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Sep 1st 2007 10:31AM This is going to backfire imo. Moving the higher honor value npcs towards the end will just screw horde more. Half the time, we don't get past SP GY, so moving them all towards the end...
Caption This! {WoW}
Aug 27th 2007 3:05PM "I guess the Atkins diet craze is over finally."
New pre-WotLK zone announced: Sunwell Plateau {WoW}
Aug 24th 2007 9:50PM @3 High fantasy means technology. The outlands is kind of spaced out compared to pre bc and normal Warcraft.
Questions answered at BlizzCon {WoW}
Aug 7th 2007 4:28PM @10 Pandaren won't happen. Blizzard doesn't want to offend China, which is huge for them.
Getting complaints in early {WoW}
Aug 6th 2007 11:29PM Double post and stuff. Also @20. If you think wow is boring try playing Lineage or some other grindfest game of this sort. Leveling in wow is sort of a joke compared to 95% of the games in this genre. If it's too much work for you, then there is no hope.
Getting complaints in early {WoW}
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NALAC Fund for the Arts (NFA) OVERVIEW Launched in 2005 by the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures with major support from the Ford Foundation, the NALAC Fund for the Arts provides a variety of grants to assist US-based Latino artists and arts organizations in the development, creation, presentation and sustainability of artistic excellence, as well as the opportunity to participate in activities that contribute to professional and organizational growth.
The NFA Master Artist Grant recognizes established Latino artists for their cultural contributions and significance in their communities and also provides support that enables the Master Artist to serve as a mentor to another artist in their professional and artistic development. The Master Artist Grant will be awarded to support an exemplary mentor-mentee project that enables knowledge and skill transfer between a Master artist and a mentee artist. NFA Artist/Ensemble Awards
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Petzel: Richards Jazz Band earns three top honors in March
By Cheryl Petzel Citizen firstname.lastname@example.com April 11, 2013 2:14PM
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Greetings, fellow Oak Lawnians! March was a very busy and successful month for the Richards High School Jazz Band and its Encore Show Choir.
On March 16, the two groups traveled to Herscher to compete in the annual Herscher Jazz and Swing Festival. The jazz band successfully took first place and the show choir placed third.
The two groups also received the Sweepstakes Award for being the two performance groups at the competition with the highest combined score. Richards also received the Sweepstakes Award last year.
Chuck Martin has been Richards' band director since 1995 and a music educator for more than 30 years. He was especially pleased to have both groups compete and represent Richards at the festival.
On March 23, the high school's Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combo competed in the Chicago Area Jazz Festival at T.F. South High School in Lansing, and both received a Division 1 rating, which Martin explained is similar to a "superior rating, the highest you can get."
As if that weren't impressive enough, that same day the Jazz Band traveled to Illinois State University to participate in the Illinois State Invitational Jazz Festival. The Richards band placed first in Class AAA and was selected as the overall Grand Champion of the two-day festival.
"March 23 was the first day of spring break for the students, so it was good that we could get two events done in on one day," Martin said.
The Jazz Band, which usually has between 20 and 25 members, includes students in grades nine through 12. Madeline Doon, a junior who plays piano and flute, was selected as one of five outstanding soloists at the ISU festival.
"Madeline is very strong academically and musically. She works real hard and is a joy to work with," Martin said.
The Jazz Band was also the opening act for the Saturday night grand finale concert that featured the Illinois State University Jazz Band with guest jazz trumpeter, Wayne Bergeron.
Martin can't say enough good things about his music education students.
"They are some of the most dedicated and hardest-working and committed students that I have ever had the pleasure to teach in my over 30 years of being a music educator. They are a joy to teach," Martin said.
He's also pursuing his dreams. On April 6, he traveled to Omaha to compete in final auditions to be a performer of the national anthem at the College World Series. He performed his rendition of the anthem on a saxophone.
"It's something I've always wanted to do," Martin said. "It's on my bucket list. I was a finalist last year, too."
Congratulations to Martin, the Jazz Band, the Encore Show Choir and to Richards teachers and students for their outstanding performances and success!
Here are this week's celebrity birthday announcements: Happy birthday to Grace Cadeau, who's turning 7, from her parents Dale and Rob, Isabelle, grandparents and Chico. Happy 9th birthday to Misty Simon from her family. Happy 11th birthday to Stephanie Sawicki, from her parents Yolanda and Steve and brothers Steven, Sterling and Sebastian. Kacie Misner's parents wish her a happy 14th birthday.
