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The Los Angeles Times had a story today in its financial section about online gaming and just how Disney is seeking to capitalize on this new form entertainment. The article is available to read online, however you do have to be a subscriber to read it. Since many people aren't subscribers though, I've included the text of the article below.
The company and others are pushing heavily into creating virtual worlds for children, eyeing subscriber revenue and brand recognition.
By Dawn C. Chmielewski and Alex Pham, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 28, 2008
Walt Disney Co. is no stranger to fantasy worlds, transporting audiences -- whether to a cottage in the woods with a young princess in "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" or to the Great Barrier Reef aboard the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage ride at Disneyland.
Now, Disney is spinning its tales in the newest mass medium -- online virtual worlds, where children adopt cartoonish avatars and play games.
Disney and other entertainment companies are rushing to capitalize on the latest Internet phenomenon: the rise of virtual worlds for kids. Online haunts for grown-ups, such as Second Life, grab the attention of corporate marketers. But digital playgrounds for the juice-box set -- such as Disney's Club Penguin and Ganz Inc.'s Webkinz -- are drawing bigger crowds.
As many as 20 million children and teens will visit virtual worlds by 2011, up from 8.2 million in 2007, according to research firm EMarketer Inc.
"You're seeing a more than doubling in projected growth, between 2007 and 2011, in the number of kids and teens visiting these worlds," EMarketer analyst Debra Aho Williamson said. "That's why you're seeing Disney making so many investments. . . . All the major media companies are making virtual worlds a big focus of their activities going forward."
Some parents and advocates worry about the commercial aspects of these sites, which either charge a monthly subscription fee, serve up advertising or both. Several sites, including "Pirates of the Caribbean Online," offer a basic game for free but require payment for more advanced play.
"It's sweet-tasting candy that kids are going to want to have," said Warren Buckleitner, editor of the Children's Technology Review. "Give a free sample. Once you get started, it's hard to stop."
Online games that invite multiple players into virtual worlds have been around for more than a decade. What's new is the increasingly younger audience. Disney's Toontown Online was among the first to target tots, but since then, Mattel Inc.'s BarbieGirls.com, Nickelodeon's Nicktropolis and others have popped up, attracting children as young as 3.
Disney plans to spend $5 million to $10 million apiece to develop as many as 10 virtual worlds built around familiar Disney characters and franchises.
"We're creating virtual theme parks, but much more accessible," said Steve Wadsworth, president of Walt Disney Internet Group. "You don't have to get in a car or a plane."
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Disney's acquisition of Club Penguin in August for as much as $700 million accelerated the online strategy. Club Penguin attracted nearly 7.9 million visitors in December, according to ComScore Media Metrix, ranking it second in popularity among children's virtual world sites only to Webkinz.
And unlike social networks for grown-ups, such as Facebook.com, Club Penguin has no trouble finding a business model. For a monthly fee of $5.95, kids can waddle to their hearts delight in the snowy world, play games and earn coins that enable them to buy clothes or furnishings for their igloo. At the time of the acquisition, Disney said Club Penguin had about 700,000 subscribers. That would represent about $50 million in annual revenue.
It is just this kind of lucrative subscription-based revenue stream that is luring investors and developers, said analyst Billy Pidgeon of technology research firm IDC. But what they often underestimate are the costs of keeping these virtual worlds running smoothly. "World of Warcraft," for example, requires more than 1,700 full-time customer service employees to maintain the site.
"People just have unrealistically high expectations for these models and don't consider the expenses of maintaining these games," Pidgeon said.
Paul Yanover, executive vice president of Walt Disney Internet Group, acknowledged that "virtual worlds are more elaborate than running a traditional website." But Disney, he said, because of five years of experience from Disney Toontown Online, also understands "the costs of operation and maintenance" and is assured there are "really healthy businesses in online entertainment for kids and families."
Kids at least appear to have a healthy appetite to play online. Eight-year-old Madison Magursky of Irvine said she plays Club Penguin for 10 minutes every day after school, once she's done her homework. She even asked her mother to subscribe for her.
"I told her I wanted to be a member, because you get to buy fantastic gifts and decorations for your house and stuff," Madison said. "And you can do certain things . . . that other people who aren't a member can't."
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It's been nearly a full day, and we're still waiting for a correction from Dana Milbank, whose prissy, spurned media diva, spite-filled column calling the other guy (Barack Obama) imperial, has been debunked all over the web, from TIME Magazine to the Atlantic, by people who actually heard Barack Obama's remarks to House Democrats. Tick … tick … tick … so far, Millbank's column remains posted to the WaPo homepage, unchanged. (Curiously, Keith Olbermann gave Milbank a complete pass tonight. I was certain he'd at least make "Worst Persons," instead he didn't even get a mention…)
Milbank has been taking it on the chin pretty much all day today, from all quarters, and his portrayal of Obama as an uppity presidential wanna-be has taken off in winger world, despite its inherent falsehood, but so far Milbank hasn't breathed a word, or more importantly, updated his column online.
What's it gonna take, Dana? Just post the correction already!
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First-half goals from Mamadou Sakho and Karim Benzema levelled the tie and, after Ukraine's Yevhen Khacheridi was sent off, Oleg Gusev's unfortunate own goal completed the turnaround.
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An apparatus is disclosed for scanning a bar code label on purchased merchandise items, including a support member having a first conveyor belt mounted above a second conveyor belt, and a digitizer panel oriented in a downward direction positioned therebetween. The digitizer panel will track the X and Y locations of the merchandise items as they move down the face of the panel. A plurality of optical canners are positioned above and below the digitizer panel for scanning a bar code label on a merchandise item moving across the digitizer. Processing means coupled to the digitizer and each of the scanners will detect the bar code label being read by each scanner when more than one merchandise item is located on the digitizer.
1. An apparatus for scanning bar code indicia comprising:
a support member having a front supporting surface and a rear supporting surface for supporting a merchandise item having bar code indicia located thereon;
a digitizer mounted between the front supporting surface and the rear supporting surface for generating first signals representing the location of a merchandise item on the surface of the digitizer, said digitizer oriented in a slanted position so that a merchandise item positioned on the surface of the digitizer will move across the digitizer to a position on the rear supporting surface;
an optical bar code reader positioned adjacent the digitizer for projecting scanning light beams along the surface of the digitizer for scanning a bar code label positioned on a merchandise item located on the digitizer, said bar code reader generating second signals representing the data contained in the bar code label; and
processing means coupled to said bar code reader and said digitizer for identifying the bar code label being scanned by the bar code reader when more than one merchandise item is located on the digitizer at the same time.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 in which said first and second supporting surfaces comprise first and second conveyer means for transporting a merchandise item positioned on the conveyer means.
3. The apparatus of claim 2 in which said digitizer is mounted in a downward direction enabling a merchandise item positioned on the digitizer to move from the first conveyer means across the digitizer by the force of gravity to be deposited on the second conveyer means.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 which further includes more than one bar code reader for projecting scanning light beams at the surface of the digitizer.
5. The apparatus of claim 4 in which the digitizer is transparent, said apparatus including bar code readers positioned above and below the digitizer for projecting scanning light beams at a bar code label positioned on the top surface of the digitizer.
