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POTSDAM - May 18, 2008 was the happiest day of Jacy M. Goods life so far, at least what she can remember of it.
It was also the worst day of her life.
However the negative aspects of the day, which include the death of both her parents, are not memories that she has.
That was the day Ms. Good graduated from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa., but as her family was making the 90-minute drive back home to Lancaster County their vehicle was struck by a milk truck that she says had just picked up 30 tons of milk and swerved to avoid a van that had ran a red light.
The driver of that van was an 18-year-old, approximately one month away from his own high school graduation, who was talking on a cell phone and did not notice the traffic light had turned red.
This day was the best day of my life, Ms. Good told a silent auditorium that was filled Wednesday with Potsdam High School students in grades nine through 12.
We got about halfway home and stopped at a gas station, she said. It wasnt that exciting, but thats the last memory of the day I have.
She said it was approximately four to five minutes later when the car she was riding in was struck head on by the milk truck.
Ms. Goods injuries included two broken feet, a broken wrist, a broken clavicle, a broken fibula and tibia, a shattered pelvis, a lacerated liver, partially collapsed lungs, traumatic brain injury and damage to her carotid arteries. Thats what almost killed me, she said.
We were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, she said, noting she was in the intensive care unit for two months and not released from the hospital until mid-September, when she was sent to a rehabilitation facility.
Her parents, Jay and Jean Good, werent that lucky.
The only thing I can do is hope is hope mom and dad didnt experience pain, she said, noting that she wasnt even able to attend their funeral because she was in a coma at the time.
Put yourself in my brothers shoes. He had to plan a funeral for his parents, she said, noting he was only 25 at the time.
Im so glad that Im the one who was in a coma. Its so sad I couldnt go to my parents funeral, but Im glad I didnt have to go through what he did, she said.
After being released from the rehabilitation center, she began a campaign to make driving while talking on a cell phone or texting illegal in the state of Pennsylvania, where to date drivers can legally talk on their cell phones and drive. A law banning texting and driving was only implemented in March 2012.
Given that Pennsylvania did not have a law banning operating of cell phone while driving, the driver of the van was not charged.
There were no criminal charges, she said. No vehicular homicide, no manslaughter, nothing.
In an article appearing in the Sept. 6, 2008 edition of the Reading Eagle, Berks County District Attorney John T. Adams explained why.
There is a threshold of difference between an accident and a crime, he said. A crime calls for intent.
And while the police report indicated that the driver had run a red light, Northern Berks Regional Police Chief Scott W. Eaken said the driver did not willfully run the red light, noting that if they believed he intentionally ran the red light, the accident would have likely resulted in criminal charges, according to the article.
While the focus of the presentation was distracted driving, Ms. Good also warned students to wear seat belts, noting that if her mother, who was sitting in the back seat, had been wearing a seat belt she might still be alive today.
I dont care where youre going, how far youre going or how fast youre going, put your seat belt on, she said. Its the number one thing you can do. My dad never went anywhere without a seat belt on, but it was at least 30 tons that hit him. He didnt stand a chance.
Following the accident, Ms. Good said she was in surgery for nine hours, as doctors and surgeons did whatever they could to keep her alive.
I dont know what they could have done to my body, but they put it back together the best they could to keep me alive, she said.
Ms. Good noted though that her family werent the only ones impacted by the accident.
Could you imagine going to school that Monday knowing you killed two people, she said. You were just a kid hanging out.
Her efforts to promote legislation banning cell phone use while driving have landed her on Oprah and even at the U.N., where she learned the United States is lagging far behind many other countries when it comes to those types of laws.
We have to keep up with Kenya and Uganda, who have stronger laws regarding cell phones than the U.S., she said, noting she considers distracted driving an epidemic.
According to Ms. Good, roughly 5,000 people in the U.S. are killed by distracted drivers each year.
Thats 15 people every day. Thats an epidemic, she said. None of these people have to be dead. New York has the strongest laws in all of the United States, but you still cant go anywhere without seeing someone trying to do something on their cell phones while theyre driving.
Ms. Good noted that her voice mail message says, Hey Im Jacy, and Im busy or I might be driving.
Her presentation also included a video from Ms. Goods fianc�, Steve Johnson, who noted he had lost a friend who was a passenger in a vehicle that was driving 90 miles per hour in a 45 miles per hour zone when an accident took place. His advice was dont be afraid to speak up.
Ms. Good said sometimes she wonders if her accident was a blessing or a curse.
My career is traveling around the country and being a public speaker, which is the coolest job ever, she said. But I want that boring 9 to 5, so I can have my parents back, she said.
Ms. Good is getting married in October and appeared on an episode of Say Yes To The Dress a popular reality show on TLC.
I did that because I dont have a mother to help me pick out a dress, she said. I dont have a dad to walk me down the aisle. My goal is for no one to ever have to feel that pain again.
Following the presentation, Ms. Good took several questions from the audience including, Have you forgiven the driver?
Its been a long road, but the answer right now is no, she said. When he reaches out to me and apologizes, I should be able to.
At this point Ms. Good said its her understanding that both the driver of the milk truck and the van are denying any responsibility for the accident.
When asked what she would say to the vans driver if he were to call her, she said she would request a face to face meeting.
I need to meet him, she said. If he called me, I think I would be open to it.
As for how that meeting would go, Ms. Good said she has a general idea.
I think I would hug him, she said. I think hugs solve everything.
Prior to presenting in Potsdam, Ms. Good gave a similar presentation at Edwards-Knox Central School. Today she is scheduled to give presentations in Lisbon and Hammond.
Ms. Good and her fianc� have a website with information about distracted driving. Visitors to the site can also sign a pledge to refrain from cell phone use while behind the wheel.
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High class living has always been associated with the use of perfumes. In the old days with royalty people finding the need for fragrances, the bourgeois society soon followed.
The natural odorants like sandalwood and musk were a much prefered scent before. Today, natural odorants are replaced by synthetic aromatics.
Aromas like musk from natural ingredients are extremely complex and are impossible to imitate through synthetic aromatics like nitro-musks or macrocyclic musks. On the other hand, synthetic aromas like ozone, marine, metallic, etc. have no parallel olfactory relationship in the natural odorants.
With modern technology, new categories have been created in manufaturing perfumes. Some are:
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2. Woody – it evokes the forest refreshing smell
3. Green – it has a lighter fragrance and is meant for casual wear
4. Oceanic – it is very popular among the younger generation
5. Spicy Fruit – a good choice for tropical weather or during summer
6. Oriental – (Or Spicy scents) it is meant for special occasions.
The composition of perfumes is very important, because the right combination of scents (as rose, jasmine, cola), modifiers (esters), blenders (linalool, hydroxycitronellol) and fixatives(like resins, wood scents and amber), can provide the unique smell by which brand name perfumes are so famous and desired for. Some famous brand name perfumes are:
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3. Opium YSL (1977)
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5. Anais Anais (1979)
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7. Eternity Calvin Klein (1988)
8. Envy Gucci (1997)
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10. Rose 31 (2006)
Perfumes are kept carefully to preseve its scent. Before, all perfumes used to come in open bottles with caps. These bottles kept the fragrance intact for about a year. Because of frequent use, its perfume level went down more easily. Heat, light, oxygen, and extraneous organic materials, further distorted the fragrance. Thus glass bottles, though extremely decorative, allowed light, and contributed to the degradation of the scent.
