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Googling for "steel furnance shutdown" finds more reports on unexpected shutdowns this year.
Two in Ashland, Ky, and one or two somewhere in Indiana and one in Bhopal, India. Note that they all seem to have occured in June/July.

Maybe some competitor trying to up his margin by reducing supply?

Drones....coming to neighborhood near you.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/local/ohio-in-strong-position-to-win-drone-site/nXHG4/

http://www.aclu.org/blog/technology-and-liberty-national-security/ohio-aerial-surveillance-system-moving-forward-without

The implication is that they sell the things for money and then get a replacement by claiming it is lost

Yes, I understand the implication there, but it's not exactly damning evidence of large-scale fraud; just a surprising statistic worth further investigation. That press release was over a year ago; has the state followed through and discovered evidence of fraud? Has anyone had their EBT access/re-issue revoked, payed a fine, or been locked up? If cards were sold, then surely the buyer got some value–i.e. purchased goods/food–from the card. And surely the seller was able to recoup those costs by reporting cards as stolen and receiving credit for the recently-spent values. Someone with access to the data could do the math, and then report "the state of Ohio covered $Y of goods purchased on reported-stolen cards, including $Z from person X, who reported a stolen card 75 times in 2011." I don't have that data.

Scratch that... there was a Dec 2013 fraud conviction. And the USDA estimates that Ohio may be responsible for $30 million in food-stamp fraud (residents or business owners, not the stat itself). So there is documented fraud... but not from the EBT cardholders themselves.

Essentially, lacking the predicate to introduce the radar into evidence, the officer was saying "he was speeding because I said so, and therefore I wrote him a ticket." Of course the judge threw it out.

You must not work in Ohio, where an officers "estimate" is all that's needed, with no corroborating evidence.

I didn't know if I should have laughed or cried when I saw this article.. but it just illustrates the problem with our country.. those who make the rules don't have to follow them.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/nation-world-news/incoming-speaker-boehner-avoids-airport-pad-down-1008368.html/

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/dog-alerts-local-family-to-fire-dies-in-blaze-159051.html

Somehow this is George Bush's fault. Hopefully Obama will correct the situation via his favorite method: legislating by fiat and declaring all fires illegal. All hail King Obama!

These DVDs have apparently already inspired some domestic terrorism in Ohio.

Quite a few AF officers, including comm and info officers (who most likely will serve in AFCYBER) were recently forced out of the AF through various force shaping actions. These actions included officers that the AF had spent a lot of training and education dollars on so that they could get Master's degrees. (At AFIT for example) And now it appears that the AF is regretting the force shaping and RIF actions. In early February 2008 (the same month many were forced out), the AF submitted a $385 million unfunded request to Congress to plus-up active duty end strength by almost 14,000. Also, a Dayton Daily News article on 10 February 2008 quoted General Bruce Carlson, the AFMC Commander, recently saying that the AF is "reconsidering the policy [PBD 720] it adopted two years ago" and "we cut too much." The article also quoted U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville, as saying "The Air Force has said that they don't believe their reduction in personnel is a wise thing to do, that the demands on them are not going down."

2. Are there any short-term plans to possibly ask any of the officers that were recently cut to come back to active duty?

3. If the unfunded request is approved/funded, how does the AF plan on getting those 14,000 personnel? (Experience and leadership abilities do not just grow on trees.)

These very same robotic deer can also make a festive holiday decoration.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/search/content/oh/s tory/news/local/2006/11/24/sns112506roboticdeer.ht ml

Here's a good history of the physical machines development.

http://www.daytondailynews.com/search/content/proj ect/enigma/enigma_index.html

Thank you! I was going for a well known case (and trying to document it) but I appreciate the criticism. Some other examples might be comparing JetBlue or SkyWest and United Airlines and other unionized airlines. Albeit there are other obstacles to running an airline business, unions are only one. But these non-unionized airlines are showing consistent profit while their unionized competitors aren't seeing profit even with massive government support (similar non audio link here.)

I might also mention various problems with teachers unions. But that's an entirely different story.

I think most competitive industries that have unions display these tendencies. A government enforced monopoly always seems to be a bad deal for everyone, not just unions. Besides, the main point of my post was not that unions are bad, merely that Carnegie was not an imbecile.

