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June 17-19, 2003
Event #3690
Sheraton New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
NMCI is a seven year, six billion dollar IT seat management contract that will link more than 360,000 Navy and Marine Corps users together on the world's largest enterprise-wide intranet. This intranet will serve as the foundation upon which future DON IT initiatives will operate. NMCI is the cornerstone of the DON's business process re-engineering and transformational efforts. The NMCI Industry Symposium provided an opportunity for industry to learn about current and future Department of the Navy IT needs and how those needs could be met. Highlights of the Symposium included briefings, presentations, and discussions on:
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Tuesday Main Session, 17 June 2003
NMCI Progress (PDF)
RADM Chuck Munns
NMCI Services and Delivery (PDF)
Bill Richard
A Journey of Transformation: Charting the Course for the Department of the Navy's Digital Voyage (PDF)
David M. Wennergren
The Naval Research Enterprise (PDF)
Tuesday Breakout Room A, 17 June 2003
Oracle and NMCI: An Enterprise Approach = Savings (PDF)
J. R. Cumberland
The Challenge of Collaboration (PPT)
Jim Ferguson
Wireless LAN Security (PDF)
Chris Johnson
Zaplet 3: Streamlining Collaborative Business Processes (PDF)
Louise Zullo
Tuesday Breakout Room B, 17 June 2003
DON XML – Achieving Enterprise Interoperability (PDF)
Michael Jacobs
Understanding Software Security (PDF)
John Viega
EDS Presentation (PDF)
PEO-IT Presentation (PDF)
Tuesday Breakout Room C, 17 June 2003
NMCI Release, Upgrades, and Patches & the NRDDG (PDF)
Don Biedermann
Navy Portal Development (PDF)
CAPT Skip Hiser
Web Enabled Navy (PDF)
CAPT Skip Hiser
N@vy Knowledge Online (PDF)
CAPT James Kantner
Wednesday Main Session, 18 June 2003
NMCI Product Evaluation Center (PPT)
CAPT Christopher
NMCI Operations Brief (PPT)
RADM J. P. Cryer
NMCI and the U.S. Marine Corps (PPT)
Debra Filippi
IT Security Panel Discussion (PPT)
PEO-IT: The Future of Non-Tactical IT Acquisition (PPT)
Wednesday Breakout Room A, 18 June 2003
Cisco IP Telephony (PPT)
Dave Corley
Security Centric Management of Planned Change (PDF)
Taher Elgamal and Carl Wright
Microsoft .NET: Interoperability, Integration, & Legacy Applications (PDF)
Mark Lenci
Defense in Depth: Securing the Desktop in a Managed Environment (PPT)
Jeff Stevenson
Wednesday Breakout Room B, 18 June 2003
Navy Enterprise Business Process & Functional Area Management (PPT)
CAPT Sandra T. Buckles
Telos: Xacta Web C&A: Automating the Transition of DoN Legacy Systems/Applications to NMCI (PPT)
Tom Ryder
PEO C4I and Space PMW 165 – Interfacing IT-21 and BLII with NMCI (PPT)
Tim Smith
Navy and Marine Corps Intranet Certification and Accreditation (PPT)
Robert Turner
Wednesday Breakout Room C, 18 June 2003
Delta Security Technologies: ONR Projects to Provide Additional Cyber Security to NMCI (PPT)
Robert Clime
Palm Solutions Group: The Handheld Revolution – What is it? (PPT)
John Inkley
Convera: Using Dynamic Classification To Expand Individual/Intuitive Search Processes (PPT)
Mushtaq Khan
eBusiness on Demand: Accessing Secure eBusiness Systems from NMCI (PPT)
Thursday, 19 June 2003
NMCI Center for Innovation (PDF)
CAPT Chris Christopher
Partnering with EDS to Deliver New Capabilities to the DON (PDF)
Bill Richard
SPAWAR: FORCEnet – Engineering & Architecting the Navy's IT Future (PPT)
RADM Mike Sharp
DON IT Leadership Panel (PDF)


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Linked in and on the run...
The play itself, set in the early 1950s, illustrates the mind-set of a nation and the complicated issues of integration, bigotry and the onset of the civil rights movement, which forever changed the landscape of our world. The play runs through May 15 at the (still new and improved) Rivoli Theatre in South Fallsburg, NY, and although it may not fall under the "fun" category (given the subject matter), is well worth a visit. I'm happy to be "linked in" (keep 'em coming!) and thrilled that the Upper Delaware Valley can be described as "too much fun." Nothin' wrong with that.
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Enjoy the colour and drama of India's festive pageantry
Kurushetra Festival, Haryana
The festival in Kurushetra, Haryana coincides with the Gita Jayanti, signifying the birth of the holy book Bhagavad Gita. A visit to Kurukshetra during the festival is an exhilarating and spiritual experience. Pilgrims gather to take a dip in the sacred tanks of Brahma Sarovar and Sannehit Sarovar. Week-long Bhagwadkatha (presenting stories in Bhagwad Gita), Shloka recital, dance, dramas and 'deep daan' at Brahma Sarovar are part of the religious festivities. Free medical camps, book exhibitions and 'bhajan' recitals in classical tradition are organised.


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Sleep Studio bows new name, new brand: SleepJoy
June 1, 2006-- Home Textiles Today,
New York -- Reflecting the future direction of its business, Comfort Sleeper has announced a company name change to Sleep Studio, LLC, and launches its lifestyle brand SleepJoy with the tagline "wake up happy."
"We believe that our new name, Sleep Studio, reflects the creativity and fun we hope to bring to the marketplace", states ceo Michael Rothbard. "There is enormous demand for the introduction of new products that enhance sleep quality, and we are very excited to be back in the business."
"The industry can look forward to significant new introductions premiering from Sleep Studio" states president Randy Spence. "For us, Sleep Studio conjures up a more vibrant image of the creative process of product development and marketing that we will bring to this category."
Of the new SleepJoy brand, vp Chris Ann Ernst said, "We are very excited about the opportunity to create a brand that reflects the aspirations of the consumer demographic that shops this category." The company will debut a range of new products in August at its 295 Fifth Avenue showroom.
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Traditional religious conservatives usually will become revolutionary-rightists when conditions are right. These conditions require a relatively sudden integration into the greater, usually more secular, culture and the exposure of benefits and risks associated with becoming upperly mobile through greater connectivity and economic advancement.
With this knowledge in mind it is now possible how the backwater western portion of New York state became the hot bed for the Second Great Awakening in the 1820s and 1830s. This hot bed led to the rise of many short lived faiths but also two major global religious streams of thought.
Background: Western New York, A Dumping Ground
Early settlement in New York between the Hudson River near Albany and Lake Erie near Buffalo was hardly an example of industrialization or development. The overwhelmingly agricultural region was not as cutoff as Appalachia but the region was distant enough to discourage development. Besides those farms near Buffalo or Albany the infrastructure was too poor to support exporting crops and there was no desire to develop industry because there was no means to transport it elsewhere.
