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Corridor Resources Report
The Central Avenue-Metro Blue Line Corridor Resource Report (Part 1 (PDF) | Part 2 (PDF) | Part 3 (PDF)) is an initial product of the implementation project. The report explores the existing conditions, assets, and opportunity areas along the corridor, as well as summarizes the key recommendations and visions for the area from the Subregion 4 Master Plan and other related plans and studies. The report, which has been prepared by the Prince George's County Planning Department's interdivisional TOD support team, assembles the necessary land use, real estate, demographic, market, transportation, environmental facts and contextual information to support TOD along the Central Avenue-Metro Blue Line corridor. The report provides this data in order to aid a variety of users in developing an understanding of the Central Avenue-Metro Blue Line corridor and to capitalize on the potential for development.
Marketing & TOD Study PowerPoint
The primary objective of the Marketing and TOD study is to define the relevant regional and local market conditions, trends, and forecasts that, both currently and in the future, will influence revitalization, growth and development within the Central Avenue Corridor and at specific Metro Blue Line stations.
The Marketing and TOD Study has evaluated the benefits of TOD and its importance to development in the Central Avenue Metro Blue Line area as well as constraints, opportunities and demand for the residential market, retail market, and office market at each of the metro stations along the corridor. The PowerPoint presentation (PDF) depicts the findings from the study.
Summary & Assessment of TOD Plans & Design Standards Report
The purpose of the Central Avenue Metro Blue Line Corridor Summary and Assessment of TOD Plans and Design Standards Report (PDF) is to analyze and compare the key urban design and street section standards of the existing TDOZ and DDOZs along the Central Avenue corridor, determine any inconsistencies between the major components of these overlay zones, and, finally, determine how the key urban design and street components may be standardized in order to implement the consistent TOD vision outlined for the Central Avenue Corridor in the Subregion 4 Master Plan. The initial recommendations of key standardizations are made in the conclusions section of this report and will help inform the future SMA phase of the work program.
Neighborhood Conservation Report
The Neighborhood Conservation Report (PDF) focuses on the western half of the corridor and is intended to be used as a resource as the Planning Department works with agencies such as the Prince George's County Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) and other applicable county, state, and federal agencies to initiate programming. This effort will also include local residents, and elected officials, among others. One important product of this element will be the preparation of an action plan that is supported by stakeholders and can be implemented by county agencies, local municipalities, and community groups. In addition, the report will be used to inform the residents of the sector plan component of the Subregion 4 TOD implementation project, which will provide guidance for land use, transportation, and public facilities planning efforts, as well as zoning strategies and the potential for one or more regulating plans for the area.
Central Avenue TOD Corridor Pedestrian & Mobility Study
The Central Avenue Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Corridor Pedestrian and Mobility Study (PDF) was conducted as part of the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board's (TPB) Transportation/Land-Use Connections Program.1The recommendations included here encourage the shift to a network of Complete Streets that over time improves mobility for all users and enhances existing or establishes new pedestrian and bicycle facilities. In addition to a Complete Streets approach, this study focuses on ways to increase the safety and comfort for pedestrians and bicyclists by creating safer conditions for all travelers.


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Why Not Apply A Three Strikes Rule To Everything?
from the watch-the-accusations-fly... deptBack when the entertainment industry first got serious about pushing its silly three strikes concept, we were among those who wondered if the entertainment industry would accept a reverse three strikes rule, meaning that if they send three bogus accusations, they lose their own internet access.
However, leave it to Ed Felten to demonstrate just how ridiculous any sort of three strikes policy is -- especially one based on accusations, rather than convictions -- by suggesting that we extend a three strikes rule to print as well, noting that the reasoning behind the internet three strikes rules seem to also apply to print:
My proposed system is simplicity itself. The government sets up a registry of accused infringers. Anybody can send a complaint to the registry, asserting that someone is infringing their copyright in the print medium. If the government registry receives three complaints about a person, that person is banned for a year from using print.It seems like anyone who thinks three strikes rules are a smart idea should be required to (a) read this and (b) explain why it shouldn't apply to print.
As in the Internet case, the ban applies to both reading and writing, and to all uses of print, including informal ones. In short, a banned person may not write or read anything for a year.
A few naysayers may argue that print bans might be hard to enforce, and that banning communication based on mere accusations of wrongdoing raises some minor issues of due process and free speech. But if those issues don't trouble us in the Internet setting, why should they trouble us here?
Yes, if banned from using print, some students will be unable to do their school work, some adults will face minor inconvenience in their daily lives, and a few troublemakers will not be allowed to participate in -- or even listen to -- political debate. Maybe they'll think more carefully the next time, before allowing themselves to be accused of copyright infringement.
