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Spigen SGP Ultra Fit for the Samsung GALAXY S4 Review – Puts Your S4 On a Diet
If you are looking for a case that will give a bit of scratch protection to your Samsung GALAXY S4 while adding as little bulk and weight as possible, then you will want to check out the Spigen SGP Ultra Fit for the Samsung GALAXY S4. On Amazon for under $10, this case is just about as minimalist a case …Read more
Spigen SGP Crumena View Pouch for Samsung GALAXY S4 Allows You to See Clearly
One of the features that impressed me when I first say the Samsung GALAXY S4 at the Samsung Press conference announcing it was the smart screen functionality when combined with Samsung's S Covers. The pairing of the special cover and the screen functionality allows S4 users to see key information without even opening the smartphone's screen. It is a nice …Read more
Spigen SGP Ultra Thin Air Transparency Case for Samsung GALAXY S4 Review
If you are looking for simple protection for you Samsung GALAXY S4 smartphone that won't add much bulk or weight to the device you will want to check out Spigen SGP's Ultra Thin Air. The Ultra Thin Air is exactly what the name would suggest – a simple, super-thin, super-light snap on case that protects the back, sides and corners of …Read more
Waterfield SFBags Has Your Samsung GALAXY S4 Covered!
Whenever I get a new device I always jumped over to the Waterfield SF bag website to see what the company might have to protect it. Waterfield cases, pouches and bags are high-quality, well designed accessories that promise to protect your device for its life and beyond. I can honestly say that I have used/currently use a Waterfield product with …Read more
Magnet Stick-On Periscope Lense for iPhone and Camera Phones Surfaces
The good folks at USBFever work very hard to bring plenty of the most unusual peripherals and accessories for iPhones and other smartphones to the market. From the most simple and functional to the rather esoteric offbeat tech, USBFever has got you covered! Take camera lens add-ons for cell phones. Some of you might think, "What else is …Read more
Rokform Rokshield v3 and v3 Suction Mount for iPhone 5 Review
Some weeks ago, I had the opportunity to review the Rokform Rokshield v3 for iPhone 5 (read the review). The case itself offers nice protection, but that wasn't what stood out for me. No, what stood out when I reviewed the case at the time was the numerous possibilities a case like this afforded any iPhone user. Why is that so? …Read more
MiPow Boom mini Bluetooth Speaker Review
I will admit to having gone into my review of the MiPow Boom and MiPow Boom mini Bluetooth speakers positively inclined toward both products. After all, when Judie and I met with Brian Holmes, vice president and general manager of MiPow, back at CES in January we were immediately impressed by the attention to quality and detail the company put into …Read more
A Bevy of Cases for the Samsung GALAXY S4 Announced
One way to predict whether or not a new device is going to be a hit is to look at how many cases and other assorted accessories are announced in the hours following the launch. For example, each time a new iDevice is announced Judie and I get dozens of emails with each company making sure we know they have …Read more
Spigen SGP Home Buttons for Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Add Bling to Your Phablet
Some smartphone accessories have a clear purpose and reason for existing. The purpose of other accessories is… less obvious. Case in point- the Spigen SGP Home Buttons for Samsung Galaxy Note 2. The Note 2 has a Home button and it works just fine on its own. Why then would one spend $10 to buy three different metal buttons to …Read more
Speck CandyShell for Samsung GALAXY Note 2 Provides Tasty Protection
So you've entered the land of phablets and bought yourself a Samsung GALAXY Note 2. You love carrying one device that serves as both (a freakin' huge) smartphone and a (tiny tiny) tablet and you take it everywhere you go. That's great but a device getting that much use and abuse needs t be protected. Fortunately Speck has you and …Read more
Cygnett Cases Shows off Their Booth at CES 2013
We love Cygnett Cases at Gear Diary. They offer a tremendous number of unique styles in a variety of price ranges, and it's always a treat to see their newest designs. While at CES 2013, we were lucky enough to swing by their booth and get a tour of the highlights on deck for 2013! Some of the graffiti-inspired cases …Read more
Luvvitt Booth Tour at CES 2013
You may not know the name Luvvitt, but you should. They make affordable, attractive iPhone, iPad, and Samsung cases, plus they've branched out into Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad and iPad Mini. I've used their Dolce back cover for my iPad 3, and even though I have tested other cases I always come back to the Luvvitt for its simplicity, …Read more
Accessories at CES Illustrate Only Apple and Samsung Matter
I had the privilege of walking the CES floor and trying hard to cover as much as I could for Gear Diary this past week. It was, as you can imagine, absolutely geek heaven. I can't even count how many smartphone accessories I saw this week, but one common thread stood out among the many mixed styles: if you want …Read more
Boost Your Smartphone Volume With Smartsound Case
Company: SmartSound Case Products on Display: Cases for the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung Galaxy Note that have a kickstand that doubles as a channel to naturally amplify sounds without needing a separate powered speaker. Also includes a reflective flash ring for brighter photos. What Caught Our Eye: The cases were very light, and the combination of …Read more
Mobile Fun Samsung Galaxy S III Extended Battery Kit
If you have a smartphone other than one of the Droid Maxx devices, chances are you wish it had better battery life. And as they get more and more powerful we do more and more – so any gains in power efficiency are lost by greater usage! There are battery cases available that fully cover your device and change the …Read more
Sena Lusio Case for Samsung Galaxy S III Review
As I mentioned in my review, the Samsung Galaxy SIII is a sleek and slim device and it would be a shame to wrap it up in a bulky case. Well, apparently the folks at Sena feel the same way, since the new Lusio is a thin leather case for the Galaxy SIII that offers stylish protection. Let's look in …Read more
Element Releases the Atom Case for Samsung Galaxy S3
The Samsung Galaxy S III is a slick and sturdy phone, but no phone is indestructible – therefore we need cases. Element Case is known best as an iPhone case company, but as that market continues to get flooded with cheap imitators they have branched out and are now making a case for the Samsung Galaxy S III called the …Read more
Mophie Juice Pack for Samsung Galaxy SIII Hands-On Review
If there is one constant in life, it is that portable electronics don't ever have enough battery life. With each new product we get new features that beg for more power, so regardless of what the manufacturers do to extend battery life … our usage always seems to keep up! Enter Mophie, a company that has had great success making …Read more
Use Protection with Heat Sensitive Rub & Reveal…Now for iPhone 5
All right, all right, have a chuckle. Get your sophomoric locker room humor out of your system. Take a deep breath. Better? Okay, for those able to stop channeling Beavis and Butthead, anokimobi has recently introduced their Heat Sensitive Rub and Reveal cases for the iPhone 5. The heat-sensitive cases are the first of their kind on the market using …Read more
USBFever Releases Universal USB Hub and Card Reader for iPad & Galaxy Tabs!
