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4 June, 2005: India's private airline carrier Jet Airways has run over an unexpected hurdle which it encountered in US terrain: A namesake.
Jet Airways Inc, a registered airliner based in Bethesda, Maryland, put up a hurdle to Jet's ambitious US foray by dragging an Al Qaeda, Dawood connection to the Indian private carrier. It wanted the Indian Jet to be barred from flying to US.
In a complaint filed to the US Department of Transport on May 23, the Delaware-based Jet said permitting Jet would endanger US national security as the Indian carrier "had Al Qaeda" links.
The US Jet's complaints, filed on May 23, 21 days after Jet filed its application,
were based on some unconfirmed media reports in India. Jet Airways Inc said its Indian namesake was funded by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim, since it was launched in 1991. Gangster Dawood Ibrahim is in UN's most wanted list of individuals having links with Al Qaeda, founded by terror mastermind Osama bin laden.
The US Jet's complaints were as wild and unsubstantiated as the media reports it were based. Sample this: ""Secretary (Department of Transportaion) Mineta would never welcome Jet Airways (India) if he was made aware of Naresh Goyal (Chairman of Jet Airways, India0 and Dawood Ibrahim's plan to inflict real and imminent danger on the United States."
Jet (India) slammed the allegations as "sensational, unsupported and offensive but also scurrilous". In its reply filed last month, Jet India said the complaint has " falsely accused the Jet Airways of being an "Al-Qaeda airline" and has otherwise attempted to besmirch the reputation of the company and its chairman"
Jet India said in its reply that all aircraft acquisitions and operations have been financed through internationally accredited multilateral institutions and banks including the Export Import bank of US, International Finance Corporation and other reputed banks and FIIS.
The US Jet, which does not even have an aircraft in its possession, didn't seem to have much takers among US authorities. Jet Airways India has a fleet of 42 aircraft.
It was also the lone objection raised against Jet India's plans.
The Port Authority of Newark has rubbished the US jets claim. It has supported the Indian Jet's entry with the US Department of Transport. Jet has selected Newark as its first destination in US for its Mumbai-US flight.
The complaint against the Indian airliner comes as the US Department of Transport
gives 21 days for other parties to raise objections on any new entrant. Media reports say the US Jet was more concerned about the trade name Jet and that the Al Qaeda-Dawood link was just a ruse to stir up anti-terror passions in the US a bid to block the Indian airline's entry.
The Indian Jet has apparently employed a battery of lawyers to tackle the issue.
The issue is now with the US Homeland Security.
Jet Airways India had come out with a hugely successful Initial Public Offering recently, which was oversubscribed 12 times. This was the first IPO by an airline company in India.
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Those who registered on this website to attend the forum were asked to relate episodes or success stories about bullying. They also had a chance to ask what they wanted to learn at the forum. Here's what they had to say. Return to forum main page | More about bullying
"Bullying is a real thing, and it is a scary thing for the ones that are being tortured."
"Last year a fifth-grade student at my school was giving two bullies his lunch money to 'protect' him."
"My nephew has been bullied in school since first grade. He is in third grade, and the bullying continues. School authorities were notified, but no action was taken."
"I understand that the one who bullies has problems that need to be addressed in a caring manner."
"One male student text-messaged something vulgar to a girl in his class. It happened out of school, but behavior that occurs in or out of school affects a student's ability to receive an education. The principal didn't agree."
"Do you think there is a relationship between bullying and underage drinking?"
"What can a student do to stop bullying in schools?"
"My foster daughter is struggling with peer group pressure, bullying, cyberbullying, pressure to make unhealthy and dangerous choices, and threats."
"I'd like to know more about prevention techniques."
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"Enforcement of anti-bullying laws at schools is a problem."
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Definition of panache in English:
- It is cute, astute, cerebral football, a mirror image of their studious manager though with an added dash of style and panache.
- Flaws cannot be concealed by style and panache.
- It just confirms what local men in the know have always stressed - Kerry women have few equals when it comes to style and panache.
- This picture shows us how to wear a plumed helmet with a warrior's panache.
- Made of a colorful lame fabric the crown is wrapped with brown velvet and adorned at the side with brown ostrich feather panache.
Mid 16th century: from French, from Italian pennacchio, from late Latin pinnaculum, diminutive of pinna 'feather'.
Soldiers in the 16th century would often wear a tuft or plume of feathers in their helmets. This tuft or plume was the original panache, a word that goes back to Latin pinnaculum 'little feather' from pinna 'feather, wing, pointed peak'. Men trying to give an impression of elegance or swagger would imitate the fashion, whose stylish associations gave rise to the modern sense, 'flamboyant confidence', in the late 19th century. Pinnaculum is also the source of pinnacle (Middle English), and pinna of a bird's pinion (Late Middle English), and of pen and pin.
Words that rhyme with panacheabash, ash, Ashe, bash, brash, cache, calash, cash, clash, crash, dash, encash, flash, gnash, hash, lash, mash, Nash, pash, plash, rash, sash, slash, smash, soutache, splash, stash, thrash, trash
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Story by Wendy Newcomer
As a child, Faith Hill listened to the songs of her idol, Reba McEntire, and dreamed of the big time. But she also worshiped the music of another diva - the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin.
On Faith's new album, Cry, she indeed channels Aretha, cutting loose with emotional songs that capture the down-home soul of her live shows.
"I've finally been able to find a way to record what I do live and translate it to an album," says a satisfied Faith, who's in L.A. taking a break from taping her upcoming NBC TV special. "I'm so happy. The music that I grew up with has always been in me. Now I've been able to find the material that allows me to sing it."
Immediately after recording the multiplatinum album Breathe, Faith began looking for songs for Cry. She listened to several thousand tunes.
"I put the word out that there were no limits on songs," she says. "I said, 'If you think something is going too far, send it. If you think something's not far enough, send it.' I wanted everyone to understand I was OK with singing about anything."
And that included heartbreak. "I do have a great love story in my life," admits Faith of her six-year marriage to superstar Tim McGraw, "but the most enjoyable songs to sing are those with drama or sadness. They take you to another place.
"There's a song on the album called 'One,'" she explains, "written by Bekka Bramlett, Billy Burnette and Annie Roboff. It's got funk and soul. I wanted to say something about a love story that wasn't so positive.
"It's kind of boring," she adds with a chuckle, "to hear 'skippity doo-dah, la-la, love is good' all the time, 'everything's perfect!' Life isn't that way - and these songs represent that."
Faith's new single, "Cry," is another sad song that looks at the end of a relationship. But Faith saves her own tears for other things.
"I cry when one of my girls falls and scratches her leg or something," she confides. "I cry when I see a family on television that's happy. To see someone who's lost. To see a child who doesn't have a home or is sick or has been taken away from their family for some inhumane reason. To see any kind of hurt to animals. I cry over a lot of things, but happy things, too. I'm a very emotional person."
With a heavy schedule and three daughters to take care of, Faith has learned how to balance her emotions in the sharp glare of the public eye. She does admit to a secret weapon, though.
"I've got an incredibly supportive husband," she notes, "and I do lean on Tim a lot. But some things you just have to go through yourself, especially as a woman. Silly, crazy things - like 'I hate the way I look,' or 'No matter what I do, I'm just not happy with myself.' That kind of PMS stuff."
It's hard to believe that this Cover Girl has issues with her looks. But Faith says it's true.
