omer Areas. Recommendations from these studies will need to be budgeted in future years to begin addressing the items found. The studies concluded that both areas require upgrades to the storm sewers in order to redirect the sump pumps that currently discharge into the sanitary sewer.
The majority of the properties in the study areas were found to have grading that is not conducive to the discharge of sump pumps overland meaning that some type of other connection would be required to the storm sewer to facilitate the disconnection of the sump pump from the sanitary sewer.
In support of its commitment to reducing inflow and infiltration, the City passed a Sewer Use By-law (No.5228/134/08) mandating the disconnection of sump pumps, foundation drains and other such sources, from the sanitary sewer system. To encourage public participation in the program, the by-law includes provisions for financial assistance to complete the necessary repair or retrofit work. Participation in the I&I Program is mandatory.
Please contact Jim Huppunen, A.Sc.T. regarding the above project at firstname.lastname@example.com or 905-835-2900 ext. 221
Nickel Area Inflow and Infiltration Reduction Program Final Report
Arena Pumping Station Study Area
The Arena Area study is now complete. A final report was presented to Counil on November 28, 2011 noting that a successful reduction in extraneous flows was achieved. Cost savings in the Arena Area will amount to approximately $115,000 annually.
We would like to thank all residents in the Arena Area who have participated in this project.
Report 2016-09 Update January 2016
Report 2014-30 Update Nickel Area September 2014
Report 2014-29 Update Omer Area September 2014
Report 2012-3 CSO Management Plan Application for Funding
Report 2011-31 Award for Sanitary Lateral Replacements on First Avenue
Report 2011-19 Update on the Omer Pumping Station Area Extraneous Flow Reduction Program
Report 2011-17 Update on the Arena Pumping Station Area Extraneous Flow Reduction Program
Report 2011-07 Annual Water Quality Report for 2010
Report 2011-01 CSO 2011 Funding Application
Report 2010-21 Request to Proceed with Issuing Fines in the Arena Pumping Station Area
Report 2010-2 CSO 2010 Funding Application
Report 2009-51 Update December 2009
Report 2009-33 Award of Rehabilitation Work
Report 2009-08 Proposed Incentive Funding Etraneous Flows Source Removal
Report 2008-86 CSO 2009 Funding Application
Report 2008-80 CSO Management Plan Sewer Use By-Law Adoption
Report 2008-61 CSO Management Action Plan Proposal for Engineering Services


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3150 North Lake Shore Drive
Commute to Downtown Chicago
Most errands can be accomplished on foot.
Transit is convenient for most trips.
Flat as a pancake, excellent bike lanes.
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3150 North Lake Shore Drive has a Walk Score of 88 out of 100. This location is Very Walkable so most errands can be accomplished on foot.
3150 North Lake Shore Drive is a 17 minute walk from the Brown Line, the Purple Line and the Red Line at the Belmont stop.
This location is in the Lakeview neighborhood in Chicago. Nearby parks include Lincoln Park, Evergreen Park and Lincoln Park.
Explore how far you can travel by car, bus, bike and foot from 3150 North Lake Shore Drive.
3150 North Lake Shore Drive has excellent transit which means transit is convenient for most trips. Car sharing is available from Zipcar, I-GO and RelayRides.
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Red Line
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Words are always dessert.
I was sixteen when I first I ate dinner at his house.
And when the plates were cleaned, forks laid down, when it'd seem commonplace to nod thanks to the cook and push back the chairs, his family bowed their heads and his Father opened a Bible.
It was thick and tattered, had a multitude of bookmarks sticking out from all the pages, and he read from that Scripture in an even thicker Dutch accent. Chapter finished, he'd close the book, look around the table, choose one of the sons to close the meal the way it began, in a word of prayer.
And then, only then, would the chairs would push away, the souls fed.
It's the way he was raised, the way his parents had been raised back in the homeland. You never leave the table without chewing the Real Bread. Even if there were cows to milk and you had to run, or you were late for prayer meeting at the church, or you had company for dinner. If you sat down to eat, you never left the table without eating Words.
Because the food served on plates, isn't it the rotting and dead?
"Food itself is dead, it is life that has died and it must be kept in refrigerators like a corpse," offers theologian Alexander Schmemann.
The food served on plates is but a a corpse, the dead food, and when we partake of it, we eat of the dying world. But when we eat Scripture, we eat the only real food, for Christ is Living Bread and eating He who sustains all things, sustains body and soul.
When we eat His Words, we eat of the eternal world.
"Man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD." ~ Deu. 8:3
The Word of God is what is living and active, Word that can revive the hungry and when we eat the Book, the cells in the body, they rejuvenate, enlivened with the true strength.
Broken and starving, I need that.
Eating Scripture three times a day, it's the one spiritual habit that has most changed us — because a body, famished, needs to eat and there's only one way to eat life.
