Steno Pads, Goldfibre, 120 pages, Gregg Ruled. Write your original stuff on the right side of the page, follow ups on the left. Day and date across the full page at the start of each day, highlighted in Yellow.
I went to the link you provided and looked at two pages served up by their website and after reading their terms of use I am not so sure that I would trust them for the following reasons:
1. They provide no way to contact them directly from their website and no FAQ. Perhaps they do with their client software but I don't think it is very smart to download and install it blind.
2. In paragraph numbered 1 of their Terms of Use they claim that they have a Privacy Policy because "my privacy is important"and that it is linked from the bottom of each page on their site. Well neither of the pages I viewed had such a link! And, of course, by merely accessing their site I agree to their terms of use including their un-findable and therefore unreadable Privacy Policy.
3. Their Terms of Use also includes language basically designed to prevent the posting of any information critical of the site.
4. Finally their Terms of Use seem to prevent the posting of a url pointing to their site without their express written consent. So, unless you had that when you posted the link you may be in violation of their Terms of Use if you are a user of their site. (Of course, maybe I'm wrong about that portion of their Terms of Use but I don't want to go back to their site and check because I might be correct since I now know what their Terms of Use include and I do not wish to be bound by them.)
Conclusion - probably over-lawyered and sloppy site design, i.e., they haven't followed their own rules. So, why would I want to trust them?
Been there, done that. When you are in your patrol area typically you are making turns for 3 knots or less. If you get a contact you try to avoid it without either leaving your patrol area or being detected yourself.
Occasionally your are either unable to estimate the range to a contact due to a technical reason or sonar just blows the estimate. That's what happened to us. We had him on sonar: a weak sound level with a zero bearing rate -- sonar told us he was far away.
Our collision was with a Russian boat. We had just started to clear baffles to port when he hit us on the starboard side just forward of the sail. He took out all the forward ballast tanks on the starboard side. If we hadn't just started to clear baffles to port he would have T-boned us and it would have been a lot uglier for us.
He had no clue that we were there -- he thought he had hit the bottom (immediately he lit off his fathometer on the short scale) --- the water was 6,000 feet deep. His reactor plant scrammed, he started flooding and had to surface. We just went deep and snuck away.
I know the U.S. boats and systems are much tougher than many think and I am certain the British and French boats are comparable.
In the late 1960s and mid 1970s there was no requirement for clip on ties. The dress code was a buisness suit, tie and a white shirt. They did relax the white shirt rule for a year or two but reimposed it after a customer visit by Tom Watson, Jr.
He apparently was in an elevator at the customer location along with a senior member of customer management when a scruffy looking guy gets on the elevator and gets off a couple of floors later. Watson, the story goes, comments to the customer about the scuffiness of the guy who got on the elevator and the customer replies, "Oh, that's one of your guys." It didn't take long before we felt the consequences of that.
The secret with the tie was to either wear a tie clasp or tack or even better to tuck it into your shirt just below the first button. Management would have preferred that we just kept our suit coats on.
There were no problems with printers catching your tie. Their paper drive mechanisms were hydraulic and the gears were pretty well hidden. Bigger problem was allowing the printer gate to bump you and stain your clothing either with the lubrication oil for the print train or the ink from the ribbon.
Its a self serving press release, NOT a news story
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Al-Qaeda Hacker Caught
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"The short career of Irhabi 007 offers a case study in the evolving nature of the threat that we at the SITE Institute track every day by monitoring and then joining the password-protected forums and communicating with the online jihadi community"
Come on, RTFA closely. Given the proclivities of Slashdot readers this may make for interesting reading but it is neither news nor does it say anything about our "rights" nor any erosion of them.
The only question it raises is why has the Washington Post seen fit to allow the SITE people to write a press release directly into their news publication in a form similar to what their readers would believe is an actual news article.
Stay in school full time and utilize every thing it has to offer including personally interacting with as many people as possible. You will develop relationships which will benefit you over your lifetime. Maintain and develop your passions in pursuit of what interests you; you simply won't have the time to do so again until much later in life when passion has waned along with your energy level. Now is the time to make the decisions which widen your horizons not narrow them. Follow all your interests. If you don't, you will look back with regret.
