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Sarge says he spends most days at his "duty station." The tall, gentle-sounding man appears to be talking about a single metal folding chair parked under a scraggly hackberry tree a block south of Dallas City Hall, just out of reach of the withering sun. But he is also clearly half out of his mind.
Sarge has positioned himself directly across a narrow side street from the First Church of Christ Scientist, a landmark classical revival-style edifice of tan brick and white stone best known for its distinctive gray metal dome. The building has been surrounded since early August with an 8-foot chain-link fence. For the last five years, Sarge lived in the front door of the sanctuary, which was all but abandoned to vandals and thieves in the late 1980s. When the fence went up, Sarge told the building's new owner, investor-developer Hershel Weisfeld, that he was expecting to be reassigned to a new post someday, so he didn't mind moving off the property.
He is still awaiting that new assignment. By all indications, though, he has moved for good to his new spot just across Browder Street. "I'm with the Army. I'm not here to watch automobiles, and I'm not security," says Sarge, who wears a Ralph Lauren button-down, a knit cap, and a pair of grimy black sneakers. "I'm here in the protocol area awaiting stationing. If you want to know more about me, go around the corner and ask the Armed Forces Director of Personnel down there at the Day Resource Center."
Not willing to volunteer anything else about his name, age, or years living on the street, Sarge says, "You have to talk to high-ranking personnel over there." Asked how he feeds himself, he says, brightening, "You can eat seven days a week 'round here. The churches come by."
The former church that Sarge has adopted as his "home" is about to become yet another cog in the near south side's engine of change, the wave of residential and commercial redevelopment in the Cedars area, which by old-time markers begins at the back door of City Hall and extends across the Interstate 30 canyon into the Old City Park area and southwest to the former Sears catalog warehouse. Weisfeld's project will become the Sara Ellen & Samuel Weisfeld Center, an alternative performing arts space for music, dance, and theater. "There'll be an endless list of opportunities to expand this part of the city culturally, like never before," Weisfeld says from his art-filled offices just off Turtle Creek. "I'm trying to be a good citizen and figure out how I can work with my neighbors."
But Weisfeld's neighbors aren't your standard next-door nuisances -- the Winnebago-parkers, the snotty adolescents, the lords of weedy lawns.
Before he put up the fence, his neighbors filled the window wells around his building with broken 40-oz. beer bottles. They crapped in his bushes and urinated on his lawn. They fell asleep on his property and threatened him and yelled obscenities when he had the nerve to wake them up. They covered his lawns and parking lots with their casually discarded styrofoam plates and cups, which had been handed them minutes before by drive-by church groups.
His neighbors are the hardcore street people who have turned nearby Ervay Street into a Champs d'Elysée of destitution. They stroll the street by the score with brown sacks of malt liquor and whatnot, from the Dallas Public Library, the city's de facto homeless day room, over the I-30 overpass, past Old City Park, and south to the Bunkhaus, a for-profit crash pad. On any given weekend, the brick shelter at 1818 S. Ervay St. is surrounded by a teeming bazaar of hookers, loan sharks, crack dealers, and now and then a vanload of charitable sorts handing out sandwiches, cold chicken, or old clothing.
Judging from the long list of people Weisfeld has talked to about his problems -- city officials, homeless-service providers, police, and neighborhood groups -- he's been busy. So far he's extracted a promise of a few more trash cans along the street and the cooperation of a few church groups that are thoughtful enough to pick up after their mass street-feedings. For the most part, however, the relationship between Weisfeld and his neighbors is symbolized by Sarge and the old church.
They sit facing each other. A stand-off.
On one side is a hip comer, one of a growing collection, with plans to expand the tax base and revitalize an area that has been a blighted backwater for more than 40 years. On the other side is a problem the city has herded from neighborhood to neighborhood, out of Deep Ellum, into the Cedars. They represent a problem nobody has managed to resolve as downtown's last frontier -- the Farmer's Market area and the southern edge of downtown, down to Corinth Street -- shows signs of new residential and commercial life. Nobody talks about the endless car burglaries and thefts and piles of excrement on the front step left by their neighbors, who many Cedars residents suspect have been deliberately concentrated in their part of town by a host of public and private policies.
Given all the renovations in the Cedars, more well-to-do settlers are expected to move in, their wagon trains pulled by Chevy Tahoes and Ford Explorers, freighted with leather sofas and wide-screen TVs. On pure economic grounds, the sod-busters are destined to win.
And while for the moment the homeless are holding the high ground in the streets, tensions are beginning to rise as the classes collide. Some beleaguered upscale residents are calling for changes in the way the city handles its homeless population.
As always with the "nonconforming homeless," as the service professionals call them, there are far more problems than solutions, more losers than winners.
Two blocks east of Weisfeld's arts center, Tony Miglini has created an urban home in a cool gray stucco building with nearly 4,000 square feet of living space, soaring ceilings, abstract paintings, a high-tech media room, and a kitchen in granite and steel. It's on the tax rolls for nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
"I love living downtown -- everything except the homeless, and they're so bad they're going to drive me out," says Miglini, a 28-year-old who describes his occupation as "having some investments and doing some producing." Sitting at his serving bar, fielding calls on his cell phone, Miglini flips through photos of his life as a downtown resident and property owner, a member of the inner-city avant-garde. One snapshot shows a pile of syringes in his gutter. There's another of a broken window in his SUV. Another of a dozen men loitering just around the corner. One time, he says as he flips the pictures, a homeless man chased his girlfriend into the house, informing her along the way of all the things he'd like to do to her. Then there's the human excrement, the public sex in his courtyard, and the extra $45,000 he spent to wall off the front of his building, install security cameras, and secure his parking area.
Miglini's misfortune, he says, is living in the apex of the homeless Bermuda Triangle -- between the First Presbyterian Church-run Stewpot, the city-run Day Resource Center, and the old Union Gospel Mission, where the homeless still mass to catch mission buses that run to its present location on Irving Boulevard. "The problem is, the homeless have more rights than I do," he says, insisting that the issue is not rich vs. poor but right vs. wrong. "They're allowed to do what they want. Nobody wants to hurt their feelings."
