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MARTINSBURG - Access to a telephone provides a connection to emergency services and community resources and is vital to all West Virginia residents. During "Lifeline Awareness Week," through Saturday, the Public Service Commission of West Virginia is letting consumers know about two programs, Lifeline and Link-Up, which offer discounts to help residents have access to basic local telephone service.
Lifeline offers savings on basic monthly telephone service. Discounts in West Virginia range from a few dollars to $14-$15 per month. Link-Up can pay for one-half of the installation charge (up to $30) for qualifying households that do not currently have telephone service.
Both programs are offered through companies serving the majority of West Virginia's wire line and cell phone customers.
For more information and to find out if you qualify, call your local telephone company, or click on the PSC's website, www.psc.state.wv.us.
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MORGANTOWN - Lakeview Resort near Morgantown is the site for the annual convention of Mountain State Council of the Blind Friday to Sunday. The weekend kicks off with a student seminar. Plans are being made for a variety of activities. Programs comprise such topics as accessibility of state parks, communication fundamentals (including nonverbal language), nutrition for health and wellness, leadership skills, updates on West Virginia services and programs for the blind and more. Vendors will be displaying and selling products of interest to visually impaired persons. A hospitality/trivia night and a tour of an historic fort are part of the schedule. There will also be door prizes and an auction. The weekend will conclude with MSCB's annual business meeting.
Mountain State Council of the Blind is a nonprofit, state affiliate of the American Council of the Blind. We provide advocacy and support to our members and their families and we encourage each person to be as self-sufficient as possible. We work with state and national legislators to encourage promotion of relevant bills and laws that will further enable blind and visually impaired people to be productive, independent individuals.
To the community, we offer education and information on blindness and accessibility issues that are of concern, and we support people who are faced with losing their sight.
If you have any questions about the convention or MSCB, call Convention Chairman Glen Pinkard at 301-777-8359 or President Donna Brown at 304-822-4679, or visit www.mscbwv.org. All activities are open to the public.
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I encountered an issue with mod_tls running in ProFTPd on a system
behind a commercial firewall package. The system is NAT'd to a
different public IP.
I was using MasqueradeAs and also PassivePorts which should mitigate
most firewall issues. Things worked fine from a client on the same
subnet, but not from beyond the subnet.
The client would send an AUTH TLS command, and the server would send
back its acknowledgement. The client would then proceed to send its
first TLS encrypted packet, but this packet was never received by the
server. The server would think it needed to re-send the AUTH TLS
successful packet, and would do and upon receipt by the client it
immediately killed the connection with a RST.
In our case, turns out our firewall was doing Layer 7 type stuff, and
having recognized the initial dialog as FTP it basically didn't know
what to do with the first TLS packet and saw it as an "RFC non
compliant PORT command" and just threw it away.
We configured the firewall to not try and be so smart (to allow RFC
violations in this case, but disabling the layer 7 stuff completely
likely would have worked as well).
Anyways, this might be useful to others out there. Would be a good
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We begin in Okemos, where Dr. Dennis Perry at Meridian Primary Care says acute bronchitis is going around.
Bronchitis often develops after a cold or other respiratory infection.
Primary symptoms are wheezing and persistent cough. You may also have shortness of breath, fatigue and chest discomfort.
To treat bronchitis, get plenty of rest, drink fluids, avoid exposure to irritants like tobacco smoke, and use a warm mist humidifier. You can use over-the-counter cough medicines.
Asthmatics should follow their prescribed regimen.
See a doctor if your cough is severe, if you have a fever, or if you have chronic lung or heart problems.
Dr. Thomas Stout at Mount Hope Community Medical Center in Lansing is treating sinus infections.
Symptoms include: thick, yellow nasal discharge; pain or pressure around the face, eyes and dental area; headache; congestion; post-nasal drip and a cold that won't go away.
To treat a sinus infection, see a doctor. Typically, antibiotics are necessary.
You can take decongestants, take hot showers, and use nasal sprays.
In Jackson, Dr. Margo Ferguson at Allegiance Family Medicine--Spring Arbor Road is seeing a rise in gastroenteritis, or stomach flu.
Symptoms include: abdominal cramping and pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, chills, clammy skin, low-grade fever and loss of appetite.
It's important to avoid dehydration, so drink small amounts of fluid every half hour. You should also eat small amounts of food, as tolerated.
Avoid contact with others, as gastroenteritis is contagious and easily spread.
