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As Mayor Shari Decter Hirst began her State of the City address on Thursday, she made sure to clarify early on that it was not going to be a campaign speech.
"I know there are some, including the media, that are expecting that this will be a campaign speech," she said to the crowd. "But I want to assure them, and perhaps reassure you, that it's not. There's going to be lots of time over the next six months to talk about what's going to be happening in Brandon in the next four years."
The mayoral campaign period officially began May 1, when Decter Hirst and challenger Rick Chrest registered as candidates.
Decter Hirst said it is going to be a challenge over the next six months to balance mayoral responsibilities with candidate opportunities. She wanted her speech to look back at the term, rather than look too far in the future "partly because … I'm the mayor in the chair for the next six months, so anything beyond that is outside of my prerogative to speak about."
In federal and provincial politics, there is a 35-day writ period before elections. Campaigns are ramped up during that time, and there are rules against publicizing or publishing anything that is favourable to their party.
But in municipal politics, the campaign period can be up to six months, depending on when candidates register.
Decter Hirst said having a municipal writ period is a "phenomenally good idea."
"(In Ontario) they have a cooling off period that coincidentally is about six months, where mayors and councils are not allowed to divest themselves of property … or fire city managers or in fact make some of those key long-term decisions because again, you very much are making a commitment on behalf of the next council," she said.
Decter Hirst said current councillors have discussed the issue and will make sure they "don't overstep" bounds.
The mayor simply said, "They asked, I came" when asked if she felt it was appropriate to have a State of the City during a campaign period.
"I know I certainly enjoyed listening to Dave (Burgess)'s State of the City in 2010, and I'm sure that Rick (Chrest) enjoyed listening to my State of the City."
Chrest attended the event on Thursday, and said while some people have raised the issue, he is "not that hung up on it."
"The chamber's been having the State of the City address at about this time frame for years and years."
Chrest said he appreciated the fact that Decter Hirst didn't turn it into a campaign speech and she "even acknowledged there will be lots of debates and chances to have equal time in the future."
Meir Serfaty, professor and chair of the political science department at Brandon University, pointed out there is "absolutely no provision" for the incumbent mayor not to participate in functions like the chamber luncheon, "especially when she's invited to them."
"It's not that she requested … to do the State of the City," he said. "To be fair to her also, she acknowledged the fact that she is running and she wasn't going to make a ... campaign speech, and I think overall she kept to that."
Serfaty said he doesn't see much value in establishing a writ period in municipal politics.
"The fact when you're an incumbent, you have an advantage over non-incumbent, and that's a reality of politics," he said. "When you've been there, done that, you can speak from immediate direct experience no matter where you are. So I personally don't see a really big deal about that."
According to Brandon's city council code of conduct, no member of council can use the facilities, equipment, supplies or services of the city for any election campaign or campaign-related activities. No member can hold campaign-related activities on city property unless permitted by the city, such as an all-candidates meeting. No member shall attempt to require city employees to participate in political activities.
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I think Nick´s suggesting is reasonable.
However, you could also consult theory on how clusters can be defined and how the number of clusters can be determined. In principle, there is no optimal number of clusters. According to Mardia et al (see reference below) the number of clusters k can be estimated as k=(n/2)^1/2. Thus if you have 35 schools the number of clusters is (35/2)^(1/2) = 4.
How many schools each clusters should contain can be determined using a range of (statistical) methods. For instance, you could use the Ward method which minimizes the variance within each cluster and thus maximizes the (empirical) homogeneity within each cluster of schools. This method implies you that your schools within each clusters will be relatively "similar" and that you do not interfere in the "selection procedure" and thus in choosing how many schools there "should be" in each cluster.
For more information, see e.g.
Mardia, Kenb, and Bibby (1979) Multivariate Analysis. Academic Press. London. Pages 360-384.
Romesburg (2004) Cluster Analysis for Researchers. Lulu press. North Carolina. Pages 31-34.
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> I'd plot a map and identify clusters by eye. (Seriously.)
> Nick
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Book Review: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
Reviewed by Librarian Donna Surles
For 40 years, the humans and dragons of the Kingdom of Goredd have lived in an uneasy peace. Since the dragons can take human form, they are often indistinguishable from people.
Seraphina Dombegh is a very talented musician, who has just begun working for the King's Court. A member of the royal family is murdered in a draconian fashion. Seraphina is drawn into the murder mystery, assisted by Prince Lucian Kiggs, the captain of the Queen's Guard. Prince Kiggs is engaged to his cousin Princess Glisselda. Seraphina becomes a friend to both the Prince and Princess, but a conflict ensues when she finds herself attracted to the Prince.
As relationships between humans and dragons become more tense, talk of war begins. In addition, a rogue dragon is causing major trouble. Seraphina herself harbors a dangerous secret that she struggles to protect.
The world of Goredd is a fascinating one. There is plenty of action and subterfuge at court. This is author Rachel Hartman's first fantasy novel. Hopefully, there will be a sequel.


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Tech 3 aims for success in Yamaha's home race
The Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team heads to the Twin Ring Motegi track this weekend determined to deliver strong results in front of a large contingent of Yamaha fans at the re-scheduled Japanese Grand Prix.
British rider Cal Crutchlow is eagerly-anticipating his first chance to compete in Yamaha's all-important home Grand Prix after he scored a thoroughly deserved ninth position last time out at the Motorland Aragon in Spain.
The 25-year-old has made big advances in improving the set-up of his Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team YZR-M1 machine in recent weeks and he is looking forward to testing his skills on the 2.983 miles Twin Ring Motegi track, which is dominated by a series of hard braking an d acceleration points.
American team-mate Colin Edwards is determined to return to the form that has made him the outstanding non-factory rider once again in 2011.
The popular 37-year-old was uncharacteristically outside of the top 10 in the previous two races, but the Twin Ring Motegi race gives him the perfect opportunity to show the speed that established him as a consistent top six contender earlier in 2011.
The Japanese venue was a happy hunting ground for Edwards last season, the long-serving and loyal Yamaha rider racing to a season best fifth position. He's qualified in fifth place on the grid in the past two seasons and he's optimistic of mounting another top six challenge with seventh place in the World Championship standings still an achievable goal.
This weekend's race was originally scheduled to take place on April 24, but an earthquake and tsunami that caused widespread devastation in north-east Japan meant the race was postponed.
Following the tragic events back in March, Crutchlow, Edwards and the rest of Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team are looking forward to showing their support to management, staff and fans of Yamaha at this weekend's race, which is the 15th of 18 in this year's MotoGP World Championship.
This weekend's Twin Ring Motegi race sees the beginning of a hectic conclusion to the season, with visits to Australia and Malaysia following quickly before the campaign ends in Valencia.
Colin Edwards, 9th - 90 points:
"The last couple of races haven't gone according to plan, so there's no better place to try and put things right than in Yamaha's home Grand Prix. I had my best result of the season at the Twin Ring Mot egi last year, so I go there with a lot of confidence that I can fight for another top six. It is not going to be an easy task when you look at the level of competition, but we know the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team package is better than last year, so hopefully we'll be in the mix for a good result. Seventh in the Championship is not out of reach and there are four races to go, so we still have a lot to fight for. The Japanese Grand Prix is always a massive event for Yamaha and this year is no exception. It has been a difficult time for the Japanese people, so to go there and demonstrate our support for them is really important. Hopefully we can bring some joy to them by putting on a good show, particularly for Yamaha and all its fans."
Cal Crutchlow, 13th - 52 points:
"I am really looking forward to going to Japan this weekend and I feel full of confidence after the good result at the Motorland Aragon. Fighting for almost the whole race with a rider of the calibre of Valentino Rossi was really good for my experience, and I learnt a lot that will help me for the future. Obviously the Twin Ring Motegi is another new track for me, but I have found my way round other new tracks pretty quickly to be competitive, so hopefully it will be the same in Japan. The good thing is that after this weekend I know Phillip Island, Sepang and Valencia, so hopefully I can end the season with some strong races inside the top 10. It is an honour for me to represent Yamaha in the Japanese Grand Prix, and after a difficult period following the earthquake, I am looking forward to being able to show my support to the Japanese people and everyone connected to Yamaha this weekend."
