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|January 8, 2013 11:26 AM EST
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- International Paper (NYSE: IP) today declared a quarterly dividend of $0.30 per share for the period from January 1, 2013, to March 31, 2013, inclusive, on its common stock, par value $1.00. This dividend is payable on March 15, 2013, to holders of record at the close of business on February 15, 2013.
(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20020701/IPLOGO )
Today the company also declared a regular quarterly dividend of $1.00 per share for the period from January 1, 2013, to March 31, 2013, inclusive, on the cumulative $4.00 preferred stock of the company. This dividend is also payable on March 15, 2013, to holders of record at the close of business on February 15, 2013.
About International Paper
International Paper (NYSE: IP) is a global paper and packaging company with manufacturing operations in North America, Europe, Latin America, Russia, Asia and North Africa. Its businesses include uncoated papers and industrial and consumer packaging, complemented by xpedx, the company's North American distribution company. Headquartered in Memphis, Tenn., the company employs approximately 70,000 people and is strategically located in more than 24 countries serving customers worldwide. International Paper net sales for 2011 were $26 billion. Temple-Inland Inc., which was acquired in February 2012, had 2011 net sales of $4 billion. For more information about International Paper, its products and stewardship efforts, visit internationalpaper.com.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that BMC will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. BMC delivers software solutions that help IT transform digital enterprises for the ultimate competitive business advantage. BMC has worked with thousands of leading companies to create and deliver powerful IT management services. From mainframe to cloud to mobile, BMC pairs high-speed digital innovation with robust IT industrialization – allowing customers to provide amazing user experiences with optimized IT per...
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As the Internet of Things unfolds, mobile and wearable devices are blurring the line between physical and digital, integrating ever more closely with our interests, our routines, our daily lives. Contextual computing and smart, sensor-equipped spaces bring the potential to walk through a world that recognizes us and responds accordingly. We become continuous transmitters and receivers of data. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Andrew Bolwell, Director of Innovation for HP's Printing and Personal Systems Group, discussed how key attributes of mobile technology – touch input, sensors, social, and ...
May. 27, 2015 11:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,256
All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades. With major technology companies and startups seriously embracing IoT strategies, now is the perfect time to attend @ThingsExpo, June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City. Learn what is going on, contribute to the discussions, and ensure that your enterprise is as "IoT-Ready" as it can be
May. 27, 2015 11:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,768
The Internet of Things is not only adding billions of sensors and billions of terabytes to the Internet. It is also forcing a fundamental change in the way we envision Information Technology. For the first time, more data is being created by devices at the edge of the Internet rather than from centralized systems. What does this mean for today's IT professional? In this Power Panel at @ThingsExpo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists will addresses this very serious issue of profound change in the industry.
May. 27, 2015 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,291
WebRTC defines no default signaling protocol, causing fragmentation between WebRTC silos. SIP and XMPP provide possibilities, but come with considerable complexity and are not designed for use in a web environment. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Matthew Hodgson, technical co-founder of the Matrix.org, discussed how Matrix is a new non-profit Open Source Project that defines both a new HTTP-based standard for VoIP & IM signaling and provides reference implementations.
May. 27, 2015 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,466
Buzzword alert: Microservices and IoT at a DevOps conference? What could possibly go wrong? In this Power Panel at DevOps Summit, moderated by Jason Bloomberg, the leading expert on architecting agility for the enterprise and president of Intellyx, panelists will peel away the buzz and discuss the important architectural principles behind implementing IoT solutions for the enterprise. As remote IoT devices and sensors become increasingly intelligent, they become part of our distributed cloud environment, and we must architect and code accordingly. At the very least, you'll have no problem fil...
May. 27, 2015 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,239
"People are a lot more knowledgeable about APIs now. There are two types of people who work with APIs - IT people who want to use APIs for something internal and the product managers who want to do something outside APIs for people to connect to them," explained Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President at SOA Software, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at Cloud Expo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
May. 27, 2015 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 4,607
Almost everyone sees the potential of Internet of Things but how can businesses truly unlock that potential. The key will be in the ability to discover business insight in the midst of an ocean of Big Data generated from billions of embedded devices via Systems of Discover. Businesses will also need to ensure that they can sustain that insight by leveraging the cloud for global reach, scale and elasticity.
May. 27, 2015 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 7,120
The 4th International Internet of @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 17th International Cloud Expo - to be held November 3-5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - announces that its Call for Papers is open. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the biggest idea since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago.
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In their session at @ThingsExpo, Shyam Varan Nath, Principal Architect at GE, and Ibrahim Gokcen, who leads GE's advanced IoT analytics, focused on the Internet of Things / Industrial Internet and how to make it operational for business end-users. Learn about the challenges posed by machine and sensor data and how to marry it with enterprise data. They also discussed the tips and tricks to provide the Industrial Internet as an end-user consumable service using Big Data Analytics and Industrial Cloud.
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Building low-cost wearable devices can enhance the quality of our lives. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Sai Yamanoor, Embedded Software Engineer at Altschool, provided an example of putting together a small keychain within a $50 budget that educates the user about the air quality in their surroundings. He also provided examples such as building a wearable device that provides transit or recreational information. He then reviewed the resources available to build wearable devices at home including open source hardware, the raw materials required and the options available to power s...