The American settlers focused on their own needs and then the needs of the immediate, if sparse, community. The established religions in Protestant America such as the Episcopalians overlooked this "unchurched" population. These "unchurched" considered themselves Christian though they had little formal religious instruction. Methodist circuit riders would pass through this area but even there numbers were low in the late 1700s and early 1800s.
The Start of the Second Great Awakening and the Opening of the Erie Canal
The Second Great Awakening began in the early 1800s but did not truly gain energy until the 1820s. At the same time in 1817 construction on the 363 mile (584 kilometer) Erie Canal began between Albany and Buffalo. The canal opened in 1825 just as Western New York was getting its first wave of the Second Great Awakening.
The Erie Canal changed everything. The canal, its support roads, and roads specifically designed to connect nearby areas to the canal made Western New York's economy take off. All the sudden any point along the canal became a port for trade anywhere along the Great Lakes, Hudson River, and even Atlantic Ocean. Western New York society, long traditional conservative, became connected and upperly mobile. The stage was set for change.
|The Erie Canal and water ways connected to the canal. From Wikipedia
The primary means of religious education and experience in the Second Great Awakening was the revival. These mass events combined showmanship, social networking, and fed the longstanding need for religion the "unchurched" wanted. Various forms of Baptists and Methodists came and preached to newly connected and socially mobile Western New York. The evangelization was so thorough that the region would later be called the Burned-Over, or Burt-Over, District because there was no fuel, unconverted population, left to burn (i.e. convert).
|Best map I could find of what would become the Burned-Over District. From Oliver Cowdery.com
Unlike other areas which experienced the Second Great Awakening, the new revolutionary-rightists proved to be fertile ground not only for Americanized Protestant denominations but even heterodoxical faiths which combined elements of Christianity with extreme American Exceptionalism.
Ideals such as woman's rights and anti-slavery were not rare to the original traditional conservatives of Western New York. Of course women were equal, they did equal work on the farms. Meanwhile slavery was seen not only an economic ill keeping the free white farmer down economically but there was no religious justification for keeping Blacks as slaves like the Ancient Egyptians kept the Jews enslaved. However, traditionalist rarely sought to implement their beliefs. What the revolutionary rightist taught was that it was time for change. Woman were allowed to partake in Protestant sermons and have their own equal religious experiences. Some revivals and denominations in the Burned-Over District were led by women. Meanwhile slavery was taught as a sin blemishing God's new Israel, America (the view of America as God's new Israel was a Puritan belief that the established churches in the United States had generally abandoned by the early 1800s).
The lessons of women's equality and slavery abolition spread from Western New York down the Erie Canal to New York City and New England where they were formalized and spread. The Burned-Over would eventually host the 1848 Senaca Falls Convention in which radical Quakers allied with moderates in support of women's rights. Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists were found throughout the Rochester area.
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Seneca Falls
Religion Infused with American Exceptionalism
Besides the normal spread of Methodists, Baptists, and even Quakers, other groups began to grow in the Burned-Over District. These groups saw America as the New Eden and/or New Israel where the "true" Christian faith free from Catholic and man-made Protestant "corruptions" could finally be reestablished. Adventism claiming that the Saturday Sabbath and not the Sunday Lord's Day was the true day of rest was founded in eastern New York but found fertile soil in the Burned-Over District. Radical, women-led, sex-free groups such as the Shakers and Universal Friends Society centered their efforts in booming Western New York. On the other end radical, male-led, sex-obsessed, Utopian groups like the Oneida Community were formed in areas around Oneida.
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Two important new trends grew out of the Second Great Awakening in the Burned-Over District which still last today. The first is modern Spiritualism. In 1848 in two teenage sisters of the Fox family of Arcadia, New York claimed to have made communication with spirits. They laid the groundwork for modern Spiritualism which took off two decades later as millions of Americans desperately sought some closure for the loss of their loved ones during the Civil War. There have been claims by some academics that state without America's Civil War and the spread of occultism from the United States to England that Spiritualism and its descendants in several New Age movements would have never of reach the heights that they did. Today Spiritualism and its related occult practices thrive in its own counter-culture.
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Arcadia is right outside Newark
The greatest revolutionary movement that came from the economically and socially mobile Erie Canal-affected region was Mormonism. The whole old Northwest region of the United States was covered by ancient Indian mounds which earlier settlers concluded that American Indians were incapable of creating. Instead they believed a great people had to had built them because the mounds were great and America was a great country. No way could backwards American Indians have made the mounds. Many theories were purposed to explain the origins of the mounds and even American Indians. Theories ranged from Ancient Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Trojans, Germanics, and even Israelites. Books such as the 1823 View of the Hebrews and the 1826 The Wonders of Nature claimed Ancient Hebrews discovered America and made it their new Israel. This belief helped justify the Puritan/Revolutionary belief that America was indeed the new Israel. Many elements of in those books turn up in the Book of Mormon (1830) which is one of the main tenants of Mormonism. Joseph Smith founded Mormonism in Palmyra (which is less than 10 miles away from the Fox Sisters' Arcadia) in 1830. The movement prospered in the Burned-Over district even after Smith moved to Ohio and beyond in 1831.
|Map of religious communities in the Burned-Over Distirct in 1831. From George Mason University
All elements came together in the Burned-Over District for the vast spread and growth of faiths. The Erie Canal provided the social mobility and cultural connectivity to make revolutions, American ideals and exceptionalism allowed new ideas to infuse with faith, and the greater Second Great Awakening made people hunger for more religion. This cultural geographic perfect storm led to many failures and some successes which still impact the world today.


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The Upaya Zen Center has a strong commitment to social service. This is the heart of our practice and is a way we can realize the Vows of the Bodhisattvas. Each of the projects serves many beings, and we hope that you will help support the work we do here by giving generously to benefit others.
Social Action Programs & Training
- CMEs, CNEs & CEUs are Available for Numerous Retreats 2017
- Socially Engaged Buddhism (SEB)
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The images found in Bill Wittliff's photo collection at Goliad State Park are of cowboys rarely seen on the silver screen.
"Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy" features 62 carbon prints taken by Wittliff while visiting a Northern Mexico ranch during the early 1970's. The exhibit officially opens Sunday and will continue through July 31.
"He observed some vaqueros down there who really working in the old way," said Goliad State Park Ranger Beth Ellis, who will be one of four interpreters guiding visitors through the exhibit.
Ellis said the exhibit is especially relevant to the area because vaqueros were prevalent at the Espiritu Santo mission.
"It was too dry here to grow crops, so they concentrated on cattle ranching," Ellis said. "Some of the Indians living here ended up being cowboys. Places like this saw some of the first of that true cowboy - vaquero - tradition."
The exhibit is presented in partnership with Humanities Texas.
For information, call Goliad State Park at 645-3405.


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A European market that is ready for rehab
Time to come in from the cold.
Securitisation, or the packaging and selling of debt instruments, has been a dirty word in Europe since the global financial crisis. But policy makers from Yves Mersch at the European Central Bank to Andrew Haldane at the Bank of England are increasingly talking of the need to revive securitisation in Europe. That is encouraging.