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At every installment of Cinema Club we welcome a guest expert for a very special program of screening and discussion. Over the years our experts have included writers, academics and filmmakers of all sorts but we've never welcomed a guest quite like Johnny Legend. He is the first - and will probably remain the only - Cinema Club guest who is a wrestling manager and member of the Rockabilly Hall Of Fame. In addition to all his other talents, Legend is one of the world's most respected authorities on drive-in and exploitation movies. Through his work with Rhino Video and Legendhouse, he has exposed the world to the joys of the films he lovingly calls "sleaze" and "trash". We're so excited to welcome Johnny, who brings with him two astonishingly rare 35mm film prints, The Edward D. Wood Jr.- written girl gang movie THE VIOLENT YEARS (1956), which postulates that juvenile delinquency is a communist plot. The second half of our drive-in double feature is the hard-bitten psychological horror film THE SADIST (1963), starring would-be teen idol Arch Hall Jr. as a psychotic young man who terrorizes an unlucky trio with car trouble. It's a tour-de-force of acting and direction that we consider thoroughly unmissable. As always, after each screening we'll open the discussion to all. Expect the well-traveled Mr. Legend to come prepared with some pretty hair-raising stories. Also, don't miss Johnny Legend performing at the Continental Club on March 31! (Lars)


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By, Adam K. Fetterman
After the Senate passed a bill to repeal the unpopular "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT), it was up to President Obama to sign the bill. He did so on December 22, 2010. This was one of his many campaign promises that he has either completed or attempted to complete. For quite some time, it was uncertain whether this bill would be passed. While many found the DADT policy unjust and prevented dedicated individuals from serving their country, many others opposed repealing it for many reasons. For some it was just plain ignorance and prejudice. Others still thought that it would reduce morale in the military and would be dangerous for those LGBT individuals serving. Presidential candidate John McCain was one of those opposed to the repeal. However, he gave the impression that his mind could be changed by a study showing that a majority of those in the military approved of or saw little problems with the repeal. Indeed, a Pentagon study found just that. McCain rejected the study stating that it was flawed. This seems to happen quite often, but why?
According to research by Munro (2010), when presented with belief-disconfirming scientific evidence, individuals tend to disbelieve the efficacy of the research. That is, when presented with evidence to the contrary of one's opinions or beliefs, many individuals will reject the evidence. This is what Munro refers to as the scientific impotence discounting hypothesis. Individuals want to believe that they are correct and therefore need to find a reason to discount disconfirming evidence. An easy way to do that is to reject the evidence. This is particularly easy to do when it comes to scientific evidence, as most people do not fully understand scientific methods. This appears to be what happened with the study conducted by the Pentagon. McCain had an opinion and many of his supporters agreed with his opinion. Therefore, it was probably pretty beneficial and easy for McCain to reject the evidence so that he could maintain his opinion. The question becomes, then, could anything change his or others' opinions on this and other issues? How about in more controversial issues, such as reconciling science evidence with one's religion?
Obama signs historic bill ending 'don't ask, don't tell' – David Jackson and John Bacon, USA Today
John McCain: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' repeal study flawed. – Anne Flaherty, Huffington Post.
Munro, G. (2010). The scientific impotence excuse: Discounting belief-threatening scientific abstracts. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 40, 579-600.
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ELYRIA --Lawmaker trouble reaching an agreement to avoid the "fiscal cliff" means a tough road ahead for many families.
Starting Saturday in Northeast Ohio and across the nation, two million Americans have been dropped from unemployment.
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His wife puts in as many hours as she can at a local restaurant to support the family but it's not enough. They've been relying on Adam's unemployment benefits to bridge the gap in household expenses.
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Tinkers is a haunting little book that weaves together the story of George Crosby, who is dying, with the story of his father, Howard Crosby. As George lies hallucinating, he tries to untangle the threads of his youth and finally come to grips with the enigma that is his father. Howard is an epileptic at a time in history when being so gets one labeled "insane." He suffers under that burden and finds a way of dealing with it that will haunt his son forever. Paul Harding writes like no one you've ever read: lyrical, poetic, spare, and lush.
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An old man lies dying. Confined to bed in his living room, he sees the walls around him begin to collapse, the windows come loose from their sashes, and the ceiling plaster fall off in great chunks, showering him with a lifetime of debris: newspaper clippings, old photographs, wool jackets, rusty tools, and the mangled brass works of antique clocks. Soon, the clouds from the sky above plummet down on top of him, followed by the stars, till the black night covers him like a shroud. He is hallucinating, in death throes from cancer and kidney failure.
A methodical repairer of clocks, he is now finally released from the usual constraints of time and memory to rejoin his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler, whom he had lost 7 decades before. In his return to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in the backwoods of Maine, he recovers a natural world that is at once indifferent to man and inseparable from him, menacing and awe inspiring.
Tinkers is about the legacy of consciousness and the porousness of identity from one generation the next. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, it is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature.