At a time when crime is down around the city, car break-ins are so bad on his block that his friends have stopped coming to visit, he says. He leaves his own car unlocked because "they break a window and cost you 300 bucks just to steal 35 cents." Some of the damage is so blatant, Miglini has begun to suspect that the homeless are deliberately targeting new residents in an effort to drive them out. "I see some of it as a vendetta, like what's going on in the Mission District [in San Francisco]. They do not want anyone coming into the area. They think it's their area. Stay out."
Last year, Miglini put his concerns -- and home photos -- in a letter to Mayor Ron Kirk, and he was put in touch with several city officials in charge of the city's homeless programs. "Their attitude was, you should be a lot more compassionate and maybe the shit on the sidewalk wouldn't bother you so much. They told me to start donating my time to the homeless.
"I'll tell you, I do a lot for charitable causes...I don't consider these guys one of them. For them, being without a home is a chosen occupation. It's their career."
About seven blocks southeast of Miglini's house, architect Gwen Gaylen and her husband have purchased a nondescript warehouse on Harwood Street, moved in, and begun renovating the building into lofts. She likes to call the area SODO, for south of downtown. They aren't big players, like some others moving into the same quadrant, people such as nightclub developer Spencer Taylor, who is putting a Gilley's entertainment complex on Lamar Street south of I-30; or Matthews Southwest Corp., which is converting the massive red-brick Sears catalog buildings further south on Lamar into 450 loft apartments, plus restaurants and shops; or the city, which is putting its new $59 million police headquarters on donated land on the same strip.
Gaylen's top concern is narrow and about as hot a button as you can push in the Bible Belt. Simply put, she doesn't think the homeless should be fed in the streets. "There are consequences to the neighborhood -- litter, loitering. All they are doing is enabling the street lifestyle with absolutely no strings attached. Just as if they were handing them money, they're supporting their drug habits." The feedings tend to concentrate the homeless in her neighborhood, she says -- a "feeding the pigeons" dynamic applied to street folk.
"People get a good feeling by coming down to my neighborhood from North Dallas to feed the homeless when they wouldn't tolerate having homeless people where they live," she says. "People in these churches have to come to my neighborhood to feel good about themselves being charitable."
Bob Shaw, a professional photographer who has lived in a converted industrial plant in the Cedars for 20 years, says the feedings make the neighborhood dirty, and that in turn invites other problems. "What happened to cleanliness is next to godliness?" says Shaw, adding that he's been greeted with hostility from street-feeders when he asks them to pick up after themselves.
The sense that the feedings attract the homeless -- which is disputed by homeless advocates -- is strong among even the most carefully spoken critics. "These men are resourceful," says Weisfeld of the vagrants. "If these services were moved to Highland Park Town Hall, people would be bathing in the creeks, relaxing and lounging under the shade. They wouldn't be downtown."
Approaching the subject from a far more confrontational angle, Mehdi Aboodi, owner of the Farmer's Grill, can't stand the feeding outdoors or in more institutional settings. He likens the homeless to flies on excrement and says he finds no takers for the work he offers -- little jobs such as cutting weeds at the back of his parking lot. Since the Stewpot, a Monday-through-Friday provider of free breakfasts and lunches, moved in a block away earlier this decade, Aboodi says, his restaurant has been hit with waves of broken windows, trespassing, and major thefts. The homeless foot traffic out front is constant. Someone got on his roof and stole about $700 worth of parts from his 20-ton air conditioner, he says. It cost him $15,000 to fix. "Look at this," he says, handing over a stack of yellow complaint cards from the police: half a dozen trespassing and theft complaints in just over six weeks. One woman who wanted to use his bathroom after he was closed broke his front window just to spite him. Another guy walked in, grabbed his cash register, and ran. Another broke in through the roof and stole $600 in coin rolls and some meat. He attributes them all to the area's "army of dopers and crackheads."
Showing off his Plexiglas front windows, burglar bars, and the major display of coiled concertina wire on his roof, Aboodi says his business now looks like Sing Sing. So does every other business that has stayed on the surrounding blocks.
Talk to Aboodi, Weisfeld, Miglini, and Gaylen long enough, and they arrive at some pretty conventional solutions.
In the plainest of terms, they offer the old bum's rush: Move 'em along. Apply enough pressure that they feel a need to go elsewhere. You don't want 'em in your neighborhood; we don't want 'em in ours.
Miglini suggests shifting the homeless to "some residual area of the city." Gaylen likes "down around Industrial Avenue where some of the services are." Weisfeld ponders the idea of adding a homeless compound to the multi-dimensional Trinity River project.
"They want to live outdoors and have certain amenities. Perhaps we could provide bathrooms and showers and services such as that near the Trinity," he says, tossing out the idea for discussion. "They could gather and do their drugs and alcohol. The Trinity River project has so many components to it, maybe this could be another one to include."
A well-organized group from Pleasant Grove's Johnson Church Center pulls up on Ervay Street in several vans and cars, hauls out some tables and a portable PA system, and gets to work. "We have chicken, rice, and vegetables," says organizer Janette Williams over the lovely, full-voiced hymns being sung by Deacon Michael Reed.
About 50 men go through the serving line, receiving their white styrofoam cup of iced tea at the end. The feeding is over in a hurry, and as it ends, the dozen or so church volunteers fan over the area with trash bags, picking up the drifts of litter the homeless have left in their wake. Then Williams and others ask whether anyone wants to pray with them. As they form their circle on the sidewalk, there are only two homeless men willing to pray. "Pray I get some money," one street citizen yells from a distance. "Yeah," says another, "I need money."
At the corner, a man calling himself Catfish recounts from his memory all the street-feedings available in a given week: chicken here, sandwiches there. "The chicken lady comes on Friday," he says, referring to Betty Bramble, who has brought fried chicken several Fridays a month for the past 10 years. All in all, he says, it's hard to go hungry. In the background the Johnson Church Center finishes its prayer: "Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus."
While the Johnson group was performing its mission on Ervay, Rip Parker, Dallas' Johnny Appleseed of street-feeders, was helping a Sunday-school group from the First United Methodist Church of Richardson distribute sandwiches, water, and clothing in front of the Stewpot.
This being a Sunday, it is closed, but men are lined up waiting for the churches -- the "rolling stewpots" in homeless lingo -- to arrive. Before the church van even pulls out, one of its customers is trudging up Young Street. He doesn't even break stride as he tosses down a wrapper, then the half-eaten sandwich. Another group has just rolled into a parking lot across from the main library.