Actually, in the cases we have handled, the raids have taken place in Canada and the lists of those who purchased by credit card have made their way into the DirectTV hands. Since this is based on among other things copyright law the holder gets to see who might have taken his intellectual property.
If I recall correctly, the demand letter was originally for either $5,000.00 or $7,500.00 USD. They send a copy of the proposed writ along with the letter. It usually gets the target's attention.
Apple didn't invent the fingerpad. That was actually available on some dedicated word processing machines back in the late 70s. I can't remember the manufacturer but I think their name began with a C and the machines were WYSIWYG. They were physically huge and were priced at about 10K$. I almost talked the senior partners at the law firm into buying a few.
Because the Cirrus aircraft has this system installed the manufacturer was NOT REQUIRED to demonstrate that the aircraft could recover from an inadvertent spin entry. The chute, among other things is used to satisfy that design and certification requirement, i.e., spin recovery.
Note that this is the FIRST time it has been SUCCESSFUL! The previous times in which the pilot attempted to deploy the chute it DID NOT FUNCTION! There is at least one AD (airworthyness directive) out against the system with respect to the rocket firing mechanism because it failed to trigger.
By the way, inverted spins are uncommon. A normal spin entry may involve a wingover of sorts but usually the aircraft stabilizes in an upright, nose down position with one wing flying, e.g., producing lift and the other not so the ailerons are no help. If the elevator is blanked and the center of gravity too far forward the spin may be unrecoverable.
cheers....
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Nah.... What actually happened with the control rod was in fact an accident. That plant was shut down and was cold and depressurized. They were doing some maintenance on the rod drive mechanisms and were attempting to reinstall one of the rod drive mechanisms. To do so required that the control rod be raised a very short distance to reengage the mechanism. The rod stuck when he tried to move it. He pulled harder and it came unstuck and moved a short distance quite rapidly. Unfortunately the amount of reactivity from control rod movement is a function of the speed with which the rod is moved. The speed here caused the reactor to go critical just in the portion of the core at the bottom of this control rod which generated a very high localized temperature causing the moderator, i.e., the water at the bottom of the control rod channel to turn to superheated steam which because the rod mechanism was not installed served to eject the rod rapidly from the core and impale this poor guy on the ceiling far above.
When I went through Naval Nuclear Power training this was one of the accidents we studied. They had pictures. The funniest one was the poor guy who had his mop head go critical when he mopped up a uranium containing solution (I think it was uranium hexaflouride) and then put it in the bucket's squeezer. The mop actully went critical and heated up to the point of steaming. He died a slow death over the next few days from the massive radiation dose.
My experience has been very similar to yours, i.e., putting the extra pounds on and not being able to take them off until going on an Atkins type diet. The one additional downside I experienced was that the diet seemed to make my stool sticky causing difficult bowel movements and aggravating my tendency to get hemmorhoids. [I too am an old guy.] That required some modification, i.e., adding fruits back in. On reading the book: it is a terrible book... mostly puffery. Hard science in support of his recommendations would have been very helpful. I have moved back towards the "Zone Diet" since that book had, amid the puffery, some explanation of a seemingly scientific basis for his recommendations.
The article is a little light on the technical side.
In the old days in a DC circuit Power was equal to Amperage times the Voltage, or P=I*E.
Voltage was equal to Amperage times the Resistance, or E=I*R.
Which gives P=Isquared*R. So to reduce power losses when transmitting you want to keep the amperage as low as possible which mans keep the voltage as high as possible.
When you speak of a flywheel being more efficient than a chemical battery there are a couple of considerations. In order to spin the flywheel you have to turn it or apply torque. You do that with a MOTOR. Motors are not 100% efficient so you lose some power there. Then you lose more power through the mechanical inefficiences of the flywheel, e.g friction and drag effects. Then you need to extract the energy from the flywheel so you must convert it by running it back through what was once a motor but now a generator so you have more losses doing this. Then you must transport it to the place on the rail where it is being used.
Compared to a battery it would seem that the magnitude of the losses might be less, i.e., are the losses associated with the conversion from electrical to chemical less than the electrical to mechanical to electrical in the flywheel? Or are there other considerations, such as the size of the batteries, attaining the high battery voltage, peak current rates, heat disipation, long term battery maintenance, internal battery resistance, etc. Big batteries are far from being maintenance free (ask an old time submariner about battery maintenance, equalizing charges, etc.) Also, there may e considerations of matching the internal resistance to the external load, i.e., they should be equal to transfer maximum power and minimize internal losses.
