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Pediatric Occupational Therapist Cindy Utzinger explains why the words "I'm bored." are good to hear!
Have you ever heard your kids say the words "I'm bored"? Well, if you have, you should pat yourself on the back and breathe a sigh of relief for a job well done.
It seems like in our society these days, us parents and caregivers feel this strong urge to keep our kids constantly entertained. I'm here to give you permission to stop the madness: sit down, grab a magazine, turn on your favorite TV show, and let you kids entertain themselves. Not only does this take some pressure off of you, but is very healthy for our children to do so.
Why is this? Self-led play has been proven time and time again to be crucial to a child's development, especially for the development of the cognitive skill called executive functioning. Executive functioning involves a number of elements including working memory, reasoning, problem solving, planning, and cognitive flexibility. But perhaps the most important executive function is self-regulation. This is the ability for kids to control their emotions and behavior, resist impulses, and exert self-control and discipline.
Executive function- and its self-regulation component- is important. Poor executive function is associated with high dropout rates, drug use, and crime. In fact, good executive function can be a better predictor of success in school than a child's IQ. So, by allowing children to get bored and have time for free (child directed play) we can help them gain the tools needed for self-regulation. Wow! I'm sold.
The nice things is that for most children, when given unstructured time, will find something to do. Children are happiest in self-directed play because their play is their work. The problem with one planned activity after another is that they are almost always adult directed. Unstructured play time is child directed allowing them to be creative, use their imaginations, and do their own problem solving.
The best remedy for boredom is to not fill our children's days for them, but to leave some of the responsibility on them of how they can problem solve to cure their own boredom. Some of my favorite ways to see children experience free play is outside. I love seeing my kids go to work outside with a dump truck, a wagon, a bucket, some sticks, water, and a shovel. There is no end to the things they will do with those tools and the ways they will use them. Getting their hands dirty in the mud, picking up sticks, shoveling, carrying, and all of the things included during this free outside play time also give them great opportunities to gain the sensory input that is vital to their development.
I also love free, unstructured art time where they get to create and get their fingers messy. In my house, my kids love to paint and draw on the Standing Art Easel and use the Shape, Model, and Mold Play Clay. The sky is the limit with things they can come up with to create using their own hands and their own imaginations.
So, sit down, relax, read a magazine, and stop feeling guilty about hearing I'm bored!
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Cindy Utzinger is a pediatric Occupational Therapist, handwriting tutor, and founder of Building Write Foundations LLC. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two young children (a son and a daughter). In her free time she can be found running through the streets of her neighborhood to get some exercise or enjoying time on the lake with family and friends. Through her website (www.cindyutzinger.com) she provides parents, teachers, and caregivers with information regarding the importance of building each and every child's sensory foundation and provides ways to help build their sensory foundation and their foundation for learning. Through her website she also blogs and tackles issues dealing with handwriting problems, ADD/ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, and diagnoses on the autism spectrum.
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One person may best present his/her qualifications with a traditional resume, while another may use a functional format. You may need to use more than one style of resume, depending on the positions you are considering. Understanding how and when to use each type enables you to present yourself in the most powerful manner. While these are the basic styles, there are others; and there are variations of each of them.
Learn about a variety of resume styles; don't hesitate to modify them so the resume fits your situation, not vice versa. Check the sample resume notebooks and the books about resume writing on the Resumes and Correspondence shelf in the CDO for examples.
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Organize experiences in chronological order when you want to show that you have uninterrupted, progressively responsible experience (over a period of time) directly related to your objective. Dates are placed in the left margin for emphasis. This order can be useful for experienced candidates to show career progression. It can work against you if your most recent experience isn't related to your current goals or if you have gaps in your employment history.
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In the traditional style, either the job title or the organization name is presented first (be consistent), so that when a reader skims a resume written in this style, that information is most apparent. If you have job titles or organization names that are directly related to the positions you are considering, this style may be effective for you. Example:
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When a reader skims a resume written in the functional style, the names of related skills or functions are most apparent. This is a good way to present skills gained and tasks performed in class assignments, activities and volunteer experiences. If your position titles and organization names do not communicate the skills and experiences you have that are related to your goals, this style may be effective for you.
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In the guest blog below, Michele Lloyd-Puryear, Special Consultant to Genetic Alliance, discusses key findings from a patient-driven data collection effort intended to complement the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) patient-focused drug development initiative which was part of the most recent reauthorization of the Prescription Drug User Fee Act.
Aging is a fact of life but the good news is that life expectancy continues to climb and more and more Americans are living fuller, richer lives thanks in large part to innovative medicines being developed by biopharmaceutical companies. As the baby boomer generation reaches retirement age, the demands on our health care system will continue to rise due to the increasing prevalence of chronic diseases affecting seniors.
A recent Roundtable in Washington D.C. underscored why, with the growing focus on value-based payment in health care, it's more important than ever to focus on the patient. We can't advance patient-centered care if we aren't measuring and incentivizing what matters to patients. We have begun to see this shift in the premarket arena via patient-focused drug development and in comparative effectiveness research at the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
Over the last three years, I have had two c-sections – one for the birth of my 3-year old daughter and the other for the birth of my six-month old twins. Fortunately, I have good health insurance coverage through my employer and didn't have to pay a lot out of pocket for these necessary procedures. The more than $20,000 price tag for the single procedure was almost fully covered and I was happy that I could focus all of my attention on my newborn babies rather than figure out how I'm going to pay my bills.
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Keeping the spirit of innovation alive in the oncology field is paramount to future scientific advances and finding cures. An essential element of innovation is collaboration. Relevant stakeholders coming together and pooling collective knowledge together can ignite the fire that becomes the next big thing to improve the lives of cancer patients.
PhRMA President and CEO John J. Castellani recently joined several patient organizations to raise concerns about patients' access to medicines in the new health insurance exchanges. They discussed findings from a new report by Avalere, commissioned by PhRMA, which shows that many patients, particularly those with chronic disease, are facing exorbitant out-of-pocket costs to access the prescription medicines they need to manage their conditions.