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As members of North Shore Rescue were beginning the search for two missing hikers at Crown Mountain behind Grouse last night, the team also got a call about a man and a woman lost during a hike in Lynn Headwaters Park.
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It looks like you are trying to run the -predict- statement inside some kind of double loop. I don't know the innards of -predict-, but I'd guess it is trying to create the same variable for every value of the loop arguments. If you had done "generate temp =foobar" inside a loop, this would generate an error that the 'variable already exists'; perhaps your error is the same. If the loop did the prediction for the first time through on both arguments, that's the problem. There are many possible solutions, including naming the new variable by appending "i" and "t".
Maybe: "predict temp`i'`t' if ..."
Statalist FAQ state that you should show all the commands and all the output that Stata generated. As Nick states, you haven't listed enough for us to really know what went wrong.
On Feb 11, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
This worked for me.
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I guess that you are doing something different that you are not
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Ir. Tom Raadgever
In January 2005, Tom Raadgever started his PhD project at Delft University of Technology. The PhD project is financed by the Research Centre Water Delft and the EC 6th framework project NeWater. The NeWater project explores new approaches to adaptive water management under uncertainty. The PhD project contributes to the Workpackages 'Governance, institutions and participation' and 'Transboundary regimes'.
The main goal of the PhD project is to gain insight in the mechanism that may lead to cognitive learning in collaborative processes. The study is focused on cognitive learning by policymakers from technical expert knowledge. Through literature study, factors that may support or limit learning in collaborative processes are collected, and these insights are refined by studying the factors that influence learning in two cases in water management practice. In both cases, the research focuses on measuring changes in stakeholder perspectives, as an operational measure of cognitive learning, identifying those changes caused by technical expert knowledge, and relating those changes to the observed interactive process. Methods used for linking cognitive changes to the collaborative process factors include interaction and argumentation analysis. The results of the PhD project are intended to contribute to improved insight, among both technical experts and policymakers, in whether and how to collaborate.
In the first case, the PhD researcher co-organises and evaluates a series of workshops in which the Dutch-German Working group on Flood Management and other stakeholders jointly develop long-term, transboundary strategies for flood management, supported by hydrological modelling. The second case concerns the potential effects of ending a large industrial groundwater extraction in Delft and strategies to deal with these effects. A group of research institutes develops the necessary models, produces the required information, and disseminates it through reports and workshops to support decision-making. Both case studies are still ongoing. Initial stakeholder perspectives have been collected and multiple interactive workshops are observed in detail.
Recent publications:
Raadgever, G. T., Mostert, E., and van de Giesen, N. C. (2008). Identification of stakeholder perspectives on future flood management in the Rhine basin using Q methodology. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 12(4):1097-1109.
Raadgever, G. T., Mostert, E., Kranz, N., Interwies, E., Timmerman, J.G. (2008). Assessing Management Regimes in Transboundary River Basins: Do They Support Adaptive Management? Ecology and Society 13(1): 14.
Raadgever, G. T. and Becker, G.(2008). Exploring future flood management: a comparison of scenarios from literature and stakeholder perspectives . Pp. 95: 1-9 in S. P. Simonovic, P. G. Bourget and S. F. Blanchard (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Flood Defence: Managing flood risk, reliability and vulnerability (Toronto, Canada, 2008), Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction.
Raadgever, G.T. and Mostert, E. (2007). The role of expert knowledge in collaborative water management . In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Adaptive and Integrated Water Management, November 12-15, 2007, Basel, Switzerland
Raadgever, G.T., Becker, G. and Mostert, E. (2007). Perspectives on future flood management: discovering patterns of thinking. Pp. 186-191 in: van de Giesen, N.C., Jun, X., Rosjberg, D. and Fukushima, Y. (Eds.), Changes in Water Resources Systems: Methodologies to Maintain Water Security and Ensure Integrated Management (Proceedings of Symposium HS3006 at IUGG2007, Perugia, July 2007). IAHS Publ. 315.
Raadgever, G. T., Mostert, E., van de Giesen, N.C. (2006). Measuring Adaptive River Basin Management . In: Colosimo, M., Potts, D.F. (Eds.), Proceedings of the AWRA Summer Specialty Conference 'Adaptive Management of Water Resources', June 26-28, 2006, Missoula, Montana
Raadgever, G.T. and Mostert, E. (2005), Public participation in information management - Analysis of participatory tools and their contribution to adaptive river basin management, Deliverable 1.2.2 of the NeWater project, RBA Centre, TU Delft
Raadgever, G.T. and Mostert, E. (2005), Transboundary River Basin Management – State-of-the-art review on transboundary regimes and information management in the context of adaptive management, Deliverable 1.3.1 of the NeWater project, RBA Centre, TU Delft
Below follow the links to the background reports of NeWater Deliverable 1.3.1., which describe the separate case study basins:
Becker, G. 2005. Transboundary river basin management regimes: the Tisza basin case study. Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Kranz, N., Interwies, E. and Vidaurre, R. 2005. Transboundary river basin management regimes: the Orange basin case study . Ecologic – Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, Berlin, Germany.
Kranz, N., Interwies, E. and Vorwerk, A.. 2005. Transboundary river basin management regimes: the Amu Darya basin case study . Ecologic – Institute for International and European Environmental Policy, Berlin, Germany.
Raadgever, G. T. 2005. Transboundary river basin management regimes: the Rhine basin case study . RBA Centre, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Raadgever, G. T. 2005. Transboundary river basin management regimes: the Elbe basin case study. RBA Centre, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Timmerman, J.G. 2005. Transboundary river basin management regimes: the Nile basin case study . RIZA - Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment, Lelystad, the Netherlands
Timmerman, J.G. and Doze, J. 2005. Transboundary river basin management regimes: the Guadiana basin case study . RIZA - Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment, Lelystad, the Netherlands


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Maybe I'm making the Knife out to be melodramatic. And that's unfair. There is humor here, nothing so much in the form of a joke, but laughter born of discomfort. During "Marble House," an enormous, probably Swedish head "floated" off stage and mouthed some of the song's words before deteriorating into a skull. There are lyrics that seem to make reference to the Grimms' "Hansel and Gretel," and the Knife have admitted in interviews that they cracked themselves up a number of times in the making of Silent Shout, what with all the vocoding, all the schmaltzy eight-bit RPG chord progressions at the heart of songs like "Na Na Na," all the Kate-Bush-gone-wrong club-industrial pounds of "Neverland." If nothing else, dark dreary music that backdrops a retelling of a fairy tale is pretty funny stuff.
Mid set, during "Marble House," I fainted. Just dropped. I was unconscious, I'm told, for about a minute. Jelena dragged me through the crowd, and when I snapped back, I vomited. I don't mean to be too sensational about this. I hadn't had much to eat before the concert, and I've been having panic attacks lately. After the fact, I usually explain it all away, but it's increasingly hard to laugh off the ER bills.
I hesitate to assign a value to all this, but I wonder to what extent that Knife show was the limit of my existing ironically — the endzone for how much I can write off and explain away before I stop underestimating objects and am forced to deal with unmediated experiences. Before "uncomfortable" turns to vomit. Think of all the ironic deflections masquerading as insight here: the Jack/Meg "are they really siblings" stuff, the Blue Man Group allusion, the remark about a song based on "Hansel and Gretel" being "pretty funny stuff." I wonder whether that's my way of avoiding the disgusting truths of this music, the latter-day paralysis it depicts: "Wish I could speak in just one sweep/What you are and what you mean to me/Instead I mumble randomly."
