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Los Angeles: On October 23, 2004 at 3:30 a.m., twenty six year old Tae Joon Kim, a store clerk from Van Nuys, was driving his vehicle east on Victory Boulevard at White Oak Avenue in Encino. In Kim's car were two male friends of his who had just left a nightclub with him. As they drove, they noticed a gold or tan colored GMC or Chevrolet Tahoe type vehicle driving next to them. The two occupants of the vehicle were the same two men whom Kim and his two friends had just had a conversation with at a nearby nightclub. For no apparent reason, the driver of the SUV suddenly opened fire with a small caliber handgun at Kim and his two friends. Kim was struck in the head with a bullet and immediately lost consciousness. His vehicle veered into the westbound lane of traffic, ran off the roadway, and collided with a tree on the north side of the street. The suspects continued driving east on Victory Boulevard. Kim's two friends were not injured.
West Valley and Van Nuys Area officers responded to the location and established a crime scene perimeter. Kim was transported to Northridge Hospital and was admitted in gravely critical condition.
The suspects are described as two male Hispanics in their early twenties. One was wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers jersey over a gray hooded sweatshirt.
Anyone with information regarding this crime is asked to call the West Valley Homicide Unit at, 818-342-0449. A twenty four hour toll free number is available at 1-877-529-3855.
This news release was prepared by the Los Angeles Police Department's Media Relations Section, 213-485-3586.


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Hammers defender James Collins was delighted to keep another clean sheet in Saturday's Barclays Premier League fixture against Newcastle United.
Neither team could find a way through at the Boleyn Ground, but the point gained kept the Hammers in the top ten and Collins was happy with the defensive element of his side's play.
"It sort of had that end of season feel to it. In the second half we were a lot better than we were in the first half and we were unlucky not to get a goal," said Collins.
"But it's another clean sheet and a point at home."
Papiss Cisse could have handed the Geordies the lead as his shot beat Jussi Jaaskelainen but was hooked off the line by Hammers defender Winston Reid inside the opening 20 minutes of the first half. Despite the calls for a goal, Collins believes the assistant referee got it right.
"Sometimes they give them and sometimes they don't. It was certainly very close, I know that much. We're just happy that was the only real chance they had in the game. To get through that and not concede, we're delighted."
Collins agrees the incident will spark further talk of goal-line technology. "It's needed and I think everyone knows it's needed. It stops the maybes and maybe nots. The sooner the better for me."
With several obvious links to the Tyneside outfit throughout the team, Collins admitted it added somewhat of a bite to the tie.
"We spoke about it before the game. The gaffer was obviously desperate to beat them as well as Kevin [Nolan] and Andy [Carroll]. They're a tough, physical side like ourselves and we knew it was going to be a hard game and they certainly gave it to us."
Looking ahead to next weekend's trip to Everton, Collins believes the Club's recent run of form should give the boost required to ensure the team come home with all three points.
"Away from home, we've been a lot better than we were during the first half of the season. We're full of confidence at the moment because we've had some great results over the last six or seven weeks so if we keep playing the way we are I am sure we can get a good result."
But at the same time the Welshman appreciates the dangers David Moyes' side will pose on Sunday.
"They've got a few. Marouane Fellaini has been doing it for a few years, Leighton Baines at left back, Steven Pienaar. They're a side that's full of internationals and a great squad. It will be another tough game because they've had one of the best seasons they've had for a long time. If we keep playing the way have then I am confident we can get a decent result there.
"The home fans have been great but the away fans especially. We seem to be selling out everywhere we go at the minute. It would be great to put in a good performance and get a win for them."

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Book Review: Evil at Heart
By Sandy Amazeen Aug 24, 2009, 4:46 GMT
Chelsea Cain\'s novels featuring Portland detective Archie Sheridan and serial killer Gretchen Lowell have captivated fans through two nail-biting entries, Heartsick and Sweetheart, both of them multiweek bestsellers in The New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly.Gretchen Lowell is still on the loose. These days, she\'s more of a cause célèbre than a feared killer, thanks to sensationalist news coverage that has made her a star. Her face graces ...more
After serial killer Gretchen Lowell finished playing her latest psychological and physical games with homicide detective Archie Sheridan there wasnt much left of his former life. In addition to Gretchen costing him his family, job and mental stability, Archie must battle an addiction to painkillers thanks to a basement spleenectomy, nearly having his jugular severed along with Gretchens trademark heart craved into his chest. Its little wonder Archie checked himself into the psychiatric ward of Portland, Oregons Providence Medical Center.
