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Living conditions and volunteer lifestyles in Ecuador
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|As a Peace Corps Volunteers, you will have to adapt to conditions that may be dramatically different than you have ever experienced and modify lifestyle practices that you now take for granted. Even the most basic practices— talking, eating, using the bathroom, and sleeping — may take significantly different forms in the context of the host country. If you successfully adapt and integrate, you will in return be rewarded with a deep understanding of a new culture, the establishment of new and potentially lifelong relationships, and a profound sense of humanity.
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- 1 Communications
- 2 Housing and Site Location
- 3 Living Allowance and Money Management
- 4 Food and Diet
- 5 Transportation
- 6 Geography and Climate
- 7 Social Activities
- 8 Professionalism, Dress, and Behavior
- 9 Personal Safety
- 10 Rewards and Frustrations
Until you have your own address, you can receive mail at Peace Corps/Ecuador's post office box:
"Your Name," PCV (for Volunteer) or PCT (for trainee)
Cuerpo de Paz
Casilla 17-08-8624
Quito, Ecuador
South America
It takes a week to 10 days for a letter from the United States to reach the Peace Corps office by international mail. Once you are living at your assigned site, mail may take from two to four weeks to reach you.
Receiving packages through international mail can be difficult, since all packages must go through Ecuadorian customs and you may have to make a special trip to Quito to pick up the package. All packages are opened by customs, and there is usually a significant customs charge. If the package contains items that may not be imported, like chocolates, customs officials may confiscate the items. Although some Volunteers have received small packages at their sites without having the packages pass through customs, this method is unpredictable.
Many Volunteers have had luck receiving items sent in padded envelopes. We therefore recommend that families and friends send only small items and try to keep the weight of any packages under two kilos (4.4 pounds), clearly marking the contents. They should not send anything via couriers such as DHL and Federal Express, which are more expensive than the Postal Service.
Peace Corps regulations prohibit Volunteers from accepting gifts of property, money, or voluntary services directly. Such gifts can cause confusion about the role of the Volunteer, who might be perceived as a facilitator of goods and funding, rather than as a person who is working to build a community's capacity to identify local resources. You are not permitted to solicit materials or funds for your community during your first six months at site. This allows you time to understand the developmental needs of the community and begin to engage the community in project identification. To ensure that any request for funding or donations is appropriate for your project and your community, you must have prior authorization from your project director and country director.
The Peace Corps has a mechanism in place for you and the communities you work with to access U.S. private-sector funds. The Peace Corps Partnership Program, administered by the Office of Private Sector Initiatives, can help you obtain financial support from corporations, foundations, civic groups, individuals, faith-based groups, and schools for projects approved by the country director. To learn more about the Partnership Program, call 800.424.8580 (extension 2170); e-mail email@example.com; or visit www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=resources.donors. volproj.
Peace Corps/Ecuador's office is located at the following address: Av. Granda Centeno # OE 4-250, y Baron de Carondelet, Quito, Ecuador. The telephone numbers of the office are 227.6300, 227.2824, 245.5007, or 800.723.282 (tollfree only within Ecuador); the fax number is 227.3763.
To use these numbers from the United States, you must first dial 011 for access to the international network, 593 for Ecuador (country code), and 2 for Quito. Note that after regular business hours and on weekends and holidays, the person answering the phone is not likely to speak English.
To reach you in an emergency, your family should call the Office of Special Services at Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C., at 800.424.8580, extension 1470 (or 202.638.2574 during non-business hours). The Office of Special Services will then contact Peace Corps/Ecuador.
Computer, Internet, and E-mail Access
Because Ecuador is a popular tourist destination, there are Internet cafes throughout the country. Almost all Volunteers in Ecuador have e-mail addresses and, except for those posted to the most remote sites, are able to check e-mail and access the Internet at least once a month. In addition, computers with Internet access are available for Volunteers to use at the Peace Corps office in Quito.
Housing and Site Location
All Volunteer housing is reviewed and approved by Peace Corps staff prior to occupancy. Some Volunteers live with a family for a month or so when they first move to their sites. This helps Volunteers get to know the community better before making a permanent housing decision. Volunteers in the youth and families project work in marginal urban neighborhoods and almost all are required to live with a family during their entire two years of service. For reasons of safety, security, and cultural integration, the Peace Corps recommends that Volunteers in all projects consider living with a host family.
Housing varies greatly by site. Most Volunteers live and work in rural communities, but a few work in urban settings. Some live in buildings with up-to-date plumbing and electrical systems. Others may have a small adobe house with a pit latrine in the back and one or two bare light bulbs for illumination. A few Volunteers live in very isolated sites without electricity or running water.
Volunteer sites are located throughout the country but generally are clustered in several regions so that Volunteers from all four project areas and from older and newer groups are located relatively close to one another. In most cases, you will be located, at most, within two or three hours of other Volunteers. There are some areas of the country where the Peace Corps does not place any Volunteers, either because the level of development is such that Volunteers are no longer needed or because of safety and security concerns (e.g., the jungle regions on the Colombian border).
Living Allowance and Money Management
Peace Corps/Ecuador will open a bank account for you and provide you with a bank book and an ATM card. Your monthly living allowance will be deposited into this account at the beginning of each month. Most Volunteers travel to a nearby commercial town every week or two to withdraw cash, check their mail, and shop for items not available in their communities. Many Volunteers bring a credit card, additional cash, or traveler's checks for emergency expenses and travel, which can be kept in the safe at the Peace Corps office in Quito (up to a maximum of $1,000 in cash and traveler's checks).
The living allowance is calculated to allow you to live at the level of the general population. Volunteers who spend most of their time in their community find that they have adequate resources, while those who choose to travel often to the major cities tend to find their budgets stretched at the end of the month.
Food and Diet
Wonderful fruits—including many you may never have tried-are plentiful throughout the country in season. Ecuador is the world's largest exporter of bananas, and there are many varieties. Meat, especially pork, is commonly eaten by those who can afford it. Foods are often fried. Soy, peanut, and sunflower oils are available, but butter, vegetable oil, and pork fat are more commonly used.
Some combination of rice, potatoes, bread, noodles, and bananas is included in most meals. Eggs, chicken, and dairy products will probably be your main sources of protein. A favorite local seasoning is aji (pronounced ah-hee), a spicy sauce that runs from mild to quite hot.
If you plan to cook for yourself, you may want to bring some spices with you. Caraway, dill, tarragon, chili powder, and spices used in Indian, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern dishes are difficult or impossible to find in Ecuador. Supermarkets in the large cities have most basic spices, however.
If you are a vegetarian, follow a low-fat or low-cholesterol diet, or have food allergies, you will have to be patient and inventive to satisfy your needs. Most vegetarian Volunteers have been able to adjust to the Ecuadorian diet without major problems.
When offered food as a guest or as a member of a host family's household, you may have difficulty convincing people of your need for a special diet. You may also encounter difficulty in turning down alcoholic beverages, especially if you are male. If you refuse what is offered when you are a visitor in someone's home, you may offend your host. Strategies for dealing with these types of situations will be discussed during pre-service training.
Your job may require occasional or frequent travel within the area where you are assigned. Although you may be able to travel in your host agency's vehicle, riding a bicycle or a horse, and/or walking is often the only way to reach small communities or distant farms. The Peace Corps provides mountain bikes (and helmets, which must be used) to Volunteers who require them for their work.
Most of your long-distance travel will be by crowded public bus. A number of reliable bus lines with modern equipment run throughout the country. One-way travel using domestic airlines is an option for Volunteers in the southernmost provinces of the country.
Volunteers are not authorized to operate any type of motorized vehicle in Ecuador. Motorcycle riding (as driver or passenger) is prohibited.
Geography and Climate
The four main areas of Ecuador have different climates. Because the country is on the equator, the temperature depends on the altitude, not the season. There are only two seasons—rainy and dry.