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How do APIs and IoT relate? The answer is not as simple as merely adding an API on top of a dumb device, but rather about understanding the architectural patterns for implementing an IoT fabric. There are typically two or three trends: Exposing the device to a management framework Exposing that management framework to a business centric logic Exposing that business layer and data to end users. This last trend is the IoT stack, which involves a new shift in the separation of what stuff happens, where data lives and where the interface lies. For instance, it's a mix of architectural styles ...
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We certainly live in interesting technological times. And no more interesting than the current competing IoT standards for connectivity. Various standards bodies, approaches, and ecosystems are vying for mindshare and positioning for a competitive edge. It is clear that when the dust settles, we will have new protocols, evolved protocols, that will change the way we interact with devices and infrastructure. We will also have evolved web protocols, like HTTP/2, that will be changing the very core of our infrastructures. At the same time, we have old approaches made new again like micro-services...
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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Collecting data in the field and configuring multitudes of unique devices is a time-consuming, labor-intensive process that can stretch IT resources. Horan & Bird [H&B], Australia's fifth-largest Solar Panel Installer, wanted to automate sensor data collection and monitoring from its solar panels and integrate the data with its business and marketing systems. After data was collected and structured, two major areas needed to be addressed: improving developer workflows and extending access to a business application to multiple users (multi-tenancy). Docker, a container technology, was used to ...
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The true value of the Internet of Things (IoT) lies not just in the data, but through the services that protect the data, perform the analysis and present findings in a usable way. With many IoT elements rooted in traditional IT components, Big Data and IoT isn't just a play for enterprise. In fact, the IoT presents SMBs with the prospect of launching entirely new activities and exploring innovative areas. CompTIA research identifies several areas where IoT is expected to have the greatest impact.
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The Industrial Internet revolution is now underway, enabled by connected machines and billions of devices that communicate and collaborate. The massive amounts of Big Data requiring real-time analysis is flooding legacy IT systems and giving way to cloud environments that can handle the unpredictable workloads. Yet many barriers remain until we can fully realize the opportunities and benefits from the convergence of machines and devices with Big Data and the cloud, including interoperability, data security and privacy.
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The Internet of Things is tied together with a thin strand that is known as time. Coincidentally, at the core of nearly all data analytics is a timestamp. When working with time series data there are a few core principles that everyone should consider, especially across datasets where time is the common boundary. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Scott, Director of Enterprise Strategy & Architecture at MapR Technologies, discussed single-value, geo-spatial, and log time series data. By focusing on enterprise applications and the data center, he will use OpenTSDB as an example t...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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Borders, Cisco Cutting as Many Jobs as the Economy Added in June
In June, the economy added only 18,000 jobs net. Today, Borders and Cisco announced they were cutting a combined 17,500 jobs.
In June, the economy added only 18,000 jobs net. Today, Borders and Cisco announced they were cutting a combined 17,500 jobs.
For those who didn't go to prestigious schools, don't come from money, and aren't interested in sports and booze—it's near impossible to gain access to the best paying jobs.
As income inequality in the U.S. strikes historic highs, many people are starting to feel that the American dream is either dead or out of reach. Only 64 percent of Americans still believe that it's possible to go from rags to riches, and, in another poll, 63 percent said they did not believe their children would be better off than they were. These days, the idea that anyone who works hard can become wealthy is at best a tough sell.
This growth in inequality has also sparked a national fascination in the so-called 1 percent. Namely, who are they? And how much money does one need to be part of this elite group? While the number varies by age (and there's some geographical variation), in 2010 it took an income of $332,000 to be in the top 1 percent of U.S. households.
Along with the Nancy Drew series, almost all of the thrillers in the popular teenage franchise were produced by ghostwriters, thanks to a business model that proved to be prescient.
In the opening pages of a recent installment of the children's book series The Hardy Boys, black smoke drifts though the ruined suburb of Bayport. The town's residents, dressed in tatters and smeared with ash, stumble past the local pharmacy and diner. Shards of glass litter the sidewalk. "Unreal," says the mystery-solving teenager Joe Hardy—and he's right. Joe and his brother Frank are on a film set, and the people staggering through the scene are actors dressed as zombies. But as is always the case with Hardy Boys books, something still isn't quite right: This time, malfunctioning sets nearly kill several actors, and the brothers find themselves in the middle of yet another mystery.
There are two types of people in the world: those with hundreds of unread messages, and those who can't relax until their inboxes are cleared out.
For some, it's a spider. For others, it's an unexpected run-in with an ex. But for me, discomfort is a dot with a number in it: 1,328 unread-message notifications? I just can't fathom how anyone lives like that.
How is it that some people remain calm as unread messages trickle into their inboxes and then roost there unattended, while others can't sit still knowing that there are bolded-black emails and red-dotted Slack messages? I may operate toward the extreme end of compulsive notification-eliminators, but surveys suggest I'm not alone: One 2012 study found that 70 percent of work emails were attended to within six seconds of their arrival.
This has led me to a theory that there are two types of emailers in the world: Those who can comfortably ignore unread notifications, and those who feel the need to take action immediately.
The plight of non-tenured professors is widely known, but what about the impact they have on the students they're hired to instruct?
