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Mt. Battie's Christmas star shines on
Camden — For decades, a star has shone from the top of Mt. Battie, thanks to Camden Lions Club. The star is traditionally lit Thanksgiving night and continues to shine through New Year's Day.
The tradition of the star began in the mid-1960s, when Bill Brawn, then owner of French & Brawn Market Place and a member of the Camden Lions Club, decided to place a Christmas star on the Mechanic Street side of the store, according to information provided by the Lions.
Camden Town Historian Barbara Dyer previously said the first star was 12-feet high, had a wooden frame and glowed with 100 25-watt bulbs. However, since the star was only visible to those passing south on Route 1, it was suggested by downtown merchants to display the star from the stone tower on Mt. Battie, she said.
"The star was first seen Sunday evening and caused some consternation from citizens who phoned the police and fire department about the strange glow in the sky. Some thought it was a fire on the mountain or a flying saucer," reads an article in the Dec. 8, 1966, edition of The Camden Herald.
Shortly after publication of that article, the Lions Club took over and Raymond Drinkwater built a much larger star, made of steel, with more lights. A third star was built in the 1990s, which is also metal and holds 92 bulbs of 15-watts each, according to Dyer.
Have loved this star my whole life. Thank you for the star...and thank you for the story & wondrous pictures!
What a wonderful world it would be if every place had a Star Of Wonder shining over their community. Thank you, Bob, and all who will come after you for giving such a beautiful gift to all who live in and travel through Camden during the holiday season.
YES! Bob Oxton faithfully drove up and kept the power on and started the star each evening. I remember Raymond Drinkwater welding the first metal star and he did such a good job. Raymond really enjoyed donating time to Camden affairs. Camden is indeed lucky to have so many volunteers keeping the star alight for us all to see. I used to love driving into Camden from Hope in the evenings and seeing the light. Now I drive into Camden from Thomaston and the delight is still within. Merry Christmas Camdenites!
Mickey McKeever
The tradition continues thanks to the dedication of Tom Jackson, who cheerfully enriches Camden in so many ways!
Thanks to the Lions for taking this on and making it a tradition. We came here from away, and I love driving around this time of year and suddenly realizing I can see the star from yet another vantage point. Thanks too to Mr. Oxton for his help. There are just a few things that create the season for me, and the star is one of them. Cheers, Sarah Smith.
I personally love the star, but I do wish Bob Oxton had been mentioned as for all the years of keeping it lit. He has semi turned this over to Tom and it really bugs me they were'nt named !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bob Oxton has been the 'keeper' of the effort to keep the star up there and lit. Kudos to Bob!
The idea of solar star with LED lights has come up. It would be quite a project and very cool.
I know many have taken part in the story of the Star but am sorry that Bob Oxton was not credited for his contributions .
I've been chewing on this for awhile. Wouldn't be cool if we could show off our green credentials and power this sucker with solar? I love the star, but think we can raise the bar. I'd love to help with the effort.
-Trevor Mills
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Derrick Rose names leaders, Peach Jam news, etc
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Memphis and Illinois.
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I know, I'm as shocked as you are. Well, I guess there was a little less mystery to that one than people thought.
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Dedicated Followers of Fashion - More Stores, More Ads, but We Aren't Buying
This year clothing chains have announced the opening of over 100 new branches and a 64-percent increase in their advertising budgets. Increased demand has not driven such rapid growth and neither have many of the chains invested in expanding their organizational structures or in developing a growth strategy.
This ballooning growth reminds many industry observers of the high-tech bubble of the late 1990s, and they are warning of a similar outcome. "Demand in the fashion market is declining," says Gabi Roter, CEO of Castro. "The key word is differentiation. There is a recession across the world, but anyone who can offer a different product and become a market leader in a specific field can earn profits. `Me too' concepts don't last long. Anyone who joins a vicious price war will soon find himself in trouble, because in the long run price wars aren't worth it."
Retail clothing sales in Israel declined by 9.4 percent in 2002 to NIS 1.5 billion, according to data compiled by Dun and Bradstreet. Despite this drop in sales, employment in the retail clothing industry rose by 2.7 percent to 2,200 workers. Investments in advertising from January 1 to April 30 this year soared to $24.99 million at list prices, compared to $15.18 million for the same period in 2002, according to information provided by the Ifat Advertising Monitoring company. (Actual prices are about 60 percent lower). Advertising spending in the fashion industry were $41.67 million at list prices for the whole of 2002.
"What we have here is the herd instinct," says Dudi Bresler, CEO of the Golf Group, which has opened three new branches in 2003 and is planning to open 5-8 more by the end of the year. "When one chain opens a store [in a certain location], everyone opens one there. In such situations the good stores succeed and the mediocre ones fail. What happened in the high-tech industry will have to happen in the fashion industry too. [Businesses] rise fast and fall fast."
Breslar also calls it an Icarus syndrome - flying too close to the sun with wax-bound wings. "Everyone says `I will do it better,'" says Bresler. "They try to go farther and higher - and crash." Breslar notes that while the fashion market has not grown, there has been a move from privately run stores to chains.
Eli Berkovitz, CEO of Renuar, agrees. "The decline in retail fashion sales comes from the decline in the market share of department stores. People used to buy all their clothes at department stores or small boutiques, now these is a rise in niche fashion chains." Renuar, which recently expanded too and has begun opening men's fashions stores, is planning to open seven ladies' wear and six men's wear stores in 2003.
About 37 percent of the public buy clothes from the large chains, according to a survey conducted in May 2003 among 500 Hebrew-speaking adults over the age of. CA Marketing Information Research Institute, which is managed by Noam Raz and Merav Shapira, took the survey. Of those questioned, 24 percent bought fashion items in private stores, although 30 percent said they had no preferences and bought from both private stores and chains.
The survey found that 50 percent of the public buys clothes at a mall where most of the fashion chain stores have branches. 39 percent buy clothing in the city center, and 24 at shopping centers outside cities (see chart).
"In the past 12 years there has been a marked drop in sales at stores on main streets, as opposed to the strengthening of sales at shopping centers," says Harel Vizel, CEO of Fox. "There is significant growth in the sales at a few chains and a decline in sales elsewhere. In 90 percent of cases, one fashion store that opens in a mall is at the expense of another. Anyone who is strong gets stronger and whoever isn't, disappears." In the past year Fox has opened 30 new branches, 15 of them for men's fashions. The chain now has 107 outlets.
Not everyone agrees the clothing market is saturated. "One has to examine the different categories," says Pe'er Nadir, general manager of the Azrieli Group's shopping malls. "There is still room for expansion and more players in children's wear. There is high demand for women's fashions so there is no limit to the number of chains and overseas brands that can succeed here. Men's fashion is a market that has grown in leaps and bounds in the past two years and it will take the market time to digest the situation." Nadir says that fashion sales grow by 10 percent at the Azrieli malls in the first quarter of 2003.
"Fashion buying in Israel is high relative to the size of the population," says Avi Malka, owner and CEO of Matim Li, "because clothes in Israel cost 40-60 percent less than in Europe. Since the tax on items imported from the Far East is just 12 percent, prices are low. No other country in the world has so many strong brands pushing international labels off the shelves."
Malka predicts that in a decade the Israeli chains will dominate the clothing market in other countries in this region. "This is not a bubble, but rather an Israeli success."
Roter justifies the expansion of the big chains, citing their advantages over private stores. Even so, he notes that every time a chain grows fast, it has to be stabilized. "At the end of the day the market forces take their toll and anyone who does not handle his business properly will close down. If there is a process of over-expansion, we will soon see some shrinkage."
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Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak is urging school districts considering interlocal insurance agreements to be diligent about analyzing financial statements before joining an insurance pool.
To that end, the Oklahoma Insurance Department (OID) has launched a new webpage to help Oklahoma school districts with their due diligence.
Local school districts often enter into interlocal cooperative agreements to pool their liability and property risks. Such self-insured pools were not required to submit their financial statements to OID previously. But this year, the legislature passed and Gov. Mary Fallin has signed into law Senate Bill 692, which makes that requirement.
Interlocals must file an audited financial statement with OID within 180 days after the end of their fiscal year. Failure to file a timely report may result in a $500 per day fine.
The statement must include the report of an independent certified public accountant, a balance sheet reporting assets, liabilities and equity, footnotes to financial statements and statements of operations, cash flows and changes in assets, liabilities and equity.
"The goal here is transparency," said Doak. "By making these financial statements readily available, school leaders can make well-informed decisions. The worse-case scenario is for one disaster to leave multiple schools in financial ruin. We can't let that happen. We have to make sure these interlocal insurance pools are adequately covered for a significant loss."
Once received, the financial statements will be posted on the department's website.
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Two soldiers with ties to New England were reported killed in recent days in Iraq and Afghanistan, relatives said.
A University of New Hampshire graduate whose parents live in the southern Maine town of Shapleigh died in a truck accident while serving with the US Army's 10th Mountain Division in northern Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported.
The parents of First Lieutenant Benjamin Keating were notified Sunday night of their son's death. Elizabeth Keating said her son was riding at night from a remote outpost to his base in Nuristan province when his truck crashed, after either hitting something in the road or swerving to avoid it.
Keating graduated magna cum laude from UNH in 2004 with a degree in history and classics. He took part in the Reserve Officer Training Corp and entered the Army after college, beginning his tour in Afghanistan in February.
Also on Sunday, a Connecticut native about to end his one-year tour of duty in Iraq was killed in Baghdad, his father said Monday. Army Captain Jason Hamill and two other soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb while riding in an armored vehicle, said Hamill's father, Richard Hamill of Salem.


