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For all his merits, Tim Tebow is one stiff date.
When Iowa high school student Rachel Bird invited him to her prom via Twitter, the single NFL star did not respond. Then she took matters into her own hands and fashioned a cardboard cutout Tebow instead.
"I didn't want to go with just anybody just to have a date," Bird told The Des Moines Register. So she and her father made a cardboard version of the quarterback whom Bird admired for his faith – and good looks.
Though he didn't utter a word all night, cardboard Tebow (who wore Bird's father's cologne to mask the wood glue smell used to create the cutout) was a hit.
Girls wanted to dance with him and boys took photos with him, the paper reports. Added Bird: "I think more people took their picture with Tim than they did with me."
And she's not done with him yet. Bird, who will attend Northwestern College in the fall, plans to take her inanimate prom date with her in the fall. Her father's thoughts on that?
"I think as long as he's made of cardboard," said Bob Bird, "it'll be okay."
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I spent a fun weekend fishing, seeing my parents, and, oh yeah, attended a beautiful wedding. Two of my college friends became one and I can safely say that everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves and that it was a great time. The ceremony was beautiful, the reception was a lot of fun, and the cake was delicious. (Actually everything was delicious, I think I gained ten pounds between all the alcohol and the food) The only blemish on the night, not for me personally, was the absence of the videographer, from "The Pros," who didn't show up at all. At all.
This led me to wonder… does a large company, with a presence in multiple states, really necessarily mean reliability or good service? In most cases you would say yes because there has to be a reason why they grew to the size they are and that reason has to be a high level of service and reliability such that they get a lot of business. "However, value in product is only true value when it is supported by consistent, excellent service." states their website but they weren't consistent and who knows about their service since they never showed up.
In this particular case, no, and in fact I would venture to guess in a scenario such as this one (only one chance at it, you can't be late or flaky or anything… it's a wedding!) the best bet would be to go with a small one or two person operation (who does it out of enjoyment or is trying to make a name for themselves) that come with good references. Would I have guessed this before this weekend? Never.
Sadly, the couple were warned that The Pros were not 100% reliable, a product of having such a large operation, but very few videographers will give you 8 hours of raw footage (most cut and splice it down to a 30 minute product) so they reserved them anyway. The Pros can afford to miss a few weddings because they conduct so much business. They can afford to miss a few? Ridiculous! Now, do I know the full story? No I don't, but I do know there was no videographer at the ceremony and that a very capable DJ, who did happen to have a camera, did catch the reception so all was not lost.
The Pros are not reliable, based only on this one situation, and I recommend that you not take the risk of their services. Dennis J. Tessler, Brian M. Tessler, and C. Keith Tessler should be ashamed of themselves that they permitted this to happen.
This is a courteous response sent recently (November 06, 2007) by President and CEO Dennis Tessler:
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For several years now when people "Google" The Pros Weddings within the first page is an extremely uncomplimentary article about our company written by a guests at a wedding at which, according to this guest, The Pros videographer was late and missed the ceremony. Since we have no idea what wedding this relates to, the circumstances, or what restitution was made to the client, it is impossible for me to comment on this specific incident. However, after all these years of having to see this article I decided there is a need to respond.
Accepting the letter at face value, it appears, for whatever reason, the videographer was late. If so, I am confident we did everything reasonable and more to make restitution with the bride. I can speak with confidence that everything is done to ensure such instances are extremely rare.
The Pros is a family owned business. I am the owner and my two sons, Keith and Brian, are working hard to build this business for their family's future. We, along with a dedicated staff, all work extremely hard, to provide the finest in wedding services. Last year we provided service to 8,000 weddings and in total did 13,000 services. We did not build this business by disappointing brides. In fact, we are the most referred provider of disc jockey, video and photography in the nation. With those referrals comes a trust we take very seriously.
Recently, we were given "The Knots Best of Weddings" award as rated by The Knot brides.
We do everything possible to create reliability and are extremely successful in this pursuit. We spend significant dollars in order to have emergency back up in every area at all times. Should a last minute issue prevent a professional from performing their duties, an 800 line is provided which goes directly to a qualified individual, armed with the information necessary to dispatch a backup on a moment's notice. Because we have a highly professional, stable workforce of individuals
who have been part of The Pros, most of them for a very long time, our emergency line is not as active as one would think. I am constantly amazed that the quantity of work we do and the very few problems we have. It is a credit to those individuals with whom we have been able to surround ourselves.
The article you present "The Pros Wedding Services Not Reliable" written by a guest at a wedding who provides little detail, perhaps because of a lack of information, about what actually happened at a wedding no one can identify, is highly inaccurate and extremely misleading. It undermines the reputation of not only our family business but the 500 people who work so very hard to create an the organization of which we are so proud.
The article has been up for a very long time. I ask you to use your good judgment as to whether it indefinitely serves the consumer community. Perhaps the time has come to take it down. Your
consideration of this matter is greatly appreciated.
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GEN News Highlights : Apr 22, 2013
The Biotechnology Industry Organization's Annual International Conference opens today in Chicago and runs through April 25. But 2013 is not just another year for BIO. It's special. BIO is celebrating its 20th anniversary!
BIO's first conference in North Carolina in 1993 showcased a respectable number of exhibitors in a couple of large tents with maybe—just maybe—several hundred attendees coming to take part in the goings-on. Humble beginnings to be sure. Now BIO puts on the world's largest and most wide-ranging industry event.
Back in 1993, BIO was almost totally focused on how to best represent the economic, legal, and political interests of the global biotechnology community. BIO still does a lot of that, but now its annual conference also features dozens of scientific, business, and regulatory sessions, seminars, and partnering and tech transfer opportunities. Also, each year more international exhibitors and visitors seem to appear.
While virtually all of BIO's conference sessions have much to offer, GEN picked out ten for their particular importance and relevance to a broad segment of the bioindustry:
With Washington still trying to figure out how to get the U.S. economy back on track, BIO is holding an extremely timely keynote luncheon on Wednesday entitled "Debt, Taxes, Government Services and Politics—Is There a Way Out?" Panel members will be Erskine Bowles and former Senator Alan Simpson, authors of a much debated deficit-reduction plan. They're going to discuss their ideas about putting America on a better fiscal and economic path and what that will mean for life science research and the bioindustry.
So you see, BIO has indeed come a long way from 1993. And GEN's come a long way too—come see us at booth 3617 for the latest on what we're up to, and to sign up for free e-Newsletters and win prizes! And don't miss the GEN 10 Awards and Grad Bash on Wednesday, April 24 from 3–5 PM at theater booth 2884. Beer and refreshments will be served!
For live updates from the show, follow us on Twitter @GENbio.
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Forget being a sore loser. American Idol season 13 runner-up Jena Irene Asciutto had way too much fun spending time with eventual winner Caleb Johnson that she didn't want it to end with the finale.
