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Looking at what makes a city run
Earlier this year IBM announced the release of the IBM Intelligent Operations Center for Smarter Cities. This product and platform provides a comprehensive set of functions and capabilities designed to enable the integration and analysis of data across the many departments that make up today's modern and well functioning city. Around the time of that release I talked about building a smarter planet one city at a time, and how cities can make themselves smarter through instrumentation and data analysis. This isn't confined just to cities by the way; all types of industries and organizations can benefit from an ongoing analysis of system operations. After all, operations touch almost every aspect of an organization, and efficient operations can help propogate efficiency everywhere. Here, I want to follow on from my previous article with a couple of key points that need to be well understood as you begin to learn what an operations center can provide and how you start to instrument your own operations.
Measuring what's important
Key Performance Indicators, or KPIs, can be used to monitor important, sometimes complex operations and functions within an organization or domain. The idea of using KPIs for analysis and measurement is fairly basic; however, defining a realistic KPI or a comprehensive set of KPIs that are actionable and relevant to your needs can require some hard thinking. Any form of measurement needs to be clearly defined, not only for what you are going to measure, but how you are going to measure it.
An important rule for defining KPIs is that they need to be quantified to specific measurements. It's not enough to simply state that you want to know if there are problems with water quality; rather, you have to define specifically what aspects of the quality to measure and which measurement values to compare. This level of exactness is necessary for any KPI regardless of the domain, whether based on some amount of revenue, a specified process, or a physical measurement that can be taken and evaluated at regular intervals.
A second component of creating well defined KPIs is making sure they are actionable in ways that are easily understandable. In Figure 1, you can see that the key defines three simple KPI levels that can be easily understood by system operators. In many cases, these values can be much more complex, but depending upon the audience it might be necessary to define reasonable thresholds where clear explanation can be provided about the level of adherence to the KPI expectation.
Figure 1. KPI heat map and details drill-down
The IBM Intelligent Operation Center for Smarter Cities focuses mainly on real-time KPI measurement. Historical KPI results, however, are another aspect that can be important to look at for finding other places within operational systems where improvements need to be made. In addition, alerts and notification processes should be put in place when specific KPI values go beyond specific thresholds.
Another important point is to consider your audience when defining and visualization KPIs. An executive user will be interested in KPI changes at a gross level. For example, a mayor will be interested to know when the water quality is affected within a city. Although he or she might be interested in having some additional details, the managers or operators within the water department will likely be the ones interested in lower level details, such as whether pH and other levels are higher than normal and how they compare with other KPI values within the system.
Visualizing on-going events and incidents
Real-time visualization of events is important in knowing what is going on at any given point in time. These events can involve most anything that occurs in a city and that can be reported, such as traffic, energy, water, safety, fire, as well as weather or natural disasters that could occur. An event can be submitted in an automated fashion from other systems when specific triggers occur. More likely, events are input and updated manually by operators on duty within specific citywide operations or call centers, from mobile resources directly in the field, or by citizens commenting on community issues like graffiti, potholes, or potential sanitation issues.
Being able to view and operate events in different ways enables operators to both visualize and prioritize them based on a number of parameters associated with each event. Figure 2 shows how this visualization can occur in a comprehensive and cohesive way.
Figure 2. Table view and GIS map visualization of identified events
One important aspect of managing events is to ensure that a standard is used in reporting and updating events into the system. Within the Intelligent Operations Center the Common Alerting Protocol or CAP standard is used to manage events within a city. This standard defined by OASIS is a general format for exchanging emergency alerts and public warnings. The CAP standard can be simplified to just a small set of required data fields, yet can also be extended to include the much more rich data required by GIS and multimedia information sharing. Basic event messages can be sent with a minimum of information, such as date/time, status, scope, category, type, severity, certainty, and urgency. Custom applications for PCs and mobile devices can be easily built to enable the easy creation and submission of event messages for many different types of situations.
Knowing what events occur is only the first half of the equation. Understanding what actions to take when responding to these events is the other half. Public and government operations often refer to these actions as Standard Operating Procedures, or SOPs. These are a set of predefined and formalized workflows that should be followed by operators and responders when events do occur. These flows are generally documented in many operations centers, however many of them can be automated to provide a more consistent and efficient response to emergency situations.
Operations centers everywhere!
The idea of an actual operations center is not a fit for every situation, but there are many situations within various organizations and industries which could benefit from the real-time visualizing of ongoing operations. Factories, manufacturing, and processing plants all have the need to measure real-time KPIs and events within a large industrial complex. Industries such as shipyards, docks, and large scale transportation warehouses are also good candidates for the capabilities that an operations center can provide. Another could be in industries or organizations where public safety or the security of large groups of users is critical, such as stadiums, amusement parks, cruise ships, or other entertainment venues.
In non-city use cases, the event types and KPI values will typically be completely different from what you might see in a city, but I have no doubt that as more use cases are realized, both industry-specific patterns and common-to-all (or to-most) patterns will emerge. For example, shipyards might require updates on the status and location of vessels, or the loading and off-loading progress of each. Stadiums, amusements parks, and other entertainment venues might need to process events and incidents regarding everything from public safety and security, such as a public disruption or restaurant fire, to much more mundane events, such as an overflowing toilet in a VIP lounge.
My objective here is simply to get us all thinking and talking about what is possible. Some use cases already exist, but many more can be realized as citizens and industries start to apply the vision of a smarter planet to their particular area of expertise. Domain specific applications will continue to drive instrumentation technologies forward and help everyone who needs operation center capability within their environment. Already some specific products have been released, such as IBM Intelligent Building Management and IBM Intelligent Transportation, with more on the way. It is everyone's job to drive these initiatives forward into more industries and really make the planet smarter.
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Final Thoughts
Crazy fun!! - Haha, what more is there to say?!
Ok, so it would have been nice if all four cards had performed as well as the best card, but that is something you have to be prepared for, particularly when going to the extremes.
But I am not complaining; P53k with 5870's in 3D Mark Vantage is nothing to sneeze at and watching some of the peak frame rates during the benchmarks, you can't help but smile.
Benching five pots with liquid nitrogen on your own is not for the faint hearted. Great fun? Yes, but also very stressful. But as they say, if it was easy, everyone would be doing it. But if the mood takes you to push four already powerful cards further and you have access to the equipment needed, I highly recommend the experience.
I would like to thank MSI for all their assistance in bringing this article to you. Another big thanks goes to Shamino for his fantastic guide on "Souping Up your VGAs". His original thread can be found here.

