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Mermen Arrive at B Ocean Resort's Wreck Bar
An all-male underwater burlesque show? Your dreams have come true, thanks to MeduSirena's Aquanauts, who arrive this February at B Ocean Resort.
The weekly show opens February 7 and will play weekly (Thursday night's) at the resort's world-famous Wreck Bar. Titled "AQUAMEN, Underwater Burlesque Show," expect plenty of unique underwater entertainment with music by DJ Kenny, as well as meet-and-greets and photo ops.
B Ocean Resort was originally built in 1956 and has been reimagined for the modern traveler. The oceanfront locale is ideal for rest and relaxation, and just minutes away from Fort Lauderdale's bustling LGBTQ neighborhood Wilton Manors. Of course, if you hook a merman, you won't have to travel far for a good time.


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NEW YORK, NY — Dos Equis, one of the fastest growing upscale import brands in the U.S., is taking the sports-viewing experience to a more interesting level at retail and on-premise with the debut of the Dos Equis Game Changer activation. Running January through March, Game Changer inspires adults to take their in-home sports viewing experiences to new heights while enjoying Dos Equis Lager and Dos Equis Ambar.
At retail, the Dos Equis Game Changer program elements will embrace shopper's tournament season passions via engaging POS and channel relevant offers that inspire them to create unique game-viewing experiences and share that excitement with friends. Compelling cross-merchandising Instant Redeemable Coupons (IRC) and Mail In Rebates (MIR) offers (where legal) on the purchase of select high-margin food items and Dos Equis Lager and Ambar will create buzz and consideration while driving incremental basket rings for participating retailers.
In the on-premise, Dos Equis invites patrons to get into the competitive spirit by submitting their own version of the television legend lines for a bracket tournament. The best legend lines are selected by the bar staff and showcased on the official Most Interesting Bracket Poster for all to see. At the end of the tournament, patrons can return to the account to vote for their favorite lines. The Most Interesting Legend Line winners earn bragging rights and localized Dos Equis rewards (where legal).
"Dos Equis consumers are big sports fans who embrace the passion and emotion of the January through March football and basketball tournament season," said Gwendolyn Boyce, Brand Director Dos Equis at HEINEKEN USA. "The Most Interesting Legend Line Tournament leverages our successful Most Interesting Man campaign by engaging consumers in a competitive way on-premise, while also generating return traffic for the account."
About HEINEKEN USA
HEINEKEN USA Inc., the nation's leading upscale beer importer, is a subsidiary of Heineken International BV, the world's most international brewer. European brands imported into the U.S. include Heineken Lager, the world's most international beer brand, Heineken Light, Amstel Light, Newcastle Brown Ale, and Strongbow cider. HEINEKEN USA also imports the Dos Equis portfolio, Tecate portfolio, Sol, Indio, Carta Blanca and Bohemia brands from Mexico. For a safe ride home, download the HEINEKEN USA-sponsored Taxi MagicÔäó application from your smartphone at taximagic.heineken.com.

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By Dan Tilkin KATU News and KATU.com Staff Published: Dec 3, 2012 at 6:25 PM PST
VANCOUVER, Wash. – When possession of small amounts of marijuana becomes legal in Washington in three days, there will be a DUI limit of five nanograms of THC that you can have in your blood.
But how will police officers detect that in drivers?
There will be specially trained officers to figure out how much THC is in a driver's blood. They're called Drug Recognition Experts or DREs for short.
They've actually been around for a long time. But now that some of the stigma of having pot is being lifted, more people may be willing to smoke it and get behind the wheel stoned.
There are about a dozen police officers in Clark County trained as DREs to recognize the signs of when people are high on pot, cocaine, heroin and prescription medications.
Officers like Ryan Martin with the Vancouver Police Department can tell if someone is high on pot or other drugs based on a series of eye tests. For example, if drivers can't cross their eyes, they're likely high. There are other tests, too, that require the driver to hold his balance while counting at the same time.
"We're looking to see if there's any sway while your foot's up; we're looking to see if your arms come out for balance; we're looking to see if you put your foot down, and we're also looking to see if you start hopping because you start to lose your balance," said Martin. "So there're four clues, and what the studies done by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (show), two clues of impairment are enough to suggest that somebody is impaired."
He said someone's perception of time is also affected while under the influence of marijuana. That's because time tends to slow down for people high on pot so their counting slows down. People on meth speed their counting up.
Officers will also test to see if drivers can follow directions to find out "their ability to focus on what you told them to do," Martin said.
There aren't any devices that exist like a Breathalyzer to test people along the roadside for pot and other drugs. But if a driver fails a DRE's roadside test, the driver will be brought to the police station for a lot more testing, including a blood draw. But the blood test results take six to eight weeks to come back.
Plus: "If the person is not cooperative and not willing to provide a blood sample, then we can get a blood search warrant," Martin said.
But getting the search warrant takes time.
Even if the blood sample shows a lower level than the five nanograms of THC, someone can still be charged with DUI if the officer believes the tests show the driver is impaired. That's also how it works with alcohol and the .08 limit.
Checking a drunken driver is much, much easier. It takes two to three times longer to test and process a driver who's high on drugs.
Washington voters passed Initiative 502 last month. It will allow anyone 21 or older to have up to an ounce of pot.


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SHORT BIO (for introductions)
- Served sixteen years in the state legislature, including as Majority leader and the unanimously elected Speaker of the House.
- Served two terms as State Chairman of the Republican Party.
- Co-founder of the Western States Coalition and past Chair of the Congressional Western Caucus.
- Co-founder of the 10th Amendment Task Force in the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Spent twenty-eight years as a high school teacher in Utah, focusing on American History and Government.
- Married to Jeralynn Hansen Bishop. They have five children and seven grandchildren and reside in Brigham City.
- Currently serving his ninth term as a member of the United States House of Representatives
- Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources. Serves on the House Armed Services Committee as a member of the Readiness Subcommittee & the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee.
A public school teacher turned public servant, Rob Bishop represents Utah's First Congressional District in the U.S. Congress.
Rob Bishop is a life-long resident of the First District, with the exception of two years he spent in Germany while serving a mission for the LDS Church. He was born and raised in Kaysville, Utah, where he graduated from Davis High School with High Honors. He later graduated magna cum laude from the University of Utah with a degree in Political Science. He has been a resident of Brigham City since 1974.
Rob is married to Jeralynn Hansen, a former Miss Brigham City. They have five children: Shule, Jarom, Zenock, Maren, and Jashon. They have seven grandchildren.
Before coming to Congress, Rob was active in community theater, which is how he met his wife many years ago. As an avid baseball fan, Rob is a season ticket holder to the Salt Lake Bees and has coached in multiple leagues.
Rob is a devoted public servant. He has served his community in the State Legislature. During his sixteen years representing the Brigham City area, Rob distinguished himself as a leader. His last two years he was unanimously elected to serve as Speaker of the House. He also co-founded the Western States Coalition, a multi-state organization dedicated to protecting states' powers and promoting Western interests and values.
Rob has served his political party for more than thirty years. Rob has worked at nearly every level of the Republican party, from precinct chair to member of the Republican National Committee, and has spent years working in every corner of this District. He has gone from Vice-Chair of the Davis County Teenage Republicans in 1968 to the advisor of the Utah Teenage Republicans in 1996. In 1997, he was elected Chairman of the Utah Republican Party. He served for two terms.
Rob has dedicated his life to teaching. He started teaching at Box Elder High School (BEHS) in Brigham City in 1974. From 1980 through 1985 he taught German and coached debate at Ben Lomond High School in Ogden, Utah, before returning to BEHS. Before retiring in December of 2002, he taught advanced placement courses in government and U.S. History, while serving as the Chair of the History Department at BEHS.
On January 7, 2003, Rob Bishop was sworn in as the new Congressman from Utah's First Congressional District, replacing the retiring Representative Jim Hansen. For his first term, he was appointed to serve on his top three choices for House Committees - the Armed Services Committee, the Resources Committee, and the Science Committee - all three of which handle critical issues for Utah's First District. In January 2005, Rob was sworn into a second term. He was subsequently appointed by the Speaker to serve on the powerful House Rules Committee, the legislative "gatekeeper" for all bills coming to the House floor.
Rob is now in his ninth term in the House. He serves as Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources and as a Senior Member of House Committee on Armed Services where he sits on the Readiness Subcommittee and the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee.