Instead, the Michigan high school senior asked him to escort her to the prom.
"He's an awesome guy. We've been best friends for a couple months now. To bring him to meet all my friends is pretty cool," she said outside the North Farmington High School prom Wednesday evening, according to WWJ CBS radio in Detroit.
The platonic pair stayed true to their personal style at the soiree: Asciutto, 17, looked stylish and sweet in a strapless cream-colored gown, while rocker Johnson, 23 – who declared himself "probably the antithesis" of previous American Idol winners – eschewed the traditional tuxedo in favor of a button-down shirt, black pants and a leather jacket.
Asciutto explained the duo simply bonded during their intensive time together on the show, and the prom idea was hatched well before Ryan Seacrest announced a winner.
"It was a joke at first. My mom was joking about it and I was like, 'Huh, that could be fun.' And then we ended up being the last two so I'm like, 'Do you want to just go to prom together,' and he's like, 'All right, let's do it,' and it happened," she said.
Johnson squeezed in the friendly date before heading back to Los Angeles later this week to work on his first album. The pair will then reunite for the American Idol tour when it kicks off June 24 in Binghamton, New York.
Until then, Asciutto will prepare to graduate next month – and spend a little time as a regular teenager.
"Throughout these next couple of weeks, I'm excited to just kind of hang out and chill with my friends and definitely rest and watch a lot of Netflix before tour," she said. "It's going to be an awesome summer."
American Idol Winner Caleb Johnson Escorts Runner-Up Jena Irene Asciutto to Her Prom
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Buffalo Bills football star Mario Williams, who signed the biggest contract in team history last year, has filed a lawsuit against his former fiancée in Houston, seeking the return of a 10-carat diamond engagement ring reportedly worth $785,000.
The lawsuit alleges that Erin Marzouki "unilaterally terminated" the engagement in January for reasons that were "caused solely" by her.
Furthermore, Williams alleges that Marzouki never intended to marry him and that she used their relationship as a means to "get … money and acquire gifts."
"[Marzouki] has absconded with the diamond ring," according to the suit. "[Williams] has demanded that Defendant return the diamond engagement ring, but Defendant has failed and refused to do so."
The 28-year-old defensive end filed the lawsuit Friday in Harris County Court in Houston. The Buffalo News obtained a copy of the document Monday.
The lawsuit comes almost 14 months after Williams joined the Bills, signing a six-year, $100 million contract with $50 million in guaranteed money. When it was signed, the contract made Williams the highest-paid defensive player in National Football League history and by far the highest-paid in Bills history.
So far, nothing has been filed in the Houston court giving Marzouki's side of the story. A News reporter left a telephone message for Marzouki in Houston but did not receive a return call. Court officials said they do not know who represents Marzouki in the case.
Williams' Houston attorneys, Monica S. Orlando and Michael G. Orlando, could not be reached Monday afternoon to comment.
The football star contends in court papers that Marzouki agreed to marry him but also agreed that, if the wedding was ever called off, she would return the ring that Williams bought for her.
"Defendant had no intention of returning the diamond engagement ring. Instead, Defendant intended to break off the relationship and abscond with the diamond ring," Williams said in his 10-page complaint.
Williams said the ring was purchased in December 2011 from "Valobra Master Jewelers." The ring was described as a "GIA certified radiant cut diamond weighing 10.04 carats, E color grade and VS2 clarity grade."
In court papers, Williams said he gave Marzouki the engagement ring Feb. 19, 2012, which was 3½ weeks before he signed his landmark free-agent contract with the Bills while both were living in Houston.
In addition, Williams said, he gave his fiancée an American Express credit card to pay for living expenses. He contended that she ran up $108,000 in charges on the card in 2012.
Williams also said that he has purchased "additional luxury items" for Marzouki with a total value of $230,000. In his court papers, he did not itemize the purchases.
Under Texas law, Williams has the "right of recovery" to the ring, his attorneys said in court papers. He asked the courts to issue an order restraining Marzouki from selling the ring or transferring it to anyone else.
Williams had Marzouki fly to Buffalo from Houston in March 2012 during his contract negotiations with the Bills. During that visit, the two met with Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly and his wife, Jill, at their Orchard Park home. Subsequently, they bought a 13-room, 9,389-square-foot house valued at $2 million across the street from the Kellys.
On the Buffalo radio program "The Better Half of the Bills" on STAR 102.5 last December, Marzouki told interviewer Rob Lucas that she had spent the football season commuting back and forth from Buffalo to Houston to be a bridesmaid and maid of honor for the weddings of two of her friends.
After one of the weddings, she added, she flew immediately back to Buffalo so she could attend the Bills game the next afternoon.
Marzouki said that she and Williams had talked about getting married last June but that the move to a new city put those plans on hold.
"We're looking at next summer," she said, "but we have no date or no place."
Seeking the return of engagement gifts is not unheard of for sports celebrities. Former Buffalo Sabres player Matthew Barnaby reached an out-of-court settlement five weeks ago of a lawsuit against his ex-fiancée and reclaimed an engagement ring worth $50,000. Two years ago, Dallas Cowboys receiver Roy Williams sued his ex-fiancée over a $77,000 engagement ring but got the ring back without going to court.
Several State Supreme Court and Appellate Division rulings in engagement ring cases over the last decade have, in effect, established New York as a "no-fault engagement" state, meaning that it doesn't matter why an engagement gets called off or whether one party or the other did something wrong. The person who gave the ring is entitled to get it back.
Texas is not a no-fault state for such a conditional gift. The person giving the ring can recover it "on breach of the marriage engagement by the donee," according to a 2003 Texas Court of Appeals ruling.
Williams' lawyers contend "that the engagement was terminated by" Marzouki.
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*New York Rangers Relevant Draft Picks Since 2004:
12 - Brian Mitchell (current 4th line center) acquired for a seventh round pick.
09 - #19 overall, Chris Kreider - Looks like a future NHL All-Star.
09 - Brian Boyle (current 3rd line center) acquired for a third round pick.
08 - #51 overall, Derek Stepan. - Second line center. Very productive player. Possible Team USA '14 member.
08 - #20 overall, Michael Del Zotto. - Future NHL ALl-Star (if he wasn't already?). Probable Team Canada '14 member.
07 - #168 overall, Carl Hagelin - First line winger. Very productive player. Possible Team Sweden '14 member.
06 - #54 overall, Artem Anisimov - Having a down year, but still a possible Team Russia '14 member.
05 - #40 overall, Michael Sauer - Hurt right now, but still a possible Team USA '14 member.
05 - #12 overall (high pick), Marc Staal - NHL All-Star, probable Team Canada '14 member.
04 - #127 overall, Ryan Callahan - Captain, Definite Team USA '14 member.
04 - #60 overall, Brandon Dubinsky - Hurt right now, but still a possible Team USA '14 member.
