Wednesday, February 29, 2012

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Fitness classes? turnout increases

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Fitness options abound for the summer

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Students can try hip-hop class for free

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Rocket lifts off with 3G military communications

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida | Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:07pm EST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday carrying the first satellite in a new military network designed to give cellphone-like 3G communications to troops on the move.

The 191-foot- (58-metre-) tall Atlas 5 rocket, the most powerful launcher in the U.S. inventory, lifted off at 5:15 p.m. EST (2215 GMT), darting through sunny skies as it soared over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the Navy's first Mobile User Objective System satellite into orbit.

The spacecraft, called MUOS-1, is part of a planned five-satellite network that will operate like cellphone towers in space to significantly boost communications capacity for the U.S. military and partner countries, including, for the first time, UHF satellite communications for mobile users.

"Right now, our units have to be sitting in one place, stationary, with antenna up pointing straight at a satellite to be able to use narrow-band satcom (satellite communications)," program manager Paul Ghyzel told reporters before the launch.

"As we bring MUOS online, we bring up the capability that allows them to move around the battle space and be able to continue communicating beyond line-of-sight (of the satellite)," he said.

The system is "basically like a cellphone tower in the sky," added Mark Pasquale, MUOS program manager and vice president with satellite builder Lockheed Martin.

"You can think of the handheld user terminals as robust, rugged smartphones," he said.

MUOS voice, video and data services will be available to users whether they are in vehicles, ships, submarines, aircraft or simply on foot, though that cell phone-like capability probably won't come until next summer.

General Dynamics C4 Systems, the prime contractor for the handheld user terminals, is still working on the technology needed to communicate with MUOS' 3G-like system. Until then, users can tap the satellite's heritage narrow-band communications system, which is similar to what is currently aboard the Navy's aging UFH Follow-on satellites.

Overall, MUOS is designed to provide military users 10 times more communications capability over existing systems, including simultaneous voice, video and data.

Weighing nearly 15,000 pounds (6,804 kg), MUOS-1 is the heaviest satellite launched to date by an Atlas rocket, which is built and flown by United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

The MUOS network, including launch vehicles, will cost the U.S. military more than $5.3 billion.

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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Legal Theory Blog: Legal Theory Lexicon: Causation

Introduction?

Causation?is one of the basic conceptual tools of legal analysis. And for most purposes, we can get along with a notion of causation that is both?vague?and?ambiguous. In the world of medium sized physical objects (automobiles, pedestrians, etc.), our judgments about causation rarely depend on conceptual niceties. The driver?s negligence caused the death of the pedestrian but did?not?cause Barak Obama to win the Iowa caucuses in 2008. In these cases, various notions of causality converge. The person on the street, the scientist, and lawyer can all agree in such cases that for all practical purposes X caused Y but not Z.?But sometimes the various notions of cause come apart exposing ambiguities and vagueness in both ordinary and legal talk about causes and effects.?This post provides a very basic introduction to causation for law students (especially first-year law students) with an interest in legal theory.

Cause-in-Fact & Legal Cause

Let?s put the most important distinction on the table right away. Contemporary legal theory and judicial practice assume that there is a distinction between?legal cause?on the one hand and?cause-in-fact?on the other.?What does that mean??That?s a huge question, of course, but we can state one conclusion straight away: that X is a cause-in-fact of Y does?not?entail that X is a legal cause of Y. Less obviously, that X is a legal cause of Y does not entail that X is a cause-in-fact of Y. The various ways that cause-in-fact and legal cause can come apart leads many to the conclusion that?legal cause?simply has nothing to do with causation, but this turns out to be an exaggeration. I know this all sounds very airy. So let?s get down to brass tacks!

Cause-in-Fact?

What do we mean when we say that X is a cause-in-fact of Y??Many law students learn that the answer to this question is?but-for causation. If it is the case that?but for X, Y would not have occurred, then X is a but-for cause of Y and hence X is a cause-in-fact of Y. This simple story works most of the time, and as a rough and ready rule of thumb, it isn?t half bad. But it turns out that if you try to use?but-for?causation as a hard and fast rule for determining whether X is the cause of Y, you will run into trouble, sooner or later. In torts and criminal law, but-for causation runs into trouble somewhere in the midst of the first-year course. In a sense, the point of thisLexicon?post is to provide a set of tools that for understanding?the troubles that overreliance onbut-for?causation can cause.