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Danish and International Art after 1900
Permanent exhibition with artworks from the Collections
Modern art from the 20th century and the very latest contemporary art now fills the exhibition rooms of the Gallery's white building, offering a wide-ranging display of the main movements within Danish art. The exhibition includes rooms focusing on major individual figures, on collective movements, and on important works and trends from the international art scene of the period.
Move through time – the long corridor is a timeline
The long walkway extending through the building acts like a kind of timeline. As you move through the large exhibition rooms facing the Østre Anlæg park you also move chronologically through a sequence of art from the early 20th century to the present day.
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The large exhibition rooms on one side of the walkway offers visitors the chance to orient themselves and get an overview of art from the early 20th century to the present day. Each room presents a specific period.
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By Dre Grigoropol in Arts on Dec 07, 2012
I'm so excited to go to Bregen Street Comics on Friday night to check out the launch party of The Strumpet 2, a comics anthology brought to you by the creators of Whores of Mensa, This issue's theme is travel and it features the work of Kripa Joshi, Julia Scheele, Patrice Aggs, Emily Ryan Lerner, Badaude, Tanya Meditzky, Choi Juhyun, Robin Ha, Karrie Fransman, Jeremy Day, Ellen Lindner, and more.
I really enjoy Ellen Lindner's comics and I think many people who read BUST would enjoy them too. I first became familiar with Ellen's work when I picked up her self-published book Undertow, at the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival in 2009. The story follows Rhonda, a very troubled teen, and her poverty-stricken group of friends who live in Coney Island during the 1960s. The book really resonated with me and my taste in comics, and I would highly recommend it to people who are interested in counterculture. Since then I've been supporting of projects she is involved with by contributing to the Kickstarter fundraising campaign for both issue one and two of The Strumpet.
I can hardly wait to get my copy of the 52 page issue of The Strumpet 2 and see the original pages by the contributing artists on display in the gallery at Bergen Street Comics in Brooklyn. Come party on December 7th at 7pm!
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BP Plc (BP/) deliberately exposed neighbors of a Texas refinery to tons of cancer-causing gases and then misled regulators and community leaders about the dangers, a lawyer told a Texas jury.
Jurors are expected to begin deliberations shortly on the first three of almost 48,000 toxic-exposure claims to come to trial. The plaintiffs seek as much as $200,000 each in actual damages, plus $10 billion in punitive damages which, they said in court papers, they would donate to charity.
"This is not an assault on the oil and gas industry," Tony Buzbee, the residents' lead attorney, told the state-court jury in Galveston today during closing arguments, after four weeks of trial. "This is about the worst polluter in the country finally having its feet held to the fire."
BP intentionally vented at least 500,000 pounds (227,000 kilograms) of toxic chemicals, including benzene, from a faulty refinery unit in Texas City to a flare the company knew was incapable of destroying the toxins, Buzbee told the jury of eight women and four men. He said the London-based company would have lost more than $20 million if it had shut the unit down during repairs.
"This ain't an accident, it's a corporate policy," he said. BP could have shut the refinery down when the production unit failed, he said. Management "purposely sent those chemicals over the fence with conscious indifference to the consequences."
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Judge Lonnie Cox said jurors could consider whether BP acted with gross negligence, which could lead to punitive damages based in part on BP's net worth.
BP denies anyone was injured by emissions from the refinery, which was later sold.
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Fence-line and community air monitors showed no elevated readings of any hazardous gasses during April and May of 2010, and no regulatory air standards were violated, Mace said.
The case is In re MDL Litigation Regarding Texas City Refinery Ultracracker Emission Event Litigation, 10-UC-0001, Texas 56th Judicial District Court (Galveston).
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Orono, Maine - Joanne P. McCallie's return to Maine was full of turnovers and pressure. Just the way she likes it.
Karima Christmas and Bridgette Mitchell each scored 16 points and No. 8 Duke cruised past Maine 75-34 on Monday night, giving coach McCallie a victory in her return to Alfond Arena.
