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HAMILTON, Ohio -- Five months ago, Lebanon resident Everett Riddle was looking for a home.
The 25-year-old army veteran and father made minimum wage at a grocery store, still struggling to adjust from the horrors of war even two years after his service.
"The last two years of my life were really hectic. I struggled a lot to find work and adapt to civilian life. I felt like I was alone" said Riddle. "I panicked. I was just looking for somewhere to lay my head down."
Riddle said he had no idea that he qualified for housing assistance and other benefits through the local veterans services department. That's because he had no idea there was an office in his area to start with.
"I had no idea they even existed," he said. "I even drove to the wrong place."
Thousands of other local veterans share his experience, and it's created an unexpected problem for some veterans' services offices in the Tri-State. They say not enough veterans are actively seeking their help. In Butler County alone, fewer veterans received assistance in 2012 than in 2009, 2010 or 2011.
"I'm wiling to bet that whatever the veteran population is of any county, at anytime, the veterans service office is financing about five percent of that," said Rod Eversole, director of Warren County Veterans Service Commission. "We would be hard-pressed to spend all the money that is available."
It's why officials at both the Butler and the Warren County Veterans Service Commission say they're going to spend thousands of dollars more in the upcoming fiscal year to spread the word about their services—and in Warren County, those are dollars that have never been set aside before.
Butler County Veterans Service officials are planning to increase their advertising budget from $8,000 to $80,000 in 2014. They shared their plans for the $72,000 jump with commissioners Monday morning at a budget hearing in Hamilton.
"We've always been very conservative in this category and we feel now that based on other counties experience with billboards that we want to try those in Butler County," said Curtis McPherson, director of the Butler County Veterans Service Commission.
He's talking about the presence of veteran's services billboards seen throughout Clermont County. The Butler County agency is modeling what's been done there, and has plans to install two billboards of its own with the extra cash—one in Hamilton and another in Middletown, expected to cost about $60,000.
Some commissioners, like T.C. Rogers, expressed concern about the proposed use of those funds, suggesting that that budgeted money should instead go to the veterans themselves.
"Wouldn't you rather see that increase went less to the marketing?" asked Rogers. "If we have the money, I think that's more effective."
Agency officials said they have more than enough money to provide services to their veterans as it stands. They say the advertising budget is separate, and would enable them to hand out more of those untapped funds by finding the people who need them most.
"We have that money, plus," said McPherson. "Our mission is to get every veteran to come into our office at least once."
But the Butler County agency struggling to find people to take advantage of its services is also the same agency that turned away a higher percentage of veterans seeking aid than any other Ohio county in 2012, according to an investigation by our news partner, the Hamilton Journal-News/Middletown Journal.
McPherson said that fact is not related to the agency's call for more people to serve, and he was unapologetic for denying that emergency aid to the 42 percent who requested it.
"We want to start giving more, but we're still going to maintain the same criteria," he said. "We deny them because there is something they've done that shows they have not been responsible for taking care of their own business…going to casinos, things like that."
Butler County Commissioners recommended that the agency tap into social media tools and new technology as an inexpensive strategy to recruit more former service members to its offices. But veterans service officials said finding someone who can use that technology has been a challenge.
"We have people going onto the website, but we just can't keep it up and we don't understand much about Facebook, about putting it all on there," said McPherson.
The commissioners said they would enlist the help of the county Internet Technology department to assist the Butler County agency with their online advertising strategies.
Commissioner Don Dixon said he plans to recommend that the agency also consult with an advertising firm to develop a concrete plan
"It's a substantial increase, but it's a whole new program," said Dixon. "Although we don't
have any direct control of the funds, we'll be able to see how the money is spent. We'll see how the programs are effective."
He added that although the large budget increase could raise some alarms, it doesn't mean that the agency will spend all $80,000 it's setting aside.
"Just because they're appropriating it doesn't mean they'll spend it. They do not have a track record of spending money just to spend money," said Dixon.
For the first time in the county agency's history, Warren County Veterans Service officials have included advertising in their upcoming budget.
They're setting aside $100,000 to recruit more veterans for their services--a need that the agency's director says is now bigger than ever.
"We've been in existence since 1870 and to the best of my knowledge, we have never even come close to once approaching spending the money that we could," said Eversole.
Each agency can request up to half a millage of the property tax value in their county to serve the veterans that are there, but the State of Ohio or county commissioners cannot tell county veterans service agencies how they must spend that money. That means local veterans agencies must also recruit veterans themselves.
"The burden of creating awareness is not on the military, not on the service organizations, not even on the state. It's on the individual counties," Eversole said.
He said Warren County will be the state's first county to ever take its services to the veterans -- on wheels. He's budgeted $250,000, in addition to the $100,000 already set aside, for a 40-foot RV that will serve as a mobile version of its East Silver Street building to provide information to local veterans and even sign them up.
"We are going to do everything within our power to make every veteran aware that we exist," he said. " We've identified 55 to 60 venues that we will be present at throughout 2014 and the foreseeable future.
Those venues include festivals, nursing homes, parades and veteran-sponsored events. It's an effort to reach out to former service members unable to make the trek to the office themselves.