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COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI)- They lifted their voices in honor of history.
May 8th, 1865 unofficially marked the end of slavery for those in Columbus. Locally known as, "eight o' may" it's the day Columbus slaves learned of their freedom. Through song and dance, MSMS students will re-enact the role Columbus slaves played in the Civil War, and the celebrations that followed its ending.
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Hollywood has come under fire in the past for including steamy sex scenes that many have dismissed as unnecessary and inappropriate, particularly when those films attract young audiences. But now it seems that there's a change-of-heart in Tinseltown, with reports that directors and movie studios are moving away from including these scenes, as special effects may be proving more lucrative.
A report published in The Sunday Times over the weekend notes that CGI and special effects are taking precedence over sex scenes — a departure from some of the past tactics used to entertain and attract audiences.
But the reasons for the change are apparently rooted more in financials than in good will.
"Film makers who once dared to push the censors to the limit with nudity and sex now find it pays to move the earth with technology instead," the outlet wrote. "The sex scene — once a staple of movies — is becoming increasingly redundant because of online porn and a trend for women to choose which films couples watch, according to new research for the movie industry."
And Vincent Bruzzese, president of the movie division of Ipsos, a market research firm, confirmed the decline in sex scenes present in Hollywood scripts over the past 18 months. In his view, producers realize that little can be gained from including them, as these scenes have become impediments to younger audiences being able to view films.
"Sex scenes used to be written, no matter the plot, to spice up a trailer," Bruzeese said. "But all that does today is get a film an adult-only rating and lose a younger audience. Today such scenes are written out by producers before they are even shot."
So, the spokesperson said that this dynamic leaves filmmakers asking, "Do we really need the sex?" In the end, they now apparently find themselves cutting these scenes out and, instead, relying upon special effects in an effort to hold on to their family-friendly ratings.
Of course, this dynamic isn't taking place on the small screen, where sex scenes and related content seem to be more prevalent than ever. Paul Dergarabedian, president of Hollywood.com Box Office division, noted that some of the scenes present on television would never be permitted in some movies.
"If the sexually explicit scenes on TV shows such as Girls were made for cinema, they would not get a certificate," he said.
Considering the criticisms Hollywood regularly gets for touting moral decay, what do you think about this alleged reversal? Let us know in the comments section.
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Rall Gallery Features Sculpture By Josh Johnson
Rall Gallery features sculptures by Josh Johnson as its November/December exhibition.
Johnson's exhibit "Dark Matter" uses conventional materials in an unconventional fashion.
"Items as diverse as wood glue, carpet tacks and soaker hose become surfaces invented to conceal a polystyrene form and create fleeting illusions of mixed media," Johnson said.
Johnson has a bachelor of fine arts from the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. In the past year, he has shown work in galleries in Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota and Ohio.
His current work, he said, "...derives from notions of an inward nature. Not vital organs, cellular structures, or even emotions, but things that are difficult to put your finger on for very long...These sensations are far more interesting to me than the circumstances that may create them."
Rall Gallery is in Perkins Library, in the lower level of the Communications Center on the Crete campus. Hours are Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. - 11 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 2-11 p.m.