Parker, who works in conjunction with the Park Cities Baptist Church, is known on the street at "The Rev." To the well-intentioned would-be street-feeders who lack street savvy, Parker sometimes acts as an urban trail guide, showing them the gathering and feeding spots and guiding them through the task.
He sees no no ill effects from his charitable work, which began in 1992. "If I didn't feed them, they'd go hungry. That's all there is to it," Parker says. "I don't contribute to their lifestyle except by filling up their stomachs." He says that he's seen many of the same people over the years and that their problems are always the same. "Drugs and alcohol. It's so simple, yet it's so hard to solve."
Parker, 62, says he doesn't consider the areas in downtown and the Cedars where he street-feeds seven days a week to be residential: "I don't see anyone living there." So he's a little curious about who is complaining.
Those who work with the homeless, providing food and services in the city's institutional settings, say the street-feedings complement their services by filling in when they're closed. "There are gaps in services," says the Rev. Bruce Buchanan, who runs the Stewpot as the associate pastor for community ministries at the First Presbyterian Church.
His facility, just south of the church at the corner of Park Avenue and Young Street, feeds a hot lunch to an average of 270 people a day, 125 at breakfast. Buchanan says that he tries as hard as possible to get the street-feeders to partner with the church, but most like to go their own way.
Unlike the street-feeders, the Stewpot is a licensed kitchen that must follow health-department guidelines and sanitary standards for food preparation and storage. It also attempts to offer a wider range of services: casework, dental care, laundry, showers.
Several other professionals who work with the homeless -- none of whom would speak on the record -- said it is preferable to feed the homeless in a more structured setting. Once they begin conforming to the most basic rules and interacting with staff -- people who will begin to make them consider alternatives to the street -- there is more of a chance of getting them back on the road to the mainstream. The workers were hesitant to publicly criticize street-feeding because they're not in the business of criticizing charity, and the street-feeders are, in some ways, very much part of the city's homeless safety net.
According to Eugenia James, assistant director of the city's health and human services department, even if the city were to take issue with street-feeding on health grounds, there are no regulations covering it. "Licensing only covers selling food, not giving it away," she says. Discussion of the city's providing a central location -- indoor or outdoor -- for charities to feed the homeless usually turns to issues of liability, she says. "If you start sponsoring it, you are liable for what goes on," she says.
Buchanan and Ron Cowart, manager of the city-run Day Resource Center, say the central business district and environs collect the homeless for reasons other than a concentration of freebies. The Farmer's Market provides casual employment -- a few hours a morning unloading trucks. There's also the confluence of transportation, plus enough empty buildings for outdoor sleeping. Interestingly, Buchanan says, there was a deliberate effort in the late 1980s to move street-feeders from the parking lots behind City Hall to the Interstate 45 underpasses between downtown and Deep Ellum. That food provided the seeds of what blossomed into the teeming shantytown that itself became a major issue in 1994, when the city fenced it off and bulldozed it in advance of World Cup soccer coming to town.
Those same guys are now among the throngs behind City Hall.
"You have to look at the problem in terms of the nature of homelessness," says Cowart, a former cop. "We categorize two different types of homelessness. There are traditional homeless, driven out in the streets by some catastrophe or employment problem or domestic violence or whatever. They have a great deal of dignity, and they will do anything you ask them to. For them we have what we call our professional services, to help them gain employment, housing. They tend to stay in the shelters, and they tend to move up and on. Then there's street people. They won't stay in shelters. The majority are addicts with convictions, or they suffer from mental or severe emotional problems. The success rate of getting them off the street is nothing that would make news. For them we have what we call incidental services. Showers. Laundry. Mail service. Medical. There is a homeless personality."
Services provided by both the public and private charity sectors for both categories of homeless have expanded over the past decade, Cowart says. "Dallas used to be criticized for ignoring the homeless. That doesn't seem to be the complaint now," he says.
As part of that expansion, the First United Methodist Church plans to renovate the second floor of the Stewpot building into a $1.2 million homeless assistance complex. Some of the services to be provided there -- such as sack lunches -- will move over from the church's main complex on Ross Avenue. Critics contend the move will further concentrate the population, conveniently moving them to a place where they won't bother the rest of the Methodist congregation.
"We have run into some minor opposition to our plans," says the Rev. John Fiedler, the church's senior minister. He says his congregation has considerable contact with the homeless it tries to serve and will continue to in the future. "We have worship services with them. We shake their hands in worship services. We aren't strangers to them," he says.
Fiedler says he'd like to find common ground with "folks trying to maximize the city's commercial potential and bringing about this wonderful development. But it's important we don't watch the safety net fall to the ground."
South of I-30, in the heart of the Cedars, talk about the homeless and crime and neighborhood blight pretty soon turns to two words: the Bunkhaus. If there is something that unites homeless advocates and property owners, it's their utter contempt for the for-profit shelter, which is owned by the same Houston family, the Joekels, that owns Pacesetter Personnel Service, a day-labor office at the same address.
Two homeless men, both of whom asked that their names not be used because they often sleep at the $7-a-night shelter, gave similar descriptions of the place. "You can check in drunk, high, it don't matter," said one, who described himself as a former DART driver with a drinking problem. Shelter employees sell beer, drug dealers operate inside and out, and the loan sharks are easy to spot. They're waiting for the day-labor buses to start returning to begin collecting their loans. One type of currency at the Bunkhaus comes right from the church groups, says another resident. Guys stock up on free sandwiches given away on the outside, sell them to other homeless guys, then use the money to buy beer or crack.
Ron Cowart, the resource center manger, says his agency refuses to provide its more extensive aid and training services to men living in the Bunkhaus. "We require them to be in a structured environment, and Bunkhaus certainly isn't that."
In 1989, the city's Board of Adjustment ordered the Bunkhaus to close at its old location on Exposition Avenue, where it generated the same complaints. Just days before a city ordinance took effect that would have kept it out, the Bunkhaus applied for a permit to move to its location in the Cedars. What ensued was a two-year legal battle and a lot of hardball politics in which the Joekels, who run labor halls across Texas and several other states, found some friends in Austin and at City Hall.
In February 1991, Dallas passed an ordinance setting up regulations on labor halls, including a prohibition on their placement in residential areas. That same spring, the Texas Legislature, led by several members from Houston and Dallas, including former state Sen. Ike Harris, passed a law that prohibited local licensing, and instead set up a weak system of state regulation that did not include placement.