The present invention is directed to a checkout scanning system and more particularly to a system for automatically reading bar code labels attached to merchandise items without the items being handled by the checkout operator.
In present day merchandise checkout systems, the use of optical scanners for scanning the Universal Product Code (UPC) labels on purchased merchandise items is quite common. In checkout systems used today, the optical scanner can take the form of a scanner mechanism located in a checkout counter or in the form of a hand-held optical scanner. In either case, the checkout operator will position the bar code label adjacent the scanner. The optical scanner will scan the bar code pattern which forms the UPC label and generate signals representing the bars and spaces of the pattern for transmission to a processing apparatus which determines the character represented by the bar code pattern. The positioning of the merchandise item adjacent the scanner requiring manual intervention by the operator takes time especially when several scanning passes are required to obtain a good read of the bar code label. It would be desirable to provide a scanning system which insures that the bar code label will be scanned automatically irrespective of the position of the bar code label to increase the speed of the checkout operation.
It is therefore a principal object of this invention to provide a checkout system which will scan a bar code label on a purchased merchandise item without requiring the checkout operator to handle either the scanning system or the merchandise item during a scanning operation.
It is another object of this invention to provide a checkout system employing a plurality of bar code scanning apparatuses for scanning a bar code label attached to a merchandise item allowing the scanning apparatuses to scan the bar code label without the checkout operator handling the merchandise item during the scanning operation.
A merchandise item checkout system includes a checkout counter having a front portion including a conveyer belt on which is placed purchased merchandise items prior to a checkout operation. The checkout counter further includes a rear portion which comprises a second conveyer belt located at a level below the first conveyer belt for conveying purchased merchandise items to an operator station located adjacent the end of the checkout counter where a data terminal device is located. Mounted between the front and rear portion of the checkout counter is a digitizer oriented in a generally downward direction and positioned adjacent the rear end of the first conveyer belt and the front end of the second conveyer belt. Mounted adjacent the digitizer and oriented to project scanning light beams at various angles to the surface of the digitizer are a plurality of optical scanner apparatuses mounted adjacent the upper and lower surface of the digitizer for scanning a merchandise item located on the digitizer as the item tumbles down the surface of the digitizer from the end of the first conveyer belt towards the second conveyer belt and the rear portion of the checkout counter. The optical scanner apparatuses and the digitizer are coupled to a microprocessor. In response to receiving signals from the scanner apparatuses and the digitizer, the microprocessor will match the readings of the UPC label generated by an optical scanner apparatus whose position at any one time is determined by the signals generated by the digitizer.
Additional advantages and meritorious features of the present invention will become more apparent and fully understood from a reading of the following detailed description and appended claims when read in conjunction with the drawings wherein like reference numerals indicate like or corresponding elements throughout the several views and wherein:.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the checkout counter showing the location of the conveyer belts together with a data terminal device located at the checkout operator's station;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the digitizer together with the conveyer belts showing the location of a plurality of optical scanner apparatuses for simultaneously scanning a number of merchandise items which are shown tumbling down the face of the digitizer;
FIG. 3 is a side view of the optical checkout system including the digitizer, the optical scanner apparatuses and the two conveyer belts;
FIG. 4 is a block diagram of the processing system for generating data representing coded data of the bar code label.
Referring now to FIG. 1, there is shown a perspective view of the checkout counter incorporating the present invention. The checkout counter, generally indicated by the numeral 20, includes a front horizontal portion 22 and a rear horizontal portion 24 which is located below the front portion 22. Mounted in the front portion 22 is a conveyer belt 26, one end of which is located adjacent a hood member 28. Located within the hood member is a digitizer panel 30 (FIG. 2) which is oriented in a downward direction to a position adjacent one end of a second conveyer belt 32 located in the rear portion 24 of the checkout counter 20.
As best seen from FIGS. 2 and 3, mounted adjacent the digitizer panel 30 are a number of optical scanner apparatuses 34 which project scanning light beams at various areas on the digitizer panel 30 for scanning a bar code label 36 positioned on a merchandise item 38. As best seen from FIG. 2, the bar code label 36 may be positioned on any surface of the merchandise item 38. Since the digitizer panel 30 is transparent, a number of optical scanner apparatuses 34 may be positioned below the digitizer panel for projecting scanning light beams through the digitizer panel to read a bar code label positioned on the top portion of the digitizer panel. As shown in FIG. 1, located adjacent the rear portion 24 of the checkout counter 20 comprising an operator's station is a data terminal device 40 which includes a display device 42.
In the operation of the checkout system, the customer will position on the conveyer belt 26 a purchased merchandise item 38 on which is located a bar code label 36 identifying the merchandise item. Movement of the conveyer belt 26 will deliver the merchandise item onto the digitizer panel 30. Since the digitizer panel 30 is mounted at a angle to the surface of the conveyer belt 26, the merchandise item will tumble down the digitizer panel 30 towards the second conveyer belt 32 from where it will be delivered to the checkout operator positioned at the operator's station adjacent the rear portion 24 of the checkout counter and the data terminal device 40. As the merchandise item 38 moves across the digitizer panel 30, the bar code label 36 may be read by one or more of the optical scanner apparatuses 34. The signals generated by the digitizer panel representing at any one time the location of the merchandise item 38 and the bar code label 36 are used to determine which bar code scanner apparatus 34 is scanning the bar code label at that time. This information will be transmitted to the data terminal device 40 which will determine the price of the item which is then displayed in the display 42.
Referring now to FIG. 4 there is shown a block diagram of the processing system associated with the present invention which includes a microprocessor 44 coupled to the terminal 40, the optical scanning apparatuses 34, the digitizer panel 30 and the remote display 42. The remote display 42 may include a tone generator 50 which, upon the successful reading of a bar code label, will generate a tone indicating a valid read operation. Also included in the remote display are lights 52 which may be operated to signify a similar accomplishment. The microprocessor 44, in response to receiving the signals from the scanner apparatuses 34 representing the data scanned on the bar code label and the digitizer panel 30 representing locational data, will generate digital signals representing the bar code data scanned by the scanner apparatuses 34. This information may be either transmitted to a remote processor (not shown) which, using the data, will identify the merchandise item and its price which is then transmitted back to the microprocessor which operates the display 42 to display this information, or may be stored in a RAM unit 48 in the microprocessor 44.
The digitizer panel 30 is of conventional construction which includes a capacitive or IR sensing overlay to determine the x and y location of a merchandise item on the digitizer panel. As the merchandise item falls down the panel due to gravity, the merchandise item will either provide a rolling or sliding notion depending on the shape of the merchandise item. As the merchandise item moves down the digitizer panel, the bar code label on the merchandise item will expose itself to one or more of the optical scanners 34. The digitizer panel will track the merchandise items as they move along the face of the digitizer panel and generate signals representing such locations in a manner that is well known in the art. The microprocessor 44 will use this information to identify the optical scanner apparatus scanning the bar code label at that time. Where there is occurring multiple reads on the same object or a number of bar code labels are being read by the same scanner, such locational information can generate valid read operations. In the case where a merchandise item is in the form of a jar 54, (FIG. 2), oppositely located optical scanners apparatuses 34 will generate data indicating alternating valid scan operations. As such, software located in a Ram unit 48 located in the microprocessor 44 will use this information in conjunction with the signals generated by the digitizer panel 30 representing the x and y location of the merchandise item at the time the merchandise item moves through the scan pattern of a particular scanning apparatus 34 to track the merchandise item as it proceeds down the face of the digitizer panel 30.