(not to get too far off track, but O'Reilly seems to like playing with hornet's nests with his stings that he gets too regularly) He's no real shining example of freedom, but he sure seems to like his revenge. The case speaks for itself. Between his railing of France for standing up to globalization and doing a right-winger's cheap shot in return when he got called for something, I'd say he'd have to have all the L^HDiebold machines rigged anywhere just to get a vote (or get Murdoch to buy his state's legislators to agree).

With

• Top quality representatives in Congress...
• **Outstanding** Pro-Teams...
• **Outstanding** jobs and economic outlook for the future...
• State of the Art Education programs that educate our youth...

It's a no-brainer how a teen can be charged with a crime just for telling his friends to "refresh the page"...

I think it's time for me to move...

Not knowing that civilian contractors perform "armed combat" is an idiot mistake One source

During the first Persian Gulf War, one civilian contractor was employed for every 60 active-duty personnel. That figure has grown to about one in 10, according to a Century Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy research foundation in New York City. More than 20,000 private contractors are being used in Iraq. While many perform engineering, clerical and construction work, others "have increasingly engaged in the exchange of fire formerly limited to soldiers," according to the foundation's September 2004 study titled "Legions Stretched Thin: the U.S. Army's Manpower Crisis." "It is perfectly appropriate to hire contractors, and most of their uses are not controversial, but we have no way of knowing what is happening with them in Iraq or elsewhere," said Leif Wellington Haase, co-author of the report. "There is little if no oversight for contractors, and in a democracy that is pretty troubling." Since the first stories of abuse at Abu Ghraib, the role of private contractors in America's war on terror has been brought into question. "Private security people are out of control," said Carl Conneta, co-director of the Project On Defense Alternatives, a nonpartisan arms control think tank in Cambridge, Mass. "Accountability is very tough to impose on them, and they are operating in a Wild West environment. "They don't have the same type of legal constraints that are operating inside the military," Conneta said.

On a similar note, it was reported in todays Dayton Daily News that a 33-year-old Franklin man has joined the growing list of people facing criminal charges as a result of Operation Falcon, a global Internet porn and money-laundering investigation by the federal agency established to combat terrorism. David Kinnison remained in the Warren County Jail, awaiting arraignment on Wednesday on 200 charges of pandering obscenity involving a minor. Kinnison, an unemployed teacher living with his mother, is among 70,000 people identified as having purchased child pornography on the Internet as a result of evidence gathered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to Franklin police. I have zero sympathy for pedophiles and those who financially support them, but why is this a homeland security issue: Is an unemployed teacher, who lives with his mother in some backwater town in southwestern ohio a terrorist threat? Should buying child porn be a crime? Absolutely. I just don't see the homeland security justification any more than i see using the Patriot Act to fight copyright violations.

And thirdly there's no way the public would get to here their last cries for help...

Incidentally...

Please vote against this sort of thing at every opportunity you get.

But what happens when these people get on Mars? Then what? What if, after a few weeks, the video/radio transmissions back to Mission Control are:

"OH GOD PLEASE GET ME OUT OF HERE! PLEASE I'LL DO ANYTHING! PLEASE I DON'T WANT TO DIE ON THIS PLANET!"

Imagine how horrifying that would be to everyone involved? It would be like watching a person who was condemned to die and fighting it at the last minute. No matter how justified it is, I think don't think there is anything that can prepare you for someone struggling to live and begging for their lives. Imagine the outrage that people on Earth would feel when the media shows a clip of this astronaut pleading for his life? It would go down as one of the darkest days of humanity.

I mean, they can't just shut off the radio and ignore the person.

The humane aspect of sending a person on a one-way death mission is the aspect that the author has completely and utterly ignored. It's easy to forget that right now, but when death is about to happen, everyone will be thinking, "Dear Lord, what have we done? How could we have done this?" and we as a species will regret the entire thing.

My only complaint with online papers is that they don't carry local advertisers. I'd love to read the online paper and see ads for local merchants just like reading the old fashioned news print. Heck... Send it to your printer and get a coupon for boneless chicken breasts at $.99/lb down at the local Kroger.

Alas, online papers don't follow the same paradigm as their successful predicessor... Instead I see ads for match.com and other online services I'll never subscribe to. This is where I don't get it: People who surf online still have lives offline. (I know this is Slashdot, but admit it, you occasionally squint at that bright thing up in that big blue ceiling.) When will companies realise they can combine local content with local advertisers for products people might be interested in buying when they step outside the door in their locale?