"I'd rather they not be there. We tried hard to move them, but we were unsuccessful," says Bennett Miller, whose loft projects, such as the American Beauty Mill on South Ervay, have been at the forefront of the area's renewal.
Miller, who filed suit against the city and the Bunkhaus, does not seem as exercised as some of his neighbors over the concentration of homeless services. "Some are good for the homeless, some are bad," he says. But mostly, he doesn't think "criticism in the newspaper will get anything done." Simple economics will in time, he says, pointing out that compared with most other major U.S. cities, the number of residents in Dallas' core is still very small.
In the Cedars, there are about 1,500 residents -- perhaps a fifth of them high-income professionals, artists, and other newly arrived residents, Miller says. In three years, that number will grow to perhaps 2,500. "There's really no buildings left to convert," he says. "Any growth will have to be new construction, and I think the sociology of the neighborhood will have to change before you see much of that."
"There's no legal question about our right to be there," says Tony Garrett, a "media consultant" for the Bunkhaus and Pacesetter Personnel. Garrett, who returned calls placed to the Joekels in Houston, has been active in electoral politics, working in 1992 as Ike Harris' district manager.
Garrett says the Bunkhaus absolutely does attract drugs and prostitutes, but he says none of that goes on with the blessing of management. "These guys get paid in cash. If you paid everyone at TI in cash, there'd be that trade outside their gate too. We do the best we can to regulate the types of people who work for us," he asserts. "We're not dealing with monks. This is the rough end of the ladder. There's gonna be problems, but you can't suggest we cause these problems."
In Garrett's hard-nosed view, "people have a kind of cloud-nine vision in what's going to happen in that neighborhood. The so-called Cedars has never been different than what it is right now. It's always been a tenderloin. It was bad 30 years ago, before we were there."
As the liaison between the Dallas Police Department and several downtown business groups, officer Eric Tabbert is a professional listener of complaints about the homeless. From a police viewpoint -- the enforcement of laws against public sleeping, urinating in public, drunkenness, and more serious crimes -- "We have ongoing enforcement efforts that don't have any long-lasting effects," Tabbert says. "It's usually a temporary fix." The police do street sweeps, issue misdemeanor tickets, and pick up homeless guys who haven't paid those tickets and have outstanding warrants for their arrest, he says.
Homeless advocates such as Clora Hogan, editor of the homeless-sold newspaper Endless Choices, contend that the sweeps are increasing. And she is probably right, given that there are more residents around to make complaints and prompt sweeps.
If arrested for outstanding misdemeanor warrants, the homeless are jailed, released for time served, and returned to the streets, Tabbert says.
Beyond that, he says, cops have better things to do than watch street-feedings and wait for some poor vagrant to drop a piece of litter. "It's a tightrope to walk. You start messing with these churches' charitable mission, and you become the devil incarnate. 'How dare you. We are doing God's work.' So they pass out food and run back home. They don't have to deal with the aftermath. This thing is a sacred cow."
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That's why the police don't issue many tickets for church vans parking on the sidewalk.
Then there's the criminal side of the street population, he says. "What a lot of these guys do is absorb the free services, the food and medical and clothing, and then go out and burglarize cars and buildings or steal metal to feed their habits. A lot of 'em are scrappers. We've had a fire escape, a huge metal one, torn off the side of a building for scrap."
And the street population has grown, Tabbert says. "For some reason, more street people have come here. It's known as a good place to be." Politically, he says, the city has been quite tolerant of the homeless. "We don't have a strong enforcement policy.
"This is happening at the same time that people are investing more and more money, putting in their time and effort to renovate. They're beginning to form crime watches and organize and start demanding some solutions. We're creating a monster of a problem. It's getting bigger and bigger the longer we don't address it."


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The unique structure of wild type carbonic anhydrase alpha-CA1 from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
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[CAH1_CHLRE] Reversible hydration of carbon dioxide.
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Chlamydomonas reinhardtii alpha-type carbonic anhydrase (Cr-alphaCA1) is a dimeric enzyme that catalyses the interconversion of carbon dioxide and carbonic acid. The precursor form of Cr-alphaCA1 undergoes post-translational cleavage and N-glycosylation. Comparison of the genomic sequences of precursor Cr-alphaCA1 and other alphaCAs shows that Cr-alphaCA1 contains a different N-terminal sequence and two insertion sequences. A 35-residue peptide in one of the insertion sequences is deleted from the precursor during maturation. The crystal structure of the mature form of Cr-alphaCA1 has been determined at 1.88 A resolution. Each subunit is cleaved into the long and short peptides, but they are linked together by a disulfide bond. The two subunits are linked by a disulfide bond. N-Glycosylations occur at three asparagine residues and the attached N-glycans protrude into solvent regions. The subunits consist of a core beta-sheet structure composed of nine beta-strands. At the centre of the beta-sheet is the catalytic site, which contains a Zn atom bound to three histidine residues. The amino-acid residues around the Zn atom are highly conserved in other monomeric and dimeric alphaCAs. The short peptide runs near the active site and forms a hydrogen bond to the zinc-coordinated residue in the long chain, suggesting an important role for the short peptide in Cr-alphaCA1 activity.
The unique structure of carbonic anhydrase alphaCA1 from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.,Suzuki K, Yang SY, Shimizu S, Morishita EC, Jiang J, Zhang F, Hoque MM, Sato Y, Tsunoda M, Sekiguchi T, Takenaka A Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr. 2011 Oct;67(Pt 10):894-901. Epub 2011 Sep 8. PMID:21931221[1]
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Fairfax County officials have identified at least 10 different areas to possibly establish or increase taxes to help fill its nearly $3 billion deficit in transportation funding over the next decade.
That comes just days after county officials estimated they would have $8.1 billion in transportation needs over the next 10 years but only $5.1 billion in revenues. The shortfall equates to a roughly $300 million per-year funding gap from now until fiscal 2021.
Among the options being considered is a 1 percent sales tax on services such as haircuts and dry cleaning, which officials say could raise $367.5 million per year. Another option is the implementation of a 4 percent meals tax, which could potentially raise $80 million per year.
Supervisor Pat Herrity, R-Springfield, said the chart basically allows for "people to mark their favorite way to increase taxes" to fund transportation projects, especially work in Tysons Corner.
