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Water rushes down the wooden sluice causing the mammoth wheel to turn with a groan as wooden gears begin their noisy clatter and huge belts whirr. As large as a house, this engine rotates a granite wheel to grind wheat into flour. Once upon a time, every village had one; now, these gristmills are historical treasures. Although several authentically reconstructed mills are scattered throughout eastern North America, only a handful of originals have survived to modern times. Four of these can be found in the Charlevoix region, a mere hour east of Quebec City on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River.
Bread has been called the staple of life, and this dietary necessity spawned a mechanical revolution that grew to encompass mills for pumping water, sawing wood, forging metal and pumping air for iron furnaces. The first gristmill in North America was built in Nova Scotia in 1607. When Cardinal Richelieu inaugurated the seigneurial system in 1627, a church and gristmill were mandated for the centre of each estate. However, one doesn't have to be a baker, mechanic or historian to be fascinated by the mills of the Charlevoix or beguiled by their bucolic settings.
The Banal or Seigneurial Mill in Les Eboulements was built in 1790 and is the best-preserved seigneurial site in the province. Touted as being completely original, the primary wooden gearing was actually replaced by steel and cast iron at some point in the late 19th century, although the secondary belt systems appear to be original. Regardless, the beauty of the mechanical system in this particular mill is its readily visible integration of new materials without changing its original characteristics. While this is a historic site that's open to the public during the summer, it also remains a commercial business where organic wheat is still ground between antique French grindstones.
Chemin du port begins adjacent to the seigneurial property. Dropping 360 metres to St. Joseph de la Rive, it provides a panoramic view of the St. Lawrence River and Ile aux Coudres. A ferry (free) crosses to this lovely island discovered by Jacques Cartier in 1534, which was named for its abundant hazelnut bushes.
Alexis Tremblay built a gristmill on Ile aux Coudres along the stream called the Rouge River in 1825. After several years of drought rendered the mill inoperable, his son, Thomas, built a windmill on the opposite side of the brook in 1836. This was the last "tower" windmill to be built in Quebec. Both are now part of the island's Milling Economuseum, where guides in period costumes will explain the function of various components in the gristmills and the new interpretation centre provides information about their history. The gift shop even sells flour as well as bread baked on the premises in wood-fired ovens.
The Tremblay water-powered mill remained in commercial operation until 1956. Comparing the gearing system and working layout of the watermill and the windmill is especially interesting considering that they are contemporary to each other and built by the same family. From a technical standpoint, there's not much difference between Thomas Tremblay's mill of 1836 and what a wind-powered gristmill would have looked like 200 years earlier. The windmill has been restored, but to such a minimal degree that "authentic repairs" is a much better description for this gem. There are a few cast-iron components, but this is what machines looked like in the 17th and 18th century when they were made primarily of wood. There isn't another place on this continent where a windmill and watermill can be captured in the same photo.
The four gristmills in the Charlevoix region illustrate differences in architecture, the evolution of mechanics, and all are situated in settings that attract landscape painters. The Remy, located on Route 138 just north of the village of Baie St. Paul, is the largest and is similar to those built in the eastern United States during the first half of the 19th century.
In 1825, the Seminaire de Quebec commissioned Jacob Fortin to build a gristmill on the Remy River. Despite being created under Quebec's seigneurial system, the Remy was designed as a commercial venture and became so successful that it ground flour from 1827 to 1950. Converted to produce animal feed, it operated into the 1980s. It was acquired by Heritage Charlevoix, a land trust founded by local residents Frank and Anne Cabot in 1992, and restoration began in 1997. In 2007, the Remy Mill once again began grinding flour from locally grown organic wheat.
The wooden floors of the mill are sculpted by 150 years of foot traffic, and the stairs testify to the tread of mill workers carrying heavy sacks of grain to the second floor, the marks of their metal-tipped staves stamped in the planking. Half of two floors in this stone mill were the millwright's home and are furnished with period pieces. The windows in the residence clearly show the thickness of the double stonewall construction.
The gearing and machinery are not original but are modern reconstructions, and this makes the Remy gristmill particularly interesting. The water wheel - the largest in Quebec - is made of white oak and most of the gears have wooden teeth. Some parts are steel and ballbearing bushings have replaced those of cast-iron. If these materials had been available in the early 19th century, millwrights would have used them. Today, the craft skills of building, maintaining, and operating water-powered mills are almost lost arts, and this is one of those rare places where they are being rediscovered.
At the Boulangerie La Remy, flour that has been ground in the mill behind and above this converted farmhouse is transformed into delicious loaves of bread in two gorgeous wood-fired brick ovens. The converted farmhouse is not indigenous to the site, but was moved from a nearby village for this specific function. Loaves include traditional white baguettes and sourdough to modern brioche, flavoured (including raisin and cranberry) breads, their signature Meteorite, and even pizza and apple pie.
The Charlevoix is internationally recognized for its specialty food producers and outstanding restaurants, so it seems natural to discover award-winning bakers like Boulangerie Pains d'exclamation in La Malbaie and Boulangerie Bouchard on Ile aux Coudres. Traditional loaves of crusty sourdough made with locally grown organic wheat have become a trademark specialty of the region and each gristmill site has its own traditional wood-fire ovens where loaves can be bought. Sourdough bread baked in wood-fired ovens is far removed - philosophically and texturally - from commercially made products. Combined with locally grown organic wheat and the stone-ground milling process, the results are one of the ultimate gourmet delights.
This concentration of original gristmills is unique in North America, and whether you're interested in baking, mechanics, history, architecture, photography or painting, a visit to the mills of the Charlevoix promises to be a rewarding experience while touring this region.
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Lodging ranges from camp sites to a five-star hotel.
The Charlevoix region, noted for its painters and exquisite cuisine, is located 93 kilometres northeast of Quebec City on Route 138. There are numerous restaurants and lodging ranges from camping sites to five-star hotels. For more information: charlevoixtourism.com or write Charlevoix Tourism, 495 Blvd. de Comporte, La Malbaie, QC G5A 3G3 800-667-2276
The Banal Mill, 157 Principale, Route 362 in the village of Les Eboulements, 16 kilometres east of Baie St. Paul. There's a modest admission charge and you can purchase bread made for the flour ground at this mill.hcq-chq.org, 418-635-2239. Admission: $3.
Ile aux Coudres: 12 kilometres from Les Eboulements. The ferry runs 25 times a day between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. and is free of charge. traversiers.gouv.qc.ca, 877-787-7483
Les Moulins de l'Islet aux Coudres/ Milling Economuseum, 36 Chemin du Moulin, Ile aux Coudres. lesmoulinsiac.com, 418-438-2184. admission $9 adults/$5 children/$20 families.