To live Christ-centric is to live Word-Centric.
When we married, woke together in a home that we were to make, he first hung a shelf by the kitchen table: a place to keep Food that didn't need a fridge.
This way of eating, the way all his siblings ate now in their own families, it was new to me, a new way of eating, living, being.
It came strange at first, awkward.
But it was his quiet way: he never got up from a meal without opening the Bible.
Babies came and toddlers sat at the table. If they ate from a spoon, they too ate the sweet of Scripture, even just a verse or two. Not long, not arduous… but Words, the rich and the divine, our dessert.
Babies cried and toddlers squirmed and company came and we had appointments and there were places to go and work to be done, but Farmer Husband gently taught by simple habits, everyday rhythms, that if we've eaten the dead food, we eat the Living Food.
It's a menu that becomes second nature, like putting a pitcher of water always on the table — its not hard to eat or drink –
What is our appetite for? Who satisfies our hunger?
Babies became children, the toddlers, teens, and the shelf is now a box with a Bible for each one, and we pass them out at the end of each meal and Farmer Husband, he quietly, humbly, takes us through the Bible, a few verses at a time, a book at a time.
Breakfast, lunch and supper, we swallow morsels.
Every family happily eats uniquely, menus and routines and foods that suit their lifestyle, their tastes….
For us here…
6 Ways to Develop the Habit of Daily Family Bible Reading
- We read 10-15 verses at a time, chronologically through a book of the Bible, less with little children, more with older. We want to savor, chew long.
- We give each person their own Bible, their own serving, so each person can see Words, what they're eating.
- We read the Words aloud together, eat like a communal meal. Like we help little ones eat with the fork, we help little ones with words — oh how they smile, reading Scripture on their own…
- We discuss, serve the Words around. Children explain meaning, offer summaries, ask questions. Parents taste conviction, confess, repent.
- We meditate, listen to the Spirit, let each quietly chew the words
- We close in prayer, voices around the table, sometimes too with a hymn
It seems long. It isn't.
It seems good. It is — but only for us. But there are many ways for a family to eat Living Words andno one right way. As gathering in each family's home is a beautiful one-of-a-kind experience, so each family eats Words in their own special, creative way.
It seems perfect. It isn't. Days when I sadly want to rush, when children tussle over Bibles (and they are all the same!), when we read too fast and a little cries and no one pays attention. But some meals too are simply edible, hardly memorable –but we don't stop eating. We try the dish again or we change the way we eat or we just smile and set the table with candles next time. Always, we just eat again — we don't give up.
After the plates are scraped clean of after every meal, then always this rhythm that's messy but certain,
"Open the Bible box? Pass out the Bibles?"
The wooden lid opens like a fridge to stacks of Bibles and the only food living, sweet and filling and alive — radical life to the bones and all that hungers deep….
Five Ways to Eat the Bible Together:
There are varied ways to eat healthy, and we often eat differently in different seasons… so it goes with Manna from heaven.
Here are some spiritual diets we've lived:
1. In Slow time…
Instead of swallowing large portions of scripture, certain seasons we eat very slowly, savoring only a few verses at a time by first listening to His Word, reading only a few verses…. then I linger, quietly meditating on those 2-3 verses, turning the words over and over…. then to lift voice in prayer, pray the Scriptures back to God… and then live the Words, contemplate on the verses long, and throughout the day, that hand and feet and tongue might do them.
For more: How to Savor the Bible
2. In Community…
In addition to meal-time meditations, there have been seasons where we've had personal quiet time together as a family, so children see parents savoring truth and parents can model how to eat.
For more: Communal Quiet Time
3. In Audio …
I'm making it a habit that when I clean, or run the morning routine, do domestic tasks, to always slip in another disk of the audio Bible: clean the heart while cleaning the house.
For More: Listen for free every day to the Daily Audio Bible and what I have in the stereo: Inspired By . . . The Bible Experience
4. In a Year …
There have been many seasons where I've read the Bible in a year. Perhaps my most favorite plan was with this plan on a bookmark, that has only 25 readings slotted a month, allowing for five catch-up days. And no flipping back and forth to find the plan…. Just tuck in the bookmarks. And begin whatever time of the year with whatever Bible you have.
- Free Bookmarks for easy Bible-in-a-year Reading Plan — from John Piper's Bethlehem Baptist
5. In Book Repeat …
This way of eating Scripture has yielded very toned, healthy souls and I highly recommend it to hungry hearts. I have found "the book repeat" way of Scripture reading truly lets a soul ruminate on Truth powerfully and effectively. Simply:
a. select a shorter book of the Bible (I've chosen Philippians once, Colossians another)
b. read it through
c. Then repeat, twenty times, reading at a your usual pace, considering the book as a whole meal…
As recommended by James M. Gray (1851-1935), in "How to Master the English Bible"
"The first practical help I ever received in the mastery of the English Bible was from a layman. We were fellow-attendants at a certain Christian conference or convention and thrown together a good deal for several days, and I saw something in his Christian life to which I was a comparative stranger –a peace, a rest, a joy, a kind of spiritual poise I knew little about.