You know, I wonder what they put in their coffee or beverage of choice over at USBFever, because it never ceases to amaze me the constellation of gizmos that pop up in their online offerings. Take for example USBFever's latest item, the Universal USB Hub and Card Reader for Apple iPad / Galaxy Tabs. USBFever claims that this USB hub …Read more


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There's no longer an excuse for failing to prepare for unforeseen changes to your campaigns, because you rely on the online marketing ecosystem to deliver immediate sales, leads, and brand lift.
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If Hurricane Sandy has taught us anything, it's that one rarely prepares sufficiently for disaster, be it hurricane, tsunami, or earthquake. Even when one does, it's easy to underestimate the disaster's impact. In real life - as in digital advertising - some damage from disaster is inevitable, regardless of the level of preparation. However, there is no longer an excuse for failing to prepare for unforeseen changes to your campaigns, because you rely on the online marketing ecosystem to deliver immediate sales, leads, and brand lift.
The U.S. presidential elections also taught us a valuable lesson in the value of online media as a tool for influence. Several industry professionals have evaluated the Obama and Romney paid and earned online media campaigns and most gave the Obama camp the nod for a better executed campaign. I saw some fascinating marketing campaign executions from both sides, which in many ways were more innovative than much of what I've seen produced by the private sector. It seems that political advertising and marketing are innovating faster than their equivalents in the traditional for-profit business sector. An especially important factor in this innovation cycle was the fact that data from search and social media ended up being used to accurately predict voting patterns, as well as to stimulate "get out the vote" community action behavior.
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It's been almost a year since Gov. Bobby Jindal and South African executives from Sasol were in Southwest Louisiana to announce the major expansion project that the company is bringing to the area – basically two new facilities, a $7 billion ethane cracker and a $14 billion gas-to-liquids facility in 2020.
Gas-to-liquids … "GTL" … ethane cracker …
We're hearing this terminology around Southwest Louisiana as we anticipate the big Sasol expansion project. But have you ever wondered … just what it all means? What will these plants do?
KPLC's Cynthia Arceneaux has spent the last couple of weeks really getting to know just what is "GTL" and what in the world is an ethane cracker.
What Sasol is bringing to the area is a gas-to-liquids facility which takes natural gas and turns it into a wide range of other useful products. That main project will be diesel fuel.
Mark Schnell, of Sasol, said, "What gas-to-liquids does is it takes natural gas and it puts it through a chemical process to chemically change natural gas into different products."
Ninety-six thousand barrels a day of high quality diesel fuel, coming from much cheaper natural gas as a feed stock. It's a win-win for Sasol, and a win-win for the people of Southwest Louisiana who are looking forward to the thousands of jobs. So, what does the process look like?
"We start off with natural gas and oxygen. These are the two starting points. The first step in the process is to reform those two into what we call syngas," Schnell said.
Once the syngas comes out of the reformer unit, it then passes through GTL reactors and then out of the reactor unit. It's on to the third step, a refinery process, where it's split into different products. And even though diesel fuel will make up 70 percent of the product at the new GTL plant, it's not the only thing.
"But additionally, and for the first time at our Louisiana plant, we'll also be producing chemicals," Schnell said.
Chemicals that go into a lot of the items you use every day – for example, your washing detergent has something called paraffin in it. That will come out of the GTL facility. Specialty waxes like in your lipsticks and candles as well as motor oils that go into your vehicle engine – all of those chemicals coming out of the GRL plant.
The push is now on to make sure the workforce is properly trained. Sasol officials say the company is committed to hiring Louisiana first. But now is the time to get the skills that are necessary. Adrian Guillory, a chemist, got those skills.
"Growing up, seeing it. Now, I'm working with the company," he said.
Guillory is a chemist in research and development at Sasol. He graduated from LaGrange High School and majored in chemistry in college, a good example of what some pre-planning can do.
Now, the GTL plant is actually the second of two facilities Sasol is building.
The big ethane cracker will be the first to go up, with construction to start in the latter half of 2014. It will take natural gas and make ethylene.
Officials encourage people to log onto sasolnorthamerica.com and then click on "career opportunities."
From there, you can see a listing of available jobs. Job-seekers can also create a profile so that they are in the system.
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West shows 'moral clarity' in demanding Assad's ouster
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Leading political dissident Zuhdi Jasser denounces terror attack in Israel as 'heinous crime'.
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"Finally," Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the advocacy group Save Syria Now and president of the reformist American Islamic Forum for Democracy, told
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"I hope this will give a shot in the arm to the opposition throughout Syria, especially the opposition in Aleppo and Damascus, to reach a tipping point throughout every city in Syria and break the will of the military."
Speaking by phone from his home in Arizona, Jasser – a respected internal medicine and cardiology specialist, and a former US Navy lieutenant-commander and attending physician to the US Congress – said the Obama administration's next step should be the expulsion of Syria's ambassador in Washington.
"I hope Imad Moustapha, rather than being called the ambassador of Syria, will be called the ambassador of death, and be removed from Washington.
I hope the same thing will happen with Syrian ambassadors in Europe, and that we begin to totally isolate them as a pariah regime," he said. "That way the opposition will know it's not alone. They have nowhere else to go – they're not going to go back off the streets, as the regime will just massacre them more quietly over the next few years."
Jasser referred to an announcement on Thursday that the UN Human Rights Council views the Assad regime's crackdown as constituting possible crimes against humanity.
"I was very pleased to see that they're charging Assad and his fellow thugs with crimes against humanity, but there's almost a schizophrenia with the UN," he said. "I think they need to get the hiccups out of their message, I think the UN needs to take a cue from the US statement.
