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While the popular understanding of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision is that it opened the door to unlimited corporate spending, last week's FEC filings showed that many of the millions that Super PACs received in 2011 came not from corporations, but from deep-pocketed individuals and corporate CEOs. What remains unknown is just how much corporate money is secretly flowing through another vehicle being used to influence political outcomes, the 501(c)(4) nonprofit.
Notably, the Tea Party-affiliated FreedomWorks Super PAC received more than $1.3 million in contributions from its associated 501(c)(4). Under current law, the FreedomWorks (c)(4) is not required to disclose its donors to the public -- unlike a Super PAC -- suggesting one way that corporate donors can disguise their political spending.
Citizens United, Super PACs, and Untold Stories
The 2010 Citizens United v. F.E.C. decision struck down bipartisan clean election laws and declared that Congress could not limit so-called "independent" spending by corporations or others, on the dubious grounds that there is no risk of corruption from spending not "coordinated" with a candidate (even if the candidate benefits from the expenditures).
Following the decision, it was originally believed that the airwaves would be filled with political ads sponsored by corporations. But the 2010 midterm elections saw few corporations directly sponsoring political advertisements, perhaps intimidated by the backlash Target received in mid-2010 for funding independent expenditures in support of an anti-gay GOP candidate.
The development of so-called "Super PACs" have given corporations one vehicle by which they can filter their political spending. Following the Citizens United precedent, the D.C. district court in SpeechNow.org v. F.E.C. gave Political Action Committees (PACs) the go-ahead to become "Super" by accepting unlimited contributions and spending unlimited sums. If there is no risk of corruption from "independent" spending, the court claimed, there is no additional risk of corruption from allowing contributions to groups making independent expenditures.
This has given rise to candidate-specific Super PACs like Mitt Romney's "Restore Our Future" and President Obama's "Priorities USA Action," both of which don't "officially" coordinate with the candidate's campaigns, but were started by former campaign staff. The Super PACs can raise unlimited sums whereas the official campaigns still must comply with campaign finance rules that limit the size of contributions. There has also been an explosion in Super PACs like Karl Rove's American Crossroads that support (or oppose) a broader slate of candidates.
The media has been focused on Super PACs as indicative of the post-Citizens United landscape, and last week's end-of-year Super PAC filings with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) generated a flurry of stories. But a review of the filings showed Super PACs were funded less by corporate money and more by super-rich individuals -- seventeen people gave $1 million or more. NYU law professor Richard Pildes looked at the candidate-specific Super PACs and calculated that only 23% of contributions came directly from corporations. While Super PACs have given individuals a new way to do political spending, the wealthy few were allowed to spend unlimited sums on independent expenditures even before Citizens United.
So does this mean that corporations are not spending on political campaigns? Not necessarily. Despite the focus on Super PACs, it is possible that corporate spending is being filtered through non-profit groups, particularly those organized under Section 501(c)(4) of the IRS code. Among its many impacts, Citizens United opened the door for corporate-funded nonprofits to spend on "issue" or other ads, and contribute to PACs. Unlike Super PACs, 501(c)s are not required to disclose their donors, and are not required to report their spending and fundraising to the FEC.
Several Super PACs are also directly affiliated with a 501(c)(4) organization, and in some cases more funds are flowing to the latter.
Crossroads GPS is the 501(c)(4) half of the Karl Rove-affiliated Super PAC American Crossroads, and reportedly raked in $31.6 million in anonymous funds last year, outpacing the Super PAC, which raised $18.4 million.
501(c)(4) non-profits are limited in how much they can participate in electoral or partisan politics. According to the IRS, "political intervention" cannot be their "primary activity," which has been construed to mean that no more than half of their staff time or financial resources can be directed towards political endeavors (depending on how they report to the IRS).
The IRS rules on what constitutes "political intervention" are murky and rarely enforced, and groups like GPS have been involved in a significant amount of activities that would reasonably be considered "political." The nonprofit spent $20 million last summer on ads attacking President Obama, and millions more on ads criticizing Congresspersons for supporting the president's programs. Election law guru Rick Hasen has expressed concern about 501(c)s "becoming shadow Super PACs" as a result of this direct election activity.
Super PAC Sleight of Hand
Besides direct political activity, recent FEC filings indicate that several 501(c)(4)'s are transferring resources to their affiliated Super PAC, suggesting a way that corporations can disguise their political spending but still fund Super PACs.
For example, in its year-end filing with the FEC, the FreedomWorks for America Super PAC noted that it received a total of $1,336,778 from the anonymously-funded 501(c)(4) FreedomWorks Inc. While the Super PAC must list its donors in filings with the FEC, that disclosure means little when a major donor is in turn funded by secret, undisclosed sources.
"That's the laundering of secret money into a super PAC," said Fred Wertheimer, president of clean elections group Democracy 21. "The bottom line is: No one should be doing it."
Freedomworks is the Tea Party-affiliated organization closely tied to corporate lobbyist and former GOP Congressman Dick Armey. It grew out of the Koch-founded and -funded Citizens for a Strong Economy, which split in 2004 into Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity.
The Freedomworks 501(c)(4) contributions to the PAC consisted of $900,000 in financial contributions, and $436,778 of "in-kind" contributions, listed on the FEC form as "staff/overhead," "legal/compliance services," "travel," and the like.
All of the "in-kind" contributions from the 501(c)(4)) listed on the PAC's "Itemized Receipts" are also listed on the "Itemized Disbursements" pages, which appears to suggest that the in-kind contributions were reimbursed.
It is unknown whether contributions to a PAC that are "reimbursed" would still be counted as "political activity" for purposes of the IRS' rule that a 501(c)(4) cannot spend more than 50% of its funds on political intervention.
Additionally, on the final day of 2011, December 31, the PAC made one "negative" disbursement to the 501(c)(4), listed as "-$134,212" whose purpose is listed as "adjustment for in kinds for ind exps." It is unclear whether this was in effect a payment from the 501(c)(4) to the Super PAC, or whether it was related to something else. The disclosure detail is insufficient to keep the public well-informed.
Much of the FreedomWorks PAC's campaign activity in 2011 involved backing Tea Party primary challengers to incumbent Republicans. Targets included Republican Senators Orrin Hatch (UT) and Dick Lugar (IN), both of whom have been in office for over 35 years. The 501(c)(4) FreedomWorks Inc., as well as the 501(c)(3) FreedomWorks Foundation, have taken positions to the right of these GOP politicians, focusing on issues like cutting taxes and social programs, and promoting climate change denial and school privatization.
Other 501(c)(4) to PAC Transfers
FreedomWorks was not the only organization transferring funds between its 501(c)(4) and Super PAC wings.
Priorities USA Action, the pro-Obama Super PAC started by two former White House aides, received over $215,000 from its affiliated nonprofit "sister" organization, the 501(c)(4) Priorities USA. The contributions are described in the FEC filing as "Operating Expenses Reimbursed from Priorities USA."
The American Bridge 21st Century Action Fund, a Super PAC designed to help Democrats, received $245,667.09 from the 501(c)(4) American Bridge 21st Century Foundation, described as "overhead and staff expenses" or "overhead expenses."
Several Super PACs were funded almost entirely by their 501(c)(4) sister organizations.
The Citizens United Super PAC LLC received all of its 2011 funding from the affiliated 501(c)(4) Citizens United, the group whose lawsuit led to the U.S. Supreme Court decision that now bears the Citizens United name. The Super PAC's receipts for the second half of 2011 amounted to $2,802.50, and all were in in-kind donations from the 501(c)(4) for "administrative support." All of these in-kind donations were listed as reimbursed in the "Itemized Disbursements" section.
The New Power PAC received $13,800 in cash and $4,487 in in-kind contributions from Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, the 501(c)(4) that founded it. The PAC reimbursed the 501(c)(4) for all of the in-kind contributions in the Itemized Deductions section.