Necessary and Sufficient Causes

The first item in the causation toolkit is the distinction between?necessary?and?sufficient?cause. The basic ideas are simple and familiar. X is a?necessary?cause of Y, if Y would not have occurred without X. Ben?s running the red light is a necessary cause of the damage to Alice?s car, just in case the damage would not have occurred without Ben?s having run the light. The idea of "necessary cause" is the same idea expressed by the phrase "but-for cause."

X is a?sufficient?cause of Y, if Y would have occurred so long as X occurred. Alice?s shooting Ben through the heart is a sufficient cause of Ben?s death, just in case the shot thru the head by itself would have caused Ben?s death. This is true, even though Ben would have died anyway, because Cynthia shot him through the head at the same time Alice shot him through the heart.

This rough ready distinction between necessary and sufficient causes really won't do all the necessary work.? For example, Alice's shooting Ben through the heart is not truly sufficient, by itself, no matter what other conditions obtain, to cause Ben's death.? If Ben had been on an operating table awaiting a heart transplant, then he might have lived despite the slot.? One suggestion for dealing with cases like this is to identify "sufficient causes" as a "necessary element of a sufficient set."? Things get even more complex from for the purposes of this introduction the point is simply to see the indadequacy of "necessary and sufficient cause" as a tool for dealing with complex cases in a precise way.

The Role of Counterfactuals

The notions of?necessary?and?sufficient?causation are familiar to almost everyone. We use these ideas all the time in everyday life. But the very familiarity of these concepts creates a temptation to take them for granted. There is an important feature of these ideas that our day-to-day use of them does not make explicit. Both necessary and sufficient causation are?counterfactual?concepts.What does that mean???Counterfactual? is simply the fancy name for ?what if? thinking. What if Ben had stopped at the red light? Would the damage to Alice?s car still have occurred? What if the Ben had gotten immediate medical attention? Would the shot through the head still have killed him? Every statement regarding a necessary or sufficient cause can be interpreted as making a counterfactual (?what if?) claim.

What-if reasoning is itself familiar and ordinary. When we say, Ben?s running the red light was a necessary cause of the damage to Alice?s car, we are claiming that if the world had been different and Ben had not run the red light, then Alice?s car would not have been damaged. We imagine what the world would have been like if Ben had stopped at the red light, and Alice had proceeded through the intersection without being struck by Ben?s car. Counterfactual reasoning can get more complicated that this, but for our purposes we can use everyday what-if reasoning as our model of role of counterfactuals in necessary and sufficient causation.

Overdetermination

Once we?ve gotten the notions of necessary and sufficient causes, we can move on to the idea ofoverdetermination. An effect is overdetermined if it has more than one sufficient cause. Take the case of Alice shooting Ben through the heart. We have postulated that the bullet passing through the heart was a sufficient cause of Ben?s death, but it may not have been a necessary cause. Suppose that Alice was a member of a firing squad, and that at the exact same moment that Alice?s bullet passed through Ben?s heart, another Bullet, fired by Cynthia, passed through Ben?s cerebral cortex and that this would have resulted in Ben?s death, even if Alice?s had not fired or her bullet had missed. Ben?s death now results from two sufficient causes, but neither Alice?s shot nor Cynthia?s shot was necessary. If Alice had not fired, Cynthia?s shot would have killed Ben. If Cynthia had not fired, Alice?s shot would have killed Ben.

Overdetermination?is important, because it undermines the idea that but-for causation tells us everything we need to know about cause-in-fact. We might say that both Alice and Cynthia?s shooting caused Ben?s death or we might say they were both?partial?causes of Ben?s death,?but?we would not be likely to say that?neither?Alice?nor?Cynthia?s shot was the cause.

The firing squad example was described as a case of?simultaneous?overdetermination?both sufficient causes occurred at the same time. What if Cynthia shot a few seconds before Alice and Ben died before Alice?s shot pierced his heart? In that case, Cynthia?s shot would have preempted the causal role of Alice?s shot. If Cynthia had missed, then Alice?s shot would have killed Ben. This kind of case is sometimes called?preemptive?causation.

Coincidence

Overdetermination poses one kind of problem for but-for causation,?coincidence?poses another a different sort of difficulty. Suppose the driver of a trolley is speeding. As a result the trolley is in just wrong place and time and a tree falls, injuring a passenger. If trolley had gone just a little faster or just a little slower, the tree would have missed the trolley and the injury would not have occurred. Given these circumstances, speeding was a but-for cause (a necessary cause) of the tree injuring the passenger.?So what???Coincidence is no problem for cause-in-fact, but it does pose a problem for the legal system. Intuitions vary, but lots of folks are inclined to believe that one should not be legally responsible for harms that one causes as a result of coincidences.