*Scouting Trades: all acquired in ROBBERY (trust me, robbery) player for player deals.
1) Ryan McDonagh (Future All-Star and possible Team USA '14 member)
2) Stu Bickel (current second-pairing defenseman)
3) Brandon Prust (current third line winger)
4) Steve Eminger (usually a third pairing defenseman, but hurt now)
*Scouting Signings: all acquired for next to nothing as free agents that the rest of the league didn't even pursue for the most part.
1) Dan Girardi(current first-pairing defenseman)
2) Ruslan Fedetenko (current third line winger)
3) Anton Stralman (current third-pairing defenseman)
4) Michael Rupp (current fourth line winger)
5) Mats Zuccarello (usually a bottom six forward, but hurt now)
...and what have we done in that time? In the first game of the Nashville series, only four members of our lineup had been acquired by way of the draft since '04:
1) Helm(05, 132nd overall)
2) Abdelkader(05, 42nd overall)
3) Franzen(04, 97th overall)
4) ***If you want to count him*** Quincey(12, 1st round)
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I needed something to put on my feet after my evening bath. Did not want to wear shoes all of the time. Took many years to finally find a house slipper that provided the same support that my shoes do. So happy now. I have super high arches and have intense pain when they are not held in place. Glad someone thought of people like me, who cannot go barefoot anymore. Love them. when these wear out, I will purchase another pair. I have had them for a few weeks now, and they are holding up very well. I am a hard walker. Please let me know if they go on sale. I would appreciate that very much. I will always let someone with feet like mine know of this great find. Thank you very much.
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nice slippers
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Well made and functional slippers for a person that requires arch support that is sorely lacking in all the other vendors selections.
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By Judesters
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I am in my late 40's and also wear orthotics in my shoes to prevent a relapse of plantar fasciitis.I wear these all the time while at home. They support my feet and arch very well. I washed my other pair too often and wore them out, so threw them away. I missed them and knew walking barefoot on hardwood floors was not good for my feet. I bought another pair, am happy again and do not ever want to be without! I had tried another brand and they scrunched my toes-I gave them away to a smaller footed person. These I like cause you can wear them with or without socks-they are adjustable.
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wonderful, comfortable slipper
By June Bug
from Ontario Canada
Daily use as a slipper
some flaws
By CC
from Baton Rouge, LA
The sole and arch support are very good as advertised, however, the wide velcro-type straps don't hold the foot in place in the shoe. You constantly have to tighten them, they don't quite hold your foot in the right places.Your foot slips in the shoe making it unstable to walk in. Very unattractive as well.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Hammacher Schlemmer Response: While this product has received positive feedback from other customers, it clearly did not measure up to your expectations, and for this we sincerely apologize. The only thing we value more than our reputation for quality products and outstanding service is your complete satisfaction. You can always order from Hammacher Schlemmer with confidence knowing that if you are disappointed with a product—for any reason—you may return it under our lifetime guarantee. Please contact our customer service team at 1-800-321-1484 and they will be happy to assist you.
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By Elizabeth the Queen
from LOrignal, Ontario Canada
These are great slippers. They are soft and comfortable and go with any weather hot or cold. They look like they would be too hot in the summer but with the open toes they are comfortable.
They are effective in preventing plantar fasciitis pain
By laraporch
from Ebensburg, PA
I find these slippers effective in aligning my feet in a position which prevents me from experiencing plantar fasciitis pain. I wear them all day around the house. They are sturdy and comfortable, especially in the warm weather with the open-toe design.
They work for me
By txbutterfli
from Conroe, TX
I ordered these because I was looking for a shoe to wear around the house. I have plantar fasciitis and fallen arches and our floors are wood and tile. Walking around barefoot in the house gets painful on this type of flooring. The size was perfect. I was a little surprised that the cushion doesn't give a little more, but it does provide adequate support. The first couple of days of wearing these I thought that I might have to send them back because they just weren't that comfortable. I kept wearing them because the pain of not wearing them was too bad. They have finally conformed to my feet. I do notice that they are a little more comfortable to wear with socks as they don't slide as much. The velcro adjustable top makes them fit to your feet well and I can loosen them or tighten them as needed.
Favorite slippers!
from Dearborn Heights, MI
Black don't show the dirt or spills. Comfortable and supportive, esp. to prevent or support plantar fascitis flare ups.
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MONTREAL – It was a complete and total beatdown. The Buffalo Sabres were outskated and outclassed in embarrassing fashion.
Montreal laid waste to the Sabres' feel-good vibe Saturday, trouncing Buffalo, 6-1. From the opening minute, Montreal dominated the Sabres, who came to Quebec on a high after a stirring victory in Boston.
The winning feeling came to a crashing halt after one game. The Sabres are just 1-4-1 since opening the season with two victories.
"It's unacceptable," right wing Drew Stafford said. "We're not going to win any games if we come out and get outworked like that."
The 21,273 red-clad fans in Bell Centre gleefully mocked the visitors and cheered the home team, which played at a speed and intensity level that Buffalo could not match. The Sabres, in a 4-0 hole after 31 minutes, spent the final 29 trying to keep at least a little dignity to bring home for today's game against Florida in First Niagara Center.
They didn't salvage much.
"It wasn't even close to being good enough to win a game," captain Jason Pominville said. "It's us not being good enough, not being ready right off the bat."
The first period was the Sabres' worst of the season, yet they nearly escaped in a 0-0 tie they didn't deserve. The relentless Canadiens finally turned their dominance into a lead with eight seconds left, scoring on the power play. Montreal had a 15-1 shot edge in the opening 20 minutes.
Pominville, who took a slap shot with 9:22 left, was the only one to test goaltender Carey Price. Ryan Miller, meanwhile, had Habs in his goalie mask nearly every time he looked up.
"Sometimes you get paid for the way you're playing, and we had to pay at the end," Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said. "If Ryan doesn't play the way he did in the first, this game could have really gotten out of hand. It was out of hand as it was, but it could have really gotten out of hand."
After finally solving Miller to end the first, Montreal poured it on during the second. The Canadiens scored three times on six shots, victimizing struggling defenseman Tyler Myers each time. Including Thursday's 7-4 win in Boston, Myers had a stretch in which he was on the ice for six of seven goals allowed by Buffalo.
"We just got way too high after a good win in Boston," Myers said. "It's something that we're going to have to learn from."
Ruff put Miller out of his misery after 40 minutes. Backup Jhonas Enroth quickly felt the pain as the Sabres continued their run for the bus. Montreal scored on a three-on-one just 1:22 into the third period.
By the time the Sabres had something to celebrate, there was no reason to enjoy it. Thomas Vanek scored on a short-handed breakaway with three minutes gone in the third to make it 5-1, but he skipped the party line. With his teammates up along the boards anticipating fist bumps, Buffalo's leading scorer left them hanging and took a seat at the end of the bench.
