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Friends of coal: If Mitt Romney taps Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell as his running mate, the coal industry will be very happy.
We found out the hard way when my husband Erik ran for the Virginia state legislature* that too often issues within states and localities are drowned out by the political noise blared out across the nation from Washington by the news media. (Transition Voice readers will know Erik as our publisher).
It was 2009, and on the local campaign trail, almost all Erik ever heard, besides concerns about jobs, were questions on the federal health care bill, the cost of wars, and the US federal deficit, all issues he wouldn't be voting on were he elected to the Virginia House of Delegates.
Erik didn't win the election, but the campaign wasn't a total loss. He was able to inject at the local level concerns from the progressive side that aren't often aired in our very Republican area (I won't say "conservative" since these folks adore Big Government except if it means stopping polluters and white collar criminals).
But we really ought to pay more attention to state government for many reasons, not least of which is to witness national party strategies at the local level. It's also worth it to keep an eye on alleged political up-and-comers, often groomed in state capitals.
And in this year of high stakes presidential politics, it's wise to keep a close watch on supposed vice presidential short listers for GOP presidential nominee-apparent Mitt "corporations are people, my friend" Romney. One of those short listers comes from my beloved home state of Virginia, current Republican Governor Bob McDonnell.
Like Romney, McDonnell also has a friends list.
Last week, McDonnell sent a warm Valentine to the coal industry during the Eastern Coal Council's annual legislative breakfast held this year in Virginia's capital Richmond, where McDonnell delivered the keynote speech. For context, this outfit's motto is "Promoting Coal through Education and Public Awareness" and typical of their educational materials is a link to a report called 75 Reasons to be Skeptical of "Global Warming," available on numerous right-wing and pro-fossil fuel websites.
Since taking office, McDonnell has touted the idea of making The Old Dominion "the energy capital of the East Coast." A big fan of making Virginia the first East Coast state to allow off-shore oil drilling, McDonnell seems unconcerned about the massive infrastructural requirements and dangers to beach tourism, the fishing industry and even operations out of the massive Navy base at Norfolk that such a move would bring. It's like the Deepwater Horizon disaster never happened.
At the coal breakfast, McDonnell underscored his energy ambitions for Virginia and didn't forget to add that his administration is "a friend to the coal industry."
Now, it's no surprise that coal plays a big role in Virginia politics.
Nor is it anything new that in the plutocratic form of government now enjoyed by the United States, energy companies are big political donors. What is new is that politicians are less and less ashamed these days to acknowledge dirty energy companies in public as their "friends."
But to give McDonnell credit, in his case, sending a carboniferous smiley to his BFF is just truth in advertising. Of all McDonnell's donors, Big Coal tops the list, with $100,000 last year coming from Consul Energy, and the same from Richard Baxter Gilliam, founder of Cumberland Resources (owned by infamous mountaintop remover Massey Energy, itself now a subsidiary of energy giant Alpha Natural Resources); Marvin W. Gilliam Jr., also of Cumberland, ponied up $50,000 in 2011. Cumberland's parent Alpha Natural Resources also gave McDonnell $50,000 last year. All told, McDonnell banked over three-quarters of a million dollars from Big Energy in the 2011-12 reporting cycle, with the lion's share of that (more than $600,000) coming directly from Big Coal.
Now, no one's debating whether or not coal will remain part of the US energy mix for years to come, its carbon emissions, mercury spew and egregious mountaintop removal mining practices notwithstanding.
Of course, if you believe the analysis of Richard Heinberg of Post Carbon Institute (and I do) that coal is also at or nearing its peak, with poorer and poorer grades of it available to us while China, India and the rest of the world clamors for the stuff, then the urgency to prioritize clean energy alternatives amps up. Too bad, then, that would-be "energy state" Gov. McDonnell dismisses renewables like solar and wind as not ready for prime time.
Even worse, by denouncing the Environmental Protection Agency's attempt to control mercury emissions from coal-powered power plants as an "assault on the coal industry" and the jobs it allegedly supports, McDonnell falls back on the old GOP chestnut that any attempt to protect the sacred and ancient commons of clean air, soil, and water is a "job killer."
In typical GOP verbal jiu jitsu, McDonnell remarked at the breakfast that "We all know that an unnecessary regulation is nothing more than a hidden tax."
With the International Energy Agency having announced that the world hit peak oil in 2006, and the WorldWatch Institute saying to expect resource scarcity and harsh resource competition in the near future, in many ways the presidential election this year is shaping up to be a contest between Big Corporate and its centralized control of the economy through Big Energy on the one hand, and, on the other, a vision for smaller scale local economies (Made in the USA!) and powered by a mix of job-creating conservation initiatives and distributed energy.
