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Space Management: Use: Policy 6A.1
Use of Facilities & Services: Procedure 6A.1/11
Signs: Policy 6A.2
Signs, Notices & Flyers: Procedure 6A.2/11
Naming: Policy 6A.3
Naming: Procedure 6A.3/11
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The purpose of the procedure is to provide standard guidelines for naming Anoka-Ramsey Community College buildings, sites and common areas and to ensure compliance with MnSCU Procedure 6.8.1 Naming Building, Sites and Common Areas.
Naming of college buildings, sites and common areas shall occur to:
Buildings, sites and common areas will not be named for individuals who are employed by or officially involved (i.e. foundation member, student, vendor) with the college. These facilities may be named after such persons no earlier than one year following the conclusion of his/her relationship with the college. To be eligible for naming consideration, individuals must meet one of the following criteria:
When names other than those of individuals are used, in addition to Part 2 above, the recommendation for naming shall conform to recognized standards of propriety as agreed upon by the Naming Task Force. The proposed building, site, or common area name should not readily lend itself to unwanted abbreviations, acronyms or nicknames. The recommendation, which must include an explanation of the consultation and review process used, shall be forwarded from the college president to the chancellor for approval.
A Naming Task Force shall be established assuring broad based input into the proposed building, site or common area name. The Task Force shall include a representative from each constituent group in addition to other representation as advisable by the President and will convene as necessary. The Naming Task Force will consider MnSCU policy, procedure and recognition and donation criteria when making a recommendation. The Task Force shall follow Anoka-Ramsey Community College naming criteria and donation criteria, using discretion as necessary. Any person may submit a naming recommendation for review by the Naming Task Force. Recommendations should be submitted to the college President for review and submission to the Naming Task Force as appropriate. Recommendations shall include the following: a brief statement from the nominator including explanation of affiliation with the college and any relevant documentation, a statement defining how the recommendation meets the naming criteria and a resume or letter of recommendation justifying the nomination.
Upon approval of a naming proposal, the donor, administrators, and Foundation officials must complete a gift contract previously reviewed and approved by the college President. Consideration of this contract includes:
The college president reserves the right to remove/change a name at any point, from any of its facilities. Also, the college president is not obligated to name a facility after a person who meets the guidelines. Individual background checks shall be incorporated into the naming process if the college is considering using a individual's name for a facility. Multi-year pledge agreements can occur, but the administration retains the right to deter the start of the project until an established amount of the contribution is received. Prior to any donor recognition event or naming ceremony, a minimum of seventy-five percent of the total gift must be received.
If the named building/area is decommissioned, or if the program is terminated, the named building/area may or may not be transferred. At the time of replacement, if any, the original donor will have the first right of refusal to provide a new gift to continue the naming opportunity, in accordance with the existing naming policy.
Upon approval of a recommended building, site or common area name, the Naming Task Force will submit a recommendation to the college president including a signage plan that ensures compliance with college Policy and Procedure6A.2 & 6A.2/11 - Signs. History: 04.2009 Adopted
For Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU) policies and procedures, go to http://www.mnscu.edu/board/policy/index.html


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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is the late summer answer to the early summer release of disappointing-yet-watchable Godzilla. That being said, it is a monster movie with some decent acting thrown in to ground it a little further into reality. But director Matt (Let Me In, Cloverfield) Reeves successfully gives the humanity to the wrong species. That's right, Andy (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Rise of the Planet of the Apes) Serkis and Toby (The Counselor, The East) Kebbell absolutely shine as the two lead apes, showing that motion capture truly is the future of both science fiction movies and CGI. Unfortunately, the script can only go so far, and it is as if the screenwriters did not want the audience to care about the human characters of the film.
Gary (The Dark Knight trilogy, Hannibal) Oldman is a completely wasted talent, but he plays his role expertly. As for Jason (Zero Dark Thirty, The Great Gatsby) Clarke, Keri (Felicity, The Americans) Russell, and Kodi (The Road, ParaNorman) Smit-McPhee, they all seem to simply phone in their performances. If the moral of the story is that humanity brings on its own downfall by being soulless caricatures of what life used to be like, then the message is clearly sent. But that is most assuredly not the case. Wooden acting from a one-sided script is not enough to sink the film, though. The first half of the film is dedicated solely to the apes and their own world that they have created in humanity's wake. And it is wholly engrossing, giving us some of the best theatrical cinematography in years.
The first half of the film is by far the strongest in terms of story and depth, but it is the second half of the film that will give most action fans their fill of summer blockbuster death, chaos, and explosions. The war to come is confusing, convoluted, and altogether unbelievable, but even though the final moments of the film stagger and eventually fall flat, it is worth noting that the first half of this film is one of an expert filmmaker. Perhaps a stronger script and some more seasoned actors would have saved the latter part of the movie, but that is the double-edged sword that is a sci-fi summer blockbuster. You risk losing your audience if you present a drama, rather than a bunch of gun, fire, and a tank.

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Training with Italian chefs, visiting food markets and, of course, eating . . . .While ten Moraine Park Technical College Culinary Arts students experience the sights, sounds and especially tastes of Europe, those back in the United States can follow along through the first ever Moraine Park International Education blog.As Culinary Arts students Haley Gammon of Brandon and Benjamin Christian of Fond du Lac make their way through Germany, Italy, France, Monaco and the Netherlands, they will be providing accounts of their trip through Moraine Park's social media site, morainepark.edu/stayconnected. The students left on May 21 and return on June 6. Gammon is a second year student and Christian graduated during Moraine Park's May 21 ceremony.
Moraine Park Culinary Arts students have been part of an exchange partnership created in 2002 between the College and the Friedrich List and Peter Behrens vocational schools in Darmstadt, Germany.The German students spend approximately two weeks in the U.S. each fall attending classes at Moraine Park, completing projects, touring local companies and visiting cities like Madison and Chicago. During the annual summer trip, Moraine Park students attend classes, participate in social events and tour the city during their first week abroad. In the second week, they head for other parts of Europe such as France, Austria or Italy.To follow along with the blog, visit morainepark.edu/stayconnected.
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This season the major production of the Opera Program at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) is "Postcard from Morocco," a one-act composition by Dominick Argento setting a libretto by John Donahue. In a departure from tradition, the performances are a co-production with the Portland Opera of a staging by Kevin Newbury. The Portland production ran from March 21 to March 29; and last night the first of four performances (by alternating casts) took place in the SFCM Concert Hall, conducted by Curt Pajer. The instrumental resources consisted of a chamber orchestra of nine players.
"Postcard from Morocco" is an opera that defies description. Structurally, it is a sequence of relatively unrelated episodes involving seven travelers in a waiting room, all unknown to each other. The libretto was inspired by "A Good Play," one of the poems in Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, whose first two stanzas are the following:
We built a ship upon the stairs
All made of the back-bedroom chairs,
And filled it full of sofa pillows
To go a-sailing on the billows.
We took a saw and several nails,
And water in the nursery pails;
And Tom said, "Let us also take
An apple and a slice of cake;"—
Which was enough for Tom and me
To go a-sailing on, till tea.