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I have a sunshine blue Blueberry plant that I bought in January, it's not very big or tall yet and all the leaves are turning brown, I submitted a post about it before and someone suggested it was normal for it but I wanted to make sure, half the leaves have fallen off and the others are brown and curling up, I live in Sydney Australia and was wondering if anyone had any other ideas to what it could be. I was also wondering how much I should water my plant, I am completely new to gardening and don't know anything about how much water I should give them, I looked on the web about it for a long time but nothing good came up, I need to know how much I should water and how much I should water, I keep the plant in a 19" diameter pot. Someone told me recently that I need more than one plant to pollinate the plant, is this true nobody told me this when I bought the plant, do I really need another plant next to my current one? |
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- Posted by blueboy1977 TX9A/B (My Page) on Sun, Mar 24, 13 at 7:02
Sunshine is self fertile but better fruit set and bigger fruit will result from pollination. Dont know what kind of water you got in Aust. but if you can collect rain water in trash can your plant will be happier. Takes the guess work out dealing with Ph swings in potting soil. I usually have a 2 to 3 inch covering of pine bark mulch on my potted plants. What I like to do is stick my finger through the mulch down to the soil and if its wet, dont water, if its moist water the next morning. Thats how I swing it during the fall, winter, and spring but once temps start reaching to 90 degrees F they can be watered every day if out in full sun. Here in Houston the summers hit well over 100 degrees and if you dont water daily things go down hill fast. Small pots can be watered twice a day in that kind of heat. The main thing is you dont want the soil to ever dry out between watering. It must stay moist at the very least. What kind of soil did you plant it in? |
- Posted by steve_in_los_osos CA 10a/Sunset 17 (My Page) on Sun, Mar 24, 13 at 10:33
It is true that Sunshine Blue will bear fruit without another variety around, but the berries will be small. I was amazed at the difference in size once I had another variety present. I have gone through the "brown leaves" syndrome several times with my plants. I'm guessing it's not enough water/too much heat. That's what the problem was with mine. If you have a particularly hot climate or even a string of very hot days, partial shade would be welcome. |
It's not that hard to keep a potted blueberry shrub watered, so I suspect that this is not the source of the problem. You don't mention the pH of your soil or water, so I am guessing that you might not know what pH is, how it is measured, and how it can be controlled. Unless you have naturally acidic soil, and neutral or slightly acidic irrigation water, it is necessary to learn about pH when growing blueberries, azaleas, rhododendrons, and other plants that are adversely affected by alkaline soil. |
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The unusually warm winter in Texas this year has enabled me to make some decent progress on my project.
I'm trying to work from the bow to the stern, sandblasting and priming parts as I go along. Those that don't need any welding repairs are getting a first coat of OD. The others will have to wait until I buy a welder and get 220 working in my shop, hopefully in the next month or so.
Today I got a bit sidetracked on dealing with a fuel line leak, but I was able to strip out all the windows in preparation for getting new glass.
This truck was really in great shape as far as rust when I got it, so the cab and associated parts are not going to need a whole bunch of work. The bed, on the other hand, has been badly dented over the years as is the nature of dump trucks. (The original cargo bed was straight as could be. That ended up going on a former auger truck in Utah.)
I toyed with following Dave's example and building a complete bed from scratch, but I decided to restore what I've got. The local sheet metal fabricator is bending some hat- and u-channels that I'll use to make all new stake pockets and he's also forming up some heavy gauge channel that I'm going to use to replace the outer lower rails on the bed. Those parts should be done in the next couple of weeks and I'll take photos as I start grafting them in.
I tore the 1944 235 down that I bought from BobC out in Arizona. It was as clean as could be inside. Machine shop boiled the block out and said the cylinders are all at original specs and the crank and cam shafts were likewise in good shape. That was great news.
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My passions are really to bake in the kitchen. As far as hobbies go, as soon as November hits, I am at home in my kitchen doing "my thing", so to speak. I love creating hot meals for cold weather. Summertime, I like to eat out with the family and take my rest from the kitchen.
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Each of the above referenced varieties is no less than 5 years old and are very vigorous and healthy beauties. I am trying to simplify and would be looking to exchange for some quality specimens. Many Thanks,
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Av. del Libertador 1150, El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina
Phone: 02902-492080
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- 24-hour front desk
- Credit Cards
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- Cable TV
- LCD / Plasma
- Buffet
- Housekeeping
- Room Service
- Safe box in the room
- Heating
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- Hair drier
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- Free Wi-Fi
- Tourist information
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- Check in: 12:00 pm
- Check out: 10:00 am
In the heart of Patagonia, one step away from the glaciers, there lies Apart Hotel Libertador, a venue offering duplex apartments and rooms that provide cozy family accommodation to visitors to our region.