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At times, you can see the trail itself for miles! Follow this for about five miles and you'll come to a subtle saddle: with large cliff bands emerging to the left and a low, flatter ridge on the right. There's an old, worn-out USFS sign here that most likely is warning you of the impending wilderness boundary. If you ride Snow Mesa as an out and back, follow the visible Skyline Trail to the left (not mapped as part of this trail) underneath rock bands for another mile or two before hitting the actual La Garita Wilderness boundary.
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WASHINGTON (WOMENSENEWS)--Experts on the educational experiences of girls and boys say the gender wars in the American classroom should be called off and more emphasis should be placed on broader gender roles and expectations for both sexes.
The findings and recommendations are contained in a report, "Beyond the Gender Wars: A Conversation About Girls, Boys and Education," recently released by the American Association of University Women's Educational Foundation. The report is the result of a symposium that brought together leading experts on the educational experiences of girls and boys.
The gathering's participants said that while the interests of girls and boys have been pitted against each other, many of the conditions that cause girls to fail in the classroom are the same ones that are detrimental to boys. And while the fierce debate over the unique educational and social needs of children of both genders has raged, scholars who study those needs have rarely tried to find common ground.
"We seem to be debating who has it worse, boys or girls; we know in a way that both boys and girls are being shortchanged in their education and in societal support," said William Pollack, best-selling author of the book "Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons From the Myth of Boyhood."
The so-called gender wars can be traced to the aftermath of a 1992 report by the American Association of University Women entitled "How Schools Shortchange Girls." After the association and researchers such as Carol Gilligan, of New York University who conducted ground-breaking research on girls while at Harvard and is the author of "In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development," began highlighting the ways in which girls have historically been overlooked in American schools, other scholars countered that, in fact, it was boys who were being given short shrift.
Dispel Myth of the Battle of the Sexes, Seek Justice and Equity for All
According to the report, "The ensuing fractious discussion of gender and education often assumed the troubling zero-sum logic of a 'gender war,' a classroom battle of the sexes that girls win only if boys lose and vice versa."
So symposium organizers said they wanted to give the researchers a chance to respond to the way in which the debate had been framed and how their own work had been used in the debate.
The discussions were moderated by Barrie Thorne, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, co-director of the Center for Working Families and author of "Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School."
"Some of us have studied mostly girls. Some focused on boys. Some have focused on both," Thorne said. "But through all of these differences and disagreements, we share a strong sense of dismay that our many years of research and educational interventions on behalf of social justice and equity for all children have now been framed with a metaphor of war."
One of the most prevalent myths about education, symposium participants agreed, is that what works for girls in the classroom doesn't work for boys. Participants argued for a more subtle analysis of what benefits children, for example, focusing more on ethnic and racial differences than on gender.
"One has to ask, which girls, which boys," commented Thorne. "For example, the needs and problems of low-income African American boys and girls are quite different in some ways from the needs and problems of white, middle-class girls and boys."
For example, researchers said that while white girls do indeed suffer from crises of self-esteem in early adolescence--a phenomenon highlighted in a series of best-selling books in the early 1990s--African American girls do not.
Girls Fear Math, Science, While Boys Call English, Art 'Girl' Subjects
The symposium also looked at research showing that girls suffer from societal expectations that they shouldn't go into fields like math and science. Scholars who focus on the experience of boys say that boys also suffer from feelings that they shouldn't study English or art because they are "girl" subjects. Therefore, creating more flexible gender roles and broadening expectations for both genders helps boys and girls.
"Gender ideologies are harmful to boys and girls. Ideologies keep (boys and girls) locked into roles and induce us as adults to create certain kinds of educational opportunities for some and to block off other kinds of opportunities and visions for others," said Susan Bailey, who heads up the Wellesley Centers for Women and was a lead author of the 1992 American Association of University Women report.
What is important, she said, is "to open people up to a full range of possibilities, regardless of their gender, regardless of their background," she said.
"I can think of no trait whatsoever that only boys categorically have and girls don't or that girls categorically have and boys don't," said Michael Kimmel, professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and author of "The Gendered Society" and "Manhood in America: A Cultural History."
In order to redirect the debate over the treatment of girls and boys in American classrooms, participants were unanimous that researchers need to take a more collaborative approach. Though it can be difficult to achieve, research must also look at ethnic, socioeconomic and racial differentiations, the report states, so that educators can better address the needs of specific children.
Participants recommended that schools address multiple learning styles in the classroom, so that girls and boys can both benefit from active, team-based lessons.Another priority should be creating safe schools where bullying isn't tolerated and children have the chance to form male-female friendships and learn to respect each other.
And all of the researchers said that they wanted to make more of an effort to listen to girls and boys and find out from them what they'd like to get out of their educations. "I don't think we know nearly enough about what boys and girls think about their own lives and think about what they need," said Phillips.
Sarah Stewart Taylor is a free-lance writer in Washington, D.C., also reporting on New England.


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Other Useful Sequence Words
Imagine a Kung Fu black belt took a function and chopped through it, leaving only discrete values. Those discrete values would form a sequence. Because the sequence is just a coarse-chopped list of numbers made from a function, the sequence acts in ways similar to functions.
Let's look at some of the ways the martial arts master can serve up a sequence to us. These meals are going to look similar to functions, so you may want to review it to see the similarities.
We say a sequence is increasing if the terms get larger as n gets larger. This is like a lop-sided sushi roll where the piece on the right is bigger than the one to its left.
In symbols, if m < n then am < an.
We say a sequence is decreasing if the terms get smaller as n gets larger. This is like a lop-sided sushi roll where the piece on the right is smaller than the one to its left.
In symbols, if m < n the am > an.
If a sequence is increasing or decreasing we call it monotonic because the terms are going only one way. We'll have a monotonically increasing California roll, extra wasabi on the side.
Sample Problem
The sequence an = n is increasing because the terms get larger as n gets larger.
Sample Problem
The sequence is decreasing because the terms get smaller as n gets larger.
Be Careful: increasing and decreasing aren't opposites. It's possible for a sequence to be neither increasing nor decreasing.
Sample Problem
The terms of the sequence an = (-1)n bounce back and forth between 1 and -1. This sequence is neither increasing nor decreasing.
Be Careful: Using the word "increasing" to refer to a function is ambiguous because it could mean either nondecreasing or strictly increasing. We don't usually care about nondecreasing sequences. They are about as interesting as watching water evaporate off a hot road surface in the middle of summer. That's why, for sequences, we use "increasing" as an abbreviation for "strictly increasing".
Just like a function, we say a sequence is bounded above if all terms of the sequence are less than or equal to some value M.
In symbols,
an ≤ M
for all n.
No surprises here. We say a sequence is bounded below if there's a value K such that all terms of the sequence are at least K.
In symbols,
an ≥ K
for all n.
If a sequence is bounded above and below, we say it's bounded. For our sushi sequence, if it is bounded, we can make a bento box with it.
If a sequence is missing one or both of these bounds, then it's unbounded.
There are a couple of theorems connecting the ideas of boundedness and convergence for sequences. These are some of the ideas that spice up our sushi roll sequences.
A monotonic bounded sequence must converge. This is a pretty obvious statement, so we could call this the california roll theorem. Everyone knows what it is, and as boring as it may be, everyone eats it.
Proof. Rather than be overly mathematical, we'll explain things out to give you the idea. If a sequence is increasing, the terms are going up.
If the sequence is bounded, the terms can't go up forever, because they can't go above the upper bound.
That means the sequence converges. If the upper bound given wasn't the best upper bound possible, the sequence could converge to some value L smaller than the given upper bound.
Similarly, if the sequence is decreasing the terms are going down. If the sequence is bounded, the terms can't go down forever, so they must approach some floor. That means the sequence converges.
Any finite sequence is bounded.
Proof. A finite sequence has some largest term and some smallest term. These give upper and lower bounds, respectively.
A convergent sequence must be bounded. We could call this the bento box theorem. If the roll converges to some size, it will fit in a box.
Proof. If a sequence converges to some value L, then eventually all the terms must be very close to L. In particular, eventually the terms must be within 1 of L in either direction.
Formally, when n gets large enough we have
L – 1 ≤ an ≤ L + 1.
There can be only finitely many terms, all at the beginning of the sequence, that aren't within 1 of L.
Take the largest term that isn't within 1 of L. If this term is bigger than L + 1, this term is an upper bound for the sequence.
Otherwise, L + 1 is an upper bound for the sequence.
Similarly, take the smallest term that isn't within 1 of L. If this term is smaller than L – 1, this term is a lower bound for the sequence.
Otherwise, L – 1 is a lower bound for the sequence.
In contrast, a bounded sequence does NOT have to converge. This non-theorem is like a dragon roll. It will always keep you on your toes. One of the easiest examples is the sequence
an = (-1)n.
This sequence is definitely bounded, since -1 ≤ an ≤ 1 for all n. However, the sequence can't converge because it's indecisive.