The highlands area, or sierra, is warm during the day (60 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit) and cool at night (35 to 55 degrees). Several layers of clothing may be necessary. The dry season tends to be warm and dusty. In the rainy season, temperatures are about 10 degrees cooler.
The coastal area, or costa, is generally hot and humid. The rainy season, January through April, is hot (80 to 95 degrees), and mold is sometimes a problem. The dry season, May through December, is slightly cooler (70 to 85 degrees).
The Amazon Basin region, or oriente, is usually warm and muggy. Temperatures fluctuate greatly during the day, ranging from 60 to 90 degrees. Although there are dry and rainy seasons, it rains year-round and mold is a constant problem.
The Galápagos Islands are hot and dry most of the time, but the pleasant ocean breezes make the temperatures more comfortable.
Social Activities
Ecuadorian entertainment, especially in small towns, centers on drinking, dancing, and talking. Movies are also popular in Ecuador, although recent releases from the United States (with Spanish subtitles) are usually delayed by several months. The movies shown are often martial arts, horror, or Mexican slapstick films. Large towns usually have at least one movie theater, and many also have video/DVD stores. Small cities have a public library and cultural activities at the local Casa de la Cultura.
Ecuadorians love music and love to dance, and many Volunteers enjoy learning salsa, cumbia, and merengue from Ecuadorian friends. Radio stations play a variety of music, including some American rock and pop. Many Volunteers make their own music, bringing or purchasing a guitar, violin, flute, harmonica, and so forth. Ecuadorian craftsmen make very good guitars that are not expensive.
Sports are very popular in Ecuador, especially soccer,
basketball, and volleyball. Soccer is a national—indeed, Latin
American—passion, similar to baseball in the United States but more so. Volunteers will have many opportunities to play sports informally in their communities. Occasionally, Volunteers even coach local teams.
Volunteers spend a lot of time reading. Although local bookstores carry books in English, prices are higher than in the United States. Volunteers who learn Spanish well enough will, of course, find many books and magazines available. The Peace Corps office has an extensive library, and Volunteers often trade books with one another. Although you will probably want to bring some paperback books with you, it is a good idea to ask your family and friends to send you a book occasionally.
Alcohol plays a big role in social activities, and Volunteers are advised to use their best judgment when consuming alcohol. There is a high correlation between alcohol use and crimes committed against Volunteers ranging from petty theft to physical assault and rape.
Professionalism, Dress, and Behavior
"Neat and modest" sums up the dress code for Volunteers in Ecuador. Since most Volunteers are assigned to rural or marginally developed urban sites, there is rarely a need for more formal attire. You will be working as a professional development worker, however, and inappropriate dress may make Ecuadorians less receptive to you. When you visit the office of a counterpart agency, you should wear clothing that is slightly more formal than what you wear daily. For such visits, skirts or dress slacks for women and slacks and button-down shirts with collars for men are appropriate. During training, and less often as a Volunteer, there will be a few occasions, such as the swearing-in ceremony or a wedding, when men will want to wear jackets and ties and women will want to wear dresses.
Women should not wear halter tops, low-cut blouses, miniskirts, and any other attire that could be considered revealing. While young Ecuadorian women in the larger lowland cities do wear such items, cultural stereotypes regarding American women are only exacerbated by revealing attire, sometimes leading to unwanted attention or harassment. Ripped or patched jeans, tank tops, flip-flops, shorts, and body piercings (other than pierced ears) are unacceptable for men and women during training and in any professional or office setting in Ecuador.
Earrings are acceptable for women but generally not for men. Younger men in large cities occasionally wear earrings, but, as foreigners, male Volunteers should not wear earrings, especially outside of major cities. Hair and beards should be neatly trimmed and clean at all times. Since dreadlocks are associated with the use of illegal drugs, Volunteers may not wear them.
Most of the indigenous populations live in the highlands, where the cold and rain often keep people indoors for days at a time. People in the highlands tend to be more reserved and formal, and many still retain their traditional dress and languages. Life in the lowland and coastal regions is often less formal, with loud music and people conversing in the streets—a common feature of everyday life. Even in these regions, however, business and social interactions have a greater degree of formality than what Americans are accustomed to. The rituals of greeting and acknowledgment are an important part of doing business, and failure to adhere to these customs may be viewed negatively. You will learn a great deal about these customs during pre-service training.
Personal Safety
More information about the Peace Corps' approach to safety is contained in the Health Care and Safety chapter, but it is an important issue and cannot be overemphasized. As stated in the Volunteer Handbook, becoming a Peace Corps Volunteer entails certain safety risks. Living and traveling in an unfamiliar environment (oftentimes alone), having a limited understanding of local language and culture, and being perceived as well-off are some of the factors that can put a Volunteer at risk. Many Volunteers experience varying degrees of unwanted attention and harassment. Petty thefts and burglaries are not uncommon, and incidents of physical and sexual assault do occur, although most Ecuador Volunteers complete their two years of service without personal security incidents. The Peace Corps has established procedures and policies designed to help you reduce your risks and enhance your safety and security. These procedures and policies, in addition to safety training, will be provided once you arrive in Ecuador. At the same time, you are expected to take responsibility for your safety and well-being.
Rewards and Frustrations
The total time of your commitment to Peace Corps/Ecuador is 27 months—which includes approximately three months of pre-service training and 24 months of Peace Corps service upon successful completion of training. Peace Corps service is not for everyone. Requiring greater dedication and commitment than most jobs, it is for confident, self-starting, and concerned individuals who are interested in helping other countries and increasing understanding across cultural barriers. Your willingness to serve in smaller towns and cities and to give up U.S. standards of space and privacy in your living accommodations will be greatly appreciated by Ecuadorians.
The key to satisfying work as a Peace Corps Volunteer is the ability to establish successful relationships at all levels, which requires patience, sensitivity, and a positive professional attitude. It is essential that you work with Ecuadorian counterparts to ensure that tasks begun during your service will continue after your departure. It is also important to realize that while you may have a lot of energy and motivation, you will be in Ecuador for only two years. Your colleagues will probably continue to work in the same job after you leave—for little money—and may not possess quite the same level of motivation. Often you will find yourself in situations that require the ability to motivate both yourself and your colleagues and to solve problems with little or no guidance from supervisors. You may work for months without seeing any visible impact from, and without receiving feedback on, your work. You must possess the self-confidence, patience, and vision to continue working toward long-term goals without seeing immediate results. Nevertheless, you will have a sense of accomplishment when small projects are rendered effective as a result of your efforts. Acceptance into a foreign culture and the acquisition of a second or even a third language are also significant rewards.
Judging by the experience of former Volunteers, the peaks are well worth the valleys, and most Volunteers leave Ecuador feeling that they have gained much more than they sacrificed during their service. Indeed, many former Volunteers will readily tell you that their Peace Corps service was the most significant experience of their lives.


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I have rather odd taste in music D – I love so many different types! I've seen Culture Club, The Go-Gos, Chicago, Eurythmics, Peter, Paul & Mary, Katrina and the Waves, Howard Jones and a number of small indie bands at the Paradise Club in Boston. My sister and I were in the car, driving to the Stadium to see when Elton John when we heard on the Radio that the concert was canceled! We were so bummed! I'm sure there are other groups that I have seen that I have forgotten. I would love someday to see Toby Keith & Jimmy Buffet in concert!
My first flurry into rock and roll happened on a 7-day binge with 3 bands in the 80's that rock my world. I got to see The Police in concert in Tampa in a stadium enviorment, and they were awesome with a capital A. That was about the time of the album Zenyatta Mondatta, so something like that.
Saw the Go-Gos in St Petersburg in a arena, and also got to go back stage and meet the band because a friend of mine worked at a radio station as an overnight DJ.
But the concert that rocked my week was the following Friday night I got to see The Red Hot Chili Peppers when they were first starting out at a small outdoor venue called Jannus Landing. And last, but not least to me, got my headband out and saw Loverboy in Orlando on Sat. night.
