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PLATTSBURGH — Mrs. Joanne M. Barrette, 71, of Bradford Road in Plattsburgh, died Thursday, Oct. 10, 2013, at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vt. with her loving family by her side.
She was born in Spokane, Wash. on Sept. 4, 1942, the first born child of the late William and Marie (Berner) Dowling. Joanne was raised on a beautiful wheat farm located in the small town of Rosalia, in eastern Washington. She graduated from Rosalia High School in 1960 and received a Bachelor of Arts in Education from Eastern Washington State College in 1964.
She married Clifton Jack Barrette, of Plattsburgh, on June 12, 1965, at Holy Rosary Church in Rosalia and later they moved to New York. Joanne was a first grade teacher in Tonasket, Wash. and at Monty Street School in Plattsburgh. She also taught 5th grade at St. Alexander's Catholic School in Morrisonville. Joanne eventually left teaching so that she could raise her own four children to high standards. During this time she had a child care business in her home. Later Joanne became a compassionate and skilled care giver to the elderly and was very attached to her clients, going the extra mile to show her support and love.
Family has always been a main focus of Joanne's life. She showed her love daily by always being there for her caring husband and through the support and guidance she gave four children. She also continually shared hugs, proud smiles, and encouraging words with her beautiful grandsons.
Joanne enjoyed spending time with her friends, reading, playing cards, and writing weekly letters to her family and many friends who lived too far away. Joanne will be fondly remembered as a loving mother and wife, affectionate grandmother, dear friend, and a woman of strength, character, and integrity.
Joanne is survived by her husband of 48 years, Jack Barrette of Plattsburgh; and four children, Lisa and Stephen Gratto of Morrisonville; Christopher Barrette of New York City; Shawn and Angelina Barrette of Clayton, N.C.; and Mary Barrette of Albany. She leaves five grandsons who were so dear to her heart, Schuyler, Gabriel, and Christian Gratto, Adrien and Evan Barrette. Her surviving siblings include Dianne Dowling Henrickson of Oaksdale, Wash.; Patrick and Heidi Dowling of Steptoe, Wash.; Michael and JoAnn Dowling of Spokane, Wash.; Dennis Dowling and Monica and Paul Schrader, all of Rosalia, Wash.; plus many cousins, nieces, nephews, and good friends. She was predeceased by her mother and father, William and Marie Dowling; and her brother, David Dowling.


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"I rise today in strong support of this measure providing for the Continuing Resolution.
"Today, millions of Americans across this country are struggling. They are struggling to find good paying jobs and they are struggling to pay their bills, and their frustration with government continues to grow. These Americans – these hardworking middle class Americas – are counting on their elected representatives to show leadership during these hard times.
"This continuing resolution will keep the government funded at its current level without increasing spending at the discretionary level, while Congress finishes working on a real budget. Americans are tired of seeing the their government continue to spend more and more of their hard earned tax dollars, and for the first time since the Korean War, it will be possible to have two consecutive years of discretionary spending cuts.
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(NECN: Amy Sinclair, Oxford, Maine) – Las Vegas show girls aren't exactly an everyday sight in western Maine, but that was before Black Bear Developers built a 35,000 square foot casino on Route 26 in Oxford, Maine.
Maine's newest casino resembles a hunting lodge, but instead of game mounted on the wall, this lodge features 24/7 gaming action on the newly carpeted floor.
"We have 500 slots, 12 table games and a 110 seat restaurant," said Jack Sours, the Oxford Casino General Manager.
Black Bear Developers – the group of Maine businessmen who brought the project to voters in 2010 – hailed the new casino as an economic lifeline in an area that has been plagued by double digit unemployment.
In fact, the casino has already had an impact, after hiring 400 employees – 95 percent of whom are from Maine and grateful for the opportunities here.
"Having a big employers like this come into the area and offer health care is just huge," said Jane Hoyt, a new Oxford Casino employee.
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The Violence Policy Center released data Wednesday on the number of women murdered by men in the U.S.
For the past three straight years, Nevada has ranked number one in the country, but this year, the state is no longer in that dreaded spot.
The report counts homicides involving one female murder victim and one male offender, using the most recent FBI data from 2011.
Across the country, about 1,700 women were murdered by men and most were killed by a man they knew, such as a husband or intimate partner.
This year, Nevada is ranked 16th in the nation because in the state 20 women were killed by men in 2011. That rate is 1.48 deaths per every 100,000 women, which is above the national average.
Sue Meuschke, the executive director for the Nevada Network Against Domestic Violence, says that last year, more than 30,000 people contacted domestic violence programs throughout the state for help.
"Some of it was just wanting information or a number to call to get a protection order. Sometimes it's just to talk about what's happening and what are options that are available. And then, unfortunately, in many cases it's a crisis where someone needs to remove themselves immediately from the home and they need help to do that."
