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WELLSBURG – Planned cuts to hours for county ambulance personnel and a grant sought for improvements to the swimming pool at Brooke Hills Park were among issues discussed by the Brooke County Commission on Tuesday.
The commission met in executive session with Bob Fowler, director of the county's ambulance service, and several ambulance staff members to discuss plans to reduce hours worked.
The commission recently agreed to hire six part-time staffers to reduce the risk of being required to provide insurance coverage for staffers who work 30 hours a week.
Under the Affordable Care Act, employers must provide insurance coverage for employees who work 30 hours a week, something the county can't afford, said Commission President Tim Ennis.
It would cost the county about $144,000 to $400,000 per year to provide individual or family coverage for its 20 part-time employees.
Called for comment, Fowler said he couldn't talk about the discussion during executive session, but he would confirm he has staff members who are concerned about their hours being lowered.
"I have eight part-time staffers who work over the Obamacare level and rely on their jobs, though it is the second job for some," he said.
Fowler said pay for ambulance personnel is low, with emergency medical technicians receiving $7 to $8 per hour, while they are required to undergo about 24 to 50 hours of training per year.
Ennis said the commission doesn't like being hampered by the 30-hour rule. He said it doesn't want that to be a consideration when calling out staff members to respond during a crisis.
"We don't want to get to a point where we have to cut services because we're trying to comply with something we have no control over," he said.
Ennis said the commission arranged to meet in executive session with the ambulance staff and Jonette Lazasz of CareLink, a health insurance broker, to discuss the issue.
He said the commission learned several things, including there are proposed amendments to the Affordable Care Act that may offer some relief.
Ennis said he's hopeful a better solution can be found.
In other matters, the commission approved an application by the Brooke Hills Park board for a $100,000 federal Land and Water Conservation Grant for the park's swimming pool.
Park Manager Janice McFadden said improvements eyed for the 40-year-old pool include heating, handicap-accessible access and a water slide.
If the full amount of the grant is approved, the park board would match it with $100,000.
In recent years the board has received $750,000 for leasing part of the park for natural gas drilling and 18 percent of royalties on gas produced from the site. Other royalties go to descendants of the Gist family, who donated their land for the park.
The park board has received two royalty checks in the amounts of $70,000 and $18,000.
McFadden said the Friends of Brooke Hills Park, a newly formed fundraising arm of the board, has secured a $6,500 grant for a new sewage pump at the park and other funds for a chairlift for the pool.
The commission also:
Signed a resolution supporting an additional $100,000 to widen the intersection of state Route 2 and 22nd Street in Wellsburg, install a traffic signal and alter signals north and south of the intersection. The changes are intended to ease the flow of truck traffic to the new warehouse facility built by Eagle Manufacturing, and the money will come from the West Virginia Department of Transportation's industrial access fund.
Wellsburg City Manager Mark Henne told the commission bids for the work came in over the $325,000 in state funds allocated for it.
Reappointed Vicky Gallo to the county's board of health and John Casinelli to the park board. There still are vacancies on the park board, which meets at 7 p.m. on the first and third Monday of each month. Letters of interest should be submitted to the office of County Clerk Sylvia Benzo.
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Carlos Beltran was back in the Mets' lineup Friday against the Florida Marlins at Citi Field and the Mets' center fielder said his aching right knee felt good. So good, in fact, he believes he could have played as early as Wednesday, against the Washington Nationals.
"I'm good to go right now,'' Beltran said before the game. "They (the team) said three days, so I'm taking three days. I mean, I was good to go the day before yesterday, but I have to follow what they're saying.''
Beltran had a cortisone shot Tuesday, in the area below his right knee, which began hurting him during the Mets' visit to Los Angeles last week. The injury caused him to play three interleague games in Boston last weekend as the designated hitter, rather than play center field.
But Beltran said the "sensation'' he had in the area before the shot was gone, and his mobility had returned. He said he had concerns before, about hitting right-handed, since he would have to twist and drive off his back leg in his swing, but he took batting practice right-handed Friday and said he had no problem. He batted right-handed Friday night against Florida's lefty starter, Sean West.
With Beltran back in the lineup, 20-year-old callup Fernando Martinez was on the bench. Mets manager Jerry Manuel was asked why he let Martinez, who was called up Tuesday when Ryan Church was placed on the DL, stay in the game after he failed to run out a pop up in Wednesday's game.
"I knew that he would take some abuse here in New York (from the fans) - anyplace. That's a part of it,'' Manuel said. "I had to kind of say, 'Okay, I'll give you that, but I do know what you'll get from here might be a lot tougher on you thatn me just taking you out,' you know what I'm saying? You might get the kind of treatment that you've never gotten before, as a home player. If I take you out, you won't get that treatment, you know what I'm saying? I think he's going to be okay. I think it's something he just got locked up on. It's unfortunate, but I do think... somehow, this'll be a great lesson for him.''
Manuel was asked if he gave consideration to left-handed-hitting Daniel Murphy playing Friday against a left-handed pitcher, after Murphy went 3-for-4 with five RBI in his last game Wednesday against Washington.
"What I'm doing is, I've got to find at-bats for (Fernando) Tatis,'' Manuel said, explaining he wants to keep Tatis fresh and swinging well because he will need him to spell David Wright at third base and Gary Sheffield in left field sometime soon.
Manuel also said he didn't want to put Murphy -- who had been slumping for most of May before his breakout game Wednesday -- in against a lefthander before he is fully locked in, just because he doesn't want to take a chance of short-circuiting Murphy's possibly getting hot. But, he said, Murphy, who has looked good at first base since being tried there for the first time last week in Los Angeles, will get his chance to play every day soon enough.
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SPRINGFIELD - The pool company owner who claims he was banned from the Big E for opposing a casino on its grounds will ask a judge next week to reverse the decision.
Theodore Hebert, president of Teddy Bear Pools Inc. in Chicopee, will ask for a preliminary injunction ordering the Eastern States Exposition to allow him to participate in the 2014 Big E. The 17-day, fall festival, featuring home improvement vendors, entertainment, food, agricultural and arts and crafts, has attracted more than 1 million people annually in recent years.
The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Hampden Superior Court.
On Monday, Herbert filed a lawsuit against the Eastern States Exposition, its board of directors and its president, Eugene Cassidy, stating his company was barred from the annual September fair as payback for opposing a $800 million casino proposed by Hard Rock International on the grounds.
A West Springfield resident, Herbert said he attended several anti-casino events, despite being urged by Cassidy to remain neutral.
After West Springfield voters rejected the casino in a Sept. 10 special election, Cassidy criticized Hebert for not being "a team player" and said his company was no longer welcome at the Big E, according to the lawsuit.
Several emails from Cassidy were also quoted in the lawsuit, including one from Aug. 30 urging Hebert to drop his public opposition to the project.