Boulangerie Bouchard, 1648 Chemin des Coudriers, Ile aux Coudres, 418-438-2454
Moulin Remy, 235 Terrasse de la Remy, Route 138 5.6 kilometres north of Baie St. Paul. moulindelaremy.com, 418-435-6579. Admission: $5.
Pains d'exclamation, 398 Rue Saint Etienne, La Malbaie, 418-665-4000. All types of loaves and pastries, including bread from locally grown wheat, ground at the mill, and baked in wood-fired ovens.


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Wildlife biologists with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources need the public's help in locating as many barn owl nesting sites as possible to gain a deeper understanding of why the species has declined in the state.
Barn owls, with their distinctive heart-shaped faces and dark eyes, were plentiful across Kentucky as late as the 1960s. Currently there are only about 50 documented nesting locations statewide.
Barn owls have gradually lost their historic nesting and foraging habitat as landowners have cut down old trees damaged by storms and converted pastures, hayfields and grasslands to row crops. Biologists are looking for additional reasons for the decline.
Researchers are also asking for the public to report any dead barn owls, so that specimens can be collected and examined.
More common owl species are often confused with barn owls. Barn owls have no ear tufts. They are a medium-sized bird, measuring 14-20 inches tall. However, they can appear larger when in flight due to their 3½-foot wingspan.
Barn owls have a whitish face and breast with whitish to pale cinnamon bodies. They do not hoot like some owls species. Instead, they screech and hiss, especially when approached.
Barn owls prefer open areas such as hayfields and pastures; they are not usually found in the woods. Although they often nest in hollow trees, barn owls regularly nest in man-made structures such as old barns, silos, grain bins, chimneys, hay lofts and attics. They also settle in older residential areas that have larger, cavity-prone trees.
Barn owls nest year-round in Kentucky, although most of the nesting activity occurs from March through August. They do not build a nest of sticks and grass. Instead, they lay their eggs directly on the surface of the nest site they choose.
For more information on barn owls, go online to fw.ky.gov and search under the keywords, "barn owl."
Anyone with information about the location of a barn owl nest or a dead barn owl should contact Wildlife Biologist Kate Slankard at 1-800-858-1549, ext. 4474. Observers can also email Slankard at email@example.com.
Barn owls are sensitive to disturbance, so if a nest is found, it's best to leave it alone to avoid attracting attention to it. Researchers are careful to document nests without disturbing the owls.
For the protection of owls and landowners, exact nesting locations and landowner information is strictly confidential and will not be released to the public. Information provided to Kentucky Fish and Wildlife for this study is used for research purposes only.
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FRISCO, Texas – Zach Loyd picked just the right moment to score a rare goal and then helped his team's defense do just enough to get by, as FC Dallas topped the visiting New York Red Bulls 2-1 in front of a sold-out season opener at FC Dallas Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
Ricardo Villar added a goal in the 61st minute for FC Dallas (1-0-0), who at least for one day took the sting out of their postseason loss the Red Bulls on the same field last fall.
FC Dallas also got a strong debut from new Panamanian striker Blas Pérez, who assisted on both goals and was pesky much of the afternoon against a Red Bulls back line which made two critical mistakes that directly led to the goals.
Newcomer Kenny Cooper scored the lone goal for the Red Bulls (0-1-0) off an assist from Thierry Henry in the 78th minute, giving him his first goal since joining the club via trade with the Portland Timbers in January.
Loyd scored for just the second time in 55 career regular season games thanks to one of those costly flubs from the New York defensive group, which missed injured center back Wilman Conde and started rookie Ryan Meara in goal. FCD's Brek Shea whipped in a cross from the left flank that the Red Bulls struggled to clear, and Pérez laid off a drop pass to Loyd for a calm left-footed finish to the back post in the 11th minute.
That lead help firm until early in the second half, when another Red Bulls miscue near midfield opened the door for Pérez to pour through space on the Red Bulls' end and set up Villar for an easy finish. Defender Roy Miller made an errant pass that Pérez picked and ran with before dropping it off to Villar surging in from the right flank.
It was an easy finish from there, as the Brazilian chipped a shot over the onrushing Meara for the first goal of his MLS career.
Meara, meanwhile, certainly had his moments when he saved the Red Bulls from a worse fate. None were bigger than a point-blank save on Pérez in the 33rd minute after a failed New York clearance fell right onto the veteran striker's foot in the penalty box.
He also somehow stoned Pérez from close range in the 73rd minute after FCD newcomer Carlos Rodriguez skipped a cross into the box from the left flank.
It was a day to largely forget offensively for the Red Bulls, who leaned on Thierry Henry and Juan Agudelo up top to start the game and brought on Cooper for midfielder Dane Richards in the 63rd minute. But they simply weren't effective enough against FCD's defense, however, which used the center back pairing of captain Ugo Ihemelu and newcomer Hernan Pertúz with outside backs Loyd and Jair Benitez.
Pertúz, who joined the team during the offseason from Colombia, got the start over incumbent George John, who missed much of the preseason with the team while on loan with English side West Ham.
Cooper broke through the FCD defense for the visitors' only goal after Henry sailed a perfect through ball over the FCD backline. Cooper beat onrushing FCD goalkeeper Kevin Hartman to the ball and nodded it home, marking the second goal in three career games against the FC Dallas team that gave him his start in 2006.
New York's other clean scoring chance of the day was a strange one. After midfielder Dax McCarty drew a foul at the edge of the penalty box in the 44th minute, Henry quickly stepped to the ball while referee Jair Marrufo set up the FC Dallas defense and coolly poked a shot through the FCD defense. The ball caromed harmlessly off the far post while the FCD players objected, leaving the Red Bulls scoreless heading into the half.
Perhaps the only negative on the day for FC Dallas was the apparent left leg injury to midfielder Fabian Castillo, who was forced to the leave the game in the 32nd minute for Rodriguez.


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A company spokesman said, "We hope to use [these comments] to create a corporate culture that puts top priority on safety." (All translations are mine. The original Japanese article is here [registration is required but free].)
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A Tennis Ace for the Blind
By Visi R. Tilak
"You can do it," the 17-year-old repeats as one of her students, racket in hand, listens for the sound of a ball.
This is the hardest part about learning the game, says Sejal Vallabh. The game she is referring to is tennis, which she coaches at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Massachusetts.