The market seems unlikely to boom any time soon. Regulatory hurdles are much higher than before the crisis, and end-demand for consumer and corporate borrowing in Europe remains uncertain given the anaemic growth outlook.
Still, any progress on this front could help spur more lending in Europe, especially as banks continue to look to shed assets to clear higher regulatory hurdles. And European securitisation deals issued before the crisis have held up remarkably well, showing the practice has merit.
Excluding covered bonds, where defaults have been zero, only €41.5 billion of the €1.7 trillion of European securitisations rated by Standard & Poor's by mid-2007 have defaulted, the ratings firm notes. Losses on residential mortgage-backed securities, the largest part of the market, have been just 0.1%. By contrast, the structured-finance default rate for US deals since mid-2007 is 18.4%, S&P notes.
The turmoil caused by the eurozone debt crisis and the subsequent deep European recession and soaring unemployment make these figures all the more impressive, and show that securitisation can be a valuable tool. Yet while US issuance of asset-backed securities has bounced back post-crisis, in Europe it remains moribund: just €50.7 billion of securities were sold to investors in the first three quarters of 2013, 12% less than in the same period of 2012, according to industry body Sifma.
A crucial issue is whether there are sufficient buyers for European securitisations. Pre-crisis, a large chunk of issuance was bought by banks or by vehicles set up by banks. When the crisis hit, their funding sources dried up and they were forced to sell, whether the assets were good or not: all securitisations were tarred with the same brush.
There may be some demand from banks in the future since some high-quality securitisations will count as liquid assets that banks are required to hold. But they are being encouraged far more to buy other securities such as covered bonds. The market needs a new, broader investor base.
Securitisation is also unlikely to be a silver bullet for policy makers' latest hot-button issue: funding for small- and medium-size enterprises. While consumer loans are well-suited for securitisation, corporate loans tend to be more idiosyncratic, particularly for small businesses.
And there are still questions around whether the economics of securitisation will help those parts of Europe that might benefit most. In Spain, for instance, the price of senior slices of residential mortgage-backed securities is high compared with benchmarks, making such deals uneconomic, JP Morgan notes.
These hurdles need to be overcome; progress may well be slow. But the first step is to tone down the demonisation of securitisation. Rehabilitation by policy makers is overdue but welcome.
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St. Patrick's Day Dinner Lecture
Mon, 17 Mar 2014 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
6-9 p.m.
Frances Plecker Education Center, Edith J. Carrier Arboretum
Enjoy Irish cuisine and brew with a virtual botanical tour to a new region of the globe with a guest lecturer each year. This year's speaker is Dr. Jonathan Monroe, professor of biology at JMU, who shares his scientific experiences of bicycling through the Burren in County Clare, Ireland, a vast area of exposed limestone, botanical diversity, wind and rain.
A per person cost covers a three-course dinner, tax, tip, beverages and a libation of choice.
Advanced reservations required by March 12. Call (540) 568-3194 or check http://www.jmu.edu/arboretum.


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Wonderland Express at Chicago Botanic Garden
Take a magical trip to a winter wonderland of twinkling lights and holiday beauty at the Chicago Botanic Garden when we kick off the holiday season! Outside, 750,000 lights sparkle and welcome you and your family to the Garden's wonderland. Inside the Regenstein Center, a 10,000-square-foot exhibition of miniature trains winds over bridges, under trestles, past waterfalls, and through more than 80 mini-replicas of Chicago's favorite landmarks. Paul Busse, designer of the Model Railroad Garden, created this amazing exhibition exclusively for the Garden's holiday celebration.
Chicago Botanic Garden- Weekend Family Classes
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Tears stream down your face/When you lose something you cannot replace/Tears stream down your face/And I will try to fix you... Cold Play
CORPUS CHRISTI – Chris Arthey slowed his motorcycle down to about 55 mph so he could talk to Denise, his wife.
That's about the speed you can carry on a conversation over the road noise.
"Denise, this is a dream come true. It's a beautiful day in May," Chris said to Denise.
He thanked Denise for coming with him on a beautiful ride to South Texas from Houston, where they had recently moved.
Then, about six miles south of Tivoli on state Highway 35, he saw in an instant that a vehicle was bearing down on his bike for an inevitable head-on collision.
Those are the memories he pieced together after the wreck that happened at 2:34 p.m., May 16, 2008.
The accident report stated the vehicle driven by a drunken driver was traveling about 80 mph and had veered into the southbound lane when it struck Chris and Denise.
"At the time, I was in the process of transferring a patient from one hospital to another," said Refugio paramedic Amy Willey.
She explained the critical situation to the patient who was waiting, and he was fine with the delay.
"I was in the second ambulance that got sent out there," she said.
"When we got there, it was something like you see in the movies – dozens of cop cars and responders," Willey said.
Cars were backed up from the scene in the southbound lanes "as far as you could see," she said.
Refugio paramedics Fern Boggess and Vernon Gresham were already at the scene.
Willey's partner, Refugio paramedic Bill Paris, rushed to aid Denise.
"She was conscious, but they were concerned she had a head injury because she really wasn't talking to us. It could have been shock or a head injury," Willey said.
Willey went to Chris.
"He was responsive and talking the entire time. I asked him a bunch of questions," she said.
"He did mention quite often that he was a runner and was going to Corpus Christi. I made my best effort to make eye contact, and he was very responsive," Willey said.
"The amazing thing about it was they were both extremely calm," she added.
Later at the hospital, Chris was in a coma.
"I am going to assume it was induced," she said.
At the accident scene, Chris's leg was open and shattered but still attached. Denise's leg was not as attached as Chris's left leg.
"He was having abdominal pain and I figured he had broken ribs, internal bleeding," Willey said.
The general assessment was that Chris's leg would have to be amputated.
And another concern was that Chris may have had a pneumothorax form, an air blockage between the lung and chest.
Willey said usually a needle is used to puncture the air bubble.
But rescue helicopters arrived at the scene.
"The helicopters got there quick enough. We did not have to treat for pneumothorax," she said.
"Luckily, we are one of the few paramedic teams able to carry antibiotics to prevent infection."
Denise was sent first on the PHI emergency helicopter, which took her to Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital in Corpus Christi.
The HALO emergency helicopter took Chris to the same facility.
"It was about 10 minutes difference," Willey said.
"After that, we turned to our other three patients."
The drunken driver in his pickup had swerved back into the northbound lanes after hitting the Artheys head-on only to cross into the southbound lanes again to hit another car with a husband and wife in it.
But none of the three had life-threatening injuries.
Willey said the other couple were driven to a Victoria hospital.
She and her partner drove the drunken driver to the same hospital the Artheys were taken to.
After it was all said and done, Willey said the 45-minute drive back to Refugio was a quiet, surreal one.
"We were thinking of all the stuff we did," she said. She added that she was amazed at how focused she and her fellow paramedics were.
"As soon as it is over, you can feel the emotions and realize how life is precious. When I got back to the station, I had to call home," Willey said.
"For weeks, I wondered about the Artheys," she added.