President Obama must play a role here. Not that I regard him as a very effective guardian against the ravages of Republican politics. His fecklessness on myriad issues, not the least of which is failing to hold the allegedly Too Big To Fail banks accountable, doesn't earn him any points in my book.
At worst, Obama is patently complicit with domination by the 1% though he's marketed in a deceptively palatable package. At best, within the limits of today's presidency, Obama at least holds the line on the worst of the worst of the damage that the imperial and plutocratic class has sought to wreak in the name of "free trade."
But as the 2012 campaign proceeds, anyone who cares about energy should remain mindful of Virginia's Gov. McDonnell. I wouldn't be surprised if the GOP unveils him as their next "energy expert."
In truth, McDonnell is no more savvy on the complex energy picture as the world hits peak resources than was professional crazy person Michele Bachmann, who promised a return to gas at $2 a gallon in the event that she should take the White House.
And McDonnell is no more of a "straight shooter" on energy than Sarah "drill, baby, drill," Palin. At the coal breakfast, McDonnell joined the chorus of energy exaggerators including former GOP hopeful Rick Perry by proclaiming that the US was the Saudi Arabia of Coal, despite ample evidence that this claim is nothing more than well worn industry hype and that, just as the world is reaching peak oil, the US has now also reached peak coal.
Memo to them all: No amount of wishful thinking will turn a finite resource into an infinite one. And no amount of friendship with corporate masters will make the US a better place to live, a stronger pro-business economy or a more energy secure nation. In fact it's quite the opposite. Until our democracy is unshackled from corporate rule, we'll continue down a path that's dangerous and unsustainable while putting nothing in place to meet our energy needs as the decline of fossil fuels accelerates. (And this doesn't even deal with the global warming side of things).
We continue waffling on clean energy infrastructure at our peril, even if it won't "save" us or ensure continuation of the excessive paradigm to which we've become grossly accustomed.
One of our last lifeboats may be if Big Coal and Big Oil are beaten back this election cycle. And that's got to start at the state level, exposing corporate lackeys like McDonnell for what they are while demanding that the clean energy economy move to the center of our political landscape as the key issue for the near and long term success of our country.
--Lindsay Curren, Transition Voice
* Erik has since become an Independent and is running for local City Council. Let's hope he doesn't get grilled on guns, gays, and God, all issues that this august body isn't likely to take up anytime soon.
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[2] http://transitionvoice.com/2012/02/energy-and-presidential-politics/coal-mcdonnell-romney/
[3] http://www.democracyforamerica.com/campaigns/3302-erik-curren-for-delegate
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlPQkd_AA6c
[5] http://portal.virginia.gov/
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[7] http://www.easterncoalcouncil.net/
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[10] http://transitionvoice.com/2010/09/oil-waste-and-wisdom-in-the-gulf/
[11] http://www.virginiaplaces.org/geology/coal.html
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[16] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_%28fuel%29
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[18] http://transitionvoice.com/2011/03/interview-richard-heinberg/
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BLANCHARDVILLE - Melvin "AJ" Allan Jerrett, Jr, age 8 of Blanchardville died on Friday, May 17, 2013, as the result of a farm accident.
He was born on May 12, 2005 in Darlington to Melvin and Amanda (Hendrickson) Jerrett. He lived in the Blanchardville area with his parents his entire life, and was currently in the 2nd grade in the Pecatonica Area Elementary School in Hollandale. AJ loved hunting and fishing, baseball, riding his bicycle, going to work farming with his dad, wrestling, swimming, and being a happy little boy.
AJ is survived by his parents, Melvin and Amanda Jerrett of Blanchardville; a brother, Skyler Jerrett, and a sister, Katie Jerrett, at home; his paternal grandparents, Melvin (Marlene) Jerrett of Muscoda and Carrie (David) King of Boscobel; his maternal grandparents, Jim and Rosemary Hendrickson of Darlington; his paternal great-grandmother, Barbara Helmenstein of Boscobel; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. He was preceded in death by his cousins, Aryahna Bloedoe, and Sophia Penelope Jerrett.
A visitation for AJ Jerrett will be held on Thursday, May 23, 2013, from 5:00 until 9:00 PM at the Pecatonica Elementary School in Hollandale.
Funeral services will be held on Friday, May 24, 2013, at 11:00 AM at the Blanchardville Lutheran Church in Blanchardville. Rev. Mark Gruner of that church will officiate.
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Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, a professor of art and archaeology at Princeton, has been awarded a Rome Prize, which allows American artists and scholars to study at the American Academy in Rome.