"I hate asking, but I must. Working against this development will only hurt our town and this organization and those of us charged with its stewardship," Cassidy wrote, according to the suit.
The lawsuit, filed by Springfield lawyer Paul Rothschild, claims that the defendants violated Hebert's civil and contractural rights by pressuring him to end his opposition to the casino, then punishing him when he refused.
The suit also alleges financial hardship, noting that Teddy Bear Pools has been an exhibitor and vendor at the Big E for 28 years and that a sizable fraction of the company's business in generated through the fair.
Rothschild said he will ask the judge to allow his client to participate in the Big E pending the outcome of the case.
He said neither Cassidy nor anyone else from the Eastern States has contacted Hebert since the suit was filed Monday.
"We'd love to talk to them, but we haven't heard anything," he said.
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ROCKFORD, MI – An organizational expert meets his match Wednesday when the Schwandt family – all 12 boys – appears on an episode of "The Rachael Ray Show."
A crew from the show spent two days at the Schwandts' Rockford home taping the spot, in which organizational expert Peter Walsh helps the family cope with the clutter that comes with raising a dozen active boys.
The Schwandt family also drove to New York to appear in the studio with Rachael Ray.
"It was a cool opportunity," said mom Kateri Schwandt. "It gives you new appreciation for everything that goes behind (a show). It takes a lot of planning."
The episode airs at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, on NBC (WOOD-TV 8 in West Michigan).
The Schwandts are enjoying a brush with fame since their 12th son, Tucker, was born Aug. 4. The dozen boys – ranging in age from newborn to 21 – captured attention in local and national media.
Kateri Schwandt is a fan of "The Rachael Ray Show" and was thrilled to be invited to appear on it.
Visiting the family, Walsh helped bring order to two areas of the home: the kitchen and the closet where the family stores all the sports equipment – helmets, footballs, skates, cleats, etc. In the studio, the boys helped Walsh demonstrate 12 quick organizational tips.
Taping the show was fun, Kateri said. The boys "had the crew in stitches the whole time. They had a fun time with them."
In the studio visit, everything went smoothly as they taped before a live audience – except for a brief escape by 20-month-old Luke, Jay said.
"Everyone was a little star-struck" when they met Ray, he added. "I thought she was great. She was really nice."
The parents rented a 15-passenger van for the trip to New York, because they didn't want to go by plane with the baby and several little ones. Along the way there, they stopped in Indianapolis to watch 14-year-old Brandon play hockey.
On the way home, the parents drove through the night, so they could get the older boys home in time for hockey practice.
Baby Tucker remains a calm and "easygoing baby," Kateri said.
"He's very mellow. Very content," she said. "He fits right in."
Sue Thoms covers health care for MLive/The Grand Rapids Press. Email her at firstname.lastname@example.com or follow her on Twitter, Facebook or Google+.


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Are State Tax Amnesty Programs Associated with Financial Reporting Irregularities?
Neal Buckwalter
Grand Valley State University
Nathan Y. Sharp
Texas A&M University - Department of Accounting
Jaron H. Wilde
University of Iowa - Henry B. Tippie College of Business
David A. Wood
Brigham Young University - School of Accountancy
Public Finance Review, 42 (6): 774-799.
This paper investigates the relation between state tax amnesties and financial reporting irregularities. State tax amnesty programs, which potentially signal a lax regulatory enforcement environment, provide a unique setting in which to examine the effects of state tax authorities on non-tax financial reporting behavior. The results suggest that firms headquartered in states offering a tax amnesty program are more likely to begin engaging in a financial reporting irregularity during the amnesty period. Furthermore, the results show that the observed increase in financial reporting irregularities occurs only during periods of repeat, not initial, amnesty programs. These findings suggest state tax amnesties have previously unexplored adverse effects on managers' behavior.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 37
Keywords: Tax Amnesty, Financial Reporting Irregularities, Tax Authorities, Enforcement
JEL Classification: M41, M48, G38, H20, K34
Date posted: January 27, 2011 ; Last revised: February 5, 2015
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Ferry cuts appear sidestepped for now
Ferry-service advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after committees in both the House and Senate passed budgets last week that contain enough fees to keep the state ferry service at its current levels.
The supplemental transportation budget still needs approval by both chambers. And because the versions are different, "negotiations are under way," said Sen. Sharon Nelson (D-Maury Island). But Nelson said it appears as though a compromise is within reach. "I'm very optimistic," she said.
State officials had warned that five routes — including Vashon's Tahlequah and Southworth ones — were at risk of being eliminated.
Island residents rallied, said Vashon ferry advocate Greg Beardsley, writing letters and sending emails. Unfortunately, he added, the proposed fix is a short-term one.
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Any word on whether or not the NCAA Tournament Committee will try to keep SU out of the West Region this March? If not, it may certainly lower ticket sales for the East Regionals at the Carrier Dome should SU advance to the Sweet Sixteen. The Orange would then be playing on the same date(s) as the games at the Dome. That similar scenario was possible the last time we hosted the Regionals but was averted when we lost to Vermont.
Two years ago, I was invited along with several other college basketball writers to participate in a mock tournament selection exercise at the NCAA's headquarters in Indianapolis. I learned a lot about the process that the committee takes to select and seed the 65 teams that make up the NCAA Tournament field.
I can tell you that when placing a team in a specific region, the committee does not take into consideration whether the school's city is a host site in another region.
The main reason is the committee is most concerned with placing and seeding a team on its own merits. The committee can't upgrade or downgrade a team's seed to avoid a date conflict with another regional being played in its area. There are reasons for moving a team up a notch or down a notch, but that's not one of them.
Also the committee doesn't worry about ticket sales. Most NCAA sites sell out far in advance of Selection Sunday. Of course, it's nearly impossible to sell out the Carrier Dome for an NCAA Regional, but in the past ticket sales at Syracuse regionals always have been strong.
I have been enjoying Syracuse racking up win after win this season. Does the impressive start and excellent record have any influence on future recruiting, or are they so established, it wouldn't matter if they had one or five losses.
Syracuse is an established program. Usually, a regular-season loss or two isn't going to affect Syracuse's recruiting that much.
However, winning helps. You can't recruit 16-year-olds solely off the legends of Dave Bing and Pearl Washington. You've got to be currently relevant, and winning makes a program relevant.
Being a top-25 team means your scores are on ESPN's ticker. Being a top-five team means you're getting mentioned on SportsCenter and radio talk shows. Beating No. 7 Georgetown on Big Monday means Jim Boeheim gets to go on Dan Patrick's radio show and appear on ESPN's PTI.
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Syracuse, NY -- A 14-year-old boy is charged with felony assault in the Halloween night shooting of a 19-year-old Syracuse man, Syracuse Police Chief Frank Fowler said this morning.