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Archive for 31 May 2013
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn enters third beta phase in June
Square's troubled Final Fantasy MMO is almost ready to reveal its 'reborn' self to the world, but not before a third beta session scheduled for June.
Fresh cuts: Shadow Warrior image dissects the game's locational damage
A freshly-posted image from the upcoming Shadow Warrior remake by Flying Wild Hog makes a strong case for the game having locational damage on its enemies.
Natural Selection 2 devs Oculus Rift first impressions – It's nausea time
As more Oculus Rift development kits start arriving at developers and more feedback on the VR kits are surfacing.
Company of Heroes 2 shows off some tank-tics
Disturbing news everyone, the sequel to Company of Heroes will only have tanks in it.
Borderlands 2's Krieg is a psycho trapped in his own mind
I'm not sure what I was expecting from this trailer for the already-available 'Krieg the Psycho' Borderlands 2 DLC, but it wasn't a somewhat touching portrayal of mental illness.
Motion capturing Watch Dogs takedowns and combat
In a new video for Watch Dogs, Ubisoft take you behind the scenes of a motion capture session.
Spain drain: Expeditions Conquistador makes landfall today
You can expect a review of Expeditions: Conquistador early next week, as I've been working my way through its Central American jungles over the past few days.
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing continue with free Scenario DLC
The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing may never end, at least if Neocore keeps delivering free updates to the game.
Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded Preview
Oh, Larry. Has it really been more than 25 years since you first sleazed your way across our PC screens?
Son of Nor reaches funding goal
The latest game to reach its funding goal on Kickstarter is Stillalive Studios' 3rd person action adventure Son of Nor.
Forget Call of Duty dogs, Takedown connects emotionally with snowmen
The recent Call of Duty Ghosts videos have shown a lot of dog action and there's nothing wrong with that.
Assassin's Creed 4 Black Flag Diaries – Behind the scenes with the many devs
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January 2001 archives, part 1
January 10 – Dangers of tax farming. Attorney Nicholas Panarella, billed as the "tax commando", was hailed as a savior of big-city finances in the early 1990s: cities like Philadelphia would let him collect their delinquent taxes, he would keep a contingency fee for his "Municipal Tax Bureau" firm of between 15 and 33 percent, and everyone (except the people he dunned) would be happy. He also made himself into a huge source of donations and consulting fees for public officials, Democratic and Republican alike, and eventually sold his firm to municipal bond insurer MBIA. But last month the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Panarella was expected to plead guilty to a felony charge of aiding and abetting a scheme to defraud the constituents of former Pennsylvania Senate Majority Leader F. Joseph Loeper, who resigned his seat after pleading guilty in October to obstructing a tax investigation. (Ken Dilanian, "Lawyer will admit playing felony role in Loeper case", Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 13; U.S. Attorney's office, E.D. Pa., news release, Oct. 24).
One of the reasons Panarella's work proved controversial, per AP, was that (in good contingency-fee fashion) he tended to take extremely aggressive positions as to who owed his clients money and how much: "The company sent out 78,500 letters on behalf of New Jersey in 1995; at least half of the recipients owed the state no taxes." Jurisdictions that signed up for his services included Detroit, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Oklahoma and at least 35 others. (David Kinney, "Computers and can-do creativity: The new face of tax enforcement", AP/Detroit News, Sept. 1, 1997; complaint by taxpayer Samuel Lonky raising the due process implications of letting a law enforcement official's income depend on the severity of his enforcement efforts). Didn't we learn from the Roman Empire about the dangers of contingency-fee tax collection, otherwise known as tax farming? (more on bounty hunting) (& letter to the editor, Jan. 16).
January 10 – Do as the Douglases do. Western Australia "couples are signing legally binding pre-nuptial agreements with 'no-cheating' clauses. Family lawyers refer to it as the Michael Douglas clause, after the film star's pre-nuptial agreement, which promised wife Catherine Zeta Jones millions if he cheated on her." Last month a newly passed law made pre-nuptial agreements legally enforceable in Australia. (Bruce Butler, "No-cheating clauses in pre-nuptials", Sunday Times (Australia), Dec. 31; "Zeta-Jones 'backs down over pre-nuptial terms'", The Age (Melbourne), Oct. 9).
