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Anguil Environmental Systems, Inc.
based in Milwaukee, WISCONSIN (USA)
Anguil Environmental Systems is a global provider of industrial air pollution control, emission abatement and energy recovery systems. We design, manufacturer, service and install thermal and catalytic oxidation technologies as well as heat recovery systems for a variety of applications and industries.Anguil Aqua was developed to help our industrial clients with water ...
Environnement S.A
based in Poissy, FRANCE
Environnement S.A is the leading company in the field of instrumentation for the environment. Ever since its creation in 1978, Environnement S.A has been dedicated to the study, development, manufacture and supply of advanced on-line gas, particulate and water analyzers, using the most recent technologies. Environnement S.A proposes a comprehensive range of continuous ...
based in Coimbatore, INDIA
Mevadhashma, Indian based ISO 9001 - 2008 certified company and eminent supplier for major industries plant spares and equipment. We are recognized and specialized as a Manufacturer, Exporter, Trader and Supplier of quality products. We offer a wide range of products which includes Electrostatic Precipitator Spares of BHEL, Thermax, Alstom Flsmidth, ACC make Esp spares ...
Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC)
based in Grand Forks, NORTH DAKOTA (USA)
The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) is recognized as one of the world`s leading developers of cleaner, more efficient energy and environmental technologies to protect and clean our air, water, and soil. The EERC is a high-tech, nonprofit branch of the University of North Dakota (UND). The EERC operates like a business; conducts research, development, ...
MaxWest Environmental Systems
based in Lake Mary, FLORIDA (USA)
Biosolids Disposal has become ever more challenging as the cost of fossil fuel escalates, regulatory compliance tightens, and landfills reach capacity. MaxWest Environmental Systems, Inc. provides gasification for a cleaner earth and is the industry leader in gasification systems for the biosolids disposal in the wastewater treatment industry. Gasification of biosolids ...
Delta OHM S.r.L.
based in Caselle di Selvazzano, ITALY
Delta Ohm develops and manufactures instruments for measuring:Temperature, humidity, dew point, pressure, BAR, mBar, Pascal, mmH2O, InchHG, psi, air speed, light, Phot, UVA, UVB, UVC, UVindex, Solar Radiation, PAR, Acoustic, Sound meter, Vibration, Noise, CO, CO2, Air Quality, pH, ORP, Redox, Dissolved Oxygen, Turbidity, Data loggers, WBGT microclimate, PPV, PMV, Heat ...
Environmental Source Samplers, Inc.
based in Wilmington, NORTH CAROLINA (USA)
Environmental Source Samplers, Inc. (ESS) has a long and proven track record. We have been providing air quality related services since 1979. Headquartered in Wilmington, North Carolina, ESS has provided stack testing services in most of the fifty states and internationally. ESS serves clients in many industries including: Aluminum, Asphalt, Automobile, Carbon, ...
Golden Specialty, Inc.
based in Friendswood, TEXAS (USA)
Golden Specialty provides industry-leading products and services for on-site emissions testing of stationary sources. Our certified and deeply experienced staff use state-of-the-art equipment and redundant CEM systems to reduce risk and ensure highest quality data. We sell and lease a wide range of air testing equipment, parts, supplies, and maintenance service packages ...
Gratton Arabia Ltd.
based in Mississauga, ONTARIO (CANADA)
Gratton Arabia Ltd. offers specialized and niche services that address, energy management, employee safety, training and corporate compliance. Gratton Arabia Ltd. is an electrical safety oriented company, joining together various aspects of the electrical industry, such as engineering, analysis, design, installation, field services, standards, manufacturing and supply, ...
Clarke Energy
based in Liverpool, UNITED KINGDOM
Clarke Energy is a multinational specialist in the engineering, installation and maintenance of gas-fuelled power plants. Our facilities deliver fuel efficiency and help reduce carbon emissions. Applications include combined heat and power (CHP) with natural gas, biogas, landfill gas and coal gas. We are a the largest authorised distributor and service provider for GE's ...
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Mandatory trash pickup inched closer to reality Tuesday morning.
The measure, if approved, would require those not currently having their trash picked up to do so, and pay for the service on their water bills.
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There was a reason for the shock that made its way through two communities last week: Stephen Hawkins had changed.
Hawkins, 28, was found dead in his apartment at Kentucky Christian University in Grayson last Wednesday. An athlete during his days at Anderson County High School, Hawkins had become a respected student at the school.
Friends in Lawrenceburg and Grayson, where Kentucky Christian is located, were in shock over Hawkins' sudden death. Results of an autopsy, performed Thursday, are pending.
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Lenders say higher liquidity requirement may make borrowing more expensive for them, but they will refrain from hiking lending rates
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) left the repo rate and the cash reserve ratio (CRR) unchanged at 8% and 4%, respectively, on Tuesday, signalling that it wants rates to remain elevated.
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From Perennial (Rumored) LBO Candidate To Imminent Restructuring: How The Unmighty Radioshack Has Fallen
There was a time when one couldn't spend an hour without some moronic rumor of a Radioshack LBO popping up. Those time are gone. Instead, as DebtWire reports, the rumor of a takeover has been replaced with the all too unpleasant reality of a corporate restructuring which may or may not end up in Chapter and which likely means the equity is all but wiped out. As DW reports the firm is set to listen to restructuring pitches from the usual restructuring suspects, which means unless someone is crazy enough to do another JCP-type deal (they aren't), the firm's debt is about to be substantially discharged. This usually means a full or at least partial wipe out of the equity tranche below it. "The move to hire a banker to explore a balance sheet fix comes as the struggling electronics retailer faces a string of maturities, escalating cash burn and bloated inventory levels, the sources said. RadioShack first engaged AlixPartners for operational help over a year ago, as previously reported by Debtwire."
Debt Wire has more on the fulcrum issues:
Most pressing on the capital structure front, the stressed borrower faces the 1 August 2013 maturity of its USD 216m 2.5% convertible notes. In 1Q13, RadioShack chipped away at the obligation by repurchasing USD 70.5m of the notes with cash on hand. Back in 3Q12, the issuer inked a USD 100m 11% second lien term loan due 2017 and a USD 50m Libor+ 450bps TL due 2016, both with agent Wells Fargo, to partially buy back USD 88m of the converts
While management has telegraphed it has the resources to address the convert, liquidity is a precious commodity given RadioShack's cash burn trajectory. At 1Q13 ended 31 March, the issuer held USD 434.3m of unrestricted cash and had USD 384.9m available under its USD 450m asset based revolver due 2016, according to SEC filings.