In one of the early episodes of the opera, two ships get built, very much in the Stevenson spirit. Indeed, in that same spirit, the two ships get built as a result of an argument over the kind of ship it should be; and, in the spirit of that argument, the ships engage in battle.
None of this, however, has anything to do with what could be called plot. Instead, rather as is the case in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, each episode serves to "pass the time" and little else. However, this loosely specified libretto provides generous freedom for the stage director to develop a framework of interpretation. Thus, when Peter Kazaras staged the opera for the Merola Opera Program in July of 2012, he decided that Mr. Owen (the only character with a name) should be the protagonist and that, like John Forbes Nash, Jr. in A Beautiful Mind, he has created all of the other characters from the recesses of his schizophrenic mind.
Newbury seemed more inclined to treat each character as "real," seven strangers who only interact because they have to do something while waiting for their departing flight. (Argento's use of a train whistle suggests that the setting is a railway station. However, Newsbury's set design clearly suggested an airport.) While nothing very much happens in the course of their interactions, there are a few intriguing clues.
One character talks about the puppets he makes, but we never see any of them. A shoe salesman gives a slide show. However, in those images we see him (on a ship) in the company of those same strangers in the waiting room; and the final slide shows the waiting room itself. Mr. Owen is an artist closely guarding a box. When he opens it, it turns out to be a model of that same waiting room. Finally, during the score's coda, a large handle unfolds above the entire set, suggesting that all we have observed is the content of the box of some parallel gargantuan artist. If Newbury's staging was "about" anything, it may have been about boxes within boxes within boxes.
This would be consistent with the fact that the music also has a box of its own. Just as there used to be a tradition that every opera must contain a ballet, right in the center of the score, Argento's opera "contains" a quadrille. Furthermore, that quadrille was inspired by "Souvenirs de Bayreuth: Fantasie en forme de quadrille sur les thèmes favoris de l'ANNEAU DU NIBELUNG de Richard Wagner," a four-hand piano composition written jointly by Gabriel Fauré and André Messager. Sure enough, Argento goes to town with Wagnerian themes. His references to the Ring cycle never get further than Das Rheingold, but The Flying Dutchman, Tannhäuser, and Lohengrin all get thrown into the mix. The whole thing is a delightfully wacky comic relief from trying to puzzle out the enigmatic behavior of those seven strangers.
What are we to make of all of this? Personally, I see nothing wrong with taking the Beckett interpretation, treating the entire opera as a highly diverting means of passing the time. There certainly is never a dull moment in Newbury's staging, and he never tries to overwhelm his audience with intimations of being overly arty. On the other hand I am also inclined to go along with what is probably the most memorable couplet written by T. S. Eliot:
Oh, do not ask, "What is it?'
Let us go and make our visit.
Just think of it as an opera that evokes Stevenson, Eliot, and Beckett (oh, my!).


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ROCHESTER, MI –Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has recognized Crittenton Hospital Medical Center as one of the first hospitals in the nation to receive a Blue Distinction Center+SM designation in the area of cardiac care, as part of the Blue Distinction Centers for Specialty Care® program. Blue Distinction Centers are hospitals shown to deliver quality specialty care based on objective, transparent measures for patient safety and health outcomes that were developed with input from the medical community. This year, the national program has added a new designation level, Blue Distinction Centers+, to recognize hospitals that deliver both quality and cost-efficient specialty care.
In 2006, the Blue Distinction Centers for Specialty Care program was developed to help patients find quality providers for their specialty care needs while encouraging healthcare professionals to improve the care they deliver. To receive a Blue Distinction Center+ for Cardiac CareSM designation, a hospital must demonstrate success in meeting both general quality and safety criteria (such as preventing hospital-acquired infections) and cardiac-specific quality measures (related to lower rates of complications and death following cardiac surgery; and non-surgical procedures, such as cardiac stent placement) and, additionally, must show better cost efficiency relative to their peers. Quality is key: only those facilities that first meet Blue Distinction's nationally established, objective quality measures will be considered for designation as a Blue Distinction Center+. "Crittenton Hospital is proud to be recognized by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan for meeting the rigorous cardiac care selection criteria set by the Blue Distinction Centers for Specialty Care program," said Brian Birney, Marketing & Communications Director at Crittenton Hospital.
Cardiac related procedures such as bypass and cardiac stent insertion cost the nation more than $28 billion annually. The Blue Distinction Centers for Specialty Care program seeks to reduce this burden, by empowering patients with the knowledge and tools to find both quality and value for their cardiac care needs.
"Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan congratulates Crittenton Hospital for its excellence in cardiac care. Earning the Blue Distinction Center designation for Cardiac Care assures the community that it can rely on the high quality of cardiac care at this hospital," said David Share, M.D., senior vice president, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan.
Research shows that Blue Distinction Centers+ demonstrate better quality and improved outcomes for patients, with lower rates of complications following certain cardiac procedures and lower rates of healthcare associated infections, compared with their peers. Blue Distinction Centers+ are also 20 percent more cost-efficient for those same procedures.
Crittenton was also designated as a Blue Distinction Center+ in the Knee and Hip Replacement. The Blue Distinction Centers for Specialty Care® program is a national designation awarded by Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies to medical facilities that have demonstrated expertise in delivering quality specialty care – and has recently been expanded to include more robust quality measures focused on improved patient health and safety as well as new cost-efficiency measures.
The Blue Distinction Centers for Specialty Care program identifies hospitals delivering quality care in bariatric surgery, cardiac care, complex and rare cancers, knee and hip replacements, spine surgery, and transplants. These specialty areas comprise approximately 30 percent of inpatient hospital expenditures. For more information about the program and for a complete listing of the designated facilities, please visit bcbs.com/bluedistinction. For more information on Crittenton's Cardiovascular and Orthopedics services, please visit crittenton.com.


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Mar 15, 2010 12:55 PM
Time to git yr learnin on! Everybody Loves Coupons, of UltimateCoupons.com fame, is a blog about, what else, coupons: how to use 'em, where to get 'em, and saving serious cash with 'em. But lurking inside this unassuming blog are some surprisingly well-researched and interesting articles about the economy, seasonal trends, and our future as a society. So take a gander and then you can say, "Hey Ma! I's smart!"
Retailers and manufacturers of eco-friendly products are cashing in on the "all things green" appeal of St. Patrick's Day with sales and promotions tied into the holiday. What used to be a holiday for selling green beer and corned beef and cabbage has been put to good use by retailers now invested in earth-friendly green products ranging from organic cotton apparel to greeting cards made of recycled paper. And with sales of eco-friendly products expected to hit $300 billion in 2010, more retailers than ever are using the holiday and its green theme to promote new products.
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At this weekend's Cardinal Invite at Stanford University, Oregon senior Steve Finley had a career day to put his name atop the NCAA record books for this season.
Finley, a transfer from Virginia, ran a collegiate best time in the men's 3,000 meter steeplechase. Finley finished with a time of 8:36.98, and finished 10th behind nine professionals.
Finley's time was only two seconds away from placing him within the Oregon all-time top 10 for the event. It was also the fastest steeplechase ran by a Duck in over two decades. The time was a personal best for Finley by more than three seconds.