Coincidence is related to a variety of other problems with but-for causation. Take our example of Ben running the stoplight and hitting Alice?s car. Running the stoplight was one but-for cause of this accident, but there are many others. For example, Alice?s being in the intersection was also a but-for cause. And how did Alice come to be in the intersection at just the time when Ben was running the red light? If her alarm clock hadn?t gone off, she would have slept in and arrived in the intersection long after Ben, so her alarm clock?s ringing was another but-for cause.?And you know how the story goes from here.?As we trace the chain of but-for causes back and out, we discover that thousands and millions and billions of actions and events are but-for causes of the accident.

Alternatives to But-For Cause-in-Fact

Although "but-for causation" is frequently presented as the only account of cause in law school classes, it is far from the only view.? The alternatives to but-for causation frequently view causal relationships as involving more than but-for cause. ?In fact, some theories of causation sharply distinguish but-for relationships from true causation. ?The best way to learn about these alternatives to read the references cited below: the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy articles provide a good starting point.

Legal Cause

What do we about the problems with problems created by but-for cause??One way that the law responds is with the idea of?legal cause?or?proximate cause. In this post, we cannot hope to achieve a deep understanding of legal cause, but we can get a start. Here are some of the ideas that help me to understand legal cause.

First, there is a terminological issue: causation may be confused with responsibility. ?Legal cause? is only partially about cause. We start with the idea of cause-in-fact (understood in light of the distinction between necessary sufficient cause). This idea of cause seems, on the surface, to fit into the structure of various legal doctrines. So we imagine that if a defendant breaches a duty of care and causes a harm, then defendant is legally responsible for the harm. This works for lots of cases, but then we start thinking about other cases like?overdetermination?and?coincidence. ?Legal cause? is the way that we adjust our ideas about?legal responsibility?to overcome the counterintuitive results that would follow from a simple reliance on but-for causation. In other words, ?legal cause? may be a misnomer. It might be clearer if we used the phrase ?legal responsibility? (or some other phrase) to describe the ways in which we adjust the law.

Second, legal cause is frequently associated with the idea of foreseeability. For example, in coincidence cases, the harm (the tree injuring the passenger) is not a foreseeable consequence of the wrongful act (driving the trolley at an excessive speed). If the purpose of the law is deterrence, then no good purpose may be served by assigning legal responsibility in cases where the effect is unforeseeable.

Third, legal cause is sometimes associated with the idea of proximity in time and space. Of course, the phrase ?proximate cause? emphasizes this connection. We usually don?t want to hold defendants responsible for the remote and attenuated effects of their actions. We frequently do want to hold defendants responsible for the immediate and direct effects of their actions. ?Proximity? seems to capture this point, but an overemphasis on proximity in time and space leads to other problems. Some immediate consequences do not give rise to legal responsibility: the trolley driver may have started speeding just seconds before the tree fell. Some causal chains that extend for long distances over great durations?do?give rise to legal responsibility: Osama bin Laden?s responsibility for 9/11 would not be vitiated by the fact that he set events in motions years in advance and thousands of miles away.

Probability

Our investigation of causality so far has elided an important set of issues?the connections between causation and probability. These connections are far too large a topic for this post, but even a superficial analysis requires that we consider two perspectives--ex ante?and?ex post.

Ex post?questions about causation arise in a variety of contexts, but for the legal system, a crucial context is provided by litigation and especially trial. In many cases, there is no doubt about causation. When Ben?s car speeds through the red light and hits Alice?s car, we don?t have much doubt about what caused the damage. But in many types of cases, causation will be in doubt. Did the chemical cause cancer? Was the desk job the cause of the back injury? Sometimes the evidence will answer these questions with certainty (or perhaps, with something that is so close to certainty that we treat it as certainty for legal and practical purposes). But in other cases, the evidence will leave us with a sense that that the defendant?s action is more or less likely to have caused the harm to the defendant. Such probabilities may be expressed either qualitatively or quantitatively. That is, we might say that it is ?highly likely? that X caused Y?or?we might say that there is a 50% chance (p = .5) that X caused Y.

Ex ante?issues of causation also arise for the law. For example, the legal system may be required to assign a value to a risk of harm that has not yet been realized. David has been exposed to asbestos, but may or may not develop cancer. In this case, probabilities refer to the likelihood of future events.