A gruesome discovery at a roadside rest area leads officials to suspect Gretchen has returned to her old tricks but just to be sure, detective Henry Sobol decided to get Archies opinion. Oddly obsessed with the serial killer despite all that she has done to him, Archie is the acknowledged expert on Gretchens MO. Chillingly, there appears to be a copycat killer or worse, perhaps an entire group emulating her style and no wonder when the media has turned her into the latest sensation. Everything from coffee mugs and tee shirts to manicures are being marketed with Gretchen likenesses, there are even bus tours of her murder sites.
After a phone tip led journalist Susan Ward to the site of another murder, Henry and Archie realize the only thing worse then Gretchen returning to her old ways is having to simultaneously cope with an unidentified copycat. With Henry and Susans able assistance, Archie closes in on his prey and discovers the heart of evil is even darker then he imagined.
Cains excellent new addition to the Sweetheart series adds welcome complexity with the element of copycat killers plus a bit of social commentary on Americans fascination and hero worship of shallow, even contemptuous beautiful people. Susan takes larger role in this fast paced, sometimes grisly murder mystery balanced by quick wit and snappy dialog. Although this could stand alone, readers will get a better picture on what makes the main protagonists tick by reading Sweetheart and Heartsick first.
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High Alert Investment Management Ltd. believes this to be an accurate and up-to-date definition of "accredited investors" as outlined by the SEC in Rule 501 of Regulation D. However, before relying on any information contained here readers are encouraged to visit the SEC's website at http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm.


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How Close to Lincoln?
The Lincoln of that imputed command, and of the Cromwell-like speech written by Kushner in the same key, is for the moment frankly indifferent about the means of accomplishing a desirable end. This will not carry conviction to anyone who has read much about Lincoln.
The speech sounds wrong for internal reasons because it is unlike anything credibly reported as said by Lincoln (whatever he may have thought privately). And it is weak for external reasons because—as the historian Michael Vorenberg has noticed in a fine essay on the Thirteenth Amendment—Congressman Alley conjured the words from memory twenty-three years after the fact.* The same goes for a judgment spoken in the movie with solemn authority by Thaddeus Stevens: that the amendment "was passed by corruption, aided and abetted by the purest man in America."
We are meant to pause and sigh at that; and, the director being Spielberg, we are given time to pause and sigh. But here, not just the authenticity but the tone of the words is uncertain. Does Stevens intend to convey bafflement? Wonder? Irony? The reproach of one moralist against another regarding the strangeness of conscience in politics? The line is floated as an optional profundity, but it too was skimmed from memory, this time thirty-three years after the fact, by an opponent of the New Jersey railroad monopoly who had been disappointed by Lincoln's coolness in approaching that issue.
These are small trespasses—no worse than some that were justified by purely fictional license in Young Mr. Lincoln and Abe Lincoln in Illinois. One moment of Spielberg's Lincoln, however, dips a good deal lower and tampers with the consistency of the character. "We're stepped upon the world's stage now," Kushner makes Lincoln say, "with the fate of human dignity in our hands. Blood's been spilled to afford us this moment." What is it, exactly, that turns those words so false in Lincoln's mouth? They show a kind of strut. The man is aglow and his voice is alive with the tremendous business of making history. But this was a sentiment that Lincoln shunned. He would not have spoken grandly of the fate of "human dignity," a familiar phrase in two words that Lincoln never actually paired. The broad ideal of human dignity belongs to the late twentieth century, to the morale of decolonization and the UN Charter.
More gratingly, the conjunction of "world's stage," "blood," and "our hands" brings to mind two famous soliloquies in Macbeth, one confessing murder and one confessing despair, neither of them a suitable vehicle for rallying votes. But it is the underlying falsification that disturbs. Any leader who adopts the posture of seeing himself on the stage of history is a glory to himself and a menace to all whom he must lead. Napoleon (whose favorite word was "destiny") loved this posture, and Lincoln (as he revealed in his Lyceum Address of 1838) hated Napoleon for loving it.