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This morning zone alarm promted me to update to 80 065 000 version and i did so ..
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Macon, Miss. (WCBI) — Family and friends of a Noxubee County man who suffered a serious freak accident in Florida are bringing the community together for a Charity Softball Tournament in his honor Saturday. Tony Sudduth of Macon continues to improve, but more support is needed for the long haul.
The baseball diamonds at the Noxubee Sportsplex are being spruced up for a tournament to help Tony Sudduth in his recovery efforts after undergoing major surgery.
"And was sliding down one of those blowup slides, the big big slides. And somehow or another a little fella hit him in back of the neck. And broke C-3 and C-4," said Debbie Jourdan, Tony's Aunt.
The spinal injury left Sudduth paralyzed from the neck down, he was given a one percent chance of recovery. The brave physically strong outdoors type who is undergoing rehabilitation in Georgia is making remarkable strides every day. In the words of his family… its phenomenal.
He has got a lot of fight in him. He has got a lot of determination. He doesn't back down and he has a lot of try. He is very strong," said Cameron Jourdan, Tony's Cousin.
"We just praise God for the improvements that he has had every day," said Kristie Boykin, Family Friend.
"He has got some movement in his right hand. He can give you thumbs up. And his legs are very strong, he can push, you know take those off the bed and he can lift them up off the bed and he was riding a bike the other day," said Cameron Jourdan.
As our brave father of a four year old continues fighting back, a team is formed to help cheer him on to victory. The biggest member of the team… his four year old son Brendan.
"Lets name it team Tony and there is no requirements to meet, no try outs to do except that we believe he is going to be okay and walk again," said Cameron Jourdan.
To assist Team Tony, an account is set up at Citizen National Bank of Macon in the name of Erin Jones. Call 662-726-5192 or 662-435-8299 for more information on the Charity Softball Tournament.


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Hi Ozgur,

Yes I've looked at haskell-src-exts and it does look *much* easier to use.

I need this to build a new refactoring tool for Haskell (for the Paraphrase project). One advantage to using the ghc-api directly

is that's it's always cutting edge and maintained by the ghc team. Having one more library dependancy to worry about is not always a good thing.

At the moment (and spending half a day yesterday just working out how to 'show' an AST from the ghc-api) I'm veering towards haskell-src-exts. I think extending it to contain use and bind locations in the AST would be the best option for me. There's also a question of having types in the AST as well.

I don't know what you actually need, but if haskell-src-exts is an option, it is quite a bit easier to use (definitely easier to understand for me!). Especially when used together with Uniplate.

For example, for a given piece of AST one can get all the identifiers used like so:

[ x | Ident x <- universeBi ast ]

Uniplate isn't a powerful enough generic system to design a full refactoring engine, as we need top down/bottom up/ full/stop/once plus preservation and unification, much in the style of Strafunski. I think SYB is better for our needs. Perhaps we could use a combination of uniplate+SYB depending on what traversals/rewrites we need to do.

Finding where they are bound shouldn't be very hard either.

No, but it would be much easier if the information was already there, of course! :)

Thanks for your response!

Chris.

Hope this helps,

Ozgur

On 23 January 2012 17:33, Christopher Brown <email@example.com> wrote:

Hi,

 I was wondering if anyone could tell me if it's possible to get an AST from the ghc-api decorated with static-semantics?
 In particular, I am interested in use and bind locations for all names in the AST together with the module they are bound, etc.