One day I ventured to ask him how he had become possessed of the experience, when he replied, "By reading the epistle to the Ephesians." I was surprised, for I had read it without such results, and therefore asked him to explain the manner of his reading, when he related the following:
He had gone into the country to spend the Sabbath with his family on one occasion, taking with him a pocket copy of Ephesians, and in the afternoon, going out into the woods and lying down under a tree, he began to read it; he read it through at a single reading, and finding his interest aroused, read it through again in the same way, and, his interest increasing, again and again.
I think he added that he read it some twelve or fifteen times, "and when I arose to go into the house," said he, "I was in possession of Ephesians, or better yet, it was in possession of me, and I had been 'lifted up to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus' in an experimental sense in which that had not been true in me before, and will never cease to be true in me again."
I confess that as I listened to this simple recital my heart was going up in thanksgiving to God for answered prayer, the prayer really of months, if not years, that I might come to know how to master His Word."
For More info on Repeat method: Evangelical Outpost: How to Change Your Mind… HT: Tonia
The only way that one really must read the Bible? Regularly…. Like Jesus did it, by habit: "He stood up to read as was his custom" (Lk. 4:26).
Just like it is our custom to sit down at the table hungry, and pass down the bowl of potatoes, steaming and heaped….
Then He said to me, "Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll…
So I opened my mouth, and He fed me this scroll.
He said to me, "Son of man, feed your stomach and fill your body with this scroll which I am giving you."
Then I ate it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth.
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Apple's long history of keeping its secrets locked behind the walls of 1 Infinite Loop has changed over recent years.
Gone is Apple's ability to surprise everyone with "one more thing. "
With all the blogs paying attention to every potential new feature on the next iPhone or the latest iPad, it is getting harder for Tim Cook and company to keep Cupertino from chirping.
It also doesn't help when Apple employees lose prototype phones in bars.
One particular publication that has a strong track record of being able to predict what Jony Ive is building in Apple's design studio is The Wall Street Journal.
And Wednesday the business paper reported that the newest iPhone will have a larger screen than previous years and that Apple is also testing out different sizes for its iPad tablet.
The paper reports that Apple will release the newest iPhone -- expected sometime this fall -- with a screen at least 4-inches wide diagonally.
The current iPhone has a 3.5-inch screen.
Apple is reportedly working with several screen makers on the latest iPhone.
Reports of Apple working on a 4-inch screen for its iPhone and a smaller 7-inch iPad have been circling for months.


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The Top 10 Streaming Scary Movies of Today (According to Netflix)
Given that Netflix really is the master of their own data, how many times a viewer streams The Ridiculous 6, or what films don't get watched all the way straight through, or how many times someone watches an episode of Bill Nye Saves the World, it was easy for them to come up with the list based on just one percentage: 70 percent.
The Rise of the Throwback Movie/TV Poster
The Apparent Mystery of Art-House Horror and Why It Pushes the Envelope (Sometimes Too Much)
3 Top Animal Actors in Horror Films
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A Nationwide Study on Most "Talked-About" Horror Movies Reveals It All
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What It Takes to Be a Diamond Jubilee Queen
After 60 years on the throne, 12 prime ministers, and 11 presidents, Queen Elizabeth II is only the second British queen to celebrate a Diamond Jubilee. And, at 29, Prince William isn't much older than his grandmother was when she ascended the throne. Speaking of her grace under pressure, the Duke of Cambridge said the queen was "a woman in a man's world, stepping into what everyone thought only a man could do" when she "brilliantly" handled the monarchy at 26. From televising the coronation to maintaining a Facebook page, Her Majesty has left a mark on many a stage, but she's not giving an interview—or texting her grandsons—any time soon.
Great-Grandchildren From Will and Kate?
What's a royal family special without Kate Middleton baby speculation? After Prince William praised his "granny" for her courage serving the country, the subject turned to the family plans of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. But, don't hold your breath. William said he's "keen to have a family," though he's not giving anything away, yet. "You won't get anything out of me," he said, adding that he's "tight-lipped" on the subject. As for the queen's future great-grandchildren, William said he'll decide his career plans before anything else. First comes the Diamond Jubilee, then comes baby?
Prince Harry: My Mom 'Would Have Loved Kate'
Prince William was "elated"—and "terrified"—on his wedding day, but one emotion that wasn't obvious for the 2 billion viewers was his longing for his mother. While Prince Harry said Princess Diana would have more than approved of her daughter-in-law, his brother told Katie Couric he had to mentally prepare for his mother's absence from the nuptials. "It's the one time since she's died where I've thought to myself, 'It'd be fantastic if she was here,'" Prince William said. Watch the emotional moment.