It was five years later that Willey and the other paramedics heard from the Artheys.
Chris and Denise had lost their left legs but could have lost their lives. The couple also suffered damage and use of their left arms and hands, as well as Chris's spleen.
After being in a coma for almost three weeks, Chris joined Denise, who was in intensive care for about a week.
Chris, who works for Exxon-Mobile, had loved running in addition to motorcycles. He had completed the world's major marathons: London, Boston, Chicago, Berlin and New York. Denise was a school teacher.
Now, six years later, Chris and Denise, both 59 years old, have repaired and use prosthetic legs. Chris is running again and Denise is volunteering in school.
The British couple now live in Qatar, but they made an effort to travel to South Texas again to visit and thank paramedics who saved them.
On Friday, May 23, Refugio paramedics and EMS, meeting the Artheys at the Halo Flight headquarters near Alice, included Amy Willey, Vernon Gresham and Fern Boggess. Bill Paris, who now lives in Washington, was not at the reunion.
All remembered the terrible accident.
"I never get to hear feedback from a patient. In my 37 years, I might have met three patients," said Boggess, 66, who is now retired and living in Tennessee.
Gresham, 55, who lives in Ganado, and Willey, 43, who lives in Ingleside, agreed that hearing positive feedback from patients affirms why they do their jobs to save and help people.
The Artheys thanked the paramedics and Chris said he was writing a book that would doubly thank the men and women who helped them.
A month ago, Chris said he ran a triathlon, including swimming, bike riding and a run.
Upon completing that event, he remembers thinking "I love this. It's just a miracle. Running is still my best hobby."
"I passed four people on the run," he added, smiling.
He said his first run after the accident was about a year-and-a-half later.
Because he and Denise had no memory of the accident, they retraced their trip and found that they had stopped for coffee in Sealy and found the gray building that was among Chris's camera photos: It was the Blessing Hotel. He surmises that is where they had lunch that fateful day.
"Even if the worst happens, it is no reason to be discouraged," Chris said.
He and Denise now believe they have "an assignment" to spread that message of hope. Both have become devout in their beliefs and in God.
The worst is apparent when you see the Artheys.
"It is obvious to us. But everybody suffers. You can't see them always," Chris said.
The couple said they were flying back to Qatar Sunday, May 25.
But they leave knowing the Halo flight crew and Refugio paramedics were loved and appreciated.
"Whenever you have doubt for your work, and you get this (feedback), you know you made a difference," Willey said.


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Aton was drawn to Kaye Scholer by its long tradition as an antitrust powerhouse. As an antitrust lawyer, Aton has won cases at both the trial and appellate levels, in both federal and state court. Early in his career he wrote the briefs that convinced the California Supreme Court that the state's antitrust laws did not apply to a multibillion-dollar merger. In 2012, he successfully argued the appeal on behalf of 15 pharmaceutical manufacturers accused of conspiring to fix the prices, defending the summary judgment he and Partner Saul Morgenstern had won in the trial court on behalf of the industry. Aton also has successfully defended or resolved numerous antitrust class actions in federal court and indirect purchaser cases in state court. In addition, Aton counsels clients on a wide range of antitrust issues. Aton has been recognized as one of California's leading practitioners in the antitrust field by Best Lawyers in America (2007-2017), including "Antitrust Lawyer of the Year-Los Angeles" in 2015 and 2017, and Who's Who Legal: California.
Aton's practice has expanded far beyond his antitrust roots to encompass a broad range of complex litigations, including consumer fraud class actions and mass torts. He has been nationally recognized for his successes in defending pharmaceutical companies in product liability cases and related consumer class actions. In the phenylpropanolamine (PPA) products liability litigation, he chaired the joint defense team on experts and science issues, defeated a class action seeking refunds on millions of dollars of product containing PPA that had been withdrawn from the market, won the first-in-the-nation PPA trial and then successfully argued the appeal. The National Law Journal selected the verdict as one of the "Top 10 Verdicts of 2004." Aton won similar recognition for another PPA trial in 2006.
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Yingst v. Novartis AG, 2014 WL 6791423 (D.N.J. Nov. 24, 2014) (granting motion to dismiss consumer class action based upon differential pricing of products with identical ingredients).
Clayworth v. Pfizer Inc., 2012 WL 3596452 (Cal. App. 1st Dist. 2012) (affirming summary judgment dismissing alleged price fixing conspiracy brought by 15 pharmacies against the major pharmaceutical companies).
- Mag Instruments, Inc. v. The Coleman Co., 408 Fed.Appx. 363 (Fed. Cir. 2011) (affirming summary judgment that held that patent was invalid)
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- In re Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) Antitrust Litigation, 516 F. Supp. 2d 1072 (N.D. Cal. 2007) (barring indirect purchaser claims by computer purchasers where alleged price fixing was only on component).
- O'Neill v. Novartis Consumer Health, Inc., 147 Cal. App. 4th 1388 (2007) (affirming double defense judgment after trial in product liability case).
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- In re Intuit Privacy Litig., 138 F. Supp. 2d 1272 (C.D. Cal. 2001) (dismissing privacy claims relating to use of cookies on popular website).
- Vestal v. Shiley Inc., 1998 U.S. Dist. Lexis 21566 (C.D. Cal. 1998) (granting summary judgment on product liability claim on statute of repose).
- Mission Resources v. Texaco Inc., 94 F.3d 652 (9th Cir. 1996) (affirming defense judgment after jury trial).
- Greenberg v. Wolfberg, 890 P.2d 895 (Okla. S. Ct. 1995) (favorable response to certified questions relating to application of statute of limitations to malicious prosecution claim).
- Adray v. Adry-Mart, Inc., 76 F.3d 984 (9th Cir. 1995) (affirming defense jury verdict on trademark infringement claim).
- Ultramar, Inc. v. South Coast Air Quality Management Dist. 17 Cal. App. 4th 689 (1993), (affirming writ enjoining enforcement of rule that would have required refinery to spend $100 million).
- Auwood v. Harry Brandt Booking Office, Inc., 850 F.2d 884 (2d Cir. 1988) (affirming nominal damages in jury trial for antitrust violation).
- Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. v. Equit. Life Assur. Socy. of the U.S., 143 A.D.2d 611, 533 N.Y.S.2d 426 (App Div, 1st Dept 1988) (reversing multimillion verdict against his client).
- California v. Texaco Inc., 46 Cal. 3d 1147 (1988) (holding that California antitrust law did not regulate a $10 billion merger).
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#158709 - 04/20/06 04:53 AM Re: securest vs. most secure
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Nice to see your fonts again, BY. FWIW, I find "securest" growing on me, but it's very context-dependent. There are situations in which I say "most secure" and others in which "securest" seems quite OK. Having been of exactly no help, I will proceed to ask if you've received any mail from me recently?_________________________
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#158710 - 04/20/06 05:06 AM Re: securest (from access!)
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[aside] psst, he refers in another thread to the mention of talks by Daniel Barenboim, which I think is Elsewhere... now if only I could go and check! [/aside]
#158711 - 04/20/06 05:29 AM Re: securest (from access!)