"I think now we'll truly see the hand of Iran and the hand of Hamas, which was silent even after the refugee camp [in the Syrian coastal city of Latakia] was massacred a few days ago," Jasser said. "As Syrian-Americans, we've seen our families in Hama and Homs in our holy month of Ramadan without electricity, surrounded by tanks and unable to know when they're going to have a meal next. So this is wonderful and welcome news."
In recent months, Jasser has been working with fledgling Syrian exile groups to forge a united front against the Assad regime.
"We've formed the Syrian Democratic Coalition, which includes not only our own group Save Syria Now, but also the Kurdistan National Assembly, and we're working with diverse groups including Assyrian Christians and others. I think the next step is not just to convene another opposition conference in Turkey or Brussels, but to bring them to Washington," the Ohio-born Jasser said.
"Even considering the political nuclear winter that there has been in Syria, there are a lot more diverse groups than I think in any other Middle Eastern country, because of the diversity in Syria," he said. "As much as the State Department can't be seen as directing this process, it can facilitate it and provide the atmosphere to help the opposition begin to communicate, and to facilitate its growth and maturation."
Jasser, raised in Wisconsin by Syrian immigrant parents, describes himself as a devout Sunni Muslim, but his organization's unyielding battle against political and militant Islam has placed him in the crosshairs of groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Center of America, which he says have failed to adequately address the "insidious separatism" of political Islam.
Jasse, a leading light in America's small Muslim reformist camp, firmly opposes the view that the Islamic faith is inherently at odds with democracy, but said he shares Western concerns about Islamists gaining power in Syria.
"If there's any group that's organized there, it's the Islamists. That's just how they operate, how they thrived in the underground. Make no mistake, they're a force to be reckoned with," he said.
For decades Assad and his father and predecessor Hafez brutally repressed Islamist movements, symbolized most powerfully by the 1982 crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood in Hama that killed tens of thousands.
Still, Jasser said he does not expect the Brotherhood to enjoy the kind of support it does in post-Hosni Mubarak Egypt.
"It's very unlikely that an Islamic state will form in Syria. The Muslim Brotherhood has much less support there than in other Middle Eastern countries," he said. "I think there are a lot of opposition groups that can come together to form a federation. Most of us hope it will be a federated Syria that works through a diverse, Western-form constitution."
An outspoken supporter of Israel, Jasser sits on the board of the Clarion Fund, a New York-based advocacy group that in February released the film Iranium highlighting the threat of Iran's nuclear program.
On Thursday, Jasser denounced the morning's terrorist attacks that left at least seven people dead and wounded dozens near the Egyptian border.
"Our hearts and prayers go to those who were murdered in this heinous crime. The era that we're in now is one in which we need to come together and build a new Middle East that doesn't allow barbarians like those that committed this crime to take over and hijack the changes happening in the Middle East," he said.
"There will be no greater challenge to the security of Israel, and the greater Middle East, as each country struggles to get rid of its own oppression. Israel has always been a canary in the coal mine, dealing with the threat of radical Islam. Now each country is going to have to deal with it," Jasser said.
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Ebola Panic Reaches New Highs: Korean Bar Bans "Africans"Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 15:23
With race-relations in American at a boiling point, it is perhaps worth a glance at Asia for some context. As Media Equalizer's Brian Maloney reports, one restaurant in South Korea is refusing to serve black people due to fears over Ebola! As he concludes: imagine the uproar were this sign to appear anywhere in the US...
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Ukraine, Lebanon Demand US "Weapons, Aviation, Air-Defense Equipment"Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 15:04
Now that the US is exhibiting all the tact of a neocon bull in a china world, and has resumed airborne assaults in Iraq (with US marines on the ground merely for decorative purposes) it is hardly surprising that the rest of the world - at least those who are supposedly allied ideologically with Washington (if only for the time being) - suddenly feels entitled to US assistance. Not surprisingly, the first one to knock on the door of US military handouts is none other than the Kiev, whose parliamentary speaker Oleksandr Turchynov, said in an interview with BNS, that the country needs "modern weapons, aviation, air-defense equipment from U.S., European partners."
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Is The Correction Over?Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 14:39
While the markets are currently suggesting that the "dip" is over, there are several immediately prevailing risks that could catch unwitting investors.
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Ferguson Curfew Cancelled As National Guard Arrives; Holder Demands To "Remove The Damn Tanks"Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 14:15
The Missouri Governor Jay Nixon gave "no heads up" to the White House before deploying The National Guard and has now made another abrupt decision as The National Guard closes in on Ferguson:
We presume when there are military tanks rolling through the streets of a town, there is no need for the actual implementation of a curfew... This once again rubs the administration's nose in it as AG Holder's comments from last week hang in the air: "get those damned tanks out of there."
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Ferguson Right Now: The National Guard Is Deploying - Live FeedSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 14:11
The National Guard is on its way to Ferguson, Missouri... this comes as 'official' sources have stated that Missouri Governor Nixon gave "no heads up" to the White House before deploying The National Guard...
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Pope Francis Gets Involved In Geopolitics, "Endorses Use Of Force" Against ISIS JihadistsSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 13:46
Pope Francis, who until now has had an aura of pacifism "above all else", if now and then bashing the occasional banker for creating record wealth disparity around the globe, just shattered his reputation of a man of peace at all costs, and moments ago endorsed the use of force in Iraq to stop Islamic militants from attacking religious minorities. He added that ays the international community — and not just one country — should decide how to intervene. He did not clarify just which superpower the last statement was a direct jab against.
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Mapping The Militarization Of America's Police Force Since 2006Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 13:16
A few months ago we warned about the SWATification of America, mapping the surplus military gear by state.
Having already documented America's conversation to a turnkey totalitarian banana republic (confirmed over a year later by Edward Snowden), we note the following six charts from The NY Times that show the spread of military-style equipment - including aircraft, vehicles, body armor, grenade launchers and assault rifles - since the creation of the free Defense Department program in the 1990s.