But before any of the proposed changes are enacted, the county plans to host at least nine transportation-related public meetings and launch a countywide survey for suggestions on how to bridge the funding gap.
The county hopes the meetings will show people the magnitude of the transportation problem, while also starting talks about it before the General Assembly convenes to "show them how angry Fairfax is" with the lack of funding, Supervisor Jeff McKay, D-Lee, said.
"This comes out of our blunt frustration with the lack of action in Richmond," McKay said. "If we let the state off the hook [and continue to operate without sufficient state funding], how are we going to pay for this?"
In addition to the proposed changes, Herrity said he'll push for the county to include the use of development proffers, special tax districts and toll funding, all of which were left off the county's list of ways to raise revenue, to help fund transportation.
"It's all about gauging the level of commitment people want to take," Supervisor John Cook, R-Braddock, said. "If we do this ourselves, and we do it correctly, we get to keep every dime."
The first meeting, scheduled in Herrity's district, is slated for Monday at 7 p.m. at the Springfield Government Center.


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Chandigarh: For the first time in the last forty years, Punjab gave a second consecutive term to a party in power. Shiromani Akali Dal's (SAD) Parkash Singh Badal will take oath as the Chief Minister of Punjab for a fifth time on March 14. Today, his son Sukhbir Singh Badal taking a dig at Rahul Gandhi said he will encourage the Congress General Secretary to campaign more.
"Wherever Rahul Gandhi goes, Congress loses...we will encourage him to campaign more," said the SAD president.
The Congress, in Uttar Pradesh, where Rahul had turned the revival of his party into his personal mission, could only add six seats to its earlier total of 22. The added insult comes from Rae Bareli and Amethi - the constituencies of Mr Gandhi and his mother - where the Congress took just two of the 10 assembly seats at stake. Priyanka Gandhi had campaigned extensively in this area and had promised her mother publicly that she would deliver all 10 seats.
Not just UP, Punjab was a disaster for the Congress too. The Congress, which had hoped that the anti-incumbency habit in the state would push it into government, was, however, left with just 46 out of 117 seats. The Congress candidate for chief minister, Captain Amarinder Singh, had predicted his party would defeat the Akalis. He won his seat, but his son, Raninder Singh, lost his constituency.


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The Center for Children is dedicated to providing the best mental health services in Southern Maryland. The Director and staff go out of their way to assist those most in need. From fund raisers that provide monies for the center to parties for the children, the center leaves no stones unturned.
The Center For Children has an array of mental health programs/services available to our Chales County community. Some of the services provided are Therapeutic, Supervised Visitation, Healthy Families, Functional Family Therapy, Adolescent Psychiatric Rehab (PRP), Connections Case Management and Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) The Center is also Parent to the Family Resource Center. The Family Resource Center is located in a great location, at the St. Charles Mall in Waldorf. This makes providing services to residents of Charles County more available and accessable via public transportation. At the Family Resource Center there is a Systems Navigator and Family Navigator. They provide linkage of resources and referrals to the Youth and Familes in Charles County, MD community. The Family Navigator specializes in working with youth and familes that have special needs or a disability. At each location of the Center For Children Offices within the Tri-Counties(St. Mary, Charles, Calvert and Anne Arundel) the hours are flexible for working parents and students who need appointments for evenings, Saturday or afterschool. The staff are skilled and knowledgable in their profession and atmosphere in each location is always welcoming. The work being done at Center For Children is not only good but efffective. Anybody can be good but not everyone is effective.
I have been volunteering for the Center for Children in some way for over 15 years.
Sometimes the Center is the only voice of reason that these Children have.
We help Children in so many ways ones that have been abused in many ways, The young girl that has become pregrent while in school we help her return to school and teach her how to be a good mother to this child.
The child that has a parent getting released from jail become a family again. We also help the family unit as a hole reconnect and start growing in a healthy way. Southern Maryland is a better place just haveing the Center For Children Inc. serving it's children.
R. is an 8 year old girl who came to Center for Children for selective mutism. She came when she was 6 years old and was not talking to anyone but in her immediate family. After a year in treatment she was talking in full sentences and had begun talking to extended family members. By the second year she was reading to her teachers, talking to all the teachers in the school, talking in the waiting room in front of other people. She is just begining to talk to her peers. Without the help of the Center for Children, she would not have come this far to overcome her anxiety to talk to people. She still has a ways to go, but she has come a long way since she first started coming.
This is an amazing organization providing a critical service to a region that desparately needs it. What else can you say?!? Providing mental health care to abused children and families, CfC has weathered a storm of state funding cuts and apathetic politicians while continuing to make hard decisions that have enabled them to continue providing leading-edge recognized services. At every turn the staff makes decisions based on the new realities they are presented, all the while keeping the consumers at the forefront. That they have done this in the midst of huge financial pressures is a credit to their leadership and training.
Center for Children is a valuable resource for members of the community. This is a Mental Health provider who offers therapy services, psychiatric services, Family Functional Therapy, Case Management, Healthy Families, CASA, Psychiatric Rehabilitation and Supervised Visitation. Help is only a phone call away....and this is the place to go.


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CakeSystems™ Software Course
Gain a competitive edge with CakeSystems™ home energy audit software
CakeSystems Software training is offered as a self-paced online course of 3-4 hours followed by a 2-hour scheduled webinar.CakeSystems home energy auditing software has rapidly gained acceptance as a highly effective tool to encourage residential energy upgrades. Earth Advantage's CakeSystems (formerly EPS Auditor Pro) was named the most accurate and consistent energy modeling software in a 2012 Energy Trust of Oregon analysis. CakeSystems certification training enables you to conduct onsite assessments faster and to instantly provide homeowners with persuasive professional looking reports and recommendations that help them understand the energy and cost benefits of energy performance upgrades. Additionally, you can use CakeSystems to produce Energy Performance Scores (EPSs), if you are licensed and qualified to use that feature.
John Spillman is a trainer and technical consultant with Earth Advantage Institute. He teaches classes to Energy Auditors, Builders, Architects/Designers and Building Code officials. John has been promoting sustainable building and energy efficiency in both new and existing residential construction with Earth Advantage Institute since 2009. John's construction background is in residential remodeling. He is currently a certified building analyst professional with the Building Performance Institute, and a LEED for Homes Green Rater. John earned a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from University of California, Davis.