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> which I think is Elsewhere...
Yes, come to think of it, I think it was - so that's an affirmative on the mail. Thanks for the welcome back from both of you:-)
#158712 - 04/20/06 06:06 AM Re: securest (from access!)
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I agree with mav (and others) that it's a sound thang...
but then, I'm finding myself tapping my toes to the country music at the laundr(a)mat...
just saw (!) this:
sorta fits.
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#158713 - 04/20/06 07:36 AM Re: securest vs. most secure
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Good to see you again, by. We talked about this elsewhere but I don't have time to find the link....
[quoting myself] Here it is [/quoting myself]
#158714 - 04/20/06 07:41 AM Belated ROTFL
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So, happy, happer, happest? That's some rule.
Funnest post more eve.
#158715 - 04/20/06 09:56 AM Re: securest vs. most secure
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Thanks. An exception to that "rule", too.
Edited by zmjezhd (04/20/06 09:56 AM)
#158716 - 04/20/06 10:41 AM Re: Frazz
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That's cute, eta! Are there people who actually say sowna??
#158717 - 04/20/06 03:00 PM Re: Frazz
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That's cute, eta! Are there people who actually say sowna??
At high-school, one of my classmates was Finnish, and she could not hear "saw-na" without saying "it's sow-na". It was like an automatic reflex._________________________
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#158718 - 04/20/06 05:38 PM Re: Frazz
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That's cute, eta! Are there people who actually say sowna??
Lotta Finns around here. It's not even sow-na, it's more like sah-oo-na, but the sah-oo is pretty quick and almost sounds like sow.
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Novelist Kaui Hart Hemmings reveals she didn't realize how much she needed Hawaii until she moved away:
In my last book, The Descendants, the patriarch, a Honolulu attorney, takes a good look at his paradisiacal life and declares: "Paradise can go #!#% itself." He obviously didn't contribute to the Gallup Poll that each year determines that we Hawaii dwellers have the highest level of well-being of any state in the U.S. Indeed, "Lucky we live Hawaii" is a common sentiment (and hashtag). But are we as happy as the pollsters say? And if so, why?
I can't answer for everyone. But I will look at my family's life over a few days and try to glean some answers. What is different about Hawaii?
Sunday morning at our house on Oahu's Windward Coast. We ask our two kids what they want to do.
"Beach, I guess," our 7-year-old daughter says.
"Wave," our 2-year-old says after he hears the word "beach."
We head to Kailua Beach, about a five-minute drive away. We go to Kalamas, past the kitesurfers, and let our dog, Bob, off his leash. Sometimes we bring Bob's bodyboard too—he catches waves to the delight of tourists—but today we're just here for a little while. We run into my brother and sister-in-law and their three kids. Daphne just got off her shift—she's a surgeon at Honolulu's Queens hospital. The kids surf; I head off for a quick walk, intending to exercise, but end up bumping into friends. I socialize more than sweat, which is fine—it's almost impossible to be on this beach without meeting someone you know.
There's a nice breeze and because of the expanse of the beach it's not too crowded. Kids are digging holes like it's their profession; their parents are drinking coffee and reading books. When I return, the kids are still surfing, my son is busy in the sand, and my close friend happens to have come down with her kids and a cooler of lunch and beer.
"Stay?" she asks.
We get home around 1, put our son down for a nap. In the afternoon, some friends stop by to swim in the pool and end up staying for dinner. We rummage through the fridge, find enough things to throw on the grill. Our friend runs home to get some just-caught mahimahi she bought off a fisherman coworker. We bring out the little firepit and roast marshmallows.
Monday morning. I take on the carpool, grocery shop, work, clean the house. After school my daughter wants to hike Mt. Olomana. I oblige—I could use a walk. The mountain looms large in our lives: It composes the bulk of our view from the backyard. The hike up it is about a mile and a half, with an elevation gain of 1,643 feet. When you get to the top, you feel like you're standing on a mere sliver of land. You can see the spectrum of Oahu—you're overwhelmed by nature yet managing it in some way. The last stretch of this hike is difficult and dangerous. Often there's a whir of helicopters rescuing the injured or the afraid. You need ropes to pull yourself up the last section. My daughter and I turn around at the first set of ropes.
Tuesday. Even in Hawaii, not every day is bliss. My husband, originally from Wisconsin, is a Honolulu litigator with a grueling work schedule. His hour commute takes him over the Pali Highway, affording him views of the Windward Coast, and the sharp, sheer cliffs of the Ko'olau mountains. At the top of the Pali Lookout, the wind is so strong your hair stands straight up. There's a change in climate there, and a sense of history. The Pali is the site of the Battle of Nu'uanu, where King Kamehameha conquered and united the chain of islands. The unfortunate losers were pushed off the cliff.
But my husband doesn't get to stop and ponder any of this, not on workdays. Instead, he comes home late after a day of downtown battles. Our son is asleep; I am exhausted from breaking up arguments, making dinner, getting my daughter to do her homework, thinking about my work, and debating whether to put my son in an extra day of day care even though it costs enough as it is. Sometimes paradise does nothing but shame us for not feeling like it's enough. Sometimes it's just the backdrop for a laborious show that must go on.
On Wednesdays, school gets out at 1 p.m. My son naps at my mom's so I can run into town to pick up my daughter. I take her to the bookstore to do homework and then out to Cromwell's Cove, a spot on Diamond Head, which requires wading through the water, climbing over rocks, then walking around a point. I've never taken her here before and I haven't been since my dad took me when I was 10 years old.
The ocean splashes against the rocks, and she's skeptical but I tell her it's okay. Soon we reach the cove, which is directly below Doris Duke's estate Shangri La. I point up to the beautifully tiled, exotic pool house. At the cove, some older boys are jumping off the 6-foot wall into the clear ocean below. She looks at their tattoos, interested since we recently went to the tattoo exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Arts. She is ready to jump and we go at the same time.
We rush home before nap is over. My husband returns from a trial on Maui. Some friends drop by to swim. Outdoor dinner, music, homework. Paradise regained.
"You had long days in San Francisco," I say to my husband as we have a glass of wine. We lived in San Francisco for five years, and since we moved to Hawaii haven't looked back. "What's the difference?"
"I can come home and not have to look for a parking spot," he says. A simple yet glorious perk. "I have friends who stop by all the time, we go out all the time, and weekends are never spent at playgrounds."


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BPD's special operations task force and SWAT team executed a search and arrest warrant into the illegal gambling operation at 805 W. Corpus Christi St., known as The Atlantis game room, for charges revolving around cash payouts for customers who were playing the 8-liner machines.
According to Police Chief Joe Treviño, approximately 17 arrest warrants were served, and four suspects were taken into custody.
Ramiro Ybarra, 33, was running the illegal business and was arrested on several warrants Friday night. Three additional arrests were made, including 56-year-old Sylvia Esparza, 33-year-old Alejandro Rafael Sandoval and 32-year-old Maria Ema Esparza.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Here are 10 things you should know for Wednesday, June 19:
1. -- U.S. stock futures were pointing to a flat open for Wall Street on Wednesday as investors await word of whether the Federal Reserve will scale back its monthly $85 billion in purchases of mortgage-backed securities and longer-term Treasuries.
