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Michael Jackson's 15-year-old daughter Paris was hospitalized early Wednesday morning, according to TMZ.
Hollywood, CA: June 5, 2013
Michael Jackson's 15-year-old daughter Paris was hospitalized early Wednesday morning, according to TMZ.
Wow! It's been crazy. A relentless barrage of press on the passing of Michael Jackson. The same TV anchors who crucified him during his child molestation trial now sing his a praises and try to make us feel as sorry for him as possible. His memorial was broadcast live on every Los Angeles network and I assume across America and perhaps the world. The image of eleven year old Paris, Mister Jackson's young daughter weeping, (one of the few real touching moments during the memorial at the Staple center), has been played over and over and over again.
No one has commented that Jackson's three kids seemed to have had their light brown, blondish hair dyed brown for the funeral. Was it to send a subliminal message that they belong with the Jackson's and not birth-mother, Debbie Rowe.
It is becoming more and more obvious that Jackson has had a serious drug problem for years. The police even found prescription drugs at Neverland prior to his trial, but no one really stepped in to prevent a disaster. Everyone wanted Jackson's love and approval, and his money.
Meanwhile his final resting place has yet to be determined. His CD sales and iTune downloads are going through the roof. Magazines with the King of Pop on the cover are selling off the racks. His reported five hundred million dollar debt should be paid back a lot sooner now that he has died.
Was he really a child molestor? It's a question many don't want the answer to, even-though the evidence against him was compelling. He was found innocent. So was O.J.
What cannot be disputed is that Michael Jackson was a super talented performer who was also an obviously victim of his own fame. His untimely death now guarantees that he will joint those other icons who continue to flurish in fame and earnings since their passing. James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis, John Lennon, and now Michael Jackson.
Gone but never to be forgotten.
So who or what killed Michael? The autopsy results will be rvealed shortly and we may begin to find out. In the meantime E Online has done a roundup of all the death theories currently in circulation.
Check it out here:
Entertainer Michael Jackson has died after being taken to a hospital on Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest. Jackson, 50, was taken from his Los Angeles home to UCLA Medical Center where doctors worked for more than an hour to try to resuscitate him, his brother Jermaine Jackson said. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday.


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If a Democrat said what cyber-security expert Stephen Spoonamore is saying, he would be dismissed as a partisan conspiracy theorist.
Are Feds Trying to Aid Republican Candidate's Election?
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The Plot Against Liberal America
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In an interview from October, 2006, that has only now seen the light of day, Stephen Spoonamore, one of the world's leading experts in cyber crime and a self-described "life-long Republican" destroys Diebold's already non-existent credibility.
Spoonamore lays it out for anyone to see and understand. If you care about
The interviews are on YouTube and are being carried by a new site created by Velvet Revolution, RoveCyberGate.com.
Read below the fold for details and background.
There is a civil suit pending in
Connell's allegiance is clear; he is the co-owner of Connell Donatelli Inc., the company that wascalled "a high-tech Forrest Gump" who was "'at the scene of every crime' for numerous questionable elections since 2000." the registrant, administrator, and tech organizer of the website for the so-called Swiftboat Veterans for Truth. Connell has also been
The plaintiffs are working with an expert witness, Stephen Spoonamore. Spoonamore, according to Arnebeck, "works for credit card companies chasing data thieves, identity thieves around the globe, and also consults with government agencies including the Secret Service, the Pentagon, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in criminal matters. [He's] really one of the top, and in fact the top private cop in the world on the subject of data security."
In this interview, "Spoon," as his friends call him, cuts through the lies and dissembling of Diebold and explains in language that anyone can understand how our elections have been stolen and how they are going to be stolen again. Even though this interview is almost two years old, the issues are still, unfortunately, germane to our elections.
The interview is broken into eight segments, and each segment is only a few minutes long. We urge you to watch each segment for yourself, which won't take very long. It is only through an electorate that is educated about the problems with electronic voting and the lies told by the e-voting companies that we will have a chance to take our elections back from the crooks who are currently in control of them.
Following are some excerpts from the interview, but we urge you to watch the entire thing.
In segment one:
Spoon explains that Diebold "refuse[s] to show the architecture [of their voting machines] or allow it to be exposed to any kind of significant expert." He says, "The people who … they claim have certified their machines have no knowledge of architecture whatsoever."
Spoon continues, "The fundamental structures that Diebold has used to set up their voting machines are inherently flawed. They are what I would consider IT junk."
He explains how a Diebold ATM is set up with checks, double checks, triple checks, and even quadruple checks to ensure that the machine works the way it is supposed to. And, adds Spoon, "Those people [the people who check a bank's ATM] are not from Diebold. One of them is from the installation group and one of them is from the bank. Otherwise, the [ATM] machine is not certified for use."
When the interviewer says, "So what you're saying is there's more security regarding the dispensing of a $20 bill and the fact that if you don't get that $20 bill, there is more of an audit system set up [as compared to any audit system for the counting of our votes]," Spoon replies, "Of course."
Regarding the 2000 elections, he says, "There is a very strong argument to be made that the 2000 election was electronically stolen, the hanging chads were just a distraction."
In segment two:
Spoon talks about the Department of Homeland Security's warning via the US-CERT Center (the United States' Cyber Emergency Response Team) "warning that the way Diebold systems are architected in the way the tabulators communicate to the central state tabulation center is subject to foreign national hacking [as well as hacking from within the U.S.]. They put out a warning about it. To the best of my knowledge, this is still the case." He explains how this can happen.
On to segment three.
In talking about memory cards, which hold the electronic votes and are fed into tabulation machines and which have extensive security flaws, Spoon explains a serious issue regarding negative vote numbers.
There has been repeated issues [sic] where people have said they've seen votes backing up in tabulators as cards are put in [meaning votes are being subtracted instead of added]. Okay, well that would indicate that something in that program is not adding cards forward, it may be adding cards backward.
There is no reason in the world a negative number should ever be able to exist on a voting card. And yet, in all the voting card code that I've looked at, Diebold has a negative field that allows a negative number to be entered in a vote total. Why? Why would you want -- to steal votes. That way you can start with a card that has negative a hundred votes for somebody, then it takes them a hundred votes before they're even back to zero.
And yet Diebold does not allow, for proprietary reasons, anyone to review the vote tabulation software?
They let us work on their cash machines, but no, they won't let anybody see their software.
Any thoughts as to why?
Because they're stealing elections.
Referring to the 2002 election results in
Spoonamore continues:
"I do not believe George Bush won [in 2004], I believe Kerry won. And I'm a member of the GOP. But I want to make it clear: we need to live in a place where your [a candidate's] election actually is reflected in the vote. I want my candidate to win, but if my candidate loses, I care a lot more about the process than I care about the victory."
Would that all Americans thought that way.
And segment four.
Spoon discusses the infamous Georgia patch from the 2002 election. "I've personally reviewed a number of pieces of code from Diebold. It's garbage. Some of the code is awful. I reviewed the patch that they put in
Segment Five:
So this is not a partisan issue?
It shouldn't be. This is a fascist issue. People who don't want voting and want fascist control but have people think they're voting. I mean, people forget the fact there was voting in Hitler's
Spoonamore goes on to explain that with credit cards, at least 2.5% of all transactions are fraudulent, and that they cannot get that number any lower. He believes that electronic voting, no matter how transparent and secure, will also have an error rate, whether from fraud or flawed technology or both, of at least 2.5%.
Do you want to have a system in place where there is a permanent background of electronic voting fraud of 2-and-a-half percent? That means you have to win an election by a minimum of 3% to know that you've won? I don't. Paper ballots, please. That's the only thing that can be secure.
Segment six:
[Regarding the Harri Hursti hack] Diebold has come back every time and said, "Well, you know, that hack can't happen."
They're lying. They're lying. Diebold is lying.
What, their systems can't be hacked?
There is no system, electronic, in the world that cannot be hacked. I've spent my entire life building or hacking electronic systems. … There is no system in the world -- none -- that cannot be hacked. … End of discussion.
Then how do you secure such a piece of equipment then?
You don't. You use paper ballots. I can't make it any clearer than this. You cannot have secure electronic voting. It doesn't exist. … You must have paper ballots.
Spoon continues: "There are people out there -- and there is [sic] a lot of them -- who don't really want to win elections. What they want to do is they want to steal them. … I don't want to have a society where we're not sure who won. I want to live in a democracy where there is a valid capacity to audit the entire trail."
