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This case has generated a lot of interest here but, as we all know when dealing with the law, the end result may not have any relationship to "what is right" and "commonsense".
A landmark Australian court case could see thousands of Australians losing their internet connection, and has major implications worldwide for the law on copyright. The landmark case started on 6 October in Sydney's Federal Court. A group of 34 film companies, represented by the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft ( …
If AFACT win, will they then go after the government & vehical manufacturers because roads & cars/vans/busses/trains are also used for transportation of illegal films?
Asking the ISPs to actively snoop on users is like asking on duty police to actively search each and every car that passes them.
"A landmark Australian court case [..] has major implications worldwide for the law on copyright."
How is it that the author thinks a ruling in a Australian court on copyright enforcement will have implications worldwide? Australian laws apply in Australia, not the world.
how many films include things like images of buildings which have IP protection (the Eiffel Tower springs to mind) where the studio does not have specific permission for that instance. I understand that there is probably a lot of legal history to allow them to do things the way they do but I do just wonder how hard it would be to find a few cases where they needed permission but didn't have it (or couldn't prove it in a court of law).
Let's take the manufacturers of certain sharp household cutlery to court because people are being stabbed with their product, yet they continue to release new stock into civilised society via these so-called "shops".... The heartless, complicit in countless murders, bastards...
Maybe we could launch a class action lawsuit against Bic, for allowing the manufacture of pens which may or may not have been used to sign fraudulent MP expense forms... Filthy pilfering swine accomplices.
Well, the majority of the film companies that are taking iiNet to court will be multinational. This is a test case for them...notice it's against Australia's third largest ISP, not the actual largest. If the film companies win the case, their legal teams around the world will formulate similar cases to see if the case can be replicated.
Interesting times ahead......
Providing internet services might become so expensive (with all that monitoring, threat of legal action, etc) that all the ISPs will shut up shop and concentrate on something more profitable.
And if there are no ISPs, there are no legal customers out there who will be able to legally purchase the wares of the Studios and Artists on the "new medium" that the internet is.
We've seen the release of the England football game on the internet only. On demand services are growing by the day. But if the film studios et al make being an ISP too risky, they shoot their own future revenue streams in the foot.
If you read the article he tells you why he thinks that
Again, a victory in Australia could see a number of carbon copy cases being mounted in other jurisdictions.
He thinks that the film companies will try the same in other jurisdictions and get the same result. NOT that the result in australia will apply world wide.
This is cartel behaviour. Just like the RIAA, just like the British FACT who force us to what their unskippable shitty don't pirate propaganda on DVD's we buy.
Next thing they will be locking my Blu-ray to only play on my player, so I can't take it round a friends house. RIAA, FACT, AFACT all total scum for pissing on their customers.
Fuck them.
Take the film companies to court for promoting and glorifying criminal behaviour. While we're at it maybe there's a way we could start legal action against them for allowing a bunch of otherwise useless halfwits to get away with grossly overcharging for their services. Most of these film companies (and their dimwitted music counterparts) or just a leech inflicted on society. We don't need a middle man anylonger. Let artists sink or swim via YouTube or similar. If we like what they peddle we'll pay for it. Probably not enough to kick back in the lap of luxury but as long as they work reasonably hard we can probably help keep a roof over their heads.
Basically the same deal we as consumers are supposed to have.
I wonder how things would pan out of AFACT won this case and then tried in in say france where internet access is being made a human right, "hey mr isp please kick these people offline because they arnt giving us money. Sure wait there if we do that we deprive them of their legal human rights sorry no can do, kthankbi!"
Im not a fan of a lot of things the french government do but that is one law I think should become much more universal.
"Let's take local councils to court for allowing people to drive illegally on their roads."
No, this is more like "Let's take the councils to court for allowing vans containing stolen/counterfeit/etc goods on their roads- the council are obviously negligent for not stopping and inspecting every vehicle, every mile travelled, despite the huge cost and huge privacy implications involved"
The article is a probable a little premature as the real consequence will depend upon the judge's ruling. Probably the most important issue will be whether the "evidence" supplied by the lobbying group is sufficient for any kind of civil action. Does it demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt that a person has been involved in copyright infringement?
As with most black markets the case is probably more harmful to the media industry in the long term. Declaring something illegal for which there is considerable demand is not an efficient solution to the problem: the demand is still there and will be filled by the black market. This is speculation on my part but I think black markets are almost always more efficient than regulated ones. And once you have an established black market the resources that the participants have often dwarf those of the regulatory bodies enabling them to be more flexible and ahead in the enforcement game. Indeed actions like this by AFACT can be likened to the US attempts to reduce the planting of coca or opium poppies: hugely expensive wastes of time. The comparison is slightly flawed in that, there does not seem to be a mafia organising and running and profiting from file-sharing. Instead you've got an unlmited guerilla army. That the file-sharing programmers are ahead in the implementation of network security best practices is difficult to deny. And they will continue to take the lead by adding and improving encryption and masking. One the packets get encrypted you can only deduce that they are part of a torrent but not what's in them which makes any analysis pretty poor evidence.
Then, of course, what happens to those who do lose their access rights as a result? They're definitely able to consume the industry's own offering. In addition they might become adept and piggy-backing on other's access as the broadband and particularly wireless continues to spread apace.
A market-based solution, as so often argued by The Register, is probably the best solution. The biggest problem is probably the industry working out how to square with their overly-regulated and demarcated markets. Indeed, the media industry is definitely guilty of monoply behaviour at an international level. Lucky for them there is no international monopolies commisssion.
Even closer to this actual case-
"Let's take the councils to court for allowing vans containing photocopies and replicas of goods on their roads- the council are obviously negligent for not stopping and inspecting every vehicle, every mile travelled, despite the huge cost and huge privacy implications involved"
Remember that- although they'll get no money directly from the copies- the artists haven't actually lost anything. You've not taken their song then deleted the original.
"Let's take the councils to court for allowing vans containing even insignificantly small fractions of stolen/counterfeit/outright illegal etc goods on their roads- the council are obviously negligent for not stopping and inspecting every vehicle, every mile travelled, despite the huge cost and huge privacy implications involved. "
But yeah, Martin 19's one is probably closer to one that might actually get to court.
Fail because this is a court case that very definitely should!
Ah.. The Pirate party argument. Do you have any idea how much a film or album costs to make? We could have a music free for all, but that asumes that music dosent need any advertising or work. Do you realy think an artist could fund, organise and run a world tour, or a full album release?
If the ISPs are made responsbile for what goes on in the Internet then the UK's Highways Agency should be made responsible for every crime committed on the roads. Just because a company provides a facility they should not be held accountable for how it is used.
What's next? Car manufacturers being fined for people swerving back and forth along a road just for fun? Get rid of steering wheels now! Oh, hold on a minute...
if all the copyright notices iiNet received from film studios over a five month period were printed, it would take 180 large folders and more than 12 trolleys to bring them into the court.