"Absolutely," she emphasizes. "I go through all of those things, just like everybody else. There are quirky little things about myself that I absolutely hate."
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WASHINGTON — Three members of the House of Representatives including two Republicans and one Democrat, have filed a bill that would in essence rescind a portion of the new Hours of Service rule, delaying use of the current 34-hour restart provision until an independent assessment of the rule is complete.
Reps. Richard Hanna, R-N.Y., Tom Rice, R-S.C., and Mike Michaud, D-Maine, said the new rule is taking a toll on truck drivers and the trucking industry, which the lawmakers called "the lifeblood of the American economy."
The bill, entitled the "True Understanding of the Economy and Safety Act, or the "TRUE Safety Act, has not been assigned to a committee, although logically it would be sent to the Highways and Transit subcommittee of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
Highlights of the TRUE Safety Act include:
• Allow truckers to operate under the 34-hour restart rules that were in place before July 1, 2013.
• Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to conduct an independent assessment of the methodology FMCSA used to come up with the new 34-hour restart rule.
• Prohibits the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration from applying the new restart rule if the findings of a current FMCSA study are contrary to FMCSA's in-house lab studies used to support the initial restart rule. The current FMCSA study on the effectiveness of the new 34-hour restart provision was mandated by Congress in MAP-21.
• Under no circumstances could the new 34-hour restart rule be re-implemented sooner than six months after GAO submits its assessment to Congress.
The FMCSA, while reiterating its stance never to comment on pending legislation, nevertheless defended the method with which it developed the new 34-hour restart.
"Safety is our top priority and the FMCSA is committed to reducing truck driver fatigue and improving safety for every traveler on our highways and roads," FMCSA spokesperson Marissa Padilla, told The Trucker.
"The 2011 Hours of Service Rule to reduce fatigue-related truck crashes was published following years of scientific research, safety studies, and consideration of public comments. FMCSA has finished collecting data for the MAP-21 restart field study and the Agency is working to thoroughly analyze the findings and have the report peer-reviewed before sending it to Congress."
In filing the bill, the lawmakers cited a study completed by the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) that said the new rule would result in an annual cost of $376 million to the trucking industry alone.
The American Trucking Associations thanked the three representatives "for introducing legislation that would put the brakes on the restart provision of the current federal Hours of Service rules until an independent review is conducted."
"When the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration went ahead with its changes to the restart rule, it did so without waiting for essential research to be completed," said ATA President and CEO Bill Graves. "This bill would simply do what should have been done in the first place: delay implementation until we really know the true operational impacts, costs and safety benefits."
While only in effect for four months, the rule is already causing significant disruption in the trucking industry, said an ATA news release. "ATA member Schneider National, for example, reported that while productivity has slipped 3-4 percent, there's been little change in the fleet's safety performance and an increase in driver dissatisfaction."
"We had hoped FMCSA would've listened to reason when we asked them to delay initially, but we hope they'll listen to Congress and rethink these changes," Graves said. "We appreciate Reps. Hanna, Rice and Michaud for their important work in this area."
Other businesses likely to be adversely impacted include construction firms, delivery services and fresh food distributors, the lawmakers claimed.
"Concerns have been raised that the new rules cause more congestion during peak morning travel and could push drivers to be more aggressive during the hours they do spend on the road," the lawmakers said in a news release. "This rule could cost businesses and consumers billions of dollars and it is plausible that it will actually decrease safety on the roads."
Hanna said it was wrongheaded for the federal government to impose an arbitrary and capricious regulation that impacts almost every sector of the American economy without first finishing a study on its effectiveness.
"Federal agencies should have an obligation to prove that new rules and regulations do not cause more harm than good in terms of both safety and costs," he said. "There are legitimate concerns that this new rule makes our roads less safe and hurts small business. The TRUE Safety Act is a bipartisan effort to press the 'pause button' on this new rule while an independent assessment is completed to ensure the rule makes sense and will not actually harm the travelling public and American economy."
Rice said truckers were being held to a new un-tested standard that limits their productivity and ultimately — their profitability.
"Congress required the FMSCA is to complete a comprehensive study before imposing new Hours of Service standards on our truckers," he said. "Instead, the agency has abused its authority and is requiring truckers to comply with one of the most stringent parts of its regulation prior to receiving their study's findings. This legislation will rein in FMSCA and postpone the new un-tested Hours of Service regulation until its study is complete and require an additional study to ensure that our truckers are not being overregulated."
Michaud noted that many truckers plan their schedules to be on the road overnight so as to avoid traffic and other hazards during the day.
"I'm concerned that the new rules push drivers to get back on the road during the morning rush hour, increase road congestion and jeopardize safety," he said. "The independent assessment required by this bill will ensure the regulations are based on sound data in order to minimize costs and improve safety."
Hanna, Rice and Michaud are members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
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A.M. Vitals: J&J Sets Record With Corporate Bond Rates
Cut-Rate: Johnson & Johnson has set a record, selling $1.1 billion in 10- and 30-year bonds at the lowest interest rates ever recorded for such securities, the WSJ reports. The company, which has said a series of recalls will cut $600 million from this year's sales, is one of the "highest-quality borrowers in the U.S.," the paper says, and issues bonds infrequently. The interest rate on J&J's 10-year-bonds was 2.95% and on 30-year bonds, 4.5%.
Setting Limits: Regulators face a sticky situation as they write rules implementing health-care overhaul legislation: what to do about limited-benefit plans that, if made to follow the law's requirements for more generous annual payout limits, might result in much higher premiums that could lead employers to drop coverage altogether. As Kaiser Health News reports, in conjunction with USA Today, there is a waiver process to allow plans fitting that description to continue, but many questions remain, including the details of the process, whether it will continue past 2014 (when annual dollar limits are set to be entirely phased out) and what constitutes "adequate" insurance.
Label Change: The FDA is revising the label and medication guide for GlaxoSmithKline's drug Lamictal — marketed to treat seizures in kids and bipolar disorder in adults — to warn that in rare cases, the drug can cause aseptic meningitis, the WSJ reports. GSK has agreed to the change, which is based on 40 reports of the disease over a 15-year period that seemed to be connected to use of Lamictal, the paper says. To put the risk in perspective, over the same period there were about 46 million prescriptions written for the drug, the WSJ says.
Weighty Questions: A large study of the Sanofi-Aventis obesity drug rimonabant, which was never approved by the FDA due to fears it carried a risk of suicide and depression, suggests the drug doesn't cut the odds of developing a heart attack or stroke, the NYT's Prescriptions blog reports. Results from the trial, which was ended early due to the concerns about mental-health side effects, raise the question of whether obesity drugs — including those from Arena, Vivus and Orexigen that have been submitted for FDA approval — can go beyond weight loss and actually reduce chronic-disease risk.
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Ever since we started the Écoutez column on Beauty Flash Blog, we've been flooded via Twitter and email (and sometimes in person) with the same question:
What's the French rap song in Sex and the City, and who sings it?
How nice of you to ask! It's called "La Belle et le Bad Boy" - a play on the French fairytale La Belle et Le Bête or Beauty and the Beast - and it was written and performed by the hip-hop star MC Solaar.