"Harding's outstanding debut unfurls the history and final thoughts of a dying grandfather surrounded by his family in his New England home. George Washington Crosby repairs clocks for a living and on his deathbed revisits his turbulent childhood as the oldest son of an epileptic smalltime traveling salesman. The descriptions of the father's epilepsy and the 'cold halo of chemical electricity that encircled him immediately before he was struck by a full seizure' are stunning, and the household's sadness permeates the narrative as George returns to more melancholy scenes. The real star is Harding's language, which dazzles whether he's describing the workings of clocks, sensory images of nature, the many engaging side characters who populate the book, or even a short passage on how to build a bird nest. This is an especially gorgeous example of novelistic craftsmanship." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"Tinkers is truly remarkable.... It confers on the reader the best privilege fiction can afford, the illusion of ghostly proximity to other human souls." Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Home and Gilead
"In astounding language sometimes seemingly struck by lightning, sometimes as tight and complicated as clockwork, Harding shows how enormous fiction can be, and how economical. Read this book and marvel." Elizabeth McCracken
"Tinkers is a remarkable piece of work... fascinating — and sometimes horrific — to read, and is cumulatively moving because it is woven together into the single quilt of our humanity." Barry Unsworth
"Every so often (and this must happen to you too) a writer describes something so well — snow, oranges, dirt — that you can smell it or feel it or sense it in the room. The writing does what all those other art forms do — evoke the essence of the thing. In this astonishing novel, Paul Harding creates a New England childhood, beginning with the landscape." Susan Salter Reynolds, L.A. Times
"A beautifully written meditation on life, death, the passage of time and man's eternal attempt to harness it... one of 2009's most intriguing debuts." Carole Goldberg, Hartford Courant
"Harding is a first-rate writer, and his fascination with what makes his characters tick recommends him as a philosopher, as well." Jonathan Messinger, Time Out Chicago
"Harding's rendering is replete with a fantastic array of forehead-slapping ruminations and observations and adroit and elegiac turns of phrases... A remarkable book." Robert Birnbaum, The Morning News
"This compact, adamantine début dips in and out of the consciousness of a New England patriarch named George Washington Crosby as he lies dying on a hospital bed in his living room, 'right where they put the dining room table, fitted with its two extra leaves for holiday dinners'…In Harding's skillful evocation, Crosby's life, seen from its final moments, becomes a mosaic of memories, 'showing him a different self every time he tried to make an assessment." The New Yorker
"Harding's interest is in the universalities: nature and time and the murky character of memory…The small, important recollections are rendered with an exactitude that is poetic…Harding's prose is lyrical and specific...Tinkers is a poignant exploration of where we may journey when the clock has barely a tick or two left and we really can't go anywhere at all."The Boston Globe
"At only a very brief 192 pages, it still packs an emotional punch that books of three times its length often lack. It's a novel that you'll want to savor for its stunning yet economical use of language, for its descriptions of nature, of illness and health, and for its profound understanding of humanity's deepest needs and desires for family and home. I found reading it to be an incredibly moving experience, yet Harding is in such control of his material that it never devolves into mushiness or becomes maudlin." Nancy Pearl
"In Paul Harding's stunning first novel, we find what readers, writers and reviewers live for." San Francisco Chronicle
"There are few perfect debut American novels. Walter Percy's The Moviegoer and Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird come to mind. So does Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping. To this list ought to be added Paul Harding's devastating first book, Tinkers....Harding has written a masterpiece." John Freeman, National Public Radio
"Writing with breathtaking lyricism and tenderness, Harding has created a rare and beautiful novel of spiritual inheritance and acute psychological and metaphysical suspense." Booklist (starred review)
"Filled with lovely Whitmanesque descriptions of the natural world, this slim novel gives shape to the extraordinary variety in the thoughts of otherwise ordinary men." Kirkus Reviews
An astonishing first novel of memory, consciousness, and man's place in the natural world.
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Paul Harding has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has taught writing at Harvard and The University of Iowa. He lives near Boston with his wife and two sons. This is his first novel.
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Actresses have certain challenges that perhaps male actors don't have to deal with. For example, I can't identify with what Evangeline Lilly has to say below. The former Lost star had an interesting confession to make:
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Recently, Francisco Rodriguez told reporters he would waive his no trade clause to be dealt to a contender "such as the Yankees or the Rays".
Frankly, if dealing K-Rod to the Yankees means they're rid of that $17.5 million commitment for 2012, I wouldn't be too upset about it.
Like I've said repeatedly, it's not that I don't like Rodriguez – quite the contrary, and dealing K-Rod would create a gigantic hole in the bullpen and a problem down the stretch, should this team contend this summer. All things being equal, he is most definitely a part of the solution but to me, the option for next season is that big of a problem for this team, and a huge hindrance as far as their flexibility for next season's payroll is concerned.
Rodriguez has finished 31 of the team's 84 games, and is on pace to finish 59 games this season. If he finishes 55 games and doctors deem him healthy, his option for 2012 will automatically vest for 2012 at $17.5 million.
To put that option in perspective, Alderson has repeatedly said he expects the payroll to be no greater than $120 million in 2012. If that's the case, and Rodriguez's option kicks in, $17.5 million, or at least 15 percent of that payroll will be dedicated to the closer, and I don't think that is a good use of the money.


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Students are introduced to the carbon cycle through discussion, modeling and a game. Students then complete activities and investigations on Greenhouse gasses, photosynthesis, cellular respiration and ecosystem services (functions and values of... (View More) intact ecosystems to humans). The unit is one of four under the Chicago Botanic Garden curriculum entitled, "Climate Change in My Backyard." (View Less)
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Each lesson or activity in this toolkit is related to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The toolkit is designed so that each lesson can be done independently, or combined and taught in a sequence. The Teacher Implementation Guide provides... (View More) recommendations for combining the lessons into three main strands: 1) Lunar Exploration. These lessons provide a basic introduction to Moon exploration. Note that this strand is also appropriate for use in social studies classes. 2) Mapping the Moon. These lessons provide a more in-depth understanding of Moon exploration through the use of scientific data and student inquiry. The lessons also include many connections to Earth science and geology. 3) Tools of Investigation. These higher-level lessons examine the role of technology, engineering and physics in collecting and analyzing data. (View Less)
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This is an activity about light and color. The lesson includes a demonstration to show why the sky is blue and why sunsets and sunrises are orange. Participants will use scientific practices to investigate answers to questions involving the color of... (View More) the sky, sunsets, the Sun, and oceans. This activity requires use of a clear acrylic or glass container to hold water, a strong flashlight, batteries for the flashlight, and powdered creamer or milk. (View Less)
This is an activity about color. Participants will use scientific practices to investigate answers to questions involving the color of the sky, sunsets, the Sun, and oceans. This activity requires use of a clear acrylic or glass container to hold... (View More) water, a strong flashlight, batteries for the flashlight, and powdered creamer or milk. (View Less)
This activity was developed to get students thinking about the many ways that people use freshwater and how we can conserve this precious and fundamental natural resource. Students will watch a short documentary describing issues related to clean... (View More) water availability, analyze water-use data and start to think about how they consume and can conserve water. This background knowledge will lead to students collecting data about their own water use and finding areas in their lives to conserve water. This activity uses the 5E instructional model and is part of the "Survivor Earth" series of one-hour lessons. (View Less)
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The emphasis of this lesson is deepening students' understanding of how and why we measure precipitation across the globe. Students will look at NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) data gathered during hurricanes and how this data can... (View More) prove essential in helping scientists forecast the amount of precipitation. Students will also learn how the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission is enabling scientists to collect new information on hurricanes. The lesson uses the 5E instructional sequence. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about the solar wind, Earth's magnetosphere, and the Moon. Participants will work in groups of two or three to build a model of the Sun-Earth-Moon system. They will use the model to demonstrate that the Earth is protected from... (View More) particles streaming out of the Sun, called the solar wind, by a magnetic shield called the magnetosphere, and that the Moon is periodically protected from these particles as it moves in its orbit around the Earth. Participants will also learn that the NASA ARTEMIS mission is a pair of satellites orbiting the Moon that measure the intensity of solar particles streaming from the Sun. (View Less)
This is a collection of outreach resources about the Sun that are meant to be used in informal education settings. This toolkit was originally designed for NASA Night Sky Network member clubs and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Astronomy... (View More) from the Ground Up network of museum and science center educators. The toolkit includes background information about the Sun, magnetic fields of the Earth and Sun, and space weather, activity suggestions, and detailed activity scripts. The themes of this toolkit address both the constant nature of the Sun as a reliable source of energy and the dynamic nature of the Sun due to its changing magnetic fields. The activities and related materials in this collection include The Sun in a Different Light - Observing the Sun, Explore the Sun cards, Magnetic Connection, the Space Weather PowerPoint, Protection from Ultraviolet, and Where Does the Energy Come From cards. These activities can be done separately or as a group as part of an informal education event. Institutions that are not part of the Night Sky Network will need to acquire the various materials required for each activity. (View Less)
This textbook chapter makes the case for preserving desert old growth forests, and endangered species. The captive breeding program for the black-footed ferret is presented as a case study. Students learn about conservation practices they can do,... (View More) such as adopting a species or garden. The chapter includes an authentic unit assessment where students produce an essay on a biodiversity topic. The resource includes a link to current news articles and a teacher's guide. This is the eighth and last chapter in the unit, Losing Biodiversity, examining the endangerment and extinction of entire species of plants and animals throughout the world due to human actions. The resource is part of Global System Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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Hal Owen
MONTROSE, COLO./PRICE - Milford Harold Owen, age 87, passed away Aug. 29, 2012 in Price.