It will be seen that scanning merchandise items in the manner described by the present invention eliminates the need for manual intervention by the checkout operator in the checkout process. The customer merely places the purchased merchandise items on the conveyer belt 26 allowing the merchandise items to move across the digitizer panel 30 and onto the conveyer belt 32 which delivers the merchandise items to the checkout operator standing at the end of the checkout counter 20 with each of the merchandise items having been scanned and the data generated indicating the price of the merchandise item. The checkout operator will then bag the purchased merchandise item.
An alternate arrangement would be to use an array of mirrors and one optical scanner to gain the same effective automatic scanning operation. In this arrangement, the laser intensity of the scanner could be significantly increased since the system is completely shrouded from the operator. Another arrangement would be to use a laser itself to determine the position in tracking of the merchandise item on the digitizer.
While the salient features of the invention have been illustrated and described, it should be readily apparent to those skilled in the art that many changes and modifications can be made in the invention presented without departing from the spirit and true scope of the invention. Accordingly, the present invention should be considered as encompassing all such changes and modifications of the invention that fall within the broad scope of the invention as defined by the claims.
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Which Sport Has The Most Irish American Teams
When it comes to Irish American teams in sports there really aren't a lot of options. In fact there is really only one team in professional sports that claim to be Irish American and that is the Boston Celtics. Of course, even though they are the only Irish American team in sports they are decidedly [...]
Posted on June 14th, 2012 | Comments Off
Why Do People Prefer Teams With Irish American Ties
Remember the movie "Gangs of New York"? The Irish are known for fighting the odds with an iron jaw and a stiff drink. The Irish always come back home dancing and singing and praising the land of their birth. Teams with Irish names and links to Irish heritage invoke a feeling of loyalty, undying spirit [...]


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• Four Seasons GM James Olson is leaving to work for the new Tavern on the Green. [NYP]
Related: Fabio Trabocchi Doesn't Last Two Seasons at The Four Seasons
• The owners of Duvet permanently surrendered their liquor license earlier this month following several incidents, including the alleged rape of a customer by a bouncer. [NYP]
• Emeril Lagasse will host an hour-long talk show on the ION network — the channel's first foray into original, non-scripted programming. [Eater]
• A new study suggests that a national program to reduce dietary salt could cut as much as $24 billion from the national health-care budget. [WSJ]
• Are tiki bars making a comeback? [Diner's Journal/NYT]
• U.S. beer sales fell 2.2 percent last year, the biggest slip since the fifties. [WSJ]
• Brooklyn Pride is putting together a book of recipes from the borough's gay-friendly restaurants. [Brooklyn Paper]
• Starbucks' first-quarter sales rose, thanks in part to the introduction of Via instant coffee. [WSJ]
• Weight Watchers won a temporary restraining order banning Jenny Craig from running ads claiming that the latter's participants lost more weight. [NYP]


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How To Lose Underarm Fat
Need To Know How To Lose Underarm Fat?
It's amazing how things can creep up on you. I am sure you remember a time when your arms were nicely toned firm and certainly couldn't be described as having underarm fat. Sadly, if you neglect your health somewhat, things can soon can get out of hand.
Perhaps you stopped exercising, changed to a more sedentary job or simply started eating more of the wrong foods. Either way anyone of those could be the reason why now you want to lose underarm fat.
Firstly, there is no need to panic. You definitely can lose underarm fat. Although first of all I would ask for you to be realistic in your expectations and commit to a sensible time frame to do so. A couple of months following the guidelines below should see you lose underarm fat and not feel embarrassed about waving your arms in public anymore.
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OK, here is our 'how to lose underarm fat' guide that will help you lose underarm fat ina reasonable space of time and for good!
Before we get into the diet and training, you first need to realise why you have got underarm fat in the first place. The one single reason why you have underarm fat is that you have been creating a excess calories deficit on a regular basis. This simply means that you have been consuming more energy in the form of calories from food and drink than you have been using up through activity.
The good news is that this calorie balance (deficit or excess) is completely within your control! You have already proven this by putting on fat through creating a excess calorie balance. All you need to do now is to create a negative calorie balance/deficit to get rid of that fat.
The other key point to consider is that when you create a calorie deficit there is no way of knowing whereabouts on your body the weight/fat will come off. It does not simply come off the area of the body that you exercise. That is why doing thousands of sit-ups doesn't burn fat of your waist. Instead weight will gradually come off different parts of your body in turn. The underarm fat may not be the first place it is removed from although it will come off there eventually.
The three best things to do to create a calorie deficit and lose underarm fat are:
1) Cardio-vascular activity – running, walking, rowing or swimming. Anything will do so long as you get active at least 3 times per week. You could start just by walking home from work or getting off the bus a few stops earlier. You could join a sports club to make it more fun or you could of course join a fitness centre. Exercise uses up calories and will help to create that calorie deficit. Just make sure you do it regularly.
2) Eat healthy meals that are smaller I size more often. Instead of eating 2-3 times per day, try 4-5 times per day. Doing this increases the metabolic rate of your body which is the speed at which your body uses up calories. The faster this is, the more calories you will burn off even at rest! Just remember to cut out the fast food, sweets, fizzy drinks and so on.
3) Pump some iron. No this won't turn you into a muscle bound bodybuilder! What it will do is give you a touch more muscle mass. This muscle mass will then require calories in order for it to maintain its health. This in turn means that you will naturally use up more calories each day even when you are not training!
And if you want to try and firm up the underarm region two good exercises to do are: tricep dips – this requires you to perch yourself on the edge of a strong chair, bed or bench with your palms placed on either side of your hips and your fingers wrapped over the edge. Now, walk your feet out until your hips are off the bed; your bum should now be off the edge of the chair. Now use your arms to lower the weight of your body slowly down until your arms at a right angle, when they are slowly push your weight back up. You will feel these in the back of the arms (triceps).
One more easy exercise to firm the underarm area is something called a tricep kickback. The start position for this is you bent over at the waist with legs slightly bent. You can use one arm to support your weight on a chair in front of you. Now with your other arm grasp a dumbbell (or other small weight and pin your elbow to the side of your body. Now, working against gravity, slowly flex and extend that arm. Again you will feel the burn in the triceps at the back of your arm.
Remember though that weight training may firm the area, but it will not remove the fatty tissue on top of the muscle. To lose underarm fat there you must focus on creating the calorie deficit.
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Or is she, alternatively, having non-reproductive sex but starving to death as a direct result?
Just worried about our national contraception mascot. No one seems to be talking about her. We can't lose sight of our priorities here.
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Joseph Stiglitz in this interview gives very articulate answers in the course of describing what I can only assume is some sort of fantasy-world or alternate universe. In Stiglitzia, you see, the financial crisis was caused by too much free market.