Decision theory and mathematics have elaborate formal machinery for representing and calculating probabilities. In this short post, we cannot even scratch this surface, but there are two or three bits of notation that every legal theorist should know:

--The letter ?p? is frequently used to represent probability. Most law students encounter this notation in Justice Hand?s famous opinion in the?Carroll Towing?case (B < PL or ?burden less than loss discounted by probability). The notation p(x) = 0.1 can be read ?the probability of x equals 1/10.? And the notation, p=0.5 can be read ?probability equals one in two.?

--The symbol ?|? is frequently used to represent conditional probabilities. Suppose we want to represent the probability that X will occur given that Y has occurred, we can use this notation: p(X|Y). So we could represent the sentence, ?The probability of Cancer given Exposure to Asbestos is ten percent,? as p(C|EA)=0.1.

Types and Tokens

So far, we have been focusing mostly on cases where an individual instance of harm is caused by some particular wrongful action. But of course, we frequently think about causation as a more general relationship. For example, in science we might speak of ?causal laws.? There is no standard terminology for this distinction: we might use the phrase ?individual causation? and ?systematic causation.? One helpful bit of terminology for getting at this idea is to differentiate ?types? and ?tokens.? Ben?s running the rend light at a particular time and location is an event?token?and it is a token?of?a type of events, i.e. the type ?running a red light.?

Once we have the distinction between types and tokens in place, we can define individual causation as a causal relationship between a token (e.g. a token event) and another token (e.g. a token action). And we can define systematic causation as a causal relationship between a type (e.g. a type of event) and another type (e.g. a type of action). Science studies causal relationships between types; trials frequently involve questions about the causation of one token by another. This leads to another important point: the question whether an individual harm was caused by an individual action will sometimes depend on the question whether a systematic causal relationship exists; for example, the question whether this factory?s release of a chemical caused an individual case of cancer may require a jury to resolve a ?scientific? question about systematic causation.

Conclusion

Even though this is a long entry by the standards of the?Legal Theory Lexicon?it is a very compressed and incomplete treatment of the concept of causation. Given the way legal education is organized (around doctrinal fields like torts, criminal law, and evidence), most law students never get a truly comprehensive introduction to causation. Torts may introduce the distinction between cause-in-fact and legal cause; criminal law, problems of overdetermination; and evidence, the relationship between probability and causation. If this post accomplishes anything of value, I hope that it serves as warning?causation is a deep and broad topic about which there is much to learn.

Bibliography

    H.L.A. Hart & Tony Honore,?Causation in the Law?(2d ed. 1985).?For many years, this was?thebook on causation and the law. Currently out of print, but used copies are available on Amazon.com.

    Michael Moore,?Causation and Responsibility?(2009).??This is the best contemporary treatment, and a must read for legal theorists who want to know about causation.

    Causation?(Oxford Readings in Philosophy) (Ernest Sosa & Michael Tooley eds. 1993).?A fine collection of essays, with contributions by J.L Mackie, Michael Scriven, Jaegwon Kim, G.E.M. Anscombe, G.H. von Wright, C.J. Ducasse, Wesley C. Salmon, David Lewis, Paul Horwich, Jonathan Bennett, Ernest Sosa, and Michael Tooley.

Links

Antony Honore,?Causation in the Law, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Peter Menzies,?Counterfactual Theories of Causation, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Jonathan Schaffer,?The Metaphyiscs of Causation, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Richard Wright,?The NESS Account of Natural Causation: A Response to Criticisms, SSRN.

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Shall We Be Safe Throughout the London Olympic games?

From This summer 27 to August 12, the 2012 Summer time Olympic games will occur working in london, England, making London the very first city ever to host the Games three occasions.

It?s certainly an honor for that city ? but exactly what does it mean for that Londoners? Because of so many people visiting the town, we must request, ?Can we be secure throughout the London Olympic games??

The venues

While you can bet the Olympic site visitors will by no means restrict themselves to simply watching the games, with the other wonderful sights that London needs to offer, it is also overlooked the finest power of crowds will occur in the Olympic event venues.

Naturally, these areas will pose the finest security risks:

? The Olympic Zone.The frequent lowering and raising events is going to be locked in the Olympic Stadium. Other sports to become held in this region are athletics, fencing, handball, and modern pentathlon (fencing), cycling (BMX and track), area hockey, pool sports, basketball, and handball.

? The Forest Zone.Including four venues within the Thames Gateway area. The sports to become performed listed here are boxing, wrestling, fencing, fighting techinques, ping pong, weightlifting, equestrian, modern pentathlon (riding, running, shooting), basketball, and gymnastics.