2. -- The economic calendar in the U.S. Wednesday includes the rates decision from the Federal Open Market Committee at 2 p.m. EDT.
3. -- U.S. stocks on Tuesday pushed higher as investors anticipated that the Federal Reserve won't announce steps to aggressively curb the bond-buying program that has helped drive equities for more than a year.
The S&P 500 tacked on 0.78% to close at 1,651.80 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.91% to 15,318.23. The Nasdaq popped 0.87% to finish at 3,482.18.
4. -- Dish Network
Sprint had given Dish until Tuesday to submit a sweetened bid for the No. 3 wireless carrier in the U.S.
Dish said it would continue to focus on its bid for Clearwire
"We will consider our options with respect to Sprint, and focus our efforts and resources on completing the Clearwire tender offer," Dish said in a statement on Tuesday.
5. -- Carl Icahn is offering to buy up to $16 billion in Dell
According to a letter sent to Dell's shareholders, Icahn is asking current investors to vote against the Silver Lake-led takeover at the company's July 18 annual meeting and elect a hostile slate of board directors elected by the Icahn. Those directors would then implement Icahn's proposed $14-a-share tender offer.
A special committee of Dell's board said Tuesday that Icahn's latest proposal lacks adequate financing or a commitment from anyone to participate in the tender offer.
6. -- DreamWorks Animation
7. -- Software maker Adobe Systems
Revenue fell 10% to $1.01 billion.
Wall Street expected Adobe to post earnings of 33 cents a share on revenue of $1.01 billion.
Adobe said revenue from subscriptions jumped 60% in March through May from a year earlier, to $254.5 million.
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Critters And Crayons is participating in a Play Date Blog Hop with a group of fantastic kid-bloggers!
Here are some of C&C's ideas for themed play dates worth trying!
Try A Group Nature Hike…
Our family recently went on a nature hike with two other families and it is something we plan to do on a larger scale soon with several other families. There is nothing like getting out into nature where discoveries and beauty abound.
The children are delighted by the simplest sights: a snake trail across a dirt path, a rocky crevice swarming with giant ants carrying morsels half the size of their bodies, hardened tree sap, seashells on a hilltop or driftwood near the river.
For so many of us busy-folk, these things lose their magic. But, children can teach us to view them with wonder again.
And this photo was taken on a different nature excursion but it is too cute not to share. Our 5 year old daughter found those snails at a random rest stop on a road trip.
That adorable little snail in her hand wasn't even the size of a pencil eraser. He was just teeny tiny. We were all surprised to find that all of the shells were filled with these cuties! So, grab some baggies and some magnifying glasses and take your play date into nature!
And There is Always Origami (Of Course)…..
Here, we made simple origami suncatchers in the hotel room. But, you can see how we made origami into a play date and party theme here: The $50 Origami Party!
And How About All That Make-Up You Need To Get Rid Of? It's Totally Great For An Art Play Date!
Did you miss the post on using old make-up to make art? Did you miss my hubby's mascara grim reaper?
I made a huge purge of make-up in my last de-cluttering phase and it is all now in a tackle box we keep in the kitchen.
The kids make some pretty neat art with it. Here, you can see our daughter's work- It reminds me of a Dia De Los Muertos exhibit.
Imagine how fun it would be to line a floor with unrolled butcher block paper and to see what the kids can do with that old lipstick of yours? What took you 10 years to throw away will be gone in 2 minutes, I promise.
And What About Those Puppets?
We recently figured out that the best and cheapest puppet storage that places puppets right at a pre-schooler's height for rapid fire puppeteering is a shoe rack. Since then, we have been doing some serious nighttime puppeteering.
Sometimes, the kids put on the show for us or their "audience".
Yes. That is a T-Rex wearing pink Minnie Mouse undies. We don't discriminate around here. All animals (living, extinct, or inanimate) have an inalienable right to modesty.
If your Puppet Show Play Date lacks humans, please feel free to borrow our kids' solution. 🙂
And You Can Always Keep It Simple With a Sweet Family Pretend Pizza Party Play Date…..
This might be the best play date of all. It is the "unwind and bond as a family" play date.
Mom and Dad might exceed the tensile strength of those Little Tikes kid stools, and we may have to shift our weight from side to side to keep parts of our body from tingling and falling asleep- but it is worth it.
These are the play dates that might be the most memorable- the ones where we stopped doing what we think we need to do to focus on what we really need to do.
For more fantastic ideas from other Kid Bloggers, check out the links below! If you have a play date post, please feel free to add it!Pin It


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Whether a dozen or a thousand showed, event coordinator Shirley O'Neil said Saturday would have been a success.
She didn't have a estimate on the attendance to downtown for this past weekend's Living History Celebration but described it as "sparsely attended."
"I am not disappointed," she said. "It was a success before it ever even started.
"We didn't have a whole a lot of vendors, but we had such enthusiasm.
"I was excited to begin with, and I am still excited."
A highlight of the event – an effort coordinated with the Bee County Historical Society, City of Beeville and Beeville Main Street – was the speakers.
Numerous historians – or in some cases just lifelong residents – were invited to share their stories.
"The speakers all had full houses when they spoke," she said.
"The ballet folklorico and mariachis had tons of people there — in relative terms."
The crowd, she said, was dedicated to the event.
"From a participation and enjoyment aspect, it was 100 percent," she said. "It was just a very small percent.
"One of the statements that Lillian made which was so true was that there has been nothing but positive energy all day. There was no negativism from the vendors."
Lillian Casper, along with Balde Galvan, were two of the Native American dancers at the festival. They not only built a village but danced traditional steps throughout the day.
Galvan even had a trading area — which children at the event monopolized.
"The kids had a ball," she said. "The Native Americans did so much with them.
"The kids would take bugs and snails — anything they could find on the ground — and they were taking it over to trade with Balde."
That afternoon, Balde performed what was called a candy dance. Think of it like an Indian version of musical chairs.
Plans are already underway for next year — well, at least they are in O'Neil's head.
She hopes to attract local musicians who play some of the older instruments for performances. She adds that even a cowboy singer or two would be a welcome addition.
"I think that is something people will come and listen to," she said. "I would like to bring in a little of the Irish heritage — maybe bring in cloggers."
She isn't going to overdo it and grow too quickly though.
"Each year, I would like to add one little extra thing. You can't do it all at once," she said. "We have no shortage of ideas."
Planning will begin next month for next year's festival — after everyone recovers from this year.
"Honestly, if we would have taken one more step Saturday, we would have gone down like dominoes," she said.
Next year, she says, will be even bigger though.
"People who missed it this year, don't want to miss this next year."