All patients should have access to the medicines they need to manage their diseases, enabling them to live fuller, healthier, more productive lives. Unfortunately, recently-released data paints a very troubling picture of patients' access to medicines in the new health insurance exchanges. Too often patients are being forced to pay exorbitant out-of-pocket costs for live-saving medicines that not only improve patients' health and quality of life, but help prevent unnecessary hospitalizations, ER visits, and costly medical procedures.
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May 05, 2011
Bloomfield — Ten properties were on the Town Board's agenda for its regular meeting in April. Since then, one house was razed because it was deemed uninhabitable. Another raze order was expected to be served last week. The owners of five of them are, according to Town Attorney Brian Schuk, repeat offenders. "Some of these are zoning violations," Schuk said during an April 28 telephone interview. "Some of these people are storing what the town considers junk (and) some are zoned residential and the owners are using them as scrap yards."
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Officials pose questions to voters about sirens, mosquito spraying
January 20, 2011
Genoa City — This spring, voters will have more to decide than who occupies what office. Two referendum questions will appear on the April 5 ballot. The answers to those questions may determine whether the village of Genoa City continues mosquito spraying and using its emergency sirens. The referenda came up Thursday, Jan. 13, during the regular Village Board meeting. Village Clerk Mary Buchert read the questions as they will appear on the ballot.
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Sept. 11 memorial way to fund park development
April 28, 2011
Genoa City - Numbing.Thats how Village Park Commissioner Cheri Borowiec described the effect of Sept. 11, 2001.That morning, she was in the Home Plate, a former village restaurant, when the village clerk at that time came in and told her an airplane flew into one of the World Trade Center towers. She said she went home immediately, turned on the news and watched a second airplane crash into the other tower.
Genoa City to go to bid to get radium out of the water
April 21, 2011
Genoa City The village wants to be proactive in reducing the amount of radium in its drinking water.The village board on Thursday voted to go out for bids on a modification that will allow the villages water treatment plant to remove most of the radium from the water.State and federal regulations allow only 5 picocuries per liter, about five parts per billion, radium in municipal water, said Todd Schilling, village public works superintendent.
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No mud slung along the village president campaign trail
April 14, 2011
Genoa City There are the kind of political races where, if the opposing candidates met at the polls on Election Day, it could feel like watching two gunslingers meet at high noon just seconds before a showdown.But John Wrzeszcz, 68, and Barry Goad, 47, the two who ran for village president April 5 in Genoa City, said they have been friends a long time.And it appears their friendship will endure Wrzeszczs victory over Goad, the incumbent, 257-167.
Department wants to borrow for fire, rescue vehicles
March 24, 2011
Genoa City Bloomfield-Genoa City Fire and Rescue is having a hard time buying equipment on a pay-as-you-go plan.Firefighter Tim Steinmetz approached the Genoa City Village Board on Thursday (March 10) with a plan to allow the fire department to borrow money to buy needed equipment.The fire departments board has already approved the plan, but it would also require approval by the Bloomfield Town Board.
Bomb threat plays role in latest bank robbery
March 17, 2011
Bloomfield A bank robbery involving a bomb threat and a house fire continue to be investigated by local authorities.The Pell Lake branch of First Michigan Bank, formerly First Banking Center, N1264 Park Road, was robbed for the third time in less than a year Saturday at about 8:20 a.m.Town of Bloomfield police, the FBI and the Walworth County Sheriffs Department still are investigating the robbery.
BREAKING - Firefighters battle Pell Lake blaze
March 10, 2011
A morning blaze at a residence on Veronica Road in Pell Lake attracted fire departments from several areas. The fire was called in by the neighbor just after 9 a.m. The house was vacant and recently for sale. Further details about the fire are unknown at this time. See more information and photos from the fire in next week's Regional News. See the website soon for video on the fire.
New shelves, new paint, new fears?
March 10, 2011
Genoa City The three women operating the villages Public Library are in another state of transition. They seem to be in high spirits, finishing each others sentences when discussing the commotion thats taking place.Theyre in the process of reorganizing the library.Theyre adding shelves, painting the walls and moving around various sections which together comprise 21,000 books, periodicals, audiobooks, movies and compact discs.
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March 03, 2011
Linn The state budget turmoil has hit close to home for seven Traver School teachers.At a special meeting Monday morning, the School Board decided to send nonrenewal notices out to warn those teachers theres a possibility their contracts wont be renewed for the 2011-12 school year.During a telephone interview Tuesday morning, Traver Administrator Mary DeYoung described the boards action to issue them with notices of nonrenewal as an effort to cover all bases.
Alleged bank robbers face more felonies
February 24, 2011
Elkhorn Two people charged in connection with the Aug. 31 armed robbery of the Pell Lake First Banking Center face more criminal charges.Shelby L. Kaelber, 21, and David C. Allen II, 23, both of Kenosha, have been charged with felony bail jumping. If convicted of that count, they each face up to six years imprisonment and $10,000 in fines.In 2010, Kaelber and Allen both were charged with armed robbery as a party to a crime. That charge is still pending, but if they are convicted they face up to 40 years imprisonment and $100,000 in fines.
A minor victory for Bloomfields incorporation effort
Judge rejects Lake Geneva, Genoa Citys motions
February 17, 2011
Bloomfield On Monday, Town Chairman Ken Monroe smiled when asked if he was surprised by the outcome of the Thursday, Feb. 10, Walworth County Circuit Court hearing about his communitys petition to turn a 16-square-mile region into a village. At the hearing, Judge John Race denied motions by the city of Lake Geneva and the village of Genoa City to intervene in the towns request. Now, Race is expected to sign an order to that effect by the end of the month and Bloomfields request would advance to the state Department of Administration.
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Jefferson City, one of six Los Angeles-class attack submarines homeported at Point Loma, has received the coveted Battle Efficiency, or "Battle E" award, from the Commander Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet.