Despite Nevada's better ranking in this year's report, Meuschke says domestic violence remains a critical issue for the state.
"We only had about 1,200 people who were in shelter, but it was about 58,000 bed-nights. So somebody's in shelter every night of the year in Nevada and multiple people."
In this year's report, South Carolina, Alaska, and Oklahoma saw the highest rates of men murdering women.
Kristen Rand with the Violence Policy Center says despite efforts from elected officials to curb domestic violence, the amount of crime remains unacceptably high.


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The Yamhill County Clerk's Office, courthouse and other buildings have reopened following a 30-minute evacuation due to a bomb threat.
Sources say a caller, apparently male, phoned the clerk's office about 2:50 p.m. Monday saying there was a bomb in a county building. The caller said the threat was not a hoax.
Sergeant Brian Young said all county buildings were checked and nothing suspicious was found.
Yamhill was one of about 18 locations that received bomb threat calls Monday afternoon. All the calls were apparent hoaxes, according to Oregon State Police.
Last week, six Washington state counties received similar calls during the middle of the afternoon. No bombs were found.
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I remember when i was in school bomb threats were a popular thing, and because you really can't ignore them because of the possibility of them being real well, you evacuate the whole school, check every single room and then get the kids back --- I remember there was a bomb threat on a really nasty, rainy day, people were NOT happy about having to be outside that day!
you can think it's "funny" but if you have seen the damage a real bomb does and you understand the true fear that people who have been through that have, you wouldn't think it was funny at all.
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Exchange Bank of Missouri, Fayette, Missouri, has contacted the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to report that counterfeit cashier's checks bearing the institution's name are in circulation.
The counterfeit items display the routing number 101917623, which is assigned to Exchange Bank of Missouri, but are markedly dissimilar to authentic cashier's checks. The counterfeit items have a security feature statement embedded within the top and bottom borders. The words "CASHIER'S CHECK" appear in the top center. The bank's logo and name (repeated twice), city, state and a toll-free telephone number ("1.888.366.0361"), which is not associated with the bank, are displayed in the top-left corner. The bank's name is repeated as "DRAWER" in the top-right corner and after the word "for" below the written dollar amount line. Two signature lines preceded by the word "PER" appear on the right side. The words "Signing Officer" are printed below each signature line. The word "REMITTER" is also displayed in the lower-right corner. The counterfeit items are blue and have green borders.
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Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour , a collaboration between the estate of Michael Jackson and Cirque du Soleil, will perform at the Cedar Park Center on August 5 and 6. Since its premiere in Montreal, Canada in October 2011, this musical production has thrilled audiences throughout the world.
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From the City of Austin: Austin 3a 1a 1 is pleased to announce its new Smart Phone App.
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A house fire in Harwood caused an estimated $100,000 in damages Thursday night, as approximately 25 firefighters battled the flames, according to Lt. Cliff Kooser of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department.
At about 9:30 p.m., firefighters received a report of a house fire on the 800 block of Harwood Road. Upon arrival, they found flames coming through the roof of a single-story rancher, Kooser said.
Approximately 25 firefighters battled the flames for about an hour before they got the blaze under control, Kooser said.
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I write about innovation and solving problems with disruptive ideas.
Recently, our President used some unfortunate language to point out that entrepreneurs rely heavily on government-provided support to be successful. While I am grateful to be a business owner in the greatest country on earth, and I am aware that I benefit from roads and national security, his comments got me thinking.
So here is a top-of-mind list of seven things my fellow entrepreneurs and I didn't build:
#1) A tax code that has nine times as many words as the Bible. I wouldn't build the tax code. I am a simple man. Besides, as a businessperson, I like rules and procedures that everyone can understand quickly. Complicated rules tend to slow things down and require many, many more people and billable man-hours to manage them. What entrepreneur would want to create something that would waste so much time and effort?
#2) A $56 trillion pile of debt. For you trivia buffs, that is a debt that on a per capita basis is worse than Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. And it's growing by $150 million an HOUR. I couldn't possibly build this because I would have been out of business about the time my debt exceeded the price of a GSA convention. At about that time, the bank would come and take my house, which would make my wife really unhappy. Since I like to keep my wife happy, a large amount of debt is clearly a bad idea. The government doesn't care about my wife, hence the debt.
#3) The roads. At 17 I got close to making roads. At the time, I was working in construction, which is close to roadwork. I was also working at a furniture company and 31 Flavors. As I recall, even back then the government was taxing my paychecks so they could make roads. Hey, maybe I did help make the roads! I just wish I had a chance to do something about the mess that is known as the Hillside Strangler—a locally famous convergence of highways in Chicago that was reported to be one of the 20 worst traffic congestion spots in the country. Because of this, former Illinois Gov. George H. Ryan promised to fix it. He's now in jail.