Jason Collins is the editor at the Bee-Picayune and can be reached at 358-2550, ext. 121, or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In comments yesterday during a cybersecurity conference at the New America Foundation, the Director of the NSA, Admiral Mike Rogers faced vocal criticism from the tech community (including cryptography expert Bruce Schneier and Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos). The criticism focused on the Obama administration's insistence that it should have access to everyone's encrypted communications via a backdoor, sometimes called a "golden key." Security experts caution that such a magic key, usable only by the "good guys" is—like magic—not actually possible.
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The account suspension of Lakota woman Dana Lone Hill got some media attention earlier this week. Lone Hill has had a very similar experience to other users who've been booted of the site for name policy violations—with one important difference.
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Pandaren now OP?
Pandaren now OP?
It'll change. It's just a place holder I'm sure like many things in the PTR.
Doubt that's going live with those values. Tooltip problem, datamining error, whatever, but I don't see this happening wehn the best we have at the moment is 300 stat food.
Unless they nerf it, pandaren buff should bring it to a whopping 2014 points. Thats insane.
95% sure this isn't how its going to be on live. The food buff will probably be lowered rather than the pandaren racial.
Next part of the legendary quest, legendary buff food! Bring Wrathion Y'Shaarj's heart and some spice and he'll grant you the power of the gods!
But yeah, obviously a placeholder.
Recipe shows the mats required, it's a 300 stat food feast. Source really would not be from Wrathion since it already says we're upgrading cloaks next patch, him teaching us how to make a cart and sell noodles seems a bit out of place for him.
If I recall correctly, then the first time I saw Feasts on PTR they gave 28 stats (cheap) and 31 stats (expensive) in their tooltip. I believe that you can use 275 stats food for 280 stats feasts, and 300 stats food for 310 Stats feasts.
This slight power creep would be sensible because the Pandas Racial, while strong at launch, is now no competition with some other Racials like the Human Spirit.


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California [2], a leader in efficiency and clean energy policies for decades, is about to embark on another pioneering climate change program.
November 14 marks the first auction in its cap-and-trade system, which uses a market-based mechanism to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet.
On its own, California's program will drive down harmful emissions in the ninth largest economy in the world. But perhaps more importantly, California's example could guide and prod us toward national action against climate change.
California's cap-and-trade program is not the first in the U.S. Nine Northeast states launched the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) [3] in 2008 with the goal of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from the power sector 10 percent by 2018.
However, California's program is more ambitious in both breadth and depth. California's program will cover both the power and industrial sectors in 2013, and will add transportation and heating fuels in 2015. Due to this broad scope and California's large economy, the state's program will encompass over twice as much greenhouse gas emissions as RGGI.
California's program also differs from RGGI in that it covers more types of greenhouse gases, covers electricity imports, has a significantly higher floor price for greenhouse gas allowances at auction, and will allocate many of these allowances freely to regulated entities. Cap-and-trade is just one part of California's overarching climate change program [4], authorized by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32) [5], to bring greenhouse gas emissions down to 1990 levels by 2020.
California's new program would need to be followed by other jurisdictions and ultimately emulated by the federal government to have a meaningful impact on climate change. Fortunately, we've often seen national environmental policies bubble up from the states.
Energy efficiency standards for home appliances like dishwashers and refrigerators are an excellent example. In a pattern that has been repeated numerous times, the federal government will adopt a nationwide standard [6] for certain appliances after several states have done so. Industry then benefits from having one regulation to comply with, instead of a patchwork of state standards [7]. Federal lawmakers benefit from having state examples to follow.
Despite growing public concern [8] about climate change, Congress has generally avoided the topic since a cap-and-trade bill [9] stalled in the Senate in 2009. With California and the Northeast now regulating carbon emissions, we may be witnessing a critical step toward a comprehensive climate policy. If California's cap-and-trade program is successful, and if RGGI continues to succeed [10], we may see other states follow suit – perhaps starting with former Western Climate Initiative [11] members [12]. In the meantime, California's program is poised to make real emission cuts while supporting its clean energy economy.
Visit our new California Cap-and-Trade Page [13] to learn more.
[1] http://www.c2es.org/blog/aaronsk
[2] http://www.c2es.org/us-states-regions/action/california
[3] http://www.c2es.org/us-states-regions/regional-climate-initiatives#RGGI
[4] http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/cc.htm
[5] http://www.c2es.org/us-states-regions/action/california/ab32
[6] http://www1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/appliance_standards/history.html
[7] http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/Appliance%20standards%20table.pdf
[8] http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2012/02/climate-change-rabe-borick
[9] http://www.c2es.org/federal/congress/111/clean-energy-jobs-american-power-act
[10] http://www.analysisgroup.com/uploadedfiles/publishing/articles/economic_impact_rggi_report.pdf
[11] http://www.c2es.org/us-states-regions/regional-climate-initiatives#WCI
[12] http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/02/us-california-quebec-idUSBRE89108E20121002
[13] http://www.c2es.org/us-states-regions/key-legislation/california-cap-trade
[14] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/economics
[15] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/us-states-regions
[16] http://www.c2es.org/taxonomy/term/2872
[17] http://www.c2es.org/category/keywords/california-cap-trade
[18] http://www.c2es.org/taxonomy/term/2891


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Looks like a little competition here and there among players is inevitable.
As long as it's healthy.... man, as long as it's healthy......
IMO a lot of animosity against Lin from posts here, even with Lin isn't playing. This usually happens after Melo has a good game.
The common goal, for all fans from all sports, is winning. It's that simple. When the team is losing, everyone is scrutinizing under the microscope; the owner, GM, the coach, and even more so for the high-paid players.
Dolan brought Melo here for one purpose only; to win! I am sure most of KOers do not hate Melo. Knicks is a team with full of talents. We all know that. And fans had high hopes this season and every right to doubt Melo's ability when he was in his long and seemed like never ending shooting slump, and more importantly: the team was losing! Now that the team is winning, we really shouldnt focus on someone who will not return for the rest of the regular season.
We can all put our blame on MDA for being the best 2-game-above-.500 team (at this time of the season) in NBA history!
Looks like a little competition here and there among players is inevitable.
As long as it's healthy.... man, as long as it's healthy......
I long for the day when players aren't viewed as the sole option on a team. I mean when will we start viewing this team as a toolbox, with a lot of different (and effective) tools, which we can use at any given time.
A good PG is guarding Lin - pass the ball to a Melo ISO. Melo is double teamed - Lin starts a PnR with Chandler. It's all about what's right for the situation at hand.
Even when it comes to who is the starting 5 on a team. I understand it's about chemistry and people getting used to their roles, but how about coaches switch it up to surprise the other team every once in a while. Especially in a playoff series. For instance - think about how much more pressure you put on a team if you have a star quality player on the second unit. (I'm not saying we should move amare to the second unit, just that it's a tool we might want to consider in certain situations).
The sad thing is that I know there's a lot of ego and power struggles that it's never going to happen. (we're not gonna pay 20mil to watch someone come off the bench, yada yada...) But I think we're missing out. The NBA has become so predictable it's ridiculous.
If switching things up and keeping other teams confused helps us win a given game, then the whole system has to adjust, including the players.
We're a team. And winning as a team should come first.