In short, a three-strikes system is just as good an idea for print as it is for the Internet. Which country will be the first to adopt it?
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(a) Any person attempting to collect a child or spousal support obligation or arrearage on behalf of a resident or from a resident of this state is subject to the provisions of article sixteen, chapter forty-seven of this code and the provisions of this section and is otherwise subject to the jurisdiction of this state.
(b) The amount of delinquent child or spousal support or arrearage established by order of a court of competent jurisdiction in this state is not subject to waiver or compromise, either by agreement of the parties or by a collection agency acting on behalf of a party and may only be modified by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
(c) No child or spousal support or arrearage of child or spousal support collected by the state IV-D agency may be redirected to any collection agency.
(d) No collection agency attempting to collect a child or spousal support obligation or arrearage on behalf of a resident or from a resident of this state may include any funds collected by a IV-D agency in the amount from which their fee is determined or collected.
(e) No collection agency, other than an attorney licensed to practice law in this state, attempting to collect a child support or spousal support obligation or arrearage may engage in conduct which is considered the practice of law, including, but not limited to:
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(3) Any demand for or payment of money constituting a share of compensation for services performed or to be performed by an attorney in collecting a claim.
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(1) The use, or the express or implicit threat of use, of violence or other criminal means, to cause harm to the person, reputation or property of any person;
(2) The accusation or threat to accuse any person of fraud, of any crime, or of any conduct which, if true, would tend to disgrace the other person or in any way subject them to ridicule or contempt of society;
(3) False accusations made to another person, including any credit reporting agency, that a person is willfully refusing to pay a just claim, or the threat to make such false accusations;
(4) The threat that nonpayment of an alleged claim will result in the arrest of any person, or of the taking of any other action requiring judicial sanction, without informing the person that there must be in effect a court order permitting the action before it can be taken; and
(5) The threat to take any action prohibited by this section or other law regulating the conduct of a collection agency.
(g) No collection agency may unreasonably oppress or abuse any person in connection with the collection of or attempt to collect any child or spousal support obligation or arrearage, including, but not limited to:
(1) The use of profane or obscene language or language that is intended to unreasonably abuse the listener or reader;
(2) The placement of telephone calls without disclosure of the caller's identity and with the intent to annoy, harass or threaten any person at the called number;
(3) Causing expense to any person in the form of long distance telephone tolls, telegram fees or other charges incurred by a medium of communication by concealment of the true purpose of the communication; and
(4) Causing a telephone to ring or engaging any person in telephone conversation repeatedly or continuously, or at unusual times or at times known to be inconvenient, with intent to annoy, abuse, oppress or threaten any person at the called number.
(h) No collection agency may unreasonably publicize information relating to any alleged child or spousal support obligation or arrearage, including, but not limited to:
(1) The communication to any employer or his or her agent of any information relating to an employee's indebtedness other than through proper legal action, process or proceeding;
(2) The disclosure, publication or communication of information relating to a child or spousal support obligation or arrearage to any relative or family member of the obligor, except through proper legal action or process or at the express and unsolicited request of the obligor;
(3) The disclosure, publication or communication of any information relating to an obligor's child or spousal support obligation or arrearage to any other person other than a credit reporting agency, by publishing or posting any list of persons, commonly known as "deadbeat lists", or in any manner other than through proper legal action, process or proceeding; and
(4) The use of any form of communication to the obligor, which ordinarily may be seen by any other person, that displays or conveys any information about the alleged claim other than the name, address and telephone number of the collection agency.
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(1) The use of any business, company or organization name while engaged in the collection of claims, other than the true name of the collection agency's business, company or organization;
(2) Any false representation that the collection agency has in its possession information or something of value for the obligor with the underlying purpose of soliciting or discovering information about the person;
(3) The failure to clearly disclose the name of the person to whom the claim is owed, at the time of making any demand for money;
(4) Any false representation or implication of the character, extent or amount of a claim against an obligor or of the status of any legal proceeding;
(5) Any false representation or false implication that any collection agency is vouched for, bonded by, affiliated with an agency, instrumentality, agent or official of this state or of the federal or local government;
(6) The use, distribution or sale of any written communication which simulates or is falsely represented to be a document authorized, issued or approved by a court, an official or any other legally constituted or authorized authority, or which creates a false impression about its source, authorization or approval;
(7) Any representation that an existing obligation of the obligor may be increased by the addition of attorney's fees, investigation fees, service fees or any other fees or charges when in fact the fees or charges may not legally be added to the existing obligation; and
(8) Any false representation or false impression about the status or true nature of the services rendered by the collection agency.