The 14-year-old was arrested after a foot chase Tuesday afternoon, and a loaded .45-caliber handgun, which had been reported stolen, was recovered, Fowler said.
Fowler and Mayor Stephanie Miner announced the arrest in a news conference at the Public Safety Building.
"What this crime today shows is how far our society has come when we have a 14-year-old shooting people on Halloween," Miner said.
Fred Lawson, 19, was shot in the groin about 9 p.m. at Stolp and Roberts avenues. He remains in serious condition, Sgt. Tom Connellan said.
The 14-year-old boy, who is not being identified because of his age, was charged with assault, reckless endangerment, criminal use of a weapon and criminal possession of a weapon, all felonies. Fowler said the boy was expected to be arraigned today.
Fowler gave these details of the shooting and arrest:
Lawson was walking with a group of people, including young trick or treaters, when eggs were thrown at the group from a car. The car drove off but later returned.
Lawson approached the car, described as a sedan, to confront the people inside about the eggs when one of the occupants got out and fired several shots.
Police found a spent .45-caliber casing at the scene.
Lawson told police he knew the shooter but not by name. Lawson also was able to describe the vehicle for police.
Tuesday, police learned the identity of the shooter and broadcast the identity to officers. Officer Scott Henderson, who was aware of the 14-year-old boy, quickly realized he knew where the boy might be in his patrol area.
About 4:20 p.m., Henderson found the boy in the 200 block of Putnam Street, and the boy ran. Henderson chased the boy through backyards in the neighborhood. During the chase, Henderson saw the boy pull a handgun from his waist and run with it in his hand before getting rid of the weapon in a pile of leaves. Henderson recovered the loaded weapon and captured the boy.
The handgun was reported in June as stolen in the town of Spafford. The car in the shooting was found under a tarp on Dudley Street thanks to tips from civilians.
Police are trying to identify who else was in the car and more arrests may be made, Fowler said. Police don't know where the youth got the handgun he used in the shooting.
In all, four teenagers were wounded on Halloween night in two separate shootings. At West Colvin Street and Hope Avenue, a 15-year-old boy was critically wounded and two 14-year-old boys had lesser bullet wounds.
Miner congratulated the city police on the quick arrest, calling it a "fast and excellent job." The arrest in the Lawson shooting will free up investigators for the shooting of the three boys on West Colvin Street, Miner said.
"Violence is a scourge. It's the number one priority of this administration," Miner said.
Fowler called the shooting following the throwing of eggs "ridiculous stuff."
"I wish I knew why a 14-year-old was riding around with a loaded .45-caliber handgun," he said.
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The TM-61C was the second version of the surface-to-surface U.S. Air Force Matador cruise missile. Built by Martin, it carried a nuclear warhead, flew at subsonic speeds at an altitude of up to 13 kilometers (8 miles), and had a range of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles). After being boosted during its launch by a short-firing solid-fuel rocket engine, a jet engine then powered the missile the rest of the way to the target. Ground-based microwave emitters assisted the missile in finding its target. However, these limited the missile's range to that of line-of-sight transmissions and could be jammed. The TM-61C was deployed at various sites in Europe and Asia from 1957 to 1962 and was replaced by the more advanced Mace cruise missile. The U.S. Air Force transferred this missile to NASM in 1961.
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Called WISE for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the telescope completes its first full scan of the sky on Saturday and then begins another round of imaging.
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In Art News | CVG Show winners announced
In an issue rife with art exhibits and artist remembrance, we'd be remiss if we didn't give you the results of one of Kitsap's biggest art shows of the year.
The second annual CVG Show opened Feb. 1 at Collective Visions Gallery in downtown Bremerton with more than 100 artists competing for more than $8,000 in prize money.
And the winners are:
• Best in Show: "In My Element" by Kathy Liao, Seattle.
• Photographic Arts: "Kirby Mayview Road" by Kay Walsh, Bainbridge.
• Three Dimensional Arts: "Last Stand" by Karen Rudd, Seattle.
• Two Dimensional Arts: "Demolition # 6" by Tom Hall, Seattle.
The People's Choice Award will be presented tonight, see What's Up for First Friday on Page 5 for more on that. The show will hang through February with special events each week.
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I*w@ is a four-letter word.
For the FOURTH straight time, they beat us, 26-14.
When Yisrael picked off that pass, with I*w@ on the verge of putting the first points on the board, and then took it to the house for a 7 point lead--I cried. I was overcome with emotion. Nothing good has happened to us all season. This was it, I thought. This was the play to turn the corner. This was the priest to exorcize our demons. We were back, baby and I was flying high!
It was short-lived. The problem with flying high isn't the flying--it's the crashing. And the burning. Oh, the inhumanity of it all.
And someone, who shall remain nameless, has passed JoePa by for the most wins in Division 1-A. It is a sad day indeed. But, bless his little heart, the nameless one also wins a free shopping spree at Footlocker for his efforts. Go figure.


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Developing a journalistic reputation as an expert on blue-collar dining in Jackson is a responsibility with no holiday.
During a chance meeting in a store on the Fourth of July, an acquaintance delivered an important news tip.
"You've got to try the cheesesteak sandwich at Larry Pryor's place on Francis Street," he said.
Can do!
Larry Pryor's place is a trailer, properly called "Willis Pryor's Fine Food," that traveled for years to festivals and events.
Tired of spending so much time on the road, Pryor parked on Jackson's south side in September. He set up his trailer between a barbershop and an ice-cream place on the 1400 block of Francis Street (click here for map), and he set up some tables beneath an awning. He's open seven days a week and his only festival this year will be the Jackson County Fair, where he proudly claims the title as the only food vendor who serves turkey legs.
The cheesesteak sandwich is rib-eye steak slices heated on the grill with caramelized onions, mushrooms and mild pepper rings. Provolone cheese is put on top until melty and the mixture is scooped into a grilled bun.
It's a festival favorite with nothing missing but a Ferris wheel and a pushy guy eager to guess your weight.


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The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm warning for New Orleans and parts of Jefferson, Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes, including Metairie, Marrero, Harvey, Belle Chasse and Chalmette, until 3:15 p.m. Other locations in the warning area include Terrytown, Westwego, Gretna and Bridge City.
At 2:18 p.m., meteorologists detected a severe thunderstorm capable of producing quarter size hail and damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. This storm was near Belle Chasse and moving north at 5 mph.
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SocGen scandal prompts EU bank watchdog crackdown
LONDON, Dec 21 (Reuters) – European Union bank supervisors unveiled draft guidelines on Monday to apply lessons from a trading scandal that forced Societe Generale to book billions of euros in losses.