The Queen's Response to Princess Di's Death
Since taking the throne in 1952, the queen seldom has had a misstep when responding to the public. In the wake of Princess Diana's death, though, she faced criticism for a seemingly delayed response to the tragedy. After she waited five days to address the public, it became apparent that the queen sought to protect her grandsons from the media circus. "I think we all have to face the twists and turns. Some elements of change one would wish didn't happen," Prince Andrew, Queen Elizabeth's third child, said. In the end, she faced the tragedy "magnificently," in the words of Tony Blair.
A Home Fit for a Queen
What does a house that takes 1,200 people to maintain look like? The Buckingham Palace balcony might be reserved for royals only, but Katie Couric got a look inside Queen Elizabeth's stunning 775-room digs. Just steps away from where Kate Middleton and Prince William shared that famous kiss, Couric got a tour of the famed residence, plus a peek behind a secret door that leads to the private rooms. Watch the ABC host meet the queen herself.


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|Stanton Friedman
In February (2009), Friedman wrote an article, "Debunkers at it Again," reviewing our UFO special issue (http://www.theufochronicles.com/2009/02/debunkers-at-it-again.html). "In actuality, the active writers and "investigators" aren't skeptics. They are Debunkers doing their best to pull the wool over the eyes of a curious public. They know the answers, so don't really need to investigate. Proclamation is more their style. Deception is the name of the game."
Friedman goes on to name names: He critiques Joe Nickell's article "Return to Roswell " by noting that Nickell is a former magician, and "of course the stock in trade of magicians is intentional deception with another sterling example being the Amazing Randi." So by Friedman-logic, anyone who has ever practiced prestidigitation can never again be trusted in anything. He criticizes Nickell for raising "the baseless Project Mogul explanation" for Roswell, which cannot be correct, says Friedman, because it does not match the claims made in later years by alleged Roswell witnesses (although it does match quite well the account of Mac Brazel, the original witness, given in 1947).
He moves on to my critique of the Betty and Barney Hill case, where I note the resemblance of their "hypnosis UFO testimony" to Betty Hill's post-incident dreams. I said, "Barney had heard her repeat [them] many times," which he claims is "nonsense." According to Friedman, "Barney read Betty's dreams once, and the notes were put in a drawer," and that settles that. He conveniently forgets the passages in John G. Fuller's The Interrupted Journey, the first book about the incident, describing the long sessions Betty and Barney spent with several UFOlogists, "beginning at noon and running almost until midnight" (Chapter 3), in which all aspects of the incident were discussed again and again. He also forgets that Barney told Dr. Simon, the psychiatrist who interviewed and treated them both, that his wife had told him "a great many details of the dreams," and that Dr. Simon had concluded that the dreams of Mrs. Hill "had assumed the quality of a fantasized experience" (Chapter 12).
Friedman next attacks Dr. David Morrison, NASA senior scientist, for the "absurd" suggestion that if intelligently-controlled UFOs were here, we might pick up radio transmissions from them, or from their home planets. "Maybe secret NSA listening devices pick up alien signals, but then the NSA doesn't release info about what signals it receives," said Friedman. He also attacks Dave Thomas, "a scientist in New Mexico and president of New Mexicans for Science and Reason", saying "Dave has certainly demonstrated his lack of knowledge of both the Roswell and Aztec UFO crash retrieval cases." Thomas has conducted in-depth interviews with Dr. Charles Moore, the chief scientist of Project Mogul, whose balloon caused the Roswell crash scare in 1947. The "Aztec crash" case that Friedman seems so keen on is taken from a 1950 book by Hollywood writer Frank Scully, Behind the Flying Saucers, exposed as a hoax more than fifty years ago by newspaperman J.P. Cahn. Friedman concludes with, "the Skeptical Inquirer provides many examples of the intellectual bankruptcy of the pseudoscience of anti-ufology."
Friedman was still hot under the collar in May, when he followed this up with a second article titled the "Pseudo-Science of Anti-Ufology" (http://www.theufochronicles.com/2009/05/pseudo-science-of-anti-ufology.html ). He says that skeptics' arguments "aren't scientific, but rather represent research by proclamation rather than investigation." Given that SI's special issue on UFOs contained detailed investigative reports on the 1984 Minsk, USSR UFO sightings, the Big Sur UFO of 1964, an update on Roswell developments, and the Stephenville, Texas sightings of 2008, if this is mere "proclamation," then I can't imagine what "investigation" would look like. "Proclamations and attacks, often given the appearance of being scientific, have been launched at every aspect of the phenomena. Despite an enormous array of real evidence and data, we have been treated to false claims, false reasoning, bias and ignorance." Of course, if Friedman or anyone else could produce even one piece of "real evidence and data," the UFO debate would have been over long ago.