When I look back at the history, I see
- a mortgage 'market' in which whether you can get a mortgage, and its size, and terms, is almost entirely determined by criteria set by two agencies, Fannie & Freddie
- Fannie & Freddie exist. Note these are not private companies that sprung up organically in a 'free market', but rather, invented, quasi-private 'government-sponsored enterprises' that ended up being just basically, well, the government
- as such they are also subject to all sorts of political pressure, Congressional meddling, 'you should (must) loan more to this group of people' diktats, etc.
- if you stop paying your mortgage, Fannie/Freddie (i.e. taxpayers) guarantee investors they'll make up the difference. Interest-rates are priced accordingly.
- or, your mortgage is sold into a private-label pool that gets sliced into tranches with different 'ratings', which are these letters assigned to debt by basically three 'rating agencies' given quasi-government status
- the main reason to do this is that the 'rating' of a piece of debt affects who can buy it, due to, like, laws and regulations. It also affects the capital charge based on made-up multipliers, centrally-determined by, like, the Basel Committee. This setup influences, if not dictates, what interest-rate you were able to get.
- that mortgage tranche might then get combined with other tranches and put into a CDO meant to game the 'ratings' even more.
- interest rates are all kept low because the U.S. central bank decided to keep the 'discount rate' low.
- this machinery all worked for a while as a government-sanctioned and -encouraged way to funnel money from debt investors to U.S. and other home 'buyers'
And then it all collapsed, taking a good chunk of the rest of the market down with it.
Now, sharp readers can easily observe that essentially none of the above bullet-points can fairly be described as 'free market' phenomena. So, that can't be the reality Joseph Stiglitz is describing. There must be some other, I can only assume?
Stiglitz also berates policy makers for listening…too much to free market ideologues when crafting their responses:
Those faulty models then encouraged policy-makers to believe that the markets would solve all the problems.
How exactly the (supposedly widespread, and supposedly academic-encouraged) belief among policymakers that 'the markets would solve all the problems' informed and led to the policies we actually got, such as bailouts, forced mergers, forced restructurings favoring politically-favored creditors, TARP (and TARF and CRAP and whatever the hell), massive 'stimulus' packages, 'Operation Twist' and other Fed open-market operations, EFSF and its CDO^2-based structures in Europe – indeed, what any of these policies have to do with a 'free market', Stiglitz does not explain. I suppose the explanation would go over my head anyway, since I am not a Nobel Prize-winning economist.
In any event, clearly since the crisis was so obviously caused by too-much-free-market, and since its failed policy responses were so obviously influenced by absolutist pro-free-market sentiment, it goes without saying that as we look ruefully back on all these failures (of free-market thinking) there's one group of people we (more in sorrow than in anger) recognize as needing to change their ways: free-market thinkers.
Within academia, those who believed in free markets before the crisis still do so today. A few people have shifted, and I want to give credit to them for saying: "We were wrong. We underestimated this or that aspect of our models." But for the most part, the response was different. Believers in the free market have not revised their beliefs.
Idiots! After seeing the oh so free market mortgage market collapsed and the oh so free market TARP failed to fix it, don't you free-marketeers realize your free-market ways just don't work?
Anyhow, most of the interview is devoted to a critique of 'austerity' and that gets me thinking. Since clearly Stiglitz does not see the same reality that I see, it stands to reason that the same might be true when it comes to 'austerity'. All of which is to say: a lot of ink & electrons are being spilled nowadays premised on the idea that a bunch of European countries, maybe even the U.S.?, are doing a whole bunch of belt-tightening 'austerity' stuff. Everyone seems to assume this (and then, criticize it).
What this here post of mine presupposes is: maybe they're not? Why do we think anyone's engaging in any meaningful 'austerity' at all? Because people like Joseph Stiglitz say they are? Yeah, you know what, looking at articles like this, that's not really enough of a reason in my book.
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Don't know how/when but somehow I had gotten the idea that Bridesmaids was going to be a hilarious movie. This is doubly-weird because the main thing I'd heard about it was that it was the 'female Hangover' and I didn't even like that movie much in the first place, and found it mostly sad and strange.
Bridesmaids is, I guess, like The Hangover in that way. This is because, although on paper it seems like a pretty formulaic comedy of the sort that might have starred Julia Roberts in the '90s – there's a main character who we follow along on a pat story arc involving first a lot of bad but 'funny' stuff and then a resolution, with both her friends and a gentle love interest – they made a very interesting and perhaps daring choice, in that they made the main character completely and totally unlikable and unsympathetic in every possible way.
I hated Kristen Wiig's lead character. Despised. She has no redeeming qualities. There is nothing to like about her. Am I getting through here? The rival, gorgeous, refined, nice 'enemy' character played by Rose Byrne, who for most of the movie (I gather) we were supposed to dislike, was far more likeable (but then, I would think so…)
What this means (if you agreed with me about the character) is that you sit and watch this movie ostensibly constructed around 'will the main character find happiness and get to a better place with her friends and romances?' and you don't care if she does, or even actively do not want her to. This makes it something of a surreal experience. Because while Bridesmaids has all the trappings of a movie starring A Character We're Supposed To Like And Want To Succeed, they mixed things up and (seemingly intentionally) didn't put that character in the lead, they put an annoying, self-centered, repellent character there instead.
Which, is an interesting choice.
What happened then? One possibility is that the writers don't know she is repellent, or at least don't see her as repellent as I did. No accounting for taste and all that. The explanation I favor though is that Bridesmaids is a sort of cultural agit-prop, meant to change views and tastes as to what is acceptable and attractive and likeable. A feature-length infomerical meant to portray inherently-unlikeable, atrociously-self-centered and obnoxious girls as likeable in the hopes that this will trick people, or even change aesthetics along the way. Sort of like movies/TV shows instructing us that 'big beautiful (=fat) women' are attractive. Yes, I understand they'd certainly like to think so. The problem is they might find that not everyone is playing along.
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My daily 'Volcker' search has brought me the latest piece by Suzy Khimm. Let me get my silly-definition-of-prop-trading complaint out of the way:
…the Volcker Rule — a provision of President Obama's Wall Street overhaul that would restrict commercial banks from making speculative investments that do not benefit their customers
That's what the Volcker Rule bans? Wait, so banks are, under the Volcker Rule, allowed to make speculative investments as long as those investments 'benefit their customers'? But wait. Suppose a bank makes a speculative investment. And then makes a lot of money. And then (in large part because of that) is able to offer their customers more loans/better prices. That would totally benefit customers, I would think! But that applies to anything a bank does, 'prop trading' or not. So I guess the Volcker Rule doesn't really ban anything at all. Nevermind then.
Why oh why can't anyway give a coherent account of what the Volcker Rule is meant to do? It's almost as if it tries to ban something that has no clear definition, or something!
Anyway, the rest of the piece is interesting more for its cultural reporting on the sorts of people still sticking around with that 'Occupy' thing (remember that?). Khimm brings us former traders and risk managers and quants, all 'fighting the man', she says – only, when you look really closely at what's going on, it sounds more like they are the man:
But the meeting is a glimpse into one of the most surprising iterations of the free-wheeling, anarchic movement: fighting the man through the tedious and Byzantine regulatory process. […] Many of the Occupy wonks once worked on Wall Street, and some of them still do. […] Now they're trekking to Washington to present their 325-page treatise before federal regulators in official meetings with the FDIC, the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and, yes, the SEC.