Well said, Mr. Spoonamore.
Segment seven:
"I think they [the Diebold machines] are brilliantly designed. They're designed to steal elections. … There are back doors in the tabulations machines, which is what the US-CERT warning is about. There's a backdoor communication that allows secondary computers to talk to the actual tabulators electronically from a distance." Spoon goes on to describe some of the technical details of electronic voting machine election fraud.
And lastly, segment eight:
Many people who are denying problems, they're saying, "Oh well, these are just Democrats signaling alarms -- "
I'm a Republican. I'm a Republican, I worked on Giuliani's campaign, I worked on Bloomberg's campaign, I worked on John McCain's campaign. I've been a life-long member of the party. This is not a Democrat/Republican issue. This is not a partisan issue. This is a democracy issue. If you actually care about a constitutional democracy in which each person votes, that vote is validated, and the people who end up in office are reflected on the basis of the way people voted, you care about this issue.
If you don't want people to vote, if you don't want people's vote to count, and you want to rule without owning it by a mandate, then you are very supportive of Diebold.
Relative to this statement from Mr. Spoonamore, please watch this youtube clip of Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation and the Moral Majority, talking about voting:
That's a rare and candid admission of a still on-going strategy to prevent Americans from registering and/or voting.
The interview continues:
I mean, who's stealing the votes? If what you say is true, who wants to steal the elections?
I certainly know that in all the statistical information, it seems that in every single bizarre circumstance where exit data, polling data, or informational data swings, it has all been in favor of Republicans. But not the sort of Republicans who I want to see in office at all. These are people who lie and people who cheat. That is not the conservative way. Conservatives conserve things. We are respectful and we are constitutionally based.
You know what the real problem is? People do not want to believe that people want to steal elections in this country. I've done extensive work over the years for voting monitoring overseas. If we had a variance in the exit polling of even 2% from what actually was tabulated -- which is exactly how the Orange Revolution came about in Ukraine -- we would be in there explaining to people something is wrong.
We have had numerous elections in this country now in which -- where you use Diebold Election System machines -- that what happens with the vote is way off, five, ten, as much as twelve percent from the exit polling and the actual survey. These statistical numbers are impossible.
And the problem is Americans do not want to believe that we have people stealing our elections. And they must come to the realization there are people in this country who want to steal elections, and we must stop them.
If you've read this far, you clearly care about this issue. Please, we implore all Americans to contact their state's secretary of state, their House representative, and their Senators and DEMAND they ban the use of electronic voting machines. Demand that all elections in the
1) with a hand-marked paper ballot for every vote;
2) the ballots counted publicly and transparently at each precinct;
3) citizens allowed by law to observe the ballots being counted;
4) precinct results posted publicly before being sent to the central tabulator.


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In truth we all judge and criticize
by Kynan Antos on November 23, 2009
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Your design work will be scrutinized. It will be held up to the work of your peers, to experts in the field, to precedent, to previous variations or iterations, to market competitors, and if you're not adequately prepared for this, it can be extremely frustrating and even terrifying. Also realize that it is precisely because people judge, that they value good design. Obviously this works in your favor if you design things for a living. People are intrinsically visual, we're hardwired, and it is biological, so get over it.
The cold hard reality is that people will judge your design work. People will do this whether you want them to or not. If you put a design down in front of a person the first thing that person will do (either consciously or subconsciously) is judge it, or by another definition, try to understand what they like and dislike about the concept and there is nothing more painful that sitting through a design review and watching a designer get defensive, visibly uncomfortable, red-in-the-face, and progressively angry as project stakeholders clumsily attempt to communicate their thoughts.
Over time this judgment of your design work, will eventually formulate into a judgment about your ability as a designer, into judgment about you. That's right, now it's personal. If your designs are consistently good, you are clearly a good designer. If your designs are consistently questionable, then you are at best questionable designer. This couldn't be farther from the truth. This remains the largest misconception outside of the design discipline.
Time and time again this all comes down to communication. Typically it's a failure on the behalf of the designer to appropriately frame their design appropriately. All too often half-baked designs get put up for review and expectations are never set. So the review goes less favorably and good designers get burned.
Two simple rules to get valuable feedback on design solutions:
- Qualify designs appropriately before review
- Pro actively seek out unvarnished (yes even subjective) feedback
Qualify designs appropriately before review
Designers, the next time you have to review a design with a project stakeholder or client. Take an hour before the review and think about the state of your proposal. Ask yourself the following questions and write down the answers:
- How far along are you?
- What goals have you met, what goals haven't you met, or are no longer relevant?
- What are the goals of the intended design? Have they changed?
- What are the known constraints and affordances?
- What are your own assumptions?
- What specific type of feedback are you looking for?
What you are doing by taking this simple pro-active step is qualifying the review and setting everyone's expectations ahead of time. This will ensure you identify any issues early (usually a conflict of goals, which isn't about the design at all) and get the appropriate feedback that you're looking for.
Pro actively seek out unvarnished (yes even subjective) feedback
Accept then, that you are not your design. You are not what you do. To survive a career in design you must learn to thrive on feedback and separate your own self-value from your design work. This is different than not caring about your designs. Indeed you care so much that you are pro-actively involving as many people as possible to gather feedback.
Once you're able to separate your own ego from your work (you are not what you create) you begin to see feedback and criticism in a very new way. I had this sudden realization while on vacation about six years into my career and the core of the realization was this; 'the whole world is only trying to help you, to make you better, you just have to get yourself out of the way.' If you have the courage and conviction to accept that it's not all about you, this single shift in perspective, has the potential to completely change your outlook on your work, and your life as a creative problem solver.
The very next day back at work, I started walking the hallways with concept sketches, asking everyone, and anyone that would listen. I was surprised how much I learned about people, how similar we all are, how we say the same things, just in different way, and how everyone has enormously valuable perspective, regardless of their discipline or education. By collecting and focusing this perspective on your work, you realize the true role of the designer is to 'funnel, filter, and focus' perspective on concepts.
If you're honest with yourself and think back to even your most inspired work, how many of the ideas, concepts, and sources of inspiration were uniquely your own? There's a great quote from Pablo Picasso that's stuck with me from my days in art school that speaks to this, 'If there is something to steal, I steal it' or 'good artists steal ideas, great artists plagiarize.' In summary, you're only as capable as the sources you expose yourself to, and your ability to collect ideas, and focus then in new and create ways.
Every honest judgment, every honest criticism, ever honest perspective, and every honest idea is valuable, valid, is truth and it's all there just waiting to help you, if you ask for it.
How to design like an architect
by Kynan Antos on November 16, 2009
in design
Just happened upon this one…
I love how well it artculates the value of iteration and that you must discover both the potential challenges/constraints and design solutions of projects by actually moving through the work.
It would be a great conversation to hear folks thoughts on how to better incorporate iteration into the all up design planning process. How do you accomodate the lurking unknown? The secrets in each project that are there waiting to be discovered?
This smells of agile development, but something more closely linked to design. Any thoughts?
A lesson in late accesibility
by Kynan Antos on November 12, 2009
in design
I was getting gas the other morning and saw this which reminded me of how poorly organizations sometimes seem to consider the needs of the disabled.
I'd be willing to bet that this is the direct result of poor planning and prioritization. It's amazing how seemingly reactionary business are to the actual need of human beings. It sometimes almost seems like the customer is nothing but an afterthought.
I wonder how much this cost the companies involved to respond to, communicate, resource, redesign, install, and maintain?
Everyone is a designer
by Kynan Antos on November 8, 2009
in design
People are always asking me, 'how do I become a designer?' What I consistently tell people is that they already are a designer, they're just not consciously aware of it.
In Norman Potter's classic 'What is a Designer: Things, Places, Messages' Norm makes the very clever observation that 'everyone is a designer.' This is truth. Everyone makes decisions. Everyone has opinions related to everything from how to get dressed in the morning to making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Everyone 'designs their life.' We spend time arranging furniture, the cheese plate, we decide intricate ratios of how much cream and sugar to put into our coffee and we're all different.
So what then separates the decisions of a designer from everyone else? How are designers different, special?
The truth is we're not special, designers simply work hard and practice systematic decision making. We do this so frequently and so often that it becomes second nature. Basically we are willing to make enough bad decisions to eventually make good ones. Indeed looking through any designer's early work, this trend toward improved decision making is clearly evident.