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Microsoft has officially closed the public-testing period for Windows Live Hotmail. Now begins the lengthy process of migrating users to this major upgrade of Microsoft's Hotmail webmail service, Microsoft will announce today.
Windows Live Hotmail is the biggest Hotmail upgrade since the popular web email site was first released in 1996.
Later this month, Microsoft will release a free software for linking Windows Live Hotmail with Outlook, a capability the company previously charged for. With Microsoft Office Outlook Connector for MSN, users of the Webmail service will be able to access their account from Outlook, along with email, contacts and folder synchronisation for free. In the future, Microsoft will release a desktop client for Windows Live Hotmail called Windows Live Mail.
In terms of security improvements to Windows Live Hotmail, each email message carries a "safety bar" which indicates whether the message came from a known, unknown or potentially fraudulent sender. Spam protection has also been enhanced. Windows Live Hotmail also has a mobile version so that its estimated 280 million users can access the service from mobile phones and handheld devices with a web browser.
Windows Live Hotmail has been tested by about 20 million users since Microsoft first allowed people outside Microsoft to try it out in mid-2005, according Brooke Richardson, Microsoft group product manager for Hotmail.
"It is safer, faster and has more features than Hotmail. It's definitely an advance for our current customers," she said.
Windows Live Hotmail has a new code foundation which will let Microsoft add improvements quickly, something that had become a challenge with Hotmail's decade-old code base, Richardson said.
"It's a much more stable foundation for us to innovate," she said.
New users will be automatically signed up for Windows Live Hotmail but, like any user of the new service, they will get to choose from two user interfaces: a "classic" layout that closely resembles the old Hotmail; or the new interface, which was designed to look like Microsoft's Outlook email and calendaring desktop application, she said.
Microsoft will not force Hotmail users to migrate Windows Live Hotmail. For now, Microsoft will give Hotmail users the option to continue using the old version if they don't want to switch to Windows Live Hotmail.
However, according to Richardson, at some point everyone will be unilaterally migrated from Hotmail to Windows Live Hotmail.


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While you may not be able to solve the nation's economic problems, this year you can begin solving a few of your own. If you have struggled to save and invest money toward your retirement, a new law that went into effect January 1 could give you a new way to work toward that goal. According to a FINRA National Financial Capability Study 58% of all Americans don't even know how much they need to save for retirement and just slightly less (51%) have a retirement plan at work; only 28% maintain a personal retirement account outside their employer-sponsored plan.
Roth IRAs can be a valuable retirement investment tool. They were created as part of the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. Roth IRAs are tax-sheltered investment retirement accounts that provide income-eligible people with a way of building tax-deferred retirement income. Unlike traditional IRAs that allow tax-deductible contributions, you can only contribute to a Roth IRA with after-tax income; however you will not have to pay taxes when you take distributions from your account upon retirement, unlike the traditional IRA.
Roth IRAs also have the added benefit of not requiring holders to take an annual minimum required distribution. At age 70.5 conventional IRA holders have to withdraw a minimum amount each year and pay taxes on that amount.
Difference Between Traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs
|Traditional IRA
|Roth IRA
|Age Limit On Contributions
|Cannot contribute after age 70.5
|Can contribute at any age
|Income Limit On Opening And Funding Account
|No income limit
|Income limits on high-income earners*
|Tax Deduction For Contributions
|Most are made pre-tax
|Contributions cannot be made pre-tax
|Tax On Distribution/Withdrawal
|Tax-deferred portion of distribution is taxed
|No tax
|Mandatory Required Distribution (MRD)
|Must take minimum withdrawal annually beginning the year you turn 70 ½
|No MRD
|*Single taxpayers phase out between $105,000-$120,000; married couples filing jointly phase out between $167,000-$177,000
A new law has made it possible for people who were previously unable to benefit from a Roth IRA to do so, and limits the one-year tax impact. As of January 1, the federal government lifted the income cap on people seeking to convert their traditional IRA account balances to a Roth IRA and provided a tax break to people who choose to convert all or a portion of their traditional IRA to a Roth IRA in 2010.
The Restrictions
However, the income limits are still in place so while everyone is now eligible to convert traditional IRA account funds to a Roth IRA, people earning over the income limit may not open and fund a new IRA. (Learn about the benefits and drawbacks of this new investment account in A Closer Look At The Roth 401(k).)
Since the investment tool's invention, an income limit prevented high-income earners from two major Roth IRA benefits. First, singles earning more than $120,000 and married couples jointly earning $176,000 or more were not allowed to open and fund a Roth IRA.
In addition, people with adjusted gross incomes (AGIs) of more than $100,000 were not allowed to convert their traditional IRAs to Roth IRAs. When converting from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA you are required to pay federal income taxes on both the earnings you accrue on the investment and on the pre-tax deposits you made to the account.
The Changes
However, in May 2006 President Bush changed the eligibility rules for Roth IRA contributions and conversions; those changes took effect January 1, 2010 and will continue into the foreseeable future (or until Congress acts to make a change). Now anyone, regardless of income, can convert their traditional IRA to a Roth IRA.
In addition, if you convert your traditional IRA savings to a Roth IRA this year you can take longer to pay the taxes on the amount you roll over. That's because the IRS is allowing you to defer full payment - you can either pay the tax due in 2011 or split the income you earn on the conversion and pay half the tax due in 2011 and the remaining half in 2012.
Taxpayers who have significant portfolio losses may be able to offset the tax impact incurred by converting to a Roth IRA. (Learn the requirements for withdrawing funds tax and penalty free in Tax Treatment Of Roth IRA Distributions.)
The Bottom Line
Before making your selection calculate how a conversion would impact your total tax bill, and talk with your financial advisor and/or tax professional to determine if converting all or a portion of your conventional IRA to a Roth IRA makes the best financial sense for your situation.


