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Auto burglary–Between 8 p.m. on July 5 and 1:28 on July 6. W. Hacienda Avenue. An unknown person broke the window to a Toyota and stole the stereo.
Under the influence of drugs–July 5, 10:50 p.m. E. Hamilton Avenue. An unknown person was acting suspicious in a parking lot and was looking into vehicles. The person was found to be under the influence of a controlled substance.
Theft–July 5, 9:40 p.m. Hamilton and Salmar avenues. An unknown man cut the lock to a bike and then fled the scene riding the bike. The bike is a white Hero mountain bike with a rack on the back.
Theft–July 5, 11:30 a.m. W. Hamilton Avenue. A person sent money via wire transfer for a security deposit on a rental home. The person later realized she had been scammed.
Illegal fireworks–July 4, 10 p.m. W. Hacienda Avenue. A person was cited for possession of illegal fireworks.
Public intoxication–July 4, 9:47 p.m. S. Winchester Boulevard. A person was found to be drunk in public.
Public intoxication–July 4, 4:51 p.m. Dell Avenue. A man was found to be too intoxicated to care for himself.
Recovered vehicle–July 4, 11:50 a.m. Ranchero Way. Officers recovered a Toyota Camry that had been reported stolen out of San Jose.
Under the influence of drugs–July 4, 6:40 a.m. Whitehall Avenue and Whitethorne Drive. A man was seen acting bizarre and dancing in the middle of the street. He was found to be under the influence of a controlled substance.
Possession of drugs–July 4, 12:40 a.m. Union and Curtner avenues. A vehicle was stopped for a vehicle code violation, and the driver was found to be in possession of meth, paraphernalia and illegal fireworks.
Illegal fireworks–July 4, 12:24 a.m. Smith Avenue. A person was cited for possession of illegal fireworks.
Under the influence of drugs–July 3, 6:52 p.m. Winchester Boulevard and Campbell Avenue. A woman was causing a disturbance downtown and was found to be under the influence of a controlled substance. She was also on probation for narcotics violations.
Stolen vehicle–July 3, 4:40 p.m. N. Central Avenue. A teenage driver who struck a parked vehicle was found to be wanted for a probation violation. She had stolen her mother's vehicle.
Public intoxication–July 3, 3:46 a.m. E. Hamilton Avenue. A man was found to be drunk in public.
Driving under the influence–July 3, 1:38 a.m. Railway and Kennedy avenues. A driver stopped for a vehicle code violation was found to be driving under the influence.
Public intoxication–July 2, 8:23 p.m. Dell and Hacienda avenues. A person was contacted on his bike and was determined to be too intoxicated to care for himself.
Possession of drug paraphernalia–July 2, 7:30 p.m. S. Winchester Boulevard. A man stole food from a business and was contacted. He was found to be in possession of a meth pipe.
Vandalism–July 2, 4:30 p.m. Grant and N. 3rd streets. An unknown person damaged the passenger's side window of a vehicle after a road rage incident. The person also used a bat to smash out the rear window.
Stolen vehicle–July 2, 8:40 a.m. Winchester Boulevard and El Caminito Way. An unknown person stole a Honda Accord. The vehicle was later found abandoned to the rear of a Campbell plaza and had the stereo removed.
Driving under the influence–July 1, 10:24 p.m. N. 2nd Street. Two drivers involved in a collision were both found to be driving under the influence.
Burglary–July 1, 9:50 p.m. S. Winchester Boulevard. An unknown person smashed out the window to a vehicle to gain entry to the interior.
Recovered vehicle–July 1, 7:51 p.m. W. Hamilton Avenue. An officer located a stolen Honda Accord.
Theft–July 1, 7:34 p.m. S. Bascom Avenue. A man was caught shoplifting. He was also found to have an outstanding warrant.
Theft–July 1, between 9 and 9:06 a.m. W. Hamilton Avenue. An unknown person entered an unlocked 2004 Honda Pilot and stole an ID card, cash and a money order.
Recovered vehicle–June 30, 11:24 a.m. Lexington Way. A Honda Accord reported stolen out of San Jose was located.
Commercial burglary–June 30, between 4 and 8 a.m. S. Bascom Avenue. An unknown person forced entry into a business through a back door and stole a safe.
Stolen vehicle–June 30, between 2 and 7:45 a.m. Loyalton Drive. An unknown person stole a black Honda Accord.
Stolen vehicle–June 30, 12:51 a.m. E. Rosemary Lane. A driver in a stolen vehicle was stopped and taken into custody without incident.


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As helpful as the preparer had been, he didn't understand the acting business and so couldn't help me better understand what additional expenses I was entitled to deduct. I lost money because he didn't know how to make the best use of deductions on my tax return. The returns weren't wrong; they just weren't as right as they could have been.
But I don't blame the preparer; it was my fault. I had spent as much time looking for a tax preparer as I might spend looking for a place for dinner. Most actors couldn't care less about learning the rules, and I was no exception. I eventually realized that as important as it was to be professional in the pursuit of my career, it was equally important to be professional with my finances and make sure I didn't lose money by using the wrong preparer.
So when searching for a tax professional, here are warning signs and suggestions to consider:
Be careful when a tax preparer claims that he or she can obtain larger refunds than other preparers. All too often, "miracle" returns initiate Internal Revenue Service audits. Although the average person's chances of being examined are only slightly more than 1 percent, actors must use additional forms to properly report their expenses, and that significantly increases the likelihood of an audit. If you are fortunate enough to make acting your lifelong career, you can count on an IRS examination somewhere along the line. If the IRS catches several mistakes that cause you to pay additional taxes, the chances are even better that you will hear from them again.
Under IRS rules, paid tax professionals must sign the returns they prepare. If yours doesn't want to, that's a sure sign of problems. In addition, make sure your preparer will be available to assist you in the future. Over and over again we are consulted by taxpayers who can't find their original preparer when they get a call for an audit or about other problems. The IRS has three years after the filing date to audit your return, and even more time if it suspects fraud.
Ask questions before you hand over your paperwork. Find out if the preparer pursues continuing education or is affiliated with professional organizations that hold him or her to a code of ethics. The reason the IRS is instituting new rules regarding the education and conduct of tax preparers is the abundance of undereducated and unprincipled preparers out there.
Reputable preparers will ask to see receipts and will ask multiple questions to determine the legitimacy of expenses, deductions, and other items. That's because they are trying to help you avoid penalties, interest, and additional taxes in case your return is examined.
You are ultimately responsible for all the information on your tax return. Make sure you review and understand every number on it before signing. No honest preparer should be bothered when you ask questions about your return. Oh, and never, under any circumstances, sign a blank tax form.
There are lots of bad and—even worse—unscrupulous preparers just waiting for your call. Be careful.

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text: On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:43:11AM -0600, Otto Solares wrote: > I originally though the whole idea was to remove the PCI dependency. There is no pci depency in the scsi core or drivers. The only problem is that the dma-mapping.h implementation used by sparc imposes an artifical PCI depency that needs to be removed. If you want to help fix asm-generic/dma-mapping.h to be noops if !CONFIG_PCI or even better make it always noops and add an asm-generic/dma-mapping-in-terms-of-pci.h for those who want them to map to PCI.


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Already there are subtle and not-so-subtle signs that Arab women are being sidelined. Essam Sharaf, Egypt's new Prime Minister, named just one woman to his Cabinet. For some women's-rights advocates, his creation of a committee dealing with women's advancement smacks of tokenism. "The previous regime implemented a quota system for women in parliament, but this didn't empower women in Egypt," says Mozn Hassan, director of the Cairo-based group Nazra for Feminist Studies, who opposes quotas or separating women's rights from broader democratic ones.
In Tunisia, activists are concerned about the potential rise of political Islam. Sheik Rashed Ghannouchi, leader of Islamist party El Nahdha, who returned in January after decades of exile, has sought to soften his party's line limiting women's rights. Tunisia's women, he says, need equality. He has supported the country's progressive Personal Status Code, which for 20 years has banned polygamy and child marriages and guaranteed women birth control, abortion rights and equal pay.
Still, Tunisian women are worried, says Nadya Khalife, of Human Rights Watch's women's-rights division, in an e-mail. "Women activists want to ensure that the gains [they have] made will not be set back by Islamist groups who may call for Shari'a law or stand in their way to improve the Personal Status Code," she says. "Already, some Islamist groups have started calling for mosques to be established in schools at the same time that women's groups are calling for the separation of church and state."