#4) Government departments. I didn't make one of these either, but I worked in one. In high school I got a summer job working in the Daley Center in Chicago. My first week on the job, I was told—in no uncertain terms—to "Slow the **ck down" by a coworker because I was working too hard and too fast. That pretty much convinced me that I wasn't a fit for the public sector. I wouldn't make a department where people were discouraged if they worked too hard.
#5) Government shipping practices. According to The Heritage Foundation, the Pentagon spent "$998,798 shipping two 19-cent washers from South Carolina to Texas and $293,451 sending an 89-cent washer from South Carolina to Florida." For those of you scoring at home, that comes to a combined $1,292.249. My business had shipping charges of $176,000 last year. They seemed high to me until I read this statistic. Just for kicks, I shipped washers from Chicago to Florida and Texas. Happily, the company I built was able to do it for $1,292,248.20 less than the government. I used the U.S. Postal Service, which is now losing $25 million a day. Thankfully, I didn't build that either.
#6) $500-a-plate dinners. I've never charged my "friends" to have dinner with me, but I gotta say, this is a pretty entrepreneurial idea. BBQ at the Maddock house! At $500 a plate, I'll supply the (domestic) beer.
#7) GM or Bank of America. I didn't think the government did either, but a whole bunch of tax dollars went their way. Wait, tax dollars? Hey, that was my money, too. Did I do that or did you do that?
See? Now I am confused.
Having started half a dozen companies, I consider myself a serial entrepreneur. I also consider myself a moderate, bipartisan guy who votes for the person, not the side of the aisle they sit on. I voted for President Obama. I also voted for President Bush. You're both very welcome.
Corporations are people, too!
Corporations represent the collective financial interests of a group of owners who are people.
As a fellow business owner, I too felt vilified by the President's words. Keep up the great work as an Entrepreneur. It is what made our country great and will continue to keep it great.
Mr. Maddock,
It's a great column but you leave me wondering.
You want to focus on pushing govt to make decisions that help businesses …
How in the heck did you ever decide to vote for Obama?
I saw plenty of indicators he wasn't going to be good for businesses — excepting those that wanted to get cozy with the govt. You did not see that?
Or did it take you 3-1/2 years to figure M. Obama & team are a bad idea?
(Yes, I'll grant you Sen. McCain was not an inspiring alternative and the GOP needed an electoral spanking.)
Please help me understand.
Thanks Mr. Maddock.
I need to ask the questions more carefully: did you cast your vote without thinking about the kind of "change" that M. Obama was going to bring?
It looks like you did and now you've got the govt you deserve.
Frankly I expected better from you.
I admire your accomplishments but I don't think you've applied the required hard-headed analysis to your political choices.
Saying you vote for the person, not the party etc is just another way of saying you've not done your homework.
You know what happens in your business in that case. You shouldn't expect any better elsewhere.
Mr. Maddock,
I'm not asking you to be cynical.
Allow me to point out that Mr. Obama has done – or tried to do – what he said he would.
If anyone says they were misled or are otherwise disappointed it is because they misled themselves.
I am only asking you to apply the same reasoned judgement to politicians asking for your vote that you apply to running your business.
By that measure you would have rejected M. Obama.
And you ought to reject him now.
If there's any good to come from this it's for people like you to accurately point out – as you are now doing – what govt is good at doing and what it is not. By that measure M. Obama and his team would be laughed out of town both for their performance to date and their proposals.
The Government ordains the institution of Corporations and for the purpose of creating domestic jobs and/or tax revenue streams. The Government grants limited financial exposure to Corporations as an incentive in attracting investors.
You take a risk in business however when you incorporate your risk is limited. You get to walk away from bad decisions that bankrupt the Corporation with all that you have earned and profitted without risk to your personal assets.


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The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., has raised the threat level for severe weather Saturday to high for portions of Kansas and Oklahoma, with officials predicting a high-end life-threatening event.
The high zone stretches from Salina to Oklahoma City and includes the Wichita metropolitan area.
Atmospheric conditions will be very favorable for severe storms and a tornado outbreak will be likely across the southern and central Plains from late Saturday afternoon lasting through the evening and into the overnight period, an SPC statement warns.
A moderate risk zone stretches from Pratt to east of El Dorado and includes portions of southern Iowa and northern Texas.
Make preparations to seek shelter on short notice Saturday afternoon and evening, and monitor weather conditions and updates closely.
AccuWeather Vice President Mike Smith has his own weather blog, and heres his latest post about Saturday.
Large hail and damaging winds can also be expected from these supercell thunderstorms.