Britain's financial reform faces carve-up threat
LONDON, Nov 18 (Reuters) – Britain's opposition Conservative Party said it would ditch the core of a financial sector reform bill if it wins power next year, but lawyers expect other parts such as curbs on bankers' pay would be introduced.
Banker pay curbs, clawbacks sought at G20 summit
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PITTSBURGH, Sept 24 (Reuters) – World leaders at the G20 meeting on Thursday closed in on a statement calling for new restraints on banker pay, an issue that became inflammatory during the global financial crisis, but would not endorse specific monetary caps — a deal-breaker for the United States. (more…)
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LONDON, Sept 18 (Reuters) – Mandatory "living wills" for banks in Britain will spark major restructuring in the sector in the next few years, a UK minister said on Friday.
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FRANKFURT, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Top bankers defended their culture of bonuses on Tuesday against an onslaught of regulation that aims to put them on a tighter leash almost a year after Lehman Brothers collapsed. Executives from Credit Suisse Group AG, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank AG said the global financial system needed reform but defended a bonus-driven system that critics say encouraged banks to take big risks.
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Recently acquired Cubs catcher J.C. Boscan continued to swing a hot bat in the Venezuelan Winter League Thursday, going 2-for-3 with a home run and five RBI to lead Caracas to a 10-5 win over Magallanes. Boscan staked Caracas to a 5-4 lead in the fourth, when he took former Blue Jays and Astros pitcher Gustavo Chacin deep to left for a three-run blast. He followed that up in the sixth with a two-run single off Dodgers minor leaguer Amalio Diaz.
The Cubs signed Boscan, a 32-year-old longtime Braves farmhand, to a free agent contract on Nov. 14. He is hitting .271 with one home run and 10 RBI in winter ball.
Rule 5 pick-up Hector Rondon pitched a perfect eighth for Caracas, allowing no hits and striking out one.
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Dave Sappelt had only one hit on Thursday, but he made it count, smacking a go-ahead solo home run in the ninth to propel the Bravos de Margarita to a 2-1 victory over the Caribes in Venezuela. Sappelt is batting .336/.378/.526 (AVG/OBP/SLG) with five home runs and 15 RBI on the winter.
Cubs right-hander Esmailin Caridad pitched a scoreless eighth inning for Obregon of the Mexican Pacific League, giving up two hits and striking out one, to lower his winter ERA to 2.84.


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Simply put, because most free social media products are "incompatible with federal law, regulation or practice," said GSA spokeswoman Jackeline Stewart. Federal agencies that make use of new platforms without negotiating an alternative terms-of-service agreement risk legal headaches, copyright issues and an assortment of other problems.
Several years ago, when many agencies embraced social media platforms such as Facebook without amended terms-of-service agreements, it led to disputes over content ownership and other issues. GSA has helped ease confusion in recent years by developing a terms-of-service template that highlights common concerns for agencies and suggests ways to resolve them.
The negotiated amendment to Pinterest's terms of service, for example, acknowledge that "Agency and user-generated content may meet the definition of Federal records," and could require "transfer of permanently valuable records to NARA in a format and manner acceptable to NARA at the time of transfer." The standard terms of service, by comparison, state that Pinterest "may retain your User Content for a commercially reasonable period of time for backup, archival, or audit purposes," but provide no guarantee that content could be exported. There are also provisions altering legal jurisdiction, ownership of usernames, and other issues.
So far, GSA has helped negotiate 62 fed-friendly agreements, of which the Pinterest deal is the most recent.
"Centrally negotiated terms of service reduce duplication across the government and minimize the work needed for individual agencies to get up and running on these social media platforms," Stewart said.
Nevertheless, federal entities are not required to create amended terms-of-service agreements with social media providers before using them.
For instance, several branches of the military began using Pinterest in early 2012, said Brittany Brown, social media manager at the Army's Office of the Chief of Public Affairs. The Army has been taking advantage of Pinterest to "share Army messages without the American public having to read a long article or press release written from an operational perspective with lots of acronyms."
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The general counsel office's support has been invaluable in ensuring that "we are not doing anything that would put us in a bad place from a legal standpoint," she said, adding that the Army will adopt the new terms-of-service agreement GSA negotiated for Pinterest.
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"It's a good deal for the company, it's a good deal for our membership, but what we're really proud of is that it's a good deal for the United State of America," King told host Paul W. Smith this morning on WJR-AM 760. "More jobs, which we need desparately."
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"Galloping Gourmet" Graham Kerr will face local chefs, food experts and farmers in a cook-off challenge featuring Coupeville's heirloom legume, the Rockwell Bean, as part of the upcoming Ebey's Forever Conference on Saturday, Nov. 5.
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Television's popular Kerr will host the Taste of Ebey's workshop.
This workshop is just one chance for conference goers to sample the flavors of Ebey's Reserve. Tasting begins with a Celebrating Rural Character(s) Potluck on Friday, Nov. 4. The event is free but everyone is asked to bring a favorite dish. Live bluegrass and pioneer stories will round out the evening at the Crockett Barn near Coupeville.
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The previous Miss Geico, powered by a pair of 1,850 helicopter turbines, was lost in a fire last year. Making for a more level field, the 50-foot Miss Geico number 4 is driven by a more conventional pair of 1,650 hp stern drive Mercury piston engines.
"This will give everybody a chance to come after us," but still have the potential to hit 200 mph, said Gary Goodell, one of the partners in the boat. Even though less powerful, the piston engines rev up faster and make the boat more nimble around the course, he said.
The race is a homecoming for Goodell, now a Floridian but a native of Berkeley Heights. Also, throttleman Scotty Begovich originally hails from Brick Township and has a following here.
Besides the racing starting at noon June 23, the events include a poker run from Toms River by the New Jersey Performance Powerboat Club on the preceding Friday, and an outing for "Wounded Warriors" on Saturday. Boats will be on view over the weekend at the Golden Nugget casino.
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The Keyport Yacht Club, one of many facilities bashed by Hurricane Sandy, celebrates a rebirth Saturday and Sunday, June 22 and 23, with its annual Bill Volk regatta. The race is part of the New Jersey Offshore Racing Conference for larger sailboats.
The regatta honors a deceased member, Bill Volk, but also this year will raise funds for the RAINE (Reaching All in Need Everyday) Foundation, an organization helping those in need in the Bayshore area, said Ann Quinn, club commodore. The partnership is all the more significant this year as the foundation aids Sandy victims.
The regatta theme is "Sailing for the Bayshore," Quinn said, and the club hopes to get all the boats in at their moorings to turn on their lights at dusk on the Saturday evening as a gesture of rebuilding.
The Keyport clubhouse offers a scenic view across Raritan Bay to New York City in the distance, but the beauty of the site was marred by Sandy, which trashed the club dock.