The best way to prevent gastroenteritis is to handle food properly, wash hands often, and bleach soiled laundry. Avoid kissing, shaking hands or sharing utensils with anyone who's infected.


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Dear Tony: Thank you for your weekly columns. We read them with enthusiasm and the save the pieces for reference.
We moved into a patio home complex in Campbell River during the summer, not being aware that it was a bare-land strata. I realized when I attended our first AGM that many of the other owners weren't aware of the difference either.
Would you please write a column to discuss the differences — and the ramifications of those differences — between a regular full strata and a bareland strata?
— Sincerely, Helen Weiss
Dear Helen: For some reason, we have had a significant number of inquiries about bare-land strata corporations over the past month. There are many misunderstandings about bare-land strata corporations, partly because there are so many variations in strata plans, and partly because of some of the published misinformation on blog sites. The term "bare land" describes what a buyer is purchasing. You are purchasing a bare lot, with no buildings shown on that strata lot.
They usually host detached homes, mobile homes, recreation sites or commercial or industrial property, but they may also include other configurations, such as attached homes like duplexes or patio homes.
Before you make any assumptions about any type of strata property, it is essential that you review the filed strata plan in the Land Title Registry. The words "bare-land strata" appear on almost every bare-land strata, with a few exceptions. This indicates that you, the purchaser/owner, have an interest in the bare lot and any buildings constructed on that lot that are not shown on the strata plan, and are not the responsibility or interest of the strata corporation.
The other condition that is frequently imposed on a bare-land strata is a building scheme.
The building scheme is generally filed on the title of each of the strata lots, and occasionally as part of the bylaws registered by the owner developer. The building scheme sets out the limitations and definitions of what type of development and construction is permitted on the building sites.
The most common differences between a bare-land strata and building-type strata corporation is that the residence on each strata lot — those buildings not shown on the plan — are the responsibility of each strata lot owner for maintenance, repair and insurance.
Unless otherwise amended in the bylaws where the strata corporation has taken responsibility for certain parts of a strata lot, the strata corporation has no interest in each strata lot owner's buildings.
It is important to remember that beyond the strata lot, there is still common property, common amenities, and facilities that the strata corporation continues to be responsible for. Your common roadways, clubhouses, recreational facilities, in-ground services such as sanitation and water, common liability and risk insurance, management and operations, and depreciation and reserve planning will all be common expenses that form part of your annual budget.
With some exceptions, common expenses in bare-land strata corporations are shared equally, even though the strata lots may vary in size. The registered schedule of unit entitlement frequently shows an equal value of one part share for each strata lot.
Don't be misled into thinking a bareland strata means it's not really a strata, because all other conventions of strata living apply. The Strata Property Act and adopted bylaws of the strata corporation that apply to the use and enjoyment of strata lots, such as rental restrictions, pets, age restrictions and the Schedule of Standard Bylaws of the Act still apply. Whether it is a bare land of two units or 250 units, it is still a strata.
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January Jones loves to experiment with hair colour - she's pulled off platinum, dark brown, red and golden hues - but it�s come at a cost as she reveals hitting the (dye) bottle so many times has resulted in hair loss.
Speaking of her hair �mare, January told Grazia Daily: �I have been every color and now my hair is falling out in clumps. I�m going to have to shave it off and wear a wig.'
At Sunday night�s Screen Actors Guild Awards the star worked her hair into a high backcombed quiff, exposing a small patch of her scalp where the hair appeared thinner than on the rest of her head.
But she won�t let this stop her from being her favourite shade: blonde. But her reasoning is pretty sweet, she explained: �My son recognizes me in photos when I�m blonde, He says �mama.��
But baby Xander isn�t the only one baffled by his mother�s barnet, her family don�t know who she is if she steps away from her signature shade.
January added: �[When I was brunette] I was suddenly invisible. Not just as a celebrity, but to my friends and family. I was like, �Come on you guys, it�s me!��
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Remember back in 2009 when the Department of Homeland Security warned (pdf) against the growth of homegrown terror arising from right-wing extremism? Remember how the howls of protest from the same right-wing politicians who dog-whistle the right-wing extremists into action were so loud that DHS took the report off its website and even disbanded the research unit that produced the report? Here's Daryl Johnson, who headed the group at DHS that produced the report, talking in 2011:
When the right-wing report was leaked and people politicized it, my management got scared and thought DHS would be scaled back. It created an environment where my analysts and I couldn't get our work done. DHS stopped all of our work and instituted restrictive policies. Eventually, they ended up gutting my unit. All of this happened within six to nine months after the furor over the report. Analysts then began leaving DHS. One analyst went to ICE [U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement], another to the FBI, a third went to the U.S. Marshals, and so on. There is just one person there today who is still a "domestic terrorism" analyst.