At a certain point — I don't know when and I doubt many people even care — I wonder whether we can move beyond the "Hey look I get it, it's 'Hansel and Gretel!' " type of listening experience that turns albums into word-find-like whodunits and songs into soundbytes and ask ourselves why a story like "Hansel and Gretel" exists in the first place, let alone why we're still talking about it. Plus, beyond the technophobia, and the pomo paralysis, and the communications-breakdown undertones, Silent Shout's other devastating reminder is that all recorded music is a lie. No recording, even the simplest, cleanest singer-songwriter acoustic studio session, is without compression on the microphone, slight distortions — deceptions — from the tape. To say nothing of the fact that music is itself a crutch. It's much easier to say "I love you" with a well-placed chord to tame the blush and an untrained voice to make it sound real (i.e., "from the heart"). These as are much affects as the Dreijers' contorted vocals; no sound is untreated, unwrenched. No, that's not news, but Silent Shout is a prime cut. From "From Off to On": "We cannot wait much longer/We want happiness back/We want control of our bodies/Everything we lacked/I think I even liked it/If the feeling was mine."
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Need to promote mediation services
Nationalist MP Mario de Marco said yesterday that an important role of the Malta Mediation Centre should be to promote mediation, and it should have a budget for promotional activities.
He was speaking in parliament during the debate on a bill for the setting up of the mediation centre.
Mediation, Dr de Marco said, was an important element in the context of alternative dispute resolution.
The concept of alternative dispute resolution had taken root in many countries since it was an informal method for the resolution of disputes instead of normal, rigid and sometimes traumatic court proceedings.
Mediation, which he viewed as complimentary to court proceedings, had three main advantages. Firstly, there were no winners and losers and both sides worked towards a solution acceptable to all. This, therefore, was also different from arbitration, where a case would go against one of the parties.
Secondly, mediation was especially important in commercial cases. Since there were no winners or losers, there was no adversarial concept.
Thirdly, successful mediation was far cheaper, and often faster, than court proceedings.
With access to justice being a fundamental right, there was no doubt that the provision of mediation services, therefore, would make this access easier.
The Nationalist MP observed that the Vienna EU Council had underlined the need for mediation in cross border disputes, while the Lisbon Council had invited the European Commission to promote mediation in issues involving e-commerce.
The United Nations Commission on International Trade Law had adopted a model law on conciliation in commercial disputes, which included mediation.
The EU had adopted a green paper on mediation.
There was no fixed model of mediation services and various countries, notably Denmark, Italy, Austria and Portugal had experimented with different ways of mediation.
Some countries offered the possibility of having cases referred to judges for conciliation or encouraged judges to intervene and help the parties reach solutions.
Some countries had adopted mediation for particular sectors. In France, for example, a National Consultative Council on Family Mediation was formed in 2001.
The code of organisation in some countries and regions, such as in Germany, allowed the courts, in certain circumstances, to refer cases for mediation. The courts in England and Wales could suspend proceedings while parties were ordered to take their case for mediation.
In Belgium, cases involving the labour laws and agricultural leases had first to be discussed before a mediator before ending up before the courts.
Some members of the opposition, Dr de Marco noted, had argued in favour of mediation but felt the setting up of a mediation centre was not required, more so as not many people sought such services.
But if one did not have a mediation centre, who would be responsible for the promotion of mediation services? Who would assume the role of regulator, ensuring that mediators were of the required competence?
It was good that the mediation and arbitration centres would be housed in the same building, as both were instruments of alternative dispute resolution.
Turning to particular aspects of the bill, Dr de Marco noted that mediation proceedings may be resorted to voluntarily; following a decree or order by an "adjudicatory body "; or by law.
Clearly, the term "adjudicatory body" needed to be defined.
Dr de Marco said that as far as possible, mediation should be voluntary and not imposed. There could be instances where it was wise to refer a case for mediation, but that should be the exception, since there was a greater chance of success when mediation was voluntary. And one had to be careful that recourse to mediation was not used as a method to prolong cases before a court.
Dr de Marco also argued that legal aid should be available in mediation services, more so when mediation was imposed. An EU draft directive on legal aid had indeed recommended that legal aid should also be available for instruments of alternative dispute resolution, which included mediation.
He felt that when an adjudicatory body referred a case for mediation and established an adjudication period for this purpose, the parties should be able to go back before the court and resume proceedings before that time expired when the adjudication was concluded, or did not succeed.
Furthermore, would recourse to mediation be considered as interrupting the prescription period, where it existed?
Dr de Marco noted that the Malta Mediation Centre would draw up a list of mediators to assist in domestic and international mediation. The mediators, he said, should be of such character as to enjoy the respect of both parties and be able to exert authority on them. And since mediation had a lot to do with consensus, the parties should be free to agree on the appointment of a mediator who was not on the centre's list.
The bill, rightly, included provisions on confidentiality. No mention, however, was made of the liability of mediators such as when the confidentiality clause was violated. Would this confidentiality fall within the Professional Secrecy Act?
It was important, Dr de Marco said, that the Malta Mediation Centre promoted the concept of mediation, and had a budget for this purpose.
Concluding, he said that he was also in favour of the creation of a European Centre for Mediation, not least because recourse for mediation was far lower in Europe than in the United States.
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First time on the forum for me. Its been good to read a lot of the posts and see I'm not alone out there!
I'm new to running so apologies if this is a silly question. I am determined to do some knee strengthening exercises as I suffer with a sore right knee. My query is; having found several good exercises to do I'm not clear when to do them? Do I do them on a run day or a recovery day? I run 3 times a week but wasn't sure if recovery days are meant to be complete switch off.
Hope someone can help
Whilst the exercises are good you need to really determine why you are having the pain
If you are new to running have you got the correct shoes?
You run 3 times a week which is sensible to start with
Have you slowly increased your distance?
If you are doing strength exercises the I would probably do them on days you are not running to start with but if there is any associated pain then stop and seek help.
Shoes may well be the problem if you have not been correctly analysed in a running shop
I used to suffer with knee pain a lot. And as per post above, the cause was a hip drop due to lack of glute stability. (ie I wasn't engaging my right glute when I ran so my right hip was dropping slightly and my knee took the brunt of the pain).
I know this is a common problem with runners, but obivously you'll need a physio to confirm this. But if you are looking for exercises, core and glute strength exercises might help.
I have problems with my knees, been told I have osteoarthritis in my knees though it was only diagnosed last year and when I had it diagnosed I wasn't experiencing any pain, infact the scan which showed the issue was regarding another issue.
I was told that the only thing you could do with a joint problem (aside from,-in the words of the consultant- stop running... ??!) is to build up the muscles around the joint and then train your body to use those muscles over your joints. It then helps take some of the strain away from the joints and they then are not so over used and so then when you have down time are more likely to be able to recover from being used.
Apparently its common for runners to get OA in the knees and hips due to running though there are studies which contradict this but safe to say the medical profession- in my experience do not like runners, they seem to view it as an extreme sport. When I was talking to the physios I may as well have been in A&E asking for help because I had a love for jumping in fires and couldn't understand why my face felt sore...
Many physio's recommend adding some backward running into your training. This apparently strengthens all the muscles you don't use going forwards and puts less pressure on the knee. I found info here that helped me http://reverserunning.com/benefits.aspx
Everyone laughs at me but I haven't had a knee problem since taking up backward running and I used to get it every time I went for a run.
I too am at a loss at the moment with your painfull right knee due to running and tennis.
Can anyone advise some easy simple exercises to help me get back to some sort of normal running without pain. I have a knee brace that certainly helps when running but not with the recovery. Do i need to see a physio to really get to the heart of the problem?


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National nightmare, over: FAA preparing to relax rules about electronics on airplanes
posted at 8:41 pm on September 23, 2013 by Erika Johnsen
I kid, of course; the entirely #FirstWorldProblem of having to turn off my iPod during takeoff and landing hardly qualifies as even a lite life scourge. If, however, you've ever flown and wondered about the very apparent pointlessness of the flight attendant tapping you on the shoulder and insisting that you must completely power down your non-radio/cell signal-emitting electronic device — particularly when it is clearly not important enough that they should actually try to enforce the often ignored and/or accidentally violated rule with any kind of surety — wonder no longer.