The Navy says the Jefferson City, which typically sails with 12 officers and 98 men, won the award because the 361-foot boat had the most proficient crew in its squadron, and "sustained superior technical performance and continual combat readiness throughout (2012)," the Navy said in a statement.
Commander Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet also announced these other Battle "E" winners and their home ports.
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The Virginia State Corporation Commission (Virginia SCC) has recently begun to decline to arbitrate disputes over interconnection agreements despite the fact that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 ("the Act" or "the 1996 Act") 1 expressly grants such regulatory authority. The Virginia SCC's refusal arises as a result of a decision by a federal district court in Virginia - GTE v. Virginia State Corporation Commission - which held that the Virginia SCC is not immune from suit in federal court for actions taken under the Act.
The Virginia SCC's position regarding the implementation of the Act raises significant questions with regard to the efficacy of the Act's application to local telephone markets in Virginia. Unless directly addressed, similar governmental immunity issues will likely also plague any potential electric industry restructuring legislation.
Structure of the 1996 act and why it raises a controversy about sovereign immunity
The controversy over the existence of sovereign immunity under the Act essentially arises from its structure. The 1996 Act - passed by Congress as part of Congress' effort to remove obstacles to competition and entry by new competitors in local telephone markets - requires incumbent local exchange carriers (LECs) to share their local network with competitors. This sharing can be accomplished in one of three ways: Incumbent LECs can agree to allow competing LEC's (CLECs) to interconnect their facilities with the incumbent's existing local network; CLECs may lease elements of existing networks; or CLECs may purchase the incumbent LEC's services at wholesale rates, for resale to retail customers. See 1996 Act, § 251.
If private negotiations between incumbent LECs and CLECs fail to produce an agreement on network sharing (generically an "interconnection agreement"), either party may petition the relevant state public utility commission to arbitrate open issues. See id. § 252(b). Whether an interconnection agreement is completed through negotiations or arbitration, it must be submitted to the state commission, who then must either approve or reject the agreement. See id. § 252(e)(1). Sections 251 and 252 of the Act set forth the obligations of a state commission and the standards a commission must follow in approving interconnection agreements and arbitrating open issues.
If a state commission fails to carry out any of its responsibilities in approving negotiated or arbitrated agreements, the Act provides that the Federal Communications Commission will preempt the state commission's jurisdiction, assume responsibility for the proceeding and act for the state commission. See id. § 252(e)(5). Thus, state commissions are given a choice as to whether they will act to arbitrate or approve/reject interconnection agreements.
When a state commission does arbitrate open issues or make a determination approving or rejecting an interconnection agreement, Section 252 provides a unique appellate process in that "any party aggrieved by such determination may bring an action in an appropriate federal district court to determine whether the agreement or statement meets the requirements of Section 251 and this section." Id. § 252(e)(6). The Act expressly deprives state courts of jurisdiction to review the action of a state commission in approving or rejecting an interconnection agreement. See id. § 252(e)(4).
Virginia SCC decision to refuse to act as regulator under the Act
As contemplated by § 252(e)(6), parties aggrieved by state commission decisions arbitrating interconnection agreements have brought various suits in federal district court. One such suit - GTE South Inc. v. Morrison, et al., Civ. Act. No. 3:97CV493 (E.D.Va. Nov. 7, 1997) - arose out of a consolidated arbitration conducted by the Virginia SCC pursuant to the 1996 Act, between GTE as the incumbent LEC and several CLECs, concerning various pricing issues. The SCC's arbitration order was appealed by GTE by bringing suit in federal court. GTE's suit named as defendants the CLECs and the individual state commissioners in their official capacities. See id.
The state commissioners moved to dismiss the suit on the ground that they were entitled to sovereign immunity. See Memorandum in Support of Motion to Dismiss, GTE, Civ. Act. No. 3:97CV493 (filed Aug. 11, 1997). The district court denied the motion to dismiss under Ex parte Young, which provides that suits against state officials seeking prospective injunctive relief from continuing violations of federal law are not barred by sovereign immunity. See Ex parte Young, 209 U.S. 123, 159-60 (1908). Ex parte Young thus permits a federal court to "enjoin state officials to conform their future conduct to the requirements of federal law." GTE, Nov. 7 order at 4 (quoting Quern v. Jordan, 440 U.S. 332, 337 (1979)).
The district court held that because GTE sought only prospective injunctive relief, under Ex parte Young the commissioners were not entitled to sovereign immunity. See id. The court also held that because the commission voluntarily undertook review under the 1996 Act - which indicates that review of state commission decisions will occur in federal court - it constructively waived its sovereign immunity. See id. at 4-5. 2
In response to the district court's order in GTE, as well as a series of other cases in which Virginia SCC decisions under the 1996 Act have been reviewed by federal courts, the SCC has recently declined to exercise regulatory authority under the 1996 Act over matters that might "arguably implicate a waiver of the Commonwealth's immunity, including the arbitration of rates, terms and conditions of interconnection agreements." See MCImetro Access Transmission Servs. of Virginia, Case No. PUC000225, at 2 (order issued Sept. 13, 2000) (declining jurisdiction over arbitration petition under 1996 Act).
See also, Focal Communications Corp., Case No. PUC000079 (order issued July 19, 2000) (same); Cavalier Telephone, LLC, Case No. PUC990191 (order issued June 15, 2000) (declining jurisdiction over arbitration petition under the 1996 Act and requesting petitioner to indicate whether it wanted to proceed with petition under state law only); Starpower Communications, LLC, Case No. PUC990023 (order issued Jan. 24, 2000) (dismissing petitions for arbitration and encouraging parties to carry requests for construction of agreements to FCC).