Imagine meeting your English professor by the trunk of her car for office hours, where she doles out information like a taco vendor in a food truck. Or getting an e-mail error message when you write your former biology professor asking for a recommendation because she is no longer employed at the same college. Or attending an afternoon lecture in which your anthropology professor seems a little distracted because he doesn't have enough money for bus fare. This is an increasingly widespread reality of college education.
Many students—and parents who foot the bills—may assume that all college professors are adequately compensated professionals with a distinct arrangement in which they have a job for life. In actuality those are just tenured professors, who represent less than a quarter of all college faculty. Odds are that students will be taught by professors with less job security and lower pay than those tenured employees, which research shows results in diminished services for students.
Soccer's international governing body has long been suspected of mass corruption, but a 47-count U.S. indictment is one of the first real steps to accountability.
Imagine this: A shadowy multinational syndicate, sprawling across national borders but keeping its business quiet. Founded in the early 20th century, it has survived a tumultuous century, gradually expanding its power. It cuts deals with national governments and corporations alike, and has a hand in a range of businesses. Some are legitimate; others are suspected of beings little more than protection rackets or vehicles for kickbacks. Nepotism is rampant. Even though it's been widely rumored to be a criminal enterprise for years, it has used its clout to cow the justice system into leaving it alone. It has branches spread across the globe, arranged in an elaborate hierarchical system. Its top official, both reviled and feared and demanding complete fealty, is sometimes referred to as the godfather.
In most states, where euthanasia is illegal, physicians can offer only hints and euphemisms for patients to interpret.
SAN FRANCISCO—Physician-assisted suicide is illegal in all but five states. But that doesn't mean it doesn't happen in the rest. Sick patients sometimes ask for help in hastening their deaths, and some doctors will hint, vaguely, how to do it.
This leads to bizarre, veiled conversations between medical professionals and overwhelmed families. Doctors and nurses want to help but also want to avoid prosecution, so they speak carefully, parsing their words. Family members, in the midst of one of the most confusing and emotional times of their lives, are left to interpret euphemisms.
That's what still frustrates Hope Arnold. She says throughout the 10 months her husband J.D. Falk was being treated for stomach cancer in 2011, no one would talk straight with them.
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here's what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
What is the Islamic State?
Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State's appeal. "We have not defeated the idea," he said. "We do not even understand the idea." In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as "not Islamic" and as al-Qaeda's "jayvee team," statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.
New research confirms what they say about nice guys.
Smile at the customer. Bake cookies for your colleagues. Sing your subordinates' praises. Share credit. Listen. Empathize. Don't drive the last dollar out of a deal. Leave the last doughnut for someone else.
Sneer at the customer. Keep your colleagues on edge. Claim credit. Speak first. Put your feet on the table. Withhold approval. Instill fear. Interrupt. Ask for more. And by all means, take that last doughnut. You deserve it.
Follow one of those paths, the success literature tells us, and you'll go far. Follow the other, and you'll die powerless and broke. The only question is, which is which?
Of all the issues that preoccupy the modern mind—Nature or nurture? Is there life in outer space? Why can't America field a decent soccer team?—it's hard to think of one that has attracted so much water-cooler philosophizing yet so little scientific inquiry. Does it pay to be nice? Or is there an advantage to being a jerk?
Getting experienced educators to work in the highest-need schools requires more than bonus pay.
Standing in front of my eighth-grade class, my heart palpitated to near-panic-attack speed as I watched second hand of the clock. Please bell—ring early, I prayed. It was my second day of teaching, and some of my middle-school male students were putting me to the test.
In a span of three minutes, the group in room 204 had morphed from contained to out of control. Two boys were shooting dice in the back of the room, and as I instructed them to put their crumpled dollar bills away, several others took off their shoes and began tossing them around like footballs. Before I could react, one boy broke into my supply closet. He snatched handfuls of No. 2 pencils and highlighters and sprinted out of the room, slamming the door behind him.
New research suggests that competent employees are assigned more work—but they don't always like it.
The phrase "shit hits the fan" has uncertain origins. Some claim it's a descendant of a World War II adage "the garbage hit the fan." As the Online Etymology Dictionary has it, it derives from an old poop joke. The Yale Book of Quotations doesn't have a say on the phrase at all (though "shit happens" is attributed to Connie Eble of Chapel Hill).
In any case, people have probably heard the phrase in reference to something gone awry at work or in life. In either setting, when the shit does hit the fan, people will tend to look to the most competent person in the room to take over.
And too bad for that person. A new paper by a team of researchers from Duke University, University of Georgia, and University of Colorado looks at not only how extremely competent people are treated by their co-workers and peers, but how those people feel when, at crucial moments, everyone turns to them. They find that responsible employees are not terribly pleased about this dynamic either.
An illustration of mankind's creativity when it comes to killing
Imagine a world where everyone sleeps well, because no one sleeps together.
A short animation pits the two iconic cities against one another.