Look for Finley to have a great showing at the Pac-10 Championships beginning on the 13th of May.


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A handful of Bob Dylan-related items are being released this year in various formats. Below is a sampling.
Arguably the rarest of Dylan's latter day regular vinyl LP's, the multiple Grammy Award-winning release "Time Out Of Mind," is about to be reissued by Music On Vinyl. This is the 20th Dylan vinyl release on the label.
From the official website:
This is the 30th Bob Dylan album, released in 1997. Time Out of Mind is hailed as one of Dylan's best albums, and it went on to win three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year in 1998.
The album features a particularly atmospheric sound, the work of producer (and past Dylan collaborator) Daniel Lanois, whose innovative work with carefully placed microphones and strategic mixing. Sonically, the album is reminiscent of Oh Mercy, the last album Dylan recorded with producer Daniel Lanois, but Time Out of Mind has a grittier foundation - by and large, the songs are bitter and resigned, and Dylan gives them appropriately anguished performances.
Original vinyl copies of Time Out Of Mind were made in small numbers, making this official reissue a much needed one!
- 180 gram audiophile vinyl, double LP
- Sleeve : 5mm. Printed innersleeves,
The U.K. division of Simon & Schuster has announced a new, updated version of Dylan's songwriting lyrics, in both hardcover and eBook. From the official website:
- 768 pages |
- November 6, 2014 U.K./ October 24, 2014 U.S.
- List Price £30.00 / $49.95
BOOK DETAILS: This definitive collection brings together the entire catalogue of lyrics by one of the most legendary songwriters in history, Bob Dylan. From the early protest songs, like "Blowing in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a Changing" to his revolutionary "Subterranean Homesick Blues" and "Like a Rolling Stone", Dylan's music has spoken for and to generations, and influenced such artists as John Lennon, Lou Reed, and Mark Knopfler. This is the ultimate collection for any Dylan fan, and contains not only the entire Dylan canon, from the early classics to all of his most recent songs, but also in-depth commentary and annotations from literary critic and acclaimed Dylan expert Christopher Ricks.
BUY: Amazon U.S.
The first season of the hit HBO series "True Detective," starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, will be released in the U.S. on Blue-Ray and DVD on June 10. The first episode features excerpts from Dylan's interpretation of a rare, full band version of "Rocks and Gravel," most likely from a November 1, 1962, "Freewhelin'" session. According to Olof, the musicians were Dylan, Dick Wellstood (piano), Bruce Langhorne (guitar), George Barnes (guitar), Gene Ramey (bass) and Herb Lovelle (drums). The two takes recorded that day have been released in very limited editions, and are not currently in print. While some tracks from the official show website are available to buy online, the Dylan track is not included on that list. T-Bone Burnett is responsible for the show's soundtrack.
BUY: Amazon Blu-Ray
"For the Love of the Music: The Club 47 Folk Music Revival," which features otherwise unreleased audio of Dylan playing at the legendary Cambridge, Massachusetts, venue, will be "officially released" on May 13. The documentary is currently available from the film's website, but will receive wider distribution next month. Links to previous articles about the film's Dylan content are listed below.
- "THE ART OF McCARTNEY":
As previously reported, Bob Dylan has recorded a Paul McCartney song with Macca's current touring band, as part of this tribute project. The track is reportedly "Things We Said Today."
- Dylan compositions interpreted by other artists are also about the be released.
Neil Young interprets Dylan's "Girl From The North Country" on his new Third Man Records LP, "A Letter Home, out now. He also tackles material associated with Phil Ochs, Bert Jansch, Gordon Lightfoot, Willie Nelson, Tim Hardin, Ivory Joe Hunter, Bruce Springsteen, and the Everly Brothers. Young had been covering "Blowin' In The Wind" last year, and has been interpreting (and heavily borrowing from) Dylan's catalog for decades.
From the label: Third Man Records unearths Neil Young's A Letter Home. "An unheard collection of rediscovered songs from the past recorded on ancient electro mechanical technology captures and unleashes the essence of something that could have been gone forever…" —Homer Grosvenor
Dolly Parton covers "Don't Think Twice," on her upcoming album, "Blue Smoke," to be released by Sony on May 20.
BUY: Amazon
Peter Paul and Mary's 1963 album In The Wind has been remastered by Steve Hoffman and Stephen Marsh, and will be released as a stereo SA-CD by Audio Fidelity in the USA in 2014, according to Éamonn Ó Catháin, via Searching For A Gem.
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Health Reform Repeal Not Just "Waste of Time"
Jonathan Chait of The New Republic is right on the mark in a post mocking the standard congressional Democratic response to the impending "symbolic" vote on repealing last years health reform legislation. The heart of the Democratic talking points appears to be the complaint that this vote is a "waste of time" that distracts attention from the economy.
It should be obvious that this line of attack represents an implicit concession that critics were right last year when they said Democrats should shelve health reform (and for that matter, climate change legislation and DADT repeal) until the economy revives--i.e., that the federal government cannot walk and chew gum at the same time. Since it's probably going to be a good while before we are back to the levels of unemployment we had in, say, the late 1990s, if they ever return, the party of activist government should probably be wary of such arguments.
Moreover, as Chait points out, the "waste of time" claim may be displacing a much stronger set of arguments focused on the rather important fact that many components of health reform are popular:
Republicans are voting to open up the donut hole for Medicare recipients and charge them higher rates, allow insurance companies to turn away anybody whose family has a preexisting condition, and all sorts of awful things.
There's a reason Republicans robotically insisted during the health care debate that they wanted to "start over" when their real position was to do nothing. It's because doing nothing was wildly unpopular. Now they're voting for the wildly unpopular do nothing plan, stripping away the pretense of having an alternative. Why not make them pay? Disingenuous whining about how we should be focused on jobs is not the way to do that.
Couldn't agree more. Prospects for resisting the current wave of Republican policies depend very much on exposing their actual nature and consequences. This is one time and subject on which Democrats should welcome as substantive a debate as is possible.


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Nov. 25, 2013
IOWA CITY, Iowa -- On the coldest day in history inside Kinnick Stadium, the University of Iowa spirit squads (ISS) went about their business of leading and entertaining the crowd.
The record cold of 16 degrees at kickoff did not keep spirit squad from getting more than 65,000 Hawkeye fans on their feet cheering on the Hawkeyes to a 27-24 victory over Michigan.
The spirit squad was reminded throughout the week to come prepared with layers, hand warmers, toe warmers and anything else they could layer under their jackets.
The squad performed stunts, pyramids, dance routines, tumbling and crowd-worked on the sideline as they would at any other game. The extra layers changed up things slightly, but a large difference should not have been noticed by the crowd.
The crowd was into the game getting louder and louder as the game moved along. Putting up the I-O-W-A flags after each touchdown became a bit tricky as the winds howled through Kinnick, but the squad members were happy to be waving the flags, as it meant another Iowa score.
The dance team performed at halftime with the Hawkeye marching band. The "Motown Halftime Show" featured the dance team during the song RESPECT.
A little hot chocolate provided by dance coach Jennifer Eustice helped out at halftime in the locker room. Then it was back out to the cold and the second half of the game.