"You've got to remember that a lot of our veterans in nursing homes are not mobile, do not have family. There's nobody there for a lot of these people," said Eversole.
He said the agency plans to purchase the mobile unit in January or February and will begin using it next spring.
McPherson said Butler County will not purchase a mobile unit for its agency.
"I don't think that it's cost effective to spend $200,000 for a vehicle," said McPherson.
But Eversole thinks it is. He said he hopes it will help his office find more people to serve, like Riddle, who now has a permanent home and works for the Warren County agency, too, as a transportation coordinator.
"At first I was kind of skeptical and didn't believe all of it. Then they told me everything they could do for me. I was so happy. I didn't know anything like this existed," said Riddle. "It seems like I'm on the fast track to a better life."
There are 26,421 veterans in Butler County and 15,319 in Warren County, according to the most recent U.S. Census data.


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Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- A local man took the stand against members of his own family, accused of trying to kill him for insurance money.
That victim revealed some dark family secrets when he took the stand in the first day of the attempted murder trial of his ex-wife on Monday.
Prosecutors didn't waste any time getting Robert Bessey to tell the jury about his relationship with his now ex-wife and son leading up to the shooting.
The shooting took place on Interstate 15 near Valley of Fire State Park back in November 2012.
Bessey said, at first, he didn't realize he had been shot. "I'm looking towards them, they speed off. Then I realize the back window is busted out and I start to feel something dripping down the back of my neck."
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They claim the motive was a quarter million dollar life insurance payout, which was set to change hands once the couple's divorce was finalized.
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He went on to explain how his relationship with Amy continued to deteriorate until May when the couple had a large fight that eventually led to the divorce.
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Nevertheless, tax cutting and "no new taxes" became increasingly embedded in Republican electoral strategy. As they did, they took leave of supply-side economics just as completely as demand stimulus had taken leave of its Keynesian origins. Indeed, tax reductions for the masses (but not for the wealthy and corporations) became a matter of bipartisan consensus and competition. Through the tax legislation of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, progressively greater numbers of Americans had their income taxes reduced or were removed from the rolls altogether, and many credits and deductions were added for a variety of favored activities, from children to childcare to energy-efficient appliances.
The transformation of fiscal policy was accompanied by—and, no doubt, was in some significant degree caused by—a larger transformation of American politics and government. Beginning in the 1970s, the old establishment hierarchies of the political parties and Congress were displaced by more decentralized, populist, freewheeling forms of decision-making. Critically, the congressional finance, ways and means, and appropriations committees—previously imperious gatekeepers for federal taxing and spending—were among the unhorsed. Into the vacuum came legions of well-organized interest groups with newfound abilities to secure targeted transfer payments and tax preferences. Above all, American society was becoming more affluent, more educated, and older—and more concerned with issues of health, amenity, and income insurance. Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute and others have documented the remarkable shift in the composition of federal spending from the 1970s to today—from traditional public goods such as national defense and physical infrastructure to social insurance (especially Social Security, Medicare, and unemployment insurance), welfare programs, and many other kinds of transfer payments.
These profound changes might have been manageable if they had been accompanied by old-fashioned budget balancing that obliged government officials to make hard choices among competing interests. Instead, the concurrent discovery of the political magic of continuous public borrowing produced something not only new but financially addicting: government as an engine for debt-financed consumption. In retrospect, a key turning point came in the expansion of Medicare to cover prescription drugs. A drug benefit was added during Reagan's last year in office—but it was, at his insistence, "budget neutral," funded entirely by program taxes and premiums, and it proved wildly unpopular. Following a senior riot in the streets of Chicago, aimed at Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski, the program was repealed a year later. George W. Bush and the Republicans learned the lesson well. Their 2003 Medicare drug benefit, costing more than $60 billion annually, was funded mainly (more than 75 percent) by new government borrowing. That proved very popular.
The era of prolonged and growing government debt since the mid-1970s has corresponded with slower and more volatile economic growth as measured by per capita GDP, median and average incomes, and total-factor productivity. This will present an interesting chicken-and-egg question for economic historians: Did the debt-for-consumption project eventually slow rather than stimulate economic growth, or did slowing growth have other causes, and inspire government to increase borrowing in an effort to sustain accustomed levels of income growth? But for now—following the Bush and Obama economic stimulus and financial bailout programs of 2007-2010, the stupendous annual deficits of President Obama's first term, and the continuing neglect of the huge financial imbalances of our Social Security and Medicare programs, and with the prospect of trillion-dollar deficits for the foreseeable future—we can say with assurance that our national debt has become an impediment to growth and is going to crush the economic expectations of many Americans.
The federal government's public debt is now about 75 percent of annual GDP and growing rapidly, and already more than 100 percent if one includes the Treasury Department's intra-government debts to Social Security and other programs. These amounts put us in the range where, historically, government debt has seriously depressed economic growth and risked sovereign defaults and wrenching fiscal contractions, even when interest rates were low. But our true indebtedness is much higher than that, much higher than our peak debt during World War II, and not far behind that of the crisis-wracked EU. Accounting for the chasm between projected Social Security and Medicare payments and revenues (which the government's official debt figures unfortunately ignore) puts the federal debt at more than five times GDP. Generational accounting suggests that future generations will be paying nearly all of their lifetime incomes in taxes, which obviously cannot happen.