Wary of the fate of their Iranian sisters after their revolution, Egyptian women have been protesting against the sexism they see creeping into their country's transitional structures. The 10-member constitutional committee, which was tasked with coming up with constitutional amendments after the fall of Hosni Mubarak, didn't include a single woman. The civil group from which it took recommendations while preparing the amendments was called the Council of Wise Men. Women's groups were further outraged when the committee came up with Article 75, a proposed amendment to the constitution whose wording effectively limits Egypt's presidency to men. "Egypt's President is born to two Egyptian parents," it reads, "and cannot be married to a non-Egyptian woman." When women's groups protested, the framers argued that Arabic allows masculine nouns to include women. It didn't wash. A coalition of 117 women's groups called for a rewording.
The transition period has created a divide between Egyptians who say this is a time for national unity and groups that say now is the moment for all Egyptians to press for their own interests, even if they're viewed as special ones. Women's-rights activists worry that if they're silent now, they'll never be heard. "Some people are saying, 'Now is not the time for women's rights, disability rights, children's rights,' " says activist El-Khouly. "They claim, 'Once there's democracy, there will be democracy for everyone.' But history has told us that women wait, wait, wait and then our rights never become a priority issue."
Beyond that, activists in Egypt and across the region insist that women's rights are intrinsic to the people's demands for social justice and democracy. "It's important to see women's rights as political rights," says Hassan. "But we don't expect it to be easy. Tahrir Square was a utopia, and society doesn't change in 15 minutes."


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Firefighters working to buy new Jaws
The Wadena Fire Department Relief Association is raising funds to purchase new Jaws of Life equipment which firefighters said is crucial to carry out rescues on some newer types of vehicles.
Brent Johnson, secretary of the Relief Association, said the current Jaws equipment is still working well, but outdated and not designed to take apart newer cars that have titanium framing in the chassis.
A letter from the fire department distributed to the city council on Feb. 14 stated that the current cutters, spreaders and power plant are nearly 20 years old.
In 2011, the fire department had 30 calls to service and six of those calls - 20 percent - were for the Jaws of Life.
First Assistant Chief Dale Haman said the current Jaws equipment was top of the line when they first got it two decades ago, but now it is outdated.
The fire department's goal is to raise the $17,000 to purchase the equipment in time to demonstrate it for Fire Prevention Week in October.
New equipment is estimate to cost about $32,000, and $15,000 has been provided by the city.
The Relief Association is a separate fiscal entity from the city and does fundraising for some equipment and other needs of the volunteer fire department that are not covered by the city's budget.
If old Jaws can't chew into new crashed cars, the fire department is hoping people in the area will have the appetite to get a new set.
Currently, the Relief Association is promoting an upcoming fundraiser at the Pizza Ranch on Monday, April 9 from 5-9 p.m.
Johnson said the firefighters themselves would bus tables, wear white dress shirts and take questions from customers, so it is a good chance for people who are curious about the fire department.
People have the choice of buffet, dine in, takeout or delivery. Twenty-five percent of proceeds from food sales, as well as all tips, go to the fire department for the Jaws fundraising effort.
Haman said they have also been applying for grants and will tentatively plan other events in the weeks and months ahead.
When the new Jaws are purchased, Johnson said, they will not throw away the current set of equipment.
Instead, they will move the old Jaws to the north fire hall, so in case of a catastrophe such a train derailment preventing them from crossing the tracks, there would be two Jaws each on different sides of the town.
"We just want to make the fire department better. By just doing that, we're making public safety better," Johnson said.
Haman said that with the new cars, the old Jaws are bound to break at some point in time and or take longer to perform the extraction and take minutes away from the "golden hour" of care after the accident.
If they get the new Jaws in time for the Fire Prevention Week Open House, they plan to demonstrate how the new equipment cuts into a car.


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Even though Joseph Stalin has long since disappeared the Russian landscape his name and image still manage to inspire awe and dissent in the country. From Associated Press comes an interesting tale of how- Yevgeny Dzugashivili, the grandson of Stalin is seeking civil compensation after a radio station 'Ekho Moskvy' dared to air the mantra that ;
"Stalin signed an order that children can be shot from the age of 12 as enemies of the nation."
A similar lawsuit was brought earlier this year when according to AP:
Earlier this year a Russian court threw out a similar case by Dzhugashvili against Novaya Gazeta newspaper which said Stalin had personally ordered the killings of thousands of Soviet citizens.
Historians said at the time the court's decision was a victory in Russia where they say there is a creeping attempt to paint a more benevolent picture of the Soviet Union's most feared leader, under whose rule millions perished.
At question is how far can historians and the media go to manufacture a benevolent or malicious rearing of previous historical events. In a nation raised on totalitarian ethics and an iron fist perhaps a fitting tale would be when Nikita Krushnev first came to visit the US in the 1960's and was amazed at the docility of the US population. Kissinger at the time reported they used the press to assuage the public. How ironic some time later that the press is now challenging those times…


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Your turn - 8 things that Microsoft needs to fix in Windows Phone 8 right now.
- 1. Gapless playback. Surely that's not a hard thing to implement?! It's incredible that this isn't a standard feature nowadays. I transferred from iOS to W8P expecting gapless playback to be standard across all phones. Amazed that I was wrong about that.2. My phone often starts playing music through the speaker when I unplug the headphones. Why?! That bug needs sorting (although I think I read somewhere that they had fixed that in the latest update which I am yet to recieve). Speaking of which...3. Speed up their updates rollout. I'm on Vodafone UK and I'm STILL waiting for the Portico update. Why?!4. Although not a bug, I would LOVE it if they could implement support for Airplay. I listen to alot of music and I loved playing music to my hifi from my phone over WiFi via Airplay. My Windows laptop can support Airplay by either using iTunes or Airfoil. I'm not sure if there's some licensing reason why they couldn't do this, but I hope they can. Or maybe some clever app developer could develop a music player that supports it. AND gapless playback?!?02-02-2013 02:22 PM
- So there was a feature on the main page for WP8 and I thought why not do a similar thing for Windows 8. I've been sitting on quite a few ideas since I upgraded on October 26th last year so I'll start this off with some ideas.
1. 'Snapping' the Start screen. So you can pin different apps with each other, but what I've very often wanted to see was accessing the Start menu whilst I have an app snapped, or even have Start snapped whilst I have the desktop or whichever app open as my main window. I wanted to demonstrate this but my desktop can't snap apps, but if the Start screen was snapped, think of the rows of apps you normally see but it's a continuous column.
2. More features for right-click in Internet Explorer in Metro. I pretty much exclusively use IE after upgrading now, and most of the time in the Metro environment, but I often find it really frustrating that there are only a maximum of three options for right-click: Copy link, Open link, Open in new tab. Additional options which I constantly miss are: (for highlighted text) Search on..., Copy image URL, Open image.
3. Also about IE, I find it really annoying that when I open a new tab, the tab list pops-down and back, but I can't click on the tab I just opened without right-clicking again to get that menu again and then click it. It's only one click more but there's no reason why I shouldn't be able to click it. Perhaps an option should be available to set new tabs to open in the foreground rather than the background.
4. More background updating apps. Why a maximum of seven? Why must I choose which seven apps can update in the background and give me notifications on the Live Tile and lockscreen? Even if perhaps a limit on the lockscreen is acceptable, every app should be able to run in the background. There is a Notifications settings menu but that does not mean that those apps update notifications without opening them first. Maybe there's a technical reason so if anyone knows better please say, but I can't see it.
5. Full Control Panel in Metro. This is one of those things that have confused me about Metro said to be a completely independent environment from the Desktop because up to a point, it depends on the Desktop for the Control Panel. Yes the Settings app has a few PC settings but things like Resolution, all settings to do with Sound like a mixer and default devices have to be accessed from the Desktop. I feel it would be so much nicer to use the control panel in Metro.
6. Sign out of Skype in Metro. Once I've opened the app I can't actually sign-out from it without shutting-down/restarting. I still get all the notifications after I've used the ONLY other status option in the app 'Invisible'. I often consciously avoid opening it as I can't stop it from running once it's opened, instead using the desktop version which means that when I do get a notification I have to switch to that from whatever app I'm using and then flip switch back, back and forth.