Since our report was leaked, DHS has not released a single report of its own on this topic. Not anything dealing with non-Islamic domestic extremism—whether it's anti-abortion extremists, white supremacists, "sovereign citizens," eco-terrorists, the whole gamut.
Finally, in February of this year, DHS finally got around to mentioning the right-wing terror threat again:
A new intelligence assessment, circulated by the Department of Homeland Security this month and reviewed by CNN, focuses on the domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists and comes as the Obama administration holds a White House conference to focus efforts to fight violent extremism.
Some federal and local law enforcement groups view the domestic terror threat from sovereign citizen groups as equal to — and in some cases greater than — the threat from foreign Islamic terror groups, such as ISIS, that garner more public attention.
The Homeland Security report, produced in coordination with the FBI, counts 24 violent sovereign citizen-related attacks across the U.S. since 2010.
In a jaw-dropping revelation, the CNN article on the report goes on to note that there may be as many as 300,000 adherents to the sovereign citizen extremist movement.
But it's the white supremacists who now are in the spotlight thanks to the racist terrorism in Charleston last week. And the New York Times is driving that point home by citing a New America analysis of terror attacks in the US since 9/11:
In the 14 years since Al Qaeda carried out attacks on New York and the Pentagon, extremists have regularly executed smaller lethal assaults in the United States, explaining their motives in online manifestoes or social media rants.
But the breakdown of extremist ideologies behind those attacks may come as a surprise. Since Sept. 11, 2001, nearly twice as many people have been killed by white supremacists, antigovernment fanatics and other non-Muslim extremists than by radical Muslims: 48 have been killed by extremists who are not Muslim, compared with 26 by self-proclaimed jihadists, according to a count by New America, a Washington research center.
The slaying of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church last week, with an avowed white supremacist charged with their murders, was a particularly savage case. But it is only the latest in a string of lethal attacks by people espousing racial hatred, hostility to government and theories such as those of the "sovereign citizen" movement, which denies the legitimacy of most statutory law. The assaults have taken the lives of police officers, members of racial or religious minorities and random civilians.
When we go to the New America analysis, we see that half of the deaths from attacks termed jihadist came in a single attack, the one at Fort Hood. There are only seven entries on the list of jihadist attacks since 9/11. On the other hand, there are 19 entries on the right-wing attack list (and the biggest of those, the Oklahoma City bombing, was pre-9/11 and so is excluded from the list).
Despite the trillions spent and lives lost in fighting jihadists "over there" so that we won't have to fight them here, the homegrown threat from angry white males is still stronger than the threat from jihadists inside the country. Just imagine the howls, though, should an extra 300,000 names of sovereign citizen adherents get added to the the Terrorist Screening Database. Meanwhile, panic buying of Confederate flags and guns continues. Angry white males are getting even angrier as they squirm under the spotlight.
I'm not really sure how Detroit is supposed to pursue an arts-based resurgence if the Department of Homeland Security maintains that it can seize any electronics along the nation's borders — which extend 100 miles and therefore include the bulk of the population of Michigan
The Department of Homeland Security's civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation's borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever — all in the name of national security.
The DHS, which secures the nation's border, in 2009 announced that it would conduct a "Civil Liberties Impact Assessment" of its suspicionless search-and-seizure policy pertaining to electronic devices "within 120 days." More than three years later, the DHS office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties published a two-page executive summary of its findings.
"We also conclude that imposing a requirement that officers have reasonable suspicion in order to conduct a border search of an electronic device would be operationally harmful without concomitant civil rights/civil liberties benefits," the executive summary said.
According to legal precedent, the Fourth Amendment — the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures — does not apply along the border. By the way, the government contends the Fourth-Amendment-Free Zone stretches 100 miles inland from the nation's actual border.
I mean, if I were a business of any kind I'd move outside of this 100-mile border zone to protect my company secrets. Though that would up-end a good deal of the US auto industry, which they can't really afford.
This is absurd. The notion that the border exception would expose entire cities (San Diego and, I think, Miami, would be similarly exposed) to this kind of privacy invasion shows how absurd the contention is.