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Voter registration
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- 9 Proposed but inactive
- 10 Archival information
- 11 See also
- 12 External links
- 13 References
San Francisco adopted the process of initiative & referendum in 1898, more than a decade before California as a whole authorized the use of initiative & referendum.[1]
John Arntz is the director of the Elections Department. He wants San Francisco's election code amended to eliminate the requirement that the full legal text of ballot measures be published in the Voter Information Guides that the city makes available to voters in advance of elections. Voters could instead look up the details online, according to the Arntz plan.[2]
November 4
- City of San Francisco Minimum Wage Act of 2014 Initiative (November 2014)
- City of San Francisco Sugary Drink Tax (November 2014)
June 3
Proposition A: City of San Francisco Earthquake Safety and Emergency Response Bond
Proposition B: City of San Francisco Voter Approval of Waterfront Construction Exceeding Height Limits Initiative
November 5
Proposition A: Retiree Healthcare Trust Fund
Proposition B: 8 Washington Street - Initiative
Proposition C: 8 Washington Street - Referendum
Proposition D: Prescription Drug Purchasing
November 6
Proposition A: City College of San Francisco Parcel Tax
Proposition B: San Francisco "Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks" bond proposition
Proposition C: San Francisco Creation of a Housing Trust Fund
Proposition D: San Francisco Consolidation of Odd-Year Municipal Elections
Proposition E: San Francisco Gross Receipts Tax on Businesses
Proposition F: San Francisco Water Sustainability and Environmental Restoration/Hetch Hetchy Reservoir
Proposition G: San Francisco Repeal of the Notion of Corporate Personhood
June 5
Proposition A: San Francisco Competitive Bidding Required for Garbage Collection and Disposal
Proposition B: San Francisco Limits on Commercial Development at Coit Tower
November 8
Proposition A: SFUSD bond proposition
Proposition B: Road Repaving and Street Repair bond proposition
Proposition C: Pension and Healthcare Benefits
Proposition D: the Adachi Initiative (Pension Reform)
Proposition E: Board of Supervisors Allowed to Amend or Repeal Voter Initiatives
Proposition F: Campaign Consultant Ordinance
Proposition G: Sales Tax
Proposition H: Policies for Assigning Students to Schools
November 2
- See also: November 2, 2010 election in California
Proposition AA: Vehicle Registration Fee
Proposition A: Earthquake Retrofit Bond
Proposition B: Pension Reform (the Adachi Initiative)
Proposition C: Mayoral "Question Time" in San Francisco
Proposition D: Right of Non-Citizens to Vote in San Francisco School Board elections
Proposition E: Same-Day Voter Registration in San Francisco
Proposition F: Health Service Board Terms and Elections
Proposition G: Elimination of Pay Guarantees for Muni Operators (the Elsbernd Initiative)
Proposition H: Ban on Dual Service as Elected Official and Elected Member of Political Party County Central Committee
Proposition I: Saturday Voting Ordinance
Proposition J: Hotel Tax Increase
Proposition K: Hotel Tax Clarifications and Definitions
Proposition L: Sit-Lie Ordinance
Proposition M: Police Foot Patrol Program
Proposition N: Real Property Transfer Tax
June 8
Proposition A: San Francisco Unified School District parcel tax
Proposition B: San Francisco Earthquake Safety Bond
Proposition C: San Francisco Film Commission Appointments
Proposition D: San Francisco Public Employee Pensions
Proposition E: San Francisco Costs of Protecting Dignitaries
Proposition F: San Francisco Rent Increase Hardship Appeals
Proposition G: San Francisco Transbay Terminal Advisory Vote
November 3
Proposition A: San Francisco Budget Reform Charter Amendment
Proposition B: San Francisco Aides for the Board of Supervisors
Proposition C: San Francisco Candlestick Park Naming Rights Amendment
Proposition D: San Francisco Mid-Market Arts Revitalization Sign District
Proposition E: San Francisco No Advertising on City Property
November 4
Proposition A: San Francisco Hospital bond proposition
Proposition B: Housing Fund
Proposition C: No Staff on Boards
Proposition D: Pier 70 financing
Proposition E: Number of Signatures Required for a Recall
Proposition F: City Elections in Even-Numbered Years
Proposition G: Retirement Credit for Unpaid Parental Leave
Proposition H: Clean Energy Act
Proposition I: Ratepayer Advocate
Proposition J: Historic Preservation Commission
Proposition K: Decriminalization of Prostitution
Proposition L: Community Justice Center
Proposition M: Anti-Harrassment of Tenants
Proposition N: Real Estate Transfer Tax Rates
Proposition O: Telephone Tax
Proposition P: Transportation Authority Board
Proposition Q: Modification of the Payroll Tax
Proposition R: Sewage Plant Named After George Bush
Proposition S: Budget Set-Asides and Replacement Funds
Proposition T: Substance Abuse Treatment Programs
Proposition U: Policy Against Funding the Deployment of Armed Forces in Iraq
Proposition V: "Save Junior ROTC"
June 3
Proposition A: SFUSD parcel tax
Proposition B: Health and Pension Benefits
Proposition C: Criminals Forfeit Retirement
Proposition D: Boards and Commission Diversity
Proposition E: Public Utilities Commission
Proposition F: Hunter's Point Redevelopment
Proposition G: Bayview Jobs and Housing
Proposition H: No Campaign Contributions from City Vendors
February 5
Proposition A: Park Bonds
Proposition B: Police Deferred Retirement
Proposition C: Alcatrez Peace Center
November 6
Proposition A: Transit Reform and Parking Regulation
Proposition B: Limits on Hold-Over Service on Boards and Commissions
Proposition C: Public Hearings on Ballot Measures
Proposition D: Library Preservation Fund
Proposition E: Mandated Mayor Appearances
Proposition F: Retirement Benefits for Police Department Employees
Proposition G: Golden Gate Park Stables Matching Fund
Proposition H: Regulation of Parking Spaces
Proposition I: Small Business Assistance Center
Proposition J: Free City-Wide Wireless High-Speed Internet
Proposition K: Street Furniture and City Building Advertising Restrictions
Proposed but inactive
- San Francisco Online Advertising Charter Amendment.