Last week, they met with 60-odd congressional staffers, including some Republicans, to give them a closed-door briefing on the regulation. And at the end April, the group is slated to sit down with Paul Volcker himself, the former Federal Reserve chair and namesake of the regulation.
Wow! Anarchist outsiders, the whole lot of 'em!
In the peak of 'Occupy!' (<—I definitely hope that's what the Green-Day-scored Broadway musical version will be called when it comes out, BTW) I wrote many times that this was not a movement of 'the 99%' against 'the 1%', it was a movement of disillusioned young gifted people of privilege trying to get the sinecures they felt they had coming to them, but hadn't found yet. Well, the subjects of Khimm's piece appear well on their way to finding them. I also predicted that some of the 'occupiers' were destined to become very powerful and wealthy. I wouldn't be surprised if Khimm has found us a few of those.
One of them is certainly thinking along the same lines, as he is planning to start a bank (!), waxing poetic about its 'market potential':
…the Occupy Bank would offer a full range of banking services to all customers; unlike community banks, it would ultimately have a national reach. "I personally think there is enormous market potential for a bank of the kind we described," Ross says. "If you get it right, it could potentially change the system, which is not only politically but commercially ripe for revolution."
Anarchy! Smash the state! Um…'enormous market potential' to create a 'commercial' revolution by starting a new bank and becoming a filthy rich banker myself!
Not that I'm knocking it, by the way. Good for them. But can we please finally drop the romance everyone constructed at the time about how 'occupy' was all about downtrodden lower-class folks who had no opportunities in life? People, seriously, the guy is talking about starting a freaking bank. I mean come on.
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Musing on what I like to think will become known to posterity as Coolnessgate made me realize that Coolness has some very intriguing and surprising properties. We start from self-proclaimed cool person Paul Waldman's (highly accurate I have to presume?) observation that Coolness was invented in the 1960s as a property held by the hairy guys who smoked weak 1960s pot and had hippie girlfriends who wore (let me go look this up in Paul Waldman's guide to coolness) 'sheer peasant blouses'. Whatever those are (but whatever they are, we know they excite Paul Waldman).
Now one thing we know about those 1960s from the approximately 2.7 kajillion movies and TV shows that have celebrated the greatness of that decade (which saw the Baby Boomers invent sex, freaky white-people dancing, Indian music, trees, and so many other things) is that – back then – the cool kids didn't like old people. Remember 'don't trust anyone over 30'? Okay, me neither, but I'm pretty sure I saw it in a movie or one of those PBS telethon specials about The 60xties that would constantly be interrupted by some short-white-haired old lady with gigantic earrings begging for money. Point being, young people were cool and (this is key) old people were not, almost by definition. Coolness, back then (when – hey wouldn't you know it – Baby Boomers happened to be young), coincidentally attached to those very same young, and could not attach to an old person.
But what has happened to coolness since then? It seems to have (coincidentally!) followed that particular wave of young people forward. Because at least by the Clinton administration (at a time when Baby Boomers started to become 50+ years old), I guess scientists discovered that apparently suddenly miraculously 50+ year-olds can be 'cool' after all. Play Fleetwood Mac at their inaugurations and everything.
This illustrates the broader theme of the relationship of 'coolness' to the establishment. Back then, the establishment was decidedly not cool. Young people today probably scratch their heads when being taught that those cool '60s rioters were rioting against the Democratic National Convention. Say what? Because now one political party in particular, in particular the Democratic Party, is way super-cool. Again coincidentally no doubt, this change in coolness occurred over a time when Baby Boomers happened to find themselves able to rise in the ranks and assuming leadership of political parties and indeed of the country itself. 60s: surely a President, an old powerful dude in a suit, can not be cool. LBJ? Nixon?? Get real. Even the sickly JFK – sure he could womanize, and was 'inspiring', but he wasn't 'cool'. But now: Clinton played a saxophone! Obama is Obama! So coolness has followed Baby Boomers to the Presidency itself.
Or how about wealth. In the 60s: It was cool to eschew possessions and materialism (at a time when Baby Boomers were too young to have possessions or, um, materials). Those materialistic parents with their plastic-fantastic world, giving Dustin Hoffman a SCUBA outfit for his birthday, I mean how uncool they all were (as they came back from a war to supply Baby Boomers with an unprecedentedly coddled and privileged existence). But as those Baby Boomers grew up, bought houses of their own, made a killing in real estate, made it big in stocks in the '80s, maybe bought a second house or got their real estate license and started flipping houses, maybe (like Hillary) got into commodity futures, etc., bought tech stocks, guess what? Suddenly all that stuff is just fine. It's now cool to be wealthy as hell and even tax young people more to maintain the system. Doesn't hurt your coolness at all.
So everywhere we look we see this property of coolness recur again and again: it happens to follow Baby Boomers through their life arc. Coincidentally.
And if you don't believe me, just ask a Baby Boomer. Because clearly they'll be perfectly happy to tell you how cool they are and how coolness is defined by…well, by whatever they happen to be doing.
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Paul Waldman has clearly done some very important journalistic and literary work in writing this piece stating that President Obama is "cool" – cooler than Mitt Romney – and that he needs to be re-elected because he is so "cool". After all, the cool kids have been downtrodden and beset upon enough already, it's time they had a victory for once:
So once again, we have to wage a campaign of the cool kids versus the squares.
Yes, once again. The self-proclaimed "cool" people (like Paul Waldman, whoever that is) "have to", "once again", beat back those squares. Reluctantly!, Waldman would no doubt add with a sigh, sad-eyed at the thought of having to repeat this campaign that, the cool kids all thought, had been won definitively in the 1960s when Jimi set his guitar on fire or Abbey Hoffman did (um, whatever he did) or something. Nevertheless. Squaresville delenda est.
It's pathetic enough that after three and a half years of President Obama's administration the best argument to be mustered in his favor is the exact same one upon which his entire election was based in the first place. Literally, nothing he has done or hasn't done in the intervening time has mattered one iota; he was ipso facto cool then (and this is why it was important to elect him) and he is still cool now (and this is why it is important to re-elect him). You could have been stranded on a desert island all this time and easily pick up with this 'analysis' right where you left off, without a hitch.
But the genuinely interesting point is the one Glenn Reynolds raises: what exactly about President Obama makes him 'cool' at this point? A corollary here is what's so 'uncool' about Mitt Romney? Looks sort of cool to me though my tastes are admittedly not up to date, and may reflect different priorities to those of Paul Waldman:
Anyway, in search of answers, from very early on I had perceptively and astutely identified these factors in Obama's favor:
- tall and sort of skinny, looks svelte in a suit
- kinda-black but not too black, if you know what I mean
- can read prepared text in a 'sonorous' tone of voice; good for sound bytes, music videos
RWCG can now reveal the previously-sealed findings of an exclusive, in-depth investigation commissioned by RWCG, Inc.: it turns out that President Barack Obama still possesses the preceding three qualities which (they and they alone) are what made everyone love him so much in the first place. Hence: cool, Smart People (such as Paul Waldman) think he should continue to be President-guy.