That was my 18th birthday present to myself. All in one weeks time, and I was tired, but was so full of rock it poured out my eyes.
Rays Renegade
Hey D,
The 1st and best was Led Zeppelin at a Day on the Green in Oakland, CA. Funny thing, the openning act was Judas Priest. Back then they wore satin and silk but they were good even then. The last was Lou Reed.
The 3 I'd like to see
1) David Bowie
2) Live
3) Pink Floyd
Who would I bring back? John Lennon for a Beatles reunion. How awesome would that be?
The group that defines my teenage years? Led Zeppelin.
(That was fun)
1st concert: Paula Abdul and Colour Me Badd
Last concert: Evenesence
Best: Jimmy Buffett
3 I need to see: Billy Joel, U2, and Queen
Dead performer: Sinatra
Teenage years: Nine Inch Nails
D – Really cool post. I started a scrapbook in high school to keep ticket stubs in, because I was going to almost a concert a week all the way through college. First show was Rod Stewart in maybe 4th grade. Most recent concert was either the Police or the Foo Fighters. The company I work for is a sponsor for Red Rocks, so we go for free every now and then. Best concert… Man, that's a tough one. Here's a few that come to mind. Rush's 96-97 tour / Phish's IT festival in Limestone, ME / Liquid Tension Experiment in Philadelphia / Bonnaroo Festival '04 / any of the shows where I got to see Dennis Chambers play drums. Three to see before I die: 1. Pink Floyd, 2. U2, 3. G'n'R. Person / band I'd bring back: Buddy Rich or Led Zeppelin. I saw Page/Plant when they toured, I'd love to see them with Bonzo and John Paul Jones. Band that defined my teenage years would probably be Metallica. I've seen some of the tours you have tickets for. Anthrax has a special place in my heart. I saw them at the 930 Club in Washington DC. It was the only show I ever saw a grown man get his foot high enough to kick a guy in the head in the mosh pit. It was good times. They are just pure energy. I remember Charlie Benante giving me a hard time because I asked him to autograph a Zildjian cymbal after the show. At the time, I was getting my favorite drummers to sign it. He's endorsed by Paiste and he drew a Paiste logo on it. They are good guys. Anyway, great post.
D- I afraid I might make some people jealous if I listed them all. That's not a pat on the back for myself, it was my job (tough life huh?) I was a radio program director for over 18 years and had the record companies by the …..well you know. So, I was able to see just about anyone and everyone. Too many stories to list here and too many choices to make in order to answer you questons, but it's cool that another music lover has the same interest in baseball. You'd be surprised at the number who don't.
I figured I get some passionate responses from a few of you.
JULIA-Culture Club (there's one I'd like to forget) Peter, Paul and Mary..that's interesting. Never miss a chance to see Jimmy Buffet, you'll be sorry. I've seen him once, had to skip a second opportunity to see him, and he hasn't been back to Colorado since.
RAYREN-I'm with you on the early Red Hot Chili Peppers,(Freaky Styley and Uplift **** Party Plan). Say what you want haters but Loverboy was the sh*t way back in the day. Especially if you lived in Canada.
R-LUV-Somehow I knew you were a Zepplin girl🙂. That was some early Judas Priest?.Must have been late 70's or early 80's right? I'd love to have seen the Beatles, great choice for bringing someone back.
COBF-Jimmy Buffett is probably the second best show I've ever seen. I've never seen Nine Inch Nails but I dig em. I'm forced to hear too much Billy Joel at work. How cool would it be to do a few shots with Sinatra? Good choice.
BP/MARK-I figured we might have some similar tastes. How cool is it to have a Red Rocks connection? That place is the best place in the world to see/feel a live show, period. My teen years included Metallica, Judas Priest, Ozzy, AC/DC, Anthrax, King's X, ZZ Top. First album I ever bought..KC and the Sunshine Band, second album I ever bought…Boston Don't Look Back.
The Maiden/Anthrax show I saw at Big Mac was all Anthrax. They kicked Maiden's butt. Pink Floyd at Mile High was incredible plus I have the best story to go with it…Sorry, I can't tell it on here.
CHRIS-Thanks for not upstaging us, but I'd like to have a beer with you and get you talking brotha. I love concert stories🙂
Everyone. thanks for sharing your musical histories..I love reading the comments on this entry…D
1975. Man, that seems like an absurdly long time ago. I saw Loverboy at McNichols with, get this, ………..April Wine. Anyone remember them? I also saw Iron Maiden (7th son of 7th son) We went because GnR was on the bill but because they got popular they bailed. That blew! Really only went to catch GnR.
R-LUV-Yea, I know April Wine, another Canadian band. April Wine had some good tunes. Funny, I have a ticket stub in that picture of Oingo Boingo and the RHCP's at Red Rocks. We stayed for the RHCP's and as soon as they finished we bailed. None of us wanted to see Oingo Boingo. I've never seen GnR but would have loved to back in the day. Their first album and the Beastie's first album came out when I was stationed in Korea. So I missed that tour. Appetite for Destruction is still one of my favorite first albums for a band…I love this topic…D
My first concert was Belinda Carlisle when I was 12. I checked the other comments, and I see the first two people also saw her–with the Go Go's.
My favorite arena show might have to be White Zombie in '94. So much energy.
My favorite local show was probably when The Pist reunited around 2001 in New Haven. I've never seen people go that nuts. It was like watching people in a blender.
Another incredible band to see live was a Baltimore band called Charm City Suicides. The first time I saw them, the singer rolled around on a pool table like a fish out of water, and after maybe 15 minutes he just walked out the door, ending the show and leaving the whole place in shock, not knowing what to do.
Nirvana was a good show, too, and there's your answer to my dead rock star I'd like to have come back, and the band that summed up my teenage years.
Oh, and any Jon Richman show is a great time.
The Who, Metallica, The Eagles, Aerosmtih, AC/DC and ZZ Top??
You my friend have great taste. Ah, the days when music was more than hip hop beats and rhymes a 4 year old could put together. That is good stuff right there. Music the way it should be.
Concerts I've been to are:
Kenny G/Toni Braxton @ MicNichols Arena in 1997
CCR/Foreigner @ the Greeley Stampede in 2000
Robin Williams @ the DU Magness Arena in 2002
Bon Jovi @ the Pepsi Center in 2003, 2006 & 2008
JERE-Ahh Nirvana, good choice. I never could groove on the GoGo's, and the other two bands I've never even heard of. Guess I may be a little out of the loop. I still love a good mosh pit though🙂
HB-Said perfectly as usual, we've got to see these bands while we still have a chance. You ready for spring training brotha?
ROCKTOBER-CCR and Foreigner, two bands I've never seen but are on my list of must see bands. Williams is cool but I would have rather seen him when he was on coke. Bon Jovi,… you could give me free first row tickets and I'd bring an I-pod and a good baseball book…D
Yea I'm ready. I cannot wait for baseball to get started again. My life feels a little empty in the off season. I would love to go to spring training but I don't have that money thing. I would also like to see some of those bands but the only place around here any bands go is the Bryce Jordan Center. Even then they don't come around often.

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Eyeshadow Tutorial for Asian Eyes Part 5 – Horizontal Gradient Method
At long last, we have come to the fifth installment of the Eyeshadow Tutorial for Asian Eyes series. Here, we will discuss the Horizontal Gradient Method of eyeshadow application.
(Ah yes, if you're confused why this is the 'Horizontal Method', especially since this term was already used in Part 2, then you ought to read this post!)
Lest you get lost in the sea of information in this tutorial, you might want to first check out the other episodes in this series:
Part 1: Where to Apply Eyeshadow
Part 2: Vertical Gradient Method
Part 3: Defining the Outer V
Part 4: Defining the Contour Area
Part 5: Horizontal Gradient Method
The difference between the Horizontal Gradient Method and Vertical Gradient Method is, quite obviously, the way in which the gradient flows.
