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Blogging from the Aspen Ideas Festival, Matt Yglesias rejects the notion of having a cap-and-trade emissions scheme with a "safety valve," which would allow companies to buy emissions permits at a given price if the market price of for permits exceeds that price (in effect, setting a limit on how high the cost of carbon emissions can rise). Matt writes:
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This isn't quite right. It's true that if you set the safety valve low enough, it would simply be a cop-out: A working cap-and-trade scheme will inevitably cause the price of carbon emissions to rise. But, if I remember correctly from economics class (any economists out there can correct me if I'm wrong), the idea behind a safety valve is to compensate for the uncertainty involved in emissions reduction: We don't really know exactly what the socially optimal level of emissions is, so chances are with any reduction scheme we'll miss either on the high side or the low side. But missing high and missing low aren't necessarily equally harmful; that depends on the shape of the cost and benefit curves for emissions reduction (see here for a helpful explanation). Most economists seem to believe that in the short run, the marginal cost curve is relatively steep and the marginal benefit curve is relatively flat, since emitting a little too much for a period of a year or two isn't that big a deal.
Under those circumstances, it's better to set the cost of emissions and let the quantity fluctuate to reach equilibrium--i.e., to have a carbon tax, rather than a cap-and-trade scheme (which sets the quantity and allows the cost to fluctuate). The idea behind a safety valve is to make cap-and-trade (which is more politically palatable than a carbon tax) act like a carbon tax in the event that the price of emissions rises more than we anticipate. So while I'm sure Matt's right that the oil and gas industry would like to use a safety valve just to render cap-and-trade practically useless (by setting the trigger too low), in the right hands, a safety valve is a useful tool for crafting an optimal emissions-reduction regime.
--Josh Patashnik
Well done post. This is a subtle topic and you nailed it. Weitzman would be proud.
- treeshar
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The Buzz about TreeTops
For Adrenaline Junkies, TreeTops Canopy Tour, Gravity Ziplines and TimberTrek are a Rushes Like No Other
Garden & Gun Magazine - March 2012"Part ropes course, part canopy tour, and part circus school, the TimberTrek aerial adventure park from West Virginia’s Adventures on the Gorge represents the next level of vertical exploration."
Gravity Ziplines named to Travel & Leisure's list of World's Coolest Ziplines! - March 2012
Whitewater rafting companies have transformed themselves into all-inclusive adventure resorts offering lodging, dining and world-class canopy tours and zip lines.
The Charleston Gazette - October 2010
USAToday Travel - September 2010
10 Great Ziplines Across the USAThis tour swoops through hardwood forests and old-growth hemlocks above a canyon adjacent to the New River Gorge, which is famous for its whitewater rafting. "It's one of the most beautiful places I've been." - Michael R. Smith
She Knows Living - January 2010
10 Great Places To Zipline!"Few things beat soaring through the air on a cable over rich forests, bubbling rivers and native wildlife. With your adrenaline pumping as you glide above breathtaking landscapes, you'll hardly worry about how far you are from the ground." - Corie Russell
Wall Street Journal - January 2010
Some of West Virginia's finest hemlock forests are under
assault by the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid. To raise awareness about the predatory bug, the nonprofit Nature Conservancy has teamed up with an adventure tourism company doing treetop tours.
-WSJ, Kris Mahar | http://www.newrivergorgecanopytour.com/site/about/the-buxx-about-treetops.html | 2013-05-18T11:01:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Friday, February 4, 2011
By Derrick Mahone
dmahone@news-daily.com
By the end of the first quarter Friday at Mount Zion High, Ashlee Cole had already put in a full game's work as fourth-ranked Forest Park was on its way to keeping its 11-game winning streak in place with an easy win over the Lady Bulldogs in a Region 4-AAAA game.
Cole finished the game with 22 points, 20 in the opening quarter as the Lady Panthers cruised to a 71-29 win and remained a win away from clinching the regular season region title.
A little over a minute into the contest, Forest Park jumped to a 12-0 lead before Mount Zion called a timeout with 6:19 remaining, but the damage had already been done.
The Bulldogs were never able to recover as they committed 39 turnovers on the game. All 12 Forest Park players that played scored at least one point in the contest.
"The last four games we have really been clicking," Lady Panthers coach Steven Cole said. "Everybody is now understanding their roles on this team. I think we are peaking at the right time."
Forest Park's tenacious defense gave the Lady Bulldogs problem's all night. Several times Mount Zion was unable to advance the ball past halfcourt because of the pressuring defense.
The Lady Bulldogs didn't get their first field goal until reserve Vivian McDougald hit a layup with 43 seconds remaining in the opening half as Forest took a 29-2 lead. Tynesha Parks was Mount Zion's first starter to score when she hit a 3-pointer with 2:09 remaining in the second quarter as the Lady Bulldogs' trailed 39-12.
"We were real focused out there," said Forest Park forward Cydni Bivins, who came off the bench to score seven points. Keyonna Allen was the only other Forest Park player in double figures with 10 points.
"As the region tournament approaches, we are trying to come into every game focused," Allen said. "Winning region is our first step towards our goal of trying to reach the final four again."
Forest Park can clinch the top seed in the upcoming region tournament Tuesday with a win at second-place North Clayton. The Lady Panthers won the earlier contest 70-29 at home.
During the Forest Park's 11-game winning streak, it has only allowed three opponents to score at least 30 points. The Panthers are only allowing an average of 36 points on the season.
The win improves the Lady Panthers to 18-5 overall and 16-0 in the region as Mount Zion dropped to 5-16 and 4-11. The Lady Bulldogs were on a two-game winning streak entering the week, but lost to Mundy's Mill on Tuesday. Prior to its mini winning streak, Mount Zion had dropped three straight.
"We have been progressing throughout the year," Mount Zion coach Rodricus Ficklin said. "We are looking to make a run in the region tournament. Right now, we are playing for positioning in the region tournament."
Mount Zion struggled offensively as it had trouble with the Lady Panthers' fullcourt pressure defense. The second quarter was the only time that Mount Zion got into double figures scoring.
Forest Park closed the game on a 6-0 run.
"I was really excited about playing this game," Ashlee Cole said. "It is getting close to region tournament time and your are supposed to be pumped up about that. We played real good on the defensive end. I think we are peaking at the right time."
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The Junior Classical League group from Homestead High School won fourth place nationally in publicity at the National Junior Classical League convention July 26-31 at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C.
The Homestead club's publicity chairpersons, Alicia Cuellar and William Ngo, created the publicity items and projects that won the national award. Their work also won first place earlier this year at the Indiana Junior Classical League convention.
The Junior Classical League encourages students in middle school and high school to take interest in and show appreciation for “the language, literature and culture of ancient Greece and Rome and to impart an understanding of the debt of our own culture to that of Classical antiquity,” it says on the national organization's website,.
Selection of the publicity award is based on students' work to keep people aware of the Latin language and the Junior Classical League organization, a club news release said.
Homestead earned 15,963 publicity points through efforts such as posting JCL banners around the community, developing community-service projects and passing out a variety of information fliers to students and the community, the news release said.
One of the projects Cuellar and Ngo planned involved creating a Roman scarecrow/pumpkin display — and having facilitators on hand in togas — at the annual Zoo Halloween event at the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo. Cuellar and Ngo also planned a mythology story and craft time for children at a local library as well as an event where the club held a coloring contest and presented a mythological play at Barnes and Noble bookstore.
The Homestead club was represented at the convention by Michelle Bonahoom, the current Indiana Junior Classical League president; Rachel Klein; and David Landrigan, the news release said.
At the national convention, students also took part in Olympika events, academic tests, certamen (Latin quiz-bowl), a Roman banquet, oratory contests, graphic arts contests and various colloquia, the news release said. | http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120829/LIVING/308299997/1022/EDUCATION | 2013-05-18T10:15:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Plenty of nous in new Premier, Denis Napthine
- From: Herald Sun
- March 07, 2013
New Premier Denis Napthine. Picture: Ian Currie Source: Herald Sun
THERE are almost as many theories about why Ted Baillieu quit as premier as there were Liberal MPs in Parliament House.
As for the question of whether he jumped or was pushed - most MPs seemed to accept the decision to leave was Mr Baillieu's own.
For although his support was diminishing, it does not seem as though he was tapped.
Indeed, some of those MPs who thought Mr Baillieu should leave, admit that had he made it clear he was digging in, they would have been hard-pressed to get rid of him.
Instead, he simply walked away as some had always suspected he would.
As for his reasons?
Perhaps it was the fact that dealing with the newly minted independent MP Geoff Shaw was going to be easier for another leader and he simply couldn't bring himself to do it.
Or perhaps he made the judgment that the internal mutterings were only going to grow and it would be in the best interests of the party for him to go now.
Maybe he had simply had enough.
Those who know weren't saying yesterday.
The one thing everyone can agree on is that once Mr Baillieu's decision was made he was determined that Denis Napthine should succeed him and not one of the so-called young turks.
When Dr Napthine made it clear he would be standing as leader, the other candidates all melted away - with the exception of Sandringham's idiosyncratic MP, Murray Thompson, who nominated himself.
There is no question about Dr Napthine's political abilities.
Don't be fooled by the simple country vet persona - Denis Napthine is a cunning politician in a way Ted Baillieu never was.
His problem, at least in the short term, is how to explain to the people of Victoria why the man they elected to be premier two years ago is no longer with us.
Because whatever your views of Ted Baillieu, the fact of the matter is we elected him in 2010 - not Dr Napthine.
No doubt, Dr Napthine was as surprised as the rest of us that he went to bed on Wednesday night as the Premier of Victoria.
Now he has to show us why it wasn't just an accident.
Abbott 'plans to raise GST' - Labor
LABOR cabinet member Bill Shorten warns Tony Abbott would increase the GST if elected PM, though Coalition says it's not on the agenda. | http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/plenty-of-nous-in-new-premier-denis-napthine/story-e6frfkp9-1226592759678 | 2013-05-18T10:41:56 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Nicole Kidman: Why I'll never do Botox again
- From: news.com.au
- January 30, 2013
Nicole Kidman admits she has experimented with Botox, but says she's sworn off the treatment. Picture: Getty Images
Source: Getty Images.
"Anybody can do anything to themselves - I don't judge - but personally I believe in being physically fit. That's how I was raised."
The natural redhead added that there is an upshot to her fair complexion: "I can't go in the sun because I'm fair-skinned. It was a nightmare when I was younger but it has its benefits now."
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Release the flying zombie shark! Top geek gifts this Christmas
- From: news.com.au
- November 26, 2012
Surprise the geek in your life with pop culture goodies. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
LOOKING for that special gift for the geek in your life but don't know your Hunger Games from your holodecks?
Don't worry. We've tracked down the best geek gifts so you don't have to go back to the future or set phasers to stun.
Set your Christmas shopping to Warp Factor 10. Our engines can handle it. May the sticky tape be with you.
1. Zombie Shark Air Swimmer
Way better than sharks with frickkin lasers. This bloodthirsty, flying zombie shark is one to scare friends and enemies alike and, unlike real sharks and real zombies, it can be controlled. Think of the terror! You're gonna need a bigger float. Buy it here.
Shark
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2. Star Wars Death Star Tea Infuser
There'll be no foul stenches onboard the Death Star this time. With the Death Star Tea Infuser you can sit back and enjoy brining order to the galaxy with a hot steaming mug of Earl Grey. Tea bags? A Jedi craves these things not. Buy it here.
Death Star
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3. Marvel Universe Phase One Collection
Blu-rays assemble! If you can hold off until April, this is the Marvel set for you. The 10-disc set includes Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers in 2D and 3D, lots of extras and a glowing Tesseract, all safely contained in a shiny case. You also get a sneak peek at Iron Man 3 and other films from Marvel's Phase Two. More info here.
4. LEGO Star Wars Abbey Road T-Shirt
A long time ago in a hip part of London far, far away ... The Beatles and Star Wars don't usually mix but what if they did? The results would probably look like this. Bizarrely, Han Solo is in the Ringo spot. It's possible no one thought that one through. Buy it here.
Lego
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5. LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar
The new Star Wars films are a couple of years away but why not get do a practice countdown with this advent calendar. Each day has a tiny gift behind the door, including mini-figures and mini-vehicles. Buy it here.
LEGO calendar
Source: Supplied
6. AT-AT Plush Utility Bag
You can use it to carry you iPad, your lunch box or important work documents. Or ... or you can use it to carry an elite squad of Imperial Snowtroopers that you've primed to take out Rebel scum on Hoth. Your choice, of course. Buy it here.
At AT
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7. Inflatable Minigun Arm
Turn your arm into a weapon of unimaginable destruction with this handy inflatable. Your friends will either tremble in fear or laugh uncontrollably. Buy it here.
8. Minecraft Foam Pickaxe
Pixels come to life in this officially licensed foam weapon. It won't break rock or cut down wood, or even cleave an enemy's head in two but it will make you feel like a video game warrior. Buy it here.
9. Star Trek Book of Opposites
The blurb on David Borgenicht children's book says "EXPLORE STRANGE NEW WORDS!" and we can't improve on that. For those Trekkies who want to give their little ones a Vulcan education. Buy it here.
Star Trek
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10. Darth Vader and Son
Darth Vader re-imagined as a put upon parent and Luke Skywalker as a wilful child. Artist Jeffrey Brown's inspired cartoons give the saga a funny twist. One for Star Wars dads. Buy it here.
Darth Vader and Son
Source: Supplied
11. The Unofficial Hunger Games Cookbook
Are you hungry enough to rise up against the fops of the Capitol? Well, Emily Ansara Baines's book offers up enticing recipes such as French Bread from the Mellark Family Bakery, Katniss's Favourite Lamb Stew with Dried Plums, Rue's Roasted Parsnips, Gale's Bone-Pickin' Big Game Soup and Capitol-Grade Dark Chocolate Cake. Buy it here.
Hunger Games
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12. Avengers Loki Inspired Bracelet
Do you have someone special in your life? Someone with whom you hope to share the twilight of your days? Best not to give them this: an aluminium bracelet stamped with the words "Mewling Quim". The dapper Tom Hiddleston may have used the phrase to describe ScarJo in The Avengers but we're sure it wasn't a compliment. Buy it here.
Avengers
Source: Supplied
13. The Walking Dead Dead: Compendium One and Two
Stay ahead of the walkers and the biters with the comic book that inspired the hit TV series. Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard are two men you want to have by your side when the zombie apocalypse comes. Compendium One collects issues 1-48 and Compendium Two collects issues 49-96. Expect a lot of gore. Not everyone survives. Buy them here.
Walking Dead
Source: Supplied
14. Doctor Who Costume T-Shirts
Ever wanted to dress like a Time Lord but couldn't get the right jumble of clothes? These T-Shirts save you the trouble. Every Dr Who outfit faithfully recreated, even down to the stick of celery. Buy them here.
Who T Shirts
Source: Supplied
15. Superman: Can you Trust an Alien?
Exclusive high-quality print featuring anti-Superman propaganda from the twisted mind of Lex Luthor. Buy it here.
Superman
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16. Star Trek: The Original Series Soundtrack Collection
For the serious Star Trek fan: a 15-disc box set showcasing all the scores as heard in all three seasons of the original 60s TV show. It features hours of previously unreleased material and a 100-page booklet by film music writer Jeff Bond. Prepare your ears for the final frontier. Buy it here.
17. Bond 50: The Complete Film Collection
No, Mr Bond, I expect you to buy, as Goldfinger might say about this set. All 22 official Bond films are included in the set, lovingly transferred and digitally enhanced, plus there all sorts of top secret goodies from the 007 archives. Buy it here.
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Perth man Bruce Griffiths won't face caning
- From: AAP
- January 23, 2013
Judicial caning is akin to torture, says Amnesty International. Source: Supplied
THE Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade say a Perth man accused of swearing on a plane won't face the cane.
Amnesty International said if Bruce Griffiths, 47, was found guilty and caned it should be considered torture.
The Perth-based maritime worker is being held in Singapore after he was arrested on a Tiger Airways flight from Perth on January 4.
Australian consular officials are assisting Mr Griffiths, who has had his passport seized and is facing accusations under Singapore's strict outrage of modesty laws, but say he is not facing charges that are punishable by caning.
“Officials from the Australian High Commission in Singapore are providing consular assistance to a 47-year-old man from WA who was arrested in Singapore on 4 January 2013 by Airport Police," DFAT said in a statement.
"Police have advised that the man is not facing charges which are punishable by caning.
"Our obligations under the Privacy Act 1988 constrain us from providing any further details of the case without consent of the individual concerned.”
Mr Griffiths is said to have become involved in a swearing match with another male passenger whose sleep he disturbed while allowing a female passenger out of her seat.
The offence - which legislates against "use of criminal force to any person, intending to outrage or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby outrage the modesty of that person'' - carries penalties of two years' jail, a fine, caning or a combination of each, which DFAT denies.
Amnesty International spokesman Edwyn Shiell said the level of punishment for the underpins the operation at all times and is something we will not compromise.''.
Abbott 'plans to raise GST' - Labor
LABOR cabinet member Bill Shorten warns Tony Abbott would increase the GST if elected PM, though Coalition says it's not on the agenda. | http://www.news.com.au/national-news/western-australia/judicial-caning-is-torture-says-amnesty-international-as-perth-man-bruce-griffiths-faces-charges/story-fndo4e3y-1226560255859?from=public_rss | 2013-05-18T11:07:34 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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American Diabetes Month: diabetes calculator
Published On: Jul 28 2011 02:43:49 PM EDT Updated On: Oct 31 2012 11:20:17 AM EDT
November is American Diabetes Month. American Diabetes Month is used to raise awareness of this ever-growing disease and the issues surrounding it. Use our diabetes risk calculatore to see if you are at risk for diabetes. | http://www.news4jax.com/health/-/475590/187196/-/ynliwu/-/index.html | 2013-05-18T11:07:25 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Gov. Mitt Romney carried every northeast Florida county, although President Barack Obama came within about 4 percentage points in Duval County in the presidential election.
Romney carried Duval by only about 15,000 more votes than Obama.
Romney won every neighboring county by a landslide, winning Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties with about 70 percent each.
At 10 p.m., Duval County Supervisor of Elections Jerry Holland said about 71 percent of registered voters had voted before the last seven precincts were counted.
Holland had predicted a turnout of 80 percent or more. were all fixed quickly. Election workers allowed voting to continue, and the ballots cast while the scanners were down were placed in sealed envelopes to be counted at the end of the day. Voters who cast ballots during that time were.
Crowds picked up again during lunch hour and remained steady after 5 p.m., when many people headed. Add that to the 49 percent who voted early or absentee, and St. Johns County's turnout was at about 74 percent. | http://www.news4jax.com/news/Mitt-Romney-carries-northeast-Florida/-/475880/17292908/-/39hpuy/-/index.html | 2013-05-18T10:15:01 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
A 16-year-old charged with murder, aggravated child abuse and sexual assault in the death of a 1-year-old girl pleaded not guilty in court Wednesday.
Javarris Lane is accused of killing Alexandria Williams.
Williams had been hospitalized in critical condition and died days later. Lane's charges were eventually upgraded to murder.
Jacksonville police were called to a home in the 2200 block of West First Street in Northwest Jacksonville on Sept. 25.
Police said they went into the back bedroom and found an adult trying to perform CPR on the unresponsive infant on a bed.
Lane, with his father present in the home, told officers the child fell from a bed in the room where she was playing a game, according to police.
Police said there was a twin bed in that bedroom that measured 20 inches from its highest point to the floor.
Lane initially said the girl had just been sitting on his lap while he was playing a video game, and he then placed her on the twin bed, police said. Lane told police that the girl then must have rolled off the bed on her own, police said.
Investigators said they explained to Lane that the distance from the top of the bed to the floor was "not reasonable for the fall to be the cause" for the child's severe injuries, according to a police report.