I'll have plenty to say about the Pemanent Subcommittee on Investigation's report on how terrible DHS's fusion centers are. The short version: they're nearly worthless and a big waste of money.
But since DHS is so crappy, it says something that they find the National Counterterrorism Center's Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment database to be equally crappy.
While reporting information on an individual who is listed in the TIDE database sounds significant, the Subcommittee found that DHS officials tended to be skeptical about the value of such reporting, because of concerns about the quality of data contained in TIDE.156
156 Although NCTC describes its TIDE database as holding information on the identities of known and suspected terrorists, DHS officials – who interacted with TIDE data on a daily basis, as they reviewed reporting not only from state and local law enforcement encounters but from encounters by DHS components – said they found otherwise. "Not everything in TIDE is KST," DHS privacy official Ken Hunt told the Subcommittee, using a shorthand term for "known or suspected terrorist."
"Would you buy a Ford?" one DHS Senior Reports Officer asked the Subcommittee staff during an interview, when he was asked how serious it was for someone to be a match to a TIDE record. "Ford Motor Company has a TIDE record."
The report's footnote goes on to describe how DHS's crappy reporting and NCTC's crappy reporting reinforced each other.
Ole Broughton headed Intelligence Oversight at I&A from September 2007 to January 2012. In an interview with the Subcommittee, Mr. Broughton expressed the concern DHS intelligence officials felt working with TIDE data. In one instance, Mr. Broughton recalled he "saw an individual's two-year-old son [identified] in an HIR. He had a TIDE record." Mr. Broughton believed part of the problem was that intelligence officials had routinely put information on "associates" of known or suspected terrorists into TIDE, without determining that that person would qualify as a known or suspected terrorist. "We had a lot of discussion regarding 'associates' in TIDE," Mr. Broughton said.
Mark Collier, who served as a Senior Reports Officer and briefly as chief of the Reporting Branch, recalled another case. An HIR was drafted concerning an incident with a TIDE match, but the TIDE record was based on an FBI inquiry. Later on the FBI ended its inquiry and cleared the individual of any connection to terrorism – but because DHS had filed an HIR on the person, the individual's record was kept active in TIDE.
This reinforcement process carried over into DHS reports that were quashed on First Amendment grounds. Repeatedly, fusion center staffers submitted reports on speech and religion related activities solely because there was some tie between them and TIDE.
One draft reported on a list of reading suggestions by a Muslim community group, "Ten Book Recommendations for Every Muslim." The report noted that four of the titles were authored by individuals with records in a U.S. intelligence counterterrorism database, the Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment (TIDE).
Another cancelled draft HIR reported on a U.S. citizen visiting and giving a lecture at a mosque. The draft contained no derogatory information on the speaker, or the mosque, although it noted that the speaker was once the head of a U.S. Islamic school that had a record in the TIDE database. "There is concern," the drafting officer wrote in his initial submission, "that [the subject's] visit . . . could be to strengthen ties with the . . . mosque as well as to conduct fundraising and recruiting for the sake of foreign terrorist organizations."
Now, as I said, a civil liberties and privacy review (which I'll discuss at more length in a later post) quashed these particular reports because they recorded protected speech. But imagine how many similar reports remain in NCTC or FBI's files, given that they have more leeway to record First Amendment protected activity?
Soon, we'll have the entire marketing plan of Ford Motor Company in our terrorist databases.
I've started reading through J. Edgar Hoover's files the reports a contractor developed for PA's Department of Homeland Security that describe political activism as a terrorist threat; Governor Rendell has made them publicly available here. I'll have more to say about them later (though feel free to add comments on them below).
But for the moment, I'd like to unpack the underlying premise.
The whole idea behind collecting this information and sharing it with private sector entities like oil drilling lobbyists arose as part of efforts to protect our critical infrastructure from terrorist attack after 9/11. US DHS describes the imperative to protect critical infrastructure and key resources (CIKR) this way:
Why is CIKR Protection Important?
- Attacks on CIKR could significantly disrupt the functioning of government and business alike and produce cascading effects far beyond the targeted sector and physical location of the incident.
- Direct terrorist attacks and natural, manmade, or technological hazards could produce catastrophic losses in terms of human casualties, property destruction, and economic effects, as well as profound damage to public morale and confidence.
- Attacks using components of the nation's CIKR as weapons of mass destruction could have even more devastating physical and psychological consequences.