- San Francisco Mandated Spending Charter Amendment
- San Francisco Gross Receipts Tax
- San Francisco Payroll Expense Tax
- San Francisco Modification of Budget Set-Asides
- San Francisco Rainy Day Reserve
Archival information
The San Francisco Public Library sponsors a San Francisco Ballot Propositions Database which includes information about San Francisco ballot measures going back to 1907.[3]
See also
External links
- San Francisco Department of Elections
- San Francisco voter pamphlets and propositions
- List of November 4, 2008 qualified measures, PDF.
- Guide to qualifying ballot initiatives in San Francisco city and county
- San Francisco County on Smart Voter
- Ballot measure breakdowns
- Ballot Measures Dashboard - November 5, 2013 Election
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Schedule and format look great...would be nice to play Saturdays instead of Sundays...but I could see the schedule get messy come Jan/Feb with ice bowls and such
Sundays are tough for me but so are Saturdays
Most importantly Mike ----- Thanks for running this again.
Good times!
OK the cons of each day
Sat college football, some people work & tournaments
Sun Pro football & maybe after church travel time
I may have missed some cons for each day
Nothing is final till November so i'm still open to any & all suggestions.
It's not about what i want, it's all about what you all what. I know i can't make everyone happy but this is close.
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OK need some input here.
1. SAT or SUN 2pm ?
2. Start the season Dec 1st /2nd or sooner ?
3. Feeling about doubles alt singles rounds ?
These are the 3 things i was going to bring up at the club meeting but couldn't make it.
I will finalize the schedule by end of this month & with the club presidents approval get this season posted & printed up .
THANKS Mike D
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1. Saturday
3. Doubles w/ singles mixed in
THANKS for the input.
Now is the time to speak up cause come end of month if you wanted Sundays or only Doubles or different start date & didn't say so then you lose out.
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OK 5 days left till i make things final.
As of now with the input i have gotten we will be playing on Saturdays at 2pm & we could be starting as soon as November 24th ( would start the 17th BUT the Southern I.N. Classic is then )
Alternating doubles / singles
IF you have input PLEASE speak up now
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I would prefer Sunday at 2:00.
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What a crazy few weeks of weather we have had! In one week the weather reporters have featured record breaking temperatures, hosepipe bans and now snow in many places!
The high pressure gave us plenty of sunshine and record breaking temperatures but now temperatures have returned more to what we would normally expect for the time of year.
Meanwhile, the temperature of our planet is still rising. 2010 was the hottest year across the globe. For the UK this seems to mean that wierd weather is becoming more and more normal. We have certainly seen some strange weather since starting our investigation.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton formally resigned Friday as America's secretary of state, capping a four-year tenure that saw her shatter records for the number of countries visited. John Kerry was sworn in to replace her.
In a letter sent to President Barack Obama shortly before she left the State Department for the last time in her official capacity, Clinton thanked her former opponent for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination for the opportunity to serve in his administration. Clinton said it had been an honor to be part of his Cabinet.
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Clinton, however, also left office with a slap at critics of the Obama administration's handling of the September attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya. She told The Associated Press in an interview Thursday that critics of the administration's handling of the attack don't live in an "evidence-based world," and their refusal to "accept the facts" is unfortunate and regrettable for the political system.
Clinton told the AP that the attack in Benghazi was the low point of her time as America's top diplomat. But she suggested that the furor over the assault would not affect whether she runs for president in 2016.
Although she insisted that she has not decided what her future holds, she said she "absolutely" still plans to make a difference on issues she cares about in speeches and in a sequel to her 2003 memoir, "Living History," that will focus largely on her years as secretary of state.
Clinton spoke to the AP Thursday in her outer office on the seventh floor of the State Department less than 24 hours before she walks out for a final time as boss. She was relaxed but clearly perturbed by allegations from Republican lawmakers and commentators that the administration had intentionally misled the public about whether the attack was a protest gone awry or a terrorist attack, or intentionally withheld additional security for diplomatic personnel in Libya knowing that an attack could happen.
An independent panel she convened to look into the incident was scathing in its criticism of the State Department and singled out four officials for serious management and leadership failures. But it also determined that there was no guarantee that extra personnel could have prevented the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans. Clinton herself was not blamed, although she has said she accepted responsibility for the situation.
"I was so unhappy with the way that some people refused to accept the facts, refused to accept the findings of an independent Accountability Review Board, politicized everything about this terrible attack," she said. "My job is to admit that we have to make improvements and we're going to."
Hours later a suicide bomber linked to a domestic terror group exploded a device just outside the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, killing himself and a guard. Clinton told State Department staff on Friday that the attack showed again how "we live in very complex and dangerous times."
