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BATON ROUGE — Louisiana Citizens Property Insurance Corp.'s board is expected to approve increasing its commercial coverage rates by an average of 45.1 percent statewide this week.
Almost all of Citizens' roughly 5,700 commercial property policies are in the New Orleans area and coastal parishes. Three-quarters of those policies are wind-and-hail only, the coverage for hurricane damage.
In September, Citizens' board approved increasing the rates by 56.9 percent, but the state Department of Insurance reduced that to 45.1 percent. Citizens, the state-backed insurer for those who can't get traditional insurance, said the increase was needed so the company could buy enough reinsurance, the insurance that insurers buy to cover the damage caused by a 1-in-100-year storm.
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Definition of kinesis in English:
noun (plural kineses /-ˌsēz/)
1Movement; motion.
Example sentences
- In the end, I found it kind of unsatisfying: less overhead control than simple fiction, less interactivity than roleplaying, less kinesis than film… paid well, but it never really clicked for me and I drifted away from the contract pool.
- For its vistas and its kinesis, the western has been described as the genre most given to cinema, the cinema having emerged as the West was won and organically, so it seemed, out of the embers of actual frontier history.
- The centripetal tendency of closure merges with the centrifugal radiation of the art symbol to unify singularity with multiplicity, stasis with kinesis, and imagination with reality.
1.1 Biology An undirected movement of a cell, organism, or part in response to an external stimulus. Compare with taxis.
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- Where an aspect of the environment is highly predictable (such as the sun rising every day), very accurate anticipation can be achieved by endogenous rhythms or by simple kineses and taxes.
- Temperature preference undoubtedly is an important directing force in kineses or taxes of aquatic animals.
- Current efforts are aimed at understanding the regulation of these kineses and at identifying their substrates.
1.2 Zoology Mobility of the bones of the skull, as in some birds and reptiles.
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- A high level of skull kinesis seems to be the rule among most other diapsids.
- Details of cranial anatomy contradict a previous model of cranial kinesis by severely limiting the skull's potential mobility.
- The action of the jaws linkage during cranial kinesis is to transmit ventral jaw rotation into maxillary rotation for the purpose of protruding the premaxilla forward toward the prey.
Early 17th century: from Greek kinēsis 'movement', from kinein 'to move'.
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8.9-6 Noncompliance with DNA Sampling -- § 54-102g (i)
Revised May 10, 2012
The defendant is charged [in count __] with refusal to submit a sample for DNA testing. The statute defining this offense reads in pertinent part as follows:
any any person who (refuses to submit to the taking of a blood or other biological sample / wilfully fails to appear at the time and place specified for the taking of a blood or other biological sample) shall be guilty.
For you to find the defendant guilty of this charge, the state must prove the following elements beyond a reasonable doubt:
Element 1 - Test required
The first element is that the defendant was required to submit to the taking of a blood or other biological sample for DNA analysis. A person is required to submit to such a test after being convicted of certain crimes, including <insert appropriate crime>. The defendant is alleged to have been convicted of <insert crime>. To be "convicted" of a crime means that a finding of guilty has been entered against a defendant in a criminal or motor vehicle case.1
Element 2 - Refused to submit
The second element is that the defendant
In summary, the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 1) the defendant was required to submit to the taking of a blood or other biological sample for DNA analysis, and 2) (he/she) (refused to submit to the test / wilfully failed to appear for the test).
If you
unanimously find that the state has proved beyond a
reasonable doubt each of the elements of noncompliance
with DNA sampling, then you shall find the defendant
guilty. On the other hand, if you unanimously find
that the state has failed to prove beyond a reasonable
doubt any of the elements, you shall then find the
defendant not guilty.
1 The state must prove that the defendant qualifies for the appropriate status, but not the underlying applicable predicate. The court should inquire whether the parties are willing to stipulate that the defendant had been convicted of the relevant offense. The statute also applies to defendants who have been found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect of certain crimes. Tailor this element accordingly.
The statute requires DNA testing of defendants convicted of certain crimes and criminalizes the refusal to submit to such a test. Tailor the instruction to the particular status of the defendant.


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VAIL, Colorado - Lots of people get credit for Vail, but if it wasn't for George Caulkins, there might not be a Vail.
"No one deserves more credit than George Caulkins," said ski filmmaker Warren Miller. "Even on that one day the first winter when Vail only sold six lift tickets, George still believed in Vail."
Money makes things happen, and if you're trying to find money, you look where it is. Caulkins needed to look no further that his circle of friends, which included an elite group of celebrities, socialites and businessmen. Sometimes he'd drop a name, just to see what would happen.
A close friend once whispered that mentioning so many famous people might create problems.
Caulkins' eyes sparkled and he answered, "You're right. That's what the Duke of Windsor told me."
"The world's best salesman was George Caulkins. George persuaded the young and beautiful Ellie to marry him after only two dates," said Stanley Rumbaugh Jr., who bought into Vail in 1963. "I felt obligated as George's best man to purchase one $10,000 unit. I only wish I had felt more obligated. Without George's salesmanship and friends, Vail would not be in existence."
Putting together Vail's original partners was a little like putting together a band. You know a guy who knows a guy and, before you know it, music happens.
By now, the story is familiar. In March 1957, Earl Eaton took Pete Seibert to the top of a nameless mountain.
Later that year, Pete got together with Jay Robert Fowler, an attorney in Denver. They got together with John Conway, who put together the deal to buy the 500-acre Hanson Ranch in the Gore Creek Valley. Jack Tweedy and George Caulkins got involved. Harley Higbie and Keith Brown were working with Caulkins in the oil industry and joined the fun.
They calculated it would cost $1 million to put Vail together, and someone would have to raise it.
Tweedy turned to Caulkins and said, "George, you've been raising money for the oil business."
So Caulkins, Brown and Higbie created Caulkins Securities Company to raise the money.
Seibert joined Caulkins on the road. Armed with an 8mm projector, a movie about Vail - which did not yet exist - and their powers of persuasion, off they went in Caulkins' Porsche.
Caulkins' first stop was Wall Street, where he hit some bumps in the road.