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Bloomberg "Surrealistic" Headline Of The DaySubmitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 12:48
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What's So Special About A 17x PE Multiple?Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 12:33
Is there something particularly notable about a 17x trailing PE multiple on the S&P 500? According to Deustche's David Bianco, there is especially during mid to late cycle expansions, i.e., after three (or much more in this case with the S&P 500 now repoting 5+ years of EPS growth) years of rising earnings. In fact, as DB calculates, the only two periods of a PE over 17 after 3 years from the last EPS decline are 1965-66 and 1996-98 (Figure 2) below. And right now. It should be self-explanatory that both of those historic periods ended with a sharp equity correction.
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Dozens Of Flash-Crashes - Including AAPL - As BATS BreaksSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 11:59
It was just Friday when a pithy Bob Pisani noted that investor confidence in markets is up because there have been no market malfunctions recently... he spoke too soon. As Nanex's Eric Hunsader reports, an apparent malfunction at BATS-Y has caused dozens of flash crashes... including in AAPL.
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UK Home Prices Have Biggest August Plunge On Record As Russian Sanctions Sink InSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 11:50
London home prices fell in August by 5.9%, the plunge the biggest since Dec 2007 (and 2nd biggest drop on record). Since western sanctions on Russian oligarchs hit 3 months ago, home prices have fallen in London (especially the highest-end regions, such as Kensington -7%) and now that weakness is accelerating and spreading across the entire UK. As Rightmove reports, the 2.9% drop in UK home prices is the worst August on record. How long before the UK pulls back on its 'support' for US sanctions? Costs, indeed?
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Disinformation War Escalates: Ukraine, Rebels Accuse Each Other Of Attacking Refugee ConvoySubmitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 11:00
Eager to move on from Friday's disinformation fiasco, Ukrainian military spokesmen said the bus convoy had been in an area of fierce fighting between government forces and the separatists. As Reuters reports, it had come under fire from rebel Grad and mortar launchers, they said, causing an unknown number of casualties. And in keeping with the endless flow of BS emanating from east Ukraine, where civilians are merely collateral damage to an epic information war, and just to confuse everyone if not the algos which today are stricly in "de-escalation" mode, the separatists promptly accused Ukraine of the attack, when a rebel leader denied his forces had the military capability to conduct such an attack, and accused Kiev forces of regularly attacking the area and also using Russian-made Grad missiles.
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Chinese Troops 'Invade' 25Km Into India, "This Is Chinese Territory, Go Back"Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 10:36
Fifteen months ago we reported China's stealth invasion of India's Ladakh region, and now, as PTI reports, Chinese troops are reported to have entered deep into Indian territory in Burtse area in Ladakh where they had pitched their tents last year. Indian troops spotted Chinese personnel 25 to 30 km from the perceived Line of Actual Control (LAC). PLA personnel carried flags reading "this is Chinese territory, go back" in their hands and they refused to move after being confronted by India's quick response team.
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Is The SEC Asking These Hedge Funds Why They All Rushed Into Allergan Last Quarter?Submitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 10:18
It remains to be seen if frontrunning the general public on collusive, material, non-public information that a strategic would be about to announce a bid for Allergan is indeed "completely lawful", however we do have a question: now that the SEC is formally investigating Ackman for what may be a massive frontrunning scam, is it also looking at all the other hedge funds which reported brand new stakes (some of which also entirely in the form of calls) in Allergan in the second quarter?
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Homebuilder Sentiment Jumps to Highest Since January As Midwest Hits Record HighSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 08/18/2014 - 10:02
Despite almost record-low mortgage apps and plunging sales, homebuilders remain as optimistic as ever that no matter what is ahead - stagnant wages, rising rates, or FNMA's outlook deteriorating - everything will be fine in housing.NAHB sentiment printed 55, beating 53 expectations on the back of an explosion of hope in the Midwest to record highs (as South and West tumbled). The 'outlook' - the real hope - surged to its highest in a year - just short of this cycle's highs in hope.
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A year ago, Vincent Hill was like many others in Nashville caught up in watching and reading news reports on the death of former Tennessee Titans and Ravens quarterback Steve McNair. But as details emerged about what police called a murder-suicide that also took the life of McNair's 20-year-old mistress, Hill became suspicious.
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Unlike the system in many other European countries, those who aspire to be judges in England and Wales have first to be lawyers, either solicitors or barristers. To be considered for appointment as a judge applicants must be citizens of the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland or a Commonwealth country and have practised as a lawyer in England and Wales for a minimum period of time as specified by law for each type of judicial post. In general these minimum periods are seven or ten years. In practice, however, judges who are appointed tend to have been lawyers for about twenty years. Lawyers tend to become judges in their mid (to late) career, therefore.
Before being considered for a full-time judicial post lawyers must usually have sat as part-time judges. This means that lawyers are appointed initially to part-time posts where they are required to sit as judges for a number of days per year (usually about 20) but they also continue to practise as barristers or solicitors. After two or three years service a part-time judge is entitled to apply to become a full-time judge. Full-time judges are usually entitled to serve as judges until their 70th birthday.
The judicial appointment process in England and Wales is being reviewed. Currently the Lord Chancellor, a Government Minister, has personal responsibility for the appointment, or for advising on the appointment, of all members of the professional judiciary in England and Wales and Northern Ireland (and some holders of tribunal appointments who serve in Scotland). Senior appointments are made by The Queen on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, although here too the advice of the Lord Chancellor is sought by the Prime Minister.
The most senior judicial appointments are made by invitation only but for all other judicial posts candidates are required to apply for appointment. Their applications are considered against specific published criteria for appointment. Those candidates who best meet the criteria are invited to either an interview or an assessment centre during which their suitability for appointment is further tested against the criteria. Current members of the judiciary, senior officials who report to the Lord Chancellor and specially selected and trained lay people (i.e. non-lawyers) are all involved in the selection process.
Judicial independence requires that judges decide cases according to their own judgment without any outside influence. In particular, the interests of justice require that in their work, judges remain independent of, and not subject to, the views or control of the Government. No judge can be a director of a commercial company nor must they be influenced by pressure from individuals or groups with an interest in the outcome of a case. In each case a judge must administer justice in accordance with the law and according to the circumstances of the case, whether his or her decision is popular or not.
Judicial independence does not, however, just mean independence from outside influence, but also that of one judge from another. No judge, however eminent, is entitled to tell another judge how to exercise his or her judgment in any individual case. Judges can seek advice from fellow judges and will take account of views expressed by other judges in other cases. They must, however, take note of judgments given by higher courts which are binding.