Police said Lane then admitted that the girl began crying, so he picked her up and shook her, and while he was shaking her, the girl's head hit the dresser twice. Police said Lane used a doll to show how he shook the child and struck her head on the dresser.
Lane was arrested and booked into the Duval County Jail. His next pretrial hearing is set for Nov. 16.
The Department of Children and Families is also investigating. | http://www.news4jax.com/news/Teen-Pleads-Not-Guilty-In-Girl-s-Death/-/475880/3983886/-/lsjnno/-/index.html | 2013-05-18T10:24:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Romney, Obama trade jabs in first debate
Candidates discuss economy, domestic issues in first debate
Published On: Oct 04 2012 12:47:57 AM EDT Updated On: Oct 04 2012 02:49:39 AM EDT
In a contentious, but not overtly hostile affair, President Obama and Mitt Romney traded jabs over how to bring jobs back, and other domestic issue sticking points.
Script / info to follow. | http://www.news4jax.com/politics/presidential-election-results/Romney-Obama-trade-jabs-in-first-debate/-/17249282/16850180/-/k38snmz/-/index.html | 2013-05-18T11:03:30 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Viola Davis: I'm tired of playing a maid
Davis' character in new film originally written as maid in book series
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LA CROSSE, Wis. -- It was late February when we last saw the Ehlers family of La Crosse on perhaps the hardest day of their lives. Husband, father and service member Doug Ehlers was boarding a plane bound for Kuwait to begin his 13 month deployment. "It was really grueling. Not only saying goodbye to him, but watching how sad the girls were."
Often times in the media we see the bookends of a military deployment: the sad departure and the happy return. It's not often you get a look at the days in between that are the real challenge. "We've had a lot of issues with the kids just trying to get through this. So we've been doing counseling and seen different therapists. You just watch them and they cry and there's nothing you can do about it. They don't even want to talk to him because it just makes them sad.
Karen has done her best to try and mask some of their sadness by planning activities and incentives throughout his leave. "We're trying to stay busy. The busier the better. We got the kitten in less than a week after he left. And now they're pushing for another one!"
The Ehlers are like so many military families, struggling to find a new normal with one part of the family equation absent. But Karen is finding 'missing' Doug is only half the battle.
"It started off pretty rough. With in a week, the truck wasn't working, then the washing machine broke and I lost my wallet. And the kids are sad...then my dad had open heart surgery. Then his mom had to have open heart surgery. Could any of this just happened next year!? I thought, 'I'm a tough lady, I can do it.' But you don't realize how much work this other person in your life does until they're gone. Trying to keep the house going and the laundry. He always did a lot of that stuff, so he would come home and clean and do the laundry and I would come home and it would be done. And now I come home and it's still a mess. So one week, I've got it and the next week it falls apart. Then the next week I've got it again."
Thankfully, Karen and the girls have discovered that in tough times - family, friends and sometimes even strangers are willing to lend a hand. No where was that more apparent than the spring clean up day earlier this year. "We have such a huge yard and so much outside work to be done and I'm not even keeping up with the inside work so I was like AHHHH!"
"Karen has been a teacher for two of my girls and with Doug being gone - it's a lot. I know she's been overwhelmed so we're trying to help out. "
My whole garden, which was overgrown, is completely cleared. All my trees are being trimmed. Washing my windows and putting screens on, that's being done."
"I've got 4 kids...so teaching them that because someone else is making a huge sacrifice. Coming out for a morning, that's something simple we can do. I want my kids to understand how important it is to help other people."
"I'm constantly, constantly lifted and carried by other people. it's amazing. Every time people help me, it just lifts me up. I'm always surrounded by these people. Every time I've had a bad day...somebody helps me or takes my kids so I can do something. I'm so thankful. I'm so lucky. They're just giving from the heart. I feel so, so lucky."
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Back to class
By Phyllis Moore, Catharin Shepard and Laura Collins
Published in News on August 25, 2010 1:46 PM
Twenty years after Northwest Elementary School first opened its doors -- and Mindy Lane walked through them as a kindergarten student -- she marked her first day as a kindergarten teacher there. Early this morning, on the first day of...
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Helping make men
By Phyllis Moore
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Wayne Community College is putting its own brand on a mentoring program with a mission to retain and graduate black male students. "Once they're here, we have a responsibility to help them move on, whether that be going on to...
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By Jennifer KrausConsumer Investigator
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- First NewsChannel 5 Investigates exposed how a mid-state pool builder known as Premier Pools left dozens of homeowners high and dry.
Now we've found it's not just pool customers who say they've been ripped off by these folks.
The latest twist in our investigation: these same people were also involved with a roofing company -- and homeowners say they paid thousands of dollars and got nothing in return.
The owner of Premier Exteriors is facing theft charges in at least two counties.
"If they catch him, they oughta lock him up," customer Bette Mullens said.
She's talking about Tommy Patterson. Mullens is just one of his many victims. She hired Patterson and his company to fix her roof.
Mullens explained how Patterson took her check "and deposited in the bank -- and that's the last I saw of any of 'em."
NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked Mullens, "And, why did he never come back?"
"He didn't intend to, I don't think. It was simply just a scam and I fell for it," she stated.
And she isn't the only one.
We've found Patterson has been arrested for theft in Sumner, Rutherford, and Davidson counties for taking thousands of dollars from customers and not doing the work.
It's the same sort of thing homeowners say Premier Pools did to them.
Premier Pools customer Wendy Seem told NewsChannel 5 Investigates, "We have paid them $32,250."
Homeowners like Seem said Premier Pools took their money and left them with unfinished pools or pools with so many problems that they won't pass codes inspections.
Ed Shanks is Tommy Patterson's stepfather -- and Ed and his wife, Anna, run Premier Pools.
Both were arrested in Mississippi when they ran another pool company, and they pled guilty to taking customers' money and never building their pool. That's the same sort of thing they're now accused of doing in at least four counties in Middle Tennessee.
Homeowners told NewsChannel 5 Investigates that Tommy Patterson was part of the Premier Pools too.
"We dealt originally with Tommy Patterson and Ed Shanks. And, along the process, we ended up dealing with Anna as well," Wendy Seem recalled.
And NewsChannel 5 Investigates has found this is not the first time they have worked together.
Remember Bette Mullens, the woman who paid Patterson to do her roof?
"I was just scammed," she said.
Patterson's company was Premier Exteriors, and the address on her contract for the company is the home of Ed and Anna Shanks -- the same address the Shanks have used for Premier Pools.
Police reports also show the Premier Exteriors bank account was opened by Tommy Patterson and Anna Shanks -- and both had access to the money.
Patterson backed out of doing an interview at the last minute, but claims Premier Exteriors did 187 roofs without a problem and only a "few people" didn't get their work done.
But state regulators found Patterson ran Premier Exteriors without a state contractors license.
He's now facing felony charges in Rutherford County where he allegedly took more than $60,000 from an apartment complex in Murfreesboro to re-do the roof and never did the work.
All of this came as Patterson was on probation after getting five years for grand larceny in Mississippi.
"He's hurting people who can't afford to be hurt like that," said Bette Mullens, who paid him nearly $6,000.
Mullens is 85 and on a fixed income. She ended up suing Patterson and Premier Exteriors -- and was awarded $25,000.
"Never got a dime, nope," she added.
Now, she wonders how he and his family can sleep at night. "It bothers me that people can do that and walk away."
In addition to the five years that Tommy Patterson got for grand larceny in Mississippi, we've also found that, before that, he was sentenced to ten years in prison in Louisiana for theft.
He's due in court on the theft charges here in Sumner County on Monday and the week after that in Rutherford County.
Patterson claims that Premier Exteriors, the roofing company, went out of business.
In addition to working for Premier Pools, he also has been running another pool company called Staycation Backyard Resorts. But just this week, state regulators sent a cease and desist letter ordering the company to stop doing business because he did not get a contractors license.
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Peter Newton, MD and Andrew Weiss, MD of La Peer Health Systems discuss the requirements for Vonn's successful return to competition
Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) February 22, 2013
According to the Sporting News, U.S. Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn recently underwent knee surgery after a frightening crash at the World Championship Series in Austria. Vonn sustained a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) in her right knee, as well as a lateral tibial plateau fracture (broken shinbone) in her lower leg.
Vonn remains optimistic about her recovery, her mind set on returning in time for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. According to the Beverly Hills orthopedic surgeons at La Peer Health Systems, it could be at least eight months until Vonn's knee is stable enough to ski.
“The cruciate and collateral ligaments of the knee are critical to maintaining optimal alignment and stability,” explained Dr. Peter Newton, a board-certified orthopedic surgeon at La Peer Health Systems. “Severe ACL and MCL tears must be surgically reconstructed because the torn ligament ends will not heal by themselves.”
Ligament reconstruction surgery involves removing damaged tissue within the knee joint and repairing torn ligaments to restore normal anatomy to the knee. During ACL reconstruction, the anterior cruciate ligament must be replaced by a graft or donor tendon. MCL tears in which the medial collateral ligament has been torn away from the bone require surgical reattachment of the ligament.
Vonn's physical therapy likely began the day after ligament reconstruction surgery. A knee rehabilitation program aims to manage swelling and exercise muscle control, with a gradual progression to full range-of-motion and strength activities. Returning to sports that place a high level of stress on the knee, such as skiing, may take from 9-12 months. Recovery time largely depends on the individual's dedication to rigorous rehabilitation.
In addition to significant ligament damage, diagnostic imaging confirmed a fracture at the top of Vonn's lower right leg bone, known as the tibial plateau. Dr. Andrew Weiss, an orthopedic surgeon at La Peer Health Systems, clarified how the tibial fracture might impact rehabilitation from knee surgery.
“The tibial plateau is one of the most critical load-bearing areas in the human body,” remarked Dr. Weiss, a specialist in orthopedic trauma. “Fortunately, Vonn sustained only a small impaction fracture, which will heal without surgery and is not likely to complicate her recovery.”
Although Vonn is not expected to undergo fracture repair surgery, she will be on crutches for several weeks to avoid putting any weight on the injured leg. This may limit the type of physical therapy exercises that Vonn can initially perform for her knee, but is not expected to deter her from making an exuberant recovery.: | http://www.newschannel6now.com/story/21306186/la-peer-orthopedists-lengthy-recovery-expected-after-lindsey-vonns-ski-accident | 2013-05-18T10:13:03 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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The?!
Why? So What!!
Fri Feb 22 20:01:59 GMT 2008 by Dan
I suppose someone on the Titanic could have said, "Why do we spend money on iceberg reseach, which would not effect anyone, and cannot even be proven. We should spend time on money accually improving life for the passengers of the Titanic!"
Why? So What!!
Mon Feb 25 21:45:36 GMT 2008 by Jeff Dionne
What does the Titanic (sunkin boat) and an iceburg(something real!) have anything to do with 7 billion years into a Sci-fi future?
Why? So What!!
Tue Feb 26 03:03:29 GMT 2008 by Anon
Because earth is like a ship we are all on?
And ice-bergs are just placeholders for your doom of choice. Either way it looks more like doom, if you don't get toasted you might freeze.
Why? So What!!
Wed Feb 27 14:54:42 GMT 2008 by Ed Tarbster
It's a SUNKEN ship and it's an analogy, likening one thing to another to prove a point ^__^ I think it's an interesting story due to the fact that one day, a long time from now our sun will burn out causing it to become a red giant. Hopefully we'll have colonised other solar systems or inhabitable planets by then, but if not, we're boned (well, whatever creatures, if any, that live on earth will be boned.) Good luck to them. >__<
Why? So What!!
Fri Feb 22 21:01:58 GMT 2008 by Shaun Steenkamp
Ok, imagine for a moment it's a 1000 years in the future, and the human race is starting to colonise planets in other star systems. Wouldn't you expect this research to help in deciding whether or not a certain planet will survive that stars demise which might be on the order of a million years instead of a few billion? (Take into account the cost of colonisation, a planet will be a huge investment, you'll need to know if it will survive).
All research we do on our own star, and how it works and dies will help in the not too distant future, just because our sun will survive for a few billion years yet, doesn't mean that the research is not applicable to a comparable star out there in it's final stages of life.
Why? So What!!
Mon Feb 25 21:50:20 GMT 2008 by Jeff Dionne
In a 1000 years nothing we are doing now is going to matter much.
By then if the human race doesn't annihilate it self I am sure our science can handle it then, we haven't even sent another man to the moon in 30 years, never mind colonizing another planet
Why? So What!!
Fri Jun 05 17:14:15 BST 2009 by ullrich fischer
You need to read Ray Kurzweil's stuff more. All knowledge is unpredictably useful. Curiosity is above all what make us human and what will allow us to overcome whatever an uncaring universe throws at us.
Why? So What!!
Sat Feb 23 16:58:34 GMT 2008 by Windy
Because in the process of studying the sun's demise, they are also learning more about the sun and how it behaves in its death throes.
That could be extremely important information someday, even if only to provide early warning of a impending threat.
Why? So What!!
Tue Apr 01 04:10:59 BST 2008 by Luis Figo
Its amazing to know the earth, the universe and understand astronomy... It is not science fiction it is true... The earth is going to desapear when the sun becomes a red gigant.... Me you or anybody we all are going to die. But the knowlege to whats is really going to happen is a good knowledge... The article is amazing!
Why? So What!!
Wed Feb 18 23:29:05 GMT 2009 by nigel lowe
It might affect your people in your family in a couple of billion years, assuming that your smart enough to have kids and pass your dumb gene on.
Why? So What!!
Sun Jun 14 12:00:49 BST 2009 by Nicklas
Everything has a beginning and an end. But every end is a new beginning.
This can be applied as a model in astronomy as well. Personally I think the Big Bang is just a cycle in another bigger system just as a chemical reaction between atoms or interaction in the standard model. Just as small particles vibrate, so are new big bangs created.
Why? So What!!
Tue Jul 28 13:59:45 BST 2009 by Me
Science Fiction? You gotta be kidding me. Sounds like someone needs to take a high level math class.
Earth Will Have Been Lifeless For Eons
Fri Feb 22 20:33:56 GMT 2008 by Lindsay
Come now - What has happened to wonder and curiosity? I am just grateful to live in a society where people can explore and wonder and find out things!
There's nothing wrong with adding to our species body of knowlege.
Isn't the Earth going to undergo a run away greenhouse process in about one billion years time? The ever relentless increase in solar luminosity over the suns lifetime means that by about then even a trace component of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise planetary temperatures to the extent that the oceans will begin evaporating. The water molecules will themselves further enhance the super greenhouse effect in positive feedback loop. Solar radiation will also disassociate water molecules high in the atmosphere and the hydrogen will leak into space. The planet will inexorably loose its water. That means for about six billion years before the sun goes red giant the Earth will be a lifeless bone dry Venus-like oven. I doubt anything then around our solar system will be too flustered if the Earth does get swallowed in the end but it should be quite sight to behold.
You're Kidding, Right?
Fri Feb 22 20:44:22 GMT 2008 by Darkblak
At least two university researchers actually spent time, and no doubt grant money, to come up with a no-brainer conclusion about something that won't happen for 7.6 BILLION YEARS?? Well, congratulations!
How can I sign up for grant money to study such worthy and time-appropriate natural phenoms?
I'm embarrassed that I have even wasted my time reading and posting to this...or yours.
You're Kidding, Right?
Fri Feb 22 21:37:34 GMT 2008 by Lindsay
Yeah - Thats right they did! That's what they are studying and good for them. By the way at most universities these days students pay through the teeth....or is that the nose?
You're Kidding, Right?
Fri Feb 22 21:54:09 GMT 2008 by Lunatic Fringe
A good angle for you would be - What happens to the moon? You should go for it!
You're Kidding, Right?
Mon Mar 03 09:13:28 GMT 2008 by Enthralled Peasant
Methinks the moon will be lost long before then. It will have migrated outward beyond the earth's hill sphere and have entered into a solar orbit.
You're Kidding, Right?
Tue Mar 04 02:15:05 GMT 2008 by James
People may thinks it is pointless research, but as far i can see knowledge in one field brings advancement in other fields. Thats why you have non stick frypan and easy wash paint, because of NASA.
You're Kidding, Right?
Fri Apr 04 12:30:21 BST 2008 by Gilbert
Me thinks that me no understandz whats the hellz u guyz are talkings about. So me gonna say that the earthzz is going to blow up with the sun because of the intensorosity of the blow. Good Night.
You're Kidding, Right?
Tue Dec 16 08:01:34 GMT 2008 by Charles
That's an urban myth. Teflon was invented in 1938, well before NASA.
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HELP is at hand for companies that want to capitalise on the British government's Technology Foresight Programme. Thousands of scientists and engineers from academia and industry have taken part in the exercise, which is aimed at identifying the technologies that hold the most commercial promise for Britain over the next two decades.
But the results, expected over the next few months, will generate a vast amount of data covering 15 sectors of industry, from biotechnology and leisure to construction and telecommunications.
This is where the London-based Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology, an independent think-tank funded by industry and government, hopes to help. The nonprofit-making organisation has set aside £5 million to be spent over the next five years on analysing the results for companies, or groups of companies.
Bob Whelan, chief executive of CEST, says: "We will show companies how they can apply Foresight's output to their own ...
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Twin craft head for heart of Earth's magnetic storm
Dancing off the pre-dawn haze, eerie spotlights announced the launch of the first spacecraft to measure the bands of charged particles that encircle Earth
Unsure robots make better teachers than know-alls
Students learn best from a robot when it makes mistakes that they can correct
Fracking could be combined with carbon capture plans
Using carbon dioxide to fracture methane-rich shale is more effective than using water - and the CO2 remains trapped below ground
Eating less fails to extend monkey lives
Calorie restriction may have health benefits, but a new study suggests it isn't the key to a longer life
Two dead stars provide low-tech way to test Einstein
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Even greener alternative: Energy from algae
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Fungi could thwart carbon capture efforts
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Saying she wanted to make peace with her family and her God, a terminally ill woman fighting for the right for a Long Island hospital to remove her from life support has decided to stay on a ventilator, her lawyer said Saturday.
Sungeun Grace Lee's court-appointed lawyer, David Smith of Garden City, said his client informed him of her decision when he visited her Saturday at North Shore University... | http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/lawyer-sungeun-grace-lee-wants-life-support-1.4082060?p=823108 | 2013-05-18T10:35:07 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Margaret Ellen (Nuckols) Hurst, 77, wife of Coda V. Hurst Jr. of 609 Ritchie Blvd., passed away Wednesday, March 20, 2013, at her residence.
Mrs. Hurst was born Jan. 3, 1936, in Wythe County, a daughter of the late Claude L. and Hazel M. (Arnold) Nuckols.
Margaret was of the Pentecostal faith and retired in 1995 from Western State Hospital after 28 years of service. She loved her family, her home and she enjoyed reading and doll collecting.
In addition to her parents, Mrs. Hurst was preceded in death by two brothers, Edward Nuckols and James F. Nuckols; and a sister, Mary Dumford-Poling.
Surviving in addition to her husband of 54 years is a son, Jeffrey V. Hurst and wife, Donna, of Verona; three daughters, Pamela H. Duggins of Farmville, Robin E. Williams and husband, Eddie, of Spotsylvania County and Karen H. Cox and husband, Steven, of Waynesboro; two brothers, Claude C. Nuckols and David E. Nuckols, both of Dublin; three sisters, Pearl M. Arnold of Wytheville, Frances N. Bruce of Dublin and Marie N. Hale of Rhiner; five grandchildren, Jason Williams and wife, Jill, Justin Williams, Joshua Propst, Bryan Runion and Ryan Ellen Hurst; and one great-grandchild, Addyson Williams.
A funeral service will be at 3 p.m., Saturday, March 23, 2013, at Middle River Church of the Brethren by Pastor David Lee Ball.
Burial will be private in Augusta Memorial Park.
Active pallbearers will be her grandsons and Jerry Runion and Mark Propst.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 22, 2013, at the residence.
It is suggested that memorial contributions be made to Staunton/Augusta Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 2566, Staunton, VA 24402.