The Texas-based chain has been the subject of investor scrutiny as it combats margin pressure due to increased competition from online retailer Amazon and big-box heavy hitter Wal-Mart, the sources agreed. During 1Q13, RadioShack's revenue skidded 7% year-over-year to USD 849m, underpinned by a 5.7% decline in same store sales.
For the three-month period, EBITDA slipped to USD 5m from USD 30m generated in the prior year period, noted a sellsider.
At quarter-end, the issuer's net leverage catapulted to 7.3x from 0.7x during the prior year period, the sellsider continued. Meanwhile, the electronics seller carries gross leverage of 18.7x based on LTM EBITDA of USD 38m and debt of USD 712m.
For FY13, the issuer is projected to book negative USD 5m of EBITDA, falling far short of the USD 63m recorded in FY12, the sellisder said. By comparison, the store franchise generated north of USD 260m in FY11. More bearish investors peg FY13 EBITDA at negative USD 25m and capital expenditures at USD 70m, added a buysider.
And while an imminent liquidity crunch is unlikely, the slowburn will mean that slowly but surely the firm's debt and hybrid securities will start ticking down to their fairer value... somewhere in the vicinity of 0.
RadioShack's converts due in August are quoted at around par, said one of the sources. The company's USD 325m 6.75% unsecured notes due 2019 last changed hands at 73.25 to yield 13.52%, down from around 80 in late May, according to MarketAxess.
Finally, those playing with falling knives and hoping for a big short-covering pop on any good news for the company that has already used up several lifetimes worth of bullish rumors: good luck.
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I don't even see how that place exists. What do they even sell?
Video killed the radio star.
Should have renamed to VideoShack decades ago.
"We never saw this coming..."
If RadioCrapShack shuts down, where in the world am I going to pay 3 times the price that other stores charge for batteries and cables?? This is a tragedy for overspenders everywhere!
...you mean this battery club card is valueless!!!
I loved that as a kid. It did get me in the store to look at other products.
Obsolete cell phones and electrical components marked up +10000%
Just cell phones, they're pretty much out of electronic components these days.
I build and repair specialized electronic devices. Before Radio Shack switched to Cell Phones I used them as my parts warehouse. When orders for devices came in or needed repairs I would make a list and call an order in to my local RS. I would order a few items from mouser.com but those were rare instances. When Cell Phones moved in the manager and associates were too busy selling Cell Phones, signing people up with providers, and selling them accessories to worry about stocking and selling electronic components. I gave up and purchased parts bins and stocked them with parts from mouser.com and digikey.com. I should have done that years before RS "helped me" make that choice. I have dropped by a RS Store in the mall and discovered they had purchased new parts bins and were now attempting to get back into selling parts and components. Most of this renewed activity was centred around Arduino microcomputers and associated modules and kits. I couldn't imagine anyone actually buying that stuff at full retail RS prices. I asked an associate about the popularity and amount of sales. He told me they could not sell that stuff at all. Everyone ordered that stuff from internet sites at near wholesale prices.
I bought a soldering iron there once. A very pleasant experience, actually. Not sure why I've never been back.
Oh yeah, they don't sell a damned thing I need.
They should do a merger with Best Buy, it's a winner!
Have you been in a Radio Shack lately? I wander through on occasion just to pass the time while my daughters are looking at clothes. They don't offer anything that you can't buy at a kazzillion other places. It amazes me they have been around this long.
Even their CEO has no idea how they keep their doors open - http://www.theonion.com/articles/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-how-radioshack-still-in-b,2190/
(And yes, it's the Onion - but prescient, from six years ago)
Great Onion article. Well worth the 2 minutes it would take to pop over and read it. It could have been written yesterday.
"You think people would have enough strobe lights and extension cord adapters, but I guess not."
"I tried to focus on the brand's strengths but I honestly don't know what they are."
Pretty funny, and accurate too.
Worst change in strategic direction, ever.
They abandoned their traditional customer and whored themselves out to cell phone companies.
I'm surprised they didn't pick up Tim Cook for CEO and Ellen DeGeneris for spokesperson after they left JCP.
+1000, they dumped the loyal customer base and...here is the result.
Before they morphed into pod people, I was there 1X week buying parts.
I'll miss the good ole days when I would buy components for circuit board building projects. Resistors, capacitors, wire, connectors, all sorts of components. Not any more. Can't even get the assorted goodies needed for soldering and such. Tandy used to sell wood burning and leather tooling kits... remember those days?
When I was in the Air Force (back in the early 1970s) we'd run out of a particular component in bench stock (parts in bins for our electronic repairs). All the components had the actual prices that the Air Force paid for the items; the idea was to show us how serious wasting parts was. When we were out of a few parts, we'd make a run to Radio Shack for what we needed. Resistors that we got at Radio Shack for 12 cents were priced in bench stock at $5 to $7 each. We just paid cash from the coffee fund for what we needed. Same stuff at outrageous taxpayer expense. You've heard of the $50 hammers and $200 commode seats... this was true of everything.
Run a Tylenol through the bureaucracy of the medical system and you get the same results.
I'm not sure what direction they could have taken that would have saved them. They were always a dumpy little mall store that catered to the electronics hobbyist which would be who, exactly, these days? I mean, where do you go from there?
The "Maker Community" might be one niche market...
Radio Shack doesn't even try. Management doesn't know the first thing about its products or who might find them useful. Just another mismanaged American corporation who should have changed or died long ago, but thanks to Alan and Ben, is a profitless zombie.
They are gone. Have not been in a RS in over 15 years. Just outdated and not needed. Industries come and go. They are toast.
Twenty years ago, i was a regular Radio Shack customer. Any more, I go into Radio Shack once every other year. They no longer sell anything I want to buy.
"Radio Shack" should do a merger with "Geek Squad". " Geek Shack ®"
Or they could merge with Southwest Airlines. Their ticker could be "LUV SHACK"
Now do Rock Lobster.
The patient appears to have died before it could be looted and euthanized....
UST Yields go up, Radio Shack goes down. Is there a correlation here? :)
I need parts for my HAM!!!! don't you close dem doors!!!
