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Jim Henry and key members of his staff spoke before the House Government Operations Committee on Tuesday and discussed improvements made since Henry stepped in about a month ago.
The agency has come under intense criticism because of the number of children who have died while in its custody, and its new leader and his staff answered lawmakers' questions for about three hours.
More than 200 Tennessee children have lost their lives or nearly died since 2009 after having some contact with the agency. The exact number isn't clear.
Henry said changes include having regional administrators call his personal cell phone when a child is reported dead and immediately notifying lawmakers in that child's district.
"Can you imagine that 60 percent of the kids we took in in Knoxville last month were drug babies? Can you imagine that 5 out of the 6 deaths we've had in custody this year have been babies from natural causes? We'll have autopsies done and see what the problem is," Henry said.
He said a death review process has also been established and cases are reviewed monthly.
Henry has also sent office workers into the field as job shadows, where they've encountered bed bugs, vicious dogs and terrible parents.
"I had to handle crying, screaming babies with cursing parents, and the amount of grace these people show under pressure in these really stressful situations blew me away - and their compassion and concern for the children they deal with so they can have somewhat of a normal lifestyle," said Ann Buckle, with the improvement office.
Henry's approach to the DCS situation changed the tone of the entire meeting.
"It was going to be a reckoning, and now I think it's changed a whole lot. I think it's changed to a solution-based hearing as opposed to a reckoning," said State Rep. Mike Turner, D-Nashville. "I think we've got a lot of mistakes and a lot of employees working too hard for low pay. I have more hopes this time. And I think, Mr. Henry, Tennessee has a good man in you."
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What is everyone's opinion leaving messages with the foti script and without. With the NCO case, many agencies are using the Foti script for debtors, however some are not. They say "hey this message is tom jones. Tom please call me back in office as soon as possible. My number is xxx-xxx-xxxx.
It seem agencies are being sued left and right. One suit may say that the collector had to use the Foti. Another says that the Foti still counts are 3rd party disclosure.
My company practices are to typically just get someone live on the phone. We don't leave many messages. Sometimes with the dialer we do the foti script.
What are your thoughts on this? (agency owners / managers only please)
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I'll point out this case:
The case of Edwards v. Niagara Credit Solutions involved a situation in which a collection agency (Niagara) left a debtor (Ms. Edwards) a phone message that said simply "this is an important message for Brenda Edwards. �Please return this message at 1-800-xxx-xxxx between the hours of 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. eastern standard time."
Ms. Edwards sued Niagara, arguing that this "bare bones" message failed to properly identify the caller as a debt collector and it failed to state the purpose of the call.
Niagara argued that it could not leave the identifying information because that would constitute a violation of the third party communication prohibition (Niagara had no way of insuring that a third party would not hear the phone message).
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Eric, this is about as settled as it is going to get anytime soon. Many courts have made it clear that debt collectors can not expect the absolute right to use telephone messages as a debt collection tool.
I am a former agency owner, so hopefully my opinion is welcomed. Even though there is no safe harbor guarantee on the content of messages, there most definitely is a progression of risk in deciding which strategy is right for you.
I think it is generally agreed by attorneys who give advice on such things that the safest bet is to use the FOTI message. Even though it can get you sued, it will get you sued less often and it will all but eliminate the possibility that your message will get you sued in a class action.
As a side note, I have heard of lawsuits where the consumer sued because their own machine cut off the message before the collector could get to all of the required disclosures. How's that for opportunistic?
I have had many conversations with agency owners on all sorts of topics, and a surprisingly counter-intuitive pattern has emerged over the last few years. It seems many agencies who have abandoned messaging altogether have experienced no significant reduction in callbacks or revenue, and some have even reported small increases due to increased productivity.
If I was in the business of calling consumers, I would not leave messages at all - at least not first contact messages.
Of course it's welcomed. I was mainly referring to the amateur collectors and consumers prowling the board. With my agency, I typically do the initial call and use my dialer for it on predictive mode (but will also leave messages if no live person answers. Then I'll have my collectors call with no messages on the res or cell. Then predictive in between following by one last message series in the end before we release the cases or our clients sue them. It seems to go well for my associates and I. No one has challenged us yet. But "yet" is the key word.
It's a pain in the ass. There's so many really bad agencies out there.... we try to follow the laws and be good. Then comes along some debtor that borrows $500, doesn't pay one dollar back in 2 years, then claims we're harassing them on the first call, sues us for calling at 9:03pm or whatever. Oh, and I love the ones that say "I'll pay my $500 debt off for $10 or nothing and then when we don't agree, they'll post online that we threatened to blow up their call or something. It's insane.
Be careful about using that dialer... if you unintentionally hit a cell phone with one of them, the consequences can be outrageous. TCPA awards $500 per call. Unless you have an excellent process for weeding out cells, I would lose the dialer. At the very least mitigate your risk by not leaving messages. I've said it before, and I'm sure I'll say it again. I am not necessarily referring to anyone in particular... but this is not a game for noobs. The big guys have the resources to deal with these issues. The little guys live a lawsuit or two away from devastation.
Luckily the dialer can weed out cell #'s. If the debtor puts their cell # on a loan application, there "shouldn't" be any reason we can't use that number in the collection of debt. I can't say if the only number I have on the person is a cell, I'm not going to call it.
Unfortunately Jack, while your advice is more than sound, the ability to collect a debt is rapidly decreasing, so we can try to play as smart as possible, but there's going to be risk involved. It's becoming easier and easier to borrow money and not return it. The "good" collector that wouldn't intentionally threaten or harass someone spends more time trying to stay within the lines, rather than collecting the bills and the debtor is given more liberty and freedom when taking someone else's money and pocketing it. I personally think the old truth of debtors being honest and collectors being crooks, has completely done a 180.