Calculations such as these point to the real harm of financing current consumption with ever-increasing public debt. Substantial segments of the population become accustomed to levels of government benefits that cannot be sustained. With time, an inheritance of continuous stimulus can be withdrawn slowly, permitting private adjustments and, with luck, resumed economic growth. But the longer the stimulus continues, the greater the likelihood that personal expectations will be shattered by an emergency that an insolvent government is no longer in a position to respond to. That will certainly mean widespread losses and hardship, and perhaps political instability as well, and, worst-case scenario, temptations for Kirchner-style confiscations.
It is remarkable that, in our current straits, and with the demographic clock running out on the graduated reforms to our entitlement programs that nonpartisan think tanks have been propounding for decades, the government has shifted its stimulus machinery into overdrive. With the economy still shaky, we are warned, now is not the time to begin consolidating our debts! With interest rates so low, we would be fools not to borrow trillions more while the getting is good! With the states $7 trillion in debt and maxed out on private borrowing, Washington needs to be doing more not less! This is what a pathological fiscal system sounds like when debt stimulus no longer stimulates and its options are running out.
The fiscal cliff will be avoided, or not. We face two other challenges that are much more serious and nearly as immediate. The first is to begin contingency planning for the coming debt crisis—which may arrive as early as next year, when California is the first of our bankrupt states to apply for a massive uploading of debt to the federal government. The second is to establish institutions of public finance with a fair chance of disciplining rather than placating the populist pressures of contemporary politics, and of right-sizing our middle-class welfare state to acceptable levels of middle-class taxation.
These institutional tasks can hope to succeed only after we have developed a new public rhetoric of fairness. It should be a matter of acute national embarrassment that our leaders can pretend to be redistributing from wealthy to average citizens when, in fact, they are redistributing in far greater measure from the young and unborn. Our rhetoric must teach that, although government borrowing is appropriate for certain purposes, the routine redistribution of wealth from future generations to ourselves is undemocratic, corrupting, and ultimately impoverishing. We don't need to wait for a deadline or a crisis to take this intellectual leap.
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Gadsden Police Capt. Jeff Wright says it happened late Friday when an officer stopped a vehicle in the 800 block of Meighan Boulevard and a person in the vehicle fired a shot at the officer.
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West Bromwich Albion have confirmed that Romelu Lukaku will be staying on at the Hawthorns until the end of the season.
Lukaku arrived in the Midlands in the summer on a season-long loan, with Chelsea retaining the option to recall the Belgian in January. That option expired on Monday, and a Baggies' spokesperson confirmed: "Romelu will remain at the Hawthorns for the rest of the season.
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Pierre Lescure has been named the next president of the Cannes Film Festival. Lescure's role will be to advise and support Thierry Fremaux, who is in charge of the artistic side of the festival. Lescure, 68, believes in bringing in international talent to Cannes.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, French Minister of Culture and Communication Aurélie Filippetti tweeted, "Congratulations to Pierre Lescure, who has been unanimously elected as president of the Cannes Film Festival, succeeding Gilles Jacob."
Lescure is replacing Gilles Jacob who has served as president since 2001. Jacob, 83, joined the festival as managing director in 1978. According to Variety, Jacob shaped the identity of Cannes Film Festival and welcomed European auteur cinema.
Lescure is known in France for his work with Canal Plus. In 1984, Lescure founded Canal Plus with Andre Rousselet. Canal Plus is one of the most successful pay television operators in France. StudioCanal plays an important role in assisting with financing for French movies. Lescure also served on the jury of the Deauville Film Festival this year.
Lescure is expected to take office on July 1.
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runway last night. Mokulele Express flight 1770 had to make an emergency landing at night on Piilani Highway. KITV4's Nana Ohkawa has our continuing coverage. It landed...on what residents say is usually a very busy highway. A witness says it's surreal that the plane landed safely without injuring anyone. The ten people who climbed on board this plane at Kahului airport probably never would've guessed they'd climb off HERE. The Cessna Caravan wound up in the northbound lane of the Piilani Highway. 4953 WHAT WAS VERY SURREAL ABOUT IT IS THAT IT ACTUALLY LANDED IT DIDN'T CRASH IT DIDN'T DAMAGE ANYTHING IT USED PIILANI AS A RUNWAY 5007 By every indication, the pilot didn't have much choice. The FAA says the plane lost engine power shortly after taking off for Waimea on the Big Island... Residents say Piilani Highway is one of Maui's main highways not only is it usually busy but the plane had to make a tight landing. 5038 HE DIDN'T EVEN MAKE IT TO THE FOUR LANE PART OF PIILANI HE ACTUALLY LANDED IN THE RESIDENTIAL TWO LANE PART OF PIILANI HIGH WAY 5051 But the pilot still made a safe landing.. For the passengers and the plane. And it all happened at 7 o'clock. Nighttime! 5133 TO BE ABLE TO LAND THAT PLANE ON A TWO LANE ROAD IN THE DARK AMAZING 37 There were two FAA safety inspectors on scene today.. they haven't reached any conclusions and are still
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Poor James- if he didn't have bad luck he'd have no luck at all.