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A journey through the hands of a maker of magical items, discovering not only the secrets of Sacred art, but also the history and preservation of disappearing forms of Artisan work.
Herbal Lore And Magic From The Canary Islands
On December 6, we went to the mountains for our first Winter wildharvesting. Here in the Canary Islands, winter is our green season, and since this year rain has arrived earlier than previous years, everything was lush and filled with beauty – and Mother Nature was extremely generous with us. On this post, I am making a detailed review of the herbs we got, and their medicinal and magical use in our culture.
Llanten – Plantain (Plantago Major): this very humble plant is so full of properties that we have a pot permanently growing on our garden. Cleans and disinfects inner and outer wounds, its tea is used for all kind of infections and viruses, specially those related to the upper respiratory system. It is also used to improve hair growth and health. Magically, it is used for protection and healing magic, and also to beauty/glamour spells.
Tedera – Arabian Pea (Bituminaria Bituminosa): another roadside plant, with a characteristic scent of tar, that has many properties. Stops bleeding on cuts (so it can be used as a spot-on band-aid), heals the bites of bees, wasps, fleas and other insects, and it is also used to lower blood sugar levels. Magically, it is used for protection magic, specially when hex-breaking is involved, and to remove negative spirits from a house.
Malva – Mallow (Malva Sylvestris): common mallow is a blessing for any kind of illnesses of the mouth and throat. Applying heat to the leaves and placing them on the skin, eases muscle and bone pain; it is also a very useful laxative if used in small amounts. Magically, it is used on cleansing and road opening work, but I personally have used it with excellent results in love magic, specially those works that require reconciliation or sweetening between lovers.
Peral – Pear Tree (Pyrus Communis): Since it is a great diuretic, it is a wonderful aid for those with water retention problems, and/or weak kidneys. It is also very useful for healing ulcers, internal or external. Magically, it is used in healing and cleansing magic, specially the wood, which is used for making charms and objects to protect the user – for example, the crib of a baby.
Eucalipto – Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus Globulus): there is no other plant that can clean your respiratory system as Eucalyptus can. The vapours help dissolving mucus and phlegm, and also the smoke of the burnt leaves and even the infusion are used for this purpose. Magically, few plants can be a stronger protection against negative magic than this one, as it is one of the most aggressive type of tree – did you know that an eucalyptus can inhibit other plants from growing around it?
Salvia Morisca – Moorish Sage (Salvia Canariensis): this plant shares the abundant properties of most varieties of Sage; here in the islands it is used mainly as a very effective wash for all kinds of infections, wounds and inflammations; eases colds and upset stomachs, and traditionally it is believed to clear the mind and spirit after susto (a big shock, like a sudden death or an accident). Magically, it is widely known its amazing power to cleanse, bless and protect from negative energies.
Pimentero – Pepper Tree (Schinus Molle): Despite its name, this tree has nothing to do with any kind of peppers; its name comes from the fact that its fruits are very similar to pepper seeds. Diuretic, heals scars, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic, and very useful to relieve pain. Magically, it is a tree with a strong connection to Angelic entities, and thus a very powerful protection tree.
Canarian Sayings Related To Herbs And Health (For A Little Fun)
"Si coges salvia en el campo, no quedarás ni cojo ni manco."
If you gather Sage in the field, you won't end up neither limping nor one-armed.
"Con ortiga y tomillo, tendrás pelo hasta los tobillos."
With nettle and thyme, your hair will grown down to your ankles.
"Malos humores, salen con muchos sudores."
Bad humours come out with a lot of sweating.
"Flores de tila y naranjo, al más malo lo hacen manso."
Flowers of linden and orange tree, make the most evil (person) docile.
"Berros sin cocinar, seguro, seguro, te vas a mear."
Uncooked watercress, for sure, for sure, you are going to pee often.
Removing A Curse In The Tradition Of Santiguado
The Canarian healer/witch is called a Santiguador (male) or Santiguadora (female), a word which could be translated as "he/she who makes (someone) holy". The tradition of Santiguado (this word refers to the prayer and treatment applied to the patient), as most ancient healing traditions, mixes prayer, ritual and herbal lore on equal parts. The example below is intended to remove "maloficio" (evil eye, curse, negative magic work):
Herbal treatment:
A bottle of red wine;
Three eggs, laid on the day the work is done;
A handful of each of these herbs, fresh or dry: tea, lemon tree (leaves), orange tree (leaves), basil and wild grapevine.
The mixture is slowly cooked together until the wine reduces its volume in half, filtered and then three stones from the furnace that are red hot are placed in the liquid to remove any negative energies from it. The patient must keep this mixture in the fridge and drink a small cup every morning before having any other food or drink.
The patient sits in front of the Santiguadora, a pot filled with water placed between them. The Santiguadora makes the sign of the cross continuously over the water with the right hand, while reciting this prayer:
"Si en la cruz te mato, "If on the cross you are killed,
con la cruz me das vida, with the cross you give me life,
Con el Espíritu Santo along with the Holy Spirit
Y la Virgen María. And the Virgin Mary.
¡Oh Madre de los Remedios! Oh Mother of all remedies!
¡Madre de los pecadores! Mother of all sinners!
Remédiame lo que tengo Heal my ailment
y quítame los dolores. And remove my pains.
Cuando vayas a misa When you go to mass
y entres en la iglesia, And enter the church,
¿Qué es lo primero que rezas? What's the first prayer you say?
Un Padre Nuestro y un Avemaría." A Holy Father and a Hail Mary."
Then, the water is thrown away at a crossroads, saying:
"Esta agua bendita "This holy water
que te riego aquí, that I spill here,
que te pongas buena (for) you are healed
y no se me pegue a mí." (and so the ailment)
doesn't stick to me"
Note – all words between brackets on the English translation are added by me to make the meaning of the prayer easier to understand.
Note II - this article was originally published in my Newsletter - you can subscribe to it here.
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
Ms. Gonzalez,
Happy New Year to you and yours! Thank you for sharing the Canary Island herbal lore, and the curse-removal ritual of the Santiguador.
Your posts are always great to read!· Carolina Gonzalez likes this comment.
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
Pumpkin Patch Kid - Circa Oct. 2010
9 comments:
- Lauren Byers said...
cute!! he's grown up so much! I love the pumpkin patch! I will have to take Cole to one here somewhere :)
- October 6, 2011 at 9:12 AM
- thatjordangirl said...
We did our engagements in a pumpkin patch and they're still some of my favorite photos ever. I love these, they're so great!!
- October 6, 2011 at 10:40 AM
- Liz said...
Aww he's such an angel! And that is just the perfect pumpkin patch outfit. Adorable!
- October 6, 2011 at 10:52 AM
- Davis Valley Classic said...
I'm so excited for tomorrow! I love these pictures Brooks, he looks so little! He will call all the pumpkins "ball" and Grant will probably just try to take bites out of all of them. This should be great!
- October 6, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- Ashley said...
I'm new to your blog and your little boy is so cute! I can't wait to take my little girl to the pumpkin patch this year. You look like you had a good time.
- October 6, 2011 at 3:40 PM
how absolutely adorable! have a great weekend!
- October 7, 2011 at 1:54 AM
- Mighty Burns said...
what a freaking cutie pie!!!
And WOW! Thats soooo many pumpkins!
- October 7, 2011 at 2:12 PM
- Ashley {hudson's happenings} said...
Oh my goodness! Look at that little bundle of love surrounded by pumpkins!? These pictures are so so so so precious...they belong in a magazine! BEAUTIFUL BABY magazine! (is there such a thing? Because Brooks totally deserves a starring spread in such a publication.)
I can't wait to see this year's pumpkin patch pictures! It will be so fun to compare this time with the last time. :)
I am counting the days until we visit our pumpkin patch....we have such great memories of last year (like you) and I can't wait to see what Hudson does this year! They even take you on a wagon ride to pick out your own pumpkin from the patch....I am so excited! :D
HAPPY Weekend to you, Haley! xo
- October 7, 2011 at 10:03 PM
Such sweet pictures! We went pumpkin picking this past weekend and as I watched Emma toddle everywhere, I thought of this time last year and how she was a two-month-old little baby, sleeping in my arms as we walked through the very same patch. What a difference a year makes. :)
Hope you're feeling well! Keep the cute pictures coming! :)
Kim @ Little Rays of Sunshine
- October 10, 2011 at 6:49 PM