Clinton faced a barrage of hostile questions about Benghazi from Republican lawmakers when she testified before Congress recently in appearances that were delayed from December because of illness. Afterward, some lawmakers continued to accuse her and the administration of withholding evidence. Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., told a television interviewer that he thought Clinton was getting "away with murder."


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The incident occurred around 1 a.m. in the 2000 block of James Drive in Marrero and left the mother of the shooting victim seeking answers to several questions.
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Retrospective on the complete works of the artist colony member of the first hour: With Hans Christiansen (1866-1945) is an as versatile as exemplary Jugendstil artists to rediscover, who found his vocation in Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt.
Hans Christiansen is one of the most important representatives of Jugendstil, especially with his drafts in the field of arts and crafts. In Paris where matured into an artist, he was appointed in 1899 by Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig in Darmstadt, where he was among the first seven members of the artists' colony. On the Mathildenhöhe he blossomed and excelled as a genuine work of art enthusiasts in painting, architecture and applied art as well as a designer of lights festivals. For the first time the full range of this versatile artist is presented: The retrospective presents his house on the Mathildenhöhe, room facilities, glass pane, jewellery, posters, paintings, drawings, textile art and ceramics in different spatial ensembles - including previously unknown like his fashion and poster designs from the 1920s.
The major retrospective, the first ever to Hans Christiansen, will be seen in four German institutions. The kick-off will make Mathildenhöhe as the first step, and then will follow the Bröhan Museum in Berlin, the Villa Stuck Museum in Munich and the Museumsberg in Flensburg, where the exhibition tour will end just before the 150th anniversary of the artist in his hometown.
Curators: Dr. Philipp Gutbrod, curator and conservator of the collection, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt Institute
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An exhibition of the Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt Institute and of the Museumsberg in Flensburg in collaboration with the Villa Stuck Museum in Munich and the Bröhan Museum in Berlin.
The exhibition will then travel to the Musée Bröhan, Berlin (19 Feburary– 24 May 2015), the Museum Villa Stuck in Munich (18 June – 20 September 2015) and to the Museumsberg Flensburg (11 October – 17 January 2016)
The Art Nouveau European Route brings together local governments and other institutions in the common quest for the protection, promotion and diffusion of Art Nouveau heritage. To fully explore and bring to light the value of Art Nouveau heritage, therefore, a Congress organised by the Art Nouveau European Route cannot limit its scope to the analyses and interpretation of the tangible heritage; it must go deeper into the reality of the communities that created it.
In this second edition of the coupDefouet International Congress, we propose to shed new light on an aspect that has been studied very little, if at all: the important contribution of women artists to the development of Art Nouveau. In a nutshell: women as artists, women as creators, women as promoters and protagonists of Art Nouveau. Coupled with this ambition, we also wish to revisit the widely studied and interpreted representation of the female aesthetic and ideal in Art Nouveau, with new contributions on the matter.
A further strand will focus on little-known Art Nouveau cities, in which we expect to discover creative centres of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that have not until now been widely publicised. A similar section on research in progress to the first congress, one in which we welcome presentations from both seasoned and young researchers, will complete the thematic strands of the programme.
Situé entre les Invalides et l'école Militaire, au coeur du 7ième arrondissement, le quartier du Gros Caillou a su tenir au secret ses charmes et ses chefs-d'oeuvres, à l'ombre de la Tour Eiffel. Nous suivrons, dans ce quartier, le fil de l'Art Nouveau, dont les surprenantes réalisations de Jules Lavirotte.
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Organised by the Réseau Art Nouveau Network in the framework of the European project "Art Nouveau & Ecology" (2010-2015) supported by the Culture 2007-2013 programme of the European Commission, the exhibition comprises two identical concurrent exhibitions and has begun its journey to all partner cities in October 2013.
After Milan, the exhibition The Nature of Art Nouveau will be presented in La Habana at the Palacio del Segundo Cabo (Cultural Space La Habana-Europe) from 3 to 31 July 2015.
It reveals the role that nature had in the Art Nouveau and how much the nature was the source of inspiration for the artists at the turn of 19th to 20th century.
Conceived by Catalan art historian Teresa-M. Sala, The Nature of Art Nouveau is an exhibition based on both encyclopedic information and individual experimentation.
Using photographs and documents, together with a dynamic scenography created by Antoni Garau, it offers a concise view of Art Nouveau yet also aims to bring vividly to life the "perfumes, sounds and hues" of the natural world.
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Les vitraux sont un patrimoine fragile, mince paroi de verre et de plomb qui clôt les baies des nombreux édifices civils et religieux depuis le Haut Moyen Âge. Leur fragilité, qui les soumet, sans grande défense, aux intempéries, à la pollution, parfois au vandalisme, a de tout temps nécessité des interventions régulières d'entretien, de réparation, de restauration, souvent de remplacement. Au-delà des opérations spectaculaires de restauration où l'on applique les techniques les plus avancées de nettoyage ou de protection, les interventions plus modestes de simple entretien, de soins de base, méritent attention, car elles ont un rôle fondamental dans la préservation à long terme des verrières anciennes et modernes. Au temps où la crise économique touche de nombreux pays, il est opportun de réfléchir à une approche de conservation qui s'adapte, dans les meilleures conditions pour les œuvres, à de nouvelles contraintes financières.