The Homeland Security Act of 2002 provides the primary authority for the overall homeland security mission. This act charged the Department of Homeland Security with primary responsibility for developing a comprehensive national plan to secure CIKR and recommend "the measures necessary to protect the key resources and critical infrastructure of the United States." This comprehensive plan is the National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP), published by the Department in June 2006. The NIPP provides the unifying structure for integrating a wide range of efforts for the protection of CIKR into a single national program.
And here's what the federal government's Department of Homeland Security considers critical infrastructure, which is how the ITRR organized the reports it gave to PA's DHS:
So you see, because "attacks on CIKR could significantly disrupt the functioning of government and business alike and produce cascading effects far beyond the targeted sector and physical location of the incident," PA (and surely other states) are collecting information about the lawful political organizing of anti-drilling and animal welfare activists, among others.
What I want to know is why we regard terrorist attacks to be the greatest threat to our transportation system? To our water? To our food system?
And most of all, to our banking and finance system?
Just to take one example, who do you think is a greater risk to our oil and gas infrastructure? A bunch of hippie protesters trying to limit drilling in the Marcellus Shale and thereby protect the quality of their drinking water (which is, itself, considered critical infrastructure)? Or PG&E, which sat on knowledge of an extremely high risk pipeline for three years even after setting aside the money to fix it?
Three years ago, PG&E asked state regulators for permission to spend $4.87 million to replace a section of the pipeline associated with the pipe that exploded in San Bruno last Thursday. The 1.42-mile section that ran under South San Francisco, which is more heavily populated than San Bruno, was considered extremely high risk and in need to replacement. Last year, the utility company made a similar request to replace a larger section of the same pipeline, at a cost of $13 million. Rate increases were approved and the plan should have gone forward. Sadly, nothing was done and lives were lost.
The South San Francisco pipeline replacement project was dropped down on the priority list and the money allocated for the work was spent elsewhere. Many experts and laypersons alike are now asking, why didn't PG&E replace pipes they knew to be extremely dangerous?
And while multiple layers of government make sure the PG&Es of the world know about those hippie protesters, they can't be bothered to require the utilities or pipeline operators to actually return the favor by revealing where the pipelines at risk of explosion are.
In a letter sent Friday, the executive director of the California Public Utilities Commission, Paul Clanon, sought the location of each pipeline segment on the list as well as a "detailed description of the criteria PG&E uses in deciding which pipeline segments to characterize as high-priority projects."
Clanon defended the delay in seeking the list, whose existence PG&E disclosed as early as 2007, saying the agency didn't see the need for the information before. Just because a site is on the list doesn't necessarily mean it is dangerous, he said, adding that it's not his agency's role "to run the day-by-day activities of the utility."
Leave aside our wholesale neglect of these elements of critical infrastructure themselves–the crumbling of our pipelines and roads and financial system because neither the public nor the private sector want to spend the money and time to keep them together–and focus on the information gathering part of it.
Because terrorism is somehow a greater threat to our country than PG&E's neglect or Wright County Egg's negligence or Lehman's greed, we collect and share information on hippies. But not on the pipelines that will explode of their own accord, with action from neither hippies nor terrorists.
Updated to fix typo, "Communities" instead of "Communications."
Mark Hosenball reports that Dianne Feinstein and other Senate Dems have accused the Department of Homeland Security's spooks of using right wing propaganda to develop finished intelligence reports on Muslims. By looking at this paragraph from last year's intelligence authorization…
The Committee has raised a number of concerns with reports issued by the Department of Homeland Security OIA that inappropriately analyze the legitimate activities of U.S. persons. These reports raised fundamental questions about the mission of the OIA and often used certain questionable open source information as a basis of their conclusions. The Committee recommends that the next Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis conduct a comprehensive review of the quality and relevance of the intelligence products produced by the OIA, and provide this review to the congressional intelligence committees within 180 days of enactment.
And analyzing the language from this letter from Russ Feingold and Jay Rockefeller, Hosenball credibly argues that DHS used David Horowitz' DiscoverTheNetworks.org as a source for a least one intelligence report on a US Islamic leader. (The letter cites the tagline, "identif[y] the individuals and organizations that make up the left," a term Horowitz has used.)
Among others targeted by Horowitz' site–though not all Islamic leaders–are Keith Ellison, Arianna Huffington, and Kos. And, ironically enough, Janet Napolitano.
Hosenball also notes that the report on the Islamic leader using Horowitz' site was developed for DHS's Civil Rights Office, and from there, was circulated to other intelligence agencies.