Interested? Contact John Spillman at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information.
- Easy to use. CakeSystems was created for professionals by professionals. Auditors provided critical feedback in the design of the tool's graphical user interface. Report templates enable you to customize the report to each home to give the homeowner the information you want them to receive.
- Easy for homeowners to understand. CakeSystems automatically creates graphical scorecards that show homeowners the performance of their home, where the home stands compared to others in the state, and the home's potential for improvement.
- Easy payments. After online training and certification, you will be ready to perform audits and generate on-the-spot scorecards and reports.
- Fast, professional reports. CakeSystems' template-based report structure lets you include the information you want, including photos. You can instantly generate and email professional-looking reports, so that homeowners get them while interest is still high.
- Reduced data collection. Based on Michael Blasnik's SIMPLE energy modeling software, the tool requires only 30 data points for a highly accurate model. At the same time it allows you to model homeowner savings from typical improvements.
What is CakeSystems Software?
CakeSystems software enables energy efficiency programs to achieve higher conversion rates and implement in-home energy audits more cost effectively.
Is the course approved for continuing education units?
Yes. The course is approved for:
BPI: 6 continuing education credits
How long is the course?
The CakeSystems software certification training consists of 2 parts:1) A self-paced online course, protocol exam and demonstration audit which typically takes 3-4 hours to complete. Following registration, your log-in information will be sent to you via email within 24 hours. 2) A live 2-hour webinar, held monthly, and an online exam. You may select the webinar date most convenient for you using the registration form. Please allow a few days to complete your self-paced course beforehand. The time required for completion of the self-paced online training, protocol exam and demonstration audit is approximately 8 hours.
Are there any prerequisites or requirements?
BPI or HERS CERTIFICATION REQUIRED: A prerequisite to becoming a certified CakeSystems Auditor is having a current BPI Building Analyst or HERS certification. You will need to send a photocopy, photo, scan or fax of your BPI or HERS card to us prior to receiving software access. Please send proof of certification to jspillman[at]earthadvantage[dot]org.
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In response to requests from Plumbing Manufacturers Intl. (PMI) and its members, as well as from other supporters of the U.S....
Cash card technology designed to benefit
water vendors and their customers alike
Water vendors today have a lot on their hands. From constant regulation issues, to sanitation, to taste and water quality in general. While the water industry continues to work to resolve these issues, it is important to keep abreast new technology available on the market that can offer efficient, cost-effective solutions to water vendors and their customers.
Designed specifically for vending machine applications, the SmartVend System, available
from MoBetta Water, Inc., Westlock, AB, Canada, is easy to install and features a SmartCard; SmartCard reader, to be installed on the vending machines; as well as an in-store programming system, a SmartKit Console.
"The SmartCard is like a debit card, for lack of a better term, with a computer chip in it," explained Stan Brooks, president of MoBetta Water. "The card is capable of being programmed with a specific amount of money, which then can be used at the vending machine or inside the store at the console."
The customer can use the card the same way as cash at the vending machine to buy water and the amount of the purchase gets automatically deducted from the card.
According to Brooks, the idea behind the system is to be utilized for "customer loyalty" card or a "volume discount" card. "Let's say for example that a store is selling its water at $2 for 5 gallons and wants to offer a volume discount, you can program-in a certain amount of dollar-value into the card and then actually sell it at a discounted rate to your value customers," Brooks explained. "By buying a large amount of water upfront, the customer receives a discount."
As a result, the system helps build customer loyalty as well as increases store cash flow. In addition, the card offers customers the convenience of not having to carry cash around, or worry about change when using the water vending machines.
Another benefit is the complete elimination of punch cards or other archaic record keeping systems for customer loyalty programs.
"Many water stores have customer loyalty cards but they are on a punch-card basis." Brooks said. "These stores keep a rolodex on their counter and the customer has to walk in and give his name. The person behind the counter has to sort through the rolodex, find that customer's card and punch it; however, the customer is not able to use the punch card outside for vending machine purchases."
The introduction of the SmartVend System allows the store to eliminate the rolodex method of keeping track of their loyalty program, become better organized and it can be used both inside the store and outside at the vending machine.
"The system is modern, and much more full-proof. There is less chance of errors being made by duplicating somebody else's card," Brooks added.
The SmartVend System offers other benefits to both vendors and their customers. The cards are very durable, do not get stuck in the machines and can be used over and over again. They can be programmed a number of times and the card itself counts how many times it has been used.
"The store owner can actually program, let's say that the 125th use of that card is free," Brooks said. "It's called 'jackpoting'—it is kind of a surprise that you can program in for your customer." The customer can also check the balance on his card at any time by inserting it into the vending machine.
According to Brooks, the SmartVend System is a lot more cost-effective than adapting regular credit cards. He said that people had asked him about adapting regular credit cards for water machine use. "The problem is that water sales are small, they have a lower price value so it is not feasible to go that route for a water machine because you'll have to maintain a filling line and you'll have transaction charges," Brooks explained. "A transaction charge can eat up to 50% of what you charge for a gallon of water. With the SmartCard there are really no transaction charges because it is all done in-house."
Technology continues to take over and simplify day-to-day tasks. Today many people don't like to carry cash. The SmartVend System is just another way to offer excellent customer service. It provides a secure way to do business by eliminating money in outdoor vending machines, which are often target to theft and lead to revenue loss.


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Herman Cain Wins Florida Straw Poll Ahead Of 2012 (VIDEO)
This year's race to be the nominee of the Republican Party seems more like a Hollywood movie than reality. Imagine the casting calls!
Hermann Cain, a very successful business man and a black guy , won the straw poll in Fla! Is Cain the #1 choice of Fla's Tea party/conservative dominated Republicans to run against the black guy in the White House?
The pundit class sees this as a disaster for Rick Perry. I am sure that is true. However, I see this as a bigger disaster for Mitt Romney. When the Tea Party votes for Cain, the real message is that Romney can not get their votes no matter how much he cuddles up with Sarah Palin or how badly Perry does in debates.
The Tea Party sees Romney as dismal a candidate as McCain.without a hero's war record.
Perry has a huge chest, and I mean his campaign chest. Behind that chest is political team that can spend a lot of dollars once the TV campaign begins to overwhelm the media.
