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Springer Mountain Trail is a 10.3 mile moderately trafficked out and back trail located near Ellijay, GA that features beautiful wild flowers and is rated as moderate. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail.
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Fun trail from three fork you get a beautiful approach along the extended AT. If you go at the right time of year you'll get to meet some through hikers departing or finishing their journey.
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only one Vista on a moderate trail and in bear country!
Fun hike. Missed the trail intersection and double backed.
good loop make sure you don't miss the turn on the AT going back south to parking lot
The AT/Springer to BMT loop is great. The northern end of the BMT loop is especially nice, it had a few stream crossings and was surprisingly green for January due to the rhododendron. The path to Springer as well as the famous summit was comparatively busy. I saw a few dozen people. On the BMT loop I saw less than 10. The BMT portion also had several very small campsites.
The forestry road FS-28 was pretty difficult in my sedan. I didn't even notice it on my directions since Google maps likes to call it "Winding Stair Gap Rd." Once you get on the Springer forestry road it is much better and pretty easy.
Luckily on my way out I was able to get some alternate directions from other hikers in the parking lot. If you are in a sedan, or are at all squeamish about driving on steep bumpy gravel roads, I'd suggest taking the roads into Springer from the west off of Doublehead Gap Rd instead.
The hike to the top of springer is non-strenuous with a pack on. The path is naturally lined with pyrite. There are no huge rocks to climb over. It's an easy hike.
If you are any kind of serious hiker this is a mecca that you must visit as the southern terminus of the AT. There is nothing like watching weary souls pop champagne at the end of their long trek. You can take this hike in many directions as the Benton Mckaye intersects nearby. Parking lot is easy to find and all the trails are pretty well marked. Extremely pleasant in the fall and I go back every year.
Convenient parking location located 1 mile away from primitive camp grounds. Nice starting location to hike to the falls 10 miles away. Seems to be dog friendly. Coolest thing was the sparkling trail. The jasper from the rocks broke up and lined the trail and would sparkle when the light hit it. I felt like a hobbit on a quest in middle earth.
The trail from the parking lot is less than a mile, so it's a short hike. If you'd like a longer hike you can do the 4.5 mile loop which leaves the parking lot to the North on the A.T. It soon intersects with the Benton MacKaye trail which you then take East (right). It loops around and ascends Springer Mountain from the East. There are some good views along the way. You then descend from Springer Mountain on the A.T. back to the parking lot.
If you're driving up from Atlanta and plan on taking FS 28-1 beware that it is a fairly rough road that requires a higher clearance vehicle. It could be done in a regular car with normal clearance but you will need to negotiate very carefully in a lot of places. Otherwise FS 28-1 is a beautiful road, especially in the higher elevations where it runs along a ridge line.
Short and sweet trail with a great view. Nice for a day hike and photo op
This is a great leg stretch that I do pretty regularly. Many times I park at 3 forks and hike a longer loop up to the summit of springer and take the right on the BMT to a second overlook that looks looks south. On a clear day you can clearly see stone mountain and kennesaw mountain. You can also park in the springer mountain parking lot and shorten your hike to make it more kid friendly.
Great hike from Amicoalia Falls to Springer Mountain. I'm not an experienced hiker but my cousin/trail guide instructed me how to manage this hike. It was approx 15 miles and took a little over 6 hours to complete. It was a hard push near the top of Springer and we were determined to see the southern terminus of the AT. There were a few decent viewpoints along the way but maily it was the destination that made it worth the effort.
OK FOR DOGS IF CAREFUL. I did a short section of the downhill trail from the Forest Service parking lot and, also the 'in and out' hike to the summit of Springer with my two German Shepherds. It was a hot day and, while the hike to the summit isn't too steep, it was still a punishing climb for the dogs in the warm weather. Definitely pack water for the pups. The trail is rocky and narrow at many places with a steep drop-off to one side. Climbing the trail with two dogs tethered to my lumbar pack required holding the leashes fairly short and, a slow careful ascent/descent along much of the trail to prevent any falls. A dog could easily pull you over the side, probably not a good hike for a hyper pup. Fortunately, my 5 y/o shepherd is a sure-footed natural-born lead dog on the trail. (He didn't learn that in Florida!) The views at the summit are limited by scrubby tree growth and, dependent on weather. It was fairly hazy when we were there and this limited the distance of the vista.
The drive up to a parking area on a forest service road is a long 7-ish miles but, it's a good gravel road, easy with AWD and possible in a car if taken slowly; there's some washboarding as expected. We were there on a Sunday and it was busy with tourists, dayhikers and, several parties starting a northerly hike of the AT. The hike to the summit starts across the forest service road from the parking area; the northerly AT is accessed directly from the parking area. Many AT hikers leave their packs at the parking lot, do the ascending loop to Springer and back, returning for their packs to continue on the AT.
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Nice short trail, easy hike, nice view, but limited to looking West.