7. Collating toast notifications. Many notifications suddenly coming all at once (most often from Skype) popping up constantly is so annoying. They should simply add to the one toast notification every time an update comes for the same app, with a number denoting how many total items it's notifying you of for that app.
8. Custom colour schemes. There is a selection of colours to choose from in the settings app in Metro but I have a frequently repeating problem of simply not being happy with any of the colour schemes I choose from the selection given. This is most likely a problem for only a few aesthetically-concerned users which think this too, but then again, there's no reason we can't choose our own two colours. Also something to make it easier and more personalised to the user would be for there to be an algorithm to take the average colour of the apps (or average colour of the most common colour group) on your Start screen and create a complementary colour-scheme.
Those are my main eight gripes with the operating system (which I otherwise love).
What are yours?02-02-2013 02:27 PM
- Notification center. Having a Rooms hub is nice and Kids Spot is a nice feature if I would let a kid get near my phone to play games but it supposed to have notification built in. The other things can come as the OS develops but there is no reason I can fathom that the 920 could have been dropped without it or that Portico didn't bring it. Me, I don't even care if they use the source model available on Android and IOS. It works and makes the point. No real need to reinvent the wheel. Tweak it Gangnam style and lets move onto apps.02-02-2013 02:31 PM
- 1. Notification center
2. Rotation lock
3. Ability to attach pdf files to email
4. Separate volume levels for media/call
5. Another customizable button on IE
6. *.wav playback
7. Bing wallpaper with local weather
8. improved battery life02-02-2013 02:44 PM
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- Why was my post moved? I was talking about 'Windows 8', not 'Windows Phone 8'....?02-02-2013 07:58 PM
- In no particular order...
1.) Notification center (I don't care, but many people do)
2.) Get those last few missing super popular apps like instagram and focus on getting any future super popular apps as quickly as possible.
3.) Independent volume controls. I'm tired of turning down sound for a game or movie only not to hear my ringer or alarm. Come on guys.
4.) Do something about webkit optimized websites that don't work properly on mobile IE. I don't care what you do, just do something.
5.) Fix Xbox Music. (I don't even use it, but apparently it must be broken from how much people complain about it)
6.) Do amazing things to integrate WP8 with Win 8. This will help both. Make me want to put my Macbook Air on the shelf and dust off my Thinkpad.
7.) Beef the calendar functions up. Give me a usable week view, zoom in on month view. My Palm OS 3.1 calendar was better than this.
8.) Never stop innovating. Do not let Blackberry win. Do amazing things that get people talking about WP instead of being so damn cautious and slow with everything.
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- 1. Fix the Bluetooth stack. Phone call comes in while in my car or on Bluetooth handset and music gets stuck on pause, does nor resume after caller pics up. I have to either kill the Bluetooth connection or give up on it
2. Random mixes of music get lost. Pick up a call or whatever and you often have to entirely restart your mix by launching Nokia music again. Annoying
3. I've had issues where bounce out of webbtowser, go back and then the 'back' button just throws you back to Wp8 home screen, not the previous webpage you were on
4. A forward button/option in browser.02-02-2013 09:24 PM
- I feel like I should just write "ditto". EVERY point above to some degree will help WP from a blip on the Radar to the Mountain Range that takes up the whole mobile landscape. If I were to add anything, I would want replace the folders idea with something more WP-like: I want to be able to have a second or even third swipe menu option.
For instance: Start screen with your favorite Live Tiles. I do not want to lose this. It is what makes the Modern UI (almost used to that) the UI it is.
Swipe right for your notification center as has been suggested. Love that. Lets do that. Easy fix, natural progression.
Swipe Left to get to your app/tool list. Problem is, mine is so freaking long it adds two - three more steps to find the tools/apps I want. So, I want to swipe once for one list, and then left for a secondary list. Let me arrange these lists as I see fit for my convienince. Still a natural progression and motion for WP, but a little more organizational options for me.
Better Office intergration, a return to WM6.5 functioality (why on Earth did they move away from what actually WORKED in their old OS??), seamless XBOX Live/Music and better Windows 8 intergration had BETTER be coming in WP 8.1, or else they are truly killing any reasons for mordern smartphone users to adopt them.02-02-2013 10:30 PM
- -Good games
-Better Skype, Facebook, Twitter apps
-Brightness slider
-Notification Center
-Better Music app (create playlists)
-Better Skydrive integration
-Better batery life
- -Dropbox App
- Portico update soon... I'm living in Denmark and we still don't have s***.
- Better ringtone customization. Like choose the ringtones and messenger sounds that I want and not some prechosen.
- Notification center
- And better batterylife.02-03-2013 07:39 AM
- Until they do, I will still insist in better coding, encryption, and DIRECT SUPPORT for CDMA 2000 carriers in the US (although getting Sprint on board is a sign they are actually addressing the issue, since more likely the rest of the CDMA carrier community will choose the devices from HTC and Samsung Sprint will bring).02-03-2013 08:39 AM
- Love the idea of a notification center.
I don't know about WP8, but WP7 has a white email screen even if you choose the dark theme. On an OLED screen, white uses way more power than a darker color.
Proper, native podcast management.
I would like it if, on the People Hub, it would remember your place on the timeline. I dislike having to scroll back down only to read up to the top.02-03-2013 12:32 PM
- 1. App "X" killer/management
2. Ringtones for all notifications*
3. Lock Screen Rotation
4. Volume Controls
5. Notification Center (swipe to the left)
6. Bing* Universal Phone Search
More Games and Official Apps (Temple Run/Instagram)
I.E 10 reader/offline/options
Music & Xbox Improvements02-03-2013 12:59 PM
- I have a wp 7.8 so what I say won't be completely 100% valid but I'll try.
1. Instagram-I don't use it and don't care to, but a ton of people do. This is one of those killer apps, If they don't have this then that's bad.
2. Notification center - I don't think it really needs one since they have live tiles, but if they do make one, I really hope that they do a less is more approach, like maybe make a notifications tile which groups all notifications together or stick it somewhere in the multitasking card menu or something.
3. Xbox - Why isn't MS pushing one of its bigger brands with more leverage on WP? Why aren't more game companies developing for WP? Why do we get fable coin golf instead of an actual mobile fable game. Or what about a halo game? And yes, its possible to do an fps on a mobile phone. Also, why don't they let you stream games? Maybe cause of network lag, but tht would be awesome to see.
4.lock screen rotation - minor, but not hard to implement.
5.launch app from lock screen, would be very easy to do. Hold finger over which icon you want to unlock and swipe up over top of the icon and it launches that app, a minor thing, but every other OS has this feature now.
6.Universal search. I love the universal search in windows 8, that you can search every file, app, setting, or do a search in every app from the search bar
7.obviously more apps in general, but windows 8 getting more popular will help with that
8. More OEMS, they are gaining more, but they need to get LG to make more phones they need sony on board, pantech, sharp, Panasonic(if they decide to make phones anymore past eh eluga series), yes I know they are not as popular, but they need every OEM they can get. I was very happy to see Huawei and ZTE get onboard02-03-2013 01:18 PM
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"Office"02-03-2013 08:00 PM
- I'd like to see one-stop purchases for games/apps for all devices. In other words, if I buy a game/app for Xbox, I get the same game/app for Windows Phone/Windows 8/RT.
Apple does not require one to purchase apps/games separately for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. Once the apps/games are purchased, they are usable on all iOS devices. I'd like to see that for Windows devices also, rather than charging separately for the same app on a different Windows device.
Achievements also should be unified across all devices. I had Wordament for Windows Phone, but when I installed it on Windows 8 I had to start from scratch with achievements; none of my achievements earned on the Windows Phone version counted on the Windows 8 version. That needs to be fixed.
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I'm sure those apps will also run on the next XBOX as the OS will also be just plain Windows.
The difference is only the level at which compatibility breaks, e.g. you can't play an iOS game on OSX. Or am I mistaken?
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- Better and more reliable push notifications for Messenger, Facebook and other communication apps - that is all.
I dunno why my 920 seems to miss messages here and there when my Surface RT gets all of them and I am on 4G constantly.02-04-2013 04:06 AM
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Enhanced wafer alignment metrology capability coupled with market-leading GEMINI(R) FB system creates closed-loop fusion wafer bonding solution to enable high-density TSV devices.