He was born July 11, 1925 to Percy and Violet Williams Owen in Montrose, Colo., where his family owned and operated a very successful produce business. At an early age, Hal learned the importance of hard work and a good education. While his parents operated Owen Produce, he was able to learn many valuable lessons in life from Grandma Berryhill which he was very grateful for. He was an accomplished pianist and a graduate of Montrose High School.
After schooling, Hal moved to San Francisco where he graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelors in Business. For the next 35 years he worked in all phases of the insurance industry and had the opportunity to work with Lloyd's of London and eventually retire from Royal Indemnity.
Hal loved to cook, garden and most of all enjoy the comforts of his beautiful Victorian home in San Francisco with his lifelong friend John Lancaster. Both Hal and John were very successful in their occupations and they always stressed the importance of receiving a higher education. They assisted many in their schooling, but were especially proud of being able to help George Lancaster with his.
Hal loved to travel and after his health began to fail he made the trip to Utah where he received exceptional care at the Heirloom Inn and Pinnacle Care and Rehabilitation for the past nine years. Just a day before his passing, Hal was preparing to move to Mesquite, Nev. where he could be closer to Tom and Laurel Marinos. He was very appreciative of the care he received and was always willing to help those in need. Hal touched the lives of many and will be greatly missed by all.
Hal is survived by his nephew, John (Holly) Owen, Denver, Colo; cousins, Mike (Pat) Billis, Tom (Jerry) Billis, both of Salt Lake City, Saralyn Montoya, St. George, Jack Marinos, Helper, Tom (Laurel) Marinos, Mesquite, Nev; and numerous other beloved nieces, nephews, cousins and many longtime friends in California.
He was preceded in death by his parents, brother Bill; lifetime friend John Lancaster; and his favorite "Auntie Mae".
A celebration of Hal's life will be Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012, 10 a.m., at Mitchell Funeral Home (233 E. Main Street-Price). Friends are welcome to join the family at Mitchell Funeral Home Tuesday one hour prior to services. Burial will follow in the Orchard Mesa Cemetery in Grand Junction, Colo., on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. Arrangements entrusted to Mitchell Funeral Home of Price where friends are welcome to share memories of Hal at www.mitchellfuneralhome.net.
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Jets Work Out OL Prospect Mike Iupati
National Football Post is reporting that the Jets have worked out top Guard Mike Iupati. Iupati (6-5, 331) played collegiately at Idaho, and is considered the best Guard in the draft by many.
The young lineman wowed scouts and coaches at the Senior Bowl and Combine, and is projected to be a top 20 pick.
While there's some disagreement on where he'd fit best (Tackle or Guard), he's likely better suited to the inside game. Drafting a Guard above the 20th pick would seem like a stretch, so that might very well be why the Jets are paying attention to the player as he might slip if he's a true Guard. The Jets could use some more depth for 2010 on their line, and a new projected starters going forward as some of their pieces (Moore, Faneca, Woody) are aging. Other than the Jets, Iupati has been scheduled for at least nine official visits.


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It has become a fact of life in America that almost every tragedy gathers a gaggle of political pontificators who loudly speculate that Islamic terrorism is the cause of our every woe. Thus it was that when a small Texas town was devastated by a horrific explosion at a fertilizer plant, the death and destruction was immediately seen as fodder for the conspiracy canard.
The whole world has now heard of the explosion that transpired on the evening of Wednesday, April 17, in the town of West, Texas. West is a town of approximately 2,800 souls, and it has been known for many years as a community that is proud of its Czech-American heritage. In fact, until the explosion at the West Fertilizer Co., the town was known to outsiders almost exclusively for its deservedly famous kolaches and annual "WestFest."
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, the pundits were disinclined to ignore Rahm Emanuel's famous advice to "never let a serious crisis go to waste."
Before the ashes could cool in the ruins of a nursing home and apartment complex in West, Sean Hannity was interviewing Texas' Lieutenant Governor, David Dewhurst, on the day after the explosion, asking leading questions, and apparently attempting to link the tragedy either to events in Boston or to the anniversary of the Branch Davidian massacre, which occurred in nearby Waco on April 19, 1993. Throughout the interview, Dewhurst seemed to have a hard time getting Hannity to even realize that Waco and West are two different cities in Texas.
Meanwhile, bloggers pursued the same seemingly disjointed speculations that a "seemingly multi-front assault on America's cities large and small has occurred. As much as officials attempt to tell the public that this recent wave of terroristic acts are unrelated or uncoordinated, the evidence seems to speak to us of a much different conclusion....
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Top Five Steps for SMB's to Prepare for IT Disasters
You read about it every day. The disasters that strike and hit the IT systems of small and medium-sized businesses. These range from natural disasters like floods, tornadoes and the likes to simple power surges that cripple and kill servers everywhere. Not to forget the threat of viruses, malware and hackers waiting to kill your server systems.
Follow the five steps below to get a solid disaster prevention and recovery in place:
- Validate the need
- Analyze the business impact of disaster events
- Calculate the ROI
- Plan your strategy
- Test the plan
When it comes to disaster prevention and recovery, the old saying 'plan for the worst and hope for the best' is a good starting point. It's not more though as it's not sufficient when you think of business critical information and data.
Validate The Need
Potential loss of data is one of the biggest concerns and risks for SMB's today. The typical strategies to overcome these risks are diligent data backups which will ensure that data loss is kept to a minimum and business continuity as well as disaster recovery are possible.
Corporate computer systems like servers and laptops typically contain a lot of data, a lot of it confidential, that is critical for the ongoing business operations. In today's business environment this is hardly enough as it's not only about backing up data anymore so it can be restored but also about rapid recovery of a system as a whole including applications, etc. that is needed.
Analyze the Business Impact of Disaster Events
The analysis of the business impact of a disaster event is the cornerstone of a disaster recovery plan. The analysis will specify the priority order of the systems that need to be recovered.