Sorry, now I'm ranting.
You can use a cell number in the collection of debt, as long as you dial it manually. Autodialing it is the issue, and it is a tough one. Autodial a sophisticated consumer, and you have handed them your checkbook.
Too bad autodialers can't weed out litigious consumers (yet). That is a service we are developing.
Oh, ok. I was actually a little confused on the appropriateness of dialing cells. It's tricky ground. Thanks.
I have heard of some services out there that provides lists of debtors that go after agencies and creditors, but haven't seen those lists connected to dialers.


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Mostly About Chocolate. I haven't had high quality artisan filled chocolates for a while so I relished these. They came in a cute little transparent box too. Thank you Judith.
Daintree Estates - smooth slightly caramel flavoured truffle.
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Madre - dark and bitter truffle with an unusual but exciting citrus like flavour I couldn't identify.
Golf - praline with crunchy feuilletine and crystaline texture that tasted slightly peanutbuttery.
Ceibo - dark chocolate truffle - tasted of rum & raisin with a hint of orange, but far more sophisticated than the bars of Old Jamaica I used to love as a child.
Beans Original - a truffle with an odd flavour which again I couldn't identify.
übeck where it all started. Famed for its marzipan which is substantially higher in almonds and lower in sugar than many brands, it continues to sell a range of marzipan products. Rather stupidly, I disposed of the wrappers before writing down the ingredients, so I am unable to give them here.
review of Ohso last month, I was sent some orange Ohso to try. CT and I sat down to savour our daily dose of probiotics. These little 35g bars contain masses of good for your gut bacteria. CT is very fussy about orange chocolate, which often tastes artificial and makes him feel ill. He liked this one though and thought it tasted like real oranges. Combined with the 53% plain chocolate, they had a sufficient complexity of flavour to make them interesting and pleasant to eat. As with the plain Ohso though, we both found them a little too sweet for our palates. Like their plainer cousins, they are available to buy online and at many health food shops.
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great way to start the day - reading a post about full on chocolate - I wish every Monday could be like this ;0)ReplyDeleteReplies
You're so right Chele. It sure beats getting ready for work, which is what I should be doing right now.Delete
Glad you enjoyed the chocolate from Sicily! I still have two bars to try (different flavours). The OhSo chocolates are interesting...healthy chocolate sound good to me!!!!ReplyDelete
I agree with you Choc!ReplyDelete
The Niedrigger dark chocolate marzipan is one of the best you can get here in the UK. It had a permanent place in my mother's handbag for many years, her emergency rations in time of stress and despair. I adore it as well and agree that milk choc and marzipan are not good together. Marzipan in Europe and Scandinavia tends to be lower sugar and more almonds and is correspondingly dearer. Most English marzipan is not worthy of the name in my opinion, being almost all sugar and artificial flavourings.
I love that Sicilian chocolate. I am sure you are the perfect person to taste and judge chocolate. Your tastebuds only want good stuff now! Take care XReplyDelete
OH yes, that is chocolate the way I LIKE it, bitter and dark.....and I adore Niedrigger dark chocolate marzipan too, a great way to start the day and end it. KarenReplyDelete
Nice review, I love those marzipan bars. We had a German friend who used to send us a goodie parcel every Christmas including those bars. Sadly we lost touch and no longer get our teats.ReplyDelete
During my travels I once had the chance to visit the Niederegger shop in Lübeck ... you can imagine what 'damage' this can do ... :-)ReplyDelete
great multiple review... a bit like chocolate porn... that chocolate covered marzipan bar is the ONE for me baby!ReplyDelete


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Barry Kasdan said his background in group therapy and family therapy made him a good fit for Bridges, the mental health services organization headquartered in Milford.
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With a staff of about 160 professionals and support personnel, Bridges provides about 7,000 individuals each year with services for child psychology, mental health and substance abuse issues.
The private, nonprofit agency serves mostly Milford, Orange and West Haven, but Kasdan said it also provides services to people in Shelton, Seymour, Ansonia, Derby, Bethany and Woodbridge.
He grew up in the Bronx and received his master's degree in social work from Yeshiva University and then went to work at a Jewish Community Center in St. Louis.
"My background was in social work," he says, specifically in youth and family counseling. That enabled him to see the connections between delivery of mental health and substance abuse services for adults and children and the other factors in society that impact those persons' lives, such as unemployment, housing and health care.
"I became interested in the systems issues for delivery of mental health services for adults and children," he recalls.
Kasdan saw how a person could not deal with his or her own problems without help from the community, and how a single community could not deal with them without regional and state assistance.
In the 1970s he returned to Connecticut to do child and family therapy work in Norwalk, where he still lives. In 1984, he joined the Milford Mental Health Clinic, as Bridges was known then.
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Really this supposed lack of time can harm the student.
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PSYCHED that boston won the series…..
but yea i have 4 of the next 7 days off, hopefully i dont sleep it all away.
PSYCHED that boston won the series…..
but yea i have 4 of the next 7 days off, hopefully i dont sleep it all away.
I've been pretty bad at updating this thing lately, but I'm busy. I hate being busy.
Thought I'd post this awesome photo of Kink Aaron that Anou shot when they were down. I was planning on putting together a nice article with all the photos he sent, but the way things are going they may just end up in the dvd slideshow. Speaking of, I know some of you have great photos lying around, send them to me and I'll put them in there. Here's a good chance to talk about the video too; everything's looking great this far, I've got around 20 minutes of footage and people have started sending the rest of the footage in. Zac made a preview that will show at the Connected premiere on November 10th, and sometime towards the end of November I'll hopefully post an internet trailer.
i have been working over nights if anyone is wondering if i am alive or not.