EV Group (EVG), a leading supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for the MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor markets, introduced the latest version of its EVG(R) 40NT automated measurement system, which is designed to work in concert with the company's GEMINI(R) FB fusion wafer bonding system to support the manufacture of next-generation 3D-integrated CMOS image sensors. The enhanced EVG40NT measures wafer-to-wafer alignment accuracy to within 40 nm (3 sigma), while its seamless software integration with the GEMINI FB provides a closed-loop fusion bonding control system that enables the manufacture of ultra-fine-pitch (less than two micron) through-silicon vias (TSVs). These tighter specifications are necessary for enabling the production of 3D-integrated image sensors, and pave the way for accelerating 3D-integration with other device types, such as stacked memory.
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Docket No. MC-F 21035
Two competing motor carriers that
provide sightseeing bus services primarily in
Decided: January 9, 2012
In a decision issued February 8, 2011 (the "underlying decision"), the Board denied approval, sought after-the-fact, of the application of 2 competing motor carriers that provide sightseeing bus service primarily within New York City (NYC) for approval of their joint venture Twin America, LLC (Twin America). The Board found that the transaction was not in the public interest because it overly concentrates market power in the joint venture, and because Applicants[2] did not demonstrate public benefits derived from the joint venture. The Board then proposed two potential remedies, without ordering Applicants to select either one: (1) Applicants could dissolve their joint venture, or (2) Applicants could sell the interstate component of the joint entity's business, thus removing Twin America from the scope of the Board's jurisdiction. The Board ordered Applicants to submit a plan as to how they would bring themselves into compliance with our decision and the applicable law. Applicants timely sought reconsideration and a stay of the underlying decision pending reconsideration. By decision served on March 9, 2011, the Board granted Applicants' request to stay the underlying decision pending reconsideration, but cautioned the parties "to proceed no further with steps to integrate these two companies during the pendency of the petition for reconsideration." On March 21, 2011, the New York State Attorney General (NYSAG) filed an opposition to the petition for reconsideration. Other interested persons also filed comments in response to Applicants' petition.[3]
We will deny the petition for reconsideration. Applicants have failed to demonstrate material error in the Board's finding that the transaction is not in the public interest or in proposing possible remedies to the unlawful consummation of Applicants' transaction.
In August 2009, Applicants filed an application under 49 U.S.C. § 14303[4] to acquire control of an entity called Twin America that they formed in March 2009 and began operating shortly thereafter. According to the terms of the formation agreement, Twin America's essential transportation purpose is to operate hop-on, hop-off double-decker tour buses within NYC. The formation of Twin America combined Applicants' previously competing hop-on, hop-off double-decker tour bus operations, which were, by far, the largest 2 such operations in NYC.
Applicants initially proceeded as if Twin America's services were subject only to local jurisdiction. They subsequently engaged the federal licensing process by filing their application with the Board (and their operating registration with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)), but not until 4 months after the joint venture was actually formed. The apparent trigger for their federal filing was NYSAG's service of subpoenas on Applicants concerning antitrust implications arising from Twin America's formation and operations. Applicants also modified the transaction to include interstate transportation, thereby raising the likelihood that the transaction would come within the scope of Board jurisdiction.
The Board found that it had jurisdiction over the joint venture, primarily because of a small amount of interstate bus service Twin America provides between NYC and points in other states, pursuant to the changes to the transaction made just after the NYSAG's antitrust inquiry began.
To ascertain whether the Twin America transaction was in the public interest, the Board conducted an analysis of the competitive harms and offsetting public benefits the transaction produced. In addition to its usual approach of looking at potential harms and benefits in merger cases, there the Board was also able to examine actual changes in the competitive environment since Applicants' premature consummation of their joint venture. It was also able to consider Applicants' progress, if any, toward the realization of public benefits. The Board's broad public interest inquiry examined 5 basic components.
First, based on undisputed evidence, the Board observed that Applicants had implemented price increases shortly before and after the consummation of the joint venture. Gray Line had implemented a price increase just prior to entering the joint venture, and Twin America subsequently increased the fares of City Sights between 10% and 17% shortly after Twin America began operations. At oral argument, counsel for Applicants conceded that Twin America had increased its prices in order to "match" the fares of its affiliate Gray Line.[5]
Second, under its broad public interest inquiry, the Board found that the market in which the transaction should be examined was hop-on, hop-off double-decker tour buses within NYC. Applicants had argued that Twin America competes with a vast array of NYC tour operations, including trolleys, coaches, bicycle tours, pedi-cabs, Segway tours, horse and carriage tours, and helicopter tours.[6] But the Board found that Applicants' proposed broad spectrum of competitive tour operators were not close substitutes for Twin America's tour product. Rather, the Board concluded that hop-on, hop-off double-decker, guided tour bus operations in NYC are unique. The Board found that the other tour options proffered by Applicants differed significantly with respect to fares, weather constraints, speed, comfort, and convenience. The Board also noted that the narrower market definition that it found appropriate corresponded directly with Applicants' own business documents prepared contemporaneously with Twin America's formation.
The Board was guided in part by the "Small but Significant Non-Transitory Increases in Price" test used by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).[7] The Board found that Twin America's 2009 price increase was an example of a significant price increase because it was in excess of the 5% considered problematic in the Merger Guidelines. The 2009 price increase was non-transitory – it has remained in effect for more than 2 years. Following its application of this test and based on the evidence about tour product characteristics, the Board concluded that the market was limited to hop-on, hop-off double-decker buses in NYC.
Third, after defining the market, the underlying decision examined market share. While acknowledging the imperfections of the varying means proposed by the parties to calculate market share, the Board reached a conclusion that is indisputable –Twin America dominates the hop-on, hop-off double-decker tour bus market in NYC. The only other similar carrier, Big Taxi Tours, controls only a small fraction of the routes and buses in the market.
Fourth, the underlying decision discussed barriers to entry. While acknowledging that historically the intercity bus market has not been difficult to enter, the Board noted that the particular hop-on, hop-off double-decker tour bus market has seen no new entrants since Twin America was formed, notwithstanding Twin America's price hike. The Board also noted the presence of entry barriers unique to the market. Thus, the Board concluded that Applicants had not met their burden to show that the barriers to entry in this market were low enough to overcome our concerns about the high level of market concentration.
Finally, the Board examined the public benefits of the joint venture. The Board found that, for the most part, public benefits had not materialized. Cross-ticketing was very limited. There was no record evidence of shortened wait times for passengers. Nor did the Board find evidence that the estimated $7-$11 million in savings from joint operations was being passed on to consumers.
Based on these findings, the Board denied the application and suggested 2 possible means by which Applicants could comply with the law – dissolution of the transaction or divestiture of the interstate operations that brought Twin America within our jurisdiction. Applicants seek reconsideration of the underlying decision.
Under 49 U.S.C. § 722(c) and 49 C.F.R. § 1115.3(b), we will grant a petition for reconsideration only upon a showing that the prior action will be affected materially because of new evidence or changed circumstances, or because the action involves material error. Applicants allege our underlying decision errs in the following 4 ways: 1) by defining the market too restrictively; 2) by relying on a price increase to show market power; 3) by indicating that a lack of other market entrants suggests barriers to entry; and 4) by not allowing Applicants an opportunity to present alternative remedies.
Applicants' petition for reconsideration does not persuade us that the underlying decision contained material error. After unlawfully consummating a joint venture without the required approval, Applicants belatedly sought Board authorization for a transaction that created an entity that dominates the market in which it competes and has the ability to raise rates or reduce service without sufficient competitive restraints. Moreover, there have been no meaningful benefits passed on to the public through the creation of Twin America. The Board properly found, under those circumstances, that the transaction was not in the public interest.
Nothing in the petition for reconsideration affords a basis for modifying that finding, as shown below. Moreover, given this lengthy proceeding that included a rarely ordered oral argument, Applicants cannot mount a credible argument that they lacked the opportunity to present argument on the appropriate remedy should the Board not approve the transaction in its current form.
We will turn now to the specific objections raised by Applicants regarding our prior analysis. Applicants produced new verified statements with their petition for stay. But these verified statements do not offer new evidence that would help Applicants' case that was not discoverable before we issued our underlying decision. Instead, Applicants simply re-argue the same points and assert that the Board imposed an unfair remedy.