The place to start is to identify the most crucial systems and processes. Then gauge the impact that an outage of these systems and processes has on the business overall. Try to rate these on a number scale, e.g. from 1 to 10. The systems and the processes with the highest level of disruption have the highest priority and need to be recovered/restored immediately. These impact priorities are different for any organization and thus can't simply be copy/pasted from anywhere.
The analysis will have a prioritized list of systems and processes which will tell you what do restore first. You might want to address the following questions when you create your analysis:
- What are the systems, applications, networks, facilities, etc. that are essential to perform the most important business aspects?
- Who are the key people responsible for these functions/business processes?
- How important are these functions to the organization? Think of this as in health of company, reputation, finances, etc.
- What supporting assets are needed to perform these functions?
- What other dependencies (outside vendors, connectivity, etc.) are necessary to perform these functions?
- How long can each of these functions be unavailable?
Calculate the ROI
Now that the possible risks have been identified and prioritized it is necessary to calculate the return on investment (ROI). This will allow to justify the investment necessary to reduce operational impact of disaster events. The formula to calculate this ROI is pretty simple:
ROI = (Benefits – Costs)/Costs
The benefits are in the most simple equation your loss of revenue/profits while your business is down. Break that value down to a specific hourly number. Take for example a legal office with 10 attorneys that charge $200 per hour and work 10 hours per day. That would mean that full day with no revenue generated is worth $20,000.
The cost on the other hand is the implementation cost of your DR solution as well as additional costs. These costs can be soft costs (lost reputation) as well as hard costs like rent, salaries, etc.
In a simple scenario you might have to purchase a DR solution that will cost you $10,000. Your benefits are $20,000 per day:
This means that if you recover within one day of a disaster you achieve a positive ROI. If you typically have more than one day downtime due to disaster per year you will make a real profit by implementing such a DR solution!
Plan Your Strategy
With all this information you have at hand you are now ready to create a disaster recovery plan. The plan will formulate the recovery sequence and prioritize your assets in order to allow you to keep your business operational. The plan also needs to include the tactical details, e.g. whom to contact, how to start a specific restore, etc. that are necessary to execute the plan quickly and without fail.
It should specifically address the following items:
- Specify any necessary information access
- Describe in detail the prioritized recovery procedures
- Document the overall recovery process and each process by itself in detail
Test The Plan
At this time you have a solid plan to recover from a disaster with minimal downtime. However, it's only theory. You will have to actually test the plan by simulating disasters. These tests should be done regularly as they will not only prove that the plan works but also will highlight changes that need to be planned for updated business processes, etc.
Testing the plan also means that involved staff will be a lot more confident in their capability to overcome a disaster as they have performed the necessary tasks before. A plan will not be worth anything if your employees don't know the plan or have to start reading it in the event of a disaster!
You want to run through the plan with key staff members about once a quarter. At that time you don't have to really perform all the recovery steps but you should play them through. At least once a year you should have a live test where you perform all necessary steps to recover from a disaster.
Technology that we use and that we are dependent on is not flawless. Your IT infrastructure can break at any time and you need to be able to recover as fast as possible and needed. A managed IT provider is capable to develop a DR plan with you and put the necessary DR devices like BDR's in place that will allow you to recover from disaster as quickly as necessary for your organization.
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Inside IT: Self-Service Business Intelligence
Intel is a large, multi-national corporation that is working with huge data sets, a large global workforce, and an insatiable need for timely information. Creating effective business intelligence solutions is a major challenge for the IT organization. In this podcast we hear from Intel's David Schaefer about the development of Intel's self-service BI program, and how that program has improved the decision-making capabilities of Intel IT's business users.


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Wall Phone
1960s Rotary-Style Wall Phone With Today's Touch-Tone Convenience
Wall Phone
1960s Rotary-Style Wall Phone With Today's Touch-Tone Convenience
For a direct line back to yesteryear, ring up your friends and family on our classic wall phone. A 1960s replica, the telephone is identical in every detail to the ones once found in kitchens everywhere, right down to that telltale old-fashioned heft. The telephone features touch-tone push buttons cleverly disguised as a vintage-looking rotary dial, a ringer on/off switch, redial, and touch-tone or pulse operation. Works with answering machines. 9½x"5"x4½".
- Touch-tone push buttons disguised as a rotary dial
- Ringer on/off switch
- Touch-tone or pulse operation
- Works with answering machines
For those dialed into the past, this classic wall phone is a must.
Wall Phone
Plastic, Metal.
Wipe clean with a dry cloth.
Cord Length: 6ft coiled, 12ft uncoiled.
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Servicing an average of 80,000 visitors annually, The Lady Nelson Visitor and Discovery Centre provides a personalised information service on Mount Gambier and the Limestone Coast in the south east region of South Australia.Because Mount Gambier is centrally located between Adelaide and Melbourne, 10 minutes drive from the Victorian Border, a selected range of information is provided for all South Australian and Victorian regions. A small range of information for the other states is also available.On display at "The Lady Nelson" is the fossilized skull of Simosthenurus occdentalis, an extinct short-faced kangaroo estimated to be between 50,000 and500,000 years old, has been handed over to The City of Mount Gambier for display at the centre.A small fee applies for entry into the Discovery Centre. Please enquire direct.
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Mount Gambier
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Yeah it looks very nice, Im just saying - for me - it still have to be the exact color combo I´m after or I´d rather pay the full price. Your gonna have it until you die, so in that perspective a save of 85 isn't enough for me.
If you gonna get 2, or if you wont afford a new for a long time and like it - then just go for it and post pics


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Here's an idea for a generator, one which I gave breech birth to earlier this evening, and having rigorously experimented to scientifically prove its comedic potential,(see footnote for methodology and citations)-now take the step of making it the basis of a new thread.
First, go to a spanish-english PHRASE translation site on the internet.(ask a scholar or library staff for directions if unfamiliar)-
Second, type in a common phrase, cliche, maxim, or a colorful bit of pop culture "english" of at least three words, into the submission pane, and have the site translate it into spanish.
Third, copy-paste the spanish results of step II into the submission pane of the same site, or another english-spanish translation site, and have it translated back into english.
Type all three versions of the phrase here, so we may all see the proof absolute that mexicans ruin everything.
(a formerly understandable piece of english speaking will now be a unrecognizable bunch of doggerish.)
Get up out my face, fool.
...becomes, when downconverted to meskin':
"Levantarse de la cara, tonto."
...Then, when translated back from meskin' into a language, you get the following illiterate spasm of inanity :
"To get up of the face, idiot"
(Random gibberish sounding familiar, those of you who have gardeners and/or housekeepers?)
Anyway, this has probably been done many times before, and may well be frustrating, nettlesome, and poor-of-return-on-investment, as humorous pastimes go, but, what the hell, give it a try...alternative is travel channel's "top ten brazilian wax clinics in las vegas"
*methodology: tried phrase example above, snickered.
ibid:a site on the internets.(found via google search)


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The evidence is mounting. Maybe, just maybe, you need to hire a financial adviser if you want to ever have a large nest egg, or the right type of retirement accounts, or perhaps just peace of mind.