In its orders declining to hear arbitration petitions, the Virginia SCC states that although it has been informed by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia that its participation in arbitration of interconnection agreements under the 1996 Act constitutes a waiver of sovereign immunity, it has no power - either through statutory or constitutional grant - to waive the sovereign immunity of the Commonwealth of Virginia. See Cavalier, Case No. PUC990191, at 4. Accordingly, in order to avoid any action that may subject the Commonwealth to suit and "[u]ntil the issue of Eleventh Amendment immunity from federal appeal under the Act is resolved by the courts of the United States," the SCC states that it will no longer act solely under the Act's federally conveyed authority to arbitrate interconnection agreements or take any other action that might waive the Commonwealth's immunity. See id. at 8; MCImetro, Case No. PUC000225, at 2.
Presumably, this would include not only arbitration of interconnection agreements, but also approval/rejection of negotiated interconnection agreements. See 1996 Act, §§ 252(e)(1), (e)(6) (requiring state commission to approve/reject negotiated and arbitrated agreements and granting parties aggrieved by commission determinations under § 252 the right to bring an action in federal court). The Virginia SCC does indicate that it will continue to arbitrate at least some interconnection agreements under its authority pursuant to state law. See Cavalier, Case No. PUC990191, at 8.
Recent federal cases further questioning the existence of sovereign immunity under the Act
More recent federal decisions bear out the Virginia SCC's concern that, by participating in the Act's regulatory scheme, the state commission is subjecting itself to suit in federal court. In fact, the majority of federal district courts - and thus far all federal circuit courts - to decide the issue have determined that state commission defendants are not immune from federal suits brought pursuant to the 1996 Act. See, e.g., MCI Telecomm. Corp. v. Illinois Bell Tel. Co., 222 F.3d 323, 330 (7th Cir. 2000); MCI Telecomm. Corp. v. Pub. Serv. Comm'n of Utah, 216 F.3d 929, 934 (10th Cir. 2000); Michigan Bell Tel. Co. v. Climax, 202 F.3d 862 (6th Cir. 2000). These courts have held that under the doctrine of "gratuity constructive waiver," the state commissions have waived their sovereign immunity by participating in regulation under the Act. See, e.g., Illinois Bell, 222 F.3d at 338-44; Pub. Serv. Comm'n of Utah, 216 F.3d at 938-39; Bell Atlantic-Delaware Inc. v. McMahon, 80 F. Supp.2d 218, 233 (D.Del. 2000); Bell-Atlantic Pennsylvania Inc. v. Pennsylvania Pub. Util. Comm'n, 107 F. Supp.2d 653, 661-62 (E.D.Penn. 2000).
Under this theory, if Congress offers states a gift or gratuity that is not otherwise available to them, Congress may condition the state's acceptance of the gratuity on a waiver of the state's immunity. See Illinois Bell, 222 F.3d at 344; McMahon, 80 F. Supp.2d at 233. Because Congress could have preempted all state regulation of local phone service under its Article I powers, Congress' grant to the states of the opportunity to regulate the local telephone market by participating in the regulatory scheme of the Act constitutes a "gift or gratuity" not otherwise available to the states. Further, Congress conditioned the states' power to regulate local service, on their consent to suit in federal court. See 1996 Act § 252(e)(6).
Accordingly, because state commissions may decline to arbitrate or approve/reject an interconnection agreement under the Act, by voluntarily acting on an interconnection agreement a state commission has thus waived its immunity and invoked federal court jurisdiction over its decisions. See Illinois Bell, 222 F.3d at 344 ("states may waive their immunity by accepting a benefit from Congress that has conditions attached to that acceptance"); Pub. Serv. Comm'n of Utah, 216 F.3d at 938-39; McMahon, 80 F. Supp.2d at 232-33.
But see AT & T Communications of S. Cent. States Inc. v. BellSouth Telecomms. Inc., 43 F. Supp.2d 593, 601 (M.D.La. 1999) (rejecting gratuitous constructive waiver theory, on ground regulation of local telephone markets is a core state function and therefore that states cannot freely decline to participate in regulation under the Act).
Federal courts have held alternatively that even if states retain sovereign immunity from suit for actions taken pursuant to the authority of the 1996 Act, the doctrine of Ex parte Young allows suit to proceed against the individual state commissioners. See Illinois Bell, 222 F.3d at 345; Pub. Serv. Comm'n of Utah, 216 F.3d at 939-40; Climax, 202 F.3d at 867; Bell-Atlantic Pennsylvania, 107 F. Supp.2d at 663; McMahon, 80 F. Supp.2d at 234.
Impact of Virginia SCC decision on enforcement of the Act in Virginia and potential impact of sovereign immunity decisions on enforcement of the Act in other states
The Virginia SCC's decision to decline to arbitrate interconnection agreements under the authority of the 1996 Act means that parties seeking such arbitration in Virginia - and possibly other relief under the 1996 Act - ultimately will need to request that the FCC pre-empt the Virginia SCC and decide these cases directly.
Arbitration petitions, however, typically raise dozens of open issues, the resolution of which can require lengthy and involved evidentiary hearings before an arbitrator. The FCC may not be equipped to preside over the potentially numerous individual proceedings that might be necessitated by arbitration petitions relating to interconnection agreements in Virginia. Aside from the sheer volume of cases it may be forced to handle, the FCC likely is also not as well-equipped as a more local authority would be to consider and decide issues relating to Virginia's local telecommunications markets.
To solve the problem of state commission abstention from arbitration under the Act, Congress could amend the Act by removing provisions for FCC review and requiring state commissions to arbitrate interconnection agreements. However, the validity of the provisions for federal review of state commission decisions may then be called into question: Without the choice to assert regulatory authority under the Act, states cannot constructively waive their immunity under the doctrine of gratuitous constructive waiver. 3
It would seem that the answer may be to amend the Act to provide both for mandatory arbitration by state commissions and state court - rather than federal - review of commission decisions. 4
For now, because states have the choice to take no action on arbitration petitions - and may be subject to federal suit if they do act - other state commissions may follow Virginia's lead and refuse to assert regulatory authority under the 1996 Act in order to avoid being subject to suit in federal court. This possibility could leave the FCC unable to cope with the number of arbitration petitions that may default to it, thereby diminishing the effectiveness of the 1996 Act.