Do it!! Take 180 folders in to court and dump them on the prosecutions desk andlook at the judge with that look what says "and how does he propose we handle THIS?!" ;-)
Why not shut down the damned film companies? After all by making restricted copies available and tempting people to waste time watching them they are guilty of:
1) Entrapment
2) Encouraging a lack of exercise while wasting time watching their pap.
3) Promoting negative stereo types.
4) Upsetting large number of innocent internet users who may have to pay to protect these companies from consequences 1~3.
5) Lets not consider the use of dodgy or illegal substances within their industry!
6) As for those god-damned awful leaders on LEGAL DVDs, are they trying to promote piracy?
The reason the media corps don't want to change the way they distro their films and music is because that's where they make a huge chunk of their money.
If you take someone like EMI, they'll get the digital master, stamp out a gajillion cd's, presumably in a plant they have an interest in - and would lose money on if it stamped less cd's due to downloads - then they print up packaging - again through a company they presumably have in interest of some sort in which would lose them money from not printing - then shipping the stock out and so the chain of middleman mark-up begins. Don't forget they make a lot of money on 'breakage' of stock, too.
When distribution becomes a download it's hard to see how they can make up the difference in revenue, especially when all their acts' mgmnt co's are saying 'you can now pay us more cos you no longer have alllll those horrible horrible distro overheads you've been whining about to us for the last ten years.'
So in many ways it's possibly impossible for the media industries to move to an online model for distribution as they have obfuscated so much self-interested financial action between the physical creation of the media and its sale that to lose that stealth tax on the content creator really would break them.
So in reality they're fighting to maintain a lucrative structured fraud/con against the artists. Afterall who'd ever expect a media corp to say 'we had a great run at this scam for the last 50 years, guys, it's over.' when they could just drag it out.
in the land of piracy, new laws mean new technology. If its not already out there then it wont take long before a new version of BitTorrent / UTorrent / WhateverTorrent comes along and the ISPs wont be able to detect illegal downloads - much to thier relief! In fact it would actually benefit ISPs to encourage new technology so that they cant detect downloads and the customers will carry on using their quotas and getting charged for those few extra mega-lumps. Whatever the outcome the Film/Music industry cannot win.
We could do without all you criminal types keep getting away with this type of theft!!
I also hope the idea is replicated worldwide, then those of us who are not thieves will not have to put up with the dog slow internet that you lot have created with all your thieving downloads. Damn Crooks!!
Go out and buy the damn thing you cheapskates, and if you can not afford it - welcome to the real world of - cant afford, dont have!
Not content with ruining their own industry (content), they want to savage all other industries - especially IT. If ever there was a need for action to be taken, it is against the dinosaurs of the content industry, before they are allowed to cause any more unnecessary damage.
I find it unbelievable that in the last, what 12-14 years, they have not been able to innovate any services or provide alternatives, and yet they still expect special protections and exceptions.
"...then those of us who are not thieves will not have to put up with the dog slow internet that you lot have created with all your thieving downloads."
Allow me to counter your quote with another ridiculous quote:
"Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got...an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.
[...] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."
- Sen. Ted Stevens
Uh oh, the producer's fat lady has finished clearing her throat and has opened her mouth. All thieves take note, the song she's about to let loose with is "Our Day Will Come".
But have no fear, the movies are yours right? Just walk into your local video store and walk out with what's yours. No need to pay, it is yours ... right?
Fearless wonders unite ... the movies await.
Ignoring the tongue in cheek trolling tone of your comment I'd like to question who the real thieves are.
Recently a CD of Vera Lynn classics has been released and the publicity plays heavily on the image of Dame Vera. Now a lot of older folk will be going "God bless her soul", dipping into their pensions to relive long lost moments sat by the fireplace listening to the world service and so on... In other words it will most likely be a winner(*). Dame Vera will get sod all in royalties from the sale of these recordings. Every single penny will go to the record company. Who's the thief?
(*)I've just checked and it did top the album charts.
You're probably trolling, but what the hell...
"those of us who are not thieves will not have to put up with the dog slow internet that you lot have created with all your thieving downloads"
The thieves are the ISPs who sold you a certain amount of bandwidth and then failed to deliver it.
While people continue to be stupid enough to blame other people for using a service they have PAID FOR, instead of the conmen whose sold them a pup, they have no reason to stop this fraudulent behaviour.
After all, when it's legal streamed TV/movies that's slowing your email down, who will you aim your impotent keyboard rage at then?
Another reason this will have implications outside Australia, is that a few years ago as part of Australia signing a free trade agreement with the USA, they did a carbon copy of the US copyright law (including the same safe harbor provisions). So the MPA (yes AFACT took all their orders from the MPA including which ISP to target) can get their test case much cheaper in Australia.
The bottom line of this case is that the Movies Studios want ISP's to just take their word for it that someone is/was infringing copyright, rather than require the allegations to be proved in court.
AFACT bombarded iiNet with infringement notices (at times it was thousands in a week), and expects the ISP to verify each infringement, forward the notices to customers and terminate the connections of repeat offenders.
iiNet on the other hand referred the matters to the police and say it's illegal for them to intercept their customers traffic to verify the allegations, and that they can't terminate their customers service unless the matter is first proven in court.
AFACT refused to talk to the police, and didn't even respond when iiNet asked for more information on some of the notices.
Let me end by saying that I'm glad this case is finally getting some exposure internationally.
They got too big, too greedy and too bossy - public venues said "Bye Bye".
Music fee hike backfires
A PUSH by Australian record companies to make clubs, hotels, restaurants and cafes pay tens of millions of dollars more in fees to play their music has backfired.
Businesses have decided to turn off tunes licensed by the record companies and play the music of artists that are not signed to major labels.
The scheme would have increased some license fees from around $500 to almost $36,000.
A Clubs Australia spokesman was unable to say how many central Victorian businesses would have been slugged with the drastic cost hike.
"We're talking about every restaurant, cafe and club being affected," the spokesman said yesterday.
The fee changes would have resulted in businesses such as the Bendigo Club, which staff said yesterday had a bistro capacity of about 50, paying $3075.80 instead of the usual $62.04.
Bendigo District RSL staff said their bistro had a capacity of about 120, which would have increased fees by about $8500.
Clubs Australia announced at its annual general meeting a new scheme that would allow clubs to bypass the license fee charged by record companies.
Clubs Australia will set up a program to source and distribute the music of artists not signed to major record labels and who are consequently exempt from the restaurant tariff.
As part of the new scheme, local musicians will be given the opportunity to sell their music in clubs, while money earned from the sale of background music CDs will be used to establish a fund for talented Australian musicians.
From December 1, the Phonographic Performance Company of Australia will increase the tariff required every year by all clubs, hotels, restaurants and cafes wanting to play background music.
Clubs Australia chief executive officer David Costello said the PPCA was an organisation whose board members included senior executives at EMI Music, Warner Music, Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music.
"It's well known that record labels have suffered a decline in CD sales due to illegal downloads. If this is about countering falling revenue for the big music companies, then they should be addressing music piracy," Mr Costello said.
"Expecting the club and restaurant industry to make up for lower CD sales is not only unfair but as we have seen today, certain to fail.