Born in Senegal and raised in the suburbs of Paris, MC Solaar (née Claude M'Barali) is one of France's most famous and influential rappers, boasting nine solo albums, plus collaborations with Missy Elliott and Guru. He lives in Paris with his wife, the French film star Chloé Bensemoun, and their two children.
"La Belle et le Bad Boy" is one of the songs on MC Solaar's 2001 album, Cinqième As. It tells the story of a high school girl who falls in love with a dangerous guy, and (spoiler alert) dies at the end in a shootout. Carrie Bradshaw manages to avoid this dire fate, although she does have to wear a bird on her head during a botched wedding...
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Participants in the Juvenile Offender Impact program (Photo from the Richmond County Sheriff's Office Facebook page)
News 12 at 11 o'clock / Monday, July 29, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- Violence involving our young people is a growing problem and something we've seen a lot of in recent weeks.
Eight teenagers arrested for gang activity, one charged with murder and another dead after a recent string of violence.
Now the Sheriff's Office is rolling out new programs to help before it's too late.
"They took us back and they dressed us out like they do the inmates," explained 17-year-old Jalen Randolph. "After that, they told us we were about to go out to the field and work over there."
He and four others spent one seven-hour day living the life of an inmate, dressed in the jumpsuits and working community service at May Park.
"They told us we were gonna do the same stuff that they do because even if it was raining, snowing, 110 degrees outside, you still have to be out there doing it," Randolph said.
It's all a part of the Juvenile Offender Impact program though the Sheriff's Office. Each juvenile got a tour of the inside of the jail and ate the inmate meal of the day to get an idea of what life is like behind the walls of the jail.
"If you offend, if you commit a crime, if you are incarcerated, this is your life every day whether you choose to or not," explained Sheriff Richard Roundtree. "You don't have a choice to change. This will be your life until the completion of your sentence."
The first group consisted of first-time offenders between 13 and 17 years old, the same age as a boy behind bars for a murder just a week ago.
"I told them because the choices that a 17-year-old made he will spend the large majority of his life behind bars and he can't control that anymore because he's made a mistake that he can not recover from," Roundtree said.
He wants to show the kids in the program that it's not too late.
"You can recover," he said. "You're here today. At the end of the day, you put your clothes back on, you get to go back home. You have a chance to recover from the mistakes that you made."
It was a message Randolph heard loud and clear.
"We don't really think, and it's just like an impulse, but you gotta be smarter than that, and you gotta realize you gotta stay on the right track," Randolph said.
Roundtree says the biggest impact is for those young people to see their lives 100 percent controlled by someone else right down to when you eat or shower. He says that is the most eye-opening thing for the kids.
He's getting a lot of positive feedback from the kids. They say they wish more people could go through it.
Right now, it is being funded by the DJJ reform bill that went into effect July 1, but he says if they can find more funding for it, they'll start including at-risk kids as well.


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By Leslie Jorgensen & Staff Reports
Douglas Bruce, a former one-term state representative from Colorado Springs, was cited for contempt of court on Wednesday by a Denver District court judge, after the self-proclaimed anti-tax crusader failed to testify about the identity of who bankrolled three initiatives to cut taxes and government spending that will appear on this November's ballot.
Bruce, a Republican from Colorado Springs, has been suspected of writing, orchestrating and funding the petition drive to put Amendments 60, 61 and Proposition 101 on the general election ballot, but repeatedly claimed he had no involvement.
According to the ruling, issued by Judge Brian Whitney, Bruce "remains in disobedience" for thwarting attempts to serve papers to have him appear in court on June 11. Now, according to the citation, Bruce must appear in court on July 26 to explain why he should not be held in contempt.
But first, the state must serve Bruce with the court order holding him in contempt, and trying to serve Bruce in the past has proved problematic. Bruce evaded El Paso County Sheriff's deputies who had attempted 30 times to serve papers to have him appear at the earlier hearing before an administrative law judge. Bruce claimed he'd been vacationing in Pennsylvania.
However, according to a recently reported e-mail response from Bruce, he has assured the state attorney general's office that he will voluntarily comply and appear in court for his contempt charge.
Several proponents of three ballot measures that aim to slash state and local taxes told Administrative Law Judge Robert Spencer earlier this month that they'd received counseling and ballot language pointers via e-mails from "Mr. X."
At the end of a duck-the-law game, Bruce was determined to be "Mr. X" by Spencer.
Colorado Secretary of State Bernie Buescher enlisted Colorado Attorney General John Suthers to pursue the matter. State election laws require petition sponsors to register and file reports of financial contributions and expenditures, including everything from the costs of printing petitions to payments to petition signature collectors.
The June hearing was based on a complaint filed in January by Kim Haarberg, a former president of the Colorado Contractors Association, who alleged representatives of the anti-tax ballot initiatives had violated fair campaign finance and practice laws by failing to register as issue committees and failing to report financial contributions.
The complaint was filed against representatives listed with the secretary of state's office for Amendment 60, Bonnie Sloan of Black Hawk and Louis Schroeder of Greenwood Village; Amendment 61, Jeff Gross of Kersey and Freda Poundstone; and Proposition 101, Russell Haas of Golden and Michelle Northrop of Black Hawk.
Most of the respondents claimed not to know the identity of "Mr. X" who communicated through e-mails via firstname.lastname@example.com.
Viewers familiar with Bruce's Web sites during his brief stints as an El Paso County commissioner and state legislator will recognize the same design and format at the CoTaxReform Web. The political spin sounds like Bruce with one exception — a video of Beatle George Harrison singing "Tax Man" and a noteworthy disclaimer, "for educational purposes only."
Northrop, however, said that when she'd become nervous about the complaint, Bruce contacted her to offer legal advice and instructions that included deleting their previous e-mail exchanges.
The judge also considered a Colorado Springs Gazette news story that reported eight collectors of petition signatures to get the measures on the November ballot had lived in an apartment house owned by Bruce in Colorado Springs.
After weighing evidence and testimony, Spencer determined that the mystery man is Bruce, the "daddy" of the Taxpayers' Bill of Rights that Colorado voters passed in 1992, and a series of anti-tax measures pushed in Colorado Springs over the past two decades.
"This court decision made clear Douglas Bruce's contempt for Colorado election laws," said Don Hopkins, a spokesman for Colorado for Responsible Reform, a nonpartisan group of organizations opposing the three ballot initiatives.
"Bruce then engaged others in that same contempt by using them to hide the true identities of those behind these measures," declared Hopkins.
In his ruling, Spencer assessed $2,000 fines each against Gross, Hass and Schroeder. The judge deemed that the trio had been most involved in furthering the ballot initiatives and chastised them for not giving forthright answers to questions posed during the hearing.
Unless the fines are appealed, they're to be paid by the end of the month.
Schroeder, Haas and Solan, state organizer for Colorado Campaign for Liberty, did not return calls for comments. The phones listed for Gross and Poundstone, a legendary lobbyist and former Greenwood Village mayor, have been disconnected.
After Spencer's ruling, Suthers wasted no time in filing a motion requesting a Denver District Court judge rule that Bruce had been properly served with papers to testify in the matter — and failed to appear. And that occurred earlier this week and Suthers filed the contempt of court charge.
Despite judicial findings, the measures remain on the November ballot.
"Bruce's contempt for Coloradans continues to be made clear. He continues to ignore subpoenas and requests to answer why he is pushing these disastrous proposals," said Hopkins, who added that the ballot initiatives could lead to "mass unemployment" and drive Colorado into "a second, deeper recession."