Romney 's campaign knows that Perry will not whither away for lack of funds. Romney also needs to dig o
ut of his hole. He can not do that on the ground because he does not have a money advantage.
The things to watch now are early endorsements. Perry and Romney are likley wooing people who can sway the primaries ……..Rubio, Palin, Bush III, Chris Christie, Demint and even Lieberman …. are likely to be big targets from now till right after New Hampshire.
Likely they will stay out of the endorsements now because of this debate but unless Romney can fsell his hair do and smirk to the Tea Party, he will need help post NH.
The same is true for Perry but he has a another option that Romney does not have. Perry is new on the national scenes and he is a sitting governor. This offers the cowboy a chance to create an event that shakes things up … changes the news stream for an obsession with the debates.
Whoever is scripting this Hollywood movie has real talent.
For a less impassioned, more objective view of the troubles facing Romney, read Nate Silver


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Edna Martha Anderson
Funeral services for Edna Martha Anderson, of Chokio, will be held on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Chokio, with Reverend Gloria J. Anderson officiating. Burial will be at the Chokio Lutheran Cemetery, Chokio.
Edna Martha Anderson passed away at Grace Village and Home in Graceville on July 8, 2011 having reached the age of 98 years.


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Yu Darvish "doesn't fight," wrote one Dallas-area media member earlier this week as the painful September slide of the Texas Rangers continued. "He's crumbling under the pressure" and "not mentally tough," added multiple fans commenting on the site of the Dallas Morning News.
It's not particularly difficult to understand why Rangers fans are so agitated right now, because for the second season in a row, their team is collapsing down the stretch and ceding control of a division they once dominated to the rival Oakland Athletics. After consecutive World Series defeats in 2010 and 2011, the 2012 Rangers squandered a season-long run in first place by succumbing to a sweep in Oakland in the final series of the season.
This year, they spent 95 days atop the West and were within a half-game of first as recently as Sept. 6, but after dropping nine of 12 -- including another sweep at the hands of Oakland -- Ron Washington's team now finds itself 6 1/2 games behind the Athletics and on the verge of being knocked out of a playoff spot entirely.
There's no shortage of places to put that blame, but the bulk of the frustration seems to be landing on Darvish, mainly because the Texas ace hasn't pitched the Rangers to a win in any of his past six starts dating back to early August -- including two painful losses against Oakland. So Darvish, as the narrative goes, doesn't have "the will to win" and isn't living up to his ace billing, right? Well, not quite.


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Two more credit unions say they have committed to new platforms: Workers' CU in Fitchburg, Mass., and First General CU in Muskegon, Mich.
Robert Taylor was so impressed with the core processing system at the smaller credit union his Idaho State University Federal Credit Union was merging that the CEO is not only keeping that platform around, he's buying a piece of the company.
The $130 million institution said it will be using the CUProdigy Core system from Credit Union Data Processing Inc. and bought a stake in the Utah CUSO.
Credit Union Data Processing Inc. of Farmington, Utah, said Wasatch Peaks Credit Union will soon be using its CUProdigy Core platform.
Wasatch Peaks Credit Union in Ogden, Utah, will be converting to the CUProdigy Core platform from Credit Union Data Processing Inc. of Farmington, Utah.


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Read only file system error!
I've been using Ubuntu 6.06 dual booting with Windows XP for some months now. And this kind of error has not popped up until now. All the files on the linux drive have become read only for some reason and whenever I try to change any it gives an error 'read only filesystem'. The same error is popped up when I log in and it tries to change some configuration files in my home directory. After a while the system hangs and I have to restart. Any idea whats going on?
Take a look at this thread.
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Penguin Group USA has promoted Barbara O'Shea to the new position of president, nontrade sales and new business development. O'Shea, who most recently was senior v-p for the Penguin sales group, will be responsible for sales outside traditional channels, including special sales and sales among other Pearson and Penguin Group companies. She will continue to report to David Shanks, Penguin USA CEO.
O'Shea told PW she will continue to oversee Penguin's traditional special sales efforts while "moving forward to act on new ideas. Our customers are always changing, and we need to change with them." Penguin's special sales unit has 15 members, but O'Shea said that number could grow. "We think there is enormous untouched business out there," she said.


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Broadway Moves from Summer to FallAugust 18, 2011 - by Griffin Miller, Theatre Editor
Welcome to Broadway's annual segue from sweltering dog days to autumn respite -- August being summer's last gasp and September marking the first signs of a percolating new theatre season.
Let's consider the transitional options, like the classics you haven't gotten around to seeing (despite their timeless appeal), as well as the productions that seduced you during the 2011 Tony Awards broadcast. Gold, baby, gold! Plus -- and this is nothing to sneeze at -- the majority of the latter still boast their original stars, like Daniel Radcliffe in the outstanding revival of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. (And here's a thought, particularly if you have kids or a Harry Potter passion of your own: why not go for the New York Radcliffe trifecta and see Deathly Hallows Part 2 in the morning, visit the awesome Harry Potter Exhibition at Discovery Times Square (through 9/5; 226 W. 44th St., 866-987-9692; click here for tickets) in the afternoon, and top off your Radcliffe immersion spectacular with an evening performance of How to Succeed…? I've met Radcliffe and not only is he a charming/good guy, he's proving himself to be one of the most fearless young actors on the planet, having launched his stage career with the psychological drama Equus and following it up with a non-stop song-and-dance musical.)
And then, of course, there's the jaw-dropping casts of Anything Goes (Tony winners Sutton Foster and Joel Grey along with veteran actors John McMartin and Jessica Walter); The Addams Family (starring Roger Rees and Brooke Shields as Gomez and Morticia, respectively); and Priscilla, Queen of the Desert with original leads Will Swenson, Nick Adams, and the beyond-fabulous Tony Sheldon -- who not only received a Tony nomination for his portrayal of transgender performer Bernadette, but has also played the role over 1,100 times in Australia, New Zealand, and the U.K.
So don't be shy; seize this annual sliver of theatrical karma and check out the 24-carat shows guaranteed to knock your flip-flops off in the weeks leading up to the new influx of musicals, dramas, and comedies (currently pawing the ground of the Great White Way's bullpen; click here for a pee;) take center stage. (Okay, The Book of Mormon and Wicked will no doubt prove a ticket-wrangling challenge, but otherwise this is primo time for landing first-rate Broadway tickets and getting blown away by top-tier star power.)