? The Central Zone,the venues ofwhich are dispersed across west and manchester ? including Hyde Park, Wembley Stadium, and Regent?s Park ? will feature tennis, volleyball, triathlon (swimming), archery, marathon running, road cycling, badminton, gymnastics, archery, and football.

? Outdoors Manchester. These venues include Dorney Lake for rowing and canoeing, Hadleigh Farm for biking, Lee Valley Whitened Water Center for slalom canoeing, Weymouth and Tigard National Sailing Academy for sailing, and Brands Hatch for that Paralympics road cycling.

Transportation

So far as crowds go, it?s not only the venues themselves we have to stress about. Individuals will need a method to get came from here to there.

Whenever we made the bid for holding this Olympic games event working in london, the city?s trains and buses system received an undesirable score within the Worldwide Olympic Committee?s evaluation.

It had been assumed, although not guaranteed, the transportation condition could be enhanced prior to the Games. The East and North London lines, along with the Docklands Light Railway, should be upgraded and broadened. There?s even the much-recommended Olympic Javelin service.

But exactly how sufficient each one of these upgrades is going to be once the Olympic crowds arrive remains to appear.

Safeguards

With that said, here are a few safety safeguards to consider if you are planning to look at the London Olympic games:

? Keep the bags zipped. Avoid getting belongings just like your Music player, cell phone, or wallet.

? If you discover an unwatched bag or package, allow the police learn about it immediately. Perform the same if you notice every other suspicious activities.

? Don?t use earphones during transport. These restrict your hearing and may delay your response to sudden danger signals.

? For your bike, park it correctly and it locked.

? Don?t let yourself be enticed you to definitely take an unbooked minicab, despite any difficulties in transportation. Useful unsafe and without insurance. You will find lots of trustworthy London minicabs that provide their services, which you?ll book ahead of time through licensed operators.

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Behaviors that increase productivity | Idaho Business Review

by Dan Bobinski
Published: February 24,2012
Time posted: 8:52 am

Dan Bobinski

Ask people what they do to stay productive and you?ll get a variety of answers, because what works for some doesn?t work for others. In other words, with all due respect to the folks who produce the Franklin Planner, it?s not for everybody. That said, if you?re the type who likes being organized, the Franklin Planner may be something you?d love.

Personally, I?m a strong advocate of Stephen Covey?s recommendation for ?weekly planning and daily adapting.? Still, beyond those basics, many other productivity techniques exist. Recently I decided to contact some folks whom I believe to be productive and ask what they did to maximize their productivity. What follows are some of their responses. See if any of these appeal to you.

Minimizing Distractions

Several people stated they get more done if they can minimize workplace distractions. A woman told me she has learned to keep the door to her office closed ?to keep the ?drive-bys? at bay,? and also to say ?I?m busy right now, when can I get back to you?? if she?s in the middle of something and people invite themselves in.

One man said he gets more done if he finds a place to work that?s far away from his cubicle, usually in a different department altogether. He says this technique keeps him away from the never-ending chit-chat and office politics that ?hum non-stop in the cubicle farm area? and eat up valuable time.

Another woman citing the same distractions actually asked for and received permission to do her job remotely, even though she lived just a few miles from work.

This technique for better productivity is similar to what I?ve written about before, the Results Only Work Environment (ROWE). The idea behind ROWE is a focus on performance, not presence. As long as employees are producing the results we expect of them, what does it matter where they are when their work gets done? For more information on this, visit gorowe.com.)

Old-Fashioned Paper & Pen

One woman emphasized that she stayed productive by keeping her daily plan in front of her all day long. She hand writes her priorities into a journal and keeps that journal open on her desk to remind her of what she needs to get done. She says it might be old-fashioned, but she gets a lot of satisfaction by crossing things off, and that each time she does that she gets encouraged to get the next item done so she can cross that off, too.

Micro-Planning

Because moving throughout a building can eat up precious time and reduce productivity, one woman says she always checks her day?s ?to-do? list before leaving her desk to go someplace else in the building. ?I want to see if I can combine multiple tasks into that one trip,? she says.

Managing E-mail

One man who deals with scores of people each day maintains that e-mail is a communications tool and not a filing system. To remain productive, he designates several times a day as ?e-mail time? during which he focuses only on e-mail. For something that can?t get addressed right away, he drags it to his task list. He also keeps all the e-mail notification bells turned off at all times.

