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Events include SBA Public Service Day, People's Law School, Casino Night
AUSTIN, Texas — The Student Bar Association (SBA) at The University of Texas School of Law is sponsoring W. Page Keeton Law Week, a series of events celebrating the students, faculty, and alumni of UT Law. Law Week features SBA's flagship Casino Night semi-formal event, along with a number of activities at the Law School designed to promote community and student-faculty interaction. This year's calendar features a student-faculty dodgeball game, a community lunch, SBA Public Service Day, a "Townes Hall" meeting with the Dean, and many more activities.
SBA President Jeffrey Snyder said, "Law Week is a celebration of everything that makes the UT Law experience so unique. It's a great opportunity for the entire law school to work together and commemorate the Law School, each other and the local community."
The following is a schedule of Law Week activities:
Monday, February 21
SBA Student Organization Fair @ UT Law Atrium, 11 AM – 1 PM
Learn more about the law school's many student organizations.
Delta Theta Phi: $1 Bake Sale @ UT Law Atrium, 11 AM – 3 PM
Water, fruit, & dessert will be sold for $1 each.
SBA Presents - "Townes Hall" Meeting with Dean Powers in Room 2.138,
Voice your opinion about law school issues at an open forum discussion with Dean Powers.
Tuesday, February 22
SBA Presents FREE Lunch for all UT Law Students Faculty, & Staff @ UT Law
Atrium, 11 AM – 1 PM
Who says there is no such thing as a free lunch? Come mingle and let the SBA buy you a hot dog, frito pie, or a veggie dog!
Delta Theta Phi: $1 Bake Sale @ UT Law Atrium, 11 AM – 2 PM
Water, fruit, & dessert will be sold for $1 each.
Human Rights Law Society: Film Showing of "H-2 Worker," 4 PM (location
The film "H-2 Worker" deals with the situation of Florida sugarcane workers. Professor Sarah Cleveland will introduce and comment on the film.
Wednesday, February 23
SBA Public Service Day @ UT Law Atrium, 11 AM – 1 PM
The Center of Child Protection needs your help! Stop by to make a donation, help decorate a sign, or bring art supplies for the center. In exchange for your generosity, the SBA will give you FREE Amy's ice cream!
Women's Law Caucus: Charity Date Auction @ Stubb's BBQ, 5-7 PM
Student organizations will compete to bring the highest bid in an effort to raise money for legal services at the Women's Advocacy Project. Sign up to be auctioned off through your student organization by Friday, February 18.
Thursday, February 24
Public Interest Law Association: Job Jeopardy & Bake Sale @ UT Law Atrium,
Come and answer questions about public interest job statistics for prizes and awareness!
SBA Presents Faculty-Student Dodgeball Game @ Harris Park (Dean Keeton &
Harris Park Rd.), 3:30 PM
Play on a 6-person dodgeball team with your favorite faculty member!
Friday, February 25
Texas Federalist Society: Lecture, "In Defense of American Empire"
UT Law Auditorium, 3:30 PM
Does American foreign policy violate international law? Find out from Dinesh D'Souza from the Hoover Institution, author of What's So Great about America, The End of Racism, and Illiberal Education and former senior domestic policy analyst at the Reagan White House.
Law Fellowships: Excellence in Public Interest Awards Night, 6:30 PM
TLF will honor a law student, a law professor, a private-sector attorney, and a public-sector attorney who excel in public interest or pro bono work. The reception will be held at Bill and Stephanie Whitehurst's home at 2703 Westlake Drive.
SBA CASINO NIGHT 2005 @ Hyatt on Town Lake, 10 PM – 2 AM
Come to play blackjack, poker, craps, and other casino games! This year's Casino Night features a LIVE BAND called The Pictures! Ticket price is $30 ($35 at the door) and includes food and drink; dress is semi-formal.
Saturday, February 26
The People's
Law School @ UT Law, 8:30 AM – 1:30 PM
This free program is designed to educate the community about common legal issues. Dozens of volunteer attorneys and legal experts, many of whom are UT Law alumni, will be on hand to teach the basics of the law and answer general legal questions. UT Law students—including many members of the SBA—will volunteer at the event, serving as classroom assistants to the attorneys teaching the class, providing directions to participants and answering questions about the Law School.
For more information about any of these activities contact Jeffrey Snyder, President of SBA, at 695-4240. The SBA gratefully acknowledges the support of our lead Law Week sponsors, Baron & Budd, P.C., and Dobrowski, L.L.P.
Related Links:
Student Bar Association: http://www.utexas.edu/law/orgs/sba/
TLF Announces 2005 Excellence in Public Interest Awards Honorees: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/021705_tlfawards.html
People's Law School Offers Public Free Legal Education, Feb. 26: http://www.utexas.edu/law/news/2005/011905_pls.html


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Philip Morris Int'l CEO Camilleri to step down
Wednesday - 3/13/2013, 12:20pm EDT
AP Tobacco Writer
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Philip Morris International Inc. said Wednesday that CEO Louis C. Camilleri will step down and be replaced by the man who led it before it became an independent company.
The seller of Marlboro and other cigarette brands overseas said its current chief operating officer, Andre Calantzopoulos, will become CEO immediately after the company's annual shareholder meeting May 8. He also was nominated for election to the board. Camilleri will remain in his current job of chairman, the company said.
Philip Morris International, which has offices in Lausanne, Switzerland, and New York, is second in size only to state-controlled China National Tobacco Corp. It was spun off in 2008 from Richmond, Va.-based Altria Group Inc., owner of Philip Morris USA, which still sells Marlboro and other Philip Morris brands in the U.S.
In 2012, Philip Morris International's net income grew 2.4 percent to $8.8 billion. Revenue excluding excise taxes increased about 1 percent to $31.4 billion. Its shipments were up more than 1 percent to 927 billion cigarettes and its market share, excluding China and the U.S., grew to a record 28.8 percent.
Calantzopoulos, 55, has served as chief operating officer since the company spinoff from Altria. He joined the company in 1985 and served as its CEO of the international unit from 2002 until the spinoff.
The 58-year-old Camilleri was CEO of Altria in 2002, when it first embarked on a restructuring that led to the spin-off of Kraft Foods Inc., then the separation of the two cigarette makers.
The often-unapologetic Camilleri gained international media attention in 2011 when he told a cancer nurse that while cigarettes are harmful and addictive, it is not that hard to quit.