"In 1960, a ski area in the Rockies had no appeal, particularly on Wall Street," Higbie said. "He went to his buddies in New York and was turned down flat. It looked pretty bleak, trying to raise money for this crazy idea."
Caulkins was a man with imagination and could accept risk, traits he'd soon need.
By March 1962, they'd raised 70 percent of their $1 million. Seibert was agitating to get bulldozers working right away.
Caulkins approached a few of the wealthy investors, such as John Murchison, Moose Taylor, Cort Dietler and Chris Chenery, and told them he would buy five extra units if each of them would buy additional units. They bought them.
And that, young people, is how construction started on time.
Building a ski resort from the ground up meant an overall town plan and designing the basic infrastructure.
It's one thing to build a ski area and quite another to run it. Caulkins loaned Vail Associates some of the top hands from his Caulkins Oil Company help while the corporate team was being put together.
"It is very doubtful that Vail would be here today had it not been for George. He really did change our world," Brown said.


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Not that long ago, finding a diesel car or truck - a truck with fewer than 18 wheels, anyway - on an American highway was about as rare as an icy road in July. Not so today. The era of dirty, smelly and noisy diesel vehicles has gone the way of the 8-track tape player, clearing a path for high-profile and increasingly popular diesel sedans, SUVs and pickup trucks.
- Fueling great mileage: One of the main advantages of diesel vehicles is their excellent fuel economy. Diesel fuel costs about 7 percent more than gasoline at the pump, but it can take a car or truck much farther down the road. On average, a vehicle running on diesel fuel gains 30 to 35 percent in fuel efficiency over a vehicle running on traditional gasoline. Diesel fuel has a greater amount of energy per gallon than gasoline, says Neil Hoff of CHS, a company that produces diesel fuel for fleet operations across the country. This is why a diesel car can average closer to 50 mpg on the highway.
- Responding to demand: Though long popular in Europe, diesel vehicles have not yet enjoyed widespread popularity in the United States. However, American automakers are taking a cue from consumers who desire an alternative to gasoline-fueled cars. For example, Chevrolet has introduced its 2014 Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel, a compact car that boasts 46 mpg on the highway; and the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee diesel claims to drive up to 730 miles on one tank of gas. Other companies, including Volkswagen, Audi, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche all offer diesel varieties that carmakers hope consumers will warm to. Trucks are not left out of the equation, with diesel pickups available from Chevrolet/GMC, Ford and Ram.
- Powered by technology: Diesel engines, too, have undergone great advances, such as high-pressure injection technologies that promote engine health and longevity. "Diesel engines have come a long way in the past decade and are certainly more marketable than they used to be," Hoff said.


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Local chef Kim Nelson gets another 'Taste' of reality TV
Published: Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 17, 2013 at 8:43 p.m.
Kim Nelson has been the owner of Daisy Cakes in Spartanburg since 2009. Before then, she had done just about everything in the food industry.
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What: Kim Nelson of Daisy Cakes on "The Taste"
When: 8 p.m. Tuesday
Network: ABC
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Her business, which she started with her mother, is known for making everything from scratch, including the packaging.
After she won an investment of $50,000 on the reality TV show "Shark Tank" in 2011, Nelson's business has been booming.
Now she is set to appear on the upcoming ABC reality cooking show "The Taste" at 8 p.m. Tuesday on ABC. Nelson calls her time on the show last September "an incredible experience."
"The Taste" has four judges, including celebrity chefs Nigella Lawson and Anthony Bourdain of "No Reservations," who taste food while blindfolded, keeping the personalities of the 60 contestants out of the equation. Those who are selected join a team of four who are mentored by each judge, with teams competing against one another for the rest of the season.
"It's like 'The Voice,' " Nelson said, referring to the popular musical competition show on NBC, "but with food!"
She actually stumbled into auditioning for the show while she was in New York last summer talking about "Shark Tank." She heard about a casting call through a mailing list she didn't even realize she was on, and she immediately ran to the nearest Whole Foods to buy grits for her "famous" shrimp and grits.
After her audition, she got a call back that night.
"I was told I needed to prepare for a four-week trip to Los Angeles," she said, "just in case."
Whether she made the cut on "The Taste" remains to be seen. The two-hour premiere on Tuesday and the second episode on Jan. 29 will cover the audition process, with teams formed by the third episode.
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NC doctors sue state over Medicaid payment delays
Published: Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 11:40 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 11:40 a.m.
RALEIGH, N.C. — A group of North Carolina doctors filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday seeking millions of dollars in damages from the state and its contractors over flawed computer programs that severely delayed Medicaid reimbursements.
The lawsuit alleges that managers at the Department of Health and Human Services and its contractors Computer Sciences Corporation, Maximus Consulting Services and SLI Global Solutions were negligent in the launch of NCTracks. The $484 million computer system is intended to streamline the process of filing Medicaid claims and issuing payments.
The N.C. Medical Society, which represents about 12,500 physicians and physician assistants in the state, issued a statement saying that the organization strongly supports the lawsuit. The listed plaintiffs in the case are doctors from Wake, Cumberland, New Hanover, Nash, Halifax and Robeson counties. As class-action, lawyers for the group say more than 70,000 medical providers in the state suffered harm and could be entitled to damages.
NCTracks has inflicted real damage on Medicaid patients and providers across the State for the last seven months," said Robert W. Seligson, the Medical Society's chief executive officer. "We understand, from our own tireless efforts to help our members overcome the system defects, that legal action may be the only remaining option to remedy the harm to the Medicaid system and get NCTracks to function as advertised."
The complaint filed Thursday alleges that the July 1 launch of NCTracks was a "disaster" and that the software was riddled with more than 3,200 errors. The problems led to delays of weeks and sometimes months before medical providers and hospitals received payment, forcing some businesses to take out loans to meet payroll. Some doctors say they were forced to stop treating Medicaid patients because of the delays.
"We're filing on behalf of health care providers, but we're also serving the low-income Medicaid recipients of North Carolina that rely on these providers to receive care," said Knicole Emanuel, one of the lawyers who filed the lawsuit. "Since these providers have experienced financial hardship due to NCTracks, many of them are no longer able to serve the state's most vulnerable population of health care consumers."