Designers facilitate controlled trial-and-error and intentionally seek out failure as the source of human learning. The same way a mathematician has a natural affinity with numbers, an engineer can leverage materials to solve problems, or a programmer can rationalize the organic with an algorithm, with this practice designers develop the ability to 'see truth' and solve problems.
Designers see what works, and what doesn't, and it is this ability which empowers the decisions of the designer from those of others that don't (perhaps smartly) subscribe to this somewhat, masochistic practice. For some designers this talent surfaces as a nervous tick that can't be turned off, for others it's a complex understanding of common fundamental principles and applying them consistently to decision making, and for others it's purely instinctual.
It is the whitespace between practicing trial-and-error creation and observation that empowers designer's decisions. So I'll answer your question with a question. Are you willing to be bad at it long enough to get good at it?


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Ideas in Motion Media is excited to invite community members and the media out to their 4th annual All About the Girls event on May 17th! This year's theme is Like a Girl: Inspiring Strength and will feature eight women from around Northwest Indiana telling their stories of strength.
Hosted again at Sand Creek Country Club, the night promises to be an inspiring evening celebrating strong Regional women.
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Featured speakers include: Judy Kukelka from StoryPoint of Chesterton, Erika Lubeznik from Purdue University Northwest, Amy Blaker from Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Indiana, Kathleen Szot, Ashleigh Marlow from Frontline Foundations, Traci Brubaker from Team Chevy of Valparaiso, and Robin Rock from 93.9 LITE FM.
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Everyone has a weakness, an Achilles heel if you will. The one thing that in the heat of a creative moment they forget to do. Rather than bore you with examples that I think other people might do, I'll get right down to it. When I'm deep in the creative process, concentrating on my subject, I forget about checking the sky. Then when I am reviewing my images it hits me right in the eye. The "White Sky of Death"
There it is, a glaring white patch of nothingness ruining what could have been a wonderful photo. The phrase "White Sky of Death" is not my own. Years ago when I belonged to a camera club I had entered a photo contest, slide film, with the subject being a cemetery. I sat proudly as my slide was projected and heard a judge proclaim. "Too bad the shot was ruined by including the dreaded white sky of death" He then went on to explain how the bland white sky in the background ruined the shot by drawing the viewer's eye to an expanse of nothingness.
Despite many efforts, I could never seem to visit that particular cemetery when the sky was anything but a dull monotone grey. So I practiced focusing closer, filling the frame and using fill flash to make the headstones pop. But even though today I don't take many pictures in cemeteries, I still sometimes forget to check the sky behind my subject.
This is something that I find extremely frustrating. I should know better. I should have learned my lesson years ago, many times over. I should NOT have let this happen.
The only thing I could think of to try and save the moment was to put in some sky from another photo. Not sure how well it worked though.


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1. $10 million gift will create the Daniel Kahneman and Anne Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy at Princeton University.
2. An excerpt from Richard Thaler's new book 'Misbehaving' in the NYT.
3. "Your Brain Is Primed To Reach False Conclusions" from 538. This opens with a terrific anecdote.
4. Nielsen (2015). The Relationship Between Self-Rated Health and Hospital Records. Health Economics.
Abstract: This paper investigates whether self-rated health (SRH) covaries with individual hospital records. By linking the Danish Longitudinal Survey on Ageing with individual hospital records covering all hospital admissions from 1995 to 2006, I show that SRH is correlated to historical, current, and future hospital records. I use both measures separately to control for health in a regression of mortality on wealth. Using only historical and current hospitalization controls for health yields the common result that SRH is a stronger predictor of mortality than objective health measures. The addition of future hospitalizations as controls shows that the estimated gradient on wealth is similar to one in which SRH is the control. The results suggest that with a sufficiently long time series of individual records, objective health measures can predict mortality to the same extent as global self-rated measures.
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However, with Steven undergoing treatment for a major illness and also suffering extreme long term pain, I regret not having more photos of my family unit or of the two of us together as a couple.
I want to share this photo with my many blogging friends because it is a rare photo of the five of us together and because it reminds me of much happier times. Steven's diagnosis was so unexpected that we did not have any opportunity to plan, prepare ourselves or make any decisions........ this photo is my goal of what I hope we can do in the future if all goes well.
If you are like Steven and I and shy away from the camera, try and brace yourself and have a couple of photos taken - you never really know how special they may become!


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PRESIDENT GASKIN ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT. On October 12, SBCC President Lori Gaskin announced that she will be retiring from the college effective August 1, 2016. She has led SBCC since July 2012 and will leave the California Community College system next August with a combined 35 years of service, both as faculty and as an academic leader.
SBCC District Board President Marianne Kugler said, "During her tenure, Lori has provided exemplary leadership to the college reflected in her demonstrated abilities for creating participative decision-making structures, for developing planning processes, and for building strong operational programs which lead to student success. I especially commend Lori for her unwavering commitment to focus on the whole student including their health, well-being and welfare." Dr. Kugler added, "On behalf of our entire Board, we thank Lori for having served the college and our students and the entire community with such knowledge, decisiveness, and grace. She will be greatly missed."
For additional details about Dr. Gaskin's career and contributions to the college and to the community, please go to: http://www.sbcc.edu/newsandevents/pressreleases/2015october12_lori_gaskin_retirement_nr.php
ACCJC ACCREDITATION SITE TEAM VISIT. SBCC's accreditation site team visit was held September 26 – October 1 with the college receiving 11 commendations and four recommendations in the preliminary findings shared at the exit visit. Among the commendations, the college was cited for our culture of openness and receptivity; innovation; array of academic, support and learning resources for students; integration of technology; fiscal transparency; and our aesthetically pleasing grounds in the face of the drought. The ACCJC will evaluate the team's recommendations and make a final determination of the college's accreditation status, along with any commendations and/or recommendations identified by the team. This determination is expected in January 2016.
CAREER SKILLS INSTITUTE. In September SBCC launched the Career Skills Institute to address the growing gap
between the skills employers need and want, and the skills the current workforce has.
According to SBCC Dean of Educational Programs Melissa Moreno, there is a growing body of research showing that employers need a workforce trained
in such soft skills as communication, team building, management, innovation, critical
thinking, writing, and conflict resolution. The CSI addresses the employers' needs
offering courses in the areas of business, design and technology. The noncredit courses
are short (8 to 16 hours each), and the innovative format for most courses is a flipped
classroom concept, powered by lynda.com. Student pay a small fee to access a lynda.com
playlist to view in advance, and come to a tuition-free class to solve a real-world
industry problem, practicing skills learned in the lynda.com lectures. Students come
away with a portfolio piece, demonstrating skills learned. All courses are matched
grouped in noncredit certificates. Students earning noncredit certificates also earn
a digital badge – an online representation of their certificate they can post on LinkedIn,
Facebook, or their own web page. For more information please visit the Career Skills
Institute website at http://www.sbcc.edu/cs
Esther Frankel, Professor, Computer Information Systems, joined SBCC in 1997. She received her A.B. degree from Barnard College, A.M. degree from the University of Pennsylvania; and M.B.A. degree from Temple University.
What teaching tip or counseling advice do you have for other faculty?
I think teaching is all about passion….and balance. Convey your excitement about the material you are teaching, yet understand the student perspective. I consider myself to be very fortunate because I teach in a field that is changing, is exciting, and is constantly in the minds (and in the hands) of students. Be sure to find a balance between reaching students on an individual basis and fairness to all students.
What careers or jobs did you have before working at SBCC?
My first (real world) job was working as a cashier in a department store. It was my first foray into customer support, and I learned so much that helped me in my career. I started college as a Biology major and taught Biology 1 lab as an undergraduate. I have a Master's degree in Music History and Theory, and taught music history and theory when I was in graduate school. From there, I worked as a health claims examiner, and I completed an M.B.A. in Finance while employed at the insurance company. When I moved to Santa Barbara, I got a job in information technology (please don't ask what computer we were using, as it would "date" me), and worked at various companies in the Santa Barbara area. I also had my own consulting company for a number of years assisting organizations in the implementation of new systems and technologies.
Who was your most influential teacher and why?
My high school string teacher was definitely my most influential teacher. I attended a music magnet high school in NYC--not the "Fame" school, the other one! He demanded so much of his students but he did so with love and with a purpose.
What is your favorite student line or excuse?
"Can you teach today's class in your New York accent?"
What do you love about your job?
I think all of us would answer this question in the same way: it is amazing to have an opportunity to positively impact the lives of others.
What have been your greatest accomplishment and / or challenge?