With the fellowship, Kaufmann will study 16th-century artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo's contribution to the invention of still-life painting. His research will combine art theory, nature painting and natural history.
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Last week, Trent Reznor shocked fans and industry types with the surprise on-line release of a new instrumental album, Ghosts I-IV. The official Nine Inch Nails Web site has been updated with information on ordering the album, plus the option to download the first nine tracks for free.
I downloaded the first bit, and I'd say it's worthy of being free. Tracks ranged from decent — good filler tracks for a real album, maybe — to ignorable and to, in a few cases, pretty irritating. My brain's reptilian areas kind of wished that the tracks had some lyrics to anchor them, but then I remembered what Nine Inch Nails lyrics are like. The dude writes such high-school bullshit that he can make 70-year-old Johnny Cash sound like a pasty adolescent goth, so let's consider the absence of lyrics a bonus feature. It's exactly how you'd expect an instrumental Nine Inch Nails album to sound: sort of like the instrumental bits from The Fragile, but without all the vocal tracks to keep it interesting. About as many surprises here as a typical sunrise. But, hey: free.
The most interesting thing about the record, and the part with the biggest implications for the music industry, is its broad gradient of purchase options. Depending on how much you want to spend, you can pick something up for free (a bit of the album), part with a few bucks for a download, or blow your whole paycheck on an opulent multi-disc deluxe issue. Here are the choices:
$0: Free DownloadFreeloader types can help themselves to an MP3 download of the first nine tracks, complete with high-quality cover art and liner notes. The tracks are digital-rights-management-free — which means that the RIAA won't blow up your computer if you try to burn them to a CD. (God knows it'll want to, of course.)
$5: Download
Those willing to lay out a modest sum can download a digital version of the entire 36-track album. Essentially the same as the free thing, but four times as much of it — which, as far as I'm concerned, should make it four times freer. Includes high-quality MP3 files, plus higher-quality files in FLAC format, which retain all the quality of a CD but can be heard only by nerds. This version is also DRM-free — which means it's easy to steal and you have to pay for it only if you really want to, or if you're too stupid to track down a free download. (Probably a great deal of overlap between those two.)
$10: Two-CD Set
The "real" CD, to be released next month. Comes as a two-disc set featuring a good ol' fashioned physical CD digipak, printed liner notes, and cover art. Perfect for hillbillies. And to ease the sting of living in the past: every CD pre-order comes with a download link to all the crap from the $5 version. This ensures that every computer owner who buys the disc (which is every buyer, since it's an on-line offer) will have stopped giving a shit about the album by the time he receives the CDs.
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The stock market rallied solidly on the first day of the third quarter.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied 65.36 points, or 0.44%, to 14974.96, erasing a larger move earlier in the day. The Standard & Poor's 500 index was up 8.68 points, or 0.54%, to 1614.96. The Nasdaq Composite rose 31.24 points, or 0.92%, to 3434.49.
Nymex Crude Oil for August delivery gained $1.43 per barrel, or 1.48% to $97.99. The international benchmark, Brent crude, gained 84 cents per barrel, or 0.82% to $103.00.
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Medical supply and equipment maker Covidien (COV) completed the spinoff of its pharmaceutical business. Press release here. Deutsche Bank reiterated its Buy Rating but reduced its price target to $68 from $74 to reflect the spinout. Deutsche writes:
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Still closer to the release. IMHO, the UNIX part is done now (thanks to the remains of the Compaq TestDrive compile farm, I could test this one on a few new setups this time. 'Test' as in 'compile and run ./freesci -h', because they don't have X11 forwarding. Oh well.). However, support for Win32 seems to be broken; since I don't have the equipment to test or the knowledge to work on that, the release will have to wait for the Win32 porters.
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cactus: Glad you like it! I can't seem to reproduce the problems you're having here (FreeSCI halting for a short while and CPU usage increasing dramatically) and haven't received any similar bug reports yet, but this sounds interesting (at least from the point of view of someone who's been fixing collision bugs for the last week). I'll contact you per e-mail, since advogato probably isn't the best medium to use for bug hunting...


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I loved the Hulk as a kid, so I thought this set was worth a trip down memory
lane . . . and a rather inexpensive one at that since Target had it for 15.99 last week - it's now 19.99 (full price).
Anyway, I remembered next to nothing about these cheesy TV reunion movies so watching them was . . . . um . . . . interesting.
Honestly, the movie with Thor was better than I expected it to be, I rather liked the Odinson in this one.
Daredevil in the second movie is kinda weird, what with the recent theatrical release. Still, it's got Gimli the Dwarf as Kingpin . . . and that's about it. Bill Bixby is lookin' smooth in the beard.