The Lord Chancellor cannot comment on, or intervene in, judicial decisions or the conduct of legal proceedings by a judge. People who are dissatisfied with the decisions or conduct of judges are normally able to appeal to a higher court.
The Senior Salaries Review Body is an independent body which makes recommendations to the Government about the salaries of a number of groups, including the judiciary. The Government considers the recommendations yearly before deciding on the. New salary levels come into effect on the 1 April each year. The current salaries can be found at: http://www.dca.gov.uk/judicial/2004salfr.htm#part2
The different types of courts in England and Wales are described in the factsheet Organisation of Justice – England and Wales. As the practice has developed over many years of having different levels of courts to deal with cases of different levels of complexity, in a somewhat similar way judges of differing judicial status, in both full-time and part-time posts, sit in those courts.
The senior professional judiciary are the four Heads of Division:
Lords of Appeal in Ordinary - also known as the Law Lords, they sit in the House of Lords in its capacity as the final court of appeal in the United Kingdom. Although members of the House of Lords, in practice, the Law Lords do not usually take part in the House of Lords' legislative proceedings except when they relate to legal matters.
Lords Justices of Appeal – sit in the Court of Appeal which deals with both criminal and civil cases.
High Court Judges – sit in the High Court where the most complex civil cases are heard, but they can also hear the most serious and sensitive criminal cases in the Crown Court (for example murder).
Circuit Judges – the next in judicial rank after High Court Judges are normally appointed to hear criminal, civil and family cases.
District Judges – deal with civil law cases. Most of their work is in chambers (i.e. not in open court trials). They have the power to try any action in a county court below a specified financial limit which is reviewed from time to time. Cases above that limit are generally heard by a Circuit Judge. District Judges finally dispose of over 80% of all contested civil litigation in England and Wales.
District Judges (Magistrates' Courts) – were formerly known as Stipendiary Magistrates. They sit in magistrates' courts and deal with the same types of cases that are dealt with by lay magistrates (see below) but they can assist in particular by hearing the lengthier and more complex matters.
Masters and Registrars of the Supreme Court – are officers of the Supreme Court and deal with some of the work of the High Court. Queen's Bench and Chancery Masters and Bankruptcy Registrars deal with most of the interlocutory work arising within their areas of jurisdiction, and in certain circumstances may also try actions. Taxing Masters (known as Costs Judges) have the power to assess the legal costs of any actions in the Supreme Court and to hear appeals against assessments made in the Crown Court.
Part-time judges are usually appointed for a period of not less than five years, subject to the relevant upper age limit. The main types of part-time judges are:
Deputy High Court Judges - are qualified for appointment as a High Court Judge and are authorised to sit from time to time in one or more of the Divisions of the High Court.
Recorders – have similar jurisdiction to that of a Circuit Judge although generally deal with the less complex or serious matters coming before the court.
Deputy District Judges – sit in the county courts and at district registries of the High Court and deal with the least complex cases that fall within the jurisdiction of District Judges.
Deputy District Judges (Magistrates' Courts) – were formerly known as Acting Stipendiary Magistrates and deal with similar work to their full-time counterparts.
Deputy Masters and Registrars of the Supreme Court deal with similar work to their full-time colleagues.
In addition to the courts, there are many tribunals in England and Wales which deal with varied subjects such as immigration, tax, mental health, land and property, welfare benefits, transport and employment. Members of tribunals can include non-legal specialists or experts, such as doctors, and lay people, although the chairman is almost always legally qualified. The Lord Chancellor is also responsible for appointing tribunal members and chairmen. As with other judicial appointments, applicants for full-time appointment are normally expected to have gained sufficient experience through service in a part-time capacity.
Lay magistrates, also known as Justices of the Peace or JPs, deal with over 95% of all the criminal cases in England and Wales. They do not have to be legally qualified and are unpaid. Foreign nationals may apply to become magistrates if they are resident in the United Kingdom.
Lay magistrates sit part-time, normally as one of a "bench" of three, one of whom is trained to act as the chairman and who helps to guide the bench through its business and speaks for it. A bench is always assisted by a legally qualified clerk to advise on law and procedure. There are more than 30,000 magistrates who carry out their duties locally. They deal with the relatively less serious criminal cases such as minor theft, criminal damage, public disorder and motoring offences and also a range of issues affecting families and children or licensing applications. It is a requirement that benches of magistrates should reflect the communities which they serve and they are expected to sit on at least 26 half days a year.
The arrangements for the appointment and training of lay magistrates are different from those for the professional judiciary. The Lord Chancellor appoints magistrates on the advice of local Advisory Committees. Magistrates are required by law to retire at 70 and people aged between 18 and 65 are eligible to apply.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is responsible for reviewing and, where appropriate, prosecuting criminal cases in England and Wales following investigation by the police. Crown Prosecutors also advise the police on matters relating to criminal cases.
Crown Prosecutors are classed as civil servants and are recruited through open competition. To be eligible for employment applicants must be a solicitor admitted in England and Wales with a full current practising certificate, or a barrister called to the English Bar who has completed pupillage. They must also be a citizen of the European Union or Commonwealth. Lawyers who qualified outside England and Wales are required to undertake and pass a lawyer transfer test before taking up a post.
The Code for Crown Prosecutors http://www.cps.gov.uk/victims_witnesses/code.html sets out the basic principles which Crown Prosecutors should follow when they make case decisions.
The decision on whether or not to go ahead with the prosecution of a case is based on two tests; the evidential test and public interest test.
Crown Prosecutors must be satisfied that there is enough evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction against each defendant on each charge. The public interest must be considered in each case where there is enough evidence to provide a realistic prospect of conviction.
Crown Prosecutors must balance factors for and against prosecution carefully and fairly. Public interest factors that can affect the decision to prosecute usually depend on the seriousness of the offence or the circumstances of the suspect.
The head of the Crown Prosecution Service is the Director of Public Prosecutions (the Director). The Director is involved in only the most difficult and sensitive cases referred to the CPS by the police. He is superintended by the Attorney General, who is responsible to Parliament for the Service.