Anou sent me a bunch of photos from their trip down here a while ago. It was really fun having those guys down here, I have to go through and find the best ones still, but here's a photo of me aboult to crash a walltap.
Riding is happenning in spurts these days, which is cool and every session feels like the last good day of the year it seems like. I know it's already snowed in Fairbanks and there was definitely snow falling at my house today. Steve K sent me a tape from Northern BC for the video, I'm pretty excited about that, he's awesome. Other than all that, we're slowly chipping away at the video and it's looking really nice (especially for a no bikes video, you can definitely tell we bought nice cameras).
so me and aaron decided that we will both do our own edits for this project using the same footage. we also decided on a name…..FOUR CORNERS. and i finished the teaser for the connected premier.
Turnagain Hardcore 7 is premiering tonight at Wendy Williamson Auditorium on campus. David has a section in the video and I put together a trailer for our video that will be in before the late show at 9:00; it's pretty nice and I put tons of backflips in it to cater to the mx/snowmachining crowd. Seriously though if you're in Anchorage you shoulld come out and see this, Dane and those guys are really crazy and anyone that can flip a snowmachine gets my respect.
While I was in an updating mood, I decided to catch up with Desson a bit too.
what have you been up to lately?
I've been working at a machine shop and riding bikes, hanging out with the girl friend and camping.
how was your summer?
Summer was awesome. super nice. Hot. Lots of good times.
this was your first year of pro contests? any good results to speak of?
Yeah, It was cool, The only one I did good at was street justice. I got 7the so I was pumped. way better then fifth from last in toronto
does it feel weird sitting on the deck with super pros?
I haven't really sat on the deck with any super pros. I only rode the wedges at toronto while the super pros snaked each other on the big ramps
what's your best road trip story from this year?
First night in edmonton for street justice Roman, Jason lange, Shiloh, Matt walser, and a few other guys went out to the bar to get wicked. It was my first time going legally to a bar so I had high hopes for the night. We left the first bar because romans ex was there. We parked far away because it was the only spot we could find. While we were walking to the truck I guess someone got stabbed by a pony tailed bandit. The 7 of us got into the truck. 5 in the seats and 2 in the back under a blanket. We were driving down back roads because of the extra people. We drove by some cops on bikes not thinking anything of it but they radioed in that they saw a black truck just like what the pony tailed bandit took off it. Well minutes later we were on the main road, cop did a u-turn behind us so homie that was driving took a quick right town down another road then another into the ally. Cop kept fallowing so we stopped. He went over the mega phone and told the driver to step out. While he was saying this 4 more cops rolled up and the chopper was on us. While the dude who was driving was explaining the story to the cops about to many people 2 cops came up to the trucked and looked at all of us to make sure none of us had sported pony tails that night. They didn't even care about the extra people. So we got off scot free and continued to have a fantastic night.
I first got to know Ryan Hiebert a little bit around the time that Romance came out, but didn't really meet him until I went back to Kelowna this summer. He seems like a pretty nice guy, and on the recommendation of Desson and Ridgeway we've added him to the lineup. Ryan is originally from Osooyoos and now lives in Burnaby and goes to BCIT, look forward to a bit of footage from him in the next dvd.
name age and where you're from:
My name is Ryan Hiebert and I'm 18 year old from Osoyoos, BC
how has the move to burnaby been? why did you move there?
It's been alright. I moved into a place before I had a chance to look at it in person and it was a big mistake. Its crazy living here. Its weird moving away from all your friends that you grew up riding with to only knowing a handful of people that live down here. I moved here to go to take a machinist program at B.C.I.T.
who are your favourite people to ride with?
My favourite people to ride with would have to be my friends from Osoyoos and definitely the BK guys.
what kind of riding and tricks are you into?
I really like riding skateparks. The new Penticton park is amazing and was just under an hour from my house so I rode that a bunch. My local park back home was small but I really liked it there to. Lately I've been riding alot of street though and I'm really enjoying it. As for tricks I'd say I do alot of tailwhips and barspins but I'd like to be able to do turndowns but I just can't seem to figure them out….someday.
you went on a trip or two this summer right? any good stories from those?
I have so many good stories from the trips from this past year. My favourites would be going to nelson in the winter time with Desson, Richard, and Mark and having Mark's car breakdown and all of us piling in to Desson's old 2 door Shadow to get home. Going to whistler this summer was awesome to. The whole trip was an adventure. From sleeping in the Squamish bowl to having Zac's truck break down in the middle of the Coquihalla at 2 in the morning.
you picked up a video camera this summer, how's that been going?
Slow, haha. I've been figuring it out and having fun doing it but its definitely more complicated than I originally thought.
lastly, what do you expect from being on no bikes this year?
I think that it will be a good time to meet some new friends, ride some new places, and have a good time doing it.


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Hui Wang, David Bell, Fionn Murtagh, "Axiomatic Approach to Feature Subset Selection Based on Relevance," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 271-277, March, 1999.
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Abstract—Relevance has traditionally been linked with feature subset selection, but formalization of this link has not been attempted. In this paper, we propose two axioms for feature subset selection—sufficiency axiom and necessity axiom—based on which this link is formalized: The
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IT WAS A QUIET TIME ON THAT BEACH in southeast Alaska, with the kayaks drawn up into the dune grasses and everybody gone for the day. Barefoot in the shallows, swimming in the cool water, sleeping in the sun, I watched gulls in the low golden light of the sea foam and little sanderlings higher up the wet sand, poking in the gold-green algae. I watched bald eagles come and go from their Sitka spruces, and I waited for the ebb tide when the creek mouth might drain and narrow and crowd a thousand pink salmon into an ever-tighter channel, so I could eat one.