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Let the games begin! The nation and world have been captivated by the Olympic spirit for the past few weeks. Like most, we have been glued to our devices trying to catch all the games, especially soccer. While watching, we started to wonder, are there any Olympic athletes who stick to a plant-based diet? Turns out there are plenty! Some might balk at a vegetarian athlete and feel they wouldn't be able to keep up due to lack of protein and such, but many have proven that wrong, becoming elite athletes and Olympic winners. In case you aren't sure who to root for or just want to copy their awesome healthy diet, we thought we'd discuss some of the best of the best.
Since the Olympics are being hosted by the Brits, we thought we'd start there. Early in the games you may have heard the name Lizzie Armistead, as she won Britain's first medal of the games in women's cycling. She was the apple of Britain's eye for bringing in their very first medal of the London games, but her diet was also being highly publicized. The 23-year-old athlete has been living a vegetarian lifestyle since the age of 10, when she decided to hold the meat.
But it isn't just our friends across the pond who are going plant-based. A month or so before the games began, veteran Olympic swimmer, Natalie Coughlin discussed her mostly plant-based diet in an interview with Fitness magazine. She said she needs to be in tip-top shape while competing and for her that means following a vegetarian diet. Coughlin talks of how she grows her own veggies, sticks to a lot of greens, and loves to make smoothies with "coconut water, kale, spinach and romaine lettuce mixed with apples, celery, or pineapple." She finished the London games by winning a Bronze along with her US swimming teammates.
Our neighbors to the North also have a plant-based athlete to boast of. Dylan Wykes, a champion marathon runner who will be competing in the London Olympics this weekend, first went vegetarian based on personal ethics. Preparing for the 2012 Olympics, his diet garnered some press. He discussed how protein intake is highly important for distance runners, but he eats protein rich foods such as quinoa, beans, and leafy greens while training. Wykes is one of the best runners hailing from Canada in decades and veggie fueled performance is highly anticipated.
London will not only be hosting vegetarian athletes on the field, but off as well. Former US soccer Olympian Kara Lang, whose career was cut short due to a knee injury, is a women's soccer analyst this summer. She went vegan while she was still playing soccer and received plenty of flack for it. Her coaches and trainers were worried it would affect her performance, but she pushed on and proved them wrong. She eats mostly whole foods and limits her intake of faux meats. Of her experience with the vegan diet, she stated "My body was just more efficient…If you become a vegan and you do it properly, you're not eating processed food anymore. Instead of spending all this energy clearing out toxins and metabolizing food we're not meant to eat, your body can focus on recovery."
It is definitely inspiring to see these top of the line Olympians thriving on a plant-based diet and receiving publicity for it. It's not only current athletes, there are plenty of famous historic veggie Olympians including Carl Lewis, Murray "Seaweed Streak" Rose, and Charlene Wong to name a few. Check out Ecorazzi's great article on the Top 10 Historic Vegetarian and Vegan Olympians for more information. We salute all the awesome veg top athletes competing in the London Olympics!


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The Gender and Sexuality and Theater programs will host performance artist Tim Miller for a weeklong workshop from Monday, April 16, through Friday, April 20, in the Hepburn Teaching Theater at Goodhart Hall.
"We are genuinely delighted to have the opportunity to host Tim Miller as he conducts this workshop on the Bryn Mawr campus," says Professor of History Sharon Ullman, coordinator of the Gender and Sexuality Program. "His courageous artistry has inspired a generation of performers who have looked to his bold explorations of queer life as a touchstone. His work incorporates such warmth and wit that I'm very confident our students, no matter what histories they wish to explore in their performances, are going to have a wonderful time in this workshop."
Miller became the focus of a good deal of media attention after Villanova University reversed its decision to host the workshop earlier this week.
"My goal is to share a variety of strategies to create original performances from the tremendous energies and stories that are present in our lives. Using our own memories and myths as a jumping off point, we will see where a deep sense of personal history creates performance that jumps out from our bodies onto the stage or the page," says Miller of the workshops.
The performance workshops focus on identity and culture, questions of diversity and difference, knowledge of self and others, and related themes. Throughout the week, each participant will develop and refine her/his own original, solo piece that will be performed on Friday, April 20. Workshops are scheduled to be held from 6:30 to 10 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Friday for the workshop and performance.
There are currently 14 slots available for those interested in attending the workshops, which are open to any member of the Bi-Co community including students, faculty, and staff. Those interested in attending the workshops should contact Ullman at sullman(at)brynmawr(dot)edu.
Miller's solo theater works have been presented all over North America, Australia, and Europe at such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is the author of the books Shirts & Skin, Body Blows and 1001 Beds, which won the 2007 literary prize for best Drama-Theater book from Lambda Literary Foundation. Miller has taught performance in the theater departments at UCLA and at Cal State Los Angeles. He is a founder of two of the most influential performance spaces in the United States: Performance Space 122 on Manhattan's Lower East Side and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, Calif.