"At this point you know what went wrong," Stafford said. "It's something as simple as work, and it's something that we can address as a group. We have to get ready to come out flying."
The rested Panthers haven't played since a 6-3 win over Winnipeg on Thursday. It's their only victory in their last six games. They were outscored, 23-4, during their five-game losing skid.
The Sabres' top hope is that Florida feels overconfident after its convincing win. That's what happened to Buffalo.
"Obviously," Ruff said, "I think that we left our heads in Boston."
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Michelle Williams is back with her new album, Journey to Freedom (now available for pre-order.) Good Morning America dubbed it as a "personal journey," however my personal opinion is that it is more of a spiritual journey. On the debut track, Say Yes, Queen Bey and Kelly Rowland are featured and I am so stoked for a Christian song to go mainstream.
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CH338 Dining Table
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Designed by Hans Wegner in 1962, the simple and elegant CH338 Dining Table is the ultimate solid wood oval dining table. Large, yet not overwhelming in its presence, this extension table stands lightly on slightly tapering wood legs. The slender legs are offset perfectly by a 1" thick solid wood tabletop with a symmetrically formed frame.
The CH338 Dining Table is available with up to 4 optional extension leaves, in matching wood or laminated MDF in black or grey (used to save $$$ if you know that you always drape your table for large parties). Here's the complicated part, if you want the table to have MORE than 2 leaves (i.e. 3 or 4 leaves) a more expensive version of the table is necessary than what we offer here. The reason is because the version we have for sale can only support 1-2 leaves with the hardware and supporting legs it comes with. Feel free to call us at 888-467-6278 for further clarification or to order leaves.
- 28.3" h | 78.7" w | 45.3" d
- Tabletop: 1" thick
- Distance between legs: 48.9" (sides) x 29.3" (ends)
- Leaves: 45.3" x 23.6" each
- Made from solid wood in ash, beech, oak or walnut
- Seats 6, up to 12 when extended with optional 1 or 2 leaves
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One of the prime influences in Danish Modern design during its formative years, Hans Wegner first began to design furniture after attending the Carpenters' Guild Furniture Exhibits in Copenhagen, Denmark. Shortly after completing his studies at what is now The Danish Design School, he was tasked by Arne Jacobsen with designing all the furniture of his Arhus City Hall. After working with Jacobsen for a short time, he began designing furniture for the Carl Hansen & Son furniture company in 1949. From that partnership came classics such as the Wishbone Chair, Elbow Chair, Shell Chair, and Wing Chair. Still as fresh now as they were then, these enduring pieces of modern furniture bear testimony to Wegner's craftsmanship and inspiration.
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The Joint Enforcement Task Force on Workplace Fraud will hold the following open meetings:
The task force will hold open meetings on Monday, October 3, 2011 from 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon at the Anne Arundel Community College Sales and Service Training Center, 7000 Arundel Mills Circle, Hanover, MD 21076 and on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 from 10 a.m. to 12 noon at the Maryland Workers' Compensation Commission's (WCC) Beltsville Regional Hearing Site, 4780 Corridor Place, Suite D, Beltsville, MD 20705-1165. Created by Governor O'Malley on July 14, 2009 (Executive Order 01.01.2009.09), the interagency Joint Enforcement Task Force on Workplace Fraud is charged with coordinating and enhancing state efforts to combat and prevent workplace fraud.
The Task Force is chaired by Alexander Sanchez, Secretary of the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, and includes staff from the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, the Attorney General's Office, the Comptroller's Office, the Insurance Administration, and the Workers' Compensation Commission. Task Force members share information related to suspected workplace fraud, coordinate enforcement efforts among the different state agencies and divisions impacted by workplace fraud, and study best practices and enforcement techniques. Task Force members are also working to increase awareness of the problem of workplace fraud through outreach to business, labor, and community groups.
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Mountain Hospice will present its "Valentine's Night Out" fundraiser this Friday at Camp Pioneer in Beverly.
A baked steak dinner, live entertainment and silent auction will be available at the event, which begins at 6 p.m. A 50/50 drawing will also take place, with proceeds going to the Patient and Family Support Fund, a Hospice program that supports patients who have no insurance.
Mike Elza, marketing project coordinator for Mountain Hospice, described the Support Fund and spoke to The Inter-Mountain about the fundraiser.
"Every year we find it more important to do another fundraiser to keep (the Support Fund) going," he said.
Elza explained details of the Support Fund by first saying no patient is ever turned away.
He said Mountain Hospice supports patients who don't have the means to pay for services. Hospice documents said the fund helps those who have no insurance or Medicare/Medicaid.
It is the "Valentine's Night Out" fundraiser which, in part, allows the Support Fund to grow.
At last year's dinner, Elza said, more than 200 dinners were sold and the 50/50 raffle netted more than $600 for the Support Fund.
"We hope this year to make it even bigger and better," he said.
According to a Mountain Hospice flier, entertainment at the dinner will include a brass jazz and combo band. A men's and women's quartet will accompany them.
Elza said both groups are from Alderson-Broaddus College.
"They will be playing all evening," he said.
The silent auction will also take place throughout the evening.
Lamps, jewelry, backpacks and gift certificates are among the items being auctioned, Elza said. Community members from Randolph and Barbour counties donated the auction items.
Tickets are available at the door.
More information can be obtained by calling Mountain Hospice at 304-823-3922.


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|Diamondoid Monolayers as Monochromatic Electron Source
|Wednesday, 28 November 2007 00:00
Diamondoids are nanometer-sized molecules that feature diamond-crystal cage structures. Adamantane, the smallest member in the family, consists of one cage structure, diamantane two, triamantane three, tetramantane four, and so on. On all of these, the dangling bonds on the outer surfaces are terminated by hydrogen atoms. Because of their potential to possess novel properties of both diamond and nanomaterial, intensive efforts have been made to synthesize the larger diamondoid molecules, but to no avail. This situation was finally changed in 2003 when significant quantities of higher diamondoids were found in petroleum by researchers in MolecularDiamond Technologies. Now, scientists from Berkeley Lab, Stanford University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Germany have used photoelectron spectroscopy at the ALS to reveal an intriguing feature: monochromatized electron emission from a self-assembled monolayer of diamondoids. This discovery has immediately attracted the attention of people who are searching for materials for next-generation electron emitters.
Materials for electron emitters have long been sought because electrons emitted into vacuum can be precisely controlled and easily integrated into elaborate devices. They lie at the heart of a number of modern technologies, such as field-emission flat-screen displays, electron microscopes, electron lithography, and next-generation free-electron lasers. For electron emitters, one of the biggest challenges is to develop large, uniform surfaces that emit electrons with a sharp energy distribution.