Then what about the costs. Probably you could make more of the flywheel power storage units than the huge batteries so there could be more of them attached to the system which would tend to reduce the amount of rail the power must transit to reach a train.
I have been doing the beta test stuff with xPlay on my 10 gig iPod and purchased the 1.0 version yesterday.
I had a few minor problems with a couple of the betas with respect to firewire ports. In my case the Audigy Fireway ports sometimes hung, but many others had no difficulty whatsoever with the Audigy cards. I went to the Adaptec Duo card and have had no problems since.
I have about 1,663 mp3s at 140 kbit or so encoding and have used about 7.34 gig of the 9.27 or so available. I use the remaining 1.92 gig to backup the office data daily. Works great. Obviously, it is not a longterm backup solution but it amounts to the belt part of my "belt and suspenders solution." It gives me that little extra comfort level.
Now I just need to find a cassette adapter which will work in my GM car radio and I will be happy.
You overestimate the amount of mateial needed for criticallity. All you really need is a neutron source, fissile material and the proper geometry.
When I was in Naval Nuclear Power School we studied some of the accidents which had occurred. My favorite was the janitor at the enrichment plant who used a wet mop to clean up a spill of what I think was uranium hexafloride. He noticed that his mop head got hot and emitted some steam and he didn't feel right. He died within the week. What got him was the water which acted as a moderator for the fast neutrons emitted by the uranium slowing them down to thermal energies. The U-235 enriched uranium hexaflouride was fissile and the geometry of the twisted mop head was sufficient to attain criticallity for a brief period of time. No explosion in this case just some heat and a sheet of hard radiation.
Nuclear things that go boom do so because of obtaining super criticallity.
Alpha radiation is made up of particles, i.e., basically a helium nucleas stripped of all orbital electrons. No matter what their energy level all Alpha particles can be stopped by a sheet of newspaper or damn near anything else. They become biologically dangerous when their source is ingested. They also participate in some radioactive transformations. Go look at a chart of the nuclitides...it gives all the transforms.
No, not really. You need to worry about what the other side will do, e.g., seek costs, sanctions, etc. Also you need to consider the relevant statute of limitations. Once the trial has actually started if you attempt to withdraw the suit then there will ordinarily be rulings adverse to you and you will end up having a much more difficult or perhaps even impossible time bringing it again. You will be bound by "the law of the case" in your next attempt. That means that any rulings will carry over to the new suit and those issues and facts will not be subject to further litigation. One of the goals of law is "finality." That is a necessary concept in order to settle the relations between parties and thereby assist them in planning future behavior. In this instance however, Sony may have gotten their case so screwed up procedurally, i.e., wrong or missing parties, jurisdictional problems, etc., that they realized they could not accomplish their objective. So, they decided to just withdraw it, take their lumps and start over again correctly.
Pleading "no contest" or in some jurisdictions "nolo contendre" simply means that you are choosing not to contest the charges against. Typically you are then found GUILTY by the trier-of-fact after the prosecutor has stated sufficient facts on the record to support a conviction under the relevant statute. Under the law you are just as guilty as if the conviction occurred after a trial. The principal advantage to entering a nolo plea is that it usually cannot be used against you in a civil case, i.e., it is not an admission.
One out of three...... FELONS/Voting: You might still be able to vote after a felony conviction depending on the STATE you are in. It is STATE law which controls on voting rights. In a few, mostly southern, states you can never vote again after a felony conviction. Other states will not let you vote while in jail or on probation. USA TODAY had an article a year or so back covering voting rights for felons. FELONS/Guns: Here again it depends on the type of felony, i.e., federal or state and on the state itself. In some states there are procedures for having your "gun rights" restored after a state felony conviction. In others a PARDON is required. Currently in the federal system a pardon is required. There is a procedure on the books providing for a different means of restoring federal gun possession status but the office has never been funded so it cannot be used. FELONS/Jobs: correct
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Steno Pads, Goldfibre, 120 pages, Gregg Ruled. Write your original stuff on the right side of the page, follow ups on the left. Day and date across the full page at the start of each day, highlighted in Yellow.