"Listening to the ball bounce, and then swinging at the exact moment the ball passes, is very difficult to do… However, once the students are able to make contact with the ball, they are hooked," Ms. Vallabh says.
"Knowing that they can hit the ball gives them the confidence to keep going, and they keep asking for another shot and another," adds the young woman, who is no older than the 15 or so high school kids standing in the gym waiting for their turn.
Ms. Vallabh, whose parents are both of Indian origin, introduced tennis to the school after visiting her grandmother in Japan, where she interned with an organization that taught the sport to the visually impaired. After returning home to Massachusetts, she approached the 180-year-old Perkins School round the corner from her home.
Ms. Vallabh would teach tennis in an afterschool program. In blind tennis, the ball is slightly larger than the average tennis ball, made of sponge and has metal beads inside to create noise. The racket is junior size, so it has a larger surface area and a shorter handle, and there is a string, thick enough to be felt through sneakers, taped along the boundaries of the court.
The classes became more formal after Perkins became the first center for Ms. Vallabh's non-profit organization Tennis SERVES, which she established in September 2010 when she was only 15-years-old.
"Seeing the students' progress motivates me in my work," Ms. Vallabh says. "Although learning the sport was difficult in the beginning, many of them are at the point where they can start rallying with one another. That is my ultimate goal. We finish every semester by teaching the students how to score, so that they can continue to play with one another even after the session is over."
"Sejal was always one to cheer the underdog," says her mother Monika Jain. "She is extremely organized with her time from the moment she comes home from school. I sometimes marvel at how she gets it all done - and done well! At the same time, she is careful to schedule down time during which she sees her friends or watches TV."
Sejal is waiting to hear back from colleges, and has already been accepted into two prestigious schools, Yale and the University of Michigan. She hopes to study biomedical engineering in college an interest piqued by her experience with Tennis SERVES. "The ball we use in the blind tennis program is simple: a foam ball containing a ping-pong ball filled with small metal beads that rattle upon impact, but the ball isn't perfect; students can only hear the ball after it bounces," says Ms. Vallabh.
"I knew that if the students could locate the ball earlier, the game would be much easier to play. That's why I proposed the project of building a more advanced ball to a number of engineering schools. Harvey Mudd Professor Clive Dym thought the project would be a good fit for his freshman engineering design class," she adds.
While it's still in prototype phase, the new ball the class designed is said to emit a constant beeping sound as it travels through the air so that the students can hear the ball as it comes toward them even before it bounces. Whether it's a simple sound ball or something more complex like a prosthetic hip, pacemaker, or artificial kidney, Ms. Vallabh says she is drawn to the idea of designing technology to enhance people's lives.
Ms. Vallabh continues to train volunteers all over the country via Skype and hopes that more such teenagers will make the time and effort to volunteer and participate and keep the momentum going. Now Tennis SERVES has spread out to schools in New York and California. Ms. Vallabh hopes it will expand to other states as well, but her larger goal is to see this sport featured in the Paralympics.
Ms. Jain calls her daughter an overachiever, "Sejal has a really full plate this year, but that's how she likes it: at school, she is a straight A student, captain of the varsity tennis team (she has played varsity since 9th grade), and secretary-general of her school's Model U.N. team. Outside of school, she has Tennis SERVES and is also training for the Boston Marathon. She is running as part of the Newton Boys and Girls Club, so she is fundraising for them. At the same time, I expect her to babysit her 10-year-old brother Amit once in a while!"
She has worked so hard to get to where she has says her mother, "I hope life rewards her in the way she deserves to be rewarded."
Visi R. Tilak is freelance writer with bylines in publications such as the Boston Globe, Indian Express, India Today and Tehelka. She can be reached via email firstname.lastname@example.com, her website www.visitilak.com or on Twitter @vtilak.
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- The stall or the stairwell: Long favored by speakers as a private place where they can stretch, do some deep breathing, and generally escape the other meeting attendees, those nearby restroom stalls and stairwells offer inelegant but practical places to gather your courage. Just be sure you haven't been wired for sound in advance.
- Your breathing: Can't say it enough, but your breathing is essential to give you energy, calm your nerves and focus your attention before a presentation. So breathe in and out deeply a dozen times before you go on. This is my favorite pre-speech comfort zone, and it's largely invisible to others, so can happen anywhere.
- Closed eyes: Your comfort zone might need to erase all that visual stimulation before a talk. Closing your eyes for a few moments lets you retreat from the crowds without having to leave the room. Just make sure you're not facing the audience when you do this one.
- The lectern: Lecterns are the original speakers' armor, serving as a comfort zone right on stage or at the front of the meeting room. They hide two-thirds of you physically, give you a place to keep a photo or other feel-good reminder nearby, stash your script--all of which might make you feel more in control. Not every speaker uses or needs a lectern, but if it helps you, go for it.
- A smile: Along with breathing deeply, smiling does everything from mask those nerves to create the feel-good chemicals that can internally boost your mood and make you feel more relaxed. It also helps to counter the natural tendency of most mouths to look either flatlined or downturned when at rest. Get balance in all senses of the word and smile before you speak.
What's your comfort zone to get you ready to speak? Share it in the comments.
Looking for famous speeches by women? Check out The Eloquent Woman Index of Famous Women's Speeches, with a wide variety of women speakers, types of speeches and topics to inspire your next speech. Each one comes with lessons for speakers, plus video or audio and a transcript, where available.


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If I were looking back to my (student) self in 2008 who attended ALA Annual in Anaheim, here is some advice I would give myself:
- Get involved: apply for special programs (like Emerging Leaders), participate on panels, contribute to unconferences, plan a party or event, make/do something. Being an Emerging Leader this year, as well as being on REFORMA's How I Landed My First Librarian Job and What I Did 'in Between' panel were not only just good experiences to have, but gave me even more interesting things to talk to people about. (By the way, the REFORMA panel will be available as a free webinar in October if you missed it and would like to catch it next time.)
- Don't play hard to get: I officially met some people that I've been following online for awhile and felt kind of fangirl-ish when the opportunity arose to connect with them in person. Believe it or not, people actually like compliments! It might feel awkward and stalkerish to say, "Oh yeah I [read your blog] or [noticed your work on x committee] or [love your stylish outfits] or [etc] and I think you're great!" But if it's the truth, and you're not actually a stalker, it's always nice to make people feel good about themselves, and hey you started a conversation.