Coffman Funeral Home and Crematory, 230 Frontier Drive, Staunton, is in charge of her arrangements. Condolences may be expressed to the family online at. | http://www.newsleader.com/viewart/20130321/OBITUARIES/303210011/Margaret-N-Hurst | 2013-05-18T10:44:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Friday, 03 Aug 2012 04:14 PM.
Last year, Haugen said he would voluntarily waive legal appeals that could delay his execution for years and fought to speed his punishment in protest of a criminal justice system that he says is broken.
But Kitzhaber, who opposes capital punishment, said no executions would occur while he is governor. Weeks before Haugen was scheduled to die by lethal injection last December, Kitzhaber issued an order preventing the execution for the rest of his time in office.
"We are confident that the governor's authority will be upheld," Kitzhaber spokeswoman Amy Wojcicki said. "We are currently reviewing the case and will likely appeal."
Alexander, the judge, said a hearing will be set to establish an execution date "as soon as this decision is final." In his ruling, he said that he agrees with many of Kitzhaber's concerns about the death penalty but that precedents from higher courts support Haugen's argument.
"My decision...is not intended to be a criticism of Governor Kitzhaber or the views he has expressed..." Alexander wrote. But, he added, "I'm required to set aside my personal views and decide this case on its merits and the law."
The case raises the question of how much power the governor has under the Oregon Constitution to grant clemency. Lawyers for Kitzhaber argued that his authority is "broad and virtually unfettered."
Haugen's lawyer, Harrison Latto, argued that the reprieve was invalid because it ends on the uncertain day that Kitzhaber leaves office, not on a specific date. Citing a handful of early decisions by the Oregon Supreme Court, Latto also argued that clemency is "an act of grace or favor" that can be rejected.
The judge found that Kitzhaber's reprieve doesn't have to expire on a specific date, but that earlier cases establish Haugen's right to reject a reprieve.
The U.S. Supreme Court has taken opposing positions on the president's clemency power, concluding in 1833 that a pardon can be rejected but finding in 1951 that "the public welfare, not his consent, determines what shall be done."
Alexander noted that the state high court is not required to follow the federal court's evolution.
Haugen was serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of his former girlfriend's mother when he was sentenced to death for the 2003 killing of a fellow inmate.
The governor has said he has no sympathy for Haugen but opposes capital punishment and believes Oregon's death penalty laws are "compromised and inequitable." He says death sentences amount to an expensive life term.
Oregon has a complex history with capital punishment. Voters have outlawed it twice and legalized it twice, and the state Supreme Court struck it down once. Voters most-recently legalized the death penalty on a 56-44 vote in 1984.
Since then, the state has executed two people, both during Kitzhaber's first stint as governor between 1995 and 2003. Both inmates, like Haugen, had volunteered for execution, waiving their appeals, and Kitzhaber said last year that he'd long regretted his decision not to block them. . . . | http://www.newsmax.com/US/Oregon-death-penalty-Haugen/2012/08/03/id/447538 | 2013-05-18T10:16:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Sunday, 02 May 2010 10:04 AM
BP's chairman is rejecting criticism that his company's safety record played a role in the drilling rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Lamar McKay is putting the blame on "a failed piece of equipment."
He tells ABC's "This Week" that he doesn't know how much oil is flowing from the well off the Louisiana coast. He says that estimates of 5,000 barrels a day are uncertain.
McKay said BP is "throwing every resource that we've got" to try to plug the well a mile beneath the sea.
He says he can't say when the well might be closed. But he says he believes a dome that could be placed over the well is expected to be deployed in six to eight . . . | http://www.newsmax.com/US/US-Gulf-Oil-Spill/2010/05/02/id/357540 | 2013-05-18T11:06:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Gas prices in the Greenville area fell 4.7 cents last week, according to GasBuddy.com. The price-tracking website reported the average cost in the Greenville area was at $3.41. That's 38 cents lower than the national average of $3.79. Locally, the price was 16.9 cents lower than last month but 37.7 cents higher than last year. Nationally, the price was down less than a cent but 33.2 cents more than last year. Experts said that usually, as the temperatures drop, so do the gas prices. | http://www.newsradioword.com/pages/14397345.php | 2013-05-18T10:53:05 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Published in AIDS Weekly, March 13th, 2000
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Published in Cancer Weekly, March 7th, 2006
Study 1: According to a study from Taiwan, cytokine and DNA repair gene variations contribute to to hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
"HBV induces HCC mainly by causing chronic necroinflammatory hepatic disease. We investigated the mechanisms underlying the inflammatory hepatocarcinogenesis by examining whether genetic variations in cytokines, antioxidant enzymes, and DNA repair genes affect the HCC risk," wrote C.C. Chen and colleagues, National Taiwan University.
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Published in Obesity and Diabetes Week, January 12th, 2004
United States Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said on December 30, 2003, that the FDA issued a consumer alert on the safety of dietary supplements containing ephedra and notified manufacturers of its intent to publish a final rule on dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids. The rule will state that dietary supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids present an unreasonable risk of. | http://www.newsrx.com/newsletters/Obesity-and-Diabetes-Week/2004-01-12/0112200433320OD.html | 2013-05-18T10:24:48 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Reviewed: A Prince Among the Stones by Prince Rupert Loewenstein
His satanic Majesty: the man who managed the Rolling Stones' money.By Kate Mossman Published 15 February 2013 11:57
A Prince Among the Stones: That Business with the Rolling Stones and Other Adventures
Prince Rupert Loewenstein
Bloomsbury, 272pp, £20
One of the best things about being in the Rolling Stones was that you got to go out with posh girls. Marianne Faithfull had roots in the Habsburg dynasty. Anita Pallenberg was the daughter of an artist in Rome and spoke four languages. “The younger members of the aristocracy discovered a new career by dropping out,” writes Prince Rupert Loewenstein.
The 25-year-old Mick Jagger, concerned that the Stones still weren’t seeing a decent profit from their music in 1968, decided to get a member of the Establishment to manage his money. He chose a 35-year-old banker descended from Bavarian aristocrats, whose ancestors had been involved in repelling the Huns. Prince Rupert had never heard of the Rolling Stones: he devotes the epilogue of his book to exploring why, to this day, he doesn’t like their music. “It is comfort food . . . But it moves millions. Why?”
This is one of the funniest rock books I’ve read, fuelled, in the way only an aristocrat’s memoir could be, by a sense of cheery entitlement and the random pursuit of amusement for its own sake. “I found shopping for New York lawyers to be hilarious,” he recalls. Getting the band out of their contract with the slippery Alan Klein (whose clients included the Beatles) is likened to a game of chess.
Under Loewenstein’s care, the Stones became the most profitable rock act in the world. He was quite literally responsible for their “exile” (as in Exile on Main St): he got them out of the UK and into the Villa Nellcôte in the south of France, paying a negotiated income tax to the Alpes-Maritimes authorities. Everything you have come to associate with the “rock aristocracy” – the suits of armour, the Tatler society pages and compulsive gift-aiding – it all starts here.
The prince got into banking in the first place because his family had lost all its money. In one of the engrossing passages about his childhood, he describes his mother disposing of an emerald necklace out of the window; when he is 14, she sends him off to sell a Balthus painting for £40 and spends the money on lunch. Faced with any display of rock-star excess, he’d seen much worse at home.
Characters from the new and old worlds collide with farcical consequences. Loewenstein uses a lot of deadpan reported speech: one of the finest society ladies of New Orleans leaves a Stones concert after half an hour, saying, “They are five ugly and pointless young men and I loathe their music.”
Loewenstein may share her feelings on the band’s output but manifests a strong affection for the individuals. He is “Mick’s man” but remarks, “Keith is, in a way, the most intelligent mind . . . His aura to me was that of a generation of circus folk . . . entertainers but also with something of the pilgrim.” Of the relationship between the pair, he makes the kind of psychological observations rock journalists never quite understand: their rifts amount to “a form of divorce, enormously complicated by being between two men each fighting to prove his sexual dominance”. Relations generally worsen, he observes, when Mick and Keith are not playing enough music together. When they turn up drunk to a near-disastrous meeting with CBS, he notes that at least they’re “enjoying that old antiauthority, band of brothers spark again”.
Loewenstein’s greatest impact on the Stones can be seen in the 1970s and beyond, when he transformed their tours into highly profitable juggernauts. He cleaned up mercilessly on complimentary tickets, scalpers and corrupt promoters, audited the cost of their entourage to the last penny and developed a precise hierarchy backstage to cut down on freeloaders – it was “just like a court: rivals, whispering, grades of status granting access, with others being used to fetch and carry”. He copyrighted their tongue logo, licensed “Satisfaction” for a Snickers ad and “Start Me Up” to Microsoft Windows; and the Stones became the first band to have an entire tour sponsored by one company (General Electric). He claims that, if he met with resistance from them, he’d reply, “What do you care? You’re selling a business product.”
The prince parted ways with the band in 2008, when they rejected his plans for a “takeover” of the Rolling Stones by an unnamed organisation “on the fringes of the entertainment industry”. The proposed deal would have brought them a big pile of cash and allowed them, as Loewenstein puts it, “to come into harbour”: now 75, he was worried about their future – Keith had fallen off a palm tree, then a ladder, while Mick, his insurer advised him, “ought to be put on the Pavarotti pile” (ie, only covered for three performances at a time). After 40 years of saying “yes”, the Stones said “no” to Loewenstein’s proposal – perhaps simply because he was imagining the day when they’d have to | http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/02/reviewed-prince-among-stones-prince-rupert-loewenstein?quicktabs_most_read=0 | 2013-05-18T11:04:51 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Eurozone's debt crisis to continue longer
Europe's ongoing debt crisis has been prolonged and still consistent due to the failure to tackle the region's fundamental structural problems, South Korea's finance minister said Friday.
"If we can call the 2008 global financial crisis a one-time thunderstorm, then the current crisis is like a seemingly incessant rainy season we are being encountered now," Strategy and Finance Minister Bahk Jae-wan told foreign correspondents in Seoul.
European leaders had agreed on some short-term measures to be taken to handle the region's crisis, but the market condition states that these measures are not sufficient enough due to lack of detailed action plans and schedule to address the eurozone's structural problems, Xinhua quoted Bahk as saying.
The minister appealed the leaders to find out some concrete and specific measures and time table to overcome the eurozone's fundamental structural faults, saying that without the suggestion, market anxiety will continue resulting in the delay of global recovery.
To fight the prolonged crisis, South Korea has planned to increase public
funds and investment by 4 trillion won ($3.51 billion) in the second half of
this year, while maximizing fiscal expenditure within limits, Bahk said.
-With inputs from IANS
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Friday, November 16, 2012
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spelchek 6 months ago
And this is what the donks want to mold themselves after.
tonto_goldberg 6 months ago
The conservatives have been preaching austerity as the answer to our ecnomic problems. You can see already that it doesn't work.
tonto_goldberg 6 months ago
Wrong. We tried it in 1937, when the president and congress got more concerned about the deficit than about the economy. The US went backwards into renewed economic shrinkage for a couple years while Europe continued to recover. Now while the US economy is still recovering slowly, Europe tries austerity and is surprised when it leads to recession.
Do we want to try it as well? The math doesn't change.
connor 6 months ago
Oh My Tonto has been browsing the Cleftwing political sites this afternoon. FDR's progressive spending did nothing but prolong the Great (Now Second Greatest) Depression. The 37 spending cuts were a mere 600 million and followed tax increases from 36 that obviously didn't work although they did reduce the deficit by 2.1 billion the depression continued. Why? Because the increased taxes hurt even more. Also it was FDR's Treasury secretary that pushed for austerity the most.
Cleftwing political sites will lead to brain damage and reduced historical perspective one should avoid them at all cost if they don't have the previous experience to resist the revisionist propaganda.
tonto_goldberg 6 months ago
ME: Graduate studies in economics. YOU:?
connor 6 months ago
BA's in Sociology and History. MA in American History.
Oh and your so called 37 austerity is a joke anyway because other than amounting to less than 36's spending 1937 spent more than all the other years of the depression. Something Liberals and especially Liberal indoctrinated economist seem to forget. A reduction in increase is not a decrease.
Paroquet 6 months ago
Graceful? SBSA: Move. There are lots of other countries.
tonto_goldberg 6 months ago
Do you secessionist folks really want to face the national guard, the police dogs, and the fire hoses armed with your placards, your torches, and your pitchforks?
JCLifer 6 months ago
Oh, we will be armed a whole lot better than that. However arms wont be needed if the divorce is peaceful. There is no need to get ugly.
connor 6 months ago
Who needs arms or even riots for that matter. Who needs factories, call centers or corporate headquarters?
All of rural America is RED except for a bewildering few counties along the upper Mississippi and some Indian reservations.
There are no Blue states only a few urban blue enclaves.
All we rural dwellers have to do is stop producing and let nature take it's course.
asb 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Oh secessionist dreams. Peaceful. All the corporate farms will shut down to force the helpless entitled to give up their votes. All the corporate factories will shut down to deny the evil left their magic boxes. Oh, wait, you'll need government services . . . you could get red volunteers, or charitable donations for you road crews and army. You surely wouldn't use taxes, would you? Your starving will happily volunteer to go till the fields until oil magically appeard in enough dry Texas wells to offset that lost at the Blue American ports. Your teachers, on their days off of course 'cause they can't stop teaching creation science or alternate physics, will be glad to build new housing for your immigrant volunteer labor (white naturally). All you need for this wet dream to come true now is a state wishing to become a nation, free from the Union, free from the rule of law, free from knowledge, free from taxes, free from Islam, free from everything that's seething under your bed and in your delusions. Please secede, please! Peaceful? Like the Murrah bldg in Ok City? Where will you fools go? Where? WHO WILL PICK YOUR FREAKIN' COTTON!?
connor 6 months ago
I would suggest the Libs look around at the State they live in. Boone county looks awful lonely surrounded by all that red. The four...Yes count em FOUR little counties that went Obama in Missouri might think about relocating to a Blue state. I hear Kalifornia needs people these days. Even if you go to Illinois you only got like 8 counties to hide in.
tonto_goldberg 6 months ago
Did you notice there is construction going on in Boone County? Did you notice there are lots more amenities in Boone County? Never mind, I am wasting my time. Sorry to bother you.
connor 6 months ago
Take away the MU students and faculty and Boone would be RED as well. So your point means nothing.
tonto_goldberg 6 months ago
Sorry. It's the backwards-looking red areas like Cole County that are dying. What would you take away from the St. Louis area, which is growing as well? How about Kansas City?
JCLifer 6 months ago
The democrat st. Louis city is withering for years. The republican suburbs are where the growth is. Ask Jim Talent.
connor 6 months ago
OH yes St. Louis is a wonderful growing place and KC drains Mo. Money to put in amusements for Kansas citizens while Columbia (Not all of Boone county) sucks up all that education money. They are wonderful places. You should move to one of them.
RobHunterJohnson 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Boone Co, 165,627 Population, 33,000 students at MU, 37,343 Voted Romney, 39,782 voted Obama, nothing special about that vote. St Louis, KC and the Bootheel on the eastern side voted blue, you take away that Farm subsidy, and you will see which way those Farmers go! Rob
connor 6 months ago
I been wondering since several of the Liberal Conglomerate members on here like to ask if someone has adopted a baby when they speak out against abortion. Are Paroquet, Saskqoia and the others going to adopt an out of work union hostess worker now? I mean that union ruined Hostess and there is gonna be 18,000 plus out of jobs now.
Time for them to put their money where their mouths are and bite the ding dong so to speak.
connor 6 months ago
Ya I saw that. The Libs actually put a petition on the same site the secession petitions were put up on at the whitehouse.gov site to federalize Hostess. LOL
Paroquet 6 months ago
Um, I have one adoptee, one fostern slated to adopt.
I'm still waiting for you "conservatives" to come back with your answers.
And the union didn't ruin Hostess. Did you look at the raises the execs gave themselves when they saw the light in the fiscal tunnel was an oncoming train?
Oh, and I have room for two boarders. Three, if they help me finish the basement. So that'd be...yeah, we can accomodate up to five unfortunates. And ample storage for personals--furniture could get iffy. Even got space they can grow their own food. And under existing city ordinances, we could put some cows, sheep, and goats into the mix (we already got chickens).
Um yep. We're pretty styling in the morals department. And we wouldn't put our heads into other's life issues so long as they kept the noise down after nine.
I mean, it's not lavish, but it'd beat a cardboard box. And would we open our doors? Yep.
connor 6 months ago
Last count I now have 10...count em 10 stray cats that have shown up out here. All of them were housecats btw with a few still wearing their collars and only two having been previously fixed. Three of em have managed to become housecats here while the others have claimed the various outbuildings as their own. I went from zero pets in 2007 to 12 now because I also have two stray dogs that have moved in. Vet bills and pet food costs have now taken a huge chunk out of my budget.
All due to Liberal community reinvestment handouts and government enforced easy loans crashing the housing market.
I think you should take those out of work union bakers in as pets not boarders and share some of the stray burden.
eileen10 6 months ago
You and your wife are good people Paroquet. Not everyone is willing or wants to adopt or take in foster children. It's sad really because there are many children who need a good home. I'm going to check into fostering. I don't know if I'd qualify but it can't hurt to ask.
RobHunterJohnson 6 months ago
Conner, the company bought Hostess in 2009 to close out the on going bankruptzy from 04 to 09. Hostess brand file bankruptzy once again in 1/2012? In a statement the company said it " is not competitive, primarily due to legacy pension and medical benefit obligations and restrictive work rules." I have to ask did not Driscoll and his investors not know this going into the purchase? The Hostess executives paid themselves raises of up to 80%? The investors and Execuitives pulled another BAIN. My opinion is they will liquidate, someone will sn_ a_ tch it up, then reopen NON UNION. Whom ever gets control of Hostess will have accomplished what the others could not since 2004, the only losers will be the workers, who lost their pensions, and benefits! I took note that you have experienced great health, and that is good! You need to keep those checkups up to date, all of our health is very important! Keep getting that Tea Party rhetoric out about unions, MAY I SUGGEST THAT YOU NEED TO READ A LITTLE DEEPER ON SUBJECTS? I really thought your choice for President would win, see what happens when the people put the time in to DISAVOW the Tea Parties and Conners Rhetoric! Rob
connor 6 months ago
So basically your saying that the legacy pensions and benefits didn't drive Hostess into the ground? Well they did and yes the real losers will be the workers for not seeing the light of day but the original share holders took a scalping too btw. The company that bought Hostess knew that if the union wouldn't deal they could make their money back selling it off and I certainly can't blame em for that.
However who enabled these finance companies to have that kind of money to play with? UHH HUH the Obama print, spend and bailout industry that's who. I was reading in depth about this again last night. The money that Obama is having them pump into the investment sectors to keep the public pensions from going completely belly up is also allowing these companies to liquidate with little to no risk. This type of thing will continue as long as the Fed continues to print and the interest rates are kept at zero. They are playing with free money, little risk and no interest. Certainly they are keeping the money from trickling down and causing massive inflation for the moment but it is playing havoc at the top.
Cause and effect Robishunting. Cause and effect. Something you Union and Liberal types just can't figure out.
And it shows....
eileen10 6 months ago
The worst thing about this is no twinkies for the twinkie addicts!
connor 6 months ago
And Woody will have to look for a different snack food item in "Zombieland II"
eileen10 6 months ago
LOL!
RobHunterJohnson 6 months ago
Conner, what was the interest rate in early 2009, or really as the deal was made 2008? It was the Bush adminstration once again Conner not Obama. It was about the time Budwieser was a done deal as well? That was the only moment in time that Budwieser could have bought! I admire you for you rescue operation, after having had a few animals over the years myself, Doc Fuch, would say "oh your a kennel man too Rob!" Parquet I like to commend both you, and your Wife for adoption, and fostership! Rob
eileen10 6 months ago
For the workers who are or will be out of jobs and if the company is sold do you think the former workers will have first dibs with the new company or are they more or less sc##wed?
connor 6 months ago
My bet is the brand names will be sold off and the equipment worth anything as well. Plants and property in non-union states may open back up under competitor names or even new smaller companies while the ones in union states will be dismantled. Those old employees who will take a pay and benefit cut will have a job I would bet eventually.