 Looking through the online docs, there doesn't seem to be a way to do this.
 Even if I can tell from the AST where a variable is bound that would be enough, if this is by making all names unique and qualified that would be better than nothing.

 Hope someone can help,
 Chris.


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Diversity Workshops Aim to Help Understanding
During the past year, the AARP Southwest Region enlisted the assistance of four AARP Missouri volunteers to help other volunteers expand their understanding of diversity and inclusion. Workshops aim to help understand those who are different regardless of culture, race, gender, poltical views, living location, socioeconomic and other factors.
"The workshops are a part of a personal cultural competence journey," said Aoutgwest Senior Regional Advisor Chris Michalek. "Each participant starts from their own place, own experience, own history and moves along from their own pace from understanding, awareness to application," she explained.
According to Michalek, at the end of 2010, the Southwest Diversity Facilitator team reached 600 volunteers, adding to the 800 reached in the past year. Of the 14 regional facilitators, the four from Missouri are Sidney McCarther, Kansas City; Ron Sergent, Columbia; Dr. Arthur Visor and Sharon Wells, St. Louis. Each has a viewpoint on the treks made to numerous cities and towns in the region.
"I took this as an opportunity to participate in order to find the answer as it applied to AARP and at the same time engage others in discussions about diversity and inclusion," said Visor, who is a member of the AARP Missouri Speakers Bureau and instructor for the AARP Driver Safety Program.
"These sessions bring into focus all the ways we 'wound' people, sometimes when we think we are doing 'the right thing'," said Sergent, AARP Missouri Executive Council member. "The workshop content goes beyond racial prejudice, which is especially powerful."
Wells, AARP Missouri Congressional District 1 Coordinator and Speakers Bureau volunteer, was rewarded with comments from participants that substantiated the worth of the workshops. "One participant said, 'I came here with a preconceived notion that I wasn't going to enjoy myself or learn anything I didn't know, but I really liked the workshop and learned a lot. I would recommend it to my friends'," Wells said.
According to McCarther, "One of the most challenging aspects of this facilitating adventure is getting to know the make-up of the groups we facilitate and adapting the workshop presentation to fit their desires and needs."
He said that the greatest challenge as a diversity and inclusion facilitator is to be "highly effective and meet or exceed the expectations of our volunteer clients."
Michalek noted, "Time and time again, the facilitators share that they, as adult learners, are too, moving forward on their individual journey."
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Remember the post on this blog about purple-banded sunbirds, building a nest in a tree in Tanzania? And about an Indian house crow destroying that nest?
Recently, Ms Anne H. Outwater, author of the article in Tanzania Daily News which was the source of the blog post, was so kind to send me these three photos she made about these events. Thank you so much!
These two photos show the female purple-banded sunbird building the nest.
This photo shows the male sunbird at the nest, after the destruction by the crow.
December 2012. Tanzania's many and diverse wildlife populations are under threat from illegal hunting, and large herbivores are particularly sought-after game. In the future, however, genetic markers can be used to identify meat from game in order to combat crimes against animals: here.
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You can't go around slashing dogs," Rosie Heffernan warns a roomful of chattering high school students at Our Lady of Lourdes, an all-girl Catholic academy in South Miami. Not that any of the girls has converted to a religious cult with a penchant for cutting up canines.
Rather, Heffernan, their American government teacher, is facetiously making a point about the U.S. Constitution: Religious freedom ends where illegal activity begins. She is whipping eighteen of her brightest students into fighting trim for the "We the People" competition, an annual contest in which high schoolers from around the nation display their expertise regarding the Constitution. Last month Our Lady of Lourdes won the Florida Congressional District 18 title and advanced to the state level, which is being staged in Orlando this week. (If they win there, it's on to Washington, D.C., for the national finals in April.)
The remark about dog-slashing unleashes a crescendo of comments about religions that use poisonous snakes and peyote. "Girls, focus," Heffernan says in a calm but firm tone. The students turn their attention to a classmate at the front of the room who is reciting prepared remarks about how the Bill of Rights balances the rights of individuals against the greater good.
"My right to swing my fist ends where the other's nose begins," she says, quoting former Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The adage is a favorite among the girls; it illustrates the kind of reasoning that Heffernan has instilled in her students, and which led Our Lady of Lourdes to victory at the "We the People" national finals last April. And in 1994.
It is also the kind of reasoning that can be outright seditious in Miami's Cuban exile community -- the community in which most of the girls on Heffernan's elite squad were raised.
Her students may appear to be the epitome of conformity in their school uniforms -- navy slacks with white-and-blue-striped polo shirts or light blue oxford shirts. But the views they have come to adopt, as a result of Heffernan's intensive training sessions, have made for some dicey dynamics at home.
Take, for instance, the controversial case of Peggi McKinley, who was removed from Miami-Dade County's film advisory board this past September after she suggested that musicians from Cuba be allowed to perform at a music conference in Miami. Singer Gloria Estefan later criticized Commissioner Bruce Kaplan for dumping McKinley.
"I was, like, what's the big deal?" says seventeen-year-old Monica Leal, standing in the corridor outside Heffernan's second-floor room after practice. "My mom didn't really care, but my grandfather was really upset [with Estefan]. Basically the Cuban community got upset because [they thought] she advocated giving Fidel the opportunity to come and spread his ideas or something ... but it's just not like that. The United States stands for the right of every individual, even if you're here visiting. If we believe it for ourselves, we have to believe it for everybody, you know?"
Notes Miriann Guazzini, the only junior on a team of seniors: "Even if they are ambassadors for Castro, we do believe in freedom of ideology. I mean, I can be a communist anywhere and still have certain natural rights." With a laugh, she adds, "No, I'm not communist."
Teammate Melissa Zirini, whose parents emigrated from Cuba in the Sixties, cites the case of Rosita Fornes. The Cuban singer was forced to cancel a Miami Beach concert in September 1996 amid threats of violent protests by exiles accusing her of being a Castro sympathizer. She also canceled several appearances in July of that year after a Molotov cocktail crashed through a window at Centro Vasco, where she was to have performed. "You have the right to protest all you'd like, but it ends when you infringe on someone else's individual rights," Zirini insists.
"If she's given the liberty in her own country to come here, then what right do we have, a country that embodies those rights, to deny her that and to belittle the few rights she has in her own country?" Leal adds.
Heffernan says she was appalled by the degree of intolerance in Miami when she moved here from Connecticut twenty years ago. But she sees a generational shift taking place between her students and their elders. "It's interesting how the children of these people and the grandchildren of these people have embraced the Constitution so much that they are probably at the opposite end [of the spectrum in] the amount of acceptance they have for all religious groups, all races, every type of group, sexual orientations, everything. They are so much more open, whereas their parents and their grandparents have embraced the country but haven't quite embraced the principles."
Indeed Heffernan's students espouse a traditionally "liberal" position on issues totally unrelated to exile politics -- such as a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down the Communications Decency Act (and thus allowing pornography to remain on the Internet). "Some people felt the [Act] was unconstitutional because it limited your First Amendment right to free speech and free expression," Guazzini explains. "It was a conflict between individual rights versus the common welfare, and we saw the [court] again tip toward individual rights."
Guazzini says her parents take "a more conservative" view of the issue than she does. "They would rather their children not find pornographic material on the Internet.... They find [the ruling] to be a little too liberal."
Often to the chagrin of their parents, Heffernan's budding constitutional scholars have also taken up the issue of abortion. They insist that the Catholic Church's moral stance against abortion be kept separate from the legal aspect of the issue. Even though most of her students personally oppose abortion, they defend a woman's constitutional right to have one.
Last month at the District 18 competition team member Alejandra Chamorro explained to a panel of three lawyers how the Supreme Court arrived at its 1973 decision guaranteeing a woman's right to an abortion: "In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ... said that since the fetus cannot live outside the woman's body, it is a part of her own body. So it is a privacy within her own body. And we have to protect the right of that woman to do whatever she wants with her own body, because it is her own."
The most daunting volley of questions at the district level was hurled by two lawyers from the law firm of Holland and Knight, and one from the firm of Kozyak Tropin and Throckmorton. The last, Adam Raybin, bore down on the Lourdes team, asking why the Supreme Court should be able to strike down a law passed by a popularly elected Congress. "Do you believe that Congress has the right to legislate away the current right to burn a flag in protest? Those people in office are representing the will of the people, and if they're put there based upon your vote or the majority of the people's vote, don't they have a right to pass, even if it be upon their own moral beliefs or the majority's moral beliefs, what they think is right?"
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After a brief pause, seventeen-year-old Ana del Cerro stated that, yes, lawmakers have the right to pass laws, but then rattled back: "Their moral beliefs could infringe on their decisions, and as I have previously said, the judicial branch is there to objectively -- not subjectively, objectively -- interpret the Constitution and the people's rights. Because of the fact that their moral beliefs may come into an issue -- or their political passions -- that is why it is very necessary for there to be somewhat of a check through judicial review."
In the end, Our Lady of Lourdes took home a first-place trophy for District 18, beating MAST Academy and Southwest High. (Jackson won in District 17, Palmetto in District 20, and Killian in District 21.)
Outside the county commission chambers, where the results of the district competition were announced, Heffernan revealed a key to her strategy: "The one thing I always try to teach them is that you can't think with your heart. You have to think with your head." During a round of competition last year, for example, the father of one student lowered his head in anguish as his daughter explained how a correct interpretation of the Bill of Rights would protect homosexuals against discrimination, just as it would protect any group.
"It was the most wonderful answer, and all she did was stand for constitutional principles," Heffernan recalls, beaming. "And when they were finished, one of the judges said, 'I wish that if I ever need a lawyer, you would be available.'