Public Interest
1. Market definition
Applicants' primary contention concerning market definition is that the Board's definition of the market as hop-on, hop-off double-decker bus tours in NYC limits the relevant market to Twin America's own products, without testing the boundaries of how other tours and attractions constrain double-decker tour prices. However, the Board's underlying decision explored the other tourist options in NYC that Applicants' witness, Professor Robert Willig, asserted were Twin America's competition. It explained with specificity why those products and services – such as bike rentals, helicopter tours, and Segway[8] rentals – possess physical or financial limitations that placed them outside of the market for the services offered by Twin America. Moreover, Applicants ignore the Board's inclusion of the products of one other tour company, Big Taxi Tours, in the market. Significantly, Applicants fail to refute that their own transaction documents support a market definition limited to hop-on, hop-off double-decker tour buses in NYC.[9] Consequently, we do not find material error regarding our market definition determination.[10]
2. Price Increase
Applicants allege that the Board's second error was to rely on Twin America's price increase as evidence of pricing power. Applicants allege that the Board failed to examine whether Twin America's price increase would have occurred in the absence of a joint venture or to "disentangle that partial price increase from general price increases occurring throughout the transportation tour sector or other passenger transportation services facing the same cost increases in NYC generally."[11] Applicants are incorrect.
The Board did examine whether Gray Line's and City Sights' price increases were independent of general transportation price increases by examining evidence in the record, specifically, Exhibit 4 to Prof. Willig's March 10, 2010 verified statement. That exhibit shows that during the relevant time period, some of the Applicants' selected array of transportation tour sector prices increased but others did not.[12] Moreover, some increased by large amounts and others by very small amounts. With this mixed and less-than-exhaustive record, it was reasonable for the Board to conclude that Twin America's price increase was independent of others occurring throughout the transportation section, particularly given that the Exhibit 4 tour products are not particularly close substitutes to Twin America. In addition, Applicants' explanation that their price increases were driven by the increases in fuel prices since the fourth quarter of 2007 [13] was unconvincing, because Applicants' evidence shows that while fuel prices went up in 2007, Gray Line and City Sights fares rose only 1-3%.[14] The 2009 fare increases of 10-17% – completed after the formation of Twin America – were put in place during a period of depressed passenger demand and when fuel prices were dropping.[15]
In the most recent verified statement of Prof. Willig, Exhibit A again shows a similar distribution of prices for transportation-based tours that stayed the same, increased, or decreased from 2008 to 2011.[16] Given its similarity to Exhibit 4, Exhibit A does nothing to refute the Board's finding.[17] The fact remains that the record regarding price increases/decreases of other tour operators is mixed, and that none of the companies on Exhibit A are particularly close competitors to Twin America. It is also still the case that Applicants were able to effect a 10-17% price increase that has lasted over 2 years. Under these circumstances and using DOJ/FTC policy as a guideline, it was reasonable for the Board to conclude that this price increase, which was well above the 5% increase rule-of-thumb used by the antitrust agencies and was sustained for a non-transitory period, was solid evidence of pricing power.[18] Although Professor Willig may be correct that a price increase of 5% or more may mean different things in different markets depending on the particular market characteristics, he offers no compelling argument for why a significant price increase in this market should not be viewed with great concern. Additionally, Applicants' self-serving post-hoc argument that City Sights "would have unilaterally taken price up had the joint venture not occurred" is not entitled to significant weight.[19] Therefore, we do not find material error with our price increase determination.
3. Barriers to Entry
The last material error Applicants allege with respect to the competitive analysis deals with barriers to entry. Applicants state that the Board "committed material error in concluding that lack of entry into the market since the Twin America merger indicates high entry barriers."[20] This argument mischaracterizes the Board's prior decision and fails to persuade us that there was material error.
The underlying decision explains that Applicants had the opportunity to rebut the finding that the joint venture created an impermissibly high level of market concentration by showing that entry barriers were sufficiently low to discipline a market-dominating competitor like Twin America. The Board acknowledged that the agency has typically viewed barriers to entry into the intercity bus market as theoretically low, and that a sustained price increase does not per se indicate substantial barriers to entry. But, after carefully analyzing the record regarding the number of double-decker buses in NYC, their licensing requirements, the availability of bus stops, and the difficulty of entering into a market with established dominant brands, the Board concluded that Applicants had not satisfied their burden to demonstrate that entry barriers are sufficiently low enough to discipline their conduct.
There was no material error in the finding that Applicants failed to meet their burden on this issue. The record supports a finding that the principal restraint on Gray Line was its direct competitor, City Sights, and vice versa. And when they merged, they were able to raise prices by 10-17% for a 2-year period without a new competitor entering the marketplace and placing a competitive restraint on their pricing. On reconsideration, Applicants submit no new evidence to suggest that there has been new entry since the underlying decision.
Moreover, it was entirely reasonable for the Board to rely, in part, on the absence of any new entity. It is undisputed that Twin America increased prices, and that no entrant has entered the market since Twin America was formed. Other than City Sights' entry into the hop-on, hop-off double-decker tour bus market in 2005[21] - which occurred prior to Twin America's domination of the current market - Applicants point to no concrete evidence that entry barriers are low. Applicants' argument that the lack of entry following Twin America's market domination and price increase merely "evidences a market characterized by high quality product offerings at competitive prices" is unpersuasive.[22] It is a bald assertion without supporting evidence and, more importantly, would render meaningless the entry-barriers analysis – a common way of evaluating whether market power can be sustained – in every case.
Applicants also assert that our suggestion that the post-transaction market may be "mature" is "unclear."[23] To do so, they ignore the explanation we provide in the underlying decision. We pointed out that NYC's hop-on, hop-off double-decker tour bus market is populated by 2 well-established and valuable brands – Gray Line and City Sights, brands that Twin America continues to use. The DOJ/FTC Commentary on Horizontal Merger Guidelines notes that in such markets, successful entry requires substantial investment in advertising and promotional activity over a long period of time to build and achieve widespread distribution through retail channels.[24] In other words, it is harder to enter such established or "mature" markets than it is to enter less established markets.
Under these circumstances – a dominant Twin America, a sustained price increase, no responsive entry, and the existence of some entry barriers – it was Applicants' responsibility to provide persuasive evidence that entry barriers were, nonetheless, low enough to impact market behavior. They failed to do so, and we do not find material error with our underlying decision.
In light of the finding that the formation of Twin America was not in the public interest, the Board was confronted with an unusual issue. Applications under § 14303 are required to be submitted to the Board before a transaction is consummated. Parties to such transactions are prohibited by that statutory provision from implementing the transaction, and they must remain separate entities until and unless the Board approves their application.
Here, however, Applicants unlawfully consummated their joint venture prior to seeking approval from the Board. As a result, the Board lacked the usual remedy of prohibiting the transaction from taking place. The underlying decision noted that Applicants have at least 2 alternative options to remedy their premature consummation and the Board's subsequent denial of authority: unwinding the transaction, or discontinuing or divesting the interstate services that Twin America began after antitrust concerns were raised about its intracity operations. The former would alleviate the public interest concerns created by Twin America's market domination. The latter option would leave Twin America intact, but would remove it from our jurisdiction (and place it within the jurisdiction of the NYSAG), because it would be solely an intrastate operator. The underlying decision directed Applicants to provide the Board with a report detailing the steps they will take to comply with the Board's order denying authority for the transaction.
Most of Applicants' petition for reconsideration is devoted to the allegation that we committed material error by "failing to consider alternative remedies and failing to provide the applicants the opportunity to address the question of alternative remedies."[25] Applicants rest their remedies argument primarily on Gilbertville Trucking v. United States, 371 U.S. 115 (1962) (Gilbertville). In Gilbertville, our predecessor, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), had ordered divestiture of assets by a principal to terminate a violation of a statute prohibiting common control or management of motor carriers without prior approval. Gilbertville, 371 U.S. at 123. The Gilbertville court acknowledged that divestiture was a remedy within the scope of the ICC's power (Gilbertville, 371 U.S. at 129), but remanded the case back to the ICC because it held that a prerequisite to judicial review, limited by statute to ascertaining whether the ICC made an allowable judgment on its choice of remedy, "is evidence that a judgment was in fact made, that the parties were heard on the issue, that proper standards were applied." Id. at 130.