DHHS spokeswoman Julie Henry for the state agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the lawsuit.
Seligson described NCTracks as a "poorly tested, defective and very expensive software product."
"The resulting problems for the State of North Carolina and its citizens have no doubt been a huge challenge for the DHHS and required additional resources that the department was not expecting to incur. So far none of us received what we were promised," Seligson said.
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DOVER, Del. -- A Bay Area man said Friday he was shocked to learn that his wife's cremated remains had been found inside a decrepit former funeral home, 35 years after she and more than 900 others died in a suicide-murder in Jonestown, Guyana.
Maud Ester Perkins was 28 when she and her then-7-year-old son died in 1978 at the Peoples Temple settlement led by Jim Jones. Her husband, Irvin Ray Perkins of Antioch, told The Associated Press on Friday that at the time he had tried to determine what happened to his wife's remains without success.
All 911 bodies had been taken to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, home to the U.S. military's largest mortuary. About a half dozen local funeral homes helped prepare the bodies and return them to relatives over the course of several months, though many remains were never claimed.
More than 400 were buried in a mass grave at an Oakland cemetery, while the rest were either cremated or buried in family cemeteries.
"There was so much chaos. ... I never got a chance to get hold of anybody who knew anything exactly, so I just sort of backed off," said Perkins, who recalled being told that somebody would get back with him.
"Somebody just got back to me 37 years later," said Perkins, now 64, who described his late wife as a "wonderful wife and a beautiful person."
Perkins said he had planned to join his wife and son at Jonestown but never got chance.
"Twenty days later, I would have been there," he said.
Perkins still doesn't know what happened to the remains of his son but suspects they may have been among the unidentified remains buried at East Oakland's Evergreen Cemetery in 1979.
Perkins is planning to make arrangements with Delaware authorities to have his wife's remains shipped to him. He plans to place her remains on his mantle.
"I don't have the money to come out there," said Perkins, who spoke Thursday with James Patton, an investigator with Delaware's Division of Forensic Science.
Patton did not respond to an email message Friday. State officials have refused to publicly identify those whose remains were found because relatives were still being notified. However, an email from state officials indicated that the remains of Maud Perkins and two others had been claimed by relatives.
Perkins joined a singing group called The Misfits at the Jonestown settlement, said fellow Misfits member Laura Johnston Kohl, who survived the massacre because she was in Guyana's capital that day.
"She was beautiful, elegant, always stylishly dressed and everything, always a great mom for her son," Kohl said. "Very snappy, direct, not laid back. She didn't mince words. ... She was one of those people who was completely honest in every setting."
Delaware investigators trying to reach family members sent Kohl a list of all nine victims this week. Kohl said she remembers all of them.
"Everybody in Jonestown knew everybody," Kohl said.
Four were from the Bay Area and five from Southern California, she said. All were adults: eight women and one man.
How they ended up at the funeral home and not at the Oakland mass grave is unclear, but Kohl said the massacre was a "totally overwhelming event and people didn't know how to cope."
"There are a lot of mysteries around this group. They are just a lot of mysteries that have to be resolved," Kohl said.
Officials said Thursday that 38 containers of cremated remains were discovered inside the funeral home building, and that 33, including those of the Jonestown victims, were clearly marked.
Jim Jones led the Peoples Temple in San Francisco in the early 1970s. As allegations of wrongdoing mounted, he moved the settlement to Guyana, with hundreds of followers.
On Nov. 18, 1978, on a remote jungle airstrip, gunmen from the group ambushed and killed U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan of California, three newsmen and a defector from the group. All were visiting Jonestown on a fact-finding mission to investigate reports of abuses of members.
Jones then ordered his followers to drink cyanide-laced grape punch. Most complied, although survivors described some people being shot, injected with poison, or forced to drink the poison.
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ELIZABETH - School in Wirt County was disrupted for about an hour Wednesday as officials reacted to a bomb threat.
Wirt County Schools Superintendent Dan Metz said the high school was evacuated for about an hour Wednesday as officials investigated a bomb threat.
"We were made aware of a bomb threat that was directed toward the high school," Metz said.
Wirt County Sheriff Keith Wilson said the threat was by note found by a student who turned it over to a teacher.
The superintendent said school officials followed procedure and evacuated the high school. Parents were notified of the situation through the rapid call system. Emergency officials responded to the scene, including a bomb dog brought in from Parkersburg. The school was cleared and students returned to classes just after 12:30.
Metz praised emergency crews for their response.
"Our law enforcement, at times, gets beat up. The state police and local sheriff's department did a tremendous job on it."
Metz said officials have a young person they believe is responsible for the threat.
"And the police are dealing with the issue," he said.
Wilson said the investigation is still being conducted by the Wirt County Sheriff's Office, with the assistance of the West Virginia State Police to locate all parties involved.
"We have been conducting interviews and do have suspects," he said.
A 16-year-old female was suspended by the county board of education in January for a bomb threat to the school system in December. Metz said the student responsible for Wednesday's threat can also expect adjudication from the board of education.
"We will take this to the board for expulsion for this student," he said. "We are not going to tolerate it. The community won't tolerate it."
Wilson said the girl from the previous incident was charged with a felony and is now serving her sentence in a juvenile facility in the state.


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Richard "Dick" Turgeon packed a lot of living into his 91 years.
When he died last November, his obituary noted his work as a logger and a construction manager as well as his military service and his community involvement. He also was a devoted family man and a constant tinkerer and never were those two parts of his character more on display than in Fulford - the abandoned mining camp located in the shadow of New York mountain that spoke to Turgeon's soul.
While he was born in South Dakota, Turgeon saw the world during World War II when he was stationed in Guadalcanal, India, Alaska, Australia and Hawaii. He returned to his home state when the war was over and one of his employment experiences is the stuff of Turgeon family legend. As the story goes, he was working for the town of Pierre, S.D., and one week the community resources couldn't cover payroll.
"They didn't pay him because the town didn't have any money, so he turned off the electric power," said son Rick Turgeon. "The mayor came down and said 'I need the power' and dad said, 'I need my paycheck.'"