The Citizens for Strength and Security PAC received $66,944.75 in financial contributions from the affiliated 501(c)(4) Citizens for Strength and Security, which amounted to all but $5000 of the contributions it received.
These examples are illuminating primarily because they demonstrate just how little we know. There is far more to the post-Citizens United election landscape than Super PACs and wealthy individual donors. But much of it is hidden from public view.
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The Exalted Upper Case Letter
With the following seemingly innocuous opening term: "...the U.S. Supreme Court..."---the subject article unknowingly endorses the unintended & unnatural "exalted" status of the 9-member "supreme Court" (the latter reflecting the intended & natural lower case "s").
And aren't endorsements (unknowingly or not) of the unintended & unnatural "S"upremacy that we are noting here, simply part and parcel of the primary issue facing America's middle, working and poor class swing voters today? We here at OKJack™Group™ certainly think so.
Naturally, we're addressing that tiny minority of swing voters who "decide" every single vote in favor of the single candidate that stands for election or reelection in the United States every biennium. That single candidate is "the privileged class", whether democrat or republican or whatever---it makes little difference one way or the other you see.
"...this Constitution for the United States of America..." has been walked on and beat up so many times since ratification, that the "small" stuff, i.e., the "lower case" stuff, is invariably overlooked by every writer and reader. Yes, there is a statute that intentionally yet unnaturally "exalts" the court and "converts" its judges to "justices". But that's nothing more than statutorily beating up and walking on "this Constitution"---that was ordained, established & ratified by "We the People of the United States" in the late 18th Century.
Worse than upper case "S"upremacy, are the "S"upreme Court's "C"ontrollers...said constitutional court being what we here at OKJack™Group™ refer to as Big Legal™---simply being part of the Big Six™, i.e., as denoted by the biennial quest of Big Business, Big Politics, Big Media and Big Religion™ to gain and maintain control over Big Government and Big Legal™, as well as the federal government's authority to borrow and print & mint.
This, to ensure the continuing redistribution upward of diffused national wealth from an ever dwindling middle class---to be thereby concentrated at the pyramidal apex by an ever more "exalted" and entrenched privileged class. We're addressing the privileged class that since 1988 converted 75% of America's middle class jobs to Chinese and other foreign poor class jobs paying no more than $1-$2/hour on manufacturing campuses where the employees toil for 16 hours a day and are housed in dormitories and fed, clothed and otherwise supplied by company stores (e.g., employees of Apple's Taiwanese subsidiary operating in mainland China).
Only 25% of corporate manufacturing jobs remain inside the U.S. after 25 years (1988-2012) of the lowest privileged class top marginal federal income tax rates since after World War I---and since the stock market crash (1929-32) and the Great Depression were both ushered in (1929-41) by the privileged class. The latest 25-year cash windfall to the privileged class failed to create middle class jobs, but it never fails to create privileged class politicians and congressional & presidential office holders---as well as Wall Street profits turned into gambling losses and then magically into federal government bailouts through borrowing and printing & minting.
What we've had since the Kennedy/Johnson years (and particularly since 1988 and the Reagan/Bush years) is a trade of middle class national wealth for privileged class national debt through borrowing and printing & minting.
The immense amounts of money mentioned in the subject article would not be available if not for the subsidizing of privileged class wealth, power, privilege and control by an unsustainable 35% top marginal federal income tax rate for individuals---not to mention the 35% top rate for corporate net profits and the 15% single rate for investor net capital gains, dividends and "exotic" interest income. The average top marginal rate is 70%, and was never below 90% between World War II and just before the beginning of the Vietnam War in 1963.
These immense amounts of money are used biennially to entertain middle, working and poor class swing voters, and then to confuse those selfsame swing voters---and finally to manage them until the next time---as the swing voting election cycle of Big Six™ Entertainment, Confusion and Management™ continues each and every biennium.
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P.S. Preamble: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Articles I, II and/or III: The term "supreme Court" is documented 5 times. The phrase "Judges of the supreme Court" is documented 2 times. The term "Chief Justice" is documented 1 time. There is no such term as "Associate Justice" in the U.S. Constitution.


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The year 2009 will be dedicated to the Erró Collection, an invaluable gift presented to Reykjavik City in 1989 by the artist himself. Hafnarhús will host special exhibitions and various happenings over the year.
Vivid colours and spontaneous structure characterize the paintings of the young Icelandic artists exhibited here.
Lucy is a video and music installation by Dodda Maggý (1981), the 15th artist to exhibit in the D-gallery project. In Lucy the artist explores the idea of the "acousmetre," a film character portrayed only by voice, never in body, omniscient and ubiquitous.
In the 1970s, intrigued by man's excursions into outer space, Erró turned his attention to space voyages and astronauts. After some experimentation with astronauts as pictorial subjects, he had an opportunity to visit NASA's base in Houston, Texas.
In the early 1980s Erró created many series of collages and paintings presenting gorgeous young women from North Africa in the nude or lightly swathed. These images derive from a large collection of postcards found by Erró and his friend Jean-Jacques Lebel at a Paris fleamarket.
Unnar Örn's installation is constructed around a collection of artefacts borrowed from the storage rooms of the Reykjavik City Museum, Museum of Photography and Municipal Archives.
Katrín has been using camera as her main tool to communicate her artistic viewpoints.
Photographer Gary Schneider, born in South Africa in 1954, lives and works in New York. The exhibition consists of 30 life-size portraits of nude men and women that Schneider has photographed using an unusual technique.
The exhibition offers, for the first time, an opportunity to discover a holistic selection of Erró's collages from Reykjavik Art Museum's Erró collection.
Dolls are not a common theme in the history of art. Thus Erró took a surprising turn at the end of the 1980s when he started making collages, and later paintings, focussing on pictures of old dolls of the pre-war era.
A cooperative project of the Reykjavik Art Museum and the Iceland Academy of the Arts: students from the visual arts and design departments show their final projects.
An exhibition of contemporary paintings and sculptures that count as still-life but were not originally presented as such.
Works that are pleasing to the eye and go straight to the heart of the spectator are predominant in the mind of the artist Magnús Helgason. Magnús is the seventeenth artist to exhibit in the D-Gallery of Hafnarhús.
The overall theme of the exhibition, Indian Highway, involves reflections on the road's significance for movement, development, and migration, the road as the crucial link between town and country.
This Mel Ramos exhibition has been made possible by the most generous donation of Ernst Hilger, gallerist in Vienna. It includes 30 recent editions of lithographs and high quality silkscreens , created by the American artist between 1996 and 2009.
The dual theme of authority and rebellion is a departure point for Gardar Eide Einarsson's visually hermetic, mostly black and white paintings, carefully constructed sculptures, photographs, videos, flags and flyers. Drawing heavily on graffiti, skateboarding and punk music, he engages with alternative and abject cultures in order to unsentimentally address the workings of contemporary society from within its anomalous manifestations.
Reykjavik Art Museum brings attention to promising artists with a series of exhibitions in D-Gallery, series which won the DV culture award last year. Common to all of these artists is the fact that none of them have had an exhibition in any of the major galleries in the country and their works are specifically created for this space.
The purpose of the collage competition is to increase understanding and knowledge of collages, as well as interest in collages as an art form, among the general public and students alike. The competition revolves around making collages from found materials, i.e. newspapers, magazines, books and other published and two-dimensional material.
This first retrospective of the works of architect Högna Sigurðardóttir is prompted by the occasion of her eightieth birthday and the precious donation of her works to the Museum. The first woman to practice architecture in Iceland, Högna Sigurðardóttir has not been shy to try innovations in her work.
With timeless design and discerning professional sense, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir has established her place as a world-class designer. Her artistic creation builds on years of collaboration with many renowned contemporary designers and a rare knowledge of material texture and three-dimensional shaping.
Stoneworks is an educational and family oriented workshop in the North Gallery in conjunction with Steinunn Sigurðardóttir's exhibition.