The underlying decision does not conflict with Gilbertville. As noted, the Board's decision offers 2 possible, but not exclusive, alternative remedies, and we did not compel Applicants to pursue either at that stage. More fundamentally, however, Applicants have had the opportunity to argue the appropriateness of prospective remedies.
The parties to this case raised alternative remedies 3 times. First, NYSAG, in addressing remedies, asked the Board to deny the application for control of Twin America.[26] In the alternative, NYSAG asked that we condition the approval of the application by ordering a divesture of the tour guided sightseeing business by double-decker buses in the 5 boroughs of NYC from the transaction.[27] In other words, NYSAG contemplated the converse of one of the potential remedies we identified – approving the transaction's interstate component once the intrastate aspect, which is really the lion's share of Twin America's business, was spun off. Applicants filed a responsive pleading to the NYSAG's comments, but ignored addressing the proposed alternative remedy.[28]
Next, the Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) also filed a request that the Board deny the application.[29] In the alternative, TWU requested that the Board order Applicants to produce documents to support Applicants' claims that the public and employees have not been and will not be harmed by the creation of Twin America.[30] Again, Applicants filed a responsive filing to TWU's comments, but in that filing failed to address the concept of alternative remedies.[31]
Finally, NYSAG again discussed the potential remedies in this case when it asked the Board to reject the application on the grounds that it is not in the public interest, or, in the alternative, to reserve the Board's decision until NYSAG could conduct its own investigation.[32] This time, Applicants did address that remedy and argued against the Board "forego[ing its exclusive jurisdiction under Section 14303 in favor of the [state] agency's state law antitrust investigation.]"[33]
In short, the parties addressed remedies. The Board considered their filings and suggested 2 alternative means to bring Applicants in compliance with the law – dissolution or divestiture (or discontinuing) of Twin America's interstate activities. In doing so, the Board did not order either remedy. The Board did order Applicants to submit a plan indicating how they would bring themselves in compliance with our decision. None of that is material error.
Although the Board has not yet ordered a remedy, we find it necessary at this time to address one of Applicants' arguments about potential remedies. Applicants argue that we cannot order the dissolution of the joint venture because they have integrated virtually every operational function of Gray Line and City Sights while this application was pending, including sharing information, joining bus operations and associated marketing, sales, management operations, back-office support, information technology support and intellectual property, such as "call centers, central dispatching, charter business, organized group sales, training, information technology operations, human resources, marketing and advertising departments, and sales."[34] Applicants present us with a fait accompli, and essentially argue that we cannot order the dissolution of Twin America. They are mistaken. Their decision to consummate the transaction without regulatory approval was one Applicants made at their own peril, and the law does not require that we reward them for their violation of the federal requirement of pre-approval of this transaction. Dissolution of the joint venture remains an option that the Board may consider, depending on the results of the proposed compliance plan that Applicants have been ordered to submit.[35]
In sum, Applicants have failed to present new evidence or substantially changed circumstances that would materially affect the case or to show material error in our underlying decision. They have not satisfied their burden under 49 U.S.C. § 722(c) or 49 C.F.R. § 1115.3. Accordingly, their request for reconsideration is denied.
This action will not significantly affect either the quality of the human environment or the conservation of energy resources.
It is ordered:
1. Applicants' petition for reconsideration is denied.
2. The stay issued by the Chairman on March 8, 2011, is removed.
3. Applicants are directed to provide the Board with a report by February 10, 2012, on compliance with the underlying decision and this one.
4. This decision is effective on its service date.
By the Board, Chairman Elliott, Vice Chairman Mulvey, and Commissioner Begeman.
[1] The digest constitutes no part of the decision of the Board but has been prepared for the convenience of the reader. It may not be cited to or relied upon as precedent. Policy Statement on Plan Language Digests in Decisions, EP 696 (STB served Sept. 2, 2010).
[2] Applicants
consist of the corporate families of International Business Services (IBS),
which operates local and interstate bus services under the Gray Line New York (Gray
Line) trade name, and City Sights Twin, an entity that took over the NYC
sightseeing operation of a business called City Sights (collectively, City
Sights). The corporate family of
IBS/Gray Line includes Stagecoach Group PLC (Stagecoach), its noncarrier intermediate subsidiaries (Stagecoach Transport
Holdings plc, SCUSI Ltd., and Coach USA Administration, Inc.), and Coach USA,
Inc. (Coach USA). The Stagecoach/Coach
USA group controls numerous passenger carriers throughout the
[3] Onel Alfaro filed comments in opposition to the Applicants' petition for reconsideration on May 6, 2011. Karen Fleming filed an Amicus Curia Statement contesting testimony Applicants attached to their petition to stay our underlying decision on May 10, 2011. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local Union No. 966 filed a letter on May 11, 2011, indicating that, having received certain assurances from Twin America, Local 966 is not objecting to approval of the transaction. Applicants responded on May 20, 2011. Karen Fleming filed comments in response to Applicants' May 20 filing on July 7, 2011.
[4] Under 49 U.S.C. § 14303(b), we must approve and authorize a transaction that we find consistent with the public interest, taking into consideration at least: (1) the effect of the transaction on the adequacy of transportation to the public; (2) the total fixed charges that result; and (3) the interest of the affected carrier employees. Thus, in determining whether the transaction is consistent with the public interest, the Board may evaluate many factors, including whether there are anticompetitive effects that would result from the joint venture.
[5] See Transcript 22.
[8] The Transport Workers Union of America informed us that the use of Segways in NYC is illegal, Comments 20, Feb. 1, 2010, a point unrebutted by Applicants.
[9] See, e.g., Limited Liability Company Agreement of Twin America LLC at 7-8, defining "Sightseeing business," "Territory," and "Purpose" for Twin America. NYSAG Reply, Mar. 11, 2010. Because this agreement was submitted under seal, we will not discuss the details of the document further.
[10] Applicants argue, at various points, that the Board was required to mount a full-scale antitrust analysis in order to reach its conclusions regarding market definition. See, e.g., V.S. Willig 3-6, Feb. 18, 2011. Applicants are mistaken. While the Board can and does consider antitrust principles in its consideration of public interest factors, these doctrines are guidance and their strict application is neither required nor determinative. In any event, the Board properly considered well-established antitrust principles in this case.
[12] Applicants provided no explanation for how they identified the companies whose pricing information is included in Exhibit 4, nor did they say whether other tour companies not listed had different pricing trends. Although Exhibit 4 contains data for many water-based tours, it does not include pricing data for Big Taxi Tours, the only other, hop-on, hop-off double-decker tour bus operator in NYC.
[15] Applicants' Reply, V.S. Willig, Ex. 2, Nov. 17, 2009.
[17] V.S. Willig 4, Feb. 18, 2011. Despite the Board's finding that Big Taxi Tours was Applicants' closest competitor, Exhibit A provides no data whatsoever on the pricing of Big Taxi.
[18] See Merger Guidelines 8-10.
[19] See V.S. Willig 4, Feb. 18, 2011.
[21] V.S. Marmurstein 2, Nov. 17, 2009.
[22] See Pet. Reconsideration 4.
[23] Id.
[25] See Pet. for Reconsideration 4.
[31] Reply of Applicants to Sur-Reply of the New York State Attorney General and to Comments of the Transport Workers Union AFL-CIO, Local 225, Mar. 10, 2010.
[32] Sur-Reply of the State of New York to Reply of Applicants to Comments of the New York State Attorney General, Feb. 1, 2010.
[33] Reply of Applicants to Sur-Reply of the New York State Attorney General and to Comments of the Transport Workers Union AFL-CIO, Local 225 at 8, Mar. 10, 2010.
[34] Pet. for Reconsideration 7, V.S. Marmurstein 1,3, Feb. 18, 2011.
[35] Moreover, the finality of Applicants' integration and the inability of Twin America to return to its component companies are at least in doubt. In their letter filing on July 8, 2010, Applicants submitted into the record here a decision from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) pertaining to an action filed by TWU, Local 225. The Local had sought a determination that the companies forming Twin America had merged, and that thus a contract vote was in order. Twin America opposed that petition, and the NLRB ruled in Twin America's favor. In doing so, the NLRB found, "There has not been any significant physical consolidation of operations." In re: Twin America and Local 225, Transport Workers Union, AFL-CIO, Case 22-RC-13115, Decision and Order, NLRB, Region 22 (June 28, 2010), at 11. Thus, Applicants' own evidence here casts doubt on their argument on the consequences of dissolution.