The statement was in response to comments at its annual shareholder meeting, in which executives usually spend much of the time sparring with members of anti-tobacco and other corporate accountability groups.
The nurse, later identified as Elisabeth Gundersen from the University of California-San Francisco, cited statistics that tobacco use kills more than 400,000 Americans and 5 million people worldwide each year. She is a member of The Nightingales Nurses, an activist group that works to focus public attention on the tobacco industry.
Gundersen also said a patient had recently told her that of all the addictions he's beaten -- crack, cocaine, meth -- cigarettes have been the most difficult.
In response, Camilleri said: "We take our responsibility very seriously, and I don't think we get enough recognition for the efforts we make to ensure that there is effective worldwide regulation of a product that is harmful and that is addictive. Nevertheless, whilst it is addictive, it is not that hard to quit. ... There are more previous smokers in America today than current smokers."
Camilleri, a longtime smoker, was quoted in an April 2009 BusinessWeek article as saying he had quit only once, for three months when he had a cold.
In recent years, tax hikes, smoking bans, health concerns and social stigma worldwide have made the cigarette business tougher. The fact that the impact on cigarette demand generally has been less stark outside the U.S. has benefited Philip Morris International. Still the company faces challenges that are as wide-ranging as its reach.
The company has said regulations, including bans on product displays, ingredients and colorful packaging, have impeded competition and add costs for retailers.
Varying degrees of tax hikes and economic challenges also have encouraged adult smokers to make choices purely on price and have fostered black markets.
Philip Morris International has compensated for volume declines -- particularly in developed markets like the European Union, Latin America and Canada -- by raising prices, cutting costs and focusing on emerging markets in Asia, as well as the Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Michael Felberbaum can be reached at http://www.twitter.com/MLFelberbaum .
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IBM's Speech Recognition
There aren't too many good-news stories coming out of Iraq, but here's one. The U.S. military is bridging the communications gap between its soldiers and Iraqis by tapping some innovative speech recognition technology from IBM Research (IBM). Using a laptop computer or PDA, soldiers speak into a microphone and the software translates what they say in English into Arabic. Iraqi soldiers or civilians see and hear the words in Arabic, and their answers are immediately translated into English. About 10,000 of these systems are in use in the battle zone.
But what's a boon for the U.S. military highlights a conundrum for IBM Research, which provides the technology gratis. When the military selected speech recognition technology for a new medical records network, it chose an offering from market leader, Burlington [Mass.]-based Nuance Communications (NUAN). For all of IBM's expertise and resources, the 3,000 or so scientists in its basic research facilities worldwide face a major challenge to shepherd their innovations from the lab into the marketplace.
Partnering Up David Nahamoo, the chief technology officer for IBM Research's speech and translation division, is out to change that. On Aug. 18, Nahamoo announced a new strategy at SpeechTEK 2008, a gathering of the leaders in the speech recognition industry in New York City. Rather than trying to push its technology mainly through IBM's product and services divisions, the speech research group is focusing on forming partnerships with other companies to take the technology to market. Partners include Vlingo, the company that provides speech services for Yahoo! oneSearch (YHOO); PhoneTag, which converts mobile voice mail to text; and Jajah, which offers real-time phone translation between English and Mandarin. "We can find partners, spread the risk, and improve our ability to address these markets," says Nahamoo.
IBM has been performing research into speech recognition for four decades. Some of the technology has found its way into products sold by the company's software and services business, notably in the auto industry. But the technology hasn't had the kind of impact that Nahamoo and his bosses believe is possible, in applications including autos, mobile phones, call centers, medical systems, and transcription services. The issue for IBM? That each of these applications on its own represents a relatively small market. That's why IBM needs partners who are experts in different niches. "This new strategy gives very talented people in IBM an outlet for their work," says William Meisel, president of technology consulting firm TMA Associates.
A Combined Technology Overall, demand for speech recognition technology is expected to rise dramatically over the next few years as people use their mobile phones as all-purpose lifestyle devices [so barking "find pizza" into your phone would load directions to the nearest pizza parlor]. In-car entertainment and navigation systems are increasingly controlled by voice commands. This growth in adoption is being fueled by steady improvements in speech recognition accuracy.
Speech recognition isn't one technology but several combined. You start building a voice recognition engine by recording words, phrases, and sentences, and putting them in a database. Then you create a library of the specific pronunciations of the different words to be recognized. Then you map the sounds in the recordings to the word pronunciations. Last, you build a large table of the most commonly occurring patterns of words people are likely to speak. Algorithms are created that combine all these sources of information to come up with the right answer in a specific situation. In the past few years, scientists at IBM and elsewhere have been learning how to adapt their voice recognition engines more quickly to a specific person or sound environment. Nuance's newly released Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 PC speech recognition software translates speech into text with up to 99% accuracy.
Nuance and Vlingo Nuance is the giant of the speech recognition industry, with products for nearly every niche. Annual sales are expected to top $900 million this year. Steve Chambers, president of the company's mobile speech and consumer-services division, says this breadth of experience has made it possible for the company to collect a huge treasure trove of speech samples from people with different languages and accents, which helps it improve its technology rapidly. "The technology is unlike others in research land. It has to be used to improve. The name of the game is scale and usage," he says.
Even without Nuance's scale in this field, IBM Research has managed to produce very effective speech recognition software. Vlingo evaluated IBM's technology against Nuance's and a couple of others. Dave Grannan, Vlingo's chief executive, says IBM had the best combination of speed of processing and accuracy in his company's tests. Another attraction: He didn't fear that IBM might some day decide to get into his business. Nuance, on the other hand, competes with Vlingo."Because IBM Research is not a go-to-market part of IBM, there wasn't a competitive issue with them," he says.
"Spoken Web" Nahamoo's group is focusing on commercial opportunities right now. But IBM researchers are also exploring areas where the social impact could be huge. One example, spearheaded by scientists in India, is what it calls the "spoken Web." In a handful of villages in the state of Andhra Pradesh, the company is helping locals create Web pages and search the Web purely with voice. A plumber or farmer goes to a kiosk with mobile phones and builds a Web page promoting his or her products, produce, or services by speaking the answers to 10 or so questions. Then other villagers can use a mobile phone to speak commands to search for those Web sites; they hear the search results, rather than see them.
If successful, the technology could help open up the Internet to the world's hundreds of millions of illiterate people. "It has the potential to transform these regions," says Paul Bloom, IBM Research's business executive for the communications sector.