I'm not a fisherman. I've hardly fished at all. But eating wild salmon matters to me because it's wild and because I like the taste and because it brings me closer to a world I wish I inhabited. That's why I came to this beach. I wanted to experience with my own senses not just this beautiful food but also the place that spawns it in such abundance. I wanted to smell and taste the waters and paddle the estuaries and see the humpback whales and feel the cold wind off the calving glaciers. I wanted to know how it would feel to find such a food the way it could be found a century ago near my home, eaten by the grizzly bears that once foraged every dumb little creek around San Francisco Bay--a place once famous for seafood, now dependent, like Denver and Omaha, on fish from the airport.
It's a nostalgic impulse but hopeful and curious too. At a time when the human appetite for fish, like my own appetite, has become bottomless, and when gigantic oceangoing vessels skim the seas clean of biomass and sell it all over the earth via same-day jets, fish are vanishing everywhere. So there's a powerful allure in a web of freshwater, saltwater, and surrounding wildlands healthy enough to generate 5 billion pounds of seafood year after year without diminishing anything. That's how much Alaska produces, at an annual value approaching $1 billion, making wild seafood second only to oil in its tax contribution to the state government. I wanted to see that source for myself, not in industrial terms but in natural ones, and to dream about the way my own home must have once looked and the way it might look again, if only the right people could start seeing dollar signs.
THAT SALMON CREEK DOES NOT HAVE A NAME. I looked on a good map. The beach does not have a name either. Many soft white strands run along many small bays on the wild, forested north coast of Kupreanof Island. The beach I landed on is not inside a national park, and you can easily get there by seaplane from Petersburg, Alaska. That's how I got there; I signed up for a guided kayak trip and climbed into an antique Grumman seaplane at the Petersburg dock, down from the big industrial canneries. The pilot winged us around the low mountains of Kupreanof and over a pod of humpbacks, then skimmed to a stop a few hundred yards off the forested beach. A skiff motored out, piloted by a young Alaskan woman working the kayak camp for the summer. She brought us ashore and showed us the tents and kayaks. The following day she took everyone out exploring.
I stayed behind to fish but also to lie around on the sand and let the high-tide hours wash away and bring the salmon back. It's good to wait; life gets too busy. We need wasted days in random places. It's better if you do not have a book to read. Boredom brings us closer to ourselves and to the world outside. Boredom makes us pay attention to the loon's loud, curious call, and it gives us the time to ask ourselves how exactly a northern seacoast can smell sweet. It did smell sweet--maybe an inland forest can do that. I watched a kingfisher's light, swooping flight, and I heard a raven's mixture of clicking and singing and then clicking again.
The beach faced north but not toward any open water. It was like a maritime version of the Northern Rockies, with mountains all around the openness of Frederick Sound. To the east, beyond the tall fireweed bushes with their pink flowers, the giant peaks of Alaska's Coast Range shone white and gray in the summer sun. Their glaciers looked massive and fractured from 50 miles off. The great granite tower of Devils Thumb, famous among mountaineers, thrust above the rest. North of those peaks, and northeast of my beach, forested slopes fell down to Farragut Bay. Those humpbacks were in the water somewhere in between, along with tens or hundreds of thousands of salmon moving in from their years in the deep sea, branching off to their tiny streams.
The night before, waking in my sleeping bag, I'd heard the humpbacks screeching and the salmon leaping and flopping--to relieve the pressure on their egg-bloated stomachs, some say. The night had been very still, with no waves in the water. Every sound had carried. I'd heard the footsteps and splashing of a black bear wandering by our tents, so I'd stood up in my underwear and peered through the Sitka branches, hoping for a glimpse. I never saw the bear, but I spotted the beacon of some far-off lighthouse.
Due north, in the midday sun, I saw the forested islands known as the Two Brothers and the tiny islands called the Five Fingers, where that lighthouse had been so bright. Toward the northwest loomed the mountains of Admiralty Island, where some 1,500 brown bears live in a trackless interior and eagles fill nests along all 700 miles of coastline. I'd like to go there; if there has been a single consistent pleasure in my life, it's the comfort I've found in quiet, empty valleys, watching the sun cross the sky. Beaches aren't so bad either, especially small ones. My beach was only a few hundred yards long, running into rocks and dense brush to the west and ending abruptly at the creek mouth to the east. And the spruce forest backing it was too dense and wet to encourage a walk inland across the soggy muskeg. The beach was just big enough to stroll, in other words, but too short and sheltered for anything ambitious. The sand was very fine too, and the sun came down hot; I walked in circles barefoot, kicked at clamshells, and watched sanderlings among the algae on the rocks. Then I stood again by the edge of the still-flooded creek, and I saw what I wanted to see: hundreds of shadows flitting in the red murk.
HUMPBACKS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH SALMON, except that they have everything to do with salmon. Wildness keeps Alaskan salmon fisheries alive--the vast national forests where streams don't get paved over, or buried in culverts, or soiled with urban runoff, and where bays aren't polluted, and where dams don't block a salmon's journey home. And when you come here to see that wildness, nothing shouts out the fundamental vitality of this place like two humpbacks rolling in the sunshine, a quarter mile ahead of your kayak. I saw their tails lift up high and slip into the sea. I don't know how deep the water was, or how many salmon swam below, feeling some mysterious route to the right creek mouth. But I paddled toward the humpbacks.
The whales surfaced, and their heavily ridged backs rolled black and glossy through the midday glare like logs turning in a river. You don't see much of the animal--maybe 10 or 15 percent. You see enough to wish you could see the rest. When they sank again, I paddled faster, pulling ahead of the group. The camp host wanted everybody together. She yelled at me and made a remark about how people get so excited when they see whales. The more striking thing is that it can wear off on a person who sees them often. For the rest of us, there's a hypnosis that overtakes you in the presence of whales; you want to be as close as possible, right now. You crave contact, and you have no idea why.