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The new digital economy's biggest resource is data. From Google's recording of internet search habits to Amazon's storing of credit card numbers, companies are busy pumping and extracting data, all to grease the wheels of commerce.
But a few companies are looking at helping consumers regain control of their own data – an idea that, if it takes off, would redraw the power relationships of the internet.
The concept is spreading slowly, with a handful of start-ups offering "data lockers", or secure areas online where consumers can collect and store personal information such as telephone numbers, employment details and utility bills. But the idea is not only to keep all this information in one place but also to give people more control over who gets to see it.
Shane Green, chief executive and co-founder of Personal, a US-based data locker service, believes eventually the era will come to an end where companies such as Facebook and Amazon hold vast stores of personal data, while individuals have little idea what data is held about them and where.
"If one e-commerce site stores everything about you and then gets hacked, you don't know who has all your credit card details," says Mr Green. "There is a lot of concern about security and privacy online, but there have not been many tools to do anything about it. Now, we are enabling people to go from talking about the problem to a solution."
Maarten Louman, a partner at Qiy, a Dutch foundation that offers internet users secure personal data areas, agrees. "The average Dutch person's information is on 1,500 databases, but you don't know which these are and what it is used for," he says. "People are bothered by it, but there is no alternative, private way to use the internet."
A study of Dutch consumers commissioned by Qiy found that 80 per cent wanted to know more about who had their data and 85 per cent wanted more control over their data.
Data locker companies are starting with very simple offerings. Personal, for example, helps to automate the process of filling in online forms. Open an account with Personal and fill in details such as your social security number and bank account and the next time you are faced with yet another online form, the fields can be automatically filled in with a click of the mouse. This service is proving popular, for example, with students filling in the very long federal student loan forms supplied by the US Department of Education, Mr Green says.
Qiy, meanwhile, is working with Ernst & Young, the business advisers, in Belgium and the Netherlands, connecting employees' details – such as salary and pension payments – to Qiy's secure personal data system. Not only is it easier for the staff to view, Mr Louman says, but if workers are looking to take out a mortgage or buy insurance, they can give banks and insurers access to the minimal set of data needed. This speeds up the process of credit checking and eliminates the need to send paperwork such as payslips back and forth through the post.
Eventually, however, both Mr Green and Mr Louman are dreaming of something bigger – an internet that revolves around the personal data locker, where companies that want access to personal data can be invited in by consumers, but the information exchange happens on the consumer's terms. Qiy has set itself up as a foundation, rather than a company, to give its personal data infrastructure independence from commercial pressures.
"If I want to buy a new bike, I tell it to the world and let companies make me offers based on my preferences. Once I have the bike, I can close [the locker] again," says Mr Louman.
Colin Strong, an analyst at GfK, the research company, says people are already becoming more conscious of the value of their personal data. "There will be an increasing trade in personal data and this will usher in an era when people recognise that it has value," he says. "Brands that get high disclosure of data from their customers may find those customers demand more in return.
"A generation has willingly handed over personal data for good service, but in some cases [people] may have been underselling themselves. Companies will have to consider whether it is a good enough trade," he says.
Mr Green believes consumers could make $1,000 a year in savings and benefits. An insurance company, for example, can already pay hundreds of pounds to acquire a new customer. Part of the valuation of companies such as Google and Facebook is based on the number of users they have. If customers could transact a few of their own data deals – agreeing to receive a targeted advert, for example – they should be able to share a little of the financial value, he argues.
Getting companies to hand over the data they hold on customers may be difficult, but initiatives such as the UK's Midata programme could help.
Under this scheme customers would be able to request that companies hand over the personal data they hold about them. Among the signatories to Midata are credit card companies Visa and MasterCard; Three, the mobile phone network; banks Lloyds TSB and Royal Bank of Scotland; and British Gas and EDF Energy, the utility companies.
Midata is still voluntary, however, but the UK government would consider putting it into law if there is insufficient take-up within a year. Last year, the European Commission also proposed new data protection laws that would strengthen individuals' rights over their own data.
Mr Strong says the government pressure has the potential to give data locker businesses a "rocket boost". Qiy, which has attracted just 40,000 users to date, is expecting to sign a deal under which a large European cable services operator would promote it, accelerating growth. "It may take another five to 10 years to establish the idea," says Mr Louman, "but it is growing fast."
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8 minutes walk to Tenjinbashisuji 6-chome station on Tanimachi line, Sakaisuji line, and Hankyu line. Also you can go to JR Osaka station by bus within 20 minutes.A
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The Mad River Valley's seasonal bus service, the Mad Bus, will begin running again on December 4.
The Valley Floor route is operational between December 4 and March 20 with late season weekend service on March 26 and 27 and April 2 and 3. Saturday evening service runs most Saturdays from December 11 through March 26 (plus select holidays).
The Saturday evening service is a demand-response route that operates between 6 p.m. and 2 a.m. The bus leaves Lincoln Peak every hour on the hour and covers the Access Road between Lincoln Peak and Route 100, Route 100 between Warren village and Waitsfield village, Route 17 between Route 100 and the Battleground as well as German Flats Road.
The Warren shuttle has daily service beginning December 4 through Sunday, March 20. In addition to scheduled stops between Warren and Sugarbush, stops and pickups may be requested.
The Mount Ellen route that connects Sugarbush North with Lincoln Peak begins daily service on December 17 until March 27. The Harwood Freerider bus that brings students from Harwood to Mount Ellen starts running on Mondays and Thursdays from December 13 until March 17.
The Mountain Condo route starts running on December 4 and finishes on March 30 with some late season weekend service. The route serves the Sugarbush condominiums; Dial-a-ride is available at the resorts from 11:45 a.m. until 5:50 p.m.
The Sugarbush Access Road route also runs from December 4 through March 20; the route covers the Sugarbush Access Road to Lincoln Peak between 11:45 a.m. and 5:50 p.m. The SnowCap Commuter charges passengers a fare to travel between towns and to the various ski areas; the Mad River Glen stop is by request only.
The Mad Bus is funded by a mix of local funds required to match federal and state funding. This year, GMTA representatives Tawnya Kristen and Meredith Birkett were present at the annual tri-town select board summit to make formal requests for funding from each of The Valley towns.
Warren's allocation is $943, Waitsfield's is $923 and Fayston's is $588. With the local funds they receive, GMTA is able to secure 80 percent matching federal funding.
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By MICHAEL DOYLE | McClatchy Newspapers | Published: April 4, 2013
WASHINGTON — A newly upheld conviction of a former Fort Bragg soldier on charges of possessing computer-animated child porn offers several key lessons for military men and woman well beyond the sprawling North Carolina Army base.
One is child pornography is dangerous even if the kids depicted aren't real. The second is privacy rights diminish in the barracks.
Both lessons spring from a new decision by the nation's highest military appeals court, upholding the 2009 court-martial conviction of former Spc. Ryan A. Bowersox. Both also come amid the military's battle to turn soldiers away from pornographic enticements.
"The real question left now is by how much does privacy shrink in the barracks room?" attorney Michael J. Navarre, a former lieutenant commander in the Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps, said in an interview Thursday.
For Bowersox, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces' decision is important because it upholds the bad-conduct discharge likely to shadow him the rest of his life. For others still in the military, the 4-1 decision issued Tuesday matters because it clarifies, at least somewhat, the rules that govern them.
In particular, the decision hammers home the fact that soldiers in barracks lack the same privacy protections that civilians enjoy in their homes.
"An individual's right to possess obscene materials in the privacy of his own home does not extend to (the soldier's) possession of obscene materials in his shared barracks room," Judge Margaret A. Ryan wrote, explaining that "the very nature of a shared barracks room increases the risk that obscene materials will be viewed by those who do not wish to view them."
Child porn is illegal, Ryan emphasized, even when the images do not depict real children.
But, underscoring the tricky legal questions raised, a dissenting judge sided with Bowersox.
"The Constitution does not end at the barracks' door," wrote Judge Scott W. Stuckey, a Kansas native appointed by President George W. Bush. "Here, we are dealing with private materials in a private space that, by virtue of (computer) password protections, was inaccessible to others."
Pornography has been prevalent among the younger male members of the military.
Army veterans like Colby Buzzell, author of "My War: Killing Time in Iraq," describe extended sessions of viewing pornography on portable DVD players. A Marine Corps veteran of the battle for Fallujah, speaking on condition of anonymity, described how porn DVDs were traded as currency. Military courts see plenty of porn-related cases.
The Air Force, late last year, comprehensively searched the workspaces at more than 100 installations worldwide. In December, officials reported having found 631 "instances of pornography" and 27,959 "inappropriate or offensive items" that ranged from a small Confederate flag and lewd graffiti to, according to the Air Force's 61-page database, a "profane baseball hat" and a "cardboard cutout of a waitress serving beer."
"Every airman deserves to be treated with respect. They also deserve to work in a professional environment," Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, the Air Force chief of staff, said at the time.
No child porn was found during the health-and-welfare inspection sweep, Air Force Lt. Col. Laurel P. Tingley added Thursday.
The porn in Bowersox's case was discovered in February 2009, after his Fort Bragg roommate reporting seeing troubling images on Bowersox's computer. A 10th Military Police Battalion investigator obtained a warrant to search the computer and found 318 cartoon images depicting minors engaged in sexual activities.
"The images are created with such realism that they show expressions of pain and pleasure on the child participants' faces, the children's shadows on the ground and even depict the leg hairs of the men engaging in sex with the children," Ryan noted.
Adult porn can pose harder questions. In a 1969 case involving three reels of films found in the upstairs bedroom of a Georgia man, the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment protects the right to possess obscene materials in one's home.
"A state has no business telling a man, sitting alone in his own house, what books he may read or what films he may watch," Justice Thurgood Marshall wrote for the unanimous court.