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CA Bill Would Mandate Positive Spin on AIDS Epidemic
Sacramento, CA--Parents in California are questioning why legislation making its way through the California Assembly would force schools to put a positive spin on the HIV and AIDS epidemics.
AB 329, by Assemblywoman Weber, would make a number of changes to sex education, including de-emphasizing the role of parents and the importance of marriage while no longer giving school districts a choice whether to teach sex ed.
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La Luz Beach Resort: Value for Money
La Luz was one of the cheaper resorts in Laiya, based on our Internet research. We were a group of 7 (including 2 kids) so we needed a place that didn't charge so much for food and beds. It turned out to be an excellent choice. We stayed there in October 2010, just one night.
Drive: It was a very long drive, even if we were already coming from Cavite. The instructions from the website were clear, except for the part in Rosario. It was good we asked some locals before veering too far from the right route. It was rough road about 1km to the resort. It's under construction, though, so it shouldn't be a problem for future trips.
Reception and Staff: I had very little interaction with the staff, but they were all positive. We were given very refreshing and cold welcome drinks upon arrival, and cold towel. Nice. :)
Room: The Junior Premier room where we stayed at was clean and large enough for 7 people (2 toddlers). There's no TV (I think this is a positive), no ref (we didn't need one). Hotel-grade pillows and sheets would make the rooms truly relaxing.
Food: La Luz requires all guests to avail of the eat-all-you-can food at P1100 per day (3 meals, 1 snack). When we were there, lunch was mostly Filipino food but they were cooked well. Snacks were so-so (pansit, sandwich, puto), but they really delivered during dinner. There was pasta, pork ribs, fish and chicken pastel. Yummy! I think the candlelit setup also made the food more yummy. Btw, kids below 8 eat free so bonus points for La Luz. They DO NOT have an ala carte menu so if you don't like anything they serve, then you don't have a choice. (Not even sunny-side-ups which we requested for the kids).
Beach: If you're expecting very fine white sand, then you'll be disappointed. It's more like pebbles, not very comfortable to walk or sit on. The water wasn't cold, even if the weather was overcast for most of the day. There were a lot of little hermit crabs that the kids had fun catching. If you venture a little farther out, you can already see larger fish.
Extras: 1-hr massage costs P250.
Overall: Very good value for money.
Reasonably priced. Great view, especially if you cllimb the rock formation to the right side of the resort.
- gacortes
- Reviews: 21
Pahiyas: Laiya Budget Accommodation
Situated right beside the famous Kabayan resort in Laiya stretch, Pahiyas offers reasonable price ranges perfect for groups on a budget. During off peak season, their cottage that can fit up to 8 costs Php 2500 per night. This includes 2 fan rooms, a kitchen with gas stove & utensils, one bathroom and a dining area. This resort is ideal for those who opt to spend most of their time along the beach. I wouldn't recommend this had the traveler wanted to relax and unwind, simply because of its facilities. They don't have a pool neither a restaurant. Food and drinks must be brought during this trip.
- gacortes
- Reviews: 21
Acuatico Beach Resort: Batangas' Tourist Haven
One of Laiya's best beach resorts. There are a variety of rooms to choose from with rates starting at 6,300 per night inclusive of free breakfast. Each room is fully furnished with a wall mounted 32 inch lcd tv, air conditioning system and resort-wide wifi internet access. The resort itself has an infinity-edge pool, game room. Kids play room and basketball court, they also have water sports facilities such as Kayak and Pedal Boat. One buffer meal costs Php 500 per person and if you would like a set up along the shore, it will cost php750 per person (serving the same menu offered in buffet). The resort is indeed luxurious, except that their beach front isn't that astounding; plainly because acuatico is situated at the far end of Laiya – where it's a bit rocky.
Luxurious rooms
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- Reviews: 39
Moonlight Beach Resort: Cheap Accomodation: mOONLIGHT bEACH RESORT
Transient House, costs P6000.00 during peak season good for 10-15 pax. With Aircon room, with kitchen facilities, you can cook your own food, has a bathroom and a refrigerator.
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- Reviews: 3
Laiya Austria: Budget convenience in Laiya
-we got the aircon room for 6 pax one or 2 wks before holyweek
- has kitchen, ref, stove, grill, plus utensils and dining area
- beds are okay, rooms have own bathroom
-a little far from the beach
-staff is kind, acommodating and friendly
-getting a reservation isn't a headache
considering the season (peak and holy week) we were really ssatisfied with the service of this simple resort. My mother, usually cynical about "cheap" accomodations, had nothing negative to say about this place. Highly commended if you are on a budget!
- archkuja
- Reviews: 8
Balai sa laiya: Laiya
we stayed there last june 4, 2008 and we were not disappointed. the staff was courteous and helpful, the food was great, the view was breathtaking, the sea was calm, the sand was fine and beautiful.
It wasnt full of people either. it was so relaxing since we shared the beach with 2 other couples.
The seaside cottage we rented was clean and nice and it has a balcony giving us a beautiful view of the beach.
great view
courteous staff
good food and lots of em! yum! (buffet style)
clean and nice rooms and restrooms
nice amenities
- rmcuesta
- Reviews: 163
Palm Beach: Great Resort in Laiya
Palm Beach Resort (La Frondosa) is at Brgy. Hugo, just off Brgy. Laiya. With casitas for as low as P3,000 a night and two-story casas for as high as P15,500 a night, the resort can cater to multiple lodging requirements. Overnight meal packages are at P850 for adults and P425 for kids. Additional meals can be requested for only P300 each. Guests can also avail of jet-ski and speed boat rentals and bonfire setups.
cozy rooms. private location. cable tv not working. no cellphone signal (except smart). beach too many stones.
- rmcuesta
- Reviews: 163
Laiya Resthouse Resort: Simple accomodation in Laiya
had an overnight stay to attend a christmas party.
billiard, dart, karaoke, ihaw ihaw station, friendly staff.
- IlariaBK
- Reviews: 21
Laiya Coco Grove Resort: Great, realxing place on the beach
Great place for a relaxing weekend
Accomodations: there are poolside cottages and really neat treehouses right on the beach (with aircon and full bathroom, but no hot water – not needed, anyway) and a lanai with a table, chairs, and outdoor shower underneath. . Beach chairs are available upon request
The treehouses are sparsely furnished and basic, but are very clean and each person gets 2 fluffy towels (Bring your own beach towels though!)
