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Saturday, July 20, 2013
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Thursday's Little League roundup: Two York baseball teams endure rough day at state
Daily Press
7:33 p.m. EDT, July 18, 2013
It was a diffficult Thursday for two teams from York County in their respective Little League baseball state tournaments.
In the age 9-10 first round in Richmond, York County American dropped its opener 14-4 to Broadway of the Shenandoah Valley. ...
In the age 10-11 first round, McLean American routed York County National 23-0 in four innings, scoring 10 runs in the top of the first.
Byron Evans and Jake Brewer had York National?s hits.
Andy Ricketts led McLean American with a grand slam and drove in five runs. McLean American had 20 hits.
Five District 7 Peninsula-area champion teams will play in various events Friday.
Source: http://www.dailypress.com/sports/dp-spt-little-league-20130718,0,2118968.story?track=rss
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Friday, July 19, 2013
News summary: Safeway 2nd-qtr results beat Street
THE NEWS: Profit at grocery store chain Safeway Inc. fell in the second quarter, partly on a tax charge related to a deal to sell its Canadian operations. But adjusted results topped Wall Street expectations.
CONTEXT: Safeway and other traditional supermarket chains have been working to focus operations and keep costs low to fight off competition from big-box discounters, along with drug stores and dollar stores that have expanded grocery sections.
ADJUSTED VIEW: Safeway now expects net income, excluding one-time items, to be at the lower end of its previously expected range of $2.25 to $2.45 per share. Analysts expect $2.27 per share.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/news-summary-safeway-2nd-qtr-144242529.html
Transport Canada mum on rail safety rules
Transport Canada won?t say what the minimum requirements are for making sure a parked train won?t roll away and it won?t disclose the rules set by the rail companies for keeping unattended trains with potentially dangerous goods stationary.
The CBC asked Transport Canada to clarify the rules for tying down a train a few days after the Lac Megantic tragedy. More than two days later, the response ignored the specific request for minimum requirements and referred to the Canadian Rail Operating Rules.
The guidelines in the CROR, however, lack specificity on parking trains.
Section 112, on "Securing Equipment", says: "When equipment is left at any point a sufficient number of hand brakes must be applied to prevent it from moving. Special instructions will indicate the minimum hand brake requirements for all locations where equipment is left."
The section goes on to discuss parking a train on a siding, and to specify that hand brakes need to be fully tested before they can be used to secure equipment.
Eight days after the initial request, Transport Canada continues to rebuff CBC's inquiries with vague answers.
"The rules provide specific instructions for the use of hand brakes to prevent the train from moving when equipment is not in use," it said in an email to CBC.
"Each railway has instructions that further specify how many handbrakes are applied. These instructions also govern special circumstances such as a grade. The handbrake requirements are not load specific. Requirements are determined by the amount of cars, terrain, etc."
NDP MP Olivia Chow said that's not good enough.
"Canadians need to know that the trains coming through their neighbourhoods are safe," Chow said on Thursday.
That's why the Conservatives should not hide the operations of these trains, said Chow, vice chair of the House of Commons transport committee.
"If there's nothing to hide, come clean. Tell Canadians what the operations are and whether they are safe or not."
Lac-M?gantic
In the early morning of July 6 a Montreal, Maine and Atlantic train, which included five engines, a boxcar and 72 cars of crude oil, left its parking spot in Nantes, Que., near the Maine border, and rumbled downhill into Lac-M?gantic. The crude oil cars separated from the engines and boxcar, and two explosions and a fire engulfed the town of 6,000.
Rescue officials have recovered 42 bodies and at least eight people are still believed missing.
The causes of the explosions are still a mystery, but what has consumed rail experts is what precautions did MMA locomotive engineer Tom Harding take to secure the train. Did he comply with MMA's own internal special instructions for that stretch of rail? Did the MMA guidelines meet the requirements of Transport Canada?
The company originally said after the accident that Harding had put on the air brakes and left the engine running when he jumped in a taxi to go to a hotel for the night. It also said that Harding applied the appropriate number of hand brakes. A fire started in the main engine, and the firefighters who extinguished the fire were accused of shutting down the engine, which released the brakes.
A fire burned for nearly 24 hours after a train derailment in downtown Lac-M?gantic, Que., on July 6 after a train operated by MMA railways came off the tracks, spilling crude oil and causing explosions in the town of 6000. 42 bodies have been recovered. (Paul Chiasson/Canadian Press)Last Wednesday, MMA chairman Ed Burkhardt confused the debate by saying Harding "told us he applied 11 hand brakes and our general feeling is that now, that is not true."
That the CROR allows individual companies to set their own special instructions creates confusion, says Ian Naish, a consultant with 27 years in transportation safety.
"The rules that are applied by Transport Canada, Rule 112, says that sufficient number of hand brakes must be applied when you are stopping a train and leaving it for a bit," explained Naish. "Well how do you define that? Various railways have defined it different ways for various types of grades, or types of trains.
"The way the regulatory system has operated for the last 20 to 25 years is, basically, the railways are responsible to regulate themselves, and the federal government is the overseer, the watcher of the way they operate."
Canadian Pacific, which has traditionally had the strictest rules on securing trains because of the risks of having steeper lines through the Canadian Rockies, sent out new general operating instructions to its employees last week in anticipation of stricter Transport Canada rules.
On Thursday morning, new Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said if there are going to be any new rules coming from Transport Canada, "I'll be the one announcing them. As for Canadian Pacific, I'm very pleased to see they're taking a look at theirs and I spoke to CN this week and they?re doing the same."