I'm surprised they didn't use the Ben Urich character to work as a reporter with the guy who chases the Hulk (played by Jack Colvin methinks ? ).
I think it was a good buy for me, it's worth it for the movie shots of Lou Ferrigno flexing for no apparent reason as well as the interviews with Lou and Stan Lee. Stan cameos in the second film, that was interesting to learn.
There's also a feature length documentary on Lou's return to competitive bodybuilding - it's not germane to the TV show but I still found it pretty interesting.


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Being a long distance caregiver has
a unique set of problems. I have been on both sides of
the coin, and know that the emotional drain of being too
far from our loved one to be of direct help, can be
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As long distance caregiver, I had to struggle with my
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times I felt isolated in that I would learn of a change
after the fact, and usually after I could have been of
any help. That leads to a sense of being a fragmented
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Now, as primary caregiver, I have had to face just that
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The primary caregiver has an obligation as well. We need
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do not have to carry the whole load and letting other
family know their input is needed is essential. And, it
will go a long why to reducing the fear of a telephone
call late in the night.
Catherine Murphy, R.N., has been caregiver to both
parents. She can be contacted at email@example.com or
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Just weeks into his trial, child pornography possession charges against Scott Curtis have been dismissed.
Crown prosecutor Wendy Zedebiak told Judge Greg Brown in provincial court today that having reviewed the evidence, there was no likelihood of conviction.
She also requested that all material contaminated with child porn be destroyed. Brown agreed.
Outside court, defence lawyer Rosellen Sullivan said the decision was based on flawed analysis of the computer by the RNC's expert, regarding the dates the material was said to have been there.
She said if police are going to destroy someone's reputation by laying charges in such a high-profile case, it's experts ought to be sure of what they're doing.
The decision came 17 days into the trial.
Curtis, 66, was arrested in June 2009 after police said they found hundreds of pictures of child pornography and dozens more videos on Curtis's computer.
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Contemporary art is a crucial part of the museum's acquisitions policy. Since the 1980s the contemporary collection has been expanding steadily, thanks to numerous purchases – many of them in the context of temporary exhibitions – as well as deposits by the National Contemporary Art Collection and the Pays de la Loire Region Contemporary Art Collection. The result is now an impressive panorama of the art of today.
The collection is structured around groups of works belonging to the major art movements from the early 1960s onwards: Arte Povera is especially well represented, with work by artists like Alighiero e Boetti, Claudio Parmiggiani and Luciano Fabro, while Raymond Hains, Martial Raysse, Jean Tinguely and Jacques Villeglé provide an understanding of New Realism. The Support(s)-Surface(s) movement is illustrated by works by Toni Grand, Claude Viallat and Daniel Dezeuze.
The collection also embraces the many different media artists are now using, including sculpture (Maurizio Cattelan, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor), photography (Gilbert & George, David Goldblatt, John Baldessari), installations (Christian Boltanski) and video (Vito Acconci, Thierry Kuntzel, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, Anri Sala and Philippe Parreno). Contemporary painting is represented by a large group of works by artists including Gerhard Richter, Claude Rutault, François Morellet and Luc Tuymans.
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Today i kicked 560 Mailaddresses off lists.debian.org ...
... because they are bouncing.
In my ongoing attempt to investigate and fix problems of our mailinglist-server, i found that we only had a working bounce-detection for lists starting debian-* minus debian-private and the three digest-lists.
So i rewrote some parts of the bounce detection:
We now have four categories of lists:
- high (30 or more mails a day)
- medium (20 or more mails a week)
- low (10 or more mails a month)
- very-low (the rest)
for these four categories we calculate a spam-rate depending on the number of distributed messages and the number of bounces in the timerange of 24 hours for 'high' lists, 7 days for 'medium' lists, 30 days for 'low' lists and 90 days for 'very-low' lists.
If the Spamrate exceeds 80% for unmoderated, and 60% for moderated lists, and bounces have been seen for more than 24 hours we kick. (these rates are subject to change, when we have implemented the warning mechanism)
So these changes implemented a bounce-detection for debian-changes-digest and today we reached the level of 60% bounces for more than 500 subscribers.
So what next?
To finish the bounce-detection, i want to implement something which tries to notify subscribers about bouncing mails. This is useless for 'hard'-bouncers, but people with some smaller problems like mail2news-gatewayers this could be helpful. I also want to implement something which sends out unsubscription notices for three weeks after the kick, so kicked out people can resubscribe after they have sorted out the problems.
Both should fire once a week per address.