From my observations and research, the Horizontal Gradient Method is more well-known and commonly practised in the Caucasian makeup world because their larger lid space allows for more colors to be placed and, unlike many Asians, do not have as heavily hooded eyelids. Most Caucasians only experience hooded lids when they age.
Half of the world's Asians do not have a Fold in the Lid at all; they have monolids and can be referred to as Mongoloids (Wikipedia). (It has been brought to my attention by some concerned readers that this term has negative connotations. I used the term in an anthropological context and hope no offense is taken.)
The Horizontal Gradient Method of eyeshadow application is also one of the ways to shape the eye and adjust the distance between eyes.
In my post on the types of eye makeup for different types of eyes, I wrote about manipulating the Outer 1/3 of the Lid to create the illusion of a wider or narrower gap between the eyes. You can also manipulate the Outer-V (Where is the Outer V?) to widen or bridge the gap.
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Ian Rivers, who provides technical support for NBC News, got separated from the rest of Engel's production team in the midst of the firefight early Monday, which resulted in the team's escape from captivity. Until now, Rivers' whereabouts in Syria had been unknown. Rivers was said to be in good condition and will be evaluated in Turkey, according to the network.
"Now that Ian Rivers has been reunited with Richard Engel's entire production team, all of us at NBC News can breathe a huge sigh of relief and express our deep appreciation to all who helped secure their freedom. At the same time, our thoughts and concerns are with those who remain missing inside Syria and we hope for their swift and safe release," said NBC News President Steve Capus.
Engel, 39, and his team disappeared shortly after crossing into northwest Syria from Turkey last Thursday. The network had not been able to contact them until learning that they had been freed on Monday.
The network said there was no claim of responsibility, no contact with the captors and no request for ransom during the time the crew was missing.
After entering Syria, Engel and his team were abducted, tossed into the back of a truck before being transported to an unknown location believed to be near the small town of Ma'arrat Misrin. During their captivity, they were blindfolded and bound, but otherwise not physically harmed, the network said.
Early Monday evening local time, the prisoners were being moved to a new location in a vehicle when their captors ran into a checkpoint manned by members of the Ahrar al-Sham brigade, a Syrian rebel group. There was a confrontation and a firefight ensued. Two of the captors were killed, while an unknown number of others escaped, the network said.
Engel and his team were unharmed in the incident. Engel and several other members of the team remained in Syria until Tuesday morning when they made their way to the border and re-entered Turkey, the network said.
After being held captive for five days in Syria, NBC's Richard Engel and his team recount being ambushed and blindfolded before being freed at a checkpoint.


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Police seize and search computer
Police said they found more than 1,200 photos of child pornography on a computer seized during a drug investigation in Monona.
Monona and Madison police executed a search warrant at 208 West Dean Ave. in Monona on May 30 and said they found 77 marijuana plants, a growing operation and firearms.
Michael R. Mackesey, 36, was arrested on suspicion of maintaining a drug house, possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and manufacturing marijuana.
Mackesey was arrested Monday on suspicion of possession of child pornography. Fourteen counts of possession of child pornography will be forwarded to the Dane County District Attorney, according to Monona police.
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The Oklahoma City Thunder have traded James Harden, Daequan Cook, Lazar Hayward and Cole Aldrich to the Houston Rockets for Jeremy Lamb, Kevin Martin and future draft picks, a source told ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard.
The Thunder were unable to come to terms with their star swingman Harden on a contract extension and chose to break up their star trio of Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook and Harden.
The deal was reported earlier by Yahoo! Sports.
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By Grant McGee: CNJ columnist
The joke goes, "You know you're from New Mexico if you leave your Christmas lights up year round."
No worries about that around our house; The Lady of the House had Christmas packed up a couple of days ago, lights and all.
"That's it," she said, smacking her hands together. "A fresh, clean start to the New Year."
Early in our relationship The Lady of the House nixed the idea of having year-round Christmas lights at the Stucco Hacienda.
"It's cool, it's artsy, it's festive!" I said.
"Christmas lights are for Christmas, that's what makes them special," she said.
I thought about a place I once lived. "They had colored lights strung across the main street and they'd close it to traffic on summer nights and have dances…"
"Christmas lights are for Christmas." The Lady of the House was standing firm.
I'll miss the Christmas lights. From the most simple, like the tiny lighted wreath on the door of an apartment facing the town's main drag to the huge displays of lights smothering houses. From those blue-white lights that look like icicles dangling from the roof to the light-lined homes you can see from the highway. Goodbye to the luminarias lining driveways and buildings, those beautiful lights that seem to be the soul of a Southwestern Christmas.
Some lights I won't miss. You've probably seen the display I'm thinking of: White and red lights are arranged so that it looks like a reindeer has been hung from a tree and field-dressed. These people may be pals to the folks who have the lighted Santa Claus who is relieving himself off the top of their house.
When I win The Big Lottery I'm going to buy a town and leave Christmas lights up year round.
That's if I buy a New Mexico town.


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Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common disorder that affects an estimated 21 million Americans. It is a condition in which food or liquid travels backwards from the stomach to the esophagus (the tube from the mouth to the stomach). This action can irritate the esophagus, causing heartburn and other symptoms. GERD is often chronic, which means that once you develop this condition, you may experience recurring episodes for the rest of your life. It is estimated that 10-20% of people will have acid reflux at least once a week.
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The procedure is also performed on individuals with a hiatal hernia, a condition in which a portion of the stomach protrudes upward into the chest through an opening in the diaphragm. Patients with hiatal hernia often develop GERD symptoms.
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Dublin, 22 April 2013-Honourable Ministers, ladies AND Gentlemen,
I have been asked to make some remarks on the Green Economy, where we are and where this important pathway-enabled multilaterally at last year's Rio+20 Summit-is evolving.
I think the answer is extremely positive and the international response extremely encouraging-not just in respect to buy in by developing and developed countries alike to the broad policies and principles of this transition.
But the response of the United Nations and the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the OECD, the EU and numerous other organizations and institutions in respect to providing support and plugging policy and knowledge gaps as we learn more about how different economies might respond.
We are indeed living in a post Rio+20 period where the questioning and querying of some countries in the build up to the Summit last year has in many ways ended.
During UNEP's first universal membership Governing Council that took place last February, this enthusiasm for the green economy was on full show-indeed the view that the meeting would suffer from 'green economy fatigue' proved groundless, to the contrary.
Indeed China-who perhaps had previously some reservations within the forum of the G77-actually put down a draft decision which was adopted at the meeting positively supporting the green economy.
And it was intriguing to see some once strongly opposed nations debating the green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication not in respect to whether it is relevant, but more how best to tailor it to national circumstances.
The appetite for UNEP to also continue to collate, gather and communicate to member states inspiring examples and actions in support of a green economy transition is also high.
Many of the other initiatives and actions agreed or launched at Rio+20 and which are now being taken forward also support these overall green economy aims and aspirations.
• Sustainable procurement by countries and cities for example with Brazil having requested assistance by UNEP under its Sport and Environment initiative to embed this in cities linked with the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
• Widening the uptake of corporate sustainability reporting globally being spearheaded by Brazil, Denmark, France and South Africa with support from UNEP and the Global Reporting Initiative.
• The 10 Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production and its various strands and themes.
At UNEP's Governing Council-now re-named as the UN Environment Assembly of UNEP-four UN agencies also launched PAGE: the Partnership for Action on the Green Economy.
The four UN agencies - the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), theInternational Labour Organization (ILO), theUnited Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) - will provide a comprehensive suite of green economy
services that will enable around 30 countries to transform their national economic structures to meet the growing demands and challenges of the 21 st century.