Trust me, I'm no shill for financial advisers. But three points of data — as some journalists are fond of noting — do make for a trend.
Consider: Dalbar recently published a report suggesting that do-it-yourself investors aren't doing so well when it comes to managing their own money. Read Stop sabotaging your investments. (In the interest of full and fair disclosure, I was employed by Dalbar when it first published its report, the "Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior," some 20 years ago. The report has shown since it was first conducted in 1994 that investors lag the mutual funds they buy, with seemingly every move working against them.)
Weekend Sip: Craft sake, made in America
Americans tend to think of sake as a Japanese-made beverage, but the vast majority of sake consumed in the U.S. comes from, well, the U.S. MarketWatch's Charles Passy samples Momokawa Peal, an unfiltered upmarket sake made in Oregon. Photo: Sake One
Then, Dan Heath, co-author of Decisive, said this week at the Investment Management Consultants Association conference that advisers can help retirees and investors avoid bad decisions. His reasoning is that advisers provide a buffer to an investor's emotional reactions to the swings in the markets. The advisers help investors stay the course when emotions might suggest otherwise.
And then, if all that wasn't enough, I chanced upon — don't ask me how — a dissertation written by Benjamin Cummings, who is now an assistant professor at St. Joseph's University.
Cummings conducted three research projects, two of which are worth noting: Bounded Rationality Strikes Again: The Impact of Cognitive Ability and Financial Planners on Roth IRA Adoption and Ownership and The Impact of Financial Advisors on the Subsequent Wealth of Older Adults.
More likely to have Roth IRA
In one study, Cummings discovered that greater cognitive ability and having a financial planner are both positively related to Roth IRA ownership and to earlier Roth IRA adoption. And in his other study, Cummings looked at the effect that financial advisers have on actual wealth retention and consumption decisions among adults age 60 and older. And what he found is that "using a financial adviser is significant and positively related to subsequent net worth, especially on net worth values more than a decade after initially reporting the use of professional financial advice."
More likely to accumulate bigger nest egg
So, for instance, the mean net worth of those surveyed who were 60 years old in 1993 and still alive in 2008 and who had an adviser rose from $400,000 in 1993 to slightly more than $500,000 by 2008. By contrast, the mean net worth of those who didn't have a financial adviser was mostly flat at around $200,000. "There was a statistically significant difference," said Cummings in an interview. "And the big takeaway is that the significance is greater when you are looking at differences 10 years out."
In addition, having a financial adviser is positively associated with current and subsequent investment returns, and the large driver of the difference in returns between the have-an-adviser and the don't-haves comes from differences in portfolio allocations.
Specifically, Cummings and his co-authors found that having a financial adviser is associated with a greater allocation to equities. "A lot of older adults sit in CDs and cash," said Cummings. "And so a big value that financial advisers can have is to help them invest in the market so they can get those market returns. Having at least some allocation to equities could be one of the values that a financial adviser can have."
"Taken together, these results provide evidence that financial advisers provide financial and nonfinancial benefits to individuals who use their services," wrote Cummings. "Frequently, the quantifiable benefits of their services may only be realized when considering long-run financial outcomes."
Requires long-term commitment
Now, if you have designs on hiring an adviser or even if you have one already, this means that it's an in-for-a-penny, in-for-a-pound sort of exercise. Or put another way: You'll need to manage your expectations about what an adviser can or can't do in the short term. You may not realize the full qualitative and quantitative benefits of having an adviser for at least a decade, according to Cummings.


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The National Blood Authority (NBA) is funding and managing the development of the following six evidence-based modules, Patient Blood Management (PBM) Guidelines. The PBM Guidelines reflect a systematic review of the scientific literature considered by a Clinical/Consumer Reference Group for each module represented by experts from relevant colleges, societies and consumer groups. Further details on the development process are outline on the development process page.
Module 1 Critical Bleeding/Massive Transfusion is intended to assist and guide health-care professionals in making clinical decisions when managing patients with critical bleeding who require or are likely to require massive transfusion.
Module 2 Perioperative is intended to inform health-care practitioners, health educators, health service managers and policy makers about the pre, intra and postoperative care of patients undergoing surgery or invasive procedures, particularly those in which blood loss is anticipated.
Module 3 Medical is intended to assist and guide clinical decisions and coordination of health-care across the primary, secondary and tertiary care setting for patients with acute or chronic medical conditions requiring haematological intervention.
Module 4 Critical Care is intended to assist and guide health-care professionals in making clinical decisions when managing patients requiring critical care.
Module 5 Obstetrics and Maternity is intended to assist and guide health-care professionals in making clinical decisions when managing pregnant and postpartum women
Module 6 Neonatal and Paediatrics is open for public consultation for eight-weeks from Monday 31 August 2015 and closing on Friday 23 October 2015. Please visit the public consultation page for more details. Quarterly updates are available on this site at Patient Blood Management Guidelines Progress Updates.
Accessing the Guidelines
The NBA is conducting a brief survey to assess the potential impact of changing to online-only publication of the PBM Modules. Please help the NBA to make decisions that accord with user preferences, and complete the survey https://www.research.net/r/PBMGuidelineUserSurvey.
Electronic copies of released modules and accompanying quick reference guides are available by clicking on the relevant modules above. If you would like to order printed modules and guides, free of charge, complete the Publications Order Form. Visit PBM Guidelines: iPad App for more details on how to access modules and guides on your iPad.
Keep up to date with the progress of the Guidelines
To keep up to date with the development of the PBM Guidelines register for progress updates through BloodPortal where updates are automatically sent to your nominated email address as they are released. BloodPortal also enables users to have one place where they can update their contact details with the NBA, and subscribe to mailing lists relating to transfusion in Australia. The latest update will continue to be available on this site at Patient Blood Management Guidelines Progress Updates.
Official Launch of Modules 1, 2 and 3
The Critical Bleeding/ Massive Transfusion, Perioperative and Medical modules were officially launched on Wednesday 19 September 2012 by the Chief Medical Officer of Australia, Professor Chris Baggoley. Visit PBM Guidelines Launch to see presentations and details of the launch.
For more information
The modules will be reviewed and amended five years after publication unless an issue arises (e.g. new clinical evidence relevant to practice) that triggers a need to review the document earlier. To provide feedback and inform future reviews of the modules, please send any comments on content or implementation to the project manager at:
- Email guidelines [at] blood.gov.au (subject: PBM%20Guidelines%20Enquiry)
- Mail:
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New York Knicks v Boston Celtics - Game Six
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WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. - Spring isn't the only thing in the air. Pollen has made its return and many people are starting to have allergy flare-ups as the weather becomes increasingly warmer. 2 On Your Side spoke with Dr. Robert E. Reisman of the Buffalo Medical Group to find out how to best prepare and look out for seasonal allergies.