And I for one think that's as good an argument as any. Because if there's one group of people whose priorities I find to have been in the right place lo these many decades, it's self-absorbed Baby Boomers who think (and say!) they're so "cool".
UPDATE 4/27: Waldman clarifies. Shorter: 'You guyyys, you just don't understand, when I said Obama was cool I just meant he was way way super-cool'. Or something (I mostly skimmed). Thanks Paul Waldman for that and I for one pledge to take you at your word that you're as cool as you claim to think you are.
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Today in Volcker Rule news, legislators (=people who write and agree on laws) have asked regulators to fill in all the, like, well, actual details of the law they 'wrote', in such a way that once it is actually written the result is, well, perfect.
In a letter to five federal agencies on Thursday, a group of 22 senators called for regulators to adopt a final rule free from loopholes and concessions to Wall Street.
Got that? When the unnamed/unelected regulators finish filling in all the details of the law, it needs to be completely 'free from loopholes and concessions'. That's all they ask. I think legislators should ask regulators to square the circle and create a perpetual motion machine while they're at it. Legislating! It's fun and easy!
Somehow I don't remember any of this being the process, but admittedly it's been a while since I've seen that 'I'm just a bill on Capitol Hill' episode of Schoolhouse Rock. I mostly know the words to 'Unpack Your Adjectives'.
Which may explain why I always end up unpacking 'frustrating' first, and then I reach in and find the word 'worst'. Like when I read this description of the Volcker Rule:
Under the rule, banks can no longer place speculative bets with their own money.
There are two ways to read this by my count. One is to observe that the notion of banks having something called 'their own money', as if firewalled off from the 'other money' (?) they do stuff with, is nonsense on stilts, and infer that the author is a financial ignoramus. The other is to assume for the sake of argument that the above is an accurate description of the Volcker Rule, from which we conclude that the Volcker Rule bans precisely this: modern banking. So as a description of the Volcker Rule this is either dumb or insane.
Adjectives are words you use to really describe things. Handy words to carry around.


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May 12, 2012
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Junior Rachel Clark and sophomore Abby Fischer of the Xavier track and field women's team ran at the Cardinal Twilight on Friday and inched their qualifying times closer towards the bubble for the NCAA East Regional.
Clark set another school record in the 1,500-meter run with her time of 4:27.39. She finished fourth out of 23 runners in the event. Her time is ranked 110th in the east qualifier list as of Friday night.
Fischer established a personal best 17:04.92 in the 5,000 meters. She also notched a fourth place finish for the Musketeers. Her time is the 153rd fastest among east regional runners this year.
Both runners will now have to wait and see if they have qualified for the regional meet. The top 48 times of runners declaring for a race will travel to Jacksonville, Fla. for the meet. Sophomore Ashley Vincent is also in the consideration to run in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase at the three-day meet.


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Orion Airlines pushing for way to sell standing room tickets for flights
PHOENIX -- One local travel expert says at least one airline is pushing for a new way to cram more passengers onto its already crowded planes.
Louie Thiele, of KTAR News' "The Travel Show," said United Kingdom-based Orion airlines may have something up its sleeve.
"The Orion air guy has been after a patent (for) standing room in the planes," he said. "It includes having some kind of a bicycle seat that you brace against and you're strapped to a pole and standing up for the whole flight. He wants to put even more people on the plane."
Meanwhile, Thiele said the airlines don't seem to care about the lack of legroom on their planes and are not likely to add to it. There have been three recent incidents where a lack of space between seats has led to confrontations between airline passengers.
"The only thing the airlines look at is daily revenue and the price of fuel," explained Thiele. "The price of fuel could get worse, and this situation could get worse, believe it or not."
Thiele added that with the price of fuel, it's all about the bottom line.
"The airlines are long past caring about passenger comfort, unless you're willing to pay for first class or business class on an international flight," he said.
He also remembered a comment from an airline industry executive talking about why there are more seats and less leg room on the plane.
"I once was at a conference and heard the president of American Airlines at the time say, 'Passengers get the seats that they deserve,'" he said. "He meant that passengers don't want to pay higher prices, so we're going to have to put more seats on the plane because of higher fuel prices or whatever."


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The Importance of Ventilation
Regularly extracting and replacing air in your grow room has a significant and positive impact upon your plants. They need this constant supply of fresh air to replenish CO2 and oxygen levels and maintain healthy temperatures. A good ventilation system also helps minimise the risk of damp and mould forming and let's you more closely manage grow room humidity.
All you need to set up an extraction/filtration system is:
a good fan - like one of the Lti Systemair RVK Extractor Fans,
a matching Carbon Filter,
the relevant Ducting, Quick Release Clips and/or Fast Clamps plus hanging accessories from which to suspend it.
Alternatively, you could just opt for a Complete Extraction/Filtration Kit that include each and every required component.
Fan Limitations
Although you may have the fan(s) for the job, manually finding the optimum fan speed is very difficult - especially during summer when temperatures tend to change a lot between day and night. Your fan(s) alone won't respond to such fluctuations, reducing their overall effectiveness and in the worse case scenarios restricting plant growth.
Fortunately a solution does exist!
Fantastic Fan Speed Controllers
Fan speed controllers allow you to adjust the level of extraction and/or intake in accordance to grow room conditions. In recent years designs have been progressed to account for a variety of factors and the demands of different growers. There are a number of Fan Speed Controllers currently available to choose from – just make sure you don't go without! Check out our guide on Fan Speed Controllers below:
Control Method 1: "Phase Angle Control"
Most fan speed controllers use "phase angle control" to increase and decrease the amount of power that fans receive. These work in the same way as the dimmer switch for your living room lights, only at a more advanced level.
The Fan Speed Controller Rig and the Klimavator both use this method of control but with various degrees of sophistication. Here's a simple breakdown of each device:
Fan Speed Controller Rig
Allows you to reduce fan speed to a single setting (not reactive to grow room conditions)
Easy to use - manage fan speeds by adjusting settings via a dimmer switch
Cheapest option
Controls intake and extract fans independently with built in temperature control
Features separate controls for intake and extraction fans
Automatically runs your fans at full speed during high temperatures until suitable conditions have been restored
In cooler climates your fans can be set to run at lower idling speeds, limiting the amount of cold air able to enter your grow room
Control Method 2: "Variac Control"
The other type of fan controller uses a variac (variable transformer) to regulate the voltage supplied to your fans. The Fan Speed Voltage Controllers use this approach to controlling fans.
Voltage Fan Speed Controllers
Vary fan speeds without generating any noise from the unit or your fans
Available in 1.5 Amp and 6 Amp versions
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Labor itself causes spectacular changes in pressures, because hypoxic placentas produce more soluble flt, which pokes little holes in your vasculature, which freaks out your kidneys, which send out vasoconstrictors because obviously something is wrong because all of the fluid is leaking out into your interstitial spaces between your cells instead of coming to visit them, so your blood has the wrong ratios of stuff, which triggers release of said vasoconstrictors. And placentas get hypoxic - short of oxygen - because you're contracting. So there's really no way to not be contracting and still have a baby except Caesarean, which... yeah.