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Federal Travel Regulation (FTR); Payment of Expenses Connected With the Death of Certain Employees
Final Rule.
GSA has adopted as final, an interim rule amending the Federal Travel Regulation (FTR) to establish policy for the transportation of the immediate family, household goods, personal effects, and one privately owned vehicle of a covered employee whose death occurred as a result of personal injury sustained while in the performance of the employee's duty as defined by the agency.
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- A. Background
- B. Summary of Comments Received
- C. Executive Orders 12866 and 13563
- D. Regulatory Flexibility Act
- E. Paperwork Reduction Act
- F. Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act
- List of Subjects in 41 CFR Part 303-70
- Interim Rule Adopted as Final Without Change
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Effective date: November 6, 2012.
Applicability date: This final rule applies to travel relating to employees who died on or after June 9, 2010.
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The Regulatory Secretariat (MVCB), 1275 First Street NE. Washington, DC 20417, (202) 501-4755, for information pertaining to status or publication schedules. For clarification of content, contact Rick Miller, Office of Government-wide Policy, Travel and Relocation Policy Division, at (202) 501-3822 or email at firstname.lastname@example.com. Please cite FTR Amendment 2012-07, FTR Case 2011-308.
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Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5707, the Administrator of General Services is authorized to prescribe necessary regulations to implement laws regarding Federal employees who travel in the performance of official business away from their official stations. Similarly, 5 U.S.C. 5738 mandates that the Administrator of General Services prescribe regulations relating to official relocation. In addition, the Presidential Memorandum, "Delegation Under Section 2(a) of the Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act," dated September 12, 2011, published in the Federal Register on September 15, 2011 (76 FR 57621), delegates to the Administrator of General Services the authority to issue regulations under Public Law 111-178, the Special Agent Samuel Hicks Families of Fallen Heroes Act, codified at 5 U.S.C. 5724d, relating to the payment of certain expenses when a covered employee dies as a result of injuries sustained in the performance of his or her official duties. The overall implementing authority is the FTR, codified in Title 41 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Chapters 300-304 (41 CFR Chapters 300-304).
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GSA received no comments on the interim rule published in the Federal Register on November 21, 2011 (76 FR 71890).
C. Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 Back to Top
Executive Orders 12866 and 13563 direct agencies to assess all costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives and, if regulation is necessary, to select regulatory approaches that maximize net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public health and safety effects, distributive impacts, and equity). Executive Order 13563 emphasizes the importance of quantifying both costs and benefits, of reducing costs, of harmonizing rules, and of promoting flexibility. This final rule has been designated a "significant regulatory action" although not economically significant, under section 3(f) of Executive Order 12866. Accordingly, the rule has been reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget.
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F. Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act Back to Top
This final rule is also exempt from congressional review prescribed under 5 U.S.C. 801 since it relates solely to agency management and personnel.
List of Subjects in 41 CFR Part 303-70 Back to Top
- Government employees
- Relocation
- Transportation expenses
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Dated: October 25, 2012.
Dan Tangherlini,
Acting Administrator of U.S. General Services.
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Accordingly, the interim rule amending 41 CFR part 303-70, which was published in the Federal Register at 76 FR 71890 on November 21, 2011, is adopted as a final rule without change.
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The Oxford Blues club grew from a council run public session in the city of Oxford. These sessions were coached by local ice hockey player – Trevor Joseph who worked on the principle of Fun First, Results a bonus. As the number increased, more parents became interested and at a meeting on the 9th of March 1997, in the squash courts, attended by several parents, the setting up of a club was first proposed.
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Friday, 10 September 2010
Lunch - #1092
You can go to one of the ubiquitous bakery chains and buy a roll with the consistency of cirro-cumulus enveloping a slice of plastic cheese.
Or you can ask the nice lady at one of the cheese stands on the market to cut you a thick-esh slice of a mature cheese from cattle that graze in the Alps and pop it in a wholemeal roll.
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Life's too short to eat junk food.
2 comments:
- Kate said...
Life's too short...period! The lunch you provided looks tasty. You're absolutely right about junk food.
- 10 September 2010 at 13:36
- Virginia said...
Le pain et fromage sont délicieux, n'est pas?
- 10 September 2010 at 18:13
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clues to find our letterbox will take about 25 minutes or so, but we strongly encourage you
to take your time! You will not need a compass, but something to write with will help.
(There is NO fee to enter the park or zoo, but you'll find a donation is well-spent!)
"Numar's Legacy"
Clue 1: In Memoriam
Near the entrance to the zoo, you'll see a place where animals go around in circles all day,
and another place where you can find your favorite animal on a t-shirt or mug. Along the
path BETWEEN these two places is the stone memorial bearing the lion's image and name.
Reading the inscription that FOLLOWS THE DATES, write the following letters, in order,
to spell an important word:
1. The last letter of the seventh word
2. The last letter of the last word
3. The first letter of the eighth word
4. The last letter of the fifth word
___ ___ ___ ___
1 2 3 4
Clue 2: Into the Zoo
Enter the zoo and pass by the exit which immediately follows. There are many paths you
can take from here, but you'll need to STAY TO THE ___ ___ ___ ___ (see Clue 1).
After passing by several animal exhibits, a rest room and refreshment stand, you'll come to
a building where some animals live indoors all the time. Near the front entrance is another
memorial sign -- this one is dedicated to a generous human who helped build the zoo, but
it has something in common with Numar's memorial. Enter and enjoy the exhibits.
Clue 3: Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Facing the exit doors, look at the last enclosure on the ___ ___ ___ ___ (see Clue 1).