- You know more than you think: Just because you're not an expert in such and such librarianship with 10+ years of experience doesn't mean you have nothing to contribute. Look at Hack Library School and all they're doing, it's fantastic! I love reading Bohyun Kim's blog where she talks about early career issues and what she is learning along the way. 8bit Library / #MIH has found a niche and are known for what they write and create about videogames in libraries. In fact, JP and Justin were my Emerging Leaders team mentors, and now that our group has done this project we also have contributed a lot to the topic -- and two of us will be continuing on with more research that we're very excited about.
- Other suggestions I can't take full credit for: From the Emerging Leaders session, it was reiterated by Peter Bromberg, Maureen Sullivan, and other ELs in our group discussion to think of librarianship as a gift culture (be generous), volunteer for things (say you'll do something and do it, committees and others will be pleased), and always have a drink in your hand (open body language + interest in talking to others = ability to make friends).


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Publication Archive
This archive contains all documents published by cep over the last few years:
cepAdhoc: Incisive comment on current EU policy issues.
cepPolicyBrief: Concise 4-page reviews of EU proposals (Regulations, Directives, Green Papers, White Papers, Communications) – including a brief summary and economic and legal assessments.
cepInput: Impulse to current discussions of EU policies.
cepStudy: Comprehensive examination of EU policy proposals affecting the economy.
There are currently no standardised measurement procedures in the EU for CO2 emissions from Heavy Duty Vehicles (HDVs) nor are there any provisions on their reduction. The Commission wants, on the one hand, the data on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions from newly registered HDVs, collected by way of a simulation instrument (VECTO), to be made available to vehicle purchasers. On the other hand, it is considering two measures for reducing CO2: mandatory limits on CO2 for newly registered HDVs or the inclusion of road transport in the EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS). In this regard, the Commission prefers the introduction of CO2 limits.
The EU Commission makes proposals for strengthening the internal market for occupational pensions. It wants to facilitate cross-border IORPs business, ensure effective supervision of IORPs and enhance governance. In addition it extends the obligations for providing information to members and beneficiaries and amends the investment rules.
The European Commission proposes measures to ensure a secure energy supply in the EU. It calls on the Member States to complete the internal energy market and protect critical infrastructures such as gas pipelines against the political influence of state-owned companies in non-EU countries. In addition, it considers voluntary demand aggregation in order to improve the negotiating position of individual EU energy importers with respect to energy exporters in non-EU countries.
The European small claims procedure will be made more attractive for consumers and small businesses.
The EU Commission wants to promote financing by way of crowdfunding.
The EU Commission wants to increase the supply of possibilities for long-term financing, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and infrastructure projects.
The Commission indicates that it is generally satisfied with the application of the Regulation on advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMP Regulation) but considers that it could be improved by extending the certification procedure to include universities and other non-commercial institutions. In addition, it calls for restriction of the hospital exemption, which allows ATMPs to be used without a marketing authorisation in domestic hospitals.
The EU Commission wants to promote investment in NGA networks and maintain effective competition on the broadband market. It wants to do this by stricter non-discrimination obligations, greater clarity as to when obligations on price control for NGA networks should be removed and by imposing a standard costing methodology.


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Union Pacific Railroad Employees Cap Decade of Employee Safety Improvement with Record 2011 Performance
North Platte Service Unit Achieves More Than 17 Percent Improvement in 2011 Safety Performance Compared to 2010
Omaha, Neb., January 24, 2012 Union Pacific Railroad employees capped a decade of safety improvement in 2011 by achieving a 1.15 reportable injury rate, the best performance on record in the company's history. Employees surpassed their previous best of rate 1.37, established in 2010, by 16.5 percent. From 2002-2011, Union Pacific employees improved their reportable injury rate by 52 percent.
Union Pacific's North Platte Service Unit achieved a more than 17 percent improvement in 2011 compared to 2010 with an employee reportable injury rate of 0.95. The North Platte Service Unit has approximately 3,000 employees and covers nearly 935 miles of track in most of Nebraska, eastern Wyoming, eastern Colorado and north eastern Kansas.
A company's reportable injury rate is the total number of injuries reportable to the Federal Railroad Administration per 200,000 worker hours, which is equivalent to 100 employees working a full year.
"Our Total Safety Culture initiative and identifying and standardizing best practices are important factors in our safety performance improvement," said Bob Grimaila, Union Pacific vice president - Safety, Security and Environment. "Employees participating in Total Safety Culture combine teamwork and best practices as we strive to achieve our ultimate goal of zero incidents or injuries."
About Union Pacific
It was 150 years ago that Abraham Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act of July 1,1862, creating the original Union Pacific. One of America's iconic companies, today, Union Pacific Railroad is the principal operating company of Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP), linking 23 states in the western two-thirds of the country by rail and providing freight solutions and logistics expertise to the global supply chain. From 2000 through 2011, Union Pacific spent more than $31 billion on its network and operations, making needed investments in America's infrastructure and enhancing its ability to provide safe, reliable, fuel-efficient and environmentally responsible freight transportation. Union Pacific's diversified business mix includes Agricultural Products, Automotive, Chemicals, Energy, Industrial Products and Intermodal. The railroad serves many of the fastest-growing U.S. population centers and emphasizes excellent customer service. Union Pacific operates competitive routes from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern gateways, connects with Canada's rail systems and is the only railroad serving all six major Mexico gateways.
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Mr. 305 deserves a high-five for this huge surprise.
The 2016 Grammy Awards came to a close Monday night after Pitbull took to the stage for a special performance with a few famous faces.
While we knew Robin Thicke, Travis Barker and Joe Perry were joining in on the dance party, we didn't predict Sofia Vergara's visit to the stage.
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"I'm talking Caribbean queen you a bronze Jamaican / and Colombians you guessed it in Queens," Pitbull sang during the performance before the "Modern Family" star arrived in a yellow sparkling dress underneath a mock taxi cab. "She's fine that's something / You've never seen she's fine / Like something straight out of a magazine / She's fine like Sofa Vergara." [[368874621,C]]
What came next was a solid minute of Vergara shaking her booty next to Pitbull as he performed a brand-new single. And if you're wondering if the two had fun, their look at the end proves they had the "Time of Their Lives." [[368913221,C]]
The performances comes after Pitbull won a Grammy for Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album for Dale. But in an added twist, Natalia Lafourcade also received an award for the same category. In other words, it was a total tie!
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Islamic Regime in Iran and its hostility with Films & Cinema !
International Award Winning Iranian film maker Jafar Panahi's latest film " Pardeh" ( Curtain ) to Berlin Film Festival won the " Silver Bear" award . Jafar Panahi was unable to attend the festival to receive the award instead two of the film players Ms. Maryam Moqadam and Kambozia Partovi attended in the festival and received the award but after returning from Berlin - in the airport in Iran their passports were confiscated by the authorities and they were banned from traveling abroad.