This guy is probably the most marketable racer in Britain after Cal Crutchlow.
He's a good looking, fair, open guy who lived in his motorhome with his girlfriend (are they married now?).
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Indian technology shares fall for a second day, with Cognizant's SEC filing clouding revenue outlook for the sector.
Indian technology shares fall for a second day, with Cognizant's SEC filing clouding revenue outlook for the sector.
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The filing implies that CY13 growth would be lower than the company's outlook for CY12.
"Based on historical trends, Cognizant's annual guidance corresponds with revenue growth corresponding to 100 percent of performance units," IDFC said in a note.
Barclays Capital, however, feels that while Cognizant may see a slowdown, it does not pose an incremental risk to Barclays' FY14 growth forecasts of 15 percent for TCS and 13 percent for HCL Tech.
"Cognizant's growth premium to Indian IT vendors has diminished in the past two years due to its larger revenue and growth base," Barclays Capital said in a note.
An additional negative may come from the rupee. Credit Agricole believes the government winning the vote on foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail will continue to help rupee. It expects the rupee could rise to 52 per dollar by end 2013.
TCS stock price
On October 13, 2015, Tata Consultancy Services closed at Rs 2597.40, up Rs 5.00, or 0.19 percent. The 52-week high of the share was Rs 2810.00 and the 52-week low was Rs 2348.25.
The company's trailing 12-month (TTM) EPS was at Rs 99.72 per share as per the quarter ended June 2015. The stock's price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio was 26.05. The latest book value of the company is Rs 230.50 per share. At current value, the price-to-book value of the company is 11.27.
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Houston Public Radio spot-checked the heavily Republican Sugar Creek area in Sugar Land, because it has large numbers of Republicans who would have to use the E-Slate's write-in feature in order to vote for the Republican congressional candidate. Three hours into the election, Election Judge Theresa Raia said nearly 300 people had voted, but only a handful had asked for help. She says it does take a little longer to enter a name in the E-Slate, but she thinks county officials have done a good job of educating voters on how to use them.
"They're very accustomed to using the machine, because this is about their third or fourth election they've used the E-Slate. They were a little bit hesitant at the very beginning, when the race on the write-in started, but I think they received information on how to do it they feel more comfortable."
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The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition was launched in May 2006, consisting of a group of individuals "who are concerned at the misleading information being disseminated about climate change and so-called anthropogenic (man-made) global warming." [1]
Stance on Climate Change
The group was founded with the aim of "refuting what it believes are unfounded claims about anthropogenic (man-made) global warming."
"The climate is always changing and the nation may well benefit from moderate global warming. Having said that, temperature records indicate that New Zealand has not warmed significantly in the last fifty years." [2]
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- Terry Dunleavy — Foundation member
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- Vincent Gray
- Gerrit J. van der Lingen
- August H. ("Augie") Auer Jr
- Bob Carter
- Warwick Hughes
- Roger Dewhurst
- David J. Bellamy
- Len Walker
- Owen McShane
- Bryce Wilkinson
- Brian Leyland
- Denis Dutton
- David Henderson
- Terry Dunleavy
- Chris de Freitas
- John Maunder
- Willem de Lange
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May 21 - 23, 2012
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition is listed as an official Co-sponsor of the Heartland Institute's Seventh International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC7).
August 2010
The Coalition commenced legal action against the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.
Bryan Leyland claimed that the New Zealand Meteorological Service had shown no warming during the past century but NIWA had adjusted its records to show a warming trend of 1 degree Celsius.
NZCSC asked the High Court to invalidate its official temperature record, to prevent it using the temperature record when advising Government, and to require the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research to produce a "full and accurate" temperature record. [4], [5]
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NZCSC issued a press release stating that the premise that "the globe is warming" was "a lie."
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The New Zealand Listener reported that Owen McShane and Bryan Leyland of NZCSC were lobbying journalists to cover their questioning of climate change science in order to create an illusion of greater disagreement over the science than actually exists. [7]
April 2007
NZCSC described the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report as "dangerous unscientific nonsense" and "lacking in scientific rigour." [8]
July 2006
The Coalition called on the New Zealand government to institute a Royal Commission on climate change because the public were "being given incomplete, inaccurate and biased information about the effects of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere" when "global warming caused by man-made emissions of greenhouse gases … cannot be substantiated." [9]
The Government refused on the grounds that the majority of climate scientists in the world agree that there is no longer any doubt that climate is changing due to human activity. [10]
May 14, 2006
The New Zealand Climate Science Coalition's website, nzclimatescience.net, was first registered on May 14, 2006. [11]
Co-founder Owen McShane gave this statement to press before going public with the website:
"Those of us involved in forming this coalition believe that now is the time for individual countries like New Zealand to assemble their own national expert panels, so that these panels can form larger groupings with like minded-panels from other countries so as to be ready to deal with the reports to be published by the IPCC next year. Their aim should not be to repeat, or parallel, the work of the IPCC, but to audit its reports, and to let the members of the IPCC know that such auditors are waiting in the wings." [12]
Related Organizations
"About us and why," New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. July 25, 2009. Archived July 23, 2011.
"Call for Royal Commission on Climate Change" (Press release). New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, July 26, 2006. Republished by Scoop Independent News.