Food: all you can eat buffet, with simple but good Filipino fare. One round of drinks is included with meals. Breakfast has pancake/omelette station as well.
Swimming pool: nice, clean and basically on the beach
Beach: The water is very clear, especially in the morning and later in the afternoon. The beach is wide and the sand is fun to play with; and clean as well (seaweeds and washed up trash gets raked away often).
Other activities: Also part of the resort, but a short walk away from the main area, is an 'extension beach' with a mangrove and lagoon nature spot with a couple of short trails and some neat bridges (a hanging bridge and a see saw bridge). For the daring, there's also a 'flying fox' ride - from a tall tree right onto the beach. Kayaks are also available, as well as board games, darts…and a trampoline. There are volleyball and basketball courts. We didn't go, but there is a driving range and a small man-made lake on the property where you can fish or rent a pedal boat….oh and ponies too!
Wildlife: lots of crabs (some beautiful blue and orange ones too!), small white fish that jump out of the water, sea urchins (beware! We had to relocate a couple after the kids had a rough encounter with them!)
Rates: during low season, it was P 3,197 per person (including 1 night accommodation in a treehouse, 2 lunches, 1 breakfast and 1 dinner). Kids under 5 are free, kids over 5 get 50% off.
- Orange_traveller
- Reviews: 48
Laiya Coco Grove Resort: Fun under the Batangas sun
We stayed at this resort overnight. Since we went here in July, off peak season, there were very few guests and the atmosphere was peaceful. The place was very nice and relaxing. A place where you can enjoy nature. You can choose between tree houses (some are even air conditioned), pool side cottages and pool side suite cottages. We stayed in the pool side suite. The suite had 2 bedrooms. In one bedroom, it had a queen size bed and a twin bed. The other bedroom had 2 queen size beds. Each suite had one bathroom and a powder room (toilet and sink).
The food was good. For every meal, there are 4 viands. Either pork/ beef, chicken, fish and vegetables. They have 2 kinds of rice. Either fried rice/ brown rice and white rice. They also serve salad. Dessert is usually fruits in season.
The people who work there were very attentive to our needs and very friendly.
If you want to stay in a resort where you will really get away from it all, this is where you should go. I love the fact that there are no televisions around. Although the manong said we can rent a karaoke. There are a lot of things to do in this resort. They have a trampoline, you can rent a kayak, you can go horse back riding along the shoreline, you can go snorkeling, you can try out their flying fox, you can play beach volleyball, you can swim in their swimming pool... The kids enjoyed the trip and the adults welcomed the break from city life as well.
- aqt1023
- Reviews: 2
Blue coral Beach Resort: blue coral beach resort??? Should b GREEN CORAL
we had an overnight stay at bluecoral beach resort,though the room rates were high,(php5k+ per night ,almost $160),we were expecting a good if not a very satisfying accomodation..since if you check out their website,you would probably be impressed by the images of their hotel,the pool amenities.. but when we arrived there,we were shocked to see the pool, it's all green,so we were not able to swim in the pool..and an entrance fee of Php900 per person included 3 buffet meals which were very limited,unlike the buffet meals we enjoyed at the other neighboring resort ,and a snack(like three slices of bread w/chicken filling). We did'nt even had a chance to try their famous batangas coffee,'kapengBarako"instead they served 3-in-1 instant coffee only ..during mealtimes,there were lots of flies around,so we had to ask for their staff to do something about it,but there were no efforts..,the staff were discorteous,the rooms were not clean especially the bathrooms,we still had to ask for door mats since they did not provide any.the fixtures in the bathrooms were defective,the bathroom door handle was defective also,we had no water supply before we checked out....the onlly good things about their resort are the good airconditioning,the beach,the design of the hotel..i would really not recommend this resort for those who would want their money's worth..especially if you have kids...
- drunkenmaster4
- Reviews: 56
La Luz Resort: The Most Famous
La Luz started out as a private resort few years ago. But it eventually transformed to one of the biggest facility in Laiya. It was formerly one of the cheap resorts which eventually transformed to one of the high end one. Being the pioneer, it enjoys being the most popular among the resorts in Laiya. If you talk about Laiya- first thing to come into mind is La Luz. It also pioneered the concept of "forced" buffet concept in the area, which was popular among dive resorts in Anilao as divers do not have time to prepare for food. For me they have the best cabana. They are also at the end of the "accessible" Laiya beach as after the big rock formation, the virgin beaches of Laiya abounds. It's the gateway to climbing Mt. Daguldol. La Luz became a controversial resort then as they are so strict on passers by on their facility, the most convenient way to go to the virgin beaches- although its their right.
If you want to go to La Luz during the peak seasons of March-May, be sure to book more than a month in advance because of the high demand on the Laiya facilities. It's places like La Luz that gets booked first then the others until all of the facility in Laiya gets booked at the height of summer.
La Luz is the only beach front within accessible snorkling site few meters from its beach. Its a declared marine sanctuary- with soft and hard coral gardens. The guide station where you can hire guides in climbing Mt. Daguldol is also near this resort.
- drunkenmaster4
- Reviews: 56
Balai Resort: For the Outdoor Adventurers
This resort in Laiya is popular among adventure racers/ triatheles as it was the first 2 venues of the X-Tri Balai, the local version of the X-Tri games. It has better accomodation facilies than the Playa Del Sol, its twin sister. It also offers mandatory buffet food. They are operating another Balai Resort in Anilao. They have wide view decks and cozy and relaxed ambiance.
Generally, for both Balai and Playa Del Sol, since it has smaller facility than the popular La Luz and Blue Coral, you are assured of a more peaceful beach stay since the number of people are regulated to the size of the facility. Also the neigboring resorts are private so you are assured that they also have less inhabitants (on a peak season weekend- you will notice that both sides, around 20 meters away are crowded by visitors as La Luz and Blue Coral are located on opposite sides of Balai). The only thing I don't like about this facility is that it offers a Karaoke machine- so if there are wannabe singer guests, then you are in for an un-quiet afternoon. I only guess they don't allow singing into the wee hours of the night.