January 9 – Drive 60K miles, collect $273K. A jury has ordered DaimlerChrysler and one of its dealerships to pay $273,000 for not adequately bringing to a customer's attention that the used car she was buying had had prior mechanical problems. "'I am so happy. Now people will know that not all car dealers are honest,' said Angela L. Pearn, 30, of Akron." The dealership said Pearn had signed a document disclosing the prior repairs, but she testified that she just breezed through the stack of papers without paying attention to what she was signing, and the dealership had apparently held onto the lemon-disclosure form she had signed without providing her with a copy. Pearn's attorney pulled the German-owned automaker into the case on the theory that it should have supervised its dealers more closely; he unsuccessfully asked for $50 million to teach the company a lesson. The car never actually broke down during its 60,000 miles under her ownership, but Pearn said there were times when she thought the brakes weren't working properly. (Christopher Jensen, "Jury lets car buyer squeeze $273,000 from a lemon", Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dec. 21).
January 9 – Dot-bomb blame. Following the NASDAQ rout of the past year, lawyers representing individual investors are going to be casting about for ways to shift their clients' losses onto someone whose name ends with an Inc. Some may pursue claims against Wall Street firms whose analysts touted tech stocks, pointing out the conflict of interest to which many such firms are subject, when they receive investment banking and other fees from the same companies whose stock they recommend. (Gretchen Morgenson, "How Did So Many Get It So Wrong?", New York Times, Dec. 31 (reg); "Sue to reverse your loss?", CNNfn video, Jan. 5).
January 8 – Sen. Kennedy flies the trial-lawyer skies. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) has accepted private-jet rides from, among others, "a powerful Texas trial lawyer with a huge stake in bills limiting liability lawsuits. … Under a well-known campaign law loophole, Kennedy was able to use the luxury jets for a fraction of their actual cost … During a western fund-raising swing last year, Kennedy hitched a ride aboard a jet provided by prominent trial lawyer John Eddie Williams Jr. (Sept. 1, May 22, Oct. 12, 2000), whose successful Houston firm has been a leader in the high-stakes tort reform fight on Capitol Hill. … Kennedy in recent years used jets from Ness Motley Loadholt Richardson and Poole (Nov. 1, 1999, Oct. 6, 2000, July 17, 2000) whose partners have been active in the liability lawsuit battle, reimbursing the firm $4,856." (Andrew Miga, "Ted K flies on wings of high rollers", Boston Herald, Dec. 26).
January 8 – Postrel online. Reason editor-at-large Virginia Postrel, whose commentaries are often cited in this space, has launched a weblog commentary at her "Dynamist" site. Among recent items she's added are links that help explain why it's too facile simply to blame "deregulation" for California's electricity crisis (USA Today, "Prices spike as Calif. bungles deregulation", Jan. 3; Michael Lynch, "California Scheming", Reason Online, Jan. 4). Postrel follows a number of well-known commentators who have who have embraced the weblog format, including Mickey Kaus and Andrew Sullivan.
January 5-7 – A judge speaks his mind. Following a one-car crash on the service road of the Grand Central Parkway in New York City's borough of Queens, an injured passenger in the car sued Shu Cheuk Ng, a homeowner whose property abutted the parkway, arguing that leaves from trees on her property fell onto the roadway and that she had a duty to clean away those leaves before they became wet and developed into an accident hazard. Dismissing the case on a summary judgment motion as "wholly without merit", Justice Arthur Lonschein described as "astonishing" the plaintiff's contention that "liability may be placed on [Ms. Ng] on the grounds that she was observed and videotaped, one year after the accident, cleaning up leaves from the roadway in front of her property. " The judge began his opinion as follows: "The nature of the plaintiff's claim and the facts of the accident giving rise to the claim rests on the theory held by some cognoscenti at the bar (a theory not entirely without some foundation) that if an injury is severe enough, a case of liability can be made with creative lawyering to fit the facts of the accident whereby a generous jury will be given the opportunity to award substantial damages or that some insurance company for some unfathomable reason may offer to settle the case. The theory also rests on the proposition that the 'unfortunate but unavoidable fact of life in the courts that cases are sometimes decided wrongly by both judges and juries' and based upon that reality, insurance companies will sometimes settle a worthless liability case in order to avoid the possibility of a large verdict against its insured. (Orion Insurance Co. v. General Electric Co., 129 Misc. 2d 466, aff'd sub nom. US Aviation Underwriters, Inc. v. General Electric, 125 AD 2d 567 'for reasons stated by Justice Lonschein at Special Term' app. dismissed 69 NY 2d 1037, lv. to app. den. 70 NY 2d 612.)" (Celestin v. City of New York, New York Law Journal, Dec. 12).