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Stephen Jay Gould: It depends on its nature. This theory of punctuated equilibrium that Niles Eldredge and I developed in 1972 was very controversial, and has been one of the foci of evolutionary debates for 20 years now. So I'm certainly no stranger to that kind of controversy. And then I've been involved in social controversies like the "race and IQ" issue and the creationism issue. The punctuated equilibrium debate was an intellectual exercise that had to be dealt with in a more conventionalized way, by writing papers, by giving speeches, by collecting data from one's point of view, or against it, as it happened. The creationism debate was something totally different, because it has nothing to do with intellect. Creationism is a totally unviable bit of nonsense. It's a socially important issue in America, but you don't fight that with the same tools. It's a political struggle, that's fought before the courts, and we won it. So it very much depends on the nature of the issue. View Interview with Stephen Jay GouldView Biography of Stephen Jay GouldView Profile of Stephen Jay GouldView Photo Gallery of Stephen Jay Gould
If they are honorable discussions of ideas that are engaged in by flexible people, and that is subject to tests, then debate can really move a field forward. If they're personally bitter and acrimonious, then who needs them? Life's full of difficulties anyway, why create more of them? Life's full of hardships. People are going to get sick and die and the world's full of tragedy, why make more for yourself by petty bickering in a professional world where ideally you don't need to have it? So it very much depends on the nature of it. Even the creationism debate, it was fascinating to be part of, because it's part of American social history. I sat in a courtroom in Arkansas, and it was like being at the Scopes trial in the 1920s. It was being a part of a major incident in the 20th century of American history. That part was thrilling. View Interview with Stephen Jay GouldView Biography of Stephen Jay GouldView Profile of Stephen Jay GouldView Photo Gallery of Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould: As I've said, it's a political struggle, and that's all it is, because first of all it's about religion. But I don't even really see it as a religious issue, because the vast majority of people who are religious are on our side of this. Creationism is a movement by a very small -- though not insignificant, they're still millions of people -- a minority of Biblical literalists to impose their religion, to which they are entirely welcome of course. I'm a real First Amendment absolutist on that issue. What people do in their homes and churches, I have no interest in refuting. I may think they're wrong, and over a cup of coffee or a beer I'll be happy to argue with them, but I'm not entering their churches or their homes to tell them. But I don't want them in the science classrooms of my public school either, touting their minority version of religion that happens in this case to be factually incorrect. View Interview with Stephen Jay GouldView Biography of Stephen Jay GouldView Profile of Stephen Jay GouldView Photo Gallery of Stephen Jay Gould
I think there's a lot of mythology about the past. But it is certainly true that there are very distressing trends towards mediocrity and regimentation -- I think almost inevitably -- an electronically dependent, passive world, where hundreds of millions of people are seeing the same things, and are subject to the blandishments of advertisers over the national media. Television is a fundamentally passive exercise. Wouldn't have to be used that way. It's bound to be, and there are paradoxes. Now we can all be consumers of music. You can put on MTV. In the 19th century, if you lived on the prairie, you had to make your own music with your violin or your voices. On the other hand, I'm not gonna long for the good old days, because I'll bet you if you actually calculated it out, there are more people making their own music now than ever before, because musical training is wider. There are hundreds of homes in any city where people at this time of the year are singing Christmas carols or playing their recorders or strumming their guitars. So I don't think it's worse, but certainly there are great tendencies to mediocrity and mass commercialization. If an intellectual has any duty, it's to stress the value of individualistic excellence. That's all we can do. We're always gonna be a minority. There's no doubt, I think, we always have been a minority, and if anything we're a stronger minority. But that's our one job, is to stress non-compromise in the search for excellence, and it's to stress doing it in a manner that has personal integrity and is not copycat, or is not overly easy, or is not merely for commercial success. View Interview with Stephen Jay GouldView Biography of Stephen Jay GouldView Profile of Stephen Jay GouldView Photo Gallery of Stephen Jay Gould
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LA Supes Consider Jail Project, Disciplined Kern County Students Face Meager Education Alternatives…and MoreJuly 17th, 2013 by Taylor Walker
The LA County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to consider (and revisit in four weeks time) a report from Vanir Construction Management with five options for rebuilding Men's Central Jail and a new women's facility ranging in price from $1.3 billion to $1.6 billion. (For WLA's previous reporting on the jail plan go here.)
LA Times' Seema Mehta and Abby Sewell have the story. Here's how it opens:
Concerned that federal authorities could soon intervene in the operation of Los Angeles County's outdated jail system, the Board of Supervisors took a significant step Tuesday toward replacing the Men's Central Jail and renovating other facilities to reduce crowding and increase mental health services for prisoners.
The board voted unanimously to accept a report from consultants who outlined five jail renovation options.
All options included tearing down and replacing the cornerstone of the nation's largest jail system — the Men's Central Jail — and reconfiguring other existing facilities.
Supervisors were wary of the $1.3-billion to $1.6-billion price tag — if approved, it would be the county's largest building project ever. But they were more concerned about jail conditions prompting the federal government to wrest away control.
They repeatedly cited a similar dilemma facing state officials, who were ordered by federal judges earlier this year to release 9,600 prisoners or find another cure for overcrowding.
The board voted to accept the consultants' report, and to revisit the matter in four weeks. In the meantime, county officials were directed to answer questions about existing operations and to amend the agreement with Vanir so the firm can begin analyzing staffing and operational costs for the various proposals. Officials will also find out whether the county can use a $100-million state grant now earmarked for a new women's facility at the Pitchess Detention Center to instead adapt existing facilities at Mira Loma to house female inmates.
After the Supervisors' vote, the majority of the public commenters expressed frustration at the proposed jail plan and urged the Board to reject the costly building of new facilities in favor of community-based alternatives. Esther Lim from the ACLU pointed out the incongruity of having a construction contractor produce a study looking at whether or not the county should be building expensive new jails.
The objective of the study is to find out who is inside our jails, who will be entering our jails, and who should be in our jails. However, it was disappointing to learn that the county's executive office hired a construction group to do that comprehensive assessment. It was not surprising that a construction company, in its report, proposed five options, all involving construction costing billions…The goal is two-fold—to reduce recidivism and increase safety and to reduce operational costs. These can be achieved [by] alternatives to incarceration, such as split-sentencing and the diversion of the mentally ill. Vanir merely listed alternatives.
The Center for Investigative Reporting's Susan Ferriss has an excellent story about the scant education options available to kids who have been expelled from schools in Kern County due to harsh zero tolerance policies. When kids are banned from attending schools in regular districts, they are told to go to county schools. When county-operated schools are too far to attend, students have no choice but to turn to independent study programs, which means that, these kids, often already struggling in school before expulsion, only receive four-and-a-half hours of instructor time and are left to teach themselves the remainder of the week.
Here's how it opens:
On a blistering May day in California's Central Valley, most other 13-year-olds were in classrooms down the road. But Erick Araujo was under strict orders from his mother to stay inside with a U.S. history textbook.
Despite the orders, the seventh-grader didn't really have much to do. Over four days, while his buddies were finishing up the school year, Erick's only task was to read three chapters from the book and answer, briefly, a few questions per chapter.
"Pretty easy," the boy with braces said with a shrug, leafing through pages.
He had no math. No English. No science. And no other books to engage his love of history.
But this could be how Erick gets his education for months to come, at least until he's halfway through eighth grade in early 2014.
That's because in February, Erick was expelled for a year from Lost Hills' only junior high, A.M. Thomas Middle School, and told to enroll at a "community school" for kids with discipline problems that is run by Kern County. But that school is 38 miles away – so far away that staff there suggested Erick's mom put him on independent study at home. She would have to drive him to the North Kern Community School in Delano only one day a week, so he could get in a minimum of 4½ hours of weekly face time with an actual teacher.
For Erick's mom, Nereida Vasquez, this seems like a strange way to expect her son to fulfill his "rehabilitation plan." Instead, she said, she thinks educators have cast Erick adrift in Lost Hills, a hardscrabble town surrounded by some of the world's richest groves of fruit and nut trees, vineyards and vegetable crops.
"He's already told me that he should just drop out and go to work in the fields," an exasperated Vasquez said in Spanish, her dominant language.
Erick's circumstances aren't unique. Hundreds of disciplined kids his age are put on independent study in Kern County. Youth advocates say Erick's situation typifies a troubling pattern of authorities removing students from regular school and dispatching them to alternative campuses, where plans sometimes seem disturbingly casual – including long stretches of stay-at-home independent study.