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About a dozen days ago, lightning struck the big beech tree in Central Park that was ideally located between the big baseball diamond and the former softball diamond that is now a soccer field.
If our tree could talk, what stories he would tell.
The beech tree was one of the oldest in the park, if not the oldest, but today it's nothing more than a stump, a memory of better days. It has stood longer than the park itself, probably touching 200 years old and certainly had a life of its own.
It was our own Green Monster in softball, for both fast-pitch and slow-pitch, standing tall in left field and swatting down long fly balls with its giant limbs. If you hit one into the lower branches or into the tip top, it was a ground-rule double. That was the rule you had to live with. The outcome of many games was decided by the towering obstacle in left field. A fence was placed around the field but because of the placement of this particular tree, other rules had to be put into place. Otherwise you would have had a home run launching pad.
It's a wonder when that tree split wide open there weren't hundreds of softballs popping out of it like a giant pinata. There may have been a few baseballs lodged up there as well. They say the branches grew around a couple of balls that had become lodged.
On the baseball side, it offered some refreshing shade as only a big tree can do, tucked several feet behind the third-base dugout. Many times fans would drag one of those park benches over next to it on a particularly steamy day.
If our tree could only talk ...
Well, since this is my column, the tree can talk and here's how an interview with "Woody" might have gone during his older years before the lightning strike that finally took him out.
What are your early recollections of softball and baseball here?
"I was so excited when the finally started building some baseball fields in the park. Besides a few kids playing around me — and those darned dogs — there wasn't much action when I was a twig growing up. it was probably good, though, because those little boys would have trampled me."
Describe what it was like in the park in those early days?
"Oh my, when they started organizing games here it was so much fun. We had softball in front of me and baseball for as far as my branches could see. They played from sunup until sundown, even when there wasn't something going on. They would lean up against me and slurp those snow-cones down. I loved it when they spilled them and they soaked down into my roots. The blue ones were my favorites."
You had a lot of fly balls and foul balls crash into your branches. Did that ever hurt?
"No, it tickled a little, that's all. I always got a kick out of those power hitters in softball who would get so mad when a ball went sailing and glanced off a leaf. That was only a double, you know. They wanted that home run. I laughed my bark off at them sometimes."
Who do you remember watching?
"I loved the fast-pitch guys in softball. Bill Selbee was the best I ever saw. You couldn't even see it when he cut loose. I saw some great games, too. Some of those Ben Williamson teams were some of my favorites. But that state tournament here in 1963 was something else. McClure's beat Ben Williamson twice, 6-4 and 6-1, to win it all. They even beat Selbee in the second game. A guy named C.I. Burks was nearly unhittable. Those games were so close I lost a few leaves worrying about what would happen. Softball was big in this town you know. Even when they stopped playing fast-pitch, guys like Joe Dillow, Corky Salyers and Steve Crum would whistle balls through my branches. I tell you what, they had some power!"
What about baseball? You had a pretty good vantage point of that too?
"It was so much fun watching those guys grow up from the third-base side of the field. I saw them playing there as little boys, even caught a few glimpses of the Little League field on the corner of 22nd Street, although I wasn't as tall back 50 years ago as I am today. And, you know, they played grade school baseball on the softball field, too. I loved those guys from the 1950s and 1960s especially and, man, let me tell you, they were good. Those Lynch boys must have grown up with a ball in their hand. Billy Lynch threw the fastest pitches I ever saw and I saw them all, even that (Don) Gullett boy. I'd say him and Bill Lynch were about even. They would make my leaves curl. I don't think Bill's brother Bobby ever lost a game on that field, maybe one. I tell you, he was untouchable. Timmy Huff, Johnny Mullins, Bo Carter, Mike Smith ... all those guys were such good players on those Ashland teams. People would lean back on my roots and marvel at how well those guys played. I heard a lot of the scouts talking, especially when Bill Lynch was pitching. But, you know, some guys before them were good, too. I remember Jim Host and that big pearly white smile on the mound. That guy owned the plate! Larry Conley, Gary Wright and even a kid named David Carter, who played right over there, they were all good. I'm telling you, I saw some good ones."
What about later? Any other memories?
"Drew Hall was one of those guys I won't forget. He was kind of wild but that kid could bring it. He was warming up over here before one game and some pitches got away from him. He nicked a couple of pieces of bark and it hurt a lot worse than any of those softball home runs.
"And don't forget about Joe Magrane, a kid who came in here from Morehead. Left-hander. Could really bring it, too. I think he made it to the bigs. Brandon Webb was always one of my favorites, too. You knew he was going to make it. So graceful on the mound. Cy Young Award, huh? I'd given one of my left branches to watch him pitch in the big leagues.