"Two years ago the PPCA increased the fee for recorded music in nightclubs by 1400 per cent as well as announcing it is increasing the fee for music played in gyms by 5000 per cent.
"The music labels are working their way through the dozens of music tariffs paid by small businesses.
"It seems only a matter of time before the PPCA increases fees for music on hold, jukeboxes, conference and pool rooms, squash courts and even swimming pools.
"Clubs are today drawing a line in the sand and will no longer use music licensed by the big Australian record labels that requires they pay an annual fee to the PPCA."
A PPCA spokeswoman said Clubs Australia was "perfectly entitled" to go in another direction.
"The rates give artists and labels a fair and reasonable deal and were the subject of extensive consultation with the industry," she said.
Its absplutely ludicrous to hold the ISP's to blame, its like blaming the electricity supply co for people using illegal electrical appliances. All the punter has to do is use a proxy and then how can it established who is doing what. Further, it is the sites that are allowing or promoting the so called copyright infringement. Frequently the punter has no idea that he is breaking the law anyway.
To further muddy the water, how is the ISP to know if the punter has paid abroad for the film as a "hire" even though the country the punter is in has not "hired" it out. Sorry if the film companies get away with this we shall all have a crack monitoring system built into our homes.
This is getting more like the UK with our house police!!
I have an idea, lets all be put in prison, including the film makers as I bet they are not whiter than white. Oh, small problem there, it will all be inside the prison anyway.
This seems like another case where a significant court decision will ultimately be made upon the basis of personal leaning of the judge to the general "rightness" of a thing rather than the workability of the ruling.
If the ruling goes against iiNet (and so all other ISPs in Australia), how is packet monitoring going to guarantee that it is pirating activity that is going on? Assuming, for simplifying argument, that only the bittorrent protocol is going to be targeted by what can only be deep packet inspection, how can it be possible to ensure that the protocol is transporting pirate material rather that non-pirate material? After all, bittorrent is a convenient method of sharing files without needing to configure server capabilities in your PC, which exposes you to a high security attack risk.
The only way to achieve this is for the ISP to fully download the target of every addressed bittorrent exchange to verify that the target is indeed pirate material. The web published descriptions provided for a torrent hash are, after all, legally only hearsay until that it is actually proven that the target is what the published descriptions say it is.
So, if the case goes against iiNet, does this mean that they will end up being taken to the high court again by someone who has had their Internet connection disconnected for "piracy" when the customer has in fact been downloading via bittorrent only non-copyright material?
And in the case of disconnection of a "naked" DSL connection, will the ISP be liable for the removal of the ability for the customer to make emergency services calls (which are possible in the Australian VoIP environment)?
Fundamentally, a "quick fix" tech solution to prevent the type of piracy that this court case is all about is not possible without causing more wrongs than rights. Let us all hope the judge is savvy enough to recognize this and have the enough inherent personal justice to hold a straight line under the high pressure political and corporation onslaughts.
It occured to me that if I'd had forewarning I'd not have spent DVD or (especially) cinema money on several recent(ish) films...
Transformers 2 springs to mind. IN that case piracy would have been a lost sale, but not for the reasons the studios thing (in fact as it is they're lucky I didnt demand a refund and bill them for my time...)
A film like Watchmen or Franklyn, on the other hand, I've seen at the cinema AND bought the DVD for. I'd still have bought the DVD even if I'd pirated them.
My major cable ISP (not comcast but almost as big) here in the states already aggressively monitors torrent traffic and sends warnings to disconnect (kissing media companies ass so they get in on the legal streaming action). For around $10 a month though you get a socks 5 proxy via ssh tunneling from a company such as https://www.securetunnel.com/. Using a client such as uTorrent you can channel all your bittorrent traffic through an secure anonymous (due to many other people also using the same IP address for the endpoint) AES encrypted connection that short of a government spy agency nobody in the world can deep packet inspect (on your side of the connection). The only two drawbacks are you obviously can't open a port for others to connect to you (but for any torrents with more than a handful of seeds or clients this doesn't matter) and then also you need to be able to trust the company providing your ssh tunnel that they don't turn you over to the ISPs or a honeypot, etc. The before mentioned company though has a very tight security policy (logs not kept, etc), a proven track record, and strong legal team. Lets just say since moving to this setup the ISP has been rosy happy with me and no more notices have come. How to do all this can very easily be found through google so any non IT retard for a few dollars a month can make this legal action moot even if it succeeds.
Seems that a big chunk of the problem is the excessive number and length of advertisements on Sky, as your average consumer hates being forced to watch several five minute repeated advert breaks on say, Stargate Universe. They ruined Atlantis this way, you'd think they would learn.
I say at most, one minute adverts, and never repeat the same ones in the same program.
Better still, add a facility on the Sky boxes that allows you to choose which types of ads you want to see (tech related for example) or just pay a subscription fee to not watch them. Win all round.
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Say you're getting ready to host an alumni reunion or open house event, and you'd like your visitors to create a community-driven photo album. This is, in theory, possible with the Color geosocial photo application. But good luck making it work easily.
Ed Tatton of Westchester Community College and Greg Kie of SUNY Canton talked a few of us attending the SUNYCUAD Conference earlier this month into trying to create just such a photo album. You'd think people who work in web communication and/or social media for a living could figure this out with little difficulty. Ah, not so much.
The resulting community album (see active view. above right) took a lot of work. Taking the picture is easy enough: Just open the app and click on the color wheel (center button, colored when you're in camera mode). But for a social application, the real difficulty comes when you try to get, you know, social.
For what seemed like an hour, about a half-dozen people who work on the web for a living had great difficulty creating a community album. I created any number of albums no one could join and that I couldn't delete. Finally, after seemingly doing the same thing over and over, something worked and suddenly we had a shared album. You can see the results of a couple of days of fiddling at right. As for the buttons along the bottom: The map icon stands for "take photos together" (if you can figure out how to do it), the globe means "see all your albums" (for a globe?), the color wheel means take the picture, the calendar means "view your albums by day" and the envelope means "messages you've received" (i.e. likes and comments).
Note that you cannot friend anyone for a permanent relationship, which — given the appeal of enriched connections in social media — seems an oversight. After you take a photo, you can press a paper-airplane icon to share it by Twitter, Facebook, e-mail or SMS. Yes, that's OR, not and.
Looking at Instragram, which I consider a great geosocial photo app, the competition isn't even close. Instagram encourages you to find and friend contacts, and offers easy ways to do so. When you take a picture, you can share it simultaneously via Twitter, Facebook, e-mail, Flickr, Tumblr, Foursquare AND Posterous (if you want). While the geolocation feature with Instagram is still buggy for me, you can create an album via hashtag — as the #pancaketweetup album at right shows. Instragram's menu includes helpful words that break things down very simply: Feed, Popular, Share, News and Profile, and submenus are intuitive as well. Interaction via comments and likes are very easy.
All apps have to start somewhere, and Color does bring a good concept to the table. That it is difficult to come together at that table with others is unfortunate — since connections and content are the currency of social media — but maybe the app's developers will figure a way for its execution to improve.