Friedman has long been obsessed with the little-known and even less-read Project Blue Book Special Report Number 14, a statistical analysis of UFO reports released by the Battelle Memorial Institute way back in 1955. However, he carefully picks and chooses the quotes that he uses from that report, implying it to be some hidden pro-UFO gem, deliberately ignored by skeptics. However, Friedman never reveals this quote from the Summary of BBSR14: "It is considered to be highly improbable that reports of unidentified aerial objects examined in this study represent observations of technological developments outside of the range of present-day scientific knowledge" (page viii), which means that the Report says exactly the opposite of what Friedman wants us to think it does. "Why isn't BBSR 14 cited in the debunking books?" he pointedly asks. Probably because it is over fifty years old, and contains little that is interesting or relevant today, although Alan Hendry (not a "debunker" but a very skeptical UFOlogist) did spend several pages of his UFO Handbook (Doubleday, 1979) critiquing its approach. Hendry concluded, "If the Battelle group had had a real appreciation for how loose the data were, they never would have bothered with a statistical comparison to begin with" (p. 266). [For more on Blue Book Special Report 14, see my discussion of Jacques Vallee, J. Allen Hynek, and the "Pentacle Memorandum."]
Freidman concludes, "If one makes an appropriately objective and careful examination of the pro and anti-UFO arguments, one finds that the evidence is overwhelming that Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles of extraterrestrial origin and that only pseudo-scientific arguments of a vocal but small group of debunkers stand in the way of reaching that conclusion." It's truly remarkable what we, a small group of skeptics writing for SI and similar publications, have supposedly been able to accomplish. Even though the number of people we reach in our publications is far fewer than Friedman reaches on any one of his many appearances on TV and radio programs such as Larry King Live, Coast to Coast AM, etc., he claims that the only reason that Extraterrestrial Visitations have not been accepted by the mainstream of science and the media is because we noisy negativists keep chattering against them. The reality is, of course, that if his supposed "UFO evidence" were nearly as good as he claims it to be, then nothing would be able to stand in its way.
|Betty Hill's sketch of a "UFO star map"
Fish excluded all variable stars and close binaries to include only supposedly habitable solar systems – but the new data reveals two of her stars as suspected variables, and two more as close binaries. So there go four of her 15 stars. And two more are much further away than earlier believed, removing them completely from the volume of space in question. Six stars of that supposedly exact-matching pattern, definitely gone, excluded by the very criteria that once included them using the forty-year-old data. Goodbye, Zeta Reticuli.
|Kathleen Marden, Stanton Friedman, and Robert Sheaffer at the MUFON Symposium 2011
[There is a follow-up posting to this one, dated December 17, 2012: Friedman's Frenzy.]


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A Google employee has recently said that search engines have improved so much that people are surprised when they don't get good results. When Google has been launched, users were really surprised to see relevant results, even if they were much poorer than they are today.
When you search for [iPod], you expect that the first result is iPod's homepage. Google returns a different page (iTunes homepage) and doesn't even include the iPod homepage in the list of the top 10 search results.
Bing and Yahoo Search return much better results: iPod's homepage is the top result in Bing and the second result in Yahoo Search.
The most likely explanation why Google doesn't return the most relevant results is that apple.com/ipod used to redirect to apple.com/itunes, as you can see if you check Internet Archive. The most recent version of the page cached by the Internet Archive is from October 2009 and it still redirected to the iTunes homepage.


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Cafes are a great place to have a cup of coffee, talk, and relax. Sofas are nice and all, but the world's cafes really need to take a lesson from a handful of Japanese cafes: Hammocks.
In Japan, there are at least four (maybe more!) hammock cafes as well as cafes that also have hammocks. I'm not sure if there are hammock cafes in other countries, but there really should be. You can enjoy tea, coffee, and cake, while relaxing in a hammock. What's not to like?
The most famous hammock cafe in Japan is perhaps Mahika Mano in Tokyo. It's actually a hammock showroom combined with a cafe.
There is also apparently one in Akihabara called Cafe Asan. (The hammock cafe in the top photo of this article is Cafe Asan.)
Yet another in Sapporo.
One Tokyo hammock cafe called Farmers Market even has an open-air roof where you can lay in a hammock and soak up the sun.
This is hardly the only open-air hammock cafe in Japan.
Hammock cafes appear quite popular with young women. Sitting in the hammocks has been described as "comforting." Others like swaying back and forth as they sip hot drinks. Some, I imagine, enjoy snoozing.
This young dude seems to also dig hammock cafes.
Hammock cafes have not yet exploded in popularity yet. But they should. They really, really should. Hammocks for everyone!