The measures have been opposed by the Colorado Municipal League and Colorado Counties Inc. The biggest opponent may be CFRR, comprised of numerous organizations including Action 22, CH2MHILL, Club 20, Colorado Community College Board, Colorado Corn Growers, Colorado Competitive Council, Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry, Colorado Concern, Colorado Rural Electrical Association, Colorado Space Coalition, Colorado Visitor and Convention Center, Denver Chamber of Commerce, Jefferson County Economic Development Council, Grand Junction Chamber of Commerce, Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District and National Association of Industrial and Office Properties.
CFRR is a concern for Bruce and proponents who have posted essays and "Fibs by Foes" updates on the CoTaxReform.com site.
"They don't care about you and your family; they just want to trick you into voting AGAINST tax relief for you and your family. In fact, they are still using the same campaign committee name from 1994…. They say they are 'Coloradans for Responsible Reform,' but they are really AGAINST changing the status quo, to protect the special interests who pay them," claims the Web site posting.
The anti-tax post said that CFRR could raise vast sums of money to broadcast its message to voters versus CTR that has no paid staff and relies solely on volunteers.
"We can't afford radio and TV ads, so we rely on word of mouth and grassroots efforts. Every factual statement on OUR Web sites is documented," said the post.
According to an analysis by the Colorado Municipal League, Amendment 60 would allow electors to vote on property taxes where they own real property, require local governments to allow petitions to lower property taxes and provide November election notices of property issues.
It would require property tax bills to list the tax and late charge, require enterprises and authorities to pay property taxes, and require local governments to reduce mill levies to offset revue. A tax that expires cannot be extended — it would be considered a tax increase and subject to voter approval.
Amendment 61 would prohibit the state from contracting debt by loan in any form, prohibit local governments and other political subdivisions from contracting debt without voter approval, require ballot titles to specify the use of the funds from a loan, prohibit changes in use of money borrowed and place some limitations on how much money can be borrowed.
Proposition 101 would decrease in four phases annually the ownership taxes for new vehicles to $2 and all others to $1, eliminate state and local taxes on car rentals and leases, tax exempt vehicle sales rebates and the first $10,000 of the price, and cap vehicle registration, license and title changes combined at $10.
It would prohibit state and local charges on telecommunications except for 911 fees that would remain at the 2009 rate. State income tax would be 4.5 percent in 2011, and be reduced annually until reaching 3.5 percent.
The CML analysis raised concerns about the economic impact of the measures and numerous unanswered questions about the intent of the wording. For example, Proposition 60 states that a registered elector who owns real property can vote on property, but does that apply to an individual who may reside in another county or state or country?
The loss of vehicle ownership tax revenue will significantly impact state and local communities. The vehicle ownership tax generated nearly $500 million last year that was distributed back to local governments to pay for services.
Proposition 101 would freeze emergency 911 fees at the 2009 level, but the reduced revenue eventually won't cover increasing costs for public safety and emergency responses.
According to the CoTaxReform.com Web site, "Proposition 101 will help vehicle purchases and accelerate replacement of gas-guzzling, high-polluting cars. This is a more realistic and practical approach than the wasteful federal 'cash for clunkers' boondoggle."
"Colorado taxes are regressive; they cost proportionately more to low-income people. Proposition 101 reduces that unfairness by lowering taxes on basic needs — vehicles and phones. That relief benefits most those who have the least," stated the Web site post.
Joining opponents, left-leaning ProgressNow Colorado issued an alert last week to Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives.
"Stop this man. Pledge to oppose this man (and his crazy ballot measures)," implored the e-mail sporting a fantasy photo of Bruce holding up a sign, "Disgrace."
"Amendments 60, 61 and Proposition 101 are some of the most radical and destructive changes ever proposed for our state. A product of simpleton 'drown government in a bathtub' ideology, these initiatives would slash taxes and vehicle registration fees to unsustainable levels and make it virtually impossible for state and local government to finance new construction," said Alan Franklin of ProgressNow Colorado.
For anyone who didn't get the picture, Franklin reminded folks of Bruce's adopted hometown.
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With her hunched back and half a spine, the mixed-breed dog has been mistaken for a hyena and for a Tasmanian devil, and even starred in a low budget film as an alien's dog. Her appearance once sent a grown man scurrying to the roof of his car, while a little boy took one look and ran screaming to his parents.
The sweet-natured, 10-year-old dog was just crowned the World's Ugliest Dog, edging out competition from the likes of Sweepee Rambo, a blind Chinese crested Chihuahua mix who's hairless except for his blond Mohawk.
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The key in overriding properties of the root element of the response is to write a customer serializer. What is a serializer? A serializer converts abstract data into a format that can more easily be transmitted between endpoints. In this case, a serializer converts scalar and complex data into XML. By writing our own serializer we can tell SOAP::Lite how to construct the XML representing the response.
To create a custom serializer, you need to know a little bit about Perl OOP (Object Oriented Programing) and inheritence. The following code block shows a custom serializer which inherits all properties and behavior from the default SOAP::Lite Serializer, but overrides one of its methods/subroutines with its own:
package MySerializer; @MySerializer::ISA = 'SOAP::Serializer'; sub envelope { $_[2] = SOAP::Data->name($_[2])->prefix('temp')->uri('urn:TemperatureService') if $_[1] =~ /^(?:method|response)$/; shift->SUPER::envelope(@_); }
This is just a simple serializer, one that changes the root element only, but a serializer could be used to serialize any part of a message (in this case a response).
You can save your serializer to its own file (in the form of a perl module), and then 'use' it. Or alternatively, you can encapsulate the package in a BEGIN { } block anywhere in your code. Either way, to tell SOAP::Lite to use your serializer as opposed to its own, you will need to do the following within your Web service instance:
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WellCare Shares Crumble as Investors Bail Out
We sure would like to know what state and federal agents were looking for yesterday when they raided the offices of WellCare Health Plans. But the market has already decided that it can't be good.
Trading in the stock was halted yesterday on news of the raid, and when trading resumed this morning, the share price plummeted. Shortly after noon, the price was off more than 60% to $42.51.
There's "little to go on at this point, and enormous uncertainty [is] likely to persist as we doubt we will learn specifics for a while," Bear Stearns analyst John Rex wrote in a research note cited by Dow Jones Newswires. Bloomberg notes that at least three analysts have downgraded the stock to sell, from hold or neutral.
The St. Petersburg Times wrote that analysts have been asking for two years how WellCare "has been able to make so much money running government health plans for the poor and elderly. Now government investigators may be asking the same thing."
More than 200 government agents "swarmed" the company's campus yesterday, "forcing employees onto the sidewalk and into their cars," the paper reported. Steven Meitzen showed up at WellCare HQ a little before 10 a.m. for a job interview and was told at first that the commotion was a bomb scare. "Later on, I talked to someone who said the FBI had a subpoena and were looking for records."
Thomas Carroll, an analyst with Stifel Nicolaus, who downgraded WellCare shares to "sell" from "hold," told the paper that "contacts within the company said BlackBerries, computers and files were seized from corporate, marketing and human resources offices." He said he suspects the raid may have been triggered by "a lawsuit in which an employee brought a matter to the attention of authorities."