Turgeon married his wife, Frances, in 1947 and the couple would eventually celebrate 60 years together. In 1949, the couple left their home state behind and Turgeon went to work on a logging and sawmill operation in Fulford. The work didn't last, but his time in the area lead to a lifelong love for Fulford.
During the 1950s and 1960s, the Turgeon family - which included daughters Betty, Eileen and Margie along with son Rick - lived in Denver where Turgeon worked construction jobs. But the family made frequent trips to Fulford where they built a cabin. The Turgeon kids fondly remember countless trips where they would load up the car right after their dad got home from work. Sometimes it was a bit of work to get to the cabin and even more work to get home to Denver. One particular Thanksgiving weekend, the family had just arrived via Jeep when snow started falling.
"Dad started building something and we didn't know what it was. It was a snowplow for the front of the Jeep. He knew we were going to get snowed in," said Margie. "Still, it took us eight hours just to get to Yeoman Park."
"During the summer, we came over about every weekend," Rick said. Even during the summer, that was no small feat, as the family had to travel over Loveland Pass in those pre-tunnel years. They often towed one contraption or another, built by their dad for installation at Fulford. The most memorable trip of all involved the transport of a six-foot tall waterwheel.
"He strapped it on the top of the car to bring it up here," said Margie. "I remember I would not get in that car. I thought we were going to die."
Once he got both the kids and the equipment to Fulford, Turgeon had limited success with his handiwork. "We got it up there and got it in the creek," said Rick. "But I don't think there was enough water to push it consistently."
Turgeon was undeterred. He continued tinkering and eventually built a hydroelectric system that provided electricity to his cabin.
The Turgeons moved to the area permanently in 1969, purchasing a strip of land that included a number of cabins located on the east side of U.S. Highway 6, just south of the railroad tracks in Gypsum. Eventually the property would become commonly known as "Turgeonville."
Turgeon was an active member of the Gypsum community, serving on the town council and the sanitation district board of directors. He was a member of the Eagle County Planning Commission for nine years. Turgeon worked as a carpenter and helped build several of the original structures in Vail. In 1979, he was on the job when he fell off a three-story building.
"He broke everything except his right arm," said Eileen.
Today his children marvel at that story.
"He was up on a roof at 59 years old," said Margie. "And he remembered the helicopter ride and the ambulance ride from the helicopter pad to the hospital in Denver."
Turgeon spent 10 days in intensive care, but even before he was loaded onto the Flight for Life, medical personnel advised his family members to tell him their good-byes. Those folks did not account for Turgeon's toughness.
He returned to the Vail Valley Medical Center for later recuperation and Rick recalled that he critically watched crews at work on the hospital from his bed. After the accident, Turgeon spent two months in a full body cast.
What does a 60-year-old man living with the aftereffects of a catastrophic accident do for his retirement? In Turgeon's case, he decided to move to Fulford full time.
Frances and Dick lived in the remote area for a decade. They saved several people who had lost their way or fallen victim to the elements. Turgeon also looked out for the town, keeping watch on other people's cabins.
One winter, someone made away with one of his two snowmobiles and Dick and Frances loaded up on their other machine and followed the tracks to a nearby cabin. Turgeon walked right up to the offender and confronted him.
"He told the man 'Don't be stealing from people and don't be breaking into cabins,'" said Margie. Luckily the offender was not armed and he took his scolding before accompanying Turgeon down the hill.
Eventually the Turgeons were no longer able to maintain full-time residence in Fulford and in 2005 they moved to Wichita, Kan., to live with daughter, Betty. Frances passed away shortly after the move.
As they think about their father, the Turgeon children remember how he never threw away anything and how he was constantly building something. They remember a gregarious guy who nonetheless opted to live in a remote locale.
"He was just fun, and he helped people but he didn't take any guff," said Eileen.
Rick noted that not long after his dad died, a woman came up to him and offered a great testament to Dick Turgeon. "She told me, 'I've always said that when I grow up, I want to be just like your dad.'"


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Discover the exotic plants and animals unique to the rainforests of northern Queensland, Australia.
The wet tropics of northern Queensland are the last remaining part of the huge forest that once dominated half of Australia. This lush landscape is home to species like cassowaries, parrots, pythons, possums, tree kangaroos, and primitive-looking reptiles, many of which live nowhere else in the world.
On this expedition, you'll explore lowland rainforests, spectacular mountains covered in cooler upland rainforests, beaches, and coral habitats just off the shore. You'll investigate changes in the climate and landscape and what they mean for species in the area while trying your hand at a variety of research techniques, including bird surveys, lizard surveys, frog surveys, and nocturnal wildlife spotting.
You may join this expedition for one or two weeks. Both weeks will be spent at different long-term monitoring sites in the wet tropics depending on the scientist's research needs. You will be staying at a beautiful campsite near the monitoring site in a stunning rainforest setting, surrounded by unique Australian species. In your spare time, you can swim in isolated rainforest streams and explore the forest trails, or take an excursion to the Great Barrier Reef.
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Sixty percent of rainforest species could become endangered or critically endangered during the course of this century.
Join researchers in investigating the global impact of climate change on tropical rainforests, using Australia's wet tropics as an example.
Preliminary studies examining the predicted impacts of global warming on the wildlife of the Australian tropical rainforests suggest that climate change could bring about catastrophic extinctions here, and by implication, in mountain systems around the world. For example, based on an average prediction for climate change, 60% of all rainforest species could become endangered or critically endangered during the course of this century. The situation for the 73 species of vertebrates that are found here and nowhere else in the world is even bleaker—50% are likely to become extinct in the same time period.
Collect vital data which will be used to build a better understanding of the effects of climate change.
As temperatures warm, animals living in "islands" of cooler mountaintop habitat will be forced ever higher until they run out of mountain. Other rainforest life may be restricted from shifting their range due to barriers from land clearing, roads and fences, weeds, or feral animals. Preparing to conserve rainforest biodiversity in the face of these enormous changes will require a deeper understanding of the current ranges and populations of forest creatures. As a volunteer, you'll help measure the distribution and abundance of animals in the unrivaled Wet Tropics World Heritage Area and help shape the scientific response to climate change.