When I got into electronics I got my first components there. However, their selection was so limited and so expensive that I was forced to use EBay.
Most of the people were nice, even the Shaniquas, but pricing and selection just doomed them.
I think what doomed them was the fact that electronics in general went from being expensive high quality items worth fixing to cheap pieces of crap that were easier to justify replacing with even cheaper pieces of crap when they broke. That trend tends to cause a fall off in component sales. That's why they started trying to make a go of it by selling cell phones and Chiclets...it's a good thing no one else was/is doing that!
So long Radio Shack...just like my first girlfriend, you were a lot of fun for me...back in the 80s!
Lol, even the Shoniquas!!!
Oftentimes when I have a bad customer experience it's because of a Shoniqua who can't compute the links that make the chain between my wallet and her paycheck...and ugh the attitude, like it's my fault they have to actually do something for a moment!!!
Anyone who ever walked into a Radio Shaq, should have bought a $10 cellphone and called their broker and shorted it to ZERO.
How many times have we seen this in the last four years? A dead company who manages a 100%+ stock gain from the Chapter 11 call.
If you want to gamble, a near 100% chance of bankruptcy has been the most bullish news of all.
And looking at other cash burning companies, Amazon just hit $300 ($137b mkt cap).
RS is easily one of the worst-run retail establishments in the history of retail establishments. RS was running around 20% below the retail index for much of the 90's and early 2000s.
RS is also a poster child for former greatness gone south, and for decent commission-based sales jobs morphed into minimum wage clerking.
Anyone remember shopping at RS and being asked for information even though it was for a cash sale?
My information has it that it was the result of trying to find the unibomber.
Radioshack is so 1980's
Can anyone tell me why I see people in these cell phone stores (and Radio Shack essentially is one) all the time? Why? I've only ever had two phones and the first one lasted 9 years. What are these people customering? Is having the "latest" gadget every 6-12 months really that important? Blows my mind.
I am certain the Board appreciates Lee Applbaum's recommendation to go whole hog on his bromance with Lance Armstrong and his teammates. Essentially, at Lee's knowing or unknowing recommendation to back that team, Radioshack funded a massive doping program and the Board was none the wiser.
Some days you do the fucking, somedays you get fucked. It could be said Lee wanted it both ways, that kinky bastard.
As others have said, there isn't much at Radio Shack that you cannot find in many other places at lower prices. What is sad is that RS used to be staffed by people with knowledge of electronics and they used to carry odd cables and parts. When they switched to generic mall clerks and the same products as other retailers - they were doomed. It's sad in some ways because American youth will never learn 'electronics' - thus those jobs now sit in China. It's a bit like seeing libraries fade away as real books get replaced by eBooks.


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Thomas D. Lyon's research interests include child witnesses, child maltreatment and domestic violence. He teaches courses in Evidence, Law and Psychology, and Child Interviewing.
Professor Lyon is past-president of the American Psychological Association's Section on Child Maltreatment (Division 37) and a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. He has published more than 60 papers in law reviews, psychology journals and books; has authored or co-authored more than 90 research presentations at psychology and law conferences; and has conducted more than 200 trainings with judges, attorneys, law professors, social workers, psychologists and reporters. His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the United States Department of Justice, the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, the California Endowment, and the Haynes Foundation.
A magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School, Professor Lyon received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Stanford University. He was an attorney for the Children's Services Division of the Los Angeles County Counsel and a research associate at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center prior to joining USC Law in 1995.
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Oklahoma clergy group gives out funds to tornado victims and a car to mother who was giving birth during the storm
"His middle name is Immanuel, which means 'God with us.' I think it was perfect for the situation."
— Shayla Taylor talking about her infant son
When a tornado hit the Moore hospital where she was giving birth, Shayla Taylor said she closed her eyes and prayed for survival.
A twister barreled into the hospital May 20, and what was already a life-changing event became even more momentous for the Oklahoma City woman.
"The ground was shaking and the building was shaking," Taylor said.
"I opened my eyes and a wall was gone. I could see the (Warren) movie theater and I-35," Taylor said.
She said she eventually was taken to Norman Regional Hospital, where she gave birth to her son Braeden. She later learned that her car parked in the Moore hospital's parking lot, 700 S Telephone Road, had been tossed into the building by the tornado. Although she felt blessed that she and her baby survived the storm, Taylor said she and her husband, Jerome, were anxious about the demise of their 1996 Toyota Camry.
Recently, the metro woman received aid from a disaster relief fund set up by a group of pastors who lead northeast Oklahoma City churches. The Concerned Clergy for Spiritual Renewal purchased a used car for Taylor and car seats for her infant and older son Shaiden, 4, through the group's Oklahoma City Christian Relief Fund. Taylor and her family were among 26 families who recently received assistance through the fund, the Rev. J.A. Reed said.
"We're concerned about what you're going through and what you've been through," Reed, senior pastor of Fairview Baptist Church and president of the Concerned Clergy group, told storm victims who recently gathered at St. John Missionary Baptist Church, 5700 N Kelley.
The Rev. Major Jemison, senior pastor of St. John and chairman of the relief fund, said the Concerned Clergy organization received money from member congregations as well as churches in other parts of the state, nation and the Caribbean. Jemison said he is a former president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention and Reed is an officer with the National Baptist Convention USA and both of those religious denominations have contributed to the fund as well as other organizations.
Jemison said the clergy group's disaster relief fund does not have the depth that some national charities have but it has been able to provide money for immediate needs for many storm victims. He said the group also distributed more than 120 gift cards to storm victims working in affected neighborhoods within the last week.
The Taylors attend Reed's Fairview Baptist. Reed and the Rev. Lee Benson said they found out about Taylor's car from her father, the Rev. Clarence Prevost of Sasakwa, Okla.
"You don't budget for a tornado," Reed said.
Prevost said he was grateful when the clergy group offered to help his daughter and her family.
"For the church to step in and meet the need, I'm just flabbergasted," he said. "She needed something at that moment, she didn't need something later and the church was there."
Taylor, who recently earned a nursing degree from the University of Central Oklahoma, said receiving the 2000 Buick Sentra from the clergy group has helped her family tremendously.
"It looks a lot better than what my car looks like," she said, smiling.
Taylor said the last several weeks have been busy but she had been able to reflect on the events of May 20. She said after she realized that the hospital had been hit by a tornado she looked around her.