The company posted this audio message from its CEO. "All of our essential services have remained operational and uninterrupted," he says. He goes on to describe all of the ways in which the company is still running — care for members, paying claims. But he adds that "We are not in a position to share with you additional details regarding this investigation."


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Sat Nov 9 Convective Outlook
Storm Prediction Center Norman Ok
South Florida Excluding The Florida Keys...
During The Past 24 Hours...Sfc Obs Indicate That Winds Have
Decidedly Veered From Nnely To Enely/Ely...In Association With The
Ewd Translation Of A Sfc Anticyclone Well To The N.
As The Sfc High -- Currently Over The Cntrl/Srn Appalachians And Adjacent Piedmont -- Shifts Ewd And Off The Atlantic Coast And Sfc Pressures Fall Along A Wwd-Trailing Ridge Into The Sern States Preceding A Low-Amplitude Impulse...Moderate To Fresh Enely/S And Ely/S Will Be Maintained Over South Florida. This Will Support The Influx Of A Comparatively More Maritime Environment...With Gps Data And 12z Miami/Key West Raob/S Indicating A Ribbon Of 1.8-2.0-Inch Pw Values Near And S Of A Stalled...E/W-Oriented Frontal Boundary That Crosses The Lake Okeechobee Region.
While The Aforementioned Soundings Indicate Fairly Poor Lapse Rates Through The Lower/Middle Troposphere...Vis Imagery Indicates Areas Of Insolation Amidst Rich Boundary-Layer Moisture /E.G. Sfc Dewpoints In The Lower 70s/. Sbcape Will Likely Increase To Around 1000-1500 J/Kg By Mid Afternoon...Fostering An Increase In The Depth Of Convection That Will Be Bolstered By Ascent Invof The Front And Augmented Around Peripheries Of Multi-Layered Cloud Regions Along With Weak...Interior-To-West-Coast-Focused Sea Breeze Circulations.
Modified Soundings Suggest That Convective Plumes Could Extend
Sufficiently Deep Into Icing Layers Aloft For A Few Afternoon/Early-Evening Thunderstorms Over The East Coast Metropolitan Areas From Miami And Homestead To Fort Lauderdale And Boca Raton ...And Wwd Across South Florida To The Gulf Waters Off The Sw Coast Near And S Of Naples. Accordingly...A General-Thunderstorm
Area Has Been Introduced.
Sun Nov 10 Convective Outlook
Storm Prediction Center Norman Ok
No Tstm Areas Forecast...
An Upper-Level Trough Will Move Across The Nern U.S. On Sunday As
Sfc High Pressure Dominates The Cntrl And Ern States.
In Response ...A Cool And Dry Airmass Will Be In Place Across Much Of The Conus Limiting The Potential For Thunderstorm Activity Sunday And Sunday Night.
Mon Nov 11 Convective Outlook
Storm Prediction Center Norman Ok
No Svr Tstm Areas Forecast...
Models Indicate That Upper Flow Across The Pacific Will Remain
Amplified Through This Forecast Period...While Downstream Flow
Across Canada And The U.S. Becomes Increasingly Amplified. Upper
Ridging Appears Likely To Build Along An Axis North-Northeast Of A
Subtropical Eastern Pacific High Center Through The Intermountain
West And Adjacent Northern Rockies.
At The Same Time...Cyclonic Mid/Upper Flow Is Expected To Sharpen East Of The High Plains Through The Atlantic Seaboard...As A Vigorous Short Wave Impulse Continues Digging Southeast Of The Upper Great Lakes/Mississippi Valley Region.
In Association With These Developments...The Center Of An Expanding/Strengthening Surface High Is Forecast To Shift South Of The Central Canadian/U.S. Border Area...Into The Middle Missouri Valley By Late Monday Night.
The Leading Edge Of This Cold Intrusion May Curve Across Northern And Middle Atlantic Coastal Areas Through The Central Gulf States And Southern Plains By 12z Tuesday. While This Will Generally Act To Contribute To The Reinforcement Of Stable Conditions With Low Convective Potential...The Risk For Weak Thunderstorm Activity May Not Be Completely Negligible In At Least A Couple Of Areas Monday/ Monday Night.
Great Lakes Region...
As Cold Lower/Mid Tropospheric Air Overspreads The Relatively Warm Lake Waters...Thermodynamic Profiles Are Expected To Become Favorable For The Development Of Charge Separation And Lightning Within Low-Topped Convection. Wind Fields And Shear Likely Will Become Supportive Of Elongated Organized Bands Of Convection...With Potential For Lightning Across Lake Superior Coastal Areas Of Upper Michigan By Early Monday Afternoon... Coastal Northern Lower Michigan By Late Monday Afternoon...And Perhaps The Remainder Of Lake Michigan Coastal Areas Of Lower Michigan Monday Evening Into Monday Night.
South Central Plains...
Models Suggest That Weak Boundary Layer Based Destabilization Is
Possible Monday Afternoon In A Pre-Frontal Corridor Across Western
Into North Central Oklahoma...On The Edge Of Stronger High Plains
Surface Heating...Where Surface Dew Points May Reach The Lower/Mid 50s F.
Although Mid/Upper Forcing For Ascent May Be Negligible...It Appears That An Area Of Enhanced Low-Level Convergence Or Lift Along The Front May Be Sufficient To Support At Least Isolated Thunderstorm Development. With The Tendency For Any Activity To Become Undercut By The Front While Developing Southward/Southwestward During The Late Afternoon And Evening Hours...Severe Wind/Hail Potential Appears Negligible In The Presence Of Weak To Modest Shear.
Nov 12-16 Convective Outlook
Storm Prediction Center Norman Ok
The Spread Among The Models...And Within The Various Model
Ensembles...Becomes Quite Large Concerning The Evolution Of The
Upper Flow Pattern By Late Next Week Into Next Weekend...Which Could Include The Development Of An Amplified Upper Trough Across The Western Into Central United States.
Regardless...In The Wake Of A Significant Cold Intrusion Through Much Of The Nation East Of The Rockies...The Gulf Of Mexico...And Western Atlantic...By The Middle Of Next Week...Gulf Boundary Layer Modification And Inland Return Flow Will Not Likely Be Supportive Of An Appreciable Increase In Convective Potential Prior To The End Of This Forecast Period.


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Definition of well endowed in English:
well endowed
1Having plentiful supplies of a resource: the country is well endowed with mineral resources
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- Asia and the Pacific Indo-Malaysia is currently well endowed with tropical rainforest, within which mountain types are abundant.
- The Central African Republic is well endowed with energy resources.
1.1Well provided with money; wealthy.
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- It comes as no surprise that the well-endowed private schools scored an average 99 percent pass rate.
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"Revolution" Ends, "TMNT/Batman:TAS" Begins in IDW's November 2016 Solicitations
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Writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray will team with artist Jamal Igle for The Ray, a four-issue miniseries debuting from DC Comics in December.
The Washington Post reports that this time the "human ray of light" isn't Stan Silver, the version created by Palmiotti, Gray and Daniel Acuña and featured in Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters. Instead, he's Lucien Gates, the fourth incarnation of The Ray since the character's introduction in 1940 in Quality Comics' Smash Comics #14.
The second Ray, Ray Terrill, was introduced in 1992 in a six-issue miniseries by Jack C. Harris and Joe Quesada before going on to star in a monthly series by Christopher Priest and Howard Porter. That title ran from 1994 to 1996, ending with Issue 28.