Productivity Periods

Some people are more productive in the morning, others more in the afternoon. One man who knows he?s a morning person never schedules any meetings in the morning, because that?s when he gets his ?work? done. It?s his standing policy to schedule meetings only in the afternoon.

Granted, some people don?t have the luxury of making that an absolute rule, but if you know your most productive time, you can try to manage your schedule to maximize your productivity. One woman who knows she?s more productive in the afternoon always blocks out at least one hour per day after lunch when she neither takes any phone calls nor schedules any meetings.

Delegate

If you supervise others or manage a team, pay close attention to what you?re doing that could be delegated. Several people mentioned that they are much more productive when they?re delegating effectively. By the way, good delegation often requires planning (read: time), so it can seem counterintuitive that it?s a time-saver. But delegation planning is something that can be done during planning time, not during the golden productivity hours.

Balance

Finally, several people mentioned that getting their minds off work was very good for their productivity. One woman said that a 30-60 minute lunch away from the office worked wonders to keep her fresh in the afternoon. Another person said he always leaves work at work; that his evenings are always devoted to spending time with his family.

No doubt there are many more tips to boost one?s productivity, but if any of these sound appealing, try them and see how they work for you.

Dan Bobinski is a management trainer, best-selling author and director at the Center for Workplace Excellence. He makes his home in Boise. Reach him at (208) 375-7606 or dan@workplace-excellence.com.



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Friday, February 24, 2012

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Cursed boat not on the London agenda | Sports News Australia

Rowing Australia (RA) has effectively reopened the door to Olympic selection for overlooked oarswomen following criticism its cursed boat ? the women?s eight ? will not compete in London.

After the Australian Womensport and Recreation Association (AWRA) took a swipe at rowing officials for failing to foster enough female talent and not making a serious attempt to qualify the feature boat for the 2012 Games, RA said on Wednesday it would consider promoting new rowers to the team.

Any new rowers would have to meet performance standards at the national titles in Perth, starting March 5.

RA had made smaller boats ? the double sculls, quad sculls and pair ? its priority women?s crews rather than the eight due to a lack of depth and prolonged failure in the blue-riband event.

Australia has never finished better than fifth in the women?s eight at the Olympics and also suffered the embarrassment of the ?Lay Down Sally? drama in Athens eight years ago.

An exhausted Sally Robbins had stopped rowing in the last quarter of the race as Australia went from fourth to finish last, sparking recriminations inside and outside the boat which AWRA president Janice Crosswhite fears still hurt the sport.

Australia also finished last in the final in Beijing.

Only 14 heavyweight women were originally selected for Olympic trialling, for a likely eight spots, and the number was reduced to 13 when Renee Chatterton was cut for not meeting performance requirements in December.

The second and final round of selection trials is scheduled for late March in Penrith but RA chief executive Andrew Dee said overlooked candidates could work their way back into the mix in Perth.

?It?s good news but I think it?s all too late,? Crosswhite told AAP. ?It?s too last minute.?

With Australia needing to finish in the top two, edging out either the strong German or Chinese crews at the final Olympic qualification regatta in Lucerne in May, it remains highly unlikely RA will find it feasible to send an eight to Switzerland.

Crosswhite puts the lack of depth in elite women?s rowing down to a failure in developing under-23 oarswomen properly, largely due to the lack of female coaches and officials in ?a male-dominated sport?.

?We need a strategic plan to look at development,? she said. ?Something?s been missed here. Rowing?s now aware of it and hopefully they do something about it.?

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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

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It is interesting to note how many are in dire need of the services of a tri-cities personal injury attorney. The backlog of cases in law courts in suits are in their incredible big crunching numbers. Question is do you really need a tri-cities personal injury attorney? My guess is as good as yours1Yes, because their services are crucial to the general society needs. They offer a range of service options including: Auto accident injuries and Personal injuries litigation among a menu of several hosts. Your average tri-cities personal injury lawyer is well equipped with fundamentals of the legal framework of their jurisdiction. In any case most personal injury case charges are simply on the basis of contingency; this in effect means you only remit payments when the claimant has made their recovery, ensuring justice is achieved without the red-tape of following a legal framework. What is remunerated is a ratio of the recovery amount, in all fairness your recovery with an attorney is more often than not, much higher than without one. Therefore it?s fair for you to try and hire a tri-cities personal injury attorney for your litigation purposes. Most firms have a tendency to accept personal injury cases on the basis of hours worked, in this case the outcome of the suit has no effect on your remuneration to the lawyer, and moreover it?s much cheaper than the contingency basis.