"Everything that grows pollinates. In Buffalo there are three pollen seasons. Trees, which come early April, grass which is now - and now there's a lot of grass pollination, and then late summer what's called the red-wheat pollen, which is in September."
Reisman is an attending physician and allergist at Buffalo General Hospital and Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo. He says airborne pollen is the most common source of allergies and is more potent than pollen caught on clothes.
"I can't tell you that it's worse than other years, other than it's been here longer."
According to Reisman, exposure to pollen is highest in the early morning and late evening. Grass pollen is highest mid-May to mid-June. More than 20% of the population has some form of allergy problem during the late spring and summer season. Higher temperatures in March of this year caused early pollination to start.
" Pollen allergies are very common and easy to treat," says Reisman. In most cases, over-the-counter medications and staying indoors with windows closed can relieve allergy symptoms. He advises those with serious allergies to seek out allergists and local physicians to best treat each individual case.


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|110 student teams gathered at MIT for the final round of this year's International Genetically Engineered Machine competition -- a competition in which high school students and undergraduate teams show off their skills at engineering biological machines. Under contest rules, each team is given a kit of 'biological parts' at the beginning of the summer, drawn from a catalog known as the Registry of Standard Biological Parts. Over the summer, the student teams use these parts and new parts of their own design to build biological systems and operate them in living cells. We'll hear what this year's teams came up with.


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News: Henrik Lundqvist Gets Bus Named After Him (Update-Meet Hank)
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On August 31st Henrik Lundqvist will be honored with his name on a Gray Line Bus the team has announced.
Lundqvist will join New Yorkers like Donald Trump, Whoopi Goldberg and Rachel Ray who already have buses in their honor.
…I wonder if Hank has ever seen Eddie.
If you ever see the Lundqvist bus around the City, please try to snap a picture of it.
Lundqvist will take the inaugural ride on the bus along with 50 fans.
New York, August 30, 2010– On Tuesday August 31st, Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist will join the ranks of Whoopi Goldberg, Donald Trump and Rachael Ray as the latest celebrity inducted into Gray Line New York's "Ride of Fame" campaign which honors exemplary New Yorkers by bestowing a bus in their fleet. A ribbon-cutting ceremony to unveil Lundqvist's personalized Gray Line New York bus will take place on 7th Avenue in front of Madison Square Garden at 12:00 p.m. Immediately following the ceremony, Henrik will board his very own bus to take the inaugural ride with 50 lucky fans.
"I'd like to thank Gray Line New York for their support of the Rangers and particularly their continued support of the Garden of Dreams Foundation," says Lundqvist. "The kids always look forward to the tours of the city, sitting on the upper deck. Being able to now do them on a bus featuring myself and the Rangers is a great honor."
After the event, the official Henrik Lundqvist bus will enter into Gray Line New York's regular rotation, becoming a mobile monument, granting millions of sightseers the opportunity to "ride" along with him each day.
WHO: Henrik Lundqvist, New York Rangers Goaltender and Spokesman for the Garden of Dreams Foundation
WHAT: Personalized Bus Unveiling and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
WHEN: Tuesday, August 31
12:00 p.m. – Henrik Lundqvist Media Availability
12:15p.m. –Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
12:25 p.m. – Henrik Boards Bus for Inaugural Ride
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Last weekend, a friend gave me a beautiful candle as a gift. No surprise there, given it's the holiday season. But more than the candle — beautiful as it was — here's what caught my eye: The package said in small print (but not so small you could not read it):
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* Car guys may know Woodward Avenue as the location for Detroit's world-famous Woodward Dream Cruise, but to Detroiters, it's one of their main thoroughfares – Main Street, almost – and Barry Wolk pointed us to this excellent pictorial on DetNews.com chronicling the avenue throughout the years.
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After attack leads to brain injury, school shields bully from police
Timothy Maybin, father of bullied 9th grader, talks with 9 On Your Side investigator Valerie Cavazos
Reporters: Valerie Cavazos and Forrest Carr
TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - She was beaten badly enough in the hallway of Catalina Magnet School to require medical attention. Her school medical files note a concussion and a traumatic brain injury. But no one was ever prosecuted. According to an official report, administators refused to call police when the suspect returned to school. Later, according to the parents, a second bully threatened to kill the victim. Now her parents have pulled her out of school.
9 On Your Side has been inundated with emails from concerned parents, after our 9 On Your Side investigation into bullying last week found that four Tucson students have killed themselves this school year amid cyberbullying. Many of those writing KGUN9 have asked us to look into their children's cases.
Wendy and Timothy Maybin were among them. They contacted 9 On Your Side to tell us about their daughter, a 9th grader at Catalina who is visually impaired. Last Fall, their daughter told them that other students were threatening her.
"She was texting me and calling me from school," Wendy Maybin told 9 On Your Side. "This person's coming up to her and saying they were going to jump her."
The parents reported those threats to administrators and pleaded for protection. According to Timothy Maybin, administrators did do something. They sat down for a little chat with all involved. "They called a mediation. And they said everything was good between everybody."
Not so. Tim says that one of the students planned an ambush. "And when she walked out of the lunchroom, it was on. They had everybody in place."
According to official reports obtained by 9 On Your Side, one assailant ran up to the victim, pulled her down to the floor by her hair, punched and kicked her, and stomped on her glasses.
The victim's medical records, also obtained by KGUN9 News, reflect a traumatic brain injury, a concussion, and PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
But brain injury or not, initially no one from the school called police. "I said, 'where are the cops?" Tim told KGUN9 News. "And she just said, 'Well, we just wanted to wait and see what you wanted to do.' I said, 'Dial 911 right now."
But that did not happen. In fact, the school waited two more days before reporting the incident to Tucson police.
According to police documents obtained by 9 On Your Side, the investigating officer told administrators he had enough to charge the assailant. He asked assistant principal David Berry to call police when the suspect came back to campus.
But when the assailant returned, Berry refused to make the call. When the investigating officer learned of this later, he was not happy, and demanded an explanation from administrators. According to the officer's report, Berry explained that his refusal was for "the betterment of the school." Principal Rex Scott backed him up.
Eventually police did arrest the suspect. Then the case went to prosecutors. But prosecutors declined to take it forward.
Erica Cornejo, a deputy county attorney in the office of prosecutor Barbara LaWall, sent the Maybins a letter informing them that the office was declining to prosecute. The explanation for that was written -- no kidding -- in Latin. The letter read in part, "The reason(s) for declining this prosecution are: DE-MINIMIS CASE; NO FURTHER ACTION NECESSARY."
De what? KGUN9 looked it up. "De minimis" turns out to be a Latin phrase and legal term basically meaning that it's a small case, and is going nowhere.
The letter contained no translation of that phrase, nor did it contain any further explanation. But it did invite the Maybins to call with any questions.
9 On Your Side contacted the prosecutor's office to ask what is so small about a beating that caused a brain injury and concussion. Chief criminal deputy attorney Kellie Johnson told KGUN9 News that when the case was first filed, the medical information provided to prosecutors at that time indicated that the victim's injury was not serious. Johnson said the office is in contact with the parents now, with a view toward determining, based on the latest medical information, whether further legal action is warranted. So, the door to prosecution is still open, at least in theory. In practice, prosecutors might have a tough time laying hands on the suspect, who has moved out of state.