It will grow and expand work on green economy advisory services with countries including Armenia, Azerbaijan, Barbados, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Egypt, Ghana, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Mali, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Peru, Philippines, Russian Federation, Republic of Korea, Rwanda, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa and Ukraine.
Mongolia, the globe's fastest growing economy and the main global host of this year's World Environment Day under the food waste theme Think Eat Save: Reduce Your Foodprint, is the latest to seek assistance.
It is a nation aspiring to green its mining industry to its energy sector including developing an Asian renewable energy super grid with countries including Japan and has requested support under the two themes of green development and green civilization.
Last week a small UNEP team, working with partners from UNDP and others, met with Mongolian ministries in Ullan Bator in support of a plan by the government to introduce green economy legislation on 5 June.
Honourable ministers,
UNEP is translating the green economy across its work and sub programmes.
It is also part of the supportive analysis that is assisting the transition including as it relates to the European Union under the Agenda for Change direction for the coming years.
Earlier this month I had the privilege to take part in the launch of the Moving towards a Common Approach on Green Growth Indicators with the OECD and the Green Growth Knowledge Platform.
• This joint initiative has now been joined by ten other international organizations and research groups, such as UNDP, ILO, UNIDO, and the African Development Bank, to name just a few, and will serve as an effective means of promoting international collaboration and coordination in the generation of green growth research and knowledge.
UNEP has also established a small Secretariat with the World Bank, the OECD and the Global Green Growth Institute to coordinate our efforts to identify and address major knowledge gaps in green economy theory and practice
UNEP, along with partners at the Chinese Academy of Environmental Planning, the Chinese Ministry of Environment, and Fujian Normal University, organized the inaugural "International Workshop on Green Economic Transformation and Environmental Competitiveness Indicators" in March in Fuzhou.
There is much more I could mention in respect to the sense of dynamism and the sheer welter of activities taking place seemingly weekly in respect to forging forward on the green economy pathway within the context of national priorities and circumstances.
Clearly there are practical and political bumps along the road-the current shake out of renewable energy companies in several parts of the world have been seized upon by some critics as evidence that a bubble has burst.
But all rapidly growing industries have their consolidation phases-look at the car industry of the early 20th century.
Shale fracking and the potential for more plentiful gas supplies and the sharp increase in oil production anticipated in the United States have led to some question whether the clean energy revolution in some countries can be sustained.
Yet in many countries we are seeing renewables heading towards, gaining parity or already now cheaper than fossil fuels whether there is a carbon tax or not, whether fossil fuel subsidies are in place or not.
Bloomberg New Energy made this point only as few weeks ago in respect to roof top solar in Australia and many other examples abound including here in Europe.
The Global Wind Energy Council reported last week that in 2012, wind energy capacity globally climbed by 10 per cent above 2011 levels.
And while some talk up oil, the Financial Times reported under the headline More Buck, Less Bang on 11 April of the escalating costs for many oil companies chasing fossil fuel reserves in further flung and ever deeper locations.
Companies and countries are also getting to grips with ever greater precision the 'real' costs of many sectors when you factor in 'externalities'.
Coal-fired power generation in key parts of the world; oil and crude extraction, cement making and cattle ranching are all invariably profitable activities under our current indicator of profit and loss-GDP.
But a cutting edge by the consultancy TruCost, also released in the past week or so for the TEEB for Business Coalition, estimates that if impacts like climate change, water use and air pollution are factored in all are loss making enterprises-crude and natural gas extraction just about break even.
Overall the Top 100 externalities by sector are costing the global economy an estimated $4.7 trillion a year.
One reason why the post Rio+20 work towards a new indicator of wealth beyond GDP has important resonance for the green economy transition and the choices and options countries, cities and companies will make in the coming years and decades.
Honourable Ministers,
A green economy transition can also assist with perhaps the greatest social change so many countries are facing today-unemployment, including youth unemployment.
The recent pattern on development and growth has effectively squeezed ever more productivity out of the labour force to point at which there is no more to squeeze and society is reaping a painful blow back.
The challenge of the 21st century is to squeeze resource use-to decouple economic growth from the consumption of increasingly scarce natural resources.
It is a tenet at the heart of a green economy transition alongside the generation of decent jobs in areas from clean tech to natural resource management and sustainable tourism.
Let me raise a final issue on which I would like to seek your support.
Part of our joint focus must now be on the post 2015 development agenda which is currently being discussed and defined.
The generation of a suite of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to build upon the poverty related Millennium Development Goals affords a further catalyst towards a green economy.
But only if the three dimensions of sustainable development are as well reflected in the SDGs as they were in the Rio+20 outcome-the Future We Want.
This is not for certain under the current process to generate a set of SDGs-I flag this concern to you as environment ministers because given the gains of the past 12 months or so and the sense of dynamism, a brake might prove a skid into a cul de sac rather than a super highway to a sustainable future.
Under the MDGs, goal 7 on environmental sustainability is by far the weakest-it was literally put together as an afterthought in 2000.
This cannot be the fate of the SDGs .
Given this centrality of the green economy towards both the EU's environment and its development cooperation policy, I would hope that you would also support its role in a successful post 2015 planning and path.
The joint communication of DGDevco and DGEnvironment of the EC encompassing both post-Rio and Post 2015 agenda is a welcome signal to promote an integrated approach, which we hope will be confirmed by the Foreign Ministers Council in June this year.
Honourable ministers, again thank you for inviting me to address you.
We live in interesting times with the green economy which you have so strongly supported generating a sense of opportunity globally and momentum for international cooperation and optimism that future global development need not be a mirror to or a prisoner of the past.
However, as the debate surrounding the post 2015 development agenda shows, one cannot be complacent-rather the dynamism and sense of purpose needs to be maintained now and into the future.
The green economy has been enabled and is taking some really positive strides-but it will be in its maturity that the full sustainability benefits can be reaped. For that we must work from the experimental and piloting phase to achieving scale able and transformational change.
Thank you


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We've seen how SNMP can be used to gather just about any information from a host. You can interpret this data through a wide array of programs. The most popular are
cricket and
mrtg. Both are included in the FreeBSD ports collection, and install cleanly on any BSD. Here, we'll discuss
mrtg program uses SNMP data to automatically generate reports on a web page with cleanly labeled graphs. You can give supervisors, managers, and coworkers convenient access to performance data without giving them server access. It keeps records over a whole year, so you can get a good idea of real-life trends. It's also quite useful for justifying hardware and software expenditures; you can point out exactly much CPU time a machine is using, and how it's changed as you've added software.
You can run
mrtg as a daemon, but it is traditionally a cron job run every five minutes.
mrtg call requires a config file. You can use the included
cfgmaker tool to generate a default configuration for measuring network throughput on interfaces. The
cfgmaker tool is easy to use:
cfgmaker communityname@machine > mrtg.cfg
For example, if I wanted to run
mrtg on my local machine, I could run:
cfgmaker private@localhost > localhost.cfg
cfgmaker tool will make SNMP queries of the device and generate a configuration file. It includes a lot of information, including some unnecessary HTML. If you look through the created file, you'll see that
cfgmaker has thrown up a configuration for every single interface on the machine. The loopback interface, and any down interfaces, are commented out. The remaining, uncommented parts will look like this:
Target[localhost.3]: 3:private@localhost
MaxBytes[localhost.3]: 1250000
Title[localhost.3]: moneysink.exceptionet.com (No hostname defined for IP address): ep0
PageTop[localhost.3]:
Traffic Analysis for ep0

System:	turtledawn.blackhelicopters.org in Right here, right now.

Maintainer:	Me <email@example.com>

Interface:	ep0 (3)

IP:	No hostname defined for IP address (192.168.1.100)

Max Speed:
1250.0 kBytes/s (ethernetCsmacd)

Before you can use this configuration, you need to add a
WorkDir directive to the config file.