"You know, it's funny. They say Babe Ruth played here one time but, I'm here to tell you, he didn't. And trust me, I'd know. I've been here."
When they converted the field from softball to soccer what did you think?
"Well, to be honest, I didn't like it one bit. I grew up from a seedling watching softball. But you know, after watching these little fellas kick a soccer ball around, it was kind of nice in my advanced age to be able to relax and smell the cedar. My branches weren't as strong as they once were so it was good to sit back and watch.
Any final thoughts on your time in the park?
"I'm kind of like these players who came back for that CP-1 Reunion a few weeks back. It was so good seeing them all again, how they'd grown into fine young men. I remember them when they were like twigs. I hope they noticed me while they were here, too. I sure noticed them. I'll never forget how much they meant to my time in Central Park. There were guys from all eras here and that was good to see. Some of those young guys chased girls around me or played with their little trucks around my roots. I remember them and I always wanted to protect them. Sometimes when it rained they all huddled around me. I've enjoyed this vantage point longer than I deserved. It was a good, long ride."
MARK MAYNARD can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or (606) 326-2648.
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It's tempting to think of Stephen Perkins as Jane's Addictions' answer to Derek Smalls, the unassuming Spinal Tap bass player who stood between "fire-and-ice visionaries" Nigel Tufnel and David St. Hubbins, "kind of like lukewarm water." After all, the seemingly low-key drummer is fronted in Jane's Addiction by two of rock's biggest attention whores: pansexual pied piper Perry Farrell, frontman, festival founder, and activist; and bad-boy guitar hero Dave Navarro, Penthouse magazine sexpert, reality TV reprobate, and ravisher of renowned hotties.
"I think I see what you're stepping in," Perkins says when presented with a reporter's rather gingerly worded question about his relative position in the band. He's on a break in the action from the band's current Theatre of the Escapists tour, in support of their latest release, The Great Escape Artist.
"But seriously, I've always let the music do the talking," he says of his virtual invisibility, at least in the media, as compared to his garrulous bandmates. "When I was an 8-year-old, I saw Gene Krupa. And what I saw was that more than anybody in the show, the drummer got people moving. He's the one who got people excited, who sent people home f--king, the center of the whole thing."
What's more, it does Perkins a grave disservice to juxtapose him with the hapless and hopelessly mediocre Smalls because—in spite of his low profile—he's a surpassing drummer and probably the band's best musician, Navarro's white-hot licks notwithstanding.
And he really is a talker, holding forth cheerfully and voluminously when called upon for an interview. He says he just doesn't seek out publicity the way the higher-profile Farrell and Navarro often do.
And that's okay. Because after 26 years, Perkins says the odd dynamics of their individual preferences and personalities have finally settled in a comfortable mesh that allows the band to continue with everyone functioning according to his own dissident game plan.
"I don't want decisions about money or the media to get in the way; those are distractions to me," Perkins says. "They get in the way of my drumming. Other people can take that bullshit and feed the fire of their instrument. Perry can do that, and Dave as well. They can take that public life and put it in their music. Everyone respects everyone else's role. I don't want anyone else's role. It takes all these pieces of the puzzle to make Jane's Addiction."
Perkins says the making of Escape Artist was a necessarily long, slow process, one that began back in 2008 with a reunion, the first with original bass player Eric Avery since band's initial split in 1991. After Avery played on a couple of studio sessions with the band, produced by Trent Reznor, he departed once more. In the ensuing years, the band worked with Guns N' Roses veteran Duff McKagan and TV on the Radio guitarist Dave Sitek before finishing the record with both Sitek and Chris Chaney on bass.
But being in the band that started it all, for better or worse—the outfit that was perhaps, more so than any other, instrumental in dragging '80s alt-rock out of the somber ghettos of college radio and into the fulgent light of day—weighed heavy on the minds of Perkins and company. The drummer says they were hard-pressed to carry on the band's majestic postpunk tradition while still breaking new ground.
"When Dave Sitek came in we knew this would be different," he says. "Then we brought in turntables and drum machines and pedals and everything; then we'd send the tracks over to Perry for lyrics and melodies. That's when we realized, 'Hey, this is going to take a while.' Not like the old days when we just put a mic up and recorded the band."
The Great Escape Artist is the band's most eclectic record yet, still imbued with that hard-charging hard-rock spirit, but reflecting it through music that's more textured, ambient, with a broader dynamic range. It's as if a postmodern, 21st-century Led Zeppelin had made a record like III or Houses of the Holy, only using turntables and keyboards instead of organs and mandolins.
"Wherever the music goes, there's still that personality that's us, that force that you can hear that is Jane's Addiction," Perkins says. "You can still hear the urgency, [in a dead-on Farrell voice] 'Three, four…' and bam!