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The purpose of this role, is to create a safe, professional environment for patients to receive treatment. The CCHT is the first staff member that meets and greets patient on the treatment floor.
Satellite Healthcare, Inc. has been among the nation's leading not-for-profit providers of kidney dialysis and related services since 1974. Through its affiliated services, Satellite WellBound, Satellite Dialysis, and Satellite Research, Satellite Healthcare provides unparalleled early patient wellness education, personalized clinical services, and a complete range of dialysis therapy choices. In addition, Satellite Healthcare has a well-recognized, enduring commitment to philanthropy and community service, from funding millions of dollars in research grants to sponsoring kidney programs nationwide. Satellite Healthcare is committed to advancing the standard of chronic kidney disease care so patients can enjoy a better life.
At Satellite Healthcare (SHC), we work with Purpose at the heart of everything we do. It starts with our Mission to make life better for those with kidney disease and our Vision to be unsurpassed in our individualized experience, our quality, and our compassion. Our core Values round out our Purpose by defining how we choose to show up each day. As a member of the team, you will be invited to discover your own personal purpose at work and ways to activate that purpose to create a more fulfilling work-life for yourself. It is our hope and belief that, as you and your colleagues learn to courageously live and work by your purpose, you will find that it not only lifts your work and career, but the organization and the community of patients as well.
We are seeking a purpose-driven team member with a record of accomplishment, providing a safe and professional environment for patients to receive treatment. They will be the first team member to meet and greet patients on the treatment floor. Positive first impressions set the tone for family members; as well as, for patients in experiencing a more relaxed treatment that enhances treatment quality. Dialysis technicians at Satellite are compelled to make the patients feel comfortable once they enter our centers and throughout the course of their treatment. The technician will advocate for patients while they are at the unit, and effectively communicate with other team members any information pertinent in delivering quality care.
Our experienced technicians help boost the fulfillment and performance of progressive workplaces, by providing information, training on compliance and assisting with education for both staff and patients. This knowledge base, support and ability to train is arguably the most important role in the center.
The dialysis technician role is THE most important role who delivers or diminishes a positive patient experience and perceived "value" the patient receives.
You will play a vital role to ensure that we deliver on our Mission to make life better for those with kidney disease and our Vision to be unsurpassed in our individualized experience, our quality, and our compassion. You approach your work with an indisputable sense of greater Purpose. You are patient-centric and thrive in environments that provide you fulfillment when enhancing the lives of those you care and serve. Lastly, you are high energy, love a challenge, are goal oriented, and gain deep satisfaction from building lifetime relationships.
You will work directly with a multi-disciplinary team who are just as passionate as you with making a difference in others' lives. You will also work alongside servant leaders who look to support you in providing care that is unsurpassed by others in our industry.
You will provide care that will enable our patients to live a better life that meets their needs holistically.
You will receive many challenges that will enhance your professional skills and capabilities. You will work in an environment where fulfilling one's aspirations is not necessarily a linear path, but more like a jungle gym with multiple options for development.
Six (6) months of active hemodialysis patient care experience as a certified hemodialysis technician
High School Diploma, G.E.D. certificate, or equivalent
BONENT (CHT)/NNCC (CCHT)/NNCO (CCNT) certification (per state regulations)
California Department of Public Health CHT certification (required only for CA locations)
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Satellite Healthcare – Improving the Lives of Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)In 1973, Norman S. Coplon, M.D. began Satellite Healthcare with the objective of improving the quality of life of his dialysis patients. Dr. Coplon established Satellite Healthcare as a not-for-profit, community benefit organization, which allows us to focus primarily on patients. Four decades later, Satellite Healthcare has shaped CKD healthcare in our industry, and continues to elevate the standards of patient care and innovation. Today, we provide a range of expert services to patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Satellite strives to individualize each patient's care to help him or her enjoy their life to the fullest. Satellite Dialysis — We operate 40 high-quality, state-of-the-art, patient-friendly dialysis centers that meet the long-term clinical needs of more than 4,000 CKD patients. Satellite WellBound — With more than 20 centers in place, we focus on personalized training and support for patients performing dialysis at home. In addition, WellBound provides a robust complement of pre-dialysis patient wellness education programs that can help prevent or slow the progression o
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Sequestration politics: How to put yourself in a headlock (Other Views)
American national politics as practiced in 2013 are a gridlocked mess and everyone knows it. Even the practitioners themselves can't defend it.
So what do the president and Congress do when faced with a budget deficit problem that has an obvious solution that has defied agreement?
They set up something so awful and stupid that, after a decade of kicking the deficit can down the road, they will be forced into finding agreement on a comprehensive set of rationally balanced spending cuts and tax increases.
That's the politics of sequestration, a device of automatic, across-the-board spending cuts to domestic and defense program.
Unfortunately, the primary actors in this scheme underestimated how obstinate they all are. No one blinked, so the automatic cuts -- awful and stupid -- have started going into effect.
And what did President Barack Obama and Congress do as soon as some of the pain began to be felt? They kicked the can down the road, yet again.
That's what the relatively quick action last week to repeal Federal Aviation Administration furloughs of workers amounted to.
Members of Congress claim to have been blindsided by the effects of spending cuts on air traffic control and also claim the administration could have avoided traffic control delays by designating the workers as "essential," to be paid at some future date by funds not yet appropriated.
Don't believe it.
For one thing, fully 71 percent of the FAA budget is for personnel. You can't cut that sort of a budget without having an effect on your available labor force.
Further, Glenn Kessler, who writes the Fact Checker blog at the Washington Post, found near unanimity among government and legal experts that federal law required the furloughs in the absence of sufficient, legal appropriation of funds.
Delays in air travel are a completely predictable result of sequestration, which is to say, of a government that is unwilling to do the hard work of agreeing to both spending restraint and tax increases.
Unfortunately, the whole stratagem of sequestration appears to be like trying to put yourself into a convincing headlock.
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Question guys I had a injury in march and i had to have surgery and i handed in a cf98 to my unit and no one can find it. Where can i find vetranan's affairs number. I want make sure my paper work was submitted to them.Any ideas. The accident happened while i was on a CF100 leave pass.
There's an old medical/legal saying - "If it wasn't charted, it didn't happen". If you don't report it and ensure a 98 is initiated, you're screwed, as an investigation to prove it happened on service time will ensue. Just a note in your file saying "it happened at work, honestly" doesn't seem cut it, though smart people would think the statement "pt brought in by ambulance to clinic after falling off LAV in maintenance bay" would suffice for that...when in doubt, fill one out for anything that will likely cause loss of time at work (ie not for a papercut that didn't get horribly infected), get you booted off a course, or could recur - ankle sprains can add up over the years.Later.MM
Has anyone had any recent experiences with application through VAC without having a CF-98? I went on my jump course last year and got a very bad sprain on my ankle and eventually had to get surgery. I was medically RTUd from CFLAWC, before leaving I filled out a CF-98 but I never got a copy of it cause it wasn't ready by the time I was sent home. They said it would be sent to my unit and it never came. I've looked for it in my pers file, and med file no luck in either. Apparently there is a way to contact Ottawa to see if they have it, but I'm not too hopeful.Therefore I was wondering if VAC will be able to cover me with med chits, surgeon notes, physio notes etc. Or if it absolutely takes a CF-98.Thanks.
I recently begun the process of applying for a VAC pension (last week) and I have a few questions : 1. For those who had a good experience with VAC and had their claims approved, did you have a CF 98 for your injury?


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Started off her career modeling with Abercrombie and Fitch. Daughter of David Cassidy. Did a cover of her father's song, "I Think I Love You". Granddaughter of the late Jack Cassidy. Has appeared in two remakes of two classic movie thrillers: When a Stranger Calls (2006) (originally released in 1979) and Black Christmas (2006) (originally released in 1974). Has 2 older sisters, Jenna & Jaime.