(j) No collection agency may use unfair or unconscionable means to collect or attempt to collect any claim, including, but not limited to:
(1) The collection of or the attempt to collect any interest in excess of that interest authorized by the provisions of this chapter, or other charge, fee or expense incidental to the principal obligation that exceeds ten percent of the principal amount from an obligor or obligee; and
(2) Any communication with an obligor whenever it appears the obligor is represented by an attorney and the attorney's name and address are known, or could be easily ascertained, unless the attorney fails to answer correspondence, return telephone calls or discuss the obligation in question, or unless the attorney and the obligor consent to direct communication.
(k) No collection agency may use, distribute, sell or prepare for use any written communication which violates or fails to conform to United States postal laws and regulations.
(l) No collection agency may place a telephone call or otherwise communicate by telephone with an obligor at any place, including a place of employment, falsely stating that the call is "urgent" or an "emergency".
(m) No collection agency may attempt to collect any portion of a fee from any money collected by any other entity or authority. The collection agency may only collect a fee from funds procured solely through its collection activities.
(n) A collection agency must provide the state IV-D agency with an accounting of any money collected and forwarded to the obligee as child support, spousal support or arrearages every sixty days until the collection agency ceases all collection activity.
(o) Any resident of this state who contracts for services with a collection agency to collect current or past-due child support or spousal support may, upon thirty days' written notice, cancel the contract for collection. The notice must be mailed to the collection agency by first-class mail. All contracts signed by residents of this state must include written notification of this right of cancellation.
(p) Any person who violates the provisions of this section is subject to the penalties set forth in section 47-16-5 and section 11-12-9 of this code.
(q) Any person who violates the provisions of this section is liable to the injured party in a civil action. Additionally, any person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $5,000 for each separate incident.
(r) For any action filed pursuant to this section alleging illegal, fraudulent or unconscionable conduct or any prohibited debt collection practice, the court, in its discretion, may award all or a portion of the costs of litigation, including reasonable attorney fees, court costs and fees, to the injured party. Upon a finding by the court that an action filed pursuant to this section on the grounds of illegal, fraudulent or unconscionable conduct or any prohibited debt collection practice was brought in bad faith and for the purposes of harassment, the court may award the defendant reasonable attorney fees.


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At 7:30 p.m., people begin to stand two bodies deep at the bar, popping out through knuckles of space like olives in a fist. It's an impressive draw for a weekend night, let alone a Thursday. It's just short of amazing when you consider that this particular bar opened one week ago.
The word is out. O'Niell's Pub is back.
"It's nice to be an independent [business] and see the support that we opened up with," says the eponymous pub's owner, Robert O'Niell. "It's phenomenal."
But it's not surprising. Not to his customers, anyway. The original O'Niell's Pub built its reputation as a Nob Hill hangout, where it enjoyed a decade of loyal patronage from the neighborhood. When Robert O'Niell's lease wasn't renewed for another year, the pub found itself without a home.
"We had the best two months after we announced our closing," he says. "People poured in because they wanted to get their O'Niell's fix before it went away." O'Niell's last day in the building came exactly 10 years after he first moved in; from December of '94 to December of '04.
"I wouldn't have moved out of choice," he says with some pensiveness, working through the words internally. (The details of the closing remain a touchy subject for those involved. Still, O'Niell says it's all water under the bridge now. No sniveling, right?) He had tried to open an O'Niell's Uptown in the past—a replication of the pub set between Albuquerque's twin Northeast Heights malls--but didn't like the result. It just wasn't the same. The identity of the place was too clearly linked to its location.
So a few questions resurfaced on the morning of Jan.1, 2005: Was O'Niell's Pub transportable? Or had the pub's greatest blessing suddenly become its downfall?
So far, the answers seem to be yes, and no, respectively. You can find the new pub on Central, several blocks east of its old home, in the lingering gray area between Nob Hill and East Central. The neighborhood is, as some say, "up and coming."
"I'm a little confused about what I should be calling it. I call it East Nob Hill for the lack of a better term," Rob admits in his typical laissez-faire style. The building he settled on is now both barely recognizable (for what it used to be, a colosseum-themed gay club) and very familiar (for its many similarities to the original pub).
He describes the new space as a maturity of the old one. Some of the new features include a sizable Central-facing patio and a much larger kitchen to accommodate it. All the remodeling work was done by O'Niell and his brother, both contractors by trade. "It was an exciting process," he says, but admits, "I'm glad it's coming to an end, because it was a lot of work."
Despite its newness, there's already a rhythm to the room. The swell of conversation, clinking glass, laughter, sighs of indignation (real or feigned) and loose, wagging fingers—plus memories from a decade's worth of nights just like it—swaddles the bar's patrons like a blanket. To Robert O'Niell, that sound is as much a part of the pub as the furniture or the beer. It's what makes his job worth doing.