The seventh-grader's experience also reflects national concerns about the effectiveness of harsh school discipline and about a widening school-achievement divide between affluent children and lower-income, often Latino or black students.
Sam Slovic of Mission and State has written a painful and extremely well-crafted and documented story about the awful history of abuse of kids by clergy in Santa Barbara, which for a period may actually have been a dumping ground, of sorts, for abusing priests. What unfolds in the course of the narrative—and its underlying documents and testimony—-is not some isolated instances, or one pedophile priest who did awful damage to a string of kids, but a possible "culture of abuse," that reportedly involved one forth of the clergy at a single institution, during a 23-year span from 1964 to 1987. And that was only one of a list of local schools and churches that were allegedly affected.
The story, called Sacred Monsters, is multimedia and then some, in that there are videos, piles of documents to search, and an interactive timeline. The work is important and makes for a very engrossing—if painful—read. Here's a clip:
St. Anthony's Seminary held its first classes at the Garden Street property in 1901, with the mission of grooming young men for the clergy, which it did for decades before closing ignominiously in 1987. By then, it had sealed its fate as one of the charter institutions in the Catholic clergy's emerging sex abuse crisis.
With the children now gone for the day, the birds settle back into the tall trees around the Garden Street Academy, and the afternoon turns calm. Across the street, Paul Fericano can be found in a shady patch in the back of the Mission. He is contemplating a large boulder with a bronze plaque on its face and the larger context within which it exists. The boulder, a symbol of St. Anthony's grim legacy, carries talismanic freight for Fericano.
Fericano had been a student at St. Anthony's in the 1960s at the height of the abuse, decades before the scope and extent of its horrors were revealed. Fericano says a Franciscan priest named Mario Cimmarrusti repeatedly assaulted him while he was studying to be a priest himself. Court documents and personnel files released under a judge's orders in 2012 would eventually depict Cimmarrusti as a particularly prolific perpetrator.
"This is where it all began in 1992 and '93. It all broke here. It was huge," Fericano says.
He is referring to the national reaction when an Independent Board of Inquiry submitted its findings in November 1993 to Father Joseph P. Chinnici, provincial minister of the Province of Saint Barbara. The board, comprised of mental health professionals, lay people and clergy, had convened in January to deal with allegations of rampant abuse of minors by St. Anthony's clergy during a 23-year span from 1964 to 1987. The board sent letters of inquiry to as many alumni and their families as it could find addresses for. Three hundred men responded.
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From August 13 through 16 is called Obon in Japan, which is one of the important annual Buddhist events. However the period nowadays seems to be just a summer holiday season rather than a religious event to many people particularly younger generation and thus airports and train stations are over-crowded with people traveling to many places, some going back to their home town for family reunion, others just for sightseeing.
I myself don't believe in any specific religion but my and my husband's families are Buddhist, and so I went to a lecture given by a priest the day before yesterday and did visiting graves yesterday to call our ancestors soul back home with us. I guess they will stay with us during Obon. Visiting a grave always makes me feel getting the load off my shoulders and that's why I visit a grave from time to time. I can't explain it precisely but it is sure a good, pure, and mysterious feeling.
The summer in Japan (probably many other countries, too) gets hotter and hotter year after year. Yesterday the sky was very clear. The sun was shining without mercy and scorching us. I was exhausted after visiting 4 graves at a time. Therefore I had to give up "Rosoku-Maturi" held in Koyasan in the evening. I really wanted though. Maybe next year...
If you are interested in Japanese spiritual world, please visit the following website and click "Koyasan's Manto Memorial Service Ceremony" on the left.
As I believe in reincarnation, at this time of the year, I often think who I was in the previous life and who I will be in the next world.


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Rooms facing street can be noisy on Fri and sat nights
this was a very trendy hotel with glass stairs and comfortable rooms...location great parking underground cost 12 Euros even with the hotel discount..
Great location
Good size rooms with comfortable beds and good washroom fascilities
Pleasant hotel in a very good location at the edge of Logrono old town. Near to a very good collection of tapas bars!
the location
the hotel staff was not friendly nor were they at all helpful in making our stay pleasant
The main advantage of this hotel is its location - in the historical centre of the town and about 50 meters from the famous "tapas street". The room was rather big, clean and quiet, the stuff works pretty good - this place is worth its price.
It was tricky to find the way to the hotel on the car. It was necessary to move about 100 meters on the pedestrian road and our car navigator couldn't build the proper route.
poor dining facilities. Internet direction information bad.
The location was excellent for the town. Good to have garage facilites on site and fairly easy access. Clean, modern and pleasant hotel. Very efficient receptionist.
We weren't told cost of breakfast nor any info about it in our oom. So didn't eat at hotel. Room was quite small.
They kindly repaired my boots!!
Location was perfect for a visiting the old part and the tapas bars. The staff were very helpful and spoke good english. The secure car park was very useful as we were tavelling to the ferry with much luggage.
The hotel was quite a walk to the modern shopping area. Even though the car park was secure you needed a member of staff to ensure you manoeuvred safely into a parking place
Great location, staff very friendly, would definitely stay again
Performance and Hospitality was quite OK
Large room and central location
Bar service was poorly manned and the Gym/sauna was 5 minutes from the premises
A great room for families. Plenty of space for parents and two children, even with their own beds.
Great town location, very central and great for exploring the Rioja wine region.
Breakfast included would have been even better
nicely done hotel on the Gran Via in Logrono near main shops and restaurants. Very comfortable, modern, stylish. would definitely stay there again.
very helpful staff
The helpfulness of the staff and the IT facilities.
A comfortable and quiet city centre hotel with secure parking and a pleasant swimming pool for no more than two concurrent swimmers.
Very friendly stuff, clean and comfortable.
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On April 7, 2015, Permira and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announced that a company controlled by the Permira funds and CPPIB has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Informatica for approximately US$5.3 billion.[3]
On August 6, 2015, Informatica announced completion of acquisition with Microsoft and Salesforce Ventures joined as strategic investors. The company's stock ceased trading on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol INFA effective on the same date.[4][5][6] In December 2015, Gartner recognized Informatica in its December 2015 Magic Quadrant for Data Masking Technology report.[7]
Informatica's product is a portfolio focused on data integration: ETL, information lifecycle management, B2B data exchange, cloud data integration, complex event processing, data masking, data quality, data replication, data virtualization, master data management, ultra messaging. These components form a toolset for establishing and maintaining enterprise-wide data warehouses. It has a customer base of over 5,000 companies.[2][8]
In 2006, Informatica launched its Informatica Cloud business.[9]
In 2010, the Informatica Marketplace was launched offering a data integration eco-system for Partners, Customers, Developers and Informatica to share and leverage data integration solutions.[10] As of September 2014, it features over 1,300 pre-built mappings, templates, connectors and add-ons for Informatica data integration and cloud data integration products.[11]
Informatica uses a service oriented architecture, and has the capability to share services and resources across several machines.[12] Informatica ETL product, known as Informatica PowerCenter consists of 3 main components which are as follows:
- Informatica PowerCenter Client Tools: These are the development tools installed at the developer end. These tools enable a developer to
- Define transformation processes, known as mappings (Designer)
- Define run-time properties for a mapping, known as sessions (Workflow Manager)
- Monitor execution of sessions (Workflow Monitor)
- Manage a repository, which is useful for administrators (Repository Manager)
- Report Metadata (Metadata Reporter)
- Informatica PowerCenter Repository: Repository is the backend[disambiguation needed] of Informatica tools. Repository is a data inventory where all the data related to mappings, sources, targets, etc. is kept. This is the place where all the metadata for an application is stored. All the client tools and Informatica Server fetch data from Repository.