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Only Government can Create and Enforce a Monopoly
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So many people fear the low prices of corporations. They say they will put higher priced Mom and Pop shops out of business. Then when they have a monopoly they will raise their prices and gouge their customers. Which is silly. Because corporations can't create a monopoly. Only government can grant them one. Allowing them to charge the high prices once the government eliminates all competition. But even when the government does if there is a market for lower prices some competition will find a way (see 3 epic fails that prove Uncle Sam is a terrible venture capitalist by Burton W. Folsom Jr. and Anita Folsom posted 4/19/2014 on the New York Post).
After 20 years in Europe perfecting his steamboat, an inventor named Robert Fulton returned to the US in December 1806.
He knew that a legislator, Robert Livingston of New York, would back him to the hilt. Livingston was a Founding Father who believed that steamboats would work well on the wide rivers of North America. Livingston and Fulton obtained a monopoly from the New York legislature for the privilege of carrying all steamboat traffic in New York for 30 years, if they could produce a working steamboat within two years…
One problem with Fulton's monopoly, however, was that it affected shippers in neighboring states. As steamboats became more common, the Fulton monopoly meant that other companies couldn't sail in New York waters without fear of fines. The monopoly also kept ticket prices high.
Finally, in 1817, Thomas Gibbons, a New Jersey steamboat man, tried to crack Fulton's monopoly when he hired young Cornelius Vanderbilt. Gibbons asked Vanderbilt to run steamboats in New York and charge less than the monopoly rates…
For 60 days in 1817, Vanderbilt defied capture as he raced passengers cheaply from Elizabeth, NJ, to New York City. He became a popular figure on the Atlantic as he lowered the fares and eluded the law.
Finally, in 1824, in the landmark case of Gibbons v. Ogden, the US Supreme Court struck down the Fulton monopoly. Chief Justice John Marshall ruled that only the federal government, not the states, could regulate interstate commerce.
This extremely popular decision opened the waters of America to competition. A jubilant Vanderbilt was greeted in New Brunswick, NJ, by cannon salutes fired by "citizens desirous of testifying in a public manner their good will."
On the Ohio River, steamboat traffic doubled in the first year after Gibbons v. Ogden and quadrupled after the second year. The real value of removing the Fulton monopoly was that the costs of traveling upriver dropped. Passenger traffic, for example, from New York City to Albany immediately dipped from $7 to $3 dollars after the court decision.
Only governments can maintain and enforce a monopoly. And only a business with a government enforced monopoly can gouge their customers. For with the government eliminating all competition what else is a consumer to do? He or she has no choice but to buy from the business with the government enforced monopoly. The same is true today.
Free market capitalism is always finding a better way to do something that costs less. But people who enjoy government monopolies try to fight back. To keep their government privileges. Just look at the UAW and the automotive industry. Which used the power of their government privilege to restrict competition. Such as with tariffs and import quotas. Which only let the UAW to continue to burden the American automotive industry with ever more costly union contracts that ultimately led to their bankruptcy/government bailout. All the while keeping cars more expensive than they had to be. As the UAW used their government privilege to gouge American automotive customers.
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This week's Sports Illustrated (print edition) includes a lengthy rundown of the bureaucratic troubles plaguing the NCAA's enforcement division. SI's take: That the ineptitude created by these troubles is preventing the NCAA from properly administering its rulebook. SI treats this as a problem, as something we all ought to lament. But isn't it good news?
SI's story picks up where Yahoo! left off with Nevin Shapiro, the shady former Miami Hurricanes booster who owned up to being a shady former Miami Hurricanes booster after he went bankrupt and was convicted for his role in a high-end Ponzi scheme. Shapiro now says he frequently bet on Miami football games using inside information he got from players, coaches, and athletic department employees. He even provided SI with financial documents that show how he used to move large sums of money into an account belonging to a guy who ran a gambling website.
The NCAA, naturally, screwed up its investigation of the Miami case by contracting with Shapiro's bankruptcy lawyer to get her to depose two uncooperative witnesses, though its committee on infractions is supposed to make a decision on whether to punish Miami this week. SI uses Shapiro's surprise at the NCAA's incompetence to frame how fractured the enforcement division has become in recent years under president Mark Emmert.
Here's what we learn:
1. The NCAA now has performance metrics (codes for difficulty, a 12-month time limit with a justification required for exceeding that limit) in place to try to expedite its handling of cases.
2. Emmert has been more involved than past NCAA presidents in dealing directly with college presidents, and his defensiveness over criticism of the NCAA has hurt staff morale.
3. The NCAA's new enforcement model, instituted two years ago, places additional personnel on the same investigation. Staffers who talked to SI say this has created less efficiency.
4. Enforcement staffers are upset over two other prominent cases: The NCAA's abandonment of its inquiry into the recruitment of UCLA's Shabazz Muhammad, and the harsh penalties placed on Penn State without any NCAA investigation.
SI quotes an unnamed former enforcement employee to say what this is all supposed to mean: "The time is ripe to cheat. There is no policing going on." To which we say: Great! The NCAA's rules only exist to perpetuate the lie of student-athlete "amateurism." If the NCAA recognized its lie as a lie, there would be no need for Nevin Shapiros, and no "cheating." Instead, the NCAA "enforces" its rules to justify its own existence, to show that it's doing something about the problems its rules support. So the structure is starting to crumble from within? So what?
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On this day in 1943, the Reichsfuhrer-SS, Heinrich Himmler, addresses the squad leaders of his Nazi secret police, attempting to fill them with pride for the work they've accomplished-the murder of more than 1 million Jews in German-occupied Russia during a one-and-a-half-year period. "Most of you know what it means to see a hundred corpses lying together, five hundred, or a thousand," claimed Himmler. "To have stuck it out and at the same time...to have remained decent fellows, that is what has made us hard. This is a page of glory in our history which has never been written and shall never be written."
It was Himmler who oversaw the establishment of the Auschwitz concentration camp cluster, as well as the Warsaw ghetto massacre. The organizing of some prisoners for slave labor and the inflicting of gruesome medical experimentation on others can also be attributed to him. Consequently, it is little wonder that he could so blithely say, "Whether or not 10,000 Russian women collapse from exhaustion while digging a tank ditch interests me only in so far as the tank ditch is completed for Germany."
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A passion for jazz led Peteris Ciemitis to seek out renowned Australian pianist and composer Paul Grabowsky, whose award-winning career includes founding the Australian Art Orchestra, collaborating with jazz luminaries such as Branford Marsalis and Scott Tinkler, and composing film scores.
"I see strong parallels between the emotional spaces great jazz performers inhabit, and similar improvisational spaces I find myself occupying when a painting is working and I feel that my work is 'in the zone'", says Ciemitis.
Introduced by a mutual friend, actor Ellen Cressey, Ciemitis was fascinated by Grabowsky whom he found to be "at once warm, open and engaging, yet also seeming to conceal a depth of emotion and intellect. As the sitting at his Melbourne home proceeded, with both of us listening to Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (if I remember correctly), I watched an intense absorption settle on him, some of which I hope has found its way into the painting."
In the portrait, Ciemitis tries to strip away surroundings and zero-in on Grabowsky's face, as we all do when we engage intently with someone. "To me the triangulation of ear, eyes and mouth represents a metaphor for the interplay of intellect, heart and 'voice' in Paul's music," he says. "The painting contains subtle links tracing connections between these elements, and back to the viewer through the fixed gaze."
Born in Western Australia in 1959, Ciemitis has a deep interest in creating work which explores psyches and emotions. He has exhibited regularly for over a decade. Recently, he has won a number of awards in various Western Australian art prizes including the Cossack, Vincent, South Perth and Melville Prizes. He was a finalist in the Prospect Prize (for Self Portraiture) in Adelaide and a finalist in last year's Archibald. This year one of his works was secured as part of a permanent exhibition Diaspora Returns in the Valmeiras Gallery in Latvia, tracing the circular return of some of the country's creativity lost during its post-war exodus.


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On March 14, Alexandria police will conduct a mobile DWI enforcement effort to deter and apprehend intoxicated drivers. The DWI crackdown will begin at 9:00 P.M. on Saturday, March 14, and continue until 5:00 A.M. on Sunday, March 15. Motorists will be stopped and drivers will be checked to assure that their abilities to drive have not been impaired by alcohol or drugs.
Chief of Police Earl L. Cook reminds drivers that the maximum penalty in Virginia for the first conviction for driving under the influence is 12 months in jail, a $2,500 fine and a 12-month suspension of driving privileges. In addition, there are mandatory jail terms associated with these offenses, depending upon the blood alcohol content of the driver. Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles administrative fees may apply as well.
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Indiana drivers can now review online records including citations, suspensions and violations without paying a fee.
The Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles is dropping the $4 fee that people once had to pay to see their driver records online.
It's also reducing the cost of certified copies of official driver records, which can now be ordered online or by mail for $4 instead of $8. The official records are often required by employers or school admission offices.
BMV Commissioner Scott Waddell says the most frequently asked questions at the BMV Call Center are about requirements to reinstate a suspended driver's license. Waddell says the free access to the records will allow drivers to better understand the reinstatement requirements.
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DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 19 November 2012. OCLC Global Council met November 5–7 in Dublin, Ohio, to discuss direction and governance of the OCLC cooperative. Delegates heard reports from OCLC members and staff on emerging technologies and how they are impacting libraries around the world. Global Council also approved changes in regulations and bylaws of the cooperative.
Global Council passed a resolution to make changes in the Global Council bylaws by formalizing committee structures, including two new committees: Communications and Finance; clarifying officer terms; and creating a process for establishing alternate delegates.
Global Council also ratified an amendment to the OCLC Code of Regulations to discontinue the practice of the OCLC President and CEO serving as a voting member of the Board in keeping with emerging best practices among nonprofit organizations. The amendment will be effective when the next president and CEO assumes duties. Jay Jordan, OCLC President and CEO, is expected to retire by June 30, 2013. A successor has not yet been selected.
Under the direction of Global Council President ChewLeng Beh, Senior Director, Library and Professional Services and Director of SILAS National Library Board, Singapore, Global Council also heard:
- An update on the OCLC Board of Trustees from Sandy Yee, incoming Chair, and Dean of the Wayne State University Libraries and Library and Information Science Program
- The OCLC President's Report, from Mr. Jordan
- Report on OCLC Finance, by Rick Schwieterman, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, OCLC
- A presentation, "The Library Scene in The Netherlands," by Anja Smit, University Librarian, Utrecht University, Netherlands
- "Linked Data – Radical Change?" presented by Richard Wallis, Technology Evangelist, OCLC
- "Wikipedians and Librarians: Two Communities Separated by Common Goals," a presentation by Max Klein, OCLC Wikipedian in Residence, and Merilee Proffitt, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research.
Global Council heard committee and advisory group reports:
- The Bylaws Committee clarified recommended changes up for vote
- The Communications Committee discussed ways to facilitate more and better communication
- The Credits Advisory Group discussed the future of cataloging credits; the committee continues to gather input from members on this topic for discussion from webinars, listservs and other communications activities.
Delegates also participated in small group discussions that examined trends and issues in libraries and information science, including data quality, security, archive and museum interests, among others.
The OCLC Global Council meeting was webcast live. Video from the webcast is posted on the OCLC website.
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Although one high profile dog has moved on to another venue, we still have several of our top ten in Marietta GA. Today's host was the Kennesaw Kennel Club and today's BIS judge was James Reynolds. Her seven included five of our top ten dogs. His finalists were the German Wirehaired Pointer, GCH CH Ripsnorter's Mt View Lookout, the Saluki, GCH CH Aurora's Walk This Way, CH Carrillons MVP, the Smooth Fox Terrier, GCH CH J'Cobe Kemosabe Vigilante Justice, the Pekingese, CH PalaceGarden Malachy, the Standard Poodle, GCH CH Dawin Spitfire, and the Bearded Collie, GCH CH Tolkien Raintree Mister Baggins. His BIS was the country's Number Two Dog All Breeds, the Peke, Malachy. The win puts our top two dogs in a photo finish. We will have to wait until tomorrow night to know who's Number One.