It?s the duty of a tri-cities personal injury attorney to argue the case of a client in a suit, even if they had a part to play in the said accident. This ensures the client is compensated with regards to fair practices of the law in any state. This ensures you save on damages and recover a substantial chunk of money and time that would have otherwise gone to waste tirelessly battling cases alone. In any given law suit a tri-cities personal injury lawyer offers personal injury legal consultation to the client via the clients preferred channel: over the phone, in the designated premises of the firm or in person at the clients home.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Scroll Saw versus Jig saw - Family Woodworking

Ok after the initial excitement at finally getting hold of a scroll saw i am back with both feet on the ground.

Yesterday i tried using my "free" and refurbished 24" delta rockwell scroll saw to cut out some holes in a piece of 3/4 MDF.

Now this sheet i wanted the holes in is about 28x28 so i figured hey this 24" scroll saw should work well. NOT.

I dont get it quiet frankly i dont see how this saw was really used back in the day or nowadays unless you married to old iron.

To change the blade or rather to even get a blade set up on this saw is a mission. Worse when the part is large. I fiddled and faddled and eventually gave up after breaking upteen blades and then went inside.

After cooling down i thought of another way to do what i wanted and hauled out my cheap junkie Skil jig saw. Then remembered (luckily) that i had purchased some new Bosch blades for jig sawing and put one in.

Well it turned the really crappy jig saw into a sweet cutting machine, well at least by comparison to trying to use the scroll saw to do this job.

This morning i woke to think i must have been doing something really wrong in the operating technique for this saw. I mean to get a piece over the blade you got to lift the whole blade guide support mechanism with air blower and all. Yes its a thumb screw but in numbers of operations to get a blade fitted its more than i think should be the case on a scroll saw. When i see u tube videos of guys changing blades on a dewalt man its like greased lightning.

Add to that in order to secure the balde in the blade clamp you need a allen key. Then you need three hands one to pull down the spring loaded blade holder bar, the next to hold the blade center in the clamp area then the other hand to tighten the blade.

I gotta be doing something totally wrong or this is really just old iron and i gotta part with this thing. Its a huge machine in terms of length sticking out and if one cannot work a large piece without all the hassle i dont see the point of keeping it.

This was not even fine scroll sawing. I was just wanting to cut rough rectangles. Then i have a template to clean em up with my trim router bit. But using a jig saw and a standard drill bit was way way quicker.

Can anyone shed light on this topic that would make me spare this machine and keep it.

I am guessing that back in the day (yeah way back) this was all there was but today heck i could have done what i wanted with a coping saw quicker than the delta scroll saw. Also the thin pinless blades i got from the flying dutchman well they work but broke repeatedly. When you add that to the process time man i wanted to do my task not play scroll saw all day. So i took a coping saw blade knocked out the pins and put that in to work it and it was better but still no bonanza when you gotta go through hoops and jumps to get to the next hole.

I dont get it.

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Monday, February 20, 2012

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This is a message found on your phones every month showing your progress. You are not able to track it or delete it until the six months are complete. He or She always leaves a warning say if you find them or leave the island you will be alone forever. You are allowed to leave comments. So pour your hearts out because your ex won't see these nor will anyone else.....For now. :)

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Hello Lovers,
I hope you enjoied your lil surprise. So have you made any progress? Or do you still hate your ex with all your guts? Probubly, because it is only the frist day. But, you have along way to go. So,what did it feel like seeing your ex again? Was it heartbreaking,infuriating, or did it remind you why you fell in love with them in the frist place? Well, if you want to tell me leave me a little message. The other lovers will be able to see these but no worries only I will see the ones about how you feel about your ex especially if it saids you love them...for the moment being anyways. Enjoy, your trip and surprise.

WARNING: If you try to track this or leave the island before the six months finishes completion then you will be alone forever. Don't test me.

Love, Cupid <3

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Analise: Who the hell are you? And is this suppost to be a joke or are you really that big of an asshole?! I mean me and Nick ended on wierd terms. I guess and thanks to you...I might still Ugh Forget it! Just be Lucky, I can't track you or I would beat you ass so hard. OH It be on Like Donkey Kong, so after these six months be ready because i'm gonna come look for you!

Feeling:Pissed Off >:d

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Matthew: I don't know who you are or why you want to fuck with us but me and Blair were better off the way we were. I don't know about the others but we split on bad terms. A lot of old wounds opened up thanks to you.