"One of my favorite things to do is just stand aside, watch the tables from afar and listen to the conversations of the group," he says, smiling out into the room. "It's like they would be at home, like a family. When I see the restaurant filled up with that, [I know] that's the reason why I came back--the customers. They needed a place to do that."
And they needed a place to eat, too! Of course, there are all the old standouts like fish and chips and the "Burger in Paradise." They're still here and as good as they ever were. But I liked coming back to the pub's less-famous fare even more. Tractor Brewing's O'Niell's Irish Red is a perfectly balanced beer drunk by itself or with everything from chicken wings to chocolate cake. Or the "Lucky Seven Stuffed Potatoes" (which, to my knowledge, is not related to the Alibi's "Lucky 7" calendar): boiled red-skinned potatoes which are halved and scooped with a melonballer, filled with horseradish mashed potatoes and topped with melted cheddar cheese. Taste and bar-friendliness make this dish work well. But look closer--a smooth, tangy mash crowned with golden yellow on a white, waxy ellipse. These spuds are harboring an inside joke ... about deviled eggs. Ingenious! They're comforting, a little cheeky and unapologetically Irish-American. Just like O'Niell's Pub.
It's telling that immediately upon walking up to the bar the next night, I fall into a conversation with a woman I've never met. Like an angel from Bacchanalian heaven, she hands me a fresh cocktail. "Do you want it?" she asks, explaining that her friend had to leave before she could enjoy it. I'm almost half her age and dressed like it's laundry day. She's fresh off from work in a nice, tailored suit. It doesn't seem to make a lick of difference. "That's why I like it here," she says as we toast martini glasses. "It's a really diverse group of people, all just hanging out together."
"It's fun to be back because the customers are so eclectic and everyone's nice," echoes O'Niell. I ask him how he's been able to maintain such an ideal client base, but he can't quite put his finger on it. He offers a few possibilities, from a staff that stretches into years of employment to the lack of televisions. I'm surprised to see he's right: There are no televisions to be found anywhere. It's an important but barely perceptible detail. Without the distraction of television, people are encouraged to talk to each other. Imagine that.
Whatever it is that makes this place special, Robert O'Niell is not in a hurry to figure it out. "It's funny how in life things happen for a reason. Maybe an unfortunate set of circumstances will turn into a big win for O'Niell's and this neighborhood." Perhaps, with a little Irish luck, it can.


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Mike Locatis could soon become Teri Takai's successor as CIO of California.
Photo: Mike Locatis, chief deputy CIO, California/Photo by David Kidd
Colorado CIO Mike Locatis has been named the chief deputy CIO of California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office announced Monday, June 7.
Locatis' move farther west could signal the start of shake-ups nationwide in state IT departments as a spate of term-limited governors see the twilight of their time in power. As chief deputy to California CIO Teri Takai, Locatis may be positioned as her successor if and when Takai receives congressional confirmation as CIO of the U.S. Department of Defense, a post the President Barack Obama administration nominated her to in March.
Like Takai, Locatis has a track record of working on enterprisewide IT consolidation. As Colorado CIO, Locatis led a comprehensive statewide consolidation effort that streamlined Colorado's 39 data centers, 20 phone systems and 20 e-mail systems to improve efficiency, a project that, from an organizational standpoint, will be finished by the end of 2010. Locatis led the adoption of enterprise architecture, brought IT staff under the state CIO's office, helped organize a statewide data sharing initiative and began to move the state into cloud computing, among several other projects.
With most of Colorado's consolidation complete, Locatis said he wants to bring his expertise to California, where the state continues to implement its own IT consolidation strategy.
"I look forward to working side-by-side with Teri on advancing California's consolidation and transformation initiatives to bring about large-scale information technology innovation, efficiencies and operational improvements," Locatis said. Takai wants to ensure there's continuity and sustainability for the initiatives she has launched, and that there's a thoughtful transition, he added.
California will elect a new governor in November. Locatis said he would be interested in working for the California Office of the State Chief Information Officer in the new administration. "I will stay as long as California needs me," Locatis said. He starts work June 14.
Colorado Deputy CIO Leah Lewis will take over for Locatis on an acting basis. The state has a continuity plan in place and a strong IT team, said Dara Hessee, chief of staff for the Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT). "Thanks to Mike's vision and leadership, OIT is poised for a seamless transition upon his departure, and we congratulate him on his new role," she said. "The strategy doesn't change with Mike's departure. He has done a phenomenal job of laying the groundwork for a sustainable organization, and we move forward with that."