I'm not a great kayaker. I paddled as hard as I could. There was no wind, so the water was oily-smooth and the kayak knifed along. The whales vanished below, and I slowed, afraid they were gone. Then they surfaced, and my pulse jumped, and I dug deep with the paddle blades. They vanished again, and I slowed. The surface of the sea is like a membrane between worlds; the whales live in the other one, where the water is space. Sometimes they break that membrane, and we see parts of them. Then all that bulk slips through the film again, and the whales might as well visit another planet.
Another day I rode along in a motorboat fitted with an underwater microphone. The microphone helps with the membrane problem; it allows one of our senses a little access to that other world. The sounds are unmistakable, aching whale songs like we've all heard in recordings, except that when they're live, the aching and the melodic quality are infinitely more powerful. One theory about natural beauty says that we react because our minds and spirits are shaped by the world we inhabit; the mind and the world are mirror images, the one built to love the other. People on whaleboats break into tears listening to whale songs, our guide told us. He said it happens all the time. I could tell it had happened to him. How mysterious: Listening to the calls of another animal, sounds we cannot understand and do not intend to use for hunting, we are overcome by emotions similar to those generated by human songs and even by other forms of human art.
A SALMON HIT MY HOOK. This was in the late afternoon when the tide had begun to fall but the sun was still high; it was summertime in Alaska, the days lasting forever. I stood on the steep sand inside the creek's inland bend. Salmon moved underwater in groups of a dozen or two or three, shooting forward and stopping, then turning, always visible under the surface. I imagined the bald eagles could see them too, from that big nest up in their Sitka spruce. Eagles come back to the same nest year after year. They keep building too, expanding the nest. Seeing a big one can make you laugh. The word nest doesn't capture it. Apartment would be more like it. The creek was 20 or 30 yards wide, ten feet deep, and slowly dropping with the tide. I could see rocks, grasses, and sand on the creek bottom, and the fish seemed stuck in this pool, unable to move farther upstream to spawn. With a little practice, I could've caught them with a spear or a big net. I took off my clothes, waded into the creek, and found a rock I could stand on, then tried catching fish with my hands. It was impossible. I couldn't even touch them. And I got very cold.
I don't own a fishing rod; I used a spare spin-casting rig from the camp. The rod had a shiny lure with a bit of bright pink plastic, and somebody who knew a little told me it was OK. Those fish were done eating; they would never again eat in their lives. They would just consume their own spare fat until they'd gotten far enough up that lazy creek to spawn, then they would die. So the point wasn't to lure them into eating. The point was to get them interested in something flashy and annoying. I dropped the lure in front of a dozen fish and dragged it away from them. A large salmon broke away and gave chase, swimming inches behind the hook.
Photos by Gary Luhm; used with permission.


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On 1 April 2013, the government's changes to council tax benefit came into effect. Local council's had to create a new council tax reduction scheme to replace council tax benefit, at the same time as their funding was cut. This means that many more people now have to pay towards their council tax bill than before April 2013.
New under occupancy rules (also known as the bedroom tax) for tenants in council and social housing also began on 1 April. This means that people who are classed as under occupying their home will have their housing benefit reduced.
A national benefits cap was introduced to Leicester in August 2013 by the Government – this means that the total amount of weekly benefit that a household can receive is being capped at a maximum of £500 for a family and £350 for a single person.
The government is also introducing a new scheme called universal credit. We are not sure when this will be introduced in Leicester.
Local housing allowance (LHA) is the amount of money you may receive towards your private sector rent. This is set locally to reflect differing prices around the country.
It can be confusing trying to work out how much money you may be entitled to. The government's website has a benefits adviser to help you find out.
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(Sports Network) - The Indiana Pacers will try to get back into the win columnon Wednesday night when they welcome the Minnesota Timberwolves to BankersLife Fieldhouse.
The Pacers were just another victim to the torrid play of the Miami Heat theirlast time out. The Heat avenged their last loss, which came on Feb. 1 inIndianapolis, on Sunday when they toppled the Pacers, 105-91.
The win was Miami's 18th straight.
"We didn't compete hard enough," said Pacers forward David West. "You can'tbeat a team like that in their building as well as they're playing withoutcompeting."
West led the way for Indiana with 24 points. Roy Hibbert added 16, but PaulGeorge was held to 10 points thanks to some defensive scheming by the Heat.Dwyane Wade guarded George most of the contest, not LeBron James.
"It threw us off a bit," George admitted.
"Paul George and Lance Stephenson are still very young players and their twosuperstars got the best of us tonight," said head coach Frank Vogel. "Weresponded during the game, and our team has shown great resolve all year and Ihave every confidence that they are going to respond in the playoffs."
The Pacers have dropped two of their last three and they are in virtual tiewith the New York Knicks for second in the Eastern Conference.
The Timberwolves come into Indiana off a spectacular 107-83 drubbing of theNBA's best team, the San Antonio Spurs, on Tuesday night. Minny hammered theSpurs in Minneapolis thanks to a great performance from Ricky Rubio.
The Spanish star notched his first career triple-double with 21 points, 13rebounds, including 12 defensive boards, and 12 assists.
"I just try to be aggressive all the time, and stats are the last thing Iwatch," Rubio said. "Victories are the most important thing."
J.J. Barea, Alexey Shved, Derrick Williams and Luke Ridnour all scored indouble figures for a Timberwolves team in desperate need of a victory.
The Wolves had lost two in a row before Tuesday, and although the win cameagainst a San Antonio team without Tony Parker, Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard,it was Minnesota's fifth victory since Feb. 1.
The T'Wolves were without Kevin Love, Chase Budinger, Malcolm Lee and BrandonRoy. They also played Tuesday's game without Andrei Kirilenko and NikolaPekovic and neither is expected to play in Indiana.