More than fifty artists display nearly two hundred works in water colour in the exhibition Watery Hues. The exhibition is the first of its kind, spanning the 130 year history of water colour painting in Iceland, from 1880 – 2009.
The exhibition looks at how photographs are used in Icelandic and international contemporary art, through over 60 photographic works from the collection of Pétur Arason and Ragna Róbertsdóttir.
The drawings and sketches in the Reykjavík Art Museum's Kjarval collection number in the thousands. In recent months Reykjavík Art Museum has been making these works available in digital form to facilitate research on Kjarval's oeuvre and a closer examination of specific subjects in his work.
An educational, family-oriented and open workshop in the North Gallery
in conjunction with the exhibition Watery Hues.
The so-called women's decade left a significant mark on the history of Iceland. This turning point is remembered in the exhibition by works from more than twenty Icelandic women.
Camera Obscura (darkened room) is a certain illusion or an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings through a hole on one side of the room. Light from an external scene passes throuhg the hole and strikes a surface inside where it is reproduced, upside-down, but with colour and perspective preserved.
Donations and purchases of artwork have brought about the major part of the 800 works which have been added to the collection of the Reykjavik Art Museum in the last five years.
An educational, family- oriented open workshop in the North Gallery in conjunction with the New Acquisitions' exhibition.
The sculptor Ásmundur Sveinsson was a 20th century man shaped by the 19th century.
Many of Ásmundur Sveinsson's works of art depict women – from loving mothers to domestic labourers, from sensitive souls to wild ogresses.
In the pyramid Ásmundur's studio has been recreated, to give an idea of his working environment in Sigtún. In a reading room, visitors can learn more about the artist's life and work.
The installation Sleep Light by Ráðhildur Ingadóttir comprises the dome of the Ásmundarsafn art museum, the sound of the space, a computer, a hand mirror, light projection and a shadow.
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The electromagnetic field extends indefinitely throughout space and describes the electromagnetic interaction. It is one of the four fundamental forces of nature (the others are gravitation, the weak interaction, and the strong interaction). The field propagates by electromagnetic radiation; in order of increasing energy (decreasing wavelength) electromagnetic radiation comprises: radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays.
The field can be viewed as the combination of an electric field and a magnetic field. The electric field is produced by stationary charges, and the magnetic field by moving charges (currents); these two are often described as the sources of the field. The way in which charges and currents interact with the electromagnetic field is described by Maxwell's equations and the Lorentz force law.
From a classical perspective, the electromagnetic field can be regarded as a smooth, continuous field, propagated in a wavelike manner; whereas, from a quantum mechanical perspective, the field is seen as quantised, being composed of individual photons.
The electromagnetic field may be viewed in two distinct ways.
Classically, electric and magnetic fields are thought of as being produced by smooth motions of charged objects. For example, oscillating charges produce electric and magnetic fields that may be viewed in a 'smooth', continuous, wavelike manner. In this case, energy is viewed as being transferred continuously through the electromagnetic field between any two locations. For instance, the metal atoms in a radio transmitter appear to transfer energy continuously. This view is useful to a certain extent (radiation of low frequency), but problems are found at high frequencies (see ultraviolet catastrophe). This problem leads to another view.
The electromagnetic field may be thought of in a more 'coarse' way. Experiments reveal that electromagnetic energy transfer is better described as being carried away in 'packets' or 'chunks' called photons with a fixed frequency. Planck's relation links the energy of a photon to its frequency through the equation:
where is Planck's constant, named in honor of Max Planck, and is the frequency of the photon . For example, in the photoelectric effect —the emission of electrons from metallic surfaces subjected to electromagnetic radiation— it is found that increasing the intensity of the incident radiation has no effect, and that only the frequency of the radiation is relevant in ejecting electrons.
This quantum picture of the electromagnetic field has proved very successful, giving rise to quantum electrodynamics, a quantum field theory describing the interaction of electromagnetic radiation with charged matter.
In the past, electrically charged objects were thought to produce two types of field associated with their charge property. An electric field is produced when the charge is stationary with respect to an observer measuring the properties of the charge and a magnetic field (as well as an electric field) is produced when the charge moves (creating an electric current) with respect to this observer. Over time, it was realized that the electric and magnetic fields are better thought of as two parts of a greater whole — the electromagnetic field.
Once this electromagnetic field has been produced from a given charge distribution, other charged objects in this field will experience a force (in a similar way that planets experience a force in the gravitational field of the Sun). If these other charges and currents are comparable in size to the sources producing the above electromagnetic field, then a new net electromagnetic field will be produced. Thus, the electromagnetic field may be viewed as a dynamic entity that causes other charges and currents to move, and which is also affected by them. These interactions are described by Maxwell's equations and the Lorentz force law.
The feedback loop can be summarized in a list, including phenomena belonging to each part of the loop:
Phenomena in the list are marked with a star () if they consist of magnetic fields and moving charges which can be reduced by suitable Lorentz transformations to electric fields and static charges. This means that the magnetic field ends up being (conceptually) reduced to an appendage of the electric field, i.e. something which interacts with reality only indirectly through the electric field.
There are different mathematical ways of representing the electromagnetic field. The first one views the electric and magnetic fields as three-dimensional vector fields. These vector fields each have a value defined at every point of space and time and are thus often regarded as functions of the space and time coordinates. As such, they are often written as (electric field) and (magnetic field).
If only the electric field () is non-zero, and is constant in time, the field is said to be an electrostatic field. Similarly, if only the magnetic field () is non-zero and is constant in time, the field is said to be a magnetostatic field. However, if either the electric or magnetic field has a time-dependence, then both fields must be considered together as a coupled electromagnetic field using Maxwell's equations.
With the advent of special relativity, physical laws became susceptible to the formalism of tensors. Maxwell's equations can be written in tensor form, generally viewed by physicists as a more elegant means of expressing physical laws.
The behaviour of electric and magnetic fields, whether in cases of electrostatics, magnetostatics, or electrodynamics (electromagnetic fields), is governed in a vacuum by Maxwell's equations. In the vector field formalism, these are:
where is the charge density, which can (and often does) depend on time and position, is the permittivity of free space, is the permeability of free space, and is the current density vector, also a function of time and position. The units used above are the standard SI units. Inside a linear material, Maxwell's equations change by switching the permeability and permittivity of free space with the permeability and permittivity of the linear material in question. Inside other materials which possess more complex responses to electromagnetic fields, these terms are often represented by complex numbers, or tensors.
The Lorentz force law governs the interaction of the electromagnetic field with charged matter.
The two Maxwell equations, Faraday's Law and the Ampère-Maxwell Law, illustrate a very practical feature of the electromagnetic field. Faraday's Law may be stated roughly as 'a changing magnetic field creates an electric field'. This is the principle behind the electric generator.
The Ampère-Maxwell Law roughly states that 'a changing electric field creates a magnetic field'. Thus, this law can be applied to generate a magnetic field and run an electric motor.
Maxwell's equations take the form of an electromagnetic wave in an area that is very far away from any charges or currents (free space) - that is, where and are zero. It can be shown, that, under these conditions, the electric and magnetic fields satisfy the electromagnetic wave equation:
James Clerk Maxwell was the first to obtain this relationship by his completion of Maxwell's equations with the addition of a displacement current term to Ampère's circuital law.
Being one of the four fundamental forces of nature, it is useful to compare the electromagnetic field with the gravitational, strong and weak fields. The word 'force' is sometimes replaced by 'interaction'.