You'll see an information plaque for an animal that's named for another kind of animal due
to his markings. The plaque says, "Look for me outside." Exit and head toward where you
can find that animal, among several of his cousins. Look for the sign that describes the
LARGEST of this type of animal ("Large" is his MIDDLE NAME!). Read the sign, and
looking under "Stats:" (impressive, aren't they?), do this simple MATH problem:
SUBTRACT the maximum number they can grow in centimeters ( ___ ___ ___ )
from the minimum number they can weigh in kilograms ( ___ ___ ___ )
and write the answer: ___ ___ Remember this number!
Clue 4: Back on the Outside
When you're finished visiting the rest of the zoo, exit and follow the path that takes you
past Numar's memorial once again. Keep going until you come to an intersection where
the large playground is across the street in front of you. TURN ___ ___ ___ ___ (see
Clue 1 again). As you pass by the restrooms and approach an Education Center named
for two rhyming animal parts, look across the street and notice the picnic pavilion. Take
note of its NUMBER: ___ Remember this number, too!
Directly across from the Education Center, and to the ___ ___ ___ ___ (Clue 1 once
more!) of the pavilion, is a special kind of "golf hole," with a number to match the pavilion.
Carefully cross to that golf hole.
Clue 5: Your Destination
With your back against the "hole," stand to face the nearby SIGN (it's the sign for the
NEXT Hole: "9 - Par 3 - 238 feet"). SUBTRACT the number of the pavilion (Clue 4)
from the number you got in Clue 3: ___ ___ - ___ = ___ ___. Walk that many
PACES into the woods directly in front of you. (Remember a "pace" is two steps, so
count every time your right foot hits the ground) You're looking for a large "V" tree. In
the hollow base of this tree, you'll find the box. (We couldn't find a Lion Stamp, but you'll
find another familiar animal friend you've met along the way!)
Please remember to be discreet, and replace the box well-sealed and hidden.
We'd love to hear of your quest for "Numar's Legacy" -- please drop us a note!
Thank you,
The Reim Family


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New York Times
December 23, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 23 - The first 500 displaced residents of war-ravaged Falluja were allowed in to inspect their homes today, even as American marines and warplanes fought an unexpectedly pitched battle with insurgents elsewhere in the city.
Today was the official start of the resettlement of Falluja, the former insurgent stronghold that was conquered block by bloody block last month, creating a virtual ghost town, with many homes damaged and no electricity or running water.
More than 200,000 residents of the Sunni Arab city some 40 miles west of Baghdad fled the fighting in November and have crammed into tent camps nearby or the homes of relatives elsewhere.
The interim Iraqi government has promised their speedy return to what was once regarded as a center of the insurgency and asserts that despite continued violence it can hold elections in Falluja at the end of January. American officers, citing the scale of physical damage as well as the continued surprise outbursts of combat, caution that it will take months at best to restore vital infrastructure and longer still to create from the ruins the showcase city they have promised.
Today marked a most gingerly of first steps toward repopulating the city, with the enormous obstacles in plain sight.
Only residents of a single neighborhood in the southern part of the city were allowed to enter today. The government estimated this week that 2,000 heads of households would take advantage of the offer, but the turnout was 500, according to the Marines, who closely supervised the visits.
Lt. Gen. John F. Sattler, the local Marine commander, said that the initial returnees were largely male heads of households checking in on the condition of their families' homes and business. He said he expected the number of residents returning to grow as word spread, particularly during Friday prayers sessions.
"When word gets out, the momentum will pick up," General Sattler said in a telephone interview.
The Iraqi government and the Marines had to prepare the ground by building water tanks, giving out water cans to returnees, and providing them with food stockpiles and kerosene to allow for primitive lighting.
In a telephone interview today, the minister of industry, Hajim al-Hassani, said that "we will complete the return of families within the next two weeks, unless there are some difficulties that might emerge."
But the city has been divided into 18 neighborhoods and residents will be allowed back in for escorted looks, like today, one neighborhood at a time, with the next visits planned for three days from now, General Sattler said.
At the end of this first day, it was unclear how many of the people, mostly men, who ventured in for a look had actually decided to move back with their families. It has been too dangerous for journalists to enter the city, which is patrolled by American and Iraqi forces, or to mingle in the refugee camps.
Whether or not they supported the insurgency, which drew together former Baathists, a strengthening local movement of radical Islamists and some foreign Islamists, many Falluja residents were embittered by the violent American siege. So another unknown factor is the spirit of the returning population and how it will react to the close monitoring planned by the Marines, including space-age "biometric" identification of each resident with iris measurements, fingerprints and personal badges for swiping at checkpoints.
Dhia Hussein, 28, who was entering at one of five checkpoints today to go view his parents' home, expressed some of the city's fear, sadness and anger.
In the fall, he bought a house for himself in a different neighborhood, still off-limits, because he was about to marry. "I had just furnished that house and when I left, the fridge was full of sweets and fruits for my wedding," he said as he waited to be searched by Iraqi soldiers. "We've heard that most of the houses have been burned or destroyed."
But his countenance shifted to fury as he then said he had also heard that mosques had been burned. "The mosque is God's house, did you ever hear of anyone destroying God's house?" he shouted.
American military officials and some journalists who witnessed the fighting reported that in some cases militants had used mosques for stockpiling arms and for firing positions, and that American troops had therefore felt justified in attacking them.
General Sattler said that residents who were allowed back into Falluja today were at least assessing the damage of their dwellings, not necessarily moving back for good. He said it could be months before power lines and running water were operating again.
The officer, commander of the First Marine Expeditionary Force, said in a 35-minute telephone interview from his headquarters three miles east of Falluja that American forces working with the interim Iraqi government were prepared to provide up to 10,000 residents with kerosene, drinking water, food and blankets.
Even as the first trickle of residents returned to their homes, a fierce battle between American forces and 8 to 10 insurgents broke out in a northeast neighborhood of the city.
Late in the day, the American military command in Baghdad issued a statement saying that three marines had been killed "while conducting security and stabilization operations" in Al Anbar Province, which encompasses Falluja. But the military said it could provide no further details for security reasons, and it is not known if the casualties were associated with the new fighting in Falluja.