Been working for me since 1976.
I went to the link you provided and looked at two pages served up by their website and after reading their terms of use I am not so sure that I would trust them for the following reasons:
1. They provide no way to contact them directly from their website and no FAQ. Perhaps they do with their client software but I don't think it is very smart to download and install it blind.
2. In paragraph numbered 1 of their Terms of Use they claim that they have a Privacy Policy because "my privacy is important"and that it is linked from the bottom of each page on their site. Well neither of the pages I viewed had such a link! And, of course, by merely accessing their site I agree to their terms of use including their un-findable and therefore unreadable Privacy Policy.
3. Their Terms of Use also includes language basically designed to prevent the posting of any information critical of the site.
4. Finally their Terms of Use seem to prevent the posting of a url pointing to their site without their express written consent. So, unless you had that when you posted the link you may be in violation of their Terms of Use if you are a user of their site. (Of course, maybe I'm wrong about that portion of their Terms of Use but I don't want to go back to their site and check because I might be correct since I now know what their Terms of Use include and I do not wish to be bound by them.)
Conclusion - probably over-lawyered and sloppy site design, i.e., they haven't followed their own rules. So, why would I want to trust them?
Been there, done that. When you are in your patrol area typically you are making turns for 3 knots or less. If you get a contact you try to avoid it without either leaving your patrol area or being detected yourself.
Occasionally your are either unable to estimate the range to a contact due to a technical reason or sonar just blows the estimate. That's what happened to us. We had him on sonar: a weak sound level with a zero bearing rate -- sonar told us he was far away.
Our collision was with a Russian boat. We had just started to clear baffles to port when he hit us on the starboard side just forward of the sail. He took out all the forward ballast tanks on the starboard side. If we hadn't just started to clear baffles to port he would have T-boned us and it would have been a lot uglier for us.
He had no clue that we were there -- he thought he had hit the bottom (immediately he lit off his fathometer on the short scale) --- the water was 6,000 feet deep. His reactor plant scrammed, he started flooding and had to surface. We just went deep and snuck away.
I know the U.S. boats and systems are much tougher than many think and I am certain the British and French boats are comparable.
In the late 1960s and mid 1970s there was no requirement for clip on ties. The dress code was a buisness suit, tie and a white shirt. They did relax the white shirt rule for a year or two but reimposed it after a customer visit by Tom Watson, Jr.
He apparently was in an elevator at the customer location along with a senior member of customer management when a scruffy looking guy gets on the elevator and gets off a couple of floors later. Watson, the story goes, comments to the customer about the scuffiness of the guy who got on the elevator and the customer replies, "Oh, that's one of your guys." It didn't take long before we felt the consequences of that.
The secret with the tie was to either wear a tie clasp or tack or even better to tuck it into your shirt just below the first button. Management would have preferred that we just kept our suit coats on.
There were no problems with printers catching your tie. Their paper drive mechanisms were hydraulic and the gears were pretty well hidden. Bigger problem was allowing the printer gate to bump you and stain your clothing either with the lubrication oil for the print train or the ink from the ribbon.
"The short career of Irhabi 007 offers a case study in the evolving nature of the threat that we at the SITE Institute track every day by monitoring and then joining the password-protected forums and communicating with the online jihadi community"
Come on, RTFA closely. Given the proclivities of Slashdot readers this may make for interesting reading but it is neither news nor does it say anything about our "rights" nor any erosion of them.
The only question it raises is why has the Washington Post seen fit to allow the SITE people to write a press release directly into their news publication in a form similar to what their readers would believe is an actual news article.
The Weapon Shops of Ishtar by A.E. van Vogt
Probably the first.
Google "Is the Oil Spigot Running Dry"
It points to an article giving the other side of the story.
Never mind, here is the link:
http://www.fumento.com/environment/gas.html
Stay in school full time and utilize every thing it has to offer including personally interacting with as many people as possible. You will develop relationships which will benefit you over your lifetime. Maintain and develop your passions in pursuit of what interests you; you simply won't have the time to do so again until much later in life when passion has waned along with your energy level. Now is the time to make the decisions which widen your horizons not narrow them. Follow all your interests. If you don't, you will look back with regret.