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It is 6 a.m. in Douma, one of the suburbs of Damascus. The muezzin, who calls the faithful to prayer five times a day, is reciting the Quran and prayers from the grand mosque's minarets through loudspeakers that the whole city can hear. I know Douma's citizens are listening.
During the 14 days I spent in Syria between Jan. 12 and 26, some of it trapped in safe houses in Douma, I saw the most horrendous acts of a regime on its people. And I know those acts were committed not just in Douma but also in a half-dozen suburbs of Damascus. Every single day, I saw the viciousness of the Syrian security forces – witnessing everything from killings to arrests of individuals in the middle of Damascus for no apparent reason.
I visited scores of families who had lost their sons. I saw orphaned little children who still didn't know what happened to their fathers, uncles, and relatives. But the misery doesn't end there.
I searched for an answer for what makes these people every single day rise up against such a ruthless regime. Why they go and participate in the protests in their neighborhood every single night, even though they know that the brutal regime forces they face recognize no humane rule while indiscriminately shooting at them.
Locals, activists in the revolution, or members of the Free Syrian Army militias gave the same answer every single time.
The Syrians I talked to did not tie their hopes for freedom to the Arab League, neither to Turkey or any Western government. I heard over and over again that their only hope is their faith in right and wrong, as taught by Islam and the life of the prophet Muhammad.
According to this faith, they explain, killing one innocent person is like killing the whole of humanity. Islam, they say, teaches respect for life and individual rights. They see the "right" they speak of as embodied in their fight for dignity. I kept hearing that word dignity when I asked people why they wanted a revolution. They see "wrong" as embodied by the regime's assault on its people, including women and children – it's desecration of life and suppression of freedom.
The opposition members I spoke to assured me: This is not a sectarian, religious fight as some outsiders fear – an uprising against the minority Alawites by majority Sunnis seeking religious dominance or Islamic rule. It is a fight for freedom and the dignity of life as taught in Islam. It is a fight for democracy.
All Syrians, they said, lived together with their various backgrounds in this land for centuries before the Assad rule, and will do so after it. They do not hesitate, however, to express their disgust for those who actively support the regime's brutality against it people. They clearly state their hope that those individuals will be punished accordingly.
Above all, the people of Douma and other Damascus suburbs have faith in their God and in their belief that the regime, which represents the absolute wrong, is about to collapse.
That is what keeps them going against all odds. And in two short weeks, I got a harrowing, first-hand glimpse of just the odds they are facing.
Most if not all Damascus suburbs are holding mudahara protests every night. I first witnessed a mudahara on Jan. 14, two days after I arrived in Syria, in the Damascus suburb of Qaboun. The regime's irregular forces, the shabihas, attacked unarmed protesters in front of my eyes. Two or three minutes into the demonstrations, when people began chanting hurriyet, or "freedom," regime security forces began shooting Kalashnikovs indiscriminately into the crowd.
My friends tried to protect me by hurrying me into a car, but it was too late for us to speed away from the scene. I saw shabihas dragging one protester, shot seconds before, into their car. (I was informed this protester died in the same night.) I saw several others arrested and given heavy beatings.
A middle-aged shabiha with white hair and a clean-shaven face yelled to us while shooting in the air, "On your honor, which side are you on? Al-Assad or the losers?" He let us go after our driver calmly explained that we were just passing through and had been stopped by the protesters and, of course, we added, "Long live Bashar al-Assad."
This was a lifetime's worth of experience for me, but something protestors in Syria are going through every day.
A few days later on Jan. 21, I saw the atrocities continue. During a funeral in Douma the Syrian Regime Army savagely attacked civilians attendance, killing 6 and injuring many others. What triggered them to attack unarmed civilians who were joyfully praising their "martyr"? According to local people I talked to, it was the FSA's promise to protect participants of the funeral against the regime's troops.
Just to make an opposing point, the Syrian troops stormed into the scene, and in the daylight, began firing on the civilians. The scene was captured on video and broadcast throughout the world, all while my friends and I were desperately trying to find cover from the shootings.
For the first time, the FSA, which recruits the defectors of the Syrian Army and fit, young Syrians as well as some street gangs to overthrow the Assad regime, responded, taking action against the regime's Army in the streets of Douma. At the end of Saturday, the regime forces had been forced to retreat from the streets, and instead were situated on the outskirts of the city.
By Sunday morning, a city of half a million, which is known for its rebellion against the Ottoman and French rule in the first part of the 20th century, appeared to be at the edge of another full-scale rebellion. Between Saturday night and Sunday morning, Douma's streets were being controlled fully by the FSA's armed militias, claiming its aim to protect people from the Assad regime's forces.
I had been trapped in Douma for several days, shuttling from safe house to safe house. The checkpoints in the city did not allow for us to leave and the savagery on Saturday during the funeral increased the tension around the city even further. The city, which is only 25 minutes or so far from Damascus by driving, was essentially under siege by the regime forces. Not only Douma, but also the suburbs of Saqba, Homeyra, Kafarbatna, and all of Gouta.
Even in the chaos, I saw the power of the faith and family that bind the Syrian people together in their cause for freedom.
At about noon on Sunday, we were hiding in a store right before reaching the ''freedom square.'' Since there was a very weak Internet signal in this basement store, a friend from tensikiyat, a group of people who work on the PR wing of the Syrian Revolution, needed to go to a higher level to find a stronger signal for an Internet connection through a 3G cell-phone network.
On the third story of the same building, a neighbor opened up his doors to host these uninvited guests for an unknown period of time.
Our tensikiyat guy quickly and creatively connected to the Internet. We were able to talk with friends and families, and let everyone know what is going on in the city.
Kaseem, 7 years old and the grandkid of our host, with his soccer shirt and beautiful, black eyes, sat in the guest room trying to make a sense of what these strangers were doing in the house.
As hours passed by, the clashes outside sometimes grew louder and other times stopped. The house became crowded with neighbors joining our circle. Our driver, who was also a FSA connected guy, explained in Arabic with references from the Quran and the Prophet's hadiths (sayings) how and why the city's rebellion – it's fight for freedom and dignity – must go on according to the faith of Islam.
He talked about how the prophet Muhammad, with very few people, rose up against the powerful tribal regime and its culture in Mecca, which were suppressing people, especially women, daughters, and slaves. But the prophet never quit, he continued, finishing his talk by reminding the neighbors assembled around him of the victories in Tunisia and Libya. He insisted: Syrians are not lesser people than their brethren who just succeeded there in their fight against the tyrants.
In this suburb, even between the older folks, the conversation doesn't happen only in the room but through Skype, with other parts of the world or with other Syrian cities. Everybody checks the latest news from their smart phones, commenting on what will happen next for the Syrian revolution or for the faith of the people of the city.
When the shooting got louder again, we were led into another room where the traditional Syrian dish – rice with roasted lamb, eggplant, yogurt, green onion, and some other local delicacies – was waiting for us. The wide, flat screen TV was broadcasting an English Premier League soccer game between Manchester United and Tottenham.
I have seen firsthand that it is times like this – the comfort of the family and neighborhood ties – that make the worst in Syria just a little bit more bearable.
I have seen nothing in the Syrian streets that can give more hope to Syrians rising against the state than their faith and families.
Maybe it will take a few weeks, months, or a year. It doesn't matter to them. Every day they knit their future in the streets: people protesting, militias fighting, and computer geniuses spreading the word.
One step and hundreds of deaths a day.
Ilhan Tanir is Washington correspondent for the Turkish Daily Vatan and columnist for the Turkish paper, the Hurriyet Daily News. An earlier version of this piece first appeared in the Hurriyet Daily News.