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Boston preps for possible World Series celebration
Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz, right, is greeted in the dugout after being pulled from the game during the eighth inning of Game 5 of baseball's World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, in St. Louis. The Red Sox won 3-1 to take a 3-2 lead in the series. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) by Jay LindsayAssociated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) — Sports championships aren't rare in Boston anymore, and security officials are drawing on what went right — and wrong — during recent victory celebrations as the Red Sox look to claim another title. The Red Sox return to Fenway Park on Wednesday needing one win in the next two games against the St. Louis Cardinals to win their third World Series since 2004. Meanwhile, police are also dealing with a visit by President Obama, who's stopping in town hours earlier Wednesday to discuss his health care reform.


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A house fire broke out Tuesday morning in the Auburndale neighborhood in southwest Louisville.
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Fire crews arrived about 3 a.m.
Firefighters say the house was completely engulfed in flames.
No injuries were reported.
The cause of the fire is unknown.
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Ode on a Grecian Urn
by John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn Questions
Bring on the tough stuff - there's not just one right answer.
- Have you ever been happy enough that you felt you could live in that moment forever? If not, did this poem convince you that such moments are possible?
- What's the deal with the speaker? He's all over the place. He seems to go from curious to nostalgic to lustful to frustrated. If you had to write his fictional life story, what would it say?
- Why do you think the first critics of Keats's poetry hated it so much?
- How would you describe the overall tone of the poem? Is it joyful or sad?
- Is the speaker able to identify with the Ancient Greeks depicted on the urn, or is he merely excited by the "mystery" of their culture and its foreignness. Do you feel like you can identify with life on the urn?


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Translation of peer group in Spanish:
- grupo (masculine) paritario [formal](before noun) peer-group pressure/influencela presión/influencia que ejercen los compañerosla presión/influencia que ejerce el grupo paritario [formal]Example sentences
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Hi everyone! It's your fun-loving VBS graphic designer (who happens to love numbers as well. . .I know, I'm weird) and it's that time of the week. . .Foto Friday!!! Why do I bring up the, "I love numbers" thing? I'm glad you asked! As Carol has stated in her "VBS By the Numbers" post, I like to check the number of views my blog posts receive and I've realized that my "Clip Art" post has had a lot of views! I also field a lot of calls, emails, etc about people wanting the past VBS logos. So, I ... Continue Reading
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text: I think the whole live album recording thing is quite embarrassing sometimes.It's just the same old stuff sung without the polishing of a studio and regurgitated to make a few pennies.Having said that, Stage will always be my favourite live album of Bowie. Perhaps because the visuals during the actual tour weren't there as they were for Diamond Dogs and Ziggy or indeed the 80s shows and Glass Spider even.That's why I think David Live is awful. There was interaction and interplay on-stage. You don't get the skull-chat of Cracked Actor or the boxing ring of Panic In Detroit or the cherry picker of Space Oddity (for the latter we don't get it at all, in fact). You just hear the croaky-cokey voice of David with no sense of situation at all.Having heard very few StationToStation tour recordings, and the ones I have heard were adequate, I think Stage takes the trophy (and I've said this on here before) because of its sheer professional recording technique.I've heard live gigs from Robbie Williams, The Cure, Queen, Iron Maiden and suchlike and it all lacks the visuals - that's 50% (at least) of why you go to concerts anyway, surely?Bowie has always been a visual recording artist and that's why his non-studio album work doesn't do itself justice, in the main.Perhaps it serves to remind those who were there what it was like to be there - certainly that can be said of The Motion Picture soundtrack.It's like listening to radio reportage of the shooting of JFK and then watching it overdubbed onto the Zapruder film. The difference is stark.


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This week Megan has been kind enough to teach the newbies, Kat and Karlin, how to do some basic bead weaving and peyote using Miyuki Seed Beads. Check out what they have been working on!
I love this color combo. This is a great example of what peyote looks like when you alternate every row to be a different color. I find this is the easiest when you are starting out; it's very easy to keep track of where you are. Megan showed me how to properly start and tie off the thread as I continue weaving. Megan's such a great teacher! The possibilities for color combinations are endless.
This was so much fun! It was my first time bead weaving and I really enjoyed the process. It was so relaxing. I used some of my favorite colors (light pink, black and cream) in a striped pattern. This will eventually be a peyote stitch bracelet & I can't wait to see the finished product. I loved learning this new technique and I can't wait to bead weave some more.


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|A former Broadway performer, Carrie Manolakos is a singer/songwriter living in New York City.
Check out Carrie Manolakos if you haven't already --- I mean right now. She doesn't wait for buzz to reach her --- instead she creates it herself. With raw talent and palpable charisma, this rising star is best known for her dazzling Broadway career, writing her own songs, and performing live throughout Manhattan.
Last April she played at Le Poisson Rouge, turning what started out as a set of new songs into a had-to-be-there experience with a cover of Radiohead's sleeper hit "Creep." Not since Jeff Buckley reinvented Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" has a singer put so much into someone else's song.
Carrie grew up in Syracuse, New York and started singing before she could even talk. She joined a children's choir at age eight, and traveled all over the world to perform. She started acting at age ten, and after that, she said, "There was no going back." She continued to act and sing in high school, and went on to study at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
|While on tour with Wicked, Carrie used the spare time to teach herself guitar, practice piano and write songs.
At NYU, Carrie took a master class that led to an audition, which landed her an amazing opportunity. "I got a casting call for Mama Mia," she recalled. "After three auditions, they called to ask me, 'Can you be in Canada in 10 days?'" She toured for one and a half years before joining the Broadway cast. Carrie then took on the role of Elphaba in the second national tour of Wicked.
"While touring with Wicked, I was a standby, and had a lot of free time on my hands during the majority of my time out there. In New York City I was always busy. I remember saying to myself, 'I don't have this kind of time in New York.' If I don't use it, I will have failed." She used this spare time to teach herself guitar, practice piano, and write songs using the Music Directors' room to rehearse.
Carrie returned to New York and in August, 2010, she debuted live at Joe's Pub. "That's where it all started," she said. She continued to play throughout NYC for the next 18 months or so. Then on April 2, 2012, she held a release party and performance for her album, Echo, at Le Poisson Rouge. "It was super fun. The place was packed."
|Carrie's performance of Radiohead's "Creep"at Le Poisson Rouge went viral in just days.
And what about closing the show with that "Creep" cover? "I realized it was a special moment as soon as it was happening. We only rehearsed the song two or three times before performing it --- my heart was exploding. I was finally seeing myself as an artist or a person creating something."
Without any PR outsourcing, the clip went viral in a matter of days. "I put it on Facebook --- it organically exploded on its own. It got 12,000 views in a week and by now the video is well over a million." Several media outlets have since picked up the live performance, including Gawker, calling Carrie's performance an "eargasm," the Huffington Post, msn.com, and Entertainment Weekly, which includes Carrie in its list of "Top 12 Radiohead covers."
So why did she choose the song? "A friend suggested I cover it. I, of course, knew the song, but listening more carefully I really connected to it," Carrie said. "Just this idea of being who you are and expressing what you're going through." Brave indeed, her emotional rendition has paid off in spades. In April, 2012, The New Yorker featured Carrie in the article, "A Rehabilitated Creep," and in May, 2012, Elle selected her for "30 Under 30: The Essential Names to Know." Carrie was voted number one by Elle readers.
|Carrie's show at the Rockwood Music Hall was essentially sold out in November.
"After the 'Creep' cover, a lot of doors opened for me. People kind of know who I am. They say, 'You're the girl form the 'Creep' video.'" This bit of Radiohead fame has helped the Indie rocker book more shows --- at the end of November, she played to a packed house at Rockwood Music Hall. Not to mention, she began 2013 with a bang, singing with Phish to a sold-out crowd at Madison Square Garden on New Year's Eve.