"Doubts on human-induced climate change," New Zealand Farmers Weekly, May 5, 2008.
"Niwa sued over data accuracy," Stuff.co.nz, August 15, 2010.
"Niwa challenged over accuracy of data," New Zealand Herald, August 15, 2010.
Vincent Gray. "Comments on the recent statement by the climate committee of the Royal Society of New Zealand," New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, July 15, 2008. Archived Oct 14, 2008.
Dave Hansford. "Some like it hot," New Zealand Listener, Vol 213 No 3541 (March 22028, 2008). Archived April 21, 2008.
"IPCC Report slammed as 'dangerous nonsense'" (Press release), New Zealand Climate Science Coalition. Republished by Scoop Independent News, April 10, 2007.
"Call for Royal Commission on Climate Change" (Press release). New Zealand Climate Science Coalition, July 26, 2006. Republished by Scoop Independent News.
David Parker. "Royal Commission on Climate Change rejected," New Zealand Government Press Release, July 26, 2006.
(Press Release: Centre for Resource Management) "Scientists Group to Refute Global Warming Claims," Scoop Independent News, May 1, 2006.
ExxonSecrets Factsheet: New Zealand Climate Science Coalition.


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Review | Betty White's 90th Birthday
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For the "tribute to America's Golden Girl," as it's billed, Hugh Jackman, Ellen DeGeneres, Joel McHale and other Betty White fans toast the sprightly comedy icon. Her actual birthday is January 17, so she won't look a day over 89. (NBC, 8 p.m.)


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As Europeans navigate a crippling debt crisis, the Left is resurgent. But left-of-centre leaders have yet to present credible plans for easing austerity and spurring growth.
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LAWRENCEVILLE -- The Gwinnett County Public Library system needs a new business model, not a campaign for donations, one library board member says.
Board chairman Phillip Saxton introduced his proposal to seek $1 million in donations, another $1.2 million in advertising revenue and an endowment. All told, he hopes to raise $4 million a year to pay for lost tax revenue after a $2.8 million cut in county funding this year.
But at Monday's board meeting, Dick Goodman balked at the proposal, which was tabled to be discussed at a specially called meeting at 5 p.m. Sept. 29.
"This is not a high school football team trying to buy uniforms," said Goodman, the Suwanee city councilman who was named to the library board earlier this year. "This is a distraction from finding a new solution."
On Monday, library Director Nancy Stanbery-Kellam announced the system would cut its hours from 53 per week to 40 due to budget constraints.
She said the schedule has not been decided but would likely be consistent across the 15 branches.
But Goodman said the system needs a new plan and should consider hours based on the differing traffic and situations at the varying locations.
"This is self-defeating. We can't operate like that," he said.
In 2009, officials proposed a model creating several main libraries and limiting services at others. It was not well-received, but Goodman said the reaction was mostly due to hurt feelings from the decision to close the Dacula branch, which was later reversed.
Saxton says major businesses would be glad to pay the library to distribute information to the thousands of people that come through its doors. People would be willing to donate money and even leave some in their wills, he added.
Saxton said the $4 million projection is conservative and he has already had interest.
But Goodman said the campaign couldn't raise enough money to restore services.
"This is fantasy. ... Fantasy is dangerous because it diverts attention, resources and energy from seeking out real solutions," he said.
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- Gwinnett Library Board Members Disagree On Donation Plan ( September 14, 2011 )
- Library board cuts hours, spars over plans ( September 29, 2011 )
- Letters: Saxton's Plan For Library Funding 'Innovative' ( September 17, 2011 )
- Library board votes down bookmark advertising ( August 13, 2012 )
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Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) is committed to providing clean, safe and reliable natural gas to its customers and takes important steps to validate the integrity and safety of natural gas transportation through its pipelines. SoCalGas remains committed, through the allocation of significant resources, to the improvement of pipeline safety for its customers.
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SoCalGas is the nation's largest gas distribution utility, providing safe and reliable energy to 20.9 million consumers through nearly 5.8 million meters in more than 500 communities. SoCalGas operates more than 101,000 miles of natural gas pipelines. These pipelines are regulated by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) defines natural gas pipelines under two categories, "Transmission" and "Distribution." Transmission pipelines are primarily used to receive gas from suppliers and move it to distribution load centers or to storage facilities. Distribution lines are used to deliver gas to customers. These categories are separated primarily by the stress level at which they operate. The Distribution category is further divided into two subcategories: High Pressure Distribution mains, which have a maximum allowance operating pressure greater than 60 psig; and, Distribution mains and services, which have a maximum allowable operating pressure of 60 psig or less. SoCalGas' system ends at the outlet of the meter. The pipes that connect the meter to customer gas appliances and equipment's burner tip are typically referred to as the "house lines" and are not owned or operated by SoCalGas.
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SoCalGas is responsible for the inspection of all its natural gas pipelines. The CPUC conducts audits of the design, construction, maintenance and operation practices of SoCalGas to verify that SoCalGas is in compliance with state and federal laws. SoCalGas maintains and operates its pipelines in accordance with the safety regulations, including implementation of the following measures:
- Distinctive Gas Odor1: SoCalGas adds a distinctive odor to natural gas, so leaks can be more readily detected. The odor level is monitored at least monthly at representative locations for verification of odorization adequacy. socalgas.com/safety/odor.shtml.