Australia's Wet Tropics World Heritage Area in northeastern Queensland includes mountain ranges covered with rainforests, coral reefs, beautiful beaches, and lowland tropical rainforests. The vegetation ranges from dry savanna dominated by eucalypts to moss-draped mountaintop rainforests. The spectacular biodiversity and scenery of the region make it a world-class destination.
The rainforests are the remnant of a huge forest that once dominated the whole region. Recently the rainforests have been subjected to selective logging, clearing, and fragmentation, primarily on the Atherton Tableland and the coastal lowlands. Despite these impacts, most of the upland rainforests are now completely protected and is in relatively pristine condition.
The wet tropics has the highest animal diversity in Australia, with cassowaries, bowerbirds, parrots, cockatoos, pythons, rainforest dragons, and frogs so small that an adult male will fit onto your fingernail.
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You'll survey a wide variety of animals in this wildlife-rich ecosystem. Help researchers:
A typical day will start with some volunteers getting up before dawn, eating breakfast, and conducting bird surveys. Other volunteers will get up later and prepare equipment for the day's activities. Late afternoons are unscheduled to allow you to rest or swim before dinner.
You'll get to try all of the research activities, which will ensure an interesting and varied experience with encounters with a wide variety of animals and habitats. You'll have ample time for relaxation, exploration, photography, and recreation, such as swimming in a rainforest pool.
We need to determine which species, habitats and ecosystems will be most vulnerable to climate change.
Join Professor Williams in the beautiful Wet Tropics of Northern Queensland.
Earthwatch researcher Professor Steve Williams investigates the impact of climate change on the wildlife and habitats of Australia's Queensland Wet Tropics.
Crystal Cascades Holiday Park in Cairns is located in a rainforest with a mountainous backdrop. Amenities are spacious and modern, featuring four-person cabins with bathrooms. While at South Johnstone Forestry Camp, Kingfisher Lodge, and Shipton's Flat camp, you'll sleep in individual tents. South Johnstone has a beautiful creek running past the campground with fresh, clear water that is ideal for swimming. Shipton's Flat is in a lush, shady setting along a creek about 15 minutes from Black Mountain. The Kingfisher Lodge campground is at the base of the Carbine Range in a beautiful spot for bird-watching.
A wide variety of fresh foods will be available throughout the expedition. Volunteers will assist with meal preparation and clean-up on a rotational basis. There are a number of local pubs and restaurants close by.
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Robert Bender | Wednesday, September 02, 2015
It is a beautiful place to camp and do transects, swim and ramble. The staff were terrific - Nadia's bird call recognition skills are amazing. Dawn bird call walks, nocturnal spotlighting for frogs, reptiles, possums, afternoons in the stunningly beautiful forest pools - all leave vivid memories. The research is really absorbing - mapping elevation limits of rainforest fauna to anticipate adaptation to rising temperature bands. Rock-hopping at Black Mountain for the Carlia skink was great fun. Food was excellent and varied, the team was a delight to work with and chat with, and there were so many little incidentals like tiny insect nymphs, the daily wrestles of a pair of skinks near out tents, stunning dragonflies, nighttime bonfires, Steve's Powerpoint lecture. All very satisfying if it wasn't chronicling an approaching ecological disaster.
Organisation of the expedition was very efficient and well-managed, all the staff very approachable and treated us as equals, so we all were turned into good data-collectors quite fast.
I returned home with many photos of fungi, scorpions, frogs, spiders, far too many cane toads, a wonderful amethystine python, the smoking ceremony by the local Aboriginals, buttress roots of tropical trees, butterflies, dragonflies and my daughter (doing a PhD on literature, adapting beautifully to a project so far outside her normal experience.
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Final Cut Pro is the King! I find it curious that so many films are edited in FCP and then sent to an Avid for finishing. I use Final Cut Pro everyday.
This is THE reason I bought my first Mac last year.
Kicks the pants off every other editing program I've come across, including Avid Media Composer.
I taught myself Final Cut Pro 2 on a G4 running MacOS 9. As crashy and cranky as it was then, the sheer good design of the program shone through. In version 4, it really came into it's own. 5 just kicks ass.
Maybe it's because this was my first real editing system, but when I'm working it's like an extension of my hands. Whereas with Avid, I constantly have to fight it and pander to the program's archaic, modal design.
Final Cut Pro for the win! (And Express isn't half bad either.)
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Oops! Payne Skate Park gear wasn't stolen after all
Published: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 3:43 p.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 6:25 p.m.
SARASOTA - You know that stolen skateboarding stuff that shut down Payne Skate Park? Well, the hunt for the thief is over.
The $560 supply of boards and decks spent the past week in the storage room of the Sarasota Police Department.
And the skate park staff's idea — that a thief signed for the gear using the name "Hertznotz" and made off with the goods — was off.
Way, way off.
Instead, UPS last week accidentally delivered the package to the Sarasota Police Department across the street from the park. A volunteer with a name similar to Hertznotz signed for it and added the boards to a delivery pile in a storage room, Capt. Paul Sutton said.
In the meantime, the case of a mistaken address has been a major downer for skaters.
Coach Dan Giguere, the director of the cash-strapped nonprofit Sk8Skool, shut down the park Sunday, holding the ramps and rails hostage until whomever took the holiday shipment of equipment returned it.
Giguere faced harsh backlash from many skaters — and even some of their parents — who posted on the park's Facebook page, calling his response out of line.
The coach said he was doing what he thought was best for the park. He was surprised to hear Tuesday that the police had received everything.
"Awesome," Giguere said.
The park will reopen Wednesday afternoon, weather permitting.
Mike Walling, who runs Sk8Skool's shop, said Monday that UPS was investigating what happened.
The sleuthing led them to the police station Tuesday, where they picked up the package to return it to the rightful owners, Sutton said.
If the goods had not turned up, Walling said, Sk8Skool would have filed criminal charges with police across the street.
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Serious. These medicines may interact and cause very harmful effects. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
How the interaction occurs:
Ceftriaxone and calcium may bind together in your blood.