Lincoln remains an honorable movie compounded of irresolute but mostly upright intentions; and its strengths are only a little undercut by the synthetic quality of its ambition. But that has always been the price of Spielberg's energy and his enormous competence. Like Amistad (1997), his earlier historical film about slavery, Lincoln initially had a tight story and setting. At bottom, it is the simple political drama of the preparation and execution of a major vote in Congress; whereas Amistad was a courtroom drama about the freeing by American justice of slaves illegally transported from Africa in 1839. In both movies, the plot is enlarged by episodic, picturesque, and artificial embellishments that add forty minutes as an earnest of seriousness—in Amistad, flashbacks to the Atlantic crossing of the slaves, discussions of the career of John Quincy Adams, the missionary Christian lesson given to the rebel chief Cinque, and mocking tableaux of the court of Queen Isabella.
In Lincoln, we have the asserted claims of the White House children Tad and Robert, Abe's relationship to Mary, a prologue about a black soldier reciting the Gettysburg Address, and a series of epilogues to signal the death of Lincoln and the end of the war. The inclusion of Mary Lincoln, however, takes on a separate strength from the integrity of Sally Field's performance. We see her often at the brink of hysteria yet always coming partway back to sanity from a deep sympathy with her husband's courage and resolve.
As a piece of filmmaking about American politics, Lincoln is not in a class with John Frankenheimer's version of The Manchurian Candidate (1962), and as a realistic portrait of a legislative battle it lacks the care and detail of Otto Preminger's Advise and Consent (1962). Yet it may hold up as well as those earlier films. Spielberg has the advantage of working on the ground of a real event that Americans care about. And he has given a memorable face to a lesson that happens to be true.
The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1863, the most extraordinary act of lawgiving in history, was conceived by Lincoln as an emergency measure, and he defended it on narrow grounds of military necessity. Yet Lincoln believed in emancipation as a matter of principle. How, then, could he give the moral act the solid legal claim it wanted? The law freeing the slaves had to be rendered compatible with rigorous adherence to the Constitution, since he had never intended the exception to stand as a rule. The emergency proclamation of emancipation in 1863 was a partial expedient to obstruct the progress and mitigate the evils of slavery.
By contrast, "this amendment" of two years later, as Lincoln said in response to a serenade on its passage, "is a King's cure for all the evils. It winds the whole thing up." Those characteristic words carry his rhythm of thought—happy at the success of the amendment because it winds the whole thing up. Democracy, as Lincoln points out with sufficient plainness, discovers its justification not in emergency actions but in the ordinary and difficult work of passing laws, and the daily dedication of people who agree to live by laws.
* "The Thirteenth Amendment Enacted," in Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment, edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007). ↩
"The Thirteenth Amendment Enacted," in Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment, edited by Harold Holzer and Sara Vaughn Gabbard (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007). ↩


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Sketches include VMAs Backstage Cold Open, Miley Cyrus Monologue, 50 Shades Of Grey Auditions, Girlfriend Talk Show, Piers Morgan – Clintons, Weekend Update (including Vanessa as Jacob, Kate as "GTA Mom, and Jay as Shannon Sharpe), Cheer Squad, Mornin' Miami, Poetry Class, Miley Sex Tape. America's premier sketch-comedy show returns for its 39th season LIVE from Studio 8H in New York City. This season, the cast includes Vanessa Bayer, Taran Killam, Seth Meyers, Bobby Moynihan, Nasim Pedrad, Jay Pharoah, Kenan Thompson, featuring Beck Bennett, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon, John Milhiser, Kyle Mooney, Mike O'Brien, Cecily Strong, Noël Wells, and Brooks Wheelan. Check out these selected sketches and segments from each of this season's episodes, so you can make every night a Saturday Night.
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February 2010
Leaky Ducts Can Blow Your Money
Hundreds of dollars you spend for heating may be vanishing into thin air. Leaky ductwork is a serious - and common - problem.
Ducts are the piping that delivers heated air into living spaces from the furnace.
The ductwork in practically every home can be improved, some more than others. If you live in a new home, there's still room for worry. Many times, ducts in newer homes are much more poorly installed than those in older homes.
Why are leaky ducts so common? There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of connections in a typical duct system. Every connection has the potential to leak.