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The question of whether attorneys handling real estate transactions can allow title companies to audit their trust accounts, which have deposits from clients not using that title company, has stymied — for the moment — the Bar's Professional Ethics Committee.
At issue is a state law passed last year that would allow title insurance companies to audit trust accounts, assuming no Bar rules would be violated. The question posed to the committee was whether such an audit might violate Bar rules if the trust fund contained monies from clients who are not using the auditing title company and if the company might be able to learn confidential information about those clients through the audit, unless the affected clients gave their informed consent to the lawyer providing the information to the title insurance company.
At its January 25 meeting, the committee first rejected a proposed advisory opinion, by an 11-13 vote, that said such audits would not be allowed without client consent. A follow-up motion to decline to issue an advisory opinion failed 7-14. Another motion to return the proposed advisory opinion back to its drafting subcommittee failed to get a second, as did a motion to instruct the subcommittee to redraft the opinion to say that audits would be allowed as long as there was a separate trust account for each title insurer used by the law firm.
The committee did vote that it would answer the question from the inquiring attorney but then deferred the matter — after more than two hours of discussion — to address other matters on its agenda. The committee next meets at the Bar's June Annual Convention.
"This is a difficult inquiry, and it's important that the committee gives its full consideration to this," said Loretta O'Keefe, chair of the subcommittee that drafted the proposed advisory opinion. "Continued discussion on this topic is good. It's important for our profession and for people who do real estate transactional work."
She said the proposed advisory opinion was based on strong Bar rules protecting the confidentiality of client information.
"Without discussing it with the client, you're allowing trust account information, which is considered confidential, to be reviewed by a title insurance company that is not a party to the transaction," O'Keefe said. "The Bar rules on confidentiality state that all information relating to the representation is confidential. Therefore, you have to worry about a third-party title insurer seeing information that would normally be considered confidential and whether there could be any dissemination of that information."
She acknowledged that there are laws requiring title companies to protect information, but said those are not as all encompassing as Bar rules.
Committee member Lynwood Arnold served on the drafting subcommittee but opposed the proposed opinion, saying it failed to deal with the complexities of real estate transactions. For example, he said a lawyer may be hired by the seller to handle a closing but the money in his trust account is a payment from the buyer to the seller, pending the closing.
"I know lawyers involved in closing pass closing statements out to people who are not clients. In a closing, you've got a lot of different stakeholders who require information," he said. "For example, you have to give information to the lender; you have to give information to the title insurer; you have to give information to insurance agents, to real estate agents. That's part of the implied or understood part of the scope of your representation."
Also, if attorneys and law firms set up multiple trust accounts for multiple title companies and multiple clients, title companies will have worries that defalcating attorneys will be able to avoid detection by switching money between audited and unaudited funds, he said.
"It's in the best interest of the client to have a viable title insurance system, and the audit can uncover problems," Arnold said.
The issue came to the ethics panel following a legislative change to F.S. §626.8473, effective July 1, 2012. It requires attorneys handling real estate transactions in which they act as a title of settlement agent to deposit all funds relating to those transactions into trust accounts reserved for those real estate dealings. The attorney must "permit the account to be audited by its title insurers, unless maintaining funds in the separate account for a particular client would violate applicable rules of The Florida Bar."
The inquiring attorney noted he works in a firm where several attorneys handle such real estate transactions, working with a number of title insurance companies. He asked if the firm could ethically allow a title insurance company to audit a trust account that included funds from clients who have no dealings with that title company, without consent from those clients.
The proposed opinion from the subcommittee — rejected by the full committee — answered that question with a "no."
"If the firm permits each title insurer to audit the separate trust account without clients' informed consent, each insurer will obtain information relating to the firm's representation of clients who are not involved in any transaction with that particular title insurer," the proposed opinion said. "That would not serve those clients' interests and would be tantamount to permitting the insurer to audit a general trust account in violation of the prohibition expressed in [Ethics] Opinion 93-5. The inquirer's affirmative duties to inform and explain under [Bar] Rules 4-1.4 and 4-1.6 (a) would be triggered under such circumstances. Disclosure to title insurers without a client's informed consent would be prohibited by Rule 4-1.6 (a) and the exception under Rule 4-1.6 (c) (1) [which allows a disclosure if it benefits the client] would be inapplicable."
The attorney could allow the audit of "a single trust account used exclusively for client transactions insured by the title insurer requesting the audit."
The inquiring attorney also asked if the lawyers would be exempt from the law because it violates Bar ethics rules. The proposed opinion answered by noting that was a question of law, which is beyond the committee's purview.