"Since the old days, our individual records don't sound like that. But when we get together it sounds like Jane's Addiction, and it can't be stopped. It was never about a sound or equipment or a certain kind of production. It was about a commitment to each other and to bring each song to its fullest potential."
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This article originally appeared in Global Security Newswire, produced independently by National Journal Group under contract with the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group whose mission is preventing the spread of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
A global coalition of firms that markets atomic-energy facilities on Thursday unveiled common procedures aimed in part at maximizing the physical protection of newly constructed sites and preventing the spread of weapon-sensitive material and systems. (See GSN, Sept. 8.)
Negotiated over nearly three years in a process arbitrated by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the nonbinding protocol represents a pledge by signatory exporters to maintain specific security and nonproliferation practices in designing and building nuclear plants, and to demand that potential buyers abide by related guidelines.
Some of the firms have already reported invoking the "Nuclear Power Plant Exporters' Principles of Conduct" in evaluating prospective atomic-plant sales, Carnegie Endowment expert Ariel Levite said.
"[The companies] pointed out … the issues that still needed to be taken care of as highlighted here for them to actually be able to sign a contract with them," said Levite, emphasizing that the codes are not intended to cut any nation out of the atomic marketplace.
"Emphatically, this is not a denial regime. This is not designed to exclude anyone," the former Israeli nuclear official said.
In addition to addressing "Physical Security" and "Nonproliferation and Safeguards" principles, the document includes sections on accident prevention and response, environmental protection and waste disposal, damage compensation and corporate ethics.
"The thought behind this initiative was that the vendors of nuclear power plants have a strong interest to welcome high standards on their own practices and in all the places where they seek to build plants, because … if there's an accident or lapse anywhere, the industry will be hurt everywhere," Jessica Mathews, the organization's president, said in announcing the document.
The participating companies worried that they might be put at a competitive disadvantage if they accepted such standards while other firms did not, acknowledged George Perkovich, who heads the Carnegie Endowment's Nuclear Policy Program. However, the concept of a common set of practices "was quickly validated," he added.
The 10 entities that have agreed to the guidelines represent the nuclear power plant export industry "pretty much in entirety," Perkovich said. The firms include the French firm Areva, GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Atomstroiexport, the Russian state-run firm responsible for constructing Iran's new Bushehr nuclear plant (see related GSN story).
China National Nuclear took part in the negotiations, "but they are still in the process within China of getting the necessary approvals to formally adopt," the specialist said. "We hope that will happen."
Carnegie convened the first meeting of the companies in October 2008, and negotiating teams carried out five additional sessions.
"We had the sixth meeting in Seoul in October 2010, thought we were finished, and then we were going to launch it on March 23, and then the earthquake and tsunami happened in Japan on March 11," severely damaging the country's Fukushima nuclear power plant, Perkovich said (see GSN, Sept. 15). In response, the exporters delayed the document's release and "scrubbed the principles to update them," he said.
The code "reinforces" the importance of various safety practices, said Richard Meserve, president of the Carnegie Institution for Science. "This should be seen as a living document that will change as events like Fukushima unfold and we learn more about what to do," he said.
The principles call on nuclear power plant exporters to build security protective features into their facilities, but no specific requirements are identified. The firms should guarantee such measures are "compatible" with safety and crisis management needs outlined by the International Atomic Energy Agency, according to the code.
The document requires the export firm to "cooperate with the customer to incorporate the customer state's Design Basis Threat"--a detailed report on potential dangers posed to a planned facility by outsiders or its own personnel, such as thefts or acts of sabotage--and to "incorporate within design provisions the potential for damage from security threats in accordance with" that assessment.
Before signing off on a deal to construct a nuclear power plant, an export firm must obtain data from the Design Basis Threat report "sufficient to allow the vendor to complete the design," the principles state. "The threat and risk analysis should take into account plant location and conditions in the region as well as internationally accepted standards."
In addition, a purchasing government dealing with one of the participating companies must first join the IAEA Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials and the U.N. International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism. In addition, it must put in place "a national legislative and regulatory infrastructure for nuclear security" that sets out associated duties to plant operators and government agencies and addresses the Design Basis Threat as well as the general public interest.
The principles permit exporters to provide client governments and purchasing entities with data to confirm that protective design features meet IAEA guidelines or another "well established standard."
The document affirms the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty's prohibition on military-related nuclear sales, as well as related international and domestic export control rules. In addition, exporters pledged in the agreement to "pay special attention to and promote proliferation-resistant designs and take IAEA safeguards requirements into account in design."
The signatories commit in the principles to notifying one another "as appropriate" and a purchasing entity's host state "of any serious nonproliferation concerns related to the equipment, materials and technology provided."