There are good reasons for a tightly sealed duct system:
Save money and energy
If 20 percent of the conditioned air escapes from the ducts of your HVAC system, its efficiency decreases by 50 percent. That means you're spending twice as much as necessary to heat your home.
It also means wasted energy, which hurts the environment.
Increase comfort
Most comfort issues can be traced to leaky or poor ductwork. Leaks are a major cause of hot and cold spots in your home.
Improve air quality
The most important reason to have properly sealed ductwork is your health. Leaky ducts can suck all sorts of dangerous substances into the living area, including mold, mildew, radon, chemicals and fumes.
Insulating the ductwork is not enough - it still needs to be sealed. Insulation helps stop heat loss, but does not stop air loss.
There are two ways to get the job done. Call a licensed HVAC contractor or if you're fairly handy, you can probably do it yourself.
If you decide to tackle the job, make sure you're agile enough to maneuver safely through the areas where ducts are typically located - crawlspaces and attics. Also be aware of sharp edges that may exist on some metal duct components.
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A synopsis on the International Church of Christ
Also known as . . .
The Boston Church of Christ, The Crossroads Movement, Multiplying Ministries, The Discipling Movement, The International Church of Christ, The London Church of Christ, The San Diego Church of Christ, etc.
- Doctrines
- Believe in the Bible as the inerrant and infallible word of God.
- Trinitarian, believe in the resurrection of Jesus, and the sacrificial atonement.
- The Boston Church of Christ is the only true church.
- Baptismal Regeneration
- Baptism is necessary for salvation
- Baptism in their church with a proper understanding that baptism saves.
- Heavy discipleship
- Unquestioned submission to authority
- History
- Its distant origins go back to 1967 in Gainesville Florida, under Charles Lucas.
- Lucas started a program called the Multiplying Ministries program which was very successful.
- The movement we are concerned with here originated in the Crossroads Church of Christ in Florida in 1985.
- Kip McKean had been trained in the Discipling methodology by Mr. Lucas, from Charleston, Ill., early in the movement. Kip later moved to Massachusetts and using the methods he learned under Lucas, the church there began to grow.
- In the first year, 103 people were baptized into their church; in the second year 200 were baptized, the third year 256, the fourth year 368, the fifth 457, the sixth 679, the seventh 735, the eighth 947, the ninth 1424, and in the tenth year, 1621 were baptized - a total of 6790 people.1
- "From its modest beginnings, the church has grown into 103 congregations all over the world with total Sunday attendance of 50,000."2.
- In 1982 the Boston movement began planting their pillar churches.
- These are churches in key cities throughout the world. The first two were established in Chicago and London.
- Then in 1986, a program called "reconstruction" was undertaken. This is the process whereby ministers in established Church of Christ churches are replaced with Boston Church of Christ trained ministers.3
- This caused problems among the organization, but it helped to solidify this group.
- Its distant origins go back to 1967 in Gainesville Florida, under Charles Lucas.
- Church Structure
- Kip McKean is the director and unquestioned leader.
- Under Kip are Elders.
- Under the Elders are Evangelists.
- Then Zone Leaders.
- Then House Church Leaders (obsolete in most congregations).
- Then Assistant Bible Talk Leaders.
- McKean says these leaders govern by consensus, but adds, `I'm the one who gives them direction.'
- Al Baird, an important Boston Church of Christ elder said, "It's not a dictatorship. It's a theocracy, with God on top."4
- Baird also said, "In questions of spiritual leaders abusing their authority, it is not an option to rebel against their authority."5.
- They are highly authoritarian.
- Kip McKean is the director and unquestioned leader.
- Authority and Submission (Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely)
- In a discussion on submission, Al Baird, one of the uppermost leaders in the ICC, said, "Let us begin our discussion of submission by talking about what it is not. (1) Submission is not agreeing. When one agrees with the decision that he is called to submit to, he does not really have to submit in any way. By definition, submission is doing something one has been asked to do that he would not do if he had his own way. (2) Submission is not just outward obedience; it includes that, but also involves obedience from the heart. It is a wholehearted giving-up of one's own desires. (3) Submission is not conditional. We submit to authority, not because the one in authority deserves it, but because the authority comes from God; therefore, we are in reality submitting to God."