After a short while of being a non-union employee out in the real world those who are not a member of one of the permanent victim groups will see the light and be staunch Conservatives.
eileen10 6 months ago
connor my friend do you ever think of anything other than politics? All I wanted to know is if the workers might get their jobs back. How annoying but I had to laugh because I guess the answer is ya you pretty much live and breathe politics.
connor 6 months ago
Actually my degrees are in American History and Sociology. Not much a White boy is gonna do with those these days. Especially one who won't tow the Feminist party line and go into teaching I originally got my secondary teaching certificate as well but haven't kept it up to date. Luckily I had paid off all my property debts so I don't need a high paying job and can afford to take frequent employment breaks and still bring in some farming revenue. That and I am not greedy.
Politics is fun because the information is constantly changing and always has something new to offer. I do have other interests but not alot of articles that pertain to them on the NT website and the Winter months are kinda slow on everything else as well. Not to mention I let some things pile up this time of year trying to be polite to the deer hunters.
Oh and I need to amend my prediction for ex-hostess employees. I doubt many new businesses will open from the carcass. Not a good time for new business endeavors.
eileen10 6 months ago
Okay. I no longer see you with a flag in one hand and a mallet in the other. Unless a person asks questions they don't know squat. A friend of a friend lost her job in Jeff at the Wonder bread store so she's applying for unemployment. She.s in her early 30s with 3 or 4 children, severe health problems and thankfully her husband has a job. Lots of folks having a hard time and please don't! I know what your thinking. I just feel bad for those who struggle so hard. Having to worry how to pay the bills, keep food on the table, maybe no birthday or Christmas presents for the kids. That was my first thought when I read that the company went bankrupt. Times are hard but at least we are fortunate that bombs are'nt falling on us like in Afghanistan and we don't have to eat rocks or sand and eventually things will get better. May take a long time though.
connor 6 months ago
They bought it in 09 after bailouts that were designed by Obama not Bush BTW but they can sell it outright with a huge margin in 2012 due to continued bailouts and monetary easing.
It just gets worse from here.
eileen10 6 months ago
Oh my aching arse. See post above. Boing! Boing! Watch me bounce off the walls. Wham! Ugh! OUCH! Mama mia that hurts!
RobHunterJohnson 6 months ago
Conner it was in the tank and up for grab s starting in 2004, BUSH 2! Rob
asb 5 months, 4 weeks ago
So you are looking forward to chaos, and will take advantage of it? What kind of thing are you?
tonto_goldberg 6 months ago
Legacy pensions, hence the name, would have been factored into the purchase price. Hostess suffered from a doomed merger, a buying spree in which it bought a bunch of smaller bakey companies, and from a leveraged buyout that left it swimming in debt. The unions did not kill Hostess. The company committed suicide, and management gave themselves bonuses for their brilliant strategy.
connor 6 months ago
The Union called the strike Hostess management didn't. They were told if you strike the company goes belly up and they chose to play poker. Guess what they lost.
As a matter of fact the company that bought Hostess in 09 saved those 18K jobs for three years. Even the teamsters union tried to stop the bakers from striking and implored them to allow the individual union members to make the final decision because they knew it was a mistake and over reach.
Trumka's spin announcement from Friday is pure Union propaganda but I am sure he is glad you are waving the union flag.
tonto_goldberg 6 months ago
Hostess quit making their contractual benefit and retirement program payments a year ago. The Hostess company "needed" the additional set of union concessions so they could continue paying interest on over $1 billion in debt. That was management's choice. The teamsters were in but the bakers bailed. The baker's union was no longer willing to bet on Hostess as a viable employer. That was their choice.
The debt holders will lose most of their money while the brands, the bakeries, and most of the workers will get picked up by better managed companies. Check out Gruppo Bimbo. There's a reason they are the largest baking company in the USA.
connor 6 months ago
Everything you said proves my point. The Bakers decided to end their employment because after bankruptcy no management could afford their salaries. The teamsters begged them not to but they basically quit. They shouldn't even get unemployment honestly.
Interestingly enough the average salary for a Hostess employee was almost 55K a year. That is a payroll of almost a Billion a year (990,000,000 if my math is right). I have an idea why don't the employees buy out Hostess and then see how well they manage negotiating with themselves.
tonto_goldberg 5 months, 4 weeks ago
They paid $19 an hour, tops. To get to $55k a worker would need to put in 2895 hours per year. Not impossible but improbable.
eileen10 6 months ago
What is your problem Graceful. Are you this negative about everything? Do you ever say a kind word to anyone? Do you treat people who don't believe the way you do like dogs? Do you ever experience happiness? Joy? Would you kick a puppy because it was in your way?
eileen10 6 months ago
You just answered the questions.
eileen10 6 months ago
Your right. I did fashion my own answer and I do believe I was wrong but if your saying I don't like you that's not true. What I know of you is what you've posted and you come across as being hateful and full of anger and your attacks on people can be vicious.Your not the only one that does that but Graceful you are right up there at the top and because of that your seen as a kook and what you have to say isn't taken seriously. Only you can change that if you want to. How a person interacts with others is very important. It determines how your seen and how others react to you. For all I know you cry at movies or your the one that would put the baby bird back in its nest after it fell out. I know your passionate about where this country is at, how bad things are and yes it is pretty bad. We all can agree to that. We have a President you and a lot of others don't like. That's fine. You don't have to like him. But when someone else does ...I think you see where this is going. Kind of like if you have a child you love and a neighbor calls your child an ugly , nasty no good brat. How would you react? Okay. Maybe the kid is a brat but wording it differently can make all the difference. Get the point across but without the nastiness. Such as "Emily hit my Bobby over the head with a stick. A rather big stick. I know children play but I think we need to curb the behavior of both children before someone gets hurt." They learn how to play together and that's carried over. We can all play together nicely and in doing so get a lot more accomplished. Not solved of course and some kids just won't play nicely but if the majority do it's those kids that will do the most good.None of us are perfect. All of us will slip and hit the pavement and even though we see things differently I feel that as a country and as American citizens we should at least be bound together by what we see as a great country that will falter to some degree but we can at least look at the good as well as the bad. I'm not going to tell you how to live your life That's up to you. I just gave you my point of view which you may disagree with and that's okay. I'm not going to stomp you into the ground if you don't see things my way. I'll respect your right to feel and think anyway you want.
eileen10 6 months ago
LOL! Okay. I guess your right. We are a bunch of kooks. What I have to say is my opinion. To me vicious is putting someone down, name calling, or sweeping them aside like their a nobody and it is done quite a bit. To others it may mean something else. You haven't gone so far that someone would sick some goons on you. No one has really gone that far and if you have fun then you go girl! But do keep in mind that when you sling you get it slung at you which I think you already know.Oh. If you want an example you posted above and the post starts with austerity. If that's how you see it I can't say your wrong but I really don't think you'd win a miss congeniality award. If you don't care what people think or how they see you then okay. Do your thing. No two people are alike but my feeling are that respect isn't bad. talking without gouging isn't bad. Being considerate isn't bad.
RobHunterJohnson 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Handing out ropes, and collecting them in the morning, now that is vicious! Rob
connor 6 months ago
Ya know it's funny that you mention negativity eileen. Right after I had to leave the Army (Thanks again Clinton) I took a job working as an installation manager for a software company that put computer systems in hotels and restaurants all over the world.
Anyway the owner/CEO was one of these up beat always think positive guys. We would get a shipment of whatever doodad or equipment in and I would make the comment that I was sure X would be wrong. Sure enough nine times out of ten x was wrong and needed fixing yet he always said it was because I was so negative.
I never understood why preparing for the worst was viewed as negative but then I was never a big corporate cheerleader type either. Luckily I found a job with less travel requirements soon after that.
eileen10 6 months ago
I feel to be prepared for the worst is fine. Theres nothing wrong with that. But to dwell on it or think about it all the time may not be real healthy and your not like that. You seem to have a healthy balance which I think most people do. Prepare for the worst but hope for the best as the saying goes. The owner you spoke of sounds a bit overboard. Too much "sunshine" can burn. Especially in the case you spoke of but that's how I see it. Others may have a different outlook and that's fine. I guess if everyone thought alike things would be pretty boring.
connor 6 months ago
Not if they all thought like me :)
eileen10 6 months ago
LOL!! Your hopeless you man you.
RobHunterJohnson 6 months ago
"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our Blessings" Eric Hoffer Rob
connor 6 months ago
"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers." - Aristotle.
eileen10 6 months ago
"Dont smoke your cigarette from the lit end" - Eileen
3633 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Wow, what has happened to America and all the strong people, the way things are now have happened before and America came back. I can't believe the talking points of some Jeff City people. I will not crawl in a hole. I will stand and do the right thing and tell the truth, and not bicker over things I have no control over. C'mon folks, we all are still here, alive and well let's get on with living and more positive thinking.
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2012 CCMA Industry Brunch and Awards Winners Announced
SASKATOON, Sept. 7, 2012 /CNW/ - The Canadian Country Music Association celebrated the first of four of its 2012 CCMA Awards ceremonies being held this week in Saskatoon.
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Target Road Trip Brings Carly Rae Jepsen Home for the Holidays with a Concert in Mission, B.C.
MISSISSAUGA, ON, Dec. 10, 2012 /CNW/ - Target is bringing music to the ears of Mission, B.C. residents by bringing home their shining star, two-time Grammy nominated Canadian singer, Carly Rae Jepsen. On the final leg of its cross-country road trip, Target will host a complimentary concert starring Carly Rae Jepsen on Monday, December 17 at the Clarke Foundation Theatre. Tickets will be given away at the Mission Leisure Centre, Arena Entrance, 7650 Grand St., Mission, B.C. beginning Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. PST, courtesy of Target. Quantities are limited, 500 tickets will be distributed (one per person standing in the line).
"The Target Road Trip was about getting to know our Canadian guests and sharing something special with them along the way," said Livia Zufferli, director, Marketing, Target Canada. "We are so excited to bring home one of Canada's newest rising stars, Carly Rae Jepsen, to her hometown on the west coast to help spread some holiday cheer this."
The Target Road Trip launched in Halifax, Nova Scotia on November 30 and has since stopped in numerous communities including Quebec City, Toronto, North Bay and Sudbury - to name just a few. The bus will continue west after the concert Monday evening. Guests can follow the tour progress at Facebook.com/TargetCanada and Twitter.com/Target_CA.
Carly Rae Jepsen is a two-time Grammy nominated recording artist and singer-songwriter from Mission, British Columbia.. The 5x-platinum "Call Me Maybe" has sold more than 10 million singles worldwide and climbed to No. 1 in more than 37 countries, including the U.S. where it spent a record-breaking nine weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. CanadaFor further information:
Lisa Gibson, Target Public Relations, (647) 384-9036
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Removing stress in a team is just one way of helping people to become their best and reach their potential. Very often stress is misunderstood or the causes of stress maybe misdiagnosed. In this article I describe one of the most common causes of stress that very often people fail to identify: themselves.
This tool that I want to share with you is one that I use with my clients all the time. It is a model taken specifically from the area of psychology called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and has been applied to Neuro-Linguistic Programming. It is called the ABC model and I use it to help my clients understand the true causes of most of their problems doesn’t lie with their environment, the people in their lives or external events. Very often the cause of much stress and pressure that they put themselves under comes from their own thinking.
Consider the following real life example. John’s boss asks him when is the report that he been working on going to be ready. John immediately starts to feel under pressure and rather than snap at his boss he grumbles to himself “Why is he always doing this to me? Doesn’t he know I’m working as fast as I can? Who does he think he is? It’s not fair he always picks on me”. John now feels a few familiar emotions that he might package up and call stress. These emotions may be anger, resentment, feelings of injustice or sadness to name a few. If we were to sit down and talk with John what do you think he would consider to be the source of his “negative” emotions? That’s right, more than likely he would see his boss as the problem.
Now let’s look at this from a different perspective while describing the ABC model. (The ABC model comes from the work of an American psychologist Dr Albert Ellis and is described in greater detail in most books on CBT.)
The “A” stands for activating event and in this case it is when the boss asks John when the report would be ready, a perfectly reasonable request if delivered appropriately.
The “B” stands for the beliefs or thoughts that John has immediately after the request. Why is he always doing this to me?
The “C” is then the consequent emotion which practitioners and researchers of CBT belief arise as a result of the thoughts that John tells himself.
So the chain of events is that A is followed by B is followed by C. Now often the thoughts may happen very quickly, so quickly in fact that they may go unnoticed and John is left thinking that the cause of his “negative” emotions were his boss. This line of thought is also a trap for John because the more he thinks like this the more “negative” emotions will be created which leads to more unresourceful beliefs. This is what can be termed a vicious cycle of events that can quickly spiral out of control. Research has demonstrated that our emotions can be controlled by our thinking, so what we need to do is to think differently in order to experience different emotions. If we can stop then reverse the vicious cycle we can end up with a virtuous cycle instead that will lead to clearer and more resourceful thinking. To do this we add “D” and “E” to the ABC model.
“D” is about disputing or questioning your unresourceful thinking and “E” stands for the effective result that arises from taking the time for the internal discussion. In the example above John has the belief that his boss is always doing that to him. The word always is a generalisation so John could start disputing whether this is actually always the case and is his boss actually picking on him? If John continues to believe that he is a victim his behaviours and emotions will be that of a victim and this will only perpetuate the cycle for John if other potential bullies or persecutors identify John as an easy target or a whipping boy
This exercise can be life changing for you and that is no overstatement. Once you begin to change your thinking and feeling your behaviours will naturally and automatically start to change. This is the secret that underlies most successful behaviour change. So, start to identify for yourself what emotions you experience on a daily basis that you may like to start feeling less. People may call these “negative” emotions and that is why I have highlighted the work negative. To me the emotion really isn’t negative – it’s just an emotion, neither negative nor positive, but often we want to feel these negative emotions less often than the positive ones. For instance do you find yourself being angry, sad, depressed, anxious, stressed, resentful or whatever. Ask yourself are these emotions really useful for you? If not then start to become better at spotting the thinking that precedes them and the events that started the thinking. Maybe you could start an ABC diary that can capture the events, the beliefs or thinking and the emotions that follow. Once you have started to identify the ABC then start to dispute and question your thinking that leads the “negative” emotions, you may then start to have new and more resourceful thoughts that can lead to “positive” emotions.
Once you have started to master this change for yourself, if your team hasn’t already started to change because of your changes, then you can start to coach them to become better at identifying and changing their thinking.
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Air Masses and Cyclones
Name: Michael Status: educator Grade: 9-12 Location: CT Country: USA Date: Fall 2012
Question:
My question involves air masses and mid latitude cyclones. My understanding is air masses form because they stay stationary over certain areas. What begins to make them move where they form fronts? Is it the way air circulates around a low pressure system? Or do these mid latitudes cyclones form at fronts? I am trying to explain what causes these different air masses to move. What moves high and low pressure systems?
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Hi Michael,
Remember the temperatures and pressure. Warm/humid air and cooler air masses are in motion due to energy differences in absorptive areas on Earth. The rush of cool and warm can be felt on our skin at the beach, the sea breeze. at morning and evening. As the warm/humid air and cold air masses converge, they begin an upward twisting as they mix. Generally, this causes rain and low pressure with cooling. If the warm water continues to fuel its energy into a cooler air mass, the twisting may become well organized into a cell. Continued organization and energy building yields a cell, then a tropical depression and on to a hurricane.
The energy creating the motion, the twisting, is a function of heat-cool cycling (the Carnot Cycle) and mixing.
Peter E. Hughes, Ph.D. Milford, NH
Mike
An air mass is a volume of air that has a common characteristic, such as polar air masses are cold and dry, tropical air masses are warm and humid, and other air masses run the scale in between.
Air masses are driven to move by different heating patterns over the surface of the earth. For example, a plowed farmer’s field or prairie will heat the air over it more so than say a forest. Then the hot air rises because it is less dense forming a low air pressure area. But as the hot air rises, it cools and eventually falls back to the surface forming a higher air pressure area. These differences in air pressure drive these air masses to move and the leading edges of these moving air masses are called fronts. For example, cold air advancing on warm air is called a cold front, and warm air advancing on cold air is called a warm front.
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DANIELSVILLE - The Eastside boys pulled out a stunning victory in dramatic fashion Friday night, topping Madison County 60-59 in triple overtime."It was a heart-pounding win," Eastside boys coach Michael Gerald said. "We're pleased to get a win. Madison County is a tough place to play; I give them the utmost respect. They kept coming at us. Fortunately, we had some people step up and we were able to come away with a victory." The Eagles were led by Cameron Robinson who scored a team-high 17 points. Neil Lattimore and Artis Clanton each chipped in 14 points, while Gabe Mathis scored eight in the win. The win moves Eastside to 5-1 on the season. The Eagles play again Tuesday at home against Loganville. BOYS Newton 82, Lithonia 52 LITHONIA - The Newton boys moved to 3-1 on the season and 1-1 in Region 2-AAAAA play after capturing an 82-52 win over Lithonia on Friday. Eleven different rams scored on the night, but it was Jamon Hawkins who led the way with 16 points, five rebounds and four assists. Hawkins hit three 3-pointers on the night. Montrell Grimes (nine rebounds), Sean Monk (15 points) also played well for the Rams. "It was nice to get a win. We were upset about losing a close game at home to Douglass on Tuesday, so it was good to get back in the win column our next time out," Newton boys coach Rick Rasmussen said. Tee Farley provided the boost for the Rams, scoring eight points in the first quarter. Monk scored 10 of his 15 in the third quarter to help put Lithonia away. The Rams play again today at home against Salem. Rockdale 76, Winder-Barrow 71 WINDER - The Rockdale boys moved to 3-1 on the season after collecting a 76-71 victory over Winder-Barrow on Friday. Darius McKnight led the way for the Bulldogs with a 24-point effort. Kevin Ware was also key for the Bulldogs with 19 points. "They (Winder) are a very tough team. I'm encouraged that we were able to show up and match their athleticism tonight," Rockdale boys coach Mitchell Harris said. Rockdale hits the court again today at 4 p.m. against Clarkston. GIRLS Heritage 74, Habersham Central 52 MOUNT AIRY - The Heritage girls rolled to a 74-52 win over Habersham Central on Friday. Precious Elkins and Sylvia Elkins each scored 15 points in the win. Neice Lewis and Jasmine Middlebrooks each scored 13, while Sarah Herrington chipped in 11. The Lady Patriots play again today at home against Alpharetta. Brandon Evans can be reached at brandon.evans@rockdalecitizen.com.
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As of Monday, September 10, 2012
Staff Photo: Sue Ann Kuhn-Smith Paving is under way on the Library to Eastside Trail. Paving from Chimney Park to a pedestrian tunnel will be finished in the next two weeks, according to Cheryl Delk, special projects coordinator with the county. The section from Ramsey Drive to Martin Street and to the pedestrian tunnel should be complete this week, Delk said, with the entire trail completed by December. The project includes boardwalks over streams and wetlands that will be installed over the next two months.
Paving is under way on the Library to Eastside Trail.
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nc333 8 months, 1 week ago
The trail looks beautiful. I wish it could open sooner. It's good to see positive work being done in Newton County.
John 8 months, 1 week ago
On August 23, 2010 the special projects coordinator stated the following with reference to this EHS to library trail. "You can see how much we've put into it and how important it is to complete the project so children can walk to school," Delk said. My cynical question is just how many EHS high school students along this route are "really" going to walk to school along this unlighted trail, especially when it is hot or cold, raining, snowing, when it is dark, etc.? By time most HS students get their drivers license they forget how to walk.
CadyJackson 8 months, 1 week ago
I was not aware that any NCSS students are allowed to walk to and from school. I have seen school buses stop within sight distance of a middle school to allow a child off.