Locatis became the CIO of Colorado in 2007, after serving three years in the same capacity for Denver, where he also led an IT consolidation initiative. Prior to that, he worked in the private sector, most recently as senior director of enterprise IT for Time Warner Cable from 2002 to 2004.
"I want to apply the same rigor that I have over the last 40 months [in Colorado] to help the Schwarzenegger administration really realize the potential here, and ensure consistency during the transition," Locatis said. "I think there's a lot that can be done on their road map."
The consolidation that Locatis will be working on in California is much bigger and organized differently than Colorado's. One difference is that Colorado passed legislation to enforce the consolidation, while Schwarzenegger relied primarily on executive orders to achieve the same end. Also, because California's government is so much bigger -- some 10,000 IT workers and 130 agency-level CIOS with expenditures of $3 billion on IT each year -- Takai chose a federated model for the consolidation that gives agencies some autonomy for decision-making while ceding the state's strategic planning to the state CIO's office.
Locatis isn't the first official from Colorado to move into California's IT leadership. Mark Weatherford was named California's chief information security officer in 2008 after working in the same role for Colorado.
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Marcos Vincente Arenas, a 15 year old Las Vegas teen, was run over and killed by a SUV while trying to prevent thieves from stealing his iPad, reports the Las Vegas Sun.
Investigators determined Arenas was walking on the south side of Charleston Boulevard carrying the iPad when a white vehicle, believed to be a Ford Explorer or Expedition manufactured between 2008 and 2010, stopped and a man exited the passenger side of the vehicle.
The man attempted to steal the iPad and started to drag the teen, who was trying to hold on to the device, police said. Arenas was dragged to the vehicle, and the suspect got back into the SUV with the teen still grasping at the tablet or somehow being held by the suspect, according to a Metro news release.
As the driver fled the scene, Arenas reportedly fell and was struck by the vehicle. He died at University Medical Center from his injuries.
The suspect who grabbed the iPad was described as a white male in his late 20s, about 6 feet tall and weighing 180-200 pounds. He has short slicked back blonde hair which was shaved on the sides and a neatly trimmed beard. At the time he was wearing blue jeans and a white tank top.
The driver of the vehicle was a black male in his mid 20s, medium build, with a fade haircut. He may have tattoos on both arms and was last seen wearing a black shirt and possibly a long chain with a pendant.
Below are photos of what Metro Police describe as a "person of interest and a vehicle of interest" in the case.
"There has got to be people who saw stuff, and we want those people to come forward," Metro spokesman Bill Cassell said.
This is a very sad ending to a growing problem. NYC has created a special task force in the NYPD to address the growing theft of Apple devices. Please, we ask everyone "Just let them go, the device isn't worth your life!".
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Begging For Candy
Posted by Rot at 6:00 AM
Labels: begging for candy, comics
8 comments:
- Ryan said...
If I could like this, I would. I love these.
- March 30, 2012 at 6:28 AM
- Jay's Shadow said...
If they don't answer the door, then comes the flaming bag of dog poo....
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ha. i love his little feet
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I'll tell you what kind of person - our next door neighbor. The epitome of grumpy old man. :/
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lol! these are just perfect--brings back lots of memories from when I was a kid and thought these very same things!
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Such awesome comics, Rot!
I eagerly await them every week.
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- March 30, 2012 at 4:35 PM
- Mr Black said...
I had to share this one on facebook. I linked it back to you. So funny.
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You post so much I keep missing your toons Rot! they are excellent! Maybe you could make a link straight to your comics?
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I began to think of the book as having two parts: the first would chronicle the rise and fall of race-sex analogies as a dominant feminist legal strategy, and the second would recover the creative ways that feminist advocates regrouped, as well as the often chilly reception their efforts received in the Supreme Court and elsewhere.
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I also began to think more carefully about where and when to introduce various characters. Murray, a central figure in the first half of the book, necessarily debuts in the first chapter. Chapter 2, "Women and Minorities," features a larger cohort of African American feminist advocates—most prominently NOW President Aileen Hernandez and then-New York Human Rights Commission chair Eleanor Holmes Norton. Hernandez and Norton joined Murray's crusade to challenge the prevailing view among liberals--including many civil rights leaders--that racial progress depended upon the restoration of African American men to their rightful positions as primary breadwinners. Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes the first of many appearances in this chapter, as she begins to implement a Fourteenth Amendment litigation strategy that drew upon both the race-sex analogies and the vision of egalitarian male-female partnerships advanced by Murray, Norton, and their allies.
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Gondola Getaway takes couples, friends, and even wedding parties to sightsee or smooch in canals surrounding the islands of Naples (California, that is). The company's owners, who researched gondola designs in Italy, strive for authenticity. Joseph wears a black-and-white-stripe shirt, brimmed straw hat, and red scarf. So far, spot on.