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Ultimate Fighting, Boxing on Pay TV Spark 'Pirate' Lawsuits
On the evening of May 8, 2010, Juan Castillo walked into Plaza Mexico Bar & Grill in a strip mall in Laredo, Texas, paid the $5 cover to a woman in a flowery dress, went inside and ordered a Coors Light.
He began watching the televised Ultimate Fighting Championship bout between Josh Koscheck and Paul Daley. He saw Koscheck getting kicked in the eye during the mixed martial arts fight. In the 25 minutes Castillo was in the restaurant, he counted 80 patrons. He took three photographs.
Castillo's statement about what he saw led to a court order for Plaza Mexico to give the UFC's distributor $32,500 for not paying the $1,100 commercial fee to show the pay-per-view event. Promoters such as Joe Hand Promotions Inc. and the UFC itself have filed thousands of suits against bars, restaurants and other U.S. businesses to punish such "pirates," claiming they and residential cheaters cost them millions of dollars in lost revenue.
"These types of lawsuits are part of our comprehensive anti-piracy efforts," said Lawrence Epstein, general counsel for Las Vegas-based Zuffa LLC, which owns Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Gathering Evidence
The companies send investigators into bars and restaurants the night of an event to gather photographic or video evidence that the establishment showed it without paying the fee.
The price for watching a pay-per-view boxing event at home might be $50, while businesses typically pay $1,500 to $3,000 or more depending on the size of the venue, said Joseph Gagliardi, president of J&J Sports Productions Inc., which promotes boxing matches.
Showing a boxing match, soccer game or mixed martial arts event without paying the commercial fee could potentially result in a bar or restaurant owner getting hit with a $260,000 bill.
Last year, J&J Sports filed 708 lawsuits; Joe Hand Promotions filed 515; and UFC itself 41, according to a search of court dockets.
Both Gagliardi and Joe Hand Jr., president of Joe Hand Promotions, have said in court papers that they believe their companies have lost millions of dollars to piracy.
Protecting Revenue
The legal effort against pirating protects not only his own revenue but also that of venues that pay the fee as required, Gagliardi said in an interview.
"The most important part of what we do with litigation going after the guys who pirate the events -- it's the protection for the guy who honestly puts up his money," he said.
Epstein of the UFC said paying bars are given a list of others in the area that also paid, and they often report non-paying venues that advertise they're showing the event.
From 2006 through January of this year, UFC, which calls itself the world's leading professional mixed martial arts organization, has collected $4.7 million in settlements from commercial cases, UFC said. It is the largest commercial pay-per-view provider, with 5,000 to 6,000 venues signed up for its events, it said.
The owners typically violate the law by paying the residential rate, redirecting the signal from a neighboring residence to their establishment or ordering the event for their home TV and taking the satellite box to their business, according to court papers.
Assessing Damages
The federal law against satellite interception allows a judge to award damages up to $10,000 per violation, with a penalty as high as $100,000 if it was done "willfully" and for "commercial advantage." If the proprietor wasn't aware of the law, the judge can lower the award to $250.
The law against cable intervention also allows for up to $10,000 per violation and an enhancement of up to $50,000. The copyright owner can sue for infringement, tacking on another maximum penalty of $150,000.
A maximum award for a combined satellite and copyright violation would total $260,000.
In October 2009, U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein in Brooklyn, New York, ordered Rio De La Plata Bakery Shop in Queens, New York, to pay $110,000, plus $540 in attorneys' fees, to Setanta Sports North America Ltd. for showing the March 2009 World Cup qualifying soccer match in which Argentina beat Venezuela 4 to 0.
Carlos G. Gimenez, the bakery's owner, didn't return a call for comment on the lawsuit or the damages award.
No Response
On Feb. 24, U.S. District Judge George P. Kazen in Laredo ordered Plaza Mexico and three individuals connected to it to pay Feasterville, Pennsylvania-based Joe Hand Promotions the maximum $10,000, plus a $20,000 enhancement and $2,500 in lawyers' fees. Plaza Mexico and the other defendants never responded to the lawsuit and the judge granted Joe Hand Promotions a default judgment.
Telephone directory information had no listing for Plaza Mexico in Laredo.
Julie Cohen Lonstein, a lawyer who sues on behalf of sports promoters including Campbell, California-based J&J Sports and UFC, said most of her cases get settled. "There's an opportunity to settle them for less money than what the statute would allow," said Lonstein, who is based in Ellenville, New York, about 94 miles north of New York City.
Those that are filed usually end with settlements or default judgments, according to lawyers who work both sides of them.
Caught 'Red-Handed'
U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan in Brooklyn, in awarding the maximum $10,000 in a default judgment, wrote that "to hold otherwise would encourage defendants caught red-handed to ignore legal process in the recognition that judicial discretion is the only defense they have." He said the total $50,000 award, plus attorneys fees, "should be painful to defendants, but not so painful as to cause undue hardship."
That case stemmed from the November 2010 Super Welterweight championship boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Antonio Margarito.
Lonstein said her clients are obligated to sue. "Unless they go after the violators, and unless judges give awards that will have a deterrent effect, they will continue to do it," she said. "The award at judgment should be high enough to deter future piracy."
Burdensome Suits
Lawyers who represent the bars and restaurants said the suits can be burdensome.
"In my experience they tend to be owners of really small establishments," Paul B. Overhauser, an attorney in Indianapolis who has represented hundreds of restaurants in piracy cases, said in an interview. "If there is a default judgment, it's probably because the bar owner couldn't afford an attorney."
Overhauser said the sports promoters use the amount of those default judgments in pressuring other owners to settle. "They'll say, 'You better settle with us right away for $10,000 because this other one paid $150,000,'" he said. "If you're a business owner and you get a letter like that, it's pretty compelling if you don't have a lawyer."
The satellite and cable laws allow the promoters to collect attorneys' fees if they win. The bars and restaurants don't get such fees if they prevail.
"A lot of attorneys think these statutes are onerously one-sided in favor of the plaintiffs," Overhauser said.
Default Judgments
Sayuri K. Sharper, who since late last year has taken on three proprietor clients with six cases, said that most of the suits she sees end in default judgments because "you can't hire an attorney and litigate for less than $5,000."
Sharper, a former patent litigator at Los Angeles-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, takes the cases as part of her work for the San Jose, California-based Pro Bono Project.
"A lot of them are minority restaurant or bar owners," Sharper said. "None of my clients speak very good English. Most of them don't even know what to do so they don't show up. My clients showed up but they don't know how to defend them," she said.
The owners often feel the amount "they have to incur to make the problem go away" is "disproportionate to any benefit they may have realized by displaying the game," Overhauser said. That's especially true because the sports promoters also sue the owners individually.
Negotiating Damages
Matthew A. Pare, a lawyer in Chula Vista, California, who said he's defended about 70 such cases, said that because there is strict liability under the law the suits come down to negotiating about damages. Factors that go into that can include the venue's capacity, the number of violations, the number of TVs and whether a cover was charged. He said cases typically settle for $5,000.
Bars and restaurants often have an outside company set up the television system, Pare said. "It's quite often that the owners of these bars don't even realize that their television is set up with a residential account as opposed to a commercial account," he said.
Promoters claim the piracy is intentional.
"There aren't any defenses," Epstein said. "It's like getting caught shoplifting. What are you going to say?"
Fighting Back
Some do fight the suits.
On March 1, U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest in New York threw out a case against Old Castle Pub in Manhattan, ruling the bar didn't intercept Premium Sports Inc.'s signal of a 2010 Scotland-Wales soccer match when it used streaming-media device Slingbox to receive the game from a home in Dublin.
Premium Sports has asked Forrest to reconsider that ruling. Shane O'Rourke, the San Francisco-based company's chief executive officer, declined to comment because that motion is pending.
The cases mentioned are Joe Hand Promotions Inc. v. Noyola, 11-cv-126, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas (Laredo); Setanta Sports North America Ltd. v. Gimenez, 09-cv-2094, and J&J Sports Productions Inc. v. Gutierrez, 11-cv-2651, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York (Brooklyn); and Premium Sports Inc. v. Connell, 10-cv-3753, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).