The export firms "welcome" language in bilateral nuclear trade deals "requiring a customer state to implement effective nuclear export controls and to have an IAEA Additional Protocol in force," the agreement states.
The participating firms plan to review and potentially revise the document at a series of review meetings starting in December. The upcoming sessions would focus on crafting a mechanism for verifying compliance with the voluntary standards, and the exporters would establish a "permanent secretariat" to play a monitoring role, Levite said.
In addition, the exporters plan in upcoming meetings to share "best pertinent practices, [such as] how you would make nuclear power plants [in an] engineering fashion more safeguards-friendly," Levite said, regarding measures to ensure that power plant materials or technologies are not turned toward weapons operations.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. — Without IBM's $7 billion takeover offer, Sun Microsystems, a Silicon Valley rebel known for independence, is possibly alone again. Unless a new suitor somehow emerges, Sun will have to overcome the wobbly finances that forced it to shop itself around.
Sun's shares tumbled 23 percent Monday to close at $6.56, a day after talks between the rivals fell apart.
IBM and Sun might still end up together. Investors appear to be taking that prospect into account, as Sun's stock hasn't fallen all the way back to the $4 to $5 range it occupied before the acquisition discussions surfaced.
Even so, the public unraveling of the talks is an embarrassment for Sun, which has been dogged by billions in losses since the dot-com bubble burst in 2001. The breakdown could be a boon for IBM, which doesn't need the deal as badly, and now could demand an even cheaper price if Sun's investors hammer the company for rebuffing the offer.
IBM shares fell 66 cents to $101.65 Monday, along with the market's broader decline.


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Way back, almost in another life, I worked for the D&H Railway.
I was what was known as a "fireman." In other words, sometimes I ran the trains over the railroad between the Capital District and Binghamton.
If I had worked there many more years, I would have probably become an engineer, but I traveled another track down a newspaper career instead.
Not being a full-fledged engineer, I always had a real engineer, usually old and with a lot of experience, with me to guide me. I paid attention to him (they were all "hims" in those days). Train wrecks are an awful thing to be responsible for.
Something that always amazed me was the way that all the engineers quite literally knew every inch of rail between here and there. Here was usually a couple hundred miles from there.
Every hill and hump, every sag, and every siding. The location of every signal light and whistle post was ingrained in their memories, to say nothing of the kids who lived along the track and needed a special little "toot-toot" of the horn.
That measure of knowledge of physical terrain was simply astounding to me.
It still is.
But now, I've got a new toy, which puts them to shame.
It's a portable GPS device, or "portable navigator."
It's small enough to fit into a shirt pocket, yet it knows all the roads, and places along them, in the U.S. and Canada.
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Three years ago, a tide of write-in votes swept John Jenkins into the Auburn mayor's office.
Now some people believe a second tide can sweep him into the governor's seat.
Jeff Benedict, a marketing businessman from Waterville, has started a campaign to get Jenkins into the Blaine House. Benedict has so far spent no money — and admits he currently has no money to spend — but he does have the Facebook page "Draft John Jenkins 2B Maine's Governor in 2010" and the backing of an ever-growing number of Facebook friends on the Web.
"I've talked to a lot of people that have said, 'Yes, I know John and it would be great if he would do this,'" Benedict said. "There are a lot of people who are unsatisfied with their (gubernatorial) choices right now."
Jenkins has agreed to run as a write-in candidate, with one stipulation: 5,000 people must support that Facebook page within 45 days. He believes that show of support might legitimize his campaign in the eyes of debate organizers, giving him a chance at being invited to participate.
"I just want a chance to get into the fight," he said.
Jenkins, 58, of Auburn, is a former state legislator and former mayor of both Lewiston and Auburn who now works as a motivational speaker. He would run for governor as an independent.
The Maine Democratic Party offered no comment Wednesday on Jenkins' possible run. But Charles Webster, chairman of the Maine Republican Party, did.
"He would think that he could get 150,000, 180,000 people to write his name in, in a manner that would be allowed to elect him?" Webster asked. "I find it hard to believe anybody would consider such a thing."
Jenkins said he had no illusions about the challenges involved in running as a write-in candidate. He has no money, he's entering the race late and he may not be allowed to join debates, whether or not his campaign gets 5,000 Facebook followers. But, he said, for months strangers from all over the state have regularly called, written and approached him to ask him to run for governor. He feels that people truly want him to help lead Maine.
"It almost makes me emotional to see the level of enthusiasm," Jenkins said. "People are just stopping me all over the place, strongly urging, in their own way, me to step into the arena. I point out clearly to them, 'Well, folks, here are the facts. Let's get real here. They're the ones who remind me, 'Didn't that happen in Auburn already?'"