My parents are Holocaust survivors. They came to this country after having gone through a very, very traumatic experience, with little family, no money, the inability to speak English, and limited education. From the outside, you would think that it would be highly unlikely that I would complete a college degree (let alone two graduate degrees), yet I was able to do so. I'm fortunate to be working at an institution that is so dedicated to changing the world; I consider my career here to be one of my greatest accomplishments. At the same time, I need to acknowledge the fact that my success is a tribute to the strength and persistence that they model every day.
What is the one thing most people don't know about you?
Given the fact that I'm from New York, I believe the one thing that people don't know about me is that I'm an Oakland Raiders fan. This is our year!
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
I just finished practicing viola so I would have to say that it is playing the viola in tune. No wait! That would be perfect happiness for Jim Mooy and John Clark. All kidding aside, I would say that perfect happiness is spending time with family and friends.
What is your personal motto?
"The secret to success is making your vocation your vacation."—Mark Twain
Jim Kruidenier, Professor, Mathematics, joined the SBCC faculty in 1990. He received his B.S. degree and M.A. degree from UCSB.
What teaching tip or counseling advice do you have for other faculty?
You will make mistakes, so admit them, learn from them, and do better next time; but never be afraid of them.
What careers or jobs did you have before working at SBCC?
No other career. I have worked at a sports store, a liquor store, an inventory service, and as a laborer digging ditches. I was also a playground leader for a summer recreational program. And I delivered newspapers.
Who was your most influential teacher and why?
Paul Kelly and Darryl Cooper. The first taught me how to think, and the second was interested in working with me.
What is your favorite student line or excuse?
I don't have one.
What do you love about your job?
Working with students.
What has been your greatest accomplishment and/or challenge?
Sometimes I teach math well, and that is my greatest challenge.
What's one thing most people don't know about you?
I don't like coconut.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
No such thing.
What is your personal motto?
Never give up.
SBCC LIBRARIAN IN IV. Thanks to the Associated Students of UCSB and the SBCC Luria Library, a SBCC librarian is available one night a week in Isla Vista to assist students and others with research and related needs. The librarian is located at UCSB's Pardell Center on Wednesdays from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. through December 2, except for November 11 and 25. While anyone who lives in IV is welcome to ask for help, the college is hopeful that our own students will take advantage of this additional service.
The SBCC COMMUTE INCENTIVE PROGRAM is back this fall with all types of incentives for the campus community. Faculty,
administrators and staff can earn up to $2 per day for biking, walking, taking the
shuttle, bus, train, or riding a scooter/motorcycle to campus. Students can earn a
free parking permit, campus gift cards, lunches/breakfast, and more. Shuttles are
operating between Main Campus and the Wake Campus and the City of Santa Barbara lot
located on Garden at Cabrillo throughout the day Monday through Thursdays. For more
information, go to SBCCcommute.com
The Campus Store, EOPS Department and the EOPS Club invite the campus community to the DIA DE LOS MUERTOS celebration on Thurs., Oct. 29 from 29 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. in front of the Campus Store. There will be art, music and related activities as well as a community alter for which guests are invited to bring photos of loved ones who have passed. Special deals also will be available in the Campus Store. Plan on stopping by!
SBCC Scheinfeld Center's ENLIGHTENED ENTREPRENEURSHIP SERIES will host entrepreneur Gene Montesano, founder of Lucky Brand Jeans and The Montesano Group, on Fri., Oct. 30, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at the Fé Bland Forum on West Campus. During this round of the Scheinfeld Center's popular Enlightened Entrepreneurship Series, the hosts will interactively explore with Gene Montesano his extraordinary story of being a long-term successful local entrepreneur, including insights from decades of successful experience. This event is open to the public and free of charge. However, space is limited and RSVPs are required. To register for the event, please go to: https://genemontesano.eventbrite.com
Renowned anti-racism author and educator Tim Wise will deliver the keynote address at the 25th Annual LEONARDO DORANTES MEMORIAL LECTURE at SBCC on Tues., Nov. 10. The lecture will be held from 12:45 to 2:05 p.m. at the Garvin Theatre on West Campus and a reception and book signing will follow the presentation. Mr. Wise's lecture, titled "Resurrecting Apartheid, from Ferguson to the Voting Booth to the Border – Combating Racism in the Post-Obama Era," is one in a series of presentations sponsored by the college to heighten awareness and understanding of racial and ethnic differences.
GARVIN THEATRE. The Theatre Group at SBCC's production of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, a new adaptation by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, and directed by R. Michael Gros, is currently playing through October 31 in the Garvin Theatre. On the evening of Halloween, audience members are encouraged to wear their best Sherlock Holmes or Steam Punk costume to get in the spirit of the mystery. Performances are Thursday through Saturday through October 31 at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2 p.m. All performances have the assisted listening system available and the Garvin Theatre is wheelchair accessible. For ticket information or reservations call the Garvin Theatre Box Office at 805-965-5935 or purchase tickets online at www.theatregroupsbcc.com.
ATKINSON GALLERY. ISOLATED, an exhibition about solitary confinement by Richard Ross, will be on
display at the Atkinson Gallery through December 4. The ISOLATED exhibit is the most
recent component of UCSB Professor Richard Ross' 10-year effort to document the juvenile
justice system in the United States. In this show, Mr. Ross critiques the pervasive
use of solitary confinement with a combination of documentary photographs, audio clips
from interviews with incarcerated youth, and a facsimile of an isolation cell.
The Atkinson Gallery is located in the Humanities Building, Room 202. Hours - Monday- Thursday: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. gallery.sbcc.edu
The DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL SONOGRAPHY PROGRAM was awarded continuing accreditation by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs. Congratulations to the faculty and staff for this well-deserved honor.
The SBCC FOUNDATION received a Bank of America grant for $7,500 in support of SBCC's Gateway to Student Success Program.
SBCCs CENTER FOR LIFELONG LEARNING recently had an article about its startup and operations posted on the Learning Resources Network (LERN) web site. http://blog.lern.org/how-santa-barbara-city-college-center-for-lifelong-learning-innovated-and-became-financially-self-sufficient
For the sixth year in a row, SBCC took UNITED WAY DAY OF CARING'S top team award on September 19 with 250 people providing services to a number of work sites and non-profit organizations, including Main Campus. Thanks go to the SBCC student clubs, Associated Student Government, SBCC cheerleaders, the ESL Department, the SBCC Neighborhood Task Force, and Grounds Supervisor Mark Broomfield for coordinating the horticulture project on campus. A special thanks goes to Lisa Lopez for coordinating this tremendous effort.
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ESTHER FRANKEL, CIS, attended CompTIA's Academy Educator & Learning Partner Conference in Chicago over the summer and was quoted about her impressions in Certification magazine. http://certmag.com/assessing-state-education-comptias-academy-educator-conference/
JACK FRIEDLANDER, executive vice president, was appointed to Santa Barbara County's Workforce Development Board. The board will provide input to redesign the county's workforce system and develop innovative strategies to help businesses, individuals, and industries achieve and sustain economic vitality across all communities of the county.
LIBBY GANS, Earth and Planetary Sciences, served as race director for the Goleta Education Foundation's Lemon Fun Run in September. More than 375 runners, adults, and children raised over $11,000 to benefit elementary school students in Goleta.
ANNE STARK, Allied Health and Nursing, recently was honored with the Assessment Technologies Institute's Educator with the Nurse's Touch Award. The prestigious national award is given annually to four educators who excel at integrating professional and interpersonal skills into their nursing practice and the education of students and who understand that "nursing care is both an art and a science."
CAMERON SUBLETT, Communications, was named the recipient of an Emerging Scholars Award from the University of California Center – Sacramento. Cameron, who is a doctoral student at the UCSB Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, was recognized for excellence in public policy research in online learning and student achievement.
CAMILLA VIGNOE, Counseling, completed the requirement for her Ph.D. in Leadership and Change from Antioch University (Yellow Spring, Ohio) in the spring with the publishing of her dissertation "Living Aloha, Portraits of Resilience, Renewal, Reclamation, and Resistance."
DEBRA VON BERNUTH, Sonography Director, was interviewed in the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography quarterly newsletter. Read her "Sonography Program Spotlight" at http://www.ardms.org/Discover-ARDMS/Educators/Pages/Sonography-Program-Spotlight.aspx
SIGMA CHI ETA WINS NATIONAL AWARD. The National Communication Association selected SBCC's chapter of Sigma Chi Eta, Alpha Beta, to receive the National Chapter of Year Award. This is the third time in the club's eight-year history that it has won this prestigious national award. The award is based on the outstanding work of last year's Communication honor society students, including their outreach event with Direct Relief International. The award will be given at this year's NCA conference in Las Vegas in November.