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In the aftermath of the Boston bombings, many are asking how someone who came to America at the age of 9, attended some of our best schools, captained the wrestling team, went to the prom and became a citizen could have inflicted such a devastating attack on our society. The emerging evidence suggests that part of the answer is that no one in the past decade taught Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to love America, or at least did a very poor job of it.
But we know one thing for sure: He wasn't taught that assimilation into American society was desirable. As I'm finding while researching a book on Hispanics — indeed, what I experienced as a young Cuban coming to this country in the early 1970s — we no longer teach patriotic assimilation. By that I mean love of country, not just its creature comforts.
We teach the opposite, in fact — that we're all groups living cheek by jowl with one another, all with different advantages and legal class protection statuses, but not really all part of the same national fabric. In other words, we teach multiculturalism and diversity, and are officially making assimilation very hard to achieve.
If Dzhokhar and his brother Tamarlan are guilty of the acts of terrorism they are accused of because they succumbed to Islamist radicalism, then they are monsters who are personally responsible for turning against the land that welcomed them. Tamarlan has paid with his life, and Dzhokhar will be dealt judgment.
But as we grapple now with the thorny question of immigration, how to handle the millions of people who started to arrive at mid-century in a massive immigration wave, we could do worse than look at the affairs in Boston for a clue on whether our current approach works.
First let's look at the brothers Tsarnaev. For a hint on their motivation we have no less an authority than their uncle Ruslan. Asked why his nephews had bombed the Boston Marathon, he replied with the now famous line, "Being losers, hatred to those who were able to settle themselves; these are the only reasons I can imagine of."
In other words, failure to assimilate provided the fertile ground that allowed the bad seed of radical Islamism to take root. Ruslan's reply resonates especially because it contrasts so greatly with his own view. Here's what he said he teaches his own children: "This is the ideal micro-world in the entire world. I respect this country. I love this country. This country — which gives chance to everybody else to be treated as a human being."
This state of affairs is the result of decision we made. We didn't just get lazy and stopped teaching immigrants (and natives) to love America; we decided to stop and made assimilation a dirty word that connoted coercion and loss of ancestral culture. This despite all the evidence that assimilation, as preached and practiced since the nation's founding, was not coercive nor did it demand an end to St. Patrick's Day parades or love of Italian cooking.
In a retrospectively timely paper this month, the Hudson Institute reviewed evidence from a Harris Interactive Survey that showed that a large patriotic gap exists between naturalized Americans and native born. On such questions as to which should be the highest legal authority in the land, the Constitution or international law, or whether they considered themselves Americans or "citizens of the world", native Americans saying the Constitution and U.S. citizen led naturalized Americans by more than 30 points.
"Why is there this large patriotic gap between native-born and naturalized citizens?" asked the Hudson researchers. "American leaders have essentially altered our de-facto assimilation policy from Americanization (or patriotic integration) to a multiculturalism that emphasizes ethnic group consciousness at the expense of American common culture. In short, we have sent immigrants the wrong message on assimilation."
It wasn't always so. We debated assimilation vs. multiculturalism in the 1910s, and chose the former. The Greatest Generation that ensued met Noonan's "crunch test."
Over the past few days, many people pondering the question of how the Tsarnaevs could have acted the way they did have discounted that lack of assimilation could be the case, emphasizing that the brothers Tsarnaev lived in Cambridge, "one of the most diverse and inclusive places in America."
The problem is indeed with an "inclusive" approach that considers it wrong to teach love of a country so generous that it takes in two foreigners from a far-away land, gives them refuge, welcomes them in and gives them a free education. To have done so might have precluded the radical brain washing that led to the bombing.
Mike Gonzalez is vice president of communications for The Heritage Foundation. Readers may write to the author in care of The Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, D.C. 20002; Web site: www.heritage.org.


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Budget pressures and the threat of sequestration claimed another victim — the General Services Administration's 2013 Expo. The conference had been scheduled for May 14-16 in Orlando. GSA spokesman Dan Cruz confirmed the decision, saying the current budget situation is leaving GSA and other agencies without the money to travel.
"GSA has made the decision to suspend this year's Expo. With less demand for attendance due to budget constraints, we are adjusting to the needs of our agency partners," Cruz said in an email. "The GSA Expo and Training conference serves as a valuable forum for government procurement professionals to receive acquisition training and where vendors can access business opportunities with the government. However, in the current fiscal climate, agencies and businesses alike have been forced to make tough spending cuts. After carefully reviewing the projected spending and attendance for this year's conference, GSA is suspending Expo for 2013 in an effort to use our resources responsibly and to deliver better value and savings for our government partners, our vendors, and the American people."
Historically, GSA has used the expo for training federal customers on how to use the schedule and assisted acquisitions service. Vendors also have used the conference to reach federal customers to show off products and services.
Last year, GSA, still reeling from the Western Regions conference scandal, toned down the event, and saw attendance drop by about half from the typical 10,000 people. In the wake of the scandal, GSA limited its own employees' ability to travel to conferences.
Industry reaction to the decision to cancel Expo has been positive.
"GSA is demonstrating leadership in these uncertain times," said Roger Waldron, president of the Coalition for Government Procurement. "Why create more stress on agency budgets at a crucial time."
Waldron said many of his member companies hadn't made final plans to attend the Expo, so cancelling it now addresses the uncertainty.