Its all about effort for a guy like Melo....skills and talents just do not dissapear but lack of effort can make them invisible....
Why are we always talking about who should get the ball more? Players get hot in games, and they get cold in games. We should be happy we got several good players to give the ball to. If Melo is hot, give it to him. If he's taking us out of the game, find the open man. It's not about one person, but a team.
All you guys saying Lin is shooting too much, or Melo is shooting too much, or STAT takes Melo out of his game....enough already. You guys have been saying the same thing all season long, and you'll never be happy with how we're playing unless we win a 'chip.
Instead of stressing about who should be carrying the team, how about just acknowledging the TEAM is playing great right now?
This is not about Lin's leading the team in shots taken. Nor it is about getting the ball to Melo or to Fields. Who cares about those irrelevant arguments if Knicks keep on winning?
NBA IS ALL ABOUT WINNING! Nothing else matters much. Some people are so blinded by their own passion, they forget the common and ultimate goal for the team they support.
There is absolutely no reason for Lin not to play well with Melo. They only played less than 15 games together on court. And I look forward to their co-existence next season. Lin should be honored to play on the same court with stars like Melo. And likewise, Melo should be happy that he can finally play with a legit PG and will help develop Lin's on-court experiences. They NEED each other to play together as a team if they want to go further into the playoffs.
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As for Melo when you are paying a guy 20 million and he is not hustling yes to advocate a trade is not wrong.......Now we all see what melo has done these past 7 games......If he for some reason checks-out again I would again advocate for a trade.........Remember Lebron checking out of the finals with cleveland ? Our goal is to win a championship not come in 2nd....
When Lin comes back it gives us just another weapon......Melo and Lin will be fine together......Listen Melo co-exists with Smith so Lin is a piece of cake..
I do agree with Stat coming off the bench at center...In a series minutes will be key and there is no reason for THIS SEASON to have Stat in the starting 5 again......Next season YES.
Well put....so many fans are blinded by individual $$$ players not noticing the loaded roster of Knicks players with so many different styles of talent to create a decent .550 winning team....I blame this on "Isiah's favortism & Dantoni's DNP half roster....it has got to the point where fans dont know the high value of a Tyson Chandler, Rodman, Ibaka, Prince, Fisher in a rotation.
It took Lin-Sanity performance to show fans how high the value of Jefferies, Novak, Fields, Shump, and Tyson Chandler's performance can become as a "TEAM" of players.
The Knicks do have a big issue in an "EGO-struggle" problem between many of their players....everyone of them want to be "Jordan" and no one wants to be "Pippin".....early in the season we had the craziest decision-making players on offense in the NBA, all our players were shoot-first no pass players....the league seen our two super-stars become "ISO" players forcing up shots when double or tripple defenders on them. FIRE the headcoach there is no order in the offense....but Dolan or Grunwald refuse to FIRE the headcoach.
Here's one reason why fans think Stat should come off the bench....
What position does Stat play?
It looks like headcoach Woodson gave that question to the Knicks organization after
the blowout loss to the Raptors....the question is still on hold after 7 games.
The Denver Nuggets gave max salary to PF-Kenyon Martin to play alongside of SF-Melo & C-Camby.
how did that work out?
Listen its not like George Karl did not have his issues with Melo.........Maybe Woodson is the right coach for Melo ?
You also have to look at it that with Lin and Stat out MELO is the STAR......Can this guy only shine when he is the lone-Star on the court ?
Melo has a reputation and when there is smoke there is fire.....Lets just hope ha has matured through all of this.......I just hope he does not need to have the sole spotlight for him to be happy....
Because for us a happy Melo is a hustling Melo up there with the best...
an Unhappy Melo would have had his ass kicked by Mason and Oakley in the locker room...


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On this day (March 11) in 1874, Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner suffered a heart attack and died at age 63 in Washington, D.C.
During his long and distinguished public career (1848-1874), the ambitious, hardworking, imperious Sumner was a leading abolitionist who sought the immediate, noncompensated (to slaveowners) emancipation of all black slaves.
Along with his anti-slavery crusade, Sumner championed many other reform movements of the mid-19th century, such as work peace, prison reform, and Horace Mann's pioneering educational reforms.
Born Jan. 6, 1811, in Boston, Charles received an excellent education. Attendance at the Boston Latin School was followed by graduation from Harvard in 1830 and from the Harvard Law School in 1833. Admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1834, Sumner commenced the practice of law in Boston. A short stint as a recorder of the U.S. circuit court in Boston was followed by a two-year lectureship at the Harvard Law School.
During the years 1837-1840, Sumner took an extended educational tour of Europe. Back in Boston, his increasingly lucrative legal practice led almost inevitably to a political career.
In 1848, along with former President Martin Van Buren, Charles Francis Adams (grandson of John and son of John Quincy) of Massachusetts, and Salmon P. Chase of Ohio, Sumner became one of the founders of the Free Soil Party. This party, which adopted the slogan of "Free soil, free speech, free labor, and free men," was pledged to "a national platform of freedom in opposition to the sectional platform of slavery."
The party attacked what it considered the "aggressions of the slave power" and supported the David Wilmot Proviso of 1846 that, while never passed, would have prohibited involuntary servitude in any territory acquired in the Mexican War (1846-1848) – a war incidentally that Sumner vehemently and articulately opposed.
Elected in 1852 to the U.S. Senate, Sumner opposed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 (an act sponsored by Illinois Sen. Stephen A. Douglas that established the principle of "popular sovereignty" in the federal territories).
During the rancorous Senate debates over the issue of slavery in the Kansas territory, Sumner delivered a scathing speech ("The Crime Against Kansas") on May 19, 1856, that was a sharp condemnation of the "slave oligarchy" and its "rape" of Kansas. In this somewhat intemperate tirade, Sumner repeatedly cast insulting aspersions upon the moral character of two of his fellow senators: Douglas for sponsoring the "hated" Kansas-Nebraska Act and Andrew P. Butler of South Carolina for being an ardent and vocal supporter of the institution of black slavery.
In retaliation for remarks made regarding his Uncle Andrew Butler, Rep. Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina, on May 22, 1856, assaulted Sumner as he sat at his desk in the Senate chamber. Sumner collapsed under the repeated blows of Brooks' cane.
Interestingly, Brooks' assault was overwhelmingly approved in the South, while in the North it was more rationally condemned as an uncalled violation of the freedom of speech.
Although Brooks resigned his House seat in July, he was quickly and overwhelmingly re-elected.
After a three-year absence from the Senate spent recovering his health, Sumner returned to the Senate in 1859 to become a staunch supporter of President Abraham Lincoln and most of his policies.
After the Civil War, Sumner became one of the leading "Radical Republicans." As such, he demanded that the freed blacks be given their full civil rights before the Southern states could re-enter the Union.
Upon his death on this day in 1874, Charles Sumner was eulogized as an idealist whose views on desegregation and black civil rights were far in advance of his time.
• Crystal Lake resident Joseph C. Morton is professor emeritus at Northeastern Illinois University. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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