SBCC's chapter of PHI THETA KAPPA recently inducted 160 new members into the international honor society. Membership currently stands at approximately 400 students. PTK members are volunteering this year with such nonprofit groups as Habitat for Humanity and Casa Esperanza Homeless Center in Santa Barbara and the chapter will be participating in a coastal cleanup in Isla Vista at the end of October.
ALUM DIRECTING FIRST FILM. Students in Faculty Curtis Bieber's Film and Television Production course "Directing for the Camera" heard from a very special guest speaker earlier this semester. Graduate Benjamin Golabre has the distinction of being the first graduate of the department to begin production on his first full-length feature "She Dreams of Fireflies." The film was written by Ben's associate Monique Rosario and the scheduled cast currently includes Mary Wilson (formerly of the Supremes), Dominique Swain, Jonathan Lipniki, Ryan Slater, Wolfgang Bodison and Karron Graves.Filming will begin in upstate New York in the spring with a production delivery date for fall of 2016. First honors are not new to Ben as he, along with fellow SBCC student Gabriella Gullen, attended the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in 2013 to present their 10-minute student film "Paradise Café" at the festival's Short Film Corner.
JIM WILLIAMS, former Public Information Officer, won first prize in the 5th Annual Peacemaker Awards, Western Fictioneers, Profession Authors of Traditional Western Novels and Short Stories, for 2015 Best First Novel. Cattle Drive is a fictional tale of an 1873 cattle drive across North Texas during a hot summer and a cattleman's desperate attempt to push 3,000 longhorns to a market to avoid financial ruin.
KAROLYN HANNA, Professor Emeritus of Nursing, was named a recipient of the "Big Heart Award" from the Friendship Center in Santa Barbara.
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WSC ATHLETE OF THE WEEK. On October 8, Carolin Chang was named Western State Conference Female Athlete of the Week for all fall sports in Week #5. She was honored after winning the prestigious North-South Invitational at Morro Bay Golf Course by seven shots on Sept. 27-28. Carolin has been the medalist in three tournaments this year and runner-up in three others.
TENNIS TEAMS NAME NEW COACHES. Randy Moharram was selected as head coach of the SBCC men's and women's tennis teams He spent six years (2008-2014) as an assistant for the SBCC men's basketball team and currently teaches in the SBCC Health and Education Department. Michael Mickelson, a USPTA tennis pro who has taught for the City of Santa Barbara and in Florida, will be the assistant coach for the Vaquero men and Christina Klein, a former star on Westmont College's nationally ranked teams in 2006-2007 and a tennis and fitness instructor, will be the women's assistant coach.
Recent FaST News
- FaST News - December 2015
- FaST News - October - November 2015
- FaST News - Weeks of June 2 - 30, 2015
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- This article describes the Starfleet rank. For the infantry ranks see first lieutenant and second lieutenant.
Lieutenant is a military rank used in Earth Starfleet and Federation Starfleet, superior to ensign and lieutenant junior grade and subordinate to lieutenant commander and commander. Lieutenants are often technical specialists (navigator, communications officer), heads of small sections, or second-in-command of larger sections (under a lieutenant commander).
The corresponding infantry rank is captain, and in the Federation Starfighter Corps, the corresponding rank is senior lieutenant.
Sogh was the Klingon term for a lieutenant. A platoon of 25 warriors was commanded by a Sogh. (The Dominion War Sourcebook: The Fires of Armageddon)
The rank was also used by the Federation Starfighter Corps, where it is the lowest officer rank and is immediately subordinate to senior lieutenant. The rank is also used by the Kellarian System Defense Forces (Star Trek: Remington).
The term comes from the navies of the 20th century. The USN abbreviation was LT.
In the 20th century the word was pronounced 'lef-tenant' by English speakers, except in the USA, where the more regular pronunciation 'loo-tenant' took hold with the help of spelling reformers of the 19th century. Non-Earthians use the American pronunciation. Some Earth people use the traditional pronunciation. (TOSS #11 "Ensign Null")
The Romulan Star Navy and Romulan Ground Forces have ranks that in English are called lieutenant. In the Star Navy it is the rank above sublieutenant and below centurion, while in the RGF it is above sublieutenant and below captain.
Andorian Imperial Guard have ranks that in English are called lieutenant.
Starfleet insigniaEdit
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Alternate realities Edit
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External linksEdit
- Lieutenant article at Memory Alpha, the canon Star Trek wiki.
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We offer a wide range of courses and activities across a variety of areas, including.
Accredited course, pre-accredited training, language, cooking, art, craft, health and wellbeing, computers, fitness, gardening, first-aid, music and courses for children.
We offer childcare in a warm, caring and friendly environment for children aged 0 – 6 years.
In 1978 under the auspices of the Park Orchards School Council a community relation's sub-committee organised a leisure time program, making use of the school art room. Four courses were presented in term 1, 1979 using local tutors and POLTA (Park Orchards Leisure Time Activities) was born.
Since that time "caring and sharing" has been the keystone of our organisation with one of the aims being to provide an environment in which community members can continue their education, while helping to enrich the life of our community. Park Orchards is an unique community – it has been described as a village in suburbia – and to maintain this situation it was seen as essential to foster the growth of POLTA. This need and the success of POLTA lead to the eventual establishment of a fully supervised Community House in 1983 at 572 Park Road. Park Orchards.
In 1986 incorporation took place and we became Park Orchards Community House Inc. Three extensions have been made to the building due to the growth of our program. A wide range of accredited courses, further education, art/craft, pre-school and after school age activities, health, fitness and self development programs are conducted here, as well as occasional childcare each morning during school term. Other community groups utilise the house from time to time for their meetings.
In 2007 the name of the organisation was changed to Park Orchards Learning Centre Inc. to keep in line with a professional profile.
Park Orchards Learning Centre Inc. is a Registered Training Organisation and in an average year we offer approximately 3000 course hours and 26000 student contact hours. These hours are for courses only and do not account for the other operations of the house, which include childcare, referrals, outreach, community support and development.
The Committee of Management are volunteers with various skills and they are the employer who employ six permanent part-time staff, a Manager, Education Program Co-ordinator, Assistant Education Co-ordinator, Administration Officer, Receptionist, and Childcare Co-ordinator. Childcare workers, are employed on a casual basis, tutors and a cleaner are employed as sub-contractors.
Manningham City Council owns the building and we are situated behind the local Primary School and next door to the Kindergarten and Infant Welfare Centre. This area is the hub of Park Orchards so the Learning Centre is a real focal point.
To provide quality community engagement through social, recreational and learning activities.
572 Park Road
P.O. Box 68
Park Orchards
Victoria 3114
Phone 9876 4381
Fax 9876 3263
Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
During school terms (closed on public holidays)
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Wichita Kansas Chicken Ordinance
Are Chickens Allowed in this location Yes Max Chickens Allowed 12 Roosters Allowed No Permit Required Yes Coop Restrictions Not less than 10\\\' from any property line if located within 50\\\' of an adjacent dwelling (Section 6.12.070) City/Organization Contact name City of Wichita - Robert Layton, City Manager; (316) 268-4351; or email City Clerk Karen Sublett at [email protected] Additional Information ORDINANCE NO. 46-247, Section 6.12.030 (p.4)states 3 fowl are allowed without permit, and a Permit is Required for more than 3 fowl, and no more than 12 fowl other than pigeons allowed (p.5 Section 6.12.040 Number of Certain Animals Limited). Roosters specifically disallowed by Section 6.12.045 Keeping of Certain Fowl Prohibited (p.6). Link for more Information http://www.wichita.gov/NR/rdonlyres/4BC8C3F7-8AF5-40D4-AC6E-7E05E58BEB8C/0/Ordinance_No_46247.pdf Information Last Updated 2010-03-30 14:14:40
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Police speak to man following fight in Kent
Editors' Folkestone gig was stopped last night (March 23) and police were called to the Leas Cliff Hall venue following a fight in the crowd.
The Birmingham band were deep into their set but halted due to a fracas breaking out. A spokesperson for Kent Police told NME.COM that at 10:18pm (GMT) two fighting crowd members were escorted outside and one was questioned by an officer after venue staff phoned the police.