The relative strengths and ranges of the four interactions and other information are tabulated below:
|Relative Magnitude
|Strong interaction
|10-15 m
|Electromagnetic interaction
|Weak interaction
|W and Z bosons
|1/r5 to 1/r7
|10-16 m
Properties of the electromagnetic field are exploited in many areas of industry. The use of electromagnetic radiation is seen in various disciplines. For example, X-rays are high frequency electromagnetic radiation and are used in radio astronomy, radiography in medicine and radiometry in telecommunications. Other medical applications include laser therapy, which is an example of photomedicine. Applications of lasers are found in military devices such as laser-guided bombs, as well as more down to earth devices such as barcode readers and CD players. Something as simple as a relay in any electrical device uses an electromagnetic field to engage or to disengage the two different states of output (ie, when electricity is not applied, the metal strip will connect output A and B, but if electricity is applied, an electromagnetic field will be created and the metal strip will connect output A and C).
The potential health effects of the very low frequency EMFs surrounding power lines and electrical devices are the subject of on-going research and a significant amount of public debate. In workplace environments, where EMF exposures can be up to 10,000 times greater than the average, the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has issued some cautionary advisories but stresses that the data is currently too limited to draw good conclusions.
The potential effects of electromagnetic fields on human health vary widely depending on the frequency and intensity of the fields. For more information on the health effects due to specific parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, see the following articles with details of possible dangers (MRI) and some currently unfounded fears (mobile phones):


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Devon Bird of Prey Centre
Several years ago Karen Andriunas, an expert falconer came to us with a proposition, to build a fabulous Bird of Prey Centre where she could display her growing collection of birds and promote her keen interest in birds of prey. Here, at Fermoy's is the realisation of her dream.
The Devon Bird of Prey Centre is a self-funded visitor centre operating by donation. You can observe owls, hawks, eagles and falcons in their specially constructed aviaries whilst learning about their history and habitats. Expert volunteers are on hand to offer insights into the birds' natural behaviour giving the whole experience a very personable touch. For a small additional charge you can also enjoy the remarkable experience of flying displays (subject to weather).
The Centre runs a variety of 'experience' days as well as courses in falconry. These allow you the opportunity to get 'up close' to the birds and enjoy the unique feeling of the flight of the bird from the falconers glove.
Karen is passionate about her birds and their natural care and welfare. The Devon Bird of Prey Centre reflects her passion and determination – it is a wonderful, rewarding educational experience, one that you shouldn't miss!
Find out more: www.devonbirdofprey.co.uk


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March 8, 2010 11:45 am
Putting a big chill on the hot-hand theory of player performance at the plate.
Flash forward to July, 2010, as Prince Fielder is being interviewed after a Brewers win. Fielder has just gone 4-for-5 with two home runs, and the announcers tell Fielder that he's gone 9-for-his-last-12 over the past few days. Fielder says, "Yeah, I've been feeling great and seeing the ball really clearly the past few days. Some days, you just see the ball better than others."
October 28, 2009 11:55 am
Do the Yankees and Phillies stand a better chance of laying into the starting pitchers the third time through the order?
For the first time since 1926, the most powerful offenses in each league will be facing off in this year's Fall Classic, and fans and media have been busy pondering the ability of either pitching staff to hold up. Both the Yankees and Phillies boast deep and powerful lineups that can easily convert a few mistakes into crooked numbers on the scoreboard, and Joe Girardi and Charlie Manuel have surely spent anxious hours trying to determine the optimal way to ensure their best available arms pitch the most and, most important, innings. The countdown to Game One has included speculation on whether the Yankees will stick with a three-man rotation, how much gas Pedro Martinez has in his tank, whether CC Sabathia and Cliff Lee can be effective through three starts in a seven-game series, and whether Manual will continue his careful use of volatile "closer" Brad Lidge.
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September 22, 2009 3:45 pm
Despite last night's heroics, Bruce Bochy's misuse of Fred Lewis may be a key reason the Giants will miss the postseason.
Fred Lewis was the lead in the AP game story about the Giants' 5-4 win over the Diamondbacks last night. Pinch-hitting with the bases loaded and one out in the eighth, Lewis hit a ground ball to second base that well could have been an inning-ending double play. He beat out the relay throw to first, however, which allowed the go-ahead run to score. The Giants' bullpen held onto the lead over the last six outs, moving the team to four games behind the wild-card leading Rockies with 12 games to play.
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September 22, 2009 1:39 pm
Popping the hood to dig down into when to let it ride with your rookie hitters, and when to worry.
In my previous article, I modeled the choice between a stable veteran and a promising but unproven rookie as a "multi-armed bandit" problem. To solve it, I devised an algorithm that computes the expected value of each choice and discovered that provisionally starting the rookie usually yields a greater expectation. The intuition behind this result is that it's usually worth investing a few plate appearances in the hopes that a rookie might be highly productive, even if that is improbable according to his PECOTA projection; after all, the veteran can always replace him if the experiment fails. But what constitutes failure? In other words, how long should the rookie be allowed to struggle?
To answer this question, we'll need to go under the hood of the model I described the first time out. In the model, the rookie's productivity is described by a probability distribution on his OBP based on PECOTA's projections. The probability distribution in question is a beta; in order to understand the methodology I am about to describe, we'll need to grasp the basics of this distribution. The beta ranges over the interval [0, 1] and is defined by two positive parameters (α, β). Its mean is α/(α+β); thus, if α goes up, the mean goes up, while if β goes up, the mean goes down. Also, the greater α and β are the more "peaked" the distribution will be around this mean. Let's see how this looks:
September 10, 2009 4:18 pm
Exploring when they should start versus when they should head for farm country.
Willie Mays famously started his career 0-for-12 before hitting a home run off of Warren Spahn. This season, Orioles �ber-stud catcher Matt Wieters has struggled to live up to expectations, posting a feeble .264/.310/.368 line since being called up in May. Talented rookies such as these present a twofold challenge to their teams: first, how to identify when they're ready for promotion, and second, how to react when they fail to produce. These decisions can be driven by subjective considerations, such as a scout or manager's evaluation of the player's poise and confidence. Such things are certainly important, but it's worth investigating what a purely objective mechanism for making these decisions might look like.
So, today we'll try to answer the first question: How do you decide when a prospect's ready? Let's consider the common scenario in which a rookie player is competing with a veteran for the vet's job. The veteran's productivity is typically well established, while the rookie's productivity is not known as precisely. Thus, we're faced with a choice between a so-called sure thing, and an unknown but possibly superior alternative.
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Have some of us been overlooking the obvious when it comes to scoring runs?
If you have ever tried to explain the concept of Pythagorean Record to a baseball novice, you probably have had to answer the following criticism: "That counts the extra runs at the end of a blowout as much as other runs, even though it does not matter whether you win 10-0 or 15-0." The answer that we give to that criticism is that teams that can take advantage of blowouts have better offenses and those type of teams will be more likely to win close games in the future. That is the reason that we have thousand-run estimators that try to approximate how many runs a team will score on average, and why we evaluate players with statistics like VORP-measured in runs over replacement player. Runs are the building blocks of wins, and you win by scoring more runs than your opponent. We cringe when we hear offenses evaluated by batting average because we know that the goal of offenses is to score runs, not get hits.
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Geoff Young recently used a BP Unfiltered post to come clean about his unrequited man crush on David Eckstein, setting off a wonderful comment thread in which readers described the players that they consider "guilty pleasures" - those that may not be stars, but are fun to watch nonetheless. Reading through the comments, I was struck by the many different types of players that can catch a fan's fancy, but one variety seemed to be particularly popular: The Little Guy. Maybe it's the David vs. Goliath matchup of the smaller batter versus the hulking pitcher that appeals to us; maybe we just identify with a more normal-seeming scale of player; in any case, shorter players seem to have some level of curb appeal that can't be explained by their stats.
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A year removed from one of the most disappointing seasons since, well, pick your least-favorite SNL cast, the Detroit Tigers are back on top in the AL Central. With a middle-of-the-pack offense, the Tigers have been doing it with improved pitching and, just as importantly, stellar defense. Flashing the leather is the latest little black dress of team construction - just take a peak at these defensive rankings for the current front-runners in the AL Central and AL West (all 2009 statistics through June 10th):
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The lesson that many people take away from Michael Lewis's best-selling book Moneyball is that On Base Percentage (OBP) is the only way to build a good baseball team. What is often missed is that the book is really a tale of economics, about finding inefficiencies in the market and exploiting them. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the baseball market was inefficient at judging the value of OBP. Realizing this, the low budget Oakland A's were able to build a successful offense on the cheap.