Members pitched in with their labor and the dock was rebuilt with "exactly the same footprint" as before, Quinn said. The storm had an unexpected benefit in that working together forged new "friendships and camaraderie" among club members, she said.
"We're ready, we're going," said Sue Proko, the Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association junior sailing coordinator, speaking about the group's summer regatta schedule.
Cleanup of debris from Sandy has proceeded and all the club youth programs will run as scheduled, as will the Saturday championship series that runs from Saturday, June 22, through the Labor Day weekend.
The Lake George father and son team of Rick Dhien as skipper and Clark as crew came away from a visit to New Jersey with a double victory. On June 1 and 2 the pair won the Lake Hopatcong Yacht Club's Tomahawk Regatta for Star class sailboats, and last weekend won the Star 12th District championship hosted by the club.
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Operations returned to normal at Clallam Bay Corrections Center on Saturday morning after a day of lockdown was called when an inmate allegedly stabbed another with a shank made out of a toothbrush.
The prison was locked down from Thursday night until Saturday morning while Clallam County sheriff's deputies and prison guards combed the prison for contraband, according to Norah West, communications specialist for the state Department of Corrections.
Daniel E. Johnson, 32, in the corrections center for two Whatcom County murders, remained in a maximum-security unit of the prison Saturday for allegedly stabbing another inmate.
Clallam County Chief Criminal Deputy Ron Cameron said Johnson reportedly fashioned a shank out of a toothbrush and stabbed an unnamed fellow inmate in the face.
West, who would not identify the victim, said he was treated at Forks Community Hospital on Thursday evening and returned to the prison later that night.
Prisoners' movements were restricted during the lockdown to allow deputies to investigate, West said.
The incident could lead to an assault charge against Johnson, West said.
As of yet, authorities have not determined how the assault came about.
Johnson is in the corrections center on two counts of second-degree murder. His sentence is scheduled to complete in February 2050.
The Clallam Bay Corrections Center, located on the northwest tip of the Olympic Peninsula, houses about 850 offenders in medium-, close- and maximum-custody units. It and the Washington State Penitentiary are the two highest-security prisons in Washington.
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|A deed of the pen : march- two-step / by the composer of "Hiawatha".
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A deed of the pen :
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by the composer of "Hiawatha".
Morét, Neil, 1878-1943
Detroit: Whitney-Warner Pub-Co., c1903.
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Publisher - Whitney Warner Pub. Co.
Meeting - Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.) Songs and music.
Topical - Piano music.
Topical - Marches (Piano)
For piano.
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"Louisiana Purchase Exposition, respectfully dedicated to C.M. Huttig, vice-president".
P. (2) contains the poem "A deed of the pen (the transfer of the Louisiana Territory)" by Louis Dodge, as well as a letter from Walter B. Stevens, Secretary of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, commenting on the appropriateness of the title and illustration for the fair.
T.p. ill.: burgundy border; drawing of a woman in a long, white, medieval inspired gown with a gold fleur-de-lis pattern and a gold hem, holding a map of the Louisiana Territory in her right hand, and pointing to it with her left; behind her is a blue fleur-de-lis, and behind that are outlines of the tops of buildings, with banners and trumpeters atop the buildings; on either side of the woman are gold, round finials with the words "Saint Louis 1904" on one, and "World's Fair March" on the other.
Also available as a digital file in PDF format.
P. 7 embossed with the stamp "D.S. Andros & Co., established 1860, music dealers, 114 Baldwin St., Elmira, N.Y.".
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- The future of longevity and mortality at very old ages, and its implications.
- Microsimulation modelling of family structures: ageing in context.
Heather Booth is Associate Professor of Demography at the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute (ADSRI) in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. She has over 30 years' experience in demographic research in developed and developing countries.
Heather leads the ADSRI Group on Longevity, Ageing and Mortality (GLAM).
In 2012, Heather won the College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) Award for Excellence in Supervision. Heather also served as ANU Convenor of Graduate Research in Demography in 2011.
Heather is Founding Editor of the Journal of Population Research (JPR), an international peer-reviewed journal launched in 2000, which she edited from 2000 to 2006.
Heather began her career at the London School of Economics before moving to the USA to join the POPLAB program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her doctoral research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Heather developed the Booth Standard for use with the Brass Relational Gompertz Model of fertility.
After completing her doctorate, Heather undertook research on ethnic minority populations in Britain and Western Europe. In 1984, Heather relocated to Nouméa, New Caledonia to take up a position as demographer with the South Pacific Commission, working throughout the Pacific Islands. She later worked as an international consultant for a wide range of funding agencies. After migrating to Australia, Heather joined the ANU Demography and Sociology Program in 1998.
Heather has published on a wide range of topics including demographic modelling and forecasting, population ageing, socio-demography of ageing and longevity, mortality decomposition, Pacific Island demography and the timing of family formation, suicide among Pacific Island youth, European migration and ethnic minority populations, demographic estimation and gender statistics.
Researcher's projects
Heather leads the Social Networks and Ageing Project (SNAP) funded under an ARC Linkage grant (2010-2012).
Heather is a Chief Investigator on the $2million NHMRC/ARC Dynamic Analyses to Optimise Ageing (DYNOPTA) project (2007-2012) and leads the development of the DYNOPTA microsimulation model of the future of age-related disability in Australia (DYNOPTA-SIM).
Heather is Associate Investigator in an ANU node of the $12.7million ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) coordinated by UNSW (2011-2017).
Heather jointly led (with Zhongwei Zhao) the Interdisciplinary Microsimulation Project (IMP) (2011-2014) funded by the CASS Interdisciplinary Research Fund.
Heather coordinates ongoing collaborative research in demographic forecasting with colleagues at Monash University, Macquarie University, the University of Southampton and the Paris-based Institut national d'etudes demographiques. This highly cost-effective research uses publicly available data. Several small grants have facilitated this collaborative research over the last twelve-years.
Heather leads the School of Demography Group on Longevity, Ageing and Mortality (GLAM).
Current student projects
Two doctoral research projects are funded under the Social Networks and Ageing Project:
- The role of social connectedness in the retirement process
- Methods for social network analysis
Other current doctoral student projects include:
- Modelling Long Term Care in Australia: What Place of Insurance?
- Healthy Life Expectancy in the Philippines
- Agent-based modelling of the decision to enter residential aged care
- Ageing in Australia
- Cybernetics in demography
Past student projects
Gender, ethnicity and wellbeing of the elderly in Indonesia
Cardio-vascular mortality in Chinese cities
The experiences and pathways of discontinuing school children in Fiji
Australian mortality in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Modes of aged care Vietnam: adaptation to change
Projects and Grants
Grants are drawn from ARIES. To add Projects or Grants please contact your College Research Office.
- ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR I) (Secondary Investigator)
- The role of online social networks in successful ageing: benefitting from 'who you know' at older ages (Primary Investigator)
- Learning How to Age Well from Australian Longitudinal Studies of Ageing (Secondary Investigator)


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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ It's Over? But I Just Got Here!
I had hoped to go out with a bang for my last Community Column.
This is probably the last time I will ever be published, so I had visions of weaving all the wisdom I have laid on you people this year into a brilliant, touching tapestry revealing the meaning of life.
Right. The pursuit of this lofty goal would've been easier if I had deposited any wisdom to begin with. As it stands, it would take a lot of work to uncover a common thread in all of the drivel with which I have assaulted you this year.
Besides, there is a new episode of Spongebob Squarepants coming on in a few minutes, so I'm going to have to wrap this up.
So, in the interest of time (mine not yours), instead of brilliance, I'm going go with the next best thing...clichés.
Here's one. I can't believe this year is almost over, can you? You have already heard that this week, maybe even today, haven't you? This is the mother of all hackneyed phrases, outranking even mega banalities about love or the weather.
The speedy passage of time never fails to fascinate us, does it? Despite, or perhaps because of, all of our devices for measuring it and controlling it, from the sundial to the Blackberry, we are completely enslaved by its unyielding march.
We try in vain to attach some cosmic significance to existence, to have a purpose-driven life, to carpe the diem and all that.
The result is that we have a dysfunctional relationship with time. We remember it, regret it, spend it, waste it, invest it, save it, cherish it and even kill it.
What we don't know how to do is just...be. Just exist without stealing a glance at our watch, or be content for a while just knowing that we humans have been the luckiest of all the universe's collections of molecules to have this wondrous ability to observe and comprehend space and time. We get to be in the show and watch it at the same time.
Maybe lucky isn't the best word. Cursed may be more accurate. Not content to simply measure time by the season or the daylight, we break life into ever smaller increments.
It's probably all Darwin's fault according to Arthur Koestler, who said "The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use."
How true, Arthur. Along with abilities to do pretty nifty things, like grasp the concept of time and play solitaire on the computer, our new and improved brain came with several nasty side effects, including one that Joseph Campbell called man's original terror, or the realization that eventually he is going to die.
Which is truly a bummer. The irony is that once we mature past our invincible phase and accept the fact that we indeed have an expiration date, time seems to speed up. Once we see the cliff we are hurtling towards, we get a little push.
This date with eternity isn't all bad. Even though we know we're going to lose the game, we're winning right up to the last second.
And it's liberating to know that no matter how badly we manage this sliver of consciousness called life, at the end of it we get to take a really long nap.
Another cool thing about getting older is that our relationship to time mellows a bit.
Sometimes. I admit that I still blow a gasket when I'm late for an appointment, but I'm also learning to let go of petty attachments to the clock. Against the big backdrop of a lifetime, a lot becomes petty.
Non-petty things are those that time can't measure; gratitude, joy, and love are a few.
In closing, I suppose I should wish you all some version of a holiday greeting, but shouldn't every day be holy when we have so few? What I really should say is Happy...Time.
Speaking of space and time, both of mine are up. Besides, I hear Spongebob in the other room.
Community Columnist Steve Justice can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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Chances are, someday you'll be called on to raise a glass and offer a toast, probably at a lifecycle event like a wedding or bar mitzvah. Will you be ready? Will you remember the main points you wanted to make? Or will you end up with glass in hand and foot in mouth?
The toast is primarily a way to say thank you and offer good wishes -- thank you to guests for coming, to hosts for inviting you, to celebrants for including you among their friends and to offer best wishes for the future. If you're smart, you'll think about what you're going to say well in advance, before partying and high spirits have lessened your ability to think fast and intelligently. Jotted notes and a little practice will help avoid panic when your big moment arrives.
Helene Popowski, a party-planning consultant, counsels her wedding clients to keep toasts short and sweet -- and hopefully warm and heartfelt.
"I suggest a maximum of two toasts, one from the father of the bride and one, if you want it, from the best man. I tell the father of the bride that he is speaking for everyone. He should welcome them, praise the wonderful job his wife did in organizing the occasion, tell his daughter how beautiful and radiant she looks, and welcome his new son into the family," she said.
When it comes to the best man, she suggests that long stories about the couple's childhood and romance be reserved for the rehearsal dinner.
"The wedding is no place for crude humor and lengthy speeches," Popowski added.
Perhaps the best strategy when it comes to delivering a toast is to play it safe. One's thoughts should be well-prepared, simple and brief -- without information of a personal or intimate nature that might embarrass the honorees, their families or their guests.
Other tips to remember:
• Be sincere. Your own thoughts, in your own words, caring and loving, will be remembered more than a slick limerick. After all, you were chosen to make a toast because of your closeness to the honorees. Of all people, you should be able to be complimentary and affectionate on their big day.
• Connect with your subjects. If it's a bride and groom, make eye contact. If it's their parents, find them in the crowd and acknowledge them. If it's a bar or bat mitzvah child, keep the words on his or her level ... and no off-color comments ever.
• Keep it noncontroversial. No sex, politics or religion. This isn't Hannity and Colmes, but a tribute to a happy occasion.
• Be upbeat. Be serious if you must, in briefly mentioning a recently departed parent or close friend, but don't dwell on sadness or how unhappy you are to lose your best friend to a new bride.
• Always be positive. So what if you can't stand her groom. Be gracious and remember the old saying, "If you can't say something nice about someone, don't say anything at all." This is not the time to talk about old escapades or unfilled expectations.
• Don't be pompous or self-absorbed. It's their day, nobody wants to hear your long-winded musings on the meaning of life.
• Be sober, at least somewhat. A drunken blather is no compliment to anyone. Toasts are to be sipped, not chugged. And remember to raise your glass to the honorees before sipping yourself.
• Be gently funny if it fits your personality, but not raucous. And never, ever use hurtful humor to make people laugh. Calling the bride by the groom's old girlfriend's name is not apt to endear you to either of them. And vulgar language, lewd references and bathroom humor are always out of place at festive occasions, unless you're proposing a toast at a bachelor party, and maybe even then. Just remember not to say anything you wouldn't want your own mother to hear coming out of your mouth.
What to do if you're really uncomfortable speaking in public? Other than practicing ahead of time, you have a few options: Read something by someone else, a Bible passage, a Shakespearean sonnet or the couple's favorite love poem. Make it very short and sweet: L'Chaim! (to life). Or write out your short toast and read it. Don't try to speak extemporaneously if you're nervous. Don't try to speak at all if you're drunk. If you're really, really bad with words, you can ask a friend for help, or try the Internet, where a number of Web sites will gladly write a toast for you, for a fee, of course.
When it comes to weddings, traditionally the best man offers the first toast. It's considered polite for everyone in the room to stop drinking and hold their glasses in anticipation of the toast. At a formal wedding, the bride and groom should not toast themselves, but rather allow their guests to offer the toasts.