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A relationship that started with news crews waiting outside Tyson's The Palm restaurant like paparazzi as Mike Shanahan and Dan Snyder dined inside in January 2010 ended bitterly Monday: The Washington Redskins fired their head coach, allowing him to leave town with millions of dollars owed him for the fifth and final year of his contract.
Members of the coaching staff also were fired, including Shanahan's son, Kyle Shanahan.
At an afternoon press conference, General Manager Bruce Allen said he would be meeting with other coaches Monday. The futures of those who aren't fired now will be up to the next head coach to determine. The search for that coach begins Monday night, Allen said.
"Obviously, this is a painful day for me and the organization, but it is fitting after a painful season," Allen said.
"Redskins fans deserve a better result," owner Daniel M. Snyder said in a statement released to the media. "We thank Mike for his efforts on behalf of the Redskins.
"We will focus on what it takes to build a winning team, and my pledge to this organization and to this community is to continue to commit the resources and talent necessary to put this team back in the playoffs," the statement read.
Shanahan spoke briefly after the firing, and mostly about the team's struggles to acquire new players under the restrictions of the salary cap. But he did thank the fans, the media and the players.
He also thanked the man who just fired him: "I'd also like to thank Dan for the opportunity to be here, under a great organization. This is the best," Shanahan said.
After Sunday's game, Shanahan took responsibility for the 3-13 team's on-the-field failures this year.
"I thought we've done a lot of good things," Shanahan said. "But at the end of the day, you've got to win. We weren't able to do that, and for whatever reason, I'm responsible for that and disappointed we couldn't get that done."
"To sit here and talk about Mike Shanahan leaving is difficult because we are all 3-13," Allen said.
Players have also taken the blame for the season, Allen said. Josh Wilson gave him a book that said sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.
"We've got to learn to go in the right direction, and that's what we're going to do," Allen said.
Speculation now will focus on the team's next coach, it's eighth since Snyder bought the team in 1999. One person rumored to be in contention is Art Briles of Baylor University, where Griffin played in college. Former Steelers coach Bill Cowher and former Raiders and Buccaneers coach Jon Gruden have also been mentioned as possibilities. (Fan site Hogs Haven has already posted a bracket of coaching possibilities.)
That search begins Monday evening, Allen said. The team will consider NFL and college coaches and coaches with and without head coaching experience. First and foremost, the team is looking for a leader. They also want someone who can manage time, considering how little of it the coach will have with players in the offseason, Allen said.
Whoever the next coach will be, the search will allow the team to turn attention away from its ghastly 2012 season. Star quarterback Robert Griffin III struggled after a knee injury and ended this season benched. Any hopes that the team would get to the playoffs were over by Dec. 2.
Native American groups successfully re-energized calls to get the team to change its name, saying it was a racial slur; protesters dogged the team at away games and even President Barack Obama said he would "think about changing" the name.
Then, at the end of the season, the off-field battles between the team's coach, owner and Griffin exploded publicly, bursting into press conferences and lengthy newspaper articles.
Among the stunners: ESPN reported that Shanahan, tired of the special treatment Snyder gave Griffin, wanted to quit after last season but decided the timing was wrong after Griffin injured his knee in a playoff game against Seattle.
Some believe Shanahan leaked that story because he wanted Snyder to fire him. And some suspect Shanahan wanted out because the team wanted to get rid of his son, Kyle Shanahan, as offensive coordinator.
But fans and reporters have speculated all season about tension between the coach on one side and Snyder and Griffin on the other. Griffin returned from his ACL and MCL injuries in time for the season opener after being held out of the preseason but did not perform as well as he did in his Rookie of the Year 2012 season. With the Skins out of contention, Shanahan shut Griffin down for the final three games of this season to protect his long-term health.
That came amid reports that Snyder's close relationship with the quarterback was threatening to Shanahan. The coach and his quarterback found themselves with a relationship the Washington Post described as poisoned.
And the franchise was left with a season record that was the worst in decades.
Following the 24-23 loss to the Dallas Cowboys in Week 16, Shanahan's ouster was almost a done deal, but then the focus was on beating the New York Giants in the final game of the season, and keeping Shanahan for that was what management felt gave them the best chance for a victory.
"We wanted Mike to have the ability to right the ship," Allen said. "We wanted to end that losing streak."
Sunday's 20-6 loss sealed Shanahan's departure.
Shanahan was a hired as a proven coach with a good record, Allen said, and the team agreed to the same control and staffing he had as head coach of the Denver Broncos.
"Unfortunately today, our results aren't what we had hoped on that day," Allen said.
The next head coach will not have all the control Shanahan had. Player personnel decisions going forward will be Allen's, and he will work with the current personnel department, though he did not rule out additions to that staff. They will redefine the characteristics they want in players, the general manager said.
Shanahan's overall record with the team is 24-40. Despite winning the NFC East with a 10-6 record last year, the Redskins failed to make the playoffs or even reach .500 in Shanahan's other three seasons with the team.
Since Snyder bought the team, the Redskins have gone 106-140 (including 2-4 in the playoffs) and missed the playoffs in 11 of 15 seasons.
Before Washington, Shanahan had a 146-98 record in 16 seasons as a head coach in the NFL -- the first two with the Los Angeles Raiders. He was 8-5 in the playoffs, including Super Bowl wins with the Broncos in 1997 and 1998. He made the playoffs in half of his seasons in Denver and had only two losing seasons -- 6-10 in 1999 and 7-9 in 2007. Prior to his success with the Broncos, Shanahan was a well-respected offensive coordinator for Denver and the San Francisco 49ers.
Before Shanahan, Washington went 12-20 in two seasons under Jim Zorn, a former quarterbacks coach initially hired as an offensive coordinator but quickly promoted. Zorn followed Hall of Famer Joe Gibbs' second stint as head coach of the Skins, in which he took the team to the playoffs twice in four seasons.


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5 states to increase class time in some schools
Mon., Dec. 3, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — Open your notebooks and sharpen your pencils. School for thousands of public school students is about to get quite a bit longer.
Five states announced Monday that they will add at least 300 hours of learning time to the calendar in some schools starting in 2013. Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Tennessee will take part in the initiative, which is intended to boost student achievement and make U.S. schools more competitive on a global level.
The three-year pilot program will affect almost 20,000 students in 40 schools, with long-term hopes of expanding the program to include additional schools — especially those that serve low-income communities. Schools, working in concert with districts, parents and teachers, will decide whether to make the school day longer, add more days to the school year or both.
All told, education officials expect to provide nearly 6 million more student learning hours next year.
"I'm convinced the kind of results we'll see over the next couple of years I think will compel the country to act in a very different way," said Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
A mix of federal, state and district funds will cover the costs of expanded learning time, with the Ford Foundation and the National Center on Time & Learning also chipping in resources. In Massachusetts, the program builds on the state's existing expanded-learning program. In Connecticut, Gov. Dannel Malloy is hailing it as a natural outgrowth of an education reform law the state passed in May that included about $100 million in new funding, much of it to help the neediest schools.
Spending more time in the classroom, officials said, will give students access to a more well-rounded curriculum that includes arts and music, individualized help for students who fall behind and opportunities to reinforce critical math and science skills.