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The changing nature of leadoff hitter performance, and how different teams are adopting different solutions in making their selections.
Thirty years or so on, sabermetrics has been around long enough to have a few canards of its own to live with or live down. Take for example the old assertion from the '80s, that lineup order doesn't matter. That's taken as a literal, absolute truth in some quarters, but lineup optimization does mean the difference of a few extra runs here and there, fueled in no small part by the relentless mathematical fact that any one team's leadoff hitters will collectively get 120 more plate appearances in a season than their ninth-slot batters, and you'd much rather invest that additional playing time in better ballplayers. Operating in an environment where teams pursue fractions of runs' worth of difference in individual matchups or on the bases by running with more and more efficiency, and paying attention to who bats where, makes for another area where clubs can and do help themselves.
There are very few teams that enjoy the benefits of employing an obvious star-quality leadoff hitter, the guy who gets on base, steals bases, and even kicks in some power. Today we have the Orioles' Brian Roberts or the Mets' Jose Reyes, carrying on the game-changing precedents we might identify in Rickey Henderson or Tim Raines or perhaps even Bobby Bonds. Most other teams have to come up with something, because somebody has to lead off. The classic stathead working solution-or Earl Weaver's, or Joe McCarthy's-would be to put a better OBP up top. The Yankees have elected to do this with Derek Jeter, but that's not tied to his declining value as a slugger as much as it has always been something of a fall-back option during his entire career, as The Captain moved down to hitting second when the Yankees added Chuck Knoblauch in the '90s or, more recently, Johnny Damon. Deciding to put Damon's power behind Jeter's OBP is just a worthwhile adaptation to their respective talents at present. American League leadoff hitters generated a collective .347 OBP last season, so Jeter's career leadoff OBP of .389 or our PECOTA-projected season OBP of .360 suggest he's a good choice.
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Picking up an argument from last week, the reason to favor one over the other when talking about the NL's great pair of young backstops.
Last Friday on "Fantasy 411," Cory Schwartz and I went back and forth a bit about Brian McCann and Russell Martin. Now, we were talking about fantasy value, and Martin's green light on the bases tends to tip the balance to him in most formats for that game. That's because stolen bases are generally divorced from their costs in fantasy, and so have disproportionate value. Even though McCann is likely to hit for a higher average and more power, Martin is probably a better fantasy catcher.
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Who will win American Idol 2013? We are only a month away from the Season 12 finale, but that question just keeps getting more difficult every week.
For weeks now, we've been predicting Kree Harrison would win season 12 of American Idol. It seemed the country singer could do no wrong but, alas, she was called out by Jimmy Iovine last week for performances that were becoming boring. This week, Jimmy said he longs to see the passion Kree showed when she sang "Up to the Mountain" a few weeks ago and, after watching the clip they showed on last night's results show, we can see what he means. Between a pinched nerve and a few song choice issues, she has finally made a few missteps in the competition.
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Good afternoon, welcome to The Last Call. I'm Rob Lorei. Coming up we'll talk with Nancy Altman author of The Battle For Social Security. We'll talk about the selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be Mitt Romney's Vice Presidential running mate. Altman is part of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition. She says: "Mitt Romney's selection of Paul Ryan as his running mate starkly reveals that his values are not America's values. The American people overwhelmingly value our Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid systems. In contrast, Representative Ryan's self-proclaimed "Path to Prosperity," would lead to the brick-by-brick dismantling of these vital institutions. It is a path to insecurity for America's working families. It is a path to the further erosion of the middle class. It is a path to the prosperity of Wall Street at the expense of Main Street." Nancy Altman, Co-Chair of the Strengthen Social Security Coalition joins us live.
Later we'll talk with Steve Baldwin of a new group called Dump Romney. In a press release put out over the weekend the group said: "Steve Baldwin, spokesman for a rising "DUMP ROMNEY" insurgency, reacted to the GOP frontrunner's announced running mate this way: "Paul Ryan can't save a doomed ticket. Nobody votes for Veep, a Palin makeover couldn't save McCain, and Ryan can't prettify Romney. Whether we're painting lipstick on a pig or RINO, it's still ugly."
Baldwin, former Executive Director of the Council for National Policy (CNP), an influential conservative organization in Washington, said "People vote for president, not vice president. Like Romney and Obama, Ryan supported TARP, the auto bailouts and raising the debt ceiling. Unlike Romney and Obama, Ryan had the common sense and principles to fight government takeover of health care. Voters are allergic to Mitt Romney. He'd be the worst nominee the GOP has ever offered."
Delegates to the August 27 Republican National Convention here began receiving a strategy memo last week entitled, "DUMP ROMNEY: Why Tampa's Republican Delegates must Dump Romney to Defeat Obama." It contends that no delegates are actually "bound" by law or GOP rules to vote for Romney and that, to win the White House and toss-up Senate seats, delegates must exercise their right to "conscientiously abstain" from Romney on the crucial first ballot, aiming for a stronger ticket leader in subsequent convention voting rounds."
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As is typical of Obama and his political machine, they have quickly and with panic, mobilized to portray Paul Ryan as the devil incarnate. I am a woman. I am very involved and invested in this year's election, in this country's direction, and in what my children and grandchildren are going to have left of the wonderful freedoms and balances I and my previous generations have been privy to. No one man can change history unless he has the charisma and political backing to effect that change. Paul Ryan is just a good man who inspires hope at a time when that terrifying possibility exists that that "one man" with the supposed charisma and backing sits now in OUR White House ready to take down everything that is America. Paul Ryan is HOPE - Ryan/Romney is our last hope. NOBAMA.


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Inside the Sandlot Brewpub at Coors Field
By William Brand
Thursday, September 28th, 2006 at 11:08 am in Uncategorized.
At the GABF…
Despite the hype, Denver isn't really Beertown.USA, take a one block walk from the clubs and brewpubs around Coors Field and you're back in regular America.
For instance, I'm staying at the Holiday Inn and the beers offered at dinner last night were: Bud, Miller, Coors and Heineken. I ordered a Blue Moon, Belgian-Style Ale** by Coors.
They served it was a slice of orange stuck on the glass.
It was served too cold, but once it warmed up, it was an OK Belgian style wit or white wheat beer. Spicy, lemony nose. Decent malt flavor.
Then, I looked up at the TV screen, realized the Rockies were playing at nearby Coors Field, which has, I believe, the only brewpub in a Major League ballpark. It's open evenings only when the Rockies play. Hey! Maybe this is Beertown, after all.
I jumped on the hotel shuttle and 10 minutes later I was at the gate. (It's fairly easy to get around in Denver). I convinced the ticket taker that I was here only for the brewpub and they GAVE me a ticket. (This is truth.). It's a great place to see a ballgame. Seems a lot more accessible than the Giants park. You walk in the front gate and you are there. The field's right below with seats extending down to field level.
The brewpub's in a back corner and you can't see the field from a barstool, which is unfortunate. But there are TV screens with the game on everywhere. Place was fairly full, kids are allowed. Nobody was watching the game The Rockies were losing.
The Rounders Pub, which is the restaurant-pub part of the brewery is open Monday-Saturday 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. and during Rockies games. It opens 90 minutes before each game. During games, you can't enter from the street.
The brewery is a test brewery for Coors, which is in nearby Goldon, CO. Brewplant's on the left as you go in, the kitchen-grille's on the right. They offer simple stuff, Sandlot Smoked Sirloin Sandwich, $7.75 was the highest priced item I saw.
At the bar, there were the standard Coors beers on tap, plus five beers brewed at the pub. A pint's $6,25, a deal compared to the Bay Area. Gordon Biersch is $7.50 at the Coliseum and I believe craft beer's $8 at the Giant's park.