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One of the lingering questions surrounding the Manitoba Moose this off-season is whether captain Mike Keane will be back for a sixth season.
When the Moose cleared out their lockers in May, Keane expressed his desire to come back for another season but a few weeks later general manager Craig Heisinger wasnt willing to officially commit to the three-time Stanley Cup winner.
When asked if he could provide an update on Keanes status for next season, Heisinger offered a polite no comment.
New Moose coach Claude Noel was a little more forthcoming, but conceded he wouldnt have much input into the final decision regarding Keane.
I have a lot of respect for Mike Keane, Ive coached against him and hes won championships as well, said Noel. I dont know the situation with Mike and I probably wont be involved in any of that. I havent had a chance to talk to Vancouver or with Craig (Heisinger) as to what their plans are there.
Im kind of out of the loop there, as we speak (Monday).
A decision on Keanes future is expected shortly after free agency opens on July 1.
Keane, who turned 43 on May 29, is coming off his most productive season in antlers as he produced nine goals and 31 points in 75 games last season and added two assists in six playoff games.
The right-winger was a key member of the Moose penalty killing unit and spent most of the campaign on the shutdown line.
Keane also has 1,161 regular season games in the NHL (168 goals, 470 points) and 220 Stanley Cup playoff games (34 goals, 74 points) on his resume.