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Playa Del Sol - Tivona: Balai's Twin Sister
This is not as well known as the other Laiya resorts as it doesnt have a website as most Laiya Resorts have. According to the owners, they intend to remane the Playa Del Sol to Tivona as there is another resort who have used the Playa name. The resort is just right beside Balai, as in located at the very same compound, you might think its part of it. According to the caretakers, owners of both resorts are relatives (This one is owned by the mother of the owner of Balai- a known composer- Trina Belamide). It seems it was really intended as a family resorts as two concerete structures there are not for hire but for the owner's use only. The ones they rent are the nipa hut rest houses. It cost from a two room-4 bed nipa hut that costs around 5,000Php to a second floor hut that can accomodate up to 10 persons for 8,000 Php. They don't charge for the use of cabanas on the beach front.
What is unique about this resort compared to the other Laiya high-end resorts is that they dont force you to get buffet food as they dont have one- which is a usual practice among high end Laiya resorts (they dont ask for corkage for food/ drinks you bring). Its sometimes a plus but others would prefer a buffet arrangement so as not to bother cooking or bringing in food. they rent gas stoves and provides basic kitchen utensils.
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That is B.S. It's called troubleshooting. You take a problem (what info is available, anyway) and try to break it down into possible solutions.
I use troubleshooting all the time, what you are doing is what amounts to what is someone's usual poor attempt at it.
Step one is to figure out what's going on. Not to just throw out every random idea out there. That's what people do when they truly have no clue where their audience even is. It would be better just to continue to demand that you receive some sort of understandable coherent description of the problem.
I didn't miss the point on perception, you keep making it more and more obvious as to what it is.
And I have read their FAQ's, and I saw that stuff probably 10 years ago when he put it on there. They are comical, but back then the Internet was a lot different and it wasn't meant as necessarily some form of great advertising.
That entire website stinks of 1999 style websites, it's funny when you click to purchase something it pulls up a more modern looking one but they didnt replace the original.
Just because it made you blush, and you feel it's negative, doesn't say anything about the actual machines themselves.
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WASHINGTON — Police all over the East Coast are keeping a lookout for teens who are intentionally punching strangers in an attempt to knock them out, for fun, and then posting videos of the assaults to YouTube.
A woman in Columbia Heights was one of the latest victims, telling WJLA she was biking past a group of teens when it happened.
"My whole head went flying to the side," said the victim, Phoebe Connolly. "It was a hard punch.
One kid came from the side and pretty much cut me off. He just like threw a hook with his left hand, and just got me right in the face."
After posting her story to Facebook, a friend told her about the so-called "knockout game."
Connolly suffered minor soreness and a bloody nose, but other victims haven't been so fortunate. Videos from New York and New Jersey show victims who are hit so hard they lose consciousness and collapse.
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Police are saying it's hard to track the occurrences because they're classified as assaults, and that the public needs to stay aware of their surroundings to avoid such incidents.
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Military historians of the modern era have often neglected the relationship between the armed forces and the state, particularly its effect on outcomes in war and military policy and activity during peacetime. Yet some of the more famous writing on military theory have emphasized the importance of the topic. Military historians of the United States, as the literature reveals, have only now begun to address the subject systematically and in depth.
Reluctant Accomplice: "Good Germans" in the War of Annihilation, 1939-1942
April 07, 2011 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
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Konrad H. Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill will discuss his latest book entitled Reluctant Accomplice: "Good Germans" in the War of Annihilation, 1939-1942. Comprised of wartime letters written by Jarausch's father, Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia. The book brings the letters together to tell the gripping story of a patriotic soldier of the Third Reich who, through witnessing its atrocities in the East, begins to doubt the war's moral legitimacy.
American Biography After the Cold War
April 04, 2011 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
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What are the issues of judgment, perspective, and stance that confront historians whose subjects played a role in debates about Stalinism, McCarthyism, and Communism? In the years when the Cold War shaped perceptions, historians identified themselves with particular political positions. But what is the view toward such issues today? Is the intellectual Cold War over? Or does it still constrain our minds and our words? Lillian Hellman will serve as a case in point in this presentation with Columbia University R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History Alice Kessler-Harris.
"A Hard Country to Love": Patriotism and National Identity in Russia's Great War, 1914-1918
April 04, 2011 // 12:00pm — 1:00pm
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Melissa Stockdale, Associate Professor of History, University of Oklahoma, and Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, discussed how Imperial Russia's participation in World War I led to a mobilization campaign that united the country's population under a cultivated national identity.
Kissinger's Realpolitik and American Exceptionalism
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Henry Kissinger is perhaps the most famous and most controversial American diplomat of the twentieth century. Much of the literature about him emphasizes his geopolitical approach to international relations, his European background, and his advocacy of Realpolitik. But to a large extent of his foreign policy was fundamentally shaped and conditioned by domestic politics. Kissinger ultimately failed to bring about a different approach to foreign policy, one moving beyond American exceptionalism and toward an understanding of the limits of power.
Ruth Fischer: A Life For and Against Communism, 1895-1961
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Mario Kessler, associate professor at the University of Potsdam, Germany will discuss Ruth Fischer's political itinerary and attempt to explain why it went to such extremes – astonishing even in the 'Age of Extremes.'
The Russian Imperial Legacy—Stalin and the Outbreak of the War in the East: Barbarossa
March 21, 2011 // 4:00pm — 5:30pm
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Few events in the history of the twentieth century are as controversial, politicized, and laden with emotion as is the launching of operation Barbarossa—the German Invasion of Russia. It has become a fertile ground for conspiracy theories and a subject of unending polemics. This presentation will discuss a vital but missing dimension: the subjugation of ideological premises to the everlasting Russian imperial legacy as the driving force behind Stalin's policies on the eve of operation Barbarossa.
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March 17, 2011 // 12:00pm — 1:30pm
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Military occupation has been a crucial dimension of U.S. foreign relations from the early nineteenth century to the present. The occupations of Germany and Japan in the wake of the Second World War generally were regarded positively. The occupation of Iraq, which initially met with some approbation, eventually tarnished the reputation of the George W. Bush administration. Wilson Center fellow Susan L. Carruthers will explain the transformation of public attitude.
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Album Rating: 3.5Best review of Heritage right here. Can't wait to see Opeth live in two weeks.
Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Offghost reveries and watershed are my two favourite opeth jams man
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Not to be mean, just my opinion, but I don't agree with some of this review.
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"Not to be mean, just my opinion, but I don't agree with some of this review."
Not mean at all. That's why we're here, to discuss!