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Although it is Sunday, I feel that the time that it takes this letter to be written is not my own. You see I am acting top sergeant again to day and on account of there being so many men that have got in wrong in the last week, for one thing or another, I have to scout around and find work to keep them busy. Ive got ten men digging a trench a foot deep the whole length of the company street, three scrubbing tent floors, five in the kitchen, and two corporals with six other men doing every and any thing to (keep busy.)
This Kingsman has turned out to be a tough little guy and it has landed him in the gaurd house. Im afraid more will follow. Talk about your quitters, and yet when they get back home they will be all heros you know. It is getting so that we non comp are the hardest worked of all. Of coarse the boys are getting sick and tiered of staying here and not getting any satisfaction as to when they are going home. I got over that long ago. Say I was feeling pretty blue the first week or so wasn't I? I must have written some pretty cloudy letters. Then I used to sit and dream and write, but now there is absolutly no time for me to kill time this way. I hope you will all forgive me for not writing any oftener but I think what I am doing will be appreciated by you.
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Let's take a short break from our usual adventures to take a quick look at what happens when you "break the rules":
Certainly you've noticed that all the major news outlets seem to highlight the same health story at the same time. No, you aren't crazy – this happens because of a News Embargo.
Here is how it works: A medical journal – lets call it the Journal of Smelly Feet (JSF) – has concluded a major study that shows that socks that are not regularly washed smell 37% worse than the average sock. So the JSF releases this study and its results to the press on a Wednesday afternoon – with the stipulation that this must not be broadcast or appear in print until 8:00 AM Eastern time Monday.
This gives interested journalists (and everyone is interested, the study is a major work) more time to read the research, gather comments from scientists involved in sock care, and write their stories. Monday at 8:00 AM, the embargo is lifted and everyone is free to publicize the story.
Despite this silly example, the embargo does serve a purpose: It allows science and medical reports to become full-fledged "News Events" rather than a few pages in an obscure journal that only a few people will read.
Everything usually works on the honor system, but what happens if someone breaks the embargo? Grabs the bull by the horns and runs with it?
Well, if the offended organization is the American Heart Association… the hammer falls!
The BIG PRESS RELEASE (and it was pretty big, a new study that found that both a stent and a surgical procedure can prevent a stroke) was embargoed until 8:30 AM; but someone at Reuters pressed the button an hour and 43 minutes too early and the story appeared on their website.
It wasn't long before the jury delivered a guilty verdict and the judge spoke:
As a result of this embargo break, all Reuters reporters will be eliminated from our media distribution list, they will no longer have access to our embargoed newsroom where they can have access to our embargoed journal articles and we will not provide any interviews to any Reuters reporters for a period of 6 months. These sanctions will apply to the reporter who broke the embargo for a period of one year.
Wow! Those AHA folks don't play.
So, this begs the question – what is Reuters going to do? Well in the "good old days" they could put their science reporters on the street, attending conferences, interviewing experts in the field and developing their own stories. In fact, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) "disciplined" a reporter who broke an embargo. The reporter contends that she did not break the embargo, she got a lead from a source and worked it into a story. Her "reward" for her hard work was a "Sucks to be you!" note from JAMA.
The problem is reality – with news organizations experiencing a decline in readership and ad sales, staffs have been cut. Most of those science reporters are gone; the few that are left are usually stuck behind their keyboards, writing whatever material they gather through press releases, email, and the fax machine.
So there is not as much research, not as much legwork, and the overall quality of medical and science reporting declines.
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NBA JAM by EA SPORTS™ Review
- Publisher: Electronic Arts
- Genre: Entertainment
- Released: 10 Feb, 2011
- Size: 513.7 MB
- Price: $4.99
- Classic NBA JAM with a shiny coat of paint.
- Easy to learn arcade controls.
- A huge variety of unlockable characters and modes.
- Repetitive background music; thankfully iTunes is supported.
- Multiplay modes not yet available.
If you loved the original or you're even slightly intrigued by this whacky basketball title, then I heartily recommend NBA JAM, but the lack of a multiplayer feature can be a sore point.
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There's only one thing holding me back from starting off the review by declaring NBA JAM by EA Sports an instant must-buy - there's no co-operative or multiplayer modes of any sort available. For a game that so lovingly recreates one of the Arcade and home console's most exciting basketball-related titles, it seems almost unforgivable that I can't share the fun with a friend or slam a firey ball of doom in the face of a random online player.