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Problem is, there has been an explosion of ETFs that slice and dice the market into smaller and smaller and smaller pieces. Intrigued by patents? There's an ETF for you. Think the Austrian economy is poised to rebound? Yes, there's an Austrian ETF. That's why I'm cautious with ETFs in general. It's a product increasingly designed for speculation, not investing.
That said, an ETF is fine if you want to buy a broad-based index all at once. You pay the brokerage fee, and then hold on to the investment. An ETF works for a buy-and-hold strategy. But a no-load equity index mutual fund is better if you're adding to the investment in small increments over time, say, $100 a month or a similar investment disciple.


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A wiser Legerity charts its comeback with VoIP
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AUSTIN, Texas Few companies have survived the telecom downturn with more lessons learned than Legerity Inc., which spun out of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in August 2000 just as the voice telephony market went into a deep freeze.
Legerity's subscriber line interface circuits (SLICs) and subscriber line access circuits (SLACs) were mature products in a traditional telephony market that remains flat at best.
Now, with voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) finally beginning to take off, Legerity is fielding new silicon into the "derived voice" market and expects to return to profitability early next year.
Hank Perret, who joined as chief financial officer in 2001 then took over as CEO last November, said that as part of the spin-out Legerity saddled itself with a "take or pay" agreement with AMD, a deal forged in the midst of the telecom euphoria.
"When the company was formed in mid-2000, there was a feeling that the wonderfulness was never going to end," said Perret. Capacity was tight then, and Legerity signed an agreement with AMD to take wafers at a rate that would accelerate up to $400 million to $500 million a year.
Months later, when the telecom market crashed, the pipeline was jammed with inventory held by Legerity, and by its customers and distributors. At the end of 2001, Legerity itself held more than two years of inventory, worth $100 million.
Legerity was faced with giving AMD a check every month for products it could not sell, and something had to give. AMD offered to sell Legerity the two aging AMD bipolar fabs in Austin that supplied Legerity with its high-voltage bipolar parts. Instead, Legerity decided to go fabless. It paid AMD a substantial sum to get out from under the take-or-pay agreement and looked for other manufacturing sources.
Legerity told customers it was killing some products, and gave them a chance to stockpile those parts with "last time buys." The surviving bipolar product lines were to be shifted from AMD's fab to Chartered Semiconductor's oldest facility, Fab 1.
Legerity told its customers there would be a "dark period" from the time AMD shut down its fabs, in June of 2002, until the time the products were qualified on the process at Chartered, expected in February 2003. Legerity asked customers for nonrefundable, nonreturnable purchase orders for these buffer stocks. Those customers, faced with little demand and no visibility into future markets, wanted to take product as late as possible while Legerity wanted to get as much inventory off its books as it could.
Then Legerity made a bold move, buying share in the mature wireline voice telephony market by acquiring Agere Systems' voice interface solutions division for about $70 million.
As part of the deal, Agere wanted to sell Legerity a '50s-vintage fab in Reading, Pa., that made Agere's bipolar parts. As it had earlier with AMD, Legerity declined and went to Agere's customer list with its plans to shift production to Chartered's Fab 1.
In January 2003, just as the bipolar process at Chartered's Fab 1 was finally being qualified, Chartered said it was shutting down Fab 1, a six-inch facility, and moving production to a newer 8-inch wafer fab in Singapore.
"The good news was that we would go from 6-inch to 8-inch wafers," said Perret. "The bad news was that we had just got the process qualified, our customers had just gotten their boards qualified, and then they told us they were going to shut down Fab 1. And bear in mind that every time our customers have to requalify, it opens our sockets to competition."
To complicate matters further, Sony, which had taken over an AMD bipolar fab in San Antonio, Texas, in the early 1990s where some Legerity products were made, decided to close the San Antonio fab. "Normally, a supplier shutting down a fab gives the customer six months. Sony said they would give us six weeks. We could not possibly go to our customers with that, so we managed to make that three months," Perret said. The bipolar parts made in San Antonio were shifted to production in Singapore.
Agere made a line of codecs at its Orlando, Fla., fab primarily for its former parent, Lucent Technologies, but supplied others to Legerity. Earlier this year Agere told Legerity that it would stop making the codecs and convert that capacity to newer, more-profitable products. Perret said Agere told Legerity that it was "going to slap us with an additional 50 percent price increase on stuff we want to order" from Agere before the line was converted. Legerity now makes CMOS codecs at United Microelectronics Corp. in Taiwan. Its bipolar products will be qualified at Chartered in the second quarter.
"We went through a whole series of abnormal experiences, things that took a lot of our resources and which involved a reasonable amount of pain," Perret said. Meanwhile, Legerity's engineers were redesigning existing products, shrinking die sizes by 30 to 50 percent. Coupled with the economies of moving to 8-inch wafers, Perret said, Legerity will gain 15 to 20 points of margin between the first half and second half this year. Inventory has come down by one-third, and because most of it is aimed at the mature subscriber line market, it has a long shelf life.
Legerity laid off roughly half its employees over a 30-month period, going from 425 down to about 215.
Last December, the company went from a product line organization, with directors of engineering and marketing for each product line, to a leaner organization with one head of engineering, and one for marketing. Former CEO Ron van Dell, who earlier worked at Dell Computer here, resigned in November.
By the third quarter, Perret estimates, operating expenditures will be about half of what they were in 2001. Last year, revenues were in the $90 million range, and the company's goal is to grow revenues each quarter this year, achieving profitability next year. If all goes well, Legerity could launch its initial public offering late in 2005, he said.
Beyond voice telephony
Last year, as much as 85 percent of Legerity's business came from the SLICs and SLACs for voice network access that it sells to the world's 25 largest phone companies. This year, Perret estimates, legacy voice products will decline to 60 to 65 percent of revenues, with VoIP accounting for roughly a third, and "high-performance analog" making up the rest.
"We want to diversify more out of voice telephony, so the vagaries of that market cannot swing the company like it has in the past," Perret said.
The goal is to identify product opportunities in the enterprise and consumer analog markets that build on Legerity's strengths: its high-voltage bipolar process and analog design team.
"We are at an inflection point for the company, looking to remake ourselves and get into some other things. We are very serious about diversification, with a goal of having 30 percent of our engineers working outside of voice telephony by the end of the year," he said.
Legerity's growth depends largely on how fast VoIP develops. In two years, the company has seen one false start. The market for voice-over-cable had a brief spurt in the last half of 2002 as Comcast rolled out services based on constant bit rate (CBR), rather than Internet Protocol, technology. Then, the 2003 merger of AT&T and Comcast resulted in a change in corporate direction and "a lull" for CBR products, he said.
Legerity's engineering staff has been working with scores of now-emerging VoIP services, ranging from well-known companies like Vonage and 8x8, to dozens of Asian startups with relatively little analog engineering expertise.
Legerity's near-term VoIP prospects depend on how the Federal Communications Commission regulates "derived voice." While Legerity is "agnostic" in that its VoIP offerings support cable, DSL and other broadband pipes, growth in the market depends partly on a largely hands-off regulatory policy.
With newly designed chips now sampling or shipping to the growing VoIP market, and its manufacturing strategy seemingly back in order, Perret said "we think everything is coming together for us at about the same time."