No-one was arrested and the gig continued following the incident.
Some fans who attended the gig criticised security staff, writing on Editorsofficial.com that some crowd members ended up on stage during the scuffle. Further fans have contacted NME.COM to criticise the security guards.
Editors are due to continue their UK tour at the O2 Academy Brixton in London tonight (24).


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Get the inside knowledge with a tour of the Samoan islands, either from the comfort of an air-conditioned vehicle, or with the wind in your hair. There are tour packages to suit everyone – from garden and shopping tours to more intrepid pedal-powered cycle tours. Tour operators are usually happy to discuss how to customise a tour.
Remember: In Samoa, most land and areas within a lagoon (or bay) is the property of a village, family or individual. You should always ask permission at the nearest village, as you may have to pay a small entry fee. Even if no one seems to be around, don't be surprised if someone comes along and asks for an entry fee. This is similar to a koha in New Zealand, but is a set price for each site. If you have hired the services of a driver for your time in Samoa, your driver will discuss entry fees with you.


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The Side Dish
If you know me at all, you know that I always have a side project. I mean, I love the main course as it is full of challenges, but sometimes I need to do something else. I need a Gedankenvacation.
Dude, you may ask, why do your vacations include hours of code in front of a small screen? Why not go out, get some fresh air and enjoy the sun? That's actually a good question. Maybe it's because I love to code. Maybe I'm just a bit lazy. Maybe I'm a vampire. Who knows?
All I know is that when I work too hard on one problem, I can tap out of resources pretty quickly and then I turn into a Facebook Zombie. Learning a new skill or working on a different problem usually helps me get out of the rut, and allows me to go on for much longer stretches.
My side projects usually have some sort of visual or artistic nature. I'm hardly any good at it, but I love doing it, and I don't mind failing. One year I have written detective stories in a blog format (think of how a blog of a private investigator would look like). One year I've founded (and terminated) an online T-shirt store. One year I have worked on a massive multi-player online game (that we abandoned unfinished). And one year I helped organize reality-hacking events, where I got to meet interesting people and edit lots of videos. This year I want to work on a combination of visualization and social themes, simply because it's the complete opposite of what I'm working on during my "day job".
Messing Around With Images
It's been almost a decade since I last did anything related to image processing. I was in the second year of my computer science degree, and I was looking for any practical course I could find. I never felt engaged by highly abstract mathematical courses such as Computational Complexity Theory. Call me a heretic, but in my mind Turing machines aren't very practical mental models for computers, and I don't understand why they are still being taught.
Anyway, digital image processing was exceptionally suited for my practical needs. First, you could actually see the results of your work. Second, it included just enough math so it wasn't completely technical and boring (unlike, unfortunately, most of the programming tasks in Data Structures) and just enough code as to be useful. Third, did I mention you could actually see results with your own eyes?
It's A Boy!
This weekend I've spent some time messing with HTML5's canvas and images. I have created a small jQuery plugin that creates a nice mosaic effect on an image. You can see a few examples here:
Original Image
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10x pixel size
15x pixel size
Note that all the processing is done by the browser, no server side code at all. If you are using Internet Explorer, chances are that your browser doesn't support this feature, so I don't know if it displays correctly. I hear IE9 is out and is very good. You can upgrade here.
As I mentioned, this is a very simple example of how images can be manipulated quickly and in the browser. With devices getting stronger, we may be able to push more computation to the clients (and find a better balance of server-client load).
In this demo script I calculate the average color of each section of the image, and then fill a rectangle with this color on a canvas. The JS can be downloaded from here. This is practically the first script I have written from scratch, so it is probably full of newby mistakes. Please, let me know. I want to get better.
I have several thoughts about what I want to use it for, but there are still some features I need to add first. Stay tuned.


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Penn State
Commonwealth Court rules Endowment Act constitutional, questions consent decree, pulls Penn State into lawsuit
The NCAA suffered a blow Wednesday when the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court dismissed the organization's challenge of a 2013 state law that would keep millions of dollars collected from sanctions against Penn State in the state.
But the bigger concern for the NCAA could be questions the justices raised about the validity of the consent decree, the agreement between the organization and Penn State that levied the sanctions — including a $60 million fine — against the university for the Jerry Sandusky scandal.
The court ruled that the NCAA's challenge of a lawsuit brought by state Sen. Jake Corman, R-Benner Township, seeking enforcement of the Endowment Act, the state law he sponsored to keep the sanction money in the state, opened the door for an examination of the consent decree.
In its ruling Wednesday, the court forced Penn State to become a party in the lawsuit and said it needs more information about the consent decree before determining whether it was entered into legally.
Corman said he is interested in expanding his lawsuit to pursue questions about the legality of the consent decree.
"I've always been uncomfortable with the way the NCAA handed this consent decree on Penn State and the process they went through to do it," Corman said. "Now that (the court) brought Penn State into the case and that they're not sure that the whole consent decree is valid or constitutional, that's an area that wasn't part of our original lawsuit but clearly an area we want to explore now that the court has opened the possibility to do so."
Penn State officials declined to comment on the court's order. The NCAA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
President Judge Dan Pellegrini said in a dissenting opinion that, like the majority, he was "bewildered" that the Penn State board of trustees would enter into the agreement because the matter "ordinarily would not be actionable by the NCAA."
In the court's opinion, the majority ruled that the Endowment Act is constitutional. The law was passed last year by the state legislation as a way to make sure the sanction money is spent on child-abuse prevention and awareness programs in Pennsylvania.
The court did not grant Corman's motion that the law be enforced against the NCAA now, meaning the senator's lawsuit will continue.
Penn State entered into the consent decree with the NCAA to pay the $60 million fine to avoid facing the so-called death penalty, halting football in Happy Valley for perhaps four years. The university also agreed to a postseason ban, scholarship reductions and the erasing of 111 wins from the Joe Paterno era.
The NCAA had argued the Endowment Act was unconstitutional because it pertained to one circumstance, the agreement between Penn State and NCAA.
The majority ruled that the NCAA opened itself to questions about the consent decree when the organization argued in court documents that it had privilege to enter the agreement, acted in good faith and imposed sanctions in response to conduct in violation of the NCAA's constitution and bylaws.
"The children harmed by Sandusky, the children's family members, the community, PSU and the Commonwealth were all seeking to uncover the truth behind these hideous crimes when 'ordinarily ... not .. actionable by the NCAA,' the NCAA involved itself in one of the most disastrous events in these children's lives and that of the families as well as the history of the community, PSU and the Commonwealth," Judge Anne Covey wrote in the majority decision.
Covey said the NCAA imposed sanctions designed to penalize Penn State and "change the culture," but that they had other effects.
"The sanctions' 'Punitive Component' removed $60 million from a state-related post-secondary educational institution which the NCAA asserts it is to control," Covey wrote. "High school athletes who had no involvement in the criminal acts were prevented from obtaining a free college education.
"Student-athletes, trainers, coaches and support personnel who were taught and trained to be and do their best were stopped from competing and student-athletes from other colleges and universities were also precluded from competing against them by prohibition against post-season play," she wrote. "Student-athletes, trainers, coaches, administrators and support personnel who had excelled in their jobs through hard work, practice, commitment, team work, sportsmanship, excellence and perseverance were told none of that mattered."
The court's ruling brought this response from the NCAA.
"We believe the court's ruling is entirely without basis," said NCAA Chief Legal Officer Donald Remy. "If this decision stands, it would mean that the Endowment Act does not violate the Pennsylvania Constitution, which it so clearly does. Sen. Corman wrote the act to interfere with the consent decree, and was not intended to be applied beyond the NCAA's agreement with Penn State. We are even more surprised the court determined the consent decree itself is somehow at issue, although the validity of the agreement has not been questioned by the plaintiff. The NCAA will continue to vigorously defend the consent decree, an agreement with Penn State that both the NCAA and Penn State continue to support."


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WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Orlandi Valuta, Inc. v. WWK, Yvonne Klemm
Case No. D2006-1485
1. The Parties
The Complainant is Orlandi Valuta, Inc., Englewood, Colorado, United States of America, represented by Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, LLP, United States of America.
The Respondent is WWK, Yvonne Klemm, Lawrence, New York, United States of America.
2. The Domain Name and Registrar
The disputed domain name <orlandivaluta.com> is registered with Register.com.