Sometimes the bride's father makes the first toast, acknowledging the bride and groom. The groom then replies with his own toast. But whatever order you decide upon, just remember to let the toasts be short and sweet, honoring the occasion and those gathered to help celebrate the joy of the day.
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I delight in creating and telling all manner of absurd stories that may or may not have ever happened. I think growing up in a very boring town just made me want to make up crazy adventures.
Then, instead of pursuing creative talents, I went across the country to Atlanta to learn how to be a mechanical engineer. I came back with a healthy appreciation of cynical humor and having completely forgotten how to live not surrounded by a wonderful collection of nerds.
I can laugh at anything. I love it when people around me laugh. I occasionally find myself in situations where people really shouldn't laugh and they tend to make me uncomfortable. I once had to deliver a eulogy, so I told a funny story.
That said, my sense of humor largely has to do with the absurd and the subtle. Years ago it was once said about me: "Taylor's really funny ... if you pay attention."
I don't think anyone would accuse me of being a lucky sort of person, and I think that's contributed to my ability to be able to take things lightly, especially the little things I botch.
Some day I plan to commission an entirely false biography of my life in hopes that years from now people will build statues of me for of things I didn't actually do.
Guess what, it's an edit: (This actually may be misleading, I poke this thing and edit it whenever a writing mood strikes me)
Almost unavoidable turned unavoidable. Sit yourself down and I shall spin you a story. Already sitting down? Stand up and sit down again, this'll likely blow your pants off. (ooh baby ... yeah)
Back to me, that's who you're here for, after all. Look up for a minute at the left side of my face. Take a look at my other pictures ... left side of my face. Why can't you see the other side of my face? Maybe there's something horribly wrong with it ... maybe I have a neck condition that forces me to look, laugh, and sleep while looking down and to the right. Or maybe, and a far more likely explanation, I've just got to keep it toned down in these pictures. I can't be turning on the smolder in public like this. I slay dragons with that look.
Slay dragons? What am I, some kind of nerd? I will nerd you right off your feet directly into a mostly comfortable reclined position! And I will be a gentleman about it!
*ahem* ... I entirely lost where I was going with that tangent ... Continuing!
But Taylor, you can't be a nerd, you played a sport that involved getting in a pool with men significantly larger than you who wanted nothing better than to drown your ass for the sake of a goal.
Quiet, Internal Monologue. Hush, hush. Shhhhhh .. let this happen.
I'm well past letting it get to me if someone thinks less of me because I like dragons and zombies and all that jazz. I promise you I can make fun of me better than you can. (I have a lot more material to work with.) This doesn't stop me from loving rough and tumble sports where I occasionally get my delightful self beat up.
End of edit! Y'know back to that mamby pamby stuff ..
For work, I make robots. It's pretty nifty.
(I realize in retrospect, this is something of an understatement. I have an overwhelming amount of robotics in my life.)
The possibility of me using this knowledge to create a hundred foot tall robot badger with laser beam eyes is as yet undetermined.
Thinking too much.
Receiving scalp massages. (Fastest way to my heart: Part I. Take notes ladies *this is best read with a significant eyebrow wiggle going on*)
... or ... something along those lines.
This is honestly a difficult one for me to answer, as I'm not other people. Maybe they notice the fact that I can use a whole lot of words to say a very little.
A friend once nicely put that I have a very uncommon sort of eloquence. That's hardly anywhere close to the first thing someone would notice about me, though. It would be more of my insertion of words you wouldn't typically use in places you wouldn't typically think to use them ... that's even assuming we start talking. Maybe we pass each other by slowly and lock eyes. There's no turning back now! We both know the other has seen us, we can't go back out our business like nothing ever happened. There can only be one! Roll Initiative.
It's quite simply the easiest way directly to my heart. (Fastest way to my heart: Part II) I'm probably the one of the easiest people to feed in the world. I have no allergies yet discovered and I love to eat new things. Theories abound as to how I fit so much food into myself and not turn into a balloon, but researchers are still out on an actual cause.
Atonement, Machine Man, World War Z, and the Hitchhikers Guide series for a nice random assortment. Recently started reading A Song of Ice and Fire series and quite like it.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Moonrise Kingdom, City of God, I <3 Huckabees, Spirited Away, Grosse Pointe Blank.
Haven't been watching a lot of movies recently but I've got quite a laundry list of movies I love. Usually stick with quirky humorous ones.(*wink wink, nudge nudge*)
That or ones that really stress me out, like The Hurt Locker. That was a seriously intense movie.
Justified, A Game of Thrones, Band of Brothers, The Walking Dead, Arrested Development (Season 4 coming up :3), Battlestar Galactica.
I can go on and on, but I'm currently listening to The National way too much.
Good Conversation
Food variety
Head rubs. I am very much a cat in that respect. I exchange love in direct proportion to the amount my scalp gets massaged.
Freedom to be a little off-beat.
A quick internet connection. (Heh, nerrrrrrd)
Also, apparently OKCupid really thinks that I'm into women excited by the potential of nuclear war. I haven't quite figured this one out yet.
(I say dangerously, because someday someone will finally believe the above when I tell it to them)
Alternatively, if you want me to message you. Think about it just a little too much, hover back and forth about taking the initiative, give in. Immediately delete everything right before you hit the send button. Type it all back down again because you're frustrated at wasted effort. Wind up panic-sending me "YOU HAVE EXCELLENT EYEBALLS. I'VE FORGOTTEN WHAT I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DOING HERE!" Sit down satisfied that you hit the send button. Realize what you hit the send button on. Shout to the world, "I've made a terrible mistake!"
(edit: I'm super super busy right now so I can sometimes take a couple days to get back to you even if I'm logging on. Sometimes I read a message and just don't have time to write a reply.)
I've been, to quote Cave Johnson, throwing science at the walls here and seeing what sticks.
I'm entirely for taking life as it throws itself at me right now.
Also, if anyone can explain to me what exactly an activity partner is supposed to be. Is that someone you do stuff with but are strictly not friends? or dating? ... or sexing?


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The Louisiana Supreme Court has extended a stay allowing New Orleans to continue issuing tickets based upon traffic cameras while it considers an appeal on their legality.
The cameras were successfully challenged in a lawsuit brought by Edward Washington, a former deputy city attorney, who argued that the city charter states that police, not the public-works department, is in charge of regulating traffic. On Oct. 1, Civil District Judge Paulette Irons issued an injunction barring the city from using the devices, which generate tickets for speeding and red-light infractions.
City officials immediately appealed that ruling, saying that they are counting on getting $5 million from the cameras during the last four months of the year, and that next year's budget envisions $15 million in fees from the cameras. They also said every citation is reviewed by a police officer, satisfying the requirements of the charter.