- Informatica PowerCenter Server: In the Server, all the executions take place. Server makes physical connections to sources/ targets, fetches data, applies the transformations mentioned in the mapping and loads the data in the target system.
Types of transformations[edit]
- Active : One that can change the number of rows being output
- Passive : One that cannot change the number of rows being output
- Connected : One that has at least one link with other transformations or objects in a mapping
- Unconnected : One that does not have any link with any transformations or objects in a mapping
Also, Active transformation are recognized by any of the following three factors:
- the transformation changes the row type
- the transformation changes the row order
- transaction control happens in the transformation
A transformation which has these properties is said to be an "active transformation", otherwise it is said to be a "passive transformation".
- Source qualifier - converts source data types to Informatica data types; joins two source tables or files of the same type
- Expression - transforms data with functions without affecting cardinality or data order
- Lookups - enhances data elements with lookup values; may be connected or unconnected
- Filter - filters incoming data
- Router - routes data to selected output paths
- Sorter - sorts data and optionally removes duplicate rows
- Aggregator - aggregates data
- Joiner - joins relational data midstream; can be used when source data is of multiple types
- Normalizer - used with flat file input containing arrays or repeated data to create normal form relational data
- Update Strategy - determines whether data is to be updated, inserted or deleted in cases where there are multiple output targets
- Transaction Control - creates transactions and controls commits and rollbacks
- Sequence Generator - generates a sequence of unique values as per the specified parameters
- Java transformation - invokes Java methods, variables, third-party API's and built-in packages.
Financial results[edit]
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|Net Income (USD) [14]
Informatica has mainly seen growth through a combination of organic growth and growth through acquisition.[8][15]
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- ^ "Informatica Announces Agreement to be Acquired by The Permira Funds and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board". permira.com. Retrieved Apr 7, 2015.
- ^ "Informatica Corporation Announces Completion of Acquisition by the Permira Funds and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board". informatica.com. Retrieved Aug 7, 2015.
- ^ "Salesforce Ventures and Microsoft Join Informatica Buyout". nytimes.com. Retrieved Aug 7, 2015.
- ^ "Microsoft And Salesforce Join In $5.3 Billion Buyout Of Informatica". forbes.com. Retrieved Aug 7, 2015.
- ^ "Gartner Positions Informatica as a Leader in 2015 Magic Quadrant for Data Masking Technology, Worldwide". GlobeNewswire. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ a b Magic Quadrant for Data Integration Tools, Gartner, 25 November 2009, retrieved 15 May 2010
- ^ Adrian, Merv (10 June 2010), Informatica Re-Factors the Value Chain for the Cloud, IT Market Strategy, retrieved 7 July 2010
- ^ "Informatica Marketplace-Press Release". Informatica. Feb 9, 2010.
- ^ "Informatica Marketplace - Home". marketplace.informatica.com. Retrieved Sep 17, 2014.
- ^ a b "Informatica Tutorial"
- ^ http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/infa/revenue-eps
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- ^ Karel, Rob (28 January 2010), Introducing The MDM Market's Newest 800lb Gorilla: Informatica Acquires Siperian!, Forrester, retrieved 15 May 2010
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Thank you SO much for completing the survey, it was so helpful. If I could, I'd show my appreciation through an amazing cheese platter. 🙂
Lately I've been worried/frustrated that my blog hasn't grown to where it "should" be by now and I started to wonder if I needed a more precise focus. I tossed around ideas, but ultimately, I don't have a precise eating focus or style so why should my recipes? I'm not vegan, I'm not paleo, I don't count calories……
I love food. I love real food, I love simple food. I love complex recipes and I love meals that require three-ingredients from the Trader Joe's freezer section. I don't eat perfect. And I don't think anyone should.
So now that I've got that off my chest, it's time to share this recipe I've been holding out on you a bit. It was one that I made (and we loved) but I wondered if it was good enough, or different enough to share.
If I learned one thing from the survey, it's that you want more of those real life posts which makes me take a step back and realize that every post doesn't need to be a perfectly-styled, super-creative recipe. It's about the real food. The food that's eaten after a long day at work and no desire to cook. Food that doesn't fit a diet perfectly, because, your family probably isn't on that diet. (I also learned that you really aren't interested in product reviews and my favorite link posts – noted!)
So 2015, it's going to be a lot more real. And a lot more life. (And a baby!!!!!!) And the food that goes along with it.
Lasagna soup is one of those meals. It's a big bowl of comfort food, and I think your whole family will love it. It's got classic lasagna flavors – but in a slightly different form. We loved it because it was really filling and satisfying, but also not really heavy either.
Lasagna turned into soup – you'll love it too!
- 1 medium onion
- 4 cloves garlic
- 1 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 lb lean ground beef
- 32 oz beef, chicken or veggie broth
- 28 oz diced tomatoes
- 6 oz tomato sauce
- salt, pepper
- ¼ tsp red pepper flakes
- ½ tsp dry basil
- 8 oz fusilli pasta
- ¾ cup shredded parmesan cheese
- ½ cup chopped parsley or basil
- Dice onion and mince garlic.
- Add olive oil to large pot and heat over medium-high heat.
- Add onion and garlic and cook until soft, about 4-5 minutes.
- Add ground beef and cook, stirring occasionally and breaking up chunks, for about 7-9 minutes, until cooked through. Drain if necessary.
- Add broth, diced tomatoes and tomato sauce and seasonings to pot, bring to a boil, lower heat and simmer for about 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, while soup is simmering, cook pasta as directed, until al dente. (Be careful not to overcook!)
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NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMarch 12, 2013 Contact: Megan Hanson, (512) 463-0112
AUSTIN —The Senate Committee on Education today unanimously approved SB 132 by Texas State Senator Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, to clarify that Texas school districts may not require teachers to artificially inflate a student's grade, including report card grades or other cumulative averages of a student's individual grades.