Minnesota heads to the road where they've lost five straight.
The Timberwolves won this season's only matchup with Indiana, a 96-94 decisionin Minnesota on Nov. 9. The Pacers won the last three times the teams met inIndianapolis.


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Unidentified attackers sliced the left ears off 17 people in Senegal's restive southern province of Casamance, a region long plagued by separatist rebel violence, police in the West African country said.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, crime, senegal
The President of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, has dismissed the UN's food agency as a waste of money and called for it to be scrapped.
Topics: world-politics, international-aid-and-trade, relief-and-aid-organisations, senegal
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Zimbabwe's Opposition party says President Robert Mugabe should step down.
Topics: world-politics, zimbabwe, senegal
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The United Nations has set up a special task force to tackle the global food crisis.
Topics: world-politics, senegal
The Organisation of Islamic Conferences (OIC) has ended its summit in Senegal with a call for more dialogue between Muslims and Christians.
Topics: islam, community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, christianity, senegal
The Organisation of the Islamic Conference has opened its 11th leaders' summit in Dakar overshadowed by conflicts that have stricken members of the world's main Muslim group.
Topics: islam, community-and-society, religion-and-beliefs, government-and-politics, world-politics, senegal, afghanistan, chad, iran-islamic-republic-of, malaysia, sudan
A senior World Health Organisation (WHO) official says the world's supply of vaccine against yellow fever is under extreme pressure.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, health, senegal, brazil, burkina-faso, cameroon, france, paraguay, togo
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A Chilean government official says the country is willing to host the 2008 Dakar Rally that was cancelled due to security concerns and would soon write the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) making its offer.
Topics: rallying, sport, motor-sports, chile, senegal
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The Dakar Rally has been cancelled for the first time in its 30-year history due to security concerns in Mauritania where four French tourists were killed last month, organisers said.
Topics: rallying, government-and-politics, world-politics, sport, motor-sports, france, portugal, senegal
France's Stephane Peterhansel drives around Rose Lake, Senegal, during the 15th and final stage of the Dakar Rally on January 21, 2007.
The first summit between European and African leaders in seven years has ended without agreement on the key issue of trade.
Topics: world-politics, business-economics-and-finance, trade, senegal, china, european-union
Security Officials in Guinea-Bissau say police in the country have uncovered a child trafficking network which was preparing to send 52 children to Koranic schools in neighbouring Senegal, security officials in the West African country said.
Topics: crime, law-crime-and-justice, guinea-bissau, senegal
A Spanish fishing boat found seven corpses and one survivor in an open-topped wooden boat adrift off Senegal, with dozens more passengers thought to be missing, the Spanish coastguard said.
Topics: mining-industry, business-economics-and-finance, industry, senegal, australia
Floodwaters are subsiding after affecting a vast swathe of the African continent from Senegal in the west, to Ethiopia.
Topics: floods, disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, ethiopia, senegal
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A small African aid group that has campaigned to abolish the practice of female circumcision in west Africa has been awarded the world's biggest prize for humanitarian work.
Topics: world-politics, senegal
The Australian men's basketball team thrashed Senegal 78-57 in a friendly international in Bormio, Italy overnight.
Topics: basketball, sport, italy, australia, senegal
Southern and East African leaders have rejected plans to set up a pan-African government, as suggested by Libya's head of state Colonel Moamar Gaddafi.
Topics: world-politics, libyan-arab-jamahiriya, ghana, senegal, uganda
For the first time, chimpanzees have been seen making and using spear-like weapons to hunt other animals.
Topics: mammals, united-states, senegal
France's Stephane Peterhansel, driving a Mitsubishi, and compatriot Cyril Despres, riding a KTM, were crowned champions of the 2007 Dakar Rally after the 15th and final stage overnight.
The death of a French motorcycle rider cast a cloud over the Dakar Rally overnight, on the eve of a record ninth title for French car driver Stephane Peterhansel.
Topics: human-interest, senegal
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The death of a French motorcycle rider cast a cloud over the Dakar Rally overnight, on the eve of a record ninth title for French car driver Stephane Peterhansel.
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Spanish motorcycle rider Marc Coma blew his chances of a second successive Dakar Rally win overnight when he lost his way in the desert, hit a tree and knocked himself unconscious.
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The Dakar Rally begins in Lisbon on Saturday under the watchful eye of the world's media with security and safety issues dominating the build-up.
The African Union (AU) is planning to send more troops into Sudan to reinforce its extended peacekeeping mission in war-ravaged Darfur.
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The staff at a Goodwill store in St. Louis County has tracked down a couple who accidentally dropped off $5,000 in cash.
KSDK-TV reported the money turned up among bags of donations left in mid-March at the MERS/Goodwill store in Sunset Hills.
An employee found the money and reported it to supervisors, who reviewed surveillance video to narrow down the possible donors.
They turned out to be a couple from Affton who donated six trash bags of items on March 13. The woman's 96-year-old father had recently passed away, and she didn't notice the cash among the clothing and other items bagged up for donation.
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The Hamilton Park Summer League, a competitive high school circuit calls Jersey City home. Under the auspices of official assignor and 'commissioner' Pat Devaney, the league is one of the more competitive and better organized ones in the area.
Tonight called for an assignment of the 5 and 6 o'clock games. The league calls Hamilton Park (catchy, right ?) as home. An outdoor court in the park not far from St. Anthony's High School and the Holland Tunnel. On nights when the weatherman will not cooperate the league moves indoors. Tonight we are at School 7 in the Heights section of the City, a few miles north of Hamilton Park.