In the late 1970s, scientists found that hydrogen-terminated diamond surfaces are characterized by negative electron affinity (NEA), meaning for electrons, the energy level of the vacuum is lower than that of the diamond conduction bands. At surfaces with NEA, electrons excited into the conduction band will spontaneously fall out into vacuum even at low temperature. Thus, NEA-based electron emitters have several advantages over conventional emitters. They exhibit electron emission at extremely low bias voltage (zero in the ideal case), and the energy distribution of the emitted electron is extremely narrow. However, two critical issues prevented NEA semiconductors from being used in commercialized products. One is the nonuniform emission normally observed on diamond surfaces. The other is the difficulty of supplying electrons to the emission surface, because diamond and other NEA semiconductors are wide-gap materials with low electron conductivity.
Diamondoids, being diamond-like nanoclusters, provide us with the opportunity to sustain the NEA feature of diamond while avoiding the conventional problems of bulk NEA materials. Toward this end, the collaborators replaced one of the hydrogen atoms on the surface of tetramantane (four-cage diamondoids) with a thiol group (hydrogen + sulfur). This substitution chemically "functionalizes" the tetramantane, i.e., it promotes bonding with other molecules, enabling it to form more complex structures, like nanosized tinker toys. The researchers found that these diamondoid–thiol complexes would then self-assemble into a uniform monolayer on metal surfaces such as silver or gold.
Photoelectron spectroscopy was then performed on the tetramantane–thiol monolayers at Beamline 10.0.1, where a strong, sharp peak was detected. The outstanding peak observed in the spectra is a strong indication of NEA. Furthermore, up to 68% of all the emitted electrons were within this single energy peak, with a width of less than 0.5 eV. This is several times as strong as the same measurement for bulk diamond. Technologically, this means most electrons are emitted from the diamondoid monolayer at the same energy, i.e., speed.
The result directly shows that diamondoid monolayers can be superior to conventional materials as electron emitters. The molecules can be purified and functionalized under precise control. They can be inexpensively self-assembled into large-area, uniform monolayers. More importantly, they perform better than previous materials in terms of the energy distribution of the emitted electrons. Further investigations are under way to fully understand this striking phenomenon, as well as to make real devices based on diamondoids.
Research conducted by W.L. Yang, N. Mannella, K. Tanaka, and X.J. Zhou (Stanford University and ALS); J.D. Fabbri, W. Meevasana, M.A. Kelly, N.A. Melosh, and Z.-X. Shen (Stanford University); T.M. Willey, J.R.I. Lee, and T. van Buuren (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory); J.E. Dahl and R.M.K. Carlson (MolecularDiamond Technologies, Chevron Technology Ventures); P.R. Schreiner, B.A. Tkachenko, and N.A. Fokina (Justus-Liebig University, Germany); A.A. Fokin (Justus-Liebig University, Germany, and Kiev Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine); and Z. Hussain (ALS).
Research funding: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Operation of the ALS is supported by BES.
Publication about this research: W.L. Yang, J.D. Fabbri, T.M. Willey, J.R.I. Lee, J.E. Dahl, R.M.K. Carlson, P.R. Schreiner, A.A. Fokin, B.A. Tkachenko, N.A. Fokina, W. Meevasana, N. Mannella, K. Tanaka, X.J. Zhou, T. van Buuren, M.A. Kelly, Z. Hussain, N.A. Melosh, and Z.-X. Shen, "Monochromatic electron photoemission from diamondoid monolayers," Science 316, 1460 (2007).


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A man was charged Sunday in an attack on Daytona Beach Police Chief Michael Chitwood.
Michael Dangelo, 43, was charged with aggravated battery after an attack on Chitwood along Main Street on Saturday night.
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Whistle-blower surgeon not protected by state law, court finds
The Texas Supreme Court has dismissed on technical grounds a UT Southwestern Medical Center trauma surgeon's nearly six-year claim that he was demoted in retaliation for alleging billing fraud and lax resident supervision.
In an opinion issued late last week, Justice Don R. Willett wrote on the court's behalf that the Texas Whistleblower Act protects employees who report potential wrongdoing to an "appropriate law enforcement authority."
But Gentilello had warned his supervisor, the chairman of UTSW's surgery department. The justices concluded the chairman, Dr. Robert Rege, lacked the kind of regulatory or policing power described in the act.
"This is a legislatively-mandated legal classification, one tightly drawn, and we cannot judicially loosen it," according to the opinion, which I uploaded at this post's end. "Other states protect purely internal whistle-blowing, but under our Legislature's narrower view, a whistleblower cannot reasonably believe his supervisor is an appropriate law-enforcement authority if the supervisor's power extends no further than ensuring the governmental body itself complies with the law."
The Supreme Court did not rule on the substance of Gentilello's allegations. The decision overturned those of two lower courts, which had let Gentilello proceed despite legal shields that generally make entities like UTSW immune to such lawsuits.


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Atlantic City still cleaning up from storm
Three days after the storm, many are just beginning to pick up the pieces in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Thousands are still without power, including all of the casinos. Officials say it may take days before power is restored.
While it's still unclear when residents will be able to return to their homes, those who didn't evacuate, like business owner Philip Weinberg, the devastation is too much.
"I could cry. I'll never get it back, never get it back," said Weinberg.
Even though Weinberg says he may never get back the money he lost, it will take at least a week and a half for his business to be up and running again. But he says he's lucky compared to those who lost their homes.
The loss of power also isn't helping those who rely on the casinos for their paycheck.
"The situation here in Atlantic City is not really too good because all the casinos, all the hotels, resorts....is shut off. Nobody has a job right now," said Norma Torres, who works at the Revel casino.
What's normally a bustling boardwalk is now a ghost town, businesses have had to board up and wait just like the residents.
For now, those who have power are still unable to fill their fridge with only a handful of corner stores open.
As for the state of the city, residents can only hope.
"It's sad, sad. I could cry. It's going be a long time before people get back. The economy wasn't great as it was, you well know, you know?" said Weinberg.
"It's kind of like down, everybody's unhappy here in Atlantic City. We want to make Atlantic City happy again," Torres said.
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The number of foreclosures, short sales and property owners simply handing over their keys remains at an all-time high. Unfortunately, this trend will continue for the foreseeable future - as long as the number of owners "underwater" remains at an all-time high.
According to the Census Bureau, approximately 40 percent of all homes (dwelling units) in Berkeley and Jefferson counties were built between 2000 and 2010. The majority of those who purchased these homes have mortgages that exceed their home's value. Individuals who refinanced or obtained secured equity lines during the "bubble" are in the same boat - owning properties submerged in debt - or as we have come to say - "underwater."
The trauma of losing a property to foreclosure or short sale cannot be overstated. After months, often years, of struggle, owners finally abandon the dream of ownership. Emotionally detached from the property, they simply want to move on with their lives.