Congressional officials say the Homeland intelligence report that particularly angered Feinstein and other committee members is still classified. Nevertheless, three current and former intelligence officials, requesting anonymity when discussing sensitive information, say the report in question is a profile of an unnamed but prominent American Islamic leader and was produced by Homeland Security's intelligence office during the latter years of the Bush administration. The report was requested by the Department's civil rights office, whose officials were preparing to meet with the Islamic leader. But instead of sending the civil rights office a quick bio of the individual in question, Homeland's intelligence office issued a "finished" intel report that was circulated to other intelligence agencies and, eventually, to Congressional oversight committees.
In other words, Michael Chertoff was using the Civil Rights Office at DHS as the impetus to develop finished intelligence reports based on the First Amendment activities of Americans.
Remember the firestorm last year when wingnut groups learned DHS did a report–initiated by the Bush Administration–on right wing extremist groups?
The report, "Right-wing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment," said right-wing extremist groups may be using the recession and the election of the nation's first African-American president to recruit members.
The report, which was prepared in coordination with the FBI, was published last week. It was distributed to federal, state and local law enforcement officials. Mainstream media picked up the story after it was reported by conservative bloggers.
I wonder if they'll show the same alarm with this report?


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He was a handsome young fellow -- resting on a fence post in Southwestern Montana. Where was he headed -- and where had he been? It turns out the chocolate brown prairie falcon was born here in the East Bay -- and flew all the way to Montana's Centennial Valley sometime last month.
He was "probably the most approachable prairie falcon I've ever met in the wild," says photographer Ron Dudley, who got close enough to see a big chaw of grasshopper in the bird's beak. He also saw something else -- a green band on its left leg that was issued to Doug Bell, a wildlife program manager for the East Bay Regional Parks District.
Bell's team had banded the bird and its two baby siblings May 31 after a harrowing climb to the nest, which had fallen out of a tree and onto a narrow rock ledge in the Diablo Range.
"Assuming that he fledged at about 38 days of age, this very young bird made it all the way to Montana less than six weeks later," writes Dudley on his wildlife website.
If you've ever wondered where birds go when they take to the air -- this story will capture your imagination. Check out the photos at http://featheredphotography.com/blog/2013/08/01/banded-prairie-falcon-update/.
Around town: Speaking of birds, be on the lookout for dead birds or squirrels that may be carrying the West Nile Virus. A dead jay found on Ironwood near Elysian Fields has tested positive for the disease, which is spread by mosquitoes. The CDC says to drain any standing water where mosquitoes might breed and be aware of the symptoms, which can be severe for about 20 percent of all cases. See http://www.cdc.gov/westnile/symptoms/
Village news: Montclair's new street banners really pop -- and are actually part of a puzzle. Local artist Ron Rifkin says the four different banner designs all fit together to form one image of the Village, which will eventually be painted on a mural in Montclair. Rifkin's shop, The Design Office, worked closely with Oakland illustrator Michael Wertz on this project. You can also see their work at the annual Oaktoberfest on Oct. 5.
Better branding: What's in a name? Visit Oakland is about to find out after hiring a Chicago advertising agency to develop a destination brand. CHWA, with an office in Emeryville, will come up with a plan to market Oakland as travel destination for individuals and group conventions. Speaking of marketing, August 20 is the deadline for photographers who want to enter the Faces of Oakland photo contest. For details and prizes, see visitoakland.org/photocontest.
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OAKLAND -- The victory celebration was muted, as it should have been after an outcome that provided more relief than joy.
The Raiders had spent the first half Sunday being blown off their home field by a one-win Jacksonville team utilizing backups at quarterback and running back. The Raiders' coaches were getting schooled, their fans getting anxious.
So the coaching staff wised up at halftime, and the players came out and fought back. They transformed without a minute to spare.
They did this by reaching for their most reliable offensive weapon, one they don't use often enough.
They unleashed the no-huddle offense, which provided the energy for the comeback that resulted in a 26-23 victory over the Jaguars in overtime.
Coming to the rescue at halftime was none other than disparaged offensive coordinator Greg Knapp, who first lit into his sagging troops and then directed quarterback Carson Palmer to use the no-huddle offense.
"It's just a great change-up," Palmer said. "That defense was tired. Coach Knapp said to go with it. It was a great adjustment at halftime. We talked about what we were going to do with it.
"We hadn't planned on using a ton of it."
Maybe, having barely avoided embarrassment, it is time to change the plan. Maybe, with a 2-4 record and a sputtering run game, it's time to see if your veteran quarterback would be more effective operating freely within the no-huddle offense.