But it also went on to note, "Lawyers . . . should consider maintaining: 1) a separate trust account for each different title insurer used by that lawyer or law firm, or 2) one separate trust account and obtain each client's informed consent to disclose information regarding their transactions to multiple title insurers for their audits, or 3) one separate trust account and obtain consent from the various title insurers to audit only the information related to transactions that the title insurer is underwriting. With respect to number 2 in the preceding sentence, the lawyer may obtain the client's informed consent in the sales contract or in a separate document executed by the client prior to or at the closing."
O'Keeffe said the committee was discussing that section of the proposed opinion when it ran out of time.
The issue generated considerable debate. The Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section's Executive Committee submitted a letter advising that it thinks the audits are allowable as they protect clients and that there is no need to maintain a separate trust account for each title insurance company or for each client.
The section, in a letter from Chair Wm. Fletcher Belcher, asserted: "In most real estate transactions, all parties, opposing counsel, and real estate brokers are privy to the closing statement and receive a copy of it. As a result, neither the information on a closing statement, nor the receipts and disbursements from a special trust account in accordance with a closing statement, are confidential. In such cases, permitting an audit to confirm that disbursements were made in accordance with the approved closing statement does not violate the duty of confidentiality. . . ."
Likewise, W. Theodore Conner, senior vice president and general counsel for Attorneys' Title Fund Services, wrote to the committee that several federal laws and state administrative procedures already provide privacy protections, and that consumers would benefit from the audits. He also argued the audit is little different from attorneys engaging third-party bookkeepers and accountants to handle their trust accounts.
"[T]here are immediate benefits to clients to have an independent audit conducted," Conner said. "At a minimum, it should be left to each attorney to establish whether to maintain one common real estate transaction account or one for each title insurer's transactions. It cannot be said that the clients are never benefitted by audits by title insurers irrespective of whether a particular transaction was insured by the auditing insurer."
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Ally dear knows Bob very well as do i . I am going to be seeing Bob this weekend i will get the scoop and let you know.
Ally dear knows Bob very well as do i . I am going to be seeing Bob this weekend i will get the scoop and let you know.
I updated the title to indicate that the dog was found. Hope the OP doesn't mind.
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Talked to Bob last weekend he said that the vet said the dog was stolden. How he new that was his nails were trimmed and he was groomed. If they got sick of him or he broke free only the dog knows. When he did pick him up the guy that caught him did not do any of that.
Bob also said that the reason the chip never showed up is alot of vet do not have the wand. When he got back home he asked if his vet has a wand he said yes and his chip id the dog. His vet said alot of vets dont buy them because of expence for such little use.
wow what a great ending-I had not followed this thread and just read of it now. Lucky dog!
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I feel like you do about this. It bothers me that people and companies are willing to "use" those with problems.
On another note one of the clerks in Lowes home improvement store told me that Lowes sometimes gives discounts on large ticket items to the handicapped people. And I loved the washing machine we were were buying for the grandaughter........you can not turn the knob(s) the wrong way. Wonderfull for a retarded person.
by using them do you mean giving them an opportunity to feel productive is wrong?
I have learned I need these dogs much more than they need me. Tim Bockmon
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by using them do you mean giving them an opportunity to feel productive is wrong?
No, I do not mean those companies etc. who hire them out of the goodness of their heart. I'm talking about the companies etc. who hire the handicapped to get the tax credits or whatever it is called. I'm guessing that that little perk is still available to whoever hires them. If you were deeply involved in the life of a handicapped person you would know of their hurt feelings etc. when their employer/boss expects more of them and demands it when they don't have the brains to get it right. I have always considered you to be a 'good guy' but my faith in you is wavering.
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Time & Temperature Building Supports Youth & Family Outreach
For one week, the sign on Portland's Time & Temperature Building will display the message: "TOTS TROT" in support of Youth & Family Outreach's 2nd Annual Trot for Tots.
Scheduled for Saturday June 23rd at 8:30am, this 5K run/walk will take place on the Back Cove, at the corner of Preble Street and Baxter Boulevard in Portland.
If you are interested in registering for the race, please click here: http://www.active.com/running/portland-me/youth-and-family-outreach-trot-for-tots-5k-2012
Youth & Family Outreach is a non-profit organization located in Portland's Bayside neighborhood. The agency, which currently acts as an early education and childcare facility, also helps underprivileged children and single mothers.
Our law firm is proud to support this wonderful organization and its 2nd Annual Trot for Tots event.


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I wrote JMegaHal a couple of months ago, but people kept prodding me to make it available so they could put their own AI into their IRC bots or whatever. So there it is.
It's simply based on MegaHAL, but it's implemented as a Java package, so you can easily make use of it from your own Java programs.