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As the leader of the multi-state challenge to federal health care reform, the attention will be on Florida when the U.S. Supreme Court makes its ruling next week on the merits of the law. And we're already catching a glimpse of Gov. Rick Scott's message strategy in the case that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is overturned by the High Court.
Lane Wright, the governor's press secretary, emailed the messaging strategy on Tuesday to Rob Nichols, a spokesperson for Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Kasich is a Republican, like Scott, and Ohio is one of the 25 states that joined Florida in fighting the individual mandate contained in what is commonly known as "Obamacare."
(We obtained the email through Project Sunburst, where correspondence to and from Scott and others in the Executive Office of the Governor are posted. Tip of the hat to Politifact's Katie Sanders' keen eye.)
If the court rules in Florida's favor, Wright notes, the governor's office will contrast the national economy with Florida's. The message will be the national economy under President Barack Obama's leadership is in "shambles" while Florida, under Scott, is doing well.
When it comes to healthcare, the existing national system will be touted as one that works but has become too expensive. Scott will begin talking up "four pillars of reform" to fix the issues: "increased consumer choice, increased provider competition, increased provider accountability and price transparency, and increased personal responsibility."
We haven't found any talking points in Wright's inbox regarding how Scott would react if the High Court upholds all or part of the healthcare reform law. But we'll keep our eyes open.
Here is the full text of Wright's email:
From: Wright, Lane
Sent: Tue 6/19/2012 5:02 PM
To: 'email@example.com'
Cc: Sunburst
Subject: Obamacare Information
Per your request, here's some information to supplement our previous conversation-what we're now saying.
Healthcare Law If overturned:
Focus on contrast between Federal Government vs. Florida:
· With national economy in shambles, federal government wasted resources, time and energy trying to implement a massive social program that injected nothing but uncertainty and doubt.
· Squandered any chance of fixing our economy
· Meanwhile, here in Florida, we focused energy, time and resources on fixing the economy
· The difference is dramatic. National economy is anemic. Florida has had 11 straight months of improving unemployment
Where do we go from here?
· The only problem with our health care system is rapidly rising costs
· The US has one of the best health care systems in the world; we just have to make it more affordable.
· To fix it, there are four pillars of reform
o Increased Consumer choice
o Increased provider competition
o Increased provider accountability and price transparency
o Increased personal responsibility
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Dad's Army Dads Cast ARTHUR LOWE LAST signed Theatre Flyer
Probably the last item signed by Arthur Lowe (of Dad's Army fame), signed on Weds 14th April. He fell asleep in the changing rooms on that very day, and never regained consciousness. He died in hospital the following day. 05.45am 15th April 1982.
Also signed by the full cast of "Home at Seven" including Stuart Sherwin, who also starred in Dad's Army as Bill Pertwee's assistant ARP Warden.


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Market Scene: Saturday Farmers Market at Kapi'olani Community College, Honolulu
If the beautiful but bustling beaches of Waikiki leave you yearning for a little more local flavor, hop on the bus for a short ride out to Kapi'olani Community College. The Saturday Farmers' Market there is filled with local farmers hawking everything from live abalone to papayas to containers of taro hummus.
The market is open from 7:30 to 11 a.m., and you should definitely go for breakfast. There's a variety of hot food vendors and if you're like me, you'll have a hard time choosing between plates of Spam fried rice, tropical fruit and granola parfaits, and freshly fried balls of mochi. See all the photos in the slideshow »
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12 Ways to Supercharge Your Digestion
You are what you eat, according to the adage, but I say you are what you eat, digest, absorb, and assimilate. The building blocks of every cell, tissue, gland, hormone, organ, organ system are found in foods. If foods are not adequately broken down into their components like essential fatty acids (from fats), amino acids (from protein), sugars (from starchy foods), vitamins, minerals, enzymes (specialized proteins), and phytonutrients, then systems in the body begin to break down. If you are suffering from almost any health problem chances are good that your digestion is involved. The flip side is that if you improve your digestion your health will typically follow. Here are 10 ways to improve your digestion.
1. Increase the amount of raw foods in your diet. It may seem counterintuitive but if you chew them well enough, raw fruit, vegetables, sprouts, and herbs contain the enzymes needed to digest them, thereby freeing up your body's energy and improving digestion.
2. Simplify your meals. Complex meals involving starches (potatoes, rice, or pasta) and concentrated proteins (meat, poultry, or fish), topped off with a sweet dessert are a recipe for disaster. Try waiting for a couple of hours to have dessert and keep the meal focused on either starch or concentrated proteins along with lots of vegetables.
3. Using a hot water bottle on your abdomen for about one hour after eating has been shown to increase hydrochloric acid production. It's not difficult to do if you're sitting down to watch TV anyway.
4. Ensure you're getting enough of the nutrients needed by the body to manufacture hydrochloric acid. That includes several B-complex vitamins. Research shows that when brewer's yeast was added to the diet of animals deficient in the nutrients, stomach acid normalized.