"The cold wasn't too terrible, until you stood still - which kept us moving and spirited," said senior cheerleader Kaitlyn Dornbier. "Part of loving the Hawkeyes is loving everything about Iowa, and to do that you've got to brave some cold every once and awhile."
"The cold couldn't keep us down." said senior Tommy Wisniewski. "It just proves how great our fans are."
See the Iowa spirit squads at all of the home men's and women's basketball games, home Iowa wrestling meets, and it will also be at a bowl game at the end of the football season.
Follow the Iowa Spirit Sqauads on Twitter at @IOWACHEER, @IowaDanceTeam, @TheREALHerky.


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What I want to prove is:
Let $U=(A_1\ldots,A_n)$ be a family of sets and let $P\subseteq A_1\cup \cdots \cup A_n$. Then $U$ has a transversal which includes the set $P$ if and only if (i) $U$ has a transversal (ii)$|P\setminus (\cup_{i\in I}A_i)|\le n-|I|$ for any $I\subseteq \{1,\ldots,n\}$.
A transversal of $U$ is a set $X$ with $|X|=n$ which can have its elements arranged in a certain order, $X=\{a_1,\ldots,a_n\}$ say,so that $a_1\in A_1,\ldots,a_n\in A_n$; in other words then $n$ distinct elements of $X$ 'represent' the $$ sets.
I think $\Rightarrow$ direction is quite easy to prove but the converse, I don't know how to start the proof.
Does anyone has any idea to prove this statement?


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A Theory of Rational Jurisprudence
Scott Baker
Washington University in Saint Louis - School of Law
Claudio Mezzetti
University of Warwick - Faculty of Social Studies
October 15, 2010
Washington University in St. Louis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-10-07
We develop a dynamic model of judge-made law, assuming judicial resources are scarce and the proper legal rule is unknown, but can be learned. Judges mechanically apply precedent in some cases to save resources. Other cases are fully investigated to reduce the chance of error. With positive probability, a rational court fails to treat like cases alike. The law converges to a mixture of efficient and inefficient rules, with the degree of inefficiency correlated with the ratio of decision to error costs. The size of each jurisprudential step depends on costs and the amount of uncertainty about the law.
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Keywords: Law and Economics, Incompleteness of Law, Judge-Made Law
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Date posted: October 26, 2010
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Begin your Dublin holidays with a bus tour of the city and take in all the great sights including City Hall, Dublin Castle, Temple Bar and Trinity College, then once you've got your bearings it's an easy walk from your Dublin hotel to the next attraction. The city is split by the River Liffey, which offers the opportunity for a romantic boat trip or a walk along the riverside and beautiful parks in the city; you can also find some great places for a relaxing al fresco lunch.
If you fancy a day at the beach during your holidays in Dublin, you could head to sandy Donabate Beach or the popular Killiney Beach down the coast. There are plenty of shops to keep you busy for hours, so head to Grafton Street or Henry Street for the best the city has to offer.
There are many museums and galleries on Dublin City breaks so don't miss the National Museum, the National Gallery and the Irish Museum of Modern Art during your Dublin holidays. A holiday in Dublin wouldn't be complete without a trip to the Guinness factory and don't forget your free pint after the tour!
St. Stephens Green is an ideal place to take a romantic picnic, stroll and people watch, with a garden dedicated to poet W. B. Yeats and resplendent flowers blooming through the spring and summer. The medieval Christ Church Cathedral features working bells, soaring nave, stained glass windows and more decorative details and is home to the archbishop of Dublin. More romantic spots are on offer in Dublin's many castles, including Dublin Castle and Malahide Castle.
Stephen's Green Shopping Centre has about one hundred shops including United Colors of Benetton, The Perfume Shop and The Donegal Shop as well as a food court. It is centrally located on Stephens Green West. For a more independent shopping experience, the Temple Bar area offers a weekly market selling food, books and clothes, or try The Cow's Lane Designer Mart in Temple Bar for unique designer pieces.
The home of the Blarney Stone itself, Blarney Castle could almost be seen as the destination of pilgrimages for those wanting the 'gift of the gab' gained from kissing the Blarney Stome according to legend. Beautiful gardens and rock formations are also available to visitors of this castle, dating from 1446. Visit the early monasteries and churches amongst the beautifully rugged countryside of the Aran Islands, or visit the Giant's Causeway, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed cluster of aroung 40,000 bassalt columns rising from the sea.
Irish history is particularly tumultuous, and events like the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Cromwell's Conquest of Ireland, Penal Laws, Easter Rising and Civil War can be seen as contributing to contemporary Irish culture as well as recent events. James Joyce is worth a mention here of course, as one of Dublin's best known authors and demonstrators of Ireland's rich literary history, especially as much of his work featured many scenes set in real life locations around Dublin.
The National Gallery of Ireland is free to enter and houses the country's greatest Irish and European art collections from between the fourteenth and twentieth centuries. George Bernard Shaw left a third of his collection to this gallery. For something more contemporary try the Irish Museum of Modern Art with regular temporary exhibitions alongside its permanent collection which includes Gilbert and George and Louise Bourgeois, as well as a bookshop and café and four outdoor trails available in the grounds.
The National Museum of Ireland is a great place to start for museums, with free entry to a wide array of artefacts relating to Archaeology, Decorative Arts and History, Country Life and Natural History. Some more specialised museums in Dublin include The National Leprechaun Museum and the National Wax Museum Plus, as well as the literary Dublin Writers' Museum.
Although Ireland may not be well known for the quality of its cuisine, this makes it all the more enjoyable when you discover how good it can be. Pearl Brasserie was awarded best fine dining restaurant in Dublin and Ireland in 2009, 2010 and 2011 and is situated in the heart of Georgian Dublin. Its maze of cosy caves and almost private dining areas provide the ideally comfortable setting in which to enjoy impressively executed dishes such as Duo of Duck Foie Gras and Fondue of Spinach with Mushroom Ravioli and Truffle Oil.
Kids will just love captain America's, with its Rock n Roll museum, lively music, cartoonish decor and visits from many Irish and International celebrities. Vegetarian options, salads and steak are available, but the real star of the show are the burgers. To contrast with this, The Hungry Monk is further away from the crowds and is a family run restaurant specialising in candlelit dinners for all the family.
Ardgillen Castle was built in 1738 and features a secret door hidden amongst the bookshelves of the library. There are two well stocked coffee shops and a variety of outdoor pursuits including nature trails and picnic facilities. Ark Children's Cultural Centre is recommended, mainly for the amount of good fun it provides. Its indoor theatre, outdoor amphitheatre, gallery and workshop host a variety of exhibitions and plays all created by children, for children.
Christchurch Hall Apartments are located in the vibrant, trendy area of Temple Bar and offer more private accommodation than a hotel, without lacking any of the service. The Morgan Hotel offers a luxurious yet chic, contemporary setting and is just a few blocks away from Trinity College, Grafton Street and shops, restaurants and nightlife. Facilities include a cocktail bar, rooftop garden and amazing outdoor spaces.