Jafar Panahi is sentenced to six years imprisonment and 20 years ban on film making.Islamic regime in Iran has a hostile policy towards film ,Cinema , directors and players in general.In recent years regime put a lot of pressure on film makers and players, shut down " Khaneh Cinema " ( Cinema House ) the cinema professionals gathering place ,banned film show, increased censorship , arrested and detained film makers , banned film makers from traveling abroad , banned film makers from making films and ........
Because of these policies many film players , musicians, singers and directors have left Iran including Golshifteh Farahani Yong Iranian actress.


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Friday, June 24, 2011
Kid Made Bulletin Boards
Our school has a summer camp program to accommodate our school age children. When preparing the classroom for the kids, they simply put up blank bulletin board paper for the kids to make their own bulletin boards. The overall class theme this summer is outer space. The bulletin board the kids painted is pretty out of this world!
For Memorial Day, they painted this AWESOME American flag. The room is enormous and they have these wonderful vaulted ceilings. You probably can't tell from the picture, but this flag is about 4 feet x 6 feet. (Please forgive the balloon partially blocking the shot, the kids were having a contest with balloons when I went in to take the picture and one wandered into the shot.)
The kids have been learning about zoo animals in preparation for their big field trip to the zoo next week. This is the bulletin board they painted of the zoo.
Even the smallest kids can help make the bulletin boards for their class. I love this handprint flag our one year class made for Memorial Day.
This one is so cool. I bet the one year olds had a blast walking through all this paint! There were a few little spots worn thin, but it came out so cute!
You can almost see the outline of one stray foot here.
I think these are just as cute as the boards we teachers spend hours creating, then completely covering up. I think when school starts, we will be doing a lot more kid made bulletin boards!
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That little footprint got me! :) So precious!!ReplyDelete
I love them all Ayn!ReplyDelete
Creative and fun!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 26, 2011 at 9:23 AM
i like the hand print flag!ReplyDelete
Thanks, everyone for your kind comments! Aren't they all cute? I am fortunate to work with awesome teachers, who don't mind me sharing. I love to visit other classrooms~it always inspires me! :)ReplyDelete
Wow! What a great example of a child-centered environment! This really give children a strong sense that the room is theirs! I love this!ReplyDelete
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Pork goulash with herby dumplings
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The Board approved the additional funding at a Regents meeting today.
"This new allocation of funding enables UT System to continue our mission to commercialize technologies and improve sustainability through a positive return on investment," said Vice Chancellor and General Counsel Barry Burgdorf.
Executive Director of Technology Commercialization Bryan Allinson said the Horizon Fund is more than just a fund – it is also a center of excellence in ventures for all 15 UT institutions.
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Here we have a dice LED clock kit. Yes, it's true. This time, it comes with a board. It counts the time and stores 15 independent alarms that can all be set to different times, yet has no calendar function, so they all go off every day (if they are enabled). What was I thinking? I don't know. But that's the way it is. It is the same type of clock which is shown here, it's just that this time it comes with an actual board! What a time-saver!
Other clock kits with boards (more expensive):
Circular ring (3.9 inch board) (click here)Zig-zag ring (3.9 inch board) (click here)Infinity (1.95 x 3.9 inch board) (click here)Tiny 5 cm square ring (1.95 inch board) (click here)Dice clock (1.95 x 3.9 inch board) (you are here)
Other clock kits without boards (less expensive, but in some ways better because the board is less personal and rather small):
The dial-type LED clock (click here)The same type of clock (dice clock) as this but without the green board (click here)
The board you see in the darkness there is a green rectangle which is 3.9 inches on one side and 1.95 inches on the other. Click on the picture to see it big, and use the left and right arrow keys to move around. This is the only photo taken in the dark, so if you want to see the particular color of green you can expect the board to be, look at the listings for the other (more expensive) clock kits with boards included.
First of all, I want to make 3 things clear.
1. You are not buying the clock in the picture. That one is my demonstration piece. It took me too long to solder together for me to throw around that with a 20 or even 30 dollar pricetag. That would be half minimum wage or less. It took long enough just to get the components together to make the kit.2. You are buying a kit. You get 50 LEDs (one spare), a programmed microcontroller, resistors, capacitors, a crystal, a speaker, etcetera, a circuit board, and an information sheet on specifics you'll need to get it right. This does NOT include a power supply. You need to give it 6.3 to 12 volts DC from somewhere. You also need a soldering iron and solder.3. The kit does not contain ultra-bright brightly colored LEDs as seen in the picture. I realize this is misleading. Especially considering the nature of the picture, shining there in the darkness. Though of course I could strictly speaking make it look like that no matter how dim the LEDs are, by adjusting the photo exposure time, so it's not really that dishonest after all. But you don't want them anyway, the LEDs are actually too big, I had to cut the edges off with a knife and I cut myself up the wazoo to get them to fit and make that demonstration piece anyway. You get generic red and green LEDs. Just like the LEDs that come standard with the other kits (to see those LEDs really up close, look at the tiny 5 mm clock - those LEDs). Those pink and green tinted LEDs that come standard with this kit are also sold on their own on the website here.
A demonstration of this clock can be seen here (make sure to be patient when downloading this, and try to RIGHT CLICK on this link and tell it to save rather than left click to just open, though I don't know if that's still the way it works, it just is as of this writing, and make sure to have some kind of pop-up ad killer in place: mediafire will definitely zap you if you don't):
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There used to be a time when I could claim that I was thoroughly acquainted with current affairs. Pick up a topic for conversation from a newspaper within the past few weeks and chances were that I'd read about it and had an opinion or two. (That pretty much was my job when I did a gig at Youthpad as content writer/editor.) I read newspaper(s) from cover-to-cover; it was a ritual for me – an activity I used to set aside time for in my daily schedule. I was proud of the fact that I wasn't one of the ignorant, unwashed punters who have no clue when a news reporter asks them for a sound bite. Whatever happened to that me? I no longer read newspapers and I'm barely aware of what's going on in the world!
I'm not acting differently from many others when I say I read most news online these days. How do I discover the content I read? Mainly, through Twitter / Facebook shares, Reddit links, and blogs I follow. Yet, I'm starting to think this might be a fundamentally flawed model for news discovery. That Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist? Yeah. His 5000-word magnum opus carries as much weight in my Google Reader list as that funny picture of a cat speaking in misspelled English reblogged on Tumblr. I'm subject to whatever catches the fancy of masses. The range of people I follow ensures practically any article that 'goes viral' in topics I may be interested shows up in my timeline yet it feels like living in a bubble of opinions.