5. Avoid drinking with meals or drink only enough to take medications or supplements. Water prematurely increases the pH of the stomach which neutralizes stomach acid and signals the body to move the food into the intestines—even if it is insufficiently digested.
6. Supplement with betaine hydrochloride. Avoid using this supplement if you are prone to ulcers. Many enzyme supplements also contain this ingredient.
7. Take a full-spectrum digestive enzyme to help digest food. Ideally it should include: lipase (for fats), proteases (for proteins), lactase (for milk sugar), amylase (for starches), invertase (for sugars), and cellulase and/or hemicellulase (for fiber).
8. Avoid eating when you're feeling severely stressed or overly emotional as stress hormones can interfere with adequate digestion.
9. Taking herbal bitters like common or red centaury (Centaurium minus or erythraea) or gentian (Gentiana lutea) have traditionally helped increase stomach acid and improve digestion. They are normally found in health food stores in liquid form and are taken with meals according to package directions.
10. Spices like ginger (Zingiber officinale), black pepper (Piper nigrum), and cayenne pepper (Capsicum annum) can be added to meals to aid digestion.
11. Take a full-spectrum probiotic supplement on an empty stomach. I usually find first thing in the morning or in the evening before bed is best. Beneficial bacteria are needed in the intestines to manufacture essential nutrients like vitamin B12, to keep harmful bacterial and yeast infections under control, and to ensure proper absorption of nutrients in your food. Ideally, look for one that contains a variety of Lactobacilli (L.) and Bifidobacteria (B.), including: L. rhamnosus, L. plantarum, L. acidophilus, L. paracasei, L. salivarius, B. animalis lactis, B. bifidum, B. breve, B. infantis, and B. longum.
12. Chew your food well. The stomach can't do the job of the teeth so it's important that food is well chewed by the time it gets to the stomach.


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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
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ASPEN/THE FABULOUS BAKKER BOY/SECRET LIVES (A&E, New!) - The life of unconventional minister Jamie Bakker, the lives of those who work and play at a small resort town and the lives of those who live double-lives and want to come clean are set to be the focus of three new reality pilots recently ordered by the cable channel. The former, entitled "The Fabulous Bakker Boy," will track the son of Tammy Faye and his efforts with Revolution Ministries, a church dedicated to reaching out to those who were turned off or away by more traditional congregations. World of Wonder is behind the project, with its principals Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato executive producing. Next up is "Aspen," from Stone & Co. Entertainment, which focuses on the tourists and year-round residents who work and play in the small resort town. And the latter is "Secret Lives," a one-hour project which tracks men and women who want to come clean to their friends and loved ones about the double lives they've been leading. Among the subjects: a bigamist raising families in neighboring towns and a woman who's lived her whole life as a man. Meg TV (A&E's "Sports Wives") is behind "Lives," which is being targeted as a companion to the second season of "Intervention."
CLASS ACTION (NBC, New!) - Erin Brockovich is spearheading a new legal drama at the Peacock from feature writers Mark Gibson and Phil Halprin ("Coach Snoop"). The project, which comes from Gina Matthews and Grant Scharbo's 20th Century Fox Television-based Roundtable Ink, tracks a team of high-powered lawyers - not all of whom have the most altruistic intentions - in the morally vague world of class-action lawsuits. NBC has made a script commitment to the project with a six-figure penalty if it doesn't go to pilot. Brockovich, Gibson, Halprin, Matthews and Scharbo then will all serve as executive producers.
CRIMINAL MINDS (CBS) - Feature director Richard Shepard ("The Matador"), who helmed the pilot to the Mandy Patinkin-led drama, has signed a talent holding deal with Touchstone Television. The pact calls for Shepard to direct at least one pilot for the studio, mostly likely targeted for the 2006-07 season.
MADE IN THE U.S.A. (USA) - The cable channel's latest reality offering has been bumped out of primetime following its disastrous 793,000-viewer showing last week. "Made" opened to 1.1 million viewers on Wednesday, September 14 with last week's performance marking a 27.91% drop from its lackluster premiere numbers. Even more troubling was its 63% drop in audience from its "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" lead-in that same night. The remaining episodes will now run on Thursdays at 6:00/5:00c beginning September 29 with the finale set for October 13 - one week earlier than previously indicated.
THE MAN SHOW (Comedy Central) - Videogame channel G4 has purchased the repeat rights to all 104 episodes of the one-time Comedy Central staple. The non-exclusive pact with distributors Debmar Studios and Mercury Entertainment, valued at $7.8 million, marks the largest in the network's history. Back-to-back episodes are scheduled to run weeknights at 10:00/9:00c beginning October 10 as a lead-in to "X-Play." G4 executives hope the addition of "The Man Show," as well as recently acquisition "Fastlane," will help propel the niche network beyond its sub-50,000 household viewership in primetime.