"hey man, uve rec'd me some of the best, its the least i can do"
Same here haha. I remember when we'd always go at it in whatever Toby Driver thread we were in lol. Good times.
"Best review of Heritage right here. Can't wait to see Opeth live in two weeks."
Thanks man! I see them the 26th myself.
"ghost reveries and watershed are my two favourite opeth jams man"
I enjoyed both, but it's hard to say that they were "progressions"
Album Rating: 3.0More like for the first time ever
Album Rating: 3.2The three different ones héhéhé
Album Rating: 3.2Also - Ilu Cheno. Stop wanking...I mean writing for other sites and come do it here instead. We've got Sowing, after all ;)
Album Rating: 3.0I agree with this review pretty hard. Also, as always, it's extremely well-written. Xeno for contrib!
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The three different ones héhéhé
Album Rating: 3.5I pretty much agree with everything you said here. good review.
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Album Rating: 1.5 | Sound OffNegged for dumb assumptions, eg that it is FACT that Opeth peaked at BWP. Popular opinion is now fact amirite.
Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound OffWhile Ghost Reveries and Watershed were both great in their own right, they still felt like a re-imagining of 1999's Still Life.
Completely different albums through and through. In fact, comparing Opeth albums should yield little comparison. They're all different in their own regard. Good review though, probably the best on this site thus far.
Negged for dumb assumptions, eg that it is FACT that Opeth peaked at BWP. Popular opinion is now fact amirite.
No and your dumb for negging this.
Album Rating: 3.2No and your dumb
That error always makes me want to poke my eyes out. And English is my second language.
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It has to be fun to drive a big red fire truck in parades, hitting the siren for the folks on the sidewalk, or to show wide-eyed schoolchildren through the firehouse.
But then, a fire happens or maybe something just as bad, or even worse.
And to realize what that means to the men and women who drive to the edge of flames that can turn on them like a provoked snake, you have to be invited into a veteran firefighter's memory.
Mark Ostrander, 56 in 10 days, and his wife, Lorrie, live on remote acreage in Jacumba, up in the high desert east of Pine Valley. He's big, rawboned and ruddy. When he smiles, he has a reason. When he visits the city, he doesn't hang around.
Two years ago, Ostrander removed his fire hat, hung up his ax and filed retirement papers as battalion chief of the Campo Battalion of Cal Fire. That's the state agency that stands between Californians and backcountry fires, which lie patiently awaiting the spark that will set them free to kill and destroy.
However, there's more to what fire departments do than fires, and it sometimes gets even worse. The public often doesn't know all they respond to: the auto accidents, the tragedy that guns can cause, and well, the dangers of everyday living that pull firefighters into the maelstrom of human suffering. They are first-responders to myriad risks.
Ostrander left it all behind, except what was in his head after 36 years on the line. Those memories had nowhere else to go.
It's said that the mind protects its sanity by retaining good memories and pushing the bad into the subconscious. That may be true in general, but it surely depends on how graphic and stark those bad memories are.
For Ostrander, it's a matter of perspective. He looks back with satisfaction on the lives and property his firefighters preserved, and the bond that developed in working elbow-to-elbow at a dirty, exhausting and dangerous job. But that fellowship was cemented by trauma that bends the mind and draws people close. Ostrander thinks the public needs to know just how tough it can get.
Which makes me think: Some truths make us smile, and some make us frown. But if the frowns make us more aware, more thoughtful of the service others do for our benefit, and sometimes to their own detriment, then we honor what they do by listening and saying, "I understand."
Ostrander talks of a day he rolled out in the morning with two fresh recruits. It was back in the '90s, but it could have been any day in any decade. The first call was to a home in Campo where a baby was reported as a SIDS victim. That's the chilling acronym for sudden infant death syndrome. The crew stood around the crib with nothing to be done, attempted to comfort the weeping parents and thought of their own children as they awaited the medical examiner. It seemed a very long time.


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5:30 PMTUESDAYUPDATE: Tonya Bundick was found guilty on an arson count related to the March 2013 fire that destroyed a labor camp in AccomackCounty.
The jury has recommended a 3 1/2 year prison sentence with no chance of parole and a $10,000 fine. Ajudge will officially sentence Bundick in September.
The jury deliberated for about 2 1/2 hours before coming back with their guilty verdict.
7/15 UPDATE: The defense for accused Eastern Shore arson suspect Tonya Bundick spent Tuesday morning trying to discredit the testimony of Bundick's former boyfriend,Charles Smith, who testified against her as part of a plea deal for his role in the fires.
Charles Smith's cell mate testified that Smith told him that he set the fires alone because it turned him on sexually.He also says the commonwealth provided Smith with MountainDew and cigarettes in order to convince him to testify against Bundick.
The witness also testified that Smith told him he took the reflectors off his kids bicycle so he would not be detected at night and he rode that bike to set the fire.
Bundick herself testified that she did not have any part in the fires.She testified that she believes struggled with drugs after his mom died.
Bundick says she still cares about Smith but is no longer in love with him.
The jury will begin deliberations in the case after a lunch break.
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VIRGINIA BEACH -- Convicted Accomack County arsonist Tonya Bundick's second trial got underway Monday in a Virginia Beach courtroom Monday.
Charles Smith, her former boyfriend testified that he still loves Tonya Bundick, and he would rather commit suicide than lose her.
He said that he set the fires because Bundick wanted him too, and the arsons made her happy. He would do anything to keep her.
On March 3, he said Bundick drove his van and they picked out a vacant house in Accomack to burn. She dropped him off, and he set a cardboard box on fire in the attic of the home. Once the fire started, he called Bundick's cell phone so she could pick him up.
They drove home together, listening to the police scanner application on Bundick's cell phone.
Bundick's defense argued that Smith is implicating Bundick because he doesn't want her to be free to date other men. Also, that Smith thinks he will get a lesser sentence if he also blames Bundick for the fires.
A state police investigator testified that Bundick gave a statement after she was arrested denying any involvement in the arsons.
The defense called their first witness, Reverend Frank Dickerson.He was the defense's character witness, who testified that he's known Bundick for several years.
Dickerson said she's honest person of good integrity, not someone responsible for arson.
But under cross examination, he admitted to the prosecutors he's actually Bundick's current boyfriend. He said he visits her once a week in jail, and talks to her regularly on the phone. And he even submits letters on her behalf to a local newspaper.