With headquarters based in London, York and Birmingham, the CPS operates under a structure of 42 geographical Areas in England and Wales. These Areas correspond with the boundaries of the police forces in England and Wales. Each Area is headed by a Chief Crown Prosecutor (CCP) who is responsible for prosecutions within the Area. In London the CCP is supported by Assistant Chief Crown Prosecutors. Although CCPs are directly accountable for their Areas, most of the responsibilities for the efficient and effective administration of the Area fall to the Area Business Managers.
Details of the salary ranges for the different levels of Crown Prosecutors can be obtained by telephoning +44 20 7710 6093 (020 7710 6093 for callers from within the United Kingdom).
Apart from in the magistrates' courts, the clerks and other staff in most courts in England and Wales are not required to be legally trained. They are civil servants who deal with administrative matters and assist judges. They cannot provide legal advice.
As civil servants all court staff are employed by Her Majesty's Court Service and the posts are open to all European Union citizens.
The role of clerks to the court is different in the magistrates' courts. As mentioned in the section on judges, lay magistrates are not legally qualified. They rely on advice from legally trained clerks, of which there are two types.
Justices' Clerks are the principal legal advisers to the magistrates. They are lawyers (either barristers or solicitors) that have at least a five year relevant qualification. They advise magistrates on law and procedure both in and out of court and are responsible for the management and training of legal advisers, the quality of the legal services provided and the provision of consistent legal advice throughout their administrative area. There are no nationality requirements for appointment.
Legal advisers sit in court and advise magistrates on law, legal practice and procedure. They too are legally qualified (usually solicitors or barristers). Again there are no nationality requirements for appointment.
Before 1 April 2004 enforcement of High Court writs was carried out by sheriffs on behalf of the High Sheriff for a specific area. Since that date High Court writs are now enforced by High Court Enforcement Officers appointed and assigned to districts by the Lord Chancellor or his delegate. They are responsible for enforcing court orders by recovering money owed under a High Court judgment, or a county court judgment transferred to the High Court. They can seize and sell goods to cover the amount of the debt. They also effect and supervise the possession of property and the return of goods.
These are civil servants employed by Her Majesty's Court Service to deal with enforcement of judgments and/or orders made and registered in the county courts. As civil servants their posts are open to all European Union citizens. They enforce warrants of execution, repossess land with warrants of possession and recover goods under warrants for return of goods. The regulation for bailiffs executing warrants is set out in sections 85–111 of the County Courts Act 1984. The procedures for execution are set out in the Civil Procedure Rules. In addition, county court bailiffs carry out other duties, including personal service of documents and warrants of committal. The regulations on committal are set out in section 118-122 of the County Courts Act.
These are private bailiffs who are certificated under the Dist ress for Rent Rules, and are authorised by a Circuit Judge sitting in the county court. Distress for rent refers to the seizing of a tenant's goods by a landlord to secure payment of rent arrears without the intervention of the court. Under a number of other Acts certificated bailiffs are also permitted to enforce other specific debts such as council tax, non-domestic rates etc.
These are entitled to recover the money owed for a variety of debts by seizing and selling your goods but cannot levy distress for rent, road traffic debts, council tax or non-domestic rates, or enforce the collection of money due under High Court or county court orders.
The legal profession in England and Wales is made up of two separate types of lawyer - barristers and solicitors. Each has a distinct and defined roll. All legal professions are self-regulatory. The Bar Council regulates barristers and the Law Society regulates solicitors.
While there are some functions which require action to be taken by lawyers (see for example Sections 20 to 25 of the Solicitors Act 1974) there is no requirement for a person to seek the advice of, or be represented by, a lawyer in court. In simple cases of debt a litigant may not consider it necessary to consult a lawyer. As a general rule, however, if a claim is for a sum over £5000 and particularly if it includes a claim for compensation ('damages'), it is advisable for a litigant to at least seek the advice of a lawyer.
A barrister is a lawyer who has been admitted to "plead at the bar." That means that he or she has been called to the bar by the "benchers" of one of the four In ns of Court ( Middle Temple, Inner Temple, Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn) and is allowed to appear in court to argue a client's case. Barristers are very much like solicitors in the sense that they have a broad horizon of areas in which they can specialise.
Barristers are individual specialist legal advisers and courtroom advocates. They are self-employed and work in groups in offices known as chambers where they are known as a 'tenant' of the chambers. Each tenant is expected to contribute towards the cost of the chambers. Each set of chambers will have an experienced barrister as its head who will manage the work for the tenants. Each barrister is independent of the other tenants, however, and they are required to build their own client base.
Barristers are mainly trained in advocacy; in other words, they are trained to represent their clients in the higher courts. However advocacy is not the only thing barristers do. In fact their responsibilities vary enormously depending on the area of law in which they specialise. So when they are not in court barristers, much like solicitors, will spend a lot of their time advising clients and researching cases as well as researching and keeping up to date within their chosen field. Nowadays the role of the barrister is moving more and more towards that of an expert in a particular field. Barristers will have specialist knowledge and expertise in one area of the law and as such they will often be called upon to advise solicitors and provide expert opinion on complex cases.
The Bar Vocational Course (BVC) is the vocational stage that must be completed by those who want to become barristers.
Barristers must be confident and comfortable with speaking in public, be able to think quickly on their feet and have a drive to succeed. The Bar Council states the following requirements are necessary:
Approximately 10% of practising barristers are Queen's Counsel (or QCs) who, when the monarch is a king, are referred to as King's Counsel (or KCs). The rank of Queen's Counsel has traditionally been a mark of distinction as an advocate. Queen's Counsel deal with the most important and complex cases. Solicitors have been eligible to become Queen's Counsel since 1996.
Lawyers from other European Countries who want to practice in England and Wales are required to submit an application to the Bar Council's Joint Regulations Committee providing evidence of their legal qualifications. They are then required to sit an aptitude test and attend a number of qualifying sessions. Before being allowed to practice as a barrister those lawyers who have passed the aptitude test must be called to the bar by one of the Inns of Court (see above). Depending on the individual circumstances of each lawyer the Inns decide which and how many qualifying sessions the lawyer must attend.
A solicitor's role is to give specialist legal advice and help.