Every other full moon, I get fed up of this 'more of the same'. I resolve to set aside half-an-hour daily to read all sections of an aggregator like Yahoo! News or a newspaper's website (usually The Guardian or The New York Times, because I'm a liberal hipster like that). I could probably spend that much time daily anyway, can't I? I could stop being at the mercy of what everyone else thinks is cool and discover things myself!
This love affair seldom lasts long. Say I start off with 'Top Stories' or 'Most Popular', I read an article about the latest iDevice from Apple. Cool. I click through to 'Technology'. Same article again, but to be fair it is a technology-related news item so I let it slide. Click through to 'Business'…and the same article is there again, just with a lower importance now because it's only tangentially related. The more I try to scan through sections, the more I find an incestuous spiderweb of hyperlinked sameness. Hey, it's great if you only read a select few sections knowing that you've lesser risk of missing out news that affects you but if you do read multiple sections, it's easy to become bored quickly.
Last weekend, I was about to catch a train and wanted to keep myself occupied for the hour-long journey ahead of me, so I bought a real printed newspaper. I didn't want to read articles on my phone as I was heading for a night out and I needed my battery to last. And thus it was on that train journey reading my copy of i by The Independent that I realised why I years ago I enjoyed reading newspapers I could hold in my hands. There is an editorial voice doing the heavy-lifting of deciding which news stories get importance, how many words to go with it, the adequate amount of text inserts to explain jargon. It is just so simple scan a physical printed page. Guess what? Stories aren't repeated either! I can flip from Page 3 to Technology to Business without needed to read an the article that's related to all them categories thrice. Fancy an article? You can just read it. Your eyes just glide along the page. No tapping. No pinch-to-zoom.
I know how I sound right now. What I'm trying to communicate is how much less hassle it was easily being able to read an article about rugby or a reality TV show fluff article if it caught my fancy when I skim-reading on paper, whereas on a website I may have never visit those sections. I don't know about you, but paradoxically I find that when I visit news websites on consecutive days, I'm more likely to find the same articles on digging even slightly deeper than the highlighted articles. This is when a printed newspaper is consistently different each day! Whether this is a calculated move to position the latter as a 'premium' product or not, you would expect websites to be more volatile.
Yet, much like that baby in the video above playing with an iPad, I too felt annoyed. When I read something interesting, I found it frustrating that I couldn't look up previous or related news stories. I wanted to poke my newspaper with a stick. Why didn't it move? Why can't I switch to a YouTube video of an adorable baby in the middle of reading a dispatch from Tripoli? Entertain me! ENTERTAIN ME!
In the digital world, everything is 'content'. E-papers. Blogs. Webcomics. Pulitzer Prize-winning journal articles. Reddit. This 'content' is not to be analysed and digested, but to be 'consumed'. You can make it look pretty by swapping out Google Reader with Pulse Reader or Flipboard but the user experience feels like a repetitive chore. Tap. Scroll scroll scroll. (Do you have any idea how many scrolls it takes to finish a respectable-length longform article?) Hit back button. Scroll scroll scroll.
Take Pulse Reader, the current gold standard for aggregation apps which in its iPad avatar was praised by Steve Jobs himself in a keynote presentation. Beautifully designed app. Seems great when you play with it for a while. Where it all breaks apart for me is that it expects me to add news sources, and then scan stories myself to see what interests me. If I add both Techcrunch and Ars Technica, or Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, I then have to weed out duplicate stories myself. This isn't a shortcoming of just Pulse Reader as much as it is an Achilles heel for a majority of aggregation apps. The illusion of 'beautiful aggregation' also falls apart when every now and then Pulse's parser messes up in correctly determining article bylines too.
News Republic adopts a different approach. This app lets you select topics you want to follow and displays relevant news stories. This approach takes care of the duplication issue…except News Republic only shows items from wire services such as Associated Press and PR Newswire. Not the cream-of-the-crop sources, so only good for a quick summary of trending news stories.
I quote these two apps as examples as they cover the two main aggregation models being pursued currently. What I really want is a Google News style mashup of the two: let me choose my favourite sources from a list, and then display the 'best' article for a particular news story from one of them. To be fair, Google News does this already…but without a thoroughly compelling user experience on mobile platforms beyond 'a list of blue links'. Google News is the closest thing I've found to what I desire, except when its algorithm makes a boo-boo like filing 'Passengers stuck on a plane for eight as Gatwick Airport' under 'Entertainment'. Amusing it may be for our robot overlords, but such glitches leave a sour taste in my mouth – wishing there was human editorial oversight, or a smarter algorithm. I wonder why no startup has taken a crack at this idea. Even if such an app does exist or is developed in the future, that still doesn't solve the repetitive tap-scroll-back-rinse-repeat user experience most content apps tend to have.
I'm starting to see measurable benefits in going back to reading news on cut-down trees. There's a small hiccup though: subscribing to a newspaper, compared to the free lunch of web content that I've become habituated to, seems prohibitively expensive! A yearly subscription of The Guardian will cost me 372 per year…
…or, The Independent will cost me upwards of £600 a year!
That's almost as much I would budget to visit 2-3 countries (which is the only metric I resort to off late as a benchmark for expensive purchases). I'm not surprised because good content does cost money to produce. You still have to concede this seems expensive! I wonder whether showing ads for Samsung Galaxy Tab or something else equally banal on The Guardian's Android app earns them as much money as subscriptions.
I'd love to meet midway – perhaps with a weekly magazine subscription which often costs not more than £100 a year…except that there are practically no weeklies in the UK. Unlike in the US, where there are so many choices like Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Slate, et al. The only (half-hearted) attempt is Guardian Weekly, which doesn't appeal to me as due to its lifestyle-focussed content. I would take well-written, analytical long form articles (Longreads.org is currently one of my top news sources) any day over linkbait crap that the news industry loves so much these days. Please, I don't want to read Huffington Post rehashes typed out by monkeys on thousands of keyboards around the world.
I am going to try an experiment starting this week: to pick up a newspaper each day and see if I can fit daily reading into my schedule. What do you folks feel? Do you find yourself equally out of touch with current happenings, or your reading habits altered by a never-ending stream of (free) web content?