The jury trial is being held on one arson count out of 62 to which Bundick, 42, of Hopeton, pleaded not guilty in May.
Referred to by law-enforcement agencies as 'count 52,' the March 3, 2013, fire, which destroyed a labor camp near Keller owned by Richard F. Hall III, was one of more than 70 arsons reported in Accomack County between November 2012 and April 1, 2013.
Hall took the stand talking about how his vacant farm house was burned to the ground in Accomack County on March 3, 2013.
Next, a Melfa volunteer firefighter testified the home was engulfed in flames when he arrived on scene, and they were concerned about the fire spreading to a nearby fuel tank.
A state police investigator testified they found one set of footprints near the road of the arson scene, and a different set of footprints near the house that was set on fire.
Later Monday afternoon, investigators were expected to talk about the location pings of Bundick's cell phone during the time of the fire.
Bundick's ex-fiance, Charles R. Smith III, pleaded guilty in October to 68 charges related to 67 arsons. He is expected to testify Monday about her involvement in the Hall case.
Defense Attorney Allan Zaleski has argued that Smith is a convicted felon and his testimony about Bundick's involvement in the arson can't be trusted.
Bundick entered an Alford plea on two counts one each of arson and conspiracy to commit arson at a January trial in Virginia Beach. Both were related to an April 1, 2013 fire in Melfa.
She is scheduled to be sentenced on those counts Sept. 4 in Accomac.
The question of whether evidence from other arsons should be admitted will be determined during the trial, an Accomack County judge ruled at a motions hearing last month.
But Judge Glen A. Tyler ruled Commonwealth's Attorney Gary Agar cannot mention other arson acts in his opening statement.
Agar filed notice on May 27 in Accomack County Circuit Court informing defense attorney Allan Zaleski of the Commonwealth's intent to offer as evidence numerous certificates of analysis listing 32 dated between Jan. 2, 2013 and April 7, 2014.
Items from various arson scenes that were analyzed include wood and fire debris, casts of tire impressions, DNA analysis of a pair of yellow gloves, rags, a child's T-shirt and casts of shoe impressions.
Agar said after her arrest in June, Bundick 'made several statements' and his intention to bring in evidence from other arsons during the trial is connected to that.
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Altus Air Force Base held their official Groundbreaking Ceremony on Thursday, Aug. 7, to celebrate the new construction projects to begin in preparation for the KC-46A Pegasus Formal Training Unit. Altus AFB leadership, with Gen. Robin Rand, Commander of the Air Education and Training Command, and dignitaries, thrust their shovels into the dirt at the site where contractors and workers will soon begin building. Both Air Base and Civic leaders reflected on the base's history, it's bright future, and the exemplary partnership that has brought so many Air Force missions to Altus.
"Today's ground breaking is a momentous day for Altus Air Force Base, our surrounding community, Air Education and Training Command, and the United States Air Force," Col. Bill Spangenthal, Commander of the 97th Air Mobility Wing said to an audience of AAFB leaders, airmen, and Altus community civic leaders.
"Today we proudly train the greatest airmen in the world to operate C-17's and KC-135's, and soon the KC-46 will take to the skies of Altus, continuing our legacy of creating the world's best mobility air command," Col. Spangenthal said after recalling the earliest demonstrations of air refueling (circa. 1929), and highlighting the numerous training missions in the history of AAFB.
Oklahoma Senator Mike Schulz also spoke during the ceremony, bringing to memory his early days as a boy working the cotton fields and watching the beloved KC-135 aircraft fly in the Oklahoma sky.
"But as a much older kid, now still working those same cotton fields, I look forward to seeing the new aircraft in the Air," Senator Schulz said.
Schulz commended the partnership between the USAF and Boeing Co., stating he is glad to have another Boeing aircraft in Altus and in the skies of Southwest Oklahoma. "This day signifies the beginning of a new tool that will be a vital part in continuing the United States air superiority around the world," he said.
Following the ceremony, Col. Spangenthal offered several comments about the momentous day saying, "This is a great feeling to have this ground breaking on the KC-46A Pegasus. It has been a long time coming. And to be here and be part of this is truly fantastic and as we look forward to 2016 where we get a few aircraft on the ramp, I can tell you the whole base is excited."
"The KC-46 brings a unique blend of capabilities that we don't have today. It's going to offer both air refueling from a boom and a drogue. Offer up airlift movement, medical-evac, but it also brings an element of survivability that our tankers don't have today. So the across the board capabilities for this platform really make it a game changer for our nation."
"The future of Altus Air Force Base looks bright," Col. Spangenthal said.
Altus Mayor David Webb shared his thoughts about the occasion stating, "It's a great day for the City of Altus and Southwest Oklahoma. We've been anxiously awaiting this day for what seems like for years. We've been working on the partnership with the base, so this is just another way that we can work together to further the mission of the Air Force in Southwest Oklahoma."
Webb stated that Altus is a "show place" for community and base relationships. "Other parts of the country look to Altus," Webb said. "We are very well known for the great relationship we have with the base. Webb stated that the most significant piece of preparing for the new mission is the added housing needs for and estimated 570 new residents.
The Altus Military Affairs Committee has been a key component to help bring the Formal Training Unit and other missions to Altus.
"We have a group of business leaders that make contributions on their own to the Committee that does all sorts of things in building the relationship with the airbase," Mayor Webb said. "We work very closely when key visitors come to the base. We make them feel at home. We want them to see the best side of the base and the community… We have a very active group of business leaders and community members that feel very strongly about the Air Force base and want to do everything we can to further the mission of the base in Altus."
The estimated total project will cost about $56 million dollars, to include a simulator, fuselage, and trainer buildings, explained Maj. Jonathan Mackay, Chief of the KC-46A Wing Staffing Office. Maj. Mackay oversees the project to ensure that that the simulator and trainers are ready before the first two KC-46A aircraft arrive in 2016. AAFB anticipates receiving one or two aircraft each following year until they have at least six, with the possibility of having eight total. Demolition has already begun to prepare the site for a new addition to the 56th Operations Air Refueling Squadron building.


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All kidding aside, I'd be interested to know how much the autism scale has changed over the years. I realize that highly functioning people with autism still count as having autism, but was that always the case?
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If it had been, people would have noticed significant slowdown. I'm afraid that people confuse "spotty service in dense areas" and "too much bandwidth being used". They don't realize that in a lot of cases, they wouldn't be able to use their phone to talk when they're running into data problems. AT&T has been capitalizing on this, and making quite the pretty penny.