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If there was ever going to be a moment for Cranes to announce themselves among Africa’s football elites, this is it.
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John Turturro’s “Passione,” a movie about Neapolitan song, was supposed to run for only two weeks at the Film Forum. Now it’s being held over for a week, through July 14th, and I think I know why. Turturro originally intended the film to be a documentary, but then, we are told, something in him rebelled. The glory of “Passione” is how personal it is—outré, imaginative, at times surrealist: strange acting, strange settings. You don’t just see the celebrated guitarist Fausto Cigliano playing “Catarì.” You see him shot from above, sitting at the hub of a wheel of colored marble in a fabulous inlaid church floor. He could be the last man on earth, singing the last song. The Portuguese fado specialist Misia, who has also dug deep into Neapolitan music, performs two heart-tearing love songs. “Poison me, don’t wait till tomorrow,” she tells her man, but in an odd, hyper-theatrical way, and in a courtyard hemmed by moldering plaster walls. She looks like María Casares, the princess of death in Cocteau’s “Orpheus”—the same drastic face, the same licorice-colored hair, except with bangs.
Misia’s numbers are the second and third best. The first is an amazing rendition of “Pistol Packin’ Mama” by three different artists, working together, sort of, on a small stage. The basic song is laid down by Max Casella. Casella is not so much a singer as an actor (he was Benny Fazio, the guy who stole the AmEx numbers from Artie Bucco’s restaurant in “The Sopranos”), but he delivers his lines so enthusiastically that you think he’s going to levitate into the flies. A few feet away is M’Barka Ben Taleb, a Tunisian musician who has settled in Italy. She too is singing “Pistol Packin’ Mama,” but in Arabic. She also spends some time ululating. Between the two of them sits Peppe Barra, the most galvanizing performer in the movie, singing about being born black, which he isn’t, but he clearly cares. Somehow it all fits.
But the film has dozens of treasures: three versions of “O Sole Mio”; three spooky goddesses singing a thirteenth-century song in a drippy cave; three testy old men arguing about who was greater, Caruso or Fernando de Lucia.
“Passione” has emphases, and de-emphases, that I didn’t expect in a movie about Naples. Apart from the Caruso-de Lucia dispute, there is nothing about opera, that great Neapolitan art. On the other hand, the film goes on at great length about multiculturalism and ethnic mixing—live issues in Italy today. (Forty thousand Africans now await asylum on the small island of Lampedusa, off the coast of Sicily.) Then there is a lot about the Second World War, partly in connection with multiculturalism. Our G.I.s fathered a large crop of Italo-African-American babies in Naples. (They also brought “Pistol Packin’ Mama.”) We see old films of planes dropping bombs, and of little boys, during the Occupation, being deloused with vicious-looking powder pumps.
Americans, I think, will never really view the Second World War (or even the First) the way Europeans do, because it didn’t take place on our soil. But Turturro, who is a second-generation Italian-American—his mother came from Sicily, his father from Bari—may have had grandfathers or great-uncles who fought for Italy and suffered the terrible circumstances following its defeat. “Passione” is soaked with love of country. That means that you get a little bit of the sentimentality that is endemic to Italy (closeups of cute urchins, of laundry strung from balconies), or to Italian-Americans’ idea of Italy. This is a small matter, however, compared with the overall sophistication and beauty of the film. I saw it three nights ago. Every day since, one image or another returns to me.
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I started working as pari-mutuel clerk—a bet taker—at the Saratoga Racecourse, in my hometown, just before I left for college. Ever since, I’ve thought that the gamblers were the track’s biggest draw. My regulars come straight out of central casting: gracious Southerners in white linen suits; loud, red-faced Irish guys from Boston, solemn handicappers with meticulous notes; Latino stable hands who slip over to bet between races. Mostly, they are men with slicked-back hair, Hawaiian shirts, and gold chains who wink and toss cheesy lines my way. On weekends, the lines get longer, with frat boys and families throwing away their money two dollars at a time. But the regular customers rattle off combinations, like, “Give me a $2 tri key put the 8 over the 2, 4, 7.” (Simply put, that’s a two-dollar trifecta bet—the first three finishers of a race—with the eight horse winning and some combination of the two, four, or seven placing second and third. It costs the bettor twelve bucks, but if the right horses come in, it could pay thousands.) After seven years, I can punch tickets in my sleep. Cash changes hands quickly, and since expert gamblers wait until the final seconds to pick their horses, speed and accuracy are required.
The Belmont Stakes is a long, taxing day. It’s usually sweltering, and the crowd can top a hundred thousand. Hundreds of Saratoga clerks head downstate to Queens every year, and I’ll be there, too. The Belmont lacks the glamour of the Derby, and the annual drunken free-for-all of the Preakness. But every few years, when a horse has a chance to sweep the Triple Crown, anticipation trumps all. I’ve watched two come close—Smarty Jones in 2004 and Big Brown in 2008—but it’s been more than three decades since Affirmed took the Triple Crown in 1978.
On Saturday, twelve horses will compete for a million-dollar purse. I haven’t got any guesses about the field; all I know is that my customers will be memorable. A few years ago, a quartet of men in Uncle Sam costumes took turns betting at my window; they eventually spilled a Big Gulp of whiskey-spiked lemonade on my machine. I challenge anyone stopping by Belmont Park this Saturday to top that—but please, keep your drinks to yourself.
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Hey, Jets Fans! It’s Kari from the New York Jets Flight Crew! Our auditions start with the preliminary round on Saturday, April 13, with registration at 8 a.m. at MetLife Stadium. You can register online or walk up that day.
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George Orwell's state-run surveillance society had children spying on parents, neighbors scrutinizing neighbors and Big Brother watching over everyone. What Orwell did not foresee was a time when people would voluntarily publish chronicles of their lives for public consumption.
Imagine bookstores suddenly inundated with truckloads of privately published diaries, photo albums and home movies. An unlikely scenario until the mass marketing of computers, digital cameras and Internet access provided an inexpensive outlet.
Millions are participating in online social networks in an age of unprecedented self-surveillance (sousveillance). And these sites are pushing criminal investigation into uncharted waters..[FOOTNOTE 1]
Evidence derived from social networking comes into play in several ways. Law enforcement and prosecutors use it to identify suspects and build cases. And defense attorneys have begun to mine this resource for information that can exculpate their clients, impeach a state's witness or provide a basis for a reduced sentence or post-conviction review.
A couple of months ago, Newsweek reported on an investigation concerning the murder of a British college student in Italy.[FOOTNOTE 2].[FOOTNOTE 3].
And.
In both cases the indirect nature of the communication was an unavailing defense. However, communication is a two-way street, and as illustrated below, the actions of the recipient may determine the outcome of a case.
In People v. Rodriguez, 2008 NY Slip Op 28123, 5 (N.Y. City Crim. Ct. 2008), an 18-year-old defendant's expression of "unrequited teenage love" for a 14-year-old complainant via MySpace failed to reach the level of aggravated harassment.
A key factor in dismissing the charge was the complainant's willingness to access defendant's messages on her page. No attempts were made to block them nor did she ask him to desist. At some point, the prosecution claimed she disabled her account, but offered no evidence to determine when it occurred or whether it was done in response to defendant's epistles.
The virtue and vice of social networking, and the Internet in general, are that it empowers everyone to be an investigator. But incautious use of publicly accessible profiles can lead down the wrong path in some cases.
A North Carolina resident had been arrested and prosecuted for injuries to a victim in an Albany bar fight.[FOOTNOTE 4] Some time after the incident, the victim had gone to a MySpace page where he saw an image of a person he thought was the attacker. Meanwhile, the man in the photo, who lived more than 700 miles away, denied ever having been in Albany. One DNA sample later, the case against him was dismissed.
DUE DILIGENCE
Internet searching has emerged as a necessity in legal investigation. And with the advent of Google cache and the Wayback Machine to resurrect defunct sites and links, the search parameters have broadened. And now social networking is redefining due diligence in online investigation.[FOOTNOTE 5]
Sites like Facebook and MySpace may hold the keys to an alibi,[FOOTNOTE 6] justification or mental health defense or mitigating evidence. In addition, they may provide material to impeach law enforcement and expert witnesses or assail the credibility of eyewitnesses.[FOOTNOTE 7] Mistaken identifications and false or misleading information might be uncovered as well.
A defendant's social networking page can also be turned to advantage because, like most personal sites, it represents part of a life story. There may be postings that show strong roots in the community supporting a bail application or positive reputation evidence from testimonials useful in developing a defense theory or mitigation at sentencing.[FOOTNOTE 8]
Depending on the material posted, it could prove to be a valuable snapshot of a client's experiences -- similar to a day in the life movies used in civil litigation.
JURY BEHAVIOR
These sites can open the door to opinion making, where the power of one person or a 1,000 to post their views about a pending case can impact due process.
In United States v. Boyd, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 88493 (E.D. Tenn. Nov. 30, 2007), the accused moved for a change of venue based on pretrial publicity. In addition to TV broadcasts and newspapers articles, attorneys involved with the defense testified that there were YouTube videos, opinions about the case posted on Internet news sites, and extensive Google search results concerning the victim. All of the electronic information was available to any potential juror in the venire district.
While the attorneys could not determine how many potential jurors might have viewed the YouTube videos, for example, they noted: "[A]nyone, located anywhere on Earth, with access to a computer and the internet, could create a video about Christian and Newsom [victims], or the prosecutions arising from their deaths, and put it on YouTube."
The trial judge denied the motion as premature, being unable to determine the existence of actual prejudice, and instead granted a defense motion for individual voir dire as needed.
The dangers of jury pool contamination intoned by the defense attorneys in Boyd were realized in a West Virginia case.
K.J., one of the alleged sex abuse victims in State v. Cecil, 221 W. Va. 495, 504 (W. Va. 2007), had a MySpace account. A private detective working for the defense testified that she posted a statement about being "famous someday," and "used the website to communicate with older boys contrary to her mother's testimony that K.J. was now withdrawn and did not like to be around older boys or men."
The curiosity of two jurors got the better of them, and during trial they tried to visit K.J.'s MySpace page. However, the profile had been restricted or removed before trial and inaccessible -- reducing its prejudicial impact. Still, one of the jurors did discuss the site with her daughter, who knew the other victim and her family. While the jurors' attempted investigation was not productive, their actions combined with other misconduct by a third juror denied Cecil a fair trial.
As this next case illustrates, Web sites have to be seen to be impactful.
In State v. Gaskins, 2007 Ohio 4103, P30-P35 (Ohio Ct. App., Medina County, Aug. 13, 2007), the defendant was charged with sex crimes against two underage victims. During trial, he attempted to introduce evidence that one of the complainants held herself out on her MySpace page as an 18 year old with experience in adult sexual relationships.
The court permitted photos of the victim from that site to be admitted based on testimony about her appearance at the time. However, since no proof had been offered that the defendant had ever seen the site, and it was created after the event, questioning about the MySpace page was not permitted.
Jury selection has to take into account the fact that many in the pool will be familiar with social networking and Internet searching or have their own sites.
In view of the potential for unwanted publicity or juror curiosity, voir dire and jury instructions should consider how these sites can infiltrate and influence the proceedings. The questions from the Pew survey might suggest a few starting points.[FOOTNOTE 9]
INFORMATION QUALITY
Since Web pages can change or disappear, archiving or making a demand for preservation may be necessary. Admission or exclusion of testimony about the contents may hinge on this early capture of Web content.
Distinct from content is the conduct of the person profiled, whether a party or witness. The act of removing a page, privatizing access or changing the nature of the material posted may be probative as a virtual recantation, recent fabrication, inconsistent statement or basis for impeachment.
Depending on the reason that a complainant shuts down her site or a witness restricts access to his MySpace page, the next step may involve a subpoena to the networking host, a discovery motion, a Rosario demand or preclusion motion, and ultimately, an adverse inference jury charge.[FOOTNOTE 10]
Foreclosure of such evidence might run afoul of the confrontation and compulsory process clauses.
Moreover, if photos from Facebook were used in an identification proceeding or statements on a blog found their way into a search warrant application, there might be a basis for suppression.
The integrity of self-published online information depends on its authenticity and reliability. Well-known phenomena plaguing Web sites apply with equal force to social networking, such as hacking, identity theft, malicious misinformation and misrepresentation.
The Pew survey reported that 4 percent of users deleted their profiles because their page had been hacked or password stolen.
Social networking sites are personal. They represent an extension of conversations that take place between friends or reveal the desire to create casual relationships. The informality and dubiety of their content can be questioned. Whether offered as evidence by the prosecution or considered for use by the defense, fact checking is essential.[FOOTNOTE 11]
CONCLUSION
Media rich social networking sites have pulled back the curtain on the activities of multitudes. And lawyers are representing an increasing number of clients with an online presence, and trying cases where complainants and witnesses post information that can lead to impeaching or exonerating evidence.
Criminal defense is now virtual defense. And unlike memories that fade with time or physical evidence that deteriorates, a Web site will continue communicating to a global audience for a long time.
What will it mean when we live in a society where everyone knows everything about everyone? And how will it affect the rights of defendants to confront their accusers and prepare their cases?[FOOTNOTE 12]
A world with "virtual crime scenes" demands a comparable set of safeguards to ensure access to and the integrity of the virtual evidence that is fast becoming a staple of criminal prosecutions.
Ken Strutin is director of legal information services at the New York State Defenders Association.
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FN1 Pew Internet Project Data Memo: Adults and Social Networking Web Sites (Jan. 14, 2009). See "New Numbers on Social Network Usage," CNET News, Feb. 10, 2009, .
FN2 "Murder Most Wired," Newsweek, Dec. 3, 2008.
FN3 "MySpace Page Used Against Gang Suspect," Buffalo News, Jan. 23, 2009.
FN4 "Bar Brawl Indictment Dismissed," Albany Times Union, Feb. 18, 2009.
FN5 See generally "Due Diligence With Social Networks," Law Technology News, Dec. 12, 2008, ; "Making Internet Searches Part of Due Diligence," Los Angeles Lawyer, Feb. 2007, at 46.
FN6 See, e.g., "Lack of Internet Access Muddies Case Against Sex Offender's MySpace Site," Law.com, Nov. 6, 2006.
FN7 See, e.g., "MySpaced-Out Cops: NYPD Eyes Web Pages of Recruits," New York Post, Jan. 21, 2009; "Litigation Clues Are Found on Facebook," National Law Journal, Oct. 15, 2007>
FN8 But see "Social Networking Puts the Bite on Defendants," Law.com, July 22, 2008; "Danger of Self-Inflicted Damage on the Web," Pennsylvania Lawyer, November/December 2008, at 34.
FN9 Cf. "Social Networking Sites Help Vet Jurors," National Law Journal, Aug. 13, 2008.
FN10 Cf. "MySpace, Facebook Pages Called Key to Dispute Over Insurance Coverage for Eating Disorders," National Law Journal, Feb. 1, 2008.
FN11 See generally "When Reporters Go Into MySpace," News & Observer, Dec. 31, 2007.
FN12 See generally Anita L. Allen, "Dredging Up the Past: Lifelogging, Memory, and Surveillance," 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 47 (2008); "India's Novel Use of Brain Scans in Courts Is Debated," The New York Times, Sept. 14, 2008. | http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202428950936&slreturn=1&hbxlogin=1 | 2013-05-18T10:13:11 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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The Special Committee on Voter Participation, chaired by John Dunne, former state senator and now of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna in Albany and Daniel Kolb of Davis Polk & Wardwell, will examine why less than 37 percent of New Yorkers eligible to vote cast ballots in the 2000 election.
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Paul Smith, chairman of Jenner & Block's appellate and Supreme Court practice, made the motion to have the group admitted, and Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. granted the motion, as he did for other groups of lawyers?from women's bar and military lawyer groups?that morning. Court artist Art Lien captured the moment with a sketch.
"A lot of us wanted to applaud," said association executive director D'Arcy Kemnitz. While gay lawyers have argued at the court and been admitted to the bar individually for years, Kemnitz said, "we feel confident" that the ceremony marked the first time that a group whose name identified them as such was sworn in.
The court does not keep records that could verify or disprove the claim, but longtime court-watchers could not recall anything similar happening before.
"We think we've arrived," said Kemnitz, adding that the association was celebrating its 25th anniversary. The milestone was also significant, she said, because of the upcoming arguments in cases involving same-sex marriage.
"We didn't do this before Lawrence v. Texas," Kemnitz said, referring to the 2003 case that struck down state sodomy laws. In many states at that time, she explained, homosexual activity still violated criminal laws.
Jenner's Smith, who argued and won the Lawrence case, said the bar admission ceremony was a notable first that sent the message that "here is a group of openly gay lawyers."
After the court session adjourned, the group had a reception in the court's east conference room that included family members. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg visited briefly, also stopping in at receptions in other rooms for the other groups sworn in that day.
Tony Mauro can be contacted at tmauro@alm.com. | http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202586373598&In_Milestone_Group_of_LGBT_Lawyers_Sworn_In_to_Supreme_Court_Bar | 2013-05-18T10:53:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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SAN DIEGO -- The state of the Denver Broncos' locker room at halftime Monday night might have illustrated perfectly how Peyton Manning's presence has been felt in the organization, six games in.
At the time, the score was 24-0, in the San Diego Chargers' favor. The Broncos had coughed up the ball twice on special teams. Manning had thrown a pick-six. Any offensive progress had been stymied by penalties. The defense had just yielded a 10-play, 66-yard scoring drive.
"It was calm, man," veteran cornerback Champ Bailey said. "Just looking forward to what we had to do next."
What happened next goes in the books, alongside so many other moments in the career of an all-time great.
A succinct text came from a Broncos coach as the busses were pulling away from Qualcomm Stadium following Denver's scintillating 35-24 win: "He is special."
"He," of course, is Manning. And by the time this one was over, he'd completed 24 of his 30 throws for 309 yards and three touchdowns against the one aforementioned pick. In the immediate aftermath, Manning's performance recalled his Monday night comeback with the Indianapolis Colts against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2003, as well as battles back from the dead against the rival New England Patriots in 2006 and 2009.
But more than that, it seems as if Manning has instilled a belief in the Broncos that even the craziness of you-know-who's run last fall couldn't come close to inspiring. Yes, Denver had fourth-quarter comeback bids fall short against the Atlanta Falcons, Houston Texans and New England Patriots in the weeks leading up to Monday's game. No, those failed attempts hadn't changed what everyone in Denver seems to know -- the game's never over, not until there are three zeroes on the scoreboard clock.
"A lot of guys throw that pick-six, that we had in the first half, and who knows what you're gonna get out of them the rest of the game. But not Peyton," said tight end Jacob Tamme, who came to the Broncos from the Colts with Manning. "I think everybody came in here at halftime and knew we had a chance to do some stuff. Peyton just did what he always does. I can't think of any one thing. But once we got that first drive of the second half going, we knew."
The Chargers defense came in knowing that Manning was struggling with the deep ball, and played him accordingly. It worked for a half.
But it didn't take long for that to change. Manning's first touchdown throw of the day fit into a small window on a post to Demaryius Thomas 29 yards downfield. At the start of the fourth quarter, he shoehorned another ball to Tamme on third-and-16 for 25 yards. And three plays after that, he hurdled a pass rusher and drilled Eric Decker between the numbers for 7 yards. Decker matched the effort on the subsequent play, taking a short pass and bulldozing in for a 7-yard touchdown.
"When he's playing like freakin' (Ben) Roethlisberger back (there), and he can't be sacked... I'm running my route, I turn around and he's slipping tackles," Tamme said. "He started laughing at one point, when he rolled out, and I don't know how many people he got around or through, but he's been tough to sack lately, too. That's a new thing for him. Been in the weight room, I guess."
And Manning hadn't even made his best throw yet. That one, a 21-yard touchdown pass to his old buddy Brandon Stokley, which was delivered in a spot you'd have trouble sliding a credit card into, put the go-ahead points on the board for Denver.