Even over-the-top cautiousness is probably appropriate when it comes to aviation safety, but the federal government has been particularly slow to address the evident obsoleteness of the Zero Electronics Below 10,000 Feet rule and they're only just making moves at altering the rule amidst the growing chorus of complaints in an increasingly digital age. Via the NYT:
This week, an F.A.A. advisory panel will meet to complete its recommendations to relax most of the restrictions. The guidelines are expected to allow reading e-books or other publications, listening to podcasts, and watching videos, according to several of the panel's members who requested anonymity because they could not comment on the recommendations. …
Last year, the F.A.A. created the advisory panel of industry experts to update the rule. It was supposed to report back in July but requested an extension until the end of September to sort out some technical materials, an indication of just how complicated the deliberation has been. …
The panel wants to be able to present a single policy from "gate to gate" that would apply to all airlines, and all types of airplanes, according to several of its members who requested anonymity because the discussions were private. Instead of testing devices, the F.A.A. will ask that the airlines certify that their planes can tolerate interferences — something they have done when installing Wi-Fi on board, for instance. Once that is done, the airlines can allow electronic devices, perhaps by next year. …
Today's most popular devices, aviation experts said, use so little power that they are unable to interfere with a plane's aeronautics.
The prohibitions on Wi-Fi during takeoff and landing and on making any cell phone calls whatsoever will definitely stay in place — mobile voice communications are prohibited by the FCC because they can interfere with transmissions between cell towers on the ground — but otherwise, it sounds like the feds are slowly but surely moving toward modernization on this one.
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The list makes for alarming reading - real estate agents forging signatures, bad-mouthing properties for sale and giving false or misleading information when they were under investigation.
Details of fraudulent mortgage ramping schemes and commission disputes also feature in decisions of the Real Estate Agents Authority.
The sector's disciplinary body has released a list of agents' most serious offending at the Weekend Herald's request, based on licences cancelled and suspended, biggest fines, most financial compensation and those agents receiving more than unsatisfactory conduct or misconduct decisions.
But chief executive Kevin Lampen-Smith has urged New Zealanders to keep the offences in perspective, saying most sales by the country's 13,000 agents had no issues.
"Only a small percentage of agents have been found to have breached the rules - approximately 1 per cent in the last 12 months. The industry knows that it is accountable for its actions and that if they do breach the rules that this is taken very seriously and there will be consequences."
The authority was formed in 2009 amid growing consumer discontent about bad agent behaviour and a lack of confidence in the industry's in-house body that previously dealt with complaints.
It has handed out more penalties and taken a more activist role in naming agents guilty of breaching the rules. While there have been some complaints from agents, others believe the greater transparency is good for the industry as well as consumers.
The worst recent cases seen by the authority, most of which occurred in the past year, were:
Mark Ferguson, formerly of Ray White Taranaki has had three decisions against him, including one of misconduct involving six charges. However, no penalty was given because he is bankrupt and has already removed himself from the sector.
In the most serious decision of misconduct, a buyer paid only $185,000 for a place on which the maximum offer would have been $205,000 had Ferguson not told him he wouldn't "touch [the property] with a barge pole" because "there have been some serious drug issues with that place", according to evidence presented to the Real Estate Agents Disciplinary Tribunal.
The authority said there was no evidence to support Ferguson's claim. It said he "bad-mouthed a property that had previously been listed with him to potential purchasers, did not provide a written appraisal, failed to honour a promise made to a vendor in return for her listing with him, removed pages from a LIM report before providing it to a potential purchaser, published a purported client testimonial on the internet and in marketing material without the client's knowledge or consent and invited parties to sign documents authorising the early release of funds without advising them of the consequences of doing this".
LIM report pages removed would have revealed a right-of-way dispute between a vendor and neighbours and Ferguson promised a vendor a $500 travel voucher for a listing.
The tribunal said six charges against him raised issues of dishonesty and some of the offending was very serious. One tribunal member cited the Ray White franchise for failing to supervise him.
The name of a salesperson in a case relating to Downtown Apartments was suppressed but the issue was over drawing funds paid into a trust account before the purchase of a Lorne St apartment went unconditional. The tribunal said such actions were at the high end of disgraceful conduct, which struck at the very heart of a real estate agent's duties.
Tairua's John Lloyd worked at Harcourts when he tried to develop his own property and sell part of it but he forged complainants' initials on a memorandum of understanding.
Janine Wallace of Auckland "sold a carpark she did not own and failed to refund the deposit relating to that carpark, acted as a licensee when unlicensed and was seriously incompetent or negligent when entering into a written contract of agency with, and placing undue pressure on, the vendors of a property". A Princes Wharf carpark and apartments in Shed 22 and Shed 24 on Auckland's waterfront were involved.
Murray Ross Cooper of Rotorua "deducted commission from deposit funds received into his trust account on six occasions before the expiry of 10 working days and without authorisation. On one occasion this was despite instructions from his client not to release the funds early," the tribunal said, adding that he had shifted to Sydney and had applied for a real estate agents' licence there.
Delwar Hoosain Kumandan of Harcourts Howick (Eastzone Realty) "forged a signature on a settlement notice for the purposes of showing that a sale had taken place when it hadn't".
Levani Lum-On of First Home NZ, South Auckland, was found guilty of misconduct after seminars on budgeting and finance at a Ray White office and Republic Bar in Manukau, where he promoted a "lay-by" arrangement as an agent when he was not licensed to do the work.
Jenner Real Estate, trading as Harcourts Remuera, incurred the biggest compensation order of $137,607.99 for "releasing deposit funds to a third party before the expiry of 10 working days and without its client's authorisation" during the $1.8 million sale of a Remuera home as the result of a relationship breakdown. The authority said the business was ordered to repay deposit funds to a client and was fined $7500.
Rajneel Raj of Re/Max Henderson Valley got the second biggest order, to pay $89,574.46 compensation for creating real estate sales in a fraudulent manner with a view to making a profit because he was involved in a mortgage ramping scheme and he incurred significant penalties. He has been the subject of extensive publicity, also incurring a fine of $10,000 for misconduct. His licence has been cancelled.
West Auckland's Sant Raj gave false or misleading information to an authority investigator probing the Rajneel Raj mortgage ramping fraud case.
The case against CD Cox, trading as Cox Partners in Napier, drew one of the higher penalties. The firm was ordered to pay $18,000 and agent Lukas Hilterscheid was ordered to pay $500. The authority said he failed to exercise reasonable skill and care by persuading the owner to sign a sale and purchase agreement while it was still under a sole agency agreement with another firm.
Geoffrey Hill of Motel Sales in Tauranga passed information on to buyers without clarification or verification, despite that being contrary to the previously known position of parties involved and he was said not to have acted in the best interests of those he represented.
The authority advises buyers and sellers to arm themselves with information and provides an online public register of licensed real estate agents "to see if your agent is licensed and whether they have had any complaints upheld against them".
Clients felt 'bullied' by real estate agent
A couple whose 26-year-old daughter had died only four months previously - leaving them to raise their young grandchildren - said they felt "extremely pressured" by ex-Ray White Taranaki real estate agent Mark Ferguson.
The Real Estate Agents Disciplinary Tribunal said Ferguson applied undue pressure to force them to drop their listing price of $330,000 to $315,000.
"I had a screaming 17-month-old child in the background and I've been under terrible stress," said the complainant. Names of all victims were suppressed to protect their identity.
In a separate case, an unidentified complainant said Ferguson emailed her at work, which she found distracting. Although she asked him not to, he continued with this.
"I felt bullied and threatened by his emails," she said. "I didn't appreciate his tone."
Ferguson told authorities he had been a salesperson, auctioneer, trainer and business development manager with the Ray White and Harcourts group, as well as a business owner.
"I have been in the real estate industry since 1994 with not one complaint directed to me until we opened our office in Inglewood," Ferguson said.
The tribunal said he seemed to be emphasising the hardship resulting to him from the charges being brought.