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Some of the users in our Windows 7 Forum reported a strange problem after upgrading to Windows 7. Some of the connected DVD drives where not recognized by Windows 7. The devices where listed in the device manager with a yellow exclamation mark displaying that there were problems with digital signings.
Windows cannot verify the digital signature for the drivers required for this device. A recent hardware or software change might have installed a file that is signed incorrectly or damaged, or that might be malicious software from an unknown source. (Code 52)
The workaround that helped all users in the forum was to press F8 during boot to turn of digital signing. This would load the drivers for the drives and they could be used normally. This is on the other hand not a perfect solution. To fix the problem that dvd drives are not recognized in Windows 7 permanently do the following:
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1. Press Windows R, type regedit and press enter.
2. Open the Registry key
3. In the right pane, right-click UpperFilters, and then click Delete.
4. Click Yes to confirm the removal of the UpperFilters registry entry.
5. In the right pane, right-click LowerFilters, and then click Delete.
6. Click Yes to confirm the removal of the LowerFilters registry entry.
7. Exit Registry Editor, and then restart the computer.
Note After you remove the UpperFilters registry entry and the LowerFilters registry entry, you may lose functionality in certain programs such as CD recording programs. In this scenario, you must reinstall any affected programs. If the problem recurs, contact the program vendor to determine whether an update is available for the program.
Option 2:
Click on Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Right click Command Prompt -> Run as administrator.
Paste the following line and hit enter afterwards
bcdedit /set loadoptions DDISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
This should solve the problem of DVD drives not being recognized in Windows 7.


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Researchers are developing a plethora of new wireless services that broadly fall into three categories: information retrieval, mobile commerce, and general communications.
Although 3G services are still under development, these researchers are already exploring the architectural needs of next-generation wireless services. Compound wireless services will let users combine different types of services to carry out specialized, elaborate functions. These services could substantially increase the use of wireless telecommunications, but they must meet certain requirements to be successful.

Thaddeus J.A. Kobylarz, "Beyond 3G: Compound Wireless Services", Computer, vol.37, no. 9, pp. 23-28, September 2004, doi:10.1109/MC.2004.120


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That's precisely how the Chargers will approach the final month of the season as they try to make consecutive playoff appearances for the first time in a decade.
The Chargers (8-4), who have won five straight, figure they need to win out in order to reach the playoffs, either by repeating as AFC West champions or as a wild-card team.
That's a tall task, considering that they still must play road games against undefeated Indianapolis and division rival Kanas City, and host division leader Denver in the season finale.
The Broncos lost 31-27 Sunday at Kansas City, leaving the Chargers and Chiefs just one game back, tied for second place as well as the last wild-card spot. The Chargers beat the Chiefs 28-20 on Oct. 30. Pittsburgh's wild-card chances were hurt by a home loss to Cincinnati.
But before the Chargers start running playoff permutations, they need to focus on Sunday's home game against Miami.
"We understand that if we don't beat Miami, then the last three games don't mean as much, because we might already be pretty much eliminated at that point," said Brees, who returned to his efficient self on Sunday night.
The Dolphins are 5-7, but they made up a 20-point deficit in the final 12 minutes Sunday to beat Buffalo 24-23, the biggest comeback victory in 31 years.
San Diego beat Buffalo 48-10 at home two weeks ago.
Coach Marty Schottenheimer, never at a loss for cliches, is sure to remind his players a few hundred times this week to take it "one game at a time."
On Monday, a "talking points" sheet assembled by the PR department was inadvertently included in press notes. Among the points Schottenheimer and players were encouraged to make:
"We have a hard road ahead."
"This is a huge game this weekend if we hope to get to where we want to be."
"Don't use the word 'playoffs.' "
That's not to say the Chargers don't enjoy scoreboard watching.
"I mean, hey, it's nice that K.C. beat Denver and it's nice that Pittsburgh lost," Brees said. "We know this: If we take care of business and win out, we're going to the playoffs, regardless. We understand that if we take care of our business, none of that other stuff matters."
The Chargers got a scare when LaDainian Tomlinson came out of Sunday night's game with a rib injury, but he came back in.
Still, while the winning streak has brought a good feeling, "yesterday was by no means a perfect game," Brees said.
San Diego's offense scored just three points in the first quarter and three in the fourth, although the defense chimed in with Clinton Hart's 70-yard interception return for a touchdown with 6:29 left in the game.
"Everything else was in between," said Brees, who threw two touchdown passes. "Obviously, there's areas where we can get better and we'll need to continue to get better if we want to make this championship run."
Kassim Osgood, a wide receiver and special teams standout, has a torn pectoral muscle that will require season-ending surgery, Schottenheimer said.