In 2007, Jenkins received more than half of the nearly 4,000 votes cast in a contested election for Auburn mayor after supporters mounted a write-in campaign on his behalf.
Jenkins pointed out that there are differences between that race for mayor and the current race for governor, including the fact that he's better-known in Lewiston-Auburn than he is in other parts of the state. Still, he believes he may have a chance for governor. He wants that chance.
"My work is in the community, up close and personal with the people," he said. "I'm passionate. I dare say it's my ministry to work with the people and for the people. I'm committed to the work. The (governor's) office happens to be a phenomenal vehicle to do what? To continue the work."
Benedict wants Jenkins to continue that work in the governor's office. He first met Jenkins at a business event a few years ago and the two became friends. Although Benedict is a staunch Republican and Jenkins is an independent, Benedict said they share some political beliefs. When they have disagreed, Benedict said, Jenkins explained how he came to his point of view and Benedict respected that. So when he became unhappy with his choices for governor, Benedict thought of getting Jenkins to run.
"I wanted to start the Facebook page and just draft him without telling him about it, but that's against the law. You have to have his permission to do it," Benedict said.
Jenkins gave his approval, and to Benedict's surprise — and delight — Jenkins' campaign page began getting followers before it became official, causing Benedict to move up the launch date by a week. On Wednesday, the number of followers had nearly doubled, from 220 to 400.
"If we keep up this pace, the 45 days to get 5,000 is going to take approximately 20 days," Benedict said.


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Mayor Cranley on his Facebook page says, at his request, the Federal Transportation Administration has decided to hold off on canceling the streetcar project until December 19 to allow city to make a final decision.
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Construction on most parts of Cincinnati's streetcar project will be coming to a halt. But that's not to say you won't see some workers on the job in parts of Downtown or Over-the-Rhine.
Hamilton County Commissioners continue to take public comments on the proposed 2014 Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) budget.
MSD is asking for a $226.7 million operating budget but the county's new utility oversight director says the sewer district can get by with $210.7 million.
What both sides DO agree on, is a six percent rate increase.
MSD's Jack Rennekamp says, "the average residential customer... will see his/her quarterly annualized bill go from from $188.15 to $199.45."
Despite owing nearly three-quarters of a million dollars in unpaid state and federal taxes, State Sen. Eric Kearney made it clear Wednesday morning that he has no intention of stepping down as the Democratic candidate for Ohio lieutenant governor.
"I'm in it to stay,'' the North Avondale Democrat said in a teleconference with Ohio reporters that lasted well over an hour Wednesday. "My wife and I made the decision that we're going to do this and we're going to do it; and we're here to follow it through."


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Arnette2011 Big Fun Week
Following the contest Arnette All Eyes On Me, I was able to integrate the team Arnette Europe, our first trip is held in the form of a road trip through Switzerland (Saas-Fee, Laax) and Austria (Kaunertal) .
I arrived Friday, October 7 at the airport in Zurich, I joined the rest of the team and we took the road to Saas-Fee. We had to spend four days in Saas-Fee, unfortunately, over four days, we had one sunny day to shoot in the park. The three days when the weather was bad, we did karting, sledging and other summer pastimes like pool or Saas-Fee golf and skate.
We left Saas-Fee on Tuesday late afternoon to get to Laax to 21h, it is direct to go to the "Freestyle Academy" for a private night session where we joined Alex Tank.
The next day we went back to a session in the morning and the afternoon, after having transpired in the fluffy landing , we went chilling in the private pool of the Hotel which was pretty cool! After the pool, we reload the baggage in the bus and go to Austria.
First dayof ridingin Kaunertal, againbad weather, but we stillcouldridearail.Second andlast day ofride,greatblue sky andgreatpark, we couldshootin good conditions.
On Sunday, the day of return,four-hour drive, half past oneplane, trainsix hoursand finallyhome!
In short, thistripwas really cool, we had a good laughwith the team, to repeat!
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Pat Devlin threw for four touchdowns and David Hayes rushed for 107 yards and a score, helping Delaware cruise to a 45-27 win over Massachusetts Saturday.
Delaware (9-1, 6-1 Colonial Athletic Association) clinched at least a share of the conference title, since William & Mary lost to James Madison 30-24. The Blue Hens can gain the CAA title outright and claim the league's automatic NCAA playoff berth with a victory in the regular season finale against Villanova next Saturday.
Devlin completed 16 of 22 passes for 240 yards and one interception for Delaware. He had passing scores of ten, 31, 44 and 31 yards, each to a different receiver.
Hayes, who finished with 15 carries, highlighted the third quarter with a 61-yard touchdown to give the Blue Hens a 38-21 lead.
Kyle Havens had a career-high four touchdowns for the Minutemen (6-4, 4-3).
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