"Awesome. Man, it's... Only he can do that," Broncos linebacker Joe Mays said, as he waited with his family by the team bus. "I mean, there are couple guys that might be right there. But he's the best. I think he's the best quarterback to ever do it."
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For the Broncos, the best part of this might be that it wasn't all Manning on Monday night, validating John Elway's efforts to give the quarterback something Elway himself had late in his career: a team that can win in a bunch of different ways.
Defensive end Elvis Dumervil's strip-sack in the third quarter -- cornerback Tony Carter collected the ball and rumbled 65 yards for a touchdown -- was as big as any play Manning made. So was the pick by Carter that set up the Stokley score. A pick-six by Chris Harris and another strip-sack from Dumervil in the final minute showed that the defense can close an opponent out.
Funny thing is, the players found a way to correlate that to Manning, too.
"Same old Peyton," Bailey said. "One thing about it, (in the) second half of every game we've played this year, he's played great. Just knowing that you're gonna have that greatness, it does give you that little extra bounce; you know you're gonna have a chance to win. It expands your possibilities. When you know you have a chance to do something special, it makes you work a little harder."
The Broncos have worked plenty hard to get this particular team -- which is massively different from the 2011 squad in several ways -- where it is now. As Decker said on the field afterward on Monday, "Our communication is better, because it's growing. Our relationship is growing as a unit. Fact is, (Manning) doesn't have to say a lot when we get to the line anymore; we're running the play a lot faster, because we all are on the same page. ... We can just go out and play."
The bottom line is, Denver heads into its bye week at 3-3 having survived a brutal early slate. The Broncos' schedule is going to soften some, possibly setting Manning up for a season that is reminiscent of his 2008 campaign. That year, Manning struggled with a knee injury and the Colts started 3-4 before he led Indianapolis to a 9-0 finish, netting himself the NFL MVP award.
The Broncos have work to do to get there, but they also figure to keep improving. That has to do with the teachable stuff. The other part of this equation was on display for all to see in San Diego.
"You can't really practice resilience," Tamme said. "Hopefully, we won't have to be resilient every game. But that's something you can't practice. You can't teach it. That's a good thing, that we got it."
The Broncos had it last year too, of course. But it was pretty clear that what we saw Monday night was something else entirely. Which is why you sign Peyton Manning in the first place.
Follow Albert Breer on Twitter @AlbertBreer. | http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000081145/article/peyton-manning-bringing-vintage-resiliency-to-denver-broncos | 2013-05-18T10:53:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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PLATEAU State Government will soon act decisively to halt the deterioration of primary school education as a result of the industrial action of local council workers. To this end, it has directed the striking workers to resume work today by 8.00 a.m.
The government’s position was stated by the Commissioner for Local Council and Chieftaincy Affairs, Dr. Paul Wai, at a press conference at Government House in Jos at the weekend.
Also, Governor Jonah Jang while receiving the report of a stakeholders’ committee which earlier negotiated with the workers’ leaders, at the weekend, stressed that the international Labour law of “no work, no pay” was already being implemented in the state.
But the chairman, Joint Negotiating Council of the Nigeria Labour Council (NLC), Comrade Yusuf Zambuk, said the directive was not binding on the workers because it was not government that asked them to go on strike.
“Therefore, government cannot call off the strike on their behalf,” he said.
Alluding to negotiations in the past between Labour and government, Wai said: “After appeals by the Elders’ committee they accepted the 55 per cent upward review offered by government but introduced a new condition demanding that all unearned salaries for the period of the strike should be paid knowing full well that it contradicts the existing labour law of no work no pay.
“Following the refusal of the union leaders to call off the strike after accepting the 55 per cent wage increase, it has become necessary for government to take appropriate steps to salvage the local government system and the primary education in the state from total collapse. Indeed, no responsible government will stand by and allow this ugly trend to continue indefinitely.” Wai stated.
Government, according to him, has taken the following measures:
·Local council workers are to report and resume work at 8:00am on Monday, November 12, 2012;
·Government has on compassionate grounds resolved to pay all resuming workers October 2012 salaries;
·Biometric Capture and staff screening shall commence and all local government workers are to submit themselves to the exercise; and
·All workers are assured of safety and security at their duty post.
The committee, led by former military governor, Rear Admiral Samuel Bitrus Atukum (rtd), was constituted by Jang in September and it in turn formed a mediation cteam of 11 elders to negotiate with union leaders.
According to Atukum, the committee made up of senior military and police offices, religious leaders and representatives of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) want government to continue to seek a peaceful solution to the stalemate. He said union based its argument on an earlier government-labour agreement which provided for an increase of salaries whenever there is rise in revenue.
He stated that after negotiation, labour soft-pedaled from its earlier demand of 75 per cent of the N18,000 minimum wage to 55 per cent which government agreed to pay.
But he added that a particular contentious issue brought the negotiation to a deadlock.
Jang promised that government would look diligently into the report. He added that local councils would be perpetual borrowers should they fully implement the N18,000 minimum wage, which would be disastrous to the state economy. | http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=104539:plateau-warns-striking-workers-&catid=1:national&Itemid=559 | 2013-05-18T10:31:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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HALIFAX - Robbie DeFulviis scored the winning goal 8:02 into overtime as the Rimouski Oceanic eliminated the host Halifax Mooseheads from Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoff action with a 3-2 win on Sunday afternoon.
Rimouski won the best-of-seven Western Conference final 4-2 and will now face the top-seeded Saint John Sea Dogs for the President's Cup.
Peter Trainor and Scott Oke also scored for the Oceanic while Alexandre Mallet picked up a single assist to improve his team-leading points total to 22 in 17 contests.
Alexandre Grenier and Konrad Abeltshauser scored for the Mooseheads, who dropped the final two games of the series by a combined score of 12-2.
Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin each chipped in with two assists for Halifax. For MacKinnon, the two points gave him 28 in 17 games, which is best of all rookie skaters in the playoffs.
Jacob Gervais-Chouinard made 19 saves for the win while Zachary Fucale, the much busier of the two goaltenders, turned away 42 shots in defeat.
Despite the loss, Fucale was named the game's first star as his 37 saves through regulation time helped to keep his club's season alive.
The Mooseheads had to play without their captain Cameron Critchlow after he received a Game Misconduct in Game 5 for an altercation with Rimouski's Jonathan Lavoie.
Rimouski failed to score on three chances with the man advantage as Halifax went 1 for 3.
Game 1 of the President’s Cup final will be held at Harbour Station on Friday in Saint John.
Trainor opened the scoring at 16:04 of the first period to give the Oceanic a 1-0 lead after 20 minutes of play.
Grenier tied the game at 7:27 of the second for Halifax and Abeltshauser made it 2-1 for the Mooseheads 2:23 later.
Even though they were being outshot 27-11 after 40 minutes of play, Halifax looked to have the series going to a seventh game until Oke tied the contest with just 4:13 to play in regulation.
DeFulviis ended the series with Rimouski's 45th shot on goal. | http://www.nhl.com/ice/m_news.htm?id=630047 | 2013-05-18T11:03:38 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - Buffalo Sabres forward Ville Leino is missing the team's regular-season opener against the Philadelphia Flyers because of a lower body injury.
Listed by the team as day to day, Leino missed practice Saturday a day after he was hurt in practice.
Leino was well enough to join his teammates, coaches and Sabres owner Terry Pegula to greet fans in the First Niagara Center lobby when the gates opened before Sunday's game.
Veteran journeyman forward Matt Ellis took Leino's spot in the lineup.
The Sabres travel to play at Toronto on Monday. | http://www.nhl.com/ice/m_news.htm?id=651486 | 2013-05-18T10:56:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Anaheim Ducks have used their first extended road trip of the season to turn things around after an 0-4 start.
They'll try to complete a 4-0 trip Monday night when they visit the struggling Columbus Blue Jackets.
Anaheim (4-5-0) struggled on the power play in losing its first four games of the season, failing to score in 13 attempts. It's an area in which the Ducks have shown recent improvement, converting three of seven power-play chances in the first three games of this four-game stretch.
Corey Perry and Teemu Selanne scored on the power play Saturday as Anaheim beat Montreal 6-4 despite blowing an early two-goal lead. Perry scored early in the second period to forge a 3-3 tie, the first of four straight goals for the Ducks.
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The Ducks have scored 10 goals in their last two games - their highest output in consecutive contests this season. Perry added two assists Saturday and Ryan Getzlaf and Chris Kunitz each had a goal and an assist.
"Finally, we put some goals on the board and it's a great feeling all around," Perry said.
Jean Sebastien-Giguere picked up his second win of the trip with a spectacular 47-save performance. Giguere has won four of his last five starts at Columbus, and went 3-0 with a 1.60 goals-against average against the Blue Jackets (3-5-0) last season.
Anaheim won all three of those games by one goal, and has taken five of the last six meetings with Columbus.
The Blue Jackets are trying to get their offense untracked after managing one goal in each of their last two games - losses to the New York Rangers and Minnesota. They had the potential tying goal by Rick Nash with 11.5 seconds left overturned in a 2-1 defeat to the Wild on Saturday.
Nash has a team-high five goals, but he didn't score in the back-to-back losses. He had a breakaway in the third period when Minnesota's Brent Burns committed a turnover on a power play, but Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom turned away that attempt.
"Timing is everything. What are you going to do?" Columbus coach Ken Hitchcock said. "He's getting the chances. It's unfortunate for him. Maybe in a couple of weeks those will all go in."
Blue Jackets goalie Pascal Leclaire was lost to a sprained ankle in the second period and replaced by Fredrik Norrena. Leclaire's status for Monday is uncertain. | http://www.nhl.com/ice/preview.htm?id=2008020122 | 2013-05-18T10:16:59 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Three NHS Lanarkshire staff selected for patient safety fellowship
NHS Lanarkshire netted an impressive hat trick recently when three of its staff were selected for a Fellowship course designed to improve patient safety.
The Fellowship course is part of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme (SPSP) which is a national initiative set up to improve standards in health care and was embraced by NHS Lanarkshire a year ago.
It aims to do this by standardising approaches to some aspects of care as there is good research to show which interventions make a difference when it comes to protecting patient safety.
UK and international evidence indicates that one in 10 patients experiences an adverse event while in hospital, which is defined as an unintended consequence of care, and may include contracting an infection such as MRSA.
Research shows that 50 per cent of adverse events can be avoided if rigorous patient safety processes are routinely followed.
Dr Gregor Smith, NHS Lanarkshire medical director for primary care and a Larkhall GP; Alexa Wall, head of Monklands pharmacy; and Dr Sanjiv Chohan, a Monklands consultant anaesthetist, all won places on the SPSP Fellowship course.
The trio’s inclusion meant NHS Lanarkshire had the most places of any Scottish health board.
Dr Gregor Smith said: "I’m delighted that Lanarkshire will be at the forefront of this.
"To have access to the level of training and education that the Fellowship provides is a tremendous opportunity that should further strengthen the quality of care that we provide."
Alexa Wall underlined the educational benefits, saying: "Access to the educational and networking opportunities afforded by the Fellowships is a fantastic opportunity to support the development and delivery of SPSP in NHS Lanarkshire.
"The building of a long term patient safety culture in NHS Scotland will also be invaluable for Lanarkshire’s patients."
Dr Sanjiv Chohan said the successful applicants’ work would give NHS Lanarkshire a chance to build on the SPSP success it has already had.
He said: "Having three fellows in Lanarkshire puts us in a unique situation, and opens up even greater possibilities in the future."
This was echoed by NHS Lanarkshire’s SPSP manager Diane Campbell.
She said: "It’s a fantastic achievement to get three NHS Lanarkshire employees on this programme, which is a quarter of the fellowship places across NHS Scotland.
"This is not only a great opportunity for the three individuals involved, it will also have massive positive benefits for NHS Lanarkshire as a whole and ultimately the patients in our care."
For more on the Scottish Patient Safety Programme visit:
Alexa Wall Dr Gregor Smith Dr Sanjiv Chohan
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1. Types of RF Signal Analyzers
Engineers are typically interested in signal characteristics such as amplitude, frequency, and phase when acquiring RF signals. Depending on the characteristics you need to analyze, you can use either a spectrum analyzer or a vector signal analyzer1.
The spectrum analyzer is used to capture only the frequency and power information of an RF signal. The typical output of a spectrum analyzer is a power versus frequency graph.
A vector signal analyzer is capable of the same measurements as a spectrum analyzer but with additional capabilities. You can acquire phase information to produce a constellation plot, shown in Figure 1, as a vector signal analyzer can also capture the time-domain of an RF signal.
Figure 1. Phase and Amplitude Transitions of a Communications Signal
Spectrum analyzers and vector signal analyzers traditionally use different instrument architectures. The traditional spectrum analyzer consists of basic components such as a tunable local oscillator (LO), mixer, bandpass filter, and power sensor. To make spectrum measurements, the traditional spectrum analyzer simply tunes the LO to each frequency bin and makes a power-in-band measurement on the resulting signal. Sweeping through each frequency bin allows the traditional spectrum analyzer, diagrammed in Figure 2, to provide power information across a broad range of frequencies. Some spectrum analyzers still operate in this mode, known as swept mode.
Figure 2. Traditional Spectrum Analyzer Block Diagram
Many modern spectrum analyzers are designed similar to vector signal analyzers. The traditional architecture of a vector signal analyzer, shown in Figure 3, uses a tunable LO mixed with the RF signal to produce a wideband intermediate frequency (IF) signal. Rather than retuning the LO for each frequency bin, however, the vector signal analyzer performs a fast Fourier transform (FFT) on the IF signal. The FFT can provide power and frequency information across a broad frequency range with a single acquisition. The architecture of a vector signal analyzer is quite similar to that of a vector signal generator.
Figure 3. Traditional Vector Signal Analyzer Block Diagram
The analog-to-digital converter (ADC) in Figure 3 captures a broader spectrum of data. Acquiring a broader spectrum of data allows the instrument to capture the phase information of the RF signal as well as perform spectrum measurements with a simple FFT calculation.
2. Attenuation and Reference Level
RF signal analyzers are designed to measure many types of RF signals with the greatest dynamic range possible. One way to maximize the dynamic range over a broad range of signals is to use attenuation to adjust the signal level to the ideal amplitude for a given signal. RF signal analyzers are designed to have a broad range of reference or attenuation levels, specified in decibels (dB). A user typically sets the reference level to a power level that is slightly higher than the maximum expected power. The instrument then applies the appropriate gain or attenuation to the signal. Attenuation or gain is applied as close to the RF front end as possible to maintain a constant signal level at the mixer and to achieve maximum dynamic range on the signal being analyzed.
Figure 4. Attenuation is Applied to an Input Signal Before the Mixing Stage of an RF Signal Analyzer
Programmable attenuation or gain is significant because it allows an RF instrument to measure signals at a variety of power levels. For example, if you attach a broadband antenna to an RF signal analyzer, you would notice that many over-the-air wireless communication signals operate at greatly varying power levels. Most FM radio stations can be observed at maximum amplitudes of around –50 dBm. Conversely, finding signals in the GSM cellular band higher than –70 dBm is difficult unless you are near a base station. In an even more extreme scenario, GPS signals in the 1.57 GHz band might operate at power levels of –157 dBm and below.
Check the range of attenuation the instrument offers when choosing an RF signal analyzer. The combination of maximum attenuation and dynamic range determines the minimum signal level that can be analyzed. RF instruments can analyze low-level signals with optional preamplifiers.
3. Dynamic Range
Dynamic range describes the maximum and minimum signal amplitudes that you can measure simultaneously. The only factor that determines the maximum signal level is the attenuation applied to the signal, but many different factors determine the minimum signal level. These factors include noise introduced by the amplifier, spurs and harmonics, or carrier signal leakage (also known as LO leakage). More specifically, dynamic range is the ratio of the largest signal that can be measured relative to the power of the greatest distortion, noise, or spur. Dynamic range is specified in decibels, with a larger range as more desirable.
Spurs and noise can be introduced almost anywhere in the RF signal chain. The nonlinear characteristics of components such as mixers and amplifiers often result in distortion products, each of which can produce spurs in the frequency domain. The bit resolution of the ADC can also affect dynamic range. Generally, the greater the bit resolution of the ADC, the better the dynamic range is of the instrument.
Dynamic range is an important specification for low-amplitude measurements. The specification is even more essential when measuring a low-power signal level next to a high-power signal. The dynamic range of the instrument determines the minimum signal that it can view next to a high-power signal because the reference level of the instrument cannot be set below the maximum power of the high-power signal. This concept is illustrated in Figure 5, which shows a low-power signal adjacent to a high-power GSM signal. An RF signal analyzer must have a dynamic range of at least 60 dB to measure the smaller signal displayed in Figure 5.
Figure 5. Low-Power Signal Adjacent to a High-Power Signal
4. Averaging Methods
Caution: Averaging can adversely affect the accuracy of carrier-to-noise measurements.
With averaging methods, reducing noise on a signal increases the accuracy of measuring low-level spurs. You can use averaging over several periods of a signal to eliminate random or white noise and converge to the real value of the signal. Two methods of complex averaging are described in this section—root mean square (RMS) averaging and peak-hold averaging.
RMS Averaging
With RMS averaging your instrument can detect low-level signals. RMS averaging enables the periodic noise components of the signal to average out, leaving only the desired signal. To determine the RMS average, and to average the power or energy of the signal, you can calculate the weighted mean of the sum of squared values. Figures 6 and 7 show the FM band with and without RMS averaging, respectively, and demonstrate more accurate detection of low-level peaks.
Figure 6. With RMS Averaging Disabled, Only Three Peaks Greater Than –70 dBm are Visible
Figure 7. With RMS Averaging Enabled, Six Peaks Greater Than –70 dBm are Visible
Peak-Hold Averaging
Peak-hold averaging keeps the peak of each bin through multiple FFT calculations. Peak-hold averaging raises the noise floor as a result because it takes the highest amplitude of all signals measured for many averages. The method also shows peaks of subsequent spectrum measurements on the same graph to enable identification of transient signals. Figures 8 and 9 show the 885 MHz GSM cellular band with varying amounts of peak-hold averaging enabled to illustrate this concept.
Figure 8. Traffic Detected with Five Peak-Hold Averages
Figure 9. Traffic Detected with 500 Peak-Hold Averages
5. Displayed Average Noise Floor
The apparent noise floor of an RF signal analyzer depends on much more than the RF system introducing noise, as described in the Averaging Methods section. The averaging mode that you use can significantly affect the average noise floor. This section describes how the resolution bandwidth (RBW) of the signal can also affect the average displayed noise floor of the instrument. To illustrate this concept we measured a 20 MHz bandwidth with a single peak. Figures 10 and 11 show that reducing the resolution bandwidth actually lowers the displayed noise floor of the instrument.
Figure 10. With a 10 KHz RBW, the Noise Floor Appears at Around –70 dBm
Figure 11. With a 100 Hz RBW, the Noise Floor Appears at Around –80 dBm
You can see that the displayed average noise floor (DANF) of the instrument is highly dependent on the resolution bandwidth being used. This specification is significant because it provides an indication of the smallest detectable signal that the instrument can display. The conditions that the measurement was taken in are typically specified along with the DANF, because the DANF is dependent on various settings of the instrument. A typical DANF specification may resemble the following information:
–115 dBm between 1 GHz and 2.7 GHz with RBW set to 1 kHz, with 0 dB input attenuation at 25 ° C.
The noise floor is often normalized to a common RBW (often 1 Hz) because the apparent noise floor of the instrument increases with a wider RBW.
Ensure that both measurements are normalized to the same bandwidth when comparing the DANL between two manufacturers. The easiest technique to make a fair comparison is to normalize both instruments to 1 Hz RBW. Subtract 10 log (RBW) from the given noise floor measurement. An instrument that shows a noise floor of –115 dBm at a 1 kHz RBW, for example, calculates to a noise floor of –145 dBm at a 1 Hz RBW. Normalizing both instruments to the same bandwidth provides a fair comparison of instrument performance.