Actually, in the cases we have handled, the raids have taken place in Canada and the lists of those who purchased by credit card have made their way into the DirectTV hands. Since this is based on among other things copyright law the holder gets to see who might have taken his intellectual property.
If I recall correctly, the demand letter was originally for either $5,000.00 or $7,500.00 USD. They send a copy of the proposed writ along with the letter. It usually gets the target's attention.
Apple didn't invent the fingerpad. That was actually available on some dedicated word processing machines back in the late 70s. I can't remember the manufacturer but I think their name began with a C and the machines were WYSIWYG. They were physically huge and were priced at about 10K$. I almost talked the senior partners at the law firm into buying a few.
Because the Cirrus aircraft has this system installed the manufacturer was NOT REQUIRED to demonstrate that the aircraft could recover from an inadvertent spin entry. The chute, among other things is used to satisfy that design and certification requirement, i.e., spin recovery.
Note that this is the FIRST time it has been SUCCESSFUL! The previous times in which the pilot attempted to deploy the chute it DID NOT FUNCTION! There is at least one AD (airworthyness directive) out against the system with respect to the rocket firing mechanism because it failed to trigger.
By the way, inverted spins are uncommon. A normal spin entry may involve a wingover of sorts but usually the aircraft stabilizes in an upright, nose down position with one wing flying, e.g., producing lift and the other not so the ailerons are no help. If the elevator is blanked and the center of gravity too far forward the spin may be unrecoverable.
cheers....
Nah....
What actually happened with the control rod was in fact an accident. That plant was shut down and was cold and depressurized. They were doing some maintenance on the rod drive mechanisms and were attempting to reinstall one of the rod drive mechanisms. To do so required that the control rod be raised a very short distance to reengage the mechanism. The rod stuck when he tried to move it. He pulled harder and it came unstuck and moved a short distance quite rapidly. Unfortunately the amount of reactivity from control rod movement is a function of the speed with which the rod is moved. The speed here caused the reactor to go critical just in the portion of the core at the bottom of this control rod which generated a very high localized temperature causing the moderator, i.e., the water at the bottom of the control rod channel to turn to superheated steam which because the rod mechanism was not installed served to eject the rod rapidly from the core and impale this poor guy on the ceiling far above.
When I went through Naval Nuclear Power training this was one of the accidents we studied. They had pictures. The funniest one was the poor guy who had his mop head go critical when he mopped up a uranium containing solution (I think it was uranium hexaflouride) and then put it in the bucket's squeezer. The mop actully went critical and heated up to the point of steaming. He died a slow death over the next few days from the massive radiation dose.
My experience has been very similar to yours, i.e., putting the extra pounds on and not being able to take them off until going on an Atkins type diet.
The one additional downside I experienced was that the diet seemed to make my stool sticky causing difficult bowel movements and aggravating my tendency to get hemmorhoids. [I too am an old guy.] That required some modification, i.e., adding fruits back in.
On reading the book: it is a terrible book... mostly puffery. Hard science in support of his recommendations would have been very helpful. I have moved back towards the "Zone Diet" since that book had, amid the puffery, some explanation of a seemingly scientific basis for his recommendations.
The article is a little light on the technical side.
In the old days in a DC circuit Power was equal to Amperage times the Voltage, or P=I*E.
Voltage was equal to Amperage times the Resistance, or E=I*R.
Which gives P=Isquared*R. So to reduce power losses when transmitting you want to keep the amperage as low as possible which mans keep the voltage as high as possible.
When you speak of a flywheel being more efficient than a chemical battery there are a couple of considerations. In order to spin the flywheel you have to turn it or apply torque. You do that with a MOTOR. Motors are not 100% efficient so you lose some power there. Then you lose more power through the mechanical inefficiences of the flywheel, e.g friction and drag effects. Then you need to extract the energy from the flywheel so you must convert it by running it back through what was once a motor but now a generator so you have more losses doing this. Then you must transport it to the place on the rail where it is being used.
Compared to a battery it would seem that the magnitude of the losses might be less, i.e., are the losses associated with the conversion from electrical to chemical less than the electrical to mechanical to electrical in the flywheel? Or are there other considerations, such as the size of the batteries, attaining the high battery voltage, peak current rates, heat disipation, long term battery maintenance, internal battery resistance, etc. Big batteries are far from being maintenance free (ask an old time submariner about battery maintenance, equalizing charges, etc.) Also, there may e considerations of matching the internal resistance to the external load, i.e., they should be equal to transfer maximum power and minimize internal losses.