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U.S. publication of the sequel to Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning best-seller "Wolf Hall" has been moved from November to May.
Publisher Henry Holt and Co. announced Tuesday that "Bring Up the Bodies" will now come out May 22, three days after the British edition of Mantel's latest novel about the Tudor court in the 16th century. The release on both sides of the Atlantic marks a macabre anniversary: 476 years since the beheading of Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII.
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Yeah, I am getting this too. My Wii has a WiiKey installed and I want to update System menu etc so that I can install a USB loader via HBC.
I will be interested to find an answer on this but I am still searching. I will post again here if I find the answer.


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Fayette's FFA Alumni group wants to serve you breakfast.
The group has scheduled an all-you-can-eat breakfast from 7 to 10:30 a.m. June 20 in the shelter house at Harrison Lake State Park.
Pancakes, sausage, milk, orange juice and coffee will be served.
The breakfast will serve as a fund-raiser for the alumni group.


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It seems there are no exceptions to passport complications, not even for a former high-ranking federal official like commentator Robert Reich. He tells his story.
U.S. manufacturers have long complained that China depresses the cost of its currency to gain an unfair trade advantage. A bipartisan group of senators wants the administration to do something about that. Steve Henn reports.
The White House has dispatched Commerce Secy. Carlos Gutierrez to lobby businesses and Latino groups to get the immigration bill back on track. He tried out his sales pitch on Kai Ryssdal today.
The State Department recently relaxed passport requirements for travel abroad so it could dig out of a mountain of applications. But the temporary fix isn't working. A lot of travelers are stuck and losing money. Bob Moon reports.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are horse-trading their way toward a new energy bill. But in the Senate some controversial amendments are threatening to derail it. Sarah Gardner reports.
Once again the American consumer is riding to the economic rescue. The government says retail sales were up 1.4% in May. But retail consultant Howard Davidowitz figures there's less to the numbers than meets the eye.
Cuban migrants who actually set foot on American soil get to stay as refugees. Anybody caught at sea is sent home. So, many migrants no longer take a boat to Florida. Lygia Navarro reports on what they're doing now.
Farm workers usually start and end their careers in the same kind of job. Doing back-breaking work for someone else. A training program in Salinas, Calif., is trying to change that. Rachael McDonald reports.