WorkDir tells
mrtg where to store its logs, graphics, and HTML. I generally put the
WorkDir somewhere under my web server root, such as:
WorkDir: /usr/local/share/apache/htdocs/mrtg
You'll probably want to password-protect this directory if the web server is on the public Internet or otherwise exposed to the world at large.
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The "target" keyword tells
mrtg which machine to query, and which interface on that machine this configuration is for. The string inside the brackets (
[]) is an arbitrary label. All files generated by
mrtg will be be named with this label as a prefix. The actual target appears after the colon. If you change the community name or IP address of your system, you can edit it directly here.
MaxBytes is the maximum throughput allowed through the interface. In this case, we have a 10baseT card. The
mrtg program has enough brains to figure out the values for most common network types. You should never have to change this value if you're measuring throughput.
Title and
PageTop are arbitrary text. You can put almost any HTML in these spaces, and it will be displayed.
Once I finish editing the
mrtg config to my taste, it generally looks like this:
Target[localhost.3]: 3:private@localhost
MaxBytes[localhost.3]: 1250000
Title[localhost.3]: Ethernet Interface
PageTop[localhost.3]:
Traffic Analysis for Ethernet Interface

Call the Helpdesk if you have any questions
I know perfectly well where the system is, after all, and who to talk to about it. If these pages are intended for management, I might add a couple lines of HTML after
PageTop describing what the machine does, or how to interpret the data.
You can list any number of machines and/or interfaces in one configuration file. Just be sure each target has a unique label.
By default,
mrtg measures network traffic. You can use it to measure any information given via SNMP MIBs, however.
First, you have to identify the MIBs available on your system. In an earlier article we discussed
snmpwalk. Using it on the local system like such:
snmpwalk localhost private .1
should spill the entire MIB tree.
If you're using the
ucd-snmp described in previous articles, you're probably more interested in the ucd-snmp MIBs. You can pull those from the system by doing:
snmpwalk localhost private .126.96.36.199.4.1.2021
The string at the end is the branch of the MIB tree that is reserved for ucd-snmp values. This generates a lot of output; you'll probably want to dump the results in a file.
Once you have a full list of MIBs, pick the values you want to monitor. The ucd-snmp MIBs list includes:
enterprises.ucdavis.memory.memIndex.0 = 0
enterprises.ucdavis.memory.memErrorName.0 = swap
enterprises.ucdavis.memory.memTotalSwap.0 = 204672
enterprises.ucdavis.memory.memAvailSwap.0 = 204648
enterprises.ucdavis.memory.memTotalReal.0 = 137096
enterprises.ucdavis.memory.memAvailReal.0 = 19180
enterprises.ucdavis.memory.memTotalFree.0 = 27032
enterprises.ucdavis.memory.memMinimumSwap.0 = 16000
Long-term monitoring of a system's memory and swap is definitely useful.
You'll want to confirm that the MIBs mean what you think they mean, and convert them to numerical form. You can do both with the
snmptranslate command.
Using snmpwalk only gives you the last section of the MIB. You have to know that the "enterprises" tree is always prefaced with
.22.214.171.124.4. (This is common knowledge in the SNMP world.) You give this full MIB, and the
-Td switch, to the
snmptranslate command:
snmptranslate -Td .188.8.131.52.4.enterprises.ucdavis.memory.memAvailSwap.0
This gives you a heap of useful information about the MIB, including its numerical equivalent and its definition. Take note of the numerical MIB; we'll need it soon.
mrtg program charts MIBs in pairs, so you'll want to pick values to monitor accordingly. Sensible choices are things like "available swap and total swap," or "system memory and user memory." (Measuring available swap versus the percentage of disk available would give you difficult-to-understand charts.) We'll use user CPU time versus system CPU time as an example.
Digging through the
snmpwalk output, and translating the system and user CPU times (
enterprises.ucdavis.systemStats.ssCpuUser.0 and
enterprises.ucdavis.systemStats.ssCpuSystem.0, respectively), we find that they translate to
.18.104.22.168.4.1.2021.11.9.0 and
To make
mrtg monitor these MIBs instead, you add them to the "Target" entry like so:
Be sure to pick a separate label for the target, and for all configuration statements for that target. If you don't,
mrtg will either complain or overwrite the log files from other targets.
Test your configuration file by running
mrtg on the command line a few times:
mrtg localhost.cfg
The first two times,
mrtg will warn that it can't find log files, and then it should run silently. If you get an error that
mrtg cannot reach a target, the
Target entry is misconfigured. Either the community name, host name, or numerical MIB is wrong.
mrtg runs silently, add it to cron to run every five minutes. If you followed the example above, when you look at
http://localhost/mrtg/localhost.cpu.html, you'll see a pretty graph of your CPU usage over the last year.
You can use
mrtg to monitor any system that uses SNMP. You can even install SNMP on your NT systems; this makes them easy to monitor, at a fraction of the cost of commercial systems. The only difference between
mrtg and a commercial system is that you have to know what you're doing to use
The first two articles in this series sparked dozens of e-mails from people wanting to use SNMP to monitor other platforms, such as Novell and NT. I highly recommend SNMP for the Public Community for SNMP on other 86 platforms. Be warned: To call NT's implementation of SNMP "skeletal" would leave you without an adequate description of its error messages.
SNMP is a rich and complex topic. We're finished with it for now, but in the next article we'll look at further customizing
mrtg for your installation.
Michael W. Lucas
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Discuss this article in the Operating Systems Forum.
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Endocardial Fibroelastosis
National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc.
It is possible that the main title of the report Endocardial Fibroelastosis is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
- Elastic tissue hyperplasia
- Endocardial Dysplasia
- Endocardial sclerosis
- Fetal Endomyocardial Fibrosis
- Subendocardial Sclerosis
General Discussion
Endocardial fibroelastosis (EFE) is a rare heart disorder that affects infants and children. It is characterized by a thickening within the muscular lining of the heart chambers due to an increase in the amount of supporting connective tissue (inelastic collagen) and elastic fibers. The normal heart has four chambers. Two chambers, known as atria, are separated from each other by a partition called the atrial septum. The other two chambers, known as ventricles, are also separated by a septum. Valves connect the atria (left and right) to their respective ventricles.
The symptoms of endocardial fibroelastosis are related to the overgrowth of fibrous tissues causing abnormal enlargement of the heart (cardiac hypertrophy), especially the left ventricle. Impaired heart and lung function eventually lead to congestive heart failure. Endocardial fibroelastosis may occur for no apparent reason (sporadic) or may be inherited as an X-linked (EFE2) or autosomal recessive (EFE1) genetic trait.
Supporting Organizations
American Heart Association
- 7272 Greenville Avenue
- Dallas, TX 75231
- Tel: (214)784-7212
- Fax: (214)784-1307
- Tel: (800)242-8721
- Email: email@example.com
- Website: http://www.heart.org
Genetic and Rare Diseases (GARD) Information Center
- PO Box 8126
- Gaithersburg, MD 20898-8126
- Tel: (301)251-4925
- Fax: (301)251-4911
- Tel: (888)205-2311
- Website: http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/GARD/
March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation
- 1275 Mamaroneck Avenue
- White Plains, NY 10605
- Tel: (914)997-4488
- Fax: (914)997-4763
- Website: http://www.marchofdimes.com
NIH/National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
- P.O. Box 30105
- Bethesda, MD 20892-0105
- Tel: (301)592-8573
- Fax: (301)251-1223
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- Website: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/
For a Complete Report
This is an abstract of a report from the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD). A copy of the complete report can be downloaded free from the NORD website for registered users. The complete report contains additional information including symptoms, causes, affected population, related disorders, standard and investigational therapies (if available), and references from medical literature. For a full-text version of this topic, go to www.rarediseases.org and click on Rare Disease Database under "Rare Disease Information".
The information provided in this report is not intended for diagnostic purposes. It is provided for informational purposes only. NORD recommends that affected individuals seek the advice or counsel of their own personal physicians.