Then what about the costs. Probably you could make more of the flywheel power storage units than the huge batteries so there could be more of them attached to the system which would tend to reduce the amount of rail the power must transit to reach a train.
Yeah, what did happen to Lizzie Grubman anyway?
I have been doing the beta test stuff with xPlay on my 10 gig iPod and purchased the 1.0 version yesterday.
I had a few minor problems with a couple of the betas with respect to firewire ports. In my case the Audigy Fireway ports sometimes hung, but many others had no difficulty whatsoever with the Audigy cards. I went to the Adaptec Duo card and have had no problems since.
I have about 1,663 mp3s at 140 kbit or so encoding and have used about 7.34 gig of the 9.27 or so available. I use the remaining 1.92 gig to backup the office data daily. Works great. Obviously, it is not a longterm backup solution but it amounts to the belt part of my "belt and suspenders solution." It gives me that little extra comfort level.
Now I just need to find a cassette adapter which will work in my GM car radio and I will be happy.
The slot machines at the Casino's here will accept $100 bills.
You overestimate the amount of mateial needed for criticallity. All you really need is a neutron source, fissile material and the proper geometry. When I was in Naval Nuclear Power School we studied some of the accidents which had occurred. My favorite was the janitor at the enrichment plant who used a wet mop to clean up a spill of what I think was uranium hexafloride. He noticed that his mop head got hot and emitted some steam and he didn't feel right. He died within the week. What got him was the water which acted as a moderator for the fast neutrons emitted by the uranium slowing them down to thermal energies. The U-235 enriched uranium hexaflouride was fissile and the geometry of the twisted mop head was sufficient to attain criticallity for a brief period of time. No explosion in this case just some heat and a sheet of hard radiation. Nuclear things that go boom do so because of obtaining super criticallity.
Alpha radiation is made up of particles, i.e., basically a helium nucleas stripped of all orbital electrons. No matter what their energy level all Alpha particles can be stopped by a sheet of newspaper or damn near anything else. They become biologically dangerous when their source is ingested. They also participate in some radioactive transformations. Go look at a chart of the nuclitides...it gives all the transforms.
No, not really. You need to worry about what the other side will do, e.g., seek costs, sanctions, etc. Also you need to consider the relevant statute of limitations. Once the trial has actually started if you attempt to withdraw the suit then there will ordinarily be rulings adverse to you and you will end up having a much more difficult or perhaps even impossible time bringing it again. You will be bound by "the law of the case" in your next attempt. That means that any rulings will carry over to the new suit and those issues and facts will not be subject to further litigation. One of the goals of law is "finality." That is a necessary concept in order to settle the relations between parties and thereby assist them in planning future behavior. In this instance however, Sony may have gotten their case so screwed up procedurally, i.e., wrong or missing parties, jurisdictional problems, etc., that they realized they could not accomplish their objective. So, they decided to just withdraw it, take their lumps and start over again correctly.
Pleading "no contest" or in some jurisdictions "nolo contendre" simply means that you are choosing not to contest the charges against. Typically you are then found GUILTY by the trier-of-fact after the prosecutor has stated sufficient facts on the record to support a conviction under the relevant statute. Under the law you are just as guilty as if the conviction occurred after a trial. The principal advantage to entering a nolo plea is that it usually cannot be used against you in a civil case, i.e., it is not an admission.
One out of three...... FELONS/Voting: You might still be able to vote after a felony conviction depending on the STATE you are in. It is STATE law which controls on voting rights. In a few, mostly southern, states you can never vote again after a felony conviction. Other states will not let you vote while in jail or on probation. USA TODAY had an article a year or so back covering voting rights for felons. FELONS/Guns: Here again it depends on the type of felony, i.e., federal or state and on the state itself. In some states there are procedures for having your "gun rights" restored after a state felony conviction. In others a PARDON is required. Currently in the federal system a pardon is required. There is a procedure on the books providing for a different means of restoring federal gun possession status but the office has never been funded so it cannot be used. FELONS/Jobs: correct