"That extra time with their teachers or within a structured setting means all the world," said Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper. "It means it allows them to continue the momentum they had the day before. It means they don't slip back over the summer. It allows them to really deliver."
At Stober Elementary in the Denver suburb of Lakewood, Colo., teachers and principals nervously embraced the idea.
"It's hard to get through all the curriculum in the time we have," said fourth grade teacher Jeanette Martinez, although she wondered how it would affect planning time and other teacher duties. "The extra hour is cool, but where are we going to get everything else done?"
Not all students were opposed, either, with some welcoming the chance to spend more time with their friends. But they drew the line at summer school.
"That's a 'no way' for me," fourth grader Olivia Nevadomski said in a school playground interview. "It's for sleepovers, staying up late and sleeping in."
The project comes as educators across the U.S. struggle to identify the best ways to strengthen a public education system that many fear has fallen behind other nations. Student testing, teacher evaluations, charter schools and voucher programs join longer school days on the list of reforms that have been put forward with varying degrees of success.
The report from the center, which advocates for extending instruction time, cites research suggesting students who spend more hours learning perform better. One such study, from Harvard economist Roland Fryer, argues that of all the factors affecting educational outcomes, two are the best predictors of success: intensive tutoring and adding at least 300 hours to the standard school calendar.
More classroom time has long been a priority for Duncan, who warned a congressional committee in May 2009 — just months after becoming education secretary — that American students were at a disadvantage compared to their peers in India and China. That same year, he suggested schools should be open six or seven days per week and should run 11 or 12 months out of the year.
"I think this is the kernels of a national movement," he said Monday as he announced the initiative.
But not everyone agrees that shorter school days are to blame. A report last year from the National School Boards Association's Center for Public Education disputed the notion that American schools have fallen behind in classroom time, pointing out that students in high-performing countries like South Korea, Finland and Japan actually spend less time in school than most U.S. students.
The broader push to extend classroom time could also run up against concerns from teachers unions. Longer school days became a major sticking point in a seven-day teachers strike in September in Chicago. Mayor Rahm Emanuel eventually won an extension of the school day but paid the price in other concessions granted to teachers.
Just over 1,000 U.S. schools already operate on expanded schedules, an increase of 53 percent over 2009, according to a report being released Monday in connection with the announcement by the National Center on Time & Learning. The nonprofit group said more schools should follow suit but stressed that expanded learning time isn't the right strategy for every school.
Some of the funds required to add 300 or more hours to the school calendar will come from shifting resources from existing federal programs, making use of the flexibility granted by waivers to No Child Left Behind. All five states taking part in the initiative have received waivers from the Education Department.
Associated Press writer Kristen Wyatt in Lakewood, Colo., contributed to this report.
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Fun with Guest Stars
I joked around here recently about how funny it would be if Lorelai and Rory from Gilmore Girls (on which Jared played a character named Dean) showed up on an episode of Supernatural. While that's a little far-fetched, I will have to say that I love it when actors and actresses whom I've loved in other roles on other shows show up on screen with the Winchester boys. Three that come to mind are...
Amy Acker (Angel) in the episode "Dead in the Water"
Julie Benz (Angel) in the episode "Faith" (By the way, when I was at the Buffy the Vampire Slayer panel at Dragon*Con, someone asked Julie about her guest spot on Supernatural. She said she really enjoyed it and that there was a kiss filmed between her and Jensen, but it got cut.)
Tricia Helfer (Battlestar Galactica) in the episode "Road Kill."
This got me to thinking about who I'd like to see show up as a guest in the future. My first thought? Sarah-Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). There's a big overlap between Buffy and Supernatural fans, so I think it would go over well and potentially be really funny. I mean, if they can bring on Paris Hilton... James Marsters (Buffy) would be good too. Oh, I've got it...what if the boys are dreaming or the Trickster is messing with them and they think they're Angel (Sam) and Spike (Dean) and Sarah-Michelle guest stars and can't choose between them. :) Isn't it amazing what the brain will come up with when it's punchy at 2:46 in the morning?
So, seriously, who would you like to see guest on Supernatural this season or next (if there's a next one)?


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Wax On Workshop: Ring carving at madehere seattle
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Saturday 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
October 13, 2018
MadeHere Seattle - Pioneer Square
115 S Jackson St, Seattle, WA 98104
Hello carvers.
Book a special seat with The Wax On Workshop for an artistic and hands-on night.
This carving party, led by Vashon Island-based jeweler Cat McCadden, is where a few tools and a dash of instruction combine to fuel creativity. Using your own hands, your result is an awesome sterling silver ring — that you've made!
WOW is a place where your creativity comes alive. The Wax On Workshop - or WOW for short - is a relaxed two-hour session of sketching, carving and chatting that results in your own ring design in wax. You'll give the wax to Cat, she'll cast the ring and then professionally finish it to your matte or shiny specifications. About three weeks later, you'll receive your custom sterling silver creation delivered to your door.
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- You carve your dream silver ring from simple jewelry wax
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- You receive your ring within 3 - 4 weeks! Gold is now available.
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Kosovo and U.S. sponsored terrorists unraveling: war crimes and Hague for Clinton?
Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
In the heart of the cradle of Serbian Orthodox Christianity in Kosovo the U.S. and U.K. support of sponsored terrorism during the Kosovo conflict is unraveling. Orthodox Christian churches have been destroyed in many areas since Kosovo Albanian rule and minorities fled in fear. However, despite this the U.S. and U.K. was feeling content with the de-Christianization of Kosovo and ethnic persecution of minorities which include the Serbs and Gypsies.
Therefore, this article will focus on the reality of what really happened and highlight a different side of the Clinton administration. Also, because of bias against the Serbian position all quotes will come from Western sources and this applies to major Western news agencies and the heart of government in America.
Powerful PR campaigns had done a great job of victimizing the Serbs despite this minority being the victim of Kosovo Albanian nationalism for many decades under the old Yugoslavia. Therefore, the former terrorists of the KLA according to the U.S. in early 1998 miraculously became "freedom fighters" and soon they were allies of NATO in its illegal intervention.
Bill Clinton, the leader of America who gave tacit support to thousands of Islamists who slit the throats and beheaded Orthodox Christians in Bosnia, was up to "dirty tricks" once more. This applies to Bill Clinton's special envoy to the region who in February 1998 had stated that the KLA "without any questions, (was) a terrorist group." However, within a few months everything would change and a mass media campaign would state "freedom fighters."
This didn't go unrecognized and in the United States Senate, Republican Policy Committee (http://rpc.senate.gov/releases/1999/fr033199.htm), in the report titled The Kosovo Liberation Army: Does Clinton Policy Support Group with Terror, Drug Ties – many hard facts were mentioned.
In this report it was stated by the United States Senate, Republican Party Committee, on March 31, 1999, that "One week into the bombing campaign, there is widespread discussion of options for further actions. One option includes forging a closer relationship between the United States and a controversial group, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), a group which has been cited in unofficial reports for alleged ties to drug cartels and Islamic terrorist organizations. This paper will examine those allegations in the context of the currently unfolding air campaign."