MTV ORIGINAL SERIES (MTV) - The cable channel has revised a few of its upcoming premiere and finale dates. Among them: "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County" will now run through Monday, November 7, two weeks later than previously indicated. Said move will bump the launch of "The Real World/Road Rules Challenge's" latest season to November 14. Also in November look for "The Real World's" latest edition to wrap on November 22 (with a reunion special on November 29) while lead-out "The Reality Show" is set to close on November 15.
OVER THERE (FX) - Uber-producer Steven Bochco has signed a three-year overall deal with Touchstone Television. The deal marks an end to his stay at Paramount Network Television, where his Steven Bochco Productions had been based for the past five years. Bochco will take all three of his current projects - a legal drama (with Chris Gerolmo) and a baseball comedy (with Mitchel Katlin and Nat Bernstein) at FOX as well as a cop drama at the WB - with him to Touchstone as part of the pact. It's also understood Bochco has a fourth project in the works for ABC however no details were specified.
PASADENA (FOX) - SoapNet's off-network run of the short-lived FOX series is set to begin this Saturday (October 1) at 6:00/5:00c. Episodes will encore at 9:00/8:00c that same night.
THE SHIELD (FX) - Forest Whitaker ("The Twilight Zone") is set to join the cast of the veteran cable drama when it returns for its fifth season in January. He'll play Detective Jon Kavanaugh, an ambitious newcomer to the Los Angeles Police Department's Internal Affairs division who is tasked with investigating Michael Chiklis's character and his team. No other details, such as the number of episodes he'll appear in, were given.
SONS & DAUGHTERS (ABC) - Co-creators Nick Holly and Fred Goss have signed a two-year overall deal with Touchstone Television. The pact calls for the duo to develop new projects for the studio along the lines of their midseason comedy for ABC. Said project comes from NBC Universal Television and Broadway Video Television.
UNTITLED AL ROKER PROJECT (NBC, New!) - "Today's" Al Roker and his self-titled production banner have inked a deal with the Peacock to produce a family-oriented sitcom for the network. Roker reportedly will write and executive produce - but not star in - the project, full details of which weren't given. In addition to his "Today" gig, Roker currently produces and hosts Food Network's "Roker on the Road" and Court TV's "Al Roker Investigates" among other projects. Lisa Sharkey ("Good Morning America"), Roker's company head, will likely also serve as an executive producer of the NBC project.
UNTITLED ROSIE PEREZ PROJECT (FOX, New!) - Rosie Perez ("Lackawanna Blues") has inked a one-year talent holding deal with the network. The pact calls for FOX to cast the actress, who is said to have been pursued by several networks during the past few months, in one of its upcoming projects or develop one around her, most likely a comedy.
Sources: Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Reuters


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2015 was a year I was glad to see the back of. It was horrendous.
2016 sees a fresh start. I'm drawing a line. Decluttering. Moving forward.
I've plans, dreams, and so much going on and I felt this blog was sucking me back to a place I don't want to be anymore, so I have decided the days of personal blogging are over.
You'll still find me over at Bambino Goodies and Style Arch and if you want to get in touch, you can always drop me a tweet (@claire_arch)
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Putin hails Syria's action on chemical weapons ban
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Syria's move to join an international convention banning chemical weapons has proven its good faith and reaffirmed a strong warning to the U.S. not to use force.
Speaking at a summit of an international security grouping dominated by Russia and China, Putin said the move showed that Syria has "serious intentions to follow this path."
"I would like to voice hope that this will mark a serious step toward the settlement of the Syrian crisis," Putin said.
Syria made a formal bid Thursday to join the Chemical Weapons Convention. The U.N. welcomed the move, but said that it could take 30 days for Syria to become a member.
Russia proposed Monday that Syria avoid a U.S. military strike by surrendering control over its chemical weapons to the international community for eventual dismantling. Damascus quickly jumped at the offer. Top U.S. and Russian diplomats are holding talks in Geneva to discuss the specifics.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday kept alive the threat of U.S. military action, saying after the first round of talks that the turnover of weapons must be complete, verifiable and timely - "and finally, there ought to consequences if it doesn't take place."
Chinese President Xi Jinping, who took part in the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization alongside Putin, said Beijing backs the Russian initiative and is ready to help efforts aimed at a political settlement of the crisis in the U.N. Security Council.
Iran's President Hasan Rouhani also backed the Russian plan and said Tehran could help foster a dialogue between the Syrian government and the opposition.
Putin insisted diplomatic efforts have "helped reduce the threat of a military action." He emphasized that "any military intervention without the U.N. Security Council would be inadmissible."
Russia, backed by China, has repeatedly used veto power at the Security Council to block Western resolutions calling for sanctions against Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.


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