There are over 60,000 solicitors practising in England and Wales and their work varies enormously. A solicitor's job is to provide clients (members of the public, businesses, voluntary bodies, charities, etc.) with skilled legal advice and representation, including representing them in court. Most solicitors work in private practice, which is a partnership of solicitors who offer services to clients. They may have a general practice covering many areas of law or specialise in a particular field. Others work as employed solicitors for central and local Government, the Crown Prosecution Service, the Magistrates' Courts Service, a commercial or industrial organisation or other bodies. When someone becomes a solicitor they can choose the kind of environment which suits them best.
Generally solicitors provide legal advice to clients. If those clients then require to be represented in the higher courts in England and Wales a solicitor will instruct a barrister to conduct the case in court. A barrister is not always required, however, as suitably qualified solicitors have rights of audience (that is they are entitled to represent clients) in the higher courts.
The Law Society makes the rules for the legal education and training required and they are designed to ensure that the trainee receives an education which is both thorough and broad. Training is very competitive and anyone intending to become a solicitor has to be aware of the commitment which is required. Currently there are many more students than there are training contracts and the big firms can take their pick from the very best candidates.
Solicitors require good all round communication skills, written, verbal and interpersonal. They will preferably be logical thinkers who are able to research topics carefully and present information in a clear and structured manner.
Under the Establishment of Lawyers Directive 98/5/EC a European Union lawyer established and registered in another Member State is able to apply for admission as a solicitor in England and Wales after practising UK law (which includes Community law) for three years, and does not need to sit an aptitude test. Lawyers who have practised UK law for less than three years may also apply provided they are registered with the Law Society and have pursued a professional activity in the UK for at least three years. Other lawyers may apply to take the Qualified Lawyers' Transfer Test.
European Union lawyers practising on a permanent basis in England and Wales will have a choice between registering with the Law Society or the Bar Council and must comply with the rules of their chosen regulatory body. Irish lawyers, however, must register with the Law Society if they are solicitors and with the Bar Council if they are barristers.
A Notary is an ancient established profession, a member of the third and oldest branches of the legal profession in the United Kingdom . He or she is a qualified lawyer, usually a solicitor, who is appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and is subject to regulation by the Court of Faculties, one of the oldest courts of England .
Notaries are subject to similar professional rules as solicitors and are required to renew their practising certificates annually. They can only do so if they have complied with the rules. A Notarial appointment is a personal appointment held by each individual Notary.
Qualification as a notary is open to all graduates, not just law graduates. All prospective Notaries are required to obtain a Diploma in Notarial Practice. Under the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 the Master of Faculties has the power to set the necessary qualifications.
Special provision is made for lawyers from the EU who wish to practise in England and Wales . They are required to apply to the Notarial Qualifications Board for exemption from the qualifications required in England and Wales . They must then pass a competency test as a means of transferring the qualifications from their country of origin.
A Notary holds an official seal. Under the signature and official seal of a Notary, acts of a Notary are recognised as evidence of a responsible legal officer in most countries of the world.
Notaries undertake the following duties:
Legal Executives are qualified lawyers specialising in a particular area of law. They have to pass the Institute of Legal Executives (ILEX) Professional Qualification in Law in an area of legal practice to the same level as that required of solicitors. They also have to have at least five years' experience of working under the supervision of a solicitor in legal practice or the legal department of a private company or local/national government. Fellows are issued with an annual practising certificate, and only Fellows of ILEX may describe themselves as 'Legal Executives'.
Specialising in a particular area of law the day-to-day work of Legal Executives is similar to that of a solicitor. They do not have any independent practice rights but can undertake civil, criminal and matrimonial litigation.
They are fee earners - in private practice their work is charged directly to clients - making a direct contribution to the income of a law firm. This is an important difference between Legal Executives and other types of legal support staff who tend to handle work of a more routine nature.
Legal Executives are considered private representatives of the companies for which they work but if they work for a Government Department they are civil servants. There is a wide range of specialist activities which Fellows of ILEX are trained to undertake.
People from other EU Member States can apply to ILEX for exemption from their training courses. Eligibility for exemption is considered on a case by case basis.
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Beijing restaurant serves "Wikipedia"
32 Responses to "Beijing restaurant serves "Wikipedia""
SPT3125: Y'know, I think you're on to something here. The first result for "鱿鱼" (squid), as seen in #18, is also from Wikipedia.
Wasn't there a move by China to stamp out bad English translations ahead of the Olympics?
This is not the first time this has happened; two years ago, a French restaurant in Taiwan listed cheesecake as "wikipedia".
Wikipedia is a dish best served cold… or is that revenge? I always get those two mixed up.
Better that than the Farked Noodles.
The Wiktionary article for this (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/鸡枞) includes the following:
鸡枞 on the Mandarin Wikipedia.
This is a plausible origin of this.
What machine translation program is causing these strange errors I wonder? I asked a chinese friend — one instance was "chicken", another instance was "squid" (the one linked in the comments.)
I've had their wikipedia. It's almost as good as Lunchballz!
The work they're translating as "wikipedia" is 雞樅 jicong, apparently a type of fungus native to Yunnan province. Google translate gives "Zongyang", and there's no English Wikipedia page on it, so it's a mystery where that word was pulled from. Picture here.
Does it come with Jimmy Wales' Own Special Sauce?
Wow, and only a few days about a recent Questionable Content that advertised a similar food:
@#2 posted by Sudasana:
After linking seemed to imply that the scientific name of the fungus in question is either Collybia albuminosa or Termitomyces albuminosus, or… "chicken flavored mushroom". No, not very scientific. In any case it's some kind of rare fungus that only grows in the mountains of the Yunnan province. Nothing to shed light on how they came up with 'wikipedia'. 鸡枞 looks just like 'chicken fungus' to me.
Apparently one of the other names for it is "chicken foot mushroom" so maybe that's where the 'pedia' part came from?
I bet its del.icio.us
You haven't lived until you've had #1313, the "Benumbed hot vegetables fries fuck silk."
The steamed egg dish that anyone can edit!
That is nothing. I dare you to try this "fuck the frog rice" dish from a cafe in Shanghai, China:
If you don't agree with the vegetables in the stir fry Wikipedia, you can remove them and add your own, and your changes will be tracked with a grease pencil on the tablecloth. Careful, because the kitchen staff will vote on your additions, and if you can't provide a source for your veggies, they'll quickly restore your plate to its original form.