In 2009, the Legislature unanimously passed Senate Bill 2033, prohibiting minimum grade policies in schools. Following a lawsuit, a Travis County judge ruled that the law clearly applies to all student grades. Senate Bill 132 codifies that ruling.
"This legislation affirms the authority of teachers to assign grades that their students have earned," said Senator Nelson. "As a former teacher, I strongly believe that students should be graded based on the merit of their work, not according to an artificial minimum."
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Chargers draft chatterHe's certainly a player the Chargers would have to consider. "We do this for a living every day, and we really don't know who will go in the first 15, which is a little different," Chargers General Manager Tom Telesco said. Over at NFL.com, Josh Norris, w… (more)
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Now that the tax filing season has come and gone, you may be wondering how long to keep records and what records to keep. Keeping necessary records after you file your taxes is a good idea, as they will help you with documentation and substantiation if the IRS selects your return for an audit. "Normally, …
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Fall is the time of year that brings cooler weather and the chance to get outside, clean up the lawn or organize the garage or attic-and maybe even clean out the filing cabinet. With the start of income tax filing season only a few months away, the Internal Revenue Service reminded taxpayers that fall is …
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Sources of well water
There are over 50,000 private wells in the Ottawa area. Well owners are responsible for ensuring that water from their wells is safe to drink, and that their wells are not contaminating the groundwater. Wells must be properly designed and maintained to ensure that drinking water is safe.
Common types of wells: Dug and bored wells (with casings 60 to 120 cm/24 to 48 in.) are less expensive to install than drilled wells. Like sand point wells, dug/bored wells are prone to near-surface contamination and shortages. Drilled wells (casings 10 to 20 cm/4 to 8 in.) cost more but penetrate deeper aquifers.
Cross cut image of a dug well
Cross cut image of a drilled well
Where water comes from
The water we drink generally comes from surface water (above ground) or groundwater (underground). Only about 1% of the Earth's water is surface and groundwater.
The water cycle: Rain or melting snow can take several paths. It can runoff into streams, lakes or rivers. It can seep into the ground to be used directly by plants or to recharge groundwater. It can evaporate and return to the atmosphere. The cycle is complete when water in the atmosphere returns to earth as rain or snow. Groundwater from a deep well may have been in the ground for hundreds or thousands of years. In a shallow aquifer, the water may be a few weeks or years old.
The hydrologic cycle
The Hydrologic Cycle showing how rain or snow runoff pools underground to provide water
How water moves
Groundwater flows from areas of higher elevation and/or pressure to lower elevation and/or pressure. It can flow horizontally or vertically upward or downward but usually in just one direction. This direction of natural flow can be affected or changed by pumping a well. How fast groundwater moves depends on how porous the soil or rock is, and whether the groundwater surface is sloped. The speed of water movement varies greatly.
The water table: The point at which the ground is saturated determines the water table. This level rises and falls depending on rainfall and local water use. Taking water out of the ground faster than it is recharged by the water cycle will lower the local water table.
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- waste leakage, e.g., manure storage, wastewater, septic tanks and landfills
- leaking underground and above-ground fuel storage tanks
- groundwater travelling from contaminated to clean aquifers
- over-application of manure, commercial fertilizers or pesticides
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1. All firearms must be UNLOADED and in a LOCKED CASE when entering or exiting the range.
2. Shore Shot Pistol Range DOES NOT allow CCI BLAZER (Aluminum Cased) or WOLF (Steel Cased) ammunition on the range. We have also restricted the use of all High Powered Rifle ammunition. Only Frangible (Parafin based) High Powered Rifle ammunition will be permitted. Anyone found shooting the restricted ammunition will be asked to leave.
3. LOAD and HANDLE firearms ONLY WHEN YOU ARE READY TO FIRE THEM.
5. ALWAYS keep the firearms muzzle pointed DOWN RANGE.
6. EAR and EYE PROTECTION must be worn at ALL TIMES on the range.
7. Women need to avoid low cut tops as hot shell casings may enter the area causing minor burns.
8. TWO PERSONS PER SHOOTING POSITION ONLY. Only one person may shoot at a time. Anyone found violating this rule will be asked to leave.
9. When leaving the range area for any reason, UNLOAD THE FIREARM AT YOUR ASSIGNED SHOOTING POSITION, OPEN THE ACTION OR CYLINDER AND PLACE IT ON THE BENCH WITH THE MUZZLE DOWN RANGE.
10. The call "CEASE FIRE" or the sound of a WHISTLE means STOP SHOOTING IMMEDIATELY. Step away from the shooting area and allow the Range Master to clear your weapon. DO NOT step into the shooting area until the Range Master states the line has been cleared and shooting may resume.
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May 15, 2013
Samsung claims 5G mobile data transmission breakthrough - 100 x faster than 4G
Samsung announces that it has developed a new mobile data transfer technology that's potentially up to "several hundred times" faster than current 4G networks.
More precisely, the company announced "the worlds first adaptive array transceiver technology operating in the millimeter-wave Ka bands for cellular communications."
Samsung's new technology, which the company plans to commercialize by 2020 would allow for mobile transmission of "massive" data files, which include high-quality movies, "practically without limitation.
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Read More »-- As noted earlier here on the website, John Cena's injury is now being described as a "significantly bruised heel." Cena did wrestle last night on RAW in Columbus, but was kept out of the ring for a good portion of the match headling in a six man tag teaming with Team Hell No against The Shield. Cena isn't expected to miss the Extreme Rules PPV in two weeks on 5/19 when he defends the WWE Championship against Ryback.
-- Forbes.com is featuring an article looking at the success of Wrestlemania 29 at Metlife Stadium grossing an estimated $72 million making it the highest grossing Wrestlemania or WWE event in company history. The article also notes the success of the Mattel WWE action figure line and a new partnership with the E! channel for a reality series featuring WWE Divas.
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Update On Wolfpack Golfers At State Golf Tournament
May 28, 2014 by lmorgan
Here's an update from the Class C State Golf Tournament which the EPPJ Wolfpack golf team is competing at today and tomorrow (May 28-29).
Jack Borer +16 (after nine holes)
Kyle Heithoff +2 (after four holes)
Regan Kerkman +10 (after four holes)
Miles Schrage +5 (after four holes)
Chad Bode has yet to begin his round.
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Hunting down 65,000 drumlins
In a major new Channel 4 television series - Birth of Britain - Tony Robinson examines the forces that have shaped the British Isles.
In the second of these series, he looks at the effects that the last two-and-a-half million years have left on our landscape. Britain has experienced numerous deep freezes that left the land uninhabitable and locked under ice sheets over a mile thick. Tony traces the movement of the ice from the Scottish Highlands, though to the edge of southern England with the help of Professor Chris Clark from the department.