- Leak Surveys: SoCalGas conducts leak surveys of its pipelines, typically using combustible gas detectors, at specified frequencies. Leaks identified posing the highest potential of risk are prioritized, continuously monitored and repaired promptly.
- Pipeline Patrols: Pipeline patrols are performed on an annual or twice a year basis, depending on the size of the facility, to look for indications of pipeline leaks, missing pipeline markers, construction activity and other factors that may threaten the pipeline.
- Exterior Corrosion Control: External corrosion of pipelines is controlled by coating the pipe and by cathodic protection. Pipeline coatings prevent corrosive environments from coming into contact with the surface of the pipeline. Cathodic protection systems protect the steel should any voids in the coating exist. Cathodic protection is a technology that uses direct electrical current to counteract the normal external corrosion of a metal pipeline. Cathodically-protected pipe is monitored on an annual basis to verify that the cathodic protection system is functioning properly. Buried steel pipelines installed prior to July 31, 1971 that are not cathodically protected are surveyed for leaks at a greater frequency. Piping exposed to the atmosphere is inspected for corrosion at least once every three years.
- Internal Corrosion Control: SoCalGas manages the quality of the gas in its system and the systems' operation to prevent internal corrosion by monitoring on an annual basis.
- Valve Inspection: Valves critical to the isolation of a pipeline segment are inspected once each calendar year and serviced for valve casing leak detection, proper valve identification, adequate lubrication and valve operation.
- Underground Vaults: Once a year, SoCalGas performs routine maintenance and inspection on all underground vaults within the service area, which typically contain pressure-regulating or pressure-limiting equipment. Maintenance and inspection include proper operation of ventilation equipment, structural conditions, and correction of water presence, trash or other foreign substances.
- Pipeline Crossings: SoCalGas occasionally must design its gas piping system to cross over obstacles rather than go underneath them–typically freeways, highways, rivers, and drainage channels. Regardless of the crossing type, routine inspection and maintenance of all crossings are performed at least once every three years.
- Pressure-Relief Devices: Pressure-relief devices at pressure-limiting stations and pressure-regulating stations must have sufficient capacity to protect the facilities to which they are connected. Each pressure-limiting station, relief device (except rupture discs), signaling device, and pressure-regulating station and its equipment must be inspected once per year.
- High-Consequence Areas: As part of the Transmission Integrity Management Program instituted in December 2004, SoCalGas is on schedule to assess high consequence area pipelines, and full assessment will be completed by December 2012. A high consequence area is generally an area within a specified distance of a pipeline that has 20 or more buildings intended for human occupancy or an identified site, such as beaches, playgrounds and recreational facilities. Part of this assessment includes providing provisions to remediate conditions found, as well as record keeping and reporting.
- Threats Assessment: SoCalGas Distribution Integrity Management Program Plan is under development and will focus on information relative to the consideration of the threats to each gas distribution pipeline as well as measures designed to reduce the likelihood and consequences of pipeline failures.
- Customer Communications: Many audiences receive SoCalGas communications, including: customers, excavators and land developers, public officials, colleges, school districts, city and county managers, emergency officials, residents and places of congregation along transmission lines, residents within the distribution service territory, and residents near compressor stations and underground natural gas storage fields. Frequency of communications to each audience ranges from twice a year to every three years. Customers and other audiences can visit our safety section for additional information.
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Customers can rest comfortably knowing that the integrity of the pipeline systems that bring natural gas to their homes or businesses is under careful, periodic surveillance by SoCalGas to protect the safety of its customers and the public.
SoCalGas is doing its part to ensure the integrity of pipelines and will respond quickly to address issues that are identified during regular inspections, surveys, maintenance and patrols.
The Role of Customers
Customers play an important role in this process–by helping to prevent pipeline damage, being able to recognize the signs of a gas leak, and knowing what to do in the event of a gas leak. For example, if you're planning to build a major development or just landscaping your yard, regardless of the size or scope of your project, use extra caution and protect your safety and the safety of those around you by calling Underground Service Alert (USA) at 811, at least two business days prior to excavating.
Use your sense of sight, hearing and smell, along with any of the following signs, to alert you to the presence of a gas leak:
- A damaged connection to a gas appliance.
- Dirt or water being blown in the air.
- Dead or dying vegetation (in an otherwise moist area) over or near pipeline areas.
- A fire or explosion near a pipeline.
- Exposed pipeline after an earthquake, fire, flood or other disaster.
- An unusual sound, such as a hissing, whistling or roaring sound near a gas line or appliance.
- The distinctive odor1 of natural gas.
If you detect signs of a natural gas leak, remain calm, and don't light a match, candle, or cigarette. Also, don't operate any electrical devices, including light switches, or other devices which could cause a spark. Immediately evacuate the area and, from a safe location, contact SoCalGas at 1-800-427-2200, 24 hours a day, seven days a week; or call 911. There are approximately 5,000 employees who are trained and ready to respond to incidents that occur throughout the service territory. Learn how to detect a natural gas leak or what to do if you suspect a leak.