"This will not hurt GSA or vendor customers," he said. "It's a matter of recognizing the time and budget situation. It would not have worked to have the conference. This was a good business decision for the taxpayer."
Larry Allen, president of Allen Federal Partners and a long-time GSA observer, said he isn't surprised by the agency's decision to cancel Expo. He said the website hasn't been updated to accept registration or let vendors pay for show floor booths and it was less than three months until the event.
"GSA was prepared to have Expo but the reality turned out very few customers would have come," Allen said. "I think it's absolutely a good decision on a couple of different levels. At the tactical level, it makes sense to do that this year. GSA was never going to get the customers to turn out, and all industry would have done is be more upset for a second year in a row. From a strategic view, this provides the agency with the opportunity to revamp the Expo format that is close to 20-years-old. It gives the agency an opportunity to see, moving forward, if they want to do collective showcase or go back to a more targeted show."
He added the agency contracting officers and procurement professionals will feel the biggest impact of GSA's decision.
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This becomes another in a growing list of conferences cancelled due to budget concerns. The Defense Department last May called off its annual procurement conference. The Air Force decided against having its annual technology conference last June, saving at least $1.4 million. Other events also have been postponed due to travel restrictions and budget cuts.
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BRIDGE CITY, La. - Jefferson Parish deputies were still on scene the day after a gruesome murder in Bridge City.
Doretha Richardson, 81, was gunned down inside her kitchen on 5th Street just before midnight, said investigators. Neighbors say, it's heartbreaking.
'For this here to happen to Ms. Doretha, is a shame,' said Walter Washington. 'They took someone that didn't deserve it.'
About half a dozen bullet holes were apparent in the front of the home Saturday. Deputies said a trail of casings lined the street Friday night, leading to Richardson's front door. Multiple casings were found inside. Neighbors heard the shots.
'I was just laying in bed and all of a sudden I hear pop pop pop pop, you know, maybe 30 times,' said neighbor Tim Jordan.
Three other people were inside the home with Richardson last night, including her grandson, his girlfriend, and their three year old daughter, said deputies. No one else was injured in the shooting.
Investigators believe two black males stormed the home, but aren't sure if Richardson was the intended target. Sheriff's deputies said they have been to the house multiple times in the past to investigate drug activities.
'She was at the right place at her house. For someone to come in there, I don't believe she was the main target. Many activities that surrounded there, she just got caught up,' said Washington.
Saturday, one of Richardson's sons helped clear the home of reminders of the shooting, bringing out items like a bullet-riddled television. Richardson's family was too distraught to speak on camera, but neighbors said the 81 year old was always friendly.
'Ms. Doretha was a nice lady. Ms. Doretha used to pass by asking how they doing, if they needed help, assistance, or help anyone,' said Washington.
Now, police are trying to find out who could have done this, and why, as a family mourns this heart-wrenching loss.
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|Pfeiffer Men Win Fourth in a Row
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|Misenheimer, NC--- The Falcon men won their fourth game in a row in convincing fashion Saturday night, as they defeated Anderson University, 77-66. Pfeiffer (17-8 overall, 11-7 in the CVAC) carried a lead of twenty points for much of the second half as they cruised past Anderson (3-21 overall, 3-14 in the CVAC). Senior forward Tavares Cooper poured in 16 points and grabbed 9 rebounds in 19 minutes of action. And four-time CVAC Player of the Week and National Player of the Year candidate, DeMario Grier, tallied 19 points and 3 steals in 20 minutes.
Pfeiffer's improved defensive tenacity forced 15 first half turnovers and held Anderson to 33% shooitng at the intermission. TThe halftime score was 45-26. The 26 points being a season-low allowed by the Falcons.
DeMario Grier had 14 points on 6-9 shooting, including two 3-ptrs at the break. And as a team, Pfeiffer shot 49% from the floor, including 6-12 (50%) from behind the arc.
The second half started where the first half left off, with Pfeiffer applying its defensive pressure to stretch the lead to as many as 22 points. The Falcons would end up forcing another 15 turnovers in the half, for a total of 30 in the game.
Among the other contributors in the game were sophomore forward Logan Call, who chipped in with 12 points, 4 rebounds and 3 steals. Junior transfer Thomas Carr notched 12 points on 4-6 shooting from 3pt range and 2 steals. For the game, the Falcons shot 45.8% from being the arc (11-24 3pt) and 80% from the free throw line.
"It was another team effort, with 11 different guys contributing," said Pfeiffer coach Dave Davis. "Thomas Carr is seeing that hard work does pay off as he was 4-6 from behind the arc, the second game in a row he has made four 3-pointers. We again won the rebounding battle against a much bigger Anderson team, and Cooper continues to lead us in this area. Our defense is much improved and if we continue to defend and rebound, we will be a difficult team to beat."
The final regular season home game of the season will be this Thursday February 22nd against CVAC leading and #24 ranked Barton College. This game will be the last for seniors DeMario Grier, Tavares Cooper and Derick Brown. Tip-off will be at 7:30pm in Merner Gymnasium
Please come out and say "farewell" to these three senior student athletes, who have been major contributors to the Falcons' success over the past four seasons. And plan on arriving early, as our "Senior Nights" have tended to be some of the largest crowds of the year.