"I was scared and of course my next thing was to check and see if the nurses were there and I wanted to make sure that the baby was OK," she said.
Taylor said her family survived the storm in the hospital's cafeteria. Medical personnel eventually had her transported to the Norman hospital via helicopter so she could give birth there.
Looking at her infant son, Taylor smiled and said his middle name — chosen about four months before he was born — is very appropriate and helps place recent events in proper perspective.
"His middle name is Immanuel, which means 'God with us.' I think it was perfect for the situation," she said.
Reed said he also saw providence's hand in the young family's story.
"A baby was born in a storm. Where life was taken, life was given," Reed said. "There's always good that comes out of a bad situation. Remember that."


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"A lot of Old Tradition Preserved" Leavenworth by BruceDunning
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There are some great things to see and do here-like look over the fort itself. In the downtown section, there is a block plus long area that has been preserved and looks like the late 1800's. There is a museum and some old type stores to go through. The town is scattered with gingerbread type homes, and some kept up well; others not so much.
The US Federal prison has been a landmark for the area since around 1903. It houses about 2300 prisoners today.
Also when the first Disciplinary BArracks was constructed inside the fort around 1921, it held troubled military persons. It used to be called the "Castle" or Little down top, and was built with military labor that also built the US Fed prison. That now is a restaurant and admin center. The monument is on Metropolitan Rd and used to house 440 prisoners of the military. Guards are also all military. A new prison was built in 1976
One of the first designated cemeteries during the Civil War. It was dedicated by Abraham Lincoln, and now has 12,000 grave stones dating back to then until current day. It is a somber moment to reflect on these lives that were given to keep us free
- Pros:Downtown is trying for a revival of sorts-may work out?
- Cons:Not much to do after seeing one mansion open to tour
- In a nutshell:Some good attractions to visit-but slim places of interest
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Very interesting page. Thanks for reading about Dinkelsbuehl, and hope you're going to have a pleasant time. Happy (very belated) Birthday.
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Battle Ground Public Schools' 55th annual student art show runs during school hours May 5-26 at Captain Strong Primary School, 1002 N.W. Sixth Ave., Battle Ground.
A reception for students, families and community members begins at 6:30 p.m. May 12. Awards will be announced at the May 12 school board meeting.
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Skip to comments.Now U.S. copper mines under attack
Posted on 03/31/2014 7:22:43 PM PDT by DannyTN
80 billion lbs. of metal could 'wipe out American import dependency'
On the heels of the Obama administration clamping down on oil and gas exploration and President Obama declaring what many consider to be a war on coal, environmental groups are now urging the government to deny exploration of the worlds largest known copper reserve before the permitting process even begins.
... When a mining project goes into the permitting process, there are local avenues for some of the permits; there are state avenues for some of the permits and federal as well, McGroarty said. So its multi-layered, and it takes an average of seven to 10 years for a mine to get through that process once begun. I have looked at Pebble, and my understanding is that they would require upward of 60 different types of permits from the state, local and federal levels. So there would be an enormous amount of scrutiny put on the mine plan.
What some of the environmental groups are saying is they dont want that process to even begin. ...
McGroarty said if the EPA starts down this road, the economic impact on this nation could be immense.
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
This article outlines a new abusive method to stop mining from ever even entering a permitting process.
The fact that there are over 60 permits required by various local/state/Federal agencies and a 7 to 10 year process to open a mine is ridiculous.
The federal EPA needs to be disbanded. It's federal government overreach into States powers.
imagine eating only grubs and berries, living in a mud hut, wearing feathers, and singing "Ain't this just a paradise ?"
that's what these Aholes have in mind for us.....IF WE ALLOW IT !
The EPA is the fourth branch of government.
I'd hold out for a Teepee with a ring of rocks on a bluff.
Isn't it ironic that George H. (Bush I) styled himself as the "environmental president?" Concern for the environment is one thing, today's EPA as an instrument of political control is another. We've come a long way, baby, in only 20 years.
If pollution didn't cross state lines, I'd agree with you. But it does, and that means some of it needs to be dealt with at a federal level.
This mine only affects Alaska, unless water runnoff would affect Canada or the oceans. So maybe that's one of the checks that needs to be put in. That the pollution regulated by the EPA must be shown to cross state lines, or of the kind that would be expected to cross state lines. And then it should be subjected to judiciary review, not administrative court review. Administrative courts too often get cozy with the agency they are supposed to have oversight of.
We are probably the only nation in the history of the world that could discover a resource within its territory that would benefit each and every citizen, and a good number of its people will try like hell to NOT put it to good use....
We're just incalculably STUPID!!!
Another good example of this is the Keystone XL pipeline issue. The Obama administration isn't opposed to Keystone XL on environmental grounds. It's blocking the construction of the pipeline because the railroad industry (including the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, which is wholly owned by Warren Buffett) is moving crude oil all over North America.
The Rats won't be in power forever.
You all know there is a way to stop the environmental groups without firing a shot? It is simple and powerful and the most useful tool to shut down the left.
It's called a lawsuit. And another lawsuit. And another lawsuit. It was telegraphed during Sarah Palin's time as Governor. It's a tactic of the left.
But more importantly, it was a strategic move by Ronald Reagan against the Soviets. Bankrupt them. Force them to defend themselves. Sue them. Then sue them again. Best of all, right now we have the country on our side. High gas prices, high food prices can be tagged on the environmental movement.
It is time we start treating them like the POS Marxists they truly are.
"It is very certain that [the Commerce Clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government."
James Madison to Joseph Cabell
The leadership of the EPA, for the most part, esp. the political appointees, are beyond salvaging. Honest employees are lower down on the food chain.
Carol Browner - socialist, International Socialists organization
Lisa Jackson (just resigned recently), Browner's protege' and rabid marxist
Gina McCarthy- present EPA administrator. I'm afraid of her. Very extreme and possibly a back alley fighter.
There are some very good EPA programs and some that are designed by marxists to cripple our economic system in the name of snail darter fish. There are also some leftist judges who are helping them.
Meanwhile people can't get jobs, the Red China have a vise on our nuts vis-a-vis "rare earth" minerals necessary for national defense, among other things, and Russia will probably make another attempt to become the number one supplier of Gold and some other precious metals badly needed by the electronics industry, among others.