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When darkness falls, two shall stand against it.
The crimson-haired girl and the beach born boy,
their fates intertwined, stand together.

Come my children and listen,
For time is all we have.

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Friday, February 17, 2012

Oscar predictions: Acting and Directing | Arts & Entertainment ...

Oscar predictions: Acting and Directing

Five of the top Academy Awards races boast the night?s closest competitions and no-contest front-runners.

This year?s Oscar favorites include Christopher Plummer, from left, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Jean Dujardin and Michel Hazanavicius.

Best Supporting Actress

Can anyone beat Octavia Spencer for her fiery, outsized performance in ?The Help?? If all the major precursors are any indication, the answer is, ?not on your life.? There isn?t a single high-profile pre-Oscar trophy that Spencer hasn?t claimed, making her impending win one of the most sewn-up victories of the night.

On the way-off chance there?s an unseen pocket of opposing support, odds are it?s for Melissa McCarthy, whose breakout turn in ?Bridesmaids? was a favorite among so many film watchers (some think the funny gal can pull a comedic upset, a la Marisa Tomei in ?My Cousin Vinny?). Happy to join the party, but bound to stay in their seats, are Janet McTeer (?Albert Nobbs?), B?r?nice Bejo (?The Artist?) and Jessica Chastain (?The Help?), the latter of whom deserves to win if only for her stunning 2011 output.

Will Win: Spencer
Could Win: McCarthy
Should Win: Chastain

?"The Help"

"Bridesmaids"

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Best Supporting Actor

As much a lock as Spencer, ?Beginners? co-star Christopher Plummer also has swept the ceremonies leading up to the big night for his tender role as a gay man finally liberated at the fresh age of 75. Giving the classiest speech at the Golden Globes, and maybe the SAG Awards, too, Plummer, 82, is poised to receive the show?s noisiest standing ovation for finally nabbing a statuette after decades in the biz. His toughest competition? For similar reasons, it?s fellow octogenarian Max von Sydow (also 82), a surprise nominee for ?Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close.? Here?s betting that Nick Nolte (?Warrior?), Kenneth Branagh (?My Week with Marilyn?) and especially Jonah Hill (?Moneyball?) are wishing they weren?t so damned ... young.

Will Win: Plummer
Could Win: von Sydow
Should Win: Plummer

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"Beginners"

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Best Actress

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    Thursday, February 16, 2012

    What Is A Personal Injury Attorney? | Free Article Directory

    While a man or woman has become hurt, sometimes actually or emotionally, they can use the services of a personal injury attorney to represent their particular case in a court of law. The injury could end up being due to negligence or even wrong doing by anyone, company, a government agency or some other business.

    A personal injury legal professional often bargains primarily with what is termed Tort Law. This generally involves municipal wrongs to a person?s rights, status or even property causing in either non-economic or perhaps fiscal damage.

    Personal injury legal professionals cope generally along with circumstances pertaining to Tort Law such as but is not confined to work-related accidental injuries, get and fall incidents, auto accidents, client circumstances related to faulty products, healthcare errors, and far more. Although they focus more on these types of situations, they are licensed as well as educated to manage almost any legal case related to all job areas of law.

    A personal injury legal professional carries out a quantity of obligations in the direction of their customers. Such as honourable as well as expert codes of conduct along with guidelines installed along through the bar organization of the state in which the legal professional was certified. The attorney can file a legal criticism on part of their customer, fight his or her case in a court of law, offer you legal suggestions as well as set up legal papers for their particular buyer.

    It?s the lawyer?s work to analysis the case carefully by simply interviewing prospective clients. That they can next examine the case and look at that meticulously to determine the primary complaint of their customer. This particular would help them to to construct a solid case to guard their customer as well as get the pay out which they actually deserve. Very often, circumstances managed by simply personal injury legal professionals are generally amicably resolved alternatively of planning to trial. This supplies timely reduction to the victim in phrases of adequate settlement. Even so, any time a settlement is not necessarily reached, the personal injury attorney at law would proceed to take their client?s case to test.

    A personal injury legal professional, like all the attorneys, is expected to work towards the desires of their potential customers. They are required to present comprehensive discretion as well as devotion while coping with a company?s case. They desire to comply with a rigorous established of specifications along with conform to legal honesty while confronting clientele.

    Though the tips for legal professionals differ a bit from condition to condition, the basic codes of execute call for every attorney at law to be sharp in training competence along with considering legal matters successfully in a way that justice is actually dished up.

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