When I was a kid, Hindustan Times used to have a weekly supplement called HT Next. It used to be all of four pages and pure awesome. I still remember how one of its very first editions carried a review of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone long before the series became cool. It used to have exclusive sneak peaks on upcoming shows on Cartoon Network's 'Toonami' (back when it was good). The last page was dedicated to an eclectic range of trivia: origins of weird idioms, odd bits of India to visit, 'cool' scientific discoveries out of the pages of Popular Science. I think that's how I fell in love with trivia quizzing.
There used to be weekly quiz on the last page from current affairs and trivia. Boy, did I love that. Prizes were usually Tekson's Bookshop vouchers and I spent every one of those blank cheques building my Tintin and Calvin & Hobbes collection. 😀 Later on, Teksons withdrew its sponsorship and was replaced by Orient Longman (publishers). Orient Longman, cheapskates that they were, used it as a channel to clear off their stock. Over time I accumulated books on: an analysis of the mathematical constant e (yes, a whole fucking book on it), history of Indian cuisine, a field guide to butterflies and moths of south-west India, innumerable short story and poem anthologies. Also, every single time with this random crap I also got The Orient Longman Learners' Dictionary. Every. Single. Time. This got to the point that I when I met friends at school I used to go "Ay! You're my bro! Here, take a free dictionary." (Nobody seemed to mind because a notice had been issued asking all students to buy a dictionary.)
Still, I looked forward to every trip with my dad to Hindustan Times' headquarters at Kasturba Gandhi Marg to collect my prize. I remember how thrilled I was as a kid the first couple of times I visited to get issued a visitors' pass and OH MY GOD I'M INSIDE THE HEADQUARTERS OF A NATIONAL NEWSPAPER! Oh, and as I progressed further along in school, approaching high school, I also noticed how drop-dead cute the woman who was in-charge at HT Next for meeting us quizzers was.
HT Next in its first avatar was so delightfully quirky! (I think I was a hipster even when I was twelve-years-old.) I collected every single edition and did in fact have them around for many years until we moved houses. Its next avatar – one which exists to this day – was as a stripped-down and slightly customised version of the main Hindustan Times edition. I read that in school, and come back home to read Times of India. Later, when our school switched loyalties to give us Times of India subscriptions instead, I read that in school and came back home to read Hindustan Times and The Hindu. (The Hindu carried the best crosswords out of any Indian newspapers in those days.)
I collected interesting articles I came across in these newspapers by filing away news clippings in folders. I had a pretty extensive collection running into hundreds of articles spanning many folders over the years. Yet, when you think of it now it's so hard to file away a news story for long-term archiving! You only have to visit a Wikipedia article linking back to news articles from 90s to encounter broken links. Articles lost from easy discovery, perhaps forever, due to inevitable switches of content management systems at news sites. Archival and discovery of good news content is fundamentally broken in today's web-centric distribution model.
I know I don't have as much free time these days to read multiple newspapers or to start a news clipping collection, but at some level my present desire to read printed form newspapers is to capture that magic from my childhood again – of being able to read good content in an easy-to-digest form whenever, wherever.


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Last week I went out for dinner with the two men who were my counselors when the bishopric I was in was released. We went to a cheap Chinese food place down the street from my house and had a great time talking about life, our time together, and more.
Normally I'm not a fan of fortune cookies. I don't need any lucky lotto numbers, and usually the little phrases aren't very inspiring, but the one I got that night was particularly good. It has probably been said many times by many people, but it is the first time I've heard it:
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Hi Java World,
I am trying to learn Java on my own, and I am having trouble with an assignment I found on the internet. Here is the assignment:
Write a program that will read in a number from 0 to 99 and spell out that number. The program must also report any values that are out of range.
In other words, I want to type
java Say 22
and see
I thought about making two different arrays as you can see in my code. I can follow this pattern I have here with What If statements all the way to 99, but I am sure that there is a more effective way of doing this. My goal is two learn Java and not take the easy way out.
Some things I have thought of doing was two divide the user input by 10, maybe use modulus, or just use checks. Please don't give me the answer, as I would like to rack my brain and figure it out. I have been doing this problem all day, and I think i got a headache.
I also created methods for the arrays. I know that this all can be done in one method, but I wanted to learn on how to pass arrays to other methods.
Any advice without giving me the answer would be much appreciated.
public class Array { static Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in); public Array(){ String number []= {"null","One","Two","Three","Four","Five","Six","Seven","Eight","Nine","Ten"}; String numbers []= {"Twenty","Thirty","forty","Fifthy","Sixty","Seventy","Eighty","Ninety"}; myArray(number,numbers); } public static void myArray(String num [],String num1[]){ int array = scanner.nextInt(); if(array<10) { String nums = Integer.toString(array); if(nums.equals("1")) { System.out.println(num[1]); } else if(nums.equals("2")) { System.out.println(num[2]); } else if (nums.equals("3")) { System.out.println(num[3]); } else if(nums.equals("4")) { System.out.println(num[4]); } else if (nums.equals("5")) { System.out.println(num[5]); } else if (nums.equals("6")) { System.out.println(num[6]); } else if (nums.equals("7")) { System.out.println(num[7]); } else if (nums.equals("8")) { System.out.println(num[8]); } else if (nums.equals("9")) { System.out.println(num[9]); } } if(array>19&&array<29) { System.out.println(num1[0]); System.out.println("hi"); } } }


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Sorry to take so long getting back to your request....I am back in the game now!mickeyd wrote:Zilla...thanks for the info. Your projects and articles are the best kiteboarding info on the net. I noticed you used the stainless screws. Why not glue? I'll have to look for one of those heavy duty pvc cutters. The one I found at the Depot was junk...M
First, of all, good observation about the stainless screws, glue, and pvc cutters. I always use screws on the projects, at first, and then after about a year or so, when I have stopped making modifications, then, I may choose to glue the newest device together, for looks. The screws actually hold as well as glue, for my purposes, and allow you to change out any parts that may break, or make any modifications. I was amazed, that after 18 months of using the device, that nothing broke. As you can see from the following pictures, in order that my home-made leader line connections can pass through the holes, I had to ream out a lot of the plastic in the "T" s. I thought that the remaining thin 1/2" cpvc plastic would snap, but so far, even with rough use (throwing, dropping, etc), the plastic has held, due to the toughness of cpvc material. You may not be so lucky, so I would recommend using stainless screws (1/2").