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Tiger Woods, McIlroy to Face Off at Honda Classic
Tiger Woods is set to play The Honda Classic again this year.
And No. 2 Woods' made-for-TV rivalry with No. 1 golfer Rory McIlory, both Palm Beach County residents and co-stars of a new Nike commercial, is about to heat up!
Officials with The Honda Classic, scheduled to take place at PGA National Resort & Spa Feb. 25 to March 3 in Palm Beach Gardens, are prepping up for an 11 a.m. press conference. I'm told they'll announce that Woods will be playing against defending tournament champ McIlroy, according to tournament sources.
Woods came in second by two strokes at last year's Honda Classic.
In addition to vying for the world's No. 1 spot, McIlroy and Woods now have a regional rivalry as well. They live a few miles apart in north Palm Beach County.
— Tiger Vs. Rory: The tale of the property tape
As Gossip Extra revealed exclusively weeks ago, McIlroy plunked down $9.5 million for an Intracoastal mansion in the Old Gate neighborhood of Palm Beach Gardens. Woods lives on a $46 million-compound in Jupiter Island.
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Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Shows promise
Came to this before viewing Part 3. Very much inspired to continue to Part 2. Good work.
Thanks again gypsydavey!
With this episode I was just getting my ideas down and seeing how it all worked out.
The next episode is a lot more developed.
Hope you like part 2!
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Amazing Job
Really smooth animations and clean voice acting i think.
Really good job, was a pleasure to watch.
Thanks for the great review!
I'm glad you liked the cartoon.
I've got a sequel in the works at the moment.
Cheers for the score too!
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Very nice.
Great animation and the graphics were superb. Smooth to watch.
I liked the storyline a lot too. Good stuff.
Thanks for the support!
By the way I liked In Da Forest and your Frank Dude cartoon!
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
Can't wait for a sequel
Definitely took a lot of hard work, keep it up.
Cheers mate! It's always nice to respond to decent people like you!
Rated 4 / 5 stars
good one
that was a very nice and unique animation. i really liked the plotline behind this one, it was quite original and entertaining. it had some pretty good graphics in it, nice characters, good audio selections from the audio portal and it was a blast to watch. good work on this one, it shows a lot of potential and your efforts were great. hope it wins an award.
Cheers, mate! I'm glad you liked this!
This was my first "talking" movie so I had a new load of problems to deal with. I got daily 2nd though, so it paid off!
Thanks again!


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SCI Rejects Union Offer, Insists On Eliminating Pension Fund, Health & Education Benefits
Company's Final Offer Will Be Voted By Employees Monday Night
Jun 30, 2013, 19:22 ET from Teamsters Local 727
CHICAGO, June 30, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Houston-based funeral giant Service Corporation International (NYSE: SCI) rejected a last and best offer from Teamsters Local 727 and countered with its original proposal to eliminate the employees' pension, health and educational assistance benefits.
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"On the first day of negotiations [June 14], SCI laid out this identical economic proposal dressed up with 4 percent wage increases. After 40 hours of negotiating to nowhere, SCI is back to its original offer plus an additional two percent in wages. It is clear they flew to Chicago simply to bargain their way to a strike vote by their employees," said John T. Coli, Local 727 Secretary-Treasurer. "In almost 100 years of representing workers in Chicago's funeral industry, the Teamsters have always been able to reach amicable agreements with its employers. It is sad that SCI wants to be this type of leader in the funeral industry."
The union will take SCI's proposal to the 59 funeral directors and drivers for a vote on Monday night. If the members reject the offer, a strike vote will be held immediately following the vote. All votes are by secret ballot and only affected funeral directors and drivers can participate. (Copies of the company's final offer are available upon request).
"Whether we can afford [the union proposals], that's not the issue. We haven't plead poverty in negotiations, and we're not going to now," Amy Devadanam, SCI attorney and lead negotiator, told the union's bargaining committee on June 28.
On Sunday, in an attempt to avert a strike, the union withdrew virtually all of its proposals and made an offer that included wage increases of 3 percent in each year of a five-year contract and retention of current pension, health, legal and educational assistance benefits.
"Before we made this offer, the company offered 4.5 percent wage increases across the board. Even after three years of wage freezes, we were willing to sacrifice money in our pockets to keep the benefits intact," said David Culyat, a 44-year funeral director at Blake-Lamb Funeral Home in Oak Lawn.
Five hours after the union presented its comprehensive offer on Sunday, SCI made its own last, best and final offer. The company rejected the union's entire proposal and resubmitted nearly every proposal it had previously presented. SCI's offer included the company's original proposals to:
- Eliminate employee pensions
- Eliminate employee discipline procedures
- Eliminate seniority provisions
- Eliminate the authority of independent arbitration
- Eliminate union representative access to employees
The only changes were to the wage package, which increased from 4 percent to 6 percent in the first year and 2 percent to 3 percent in the second year of a two-year agreement.
Despite resubmitting nearly all of the company proposals intact, when asked to explain SCI's offer, Devadanam added: "We reject your last, best and final offer. It doesn't address our primary concern, which is exiting the pension plan and employee contributions to health care." Devadanam did not explain why the company's proposal contained zero movement on any of the other issues.
The funeral directors and drivers have established a website (www.integrityinillinois.com) and hotline (312-206-4123) to direct families to locally owned funeral homes not affected by a potential work stoppage.
Teamsters Local 727 has represented livery drivers since 1916 and began representing funeral directors and embalmers 1946. It represents more than 6,800 hardworking men and women in the greater Chicagoland area.
SOURCE Teamsters Local 727


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A sharp rise in attendants at local horse and greyhound meets has seen the creation of over 500 new race commentators, I can report.
This rise in admission has been traced back to the current Global Financial Crisis, where more and more out of work men and women are now betting their last dollars on thoroughbreds.
"We've seen a quarterly rise of attendants at more than 10.5%" CEO of Lucky Hearts races, George Proctor said.
"It's good news for bookies and racecourse owners everywhere".
Trevor Groves, a former election ad spokesman, says he has been given a new feeling of hope since becoming a race commentator.
"EversincetheendoftheelectionI'vefallenonhardtimes" he said, "LuckyHeartRacesgavemeanewleaseonlife".
Jerry Williams was also interviewed, but transcribers were at a loss of what he was saying.