My partner is Joe Hatfield, a good official I enjoy working with. Joe played for the legendary Bob Hurley at St. Anthony's and despite being over 50, still refers to his former mentor as 'Mr. Hurley'.
The score:
Bayonne 38 Jersey Jayhawks 32
Bayonne jumped out to a 12-0 lead against the Jayhawks, an AAUteam from Bergen County, about 20 miles north of Jersey City. Having been in the league several years, the Jayhawk coach knows the competition and how these games flow. There is no panic and the AAU group pulls even and ahead by a possession midway through the game.
Bayonne does not panic and uses their size to stay on the offensive glass. In the stretch their point guard proved to be a tough defensive assignment for the Jayhawks and they pulled away for the victory down the stretch.
Overall the game went well but a noticeable aspect was both team's point guards were good but had a tendency to play too fast at times. Experience and coaching will rectify that in time.
Looking forward to game two and making notes I am told by Joe we have to leave. Why ? A bomb scare was phoned in. A retired Jersey City fire fighter, Joe knows the policy and procedure in these situations and predicts two hours or longer would be needed to gain clearance to reenter the building . At this point Devaney calls it a night and in the second night of the season, already rescheduling is a priority for the 'David Stern of Hamilton Park.' At least tomorrow the forecast is 80 degrees, with no rain in sight.


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November 4, S. Zimmerman:
Lipschitz Extensions Of Mappings Into Lipschitz-connected Metric Spaces
October 28, X. Zhou:
Sobolev Homeomorphism On A Sphere Containing An Arbitrary Cantor Set In The Image
October 21, S. Malekzadeh:
Metric Differentiability - Kirchheim, Rademacher Theorem
September 30, October 7, October 14, S. Zimmerman:
The unrectifiability of Hn
September 23, S. Malekzadeh:
Lusin condition (N) for W1,n functions - A new proof
September 16, J. Mirra:
Sphere Embeddings
April 3, Qing Liu:
An elementary introduction to viscosity solution theory
March 27, S. Malekzadeh:
Measures on Rn and von Neumann theorem (II)
March 20, S. Malekzadeh:
Measures on Rn and von Neumann theorem (I)
March 6, J. Mirra:
Classification of all Conformal Maps on domains in R^n (Assuming C^4 Differentiability)
This talk was based on pp. 255-283 of the notes.
February 27, Dr. P. Hajlasz:
The theorem of Meyers and Ziemer
February 20, Soheil Malekzadeh:
Lusin's condition (N) and mappings of the class W^1,n
February 6 - 8, Scott Sheffield:
PDEs, Politics and Tug-of-War
January 30, Kevin Wildrick:
The Heisenberg group as a metric space
January 23, S. Zimmerman:
Whitney Extension Theorem
January 9, J. Mirra:
Generalized Luzin's Theorem
December 4, S. Malekzadeh:
Change of variables for locally Lipschitz mappings
November 28, X. Zhou:
The Hausdorff Dimension of the Cantor Set
November 14, P. Hajlasz:
Maximal functions and Sobolev spaces (Not yet available.)
October 31, S. Malekzadeh: The change of variables formula under the miniman assumptions
The talk is based on the paper:
October 24, S.Zimmerman: The Sard theorem.
The talk is based on the proof that you can find in the following book on pages 195-198.
J.E.Marsden, T.Ratiu, R.Abraham, Manifolds, Tensor Analysis, and Applications
Sard's theorem
October 17, P.Hajlasz: Brunn-Minkowski inequality, isoperimetric inequality and the boxing inequality.
The Brunn-Minkowski inequality.
The boxing inequality.
October 10, P.Hajlasz: Sobolev inequality, isoperimetric inequality and Gromov's proof.
I covered the material from pages 166-193 from the following notes:
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What's New
Mendocino County Biochar Workshop &
Conservation Burn Training
Our most recent workshops were held on April 11th in Ukiah and Potter Valley, and we want to thank the Redwood Forest Foundation, Inc. and the Woody Biomass Working Group, for their support. We also want to thank Mary Anne Landis (and the City of Ukiah) and Judith Harwood for helping us with logistical support, and Mac Magruder and Kyle Farmer of Magruder Ranch for their kind hosting of the afternoon conservation burn event.
The workshops brought together a diverse group of interested people that included Frank Shields of the Biochar Lab, Robert Scaglione of the Mendocino County Air Quality Management District, Mary Anne Landis, Ukiah City Councilperson, Joseph Brinkley of Fetzer Vineyards, and Jess Arnsteen of Parducci Cellars, among many others. There is definitely some buzz about biochar in the grape-growing community, and we now have the ear of the local air management districts as well.
Below are some photos from the conservation burn workshop in the afternoon at Magruder Ranch:
The workshops given at Circle Bar Ranch on March 21st were a great success. Below are a few images from the conservation burn training. If you are interested in learning more about how to minimize the pollution generated by your open burns let us know and we will put you on our mailing list for future events.
Presented by SBI Board member Peter Hirst as a 4-hour hands-on, field and classroom training, participants learned how to conduct open burns that generate less pollution while also making biochar.
Sonoma Ecology Center Receives USDA Grant, Kicks Off Biochar Project
The Sonoma Ecology Center and the Sonoma Biochar Initiative have received $75,000 in support from the US Department of Agriculture's Conservation Innovation Grant (CIG) program to establish this county's first integrated biochar production system. These federal funds are being matched by $75,000 from the Sonoma County Water Agency and $83,000 of in-kind support from three local farms where the biochar will be applied. Other partners in this project include Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District and the North Coast Resource Conservation & Development Council's Cultivating Commerce initiative.
Biochar is specialized charcoal used as a soil amendment. It is produced through pyrolysis, a chemical process that reduces woody feedstocks to char and releases fuel gases that are burned to maintain the reaction and provide renewable energy. The remaining product is nearly pure carbon: biochar.