The Ray marks the second DC relaunch title for the prolific duo of Palmiotti and Gray, who last month concluded a 70-issue run on Jonah Hex: They take on the bounty hunter again in All-Star Western, which premieres Sept. 28. Igle most recently drew Supergirl for DC.
I like the concept of the character, but I'd really like to see Ray Terrill. I always thought that he was chronically underused and underdeveloped, and I always thought his costume was pretty cool. I am glad to see Igle drawing again, though; I enjoyed his run on Supergirl.
Here's hoping that Ray Terrill shows up in James Robinson's JSA series with some other Golden Age characters (or second-generation Golden Age characters).
anyone else getting a quasar/nova vibe from that costume?
I would have bought this if it were Ray Terrill. Now I won't.
He's an old, middle-aged Hispanic dude with white hair and a receding hailine that he wears in a comb-over? Yeah. That'll work.
Looking forward to it. I am getting a Quasar vibe from the cover. Have to say, DC is getting more of my money of late. Really liking the books they are putting out.
Look, it's the hero-surrounded-by-menacing-appendages cover!
The second Ray Palmiotti has created and the second who isn't a Terrill. Honestly, after the real Ray's cringe-worthy characterization in the Freedom Fighters ongoing, it's probably for the best.
Yeah he really does look like he has a "John McCain" hairstyle there…
I'd prefer to see Ray Terrill return. Wouldn't that bring in lapsed readers instead of a whole new character? – I haven't read their Freedom Fighters work, but I just assumed that was Terrill. Disappionting to hear it wasn't.
Terrill's series in the 90's was a favorite of mine. As was his time in the Justice League Task Force. Both series were really character driven. But then, both were written by Priest. A great and talented writer.
Its a good creative team – but I dont I'll get this….
The gig was to create an all new original ray…and thats what we did. I like the older ones as well…but we really took all the good stuff from the part versions and put them to good use here…Its a lot of fun folks…wait till you see the interiors.
I'm usually pretty down on all of this reboot stuff but I like Graymiotti and Jamal Igle is a phenom, one of the best pencillers in comics. I'll check it out.
I'd argue that I'm the biggest Ray fan in the world. So, I'll pick this up to support a "The Ray" comic, but let me say, if you gave us a Ray Terrill tale, expanded his mythology (No Deathmasque, please) elaborated on Caldwell the Candle Man, and let him explore growing into a hero, you'd have a hit. Anytime someone mentions The Ray on message boards there's a huge influx of "I loved his book in the 90s" and "Underused" comments.
Isn't DCnU's Apollo pretty much The Ray?
he's gonna punch the crap outta that knife!
but seriously, i'll definitely give it a shot on the basis of a great creative team.
September 18, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Isn't DCnU's Apollo pretty much The Ray?
No, He's got the same powerset he always had, Superman's.
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A trial date has been set for a woman accused of killing an Indiana woman during a break-in and struggle.
Allison Moore was arrested Jan. 5 in Hamilton County on murder charges in the Dec. 30 slaying of 68-year-old Nancy Hershman.
Investigators said the 22-year-old Moore admitted to shooting the Milan mother during a struggle over a gun after Hershman interrupted a burglary.
Two 15-year-olds from Colerain Township are also charged in the case, and prosecutors intend to try them as adults.
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After Kanye West announced that he was signing with adidas, he's been nothing but the center of attention in the sneaker community. Many of us are very excited to see what he has in store for us, especially after seeing his design on the Yeezys. However, some of us are concerned that we aren't going to see Kanye's full potential, especially without Nike, being a prestigious brand, Nike can sell mostly anything to the sneaker enthusiast. Still the bright side is Kanye has more freedom and with that comes more creativity, which I'm sure is how he's able to produce over 20 sneaker designs in the past couple of weeks. We aren't sure what to expect, but I can tell you that many of us are very anxious to see what Kanye x adidas has produced. Below is the latest radio interview of Kanye West.
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Sabr [pro-player type="mp3″ width="615″ height="30″]http://nour-dv.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Musa%20Yasin%20-%20Sabr.mp3[/pro-player] Sometimes she can't sleep sometimes she misses home Reminiscing back to when she was eleven years old As a little girl day dreaming of a stove That came with the white picket fence and a home Back then life was so much easy for her Now she's married to a man that be beating on her Hot headed with a cold heart replaced by an icebox The sister stood by his side praying that it might stop She had so much...Read More
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A £4.4m investment is being made to help female victims of domestic violence. The assembly government announcement comes on the international day for the elimination of violence against women. The money will be used to address violence against women including sexual assault, domestic abuse, female genital mutilation and forced marriage. Social Justice Minister, Carl Sargeant said: "More needs to be done to eradicate this heinous crime." The money had already been put aside by the assembly government but it has been confirmed that the £4.4m sum for 2011/12 will be protected from...Read More
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She waits for him. She knows he will come. She knows that he is simply caught up somewhere, distracted, and, eventually, he will come for her. Maybe he is still at work, chatting with his colleagues. Perhaps he has gone to visit his mother, or taken his sister a gift. Probably he has stayed at the masjid to pray extra prayers. Wherever he is now, she knows that he will come for her. Because she made him angry today. She didn't mean to. She was careless, of course, thoughtless. She should have known better. If she was more obedient, a better wife, a better Muslim, she would have known that...Read More


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Thus, we present to you a living, breathing version of the speaker songs from TEDxSomerville 2012. This page will include all of the recordings that we have completed - eventually leading up to the release of the full collection sometime this Summer. (Some of these mixes may also be tweaked along the way prior to the final release, but they are close to final mixes.) We look forward to periodically adding songs here and we plan to write a post about each of the songs, telling how the song developed and tying the song to the context of the speaker's presentation at TEDx.
In the meantime, here is the lengthy recap of our TEDx experience from my point of view:
TEDxSomerville music curator Jon Bernhardt asked me in December if we'd hypothetically be interested in serving as a house band for the event, which would potentially include playing some music referencing speakers or writing an event theme song. It sounded like a lot of fun.
We've always been a band that has sought to take on adventurous projects that step outside the typical scope of an indie/folk/rock band. The challenges make creating music exciting. Last year, for example, we worked with BalletRox to create a 12-minute piece of music for a choreographed modern ballet that we then performed live with the dancers at the Strand Theater. Earlier this year, rather than learning covers of movie theme songs for a film-music-themed salon night, we developed, shot, and edited a 24-minute silent film based around our songs in less than a week. So, when we were offered the challenge of creating some unique music for TEDx, we knew that although it required a very rapidly created body of work, it would be a fun project to take on.
We were quite busy in the beginning of the year (making our film and wrapping up recording for another project) and I was on tour until February 23rd. On Saturday February 25th, we all set aside 6-hour block of time for songwriting. One great thing about the MJEML is that we have three members who are very experienced at songwriting and numerous others who have at least some experience with the process. So, we split into three groups and allocated songs by session to each of the groups. Two hours later, each of the groups came back with as many of their assigned songs as possible developed as far as they could be taken in that short time. We then spent a few more hours going over the songs, revising the structures, and developing individual parts for each member of the band to play. This is fairly typical of our band's approach to songs. The songwriters did some homework over the next few days to finish the six or seven songs that really hadn't been completed in the group session. We had long rehearsals on the following Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday before heading to the tech rehearsal on Saturday night. I would have loved about 50 more rehearsals, but we figured that even if we weren't great at performing the songs, the spirit and ideas were at least there, and we hoped that would be sufficient for entertainment value.