1 Some people may not be able to smell the odor because they have a diminished sense of smell, olfactory fatigue (normal, temporary inability to distinguish an odor after prolonged exposure to it) or because the odor is being masked or hidden by other odors that are present, such as cooking, damp, musty or chemical odors. In addition, certain conditions in pipe and soil can cause odor fade — the loss of odorant so that it is not detectable by smell. Learn more about odor fade.
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Pallet fire damages Sand Island warehouse
Fire crews called to Roberto's Group, Inc. on Sand Island Access Road
UPDATED 2:15 PM HST Jun 27, 2013
Honolulu firefighters responded to a fire at a warehouse on Sand Island Access Road Thursday afternoon.
Fire crews got the call just before 12:30 p.m. at 5 Sand Island Access Road at Roberto's Group, Inc. The company deals with medical and home care supplies.
Pallets caught fire outside the warehouse and witnesses say flames were hitting the warehouse roof.
No word yet if there was anyone injured in the fire.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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There are many natural cures for kidney stones and a kidney stone herbal remedy may be your preferred method of dealing with nephrolithiosis.
• Aloe Vera juice
• Ginko biloba extract
• Goldenseal extract (limited and never during pregnancy)
• Lobelia and yam tincture (15 drops in glass of warm water relaxes ureters and relieves pain)
• Marshmallow root tea (cleanses kidneys)
• Uva ours (relieves pain and bloating)
• Cleavers
• Gravel root
• Horsetail
• Juniper berries
Nettles have long been used as a diuretic. The idea being that if one urinates more frequently, the urine will be more diluted and therefore less likely to form kidney stones through crystallization.
Wanna make some nettle tea? Go for it but be careful! Have you ever mistakenly walked through a patch of stinging nettles? OUCH!
Grab some nettle leaves...the smaller ones are less bitter. Boil said leaves and sweeten. Voila! Enjoy!
Asparagus root, birch leaf, couch grass, goldenrod, horsetail, lovage, parsley, and stinging nettle are herbs that all have diuretic properties thus increasing urine volume that is beneficial in reducing kidney stone buildup.
Chanca Piedra ("stone crusher")
A kidney stone herbal remedy from South America called Chanca Piedra. Has it worked for you?
My favorite kidney stone beverages...
While we are at it, coffee is not necessarily an herb but as a kidney stone beverage it should be imbibed in moderation. It does provide some beneficial qualities for kidney stone sufferers--increased fluid intake, diuretic, etc. But, be sure to re-hydrate as the fluid leaving your body needs to be replaced! Dehydration and low urine production is one of the leading causes of kidney stones.
I have also found benefits from drinking a hot water and vinegar concoction as well as cranberry juice .Be advised, there are experts that will advise some kidney stone sufferers against drinking cranberry juice. I understand their concern, but I cannot argue with personal results. It increases urine production and has helped me to pass a few stones.
Cranberry juice has long been know to combat yeast/bladder
infections. If you have ever had a bladder infection you know the
discomfort that accompanies the infection. Cranberry juice does the
Lemons and lemonade have been know to act as natural cures for kidney stones. The citric acid increases citrate levels in the bladder. Elevated citrate levels help to decrease oxalate levels in the urine thus helping to prevent the formation of calcium oxalate kidney stones.
Vitamin supplements like Magnesium Citrate and Potassium Citrate have been shown in studies to prevent stone formation by increasing urinary citrate levels. Read more about kidney stones and potassium citrate.
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The 1998 Upper Deck Peyton Manning rookie card is a fan favorite with Manning collectors as well as football card enthusiasts. The The Upper Deck rookie card is great buy when you consider the upside of this great card. Peyton Manning rookie cards have become some of the most popular football cards in the industry. His have gone up in value over the past few years as collectors look for the best Manning rookies to invest in. The 1998 Upper Deck rookie is one of these cards. The card is very affordable compared to some of Manning's other rookie cards and was not mass produced like some of the other RC's that were produced in 1998.
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Player Name: Peyton Manning
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Tips: One of the Key factors to buying the 1998 Upper Deck Peyton Manning rookie card is the condition that the card is in. The corners on these cards are condition sensitive because they were produced with a foil type coating. This make these football cards very hard to find with sharp corners. These cards are great investments if you can find them in optimum condition.
Variations: Their is one variation to the Peyton Manning Upper Deck rookie card. Upper Deck produced an Encore version which is much harder to find than the regular base card. These Encore cards normally sell for double and have the same problems when it comes to condition. Both of these Peyton manning rookie cards are great investments.
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Blog marketing is a very important tool for any budding business in today's world. Blogs help businesses to promote themselves online more efficiently making it possible for them to reach the market to the maximum. Though it is essential to have a great blog with a good content but it is not sufficient. Every blog needs a good volume of traffic to stay on top. Wordpress is such a blogging platform which offers the best SEO friendly services hence the chance of your website visibility is much higher than any other platform available.
Wordpress SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a very powerful tool to improve the blog marketing activities. It helps to make your blog searchable in the primary engines such as Google or Yahoo. It is important for every website to get a good exposure in the search engine ranking. SEO generates lean and fast loading code that search engines can easily crawl and index. As using keywords and phrases in the URL is much more attractive to the readers and search engine spiders hence you can alter the structure of permalinks that is URL and add keywords to the posts you make which helps to improve your ranking further. Every time a website is crawled by the search engine, a new content is searched and the natural ranking of the site increases with very little effort.