The beer at Sandlot was served way too cold and on C02. But the beers brewed here were excellent.
It's always a shock to try craft beer away from the West Coast, where our best beers tend toward mega-hops, mucho malt. Sandlot's won a string of metals for its beers. But the emphasis in each beer was on dryness and balance. Even the high alcohol (8 percent) Strong Ale** special was fairly dry with no hops to hide the alcohol.
Blue Moon*** brewed here and served unpastuerized, unfiltered was a hazy lemon color with a clean nose, malt and wheat, topped with creamy foam. A very different beer than the one in the bottle.
The other ran the standard brewpub range, with the emphasis on drinkability on a hot day Right Field Red Ale**, a decent amber; Ballpark Brown Ale*** was excellent, a dark brown with a roast or some kind of dark malt nose, dry finish with the roast malt taste lingering on the tongue.
My favorite was Slugger Stout***+: a hit of burned malt, a rush of harsh hops in the nose, but the malts and hops come together beautifully in the taste and the finish has a haunting, smoky quality that I really liked. I don't know which hops, which malts are in it but the brewers, Tom Hall, John Legnard and Bill xx , are hold an open house Friday afternoon and I'm coming and I'll ask.
As I sampled the beers, a group of guys from tjhe Postal Brewers Club in Concord, NH, here for the GABF, came up to the bar. After samples, they agreed about the stout and each ordered a pint.
Club member Mike Hogan advised me to go on over to Wynkoop, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper's pioneering Denver brewpub and try the Triple 6 Strong Ale, brewed for the GABF. I really like Wynkoop, it's easily one of my favorite brewpubs. However, I chose to watch the Rockies lose and I'll hit Wynkoop today.
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Quick, take cover! Giant snails have attacked Miami!
Nope, it's not the plot of a sci-fi movie but a real-life event that is causing some big problems for folks in the Florida metropolis, according to a report on NPR.
Giant African Land Snails, a non-native, destructive species that can grow up to 10-inches long, has invaded the southwest section of Miami, eating the stucco off houses and carrying a potential health hazard.
The slimy pests harbor the microscopic rat-lung worm, which can transmit meningitis to humans. They are also attracted to food left outdoors and garbage bins, the report said.
The giant snails are restricted in the United States, but people have smuggled them into the country to keep as pets.
According to the head of plant industry for Florida's Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, there was an introduction of the creature in 1965, traced to a young boy who held a few of them in his pocket from a trip to Hawaii. Ten years and 70,000 snails later, the final bill to eradicate the creatures was in the neighborhood of a million dollars.


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Hatch Asbestos Bill Gets Halliburton Out of Jail Free!
Note: Connect the dots on this story of asbestos death, broken promises, stiffed widows, an attempted corporate bail out that will result in a huge economic windfall by the evildoers, and a big payday for Vice President Dick Cheney's former employer and beneficiary of Uncle Sam's largesse in Iraq, Halliburton. A quick summary
In late November, 2001, Harbison Walker Refractories (HW) agreed to settle an asbestos personal injury claim with my client, Tom Hazen, of San Clemente, California, for over $1 million. (see http://www.mesothel.com/pages/hazen.htm ). Tom, a CFO of a medical devices company, had worked his way through UCLA MBA school while toiling by day in the powerhouses of the notoriously dirty Kaiser Steel Mill in Fontana, where he worked with HW's asbestos refractory cement. Tom signed the HW release on his death bed -- he underwent the radical EPP with Dr. Sugarbaker but the tumor invaded his abdominal linings -- and he died 23 days later. A few months later, HW files chapter 11, and the court enters an injunction that protects Dresser from lawsuits. Harbison Walker had merged with Dresser Industries, which is a Division of Halliburton.
Hazen and other widows who had been stiffed by Dresser sued Dresser in Dallas, Texas on a breach of contract theory. For several months, Halliburton promised to honor the settlements entered into between HW/Dresser and the Hazens, among other meso victims. Halliburton entered into a global deal with asbestos victims all over the country to take Dresser and Kellogg Brown & Root into bankruptcy in exchange for which Halliburton would settle about 200,000 lawsuits for cash and stocks worth $4 billion. After forcing the Hazens to reprove their case, Halliburton's lawyers finally if not begrudgingly agreed to pay the Hazens, subject to various contingencies (such as obtaining approval for its pre-bankrupcty filing trust distribution plan and reorganization plan from 75% of all asbestos claimants).
Now, enter the Hatch Asbestos Trust Fund, which contains language that will void agreements like the one Halliburton reached and shift a far lower amount of their insurance covered debt into the proposed federal asbestos trust. Under the Hatch act, instead of $4 billion, HAL would according to the article below pay only $450 million over 27 years. That's about $8 million per year over 27 years instead of $4 billion in a lump sum now. And because the Hatch Act imposes a one size fits all $750,000 cap on damages for mesothelioma victims -- a number which must be reduced by insurance coverage for medical bills, disability, medicare and other prior compensation -- companies like Halliburton would wind up walking away from their debt to the Hazens. The Hazens would receive zero under the Hatch Bill.
Tom Hazen suffered horribly before dying from mesothelioma. His wife Sandy and his sons David and K.T. stood by him and witnessed the horror of his suffering and death. Harbison-Walker and Dresser Industries, subsidiaries of Halliburton, promised to compensate Tom's family for their loss. The Hatch Bill would release all three corporations from their promise and duty to compensate Tom's survivors.
Halliburton C.E.O. Cheney struck the deal by Halliburton to merge with Dresser, and thus assume its billions of dollars in asbestos liability. By all accounts, not a prescient move. Nobody would be more pleased to see the government bail out Halliburton than Dick Cheney.
Please see a letter I wrote to Dick Cheney's lawyers on September 12, 2002.
Please see a letter from my client Sandy Hazen to Senator Feinstein, protesting the asbestos defendant get out of jail free bill. Note that the LA Times reported on Halliburton's strategy to stiff the widows back on January 27, 2002.
The media is encouraged to connect the dots and investigate the reach of Halliburton's power in Washington, DC.
Asbestos Legislation May Help Halliburton
Friday June 6, 4:51 PM ET
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By Carolyn Koo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Halliburton Co. (NYSEHAL - news) on Friday said it expects to delay the bankruptcies of two units until the third quarter, a move that could enable the company to pay less money than expected to settle asbestos lawsuits under a proposed U.S. Congressional bill.
The world's second-largest oilfield services company late last year agreed on a $4 billion cash-and-stock deal to settle 200,000 asbestos lawsuits.
The most important step in the settlement is the filing of the prepackaged bankruptcies of the company's Dresser Industries and Kellogg Brown & Root subsidiaries, which are expected to pay for much of the settlement.
The bankruptcy filings will shield Halliburton, once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites), from having to file for bankruptcy itself.
The company now expects to file for the bankruptcies in the third quarter. Houston-based Halliburton already delayed filing for the bankruptcies once this year, pushing them back to sometime in the second quarter from March.
The company said the delay in filing has occurred because it is taking longer than expected to complete the trust distribution procedures and the plan of reorganization.
Jim Wicklund, an analyst at Banc of America Securities, said the delay in the bankruptcy filings could benefit Halliburton by reducing the amount of money it needs to pay out to asbestos victims, to $450 million from $4 billion.
A reduced payout would result from U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch's efforts to pass asbestos legislation to set up a $108 billion trust fund to pay asbestos injury claims over the next 25 years to 30 years.
The legislation, intended to stop a flood of asbestos-related lawsuits that studies say could end up costing more than $200 billion, could very well scuttle existing settlements, like Halliburton's, that are still being negotiated.
The worst that could happen to Halliburton "if the Hatch bill doesn't pass is they settle.. They figure they're going to have to settle anyway and the stock's already reflecting that settlement," said Wicklund, who has a "buy" rating on Halliburton's shares and doesn't own any of its stock.