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The Well is a Christian ministry that serves women who have either already been victimized by the Thai sex industry or are at risk.
The factors underlying and surrounding the huge Thai sex industry are many and complex (see infographic below). The Well brings a holistic, multi-pronged approach to this immense need. Our efforts include broad-based education, trauma and addiction recovery, family and community health, and job creation. And because the need is so vast, our ultimate mission goes beyond reaching individual women but to equipping Thai people to address the problem.
Mission: Reach–Teach–Send
The Well exists to help transform Thailand through reaching sex industry workers and others at risk, training them as leaders, and sending them to reach others.
The Well is named for the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman in John 4 that resulted in her introducing him to her village. The Well reaches out to women in in red-light districts or other places of brokenness, and offers opportunity not only for healing and restoration, but for training as change agents following the model of Jesus.
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A woman joins The Well either as a result of direct outreach to red-light areas or through word-of-mouth referral.
In her first few days she is thoroughly assessed for physical, emotional and social health, and after an orientation period, is placed either in the full-time recovery program or in work-study. If she is coming in with a nursing baby, she will care for her baby while participating in daily activities, until daycare is arranged.
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If she is unable to work and manage her life due to trauma disorder, she will spend time in the recovery unit, a safe, healing environment that provides therapeutic activities and counseling. Activities include art, music, movement (e.g. yoga, zumba), support groups, and classes on basic life skills. She will do light, low-stress but interesting work such as greeting card and jewelry assembly and baking.
If she doesn't need dedicated recovery, she will begin focusing on career development, either planning her own business or developing employable skills. She will then focus on vocation approximately 3/4 time, and take classes the other 1/4. Her work will provide 50-90% of her income. The Well then provides a stipend to make up the rest of her need, based on the number and ages of her children.
If she develops a solid track record in work and study, she is offered a position leading others. This may be as a work supervisor or other manager, teaching classes, mentoring others, outreach or other outside ministry.
If she completes high school equivalency, she may be offered financial assistance to attend vocational school, college or university.
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LOS ANGELES - Keith C. Norris, M.D., received the Meritorious Achievement Award from the National Medical Association during the organization's 2011 Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly in the Nation's Capitol.
"I'm excited and honored," Dr. Norris, the University's executive vice president for research and health affairs, said. "I view it as not only an award for me, but for the university and the community."
Since 2005, Dr. Norris has been named one of "America's Leading Doctors" by the Consumers' Research Council of America. He also is the principal investigator for numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health, part of a federal agency that is the largest source of funding for medical research in the world.
Gary J. Sheppard, M.D., who chairs the Board of Trustees for the National Medical Association, the nation's largest organization of African American physicians, wrote of Dr. Norris:
"We believe that when the history of this dynamic period of struggle is written, your name will be deeply etched in its fabric as having inspired and challenged physicians and medical professionals nationwide to address critical issues of health care and medicine."
Dr. Sheppard added: "Your distinguished career path in medical research and education has been paramount in NMA's shared commitment to promote health and prevent disease, injury, disability and premature death."
The award was presented at the Opening Ceremony and Mazique Symposium on Sat., July 23 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. In his acceptance speech, Dr. Norris acknowledged those who inspired him, and explained why this award was so meaningful.
"This honor is an indelible reminder of the moral imperative for the work that lies ahead to ensure that future generations have the opportunity and the support to carry on the National Medical Association's legacy, and to attend to our appointed duties with excellence and with compassion," Dr. Norris said.
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The dramatic intervention is underway to save Alexandra from what her parents and Dr. Phil believe is a dangerous addiction to prescription pills. Alexandra finally relents and listens to emotional pleas from her sister, Katherine, and mother, Erin. Will their sentiments strike a chord with her? And why may this be the last communication they have with her? Alexandra and her father, Marty, have always had a tight bond, but their relationship has been strained since she has separated herself from the family. Will it be Marty's tearful plea that inspires Alexandra to seek treatment? Then, find out why police are called to the house during the intervention. When Brandon confronts Alexandra with the reality of her situation and shares his firsthand experience, will the mom of three commit to change? Plus, learn about the difficult decision Erin and Marty make that may land Alexandra in jail.


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Los Angeles, California December 13, 2005
______________________________________________________SD Secretary of State says they're still verifying signaturesof the first initiative presented. It'll be a while for them tostart processing the J.A.I.L. Initiative next. It's just a matter of time--J.A.I.L. will be on the 2006 South Dakota ballot!An Open Letter to News ReportersBy Barbie, ACIC, National J.A.I.L. AdministrationThe Code of Ethics of professional journalists states in its preamble that the duty of the journalist is to ... seek[ ] truth and provid[e] a fair and comprehensive account of ... issues. http://spj.org/ethics_code.aspThe entire preamble reads as follows:Preamble: Members of the Society of Professional Journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of the journalist is to further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues. Conscientious journalists from all media and specialties strive to serve the public with thoroughness and honesty. Professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist's credibility. Members of the Society share a dedication to ethical behavior and adopt this code to declare the Society's principles and standards of practice.You are invited to go to the website cited above and read it for yourselves. There is much more information after the preamble. Surprisingly, none of the journalists involved in reporting on the J.A.I.L. Amendment that I have seen have been faithful to their journalistic principles-- NONE of them! What does this say about the credibility of the newspaper companies, your bosses, in allowing these reports to be published? Shouldn't they be responsible for your conduct in reporting false information to the public?I can understand why the legal fraternity (lawyers and judges) would misrepresent the J.A.I.L. Amendment since they don't want to be held to account for their conduct in violating the law. The cozy legal profession, covered up by their brethren in black robes, would no longer be so cozy if the judges had to be accountable to the People for their cover-ups. They'll say anything to mislead the public in order to try to maintain the status quo.The legal fraternity is running scared! "Due process of law" and other requirements of law is a Sword of Damocles threatening their comfortable way of life. But I would expect journalists to be more honest and objective in their reporting.1. J.A.I.L. will enforce the independence of the judiciary.Among the most prevalent lies being reported is that J.A.I.L. will interfere with "judicial independence." Since J.A.I.L. enforces constitutional law, I conclude that "judicial independence" means independence from the law-- independence from accountability. Then I saw an article written by one of your colleagues, which didn't mention J.A.I.L. directly, but hinted at it after some remarks were made about J.A.I.L. by Chief Justice Ronald George, as quoted in the Sacramento Bee, "California has an 'outstanding and impartial' judiciary and doesn't need 'extremists telling us how to change a system that has served us so well and to substitute ... a highly politicized system for the impartial process that we enjoy.' "The Wichita Eagle - posted Fri. Dec. 02, 2005Chief justice concerned about attacks on judiciaryBy John Hanna, Associated PressIn that article, Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Kay McFarland is reported as saying:1. "Courts aren't supposed to take polls or consult public opinions in ruling on the law."2. "Their (judges') duty is to uphold the rule of law, not do what's popular."3. "Judges should not put their fingers up and see which way the wind is blowing. That's at the heart of judicial independence."4. "Courts have to have the respect of the vast majority of the public, that if they have a problem, they'll get a fair deal."5. "We all have our personal opinions, but our (judges') duty and obligation is to the law."That's when I found out that J.A.I.L. would actually enforce judicial independence, if it means independence from popular opinion. If judges followed the above five principles, J.A.I.L. would not be a threat to them.But here's how the "J.A.I.L. interfering with judicial independence" lie was formed: It is based on the false premise that J.A.I.L. will allow people to sue judges if they don't like the decision. If that premise were true, then the conclusion quoted above would also be true. However, nowhere does the J.A.I.L. Initiative say or even hint anything about liking or not liking a decision. That's where you journalists have departed from your own standard of ethics. You come up with that statement out of thin air, because it fits your agenda of "finding" J.A.I.L. lacking in integrity. You purpose to misled the public because they depend on your honesty in reporting. Would readers buy your newspapers if they knew you were pedaling deliberate lies and propaganda? If you are unethical and willing to lie here, then what about the ethics of your other news reports?2. J.A.I.L. deals only with enforcing the law on the judiciary.Had you researched the source material, i.e., the J.A.I.L. Initiative for South Dakota, you would have found, when reading the Preamble, that the concern of the People is "when judges do abuse their power" involving the "doctrine of judicial immunity." It is only when that abuse occurs that "the People are obliged - it is their duty - to correct that injury..." If it doesn't occur, then there is no injury for the People to correct, and the J.A.I.L. process has nothing to do in such case.Then, if you further researched the source material, you would have found by reading paragraph 2 that only specific violations will trigger the J.A.I.L. process of removing judicial immunity so that the judicial violator may be required to stand trial therefor. NOTE: NOTHING IS SAID ABOUT LIKING OR DISLIKING A DECISION. Only the following violations of law will involve the exclusion of immunity from a judge within the meaning of paragraph 1b:
Do any of you reporters think judges should be able to commit the above offenses with impunity?Further researching the source material, you would have found in paragraph 3 that the Special Grand Jury does not accept subjective issues, such as "liking" or "not liking" a decision. That paragraph states "Their responsibility shall be limited to determining, on an objective standard, [emphasis added] whether any civil lawsuit against a judge would be frivolous or harassing, or fall within the exclusions of immunity as set forth in paragraph 2, and whether there is probable cause of criminal conduct by the judge complained against."So, if the judges' duty is to uphold the rule of law, and not do what's popular, then J.A.I.L. will enforce that judicial duty. Thus it will enforce "judicial independence" if that's what the term means.3. J.A.I.L. is not based on the amount of judicial corruption.Another reason J.A.I.L. is needed by the People is to be a guard against possible abuse of authority by judges. As in an insurance policy, a policyholder can't wait until he becomes sick or has an accident before getting insurance. Jus so, as a matter of nature, the People must provide new guards for their future security-- not wait until the damage is done. Your argument that "little or no judicial corruption exists in South Dakota" does not excuse the need for the establishment of J.A.I.L. in South Dakota.However, Mr. Branson has found, when personally collecting signatures, that South Dakotans do believe there is plenty of judicial corruption in that state. Just two examples, found on the Opening Page of our website, are:
- any deliberate violation of law
- fraud or conspiracy
- intentional violation of due process of law
- deliberate disregard of material facts
- judicial acts without jurisdiction
- blocking of a lawful conclusion of a case
- any deliberate violation of the Constitutions of South Dakota or the United States, notwithstanding Common Law, or any other contrary statute.