Further down in the report it states "The Kosovo Liberation Army "began on the radical fringe of Kosovar Albanian politics, originally made up of diehard Marxist-Leninists (who were bankrolled in the old days by the Stalinist dictatorship next door in Albania) as well as by descendants of the fascist militias raised by the Italians in World War II" ["Fog of War — Coping With the Truth About Friend and Foe: Victims Not Quite Innocent," New York Times, 3/28/99]. The KLA made its military debut in February 1996 with the bombing of several camps housing Serbian refugees from wars in Croatia and Bosnia [Jane's Intelligence Review, 10/1/96]. The KLA (again according to the highly regarded Jane's,) "does not take into consideration the political or economic importance of its victims, nor does it seem at all capable of seriously hurting its enemy, the Serbian police and army. Instead, the group has attacked Serbian police and civilians arbitrarily at their weakest points. It has not come close to challenging the region's balance of military power" [Jane's, 10/1/96].
Therefore, in the heart of America and with information from only Western sources the KLA were supported by the "descendants of the fascist militias raised by the Italians in World War Two" and had been bankrolled by the Stalinist dictatorship in Albania because they had originally been "diehard Marxist-Leninists." Of course the sweeping sands of time meant that the old ways of Marxist-Leninism was coming to an end and now a powerful Islamic terrorist reality was gathering in strength in many parts of the world.
The report continues by stating "The group expanded its operations with numerous attacks through 1996 but was given a major boost with the collapse into chaos of neighboring Albania in 1997, which afforded unlimited opportunities for the introduction of arms into Kosovo from adjoining areas of northern Albania, which are effectively out of the control of the Albanian government in Tirana. From its inception, the KLA has targeted not only Serbian security forces, who may be seen as legitimate targets for a guerrilla insurgency, but Serbian and Albanian civilians as well."
Further down the report it states that "In order to get the Albanians'… acceptance [of the peace plan], Ms. Albright offered incentives intended to show that Washington is a friend of Kosovo…Officers in the Kosovo Liberation Army would . . . be sent to the United States for training in transforming themselves from a guerrilla group into a police force or a political entity, much like the African National Congress did in South Africa." [New York Times, 2/24/99]
"The Times' comparison of treatment of the KLA with that of the African National Congress (ANC) — a group with its own history of terror attacks on political opponents, including members of the ethnic group it claims to represent — is a telling one. In fact, it points to the seemingly consistent Clinton policy of cultivating relationships with groups known for terrorist violence — not only the ANC, but the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) — in what may be a strategy of attempting to wean away a group from its penchant for violence by adopting its cause as an element of U.S. policy."
Therefore, whoever said that terrorism didn't work had never met Bill Clinton because he was open to all and sundry in the pursuit of goals that were not a concern of America. The tragic reality from a British point of view is that not only had the Serbs in history been allies of the British but now the U.K. under Tony Blair was selling its soul.
Turning back to the report it states that "Among the most troubling aspects of the Clinton Administration's effective alliance with the KLA are numerous reports from reputable unofficial sources — including the highly respected Jane's publications — that the KLA is closely involved with:
The extensive Albanian crime network that extends throughout Europe and into North America, including allegations that a major portion of the KLA finances are derived from that network, mainly proceeds from drug trafficking; and
Terrorist organizations motivated by the ideology of radical Islam, including assets of Iran and of the notorious Osama bin-Ladin — who has vowed a global terrorist war against Americans and American interests."
"The second and more troubling observation is that the Clinton Administration has demonstrated, to an unprecedented degree, an unfortunate tendency — in some cases possibly involving an improper politicization of traditionally non-political government agencies — to manage or conceal inconvenient information that might call into question some of its policies. Examples of this tendency include:
"Iranian arms shipments to Bosnia: The Clinton Administration concealed its active cooperation with the Iranians for arms shipments to the Muslim fundamentalist regime of Alija Izetbegovic in Bosnia in violation of the United Nations arms embargo on the former Yugoslavia. [For details on the Clinton Administration's active connivance with the Iranians, see RPC's "Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into Militant Islamic Base," 1/16/97.] This track record undermines the Clinton Administration's insistence that Russia, as a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, is obligated to observe the same embargo with respect to Serbia [as stated by State Department spokesman James Rubin, daily briefing, March 24, 1999]. "
"Eradication of the Serbs in Krajina: The Clinton Administration has stalled efforts to investigate what has been called the "biggest ethnic cleansing" of the Balkan wars, one which the Clinton Administration may itself have helped to facilitate: "
"Investigators at the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague have concluded that the Croatian Army carried out summary executions, indiscriminate shelling of civilian populations and 'ethnic cleansing' during a 1995 assault that was a turning point in the Balkan wars, according to tribunal documents. The investigators have recommended that three Croatian generals be indicted, and an American official said this week that the indictments could come within a few weeks. . . . Any indictment of Croatian Army generals could prove politically troublesome for the Clinton Administration, which has a delicate relationship with Croatia, an American ally in preserving the peace in Bosnia with a poor human rights record. The August 1995 Croatian offensive, which drove some 100,000 Serbs from a large swath of Croatia over four days, was carried out with the tacit blessing of the United States by a Croatian Army that had been schooled in part by a group of retired American military officers. Questions still remain about the full extent of United States involvement. In the course of the three-year investigation into the assault, the United States has failed to provide critical evidence requested by the tribunal, according to tribunal documents and officials, adding to suspicion among some there that Washington is uneasy about the investigation. Two senior Canadian military officers, for example, who were in Croatia during the offensive, testified that the assault, in which some 3,000 shells rained down on the city of Knin over 48 hours, was indiscriminate and targeted civilians….A section of the tribunal's 150-page report is headed: 'The Indictment. Operation Storm, A Prima Facie Case.': 'During the course of the military offensive, the Croatian armed forces and special police committed numerous violations of international humanitarian law, including but not limited to, shelling of Knin and other cities,' the report says. 'During, and in the 100 days following the military offensive, at least 150 Serb civilians were summarily executed, and many hundreds disappeared.' The crimes also included looting and burning, the report says." ["War Crimes Panel Finds Croat Troops 'Cleansed' the Serbs," New York Times, 3/21/99]
"The Krajina episode — the largest in the recent Yugoslav wars, at least until this week in Kosovo — exposes the hypocrisy of the Clinton claims as to why intervention in Kosovo is a humanitarian imperative:"
"Within four days, the Croatians drove out 150,000 Serbs, the largest [until this week] ethnic cleansing of the entire Balkan wars. Investigators in the Hague have concluded that this campaign was carried out with brutality, wanton murder, and indiscriminate shelling of civilians. . . . Krajina is Kosovo writ large. And yet, at the same time, the U.S. did not stop or even protest the Croatian action. The Clinton Administration tacitly encouraged it." [Charles Krauthammer, "The Clinton Doctrine," Time magazine, 4/5/99]
"In short, the absence of official confirmation of the reports cited below can hardly be considered the last word in the matter. And given this Administration's record, one might treat with some degree of skepticism even a flat denial of KLA drug and terror ties — which thus far has not been offered. As the Clinton Administration searches for new options in its Kosovo policy, these reports about KLA should not be lightly dismissed."