Some environmental groups are legit; some are far-left marxists and eco-wackos. The Left opposes everything no matter how good or bad it is. Their goal is to destroy our economy, not improve it. Sierra Club has gone far left. Natural Resources Defense Fund has always been left. Same with EarthWatch, Environmental Action Fund/Foundation, and elements within the National Wildlife Federation (which my wife once worked for). The Center for Biological Diversity is the arch-type of the "neo-progressives" organization - well funded, educated staff (not necessarily smart staff), and dedicated to "environment uber alles".
You'd be surprised at how many leftist groups there are concerning the environment. They Left got smart in the late 80's/early 90's. They seized on the "Green Movement" and got control of a significant portion of it, and the foundations money that came with it.
We are talking tens of millions of dollars, or more. They are a well funded marxist/progressive/liberal army, like the jungle ants of Brazil, marching over everything in their way.
The EPA is both their friend and their enemy, but they often sue the EPA in order to get "friendly decisions" in which they are paid large settlement accounts including attorneys' fees. Big scam operation which needs immediate House congressional hearings.
Congress is NOT going to "put checks and balances on the EPA" until it recognizes that the EPA is the "enemy" of our economic system, not necessarily the savior of it.
Defunding some of its operations will partially cripple it. Investigations might expose the marxist principles its leaders follow. Only "regime change" at the White House level is going to "reform" the EPA by cleaning out the reds and putting in some rational scientists who can balance the environment and the economy.
Don't hold you hat for that day to come soon. Nov. 2014 elections might be the start of EPA reform but Nov. 2016 is the big enchilada, winner take all.
40,000 people or more out of work in the San Joaquin Valley farming mecca because the EPA and California reds won't give them water while the snail darter fish is held up as a god to be worshipped by the GAIA for Lunch Bunch.
a) Weakens America/AmericansI have yet to have anyone raise a single substantive counter example in several years of posting this.
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Serves Islam
e) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
a, c...
So instead of mining and using our own resources, we prohibit it's extraction or ship it off elsewhere (like our oil and coal)?
Damned straight. 'Campfires and caves'.....while they laugh all the way to the bank.
"Brother, you asked for it!"
My plan would be, since the EPA gets on these jags as a result of "scouts" out in the field, let's make the whole agency all-volunteer. Cut the budget to zero. Well, OK, they could make some photocopies.
Shame, you want to be 'elite'.
Were just incalculably STUPID!!!
And capable of committing serial suicide.
It's not the environment.
It's about destroying the American economy.
It's a privately restored and maintained example near Cleo Springs, OK -- in the Cherokee Strip.
It's now under roof in a large shed, to keep it out of the weather. It's fully furnished and appointed -- complete with glass windows, as in the photo. Even drapes. The furniture was obviously manufactured back east and probably purchased via catalogue. There was nothing rough-hewn or remotely "home-made".
But it sat on a dirt floor. The people who lived there spent a lot of time -- and money -- making their sod home a comfortable, even stylish, place to raise a family.
Well worth the price of admission and a couple of hours time.
There's Mud huts and then are Mud huts....
the real problem with environmental issues and the EPA is we have an agency who is controlling us and lmposing an agenda by "regulations".
where is that in the constitution ?
Those of us who are real environmentalists want clean air and water. And I expect government at some level to enforce standards so offenders are not able to dump ridiculous amounts of pollutants into the air and water. So I don't fall into the camp of anything goes. I'll let others quibble over where the function exists.
Unfortunately the environmentalist movement was hijacked long ago by kooks. The current EPA is out of control and now just contains leftist political hacks. It needs to be stopped.
No, it is the fifth column.
If you can't grow it or harvest it you must mine it.
Too bad our "leaders" don't know that.
If the environmentalist REALLY cared about Mother Earth they would relax the rules a little bit, and promote mining in America.
Instead it is done in third-world countries where there are very few (if any) environmental rules, no worker safety laws, no regard for the local people, etc.
I love the snail darter. The snail darter is vital and essential to my life.
I like them lightly sauteed in butter with a bit of fresh Cilantro salt and pepper. Wash them down with a glass of Chardonnay. Repeat as necessary to achieve gastronomical perfection.
My aunts and uncles told of growing up, first in a dugout, then in a soddy.
My grandchildren, of course, simply can't imagine such a thing.
How far we've come, how much we've lost, yet how much we've gained over the course of a few generations.
Let's regulate the actual resources that the EPA it's self uses ?
Agreed. Let the states regulate air & water, the Feds referee disputes, and the 10th be restored.
I'll pee in your tea and live in a 1st class home myself!
"The Rats wont be in power forever."
That is absolutely correct, one way or another they will be done for. See my tag line.
the rinos will be next. no difference for us, they do nothing for us.
Wonder how the miners at Silver City NM will feel as they voted for the "O".
But the bureaucrats in the EPA will.
That's the problem.
the railroad industry (including the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad, which is wholly owned by Warren Buffett)
BNSF is a publicly held company, through Berkshire Hathaway B shares.
thats what these Aholes have in mind for us....
If pollution didn't cross state lines, I'd agree with you. But it does, and that means some of it needs to be dealt with at a federal level.
The proposed mine is in the Bristol Bay, Alaska watershed - while that means virtually nothing to most FRers, the watershed is the home of the last remaining largest run of Sockeye (Red) salmon in the world - the largest was the Columbia River run which was destroyed by the Columbia River dams in the 1940s - the only people to protest and predict the outcome were the commercial fishermen who caught the salmon. Today, millions of Federal tax dollars are spent on a semi-fruitless effort to barge the remaining fry around those same dams and to create bypasses to allow adults to get up river.
No matter what some mining company proposes to prevent highly toxic waste water spills, or what permits it obtains will guarantee that no spill will occur. One small accidental spill would be enough to decimate the runs to the rivers.
As a former commercial fisherman who fished Bristol Bay, I can testify that any mine in the watershed would spell the end of its lucrative salmon fishery. The land is very fragile and in a very geologically active area. So would you chose the destruction of the salmon runs, the destruction of an historic and lucrative fishery over the production of copper?
Keep in mind while you decide that the most productive farmland in the US has either now been paved over - New Jersey, Washington State, and lately the man-made drought in the San Joaquin Valley, CA, the third largest Sockeye run to the Frazier River, Vancouver, Canada destroyed by a landslide while building a railroad (that run was recovered by the financial sacrifice of US and Canadian commercial Sockeye fisherman over 50 years - something that would not happen today in the same situation),
Is the production of minerals more important than the access to cheap, healthy food? The food on your grocer's shelves does not grow in cans nor appear fully formed in packages. Is your preference to eat food grown or caught in China or some other country? Does crunching down on copper ore give you a satisfying meal?