3. Procedural History
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on November 18, 2006. On November 21, 2006, the Center transmitted by email to Register.com a request for registrar verification in connection with the domain name at issue. On November 22, 2006, Register.com transmitted by email to the Center its verification response. The Center verified that the Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy"), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules"), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Supplemental Rules").
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on November 30, 2006. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was December 20, 2006. The Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified the Respondent's default on January 8, 2007.
The Center appointed Terrell C. Birch as the sole panelist in this matter on January 18, 2007. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
4. Factual Background
None of the facts alleged by Complainant have been contested by Respondent. These facts are as follows:
Orlandi Valuta, Inc. ("Complainant") is a leading provider of same day and next day electronic money transfer services in the United States and various countries in Latin America, including El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala and all 32 states in Mexico. In operation since 1986, Complainant has established an agency network with more than 4,500 locations. Complainant owns all rights in and to the ORLANDI VALUTA word mark and trade name and the ORLANDI VALUTA (and Design) mark (collectively, the "ORLANDI VALUTA Marks"). The ORLANDI VALUTA (and Design) mark is the subject of incontestable U.S. Registration No. 2,291,883, which Complainant has used in commerce for "financial wire transfer services" since at least as early as September 1991. Complainant's incontestable registration of ORLANDI VALUTA is conclusive evidence of Complainant's exclusive right to use the mark in association with "financial wire transfer services" throughout the United States (where Respondent appears to be located). See 15 U.S.C. §§ 1065, 1115(b).
In addition to its U.S. registration, Complainant owns registrations and pending applications for the ORLANDI VALUTA Marks in nineteen other countries, consisting of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela.
Respondent appears to have configured the <orlandivaluta.com> domain name to launch a "pop-up" window containing an additional advertisement, and upon a user's attempt to leave the "www.orlandivaluta.com" website, Respondent has configured the website to launch an additional browser window of directory links to the sites of third parties, many of which are directed to providers of money transfer services.
5. Parties' Contentions
A. Complainant
1. The Domain Name is Identical to Complainant's Mark
(Policy, para. 4(a)(i), Rules, paras. 3(b)(viii), (b)(ix)(1))
Complainant's incontestable registration of ORLANDI VALUTA is conclusive evidence of Complainant's exclusive right to use the mark in association with "financial wire transfer services" throughout the United States (where Respondent appears to be located). See 15 U.S.C. §§ 1065, 1115(b).
Complainant submits that its ORLANDI VALUTA mark is a coined mark as the wording has no meaning in English or Spanish in the relevant trade or industry apart from Complainant's use of the wording as a trademark. The mark, being a coined mark, is a highly distinctive mark and entitled to widespread protection. See ROHO, Inc. v. Mark Duane, WIPO Case No. D2001-1168) (December 14, 2001) (ordering the transfer of a domain name identical to the complainant's ROHO mark and finding that "[s]uch a mark, consisting of an arbitrary collection of letters, is considered a very strong trademark"). Complainant's ORLANDI VALUTA Marks have been extensively and continuously used and promoted by Complainant in such a manner that the purchasing public associates the ORLANDI VALUTA Marks with Complainant. Complainant actively promotes its ORLANDI VALUTA Marks in print, radio, television and Internet advertising campaigns, at industry events and in community activities, and holds a domain name registration for <orlandivaluta.net> and <orlandivaluta.biz>.
In addition to relying on its registrations for the ORLANDI VALUTA Marks, Complaint asserts and relies upon its common law trademark rights in the ORLANDI VALUTA name and mark. Through Complainant's continuous and extensive use in international commerce, the ORLANDI VALUTA Marks have achieved substantial goodwill.
It is well established that under the Policy a domain name may be ordered transferred based upon common law rights. The Complainant is not required to have registered the mark(s) at issue. See, e.g., Fujitsu Limited v. d, y, an, 64 USPQ2d 1853, NAF Case No. 123924 (October 25, 2002); Mission KwaSizabantu v. Rost, WIPO Case No. D2000-0279 (June 7, 2000); CSA Intl v. Shannon, WIPO Case No. D2000-0071 (March 24, 2000); MatchNet PLC v. MAC Trading, WIPO Case No. D2000-0205 (May 11, 2000). All that the Policy requires is "the fact that a certain combination of letters and/or numbers is recognizable as a trademark or service mark by a significant number of Internet users or consumers in general". ISL Marketing AG v. The European Unique Resources Assoc. 2000 B. V., WIPO Case No. D2000-0230 (July 5, 2000); Askonas Holt Ltd. v. Webocracy, WIPO Case No. D2000-0392 (July 3, 2000) (the Policy does not require that the trademark be registered in order to establish prior rights).
The <orlandivaluta.com> domain name registered and used by Respondent is identical to Complainant's ORLANDI VALUTA mark. As previous UDRP decisions have repeatedly stated, the addition of the generic top-level .com domain to the end of the domain name does not diminish the identical nature of <orlandivaluta.com>. Complainant submits that it is well established that the top-level domain is part of the Internet address and does not add source-identifying significance. See Bang & Olufsen a/s v. Unasi Inc., WIPO Case No. D2005-0728 (September 7, 2005) (noting that the .corn suffix "does not distinguish the domain names at issue from complainant's mark"); see also Visit America, Inc. v. Visit America, NAF Case No. 95093 (August 14, 2000); Deutsche Welle v. Diamond Ware Ltd., WIPO Case No. D2000-1202 (January 2, 2001) (stating "[for the purposes of paragraph 4(a)(i) of the Policy, the ' .corn' element may be ignored"); see also, e.g., Nissan Motor Co. v. Nissan Computer Corp., 204 F.R.D. 460, 466-67 (C.D. Cal. 2001) ("[A]ny permutations one may derive from adding a top-level domain ... to the second-level domain 'nissan' are indistinguishable as a matter of law"). Thus, <orlandivaluta.com> is identical to Complainant's ORLANDI VALUTA mark.
2. Respondent has No Rights or Legitimate Interests in the Domain Name
(Policy, para. 4(a)(ii), Rules, para. 3(b)(ix)(2))
Complainant submits that under the Policy, a respondent is generally considered to have no right or legitimate interest in a domain name if (a) the respondent does not use, or undertake demonstrable preparations to use, the domain name in connection with a bona fide offering of goods and services, (b) the respondent is not commonly known by the domain name, and (c) the respondent is not making a legitimate noncommercial or fair use of the domain name. Policy paragraph 4(c).
Complainant contends that in the present case, there is no evidence to suggest that Respondent has used, or undertaken any demonstrable preparations to use, <orlandivaluta.com> in connection with a bona fide offering of goods or services. Respondent has incorporated Complainant's ORLANDI VALUTA mark into a domain name in order to divert Internet users to Respondent's website at "www.orlandivaluta.com", which appears to be a "directory site" with links to the sites of third parties. Many of the links on the Respondent's website are directed to providers of money transfer services, including competitors of Complainant. As set forth above, Complainant is well known for providing money transfer services. The only conceivable purpose of Respondent's use of the ORLANDI VALUTA mark in the disputed domain name is to trade upon the goodwill associated with Complainant's ORLANDI VALUTA mark and thereby to divert Internet users to Respondent's directory site for which Respondent likely receives "pay-per-click" revenue, See CBS Broadcasting, Inc, v. Toeppen, WIPO Case No. D2000-0400 (July 6, 2000) (finding no legitimate reason for the respondent to use a domain name corresponding to the well known mark of another and concluding that the respondent did not have legitimate rights in or make legitimate use of the domain name). See Netcentives, Inc. v. B. W. Brody Co., WIPO Case No. D2000-0672 (September 29, 2000) (finding that the complainant made the requisite showing under paragraph 4(a)(ii) where complainant argued that the domain name at issue had no value to the respondent apart from the goodwill and reputation associated with complainant's mark).
Complainant argues that Respondent is not commonly known by <orlandivaluta.com> and could not possibly be known as <orlandivaluta.com> due to the coined nature of Complainant's ORLANDI VALUTA mark. Respondent's name does not appear in the <orlandivaluta.com> domain name, nor does Respondent's name appear anywhere on the "www.orlandivaluta.com" website. Indeed, there is absolutely no connection between the <orlandivaluta.com> domain name and Respondent or any legitimate services offered by Respondent.