So, don't mislead the public, such as Keith Jensen of the Madison Daily Leader who states: they don't know squat about South Dakota and South Dakota's judicial system and I don't care what the problems are in Texas or California or Florida. I read the initiative here several times, thoroughly, and whether it is the same as the initiative being suggested elsewhere, or not, matters not to me, but it is a shoddy initiative with all kinds of problems created that really create more of a mess in a state where we have had hardly any of the problems the initiative supposedly seeks to solve. It is a solution looking for a problem here.Does Keith Jensen know more about the court system than Sheriff Eggers with 31 years experience therein? By Jensen's arrogant words, "They don't know squat about South Dakota and South Dakota's judicial system," it would appear he claims he does. Perhaps Keith Jensen should challenge Sheriff Eggers to a open public debate on their court experiences.4. Imprisoned inmates will not serve on the Special Grand Jury.I'll cover one more piece of propaganda put out by you reporters. That is, that prisoners serving time will be let out of prison to serve on the Special Grand Jury. Other reporters said that felony drunk drivers, convicted drug dealers and child pornographers, sexual deviates, pedophiles (you name it) will be allowed to serve. Obviously, this is your propaganda to seek to scare the public because you fear that J.A.I.L. will be passed into law by the People next November.The initiative states in paragraph 12: Those not eligible for Special Grand Jury service shall include elected and appointed officials, members of the State Bar, judges (active or retired), judicial, prosecutorial and law enforcement personnel, without other exclusion except previous adjudication of mental incapacity, imprisonment, or parole from a conviction of a felonious crime against persons. [emphasis added] If imprisonment is an exception to serving on the SGJ, then inmates will NOT be serving.______________________I think that continued irresponsible reporting of this kind, amounting to written emotionalism and not fact, will cause the people to insist on some kind of consequences to the newspaper companies and publishers. For instance, one reader states:I would like for each of you to read this article (see below) from the Madison Daily Leader, and send your view of the truthfulness of the article. The email address to send your response should be to the publisher, not the author of this "blatant misreporting."His name and email isJon M. Hunter jon@...It is my opinion that we need a law for fraudulent reporting of the facts by reporters with newspapers being liable.-Barbie
- A renowned man in Sturgis by the name of John
Eggers, a 31-year veteran (now retired) Sheriff of Meade County, handed
Mr. Branson the front page of the current issue of the Black Hills Press
newspaper with his picture on it, in which he was being presented a plaque in
his honor. The caption read that the Mayor of Sturgis has proclaimed August
9th as "Sheriff John Eggers Day." Sheriff Eggers was very bold in his opinion
about the South Dakota judiciary, and allowed us to quote him as saying, "I am
well familiar with the judiciary in this State of South Dakota, and this
J.A.I.L. Initiative is very much needed here." Sheriff Eggers also said, and
we quote, "No one is above the law," referring to the judges of South
- A man in Deadwood, a small mountain community of about a thousand in population, said "I know two judges who should be in prison, not on the bench." When asked if he was speaking about the State of South Dakota, he emphatically responded: "No! I mean right here in Deadwood!"
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text: Hi everyone Thought I would to a forum on my Audi A3 1.8tfsi 3 door lava grey 2008 model car. The point of this is so people can get to know me better and also to get people thoughts on my car. Also know my name when i come to the Scotland meets. My name is David Ferrel and I'am 20 just know. So not anything special about my username Davidf92 . I'am a engineering apprentice at Selex ES in Crewe Toll Edinburgh. I live in the Broxburn area of West Lothian so i come to the Central Scotland meets. Also i go to other car club meets e.g Crail or the Livingston area so if you see me just come over for a talk. This is my first Audi. I got it back in August 2012. I have always liked the Audis on how they look and the interior styling. When I was looking for a new car it was between the Audi and the seat Leon but the Audi won with the looks and the engine. Anyway here are some photos of my car. Having a lava grey Audi is nice to look at when it is clean and polished. It seems to change colour by the sun, some days is looks black then light grey and also a small bight purple. Just know the only MOD that i have on my car is the BlackVue dr380g-HD camera and it is the best thing that i have bought. Has is is handy to have video of accident has it happens. Just know i trying to hard line it into my fuse box. Next I'am thinking of getting new alloys for my car. But I'am finding it hard to find ones i like and for a good price. If all else fails i just keep the alloys i have got, just need fixed. Here is the shape that I'am thing off, i thing metal grey will go will with my car. In the near future I'am thinking of getting a stage 1 remap and a new air filter. Also i might do something to the grill and the fog light surround trim parts. Carbon fiber . Also might get a milltek exhaust. These are the ideas i have got but it all come down to what i have the money for


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About 150 people enjoyed a night of food, music and fundraising in Spalding on Saturday to support a village primary school.
A Valentine's Ball at South Holland Centre was organised by members of the Friends of Lutton St Nicholas School (FOLS), Nicola Stevenson, Anna and Sally Hoyles.
The ball included a three-course meal, live music from 1980s tribute band The Look and a raffle with prizes donated by several South Holland firms.
Nicola said: "Most of the guests who came were friends of people we know, but there were also a few parents whose children go to the school.
"People really enjoyed themselves and said that it was a really good night.
"We had lots of prizes donated and sponsorship from local businesses and we raised about £3,500 which is very good considering there weren't as many people at the ball as we normally have."
A statement about FOLS on the school's website says: "FOLS is a group of enthusiastic parents and friends who organise fundraising and support various school events.
"Its aim is to contribute funds to enhance the educational opportunities for the pupils of the school.
"The children benefit greatly from the work of the group and FOLS has fully funded or made contributions towards projects such as playground and IT equipment, subsidies for school outings and a variety of 'wishlist' requirements for different curriculum areas."


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lol, you go meadowanne!
Been to this light and the old one above the bay, as well. Have a navy blue windbreaker jacket I bought there with both lights on it that I refuse to stop wearing even if I've outgrown it (sideways, of course).