"It's advantageous to Halliburton under either scenario."
Indeed, the company in its statement underscored that it is still tracking legislative proposals for asbestos reform in Congress. In deciding whether to proceed with its asbestos settlement the company said it will take into account the current status of any legislative initiatives.
But as it stands now, Halliburton anticipates it will complete its ongoing review of asbestos claims in July.
So far, the company said it believes the documentation will provide an "acceptable basis" to proceed with the global settlement.
Shares of Halliburton rose 35 cents, or 1.5 percent, to close at $24.05 on the New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites).


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A suburban teen is getting a little hero treatment at home these days, for helping to save the life of another child. CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.
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DATE & TIME: Wednesday, February 13, 7 p.m. (et)
FACTS & STATS: Site: McGuirk Arena (5,300) -- Mount Pleasant, New York. Television: None. Home Record: Ohio 13-1, CMU 5-4. Away Record: Ohio 4-5, CMU 1-9. Neutral Record: Ohio 0-0, CMU 3-1. Conference Record: Ohio 8-1, CMU 2-8. Series Record: Ohio leads, 43-25.
GAME NOTES: The Ohio University Bobcats look to move to 5-1 in Mid-American Conference road games for the first time since the 1984-85 season as they visit McGuirk Arena to face off with the Central Michigan Chippewas.
Ohio, which has not won five MAC games since the 2001-02 campaign, notched its second in a row on Saturday by downing Bowling Green, 72-63, at home at the Convocation Center. The victory was the ninth in 10 games for Jim Christian's squad, which is leading the nation in assists with 18.7 per game. The high tally of helpers is in large part due to the efforts of senior point guard D.J. Cooper, who paces the team with 13.9 points and 7.9 assists per tilt.
Keno Davis' Chippewas lost for the sixth consecutive time on Saturday as they were routed, 87-72, by Kent State on the road. The series of setbacks has dropped CMU to a last place, 2-8 standing in the conference race. CMU has been unable to pick up too many wins this season despite the solid play of senior guard Kyle Randall. The UNC Greensboro transfer averaged just 5.7 ppg as a Spartan in 2011-12 before transferring to the MAC to net 17.2 ppg.
Ohio holds a 44-25 all-time series lead over CMU, but the Chippewas have been victorious in the last two games played at McGuirk Arena.
Randall's fourth-consecutive 20-point game couldn't push Central Michigan past a hot-shooting Kent State team on Saturday. Neither side could miss in the early stages which led to 84 total points being posted in the opening 20 minutes. After shooting 48.6 percent from the floor and going 5-of-15 from distance in the first stanza, CMU was limited to 8-of-21 shooting from the floor after halftime. The Chippewas started four freshmen around Randall for the second straight game. Chris Fowler finished the contest with four assists to arrive at 114 on the season, leaving him one shy of the CMU freshman record.
The Bobcats were led by Reggie Keely's double-double of 15 points and 10 boards in their nine-point win over BGSU on Saturday. T.J. Hall and Walter Offutt both added 12 points for Ohio, while Cooper contributed 10 points to go along with a game-high eight assists to help his team opened league play with eight wins in nine tries for the first time since the 1984-85 campaign. With a victory over the Chippewas, the Ohio senior class will break the school record for wins by a class with 88 career triumphs. Keely also needs just 16 points to reach 1,000 for his career. If Keely reaches the 1,000 point plateau, it will mark the first time in Ohio history that a class includes three, 1,000 point scorers. Cooper (1,915) and forward Ivo Baltic (1,018) have already eclipsed the mark.
Ohio is a very deep and experienced squad by MAC standards. Akron is the only team capable of defeating the Bobcats when they play up to their potential. While CMU is really struggling to find production outside of Randall, Ohio should have no problem collecting its milestone road victory.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Ohio 79, Central Michigan 66
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Athletics' Bartolo Colon. Branded as cheats for using a banned "performance-enhancing" substance, that was detected by an analysis of a urine sample submitted by the players. Each player has accepted a 50 game suspension from MLB based on these findings.
The good vibrations for the effectiveness of the program are hardly unanimous. Positive test results indicate that ballplayers are still, you know, using forbidden pharmaceuticals. Cabrera and his people were even concocting some convoluted cover story, allegedly. A cloud of suspicion continues to hover over the achievements of 2011 National League MVP Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers, despite the unprecedented reversal-upon-appeal of his suspension for the same offense.
The Bay Area is represented in the current conundrum not only by suspended athletes, but also by the voice of Victor Conte. The BALCO buddy of Barry Bonds has re-emerged to opine that MLB's testing procedures are inadequate. Conte suggested that as many as half the players are still utilizing banned substances. He even offered his expertise to MLB, via Erik Kuselias of NBC SportsTalk—for free, so as to assuage his conscience, he contends.
The culture of baseball, at all levels of play, is rife with written rules and
unwritten conventions. Among the latter is the notion that "If you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'." Coaches carefully parse the language of the rulebook in an attempt to invent new ways to gain a competitive edge—until the rule gets re-written.
Laziness, the lack of hustle, not tryin', that's when you should feel shame and offer an apology. Just ask Jimmy Rollins, ManRam or Shoeless Joe Jackson.
Yet, when the umpire is signaling an out, should the fielder who didn't really make the catch reveal an empty glove, or just "sell" the official's incorrect ruling?
Catchers are taught to "frame" pitches. What catcher at one time or another has not "pulled" a close pitch onto the corner of the plate?
Nolan Ryan was said to be a master at planting his foot several inches in front of the rubber on the most significant of pitches.
A little cork in the bat or a little scuff to the ball are all part of the mystique of the game, like the hidden-ball trick.
For a century or more, such issues of fairness (as well as safety issues like
beanballs and overly aggressive play) were handled internally by the fraternity
of players. The outcomes and decisions were pretty universally accepted.
The baseball crisis that required outside intervention involved a team deliberately losing the World Series at the behest of gamblers.
Although, it seems that as long as the competition, also known as "between the lines", has
been fair and genuine the culture of the game has been able to police itself. Even through issues as thorny as integration, expansion and labor strife.
Almost 60 years after the Black Sox Scandal, Commissioner Bowie Kuhn
introduced the phrase "Best Interests of the Game" to the modern sports
vernacular. In the seventies Oakland A's owner Charlie O. Finlay, a man ahead
of his time if there ever was one, was going about the business of dismantling a
championship team while its stars still had value and before any more were lost
to free agency. However, citing concerns over competitive balance, Kuhn vetoed
certain transactions, and in the blink of an eye, lawyers and judges were
Fast forward about a quarter of a century. A brutally contentious labor negotiation had cost baseball a World Series and a fair chunk of its popularity. The good ship MLB was set right, though, by the most dazzling display of power hitting in its long history, as decades-old standards were falling with stunning regularity.
Baseball is a game that requires a combination of flexibility, endurance, coordination and reflex. For generations, any kind of weight-training was deemed counter-productive for a baseball player and thus an uncommon practice. Of course, this viewpoint has long been debunked; strength gains do not necessarily inhibit baseball's pre-requisite skills. Indeed, advances in training and nutrition continue to enhance performance in all our games.
So too, do advances in medical science enhance sports performance—not to mention longevity and quality of life. (Steroids and HGH do exist as legitimate
treatments for genuine maladies, after all.)
That's the thing about this stuff…it works—in observable and measurable ways. The effect of an improved workout regimen and better diet can likewise be
Consider the string of high-profile athletes who have traipsed off to Europe in the past two or three years to receive some new-fangled blood spinning treatment. Rave reviews seem to be increasing business, but why Europe? It is simple because this procedure has not been approved for use in the Good Ol' USA.
Therein lies the problem facing any sports league or anti-doping agency. At what point does the legitimate attempt to improve performance become an unfair advantage deserving of reprimand?