Many traditional RF spectrum analyzers normalize measurements to a 6 MHz video bandwidth. You can take any measurement normalized to 1 Hz and normalize it to 6 MHz using simple math. Add 10 log (6 MHz), which is 67.8, to the measurement that has been normalized to 1 Hz. A measurement of –145 dBm normalized to 1 Hz is represented by –145 dBm + 68 dBm = –77 dBm.
The displayed noise floor of an instrument depends on the bandwidth being used. Be sure to normalize the signal level to the appropriate bandwidth when comparing multiple instruments or making noise measurements of the device under test.
1 A vector network analyzer may also be used to perform analysis. The vector network analyzer is not covered in this article, but you can refer to the Vector Network Analysis Webcast Series for more information about the theory and operation of that instrument.
6. Conclusion
Whether you are an RF specialist reviewing instrument specifications or a novice trying to understand RF measurements, we hope you find useful and applicable information in this three-part series. Part 1 details general specifications common to all RF instruments. Part 2 and Part 3 focus on specifications for RF signal generators and RF signal analyzers, respectively. Use this series for future reference or help with RF instrument specifications.
Refer to the National Instruments RF Developer's Network for more information about making RF measurements.
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- After a day of sights and museums in Philadelphia, young travelers deserve to retire to a place that keeps their needs in mind and the kid-friendly hotels of the city do just that. The Best Western Independence Park Inn is a top choice for bed-and-breakfast-style lodging with a great location, just two blocks from Independence Hall. Hyatt Penn's Landing is an efficiently run waterfront hotel close to the historic, bustling Old City but it's also a place with a quiet feel. The Marriott Philadelphia Downtown is a member of the Marriott chain and boasts all the amenities Marriott is known for. The Holiday Inn Express Philadelphia Midtown features 85 percent nonsmoking guest rooms, self-parking, a free continental breakfast bar and free local phone calls. The Embassy Suites City Center is an all-suite structure that, with its location and reasonable rates, makes it a good choice for families. When the kids do their part - and soak up the history on offer in Philadelphia - you should do yours and make sure they have an enjoyable stay at one of the city's many kid-friendly hotels.
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Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu told the National Forum of Patient Associations yesterday that county public health departments and public health insurance houses would be closed down in the upcoming days. He explained the measure would make important savings to the budget, as county public health departments consumed ten per cent of the funds managed by the Ministry of Health and the health insurance hoses ‘eat up’ a total of 3 per cent of the national health insurance fund, under the Budget Law. ‘We will try to identify resources inside the system by reducing red tape, removing bureaucratic links which, as far as I am concerned, do not belong there anymore, as they are bureaucratic links belonging to the communist system. We are operating with the same deconcentrated structures we had back in 1950’, said the minister. Nicolaescu added that 2013 was the year of major health changes, explaining he had the political support needed for all the measures he was planning. The Health Minister said he did not want to finance civil servants ‘to kill patients with bureaucracy’ any more. Instead, he wants to fund ‘health programmes’, claiming that the Health Insurance House workers have caused a lot of distress, have been persecuting patients, and that is why he had decided to send them home. Some 8,000 people work at county public health departments and health insurance organisations. Government adviser Vasile Cepoi said yesterday the draft law on the reorganisation of county health insurance houses and public health departments was for now with the Ministry of Health, having not been presented in the Government or submitted for public debate, The Government still waiting for a concrete proposal. Asked if the system could still operate without the two institutions, Cepoi said their work could be taken over by a different type of institutions. The Sanitas Federation has announced that it would ask the Ministry of Health to sign an agreement to safeguard the reorganisation of county public health departments and health insurance bodies only after consultations with the federation and that savings made would be redistributed back into the system. Sanitas First Vice President Marius Sepi told Mediafax he was worried about the declared intention of the Ministry of Health to reorganise public health departments and county health insurance bodies. The President of Buzau Public Health Insurance House, Cornel Vasilescu, told Mediafax the measure announced by Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu could not be done ‘overnight’ as it takes time and the idea to set up regional institutions was not an inspired one while the country is still not divided into regions. The head of Mures Health Insurance House, Monica Suciu, in turn said she had learnt about the closing of the institution from TV, adding she did not know ‘what system would be put in its place and how that would operate’. She also said tens of people queue at the institution every day for various enquiries. Public Health Department and Health Insurance House officials in Galati say they have not been formally informed about a Health Ministry decision to close down the institutions and that such a measure would not make the system more cost-effective. | http://www.nineoclock.ro/county-public-health-and-insurance-bodies-to-be-closed-down/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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HolyMackerel
1. Posted: Mon 30th Aug 2010 06:15 BST
Anyone else excited about this game?
It looks like a real-time Phoenix Wright, to some extent. Really cool!
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theblackdragon
2. Posted: Mon 30th Aug 2010 10:50 BST
well, it's buy the same dude behind the PW series, lol. also, hell yeah i'm looking forward to it... looks really interesting.
3. Posted: Mon 30th Aug 2010 10:53 BST
I've played it and it's odd as all Hell. Talking corpses, self-referential humour coming out its ears and more oddball characters than I don't know what. It's decent but time will tell if it lives up to the PW series
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4. Posted: Mon 30th Aug 2010 10:56 BST
odd as all hell is what i live for, man. totally sounds right up my alley :3
5. Posted: Mon 30th Aug 2010 14:43 BST
James Newton wrote:
Oh, absolutely! You didn't think magatamas and channels calling back dead witnesses in PW wasn't already odd?
Also, I detect a chirpy female sidekick. Hopefully she lives up to Maya's memory somewhat. (Unlike Trucy and Kay, who were kind of pale imitations imo. Ema at least had a distinct personality.)
6. Posted: Mon 30th Aug 2010 14:49 BST
ugh, i can do without another Kay Faraday, but a Maya wouldn't be bad at all, or an Ema either :3gdi why did I say Trucy? i totes meant Kay, she annoyed the piss outta me
Edited on Mon 30th August, 2010 @ 21:20 by theblackdragon
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7. Posted: Mon 30th Aug 2010 14:55 BST
When is this coming out? I'm going to be the first , and probably only, one in line to pick it up.
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8. Posted: Mon 30th Aug 2010 14:57 BST
I really need a game that can make me laugh, so I'm definitely gonna pick this up. There aren't enough "comedy" games..
Birdman
9. Posted: Mon 30th Aug 2010 21:16 BST
I'll have to see how this one turns out. It looks and sounds nice, but looks can be deceiving.
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10. Posted: Mon 30th Aug 2010 22:16 BST
YES, IM REALLY EXITED ABOUT THESE GAME!!!
Yeah, it looks pretty pretty sweet, im really going to buy these game
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Taya
11. Posted: Mon 30th Aug 2010 22:20 BST
Ghost Trick looks great. It's been on my radar for awhile.
PunnyGuy
12. Posted: Mon 30th Aug 2010 22:30 BST
This game is one I am definately excited for. I mean, helloooooooooooo, this is a game by the makers of the fantastic Phoenix Wright games! Also, I like a unique puzzler. The animation is impressive, the whole idea of manipulating inanimate objects is cool, and you gotta love Sissel's strange hair.
In other words, sign me up!
13. Posted: Tue 31st Aug 2010 00:51 BST
Yeah it looks great, sadly it is not coming to NA till next year
14. Posted: Tue 31st Aug 2010 02:46 BST
hulklol123456789 wrote:
I thought Capcom said it was coming in November or December. If it isn't, then Gamestop lied to me!!!
15. Posted: Tue 31st Aug 2010 02:56 BST
Birdman13 wrote:
hulklol123456789 wrote:Yeah it looks great, sadly it is not coming to NA till next year I thought Capcom said it was coming in November or December. If it isn't, then Gamestop lied to me!!!
Nintendo Life says it comes the 12th november of 2011 to NA, don't know about EU.
Radixxs
16. Posted: Tue 31st Aug 2010 03:06 BST
The trailers say this winter, which technically can be until March. I'm hopeful that it will be released this year, because I can't wait to play it.
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17. Posted: Tue 31st Aug 2010 12:41 BST
@hulklol It's probably a mistake in NL's database. The trailer says this winter (maybe they meant 12 November 2010).
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18. Posted: Wed 12th Jan 2011 03:18 GMT
Well, it's out now, anybody got it?
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19. Posted: Wed 12th Jan 2011 03:20 GMT
picked up my copy a few hours ago, am about to fire it up now. :3
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20. Posted: Wed 12th Jan 2011 03:23 GMT
I might get it in February
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1. Posted: Tue 8th May 2012 17:58 BST
North America phone number for Activision: 1(310) 255 - 2050All regions phone numbers:...
Please call and tell them the hacks need to be fixed
The3DSisMINE
2. Posted: Wed 9th May 2012 03:11 BST
I don't think you are allowed to post something like this, but it is not my decision to say. but i do agree with you, Hacks are stoopid but what are you going to do?
Edited on Wed 9th May, 2012 @ 03:12 by The3DSisMINE
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theblackdragon
3. Posted: Wed 9th May 2012 03:36 BST
Feel free to put your campaign info into your signature — it'll get many more views that way than one lone topic on the forums, quickly buried.: Time to make a stand! MW3
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Investigators examining last year’s State Fair stage collapse said Indiana has made significant progress in preventing future accidents. They also said the state still has work to do.
Representatives from Thornton Tomasetti and Witt and Associates, the two independent firms that conducted stage collapse investigations, reviewed their findings Wednesday before a legislative study committee. They also gave brief evaluations of the temporary regulations the state has adopted since the stage collapse.
Witt and Associates building code expert Anne VonWaller said the state’s safety measures are much better than they were a year ago.
"It is requiring engineered plans," VonWaller said. "It’s identifying the owner to have a lot of responsibility for what’s going on here.”
VonWeller said she’d like to see safety regulations with fewer exemptions and exceptions.
State Fire Marshal Jim Greeson, who helped develop the state’s temporary regulations, said VonWeller’s recommendations are reasonable and that the state doesn’t have far to go to comply.
“The rule itself has done a great deal to cover, the vast majority of what was intended by the legislature and the commission when the rule, the emergency rule was written,” Greeson said.
Witt and Associates also recommended the state ensure enforcement of its regulation is supported with adequate financial resources. | http://www.nipr.fm/post/indiana-has-improvements-make-state-fair | 2013-05-18T10:14:29 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Stopping the freshwater wild rice invader
Manchurian wild rice herbicide trial site: haloxyfop (left), control (green), and imazapyr (right).
Manchurian wild rice or Manchurian rice grass (Zizania latifolia) is a giant semi-aquatic grass that has smothered riverbanks, invaded pastures, and run rampant through drainage channels in parts of the North Island from Northland to the Kapiti Coast. NIWA’s National Centre for Aquatic Biodiversity & Biosecurity has been researching methods to control this species.
Manchurian wild rice was first introduced to New Zealand from Asia around the turn of the last century. It arrived in the ballast water carried by timber ships, and was discarded on the banks of the northern Wairoa River near Dargaville. Although introduced accidentally, it was later deliberately planted in the Hauraki Plains area to supposedly stabilise stopbanks. However, rather than stabilise banks, Manchurian wild rice can, in the long term, cause them to slump, encouraging erosion.
This grass causes other problems too. It invades drainage channels, which prevents access, impedes water flow, and increases the likelihood of flooding. Unless intensive grazing is maintained in pastures adjacent to drains filled with Manchurian wild rice, it will invade these areas too. This plant dramatically reduces the diversity of native vegetation by displacing small species and enveloping taller vegetation. The result: long-term monocultures of Manchurian wild rice.
There are no reports of such nuisance growths in the plant’s native Asia (i.e., Taiwan, eastern China, and Southeast Asia), which could be due to the intensive landuse practices associated with its cultivation as a source of food. This giant grass is grown for its edible seed, rhizomes, young shoots, and stem bases. Galls induced by a smut fungus on the rice are also cultivated and used as a summer and autumn vegetable.
In New Zealand, Manchurian wild rice is typically found on the berm of waterways where it can tolerate both fresh and brackish water, and along the tidal reaches of rivers. It forms dense stands about 3 to 4 m high, and has a strong, deep root system and bulky rhizomes that spread several metres down into soft sediment. It is dispersed when water transports seeds and pieces of rhizome to new locations. Contaminated drainage machinery is also a major factor in its spread between catchments.
The biggest infestation of Manchurian wild rice is in the Kaipara District of Northland, especially around the site of its introduction – the northern Wairoa River and associated waterways. Smaller infestations occur in the Whangarei and Far North Districts, as well as in Rodney and Waitakere Districts (Auckland), Hauraki Plains (Waikato), and Kapiti Coast (Wellington). Manchurian wild rice could potentially infest any lowland wetland, especially the margins of still or flowing water bodies.
NIWA has been investigating a combination of physical and chemical control options to stem the plant’s progress. Mechanical diggers have commonly been used to remove the plant, but there is the risk of transferring rhizome fragments to new sites. The Northland Regional Council (NRC) has identified this as the main method of dispersal, and actively promotes cleaning drainage machinery before it is used in areas not infested. Mowing, grazing, burning, and a combination of these methods have been used to control the plant where it has spread to pastures. However, because stock will graze only on new shoots, the pastures must be constantly maintained to prevent plants from becoming large and unpalatable.
Herbicide trials in New Zealand have evaluated sodium chlorate, sodium TCA, paraquat, glyphosate, and dalapon (2,2-dichloropropionic acid) in combination with amitrole. Although none of these products will eradicate this grass, some do reduce its height or cover (or both), preventing it from flowering and dispersing seed. The recent use of grass-specific herbicides also shows promise.
NIWA has used its Aquatic Weed Risk Assessment Model to assess the weediness of Manchurian wild rice, and is evaluating new tools to control and manage it for concerned managers of water bodies. We trialled three herbicides previously used with some success in New Zealand for the control of nuisance rhizomatous marginal grasses, including Manchurian wild rice, phragmites, and spartina. Haloxyfop (Gallant®) and quizalofop (Targa®) were used because they are grass-selective, and imazapyr (Arsenal®), a broad-spectrum herbicide, was trialled because of its success controlling phragmites.
We conducted the trials in containers at NIWA’s experimental facility at Ruakura, and in field plots near Dargaville in collaboration with NRC. The trials were monitored for more than a year and each product was evaluated at several different rates. Haloxyfop and imazapyr significantly reduced the leaf biomass of the grass in containers. The best results for the grass in field plots were also achieved with haloxyfop – rates as low as 0.5 kg/ha were gained by using very high water rates (1600 L/ha), reducing cover to less than 10% for more than a year. This rate is equivalent to a 40% reduction in the amount of haloxyfop previously recommended by NRC to control Manchurian wild rice.
From the information resulting from these trials, and ecotoxicological studies carried out at NIWA, NRC have obtained a consent to control all Manchurian wild rice within their region. They have also set up a programme to progressively control the grass, beginning with isolated areas outside the main infestation zone.
We acknowledge the Foundation for Research, Science & Technology, Northland Regional Council (who co-funded the programme), and Peter Joynt who kindly assisted with organisation of the field trial. | http://www.niwa.co.nz/aquatic-biodiversity-and-biosecurity/update/issue-05-2003/stopping-the-freshwater-wild-rice-invader | 2013-05-18T10:31:34 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
NEWARK — The Newark Teachers Union will vote Wednesday on a three-year deal struck late last month that, for the first time, will offer city educators bonuses based on their performance in the classroom.
The union's 4,700 members were originally scheduled to consider the contract on Oct. 29, but the vote was cancelled due to Hurricane Sandy. The storm knocked out power, flooded streets and toppled trees across the city and other northern New Jersey towns where many teachers live.
Union President Joseph Del Grosso said he is "hopeful" his members will ratify the agreement — which also offers teachers a 14 percent raise in base pay and $31 million in retroactive pay — but many expect the vote to be close. Teachers at a meeting two weeks ago called the deal "garbage" and urged their brethren to vote it down.
The contrast must win a simple majority of votes to earn approval.
Under the deal, teachers can earn annual bonuses up to $5,000 for being rated highly effective in a new four-tiered evaluation system. Teachers who work in one of the city's lowest performing schools or teach a hard-to-staff subject qualify for additional rewards up to $7,500.
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From families to the federal government, budget cuts have become a seemingly permanent part of most Americans' financial plan.
But according to an American Red Cross poll released Friday, there's one area where many are maintaining spending levels or even shelling out more this holiday season: Charity.
"It's what we've seen this year and the past few years," said Red Cross spokeswoman Diane Concannon. "We've seen people's compassion come forward."
This Fall, the Red Cross queried 1,020 respondents throughout the country and found that while 80 percent of people still hold a bleak outlook of the economy, 67 percent want to give more or as much this holiday season as they did last year.
Even as they cut back on their own travel, decorations and gift-giving, Americans told pollsters they wanted to spend more on charities.
More than a third of respondents said they would spend less on gifts, with 45 percent saying they were reducing their outlays for travel and holiday decorations.
Those who are thinking about getting dad another Santa tie this year may want to reconsider. Close to 80 percent of respondents said they would rather have something donated to charity in their name than get something they won’t use.
"People want to give meaningfully and know their gift is making a difference," said Suzanne Lutz, executive director of the Raritan Valley Red Cross.
Women and men vary in their charitable intentions. More women than men — 70 percent to 61 percent, respectively — said giving to charity put them into the holiday spirit.
While polling results are dependent on the honesty of respondents, the Red Cross said the margin of error was plus or minus three points and the poll was 95 percent reliable.
Concannon said in New Jersey, the desire to give during holidays was evident in the group’s operations.
"Without a doubt people are trying to do whatever they can," she said.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi thinks it's time a woman moderated a presidential debate and has a few candidates for the job.
According to a report by the New York Daily News, the California Democrat tweeted on Friday that “it’s been 20 yrs since a woman has moderated a prez debate.”
Pelosi suggested candidates ABC News’ Diane Sawyer, PBS’ Gwen Ifill, CNN’s Candy Crowley and NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell be considered.
Three Montclair High School girls have launched a petition drive to have a woman serve as moderator for at least one presidential debate.
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A showdown over $50 billion in Hurricane Sandy relief aid is expected to come to the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
While New Jersey officials from both sides of the political aisle are pushing for the full aid package – on top of the $9.7 billion for the National Flood Insurance Program passed last week by Congress – the additional $50 billion has been split into two separate votes by House Republican leaders.
A $17 billion measure to cover immediate costs to repair destroyed roads and infrastructure is likely to meet with general approval, said Rep. Frank Pallone (D-6th Dist.), who represents parts of hard-hit Monmouth County.
But the additional $33 billion is likely to be the flashpoint, since it includes full federal funding for billions in beach replenishment along the Jersey Shore, among other preventative measures for the future, said Pallone, a vocal supporter of the full amount.
“We don’t want to just look at the boardwalks and roads that need to be fixed,” Pallone told The Star-Ledger this afternoon. “We also want to make sure we prepare for future storms.”
Some conservatives have leveled accusations of “pork” and “earmarks” within the full $60 billion New Jersey and New York officials have sought for weeks. Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog group, alleges items totaling billions of dollars should instead be included in regular budgets – and that some other items have nothing to do with Sandy at all.
The critics are taking aim at $12.1 billion in the amendment for Department of Housing and Urban Development emergency block grants within the $33 billion bill. The block grants would be more flexible for state and local governments, and could be spent on hospitals, utilities, small businesses, and other ways.
Any state struck by a federally-declared major disaster in 2011, 2012 or this year would qualify for the grants, and that’s just about all the states, said Stephen Ellis, vice president of the Taxpayers group. Only South Carolina, Arizona and Michigan would not qualify, he said.
"That’s not a bad chunk of change, particularly if you are trying to get other lawmakers to vote for the bill," Ellis said.
"Conservatives want to see a real plan that addresses real needs for Sandy," said Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.).