Company rules on 'braking, securement' kept secret
The Montreal, Maine and Atlantic, CN and CP have refused to share their special instructions with the CBC, calling them proprietary, and Transport Canada said they can?t release it because "this type of information is not in the public domain, as it involves a third-party."
But an investigator with the Transportation Safety Board, which has looked at a long list of runaway trains, derailments and crashes, told the CBC that the rules are "vague and unclear."
The investigator, who spoke on condition of anonymity, cited the 13 CN coal cars that slid downhill last year in Hanlon, Alta., crashing into a parked train.
The TSB concluded the rules were unclear, CN's standards were inadequate and the staff had problems calculating just how many cars need to be locked down by hand.
Chow argues that Transport Canada has ignored too many recommendations, not only from the Transportation Safety Board but also a scathing report by the Auditor General in 2011 which says alarm bells were raised in 2005 about transporting dangerous goods.
"Transport Canada said it would take a year or two to implement the auditor general's recommendations, but these are not new problems," said Chow.
"It's been eight years that they had no comprehensive list of what's being transported, what's the performance standard and what's the quality assurance program" for transporting dangerous goods.
"That?s not acceptable."
The answer, says Chow, is not a public inquiry, but transparency and strong government.
"Without transparency we don't know who is accountable," she told CBC Thursday. "Why do we need a government if they don't regulate?"
Source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2013/07/18/transport-canada-rail-safety.html?cmp=rss
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Remedy couldn't make Quantum Break without Microsoft
Like an Alan Wake mystery, the reasons behind Quantum Break's Xbox One exclusivity are slowly becoming clearer. Speaking to Games Industry, Remedy CEO Matias Myllyrinne revealed that Microsoft's help has been instrumental in bringing the game to life. Without outright confirming that Microsoft is financing the ambitious project - half of which is a full-fledged television show - Myllyrinne said, "[W]e need to fall back and let the full force of a company like Microsoft see it through."
"There's no way on God's green Earth that we would take on a venture like this on our own," he added. "We might have the appetite but there's no way we could." Myllyrinne says the game serves "a strategic purpose" for Microsoft, giving the publisher a unique experience for its new console and allowing Remedy to create something it wouldn't be able to otherwise.
We recently spent some time with the Xbox One exclusive, which you can read about here.
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Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, spoke at a Kaufman County Tea Party rally on July 2.
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The Need for Maintenance in Windows 7
Many people notice begin to notice that after some time, their once new PC starts to slow down. It might take ages to load a web page or even longer to start up. Before spending hundreds of dollars to upgrade your PC or buy a new one, consider a less drastic and much cheaper solution. Every now and then your computer simply needs a little bit of routine upkeep, just like your car, to keep it running fast and efficiently. You have a few options as how to perform these tasks. Windows has several built in automated maintenance features, and third party software exists as well.
Scheduling Automated Maintenance Tasks
Windows 7 provides users with several tasks which can be scheduled to run automatically whenever you choose. These tasks are handled by a program called the Task Scheduler. The Task Scheduler is located in the Control Panel under System and Security.
To open the Task Scheduler and schedule a task:
- Click Start
- Click Control Panel
- Click System and Security
- Under Administrative Tools, click Schedule Tasks
- Select the Action menu and choose Create Basic Task
- In the Create Basic Task window, choose a name for your task
- Choose whether you want your task to run one time or on a daily, weekly or monthly basis
- Choose a start date and time for your task and any other specific timing options such as days of the week or specific months.
- Select Start a Program as the type of task you wish to run
- On the next screen, click Browse and find the program you want to schedule
- Click Finish to finalize your scheduled task
Removing a task is even simpler. To remove a task from the Scheduler:
- Click Task Scheduler Library located on the left-hand side of the Task Scheduler Window
- Under the list of tasks, find the name of the task you wish to remove
- Right click the task and click Delete
- Alternatively, you may click Disable if you wish to stop the task from running, but want to keep it around for later use.
Task Scheduler in Windows 7
What tasks should be automated?
While, technically, any program can be scheduled to run automatically, Disk Cleanup, Disk Optimization and Chkdsk are great choices for performing routine upkeep. Disk Cleanup is a simple utility that analyzes your computer and determines how many temporary files you have, and how much space you can gain by deleting these largely useless files. Disk Optimization takes fragmented files on your hard drive and rearranges them in order to allow your PC to access them faster. This process is known as defragmentation or defragging. Finally, Chkdsk looks over your hard drive for errors that inevitably occur with normal use and fixes them. Without Chkdsk, these errors can dramatically slow your PC.
The Disk Defragmenter has its own scheduling option as well. To access it:
- Click Start
- Click Control Panel
- Click System and Security
- Under Administrative Tools, click Defragment your hard drive
- Click the button labeled Configure Schedule
- Select how often you wish to defragment as well as the day and time for the defragmenter to run
Disk Defragmenter in Windows 7
Should you automate your tasks?
Whether to automate your PC?s maintenance is a personal choice that depends largely on your individual needs. If you are the type to set it and forget it, then scheduling your tasks to run on their own is the perfect solution. This provides you with great preventative maintenance without all the hassle. However, some advanced users may choose to run maintenance only when the need arises. This way you do not have to leave your PC on to defrag your hard drive overnight, or take a break from your PC while it checks for errors. You may even choose to automate some tasks like Disk Optimization and only run others when you suspect a problem.
About Steve Horton
Steve Horton is the Manager of Community & Social Media for ReviverSoft. He's been working with computers for over 20 years. Steve's dedicated to helping people get the most out of their PCs, and likes playing cards and writing comics.
Source: http://www.reviversoft.com/blog/2013/07/the-need-for-maintenance-in-windows-7/
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