Coming to grips with the controls of NBA JAM for iOS devices is like learning how to ride a bike for the first time - the basic theory is easy to understand, but learning to execute it takes a few attempts. Whether you play with a 'dpad' or 'gesture' based system, you'll be using the left analogue stick to run around while the right hand manages the use of your Turbo, Shoot/Block and Pass/Steal buttons. Pulling off insane stunts like super dunks and mind-blowing alley-oops is easy enough once you learn how to slide from the turbo in to a shot, but putting up a defense in the form of stealing or shoving can be a real crap-shoot as the AI players react with an (understandably) inhuman level of speed to your actions.
It almost feels wrong to praise a game for basically reproducing a classic title in toto, as it seems lazy to simply update the game's technical features by replacing sprites with 3D models and pixelated heads with Jib Jab-esque photo cut-outs. Unfortunately for someone like myself (a rabid player of the original Arcade title), this results in a game that pushes all the right buttons and keeping classic bonus characters like The Beastie Boys and Bill & Hilary Clinton in the game is a great nod to the original.
NBA JAM is all about the spectacle of the game you're playing; tactically speaking there are a few things you can do to get an edge, but luck plays just as much of a role in winning as your skill. For some this may be a deal-breaker, but it's an easy game to forgive when you're flipping out a mile-high with a ball that's on fire before breaking a glass backboard with a giant-headed Al Gore.
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What's New in Version 1.1.71Boo-yah! We've made some courtside improvements to keep your slam dunks sky-high and on point.
You hit the nail right on the head -- this game is an awesome throwback to the original game. The announcer, the gameplay and even the animations are every bit as insane and fun as its predecessor. As soon as I saw this review on here I knew I had to get this game. Is it normal to check this site 5-6 times a day just to see if anything new has been added? lol
normal may be a bit too strong a word...but rest assured youre not the only one ;)
You hit the nail right on the head -- this game is an awesome throwback to the original game. The announcer, the gameplay and even the animations are every bit as insane and fun as its predecessor. As soon as I saw this review on here I knew I had to get this game. Is it normal to check this site 5-6 times a day just to see if anything new has been added? lol


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Ong, David (2008): Fishy Gifts: Bribing with Shame and Guilt.
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The following is a model of psychological contracting with unmonitorable performance, implicit offers, and screening for non-performance by the announcement of the expectation of performance. It is motivated by the $250 billion prescription drug industry, which spends $19 billion per year on marketing to US doctors, mostly on `gifts', and often, as at Yale, with no monitoring for reciprocation. In one revealing incident, a drug firm representative closed her presentation to Yale medical residents by handing out $150 medical reference books and remarking, "one hand washes the other." By the next day, half the books were returned. I model this with a one shot psychological trust game with negative belief preferences and asymmetric information. I show that the `shame' of accepting a possible bribe can screen for reciprocation inducing `guilt'. An announcement can extend the effect. Current policies to deter reciprocation might aid such screening. I also discuss applications like vote buying when voting is unobservable and why taxis drivers in Naples announce inflated fares after their service is sunk.
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D - Microeconomics > D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty > D86 - Economics of Contract: Theory
M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M3 - Marketing and Advertising > M31 - Marketing
H - Public Economics > H5 - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies > H51 - Government Expenditures and Health
H - Public Economics > H7 - State and Local Government ; Intergovernmental Relations > H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health
M - Business Administration and Business Economics ; Marketing ; Accounting ; Personnel Economics > M3 - Marketing and Advertising > M37 - Advertising
D - Microeconomics > D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty > D82 - Asymmetric and Private Information ; Mechanism Design
C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory > C72 - Noncooperative Games
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Thanks to the mods for attacking me, showing exactly what is my point: The site is run by some arrogant xxxxxs who dont seem to get along well with the real world. No names mentioned, you yourself know who you are. And most members do too, I might add.
Face it, trek sites are on a steep downward dive and you are the ones to blame!
And since I have left the building, you can safely continue attacking me
By the way does the site owner know what you are up to??
Qui n'avance pas ...
Qui n'avance pas , recule !
On ne peut pas vraiment dire que la conception de TE soit attrayante pour les membres , il y quelques années que ce site existe où rien n'évolue.
C'est d'autant plus inquiètant que les modos se complaisent du fait que moins de posts par jour facilite la lecture et par-là même le temps a passer pour faire ses commentaires .
Moins de photos postées veut dire , aussi , moins de belles photos a commenter , EVIDEMMENT !
Chers modérateurs , arrêtez de vous reposer sur vos lauriers et faites , enfin , évoluer TE dans le bon sens .
TE le mérite .
Its possible in FB
It's possible to share your pictures in Facebook I do it very often
You are right, Didi, I don't know how I could not see it on the screen !