Not that it has to become the base offense, used on every possession. But surely there is enough evidence to consider using it on many possessions in most games -- especially when the huddle package is foundering.
"We're not going to be just a no-huddle and use it exclusively," coach Dennis Allen said, "but it will be something that we're going to use from time to time to maybe help us get in a little more rhythm or give us a little spark. I felt like it did that today."
No doubt. The Oakland offense looked listless and inept in the first half, after which it jogged into the locker room trailing 17-6 and having to digest rousing disapproval from the 51,634 fans at the Coliseum
The Raiders gained 127 yards in the first half, 224 afterward. They scored zero touchdowns in the first half, two in the second. Moreover, they looked fully engaged and widely inspired.
"It's a natural tempo-changer," fullback Marcel Reece said.
Indeed, with Palmer under siege -- Oakland's offensive line got worked by the Jags -- and Darren McFadden still under control, the no-huddle offense is their best friend.
It was a key component of the Raiders' only other victory, 34-31 over Pittsburgh on Sept. 23, and it was largely responsible for a season-high 474 yards in total offense in a 23-20 loss a week ago at Atlanta.
Raiders coaches insist the no-huddle is not the answer, that it's hardly the panacea for their ailing offense. The players generally agree.
"I'm sure we'll use a little bit of it," Palmer said. "Some weeks, we'll use a lot. If you're not in a rhythm, there's only one way to go. Coach Knapp did a good job of getting us into it today. The timing of it was right.
"But it's not our offense. We have good plays in the huddle system, and we have good plays in the no-huddle system. But we're not going to completely rely on it."
It's as if everyone is reading from the same organizational manual: The no-huddle offense is a tool of convenience, something to reach for when we need a boost.
Thing is, this team needs a boost, any boost, certainly on offense.
It also might behoove the Raiders to let Knapp reveal his creative side while putting more responsibility on Palmer. He's not Peyton Manning, but he's hardly JaMarcus Russell.
"There's communication between (Palmer) and Greg Knapp," Allen said. "But at the end of the day, Carson makes the final decision on what plays we're running, based off the game plan and what we feel like we can do to exploit their defensive structure."
So the question, then, is this: Is Palmer up to the task?
"I'm comfortable with whatever (the coaches) want to use -- with whatever works," he said. "Today, the no-huddle seemed to work."
The no-huddle pulled the offense out of a hole that might have been as much mental as it was physical. It kept the Raiders from losing to perhaps the league's worst team.
It's one of this team's strongest features, and these Raiders aren't good enough to dismiss a component that saved their backsides.
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Seawind Group Holdings released out of Voluntary Administration
by Brent Vaughan on 10 Oct 2012
New Seawind 1160 built in Vietnam that was launched on Botany Bay Seawind Catamarans
The holding company of Seawind Catamarans and Corsair Marine, Seawind Group Holdings Pty Ltd, was released out of Voluntary Administration on October 9th 2012 by the Administrators, BRI Ferrier.
As a result, the company is pleased to be back to business and fully operational.
Thanks to the support from Seawind's long established suppliers and creditors, the Administrators brokered an agreement to allow the company to move forward without any external administration and get back to building the award winning range of cruising catamarans that the company are renowned for around the world.
This course of action was recommended by BRI Ferrier after a formal assessment of Seawind's financial position.
Seawind's Managing Director, Richard Ward, comments, 'This year has been the most challenging in the 30 years I have been in business, however I have been humbled by the support of our suppliers and would like to offer my thanks to give Seawind this opportunity to move forward and focus on the next 30 years of building great multihulls.'
The net result of the administration process will see a restructure of the manufacturing operations with the closure of the Australian production facility located in Wollongong.
This is a sad outcome for Seawind after 30 years of continuous Australian production but the Directors of the company feel that there was little other option. Regrettably, high manufacturing costs and the continuing strong Australian dollar have meant the Australian built catamarans have become uncompetitive against the many imported models.
Following the completion of the last three Seawind 1250's on order, one of which has just been launched and delivered to a delighted new owner, future production of the Seawind 1250 will likely move to the Seawind / Corsair Marine facility in Vietnam, where the Seawind 1000XL2 and Seawind 1160 are already being built alongside the range of high performance Corsair trimarans and the magnificent Corsair 50ft catamaran.
Corsair Marine, originally based in California, USA, has been established for over 25 years, with the last six years of production in Vietnam.