But Pallone said the grants are vital to rebuilding in his district. The funding for other disasters is included, he added, because Congress simply hasn’t passed a disaster relief bill recently to cover disasters: wildfires, tornadoes and droughts across the country, over that time.
“It’s not a problem that there are other disasters included,” Pallone said. “We haven’t had a disaster relief bill in a while.”
The Senate approved a $60 billion bill to fund Sandy disaster relief in December. However, during the House’s last gathering of the term, House Speaker John Boehner closed the session immediately after the 11th-hour “fiscal cliff” deal – befuddling and angering members from New Jersey and New York, two of the states hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy in October. Several New Jersey Congressman were outright livid, saying a vote had been promised. Boehner responded by paving the way for the House’s approval of $9.7 billion vote for flood insurance, and by pledging to have a vote on Jan. 15 for the rest of the proposed funding.
The Senate will have to vote on whatever disaster bills the House passes on Tuesday. But the Senate won’t have another session until the following week, according to a staffer for U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.).
“This is what my fear was,” Pallone said today, mentioning the possibility of further delays. “I really don’t want this to get bogged down. It’s already been what –nine weeks since the storm?”
One Republican from the Northeast whose district was smashed by Sandy remains confident that the full amount can be passed, however.
"We know it's going to be a heavy lift for the $33 billion, but we'll find the votes," said Rep. Michael Grimm (R-N.Y.).
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
RELATED COVERAGE
First wave of Sandy aid passed by Congress, but N.J. legislators wary of further delay
House passes first $9.7 billion in Sandy aid, but remainder could be a debate
N.J. Congressmen furious that Sandy relief package was not voted on | http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/sandy_relief_package_swells_ai.html | 2013-05-18T11:03:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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By BEN
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Phone: 856-451-1000, ext. 556
Cellphone: 856-237-6645
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The column that wants to throw snowballs.
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Good afternoon!
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Is this the Blizzard of ‘13?
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“Hi, Jack,
“Great news, Jack!
“Andrie (Andrys Caroline Garcia) graduated from the police academy.
“We all so proud of her.
“This young woman is developing as a great asset to our community.
“As you know, it is not easy to attend college in the morning, work at her family business and attend the academy at the same time.
“But this young and courageous girl wants more.
“She has the vision that will take her to higher places.
“She always said to me: ‘Don't let anybody stop you from dreaming.’
“Don't forget the other three that graduated, also.
“Job well done.
“Congratulations!’’
— Gladys Lugardo-Hemple,
council president and family friend
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“I see CBS News was in the county and in Salem covering the storm.
“They were definitely in the wrong area if they wanted a story.
“They should have covered the bayshore townships.
“I didn’t know Shiloh had flood problems.
“Jim Carluzzo and I will be out checking the damage.
“Hopefully, the patches will hold and we will still be here.’’
— Shep
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The FBI doesn’t normally come knocking for fraud cases involving a few thousand dollars.
But that’s likely to change very soon in New Jersey, as federal law enforcement officials shift attention to the billions in federal aid headed to the state in the wake of superstorm Sandy.
It’s not just corrupt politicians, phony charities, and multi-million-dollar public contracts they’ll be watching for--it’s homeowners who try to cheat insurance companies or federal assistance programs out of a few thousand dollars.
A top FBI official in New Jersey said the agency wants to help deter widespread abuse by taking up smaller-scale cases they might have declined in the past.
— nj.com/starledger
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The Levoy Theatre in conjunction with AHOME, Inc. and the Center City — The Heart of Millville Program will host the ninth annual Millville Neighborhood Summit on Saturday, April 13, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., at the Levoy Theatre.
The Neighborhood Summit is a free community event at which residents can receive information about important local issues, available human services and enjoy entertainment from Millville’s youth.
There will be presentations, exhibits and door prizes. Light refreshments are included.
This year’s theme is, “We’re In This Together.’’
Mayor Tim Shannon is scheduled to open the proceedings.
A presentation will be made by Cumberland County Prosecutor Jennifer Webb-McRae, as well as entertainment provided by several youth groups from Millville’s schools.
Over 20 non-profit, health, and human service organizations will have displays in the exhibit hall.
—
Cheryl Piccioni.
Is her big day near?
It’s been so long.
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In the 1980s, they banned smoking in schools in Millville.
“They said you’ll influence the kids,’’ said Dave Brown, a teacher at Memorial High School for 35 years.
Brown had worn a tie and carried a brief case from 4th through 12th grade.
“When the smoking ban took place, I never wore a tie or carried a brief case again,’’ he said. “I had never seen one of my students in ninth grade ever wear a tie or carry a brief case in high school.
“If I wasn’t influencing them, why do it?’’
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MY KIND IF TOWN: Where the old Millville teachers met at the Flightline Restaurant this week to relive old times. | http://www.nj.com/south-jersey-voices/index.ssf/2013/03/alyssa_caroline_garcia_millvil.html | 2013-05-18T10:22:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Local District Public Report
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State Performance Plan Indicators2007-2008
Note: The LRE data for public reporting were collected on December 1, 2007 and do not include Non-Public School students. Please refer to the December 1, 2007 data for your district on the Department's website at. December 1, 2008, the time period of collection reflects the referrals and evaluations completed during the 2007 - 2008 School Year. | http://www.nj.gov/education/specialed/sppi0708/reports/35/0510.html | 2013-05-18T10:31:19 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
According to Jonathan Mauck, IO chief financial officer, the company hosts modular data centers to deliver its technology to clients who don’t want to maintain and secure the infrastructure on their own, though he said IO also designs and distributes physical modules to customers who prefer the traditional product.
Chris Girgenti, managing partner of New World Ventures and IO’s newest board member, said in a statement the firm made a $50 million investment in IO — its largest single transaction to date — because the company’s technology takes less time and money to build than other companies’ more sizable data centers, and “we knew it would revolutionize the industry. IO is set to make some big waves.”
Mauck said the investment will help IO open new data center hosting sites in Singapore and the United Kingdom by 2014, as well as expand its global sales force, research and development arms, and existing infrastructure in Phoenix and Edison.
IO’s 831,000-square-foot facility in Edison currently holds about 50 modular data centers for East Coast clients to remotely access, but Mauck said the site has enough space to house 600 modules total.
Though Mauck said reaching full capacity would take “hundreds of millions of dollars of investment,” he said IO will leverage the $90 million in equity with profits from off-site data center sales to make that vision a reality.
“I think New World Ventures sees a long-term shift in the way computing is happening, and it’s looking at our disruptive story as transforming the market,” Mauck said. “Even with this deal, we’re getting a lot of strong interest from different tech investors. I think there’s always an opportunity to raise capital if you’re an innovative, high-growth company.” | http://www.njbiz.com/article/20121010/NJBIZ01/121019981/0/01/Edison-data-center-company-attracts-$90M-investment-from-venture-group | 2013-05-18T10:44:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Contest to guess who is on the Power 50 Real Estate list
Update: No one won the contest. Check back on Dec. 3 for links to the Power 50 Real Estate list to see who is No. 1, No. 50 and everything in between.
I received some inquiries yesterday about our Power 50 Real Estate list, including business leaders asking who is No. 1, and even curious about who nabbed the last spot. So let's have a little contest.
I will take to lunch whoever correctly guesses whom Managing Editor Joe St. Arney and I selected as No. 1 on the list. If more than one person makes the right pick, their names will be thrown into a hat and one winner chosen. Winner will be taken to theNew Jerseyrestaurant of his/her choice sometime in the next 12 months.
There's a second way to win! Anyone who correctly guesses the No. 50 pick will be told in advance who is No. 1 on the list (or be treated to lunch at theNew Jerseyrestaurant of your choice).
Guesses must be received by 10 p.m. EST Friday Nov. 30, and should be emailed to me at sharonw@njbiz.com.
Contest automatically voided if the list gets accidentally published on our website before 10 p.m. EST Friday Nov. 30. (Yup, I need to add that disclaimer.) The list will be published at NJBIZ.com early morning on Monday Dec. 3. | http://www.njbiz.com/article/20121129/NJ0703/121129856/0/enews_dailyT3%20ForceRecrawl:%200/&template=printart | 2013-05-18T10:34:00 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The study by the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships says the state was an early leader in energy efficiency, but has "suffered greatly" over the past two years, preventing New Jersey from realizing the level of savings called for in earlier energy master plans. The group also cites concerns like the pending shift of the Office of Clean Energy duties, currently overseen by the Board of Public Utilities, to a third-party administrator.
A BPU representative did not immediately return a request for comment.
The second annual report by the Lexington, Mass.-based organization groups New Jersey with states like New Hampshire, Maine and Pennsylvania, where "anti-regulatory interests threaten states' efforts to harness efficiency as the most cost-effective energy resource." Conversely, in states like Massachusetts, New York and Vermont, "major efficiency commitments are helping to drive down utility costs for all, as states build the clean-energy economy and make progress on their emissions reductions goals."
New Jersey officials' use of clean energy funds to plug state budget shortfalls has been a frequent target of critics and efficiency advocates. Last year, Gov. Chris Christie announced plans to take another $279 million from the fund to help balance the budget.
"This report confirms the trend we've seen over the past few years here: New Jersey has gone from clean energy hero to zero," New Jersey Policy Perspective spokesman Jon Whiten said in an e-mail. "New Jerseyans are increasingly seeing the negative consequences of climate change, an enormous problem whose solution requires government action on multiple fronts."
Whiten added that New Jersey is using clean energy funds "as a political football to shore up state budgets built on increasingly shaky foundations," rather than energy-related jobs.
State officials in recent months have again discussed reducing New Jersey's clean energy fund budget, which is generated by surcharges on utility bills. The fund is supposed to support incentives like energy efficiency rebates and green job training.
All told, the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships report gives New Jersey a grade of "struggling," while determining that states like New York and Connecticut are "going the distance" with its energy policy. The group urged the state to rebuild with an eye toward energy efficiency as it recovers from Hurricane Sandy.
The organization, however, also credited New Jersey for preparing to adopt standards known as the 2012 International Energy Conservation Code. | http://www.njbiz.com/article/20121204/NJBIZ01/121209949/0/zen/Report:-New-Jersey-losing-ground-on-energy-efficiency | 2013-05-18T10:22:52 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
When you reach the rental car counter, you will be asked if you would like to purchase insurance for your rental car. What people fail to realize is that your car insurance policy probably covers your rental car as well. Before you go on vacation where you will be renting a car, check you car insurance policy to see if your policy will cover your rental car. Doing so will keep you from buying coverage that you already have.
Avoid Buying Duplicate Car Insurance Coverage
One exception to this is what is called Collision Damage Waiver, or CDW. This extra daily charge covers both the cost of damages to the rental car if you are involved in an accident and the "loss of use" that the rental company will charge you. "Loss of use" means the time and money the rental car company lost since the vehicle could not be rented. While the damage to the vehicle itself may be covered by your personal auto insurance policy, the "loss of use" very likely will not be.
Also, many rental car companies will expect payment right away; meaning if you did not purchase CDW, you may have to pay out of your pocket, and then wait to be reimbursed by your personal auto insurance company. For these reasons, it may make sense to pay around $8-11 extra per day that most rental car companies charge you for CDW.
When renting a car in another country, your personal insurance coverage probably will not extend to a car rental. In this case, your best option is to at least buy the Collision Damage Waiver (CDW) from the rental agency.
Credit Card Car Rental Insurance Coverages
Some credit cards may offer coverage for damage or theft to your rental car if you use that card to rent the vehicle. This could replace the need to purchase CDW; if your credit card does offer this feature, this in addition to your personal auto insurance policy could mean you are covered and do not need to purchase any extra coverages through the rental car company.
If you are going on vacation and know you will be renting a car, make sure to contact your car insurance provider to see if you will need to buy any additional car insurance at the rental counter. Also, make sure you compare car insurance quotes at least twice a year to make sure you are paying the lowest price for your car insurance policy. | http://www.njherald.com/story/8768002/do-you-really-need-rental-car-insurance | 2013-05-18T10:54:23 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Student RUSH
NJPAC’s Student RUSH program allows individuals who actively attend an educational institution (high school or college only) to buy tickets to select NJPAC-presented performances for only $10!
Student RUSH tickets can be purchased online, at the NJPAC Box Office or by calling 1-888-GO-NJPAC (1-888-466-5722). There is a limit of two RUSH tickets per student. RUSH tickets are for seating in the 4th Tier, unless otherwise noted.
This list of performances may be subject to change. Check back periodically for changes.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO:
- If ordering at the Box Office, a valid school identification card must be presented when purchasing.
- If ordering on the phone at 1-888-GO-NJPAC, inform the representative before placing your order that you wish to get the Student RUSH price.
- If ordering online at njpac.org, on the “Select Your Seats” page, first choose the tier level for which RUSH is offered and click on the “Student RUSH” radio button to change the full price to student rush price before you select your seats.
- Tickets ordered on the phone or on njpac.org will be held at the Box Office where they may be picked up day of the performance upon presentation of a valid school ID. Ticket should be claimed at least 30 to 45 minutes prior to curtain time. Access to phone and online orders will be cut off 2 hours prior to performance time.
- Want your tickets mailed to you? If the performance you are ordering is more than ten days away, take a photo of your student ID with your camera phone and send it as a jpg attachment in an email titled “Mail Rush Tickets” to ticketservices@njpac.org. Your tickets will be sent the following day to the mailing/delivery address given to us a when placing your order.
ALSO DON’T MISS
Happy Hour prices for all College Students
Monday-Friday 11:30am -10:00pm at NICO Restaurant, located on NJPAC’s campus, with a valid College ID.
- $4 Draft Beers
- $5 House Martinis
- $6 Bar Pizza Pies
- $12 Beer Pitchers
- Plus many more specials!
Join us for Monday Night Football at NICO.
Proof of legal age to purchase alcoholic beverages is required.
Need more information? Contact us at 1-888-GO -NJPAC.
For Box Office and Call Center hours, click here
Please note, RUSH tickets are subject to availability. RUSH seat locations will be assigned at the discretion of the arts center. All Student RUSH tickets purchased online or by phone are subject to a per ticket handling fee. Failure to produce an ID when picking up your ticket(s) will require full price payment for ticket(s) ordered. | http://www.njpac.org/joomla/buy-tickets/student-rush | 2013-05-18T10:31:20 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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THE SHOPPER CHECKLIST.
At NK you can experience five floors of the most prestigious brands from Sweden and around the world. May we suggest you start with the food hall and the crystal and kitchenware on the lower ground floor, then work your way up through cosmetics, accessories, and ladies' and men's fashion to the home department. Below you'll find a listing of some departments.
NK SALUHALL.
Our food hall offers a tempting selection of organic, locally produced goods as well as delicacies from Sweden and around the world.
NK GLAS, PORSLIN & KÖK.
Sweden's largest selection of crystal from Orrefors and Kosta Boda. The perfect place to find gifts to take home.
NK KONFEKTYR.
We've been hand-making chocolates for more than 50 years. No visit to the department store is complete without tasting the famous NK mint.
NK JUVELSALONG.
Experience one of Europe's best selection of jewellery and watches in the jewellery department. Then take a break in our Champagne Bar.
NK NORDISKA DESIGNERS.
At NK Nordiska Designers you'll find Nordic labels such as By Malene Birger, Dagmar, Designers Remix, Erfurt, Fifth Avenue Shoe Repair, Hope, Hunky Dory, Karin Säby, Nudie, Odd Molly, Rodebjer, Style in, Whyred and Zetterberg
NK INTERNATIONELLA DESIGNERS.
At NK Internationella Designers you'll find international brands like 7 For all mankind, Abro, Alice by Temperley, Alice+Olivia, Citizens of Humanity, House of Harlow, J Brand, Juicy Couture, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Michael by Michael Kors, Paige Premium Denim, Patrizia Pepe, Paul & Joe Sister, Rag & Bone, Rock&Republic, Sam Edelman, See by Chloé, True Religion and many more.
NK BOUTIQUE.
At NK Boutique you'll find 3.1 Phillip Lim, 7 For all mankind, D&G, Diane von Furstenberg, Dolce & Gabbana, FFC - Fasel Fashion, Greta, Halston Heritage, Helmut Lang, Jil Sander Navy, Juicy Couture, M Missoni, Maloles, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Milly, Missoni, Nanette Lepore, Paige Premium Denim, Patrizia Pepe, Paul&Joe, Rock&Republic, See by Chloé, Stella McCartney, Strenesse, Strenesse Blue, Theory, Tibi and True Religion.
PAUL & FRIENDS.
A handpicked selection of the latest men's fashion, from Swedish brand Acne to Belstaff, C.P.Company, Carhartt, Comme des Garcons, Dover Street Market, Givenchy, Hope, Junya Watanabe, Local Firm, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Marc Jacobs, Marc McNairy, Martin Margiela, Nikolaj d'Etoiles, Oliver Spencer, Paul & friends, Pringle, Rick Owens, Thom Browne, Trickers, Twins, Visvim and Y3.
NK ENGLISH BOOKSHOP.
The place to go for international bestsellers, travel books and some Swedish souvenir books.
DESIGN HOUSE STOCKHOLM.. Decorate your home with Signe Persson-Melin's famous tableware Blonde or Anna Bonneviers clothing line Numb.
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Your location is outside the National Library of Australia. Resources you can access:.
: These databases provide online delivery of taxonomic and biological information on species known to occur in Australia, including flora, fauna, algae. Includes the ABRS glossaries and a collection of useful related links..
: An online dictionary of the history of the city of Sydney, Australia, from the earliest times to the present. It includes information from all areas of history including engineering history, social and cultural history and economic history, as well as related didsciplines such as archaeology, sociology, literary studies, historical geography and cultural studies. As well as historical writings, the Dictionary includes images, maps, sound, music, oral history, film, documents and pointers to important objects in Sydney collections.. | http://www.nla.gov.au/app/eresources/list/free/d | 2013-05-18T10:54:17 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Two-Member Cases
Decisions Issued by Two-Member Board
Below is a list compiled by the NLRB of contested cases that resulted in 554 decisions issued between January 1, 2008 and April 5, 2010, while the Board had only two members. On June 17, 2010, a divided Supreme Court ruled that the two-member Board was not authorized to issue decisions. (See background material here). Further information on individual cases is available by clicking on the case name.
Case status definitions are at the bottom of this page.
For questions or comments, please contact us at publicinfo@nlrb.gov. | http://www.nlrb.gov/what-we-do/decide-cases/two-member-cases?page=1 | 2013-05-18T11:02:33 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
At a glance
- Bushranger Ned Kelly (1854–1880)
- 1880 Glenrowan siege
- Detailed 'manifesto'
- Publican John Hanlon's transcription
A bushranger's justification
Bushranger Ned Kelly is arguably Australia's best-known historical character.
The convicted murderer and self-confessed stock thief is also the only bushranger known to have left a detailed written justification of his actions.
Kelly attempted to have his 'manifesto' published when his gang held up the small New South Wales town of Jerilderie in 1879.
The National Museum holds publican John Hanlon's transcription of this letter. The original is part of the State Library of Victoria collection.
Hero or villain?
Ned Kelly was born at Beveridge, Victoria,.
Kelly Gang outlawed in December 1878 and Jerilderie in February 1879..
A widow's son
Kelly's 'manifesto' is a 56-page document he tried to have published at Jerilderie in February 1879. It appears to be the final working document of one that was first circulated at Euroa in December 1878.
It reflects the voice of a man who feels he has been deeply wronged. He admits to crimes but claims he was forced into them by a corrupt police force.
Kelly.
Hanlon's transcription of the Jerilderie letter was purchased by the National Museum at auction.
Kelly collection
The National Museum is developing a collection of 'Kellyana'.
This includes a plaster death mask, made soon after Kelly's body was taken down from the gallows, and a ceremonial sword awarded to a police officer after the Glenrowan siege.
This is an edited extract of an essay by Denis Shepherd from the Captivating and Curious publication. | http://www.nma.gov.au/collections/highlights/jerilderie-letter | 2013-05-18T10:31:54 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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