In terms of strategies for writing and learning, we all agreed to keep the songs as simple as possible. The rules were: not too many sections, lots of repetition, and relatively simple chromatic melodies within the typical scope of the chord progressions. Some of the songs really stuck closely to genre conventions (Lenni Armstrong's '50s style 6/8 tune for example). Others veered into weirder territory - our free jazz jam for Alex Feldman. We attempted to cull as much information and value as we could from the bios and abstracts that we saw. For some speakers, we had only talk titles. We investigated the speakers on the web and found interesting nods to include (For example, while we had scant information about his talk, Clarence Smith, Jr.'s website is http://doyouknowclarence.com/ and "Do you know Clarence?" became the primary repeated phrase for his song). The more we felt free to explore our own fantasies about the speakers, the more fun we had perhaps.
We knew (or at least had met) a few of the speakers already and felt more comfortable giving them stranger songs, referencing their unrelated lives, or stretching the realities a little bit. Examples: Ross Lohr (we referenced him leaving his band, Aloud, and heading off to Tanzania), Brian Whitman (we felt like he would have a good sense of humor about our "fantasy" that his music-processing "robots" would someday rise up and take over the world), and Mayor Curtatone and his famous public mockery of Cambridge. Admittedly, we actually were nervous about the Mayor's song and its implicit criticism of Cambridge because we didn't want to present something at a community-building event with such a negative spin. Our fears subsided a little when Mayor Joe took the stage and spent his minutes saying things like "our freaks are better than their freaks" referring to Somerville's artistic superiority over Cambridge.
On the day of TEDx, we were pretty nervous. The staff at the Armory did a great job getting us set up for sound within the limits of the situation. We had a lot of technical limitations as we were not on stage and weren't part of the main sound setup. So, we only had one monitor mix (four is typical for us at most shows), which was challenging for songs that we were not so familiar with. It was a lot of fun to get to perform the songs - some went very well, others less well - and see and hear the reactions of the crowd and particularly the speakers. We got wonderful, kind feedback during and after the event and we were really glad to be able to create and contribute something unique to both this event and to TEDx events in general it would seem.
Originally, we had thought of these songs as relatively disposable ad hoc numbers, but in the days after TEDxSomerville, we found ourselves singing them over and over again. The initial plan was to maybe record a few for the people that expressed interest and to help us commemorate the event. As we lived with the songs a little more, we decided it would be fun to record them all. So, we've set out to do that and plan to release a full 25-song collection sometime this Summer.
The collection will reside at:
http://tinyurl.com/tedxsongs or
Our stories of the songs and blog posts about our experience will reside at:http://tinyurl.com/tedxmjeml or


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KOffice 2.1 Ready for Testing, Karbon Ready for Use
About a half year after big technological changes, the KOffice project has released version 2.1 of its office suite, even if it's not quite ready for everyday use.
One aspect of KOffice 2.1 that is ready for prime time is the Karbon vector graphics program. According to Nuno Pinheiro, designer of the Oxygen KDE theme: "I have tested Karbon and it is definitely usable for real work even if [it] lacks a few advanced SVG features."
The remainder of the program package reflects more on its current development state and isn't so much targeted at end users as developers, testers and avid software experimenters. The KOffice 2.x branch, based on new technologies including Qt 4, still doesn't provide all the features of KOffice 1.6 and not all programs are included in the suite. Versions 2.2 and 2.3 should change all that.
Developers took on some improvement work for 2.1, such as rework of the ODF open document format. One item was fixing list formatting. KOffice, next to Open Office, is the second largest implementation of the ODF standard, which is also used in Maemo to show documents on mobile devices. Through work on Nokia's N900 devices, advances in importing MS Word and Powerpoint files were also made.
The KWord application received a new table design treatment, which unfortunately isn't quite complete. A new function allows users to follow through with changes to documents by color-coding additions, deletions and reformatting. The KPresenter application now provides an unlimited workspace and numbered sheets. The KPlato project management tool also made some marked improvements. Other components got bugfixes and minor enhancements.
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Denial, Self-Deception, False Beliefs, and the
Origins of the Human Mind
By Ajit Varki & Danny Brower
369 pages, $27
By Michael D. Langan
Two scientists have hit upon a counterintuitive idea in a scholarly book that offers to explain our position at the top of the animal kingdom. We humans seem to do two things that they say don't exist in other creatures. First, we appear to be the only species that can understand the minds of others. Recognizing the personhood of others means that "the first behaviorally modern humans would have also become aware of their own mortality, a realization that could have caused great anxiety, resulting in avoiding the risks of competing to procreate – an evolutionary dead-end."
Second, psychologically, this quality of mind can mean that "… we deny reality in the face of inarguable evidence – including the willful ignorance of our own inevitable deaths."
Can this be true? We know from our daily experience – because of what the authors call this evolutionary quirk – that we deny any number of aspects of reality that we don't care to acknowledge. Some of us smoke cigarettes, eat greasy food. We may also avoid exercise and do a lot of other stupid things, knowing deep in our hearts that if we continue to deny the consequences of bad habits, we could die untimely deaths.
Make sense? This is what the authors maintain: Humans "needed to evolve a mechanism for overcoming this hurdle: the denial of reality", and they did.
Today, this mechanism operates at all levels of our being. We risk harming ourselves, for example, by taking financial or personal risks. We help ourselves by being optimistic in the face of a terminal illness or courage in the face of danger.
This book is a warning about this remarkable ability of denying reality. It is a gift, the authors write, which will either lead to our downfall or be our greatest asset.
In the Garden of Even, basically, knowing the difference between good and evil and with Eve's prompting, Adam chose to eat the apple instead of heeding God's warning. Adam recognized the apple as an "apparent" good, thinking that its consumption would make him more God-like. My goodness was poor old Adam wrong. The result of that snack is that Adam's descendants suffer the outcome of their first parents being put out of the Garden. Death is the inevitable result, and ignoring this inevitable fact has always run the engine of many people's lives.
Basically, Genesis describes the same awareness of people's mortality that our authors, Varki and Brower, speak about in "Denial."To his credit, Ajit Varki, who finished this book after his colleague died, is aware of all this. In fact he writes that "…religious explanations for what happens after death may have partly evolved as an adaptation … and awareness of mortality."
Can it be that anthropogeny, the study of human origins, and the Bible telling of prehistory are only two different translations of the same book of life?
Michael D. Langan is the former headmaster of the Nardin Academy.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. -- They spent their youth serving our country. Now in their final years, some local veterans say their country is failing them.
The Charlie Norwood Veteran Affairs Medical Center is giving the boot to some elderly veterans living in the Community Living Facility with short notice.
The Community Living Center is similar to a civilian nursing home. The description for Community Living Center on the United States Department of Veteran Affairs' website is: "Unlike many nursing homes in the past, a Community Living Center resembles 'home' as much as possible. There are activities for veterans of all ages. There are family-friendly places for visiting. Veterans are invited to decorate their rooms. Veterans may stay for a short time or, in rare instances, for the rest of their life."
Dennis Mattson, 67, is a disabled Vietnam veteran who has lived in the facility for over a year.