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Pale Morning Dun
Genus: Ephemerella
Species: Inermis & Infrequens
1. Emergence: May - August
2. Life Cycle: Egg, nymph, adult, spinner
3. Location: Riffles, runs and flats
in slow-moving water
4. Size: 14-18
For anyone who's ever cast a fly rod across a cool mountain stream, the term "mayfly" is held in lofty esteem. Simply mentioning the word "mayfly" to a fly fisher almost always elicits a smile. And there's no better example of a classic mayfly than the Pale Morning Dun (PMD).
"It's a true mayfly hatch. It starts in May, often in late May, just as the season is starting and goes right through July, usually," explained Scott Schnebly, arguably the most well-known fly fishing guide in and outside the Wood River Valley. Scott's been fishing the waters of central Idaho for four decades and owns Lost River Outfitters in Ketchum.
"The first ones are giant, but as the season and summer comes on they get smaller. The fish have been feeding on micro stuff all winter. It's the first large morsel of the season to eat so they go after them, which makes it great if you're fishing. Anybody can catch a fish on a PMD in the early season when they're going off," he said.
PMDs belong to the crawler group of mayflies. The average hatch lasts for only an hour. The really odd thing about PMDs, according to Schnebly, is that they occasionally all but disappear on places like Silver Creek and the Henry's Fork of the Snake for a few years, only to reappear as prolific as ever.
Scott's favorite PMD imitations are Parachute Sulfer and Trim Thorax PMD. He also recommends long leaders and skinny tippet—always. "It's a handsome fly. It has bright colors and you can see it well. It's really the bread-and-butter hatch on Silver Creek, and most spring creeks and tailwaters," Schnebly said.
-Mike McKenna
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Governor Inslee Says It's Time For Statewide Minimum Wage Discussion
Gov. Jay Inslee says it's time for a discussion on raising the state's already highest-in-the-nation minimum wage. The Democrat's comments Thursday come in the wake of a vote in the city of SeaTac and a new push by Seattle Mayor-Elect Ed Murray to raise the local minimum wage to $15 per hour.
The governor stopped short of calling for a $15 statewide minimum wage.
"I don't have any particular number in mind right now. This is something we need to have a conversation about," Inslee said.
Inslee says Washington's base wage is not keeping pace even though it's already the nation's highest rate and has a built-in annual escalator.
"Look, Henry Ford understand that he had to pay his people decent so they could buy his cars so, yes, I think that having a healthy minimum wage is an actual good thing for the Washington state economy," he said.
Inslee says the minimum wage should be part of a broader discussion about income inequality in an era of globalization.
Earlier this year, Don Brunell of the Association of Washington Business argued the long-term solution is economic growth.
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Subject to the conditions hereinabove set forth with respect to the site of the courthouse, jail, and other offices, the commission may, from time to time, as may seem to it proper, provide, at the expense of the county, a new or other building or buildings to be used for the courthouse and jail, or for either, together with suitable offices, as aforesaid, and for that purpose may acquire, by purchase or otherwise, and hold any lands, or lands and buildings, which may be necessary, and may enclose, improve and embellish the same. When any new or other building or buildings shall be ready for occupancy, the county commission shall make an order declaring that, on a day to be therein named, the new or other building or buildings shall become the courthouse, or jail, or both the courthouse and jail of the county, and shall cause copies of the order to be posted at the front door of the new as well as of the old courthouse, at least twenty days before the day named in the order; and on and after the day named the new or other building or buildings shall become, respectively, the courthouse, or jail, or both the courthouse and jail of the county in all respects and for all purposes. After the change shall have been made the county commission may sell or otherwise dispose of, as may seem to it proper, the building or buildings previously used as a courthouse and jail, or either, and the land on which they are, or either is, situated, and of the interest of the county therein.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this code to the contrary, any county commission providing and maintaining a jail on the effective date of this article shall not be required to provide and maintain a jail after a regional jail becomes available pursuant to the provisions of article twenty, chapter thirty-one of this code, unless the county commission determines that such a facility is necessary: Provided, That such county commission may provide and maintain a holding facility which complies with the standards set forth for such holding facilities in legislative rules promulgated by the jail and correctional facility standards commission or its predecessor, the jail and prison standards commission.
Any United States flag or flag of the State of West Virginia purchased out of the general revenue of the county must be manufactured in the United States.
A petition for such local option election shall be in the form hereinafter specified and shall be signed by qualified voters residing within said county equal to at least ten percent of the persons qualified to vote within said county at the last general election. For the purpose of this article, the term "qualified voters" shall mean those actually voting at the last general election and not those registered to vote. Said petition may be in any number of counterparts and shall be sufficient if substantially in the following form:
Each of the undersigned certifies that he or she is a person residing in ______________________ County, West Virginia, and is duly qualified to vote in said county under the laws of the State, and that his or her name, address and the date of signing this petition are correctly set forth below.
The undersigned petition said county commission to call and hold a local option election upon the following question: Shall the county commission of ________________ County, West Virginia, be authorized to convey (or demolish buildings and improvements located on) the following described real property belonging to the county or held by it for the use of a district thereof: (here insert property description)
_____________________ ____________________ ___________
_____________________ ____________________ ___________
(Each person signing must specify either his post-office address or his street number.)
Upon the filing of a petition for a local option election in accordance with the provisions of this section, the county commission shall enter an order calling a local option election and providing that the same shall be held at the same time and as a part of the next primary or general election to be held in said county. Said county commission shall give notice of such local option election by publication in two newspapers of opposite politics and of general circulation within said county. Said notice shall be given at least once each week for two successive weeks prior to the date of said election. If there is only one newspaper published in said county, publication of said notice therein shall be sufficient.
Each person qualified to vote in said county at said primary or general election shall likewise be qualified to vote at the local option election. The election officers appointed and qualified to serve as such at said primary or general election shall conduct said local option election in connection with and as a part of said primary or general election. The ballots in said local option election shall be counted and returns made by the election officers and the results certified by the commissioners of election to said county commission which shall canvass the ballots, all in accordance with the laws of the state of West Virginia relating to primary and general elections insofar as the same are applicable. The county commission shall, without delay, canvass the ballots cast at said local option election and certify the result thereof.
The ballot to be used in said local option election shall have printed thereon substantially the following:
"Shall the county commission of ________________________ County be authorized to convey (or demolish buildings and improvements located on) the following described real property belonging to the county? (insert description)
(Place a cross mark in the square opposite your choice.)"
If a majority of the voters voting at any such local option election vote "no" on the foregoing question, the county commission shall not thereafter be permitted to convey said real property or demolish the buildings and improvements thereon, as the case may be, unless thereafter authorized so to do.
Nothing herein shall prohibit the county commission from altering, improving and maintaining such real property or the buildings and improvements thereon in any manner whatsoever which does not demolish the building or improvements which were subject to the referendum.
The county commission of any county wherein a majority of the voters have refused permission to convey or demolish specific real property or buildings or improvements pursuant to this section may on its own motion initiate an election pursuant to this section at any primary or general election held in such county after the voters have refused such permission and may restate the description of property or action desired to be taken in such manner as the commission shall determine.
Such county court shall have authority, and is empowered, to make contracts, agreements and covenants between it and the United States government, or the public works administration, or other governmental agency, or bank, or financial institution, or individual, or persons for the loan of funds to said county court, and securing payment thereof as they may be able to effectuate, subject only to this limitation, that the bonds issued, or given as security thereof, shall be payable out of the levies now provided for by general law and by this act; to be levied by said county court in and for the county; to acquire needed real estate, to construct, equip, furnish and maintain a courthouse, hospital, other public buildings or jail including a regional correctional center for either adult or youth offenders which is developed jointly by one or more counties, and to make and enter into contracts, and to do and perform all acts as may be necessary for the construction, equipment, operation and maintenance of the courthouse, hospital, other buildings, jail or correctional center, subject to any burdens, restrictions and encumbrances as it may be necessary to incur and bear, in securing the bonds and the real estate construction, equipment and maintenance.
Bonds issued hereunder shall be exempt from taxation by the state of West Virginia, or any county therein, or any district or municipality thereof.
In case any of the officers whose signatures appear on such bonds or coupons shall cease to be such officers before the delivery of such bonds, such signatures shall, nevertheless, be valid and sufficient for all purposes the same as if they had remained in office until such delivery. The county commission shall by order entered prior to the issuance of said bonds, fix the denominations, times and places of payment of such bonds, the principal and interest of which shall be payable in lawful money of the United States of America. The proceeds of such bonds shall be used solely for the payment of the cost of land, buildings, furniture and equipment thereon, and shall be checked out by the county commission under such restrictions as are contained in the order providing for the issuance of said bonds. If the proceeds of such bonds issued for any courthouse, hospital, other public buildings, jail or regional correctional center, shall exceed the cost thereof, the surplus shall be paid into the fund herein provided for the payment of principal and interest upon such bonds. Such fund may be used for the purchase or redemption of any of the outstanding bonds payable from such fund at the market price, but at not exceeding the price at which any of such bonds shall in the same year be redeemable, as fixed by the commission in its said order, and all bonds redeemed or purchased shall forthwith be canceled, and shall not again be issued.
Prior to the preparation of definitive bonds, the county commission may, under like restrictions, issue temporary bonds, or interim certificates, with or without coupons, exchangeable for definitive bonds upon the issuance of the latter. Such bonds may be issued without any other proceedings or the happening of any other conditions or things than those proceedings, conditions and things which are specified and required by this article.
Upon the question of issuance of such bonds, providing for the payment thereof, the increase of said levies, at least sixty percent of the votes cast shall be in favor thereof, as provided by general law.
(a) The term "hospital" shall mean any general hospital, chronic disease hospital, mental hospital and other related facilities.
(b) The term "clinic" shall mean any community medical clinic, mental health center and other related facilities.
(c) The term "long-term care facility" shall mean any nursing home, rest home, housing facility for aged citizens and other related facilities.
Such board of trustees shall provide for the employment of and shall fix the compensation for and remove at pleasure all professional, technical and other employees, skilled or unskilled, as it may deem necessary for the operation and maintenance of the hospital, clinic, long-term care facility or other related facility; and disbursement of funds in such operation and maintenance shall be made only upon order and approval of such board. The board of trustees shall make all rules and regulations governing its meetings and the operation of the hospital, clinic, long-term care facility or other related facility.
The treasurer for the board shall be the fiscal officer of the board, or an employee commonly designated as the person in charge of the financial affairs of the hospital board or the county sheriff. Upon appointment this person shall be titled and referred to as treasurer of the county hospital. For the faithful performance of this duty, he shall execute a bond, to be approved by the board of trustees of such county hospital, in the penalty to be fixed by such board, not to exceed the amount of funds which it is estimated he will handle within any period of two months. The premium on such bond shall be paid by the county hospital.
The board of trustees of such county hospital may open a bank account, or accounts, as required to adequately and properly transact the business of the district in a depository, or banks, within the county. Such depositories, or banks, shall provide bond to cover the maximum amount to be deposited at any one time. On and after the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred eighty-six, all levies and any other moneys received by the sheriff and paid to the treasurer of such county hospital shall be deposited in these accounts and all proper payments from such funds shall be made by the designated depository or bank upon order or draft presented for payment and signed by the duly authorized signatories of the board of trustees: Provided, That in determining the depository for county hospital funds a board member who has a pecuniary interest in a bank within the county shall not participated in the determination of the depository for such funds.
If it be deemed that sufficient funds are on hand in any account at any one time which may be more than are normally required for the payment of incurred expenses, such funds in the amount so deemed available may be invested by the treasurer of the county board with the state sinking fund commission, or in guaranteed certificates of deposit issued by the depository or bank, or other guaranteed investments such as treasury bills, treasury notes or certificates of deposit issued by either the United States government or a banking institution in which federal or state guarantees are applicable. Interest earned in such investments is to be credited to the fund from which the moneys were originally available.
For the purposes of this section "county hospital" means any county public hospital, clinic, long-term care facility or other related facility acquired, equipped, furnished, improved or extended under section fourteen of this article.
Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2015 Regular Session
The WV Code Online is an unofficial copy of the annotated WV Code, provided as a convenience. It has NOT been edited for publication, and is not in any way official or authoritative.