What might happen:
The ceftriaxone-calcium compound may form a precipitate in your blood, which may damage your kidneys, lungs, or gallbladder. The risk of damage to the kidneys and lungs is greatest in children less than 28 days old.
What you should do about this interaction:
Let your healthcare professionals (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) know right away that you are taking these medicines together. Your doctor may change your medicine while you are taking ceftriaxone.Your healthcare professionals may already be aware of this interaction and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop, or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
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Poll: New Jersey Residents Skeptical of Bridge Scandal Review
New Jersey residents are skeptical that an internal investigation into the George Washington Bridge lane closures was unbiased and instead tend to think it had political purposes, according to a new poll.
The report released last week was conducted by attorneys with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP hired by Gov. Chris Christie in January. The firm is representing the Christie administration in response to investigations launched by federal prosecutors and a state legislative committee into the lane closures and was hired to conduct the report.
The attorneys found that Mr. Christie wasn't involved in orchestrating the lane closures, and cleared his current senior staff from being involved or helping to cover them up.
A Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press Poll of 803 New Jersey adults released Wednesday found that 30% of those surveyed felt that the report was fair and unbiased, while 52% thought it was done to help Mr. Christie's reputation.
The report also doesn't appear to have helped Mr. Christie's popularity. Among those who had heard about the Gibson Dunn investigation, 46% disapproved of the governor's job performance and 47% approved of it. Of those who haven't heard of the report, 56% approved of the governor and 34% disapproved.
"It's possible we could see a negative impact on Christie's rating as more New Jerseyans become aware of the report's contents," said Patrick Murray, director of the Monmouth University Polling Institute.
The poll also found that Mr. Christie's popularity has stabilized in New Jersey after dropping when the bridge scandal broke in January. The survey found that 51% approved of the governor's work, and 41% disapproved, slightly better than in February but lower than the December figures.
When asked about Gibson Dunn's work last week, Mr. Christie said the firm can handle both roles for the administration fairly, and letting them do both allowed the investigation to get underway quickly.


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- Will accommodate all late model RV awnings including electric, as long as the diameter of the rolled up awning, including fabric is between 3.65" and 4.25"
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|Logitech Vid HD, Video and Photo Capture
|Has Tilt
|Compatible Devices
|Laptop, PC
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|1.21 m
|Has Night Vision
|Part Number
|Built In Microphone
|Model Id
|Has Pan
|Model Name
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|Video Calling - 640 x 480 pixels, Fluid Crystal Technology, Logitech Vid HD Software Enhances Video Capture to HD Resolution
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|Manufacturing Defects, DOA
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|Year: 2
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|Hard Drive
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|Internet Connection, For the Best Video-calling: Dual-core CPU with 1 GB RAM, Broadband Internet with 256 kbps Upload or Higher
|1 GHz (1.6 GHz Recommended)
|Video and Image
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|Sensor Type
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It's the holidays, which mean families are gathering in one another's homes. If you would like to give your guests a little special treatment, take these simple steps to ramp up your hosting cred. It doesn't take much to transform an unpersonal guest room into a luxurious, eco-friendly retreat.
1. Lux Linens: Nothing makes us feel more comfy and pampered than sleeping and bathing in luxury. Before guests arrive, wash a set of high-threadcount organic sheets and put them on the bed. I like to wash my nicest set of sheets for guests and use an older pair of sheets on my own bed to make guests feel a little pampered. If you need to purchase a new set of sheets, opt for organic cotton such as those from Earthsake (pictured), Shepherd's Dream or CozyPure. Also make sure your guests have plenty of pillows and blankets—it's always better to have extra than to wake up chilly in the middle of the night in an unfamiliar environment. And if you have a spare set of slip-on house slippers, set them next to the bed for a cozier wake-up. Finally, make sure your guests have their own bath towels so they don't feel they have to ask permission to jump in the shower.
2. Air Aware: Little-used guest rooms can sometimes get stuffy. If you have a portable air filter, run it in the guest room for a few hours or a day before guests arrive. Otherwise, if the weather isn't too cold, turn on a fan and open windows a crack to air out the room a few hours before guests' arrival. If you live in a dry climate and have a portable humidifier, put it in the guest room to help guests breathe easier. If it's cold, also give them access to a space heater if you have one. Finally, liven up guest quarters while guests are staying by moving a couple of houseplants into the space.
3. Treats for Sweets: Give guests a little extra love to let them know you are happy to have them in your home. A little container of aromatic bath and shower salts, a box of fair trade chocolates or a travel-size bottle of your favorite organic lotion will make your guests know they are special to you. (Divine Chocolates Dark Chocolate Covered Salted Fudge pictured; find a listing of fair trade chocolate brands here.)
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"The Serpent of Venice" by Christopher Moore (William Morrow, $26.99, 336 pages) Shakespeare never envisioned Othello and Shylock popping in and out of each other's plays, but those characters -- along with Iago, Cassio, Brabantio and a bunch of other guys whose names end in "o" -- come face to face in Christopher Moore's latest merry mashup. Narrated by Pocket, the wisecracking hero of Moore's "Fool," the novel spins Shakespeare's "Othello" and "The Merchant of Venice," with bits of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado," into a relentlessly punning, side-splitting farce. Moore, hip to the history and humor of Shakespeare's language, makes it all work. He will read from the book May 14 at Kepler's Books in Menlo Park.
"Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues" by Joel Selvin (Counterpoint, $25, 320 pages) Remember "Twist and Shout"? How about "Piece of My Heart?" Those iconic rock songs, and many others, were composed by songwriter and record producer Bert Berns. In this fascinating new biography, longtime San Francisco music critic Joel Selvin tracks Berns' rise to power at Atlantic Records, his shady associations with the Mafia, his often contentious work with top artists and the factors that led to his death at the young age of 38. It's a detailed insider's look at 20th-century music.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The escapes at the Augusta YDC came hours after 18-year-old Michael Everidge was sentenced for a deadly beating inside the facility's walls last year.
Now, as one investigation ends, another begins. Since last year, Everidge's mother has blamed the adults watching over the kids.
"Just like they know it, I know it, this place needs to be shut down," said Keiondra Everidge.
It's just starting to sink in for Everidge that her son will be 35 years old when he is out of prison.