Since moving production to the Corsair Marine factory, several boats have already been shipped to Australia and launched including Seawind 1000XL2's and Seawind 1160's, with many more on order scheduled to soon ship to Australia, the USA and Dubai.
An imported Seawind 1160 arrived by ship and launched just this week from Botany Bay's shipping terminal in Sydney.
Seawind Catamarans will continue to offer after sales service and warranty support for future and existing Seawind owners in Australia and around the world, either directly from Seawind itself or through the Multihull Central company whose headquarters are in the purpose built multihull marina of Rozelle Bay, Sydney Harbour.
This year Seawind celebrates 30 years of manufacturing catamarans and this restructure has now positioned the company to be more competitive in a global market and expand into export markets not before accessible due to the high Australian dollar and high costs of manufacturing in Australia. The company remains 100% Australian owned.
Seawind will be attending the Mandurah boat show in Perth this weekend and the 14th annual Seawind Pittwater Regatta will be on again at the end of the month.
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By Sgt. 1st Class Andrew Kosterman, B Company, 1st Battalion, 145th Aviation RegimentJune 20, 2013
FORT RUCKER, Ala. (June 20, 2013) -- A centuries-old tradition was carried out on Howze Field in a change of command ceremony for the 1st Aviation Brigade June 14.
Col. Brian D. Bennett relinquished command to Col. Shawn Prickett under an overcast sky with Maj. Gen. Kevin W. Mangum, commanding general of the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence, serving as the reviewing officer.
In his remarks, Mangum lauded Bennett's performance as commander of the Golden Hawks brigade.
"Today, unfortunately we must bid farewell to a great Soldier, warrior, leader, coach and commander who served as the standard bearer for the past two years, leading by his very quiet and competent example," said Mangum. "(Bennett) made significant and lasting changes to our programs, ensuring we reap maximum benefit from every training dollar we spend. His body of work resulted in well-trained well-prepared Soldiers."
Bennett thanked members of his former unit for their dedication and service.
"For two years it's been a privilege to walk among this stalwart group of leaders and mentors charged with forming the next generation of Aviation Soldiers," said Bennett. "Every day has been a reminder that leadership and leaders matter. "
Bennett will move on to serve as the chief of staff for Combined Security Transition Command -- Afghanistan in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Prickett said he is "honored, humbled and proud to take charge" of the brigade. He added that as a result of Bennett's service, there's "little room for improvement."
Prickett, a Morgantown, W.Va. native, is a United States Military Academy graduate. He was commissioned as an Aviation officer in 1991. Prickett is a Senior Army Aviator who has served in numerous assignments, including duties at Fort Polk, La., and Fort Hood, Texas, and assignments with special operations in South Korea. Most recently, he served as the director of training and doctrine at the USAACE.
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It was 1983 and on television was a 25th anniversary special for Motown Records. Michael Jackson had released the album "Thriller" and it was already a monster and everyone was excited about seeing him perform on the show.
Michael Jackson performed "Billie Jean" and his performance will always be remembered by everyone who saw it as the night that Michael Jackson's fame would take off in the direction that would eventually lead him to become the King of Pop.
You have to understand, Michael Jackson was MAJOR. It was a more simple time in 1983. You could get away with wearing one sequined glove, high-water pants and sequined socks. You could get away with bringing "Webster" to the Grammys as your own personal pet while having Elizabeth Taylor as your best friend. While it was a precursor to the pieces of flair that Jackson would continue to drop on us, we just considered it original back in the day.
Anyway, back to the performance. While "Beat It" and "Thriller" may have been the bigger songs (maybe they weren't, I don't know), Billie Jean was the one that was closest to the style that he developed with his previous album, "Off the Wall." Many of the kids in junior high with me knew about the moonwalk, but it wasn't really a move that most of America had seen yet. When Michael unleashed it towards the end of the performance, it became the reason why TIVO was invented.
For whatever reason we had taped that show and I remember going upstairs and getting ready for bed after it was over. As I headed into my room, I heard Jackson's performance again so I went downstairs to see what was going on and there was my mom watching it again and rewinding the VCR tape back time and time again to watch him do his moonwalk.
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- 6 purchases you should always charge on a credit card. Two of the most common features that consumers consider when they use a credit card are the interest rates and rewards. For Greg McFarlane, author of "Control Your Cash: Making Money Make Sense," the most important feature of all is one that few people even recognize: "The main thing I care about as a consumer is the protection a credit card gives me," he says. TODAY Money
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