"When I got here, they said this was my home and that I would be here as long as I would need to be here or until I decided I wanted to leave, not when someone else decided I was suppose to leave," the former Airman said.
But recently, he says, someone else has told him he will soon need to find a new home.
"When we came back [from Vietnam], I was spit on. Now it feels after all we fought for, all we got when got home, from Agent Orange and now they have one more opportunity to spit at me before I go home for good," he said.
Mattson said doctors in the Community Living Facility recently started reevaluating patients a few weeks ago and have told some they needed to find a new home.
Bob Cruikshank, 86, was given only about a 10-day notice. He serviced as a Marine during World War II and as an Airman during the Korean and Vietnam wars. His doctor told him he needed to leave after a year and a half in the facility.
"I just think it is the most unjust thing that could happen to a man that has given his all," Betty Cruikshank said.
She says doctors told her that her husband was well enough to leave the facility. Mrs. Cruikshank says the VA gave her several options: to go to a private facility or to be put on a waiting list for the Georgia War Veterans Home.
"Assisted living is out-of-pocket expense and I said Blue Goose is not acceptable," she said.
Mrs. Cruikshank said she felt there was no other option but to have her disabled husband move back home with her. She herself requires a full-time caregiver and can only walk with the help of a cane or walker.
Dr. Tom Hartney is the director of geriatrics at the Charlie Norwood VA. He and his team are reevaluating patients to determine if they are well enough to leave.
"He [Cruikshank] is legally blind, has suffered from prostrate cancer and a disease that affects his balance and you guys determined he was well enough to go home?" asked News 12's Liz Owens.
"I really can't speak on any individual clinical condition of any veteran here," Hartney replied.
Hartney told 12 On Your side that his team evaluates patients in the Community Living Center on a weekly basis. However, he could not tell us the date of the last time they asked veterans to leave the facility.
"When is the last date that you've gone around and evaluated patients and told them that they need to make other arrangements? The last date this happened with a group of veterans?" Owens asked.
"As I said we have weekly team meetings and discharge planning is part of those meetings," he replied.
"When's the last time they have actually been discharged?" Owens asked.
"I wouldn't specify on a specific individual's case," he said.
The Charlie Norwood VA Public Affairs Office prohibited News 12 from interviewing the veterans who contacted our newsroom.
Mattson told us over the phone he where he is going to go. He is in a wheelchair.
"Maybe I can stay with my daughter until my house is handicap accessible," he said.
News 12 contacted Congressman John Barrow about the VA letting patients go from the nursing home. He is now investigating the Community Living Center.
"I appreciate you shining a light on this issue because a lot of folks don't realize how the VA is rationing care in this way," Barrow said. "If anybody has any concern that someone will be put out on the streets, that will not happen on my watch."
Barrow is urging veterans experiencing similar problems to contact his office in Augusta. He has staff members on hand with resources to intervene. You can contact his office at (706) 722-4494 or toll free at (866) 890-6236.


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This might stun you. But the most powerful person in Bay Area sports could walk down a Bay Area street and not be recognized by the most avid Bay Area fan.
Even in high def.
Even in high def on demand.
Even in high def on demand in surround sound.
Ted Griggs, however, is the person who controls all of that stuff in your house - if you care about local sports. And the guess here is that you do. Otherwise you wouldn't be reading this column.
Let's be honest. In the year 2008, most people follow their favorite sports teams as a TV series rather than a live experience. That's true everywhere, but especially here in the Bay Area. We have more sports teams to follow than any other market except New York City. If you tried to attend every event in person, even for just one week, you would use up $80 worth of gas by Tuesday breakfast - not to mention hundreds of dollars for tickets and beer.
Thus, the television screen becomes our surrogate ballpark or arena or stadium. And around these parts, Griggs is the gatekeeper. He is the main man at Comcast SportsNet Bay Area, the primary provider of telecasts that feature the Giants, A's, Warriors, Sharks, Earthquakes, Stanford and Cal football and basketball. The SaberCats of the Arena Football League also are on CSN Bay Area, with a weekly highlight show. The state high school basketball championships are another recent addition.
Must take quite a lot of juggling and decision-making.
"I won't say it's a heavy burden," Griggs said. "But I feel a great responsibility to the viewers. I definitely do."
Griggs, who has been involved with local televised sports since 1981, was elevated to vice president and general manager of CSN Bay Area by parent company Comcast - which owns 45 percent of the operation - in December 2007. The choice was a natural. Griggs' nine years of work with the cable station, mostly on the programming side, were greatly influenced by his NorCal DNA.
How so? As a kid, Griggs lived in a Hayward household with a car-mechanic father who came home from work each day during the '70s and forgot his cares by flipping on a baseball broadcast.
"Often, that was the best part of his day," Griggs said. "I never forget that."
This mindset comes across in many of CSN Bay Area's telecasts. Compared with other markets, announcers on Griggs' watch tend to hold conversations with viewers rather than lecture to them. Directors are just as likely to show crowd shots of kids as close-ups of players. There's a subtle and tacit acknowledgment that while a given game may include drama, it is never life or death.
Still, that's not why Griggs is at the top of our power list. Here's the biggest reason: He makes the final call on what appears on both CSN Bay Area's primary channel and its adjunct, CSN Plus.
In the spring, when Giants and A's broadcasts can conflict with Sharks and Warriors games, Griggs keeps his aspirin bottle handy. He's on the phone weekly with each team's executives.
"In April of this year alone, we had 68 locally produced sports events," he said. "That's more than two per day. It means you are always making a decision where somebody feels like they're not valued."
Griggs' power, of course, flows from Philadelphia, where the main Comcast offices are located. But he is granted much autonomy. Just think what would happen if, on a whim, Griggs woke up one morning and decided that one of the local teams no longer belonged on his station. It would be a devastating blow to that franchise, because CSN Bay Area has become the only local sports address that matters.
Each year, the Mercury News ranks the Bay Area's 25 Most Powerful Sports People, not so much as a pecking order but as an attempt to help fans understand how Northern California's sports machinery works and which men and women have the most clout in that regard.
As always, our list is entirely subjective and arbitrary. It is chosen by a panel of Mercury News editors, with all ties broken by yours truly. The only real rule is that no newspaper people can make our Power 25, on conflict-of-interest grounds.
Lew Wolff, the A's owner, sat atop our list the past two years. He is still the most crucial mover and shaker among local franchise owners. But his team's ballpark project in Fremont has been moving at a more sluggish pace than many of us expected. And while Wolff's staff worked wonders to get the expansion Earthquakes on the field this season in temporary digs at Santa Clara University, the team's proposed new stadium in San Jose is also far from breaking ground.
If construction is under way on both facilities a year from now, Wolff easily could be back at No. 1. But for now, compared with all others on the list, Griggs is at the steering wheel of a fast race car in terms of new projects. This winter, Comcast SportsNet Bay Area will begin a daily local sports newscast and daily talk show featuring local media personalities and athletes. There also will be expanded pregame and postgame shows, On Demand classic games of the past and sports instruction shows.
"Many TV stations are cutting back, but we're growing," Griggs said.
If he's not careful, he might soon become seriously non-anonymous. But ask anyone in the know. If Bay Area sports is a rock concert, Griggs already plays the loudest power chord.
Contact Mark Purdy at email@example.com or (408) 920-5092.


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