"It's federal government overreach into States powers."
It's more than that. The EPA is a corrupt and criminal arm of the executive branch that illegally writes legislation. The fact that the Congress allows this illegal usurpation of its law-making power tells us all we need to know about the federal legislature - that it, too, is criminal and corrupt.
Giving any bureaucracy law-making power is a violation of the Constitution.
What the EPA did in Rapanos v US was enough for me to justify the arrest of these neo-fascist EPA goons for sedition.
Apparently people will allow it. Most of white America is devoted to a life of eating, drinking, drugging, copulating, evacuating the bowels, snoring and attending The Games." The Third World is of course busy finishing their conquest and starting the sack.(The roving mobs in Kentucky come to mind.)
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5, 6 weeks ago the truck wouldn't start; mechanic said it was the ignition coil and replaced it. Last week it wouldn't start, they replaced the ignition coil. 5 days later, ditto. Note that each time the engine would turn over, but the truck wouldn't start. Any ideas on why the ignition coil would keep burning out? Could they be replacing it with a substandard coil that can't handle the current?
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SAN BERNARDINO: Fatal DUI case spurs manslaughter charges
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A 20-year-old Cherry Valley woman faces manslaughter charges in a wreck that San Bernardino police have said involved alcohol and killed three persons, including an unborn child, according to investigators and court records.
Margarita Diana Castellanos-Abarca is tentatively scheduled for an April 15 hearing to determine whether there's enough evidence against her to warrant a trial on two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and one count each of drunken driving, driving without a license and failing to show proof of insurance, San Bernardino Superior Court records show.
She has pleaded not guilty to all counts and is being held on $500,000 bail.
The wreck was reported at 12:59 a.m. Dec. 22 along the 3800 block of Ridge Line Drive in a hilltop neighborhood northwest of the Castaway Restaurant.
"Evidence at the scene indicates that most of the occupants in the vehicle were under the influence of alcohol," investigators said in a written statement issued soon after the crash. "Three of the occupants were ejected…, two of which were pronounced dead at the scene."
Witnesses told police that the 2003 Nissan Altima was traveling north on Ridge Line Drive when the driver missed a slight turn on a downhill stretch of the roadway.
The car climbed the west curb and rolled down the hillside into a ravine, stopping hundreds of feet below the roadway.
Castellanos-Abarca suffered minor injuries, police said.
But the wreck killed 19-year-old Jennifer Blancas, of Banning, and 24-year-old Cesar Andrew Caro, of San Bernardino.
The survivors included 23-year-old Beaumont resident Kenneth Leroy, whom police said suffered spinal fractures and other major injuries.
The remaining survivor was 19-year-old Island Aguilar, of Cathedral City, who also suffered major injuries. Her unborn child died, police said.
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A visitor to Uganda discovers there's more to the country than what he expected.
Uganda is a forest of words. Its placards grow as tall as pine trees, perched at the pinnacle of poles, swinging from wires, hanging down in front of stores. I squint and shade my eyes. I try to understand.
Ugandan signs are bold along its roads, clear and bright as its sun. "Full Cream Milk Powder," says one. "Grow Faster, Grow Stronger."
"Drink Fresh Water," urges another.
And then: "This Land is Not for Sale."
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"Is that about pressures from the West?" I say to my guide. "About all the YouTube hype over the Kony film?"
My guide simply stares. "The sign means this," he replies. "The owner does not wish to sell."
Before I came here, Uganda was a land I thought I knew. "Kony 2012," the Invisible Children video exposing the abuses of Joseph Kony's rebel army, was all over the Internet. Not far behind in the news and chat cycle were reports about virulent anti-gay bills introduced by Ugandan politicians.
Still, there are the signs. Signs of a place where daily life is distant from the wars and issues and debate. Distant, even, from the country's years of British rule and from former dictator Idi Amin. Landlocked in East Africa, Uganda is one of the poorest nations in the world, with a population that's more than 85 percent rural.
Outside the big cities, such as Entebbe and the capital, Kampala, I find that almost no one I talk to knows about "Kony 2012." I'm American, and all I get are smiles. Sometimes a little dip of the head. An outstretched hand.
"Come to see our animals," says a man I talk to at a store along a country road. "We are different here than Kenya, Tanzania. You can get up close. You will see them. And of course, they will see you."
If a rhino looks annoyed …
At my first stop outside Kampala, there are still more messages on signs. Here at Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary, some of these signs display rhinoceros shapes and say: "Beware."
I'll try. I'm with a group that's trying to get as near as we can to Uganda's newest rhinos, reintroduced here after their disappearance in the early 1980s. According to our guide, a man named Opio Raymond, some of the sanctuary rhinos come from Kenya. Some are from Walt Disney's Animal Kingdom. One is named Obama.
"NEVER move in front of the guide," we read. "ALWAYS move in single file."
Then comes the part in bold:
"Should the rhinos show any signs of annoyance, you should STAND BEHIND A LARGE TREE IF AVAILABLE. OR MOVE NEAR A TREE AND BE READY TO CLIMB."
I take a look around. The trees look a lot like saplings. Thin and scrawny. They look like trees that rhinos might eat for a snack.
"These are white rhinos, though they may look gray," says Raymond, as he leads us up to a fence. We pass through a gate and form our line. I have never walked in a file as organized as ours.
He scans our clothing, spots someone's crimson shirt. "The rhino does not see well," he notes. "But when they see pure red, they do not like it."
"What should I do?" asks the tourist with the shirt. Raymond just shrugs.
He tells us that there are anti-poaching rangers around who carry rifles. They won't be of use to us; it's their lunchtime. And Raymond isn't armed.
When he stops in his tracks and crouches, our rhino conga line crouches, too. There are whispers. What are we seeing? We are seeing spoor.
"The poop for the rhino," explains our guide, picking it up in his hand. "Take a look."
Soon after, we're studying a print — three rhino toes — when Raymond spots her. Behind some bushes is a female rhino named Bella. Dinosaur eyes. Prehistoric horn.