- Later in this same series, Baird states, "When we are under authority, we are to submit and obey our leaders even when they are not very Christ-like. However, God has standards for His leaders, and they will be accountable to God for ignoring those standards."6
- Baird has said that if the leader commands one to do something, even if it is not "Christ-like," the member must submit!7
- Many who have left the Boston Church "complain that the advice, which members are expected to obey, may include such details as where to live, whom and when to date, what courses to take in school, even how often to have sex with a spouse"8
- Those who think for themselves and question the authority system are labeled.
- "Bad heart," "Struggling," and "not really a disciple" are terms used when someone disagrees with a leader.
- The group, then, instantly accepts these labels upon a person.
- Discipleship
- Step one: Invitation to a Bible talk.
- Non-threatening environment and topics.
- Covers basics of Christianity, easy to understand discussions.
- The potential converts are befriended, with invitations to further talks.
- Then he/she is urged to join with a discipler to study the Bible and learn how to be more like Jesus.
- From there the person is introduced into more strict and emotionally involving practices and studies.
- Non-threatening environment and topics.
- "Hooking" is when someone searches for another person's interests, hobbies, and other personal information for the purpose of flattering them. This is done to attract them to the group, rather than for a sincere interest.
- "Love-bombing" is where a visitor is inundated by flattery and friendliness in order to produce the feeling that the group will fulfill many of their needs and desires.
- Once a member is assigned a discipler, he is led through a series of Bible studies.
- First study is called, "First Principles." This is simple basics of the Bible.
- Second, "The Sins of Galatians" study.
- To get them to repent, to confess their sins, etc.
- The person reads Galatians 5:19-21 and then is told to make a list of their sins. They are guided to other scriptures that have similar effects of bringing a person to feel guilty and full of sin. More sin lists follow.
- Sometimes a list is kept of their sins which are sometimes brought up in various situations. . . ultimately, to keep control over the person.
- This can be used to break a person down emotionally
- To get them to repent, to confess their sins, etc.
- Third, "The Cross" study.
- The disciple listens to the discipler read the crucifixion account and is asked to say, "I am Judas -- I am Peter."
- The crucifixion is described in more of its unpleasant details and the discipler reads from the disciple's sin list.
- Often, sentences are spoken such as, "You punched him in the face." "You taunted Him." "You whipped Him."
- The disciple is supposed to be "broken" in this process, and often is...emotionally.
- Step one: Invitation to a Bible talk.
- Baptism
- "The Boston Church of Christ teaches that when one initially receives Jesus Christ, one's response must include faith, repentance, confession, and water baptism. It teaches that apart from water baptism, one's sins are not forgiven."9
- Not only must one be baptized, but one must also be baptized in the Boston Church of Christ. If a person had been a member of some other church, then joins the Boston Church, they must be rebaptized because their original baptism was done in a false church without a proper understanding of baptism.
- Therefore, salvation is gained by believing in Jesus' death on the cross and on being baptized.
- Also, a person must be baptized by someone in authority in the Boston Church of Christ, i.e., International Church of Christ Movement.
- Miscellaneous Info
- Many people have been injured by the church's authoritarian and intrusive structure, so much so that Boston University, Marquette University, University of Southern California, Northeastern University, and Vanderbilt University are some of the schools that have banned the Boston Church of Christ.10
This group is definitely to be avoided. Along with its erring doctrine that baptism is necessary for salvation, it is legalistic, manipulative, and uses guilt and aberrant doctrines to keep its members in line. Though it is not a cult per se, it has many cult practices. It has destroyed many lives and left many others wary of anything Christian.
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- 1. As quoted in Jerry Jones, What Does The Boston Movement Teach? Vol. 1, p. 125.
- 2. Time, 18 May 1992, p. 62
- 3. Ibid., p. 126-127.
- 4. Ibid., p. 62.
- 5. What Does The Boston Movement Teach? p. 7
- 6. Authority and Submission, parts III, V and VII as quoted in What Does The Boston Movement Teach?, p. 59-63.
- 7. Ibid., p. 104.
- 8. Time, 18 May 1992, p. 62.
- 9. Bourland, E., P. Owen, and P. Reid, The Issue of Water Baptism and the Boston Church of Christ, p. 1.
- 10. Miami Herald, 25 March 1992, p. 1A, 15A.