"I have removed myself from the industry out of respect to the office I was working in. I didn't want them being affected by the charges laid," the tribunal quoted Ferguson saying.
• To read a case in full, go to reaa.govt.nz and click on "search complaint decisions"


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Cedar Rapids Gazette (Newspaper) - August 26, 1974, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Weather- Chance of rain Monday night. Lows mid 50s. Partly cloudy Tuesday with highs in the low 80s. BJ VOLUME 92 — NUMBER 229 CITY FINAL 15 CENTS CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1974 ASSOCIATED PRESS, UPI, NEW YORK TIMES -M " Pi rn rn i f ____ l:| WM ll fmK f > # fi? it- I * $< «•' " * it* i- ALGIERS (AP) — Portugal began the liquidation of its rebellious African empire Monday by signing a grant of independence for its colony of Portuguese Guinea. Secret talks on the agreement began here last week. It was signed by Portuguese Foreign Minister Mario Soares and Major Pedro Pires of the rebel movement in the West African territory—the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands. The Portuguese news agency Ani, in a report from the colony, said the two sides agreed to declare it independent as of Sept. 12. U.N. Admission The Lisbon government told the U.N. Aug. ll of Portugal's intention to grant the colony independence and support Guinea's admission to the world body. The insurgent movement, which began a guerilla war for independence in 1961, plans to call the new nation the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. The nationalist leaders made a unilateral declaration of independence last September and formed a provisional government headed by President Louis Cabral. Soares traveled to Algiers Thursday to iron out details of the transfer. The main stumbling block had*been the status of the Cape Verde islands. 600.000 People The liberation group had insisted on immediate independence for the strategically-located islands off Africa's West I Cedar Rapids Newscast. Portugal had favored delaying independence. The Islands will not immediately become part of Guinea-Bissau but Portugal pledged to hold a referendum on them. Portuguese Guinea, a triangle of land with a population of Rapids consumer price index about 600,000, is the poorest of now stands at 140.4 (January, Ford Sets Five Goals For Economic Summit WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres- economic summit and ident Ford has set five goals for plans to cut the budget, the economic conference next Grayson said the new month that he hopes will de-,monitoring agency might have velop ways to deal with infla-: some influence over wages and t*on- | prices but "I am not for the In a lengthy session Monday! jawboning that is in this agency, with his cabinet and economic I think that sort of threat to the advisors to lay the groundwork American economy will actually for the forthcoming summit, in some cases increase prices Fird set these goals: rather than decreasing them." To clarify the nation's present * * * ! economic condition. Taking a day off from the of- To identify the causes of the!Hee Sunday, the President went present inflation. !to church, played 18 holes of To develop a consensus, if golf and relaxed at a party with a I possible, on basic ideal with inflation. policies to To consider new and realistic members of the press who traveled with him as vice-president. He heard the Rev. Patricia -Gazette Photo by Duane Crock hi is Last Welcome for Students It was back to school Monday for students in the Cedar Rapids Community school district, and students at Madison school, 1341 Woodside drive NW, were welcomed back with this sign. Harry Clark, building engineer, is shown finishing putting the sign in place, while Principal Clarence B. Luvaas looks on. Luvaas started a custom of placing the sign when he was principal at Erskine school before being transferred to Madison last year. This was his last chance to follow the custom, since he is retiring at the end of the school year. C.R. Living Costs Rise 3% in Leaders of Factions on Quarter, Jump 11.3% for Year r r Cyprus Meet ewi~ ! fewer hours worked in Julv than and girls' down Overall, the / » Cedar Rapids' cost of living I April continued to soar upward during the second quarter, increasing three percent — the same as the national rate of price increases. The metropolitan Cedar Portugal's African territories. The Cape Verde Islands, in I cent in the last year tile Atlantic some 400 miles off the coast, have a population of about 250.000. Portugal has promised to negotiate independence for its two other African territories — Mo- 15.8 percent above a year ago. Higher prices for gas, oil and used cars account for the big increase. Food costs actually dropped 1967, equals IOO), up 11.3 per-! 1.2 percent in the quarter, but 1 are still 12.4 percent higher than During the same year's time, a Year a2°- gross weekly earnings for the average Cedar Rapids factory worker rose $11.60 to $191.78. However, the rapid rise in fewer hours worked in July than I and girls' down. Overall, the category was up 1.6 in the By United Press International Transportation costs were up:c|aarteG a°d 9.5 percent above a an(j Greek Cypriot 7.2 percent in the mid-April to -vear aL°- community leaders Monday met mid-July period, and now stand! For the year, the costs for ap-1 ; fontina parel, transportation and health or *irst time Mnce and recreation rose faster in began on Cyprus six weeks ago Cedar Rapids than the nation as|and agreed to meet once a week a whole. Other local increases to continue their dialogue, U.N. were less than the national!Secretary General Waldheim average. j^d. Cedar Rapids "They have agreed to meet Last Last|once a wee^ on Mondays," Qtr. Year I Waldheim told newsmen after a Fear 13 Died In Hotel Fire zambique and Angola - ending j P[iees resulted inr aJ°,sQs of Pul: more than five centuries of colonial rule in Africa. The Guinea talks followed last spring's military coup that ended more than four decades of right-wing dictatorship in Portugal and reversed the government's policy of holding onto|average its African empire. chasing power of $6.29 a week compared to a year ago. Transportation Sales Tax The decline was attributed to the removal of the three percent sales tax from food. Since the price survey was made in mid-July, the sales price removal was applied to the full quarter. Meat, poultry and fish prices Iowa Electric Seeks Second From April to July, according showed a substantial to the report prepared by the over the past quarter and year, department of labor and Iowa Fruit and vegetable prices State university extension, continued their rapid price rise weekly earnings de- begun last fall, while dairy dined $6.05 largely because of product prices dropped from — {April to July, but remain well above year ago levels. (jumped 4.3 percent in the up 11.3 percent from a ago. Home ownership Iowa Electric, said the amendment would increase electric revenues about 9.66 percent over the rate schedules now in effect. IE customers were informed of the application in letters mailed Monday. 'Reluctant' Rate Increase in 4 Months^ year < cedar Rapids N»ws— , particular interest The enor-i titilities and interest rates Iowa Electric Light and Power 1 mous jncrease jn ^ interest,were mai°r contributors to the Co. Monday filed an application ^or borrowed money must ^8 hike. for a $7 million increase in be paid to attract investment in Apparel Mixed ond^nfou^months3 sec ; the company. Apparel costs showed mixed The application was tiled with .Necessity trends, with men s and boys' the Iowa State commerce com-: "These investments are an J clothing prices up and women's mission as an amendment to an absoluter necessity if we are to electric rate application filed maintain the high quality of serest April I vice that our customers need Duane Arnold, chairman 0fi™dde5erve. We provided that the board and president ofihlSh d^lity sendee lhls, sum; mer when the most prolonged hot spell since 1936 resulted in peak demands for electric ser-l vice. Our company successfully met those demands." Arnold said that IE has! always worked to keep rates the ! lowest practicable level. "We are extremely proud of! Arnold said the company filed our record of having reduced for the rate increase very reluc-j electric rates five times during tantly, but was forced to do so;the 1960s when our costs were! by economic conditions. 1 decreasing," he said. ''This request was filed sol "The increase we se^k today that we can meet the continu-;places our residential rates at ing, unprecedented increases in about the same level as they costs of all kinds that are plagu- were in 1954 Now, as our costs ing the utility industry," Arnoldj increase, we must pass them on to be able to continue providing Group All Items ....... 30% 113% Food -1.2 124 Housing 4.3 11.3 Apparel 1.6 9.5 Transportation .. . 7.2 15.8 Health and Rec. . 3.7 8.3 U.S. Average Last Last Qtr. Year Group All Items 3.0% 118% Food 1.2 13.9 Housing 3.4 12.4 Apparel . 1.3 7.6 Transportation .. . 6.1 143 Health and Rec. . . 