"It's just the fact of hearing 17 years that just really crushed me," she said.
But, just as that news set in, she got this one, "I understand that these kids broke out, but what was the reason that they broke out? What's going on back there that these kids feel like they have to get away from there?" she asked.
Dawn Cartwright, sister of Michael, told News 12, "It's not even been a year yet since Jade died and Michael was charged with this charge and then you have this happen? I can see one kid ... but five?"
Everidge and her sister blame the guards. You'll remember that following the death last November, state officials made a clean sweep. They replaced the director with a team of three, Gov. Nathan Deal appointed a new state leader and more than a dozen employees were fired or suspended just at Augusta's YDC.
"If this is a safe environment and this is somewhere these kids want to rehabilitate, then why are they escaping?" Everidge said.
That is just the beginning of her questions. Until this day, she wonders why employees, reprimanded for everything from contraband to sexual relations, have not been criminally charged.
"What's really going on at Augusta YDC? What's really going on back there?" she asked.
Perhaps, we may never know. However, for a mother whose son is gone and another one just lost hers for years, one thing is certain: Something has to change.
"The state officials need to close this place down because if they don't, there will be another murder there," Everidge said.
What we do know that is changing is leadership. After announcing her retirement earlier this month, Department of Juvenile Justice Commissioner Gale Buckner will step down Nov. 1.
An interim commissioner takes over that day. Buckner says the date was always set in stone and she not giving up on the YDC.


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San Leandro's Nonito Donaire scored a unanimous decision over WBA featherweight champion Simpiwe Vetyeka on Saturday night after the fight was stopped at the end of the fourth round due to an accidental headbutt.
Donaire, 31, earned a world title in his fourth weight class by capturing the 126-pound bout. He suffered a serious cut over his left eye caused by the first-round headbutt. By the end of the fourth round, Donaire (33-2) could no longer see because of blood running from the cut.
By rule, the bout went to the scorecards, and Donaire won 49-46 on all three cards to secure the victory at the Venetian Resort in Macau.
"After the first round there was a headbutt," Donaire said. "The ref asked me if I want him to stop the fight. I told him I want to continue."
Vetyeka (26-3) headbutted Donaire several more times after the first round, but Donaire remained the aggressor and used a fourth-round combination to leave the South African wobbly.
Donaire said he didn't want the fight to end but could no longer see.
"He (Vetyeka) is a great fighter; he deserves a rematch," Donaire said.
Said promoter Bob Arum, "(Donaire) said he didn't like to win the title that way so he's going to give the South African kid a rematch."
Vetyeka disputed that he had headbutted Donaire.
"I'm terribly upset," Vetyeks said.
Donaire had previously won world titles at flyweight, bantamweight and super bantamweight. He also held an interim title at super flyweight.
Also on the "Featherweight Fury" card, Evgeny Gradovich (19-0) retained his IBF title with a 12-round unanimous decision over Alexander Miskirtchian (24-3-1), and Nicolas Walters (24-0) stopped Vic Darchinyan (39-7-1) in the fifth round.
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The richly-featured free and open source RSS/Atom reader for the Mac. Keep up to date with all your favorite blogs.
Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are freely available for download.
A summary of some of its features:
- Subscribe to Atom/RSS news feeds and podcasts.
- Simple and intuitive user interface.
- Built-in tabbed browser.
- Smart folders for organising related feed articles.
- Custom article display styles.
- Three separate reading layouts.
- Blogging integration.
- Filter the displayed articles.
- Manual reordering of the subscription list.
- Full AppleScript support.
- Localised into several languages.
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to me is one of the best RSS readers on every platform .... now if it only could use the gekco engine instead of webkit i'd die as an happy man :-)
To me, this is the best priced (free), cleanest, and best RSS reader on the Mac.
This is fantastic. I've tried newsreaders in the past and kept going back to the browser, but I'm sticking with Vienna. Fantastic.
I'd bought and been using NNW for ages - until they required me to sign up for an account with NewsGator just to continue using software I'd already bought. So I switched to Vienna, which is a little buggy at times but otherwise great. A worthy and less evil replacement.
Just goes to show it doesn't matter how great your product is if you act like an ass you'll lose customers.
great software, and free. has everything you need in a reader. also, I've noticed that when you click on the link for a site's RSS feed, it will read "add in NetNewsWire," and you can click on it and automatically add it to Vienna
The best David to beat all those shareware Goliaths
This beats the other "big name" RSS readers hands down, no competition. The best feature, IMHO, is that it supports Smart Folders which allow me to keep betetr track of what I have and haven't read.
This is the first RSS reader that I downloaded and installed on my Mac, and I see no reason to use anything else. It's fast, handles all of my feeds with no hiccups, and never gives me any hassles.
Love it, imported my NetNewsWire OPML file without a hiccup. Best of all, it's open source!
It is very nice but it lacks a "small" feature I've found in NNW: the TextMate RSS feed has a link to the latest build for download and Vienna doesn't show it so I have to run NNW to get it... Great app anyway.
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BOJ Beat: Abe Adviser Wants Stronger Commitment Fom Kuroda
One of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's close economic advisers has called on the head of the Bank of Japan to more clearly back up his readiness to take action should the economy suffer a sudden slump after the sales tax is raised next year.
In the recent debate over the plan to raise Japan's sales tax, Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda strongly urged the government to proceed with the hike, saying the central bank could deal with a potential economic slowdown that might come in its wake, but not the jumps in interest rates a change in plan could bring about.
"If he really means what he said, I want him to send out a strong message once again that he will take every measure available in case the economy slumps," Shizuoka University Prof. Etsuro Honda said Thursday in an interview.
Mr. Kuroda has said that while he doesn't expect the tax hike to derail Japan's ongoing economic recovery, if it does, the central bank will offer additional monetary stimulus. But Mr. Honda said: "I'd like him to say that more strongly."
Coming two days after Mr. Abe made a much-awaited decision to proceed with the plan to raise the 5% sales tax to 8% in April, Mr. Honda's remarks suggest continued discord among policy-makers, and indicate that the central bank could find itself increasingly in the spotlight as the tax hike draws closer.