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Over NYPD Blue's 12 seasons, only Dennis Franz has seen everything from the first bare butt to the last popped perp. Playing the ever-bristling, Job-like Andy Sipowicz, he began as a second-stringer, but quickly became the revolutionary cop show's irreplaceable and four-time Emmy-winning center. As the finale, the ABC series' 260th episode, approaches (March 1, 10 p.m.), EW asked the 60-year-old Franz to reflect on his extraordinary life on the beat.
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I had a relationship with [cocreators Steven Bochco and David Milch] from being on Hill Street Blues and starring in its spin-off, Beverly Hills Buntz, and doing another series with Steven called Bay City Blues. When they called about NYPD Blue, I'd played no lie 27 cops and was looking for something other than a cop role. I was in my late 40s. I wasn't a young guy anymore and time was running out, so I wanted to find some different directions to spread in. They said they were putting together a new series that would be somewhat like Hill Street, but a little more focused on the characters. I thought, Well, if I'm gonna do another cop show, I would most want to do it with the two of them.
It was about six months before a script was written. When I finally read it, my main problem with the character was, Who was going to give a damn about Sipowicz? He was a loose cannon, a womanizer, a drunk, a racist, an atheist. I got shot, like, five or six times in the first episode; who's gonna care if I lived or died? Steven and David said, ''You will find a way to make this character redeemable.'' I said, ''Well, thanks for the vote of confidence. But how am I gonna do that?'' So my task was to make this basically unlikable man a tragic hero. This was going to be the rebuilding of his life. I later learned that it was not necessarily intended for Sipowicz to survive the first show. Fortunately Steven and David had second thoughts on that.
We were saying and doing things that hadn't been on network television before. This was pre-Sopranos, pre-The Shield. Cable was not as big as it is, so for us to be able to say words like prick and a--hole, it was so freeing. I thought, Of course they're gonna get cut out. Then when we saw the finished pilot, it was all in there! When we began the show, 57 affiliates didn't air us, and I understood their reluctance. Rev. Donald Wildmon with the American Family Association launched a major protest against us. That poor guy, he really heightened the curiosity factor in those markets that were showing us. Consequently we got huge numbers [23 million viewers for the Sept. 21, 1993, premiere] and the show was of such high caliber that it wasn't looked at as just sensationalism.
I thought it was hilarious that I was asked to sign a nudity agreement. I thought, ''This is a waste of paper.'' But I was flattered. In the second season, I had to get naked in the shower with Sharon Lawrence. I said, ''Okay, I got an ass just like everybody else. It ain't beautiful, but the majority of ours aren't. I'm just Everyman here.'' I loved the way they approached it. A little embarrassing to watch it with my daughter, but nevertheless it was one of the most memorable things on the show.


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Measuring the economic impact of the release of government data is so far not possible, U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel told an audience at the FOSE conference. (FCW photo by Heather Kuldell)
A year after the launch of the government's digital strategy, there's no official tally of the economic activity generated by the release of government datasets for use in commercial applications.
"We have anecdotal examples, but nothing official yet," said federal CIO Steven VanRoekel in an invitation-only meeting with reporters at the FOSE conference on May 15. "It's an area where we have an opportunity to start to talk about this, because it's starting to tick up a bit, and the numbers are looking pretty good." (Related story: APIs help agencies say yes)
The Obama administration is banking on an explosion in the use of federal datasets for commercial and government applications alike. Last week's executive order and accompanying directive from the Office of Management and Budget tasks agencies with making open and machine readable data the new default setting for government information.
VanRoekel said that the merits of the open data standard don't necessarily need to be justified by economic activity. "As a guy who stands looking inside government, my true test of this stuff is when you go to the last 20 minutes of a hackathon," -- an event that introduces developers to government datasets -- "and you see results...that blows the doors off a lot of solutions that you've seen inside government using proprietary systems," he said.
At the same time, VanRoekel cautioned against letting commercial demand for government information overtax government systems. "I don't think government as a massive API repository for access to live government data streams is necessary in every case," he said. The administration is planning to address these concerns in the next iteration of Data.gov, which will give indications when an outside vendor is drawing down resources.
For example, he said, real estate site Zillow's traffic "could crush most federal agency's traffic. We have to look at options to manage around some of the resource constraints."
The executive order also spells out privacy concerns arising from the so-called "mosaic effect,' by which information from disparate datasets can be overlaid to decipher personally identifiable information. VanRoekel, however, said that nothing in the order or in any policy document allows the government to restrict the release of information under the Freedom of Information Act or other disclosure laws.