Wordpress comes with self ping feature that is whenever the blog is updated this feature sends ping to different search engines and directories automatically and calls the search engines like Google to visit your site and crawl your new content. Generating all these things manually will take a lot of time and can be risky too. There are many other built in tools also available to make any blog more searchable. If you want to enjoy a top spot among regular posting websites Wordpress SEO will give you quick results for sure.


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Justin Kestelyn Tech Cast Live interview with Mark Reinhold is now available in audio-only format
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Amherst vs. Eastern Connecticut
March 20, 2007
|Derek Cherney
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|Brett Miller
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|Tim Thornton
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|Thomas Mcdonnell
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|Chris Hofmann
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|Matt Kellman
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|Thomas Foote
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|Rob Madden
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|Matt Pietroforte
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|Andrew Harrison
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|Dj Simmons
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|Dave Carpenter
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|Tyler Prescott
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|Kyle Savage
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|Eastern Connecticut
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|CLAREMONT, FL � The Amherst College men�s lacrosse team evened its record at 1-1 with a 14-10 win over Eastern Connecticut State University on Tuesday, marking the first of two games that the Lord Jeffs are scheduled to play during their spring break trip in Florida. The Amherst attack was led by a trio of players scoring three goals apiece, including senior tri-captain Derek Cherney (Chappaqua, NY), who picked up four points on the day to move his season total to nine.
Six Amherst players picked up multiple points on the day, with sophomore Brett Miller (Wantagh, NY) scoring a goal and adding three assists to join Cherney with four points. First-year Tom McDonnell (Manhasset, NY) and senior tri-captain Chris Hofmann (New Canaan, CT) each netted three goals, while sophomores Tim Thornton (Garden City, NY) and Tom Foote (Newton, MA) each scored a goal, adding two assists and one assist, respectively.
Amherst out-shot the Warriors 41 to 24 on the day, allowing sophomore Matt Pietroforte (Brooklyn, NY) to record 18 saves for the win. The Jeffs also won the face-off battle, taking 15 of 23 draws.
The Lord Jeffs return to action Thursday, when they will conclude their spring break trip with a game against St. Lawrence University at 1 p.m.


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the floor guy started sanding my floors yesterday. before i left for work, we both examined the first step to the second-floor stairway (it's the step you see in the 2nd picture of this post). we agreed that it needed to be replaced: it was cracked in half, the finish was worn down, and there was gunked up paint bordering it from the old trim.
he called me at the end of the day to give me an update. he mentioned that he found a bunch of "neat papers" inside that first step, and that they were waiting for me in my kitchen. i assumed he found a some old newspaper scraps, whoo-hoo, big effin deal. but it was neater than that:
from what i can tell, a little girl named jeanne figured out a way to remove the piece of wood on the top of the stair, and used it as a hiding spot for her special things. a lot of the items had dates on them, indicating that it was early to mid 50′s when she lived here.
dresses for paper dolls, valentines, advertisements, playing cards, drawings, letters… i've actually purchased ephemera packages containing the same items. it's even more fun to find them in your house!
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Anna Sui's runway is one that we look forward to each season because it's genuinely a lot of fun. Happy models, pretty clothes, a chill atmosphere, and BS-free front row — now that's our kind of show. Last night, Sui did what she does best with a great collection of clothes inspired by the '60s in France, and a big group of top models.
We spotted Sofia Coppola being mobbed by reporters and photographers alike. Publicists pushed us away before we could get an interview or a good (well, amateur) pic of the filmmaker, so we just moseyed on back to our seats to enjoy the show.
Sui opened with a choreographed dance routine at the front of the runway by Karlie Kloss, Hilary Rhoda, Jamie Bochert, Liu Wen, and Daria Strokous. Then they did their thing on the runway alongside other big models like Cara Delevingne, Lindsey Wixson, Fei Fei Sun, and Jessica Stam.
Sui showed a 48-look collection of quirky ensembles and fun accessories that weren't unlike what we've seen before, though that's not to say that we'll ever get sick of it. The French influences were evident from the choice of music to the clothes themselves. Mod and bohemian ensembles were given a crash course in colorblocking, prints, patterns, and whimsy. Each girl's hair was worked into a voluminous pony with the tail tucked in to create what we're calling a pony-bob, and the quintessential '60s cat eye was exaggerated with a longer tail and dotted liner on the bottom lash line.
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Spaghetti with Garlic and Cumin
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- 3 large garlic cloves, minced
- 1 tablespoon ground cumin
- 1/2 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper
- 12 ounces spaghetti
- Freshly grated Parmesan cheese
Mix first 5 ingredients in small bowl; set aside. Cook spaghetti in large pot of boiling salted water until just tender but still firm to bite, stirring occasionally. Drain spaghetti, reserving 3/4 cup cooking liquid. Return pasta to pot. Add oil mixture and toss over medium heat to coat, about 1 minute, adding reserved cooking liquid by 1/4 cupfuls if dry. Season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and serve.
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