While Messrs. Honda and Kuroda have shared the view over the need for bold monetary easing to defeat deflation, they have found themselves on opposite sides during the sales tax debate since early summer.
Mr. Honda insisted that the government postpone the hike or go more slowly, saying that the economic recovery was too fragile to withstand a hike as big as three percentage points. The economic blow from it could cancel out the benefits of Mr. Abe's "Abenomics" policy mix, and chill a growing sense of optimism among the Japanese that has helped drive the nation's solid growth so far this year, the professor has said.
Mr. Honda said Thursday a stronger commitment by the BOJ to support the economy is now needed to keep influencing Japanese expectations, which he said holds the key to reversing chronic price falls.
"I want (the BOJ) to give a sense of assurance" to consumers, Mr. Honda said, adding that a planned Y5 trillion spending plan by the government won't be enough to cushion the impact of the tax increase.
"There has been what we call a 'regime change' in Japan's policy framework thanks to Mr. Kuroda's initiatives, and the Japanese people believe in this," Mr. Honda added. "But this 'regime change' could fall apart unless the BOJ continues to signal its stance in the most appropriate fashion, showing that it is prepared to act anytime it is necessary."
While the BOJ may not need to take action to coincide with the tax increase, "it should act immediately as soon as the economy suffers a sharp reactionary slump in April or afterward," Mr. Honda said. Indeed, the bank "will probably find itself with no choice but to act, as there is likely to be a significant reactionary plunge" in consumer spending, he said.
Coming during the BOJ's two-day policy meeting which ended Friday, Mr. Honda's call for a fresh promise of action could make investors more focused on what the BOJ governor will have to say at a press conference following the board meeting. The BOJ took no fresh action at the latest meeting, as widely expected.
The 10 economists recently polled by The Wall Street Journal say the BOJ won't be able to achieve its 2%-inflation-in-two-years target, with many of them predicting that further monetary stimulus will take place in April.
Mr. Honda said that one option will be for the central bank to start buying mortgage-backed securities issued by the government-affiliated Japan Housing Finance Agency. With the tax hike expected to hit demand for big-ticket items, such as houses, "I believe that supplying funds into those markets will be a good idea," Mr. Honda said.
The bank can also step up its purchases of exchange-traded equity funds and real-estate investment funds–types of assets it already buys under the aggressive easing program launched in April this year, he said.
Buying more Japanese government bonds "could have the effect of influencing expectations as it could reaffirm (the BOJ's) commitment," Mr. Honda said.


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California state Treasurer Bill Lockyer's differences with his estranged wife, former Alameda County Supervisor Nadia Lockyer, might not be so irreconcilable after all.
The 71-year-old mainstay of state Democratic politics this week withdrew divorce papers he had filed last July against his 41-year-old wife, whose methamphetamine addiction and extramarital affair ended her political career and could have stained his.
"He and Nadia have agreed to try and work things out, to try and reconcile," said Tom Dresslar, Bill Lockyer's spokesman. "He's proud of the progress she has made in her treatment, and they are both looking forward and not backward."
Nadia Lockyer, a former Alameda County supervisor, issued a statement Thursday through her attorney, Allan Stokke, who is defending her against criminal charges in Orange County.
"I thank my husband and family for their unwavering support. Bill and I agree reconciliation would be best for Diego (their 9-year-old son) and for us, and we're committed to reaching that goal," she said. "Addicts cannot achieve a safe and healthy life unless we take responsibility for our actions and conquer our addiction first. I pray that all addicts who are also victims of abuse, violence and exploitation find inspiration in my story."
Nadia Lockyer recently finished a 180-day residential drug treatment program she had entered after her Aug. 28 arrest in Orange County. Police were tipped that she had drugs in the home where she was staying with Diego. Officers found a tube of aluminum foil with a burned end, and when they met Lockyer later that day, she showed signs of being under the influence of drugs.
She was charged with felony methamphetamine possession and three misdemeanors: being under the influence of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and child abuse and endangerment.
Her Thursday morning court appearance in Santa Ana was continued until March 30, Stokke said, adding that "the court said she was doing very well in her treatment program."
Nadia Lockyer early last year claimed Stephen Chikhani of San Jose had attacked her in a Newark hotel room, but the state Justice Department investigated and eventually declined to charge him with any crime. As details emerged about Lockyer's lengthy affair with Chikhani and their drug use, she resigned her supervisorial seat last April.
Bill Lockyer had filed for divorce in July in Alameda County Superior Court, citing "irreconcilable differences" and seeking joint physical and legal custody of their son. After Nadia Lockyer's August arrest, a judge ruled she could see their son, but only under her estranged husband's supervision. The boy has been living with his father in Hayward.
"All the decisions that Bill makes with regards to his marriage are made with Diego's best interests in mind," Dresslar said.
Bill Lockyer -- who served for 25 years in the Legislature, two terms as state attorney general and now is in his second term as state treasurer -- is a formidable fundraiser who transferred $1.5 million from his own campaign coffers to his wife's, letting her swamp rivals for a Board of Supervisors seat in a blizzard of direct mail and other advertising in 2010.
It was during that supervisorial campaign that Nadia Lockyer met Chikhani at a chemical-dependency program and began her relationship with him, she said in an exclusive interview with this newspaper last April. She was dealing with chronic pain and wasn't an addict then, she said.
Bill Lockyer has formed a campaign committee to run for state controller in 2014. He has more than $2.2 million banked.
In 2003, Republican political consultant Dan Schnur had called the Lockyers' relationship "a match made in political heaven" and "the first wedding registry in California history with contribution limits."
On Thursday, Schnur, now director of University of Southern California's Unruh Institute of Politics, said there's no telling how this latest news will affect Bill Lockyer's political future.
"It's difficult enough to predict how any couple works out their marital challenges, but it's even harder to try to guess what the political ramifications may be of all those different possible outcomes," Schnur said, though "it would take a particularly brazen and particularly slimy opponent to try to make an issue out of this in a campaign against (Bill) Lockyer."
Josh Richman covers politics. Contact him at 510-208-6428. Follow him at Twitter.com/josh_richman. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.


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