I will post a bunch of pictures in the next 3 or 4 posts, showing aspects of the project, and saving me a lot of words. The major advice I can give is to not hurt yourself using the hack saw, drills, rotary rasp, etc....use a vice if you have it...otherwise, use a piece of plywood clamped to a table, and then use a vice grip to slip inside the cpvc and pvc fittings to clamp the fitting to the plywood, to stabilize the fitting while sawing and drilling. IF you try hand holding the fittings....at least, wear a glove. If you are so fortunate, as to have a Dremel tool, then, you can probably find a much better way to do the procedures, than I did. I only used the basic tools for all of my projects....drill, hack saw, hand file, sand paper (the coarsest grit you can find), etc.
Pic 1 shows the newer model, glued..with only a few screws, which are needed for disassembly and repair, even with the glued model.
Pic 2 shows the line slip prevention bar, pulled off the main unit..note the length, and positioning of the 1/2" cpvc stubs, on which the bar rotates. Note that the slotted unions are twisted into the open position, and the bungee retainer is slipped out of its big retention slot.
Pic. 3 shows the device with the lines in the slots, the slotted unions twisted into the closed position, the bungee retainer in its closed position in the big slot, and the lines lying in place.


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Although Facebook may have stolen a lot of the limelight over its will-they-or-won't-they-IPO, Google is still reporting strong earnings in Silicon Valley.
Google reported that its fourth-quarter net income rose to $2.54 billion, or $7.81 a share, from $1.97 billion, or $6.13 a share, in the same period a year earlier -- a 78 percent gain from 2009.The Silicon Valley titan said its net revenue came in at $6.37 billion.
Among the interesting tidbits on the earnings call (aside from the executive shifts) was the phrase,
"Feed the winners, starve the losers," where Google execs say they will create a more Darwinian environment for new businesses where they either sink or swim.
Google also reported that the company raised salaries 10 percent across the board for employees on Jan. 1 to avoid attrition; and that Google hopes to grow ad sales by focusing on mid-size and smaller businesses. From MarketWatch:.
The prices paid by advertisers to Google, which are calculated on an auction basis, rose 5% in the quarter. . . .[Google CFO Patrick] Pichette said much of company's success in the period came simply as the result of more people getting online and doing their holiday shopping there — and using Google as a tool.
"People have moved online," Pichette said, which "brings a lot more participants into these [search advertising] auctions, because they want to be where the users are."
Google still holds 65 percent of the U.S. Internet search engine market and according to researchers at eMarketer, Google accounted for 13.4% of all U.S. display advertising revenue last year, an almost 5 percent rise from 2009.


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William Beeton (March 24, 1935 - October 23, 2009), also credited as Bill Beeton, served as art director for many of the Muppet projects filmed in Canada, beginning with The Frog Prince. For The Muppet Musicians of Bremen, he created the Louisiana swamp and bayou shack. Beeton created the more realistic environments for Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, notably the river, using a water tank which spanned the full width of the studio.
For Fraggle Rock, Beeton was the original set designer, working from development sketches by Michael K. Frith, for such regions as Doc's Workshop and the Gorg's Garden, which would be used for the entire run of the series. Beeton established a basic universe which subsequent art directors, such as Robert Hackborn and Russell Chick, would expand and build upon.


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WASHINGTON – The owner of the drilling rig that exploded and led to the massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will pay $1.4 billion in criminal and civil penalties, the Justice Department said Thursday.
Transocean agreed to accept some responsibility for its role in the gulf disaster, which took place after its Deepwater Horizon rig caught fire, killing 11 people. The company will pay $1 billion to resolve civil claims and $400 million in criminal penalties, and will plead guilty to one misdemeanor violation of the Clean Water Act.
Transocean's punishment was considerably smaller than that of BP, which was leasing the rig at the time of the blowout. BP has already agreed to pay $4.5 billion in penalties and has pleaded guilty to 11 felony counts of manslaughter and other criminal charges. The London-based oil giant also faces potentially billions of dollars in civil claims from the U.S. government.
Thursday's settlement marked the conclusion of the Department of Justice's criminal investigation of Transocean.
"This is a positive step forward, but it is also a time to reflect on the 11 men who lost their lives aboard the Deepwater Horizon," the Switzerland-based company said in a statement.
In the aftermath of the explosion on April 20, 2010, as millions of liters of crude were seeping out from the well, BP and Transocean fought bitterly over which company deserved the bulk of the blame.
BP executives pointed out that Transocean owned the blowout preventer that failed to cap the Macondo well and stop oil from leaking out. "This wasn't our accident," BP's chief executive, Tony Hayward, said a couple of weeks after the explosion. Transocean officials shot back that the owner of the well should ultimately bear responsibility.
After the Transocean settlement Thursday, BP was quick to claim partial vindication. "Today's settlement between Transocean and the United States underscores what every official investigation has found: that the Deepwater Horizon accident resulted from multiple causes, involving multiple parties," said Geoff Morrell, a BP spokesman.
Yet the two companies have met with strikingly different fates. After 2½ years, Transocean has yet to face any felony charges at the personal or corporate level.
As part of its settlement on Thursday, Transocean admitted that the members of its crew aboard the Deepwater Horizon, under the direction of BP's site leaders, were negligent in failing to fully follow up on signs that the Macondo well was not secure.
"Transocean's agreement to plead guilty to a federal crime, and to pay a total of $1.4 billion in criminal and civil penalties, appropriately reflects its role in the Deepwater Horizon disaster," said Lanny Breuer, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Criminal Division.
BP, by contrast, has pleaded guilty at the corporate level to 11 felony counts of "seaman's manslaughter," one felony count of obstruction of Congress, one misdemeanor count under the Clean Water Act and one misdemeanor count under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
Two BP site leaders aboard the rig at the time, Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine, were separately indicted by a New Orleans grand jury in November on multiple felony counts of manslaughter. A BP executive, David Rainey, has been charged with misleading a congressional subcommittee about the well's flow rate. All three have pleaded not guilty.
BP also faces Clean Water Act civil fines that could total $5 billion or nearly $20 billion, depending on whether the company is found to be guilty of gross negligence or willful misconduct. And the company recently won approval from a federal judge for a $7.8 billion settlement with people and businesses affected by the spill.
It took 87 days to cap the Macondo well, which sits 80 km southeast of Louisiana. All told, 780 million liters of oil spilled out, washing up on beaches, marshes and fishing grounds.
The Justice Department did not offer comment on the third company involved at the drilling site, Halliburton, which was in charge of cementing and monitoring the Macondo well. In a September regulatory filing, Halliburton said its actions were still under examination.
Transocean stocks jumped more than 7 percent after the news. The company had said in September that it had discussed a $1.5 billion settlement with the Justice Department and that it had reserved $2 billion related to claims related to the spill.