It is possible that the title of this topic is not the name you selected. Please check the Synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and Disorder Subdivision(s) covered by this report
This disease entry is based upon medical information available through the date at the end of the topic. Since NORD's resources are limited, it is not possible to keep every entry in the Rare Disease Database completely current and accurate. Please check with the agencies listed in the Resources section for the most current information about this disorder.
For additional information and assistance about rare disorders, please contact the National Organization for Rare Disorders at P.O. Box 1968, Danbury, CT 06813-1968; phone (203) 744-0100; web site www.rarediseases.org or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Last Updated: 1/11/1970
Copyright 2009 National Organization for Rare Disorders, Inc.
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AB 1234 BIANNUAL ETHICS TRAINING FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS – 5:00 p.m. 1. Presentation by City Attorney Stepanicich Regarding State Senate Bill 1234 - Ethics Training. Recommended Action: Receive presentation and discuss. CALL TO ORDER - Regular Meeting: 7:30 p.m. PUBLIC OPEN TIME
APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA ORDER COUNCIL AND STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS PRESENTATIONS 1. Presentation of a Certificate of Appreciation to Dennis Parker, Treatment Plant Operator, on the Occasion of his Retirement after 33 Years of Service to the City of Mill Valley. CONSENT CALENDAR
2. Warrants--$ 1,408,842.34. Recommended Action: Approve paying expenses authorized by the adopted City Budget. 3. Consideration of the Minutes of the November 5, 2012 Regular City Council Meeting. Recommended Action: Approve the November 5, 2012 Regular City Council Meeting minutes. 4. Consideration of a Resolution Authorizing a Suspension of Parking Meter Fees During the Holiday Season of November 23, 2012 to December 31, 2012. Recommended Action: Adopt Resolution No. ___. 5. Summary of General Fund Revenues and Expenditures as of September 30, 2012 and a Forecast of the 2012 – 2013 Fiscal Year. Recommended Action: Receive report. NEW BUSINESS 6. Presentation of findings by the County, Department of Health and Human Services, Regarding Community Health Information. Recommended Action: Receive presentation and discuss as appropriate. 7. Presentation of the Progress Made Regarding Fire Emergency Preparedness on the Occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the Special Fire Safety Task Force. Recommended Action: Receive presentation and discuss as appropriate. PUBLIC HEARING 8. Consideration of an Appeal by Barbara Ford of the Planning Commission's Approval of an Application for the Renovation of the 4,049 Square Foot Second Floor of an Existing Building at 65 Throckmorton Avenue Proposed by Lee Lum L.P. Recommended Action: Adopt Resolution No. ___ approving the renovation. COUNCIL LIAISON REPORTS None. CITY MANAGER'S REPORTS None. COUNCIL REQUESTS AND IDEAS FOR DISCUSSION ADJOURNMENT – To the next Regular City Council meeting which will be held on Monday, December 3, 2012.
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No contract after nearly a year of negotiations
Negotiations between the U.S. government and Lockheed Martin over the $400 billion F-35 Lightning II program have been tense.
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reports that one deputy program manager said that the relationship between the Department of Defense and Lockheed is "the worst I have ever seen."
After that comment was made, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stated, "I don't know that I would portray it in those terms. These are difficult negotiations, as they always are when you're dealing with the amount of money and the complexity that's involved with the Joint Strike Fighter."
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reports that last week Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter put his support behind comments made by Air Force Major General Christopher Bogdan. Bogdan had harsh words for Lockheed Martin's failure to sign a contract with the Pentagon for 32 F-35 fighters after almost a
year of negotiations
However, Panetta does not agree that the relationship between the U.S. government Lockheed is the worst he's ever seen.
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"I don't share it, number one, because … I don't know the history of just how much has gone on in the past," Panetta said. "But at least from what I have seen at this point, my view of it is these are very tough negotiations, but they aren't a reflection that either side has given up or thinks that the other side, you know, is in a more difficult state at all."
Panetta is also reportedly unhappy that Congress won't be back in session until after the elections in November. An initial round of budget cuts in defense spending is set to begin in January. With Congress out of session until the elections are over, there is no chance of avoiding or delaying the defense spending cuts.
Panetta said, "I'll take whatever the hell deal they can make right now to deal with sequestration. The problem now is that they've left town and all of this has now been put off into the lame duck session."
"We need stability," he said. "You want a strong national defense for this country? I need to have some stability. And that's what I'm asking the Congress to do: Give me some stability with regards to the funding of the Defense Department for the future."
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In the absence of County Judge Barbara Shaw, County Judge Pro Tem James Rosales presided over the July 31 meeting of Commissioners Court, at which the court approved a $9,500 road use agreement fee, a $1,500 per bore site oil and gas permit fee, a $500 fee for commercial driveway entrances connected to county roads and a $500 pipeline permit fee.
The fees were all implemented in an effort to raise funds for the repair or reconstruction of county roads and bridges that have been damaged as a result of heavy truck traffic involved with oil and gas well production.
At the Aug. 14 meeting of Commissioners Court, officials discussed rescinding two of the four items, but before the discussion began, two local residents weighed in on the topic during the public comments part of the meeting.
"I don't understand, Barbara, considering rescinding the long sought after well permit and road agreements," Shanna Hall said.
Hall said that other counties have approved similar permits and have set precedents to follow. She said that DeWitt County is receiving $8,000 per well, and have received $1.6 million in revenue so far through signed agreements with Pioneer and Petrohawk.
"Bee County has gotten Pioneer and Petrohawk to sign retroactively," Hall said. "$9,500 per well. La Salle is following in the same format – $9,900 per well. It has inspired Dimmit and Atascosa Counties to follow the same models. District Engineer John Casey said it is amazing that something statewide hasn't been done about this issue. The oil companies need to step up and make the playing field even for everybody. The companies should agree to pay because they need the good roads, too."
"Some companies don't like to be good citizens and they scream all the way to the bank," Hall added.
Hall quoted state law that she said authorizes county governments to recover costs to repair damaged roads.
"Can you force them to sign it? No. But why on Earth would you want to rescind it? At least leave it there. You have companies like Pioneer and Petrohawk who want to be good corporations," Hall said.
Maurice Yarter also commented on the same topic during public comments.
"It seems odd to me that Commissioners Court would rescind these permits after the first Commissioners Court meeting after they had approved them," Yarter said. "It has come to light that apparently we have been threatened by an oil company – at least one. Another has said that what we are doing is illegal but apparently there is no court case, so apparently somebody is acting as an attorney and I don't think they have that right if they haven't been to law school."
"I would ask that you table these items until those letters are made public and are referred to the Karnes County Attorney's office, which has not seen them or talked to anybody about them," Yarter said. "So somebody up here, probably the presiding officer and at least one commissioner, needs to talk to the county attorney and turn those documents over as soon as possible."
Yarter then hand delivered an open records request to the county judge and county commissioners seeking copies of any documents from representatives of oil companies threatening the county or county officials with a lawsuit related to permit fees.
"Since this is such a hot item, let's just skip to it," County Judge Barbara Shaw said.
Shaw said that the reason the items were on the agenda was due to the fact that there were errors in the wording of the agreements and permit applications.
"We have not been threatened to be sued by anybody," Shaw said. "We have had oil and gas companies come in and start calling after the permits were passed."
Shaw said that state law allows counties to recover costs associated with damages to county roads and bridges, if the county can prove negligence.
"ConocoPhillips approached me first," Shaw said. "ConocoPhillips says to date that they have donated $3.2 million to the county road and bridge department."
Shaw asked Karnes County Road and Bridge Administrator Jeff Wiatrek to confirm whether or not the figure was accurate. Wiatrek said that the amount was correct and accurate.
"They said they fixed over 40 miles of road at $3.2 million," Shaw said, "that's without a permit fee or anything else. Is that correct?"