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Dublin Zoo, one of the oldest zoos in the world, and a perfect example of eco-consciousness and consideration of animal welfare. In addition, the National Sealife Centre on Strand Road, Bray, displays a commendable focus on conservation as well as children's education, and a wide variety of marine species is fascinating. Visit the Newman House and Traditional Farm to discover a cobbled farmyard with stables, hen coops, old farm machinery, plenty of varieties of animals, a huge golden coach in the stables and a Museum of Curiosities.
There is certainly no shortage of bars to visit in Dublin, in fact it may prove difficult to decide where to go first! The Church Bar and Restaurant is a tourist attraction in its own right, dubbed as Dublin's 'most unique establishment' former St. Mary's Church of Ireland which closed in 1964, and has been classified as a building of intrinsic historical interest.
The Temple Bar area is the home of a lively nightlife as well as being rich in culture and history. Gaiety, situated on King Street South, stands out from the masses of chart music clubs as by day it continues to be one of Dublin's oldest theatres, while by night the many rooms are host to bands, DJs and films, and specialises in Latin and jazz music. The Globe is notable for its celebrity spotting possibilities, and is a trendy venue featuring eclectic music, food, foreign beers and even Wi-Fi.
Dublin makes an apt and popular choice for stag and hen dos due to the number of bars and pubs, as well as the variety of group activities on offer such as cocktail mixing lessons, pampering days, go karting or clay pigeon shooting. A visit to the Guinness Storehouse would be a great idea for those partial to a bit of the black stuff, as it consists of a building designed around a pint glass and holds a retail store, exhibition space, function rooms, restaurant and two bars. A tour includes a pint of Guinness, best enjoyed from the circular Gravity bar with spectacular views over Dublin.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — On youth hockey night at a sold-out Ingalls Rink, Yale senior Evan Wax stole the show with his second four-goal performance of the season, leading the Bulldogs (11-8-0) to a 4-3 victory over the Connecticut Huskies (6-15-3). Rookie netminder Josh Gartner stopped 28 of 31 shots to earn his third consecutive victory.
"This was a positive win for us in a lot of ways," said Yale head coach Tim Taylor. "It was our fourth win outside the league (4-3), and we're on a three-game win streak, which is a nice way to finish out our nonleague schedule and head into a league homestand next weekend. But we have some things to fix, and we need to become a little tighter defensively."
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The Bulldogs — whose power play has struggled for much of the year but has shown great strides of late — capitalized on their first man advantage of the night early in the second. Chris Higgins sent a low wrister that was handled by Imbriano, but Wax was positioned outside the crease awaiting the rebound. He pulled the puck around the Husky goalie and sent it to the back of the net at the 5:57 mark to give Yale a 2-1 lead.
Wax extended Yale's lead to two late in the period. Eli center Ryan Steeves (three assists) hit his right wing on the fly outside the blue line and Wax sent a low wrister from the high slot which found its way inside the left post at 14:43, putting Yale on top 3-1.
UConn put together a late flurry in the period's waning seconds, and after stopping three of the Huskies' shots, Gartner was unable to stop D.J. Miller's puck from point-blank range with 15 seconds left in the period to pull the visitors within 3-2.
Wax picked up his fourth goal of the night in an odd sequence around the net midway through the third. Wax, Steeves, and Jensen all poked at a puck which Imbriano could not control, and Wax jarred it free and sent it across the goal line to give Yale the 4-2 lead.
"The puck was lodged between the post and a skate, and the goalie never had possession. [Jensen] poked it free and I got my stick on it to get it over the line."
Wax — who also scored four goals in a 5-4 win at Vermont early in the season — leads the squad with 15 goals, but said much of the credit should go to his linemates, Steeves and Jensen.
"They do a great job of getting the puck down low, where they know I'm going to be," Wax said. "[The success] is a reflection of who I'm playing with."
The Huskies kept it interesting moments later with Ron D'Angelo's low rocket that beat Gartner glove side at 13:15 to pull UConn to 4-3.
Gartner made several key saves down the stretch to preserve the win for Yale.
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Now we have the easter and summer holidays fast approaching, we're trying to find the best days out and as many fun things to do with kids as possible, especially cheap and free family friendly places to visit this year - theme parks, waterparks and swimming pools, museums, indoor playcentres and softplay for toddlers, petting farms, wildlife parks and zoos, aquariums, horse riding, castles, steam railways, pottery making and ceramic cafes, roller and ice skating rinks, karting tracks, snowdomes, dry and indoor ski slopes, climbing walls, activity centres, outdoor play at the best local parks, ten pin bowling alleys and all the other best family tourist attractions, that you can visit at the weekend.
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Spitzer Holds Large Lead Over Stringer in Latest Poll
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, propelled by strong support in the black community, leads Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer 56% to 37% among likely Democratic primary voters in the race for city comptroller, a poll released Wednesday showed.
According to the survey from the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, Mr. Spitzer leads Mr. Stringer among black voters (68% to 21%), among men (58% to 37%) and among women (54% to 36%). Mr. Stringer is leading among white voters, 53% to 43%.
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Last month, Mr. Spitzer drastically shook up the race for comptroller when he announced his 11th-hour candidacy. Mr. Spitzer resigned as governor in 2008 after he admitted he patronized a high-priced prostitution ring. Mr. Stringer, a former state lawmaker, aborted his plans to run for mayor last year and expected this year to run unopposed in the comptroller primary.
Supporters of both candidates say their backing is firm – 68% of Mr. Spitzer's voters and 74% of Mr. Stringer's voters say they will definitely vote for their candidate on Election Day, according to the poll.
"Everyone seems to be against former Gov. Eliot Spitzer except the voters, especially black voters," said Maurice Carroll, the polling institute's director. "Spitzer is all over the TV screens, building on his better name recognition and leaving Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer in the dust."
During the candidates' first two debates, Mr. Stringer suggested voters should not give Mr. Spitzer a second chance because of the scandal that led to his resignation and his performance in the governor's office. Mr. Stringer described Mr. Spitzer's time as governor as a "colossal failure," a charge Mr. Spitzer disputed. In turn, Mr. Spitzer accused Mr. Stringer of accomplishing nothing significant during his 20 years in government, a charge Mr. Stringer rejected.
The poll showed a majority of likely primary voters, 57%, believe Mr. Spitzer's resignation is a legitimate issue. But less than a quarter of voters believe his behavior disqualifies him from consideration. Nearly a third said Mr. Spitzer's behavior is not an issue, while 44% said it is an issue, but not a disqualifying one.
The Aug. 7-12 poll surveyed 579 likely Democratic primary voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.1 percentage points.
Mr. Stringer released on Wednesday his first television ad. Mr. Spitzer has been on the air for weeks.


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At the Shivaji Stadium in the centre of Delhi, there appeared little reason to cheer.
Hundreds of workers wearing flip-flops and singlets, loincloths and saris laboured amid the mud to complete a Herculean task.
They rushed to finish laying marble for stands, build a series of five-storey blocks and repair collapsed scaffolding.
The stadium is set to be the practice venue for hockey matches in 43 days but this week it is fit for nothing.