The pair travel to Glasgow to show the sometimes unexpected results of millions of tonnes of ice moving over the country, and the effects that are still apparent today. Chris explains how drumlins, one of the major glacial features in our landscape were formed, and how they are still very visible today. Chris then shows how his hunt for the 65,000 drumlins in the British Isles may well help unlock our understanding of the consequences of current global warming.
Birth of Britain starts on Channel 4 at 8:00pm Monday 17 January, with "Ice", the episode featuring Chris, being brodcast the week after - Monday 24 January.


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ONU Presents the Toledo Symphony Orchestra
Ohio Northern University presents the Toledo Symphony in Presser Hall on Friday, Feb. 19, at 8 p.m.
This event is free and open to the public.
Currently in its 66th season, the Toledo Symphony Orchestra has entertained audiences with beautiful music for decades. With more than 400 performances last year alone, the Symphony touched the lives of over 300,000 people. This year, Ohio Northern University and community members will be among those swept away by the Toledo Symphony Orchestra.
The "Runout" series will make its debut at Presser Hall. Under the direction of lead conductor Chelsea Tipton II, the program includes Bartok's "Rumanian Folk Dances," Hindemith's "Horn Concerto," Shostakovich's "Incidental Music from Hamlet," Corigliano's "Voyage for String Orchestra" and Stravinsky's "Pulcinella Suite." The soloist for the evening will be Dr. Thomas Hunt, chair of ONU's department of music, on French horn.


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Buying a pre-paid cell phone in Delhi, India
My wife is traveling to India later this month. She'll be in the mountains, where there are few landlines, but from her experience last time there is sufficient (if spotty) cell phone service. Wikitravel says: "Fully loaded prepaid starter kits are available for around Rs. 500 or less" (plus more details). Does anyone have experience buying a pre-paid mobile phone like this in India? Can she do it at the Delhi airport? Is it a hassle, or is it worth it?
Best practices for buying an unlocked HTC Magic
I want an HTC Magic, badly. T-Mobile is sitting on it for probably the rest of the summer in order to prevent cannibalizing G1 sales. But I know they're for sale by Vodafone and Rogers will be shipping them in the next couple of weeks. What are the best practices for buying an unlocked cellphone? [more inside]
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Small Business News Weekly Roundup: 4/12/2013
Welcome to this week's small business news weekly roundup!
In this week's roundup, we'll discuss what you need to know about President Obama's budget, the March small business optimism index, perks your small biz can afford to help keep your employees happy, and what small biz scams to avoid.
First, here are two other great roundups:
- This Week in Small Business: Not Again!: The New York Times shares links to articles on 16 big bubbles about to burst, a new smart drug especially popular among entrepreneurs, the 10 fastest growing industries for small businesses, an infographic that shows the true cost of poor customer service, and much more.
- 3 Things You Should Know About Small Business: April 9: From The Street, links to articles on a jump in franchise lending, what's hot in the Silicon Valley, and a stalling of small business growth.
And now, the rest!
- Here's everything small business owners need to know about Obama's new budget: From The Washington Post, a guide to the "primary components of the budget and what it would mean for small businesses."
- U.S. March Small Business Optimism Index: Summary: From Bloomberg, a look at a table compiled from the March small business optimism index, which fell slightly from February.
- 10 Perks Your Small Business Can Afford: From Inc. and Time, some ideas on what you can offer your employees to keep them happy, engaged, and high-performing — all on a budget.
- Watch out for these small business scams: While there are a lot of legitimate opportunities out there for you to expand your business's reach, here are some you should check out very carefully before getting involved.
As always, you can keep up with the latest small business news by following @LegalZoom on Twitter and LegalZoom on Facebook.
What's new in your small business world this week?


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text: I visit many incredible countries leading PODAS workshops for Phase One. One of the most amazingly beautiful countries I have visited is Iceland. After 3 visits in the last few years, I have finally brought the best of all the trips together in a rather large collection of images as shown below. I hope you enjoy viewing these images. I will be returning to Iceland in March 2013, so look for more images after that.


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A customer recently called me to tell me that he loved The President's House, by Margaret Truman, so when I gave a talk in Northern Virginia a few days later, I passed on the recommendation to the group. The next customer who read it just called to tell me that he is really enjoying this book, too. Several of the book reviews said that it is a fun and interesting look at the White House written by a woman who has a deep love for this national icon because she was lucky enough to grow up there.
"Do you have the divorce forms?" That question's not as easy to answer as you might think -- but CRRL can probably help!
"How do I get an annulment in Virginia?" "Is there a form I can use to change my name?" "Can I file for bankruptcy without a lawyer?" "Is there a list of local domestic violence shelters?"
Grab-and-go forms and flyers dealing with all these legal matters, and many, many others, are now available at the CRRL Law Library.
From the time she was quite young, Sylvia Earle loved the outdoors. She spent her early childhood on a farm in New Jersey exploring the animals and plants around her. Her family moved to Florida when Sylvia was twelve, to a home with a backyard on the Gulf of Mexico. Once Sylvia began exploring the waters of the Gulf, she found her life's calling. Throughout her career as an oceanographer, Sylvia has been driven to push the boundaries of the possible in order to find out more about the underwater world she loves so much.
The recent movie War Horse, based on the book by Michael Morpurgo, succeeded in showing the strong emotional connections between horses and people. Indeed, this bond was much a part of human history and everyday life up to the middle of the 20th century. Tamsin Pickeral's book, The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art, is as much about history of this relationship as it is about art.
From Neolithic horse hunters' vivid and probably shamanic cave paintings in France to portraits of proud aristocrats and royalty with their prized possessions to scenes such as the mournful "Ownerless Horse on the Battlefield at Mozhaisk in 1812," by Adam Albrecht, the horses depicted are as much a projection of human feeling as they are simple studies in landscape or nature.
It's November 2004, and a group of Marines called the Lava Dogs of the First Battalion,Third Marine Regiment, stationed in Fallujah, Iraq, are about to clear a room in an abandoned home when they hear a suspicious sound. Instead of immediately shooting, which could save their lives if an enemy were in the other room, the Marines just listen. They hear something small sniffing and clicking around the old home. Before anyone can shoot, they notice what it is: a puppy. From Baghdad, With Love: A Marine, the War, and a Dog Named Lava by Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman is the story of what happens to a puppy who attaches himself to a group of Marines.
"Cultivating Community" is a community-wide program designed to share information in the Fredericksburg region about farm-to-table and sustainable food communities. These web sites support those goals by exploring how you can assess the sustainability of your community and your home, finding locally grown foods or growing your own, cooking, and sustainable gardening.