I don't know why anyone wouldn't expect this out of them. It's basically free money, and it panders to an uneducated user base through letting them think that they'll save money, and that they'll still be able to blame others when there's a problem.
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FF11 will remove the UAC prompt on Windows, which will be a further improvement in 6 weeks from now.
That actually missed FF11, and is slated for FF12.
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Color me shocked.
This will never change until lobbying and donations on a corporate scale are either severely limited or outright made illegal and enforced with harsh punishment. However, since it would be Congress that would need to change those laws, it's never going to happen.
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LUMBERTON — Judicial officials in Robeson County say a recommendation by the state's Administrative Office of Courts to replace North Carolina's court reporters with digital recorders would result in less accurate court transcripts and greater cost to taxpayers because of retrials.
"I'm definitely not opposed to supplementing court reporters with digital recorders," said Robert F. Floyd Jr., Robeson County's senior resident Superior Court judge. "But I don't think digital recorders are ready to replace live people at this time."
The study was done by the National Center for State Courts.
Although digital recorders are being used in Robeson and other counties for most District Court proceedings, a report issued by the state's Administrative Office of Courts earlier this month calls for the recorders to be used more often in Superior Court, the site of more serious civil and criminal court proceedings.
The move to just digital recording threatens the jobs of the state's approximately 100 court reporters, including two in Robeson County.
The Administrative Office of Courts, which runs the court system, made a study of the need and compensation of court reporters after the study was requested by the state General Assembly last year. The state Senate previously attempted to reduce the state's budget by reducing the state's staff of 100 reporters in half. The estimated $2 million in savings would then be used to hire private reporters as needed and install the digital recording equipment in courtrooms, according to the Senate plan.
According to The News and Observer of Raleigh, John Smith, director of the Administrative Office of Courts, said his agency is not recommending the elimination of live court reporters. Instead, according to the newspaper, Smith said there needs to be a "gradual transition to an appropriate mix," meaning the use of live reporters in complex cases and digital recordings in routine matters.
Robeson County judges, court reporters, the district attorney, the public defender and others representing the local courts met recently with state Sen. Michael Walters and state Rep. Charles Graham, both of Robeson County, and James L. Boles Jr., of Moore County, to air their concerns. Boles is co-chairman of the House Justice and Public Safety Appropriations Committee, while Graham is a member of the committee.
"I believe that the court reporter system that we have in place now works," Graham said. "It is efficient, effective, gives accurate information and is reliable."
Walters also raised concerns about the recommendation.
"After hearing all of the information from the (judicial) departments, I'm not leaning toward it," Walters said. " I don't think it's the prudent way to go."
Walters said he is concerned about accuracy.
"If there has to be a retrial because of a no good transcript that will put the victim's family through a horrible situation again," he said. "I don't think we need to do that. That's a heck of an expense, not only for the victim's family but for the state."
Both Floyd and J.Stanley Carmical, Robeson County's chief District Court judge, said that there has to be an "understanding of the function" of court reporters to recognize their importance to the court system.
"A court reporter does more than just run a machine. It is our check and balance," Floyd said.
Floyd said that court reporters often interrupt trials to tell lawyers not to talk over each other or remind witnesses to speak up or ask judges to repeat something.
"These are highly trained people," Carmical said.
District Attorney Johnson Britt said that digital recordings are far less accurate then the personal observations and records kept by court reporters. He said that inaccurate transcripts, or transcripts lacking information, can lead to appeals and retrials that are extremely costly.
"In the long run, doing away with court reporters is going to cause more problems than it solves," Britt said. "This is all about the need for getting information right the first time and doing justice."
Gayla Biggs, an assistant public defender and the current president of the Robeson County Bar Association, said that Angus Thompson, the county's public defender, is "in total opposition" to the elimination of live court reporters.
"The use of just digital recordings for court proceedings is not accurate, efficient or cost-wise," Biggs said.
Sherri Sealey, a Robeson County court reporter, said the starting salary of a court reporter is about $39,000 to $45,000. Few of the states approximately 100 staff court reporters are making much above the average salary of somewhere in the $50,000 range, she said.
"We're not only taking down the record. We're identifying in narrative form everything that happens," she said. "We are credentialed professionals. We have to get continued education certification … We're trained to understand language and know what to take down as part of the record."
Sealey said she thinks the court reporter system in North Carolina should remain as it is currently structured.
"If it is not broken, I don't think we need to fix it," she said. "What we do is an important job in the interest of justice in North Carolina."
According to The News and Observer, the replacement of live court reporters with recording equipment has been successful in some states and unsuccessful in others. In Kentucky, which went to video recording of trials 30 years ago after a stenographers' strike, a judge had to rehear an entire murder trial in 2010 after the digital recorder broke down. On the other hand, Utah went digital in 2009 and reportedly saved $1.3 million by cutting 50 jobs. It also cut the average number of days of receiving a trial transcript from 138 to 12, the newspaper said.
Both Walters and Graham said that they do not think the General Assembly will act on any recommendation to eliminate court reporters during the General Assembly's short session, which convenes in May.


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LAURINBURG — The latest in a round of electronic social services upgrades statewide was implemented in Scotland County last week, with a smooth transition period reported so far.
"It should not ideally, except in rare instances, take any longer than it took in the past," Morgan Richardson, Scotland County Department of Social Services WIC program director, said of the new Crossroads system.
The electronic information system was designed by a four-state consortium including social services departments in Virginia, West Virginia, and Alabama and in North Carolina and will replace the state's 30-year-old WIC Automated Data Processing System. The program will not change the application process for new or existing WIC clients, Richardson said, but with it all aspects of the WIC program, including clinic operations, benefit vouchers, appointment scheduling, and federal reporting, will be conducted electronically.
The program will also assist DSS staff in tracking clients' self-reported nutritional habits and interventions taken to educate and help them adopt healthier habits.
"Basically we go through a list of questions for a nutritionist to interview the patient and we assess their nutritional status," said Richardson.
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Though WIC staff is still referring back to paper charts while that information is being entered into the Crossroads system, Richardson said that the charts will eventually be discarded.
Scotland County, with some 1,750 families receiving benefits through WIC, is in the third group of DSS departments since May to adopt the Crossroads system. The system will continue to rollout throughout the state through the first week in October.
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