Just six weeks before Delhi hosts the 19th Commonwealth Games, the city is in a state of chaos. Venues that should have been completed weeks ago remain dirty, mosquito-ridden worksites; major roads are blocked by construction work and projects to landscape the city appear to have been forgotten halfway through.
Even the Games' official theme, composed by A.R. Rahman, the man who wrote Jai Ho from the movie Slumdog Millionaire, is behind schedule.
Added to this is the growing sense of panic. Amid revelations of corruption, mismanagement and refusal to follow best practice is widespread concern that the event could turn into a national embarrassment. The city's chief minister said this week she is "nervous" about the outcome.
This week, the Commonwealth Games Federation, which oversees the event, put on a brave face. At a press conference after a two-day inspection of venues for the 17 sports represented, federation president Mike Fennell said that for "all practical purposes" the venues were completed. However, there was still "a long list of detailed work to be attended to".
He listed concerns about the readiness of the Games Village, transportation, catering, landscaping, cleaning, sanitation and hygiene. There were also worries that much of the electronic equipment required by the various disciplines were not yet in place.
However, he dismissed a claim by former Australian swimmer Dawn Fraser that the event would become "another Munich", a reference to the 1972 Olympics at which 11 Israeli athletes and coaches were killed by Palestinian militants, and said he was satisfied with the security in place.
For many involved in Delhi's bid to host the event, bringing the Games to India had little to do with sport. Instead, it was an opportunity to demonstrate a nation keen to throw off the shackles of poverty and boast its economic growth rates of 8 per cent or more.
Falling after the 2008 Olympics, hosted by India's Asian rival, China, there was even more conviction that the event had to be a show-stopping success. Those who spoke out, such as former sports minister Mani Shankar Aiyar - who said he believed the money spent on the event should be used to develop sports in villages across the nation - were condemned.
The event has also suffered from a sporting perspective. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt pulled out long before his recent injury worries, the feeling being that the Games were an insufficient stage for the world's fastest man.
Heptathlete Jessica Ennis has also ended her season early. And Chris Hoy is among the many names from cycling who are choosing not to disrupt their preparations for November's European Championships, a qualifying event for the 2012 Olympics.
But if the Games fail, it will not be for lack of money.
The cost of the event was reported to have increased almost 18 times from its original budget.
The most recent prediction for the total cost of the two-week event stands at £4.22 billion ($9.3 billion). The 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester cost £300 million.
In Delhi, taxes have increased, money originally set aside to help the development of Dalit or "untouchable" groups has been diverted and slums have been bulldozed.
There are also reports that labour laws and health and safety regulations have been violated.
Moushumi Basu, of the People's Union for Democratic Rights, a civil rights group that has filed a series of court actions against the authorities, said workers had routinely been paid less than the legal minimum wage.
One worker, Bhakti Mandal, from West Bengal, labouring at the Shivaji Stadium, a venue the authorities have admitted will not be fully completed by October, said he was getting paid 3000 rupees ($92) a month to work 12 hours a day, seven days a week. By law he should have been getting double that.
Aside from workers' conditions, some of the most worrying accusations relate to corruption, a daily feature of life in India.
Earlier this year, the Government's main watchdog identified 16 Games projects in which there appeared to be financial irregularities. Three senior officials have already been suspended.
In another blow, two state-run firms have withdrawn their sponsorship as a result of the "negative publicity" stemming from the alleged corruption and mismanagement.
With the negative press that the Games have attracted and the chaotic preparations, some have wondered whether the event could be called off. That is unlikely to happen.
A more likely scenario is that there will be a final frenzy of work that will be sufficient to pull together a decent event.
It might even prove to be a success, a view expressed by many people here, including 71-year-old Babu Lal Bharti, who was certain it would be completed on time, saying: "It will be good for India, it will be good for Indian pride."


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On Tuesday, January 28, selected Macon-Bibb County commissioners were chosen to serve in the role of chairman or vice chairman to four new committees.
The first of the four new committees is the Operations & Finance Committee in which Gary Bechtel was chosen as chairman and Elaine Lucas-- the Commission's only female member -- was voted as the vice chairwoman.
Betchel, a Bibb County Republican, represents North Macon's District 1 seat and had been a member of the Bibb County Board of Education prior to winning a spot on the Macon-Bibb Commission over Democrat Harold Young.
Lucas is an East Macon Democrat who had been on the Macon City Council for two decades and is now the District 3 commissioner and had defeated Terry Tripp on October 15 to claim the seat.
On the Economic & Community Development Committee, District 2 commissioner Larry Schlesinger was chosen as chairman and West Macon's Al Tillman from District 9 was tapped as vice-chairman.
Schlesinger, who was buoyed by mostly support from Republican precincts in his special election runoff versus Henry Ficklin, won on January 14 and was recently sworn-in as the Macon-Bibb Commission's ninth and final member.
On the Public Safety Committee, Republican Scotty Shepherd from South Macon/Bibb's District 7 was chosen as chairman and former Macon City Councilman Virgil Watkins, who is now the commissioner for District 8, is vice-chairman.
Watkins had served previously as chairman of the Public Safety Committee on Macon City Council.
The fourth and final new committee is the Facilities & Engineering Committee and District 9 Al Tillman was voted to be its chairman with District 4 commissioner Mallory Jones as its vice-chairman.
Tillman had defeated James Timley on October 15 and won elected office for the first time despite being challenged over residency last year, but was able to stay on the ballot and eventually won.


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Civilians are often the first responders in maritime emergencies, as they are often closest to the stricken vessel. And that is not new. Mariners have come to the assistance of vessels in distress since man first set sail. It is the law of the sea, and all mariners must render assistance when possible if life is in jeopardy.
But that role is perhaps changing, and that presents us with interesting opportunities. The world has grown more complex, and along with that complexity is the growing need for security on all fronts to combat the ever-present threat of another terrorist attack.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is in charge of managing these threats, and its many agencies and their programs continue to evolve to better align with ever-changing situations. But should we discount the possibility of civilian involvement?
America's Waterway Watch
One initiative created by the Coast Guard, operating as it does within the larger DHS, is America's Waterway Watch (AWW), a nationwide program supported by the active-duty Coast Guard and its reserve and auxiliary units. It is similar in some ways to local Neighborhood Watch programs across the country. The maritime watch effort is all about making the public more vigilant and to heighten situational awareness around the waterways of America. By enlisting the aid of those who live, work, and play on or around the 95,000 miles of our country's shoreline, it is hoped that threats may be identified and thereby foiled. In theory it is a grand idea, having all of our citizens on the lookout for suspicious behavior on and around the water. Much like the Coast Watch effort during World War II, where citizen-volunteers patrolled the coast for U-boats, America's Waterway Watch is broader in that it asks everyone to monitor for suspicious behavior and potential threats.
What is suspicious behavior? A small boat lurking around a bridge, with video cameras in sight instead of fishing gear or men on shore taking pictures of a refinery or Navy base are examples of what this program attempts to locate. A boat rental operator, approached by men who are not dressed for boating and appear somewhat agitated, might notice this behavior as unusual compared to his normal clientele. Local watermen working their traps and pots might see a boat on the water that just doesn't feel right. A gut feeling that something isn't as it should be is not a superstition, but a useful tool. And that is the idea behind America's Waterway Watch.