3.4 8.2 35-minute meeting between Cyprus President Glafkos derides, leader of the Greek community, and Rauf Denktash, the nominal vicepresident of Cyprus andiron, leader of the Turks. approaches to the inflation prob- Fark, 27, deacon of Immanuel lem. Church-on-the-Hill i n Alex- To define hardship areas re- andria, Va., preach a sermon in quiring immediate action. which she expressed her anger, Press Secrptarv Jerald ter-^frustration and confusion over Horst said Ford plans to devote the Episcopal Church con-as much of his time as he can to trovcrsy about ordination of the summit scheduled for Sept. Iwomen as priests. 27 and 28. Asked how he felt on the issue "The last thing he wants is a in his church, Ford said: cosmetic treatment of this mat- don't think I should comment ter," terHorst said, adding that until I know more about it." the summit will have full press Arriving at Burning Tree gol and television coverage. course in Bethesda, Md., he dis News Conference cov"cd"t!is1 clabs had been left at the White House. They were Since inflation is a problem affecting everyone in America, (Continued: Page 3, Col. 7.) the President wants to involve! —- everyone in the effort to find A ILa^i + iqc solutions, terHorst said. I ll O I I I I 6 5 Ford announced he will hold; his first presidential news conference on Wednesday. It will be a full-scale televised) session, with questioning expected to give him a chance to discuss what his administration will do about the growing inflation. Before meeting with the cabinet, Ford called in economic counselor Kenneth Rush and his newly-named conference executive director, William Seidman. an accountant and longtime Ford friend from Grand Rapids. Later Talks Aides said the President will have talks later in the week with academic, labor and business representatives and outside economists on preliminary phases of the summit conference. He got support for his anticontrols stand Sunday from three leading business men, but a bit of unfavorable comment about the new Council on wage and price stability from an economist for former President Today9s Chuckle In spite of jets, missiles, rockets and such, the research - and - development experts have yet to invent something that goes faster than a week of vacation. Waldheim emerged from the meeting in a tin-corrugated U.N. army hut with Denktash on the left and derides on his right. They shook hands with each other and Waldheim before leaving. ''We had a very fruitful meeting. We discussed humanitarian problems," Waldheim told newsmen. He said the talks showed the "good intentions of both leaders." "I feel this good beginning in this field will help contribute to a political solution to the Cyprus problem." the Austrian statesman said. Earlier Waldheim met separately with derides and Denk-coovriQht I*35*1 Thc two leaders approach-(Continued: Page 3, Col. 7.) The three against re-imposition of controls were Arthur Wood, board chairman and chief executive officers Sears, Roebuck and Co.; O. BERKELEY SPRINGS, W. Va. (AP) — Workmen searching the smoldering rubble of a downtown hotel recovered another body Monday, one of the remaining victims of a fire which authorities believe claimed 13 lives. Nine bodies were removed from the ruins of the Washington House hotel, a picturesque old brick structure which had served almost a century as a lodging place for tourists who bathed in the city's mineral springs. Assistant State Fire Marshall R. Randall Hall said the blaze is believed to have started in the restaurant area on the first floor and then fanned out throughout the hotel. Rescue workers spent Sunday night searching for bodies in the four-story structure, believed to be about 75 years old. Damage was estimated at 400,000. More than IOO firemen from West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania fought 0];the fire. Six firemen, one observer and Pendleton Thomas, president two hotel guests were given and chief executive officer of emergency room treatment a the B. F. Goodrich Co., and i M°rKa" War Memorial Frank Milliken, president of Kennecott Copper Corp. Appearing on ABC's Issues and Answers, the three agreed that the country is not heading into a serious recession. ''It's a slowdown," Milliken said. Grayson View' W'ood predicted "inflation will taper off toward the end of the year." C. Jackson Grayson, who headed the Federal Price Commission under Nixon, said he hospital, officials said. Another firemen and six guests were admitted to the hospital, but two of those were released later Sunday. J. Richard Hawvermale, a Berkeley county planner, said 23 persons were in the building at the time the fire broke out and IO made it out safely. Kenny Butts, a Berkeley Springs volunteer fireman, was one of the first to arrive. "Within a couple of minutes it was all gone," he said. "We couldn't approves of Ford's calling of aniget into the building." Find Widespread Monoxide Peril Levels said "Tbe .soaring costs include labor, materials, services, and (Continued: Page 3, Col. 6.) CHICAGO (AP) - Researchers said Monday that nearly half of all nonsmoking Americans have dangerous levels of carbon monoxide in their blood. And for those who wnoke cigarets, the problem is even more severe, the researchers at the Medical college of Wisconsin found. The study, contained in Monday's issue of the Journal of the American .Medical Assn., reports on a 30-month survey during 1969-72 of 29,(HK) blood donors living in urban, suburban and rural areas. Automobile exhaust ih a major source of environmental carbon monoxide. High levels of the noxious gas are especially harmful to the elderly, infants and heart patients. Federal standards set blood concentrations of 1.5 percent or more of carbon monoxide as the harmful level. The study was done by Dr. Richard Stewart and his associates in the department of environmental medicine at the Milwaukee college. They found that 45 percent of those tested had concentrations of carbon monoxide exceeding the federal standard. They also found that "tobacco smoking was the single most important factor" responsible for the lug hest con centrations of carbon monoxide. Smokers had three or more times the amount in their blood as nonsmokers. High levels of the gas reduce the amount of oxygen the blood can carry through the body. It can cause drowsiness, blurred vision ami reduced mental alertness. Extremely high levels in confined places can be fatal. Geographical location, occupation and meteorological conditions also were found to influence carbon monoxide concentrations in the blood. Three-fourths of those studied in Denver, Los Angeles and Chicago had greater than 1.5 percent concentrations. In New York and Washington, DC., 35 percent were measured at that level. The researchers found that city dwellers consistently had higher blood carbon monoxide concentrations than persons living in suburban and rural areas. Among occupational groups, taxicab drivers generally had higher levels of carbon monoxide than others. The researchers remarked that the most relevant finding of their study was "the astounding observation that 45 percent of all the nonsmoking blood donors tested" had car bon monoxide levels greater than 1.5 percent. They also said it was "surprising" to find that the smaller towns in New Hampshire and Vermont had atmospheric concentrations above permissible levels. Here are percentages of nonsmokers found to have elevated levels of carbon monoxide in their blood at other locales in the study: Anchorage, 56; Detroit, 42; Honolulu, 39; Houston, 30, Miami, 33; Milwaukee, 26; New Orleans, 59; Phoenix, 24; St. Louis, 35; Salt Lake City, 27; San Francisco, 61; Seattle, 55; Vermont and New Hampshire, 18. urderous Threesome STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) Heavily armed state troopers and Texas Rangers mounted on horseback surged into rugged ranch country Monday after spotting three escaped convicts wanted in a bloody three-state crime spree. The search, being conducted with bloodhounds, was intensified after an officer using binoculars spotted the three walking along the bank of a creek, which is a tributary of the South Fork and Bosque rivers. The convicts escaped from a Colorado penitentary and have been engaging in a campaign of revenge in New Mexico and Texas against witnesses at their trials. "All we've got to do is get lucky," said Dist. Atty. Bob Glasgow. Officers guarded the north part of Stephenville — the direction from which the three would come if they headed for this small central Texas city. Sealed Off The convicts were r**ar Texas highway 108 leading north from Stephenville into an area which had been sealed off. The trio had also been sighed there at 2 a m. Sunday, but eluded officers then. Pledging revenge and carrying a death list of those who helped send them to jail, the three Colorado convicts shot their way across north Texas, leaving behind two dead, five wounded, two kidnap and rape victims and several wrecked and abandoned cars. The three-day, 150-mile journey of murder and random violence was halted early Sunday 70 miles southwest of Fort Worth along a seldom traveled dirt road. Their stolen car smashed into an embankment near a farm windmill and the three escaped on foot into thick underbrush familiar to at least one of the convicts. 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Three Syrian tanks entered the demilitarised zone in the Golan Heights between Israel and Syria on Saturday, an Israeli military spokeswoman said.