More Bad News - A Tax Bill - the ticking tax time bomb: In too many cases this emotional detachment, combined with erroneous tax-myths, false assumptions and flat-out misinformation, is creating a secondary crisis for beleaguered homeowners - a gigantic, computer-generated tax bill that arrives two or three years down the road. The cause: under or misreporting "income" generated by the short sale, foreclosure or abandonment. This column will briefly discuss how this income is generated and why misreporting or under-reporting starts the countdown to possibly receiving a giant, unexpected tax bill.
"... But I'm broke!" One of the most common questions we receive regarding this topic is, "How can I have taxable income when I'm broke?" Unfortunately, the answer is relatively simple. Here are two common scenarios:
First, taxpayer A, John, buys a home in 2006 for $300,000 using 100 percent financing. In 2012, he starts the process to short-sell the home. In 2013, the short-sale goes through for $170,000, and the bank forgives the remaining $130,000 of debt. As the IRS sees it, John has received $130,000 in potentially taxable income. Potential federal and state tax - assuming 25 percent federal and 6 percent state tax rates equals a $40,300 tax bill.
Second, taxpayer B, Joan, purchased a home for $100,000 in 1995. In 2005, when her home was suddenly worth $300,000, Joan refinanced for $275,000 and used $200,000 of the proceeds to pay off bills, buy two cars and send her children to college. In 2011, after her home's value dropped to $175,000, she handed over her keys to a trustee to avoid foreclosure. As the IRS sees it, Joan has received $100,000 in potentially taxable income, the loan of $275,000 minus the home's $175,000 value equals a potential tax bill of $31,000.
In both situations, John and Joan received the use and benefit of money they did not pay back. When the bank forgives a debt for which an individual is personally liable, it generates what is called cancellation of debt income. The bank is required to report cancellation of debt income to the IRS and the taxpayer by submitting Form 1099-C. If the taxpayer does not properly report this income, IRS computers will automatically "correct" their return and send them a bill for the tax due, plus penalties and interest. It generally takes eight to 15 months after the bank reports the canceled debt for the IRS to catch up to the taxpayer with a bill.
There are five possible exclusions of cancellation of debt income: debt discharged in bankruptcy, insolvency, qualified farm indebtedness, qualified business property indebtedness and qualified personal residence indebtedness. Qualified personal residence indebtedness is scheduled to expire at the end of 2012 if not extended by Congress. These exclusions, however, are much more restrictive than their titles suggest and require tax expertise to properly apply.
So, if you or someone you know is considering short sale, facing foreclosure or thinking of abandoning a property, obtain tax professional assistance before acting. Also, have an experienced tax professional prepare this year's return. It can save you thousands. If you have any questions or need assistance, please feel free to contact our office at 304-267-2594 to speak with a tax professional.
- Brett Hersh is the owner of HBS Tax and an enrolled agent with the IRS. Hersh is licensed to prepare all tax returns and represent taxpayers before the IRS. He also is a trainer for Lorman Education and Dave Ramsey's endorsed provider for accounting and tax services for the region. He can be reached at 304-267-2594 or through www.hbsbusiness.com.


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on June 15, 2013 - 9:23 PM
Tuesday looms large in six school districts in Western New York.
That's the day they find out if they have to make more cuts to their educational programs.
"We've kind of run out of things to cut," said Lewiston-Porter Superintendent Chris Roser.
Clarence is the largest district in the area conducting a re-vote, but five other districts are also asking residents to go to the polls again Tuesday.
Alden and Clarence in Erie County; Lewiston-Porter, Niagara Wheatfield and Wilson in Niagara County; and Bemus Point in Chautauqua County are among 32 budgets across New York State that failed to gain passage May 21.
This time, all the districts are staying within the tax cap. Both Clarence and Lewiston-Porter put up budgets in May with tax levies above the cap. Under New York State's tax-cap legislation that took effect last year, districts are required to seek approval from 60 percent of voters if they want to exceed their cap. Budgets that call for increases under the tax cap need 50 percent of the vote plus one to pass.
The consequences of failing a second time would likely mean more cuts. School districts have two chances to pass a budget under the state tax-cap law before they must adopt a contingent budget, which cannot raise taxes a penny more than was collected in the previous year.
"A zero tax levy increase would be pretty devastating for most school districts," said Dave Albert of the New York State School Boards Association.
Every district is facing dramatic increases in pension and other costs that must be paid, and many have already cut staffing.
Clarence cut nearly 25 positions in its first budget and has reduced staffing by another 29 for this budget. Lewiston-Porter reduced staff by more than 40 positions. And in the last three years, Niagara Wheatfield has cut 112 jobs positions, and Wilson has reduced staff by more than 20 people.
Many districts made changes to their defeated budgets.
Clarence reduced the tax levy from a 9.8 percent increase to 3.62 percent. It may be enough. Anti-tax proponents had a meeting of the minds with pro-school residents last week and agreed to work for passage of this budget.
Most districts also made more cuts, said Orleans-Niagara BOCES Superintendent Clark Godshall.
"The stakes are very high in terms that there's no other place to receive revenue," he said.
But Bemus Point and Wilson are taking different routes.
Wilson is keeping the same spending plan because an exit poll showed a significant number of people wanted to preserve programs. The revised budget proposed using more reserve funds to reduce the tax burden.
Residents in Bemus Point will be looking at the same budget that was defeated by 12 votes.
"After the budget failed, a lot of people came and apologized to the Board of Education for not voting," said Bemus Point Schools Superintendent Jacqueline Latshaw.
Alden is in a period of transition as it approaches its budget re-vote. School District Superintendent Lynn Marie Fusco will take over the same position in Niagara Wheatfield beginning July 1. The School Board appointed Adam Stoltman as interim superintendent, and he will take over June 24.
The last budget included a 3 percent tax levy increase and a 3.56 percent spending increase.
"I think it didn't pass the first time largely because of tax rates," School Business Administrator Paul Karpik said. "The tax proposal was what we got the most feedback about. There were other issues as well, but that was the biggest one."
Last year, only two districts of the nearly 700 in the state adopted a contingent budget after two defeats at the ballot box. One of them was Cheektowaga Sloan.
This year, districts that wind up in that position could be slashing to the bone, looking at kindergarten, athletics, art and music to reduce the levy.
"They only have so many things they can cut from," Albert said.
For Lewiston-Porter, that means another $893,000 would be cut.
"We had a pretty lean budget as it was," the superintendent said.
Contingent budgets also would mean cutting costs to bridge gaps of $1.47 million in Clarence, $1.28 million in Niagara Wheatfield and $424,000 in Bemus Point.
"I think people are aware of it. I think taxpayers are aware of it, said Godshall. "It's in the hands of the taxpayers now."
Aaron Mansfield contributed to this story. email: email@example.com


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One was an iconic American poet.
The other was a thoughtful rabbi living in Cincinnati.
As unlikely a pair as they seemed, Robert Frost and Victor E. Reichert built a close friendship focused on literature and philosophy that stretched over two decades.