"Yes, ma'am," Wiatrek responded. "They have fixed lots of roads in the county."
Shaw said that Marathon Oil has also donated $1.5 million.
Wiatrek estimated that EOG has donated $2.5 million in material and labor.
Shaw said Pioneer has donated material and manpower, as well, but the exact amount is not known.
"A lot of stuff is being done for the county," Wiatrek explained, "but the roads are also... in this type of weather... y'all need to realize that the roads are getting destroyed just as fast as they are being built."
"But there seems to be some kind of belief that we have not gotten anything," Shaw said. "I'm up to $6.7 million," Shaw said, totaling the discussed list of contributions.
County Commissioner James Rosales said that the work is not just for the benefit of the county.
"All this help that we are getting is very much appreciated," Rosales said. "It benefits the county, but it benefits their trucks, too... They put it in there, and it is very appreciated, but they tear it back up."
"We're at $7.2 million, and that's not everybody," Shaw said, continuing her tally.
Shaw said she called DeWitt County Judge Daryl Fowler and Fowler said that in DeWitt County, BHP and Pioneer gives a $800 voluntary contribution and there is a $500 pipeline fee.
Shaw said that Fowler said that counties have no authority to enforce the fees. The Bee County judge, Shaw said, reported a total of $38,000 in fees collected from Pioneer, but Petrohawk and Talisman have refused to enter into any agreements.
A letter was then read by Shaw, which she said was the only letter received in regard to permit fees and road use agreements. The letter was dated April 3, 2012 and was sent from the Texas Oil and Gas Association. The letter said Texas counties do not have the statutory or other legal authority to require oil and gas operators to enter into road use agreements.
According to Shaw, several county judges plan to address the issue with the Texas Legislature in an effort to change the law so that counties receive a share of the severance tax currently paid to the state for us in road and bridge repairs and reconstruction.
"When you bring up negligence?" Shaw asked. "When you say the county judge has that authority? You better prove to me that we actually have some kind of negligence to file with. Because I am not going to file against somebody or do something to somebody – I will not sue somebody just to sue them. That's not going to happen. The term is "negligence." Because your car is heavier than mine, are you negligent?"
Commissioner Rosales said that it is negligence when oil and gas operators intentionally travel county roads and cross county bridges carrying loads in excess of the capacity of the roads and bridges.
Rosales then read the section of state law that provides counties with the authority to recover damages under such circumstances.
Commissioner Carl Hummel said to keep in mind that the amounts donated for road repairs are from the oil companies themselves, and may not necessarily reflect the true cost of work done.
"I don't have a good handle on this because I haven't measured the depth of the material or the width and the length," Hummel said. "If you have collected $7 million in material, maybe you have $14 million worth of damage. I just really don't know."
"If it is voluntary," Shaw said regarding the permits and fees, "and we can not enforce someone to sign a permit, we need not walk in saying we can enforce it – we need to let them know that it is voluntary."
"It's a voluntary thing," Commissioner Tracey Schendel said. "We can have a permit, and leave it in play, but we can't enforce it. We can only go by what they want to do."
Schendel said the items were placed on the agenda in an effort to correct numbers that were backwards in the agenda items approved by the court on July 31.
Commissioner Hummel questioned whether the county judge's financial interest in a business related to the oil and gas industry is influencing her position on the issue.
"I know you are in the trucking business – you and your husband are in the trucking business and in the oilfield business, and you siding totally and solely with them.... It doesn't look proper," Hummel said.
"That has nothing to do with anything," Shaw said. "You are very concerned about my personal life and it has nothing to do with the court and has nothing to do with roads."
Commissioner Rosales said he would not vote to rescind the fees approved by the court on July 31.
"We are the leaders of this community and I respect the oil companies, but if we show weakness... then we are showing that the whole county is weak," Rosales said. "I will not rescind this but I will come back and amend it to redefine the terms to have some kind of mutual understanding with these oil companies that they can not just come in and fix the road one time, because it benefits them, too."
"We need our roads fixed," Rosales said.
Commissioner Pete Jauer said he knew when he voted for the agreements that Marathon and Pioneer would not sign them.
"If the language in these things is not correct, I think they need to be examined, they need to be rewritten in proper language so that it does state that it is voluntary," Jauer said. "I think we should rescind them, rewrite them and repass them."
When asked how long it may take to revise the agreements, Jauer responded by saying that it should be done as soon as the county can get competent legal advice.
Assistant County Attorney Betty Yarter said that the permits, as written, will not become effective until Sept. 1, so there is time for them to be amended or revised before they go into effect.
After an extended discussion on the topic, county officials agreed to take no action on either of the agenda items at this time.
A press release sent to The Karnes Countywide by the Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA) on Aug. 17 stated that a television news report inaccurately stated that TXOGA had threatened a lawsuit against Karnes County after the permit fees were approved by Commissioners Court.
"In April 2012, the Texas Oil & Gas Association prepared a reference memo describing current law with regard to counties' authority to assess fees or require agreements with oil and gas operators," said Deb Hastings, executive vice president of TXOGA. "The Texas Oil & Gas Association has not threatened to sue any county regarding transportation fees."


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Rhonda Seidenwurm announced earlier this year she will retire as CMS superintendent in June. Richards and three others were named finalists for the position on March 10.
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Want to guess which company is breaking out the champagne tonight?
jury reached a verdict today
and they found Samsung guilty on multiple counts of infringing upon Apple design and software patents. While Apple was able to hold Samsung's feet to the fire on the majority of its utility patents, Samsung received no love from the jurors on its countersuit claims.
The jury ordered Samsung to pay Apple $1,051,855,000 USD ($1.05B USD) in damages. Apple owes Samsung absolutely nothing.
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We are grateful to the jury for their service and for investing the time to listen to our story and we were thrilled to be able to finally tell it. The mountain of evidence presented during the trail showed that Samsung's copying went far deeper than even we knew. The lawsuits between Apple and Samsung were about much more than patents or money. They were about values. At Apple, we value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on earth. We make these products to delight our customers, not for our competitors to flagrantly copy. We applaud the court for finding Samsung's behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn't right.
And now we have Samsung, which is clearly not pleased with the outcome of this case:
Today's verdict should not be viewed as a win for Apple, but as a loss for the American consumer. It will lead to fewer choices, less innovation, and potentially higher prices. It is unfortunate that patent law can be manipulated to give one company a monopoly over rectangles with rounded corners, or technology that is being improved every day by Samsung and other companies. Consumers have the right to choices, and they know what they are buying when they purchase Samsung products. This is not the final word in this case or in battles being waged in courts and tribunals around the world, some of which have already rejected many of Apple's claims. Samsung will continue to innovate and offer choices for the consumer.
And even though Microsoft had absolutely nothing to do with this trial (Microsoft can
safely sit on the sidelines
as a spectator), Bill Cox, senior director of Marketing Communications for Windows Phone,
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Considering Microsoft's current position in the
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has received an internal memo
sent to Apple employees by Apple CEO Tim Cook. In the memo, which features similar wording to the statement issued by Apple after the ruling, Cook describes how taking Samsung to court wasn't about the "patents or money":
Today was an important day for Apple and for innovators everywhere.
Many of you have been closely following the trial against Samsung in San Jose for the past few weeks. We chose legal action very reluctantly and only after repeatedly asking Samsung to stop copying our work. For us this lawsuit has always been about something much more important than patents or money. It's about values. We value originality and innovation and pour our lives into making the best products on earth. And we do this to delight our customers, not for competitors to flagrantly copy.
We owe a debt of gratitude to the jury who invested their time in listening to our story. We were thrilled to finally have the opportunity to tell it. The mountain of evidence presented during the trial showed that Samsung's copying went far deeper than we knew.
The jury has now spoken. We applaud them for finding Samsung's behavior willful and for sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn't right.
I am very proud of the work that each of you do.
Today, values have won and I hope the whole world listens.
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