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Bill to raise the smoking age stalls because of fiscal note
A Texas Senate panel on Tuesday discussed but took no vote on a bill that would raise to 21 the minimum age for buying or possessing tobacco products.
Currently, Texans must be 18 to purchase or possess cigarettes, cigars, snuff and chewing tobacco.
Sen. Carlos Uresti, D-San Antonio, asked for delay so he can "work on" an unwelcome fiscal note that said his bill would reduce tobacco tax revenues by $42.6 million over the next two years.
"Ironically [it] means that we're relying on these 19 and 20 … year olds to smoke cigarettes so we can balance our budget," Uresti said.
The fiscal note was prepared by the Legislative Budget Board. It quotes the comptroller's office as saying "the age change provision would result in an estimated 33 percent reduction in the use of all tobacco products by 18 to 20 year old Texans."
Uresti suggested that any short-term hit to a fund created in 2006 to pay for school property tax cuts would be greatly eclipsed savings in state health care programs over time, as fewer Texans fall ill from tobacco use. He said direct costs of tobacco use exceed $5 billion a year in Texas. Of that, $1.6 billion is paid by the state-federal Medicaid program, he said.
"This is the one disease … that we can prevent if we're forward-thinking," Uresti said.
Melissa Stigler, assistant professor of public health at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said one of every four high school seniors smokes cigarettes. She said the decrease in youth smoking seen over the past decade has stalled, and that new initiatives and regulations may be needed.
"Virtually all tobacco use begins in adolescence or young adulthood," Stigler said. "Ninety-five percent of young … adults who smoke report smoking their first cigarette by the age of 21. Eighty-five percent of them make the transition to daily smoking by the age of 21 as well."
Uresti sought to head off objections that if 18 year olds are old enough to join the military, they should be allowed to decide if they'll smoke, chew or dip. He noted his own service in the Marines. He reminded listeners that the bill's coauthor, Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, D-McAllen, is a Vietnam veteran. Also, the Texas Coalition of Veterans Organizations supports the bill, Uresti said.


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