The Coast Guard Reserve has been assigned to convince other government agencies and businesses to join the program, while the Coast Guard Auxiliary is responsible for building AWW awareness in the recreational boating community.
The AWW program is part of a much broader initiative, a national effort to achieve Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA). The current administration has decided this country and its global maritime partners need to become much more effective at knowing about everything in the maritime domain. This involves everyone in that domain, from pilots, merchant seamen, longshoremen, boaters—everyone. With approximately 90 percent of U.S. commerce moving by sea, to think national security is also to think globally. MDA focuses on anything that might affect our nation's security, economy, or environment.
The plan is moving ahead (at varying speeds) to get systems in place to understand everything that is happening in the maritime domain: what is being moved on the water from where, by whom, and for what purpose. It is a monumental task, indeed, and will cross all segments of the federal government and state and local agencies, and will include our allies around the world.
But this country also needs an energized private sector, which is an important part of a nation that can withstand an attack or natural disaster. The utter failure of FEMA and most other government agencies in the Katrina catastrophe, with the outstanding exception of the U.S. Coast Guard, is ample proof of that need.
One element of MDA and the point of AWW is anomaly detection. In the case of the waterway watch, when watermen, fishermen, workboat crews, and recreational boaters—people who understand what is normal in their environment—see something that is out of place, or wrong, it is vital that they realize their role and do something about it.
The Word Never Got Out
But this approach so far has been seriously flawed. I have been in the recreational marine industry for over a dozen years, and I can confidently state that few people in recreational boating know anything about AWW, its purpose, or their individual role in preventing a terrorist attack. Experienced boat owners, many of whom would jump at the chance to assist in some meaningful way, have no connection with the program whatsoever. At our publication, we received one press release about AWW several years ago, and nothing since. I attend all of the major U.S. boat shows, and if the AWW program is present at all, it is certainly lost among the crowded docks and booths.
I suspect America's Waterway Watch is another example of a good plan that was implemented without connection. And if it misses a target audience as large as the millions of recreational boaters in this country, what value do we place on the civilian role in our national security?
There has been much talk recently about building a resilient nation, one that can survive and recover quickly from an attack or other disaster. With so much focus on prevention, isn't it time to admit that no government or agency can completely prevent a terrorist attack any more than it can prevent a natural disaster? So it seems vital to develop the critical infrastructure necessary to ensure that financial, military, transportation, civil, and other services remain operational if (or when) the unthinkable happens. And the civilian role could be crucial.
I take that personally. One May evening I was having dinner with friends at the Annapolis Yacht Club in Maryland. It was after dusk, and our view of the waterfront from the third floor of the club was enchanting. My view out the window sharpened when I noticed something odd in the water, and it was moving. The Chesapeake Bay does not have whales or large animals that swim on the surface at night, and I found that most curious. What I could see was about six to eight feet long, straight and dark in the reflection from lights along the waterfront.
I asked my friends if they could see it as well. As the four of us turned to stare out the window, the object moved into the light cast from a restaurant across Spa Creek from the club. It was clearly a manmade object, a mini submarine perhaps, or maybe a SEAL delivery vehicle of some kind. But why was it here, running inside a harbor in stealth mode, clearly a hazard to other vessels in the creek? No navigation or steaming lights, no periscope, nothing but a long black shape running an inch or so above the surface. Was it associated with the Naval Academy? Or was it something else, perhaps a remotely controlled smart bomb, a surveillance drone, or a self-propelled semi-submersible (don't miss " A New Underwater Threat [8] " beginning on page 32) scoping out the downtown waterfront area? It struck me that among all of the people in Annapolis at that moment, we were probably the only people aware of this silent craft, and I wondered what we should do about it. We never did find out what it was, nor did we ever report it.
I now realize that I am precisely the person the America's Waterway Watch is all about. I had seen something unusual and it was clearly suspicious. Unfortunately, I had not connected with the program or its details, so it bothered me that I had seen something that may or may not have been important and had done nothing about it.
Is There Another Role?
Besides increasing situational awareness for anomaly detection among those in our waterway communities, is there more that can be done to engage civilians in meaningful ways? The AWW program specifically states that no one should get involved beyond notifying authorities. But does it really need to stop there?
I suggest perhaps two roles for civilian mariners with regard to our national security. First, to help detect behavior that is suspicious, and if the AWW is better promoted around the country, perhaps in cooperation with marine industry associations, that might be an effective tool for homeland security.
But the second role is to be a resource for first-responders. The Coast Guard Auxiliary is heavily involved in the training and safety of boaters, but its numbers are relatively few, and there may be a much bigger opportunity than what those civilian volunteers can offer.
A major emergency will likely be different from any other, and any plans made for such events will no doubt require constant adjustment because of the vast number of possible scenarios. As a result, first responders and their agencies will have to make on-the-spot decisions, and actions will be somewhat spontaneous. That is why training is so important.
One of the big lessons of the November 2007 Cosco Busan oil spill in San Francisco was the lack of contingency planning for effective use of civilian volunteers. The Report on Initial Response Phase in the Incident Specific Preparedness Review, published 11 January 2008, said that future National Response Team planning should include guidelines for Area Contingency Plan (ACP) communities to develop convergent volunteer sections in local ACPs.
In the case of the San Francisco plan, that might have included several volunteer wildlife groups willing and able to render assistance in oil-spill containment and wildlife rescue. Integrating the training of experienced organizations and interested volunteers into a local ACP, or regional and even national contingency plans, seems to be a valuable use of resources made available at the local level.
In addition, the National Disaster Medical System supports medical response capability in the event of a national disaster, terrorist attack, or other major event. Experienced professional and para-professional civilian volunteers can join medical, veterinary, mortuary, pharmacy, and nurse response teams to temporarily provide medical and other care services during and after a disaster.
In a maritime domain emergency, civilian participation is a subject worth consideration. Whether it is an academic question or a policy question is up to the Coast Guard. Emergency plans and mass evacuation procedures should include volunteer groups, including recommendations on how best to use and manage them. The scope of their duties would need to be determined, and proper training might require more resources than are available, given the Coast Guard's many responsibilities.
Stuck on Channel 16
Recent technology advances add a new twist to the possibility of engaging civilians in this manner. In 1992, the Coast Guard petitioned the FCC to require Digital Selective Calling (DSC) in all VHF radios sold in this country. The FCC adopted DSC and it became a requirement for all VHF radios built after June 1999.
Digital Selective Calling adds significant value to traditional VHF communications. By entering a unique maritime mobile service identity (MMSI) number that is assigned to a DSC radio station, a radio operator can use a VHF radio more like a telephone and contact other radio stations using other DSC-capable radios nine-digit MMSI number.
In an emergency, a distress button on the radio can be activated that sends out an automatic distress call to all DSC-capable radios and the Coast Guard, with GPS location information if the radio is properly installed. This service is used by the Coast Guard's Rescue 21 system, the advanced command and communications system that will greatly improve its capability for search and rescue.