The report is clearly damning and you had a political leader in Washington who was an ally of Islamic terrorists in Bosnia who had slaughtered Orthodox Christians and video-taped beheading them. Not only this, it didn't matter to individuals like Bill Clinton that the American administration was not only working with international Islamic terrorists in the heart of Europe but also the administration was in cahoots with an organization which clearly benefited from narcotics in many European cities.
Indeed, it makes you wonder why Bill Clinton isn't sent to the Hague for war crimes and this applies to tacit support of massacres and ethnic cleansing in Krajina, allowing international terrorists to have a free-hand in Bosnia and allying the American administration to a tainted narcotics organization.
The report also states that "Elements informally known as the "Albanian mafia," composed largely of ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, have for several years been a feature of the criminal underworld in a number of cities in Europe and North America; they have been particularly prominent in the trade in illegal narcotics. [See, for example,"The Albanian Cartel: Filling the Crime Void," Jane's Intelligence Review, November 1995.] The cities where the Albanian cartels are located are also fertile ground for fundraising for support of the Albanian cause in Kosovo." [See, for example, "Albanians in Exile Send Millions of Dollars to Support the KLA," BBC, 3/12/99.]
"The reported link between drug activities and arms purchases for anti-Serb Albanian forces in Kosovo predates the formation of the KLA, and indeed, may be seen as a key resource that allowed the KLA to establish itself as a force in the first place:"
"Narcotics smuggling has become a prime source of financing for civil wars already under way — or rapidly brewing — in southern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, according to a report issued here this week. The report, by the Paris-based Observatoire Geopolitique des Drogues, or Geopolitical Observatory of Drugs, identifies belligerents in the former Yugoslav republics and Turkey as key players in the region's accelerating drugs-for-arms traffic. Albanian nationalists in ethnically tense Macedonia and the Serbian province of Kosovo have built a vast heroin network, leading from the opium fields of Pakistan to black-market arms dealers in Switzerland, which transports up to $2 billion worth of the drug annually into the heart of Europe, the report says. More than 500 Kosovo or Macedonian Albanians are in prison in Switzerland for drug- or arms-trafficking offenses, and more than 1,000 others are under indictment. The arms are reportedly stockpiled in Kosovo for eventual use against the Serbian government in Belgrade, which imposed a violent crackdown on Albanian autonomy advocates in the province five years ago." ["Separatists Supporting Themselves with Traffic in Narcotics," San Francisco Chronicle, 6/10/94]
Over a decade later and what do we have? Yes, a Kosovo where Serbian Orthodox Christianity is being dismantled and a Kosovo leadership implicated in organ scandals and killing witnesses.
Not surprisingly everything is unraveling but despite this implicated individuals are still allowed to enter America. Therefore, for neutrals it is galling and a crime against humanity and for individuals who were against supporting radical Islam and narcotic tainted organizations, it is justification for not allowing this issue to disappear because the legacy of the Clinton agenda continues.
If the current Serbian government is sincere about war crimes and sending Serbian individuals to the international court in the Hague, then why no pressure on individuals who supported war crimes against Serbs?
Indeed, the Serbian government should ask for former leaders like Bill Clinton to be sent to the international criminal court in the Hague, and then he should defend his actions of supporting Islamic terrorism and narcotic tainted organizations. The rat-lines don't only apply to the United States because former leaders in the United Kingdom should also be made to account because all sides committed crimes in the Balkans but only one side was mainly blamed.
Of course, the reality of democracy is that "might" wins. Therefore, the deaths of tens of thousands of innocents doesn't even enter the radar and major powers can manipulate law when it suits or to ignore international law when they desire.
The consequences of past policies in Kosovo, is that today you have a tainted leadership implicated in organ scandals and key witnesses dying in mysterious circumstances. At the same time more nations are supporting Kosovo independence despite all this. Therefore, it certainly seems that Serbian Orthodox Christian blood is not only cheap, but in truth it doesn't seem to matter amongst the elites which waged a war against a people who had been allies in both world wars.
Today in Europe you have Orthodox Christian ghettos in Kosovo and no justice for past wrongs and the ongoing reality of modern day Kosovo.
Therefore, while events are still unraveling against leaders within Kosovo, it still seems that none of this will count to nations that recognized Kosovo independence. Also, if Ratko Mladic and others are being held accountable then why aren't others like Bill Clinton?
Democracy and justice never flourishes when the system is corrupt to start with and this can be seen by the current reality in Kosovo. However, if no Serbs remain in Kosovo because of institutional discrimination, fear of entering Kosovo Albanian areas, no economic future, and so forth – then the fate accompli of Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and the organ-narcotic-terrorist tainted KLA will have won the day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lSRFC-jVPw (Islamists in Bosnia because of USA, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Islamist Alija Izetbegovic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03DQJ7skClg&feature=related (Islamists in Bosnia because of USA, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Islamist Alija Izetbegovic)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyl5wxJPIQs (Muslim massacres of Christians)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/rival-muslims-battle-on-in-bihac-1422695.html (Inter Muslim fighting – Serbs supported moderate Muslims)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onbxpq3qI0c (Henry Kissinger)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1w4p1J9fyg&NR=1 (Henry Kissinger)
KOSOVO AND ORGAN SCANDAL – All sources are American and from the United Kingdom


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Algiers Point ferry service suspended Thursday
Workers to make repairs to terminal
The temporary suspension of ferry service at Algiers Point set for Wednesday has been rescheduled for Thursday because of inclement weather.
The suspension will begin at 6 a.m. and will run until 3:30 p.m. so that repairs can be made to the Algiers Point Ferry Terminal, the Louisiana Department of Transportation announced.
Pedestrians may use the Gretna/Canal Street Ferry or RTA Bus Service as alternative routes to the east bank.
Ferry service from Algiers Point will resume at 3:30 p.m. or when the reinstallation is completed. If the repairs are not completed by 3:30 p.m., the ferry will resume its route and another temporary closure will be announced for an additional date.
A portion of the terminal suffered structural damage following Hurricane Isaac. Passengers have been using a temporary ramp following the storm.


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Avila's ninth-inning home run lifts Tigers in stunner
Sanchez K's 11 over 7 2/3 frames as Detroit bumps division lead to four
CLEVELAND -- Indians manager Terry Francona admitted he had a bad feeling about Alex Avila. It came in the second inning against Corey Kluber in a pitching duel, not the ninth inning against Chris Perez in a Tigers comeback for an eventual 4-2 win.
It was a drive to deep left-center field that speedy Michael Bourn ran down at the base of the wall.
"When he hits the ball that direction, he makes me nervous," Francona said he told third-base coach Brad Mills at the time.
Left-center is where Avila hits for power when he's right. He got away from that in stretches and it hurt him. He hasn't hit for the same power the last two years that he did during his All-Star season, but when he connected with Perez's fastball on the outside corner and sent it in that same direction, Francona had that same bad feeling.