Community Sustainability Assessment: gen.ecovillage.org/activities/csa/English
A comprehensive checklist that anyone can complete to get a basic idea of how sustainable their community is. While it requires good knowledge of the life-styles, practices and features of the community, it does not require research, calculation and detailed quantification. This assessment takes about three hours for an individual to complete, or a series of sessions if done as a group experience by community members.
"Our beliefs do not determine what is true or false. They do not determine objective reality. But they do determine what we see."
In Believing Is Seeing, Errol Morris investigates the complex relationship between documentary photographs and the truth we assume they deliver. Best known as the gifted documentarian behind films such as The Fog of War, Standard Operating Procedure, and The Thin Blue Line, Morris has spent years pondering how authenticity, truth, and appearance converge and complicate one another. It is hardly surprising then that Morris's analysis of documentary photography is insightful and accessible.
Errol Morris's cinematic explorations often fixate on a specific figure or series of events. He then breathes life into the topic by artfully combining provocative interviews and extensive research. Believing is Seeing successfully incorporates this methodology while simultaneously deconstructing the very notion of documentary veracity. The book consists of essays, each one describing a case study in which documentary photographs created controversy, conflicting interpretations, or troubling implications. Morris elucidates both the context and reception of each image with interviews and archival research.
He also analyzes both contemporary and historical images, demonstrating that many of the same issues and questions have been recurring since the advent of photography. Whether the photograph was taken in 1855 during the Crimean War or in 2003 at Abu Ghraib, our collective tendency to equate an image with a finalized truth has been problematic. To borrow Morris's succinct phrasing, "…photographs allow us to think we know more than we really do. We can imagine a context that isn't really there."
With the gardening season starting in full force, there are many moments when we plan a project, even get started and then get stuck. Further guidance and reading is required. The Central Rappahannock Regional Library certainly has a large collection of paper copies of gardening books. But what happens if the perfect book is checked out and has holds on it? Or, perhaps you can't get in to see us at the library. Time is running out, and you need to start now.
I was aware of the fact that EBSCOhost has a collection of electronic gardening books but did not know how extensive the collection is. By typing in "gardening," as the search term, I came up with over four pages of results.
To utilize the results of your gardening, there are also many different cookbooks also available as eBooks.
Wild Horses of the World, written by Moira C. Harris and with photographs by Bob Langrish, is a beautiful coffee table book that looks at dozens of types of wild horses around the world. Though all but one example, the Przewalski horse from Mongolia, are really more feral than truly wild, these horses have been roaming free for so many centuries and sometimes millennia that they have established their own identities, which are often interlinked with the history and culture surrounding them. Whether abandoned by explorers or left to freely roam by farmers until needed, the newly-wild horses quickly adapted to the natural herd behavioral patterns that protected them. Without human interference, only the hardiest of the lot could survive.
The Omnivore's Dilemma, by Michael Pollan, seeks to determine through investigative journalism exactly what goes into deciding what we should eat. Pollan explains that as omnivores, humans have such a vast variety of foods that they are able to eat—plant, animal, and even fungi--that it creates a problem within the human mind. Other species such as the koala bear only have one choice for dinner, eucalyptus leaves; because humans have so many choices, deciding what to eat can take up a large part of humans' time.
In order to investigate exactly how we have come to use the supermarkets and the industrial-style meal preparations today, Pollan looks at all of the ways in which people are able to feed themselves. He analyzes first the industrial-style food change, which starts with large farms in other parts of the country—or, in some cases, other parts of the world—and consists mostly of corn products, which leads to a meal served at your local McDonald's. Then he looks into the organic phenomena that we're seeing today, which stemmed out of early ideas about better ways to manufacture food that does not contain hormones and antibiotics that other industrial food chains add. Next, he looks at some alternative food production models, such as grass feed farms. The one that he examines most thoroughly is Polyface Farm, which is located in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Lastly, Pollan looks at the most traditional way of food production—food foraging—with which he produces an entire meal using his own skills in Berkley, California.


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Court Report
A request by the public defender's office, for a continuance in the case of Linnea Samatua, charged with stealing and passing bad checks, was granted by Associate Justice Lyle L. Richmond.
Samatua who is out on bail of $3,000, was in court for her pre-trial conference when Assistant Attorney General Kimberly Hyde informed the court a plea offer was handed over to the defense.
Samatua allegedly wrote seven checks out to the Airport Way Gas Station and Haleck's Service Center in March 2012, totaling $570. The checks were returned with a 'Closed Account' notice. Each returned check was then charged a fee of $25 by the payee.
The government now claims Samatua has repaid $200 with a remaining balance of $545.00.
The pretrial conference will take place within the next two weeks.
Merlin Uli, currently serving a 10-year-sentence, is charged in a new case, on allegations he escaped on several occasions while on work release.
The defendant entered a not guilty plea when he appeared in the High Court yesterday.
According to the government's case, Merlin is currently serving a 10 year sentence with his twin brother Marlon, following their conviction on two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
But he is again charged with four counts of escape while on program release and each count is a class D felony punishable by imprisonment up to five years, a fine of up to $5,000 or both.
According to the government, on November 16, 2011 the defendant was approved to take part in a work release program, working part time for 3M Burger and attending college.
The government alleges that on June 22, 2012, a search warrant was executed at the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) Cell Unit inside the Tafuna Correctional facility where the defendant was housed.
"A number of items were seized during the execution of this search warrant, some of the items indicated the defendant was deviating from the direct route to and from his work release" say court filings.
Court filings state that during the search, multiple receipts were confiscated from the defendant's cell. One of the receipts dated January 5, 2012 was a receipt for money order at the post office in Fagatogo and the defendant's signature was on the receipt.
It's alleged the signature on the receipt matches the defendant's signature on both his driver's license and voter registration card. Police also confiscated the driver's license and voter registration card issued to the defendant.
The driver's license for the defendant contains Merlin's photo and signature that was issued on September 14, 2011.
An employee with the OMV Sam Kolone confirmed with police that he recalled seeing Merlin at the OMV on September 14, 2011.
The voter's registration card also contains the photo and signature of the defendant and it was issued on September 2011. It's alleged that on May 25, 2012 post office employee Chevonne Lafaele was about to leave work at the Leone Post office, while in her vehicle, she was approached by one of the Uli twins.
Lafaele was unclear which of the twins came to talk to her about a package that was scheduled to arrive on island and tracking information for the package noted that it's already on island however he did not receive the yellow slip to pick it up.
Lafaele told him that he would have to go to the Fagatogo Post office. The government claims that a photo line-up was later presented to Lafaele where she identified it was Merlin who she saw at the Post office in Leone.
Siloma Siotalima was sentenced to leave the territory as a condition of a five-year probation term in connection with his conviction for an ongoing sexual relationship with a minor.