January 5-7 – "Boy faces jail for slapping girl's bottom". "A schoolboy who slapped a girl on the bottom for a joke is facing two years in a juvenile prison for sexual harassment. The 13-year-old girl, a classmate, did not complain but a teacher who saw the incident at Espanola Middle School in northern New Mexico reported it to the police. " (Simon Davis, Daily Telegraph (London), Jan. 3).
January 5-7 – Ecology and economy. Notwithstanding an insta-campaign by the Sierra Club and some other groups to demonize Interior Secretary-designate Gale Norton as a "property rights advocate" (no! anything but that!) a growing school of thought is exploring the chances for compatibility between property rights and the interests of conservation. "Or as Aldo Leopold, conservationist and author of 'A Sand County Almanac,' once wrote: 'Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.'" (Brad Knickerbocker, "Natural capitalism", Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 4; "Environmental balance" (editorial), Jan. 4).
January 4 – Cribbage menace averted. Authorities have busted the cribbage-playing club that met regularly in Anchorage, Alaska's American Legion hall. It seems they were gambling, which you mustn't do in an establishment where liquor is served (if you do it at all). (Sheila Toomey, "Cribbage club on the street", Anchorage Daily News, Dec. 21)
January 4 – "The Rise of Antisocial Law". America has replaced the Hidden Law of custom, convention and ritualized conflict avoidance with today's madly excessive legalism, argues Jonathan Rauch of the Brookings Institution in this Bradley Lecture before the American Enterprise Institute. The speech describes this website as "marvelous". (Jonathan Rauch, "Courting Danger: The Rise of Antisocial Law", AEI Bradley Lecture Series, Dec. 11; see George Will, "When Laws Replace Common Sense", Washington Post, Dec. 22)
January 4 – Stressed out in New Hampshire. The state of New Hampshire's Compensation Appeals Board has ruled that an employee of the state Department of Health and Human Services is entitled to workers' comp benefits to cover job-related disability "caused by employment-related stress arising from her supervisor's legitimate criticism of her work performance," to quote the state's high court, which upheld the award of the benefits. (Appeal of N.H. DHHS, Compensation Appeals Board No. 97-712, Aug. 23).
January 3 – OK to apologize in California. "Living in California means never having to admit guilt when you say you're sorry. As of Jan. 1, a new state law will allow residents to apologize after an accident and avoid having their statements used against them in civil court. So-called benevolent gestures of sympathy will be considered simple acts of charity, not admissions of guilt." In California, as elsewhere, some insurance companies advise their insureds not to say they're sorry after a road mishap for fear of having the statement interpreted as an admission of guilt. The law is modeled after similar statutes in Massachusetts and Vermont. ("Saying 'Sorry' Now OK in California", APBNews/FindLaw, Dec. 29).
January 3 – Saves her friend's life, then sues her. Six years ago Kerry-Jo Klingbeil, then 11, pushed her seven-year-old friend Amanda Horne out of the path of a truck in Ontario, sustaining injuries from the truck in doing so; she subsequently received one of Canada's highest bravery awards. Now she and her family are suing Amanda for $5-million (Canadian), saying she sustained lasting injuries after being "compelled" to rescue her friend. ("Girl sues friend for $5M after saving her life", Canadian Press/National Post, Dec. 29).
January 3 – Apartment smoking targeted. In the Los Angeles suburb of West Hollywood, "the City Council in November passed an ordinance allowing nonsmoking apartment dwellers to file complaints when tobacco smoke drifts into their windows or doors from a neighbor's unit. Tenants who refuse city arbitration will face fines and eviction." (Thomas D. Elias, "Apartment smoking may be banned", Washington Times, Jan. 2) (via FindLaw Legal Grounds).