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Spatial references are important, and for someone new to GIS, they can appear complicated. Spatial references ensure that spatial data for different layers or sources can be integrated for accurate viewing or analysis. When you combine layers with different spatial references for viewing or analysis, ArcGIS Runtime SDKs attempt to handle this disparity for you by setting defaults and requesting data in the appropriate spatial reference from services where possible. But sometimes, you'll need to know about spatial references to get things working. Whether it's to align data together, make your map look right, improve accuracy, or just make a layer show up, understanding the basics of spatial references can be critical.
Spatial references can be referred to by a well-known ID (WKID). Some common WKIDs are mentioned in the text below; for a more complete description, see Spatial reference and transformation specifications in this topic.
Why spatial references are important
To integrate spatial data together into a map or during analysis, ArcGIS Runtime must know where things are located on the earth's surface. To do this it uses coordinates. Coordinates are associated with a coordinate system, which is a frame of reference around a model of the earth's surface. Not all coordinates and their associated coordinate systems are the same; they can be in different units (degrees minutes seconds, decimal degrees or meters) or they can be based on different types of models. To move coordinates from one coordinate system to another, mathematical transformations are used. A spatial reference provides all of this information, along with parameters such as the desired level of precision, in a way so that spatial data can be viewed and analyzed together.
For more detailed information on these topics, see What are map projections? in the ArcGIS help.
A note on setting spatial references
In the API, a spatial reference class represents a coordinate system. It contains a coordinate system and helper methods to access and use it. The spatial reference class is associated with several other API classes that need a coordinate system to function. For example, layers have an associated spatial reference. Some task parameters, such as those for the Query task and the Local Routing task, are spatial reference objects.
Coordinate systems and projections
The models used for coordinate systems are split into two main categories, geographic and projected:
- Geographic coordinate systems (GCSs) use a three-dimensional spherical (or ellipsoidal) surface to define locations. The coordinates are based on angles from the center of the earth to the surface. Typically GCSs use latitude and longitude specified in degrees. The coordinates derived from a GPS device are returned in a GCS named WGS84 (WKID=4326).
- Projected coordinate systems (PCSs) are planar (two-dimensional), Cartesian, or "flat." Unlike a GCS, a projected coordinate system has constant lengths, angles, and areas across the two dimensions. PCSs use a geographic coordinate system and then distort data so it can be represented on a flat surface for use in a printed map or on a screen. Coordinates are identified by x,y coordinates on a grid. ArcGIS Online, Google, and OpenStreetMap basemaps use the same projected coordinate system named Web Mercator Auxiliary Sphere (WKID=3857).
You may come across a third coordinate system, a local coordinate system, which is often unrelated to any other coordinate system. The origin and the x,y coordinate units correspond to a local point of reference. Because the relationship of a local coordinate system to another coordinate system cannot be established easily, these are sometimes referred to as unknown coordinate systems.
When you need to know about spatial references
Add layers to the MapView
When ArcGIS Runtime renders a map, it needs to draw all the data in the same spatial reference so that the data lines up. When you create a MapView, the spatial reference of the first layer you add is used as the spatial reference of the entire map; this is typically the basemap.
When you add additional layers to your map (MapView), you may need to request them in the same spatial reference your MapView is using. Whether or not you must request this depends on what type of layer you're adding. The following sections describe layer types as they relate to setting your map's spatial reference.
Graphic layers
Graphic layers don't support on-the-fly reprojection of data; ArcGIS Runtime renders these layers client-side. On-the-fly reprojection of graphics layers could require intensive processing that would slow down the MapView rendering time. When you add a graphics layer to your MapView, you must ensure its spatial reference is the same as that defined on the MapView (typically set by the basemap layer). You also need to ensure that individual graphics added to your graphics layer have coordinates in the matching spatial reference; otherwise, the graphics may not show up on the map.
Feature layers from feature services
When using a feature service table backed by an ArcGIS for Server feature service, the server supports reprojection. When a Service Feature Table is to be added to a MapView, be sure to set its spatial reference based on the MapView's spatial reference before you initialize the table. This will ensure the data is requested from the server in the correct spatial reference. When using the ArcGIS feature layer, when this is added to the MapView, ArcGIS Runtime automatically determines the correct spatial reference and requests data from the feature service accordingly.
Feature layers from geodatabase feature tables
Your tables in the geodatabase must be in the same spatial references as the map you are adding them to, because on-the-fly reprojection of data from these tables is not supported. If you're using the desktop workflow, ensure the ArcMap map frame is using the desired spatial reference before you run the create runtime content tool. If you're using the services workflow, set the desired spatial reference in the SyncTaskParameters before you generate the geodatabase. For details on the desktop and server workflows, see Offline patterns in this guide's "Create an offline map" topic.
FeatureLayers from shapefiles FeatureTables and GeoPackagesFeatureTables
Your tables in the geodatabase need to be in the same spatial references as the map you are adding them to; on-the-fly reprojection of data from these tables is not supported.
If these are ArcGIS for Server map services, then the server supports reprojection on the fly. When you add an ArcGISDynamicMapService to the MapView, ArcGIS Runtime automatically asks for the map image in the correct spatial reference for you (based on the MapView's spatial reference). WMS map services, a type of dynamic map service, support a limited set of spatial references, so you should set the spatial reference on a WMSLayer before you add it to the MapView.
Tiled layers
TiledLayers are precached layers. At the time of caching, a spatial reference is used and is therefore predefined. It's typically not possible to request TiledLayers in a different spatial reference from that defined in the service (unless the server supports doing this on the fly; most do not). If an ArcGIS Tiled Layer is added to a MapView in a different spatial reference, it cannot be drawn as a tiled layer.
Edit data
When creating new features from coordinates, the coordinate values must match the spatial reference for the layer; otherwise, the features will not show up in the correct location on the map. You can use the geometry engine to ensure coordinates are converted correctly before they're added to a layer. For more information about the geometry engine, see Geometry operations.
Perform analysis
Geometry objects used for analysis (for example, determining spatial relationships, such as where polygons intersect) require that the spatial reference be known before the analysis is performed. Otherwise, results may not be accurate or correct. Likewise, it's meaningless to compare two geometry objects or determine their spatial relationship if they have different spatial references. To display a geometry in a map layer, the geometry must have either the same spatial reference as the layer or be projected to the layer's spatial reference. To use two objects together, if those objects each have a spatial reference, they should have the same spatial reference.
For more information on analysis through geometry operations, see Geometry operations.
Convert from one spatial reference to another
When using the geometry engine to convert from one spatial reference to another, the in and out spatial references must be specified. You can also specify the transformation you want to use. For details, see Projecting to different spatial references in "Geometry operations."
Spatial reference and transformation specifications
To define a spatial reference, you can use either a WKID (sometimes also known as spatial reference ID or SRID) or a full-text definition referred to as well-known text (WKT). WKIDs are defined by standards bodies or organizations. ArcGIS supports a variety of WKIDs, typically those defined by the European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) or Esri, as well as a few other commonly used IDs. WKTs are full-text definitions of all of the parameters that specify a spatial reference (as mentioned above). To learn which WKIDs are supported and look at their WKT definitions, see the following:


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Halladay seeks to shake off last outing in finale with Marlins
Roy Halladay had a pair of awful starts to the season and then had three solid performances before one of the worst outings to his career in his most recent start. The right-hander tries to rebound this afternoon when the Philadelphia Phillies conclude their four-game series against the Miami Marlins.
Halladay surrendered nine hits and eight runs over 3 2/3 innings of a 14-2 loss at Cleveland Tuesday. Prior to that, he gave up a total of four runs in a three-start span, going 2-0 in that time. The two-time Cy Young Award winner has fared well against the Marlins in his career by going 8-4 with a 2.93 ERA in 15 starts. That includes a road win April 14.
On the other side, Kevin Slowey tries to get his first victory since the 2010 season. The right-hander, who turned 29 yesterday, is 0-10 over his last 22 appearances (15 starts) and hasn't had a winning decision since Sept. 18, 2010.
Slowey is coming off his fourth straight no-decision on Tuesday against the Mets. He held New York to one run on four hits with eight strikeouts in eight innings.
This will mark Slowey's third career start against Philadelphia. He didn't factor in the decision of the April 14 contest, won 2-1 by the Phillies. Slowey is 0-1 with a 1.59 ERA in two road starts this season.
Last night, Jose Fernandez dazzled Philadelphia hitters over seven scoreless innings to guide the Marlins to a 2-0 win.
Fernandez (1-2) allowed just one hit and two baserunners during his stint and retired 17 straight batters before issuing a walk in the seventh inning. The 20-year-old rookie also struck out a career-high nine to earn his first career win in the majors.
"Jose was great out there. He had command of the strike zone. Their lineup is a tough lineup to plow through, but he was great," said Marlins manager Mike Redmond.
Marcell Ozuna and Chris Valaika both clubbed solo homers for the Marlins, who had dropped three straight entering the contest.
Freddy Galvis provided the lone hit for the Phillies, who were shut out for the fifth time this season. Cole Hamels (1-4) allowed four hits, including both homers, while striking out six over eight innings.
"I went out and I was able to accomplish what I wanted to accomplish except for that part when you get that 'W' by your name," said Hamels.
Miami lost two of three at home to Philadelphia from April 12-14.


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