Maybe I need some new glasses...
I for one have no problem in accepting responsibilities for my actions both as a mod here and in the real world. The actions of the mods are obviously visible to the owners of the site and as mods we are following their instruction, not the other way round.
The administrators do see what is being posted and may or may not act on suggestions put forward by the members. The mods most certainly do not have control over the direction of the site.
Slowing Down
Hi All
Gee Malgo, those are some interesting numbers but my God you must have a lot of time on your hands to even consider them Good for you and you;ve raised an interesdting point.
As others have said, 5000 odd photos a month is well and truly enough for me. Ín fact, someone not long ago wrote in and said that they were leaving the site because there were too many photos and his were being lost amongst them.
The fact that the numbers have decreased is obvious. As everyone has pointed out, when TE started there were not many photographic websites. Now there are so many, the mind boggles. So where there is more choice, of course the numbers will thin out depending on what it is from the site that a person requires.
I love TE, I still think it is unique and offers a sense of community in a way that no other photo site offers. I'm also a member of Photofolio, am not "disgruntled" and joined it to keep in touch with alot of those members who moved there and to enjoy the extremely high quality of photos that are uploaded there. Like TE, it has it's own (many) positive points and also a few negatives. BUt they are both valid sites.
I also think the moderators do a great job - free of charge. They readily line up to do a job for the love of it, and in the process are on the receiving end of criticism that is often unreasonable and usually mis-directed. An example the other day was when someone criticised them for the resolution and colour distortion of their photos! I agree with Stefano, people threatening to leave the site over a photo being deleted is pure childishness. Actually, it's embarassing to see adults carry on like children.
As for the "more honest critiques". That may be true, but it ignores a simple rule of human nature: we do not accept criticism easily. This is not particular to TE, it's everywhere. There are people who want or accept criticism and there are people who do not. Having been here long enough, I know who can and who cannot accept criticism on TE. I will therefore not waste my time by writing a detailed critique when I know it will offend them. This is not just a phoptographic site, it's a social site. It is the social part of it that keeps me here.
I also think it's interesting that some people have seen Malgo's thread as being a chance to take a free kick at TE and the mods. Frankly, I'm sick of it. Constructive criticism is good (thanks Stefano and Rosemary) but pure nastiness is unproductive. Grow up or go!
Well that's my 2 cents worth
Grow up or go! I second that!!
The real TE problem
This is for you australian guy, just to get things right, I did not leave TE because I had an image deleted, I've had many images removed up through the years and couldn't care that much.
Maybe some of you remember the tsunami hitting northeast Japan some time ago, killing almost 20.000 people? One of our fellow TE members living in that area posted an image in memory of his fellow countrymen and neighbours, an image that was deleted by a TE moderator and she didn't even understand what she had done…
Then I realized I was dealing with the lesser gifted here, and eventually left the site.
As I said, do continue attacking me if that makes you feel better! However the fact that I left TE has no bearings on the matter at hand, after all, my posting of an image per week was less than nothing in the larger picture.
So there must be another explanation for the steep decrease in activity, right? Like when several hundreds leave for the same reason and those who remain by habit publish less?
I don't think the present team of moderators are the right persons to change the direction of development, not the least since you don't even realize there is a problem. You are the cause not the solution, you remind me of… what is the name of the bird hiding its head in the sand..?
If you are the great guys you seem to think you are, you should step back for someone better qualified, someone able to motivate members and not harassing them, guys who don't get high on own power… The trek system needs a thorough reorganizing, with new brushes all over. Unless it is already too late…
End of discussion as far as I'm concerned.
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And if you left TE at that time, what are you doing here today? It made me remember of a TOS rule on Photosig:
* Don't tell us you're leaving. If you post an announcement that you are leaving the site, it will be removed and your account will be suspended for 30 days. If you need to go, for whatever reason, just go. No need for a big show. That way, you will avoid embarrassment if you return.
I became a member when TE traffic was at its peak, with more than 20,000 pictures being posted each month. I became a member mainly because among those regular posters there were some really good photographers and I wanted to see how (if) they'd react to my shots.
Now, at 5,000 uploads per month, at least it is more manegeable to keep up. On the other hand, among those photographers who left, there are some really fine photographers and I must say I sometimes miss the quality of their work. I like the smaller community, but sometimes I wish for some more quality both in the pictures and in the critiques.
But then that is just up to us, isn't it?
Share your best shots, be honest in your critiques and welcoming to new members whose work looks promising, that's all there is to it.
PS for Pablominto: There's no point in slamming the door over and over and again. Go or stay, but don't keep slamming the door. That is just silly.
PS for the mods: Nobody's perfect.
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