Raymond flaps his hand for us to approach. Our line strings out, snaps back. We're there.
From what we can see from maybe 50 feet away, through branches, Bella isn't alone. There's something gray and squat crowding in, insistently pushing, just below her belly. "Baby," says Raymond simply. "Time for nurse."
All is peaceful. Rhino mother and child. Reverent sounds of cameras.
Then Bella moves.
There is a scuffle. It is on our side of the bush. No one wants to be obvious, but we are scanning around. "MOVE NEAR A TREE," we think. "BE READY TO CLIMB."
There is a thump. Is this a sign of annoyance? The start of a charge? Bella's horn is lowered: an ominous pose.
One member of our group is a man who may be 60. Possibly more. He's told us matter-of-factly that the battery in his pacemaker is dead.
I look at Bella, and at the man. Their eyes are locked.
The rest of us are staring, staring. Bella turns a hoof. She scuffs.
No one runs.
And after a second, Bella's movement is finished.
Raymond smirks. Some of us feel sheepish. The man with the pacemaker looks pale.
Our mother rhino gives out an animal sigh.
Later, in the Uganda bush, I stay at a lodge called Chobe. It's a set of terraces, decks and plate-glass windows looking out at rapids along the Nile.
I start exploring at once, picking my way down grassy, reedy banks. Ahead is a group of warthogs, their forelegs bent, pulling grass — chuff, chuff, chuff. My flip-flops frighten bright-blue lizards. A mongoose pops its head up and disappears.
There are ripples in the muddy water. Ripples made by rocks? Not rocks. This is the Nile.
I see some sets of eyes: Two here. Two over there. A bubble pops. There is an extended, resonant sound. Something like a bassoon.
"Hippos," says the porter blandly, leaving me with my key. "When darkness arrives, they come to sleep under the tent porch."
I check this out. My tent has a wooden floor (and furniture). I peer through a floor crack: No animals now.
But while I'm watching, one of the hippos hauls itself up on land. Dripping on the grass, it begins a yawn. I root for my guidebook: "An open mouth," I read, "may be a sign of aggression. Hippos are among the continent's most deadly animals. They've bitten humans in half."
This image is in my mind for days. Behind every boulder I imagine hippos, crouching stealthily.
To the chimpanzees
One afternoon I'm with a tour group that is tucking pants in socks, spraying for tsetse flies and gearing up for a walk. We are in Kyambura Gorge in Queen Elizabeth National Park. The goal of our hike is to see chimpanzees. We are ready, binoculars in hand.
Our guide is named Jimmy. "Just Jimmy," he says. "That is all."
Jimmy gives us pointers near a muddy trail that will lead us deep into the gorge. He and his assistant, Henry, look like infantrymen in dark green uniforms and boots. Henry has an automatic rifle "just for keeping safe."
We begin our slide down the path. My sneakers scoop up leaves and some kind of beetle, several pebbles and a sharp-edged stick. These are flushed out when the trail we're following turns into a gurgling stream.
After hours of crisscrossing the gorge, Jimmy points out a knuckle print from a chimp who has, at some point in time, passed by. There is a colobus monkey who shows us his tail and disappears. It has started to rain. We stop again and again to scrutinize the canopy. Not one branch swing. Not one shape. But somehow I am tingling. The hair on my arms is on end. Is this some kind of sickness? Jungle paranoia? Maybe I'm ill.
Chimpanzees are up there, I'm sure. They're staying disciplined and quiet. Probably following our group. I tell no one about this worry. I begin to perspire.
At the bottom of the gorge, I know why I've been so tightly alert. It's hippos who have been watching us, not chimps. Africa's most dangerous animal. They're scanning us, eyes and nostrils visible, as we come down to their lair. As we step out onto a fallen tree trunk to cross the chocolate river at the bottom of the gorge.
They're watching us as we scramble and slip, scramble and grip at filigree branches.
They're watching, and blowing baritone bubbles, and making plans.
Into the night
Back at the lodge, it's nighttime and we're being driven in golf carts down to the Nile. Back to our furnished tents.
We talk of Africa in the dark. We stare at reeds and river. There's a slice of moon. It picks up shapes spread out along the bank. Strong shapes. Low-slung. One silhouette is close to someone's tent porch.
A woman in the back speaks up. "Hippos," she says. "Do they ever chase?"
"Yes, they do, ma'am," says the driver, braking so he can talk. "Sometimes they do."
"What would happen if they caught you?"
"It is bad," responds the driver. He is trying to restart the motor. "They bump you. Then they … "
The engine has stalled. We leap out and scramble the rest of the way to our porches, slipping on gravel, kicking flashlights and keys. We make it.


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Cans and Can'ts of Teaching Evolution
by Eugenie C. Scott
High school teachers are in a quandary about teaching evolution. Sometimes they are pressed to teach creation "science" or "intelligent design theory", or "evidence against evolution"; sometimes they are pressed just to forget about teaching evolution. What should a teacher do? What, legally, can and can't a teacher do?
Defining Evolution
The word "evolution" can evoke a variety of meanings, especially for students and members of the general public. For some, evolution is equated with natural selection. Others think that evolution addresses the origin of life. Still others impose a distinction between micro-evolution and macro-evolution. Part of the issue stems from an unclear understanding of what evolution is in a scientific sense.
Theory and Fact
One source of confusion about the status of the science or theory of evolution stems from the difference between the "everyday" meaning of the word "theory" and the scientific meaning the word.
Below we list some common misconceptions about the term "theory" and describe a classroom activity that can help students rethink their understanding of this term.
Misconception 1 "Evolution is 'just a theory'".
Misconception 2 "Theories become facts when they are well supported and/or proven."
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The case of the lost iPhone 4 prototype, purchased by Gawker.com for $5,000 and revealed to the world on Gizmodo, has taken a turn that could lead to a landmark court case having absolutely nothing to do with smartphone technology.
On Friday evening, police officers from the California Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team, broke into the home of Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen and removed four computers and two servers from the location. The police were acting pursuant to a search warrant issued by a Judge of the Superior Court of San Mateo.
According to the warrant , the officers were authorized to take items that may have been used in the commission of a felony and/or could tend to show that a felony has been committed or that a particular person has committed a felony.
Clearly, the San Mateo district attorney is looking to make a criminal case against either the fellow who allegedly found the lost iPhone 4 prototype on a bar stool and then sold it to Gawker; a case against Gawker for purchasing stolen property; or both.