Preeclampsia is just a runaway train. There really aren't a heck of a lot of "good" options, except the ones where everyone lives!


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In the late 1970s Jerry Pierce was a successful musician who'd come to the realization he wanted to move in a slightly different direction: He wanted to lead his own band and play all kinds of music.
More than 30 years later, Jerry Pierce and the Nightlife Band are still making music, booking plenty of shows and, most importantly, having a great time.
"My Fridays and Saturdays have been tied up for at least the last 35 years, but that's kept me out of trouble, I guess," Pierce said with a laugh.
The Elizabethton native, who is semi-retired from Pierce Remodeling, which his son Sean now oversees, is a talented singer and saxophone player. He leads a band that includes Libby Hatcher on keyboards, vocals and strings, Jim Black on drums and Tommy Dickens on bass. (Founding member Ronnie McKee on bass just retired from the group.) Pierce also performs as a duo with Hatcher, calling themselves Just the Two of Us.
They're popular at weddings and private parties but also do plenty of public performances. One of their traditions is to play a New Year's Eve gig, and they'll do that again when they perform at The Doubletree Hotel to ring in 2012.
What are the keys to the band's longevity?
"Versatility is one thing," Pierce said. "We can play all kinds of music — 1950s rock, current rock, beach music, shag, country, big band, punk rock, jazz. We can do 'Sweet Home Alabama' or 'Yakety Sax' or Jimmy Buffet or some cry-in-your-beer country stuff. We have three of us who can sing including a female voice and we have a lot of different music backgrounds, so we're able to cover the song list pretty good. We've got some real strong musicians, they're exceptionally good.
"And we really enjoy playing. We enjoy each other's company and we enjoy playing for our friends."
The band's career was boosted by Pierce's friendship with the late, great saxophonist Boots Randolph. The two met at a Randolph club show and hit it off, and eventually the Nightlife Band became frequent performers with Randolph over the course of about 12 years.
"He needed somebody to front the show and they knew me and put me in there, and he and I just struck up an instant friendship," Pierce said. "He was already my idol, and then I got to talking to him and, shoot, he was just a regular person like me. He was so easy to get along with.
"We ended up taking some vacations together and we played a lot of shows. It was just great; we had so much fun."
Pierce is also a talented songwriter. His favorites include "July 1959" and "Nobody Loves Here Anymore," and he and Randolph co-wrote "The Shriner Song," which was a hit for them.
Randolph died in 2007, shortly before he was scheduled to play a concert at East Tennessee State University along with Pierce and the Nightlife Band.
"After he passed away, we had to sort of come back down to earth," Pierce said. "But we were very blessed, very fortunate to have played with him. It was just a dream come true, but it ended too soon."
For several years before the Nightlife Band, Pierce played in a group called The Londonaires, who had an agreement to travel around playing weeklong and two-week gigs at Holiday Inns. For about eight years the group traveled extensively, getting paid to play while getting their room and meals covered. He loved it.
But Pierce remembers where his career was before he founded the Nightlife Band. He'd played in various bands, each specializing in a certain style of music, and he decided he wanted to have a regular band that could cover all those styles and more.
"I'd done a lot of different stuff but I looked at myself and realized I was just spinning my wheels. I really wasn't going anywhere," he said. He joined up with McKee and soon added Hatcher to the lineup, and they had regular gigs even though they hadn't adopted the Nightlife Band name just yet. Now, with his band's versatility, they can "sit on the fence and fall in any direction" when it comes to song choice and musical style.
"I tell people, 'Come to one of our shows and listen to five songs and you'll find something you like. Just give me five songs.' And we're one of the few groups that will take requests. It's hard to call out a song we don't know."
Pierce's saxophone influences start with Randolph, who did the classic "Yakety Sax" and played with Elvis Presley and dozens of other superstar performers, but Jerry also loves jazz greats Charlie Parker and Richie Cole, among many others. His own style fits with Randolph's more than anyone, though.
"I'm a honker. I blow some jazz pretty good but I can really honk on the old '50s stuff," Pierce said.
As the Nightlife Band members hit 70 years old, they're still going strong. Pierce's career in bands has lasted for probably 45 years, he said, with no end in sight.
"It's been really enjoyable. I haven't made a million or had a No. 1 record but I've had a great time. I can't remember any time I've hated this job.
"As long as we're playing well and having fun, we'll keep going."
For more information, visit www.jerrypiercemusic.com.


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Why complete a Master Plan?Master plans promote a continuous planning process with vision and proactive planning, rather than reactive planning, while providing a logical development plan based on current and projected conditions. The Master Plan will provide a phased and flexible plan that is responsive to short-term and long-term needs. The Master Plan also provides a realistic plan that meets the needs of the users and community and can be funded. The plan is required to receive federal development approval and grant funding.
What is a Master Plan?A Master Plan is a concept of the ultimate development of an airport, which is reviewed and updated periodically and displays the concept graphically and reports the data and logic upon which the plan is based.
What are the components of a Master Plan?The components include the study design and identification of issues; inventory, surveys, and data collection; aviation forecasts; demand capacity and analysis; determination of facility requirements; development of alternatives and concepts; financial feasibility; environmental overview/analysis; an implementation plan for development; and the updating of Airport Layout Plan documents in accordance with federal airport operating and design standards.
What is the History of Master Plans at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport?
1959 Original Master Plan completed for current Cascade site.
1968 Master Plan Update completed.
1983 Master Plan Update completed.
1992 Master Plan Update completed.
2004 Master Plan Update completed.
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- Fix it before you chuck it. Before buying a new item because the old one is broken, try to fix it yourself, or ask your neighbors if they can help.
- Buy used. Shop at ReCoop, thrift stores, and garage sales to reuse!
- BYOBag. "Paper or plastic? Neither! I choose cloth!" Or just ditch the bag all together and carry your items.
- Shop local businesses. The Village and surrounding neighborhoods are full of locally-owned businesses - everything from cleaners ad pharmacies to restaurants and bike shops. Keep local in mind when choosing where to shop!
- Shop at the Claremont Farmers Markets. Do you go to the store to by produce, hummus, bread, flowers, honey, jam, or dried fruit? Try buying these things and much more at Claremont's weekly Sunday morning farmers' market in the Village or other markets throughout the year.


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Ninth Circuit Reverses Lower Court Ruling and Halts Development on 10,000 Year Old Sacred Site at Medicine Lake
MOUNT SHASTA, Calif., November 9, 2006-The Pit River Tribe won a major victory in their long-term struggle to protect a sacred site near Medicine Lake in Northeastern California from energy development this week, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court ruling and rejected renewed energy leases made by the federal government to a private company. The Pit River Tribe is plaintiff along with the Native Coalition for Medicine Lake Highlands Defense and the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center. The group is represented by the Stanford Legal Clinic at Stanford Law School.
In an opinion issued by Judge J. Clifford Wallace, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit determined that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Forest Service unlawfully failed to consult with the Pit River Tribe and undertake appropriate environmental review before deciding to execute energy leases in 1998 to a private company on this 10,000-year-old sacred landscape. The leases had granted Calpine Corporation rights to develop geothermal power near Fourmile Hill in the Medicine Lake Highlands, about 30 miles northeast of Mount Shasta in northern California.