But the situation for the Maybins' daughter has not improved. The Maybins told KGUN9 News on Thursday that even though the attacker no longer roams the halls at Catalina Magnet School, the attacker's friends do. According to the Maybins, two days ago one of those bullies threatened their daughter's life. In reaction, the Maybins pulled their daughter out of class.
Principal Rex Scott initially agreed to meet with the Maybins and with 9 On Your Side to discuss this case further. But on Thursday morning, he backed out. The district then sent us an email explaining that the interview was forbidden by district policy and by a federal law known as FERPA.
FERPA forbids the release student records held in the student's official files wthout parental consent. The district statement was not clear on what district policy forbids the principal from talking.
In any case, KGUN9 News is aware of no law or policy that prohibits Scott or anyone else in the district from explaining how shielding the accused bully from police promotes the "betterment of the school." 9 On Your Side's inquiry into this matter will continue.
Clarifications: An earlier version of this story stated that all four suicides had occurred in the Tucson Unified School District. After TUSD disputed that statement, KGUN9 rechecked the police statement on which our report had relied, and found that the officer had not specified that the Tucson suicides had occurred in TUSD. KGUN9 withdraws that statement, and regrets the error.
Also, earlier version of this story stated that principal Scott cited FERPA and district policy as the reasons for canceling an interview with KGUN9 News. Technically, that was incorrect. Scott canceled the interview and told KGUN9 News that we would hear the reasons from a TUSD spokesperson. A district spokesperson then contacted us by email, citing FERPA and district policy as reported above. Since these reports aired, the principal reversed his decision not to speak publicly on this issue. Our updated report can be found at this link.
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The town of Pamelia is sitting on nearly $50,000 in bed tax revenue it received from visitors who stayed overnight in hotel rooms in the town.
Bed tax or occupancy tax, as it is formally known has received renewed attention in recent months after local hoteliers began asking Jefferson County to spend more of the money it has collected during a period of growth in the areas hotel offerings.
Despite that, town Supervisor Lawrence C. Longway said there are no plans to spend the money.
Theres nothing that says you have to spend it, is there? Mr. Longway asked.
The tax is collected at a rate of 3 percent per night on rooms rented to visitors. By law, the revenue must be spent to promote tourism.
In May, the Jefferson County Board of Legislators voted on a proposal to spend $150,000 of excess bed tax money on five tourism promotion programs.
But the countys windfall of surplus money an average of $110,000 every year since 2009 has not trickled down to all parts of the county equally.
Bed tax revenue is split between the county and the municipalities where the revenue is generated.
Municipalities with more hotels, particularly those located near the water, generate more money.
For instance, the town of Alexandria received $96,113 in bed tax revenue last year.
By contrast, the town of Pamelia typically receives between $5,000 and $6,000 a year in bed tax revenue, according to Mr. Longway.
That money, which is kept in a separate fund, has been piling up since 2006, when the lease ran out on an Interstate 81 billboard used to promote the towns attractions. Town officials did not renew the lease because the billboard, which cost between $800 and $900 per month, proved to be too expensive to keep, Mr. Longway said.
When the town purchased the lease in the mid-1990s, it was spending more on the billboard than it was taking in from the bed tax, Mr. Longway said.
Mr. Longway said the Town Council is fiscally conservative and not willing to spend money impulsively.
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Exelon Nuclear's Braidwood Generating Station will host its next Community Information Night on Thursday, March 5 where members of the public can learn about Braidwood's tritium remediation progress and its plans for long-term spent fuel storage
BRACEVILLE, Ill. (March 2, 2009) - Exelon Nuclear's Braidwood Generating Station will host its next Community Information Night on Thursday, March 5 where members of the public can learn about Braidwood's tritium remediation progress and its plans for long-term spent fuel storage - also known as dry cask storage.
The information night will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. at Cinder Ridge Golf Course, 24801 Lakepoint Drive in Wilmington. Exelon representatives, technical experts and officials from various agencies - including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA), and Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) - will be on hand to provide information and answer questions on a one-on-one basis with attendees about the operation of Braidwood Station.
Remediation continues to work well as the highest concentration of tritium in the groundwater has been reduced by more than 97 percent as of September 2008. Water taken from a test well back in December 2005 showed the highest concentration level at 230,000 picocuries per liter (pCi/l). In September 2008 the same well was tested and showed a concentration of 6,250 pCi/l - a decrease of more than 97 percent.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) sets standards for acceptable public drinking water. Under those standards, any concentration of tritium up to 20,000 pCi/l is within EPA acceptable limits for safe drinking water.
The plume size has also been greatly reduced south of Smiley Road - a sign that enhanced remediation has been effective. Exelon continues to work with all state, federal and local authorities on this remediation plan.
The dry cask storage process is a safe, secure and reliable method of storing used nuclear fuel and is a proven technology that is used across the nuclear industry. Fifty-five commercial nuclear plants have either adopted this storage method or are in the process of implementing such a facility. Exelon's Dresden and Quad Cities stations already use dry cask storage, and its Byron and LaSalle plants are in the early stages of construction.
Like other commercial nuclear plants, Braidwood Station needs to store used nuclear fuel on site in a steel-lined, concrete pool until the U.S. Department of Energy opens a more permanent storage facility. Space in Braidwood's pool will become limited in the coming years, necessitating the need for the dry cask process.
Station personnel will begin construction of a concrete storage pad this spring, with further infrastructure work commencing in 2010 followed by the actual cask moves in 2011.
The dry cask storage process involves moving used nuclear fuel safely from the station's fuel pool into a robust steel-lined container. The containers will be stored at a secure location on station property until the Department of Energy takes ownership and moves them to a more permanent storage facility.
Refreshments will be served and takeaway information will be available at the information meeting. More information on the tritium remediation project can be found at www.braidwoodtritium.info.
Braidwood Generating Station is approximately 60 miles southwest of Chicago. The station's two nuclear energy units can produce a total of more than 2,300 megawatts at full power - enough electricity to power more than two million homes.
Exelon Corporation is one of the nation's largest electric utilities with approximately $19 billion in annual revenues. The company has one of the industry's largest portfolios of electricity generation capacity, with a nationwide reach and strong positions in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. Exelon distributes electricity to approximately 5.4 million customers in northern Illinois and Pennsylvania and natural gas to approximately 480,000 customers in the Philadelphia area. Exelon is headquartered in Chicago and trades on the NYSE under the ticker EXC.


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Newland Police Department is one of the proud recipients of the Governor's Crime Commission grant.The money will go towards equipping police cars with cameras, a feature Newland Police Chief Jason Brown is excited to get.
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Newland Police Department has seen a lot of positive changes over the last year: among them the addition of new police cars. Brown hopes to have the cameras in place sometime in July.
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