When it cleared the high wall in left-center for a go-ahead three-run homer, it sent the home portion of the crowd of 24,381 at Progressive Field from a roar into a rage.
It sent the Tigers dugout, silenced like the offense for much of Monday evening, into euphoria. What looked like a shutout loss to their division pursuers swung within four batters to the Tigers' ninth consecutive win, their longest streak since their September 2011 winning streak that turned the division race into a runaway.
"To be honest with you, it was so loud in our dugout after I got in there, I didn't notice it," Avila said of the crowd reaction. "I'm not doing it to shut up the crowd, but it's definitely a nice feature about it."
Exactly one year earlier, the crowd reaction was exactly the opposite when the Tigers got to Perez for a go-ahead homer. That was a Miguel Cabrera walk-off blast in extra innings at Comerica Park. The Tigers were still chasing the White Sox at that point, but the win essentially put free-falling Cleveland away in the division race.
This time, the Tribe and Tigers are the two main contestants in this division duel, and their four-game series could set the tone for the stretch run, whichever way it leans. The comeback stretched Detroit's lead to four games, its largest advantage since June 23.
The fact that it came from Avila, not Cabrera or one of the Tigers' many other bigger threats, might seem to make it bigger. Yet Avila has shown a knack for this.
The last reliever to give up a go-ahead homer to Avila in the ninth inning is now in the Tigers bullpen. Avila hit a two-run homer off then-Astros closer Jose Veras on May 3 to pull out a comeback win in Houston.
Before that, there was the two-run walk-off shot off former Red Sox reliever Mark Melancon in the 11th inning last year, turning a one-run deficit into a one-run win. Then there was the game-tying two-run shot off Sergio Santos in Chicago two years ago, or the go-ahead shot in the same place exactly 13 months earlier off J.J. Putz.
Add them up, and Avila now has five game-tying or go-ahead home runs in the ninth inning or later, according to research on baseball-reference.com. Seventeen of his 49 career home runs are go-ahead or game-tying shots.
Just like in Houston, the normally reserved Avila raised his fist rounding first base as he saw the ball clear the high fence in left-center field. The boos, meanwhile, rained down on Perez (4-2).
"It feels good," Avila said. "It's exactly how you think it would feel. I mean, I've done it before, so I've had that feeling a few times."
For eight innings, the Indians were on their way to reducing their division deficit to two games, holding down Detroit's offense in its first day without just-suspended Jhonny Peralta. Anibal Sanchez and Detroit's defense, however, kept the game within reach for just something like this.
Detroit's new-look defense featuring Jose Iglesias at short did its part to keep it close. Austin Jackson made a leaping catch at the center-field fence to steal a hit away from Lonnie Chisenhall with two outs and Jason Giambi at first base in the second inning. Prince Fielder made a diving stop down the first-base line to rob Jason Kipnis of extra bases, and Andy Dirks made a grab on the warning track in left.
Add in 11 strikeouts over 7 2/3 innings from starter Anibal Sanchez, his first game in double digits since May 24, and the Tigers gave themselves a chance. The Tigers held their opponent to two runs or less for the sixth consecutive game and the 11th time in 15 games since the All-Star Game. They've only lost one of those in the bunch.
Still, heading into the ninth, Sanchez was in line to become the first Tigers pitcher since Jack Morris in 1988 to lose a game with that many strikeouts over that many innings.
Perez took the mound in the ninth having saved 11 games in as many chances since his return in late June, allowing just two runs on 13 hits over 19 innings in that stretch. The Tigers needed just three swings to double that without recording an out.
Prince Fielder, who had a 10-pitch battle, but a strikeout to show for it in his previous at-bat, doubled into the left-field corner to lead off the inning before Victor Martinez's single sent him around. Andy Dirks' walk moved pinch-runner Hernan Perez into scoring position for Avila.
"He's been producing a little bit since he's been back [from the disabled list] to be honest with you," manager Jim Leyland said. "He's been hitting the ball in the gap. ... That's the kind of hitter we need him to be for us."
Detroit missed a chance to add on from there, but the two-run lead was enough for Tigers closer Joaquin Benoit, who retired the side in order for his 13th save in as many opportunities.


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VA hospital wait time concerns spread to Valley
AUSTIN - Concerns about scheduling practices at veterans' hospitals in Central Texas and San Antonio have spread to the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.
A former top official at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Harlingen told investigators that unreliable tests were substituted for colonoscopies, according to documents obtained by the Austin American-Statesman.
The closest VA provider who performed colonoscopies was four hours from Harlingen, and the VA did not want to pay to provide them closer, Dr. Richard Krugman, former associate chief of staff at the hospital, told investigators.
"Patient care was impacted by the VA's requirements to cut costs," Krugman said.
Manipulated data
The Department of Veterans Affairs is investigating scheduling practices at its hospitals in Texas as part of a nationwide audit of access to care.
A whistleblower at San Antonio's North Central Federal Clinic, Brian Turner, said he and other clerks were instructed to manipulate scheduling data so that it appeared there were no wait times.
State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, chairs the Texas Senate's Veterans Affairs committee.
On Monday, she called for an independent investigation of the wait time concerns at the clinics. She demanded accountability from top VA officials over Turner's allegations.
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"If found true, these actions represent a terrible breach of trust with veterans who rely on the VA health care system," Van de Putte said in a statement.
"The performance standard for veterans to see a doctor is 14 days," Van de Putte said. "However, my own staff has been told that the nearest appointment was 4 months away."
Van de Putte said she intends to hold hearings on the matter.
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn called the allegations "outrageous and absolutely unacceptable, and the Administration's response to this ongoing scandal has been tepid at best.
"Our veterans deserve the highest level of treatment, and it is becoming clear that leadership at the VA has been more concerned with the appearance of care rather than how they provided it," the Texas Republican said in a written statement.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02), Ranking Democratic Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, as well as Co-Chair of the Congressional Military Family Caucus, released the following statement today concerning the U.S. Department of Defense's decision not to close any domestic military bases in fiscal year 2013.
"I am pleased with Defense Secretary [Leon] Panetta's announcement regarding the proposed round of BRAC for the next fiscal year," said Congressman Bishop. "It is great news not only for Fort Benning, the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, Robins Air Force Base, and other bases in Georgia, but for service members and their families throughout the entire state. I look forward to continuing my work with my colleagues in the Georgia Congressional Delegation, Governor Deal, and the Georgia Military Affairs Coordinating Committee [GMACC] in strengthening our bases in Georgia."
The U.S. Department of Defense's Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) serves to strategically downsize the physical infrastructure of the United States military both stateside and abroad. While previous rounds of BRAC have cut DOD expenditures, the process shifts military families and threatens thousands of jobs within supporting communities surrounding the closing bases. In June, Congressman Sanford Bishop attended a bi-partisan roundtable with GMACC, military leadership, and representatives from Governor Deal's office to discuss and prepare for the potential impact of BRAC on Georgia. The Department of Defense has announced that another round of base realignment and closure will be revisited in 2015 after the economy has fully recovered if it is approved by Congress.


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Mr. Bhavin Shah, Managing Director of Prasad GWK Cooltech Pvt. Ltd.
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