The origin of the mosaic restrictions comes from work of the Health and Human Services Department. Van Roekel explained that the privacy constraints come from HSS' discovery in a recent data release that information on Medicare payments, when combined with Census data, could in certain cases lead to the inadvertent release of health information about people living in low-population areas.
Federal agencies will "still follow FOIA to the letter," Van Roekel said. "Nothing about executive orders and policy changes law."
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An Atlanta man experienced large swelling and skin discoloration in his arm and immediately sought medical attention. The doctor believed that the arm condition was caused by a spider bite, but had no scientific proof of its origin. Because the man was already on antibiotics for other health reasons, his doctor increased his intake.
Six months later, the man's wife felt something brush against her face while she was asleep. She was sure it was a spider but was unable to find it once she had turned the light on in her room.
The following day she called us and asked for a free inspection. The inspection turned out to be her worst fear, her bedroom was infested with some of the most venomous spiders in the world.
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Active Pest Control's technical director, Ted Lieb, handled the initial inspection by placing traps in the Coweta couple's bedroom. He caught 20 different spiders during the inspection process. Lieb believed that the spiders he captured were brown recluse spiders, but wanted confirmation since they were so much larger than usual.
Brown recluse spiders are typically so small that when their legs are fully extended, they can stand on a dime. These spiders were so large that they could easily sit on top of a coke can and touch all sides!
Lieb showed a specimen to Entomologist Dr. Daniel Suiter of the University of Georgia. Dr. Suiter originally identified the spider as a Mediterranean brown recluse due to its size. However, the Mediterranean brown recluse is not native to Georgia. Dr. Suiter conducted further research and discovered that the spider's DNA matched that of the brown recluse spider already native to Georgia.
Neither Dr. Suiter nor Ted Lieb could explain why the brown recluse spiders in this Atlanta home grew to such large sizes. These spiders were some of the largest brown recluses ever examined and the only official record of a brown recluse being captured in Newnan or Coweta County.
Spiders, Spiders, & More Spiders
Lieb and Dr. Suiter conducted an inspection of the property to identify the possible source of the spiders, and why they were infesting the structure. What they found was one of the most severe brown recluse infestations on record.
Brown recluse spiders were observed infesting most of the house, including the bedrooms. A significant number of brown recluse spiders were spotted in the crawl space and wall voids.
The Solution
Lieb developed a treatment plan to eliminate the spiders with the help of Dr. Suiter. Since spiders do not groom themselves, pesticides would not be effective in controlling the brown recluse. A brown recluse can walk through pesticide and never be impacted by the chemical because the pesticide is never ingested through its mouth parts. Lieb had to develop a plan that would control the population of brown recluse spiders without directly applying a product for spiders. His plan included a two part process:
- Eliminate the brown recluse's food source
- Capture as many as possible by placing traps in harborage areas
Eliminating the food source
The brown recluse is an insects worse nightmare. It hunts at night by roaming around looking for prey. By eliminating the insects, this healthy brown recluse population would be forced to seek food elsewhere or die from lack of food.
Unfortunately, the brown recluse also feeds on dead insects. So, even after most of the other insects in the area were controlled there would be a lengthy time period before the brown recluse population felt the impact.
Lieb applied product to the home in order to control any food source that the brown recluses were feeding on. He treated the attic, crawlspace, and general living area of the home.
Capturing the beast
Brown recluses do not build webs to trap prey, but to use as a nest. Their webs are typically less than an inch in diameter. They prefer dry, warm, and dark areas. They hide in closets, purses, shoes, attics, crawlspaces, and wall voids.
After donning a full body protective suit, Lieb placed monitoring boards in likely harborage areas for the spider: boards were placed inside the house and crawlspace.
Every week the boards were checked for spiders. Over a period of six months, several hundred brown recluse spiders were removed from the house.
Each week the number of spiders captured decreased. Eventually the number dropped to one or two spiders each week. Currently, brown recluse spiders are rarely captured at the home. Lieb continues to monitor their population so they do not make a resurgence.
The Brown Recluse's Bite
Brown recluse spiders have been responsible for deaths in children under the age of seven, but rarely. Brown recluse bites are most dangerous to young children, the elderly, and people with compromised immune systems.