Now, that friendship will be preserved and admired – as well as studied, by future generations – here in Buffalo, thanks to a donation by the rabbi's son.
Jonathan F. Reichert, a retired physics professor who taught for three decades at the University at Buffalo, has donated to the university a voluminous cache of letters, inscribed books, manuscripts, voice recordings, photographs and other materials exchanged between his father and Frost over about 20 years.
Jonathan Reichert, when he was growing up, also knew Frost.
"I wanted the friendship of my father with Frost to be part of history," said Reichert, 81. "Because I saw it. I know it changed Frost."
The thousands of Frost-related items in the Reichert collection mean that UB will vault into a prominent position among archives and libraries that have Frost collections – one of the 20th century's best-known and most beloved literary voices.
Frost died 50 years ago this month at age 88.
Previously, the Buffalo university had limited holdings on the New England-bred author – despite the fact that Frost visited UB for three days in 1927.
"Mr. Frost said that every good poem begins in a mood," the Bee, a UB student newspaper, reported of one talk Frost gave to students at the time. "Then the mood finds the idea and the idea finds the words."
Michael D. Basinski, curator of The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, is excited about the donation.
"This is a major acquisition for us," Basinski said.
'Star-struck with Frost'
Basinski said the gift, which Reichert made final just a few weeks ago, has already attracted attention in the literary and poetry communities worldwide.
"It's measured by the fact that the person who's doing the collected Robert Frost letters is already on his way here," Basinski said. "We have a delightful collection – it adds to the scholarly status of our college."
"There are unique items here that are nowhere else."
Frost, who was born in 1874, was already a well-known poet when he became friends with Reichert.
The rabbi was a generation younger than Frost, but the two connected after Reichert met Frost at a reading the poet gave in Cincinnati, said Jonathan Reichert, who lives in Buffalo. A friendship quickly blossomed.
"My father was absolutely star-struck with Frost, to some extent," Reichert said.
But there was an everyday quality to their relationship as well.
"There was a lot of peer interaction," Jonathan Reichert said. "I remember playing tennis with him. Dad said, 'You've got to let him win.'
"And I said, 'No, I won't.' "
The relationship between Frost and Reichert was captured in a 1994 book, "The Poet and the Rabbi," by Andrew Marks.
One-of-a-kind memories
The new Frost collection is both varied and deep, said curators at the UB poetry and rare books repository in Capen Hall on the North Campus in Amherst.
Among the eye-catching items in the trove are books inscribed to Reichert family members from Frost, some of which contain personal messages or quotes from Frost's poetry, and an array of more than 60 photographs of Frost, at various ceremonies and public events, but also in private, spending time with the Reicherts.
The family lived in Cincinnati and used a summer residence in Vermont that was near Frost's home, curators at UB said.
The Reichert collection also features unusual and one-of-a-kind items – such as a 1946 recording of Frost delivering a sermon, at Reichert's request, in the Rockdale Avenue Temple in Cincinnati.
The collection also includes about 600 newspaper clippings about Frost, a large assortment of magazines with Frost on the cover, and rare Frost chapbooks and holiday publications, curators said.
Among the other treasures are letters handwritten by Frost and answered by Reichert, often at length, as part of a correspondence that the men carried on, said James L. Maynard, associate curator of the poetry and rare books collection at UB.
"I sort of think of the two of them … as Wordsworth and Coleridge," Maynard said. "They lived near each other. As for Frost, he could be taciturn.
"So much of their conversation was in person. We have just a handful of their letters."
Attention to detail
In one letter, Frost wrote to Reichert – in sprawling handwriting, on unlined paper – asking him a theological and philosophical question, about whether human beings can be acceptable in the sight of God. He writes a plaintive-sounding question, wondering if he has been conjuring bits of faith and philosophy in his own mind.
Reichert responded with a three-page typed letter – also in the UB collection – in which he laid out extensive literary and biblical reasons for faith.
" 'Here it is, the Bible is the authority,' " Basinski said, summarizing the letter. " 'You most assuredly have not been making it up.' "
Frost, said the curators, was a man eternally questing against the biggest conundrums and most basic questions of human existence.
"A classic American questioning mind about the nature of the spiritual, humans, life, God," Basinski said.
"And," added Maynard, "he was from New England, so there was a dark tinge to it, as well."
The manner in which the rare materials found their way to UB is a story of attention to detail and personal relationships.
According to Jonathan Reichert, he had considered three locations for depositing the trove of Frost materials collected by his father.
Middlebury College was one, because Frost had a personal tie to that college; Amherst College, which has a library named for Frost, was the second.
Then there was UB, Jonathan Reichert's own university. The younger Reichert had been a professor of physics for nearly 30 years, had won a top award for his teaching and had served as chairman of the Faculty Senate for a time.
What made the difference, Jonathan Reichert said, was that Basinski, the UB curator, made him an offer to come and spend time with him in his Buffalo home, sorting through the two decades worth of materials, identifying and cataloging the thousands of items.
"Mike was different from everybody else," Jonathan Reichert said. "He was the only one of the archives who said, 'I will come and work with you.' My feeling is, if Mike took charge of it, it would get the attention it deserves."
Victor Reichert also had a connection to UB, his son said. In the 1980s, Jonathan Reichert said, his father came to the university to deliver a series of talks in the English department, about religious and literary subjects.
"My father … was a real scholar," said the son. "He was a man in love with literature."
The older Reichert died in 1990, at age 93, his son said. His mother, Louise, died some time after, at 102.
The trout factor
The creation of the new Frost collection at UB has allowed Jonathan Reichert to reminiscence about his own relationship with Frost, which lasted until the poet's death in 1963.
He said he had one technique for getting to see the famous poet – who later in life had staff and assistants around him who could be protective – that never failed: trout.
"I knew Frost loved trout, so I would catch a bunch, … and I would go up and say, 'I've got a bunch of trout, can I give them to Mr. Frost?' " recalled Jonathan Reichert.
"And I don't think I was ever turned down."
An exhibit featuring selected items from the new Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Collection will be open to the public for two months, starting Jan. 31, according to UB curators. The display will be on the fifth floor of Capen Hall on the North Campus between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily.


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In a congressional hearing on Tuesday, three out of the five
FCC commissioners told lawmakers that they are supportive of the open-access standards
as proposed by FCC Chairman Kevin J. Martin, according to Reuters. "A network more open to devices and applications can help
ensure that the fruits of innovation on the edges of the network swiftly pass
into the hands of consumers," said Martin, speaking to the House Energy and
Commerce subcommittee.Democratic commissioner John Adelstein specifically noted that an
open-access approach "could open these key airwaves to badly needed competition
in the broadband space."
Republican commissioners Deborah Tate and Robert McDowell
had not decided whether to support or oppose the standards, however McDowell
expressed that he is leaning towards opposition.