The jar file also contains the source code and is only 6kb in size, so you can see how simple it is at the moment.
A few people have already started by making a PircBot use the JMegaHal package to read in large text documents and spout out random jibble!


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By Jeff Amy/The Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A report on Mississippi's prepaid college tuition program says it's unlikely to earn enough money to meet investment expectations and calls for future contract purchasers to pay more.
However, it's unclear if the Mississippi Prepaid Affordable College Tuition Program will ever take new enrollees. State Treasurer Lynn Fitch says consultants are still examining options, and won't present recommendations for three or four more months.
"We're not going to rush anything here," Fitch said Friday, as she released findings of the report. "We will take the time to digest the audit."
The board that runs MPACT suspended new enrollments in August, saying investment returns weren't keeping up with rising tuition costs. The plan still has more than 22,000 contracts, and the state is required to pay full-price of tuition for those enrollees.
Fitch said the plan now has about 77 percent of money it will need to pay benefits. She defined "appropriate funding" of the program as having 100 percent of the money needed to pay future claims.
"We have not had appropriate funding of the program since 2000 and that's a long time to not have adequate funding," she said.
Tate Reeves, the former treasurer and current lieutenant governor, has said that 100 percent may not be strictly necessary. Consultants for the Public Employees Retirement System have suggested that the minimum funding needed there is about 80 percent. Both MPACT and the retirement system function on similar principals, taking money now and investing it to pay benefits later.
Fitch suggested that the state could also consider setting up a new prepaid college fund, one that might sell credit hours instead of a contract for all of college, or that might force community colleges and universities to guarantee that money will be sufficient instead of putting that burden on state government as a whole.
Right now, MPACT has $274.7 million under management. Through the first six months of this budget year, it's making a 5 percent annual return. That's above the historical average of $4.8 million and well above the 0.6 percent return on the fund in the 2012 budget year. But MPACT targets a yearly return of 7.8 percent, which is needed to keep up with the historically rapid increase in college tuition.
Actuaries at Gabriel Roeder Smith & Co., a Michigan firm hired by the plan, say MPACT is likely to meet or exceed 7.8 percent only 43 percent of the time, and that 7 percent is the rate the fund is likely to make in the better half of years. If the expected rate of return were to be lowered to 7 percent, MPACT's gap between what it has and what it needs to make future payments would rise from $90 million to more than $100 million, actuaries wrote.
The consultants also said MPACT should charge more up-front to pay for administrative expenses, as well as for the fact that plan participants are likely to enroll in universities that charge the most in tuition, such as the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University.
Mississippi continues to enroll new entrants in the separate Mississippi Affordable College Savings Program. In that program, people invest money and don't have to pay taxes on gains, but don't lock in a price for tuition at a Mississippi public university. So savers might come up short, or might end up with more money than needed for college.
Online: MPACT actuarial report: http://bit.ly/VRylxs


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Position papers: Barberton Municipal Court judge
David Fish (incumbent) vs. Jill Flagg
Voters living in the Barberton Municipal Court district will vote for one candidate for judge in the Nov. 5 General Election. The Barberton Municipal Court serves the communities of Barberton, Clinton, Copley, Coventry, Green, New Franklin and Norton. The information provided below was submitted by the candidates, with their responses to our questions printed as submitted.
David Fish (incumbent)
What are the three most important issues facing the court and how would you address them?
- "The continuing cuts in funding for all correctional services at the state and local levels. With increasingly overcrowded jails, municipal judges have, by necessity, been forced to search for more creative sentencing alternatives to punish the offenders and keep their victim's safe. As an active member of the Summit County Jail Overcrowding Committee I am constantly at the table with the stakeholders in our community to discuss alternatives and swiftly implement policies and procedures to adapt to those security needs.
- "Dealing with the effects of a difficult economy on all levels of the court system. We are tasked with the responsibility of running a fiscally sound court but are far from immune from the ravages of a down economy. When law enforcement lays off police, sheriffs and troopers there is, by definition, less revenue generated due to the lack of citations and complaints coming to the court. And when we do issue fines and costs for offenders, the challenge of collecting those monies timely is more difficult as offenders cannot afford to pay as they deal with their issues of paying rent, feeding and clothing their families, having secure transportation, etc. I just constantly look to balance those competing pressures and make decisions as financial concerns so dictate.
- "Increased incidence of drug and alcohol related crimes. As I have done with my Mental Health Court for the severe and persistently mentally ill, I believe the treatment and accountability model presents the best opportunity to change the destructive …" [Exceeded stated word limit.]
What does a judicial demeanor mean to you and do you think you have it?