It's OK for a ballplayer to improve his visual acuity by means of a surgical
procedure performed by a certified professional. However, a doctor may not
prescribe certain substances (HGH, for example) to treat an injury more
effectively and/or expediently. A doctor may not prescribe certain substances
which are known to facilitate recuperation from strenuous exertion. Yet a league
will gladly generate advertising revenue from the manufacturers of male-enhancement products. Hmm!
The rules under which any contest is conducted are established and modified for the purpose of maintaining the integrity of the competition. Give both the offense and defense a fair and reasonable opportunity to succeed.
Several years ago boxer Antonio Margarito was discovered to have used a little plaster of Paris while taping his hands for a fight. Talk about a performance enhancing substance, huh? Naturally, the opponent, Boxing Commission and world-at-large cried foul, and Margarito was summarily disqualified and
In 1999, Barry Bonds played his first season under the influence of
unapproved performance enhancers (according to Williams and Fainaru-Wada's
iconic Game of Shadows). Bonds had packed on a very noticeable 15 pounds of upper-body muscle in the off-season through the use of a body-building steroid provided by his trainer an life-long friend, Greg Anderson. The additional muscle mass caused a serious elbow injury that put Bonds on the shelf for nearly two months, as well as nagging problems with his legs. Despite playing only 102 games and posting a paltry .262 batting average, he hit one home run for every 10.4 at-bats, the highest frequency of his career to that point.
Better product and more informed usage, abetted by MLB's lack of a testing program and Barry's obsessive drive, than produced "the greatest five consecutive seasons of any hitter in baseball history." (page 282, Game of Shadows) The Bonds experience shows clearly that (a) performance is indeed enhanced and (b) there are consequences, both short and long-term, to the use of anabolic steroids.
pharmaceutical medications is just the next evolutionary step in the development of the game—like the use of fielding gloves, or the invention of the specialized relief pitcher? How will athletes be training in 20 or 50 years? The question remains are all these "tweaks" introduced for the explicit purpose of enhancing either individual or team performance?
Regarding age and longevity, it is sometimes said 60 is the new 40. (Abacus' old assets can only hope!) Then Roger Clemens would be the new 36. He might have a few innings left in him after all.
Inventive men like Abner Doubleday and James Naismith would hardly recognize their games as they now are played. Similarly, we are not likely to be too entertained by the games as they were played in their infancy. A fair bit of performance enhancement took place in between.
There are inherent physical risks involved in all our games, even our leisurely-paced national pastime. (Just Google "Tony Conigliaro" if you need a reminder.) The human body was simply not designed for all that exertion, contortion and
collision. Can you remember a time when the word "oblique" was an adjective
meaning "indirect" rather than a noun meaning "ballplayer's body part, prone to
frequent injury"?
Yet the participants make the decision to play and to excel.
The manner and extent of an athlete's training is likewise a matter of choice, with its own set of inherent risks and rewards.
While Bay Area baseball fans are sure to be miffed at losing a key contributor to each of their teams in the midst of a drive for the post-season, they need to bear in mind that Melky Cabrera and Bartolo Colon are far more victim than villain in
all these shenanigans.
How is it you young folk put it?
Don't hate the player, hate the Game!


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CIT Student Job Opportunities
CIT Student Employee Job Opportunities
About CIT Student Employment
Computing & Information Technology (CIT) invites applications for the following student, part-time position. Student employees must have full-time student status at Geneseo. Summer employees must be full-time students in the semesters preceding and following the break.
The Application Process
CIT is not currently accpeting applications for student positions. Questions about available positions may be directed to Laurie Fox (firstname.lastname@example.com), Assistant Director for Support Services.
CIT Student Positions
CIT HelpDesk
Student who work at the CIT HelpDesks in South Hall and Milne Library support the computing needs of all members of the campus community. Their primary focus is providing assistance in our computer labs and troubleshooting problems with student owned computers, but their job stretches across a wide range of computing topics including both software and hardware related issues. They are expected to have a working knowledge of Macintosh OS, Windows, and mobile devices. Techs are expected to attend training at the beginning of each semester as well as attend staff meetings held every month.
Technical Support Assistant (TSA)
Technical Support Assistants (TSA) are students who work directly with CIT's professional distributed support staff. They will provide one-on-one assistance to campus faculty and staff. Applications should be comfortable with a wide variety of computer software and with the installation and configuration of new computers. Special consideration for these positions will be given to current CIT student employees.
Network Assistant
Network Assistants work with the campus Network Staff in maintaining and enhancing the structure and security of the campus network. These employees need to be familiar with Windows MacOS, and Linux. Familiarity with HTML (no GUI applications) and Perl are preferred. Network assistants are heavily involved in the activation of new network connections whenever the network expands, and will be expected to terminate copper and fiber-optic cable, as well as configure and install network electronics. Responsibilities include Linux system administration, web programming, and experimentation with new Linux and Windows based software. Network assistants may occasionally be asked to work on weekends, evenings, or early mornings, whichever is necessary to avoid disrupting the campus community. Training will be provided.
Database Programmer
Student database programmers work with CIT's Information Systems group to develop, modify and test Banner applications, including KnightWeb. Ideal applicants would have some familiarity with computer databases such as Microsoft Access and at least one programming language. Student database programmers will be required to complete introductory Oracle computer-based training modules as part of their early job duties. Additional training will be provided by professional staff as needed.
Web Assistant
Graphic Designer / Web Content Assistant
The Graphic Designer assists CIT with publications, marketing web graphics, training materials and other materials for the Digital Media, Instructional Technologies, and User Services staff. Applicants must be proficient in the Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Photoshop and Illustrator and should provide some sample graphic design work when applying for this position. A strong foundation in the principles of graphic design and marketing is required. The ideal candidate will be organized, detail-oriented, customer focused and work independently.
The Web Content Assistant position helps to improve and deliver a compelling online presence for CIT. Responsibilities include evaluating consistency, reliability and usability. The applicant should be a strong and clear communicator with an effective technical writing style that is fresh, consistent and customer focused. This position requires a knack for writing in a variety of formats and styles for multiple audiences. A basic understanding of web technologies is desired.
These positions are typically combined into one position for an average of 5 hours per week.
Digital Media Lab Student Assistant
Qualified applicants must be comfortable using technology, have a willingness to learn new software, possess strong written and verbal communication skills, ability to work independently and in a team environment. Strong familiarity with Mac OSX and Microsoft Office. Best candidates will have strong problem solving and computer troubleshooting skills. No less than basic familiarity with media manipulation concepts and some experience with applicable software such as the iLife Suite, Windows Moviemaker, the Adobe Creative Suite and other audio/visual manipulation software. A candidate with demonstrable experience with Photoshop as well as professional editing software such as Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premier is preferred.


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A local think-tank has said the lack of development on tourist sites and review of various institutional and legal frameworks have impeded the tourism a contribution to Zambia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
The Policy Monitoring and Research Centre (PMRC) has observed that Zambia's tourism potential remained largely untapped for broad-based wealth and economic diversification.
PMRC senior researcher Augustine Mkandawire said the tourism sector contribution to the GDP, earnings and employment generation had not achieved its target due to the lack of exploitation of the country's abundant natural resource assets.
"The variance between the planned and actual contribution to the GDP has continued to widen due to ineffective and unrealistic planning," he said.
Mr Mkandawire said the overall sectorial contribution to GDP had been very low and averaging 2.36 per cent compared to the potential the sector has.
He said the natural resource assets remained largely untapped due to inhibiting factors such as limited accessibility and poor management of supporting infrastructure of tourism sites.
Mr Mkandawire said the lack of update and multiple legal framework have also limited the sector's capacity to attain significant growth.
He called on the Government to reform the sector's legal and institutional framework as a starting point, saying this would accelerate tourism growth in the country.
Mr Mkandawire said the realisation of tourism development in Zambia required a critical revision of legal and institutional structure of the tourism sector and addressing other challenges experienced by the sector.