Martin spoke to the subcommittee of a "third pipe,"
expressing the necessity of an alternative to cable and DSL service for
high-speed internet access into the home, particularly those who cannot be
served with existing services like those living in the rural parts of America.
"Depending on how the Commission structures the upcoming auction, we will
either enable the emergence of a third broadband pipe -- one that would be
available to rural as well as urban American -- or we will miss our biggest
The open-access proposal by Martin has garnered support by
No. 1 wireless provider AT&T, which made a sudden reversal
from the rest of the wireless industry, and was threatening litigation again
open-access provisions in a time period as short as a few weeks ago. However,
the plan is still opposed by No. 2 provider Verizon Wireless, and the rest of
the wireless industry.
Less clear, however, is the commission's support for
Google's vision of "open-access", as outlined by a July 20 letter
sent to FCC Chairman Martin by Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking for "unwavering
obligations to provide (1) open applications, (2) open devices, (3) open
wholesale services, and (4) open network access."
Martin expressed
reservations about Google's proposal, which has been met with fierce criticism
from the wireless industry. It's a "giant scheme to have the 700MHz auction
rigged with special conditions in its favor," says CTIA president Steve Largent. U.S. Representative Fred Upton (R-Mich) stated, "the free market works best.
And successful auctions work best without encumbrances."
Martin's plan needs the support of a majority of the
commissioners to get approval, and can be dropped off the agenda if it does not
gain the necessary support. The FCC announced on Tuesday its intention to hold
a commission meeting on July 31 to discuss service rules and determine the
plan's fate.
quote: You still were required to have a dial-up modem for upload purposes; satellites were used for download purposes only.
quote: Martin spoke ... about ... the necessity of an alternative to cable and DSL service ... particularly those ... living in the rural parts of America.
quote: Are we going to waste this important spectrum just so people in rural areas can have internet access? Most of them don't have computers to begin with.
quote: Sorry if not everybody lives in Soviet-style apartment blocks located within 500 feet of all centrally located city ammenities.I've got a proposition in on a home in Brown County, Indiana right now (between Nashville and Morgantown), and despite being somewhat in the middle of nowhere (30 minute driver to Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Columbus, all three very substantial towns, with Bloomington and Columbus being tech hubs), and nearly everybody around the particular lake the home is on has a computer. Given the lengthy discussion we all had about how our different brokerage websites handled complex trades, they seem versed enough. Yet the local phone company has been saying they'd get DSL in just a couple months for several years. There are people out in the rural areas (if you ever look at Google Earth at Indiana or look out the window of a plane you'll quickly realize that there's an amazing amount of people living in the middle of "nowhere"), and they deserve access as much as you do.Not to mention this spectrum can provide competition to the high-brow intelligentsia who dare not lower themselves to leave their urban combine and their current broad-band duopoly, so you're just not forking over cash to us ignorant hillbillies that take pleasure in simple things -- like a view of something other than vast expanses of pavement; it would benefit everybody. quote>Uhh we don't live in Soviet style apartments here in suburbs. If you sum up the people who live in urban and suburban areas you're dealing with 90% of the population. I may be closer to the hills and just out of reach of DSL but I still get Cable. I have friends who live in the hills in richer areas and while they have trouble getting pizza delivery, they still get cable service and cell service.To tell me that DSL or Cable can't get to your area means you live in the middle of nowhere.Watch. America will have a stupid 700 MHz frequency that does nothing. It's just like we have a stupid 850 band and because of it the wireless phone industry in the US is pathetic. It also explains why we have the crappiest phones in the world.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Increasing calls for tougher gun laws has created a flurry of activity as people are rushing to purchase firearms in the face of a possible ban on certain weapons and ammunition across the US.
In Colorado, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation conducts background checks for businesses that sell firearms. Due to the surge in gun sales, CBI reports that their system is completely overwhelmed with requests. This has caused a severe backlog and forced CBI staff to manually track times that gun buyers will have to wait for the return of the inquiries.
The Denver Post reported that the wait time is now more than 100 hours. This means that several thousand customers will have an undetermined number of days to wait until their background check clears.
This condition has caused another unexpected side effect as it comes just before the Tanner Gun Show in Denver this weekend. It is one of Colorado's largest and longest-running shows.
"This is new," Ty Blount, co-owner of the show told the Post. "The process usually takes hours to half a day."
Blount said that he understood that the extended wait may be frustrating to buyers but underscored the importance of dealers conducting proper background checks of customers. He also stated that the wait would be no different if buyers were purchasing from any other retailer right now.
However, gun buyers are not the only ones facing extended hours. Due to the bottleneck, CBI has extended its operating hours from 6 a.m. to midnight to deal with the ever-increasing influx of new background inquiries.
According to CBI spokeswoman Susan Medina, the agency is now processing an unprecedented 3,000 requests per day.
Many Americans have expressed concern about the current state of the country and possible tougher gun laws.
These concerns were echoed by a man who asked only to be identified as Frank. Frank, an Army retiree and Vietnam veteran of two tours, expressed his deep sadness over the shootings in Connecticut and also his outrage at what appears to be the wholesale slaughter of innocent people in these senseless killings.
"I'm a conservative and I was raised in a home with a father who taught me to respect firearms and to value my Constitution," said Frank. "This is part of the reason I volunteered for 'Nam (sic)," he added.
Frank also said that he believed common citizens should not have access to weapons like the ones used in the mass shootings but expressed his concern that government regulations on those weapons would eventually lead to the complete abridgement of the Second Amendment.
"Our forefathers were thinking into the future when they wrote the Constitution; they were 3,000 years ahead of their time," he said "They gave us the right to bear and keep arms because they wanted us to be able to protect ourselves but the government is trying more and more to take that ability from us," said Frank.
Briefly he touched on the Aurora shooting saying that these kinds of things are what is leading to the erosion of the Constitution and could eventually lead to all Americans losing their freedom.
While Frank agreed with NRA chief Wayne LaPierre that the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun was a good guy with a gun, he disagreed with posting armed guards around schools unless there was some way to conceal their presence from schoolchildren.
In Frank's opinion, there is no way that these acts can be stopped no matter what the government does. In fact, he believes that taking all guns from citizens will increase acts of violence against them.
"We might as well face it. They (The police) can't be everywhere at once and they can't protect us," Frank said. "If that was the case, we'd never have successful armed robberies and rapes and things like that. Most of all, those people wouldn't be dead now," he pointed out.
When asked whether he thought a weapons ban is on the horizon, Frank replied, "I'm not sure what they're gonna do but I'll just say this. I'm a law-abiding citizen, never seen the inside of a jail but there's no way I'll give up the only way I can defend my family. Do you think the bad guys are gonna say, 'Oh! They just banned guns so we better give ours up'? No they're not," he said. "They'll just declare open season on everyone who was dumb enough to give up their guns because they know, just like I said earlier, the cops can't protect us all."