"The Israeli Defense Forces have filed a complaint with the U.N. (peacekeeping) force in the area," the spokeswoman said. She had no further information on what the tanks were doing.
Israeli media said the tanks were involved in fighting in the Syrian village of Beer Ajam against rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad.
Israel is technically at war with Syria, but it has generally taken a cautious line on the uprising in its Arab neighbour.
Errant Syrian mortars bombs landed in Israel in September, spurring Israel to lodge a similar complaint with the United Nations observer force that monitors a long-standing, de facto truce between the two countries.
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Coach Q&A: Fontenot on the TE's role, Finley
Green Bay --- In this week's Coach Q&A, tight ends coach Jerry Fontenot talks about the role of the tight end in Green Bay's offense and whether starter Jermichael Finley is turning a corner:
Q: Mike McCarthy has often spoke about how much the tight end means to this offense. Why is it so important?
Fontenot: "Well, I think because it gives you the dynamic of not tipping your hat to the defense. We have guys who are big bodies. They can lean on you, they can block you at the point of attack. They can cut off on the back side. They can operate in space in the run game as well. And in the passing game, we have guys with good speed who can stretch the field and guys you have to account for when they're on the field. All those things being said, I think that ultimately having big guys who are fast and can catch are a great commodity."
Q: Safe to say they have to have some fullback in them, too?
Fontenot: "In the run game, there are certain guys who specialize in that kind of thing that are better at it than others. So I think that's probably a little bit more specific to a general body type but still we ask our guys to do that. So all of our guys need to be able to handle that kind of a load, too."
Q: Has the position been evolving since you've been here?
Fontenot: "As athletic and as big as guys are today, now you can play tight ends out at wide receiver and move them as far in or as far out as you want. It's interesting to see how defenses react to that because defenses have to play a certain way against that kind of a body outside. So as far as the evolution of things, that's probably the most indicative factor for me."
Q: Is Jermichael Finley turning a corner these past couple weeks?
Fontenot: "At the beginning of the season, we focused on getting better at some things. I think overall our attention to detail—just running routes the right way, getting in position to get open—and creating opportunities, that's what we've focused on. And I think overall, we've progressed. Are we where we want to be? Probably not. You're always wanting to tweak things and get better at certain things. I think overall, our group has improved."
Q: That attention to detail, is that something you get over time? How difficult is that for Finley and all of the tight ends?
Fontenot: "Specific to their cases, I think I've probably benefited more for having them play for me than me coaching them just from the standpoint of they understand certain intricacies of running routes and certain intricacies of knowing where they need to be on the field during certain concepts. But as we move forward, as my grasp of that on-the-field application has increased, overall it's been a mutually beneficial arrangement. I can give them things from my experience playing and they've done a good job. They want to get better and they're hungry to play well. I'm very fortunate to have those guys in the room."
Q: Why do you think Finley was not a big part of the passing game for a while?
Fontenot: "I think it's just about creating opportunities. If you're in the right spot and getting where you need to be when you need to be there, you get opportunities. The other side of that is your production level will probably indicate how many opportunities there are. Overall, we're improving in all those areas. And the bottom line is let's help our team win football games."
Q: When you two work together at practice and he's at the jugs machine, Finley seems to catch everything. Why do you think he has the drops in games?
Fontenot: "I'd be remiss if I even ventured a guess as to what happens. The only thing I can say with any assurance at all is that focusing on the ball and the fundamentals of seeing the ball all the way in and obviously building confidence is… highly competitive guys do well and expect a lot of themselves, sometimes they get too hard on themselves and sometimes guys aren't hard enough on themselves. A lot of that is mental, too. I think more than anything, it's mental. So my focus was just, 'Hey, let's get back to having fun playing football.' That's what this game is all about."
Q: Do you think he's getting there?
Fontenot: "Yeah. I think we're improving."
Q: Tom Crabtree, Ryan Taylor and D.J. Williams. What's something in each of them you're looking for?
Fontenot: "When you mention those names, those are guys who just do whatever you ask them to do. And obviously they want to contribute as much as they possibly can. They've been more than able and willing participants. Like I said earlier about 'Crabby,' you talk about maximizing opportunities, he hasn't been targeted a bunch but he has a couple touchdowns. That goes a long way. That goes a long way in helping our team win. For all of those guys, whenever they've gotten the opportunity they've fought their rear ends off and earned opportunities. So it's nice to see whenever that comes to fruition. Everyone has a role. Sometimes guys aren't contributing as much as they'd like but they just have to wait for their turn."
Q: Can Andrew Quarless give you something this year?
Fontenot: "He's still practicing so we'll have to see how things progress. Hopefully soon."
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- Packers haven't forgotten about ILB Beniquez Brown
- Packers heighten emphasis on punt return after 2015 struggle
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- Thompson: 'We're starting a new year and we're playing for a championship'
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Based on American Casey Pugh's idea and realised by fans, the Star Wars: Uncut film will be shown in Turku on 8 October. Last year, technology guru Casey Pugh won the Participative Media category of the Turku 2011 Foundation's media art competition. In the Star Wars: Uncut (SWU) project, Pugh cut the first Star Wars episode, Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), into 15-second segments, which Star Wars fans then used to re-create the film by utilising animation, home videos and parody.
Before the screening of the film, there will be a public discussion featuring Professor Alf Rehn, who researches creativity and is also an author and columnist, and Jarmo Puskala, one of the scriptwriters of Star Wreck, a film showcasing the skills of Finnish sci-fi fans.
In addition to the film, the day's programme at Logomo will include other winning entries from the Live 2011 Grand Prix media art competition, organised by the Turku 2011 Foundation.
The works to be presented at Logomo are entertaining, high-quality pieces. Worth a special mention is RIP – A Remix Manifesto, a documentary directed by Brett Gaylor.
The day will conclude with a party. The headlining duo of the evening, Desert Planet, is known for its electronic music influenced by 8-bit video games, coin-op games and science fiction films. X-Rust from Turku will take care of energy levels for the rest of the evening with Transistor Rhythm (live) and DJs Burdock, Pepeto, Ipe and Nitro. VJ Whitespace is in command for visuals.
Entrance to this mini-festival to be held at Logomo on 8 October is free. The doors will open at 2 pm, and the first 1,000 visitors will be admitted. In honour of fan culture, there will be a prize for the best audience outfit.
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Ask "What if?"
"What if?" is the most powerful question a game player or software professional can ask. The company that changed its business strategy was too busy trying to attract customers to ask, "What if we're enormously successful and sign up hundreds of customers?" The answer would have been that they would need hundreds of servers, a place to put those servers, and administrators to run those servers-problems that all came to fruition.
The company where the engineers decided that the client didn't need any error handling to handle bad data didn't ask the very simple question, "What if the server isn't infallible?"
Jerry Weinberg says, "If you haven't thought of three possibilities, you haven't thought enough." For each decision, consider at least three possible outcomes. For each outcome, consider at least three possible causes. Cause and effect in a game is straightforward. Cause and effect in real life is far less tractable. Use the rule of three to expand your "What if?" thinking.
Finally, the ultimate key to thinking ahead is to think. Think actively. Think continuously. If you find yourself on autopilot, going through the motions, it's time to pause long enough to engage your brain. Use your greatest tool—the one between your ears—to your best advantage.
Thinking ahead is a learned skill, both in games and in real life. I struggled for years before finally beating my father at chess and I still can't beat him regularly. Just when I think I have him backed into a corner, he makes a surprising move and crows, "Checkmate!" If thinking ahead in a game with a finite number of tactics and strategies is so difficult, it's no wonder we often fail to think ahead in the real world where possibilities are endless. But as long as you're thinking, you have a much better chance of thinking ahead.


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Dying Man Reunited With Lost Dog
A terminally ill man gets his dying wish in Florida when his lost dog is found.