Siotalima was initially charged with five counts of rape, deviate sexual assault, first degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child but entered a guilty plea to deviate sexual assault under his plea deal, and the government moved to dismiss the remaining charges.
Assistant Public Defender Leslie Cardin, noted the difficulty in this case because although it was an inappropriate relationship it was consensual. She added that due to the complaining witness' persistence, it landed the defendant in court.
Cardin told the court that a baby was born from this relationship and the baby has been been given up for adoption while the girl was sent back to Samoa.
She informed the court that Siotalima is an overstayer and his sponsor was present in court and is ready to pay for the defendant's travel arrangements to return to Samoa.
Deputy Attorney General Mitzie Jessop pointed out that the defendant is twice the age of the complaining witness, and should have known better.
"This case is where consensual is irrelevant, he should have known better" said the Deputy AG. Associate Justice Richmond who handed down sentencing.
Richmond noted that Siotalima had already served nine and half months at the Tafuna Correctional Facility and sentenced him to five years in jail, with execution of sentencing suspended placed him on a five year probation term with conditions.
Siotalima was ordered to serve 20 months in jail, with the jail-term stayed and he is to leave the territory for the remainder of his probation.
Siotalima was also ordered to pay a fine, which should be paid by the sponsor said the court since Siotalima will be leaving the territory.
A man charged in March and July 2012 for third degree assault, on domestic violence, is again before the court charged for the third time, for the same crime, while on probation for his earlier convictions.
The defendant, being held on bail of $20,000, yesterday waived his rights to a preliminary examination and will be arraigned in the High Court on Monday.
The defendant's name will not be published to protect the identity of the victim.
According to the government's case the defendant pled guilty in March and July of 2012, to third degree assault for assaulting his wife.
The victim told police her husband assaulted her numerous times, and she believes that one of those assaults resulted in her miscarriage in June 2012, when she was five or six months pregnant with the defendant's child.
After pleading guilty to a crime involving Domestic Violence within the past five (5) years and committing it again, is a violation of ASCA 47.0102 (2) a class D felony, punishable by imprisonment of up to five years and a fine of up to $5,000.00 say government attorneys


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Sal Tripi: He's Watching Out For YOU!
You know a lot about the "public faces" of Publishers Clearing House, like our beloved Prize Patrol team–Dave Sayer, Todd Sloane and Danielle Lam. But what about the unsung heroes? The men and women who make things work behind the scenes. Aren't you curious to know who's making it all possible? Of course you are!
Today we meet up with Sal Tripi, who was promoted last year to the position of Assistant Vice President, Digital Operations and Compliance. In this role, Sal is all about consumer protection. He closely monitors the PCH brand online to ensure unscrupulous parties are not able to pass themselves off as PCH in the digital world.
Sal is very much involved in what he calls the "online ecosystem," taking all the necessary measures to keep consumers safe. "Spam crosses lots of channels. We work with partners to monitor fraudulent email and find fraudulent sites, which we then get shut down," says Sal. He works to create and implement authentification filters, which ensure that a number of varying factors align before an email is deemed authentic. Sal says it's his mission to, "separate us from the bad guys." So you have Sal to thank for getting less junk mail from pesky PCH imposters in your email inbox!
Sal's been with Publishers Clearing House for more than eighteen years. He started his career in the PCH document processing facility, entering and processing orders. From there, he bounced around for years, from payment processing to merchandise fulfillment to continuity–then back again into merchandise planning. "No one wanted me!" he jokes.
About seven years ago, Sal got involved in the online world at PCH, and that's where he's stayed, helping to grow what started as a fairly small business into what it has become today–and always watching out for the consumer, respecting the consumer's desire for receiving appropriate content and ensuring they not get bombarded by things they don't want.
Sal is passionate about the direct marketing industry and is a Board Member of the Online Trust Association. He also sits on the Ethics Committee for the Direct Marketing Association. By keeping consumers safe and protected, he helps us bring you the best PCH online experience possible. Sure, he may have joked that no one wanted him, but all joking aside, we couldn't get by without him. And thank goodness we don't have to.
If Sal could win a PCH prize (which he can't because he is a PCH employee…but we like to dream), what would he do with the money? "Not sure," he said. "One thing I know that I would not do is retire. I love this job and want to continue to do it for a long, long time." Whew! What a relief.
Thanks for watching out for us, Sal!
Francine L.
PCH Online Creative
23 thoughts on "Sal Tripi: He's Watching Out For YOU!"
I can't reset my PCH password. I got this TYPO message. I go into my e-mail box for message how to reset and now I can't even get to PCH. I can get into my VIP account but that is all. Pppppplllllllzzzzzzz help me. I know you are busy with others so I will show some patience. I would like to Thank you in advance for all your help and support PCH and special thanks to Sal Tripi
A Family of Love at PCH. All of you are wimnets; nomatter what.
Its almoat time co-fans.
Keep your fingers crossed. Ready set: It will be a really far off place you don't know of that will win; but, they deserve it just as much as any of us.
Good luck to all of you on the
29th Feb. 2012.
My B-Day was on Feb- 15, 2012, and yes, I got a happy B-Day from Pch the family of love.
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I just saw the error in my email address in the previous post. So sorry. I will be sure it is correct in this one–it is lbouche1 instead of what is there.
Something has happened to my computer and I can no longer open up things within my emails. Therefore I cannot open you emails to comply with the requests or to order. Please do not eleminate me because of that. I am trying to get this corrected.
Hi, awwe love everyone's comments!
Thanks for blogging & for always being here Francine and Sal @ PCH!!
CONGRATULATIONS on your promo Mr. Sal Tripi! Keep up the GREAT work!
Hi, Thanks PCH for sending me emails everyday to enter. I noticed an item today that is a Panama Basket Weave Mat. It lists that you can by a second for $4.00 more. However I noticed that you have a typo error. It lists $15.96 for 2 mats and $19.96 for only one. I am quite sure it should be the other way around. You might want to correct that so no one gets the wrong order. P.S. I will be home on Feb 29th so you can come anytime. Thanks
No another Sweepstakes company is the best than PCH Sweepstakes company! You have had everything that supported and do a great job for people like me!
I am trust and stick with PCH company is the right choice for me!
Thank you for having me a member of PCH Sweepstakes's player!
I appreciate your thoughtfulness!
congratulations Sal for a job well done and for your promotion..you deserve it as well as the rest of the PCH staff! thanks 4 continually opportunity!!
Thanks Sal for all your help!!! I just love the PCH website. I think it is a great website, I know I have had my share of PCH spam email and it is good to know someone is out there watching out for all of us! Good job Sal!!! And I am so glad you like your job!!!
I do hope you are having a wonderful day and Happy New Year!!!