More than a month after major combat ended in Falluja, General Sattler said he had not expected the level of resistance that American and Iraqi forces continue to face in the city. In the past two weeks alone, he said that 100 to 125 insurgents had been killed.
"I would say I am surprised," said General Sattler, who on Nov. 18 said that the offensive in Falluja had "broken the back of the insurgency." "I'd love to be able to tell you we've cleaned out the city, but I can't."
He said it was unclear if insurgents were infiltrating from outside the city, have been hiding in the bombed-out buildings or are popping up from the labyrinthine network of tunnels below the city streets.
They appear to be a mix of foreign fighters (78 are now in detention) and Iraqis, he said. The military has buried 500 insurgent bodies since the major fighting began in early November, and has taken $20,000 in cash (new U.S. $100 bills mostly), from the corpses. Recovered weapons are given to the Iraqi security forces they in good condition, he said.
General Sattler said there were now about 2,000 marines and Navy Seabees inside Falluja, as well as about 2,000 Iraqi military and security. An additional 1,200 Marines and 2,000 Iraqi security forces are on the outskirts of the city and in nearby villages.
Over all, throughout the province, attacks against United States and Iraqi forces are down about 60 percent from pre-offensive levels, according to Lt. Lyle Gilbert, a military spokesman.
General Sattler said the Iraqi interim government had picked the sectors that would open first, and in the three to four weeks since then, the military has focused its engineering fleet, including bulldozers, large dump trucks and ordnance-disposal teams, on cleaning up those areas first. Large pools of standing water also had to be pumped back into the Euphrates River by American and Iraqi engineers.
Returning residents were allowed to drive their cars or trucks up to a checkpoint, inside of which the military has set up and rehearsed a park-and-ride shuttle bus system to ferry residents to and from their homes.
"They can check house see if it's damaged, then get bused back out," General Sattler said. "Then they can go back to get families and move back into the house." But residents first have to show their food-ration cards, and then are fingerprinted and have their irises scanned to receive an I.D. badge. Once badged, family members can swipe it through a machine-reader to enter.
Once inside, residents will have access to one of 24 large water-holding tanks the military has erected around the city. Each large container has a pipe coming down from it with four to eight spigots. A private contractor keeps the tanks filled. Some 40,000 water cans have been made available thus far.
Military engineers have been working to restore the power grid, but with so many lines knocked down during the fighting, General Sattler said, it will be "months before we can make it safe." In the meantime, residents will use kerosene-powered generators for power, which many did even before the offensive, he said.
Generators are already in place at the water-pumping and water-purification stations, and at the city's main hospital, he said.
General Sattler said the plan, also approved by the interim government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, calls for a second, adjacent sector in the northern part of the city to be reopened three days from now. After that, the military and Iraqi government will reopen sectors as conditions permit.
"It could take 30 days or so, or it could be earlier than that," General Sattler said, before the entire city is reopened. "The goal is to have the people of Falluja vote within their town on Jan. 30."
He expressed confidence that elections would take place in Falluja, and elsewhere in Al Anbar Province, though not without further violence.


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Puma AG is a shoe and sportswear company based out of Germany. They sponsor many footballers in Europe and even Usain Bolt, the Jamaican track star. So why has the company branched out to sponsor a team in the Volvo Ocean Race? They've even introduced a line of Sailing Gear, which I have yet to see anyone own. Will Puma remain a long-term sponsor of the sport? Or will they essentially bow out after the VOR is completed? A lot rides on the success of the upcoming stopover in Boston.
Puma currently sits second in the standings, not that the overall finish of the team matters a lot in terms of sponsorship. But when the fleet arrives in Boston, they will be greeted by an American style welcome that hopefully will bring the International sailing community coming back for more and more. "Puma City" will be in Boston for three weeks. A collection of 24 shipping containers, arranged into a multilevel retail store, bar, and event space, should gather some local attention. Antonio Bertone, Puma's Chief Marketing Officer, had this to say about the sport, "A lot of time people see sailing as an elite sport, but we're trying to give folks an opportunity to see that's not the case." Puma is obviously marketing its US involvment not only to elite sailors but also the common man, hopefully bridging their product line with the sensory created by ocean racing.
What does Puma hope to gain out of their "city" in Boston? They are admittingly losing money on the undertaking, Bertone was mum on the cost to create Puma City, simply saying it cost "a lot. Obviously it's not the best of economic times to bring something like this here, but people need something to do," he said. "It can't always be gloom and doom. At the end of the day I kind of look at it as a bright spot." With nightly DJ battles, and other events hosted at the city, Puma is betting that if they build it, they will come. With the College Sailing Semi-Nationals also taking place concurrently, the area will simply be a modern sailing mecca. Combing the most succesful sailing circuit in the US and the most successful ocean race in the history of the sport, hopefully the benefits, both in profits and market gains will help the sport and the companies who sponsor it.
On accouncing Puma's entry into the VOR, CEO Jochen Zeitz said, "We are thrilled to announce PUMA's entry into the Volvo Ocean Race – one of the world's iconic sporting events. The race's global reach, lifestyle appeal and true sporting characteristics match the PUMA brand perfectly and provide PUMA with exciting new opportunities to make a mark in the world of sailing, on and off the water. This continues our strategy to expand into new product categories and explore the potential of the brand." So does this mark Puma's long term interest in remaining in the sport? I half expected Puma to announce an iShares Cup team, one of the other well-marketed and successful sailing events. But perhaps Puma is waiting until their VOR campaign is completed and then will sponsor a German team into the next multi-challanger AC. In the mean time, will Puma continue it's line of gear and funding into specifc regattas? Perhaps Puma will join Acura, Audi, and Rolex as common reggata sponsors.