Biochar has been known for many years, but its wide adoption is just emerging in California and elsewhere. In recent years its benefits have been studied sufficiently to indicate a high probability of success in the integrated structure proposed here. The new Sonoma County Biochar Project is intended to prove locally available research results from elsewhere that biochar will build soil, conserve water, improve agricultural productivity, and improve forest practices — all while replacing greenhouse gas emissions with sequestered carbon in individual farming operations.
The Ecology Center's new unit, called an "Adam Retort," will be located at Swallow Valley Farm in western Sonoma County, where the team will produce biochar and apply it to onsite farm operations. As much as possible, biochar will be produced for on-farm use from woody resources available there. The biochar will also be applied at Green String Farm near Petaluma and Oak Hill Farm near Sonoma, allowing a full demonstration and evaluation of its impacts on varied Sonoma County agricultural production. SEC, GRRCD and NCRC&DC will carry out education and outreach regarding biochar to potential agricultural users throughout the area, allowing leading farmers and growers here to recognize the benefits of integrated biochar production and application.


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'Choose Life' plates opponents ask full appeals court to hear case
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NEW ORLEANS Opponents of the state's plan to issue license plates bearing the anti-abortion motto "Choose Life" filed a new challenge in a federal appeals court April 12.
The petition asks the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which threw out a lawsuit seeking to block the state from issuing the plates, to rehear arguments in the case.
A three-judge panel of the appellate court ruled 2-1 March 29 that the abortion-rights supporters who filed the lawsuit did not have standing to sue the state over the issue. The ruling sent the matter back to U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. with an order to dismiss.
Lawyers for the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy now want a full 15-member panel to hear arguments in the case.
The three-judge panel misunderstood the case and directly contradicted well established First Amendment case law, attorney Bill Rittenberg wrote in the petition.
Rittenberg cited prior cases and also the dissent in the 5th Circuit's recent ruling in seeking to show that opponents of the Choose Life plates had standing to file suit.
In throwing out the case last month, the 5th Circuit's two-judge majority ruled that blocking the plate from going into circulation would have no effect on the plaintiff's alleged inability to win legislative approval of an abortion-rights plate. Thus the plaintiff, in this case Doreen Keeler, had no standing.
But prior rulings have held that one group is injured when the government provides a specific forum for one side on an argument and denies opposing views, Rittenberg wrote. In this case, it is clear the Legislature would not approve a pro-abortion license plate and, according to prior case law, the plaintiffs need not even apply for one to show that.
Rittenberg also said the 5th Circuit improperly rejected the argument that printing the plate would violate taxpayers' rights.
The state law allows Christian organizations that oppose abortion to decide how to spend revenue generated by the license plates. Rittenberg cited case law prohibiting governments from allowing specific religious groups to decide how state revenues can be spent.
Judge William H. Barbour, a district judge temporarily assigned to the 5th Circuit, wrote the majority ruling. It's not clear when the 5th Circuit will decide whether to hear the case.
Federal appeals court won't reinstate challenge to 'Choose Life' plates
Attorney for Louisiana abortion-rights supporters says he's 'strongly considering' appeal to Supreme Court.
Attorneys for state seek green light for 'Choose Life' plates
Federal appeals court hears arguments from Louisiana officials who want injunction blocking sale of tags lifted.
Abortion-rights group challenges Florida's 'Choose Life' plates
Federal lawsuit says process for distributing funds from tag sales violates church-state separation, free speech.
Kansas governor nixes 'Choose Life' plates
Meanwhile, lawmakers revive effort to create similar tags in Oklahoma.
Abortion-rights activists criticize new Oklahoma 'Choose Life' plates
'By producing plates that are pro-life, the government is authorizing unconstitutional speech by opponents of abortion,' says Planned Parenthood representative.
S.C. 'Choose Life' license plates put on hold
Federal judge grants preliminary injunction sought by Planned Parenthood.
Federal judge throws out challenge to Florida's 'Choose Life' plates
Court says abortion-rights groups lack sufficient evidence to back claims that fee-distribution process violates church-state separation, free speech.
S.C. 'Choose Life' plates held unconstitutional
Federal court judge's ruling may mean another anti-abortion license-plate case could be heading to U.S. Supreme Court.


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NFR afterparty at Gold Coast
There's no shortage of drunken revelry to be had in conjunction with the National Finals Rodeo, taking place December 5-14. Tourist spots like the Mirage (both its Race and Sports Book and Rhumbar), Gilley's, the Rockhouse and PBR Rock Bar will feature promotions all week—as will the Strip-adjacent Gold Coast, hosting its awesomely named Buck 'N Ball every night of the rodeo and offering drink specials and live entertainment. December 5-14, 8 p.m., free.
When: Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013
Where: Gold Coast Casino, 4000 W. Flamingo Road, Las Vegas
Cost: Not available
Age limit: Not available
Categories: Downtown
Event posted Dec. 3, 2013
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- The Quad | 19:00:00
- Olivia Newton-John
- Flamingo | None
- Forever Doo Wop
- The Riviera | 7 p.m.
- Paranormal
- Bally's Las Vegas
- Movies in the Square
- Town Square
- Fantasy Circus
- Baobab Stage
- Ja-Makin'-Me Laugh
- The D
- Recess Fridays
- Encore Beach Club
- The Beatles LOVE
- Love Theater
- Jazz Conversations Big Band Series
- Viva Las Vegas Event Center
- Lilian Garcia & The Fuse
- Club Madrid at Sunset Station
- Sydney After Dark
- Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino
- Gardens Guided Walk
- Springs Preserve
- Rock 'N Roll Compendium
- Planet Hollywood
- Sunday Brunch
- Tao Beach