FOX News Radio's Dave Anthony reports:
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He's John Simpson's best friend:
(Simpson) "Mr. Cutie!"
But last week the dog was lost. It ran away not long after Simpson, who's dying from cancer, was moved to hospice care in Pasco County, Florida. When Amy Cobb heard the story:
(Cobb) "It just broke my heart. I'm like, I can do something here."
She went on fidofinder.com and someone had found the little chihuahua:
(Cobb) "I was like oh! Oh my God! It's the dog!"
And when they reunited Mr. Cutie and Simpson, it fulfilled his dying wish.
(Simpson) "Just ecstatic. And very difficult putting into words the feelings inside."
And now Mr. Cutie will stay with him to help Simpson live his final days in peace.
(Simpson) "Running after me, jumping all up and down, having to be in my arms."
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Tony and I have often been asked during interviews "Is there anyone
you have not met that you want to? Or we've been asked if you could be
anyone famous, who would it be?… The answer to both questions for me
is one person.
Paul Shaffer. I love music, everything about it and Paul Shaffer
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been in several movies including "Spinal Tap". He has won a grammy
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If that is not enough, Paul has also been the music director for
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Rolling Stones? Aretha? U2? Springsteen? Dolly? I mean he's played
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PVC in sprinkler sysyem
I dug up one of the sprinkler heads to move it. The head was attached to a black hose, and running alongside it was a PVC pipe. I dug up a head across the yard, same deal. Both heads were on dead ends for the hose.
Now I am wondering what the PVC is doing, is it a protective conduit, or does it carry the water for the sprinkler? Or is it the water supply to the control box and just happens to be in the same corridor as the sprinkler hose.
My goal it to move the sprinkler and also if possible add a faucet somewhere in the yard. Don't know enough to start digging though, obviously!
Are you saying the length of black hose is attached to the PVC? If so, it sounds like it is some sort of flexible riser system in which case the PVC would be carrying the water supply. The black hose is there to add flex so when you run over the sprinkler head with a mower or whatever you do not crack the fitting it is in.
If the poly tubing goes all the way to the valves and is carrying the water than the PVC was probably used for something else. Conduit for low voltage wiring to the sprinkler valves or lighting?
For your new hose bib you will want to run PVC from the water source to the new hose bib. Install the proper kind with backflow prevention and anti-syphon if required where you are. Now would be a good time to add a cut-off valve for the irrigation system and the new hose bib if you do not already have one.
Your going to need one of these.
I didn't dig back far enough to see if the hose and the PVC were attached.
PVC pipe comes out of the ground and goes inside the detached garage, where the Rainbird control is. I just now dug along the far side of the house where I see the PVC and three red wires runs to/from the back yard along the side of the house. Then further I see two covered openings, one of which looks like this
then likely on to the front yard which is zone 2.
This pic is of a zone valve.
Now I'm thinking the black hoses are spliced into the PVC. If I want to move a sprinkler, find a longer piece of hose to the sprinkler and replace it. Water in the PVC is controlled by the two water valves, I should not use the PVC for a water tap becauses water will be in it only intermittently.
Right you are. You will want to run a new PVC pipe with water to the new hose bib. It may be overkill but I would run Schedule 80. As mentioned, make sure you put the necessary anti-syphon and backflow prevention valves on it and you should install a shut off for everything outside so you do not have to turn off water to the house if something goes wrong with the landscape plumbing. If there is one already and the necessary prevention valves for the irrigation system you can just tap the water line to the irrigation valves but ahead of the protection valves.
You should think about using a galvanized riser to the hose bib or you can get the type you bury in a box. PVC will break down over time when exposed to UV and weather forces above ground. If you put a tall riser in for the hose bib, make sure you support it against a stake, piece of rebar or something.
The pvc is the water supply line and the hose is the supply to the sprinkler head,their must be more than one sprinkler head in that particular zone,just turn the system on to find all the heads.
By the way, that little hex head bolt/screw on the valve housing next to the handle will bypass the solenoids and the timer. Open it and the water will come on to the sprinklers controlled by the valve so you can adjust it, flush out lines when you move or replace heads. It saves you having to run back to the timer.
Last week I put in a 25' flower bed across the back fence. I want to pull forward the sprinklers that are there. Sounds like I can do that by replacing the black hose.
But the sprinklers don't stay on long enough to wet the flower bed enough, that's the reason I wanted a bib - for a drip irrigator. Yes I would rather have the sprinkler system take care of it but don't have a good idea of how.
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You might be able to convert the station for the flower beds to drip and use your existing timer if it can be set to water longer and maybe repeat for the flower bed station. Or set to water every day instead of every three days or whatever.
However, the other issue you may find is that the existing valve may not be able to handle the low flow rate of drip irrigation.
You can always do as you plan and build your drip system from a hose bib. A battery operated hose bib timer would only be about $30? It just seems like someone installed a nice irrigation system for your yard and it would be more elegant if you could adapt it.
Do you have an irrigation supply company near you? Most are not always into retail customers but if you are pleasant they will help you. You should get your drip system from them or online. The stuff the box stores have is not especially worthwhile and is costly compared to what it should be.
Drip emitters come in a range of about .5 gallons per hour up to 12GPH and in configurations for anything but turf. Tubing has to be on the surface, at least where the emitters are. Although, there are some experiments with buried drip. You will want to know your flow rate so you do not overload your drip circuit. But it is probably going to be in the 8-12 gallons per minute range. Your water company can tell you or you can figure it out with a give gallon bucket and a stop watch. Shut off all the water. Then time how long it takes to fill a 5er. Extrapolate to get gallons per minute and ultimately gallons per hour flow rate.
I designed most gardens with simple emitters exactly twice as much fun as watching paint dry when they operated. I stayed in the 1-4GPH range and used self-cleaning and self-compensating ones in long runs. There are some that you can change from misters to drip or even plug depending on where you put a plastic plug.
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RE: st: Dataset transformation problem
"Josiane Georges" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
RE: st: Dataset transformation problem
Wed, 27 May 2009 13:16:44 -0400
Hi David,
The periods are based on month, you can ignore the date.
The unit total periods should include only values within 6 months of the
starting month, whether or not there is a gap. To use the example you
have provided below the values for months the value of months 516, 517,
518, 519, 521 would be added together regardless of the fact that the
value 520 is missing. Since month 521 is within 6 months of the
beginning month, which in this case is 516, the values would be added
So if a value is observed beyond 6 months from the earliest month in the
period, it will not be added with it. I will belong to the next period.
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Subject: Re: st: Dataset transformation problem
You need to clarify how the periods are to be determined. They seem
to be based on month -- not date.
And you seem to want to group them into consecutive spells. But where
does 6-month periods come in?
Do you want to further break up spells if they exceed 6 months?
What if there is a gap in month, but the sequence remains within a
span of 6? E.g., 516, 517, 518, 519, 521; is 521 the start of a new
Once these matters are clarified, the rest is easy.
At 12:19 PM 5/27/2009, you wrote:
>Hello Fellow Stata Listserv Subscribers:
>I have a dataset transformation problem that I could use some guidance
>with. I want to collapse a large dataset structured like the example
>dataset below to list one observation for each id containing total
>in each 6 month period. I need the dataset to only generate sums for
>consecutive months within discreet 6 month periods only. Please note
>that each id has a different first month and has observations for a
>different set of months.
>For example for id 001 it should generate the following observation:
>id period1 period2 period3
>001 26.4 14.1 17.8
>id date units month
>001 01jan2003 3.5 516
>001 01feb2003 8.1 517
>001 01mar2003 9.0 518
>001 01apr2003 5.8 519
>001 01may2003 5.5 540
>001 01jun2003 8.6 541
>001 01jul2003 8.9 552
>001 01aug2003 8.9 553
>004 01jan2003 4.6 520
>004 01feb2003 4.1 521
>004 01mar2003 4.6 522
>004 01apr2003 4.4 523
>004 01may2003 4.6 530
>004 01jun2003 4.4 532
>004 01jul2003 4.6 540
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