The future of Puma in the Sailing World has yet to be seen, but one thing is for sure. The success of the VOR stopover will have long lasting effects on how profitable companies see sponsoring sailing in the US. If you will be in Boston in the next few weeks, stop by the city and show some interest, maybe even buy a Puma Cruising Jacket, for only $350. Just think how preppy you'll look now at your weekly club race.
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Dating back to the 1920's, visitors to the Camp Richardson Resort, South Lake Tahoe California, once arrived in Packards and Pierce Arrows. Now they come in Porsches and Priuses.
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A vineyard site planted 100 years ago, abandoned and replanted by the fifth generation; LOST & FOUND.
In the early twentieth century a young Italian imigrant named Domenic Giovanetti came to Sonoma County to work as a quarryman, hops farmer, and wine press operator. He dreamed of establishing a northern Italian-style farm, where his family would be self-sufficient, living off the land and the proceeds from their apples, prunes, and wine grapes. Domenic and his wife, Cate, built their savings and scouted for land. In 1918 they located a magical little valley in the Coast Range west of Forestville.
The youngest Giovanetti child, Dom, seemed to have farming in his blood. He loves animals, drove tractors and operated machinery from an early age, and delighted in harvesting fruit from trees and vines that he had tended.
America entered WWII and Dom was drafted into the army, eventually taking ship for the Phillipines during the bloodiest fighting of the Pacific theatre. Early in 1945 a telegram informed Domenic and Cate that in combat on Luzon their son had thrown himself onto a Japanese hand grenade, sacrificing his life to save several other men.
"The old man lost heart after that," recalls Domenic's grandson, Lee Bartolomei, Catherine and Joe's dad. "The life seemed to fade right out of him." Dom's brother and sisters, thinking he would take on the family ranch, had all moved away to start their own lives.
In the late 1990s Domenic and Cate's great-grandchildren, Catherine and Joe Bartolomei, began restoring the old Forestville ranch. Their first project, even before renovating the farmhouse, was to reclaim the old vineyard. But rather than returning to the generic Zinfandel-based field blend that characterized so many Italian-style vineyards of the early 20th century, Catherine and Joe, along with Catherine's husband, wine writer Rod Smith, decided to plant Pinot Noir.
Meanwhile, Catherine and Joe purchased a historic property near Forestville and founded Farmhouse Inn & Restaurant. As the restaurant earned wide acclaim and a Michelin star, the dream of an estate wine seemed to increasingly dovetail with the Farmhouse vision of local, seasonal cuisine.
It often happens that when an idea is ripe the practical pieces fall into place. Farmhouse Wine Director Geoff Kruth, MS, an internationally prominent Master Sommelier, realized that the Farmhouse staff included a world-class winemaker: Sommelier Megan Glaab. Geoff proposed partnering with Joe, Catherine and Rod to produce a wine from the family vineyard.
The project practically named itself. While researching the family history and discussing the nature of the vineyard, the partners kept returning to one aspect of the property's character
important things eluding the grasp of one generation, only to be redeemed by the next
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The wine is a classically-styled Pinot Noir that expresses the nuances of site and vintage at moderate alcohol—a table wine meant to accompany a great meal.


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Rajaratnam's Defense Has a Tough Job Ahead
With the U.S. government soon to rest its criminal insider trading case against Galleon Group co-founder Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge-fund mogul has a lot of explaining to do. Jurors in Manhattan federal court have spent the last three-and-a-half weeks listening to wiretap recordings of phone conversations implicating the 53-year-old in what the government says is the largest hedge fund insider-trading scheme ever prosecuted.
"We know because, ah, one of our guys is on the board," Rajaratnam told his friend Rajiv Goel in a call taped by prosecutors on Oct. 7, 2008, about the soon-to-be-announced acquisition of PeopleSupport at $12.25 a share. In another recorded call, Rajaratnam asked his friend Anil Kumar, "Should I buy a million?" after Kumar, then a managing director at McKinsey, told him about a transaction involving Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), a McKinsey client. "You cannot go wrong," Kumar replied.
"The wiretaps seem devastating," says Stephen Miller, a former federal prosecutor who is now a partner with the law firm Cozen O'Connor. "And they don't seem to give much room to argue that the tips didn't occur."
Lawyers who have defended insider-trading cases say Rajaratnam must explain his reasons for the trades if he hopes for an acquittal. "Insider-trading charges are among the most difficult charges to beat," says Frank Razzano, a partner at Pepper Hamilton in Washington who won an acquittal for a client in a 2005 case in Ohio. "The only way to do it is if there's an equally plausible explanation" from the defense for why stocks were traded.
The defense team has tried that approach as Rajaratnam battles charges he earned $45 million by trading on inside information in more than a dozen stocks over six years. He faces more than 20 years in prison if convicted. In painstaking cross-examinations of government witnesses including Goel, Kumar, and ex-Galleon trader Adam Smith—who have all pleaded guilty and are seeking leniency in exchange for their testimony—defense attorney John Dowd and his team have sought to prove that Rajaratnam's trades were based on Galleon research or news already circulating in the marketplace.
Now, with the government expected to rest its case as early as the week of Apr. 4, Patricia Pileggi, a partner at Schiff Hardin in New York, says Rajaratnam must further explain why he traded shares of Goldman Sachs (GS), on whose board his business associate, Rajat Gupta, sat. In an administrative action, the Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Gupta of leaking inside information to Rajaratnam. Gupta has denied wrongdoing.
Rajaratnam's best chance may be to argue that none of the tips he received were significant by themselves in his decision to buy or sell stock, Miller says. Instead, Rajaratnam may claim that the tips were parts of a "mosaic" that included public and nonpublic information.
Anthony Sabino, a professor at the Tobin School of Business at St. John's University in New York, says prosecutors will likely belittle any claim that Rajaratnam didn't know he was trafficking in inside information: "They will say, 'You were in charge of a large hedge fund, you didn't really know that you were crossing the line?'"
The bottom line: With wiretap evidence that Rajaratnam got tips, his defense will have to provide alternate explanations for his trades.