Was a crime committed? After all, barstool guy didn't really steal the iPhone from the Apple engineer who accidentally left the device in the bar after an evening of celebrating his birthday over a couple of beers. Rather, barstool guy found the device after the engineer had already left it behind.
But that doesn't mean that a crime was not committed.
California Penal Code Sec. 485 states:
One who finds lost property under circumstances which give him knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner, and who appropriates such property to his own use, or to the use of another person not entitled thereto, without first making reasonable and just efforts to find the owner and to restore the property to him, is guilty of theft.
Clearly, the fellow who found the device in the bar qualifies as someone who found lost property. But did he find the iPhone 'under circumstances which give him knowledge of or means of inquiry as to the true owner'?
This is a fact question that will ultimately be answered by the Trier of fact (judge or jury), should the authorities pursue a case against the finder.
Still, at some point the man realized that he had something belonging to Apple. Otherwise, why would he have received $5,000 for the device from Gawker? Thus, he would appear to have had ample knowledge as to the identification of the true owner. As for whether or not he made a reasonable effort to find and restore the property to the rightful owner, that is another question to be determined by a jury should the prosecutor decide to move forward with a criminal case.
According to Gawker, the man did attempt to contact Apple (evidence that he knew that Apple was the owner of the property) to arrange for the return of the device but was given a number and told he would be contacted at some point in the future when his number came up. On the other hand, barstool guy allegedly made no effort to return the device to the bar where he found it in the expectation that the engineer who lost the iPhone would return looking for it nor did he take the lost device to the police.
The next part of the statute is where is gets interesting. Apparently knowing all to well what he had stumbled upon, the fellow who found the device sold it to Gawker – thus meeting the requirement of the law that prohibits his appropriating the property to his own use or to the use of another person not entitled thereto.
Once he sold it, not only did barstool guy potentially get into the soup, Gawker may well have joined in and committed a criminal act.
California law states that anyone who knowingly receives property that has been illegally obtained has also broken the law and can be imprisoned for up to one year.
Did Gawker know that the seller had illegally obtained the phone – if, indeed, the phone was illegal obtained? Again, this is a question of fact for a jury, but, given Apple's well known penchant for uber-secrecy when it comes to new technology devices, it is certainly not unreasonable to expect that Gawker knew that Apple had not turned over the device to the seller hoping he would give it – or sell it – to Gawker to become the subject of a Gizmodo review.
A slam-dunk that somebody at Gawker is going to fry?
Not necessarily.
In Bartnicki et al. v. Vopper, 532 U.S. 514 (2001), the Supreme Court ruled that a radio station broadcasting a taped conversation that had been illegally obtained by one of the parties providing the tape to the radio station, did nothing wrong when broadcasting the tape because the radio station did nothing illegal to obtain the tape. The case has since stood for the rule that media defendants are not liable even if a third party has broken the law.
Does the Bartnicki case get Gawker off the hook?
Maybe…maybe not. The question would seem to turn on whether or not Gawker broke the law in obtaining the iPhone prototype. If they did, they may well fail to meet the test in Bartnicki requiring them to be innocent of having broken the law.
There is a good chance that had Gawker simply taken a good look at the iPhone 4, reported on their findings and gave the phone back to barstool guy, they would be in the clear. But that is not what happened. They bought the device for $5,000 making them potentially guilty of purchasing illegally obtained property.
As noted, the San Mateo DA is looking to make a case against someone. But did the District Attorney make a fatal mistake in seeking a search warrant to enter Mr. Chen's house so that they could cart away his computers?
According to Gaby Darbyshire, COO of Gawker Media LLC, that is exactly what the district attorney has done.
Darbyshire is arguing that the search warrant permitting the raid on Chen's home was illegal pursuant to California Penal Code Section 1524(g) which prohibits a warrant being issued for any item or items described in Section 1070 of the California Evidence Code which, in turn, reads:
a) A publisher, editor, reporter, or other person connected with or employed upon a newspaper, magazine, or other periodical publication, or by a press association or wire service, or any person
who has been so connected or employed, cannot be adjudged in contempt by a judicial, legislative, administrative body, or any other body having the power to issue subpoenas, for refusing to disclose, in any proceeding as defined in Section 901, the source of
any information procured while so connected or employed for publication in a newspaper, magazine or other periodical publication, or for refusing to disclose any unpublished information obtained or prepared in gathering, receiving or processing of information for
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Darbyshire is arguing is that the material on Chen's computers is shielded by the laws that protect a journalist's sources. If she is right, and the computers were illegally seized, anything the police find on those computers would be inadmissible in a court of law, thus badly damaging the District Attorney's opportunity to make a case.
In case you're wondering, according to a recent California case, an on-line operation like Gawker, and its subsidiary Gizmodo, are protected under these laws.
But does Section 1070 of the California Evidence Code apply?
It seems clear that the law is intended to protect journalists from being found in contempt for refusing to disclose a source or source material. When we connect that to California Penal Code Section 1524(g), it would indicate that a search warrant cannot be issued to confiscate any material in the possession of a journalist that would be protected as such source material.
Was the DA looking for information that would lead them to the identify of barstool guy so that they can charge him with illegally possessing the iPhone or is the DA looking for information to be used in making a case against Gawker for purchasing stolen property? Or both?
The answer to that question may prove pivotal in how this all ends up.
Ms. Derbyshire has posted a twitter in the past hour indicating that she is currently speaking with the San Mateo Country authorities who are looking into the propriety of the search warrant. If I were she, I wouldn't be holding my breath until the computer equipment is returned. The time for the DA to do his or her homework on the propriety of the search warrant was before they obtained it – not now. A decision to return the equipment and give up on the warrant would be far too embarrassing and very possibly deal a death blow to whatever case may exist.
The legal issues triggered by the search warrant and the question of whether or not Gawker is protected by the Bartniki case promise to resonate long after the release of the iPhone 4 and many versions beyond.
Let's hope that Gawker has a big enough bank account to fight what is likely to turn into a protracted battle for journalistic freedom- even if it might involve purchasing stolen property to bring the story to the people. While it would have, admittedly, been far more sexy if it involved some presidential scandal or massive criminal enterprise, this matter nevertheless promises to make some very interesting law in how far a journalist can go to deliver a story, even if it's just a story about a telephone.
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