I'd like mine with troll eyes, vowels on the side.
I'm sure this was anything but the quality translation they were after. Who would have thought Wikipedia would be a popular cooking ingredient? This is the difference between relying on an automated translation tool and an actual translation agency. Professional language specialists would never have allowed this mistake to happen, as funny as it may be. Well maybe it's something they may now consider if they ever decide to co
That's an especially baffling case of Engrish run amok.
Jy Yang (5):
鸡枞 looks just like 'chicken fungus' to me.
Apparently one of the other names for it is "chicken foot mushroom" so maybe that's where the 'pedia' part came from?
Right! It's Chikipedia!
to #12 – congrats, you got an audible laugh out of me. good show, good show.
Now that's an easy one. "Per pedes" means to walk by foot. Pedes obviously means something like foot. And getting from pedia to pedes to foot to a chinese "chicken foot mushroom" should be obvious … ;)
Since both "pedia" and "pedes" are of latin origin it could have been mixed up somehow. Try translating something to chinese and have it read back to you in english – you'll probably do worse. ;) If you really don't want to be understood: instead of writing, try reading it out aloud.
Now you can have your wiki and eat it too!
I think i may have found a plausible explanation:
Google "雞樅". Scroll down a bit, and what word jumps out at you?
The first search result* to have any English words in its title is "雞樅- Wikipedia".
It's easy to imagine a non-English speaker seeing this and mistaking it for a translation!
This also works for #24′s cheesecake (起士蛋糕). Probably explains the other cases as well, since Wikipedia often comes up near the top in a Google search for a single word or common phrase.
*(Interestingly, the Wikipedia link is in the top 10 search results when you use Google in English or Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), but with Google in Simplified Chinese (as used in mainland China) it's on like the 5th page of search results.)
#22′s Wekipidia bread has me truly baffled, though…
The fine print is troubling:
"The tastiness of this item is disputed. Please see the waiter for a discussion. It has been suggested that this item be merged with 'an order of spring rolls.'"
[tasting needed]
I saw BBW Wikipedia at a restaurant in Dalian this summer.
It turned out that it was squid. Here's me with a plate of it: http://web.mit.edu/x_x/www/uploaded_images/CIMG0844-750896.JPG
And here I thought Wikipedia was banned in China. It turns out you can get it fresh in Beijing restaurants!
I find those mushrooms far too radical for my liking. Can I have stir-fried 'conservapedia' please?
Maybe this is just the English translation company stumped for a word and putting in something that's obscure enough (among Chinese restaurant managers anyway) to pass for the correct English translation? It would be familiar to anyone using the internet to look up translations, and if it's being used to translate squid of all things then the feet->pedia connection seems less likely.
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Famed do-it-yourself furniture retailer and Swedish meatball proprietor IKEA revealed plans Monday to open its first Nevada location in Las Vegas.
During a press conference, the sprawling retailer announced it will set up shop at Durango Drive and Sunset Road on 26 acres in the southwest part of the Las Vegas Valley.
Officials said they hope to have the new store open by summer 2016 with a groundbreaking set for this spring. Plans also call for the two-story store to cover 351,000 square feet.
The company also announced features within the store, including a family-friendly "Children's IKEA" area and preferred family parking.
Representatives for IKEA said plans for the location are pending approval with the Clark County Board of Commissioners this fall.
The current closest locations to Las Vegas are in Arizona, Utah and Southern California, according to IKEA.
The announcement, which took place at the Clark County Government Center in downtown Las Vegas, also revealed that nearly 300 full- and part-time jobs will be added from the new store. Positions include sales, customer service, food service, human resources and accounting.
IKEA, which boasts 38 sprawling stores in the United States, offers a variety of furniture, kitchen gadgets and Swedish culinary fare.
As with several of its existing locations, IKEA said it would explore sustainability efforts at the Durango and Sunset location. For example, 90 percent of IKEA stores in the U.S. have solar arrays on top of their buildings.
Stay tuned to FOX5 for the latest on this developing story.
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Another bill banning texting behind the wheel moves forward in Pierre.
A version of a statewide texting ban passed a Senate committee Wednesday. It is similar to the bill already passed by the House. Still, it has differences.
In the Senate version, people caught texting behind the wheel would have to pay a $100 fine. In the House version, that would be $25.
Both bills would make texting behind the wheel a secondary offense. Some argue it's worked for seatbelts. Sen. Larry Lucas, (D) Mission, wants more in a texting law.
"I would prefer the bill was a little bit stronger in nature, that would be a primary offense instead of a secondary offense but it is what it is," Lucas said.
Bill sponsor Sen. Mike Vehle, (R) Mitchell, said he'd like the same but he doesn't think that'll pass.
"I'm also reminded of what Albert Einstein said. And he said, 'doing the same thing over and over and over again and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity,'" Vehle said.
Vehle offered an amendment that changed other parts of the bill as well. Among other changes, it took out a section that would have allowed cities and counties to have stricter texting bans than the state.
Vehle says existing state law can determine what cities and counties can pass. He doesn't want a local control debate to be a distraction in the texting ban debate.
A majority of the committee's senators accepted the changes and passed the bill with the amendment. Vehle says the amendment was a compromise. He came up with the changes after listening to debate over the House texting bill.
Rapid City Police Chief Steve Allender says he supports the bill.
"It should not be considered a right or a personal liberty to drive a two-ton vehicle down a publicly funded highway virtually blind for several seconds at a time," Allender said.
Several others testified supporting the bill but few said whether they think the House or Senate version is better. Representing South Dakota Municipal League, Yvonne Taylor says she supports the Senate version because the larger fine sends a stronger message.
But Sen. David Omdahl, (R) Sioux Falls, voted against it.
"We have a law; it's called careless driving," Omdahl said. "I agree we need a culture change. If you really want a culture change then this fine up in Alaska with a $10,000 fine, a year in prison is what we need to go with," Omdahl said.
Even some who voted in support say they agree reckless driving laws already cover texting behind the wheel.
Omdahl was the only senator in committee who voted against the bill but others admitted they were hesitant in voting for it. The bill now moves on to the Senate floor.