"As a judge I have always felt the obligation to comport myself in a way that is dignified and instills confidence in all who appear before the court. To accomplish this I have tried to act in a way that avoids even the appearance of impropriety and partiality. I believe that I must hold myself to an even higher standard than even the lawyers who appear in my court. I try not to ever raise my voice or exhibit anger. I often use a splash of humor to 'take the temperature down' or help to relieve someone's anxiety at appearing in court. I treat all who stand before me with respect and understanding, even when some might feel they deserve neither."
Jill Flagg
What are the three most important issues facing the court and how would you address them?
"The three most important issues facing the court are the need for timely disposition of cases, lack of court security, and the need for specialty dockets.
"Timely dispositions of cases and hearings are important to the administration of justice. The court must move cases along to ensure fair and compassionate treatment for victims and to increase the effectiveness of the justice system. Timely resolution also minimizes the stress and trauma of victims and the parties. I would ensure that all cases in my court would be timely resolved by setting deadlines and granting continuances only when justice requires. Justice delayed is justice denied.
"Barberton Municipal Court security is an emergency. There is no municipal court in the state that you don't go through a metal detector and see a police officer upon entering the court. The court staff, judges, prosecutors, and people of the communities of Barberton, Green, Copley, New Franklin, Coventry, New Franklin, and Clinton are in danger every time they enter that building without proper security. I would address that issue immediately upon becoming Judge before it is addressed due to a tragedy. I would remedy this problem by exploring funding from the community or through court order.
"Finally, I would explore the creation of specialty dockets to address the growing substance abuse problems in the community. A substance abuse docket would cast a wider net then the newly created mental health docket by providing community resources to a greater number of offenders whose underlying behavior stems from …" [Exceeded stated word limit.]
What does a judicial demeanor mean to you and do you think you have it?
"Judicial demeanor means treating every person that comes before the court with respect, dignity, and empathy. It means being impartial and avoiding the appearance of partiality. Administering justice with consistency and implementing resolutions that our effective and efficient. A judge's behavior should cause the community to have faith and trust in the judicial system.
"Many people that come before a judge in Municipal Court are not represented by an attorney, so Judges must take special care to explain the law and how the law applies to insure the parties feel as though they have received the full attention of the court and that their case has been dealt with fairly. The judge must also take special care to reduce the stress of the parties and victims who come before by timely disposing of matters."
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Close clinical surveillance of all women taking estrogens is important. Adequate diagnostic measures, including endometrial sampling when indicated, should be undertaken to rule out malignancy in all cases of undiagnosed persistent or recurring abnormal vaginal bleeding. There is no evidence that the use of "natural" estrogens results in a different endometrial risk profile than synthetic estrogens at equivalent estrogen doses. (See WARNINGS, Malignant neoplasms, Endometrial cancer.)
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The estrogen-alone substudy of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) reported increased risks of stroke and deep vein thrombosis in postmenopausal women (50 to 79 years of age) during 6.8 years and 7.1 years, respectively, of treatment with oral conjugated estrogens (CE 0.625 mg) alone per day, relative to placebo. (See Clinical Studies and WARNINGS, Cardiovascular disorders.)
The estrogen-plus-progestin substudy of the WHI reported increased risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, invasive breast cancer, pulmonary emboli, and deep vein thrombosis in postmenopausal women (50 to 79 years of age) during 5.6 years of treatment with oral conjugated estrogens (CE 0.625 mg) combined with medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA 2.5 mg) per day, relative to placebo. (See Clinical Studies and WARNINGS, Cardiovascular disorders and Malignant neoplasms, Breast cancer.)
The Women's Health Initiative Memory Study (WHIMS), a substudy of the WHI, reported an increased risk of developing probable dementia in postmenopausal women 65 years of age or older during 5.2 years of treatment with CE 0.625 mg alone and during 4 years of treatment with CE 0.625 mg combined with MPA 2.5 mg, relative to placebo. It is unknown whether this finding applies to younger postmenopausal women. (See Clinical Studies, WARNINGS, Dementia, and PRECAUTIONS, Geriatric Use.)
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recipe #213: Savane History, from Sourceforge to Savane
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This change was made to avoid confusion between this software and the GNU Development Platform, both named Savannah.
At first, Savannah was not meant to be a software project but just an installation of the software SourceForge 2.0 for GNU. But soon after Savannah was set up, SourceForge became proprietary software. Since improvements to the source code were necessary to be able to run Savannah in decent conditions, it was for a team of Libre Software enthusiasts logical to continue the adventure by creating a fork, called after the name of the development platform they were maintainers of.
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