The 4th Circuit Court of Appeal granted the city an emergency stay on Irons' ruling, but then sided with Irons in considering the appeal. The 4th Circuit's stay expired today, but the Supreme Court actually extended the stay on Tuesday.
It is not clear when the Supreme Court will consider writs in the matter, but city officials expect the stay will remain in place until the appeal is heard.


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DETROIT -- In the end, the Detroit Lions' victory on Sunday wasn't so much about what they gained, but what they avoided.
The Lions snapped a six-game losing streak with a 25-20 win over the Kansas City Chiefs, who have now lost eight straight games. The Lions skirted the possibility of being the first team in NFL history to start the season at 6-2 and finish 6-10.
The Lions now are 7-8 and, for the first time in seven years, won't finish the season with double-digit losses. Not that it means much to the players, including left tackle Jeff Backus.
"Not really. I'm not going to play forever and I want to get into the playoffs,'' Backus said. "I want to experience that and experience a playoff run. The only thing that means anything to me is that it was great to win the game and give our fans something to cheer about, but more than anything, it was good to see these guys fight back after the way we played last week.''
"The goal in the end was the playoffs and that's not going to work out. But this team has to do something different than it's been doing,'' center Dominic Raiola added. "It's a step in the right direction. That's it.''
After the victory, the players were more relieved than happy. They still feel the sting of their late-season collapse, but nailing down a victory has its rewards.
"We haven't won in a month and a half. That's a long time,'' right tackle Damien Woody said. "It came at a great time, right before the holidays.''
Detroit's defensive line, which had played poorly during the team's losing streak, rebounded with four sacks Sunday and also was solid in stopping the running game. Their improved play might've been sparked by an outburst from coach Rod Marinelli earlier in the week.
In the meeting room with the defensive linemen, Marinelli was using an overhead projector to point out all the mental mistakes the players had committed the day before at practice. Marinelli got so furious he pounded the machine and broke it.
""How does that happen? My hand hit the projector,'' said Marinelli, who broke not just one, but two projectors.''
"I'm serious, I'm dead serious,'' Lions defensive tackle Cory Redding said. "He broke two machines.''
Still, Marinelli got his point across and the Lions responded.
Detroit jumped out to a 19-0 lead with solid play from all three phases. T.J. Duckett, who finished with 102 rushing yards in replacing the injured Kevin Jones, scored the first touchdown of the game on an 11-yard run. The score was set up by catches for 21 and 26 yards by rookie receiver Calvin Johnson (it was his only catches in the game).
The special teams also got into the act, as Casey FitzSimmons blocked a punt that rolled out of the side of the end zone for a safety. The Lions kicked a field goal after taking possession on the ensuing punt to make it a 12-0 game.
The Lions looked like they might make it a laugher three plays later when linebacker Paris Lenon picked off a Brodie Croyle pass and returned it 16 yards for a touchdown. Croyle injured his hand in a futile attempt to tackle Lenon on the play and was replaced by Damon Huard.
That's when the Lions' fortunes started to turn and Marinelli might have considered finding something else to break.
The defense gave up an 80-yard touchdown drive and then, on Detroit's second play of the next series, quarterback Jon Kitna threw an ill-advised pass downfield and it was intercepted. The Chiefs turned that into their second touchdown, cutting Detroit's lead to 19-14 with 23 seconds left in the first half.
While the Lions' defense never allowed the Chiefs to take the lead in the second half, it was Detroit's offense that kept Kansas City in the game. The Lions converted just 1-of-7 on third down in the second half and their passing attack gained 1 net yard.
"It was a great team win, but I'm not happy with what we did in the passing game - it's tough to be happy about that because that's my part of the game. It's embarrassing, that's what it is,'' said Kitna, who finished the game 9-of-16 for 115 yards and a quarterback rating of 52.9.
As poorly as Detroit's offense performed overall, this game really wasn't about what the Lions gained, but about what they avoided. And they avoided their seventh straight loss.
"You give a lot of credit to the defense and special teams,'' Kitna said. "They played awesome.''


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Although we've written about increased spending in the mobile market before, we still like getting numeric confirmation of the trends. This week, the Interactive Advertising Bureau provided just that with its release of the Internet Advertising Revenue Report for the first half of 2013.
Mobile advertising increased 145 percent in the first half of this year to a full $3 billion. Additionally, web searches have continued to decline through the first half of 2013 as the share of mobile ads has shot up.
This shift in resources is great for the mobile ecosystem given that the mobile market is projected to continue growing, particularly in developing countries where mobile platforms are already leapfrogging desktops and laptops as the primary way people get online.
You read the full report here and the Washington Post's breakdown here.
Here's what else we've been reading at TrialPay this week:
• A List of Mobile App Analytics Tools 2013: A list of helpful analytics tools for your app to help you measure everything from basic stats to more complicated numbers.
• Game Acquisitions Accelerate in 2013 to $3.3B as Asia and Mobile Get Hotter : An analysis of the increase in game acquisitions and investments, which have been driven primarily by Asian game companies entering the sector.
• Here Are The Most Effective Local-Mobile Targeting Strategies: Business Intelligence's report proving that location-based marketing campaigns are indeed successful and offering the most important practices for capitalizing on location-based services.


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WOOLWICH TWP. — The township has hired Matt Blake — who formerly worked for the American Littoral Society — as its new Director of Community Development, putting him in charge of handling its transfer development rights program and organizing future development and land preservation initiatives.
Blake will take over in the position that was previously held by Anthony Zappasodi and will be the residents' first source for questions and concerns.
"We did a very extensive search and he was the best candidate for the position," Woolwich Mayor Sam Maccarone said. "We are happy to have him on board. He brings a lot of skills to the position and will help move the township forward."
Blake's past position with the Littoral Society — a group dedicated to conservation of marine life and habitat and protecting the coast — has given him ample experience with planning and zoning issues and working with elected officials, planing boards and local residents.
"I had to wear a number of hats, just like you do in a municipal government," he said. "But you're focused on land use at the end of the day. If you're working with a municipality or a public interest group, it's because you care about community. You care about people."
One of Blake's main goals in his new office will be to make the township's Transfer Development Rights, or TDR, program work.
TDR is a municipal planning and preservation tool used to protect agricultural or environmental land while continuing development that is needed by allowing owners of preservation areas to separate the development rights of their property from the property itself and sell them for use elsewhere.
Developers can purchase these "development credits" and develop in areas deemed appropriate for growth.
"In many ways, Woolwich is ahead of the pack," Blake said. "The race for open space has never been more important. As we are working our way out of this recession, no one doubts there will be new pressures on what remains of unbuilt land. But we want to make sure as we grow, we develop and grow in the right places and in the right way."
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