Unfortunately, the Coast Guard has been slow in getting Rescue 21 fully operational. While coverage areas are increasing at the rate of one sector per month, at present just over 16,000 miles of coastline are within the Rescue 21 coverage area, and the program is several years behind schedule. When it is fully implemented in the next several years, most U.S. coastal waters will be covered, including those off the shores of Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Great Lakes, and much of Alaska.
But not unlike AWW, this service, a concept offering widespread utility, is not going to be nearly as effective if only commercial operators use it. The majority of the 70 million recreational boaters in this country know nothing about DSC, how it works, or why.
The consumer organization BoatUS recently announced it had assigned its 50,000th MMSI number, marking a milestone of sorts. To make this number real, however, I conducted a survey of the professionals I know in the pleasure boat industry who own boats, as well as all of the experienced yachtsmen and boat owners in my world. regarding their experience with DSC. The results were beyond disappointing. Half of those who owned DSC-capable radios did obtain an MMSI number but did not know what it was for or what to do with it. The rest either had purchased a DSC-capable radio but knew nothing about the MMSI number, or had older, non-DSC radios. Only one person out of 60 people had actually made a DSC call just to see how it worked.
It seems our nation is stuck on Channel 16.
The sad truth here is that, in addition to DSC's distress capability, one can use a DSC-capable radio to contact other vessels with DSC-capable radios. In terms of contingency planning, the Coast Guard could preassemble groups of MMSI numbers with a "group call" function that could contact available volunteers when an emergency develops.
Imagine a volunteer group identified within a digital selective calling network that meet some criteria of training or experience or vessel capability. The group might also include retired Coast Guard, Navy, or others with military or other relevant service. The Coast Guard could choose to contact these volunteers if they were on the water and available in a support capacity.
Whether it is technology, such as DSC VHF service on the water, or large collections of cell phone numbers from designated people who can be quickly mobilized using text messaging, it seems to be an opportunity to think about before it becomes another afterthought in a post-disaster response report.
Every Last Citizen
The many efforts to make a safer homeland, one that is truly secure and vigilant, depend on everyone. The idea of a well-regulated civilian militia was the basis for our Second Amendment. We have volunteer fire departments across the country, and amateur radio operators quickly overcome communications challenges in natural disasters. A well-educated public, with widely publicized programs to allow motivated citizens to help in the grand scheme of homeland security, is perhaps the greatest resource we have in this country.
And there is surely no better way to thwart the terrorist threat than to build a country of vigilant citizens, armed with the right tools to reach maritime domain awareness. Without them, we cannot hope to win.


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With the northern Italian town of Maranello draped in snow, Ferrari Scuderia's launch of its 2012 F1 contender - the F2012 - had to rely on the internet. It may not have had the same pizzazz, but the show did go on. Along with repositioned radiators, the most obvious change is to the rear, where exhaust flows, both engine, radiator as well as aerodynamic air flows have been impacted by the new regulations that stipulate the exhausts must now exit within a very tight space at the rear of the car in order to minimize their aerodynamic influence.Read More
Honda's much-awaited 1000cc MotoGP contender, the RC213V, was unveiled at a Repsol Honda news conference last week prior to three days of official testing at the Sepang circuit in Malaysia. The RC213V replaces its 800cc predecessor, the 2011 championship-winning RC212V, with much riding on the shoulders of Casey Stoner and Dani Pedrosa for the new season.Read More
The Vodafone McLaren Mercedes F1 team combines the strong driver pairing of Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton for the third year running in 2012, along with a substantially revised car to meet the FIA's rule changes. The most noticeable change between last year and the new MP4-27 is at the rear, where tighter rear carbon-fiber composite body shaping has been designed to meet the new-for-2012 exhaust rules, whilst smoothing airflow to and from the coolant and oil radiators.Read More
Even without taking into account Japan's recent natural disasters, Honda has struggled of late, seemingly having lost its prominence as a technology innovator. With much riding on next year's models, there was a lot of interest when Honda took the covers of the new Accord Coupe Concept at the 2012 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) recently, revealing the first official glimpse of a new styling direction, as well as revealing a host of claimed new technologies for the all-new, ninth-generation 2013 model, set to go on-sale this fall in America.Read More
So you are in holiday mode, probably lounging down at the beach or by a big open fire with the snow falling outside, depending on where you live. There's nothing on TV and you have read all the books of interest, so now what? Well, if you fancy yourself as an artist, you might like to enter a competition to design the livery for the first of the new Pipistrel Panthera aircraft and stand to take home 1,000 euro (approx. US$1,290). You have until January 10, 2012. Read More
Honda's first ever commercial aircraft, appropriately named the HondaJet, follows in the footsteps of the company's ground-breaking CB750 motorcycle and S600 sports car by aiming to provide superior performance and value - this time in the light business jet market. Continuing an intensive flight test regime to meet U.S. Federal Aviation Authority approval that began one year ago, the latest FAA-conforming test aircraft known as F2 has now begun flight testing out of the company's headquarters at Greensboro's Piedmont Triad International Airport.Read More
Australia has a new home-grown electric supercar. The recently announced Varley evR-540 is handbuilt around an aluminum monocoque chassis and powered by locally developed and engineered twin Carbon ironless core AC motors with Tritium Wavesculptor inverters claimed to be up to 95% efficient. The performance of this lightweight 2-seat mid-engine coupe is impressive - it's capable of accelerating from from zero to 100 km/h (62 mph) in 3.8 seconds and can reach a top speed of 180 km/h (112 mph), which puts it in the same league as the Tesla Roadster). Read More
German speed merchant Brabus has unveiled its latest performance vehicle - the Brabus 800 Coupe. Based on the Mercedes-Benz CL600, the 800 make-over takes the already impressive 5.5 liter V12 previously developed for the SV12 R Biturbo 800 to an eye-popping 788 hp (588kW) with 1047 ft.lbs (1420Nm) of torque.Read More
In a move that should see the humble agricultural equipment of the future both cleaner and more efficient, Oerlikon Graziano - a supplier to the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini - has come up with an innovative a range of transmissions, including a mechanical continuously variable transmission (CVT) for small tractors. Released at Agritechnica in Germany last month, these new drive-trains are claimed to provide higher road speeds and be easier to operate so that the equipment can get to its work site much quicker without the need for a float or trailer.Read More
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Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a severe, often deadly virus that affects humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, etc.). There are 5 known strains, primarily in Africa, where scientists believe certain types of bats act as hosts for the virus.
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Almost all food and supplement manufacturers are worried about their products going bad soon after they have been produced. To prevent this from happening, they often times add preservatives that will extend the use by date of the product.
Quality dietary supplements should at all times be manufactured under stringent guidelines. They fall in a category that lies in between the food and pharmaceutical industries. Quality control organizations do suggest that all supplements should clearly specify a use by date on their product label. The manufacturer should be able to assure consumers that the product will retain the quality as well as efficacy of the ingredients stated on the label until the use by date is reached.
Dietary supplements contain active ingredients. Active ingredients are the ingredients in a supplement that provide real-time value to your body. In comparison, inactive ingredients are fillers that add to the cost and bulk of the product but are not with associated with any physical benefit.
Vitamins and minerals are considered active ingredients because they can lose their potency over an extended period of time - especially beyond the expiration date.
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