Lastly, Complainant submits that Respondent is not making a "legitimate non-commercial or fair use of the <orlandivaluta.com> domain name, without intent for commercial gain to misleadingly divert consumers or to tarnish the trademark or service mark at issue". Policy 4(c)(iii). Respondent is incorporating Complainant's ORLANDI VALUTA mark into the <orlandivaluta.com> domain name for the sole purpose of diverting Internet users from Complainant's website to Respondent's "pay-per-click" directory site. Such activities clearly constitute neither fair use nor non-commercial use. Due to the distinctive and coined nature of Complainant's ORLANDI VALUTA mark, and the Respondent's use of <orlandivaluta.com> to display pay-per-click advertisements for services that compete with Complainant, it is clear that Respondent has no legitimate rights or interests in the domain name. In contrast, Respondent is trading upon the goodwill associated with Complainant and its ORLANDI VALUTA mark.
3. The Domain Name Was Registered and Is Being Used in Bad Faith
(Policy, paras. 4(a)(iii), 4(b); Rules, para. 3(b)(ix)(3))
Complainant contends that Respondent has registered and used the <orlandivaluta.com> domain name in bad faith under paragraph 4(b) of the Policy. Under paragraph 4(b), a respondent has registered and used a domain name in bad faith if, inter alia, the respondent has used the domain name intentionally to attempt to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to the respondent's website or other online location by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement of the respondent's site or of a product or service offered on the respondent's site. Policy 4(b)(iv).
Complainant argues that in the present case, Respondent seeks to take advantage of Complainant's ORLANDI VALUTA mark to attract traffic to its own site. Respondent registered and uses the <orlandivaluta.com> domain name to drive visitors to a directory site through which Respondent appears to be obtaining revenue for all clicks from Internet visitors.
Respondent is clearly attempting to benefit commercially by taking advantage of the identical nature of the <orlandivaluta.com> domain name and Complainant's ORLANDI VALUTA mark.
Respondent's efforts to "free-ride" on the goodwill of Complainant's ORLANDI VALUTA mark clearly fall within the activities listed in paragraph 4(b)(iv) of the Policy as evidence of bad faith registration and use of a domain name. See Yahoo! Inc. v. Casino Yahoo, Inc., and Jon Miranda, WIPO Case No. D2000-0660 (August 24, 2000) (finding that "[r]espondent has been trading on the value established by [c]omplainant in its marks to attract users to [r]espondent's website. Clearly, [r]espondent has derived economic benefit from this practice, either by attracting users to [r]espondent's website, where goods and services are offered, or by the receipt of compensation from the owner of the website for delivering users to that site, if the site is owned or operated by someone other than [r]espondent. This constitutes bad faith registration and use as defined by paragraph 4(b)(iv) of the Policy."); Reuters Ltd. v. Global Net 2000, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2000-0441 (July 13, 2000) (finding the respondent had used <ruters.com> to attract Internet users to its website for commercial gain); Bang et Olufsen a/s v. Unasi Inc., WIPO Case No. D2005-0728 (September 7, 2005) (finding that the respondent's domain names triggered pop-up ads and forwarded Internet users to a web portal directory, and ruling that respondent had registered and used the domain names in bad faith).
Moreover, Complainant submits that Respondent's registration of a domain name that is identical to Complainant's ORLANDI VALUTA mark, which has been widely used in international commerce for more than fifteen years, is further evidence of bad faith. Because of the distinctive and coined nature of Complainant's ORLANDI VALUTA mark, Respondent would not have registered the <orlandivaluta.com> domain name unless it intended to trade on the valuable goodwill and the prior and exclusive rights held by Complainant in the ORLANDI VALUTA mark. See Volvo Trademark Holding AB v. Unasi, Inc., WIPO Case No. D2005-0556 (July 29, 2005) (finding bad faith when, inter alia, the respondent was aware, at the time of registration of the disputed domain names, of the prior and exclusive rights held by the complainant in the VOLVO trademark); SembCorp Indus. Ltd. v. Xin, WIPO Case No. D2001-1092 (November 26, 2001) (finding that the "surrounding circumstances would lead one to infer that the respondent `knew' or `ought to have known' of the existence/trademark rights of the complainant"). All the evidence suggests that Respondent's registration of the <orlandivaluta.com> domain name was unquestionably calculated rather than accidental.
Complainant's research has revealed that Respondent has registered a large number of additional domain names (at least 62 in number) and is using such domain names to display additional pay-per-click websites. Such registration of a large number of additional domain names, which are clearly unrelated to a legitimate business of Respondent, is according to Complainant further evidence of Respondent's intent to use the <orlandivaluta.com> domain name for commercial gain based upon confusion with Complainant's ORLANDI VALUTA mark. See Policy, para. 4(b)(ii) and (iv). For example, Complainant has identified the following websites: "www.411sports.com", "www.vidblaster.com", and "wtivw.centurioncap.com", all of which are owned by Respondent, display pay-per-click websites, and appear to be trading upon the goodwill associated with legitimate products that are not owned by Respondent. Respondent's pattern of domain name speculation and cybersquatting is yet additional evidence of Respondent's bad faith registration and use of the <orlandivaluta.com> domain name. See e.g., University of Alberta v. Katz, WIPO Case No. D2000-0378 (June 22, 2000) ("The Respondent is clearly in the business of domain name speculation. ... This is sufficient without considering the use of the sites to conclude that the Respondent registered the Domain Names primarily for the purpose of selling the names for a profit and in bad faith."); Telstra Corporation Limited v. Ozurls, WIPO Case No. D2001-0046 (March 20, 2001) (ordering the transfer of the domains at issue and finding that registration of fifteen domains that infringed various marks constituted a pattern of bad faith).
Finally, Complainant notes that Respondent has failed to maintain accurate Whois contact information for the <orlandivaluta.com> domain. Counsel for Complainant sent a demand letter to Respondent using the name and address provided in the registrar's Whois database at the time the letter was sent in May 2006, which is the same contact information presently listed in the registrar's Whois database. The letter, sent via certified mail, was returned to the sender after the U.S. Postal Service was unable to deliver it or forward it to a new address. Respondent's failure to maintain accurate Whois contact information is further evidence of Respondent's bad faith registration and use of the <orlandivaluta.com> domain name. See Telstra Corp. v. Nuclear Marshmallows, WIPO Case No. D2000-0003 (February 18, 2000) (finding bad faith where the respondent "has taken deliberate steps to ensure that its true identity cannot be determined and communication with it cannot be made"); Morrison & Foerster, LLP v. Wick, NAF Case No. 94301 (April 17, 2000) (finding bad faith where the "[r]espondents intentionally ... failed to maintain accurate contact information, or have provided material and misleading false contact information"); Grupo Televisa, S.A. v. Autosya, S.A., WIPO Case No. DTV2001-0007 (June 11, 2001) (transferring domain name where supplying incorrect contact information was considered evidence of bad faith); CBS Broadcasting Inc. v. Edward Enterprises, WIPO Case No. D2000-0242 (May 24, 2000); Lion Country Supply, Inc. v. J. Katz, WIPO Case No. D2003-0106 (April 8, 2003) (finding failure to maintain accurate contact information was "another indication of the [r]espondent's bad faith").
B. Respondent
The Respondent did not reply to the Complainant's contentions.
6. Discussion and Findings
A. Identical or Confusingly Similar
Based upon the foregoing evidence and the alleged facts presented by Complainant, all uncontested by Respondent, and the foregoing contentions and legal reasoning of Complainant, unopposed by Respondent, the Panel finds that the domain name <orlandivaluta.com> is identical and confusingly similar to Complainant's widely known mark ORLANDI VALUTA which has become incontestable in the United States (Policy, para. 4(a)(i); Rules, paras. 3(b)(viii), (b)(ix)(1)).
B. Rights or Legitimate Interests
Based upon the foregoing evidence and the alleged facts presented by Complainant, all uncontested by Respondent, and the foregoing contentions and legal reasoning of Complainant, unopposed by Respondent, the Panel finds that Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in the domain name <orlandivaluta.com> (Policy, par. 4(a)(ii); Rules, Para. 3(b)(ix)(2)).
C. Registered and Used in Bad Faith
Based upon the foregoing evidence and the alleged facts presented by Complainant, all uncontested by Respondent, and the foregoing contentions and legal reasoning of Complainant, unopposed by Respondent, the Panel finds that Respondent registered and is using the domain name <orlandivaluta.com> in bad faith. (Policy, paras. 4(a)(iii), 4(b); Rules, para. 3(b)(ix)(3)).
7. Decision
For all the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the domain name, <orlandivaluta.com>, be transferred to the Complainant.
Terrell C. Birch
Sole Panelist
Dated: February 1, 2007