Though the brown recluse's venom is more toxic than rattle snakes, they inject much less venom than a rattle snake. The brown recluse bite causes the death of living cells or tissue in areas immediately surrounding the area of the bite. The bite will appear gangrenous. If left untreated the bite could develop into a life threatening illness.
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June 15, 2009
With the publication of the Field Guide to Aquatic Plants of Alabama the Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division of the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (ADCNR) has given pond owners, educators, and biologists a new tool to help them more easily identify native and non-native aquatic plants in the state.
Originally designed as a field guide for state biologists the expanded version is now available to everyone on the ADCNR Web site, www.outdooralabama.com. The guide is packed with detailed photographs and descriptions of more than 80 native and invasive aquatic plants with more to be added in the future. The guide is divided into six plant categories: Emergent, submersed, floating, floating-leaved, and two types of algae. The original field guide can be downloaded from the here, and will be updated soon.
Graves Lovell, District 4 Fisheries Biologist and author of the guide, believes it can be useful to educators and biologists in identifying aquatic species as well as helping pond owners to control the spread of nuisance plants. "The first step in controlling aquatic weeds is proper identification," Lovell said. "Aquatic weed problems can explode quickly, but unfortunately we can't visit every private pond that has a weed problem in a timely manner. I think access to this online field guide will allow most pond owners to identify these plants so biologists can assist with control measures over the phone."
"However, not all aquatic plants are nuisance species," Lovell added. "Some species are relatively easy to contain in private ponds and can provide enhanced angling opportunities, as well as harbor juvenile fish. Aquatic plants are also critical in other aquatic ecosystems around the state."
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How do you know a good field guide from a poor one? Since no single field guide seems to be perfect, arm your self with a few different field guides before you head out. This way, where one falls short, the other might pick up the slack and deliver you the information that you're looking for.
Arthur V. Evans
Chanticleer Press, Incorporated,
Height: 7.75"
Width: 4.75"
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National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Insects and Spiders of North America
This field guide has become our undisputed favorite. It's relatively new (2007 publishing year!) and comes complete with a waterproof cover(!). Not only does this guide cover the basic and exotic North American bugs but it also covers millipedes, centipedes and ticks in equal detail complete with imagery. Not only that but the guide also has great articles on how to use the guide, building your own aquarium-type ecosystem for any bugs you catch and breaks down the families of bugs with a history on each. Collecting and identification tactics are all covered in this neat little find. A MUST BUY for any insect identification freak. Our ONLY caveat on this guide is the fact that the binding is not very friendly to constant usage, meaning that over time, your guide will really start to show some wear and tear along the spine. If anything, buy two so you can use one in the field and keep one in pristine condition at home.
UPDATE 8/8/2007: Because this field guide is not ring bound, be prepared to wear the binding down if you're using it quite a bit and opening the book to the extremes. Maybe best to keep a field copy to wear down and a home library copy.
Milne & Milne
Alfred A. Knopf, Incorporated,
1980, 1996
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to Insects & Spiders: North America
Eric R. Eaton & Kenn Kaufman
Hillstar Editions L.C., 2007
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We're excited to announce the winning names of the tunnel boring machines (TBMs) for The Crosstown! The names were announced today by Metrolinx CEO Bruce McCuaig, Transportation Minister Glen Murray and MPP Laura Albanese. The winning names are Dennis and Lea, representing the Mount Dennis and Leaside neighbourhoods, and Don and Humber, representing the rivers.
The Tunnel Boring Machines Naming Contest, which took place late last year, allowed participants to submit their own creative and fun suggestions for the names of one set of TBMs. The most popular set of names were shortlisted and voted on by the public. Thank you to Jason Paris (Dennis and Lea), Graham Gersdorff, Val Dodge and Reiner Kravis (Don and Humber) of Toronto for submitting the winning names!
The first pair of TBMs, Dennis and Lea, will start digging the underground portion of the line eastward from Black Creek Drive. The second pair, Don and Humber, will dig westward from around Leslie Street towards Yonge and Eglinton. The machines will bore a little more than 10 kilometres of tunnel at a rate of approximately 10 to 15 metres a day.
Today marked a significant milestone in the biggest transit expansion in the history of Toronto. The Crosstown will be 19 kilometres long in total and is expected to be completed by 2020.