The Ninth Circuit's decision reverses a 2004 adverse decision from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, and orders the lower court to enter summary judgment in favor of the Pit River Tribe on all issues on appeal. The decision agreed with arguments presented by the Environmental Law Clinic within the Stanford Legal Clinic, which had argued that BLM and the U.S. Forest Service had violated environmental and cultural preservation laws when the agencies granted a 40-year extension on the leases.
"The Court's decision vindicates the Pit River Tribe's decade-long struggle to protect the sacred Medicine Lake landscape from unreflective industrial development," said Deborah Sivas, director of the Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford Law School, and counsel of record. "The area has been an integral part of the Tribe's cultural and spiritual traditions for over 10,000 years, and the federal government plainly owes a high fiduciary duty to the region's Indian Tribes when managing the National Forests there. The Court agreed with the Native American and environmental plaintiffs that, of course, the federal agencies must formally consult with the Pit River Tribe and undertake appropriate environmental review before irrevocably leasing the public's resources for private energy development."
Judge J. Clifford Wallace, who wrote the opinion on behalf of the three-circuit-judge panel that also included judges Kim McLane Wardlaw and Sidney R. Thomas, acknowledged the "great spiritual significance" of the Medicine Lake Highlands to the Pit River Tribe and to the other Native American tribes in the region, who "continue to use numerous important spiritual and cultural sites within the highlands."
Gene Preston of the Pit River Tribal Council said, "We are only the transient stewards of this land, picking up the sacred thread from our ancestors, and making sure it stays sacred for generations to come. This decision is significant locally, nationwide and even internationally, through all the friends who have given their support—the National Congress of American Indians all the way to International Indian Treaty Council. We hope this ruling will help in other similar cases where sacred lands are in jeopardy."
The case involved a 49-megawatt geothermal project proposed by San Jose-based Calpine Corporation on leases covering about eight square miles near Fourmile Hill, just over the edge of the Medicine Lake Caldera. But the Ninth Circuit decision has implications for a much greater area. After the leases were renewed, the Medicine Lake Highlands--an area covering about 113 square miles--were designated as eligible for the National Register of Historic Places as a Traditional Cultural Area. Calpine's total lease holdings cover about half the area, or 66 square miles, and were approved through a similar process as the Fourmile Hill leases. Calpine has stated plans to generate 500 to 1000 megawatts in the Highlands by exploiting hot magma and fluids believed to exist 9,000 to 11,000 feet underground.
A second geothermal project located at Telephone Flat within the pristine Medicine Lake Caldera was at first denied by local decision makers, and then approved in 2002 at the Washington DC level. The plaintiffs have a pending lawsuit challenging the Telephone Flat project on similar grounds as the current Fourmile Hill case. The Telephone Flat lawsuit was automatically stayed when Calpine filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings in 2005 and became the eighth largest public company to file for bankruptcy in U.S. history with assets reported at $26.6 billion, but the tribe and environmentalists have plans to reactivate that claim.
The geothermal projects have been hotly debated ever since they came to public attention in 1997. Native American and environmental plaintiffs see the Fourmile Hill project as only the first of many projects that would permanently damage this geologically unique and pristine area, transforming the Medicine Lake Highlands into an the industrial wasteland with multiple power plants, noisy 24-hour drilling, landscape-fragmenting pipelines, toxic plumes exuding dangerous levels of arsenic, mercury and hydrogen sulfide, and would constitute a major threat to the huge pure aquifer that feeds California's largest spring system.
Over 90% of public comment letters have opposed the projects, and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, commenting on the Telephone Flat project, stated, "The costs to the historic resources of Native Americans and our nation are too high."
"We have fought these projects for a decade because we cannot let this desecration happen. The Medicine Lake Highlands are a landscape of the spirit," said Michelle Berditschevsky, Environmental Coordinator for the Pit River Tribe and Director of the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center. "This area is critical to the cultural continuity of tribes near and far, as well as to people from all over the nation, because it symbolizes a world view that must be preserved at a time when resource extraction seeks to infringe on everything sacred. It is a place where mystery can be tangibly felt, where industrial blight and noise have not drowned out spiritual qualities. It exudes a feeling of eternity. It represents our sanity and healing, our commitment to keeping beauty and peace alive in our world."
About the Pit River Tribe
The PIT RIVER TRIBE (Ahjumawi-Atsuge Nation) is a federally recognized sovereign Indian Tribe consisting of eleven autonomous bands. The Tribe is located in parts of Shasta, Siskiyou, Modoc and Lassen Counties, and its ancestral territory includes Medicine Lake and the surrounding Highlands.The Tribe has a long history of use of Medicine Lake and the Highlands for religious and cultural purposes. For at least 10,000 years, members of the Pit River Tribe have used (and continue to use) Medicine Lake and the Highlands for religious activities such as vision quests, religious prayers and teaching, traditional shaman/doctoring practices, life cycle ceremonies, collection of traditional foods, medicines, and materials, spiritual renewal, and quiet contemplation. These benefits depend on the physical, environmental, and visual integrity of these areas, and their quietude.
About the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center
The Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center is a grassroots nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting and restoring the exceptional natural and cultural values of Mount Shasta, one of the sacred mountains of the world, of the Medicine Lake Highlands, and of the surrounding bioregion. This region is valuable as a major source of pure waters to the entire state of California. It is important locally, nationally and internationally in providing pristine natural sanctuaries that contain rich biodiversity and sacred areas of high significance to Native American cultures near and far. The Ecology Center's website is at www.mountshastaecology.org
About Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School is one of the nation's leading institutions for legal scholarship and education. Its alumni are among the most influential decision makers in law, politics, business, and high technology. Faculty members argue before the Supreme Court, testify before Congress, and write books and articles for academic audiences, as well as the popular press. Along with offering traditional law school classes, the school has embraced new subjects and new ways of teaching. The school's home page is located at www.law.stanford.edu
About the Environmental Law Clinic at Stanford
The Environmental Law Clinic enables students to provide legal assistance to nonprofit organizations on a variety of environmental issues, focusing primarily on natural resource conservation. The clinic's clients include large national environmental organizations and a variety of regional and local grassroots groups. Students in the clinic work under the supervision of practicing environmental attorneys on a variety of tasks, including: screening and investigating new matters; assisting clients in the development of legal strategies; drafting comment letters; petitions, complaints and briefs; and presenting testimony or argument before administrative boards and state and federal courts. Students routinely argue cases in state and federal courts and before administrative agency tribunals.
Pit River Tribe: Michelle Berditschevsky, Pit River Tribe Environmental Coordinator 530 335.5062 ext.1, or Sharon Elmore, Cultural Information Officer, 530 335.5062 ext.2
Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center: Peggy Risch 530.926.5655, or Michelle Berditschevsky 530 926.3397
Stanford Legal Clinic: Deborah Sivas, Director of the Environmental Law Clinic and Lecturer in Law 650 723.0325, firstname.lastname@example.com
Stanford Law School: Judith Romero, Associate Director of Media Relations, 650 723.2232, firstname.lastname@example.com