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Ellen DeGeneres Opens Up About 'American Idol'
Despite only being a judge for one season, Ellen was one of my favorites.
Sure, Simon Cowell was my all-time favorite, With his snide comments… But Ellen was just so… nice!
She told CNN, "It was hard for me to judge people." See, she's not nasty like Simon!
She also talked about some of the drama that happens behind the scenes. "Some of them (The Singers) are not as grateful as you would expect. All of a sudden they have fan mail, millions of people saying they're great, and some of them just stop appreciating it."
Hey, if they ever need another super nice judge on Idol, I recommend Betty White!


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At Gemvara, we believe that the White Gold Two Stone Emerald Gemstone Necklaces you wear should be precious because they're personal. All our stylish necklaces are made just for you, in your choice of gems and precious metals. Add your own meaning to every design, creating beautiful memories and brilliant reminders. Pendants with symbolism, like circles, keys, hearts, initials, and knots are as personal as they are fashionable. Gemvara uses only the highest quality materials to craft our White Gold Two Stone Emerald Gemstone Necklaces with meticulous attention to detail. Our precious metals are recycled or responsibly mined. Our growing selection of White Gold Two Stone Emerald Gemstone Necklaces by talented designers means you can find a necklace that's exactly your style. Two stone jewelry styles are often symbolic, with birthstones representing two children or two people in love.Emerald enchants with its vivid grass green.Lustrous 14k white gold is bright and eye-catching in any design. We also offer every style in premium 18 karat white gold, which has the added luxury of higher gold content. The final finishing touch to all Gemvara's white gold jewelry is plating with rhodium, a platinum group metal, for an extra bright white finish.All Gemvara pendants are available with your choice of chain style and length or no chain at all if that's what you prefer. The most popular chain length is 18 inches, which works with many necklines. Clean White Gold Two Stone Emerald Gemstone Necklaces with mild dish soap: use a soft brush where dust collects. Gemvara's fine quality White Gold Two Stone Emerald Gemstone Necklaces are designed to be passed down for generations to come, crafted by hand in the United States.
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Hey, welcome to RevolutionCraft, a new FTB server. We are a fairly small community, and we are looking for new mature people willing to join.
Server Ip: 18.104.22.168
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Server Information:
- 65 slots
- 6 Gig RAM
- Normal difficulty
- Anti-Hack system
- Griefing will get rollbacked
- Arena's, Mob Arena, Shops, and even player made shops.
- Alot of different rankings, more info in-game
If you want to contact me, you can always add me on skype, my username is reinout36
- No Griefing
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Joan Guzman Dropped by Goldenboy
The career of former two-division titleholder Joan Guzman has sunk further into an abyss.
Guzman tested positive for Furosemide, a diuretic on Nevada's banned substance list, following a second-round knockout of Jason Davis on Dec. 11 on the Amir Khan-Marcos Maidana undercard at the MGM Grand, according to Nevada State Athletic Commission executive director Keith Kizer.
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Golden Boy promotions has also released Guzman from his promotional contract, CEO Richard Schaefer told ESPN.com.
Diuretics can be used as masking agents for steroids and are also used to help with weight loss. Guzman has a history of failing to make weight. For the second fight in a row -- and at least the third time -- Guzman did not make the contract weight. He was supposed to face Davis at a maximum weight of 141 pounds but came in at 144.
In his previous fight in March, Guzman was supposed to weigh 135 pounds to challenge Ali Funeka for a vacant lightweight title. But Guzman showed up a whopping nine pounds overweight. The fight went on anyway. Guzman (31-0-1, 18 KOs) won a split decision, but the title remained vacant.
Funeka tested positive for Furosemide following that fight and was suspended for nine months and fined one-third of his purse by Nevada officials. Guzman, 34, a native of the Dominican Republic living in New York, faces a similar punishment when the Nevada commission hears the complaint at its Jan. 26 meeting.
The Nevada commission is also likely to change the result of his fight with Davis to a no contest.
The commission notified Guzman via letter about his failed drug test.
"As you are aware, before your boxing bout in Nevada on December 11, 2010, you voluntarily submitted to a urinalysis and provided a urine sample to Nevada State Athletic Commission representatives," Kizer wrote. "The results of the urinalysis reflected the presence of Furosemide, which is not approved by the Commission.
"Consequently, please be advised I am filing a disciplinary complaint against you alleging that you violated section 467.850 of the Commission's regulations, which prohibit the use of any non-approved drug or stimulant before or during a contest of unarmed combat. It is my recommendation that your license be suspended pending formal disciplinary action."
Golden Boy officials were furious that Guzman missed weight for the Davis fight. Executives from HBO, which televised the fight with Funeka, also were disappointed.
Had Guzman made weight and looked good against Davis, Golden Boy and HBO were talking about him possibly challenging Khan in April. That went out the window when he did not make weight, and now Guzman is facing a lengthy suspension and fine.
Guzman won world titles as a junior featherweight (122 pounds) and junior lightweight (130) but has constantly battled the scale.
In September 2008, Guzman also missed weight for a major televised fight. He was scheduled to challenge then-lightweight titleholder Nate Campbell on Showtime, but Guzman came in over weight. Although Campbell was willing to go through with the fight as a nontitle bout, Guzman refused and it was canceled. With no fight, Campbell missed out on a desperately needed $300,000 purse and was forced to declare bankruptcy a few weeks later.
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Sucks for him, I wish he could get it together because I still think he has the talent to make some noise at 140 maybe even 147 and give anyone trouble but his window of time is getting smaller and smaller.
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Can't say I'm surprised.
He's been one disappointment after the other recently
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What,waitaminutehere,so they robb Funeka blind in the 1st fight now wanna drop him,that's fvcked up.
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text: I used to handle raw pork like raw chicken, like Superman would handle Kryptonite. Now I'm less afraid of sickness and treat it like raw beef because I haven't heard of anybody getting Trichinosis from US domesticated pork well, in my whole life. They've also lowered the reccomended minimum cooking temperature to 145 degrees and I even have read of chefs preparing it raw. Is it still a threat? Has anyone you know ever gotten sick from pork parasites?


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The latest attack on air passenger duty (APD) from Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary is no more than might be expected from such a canny businessman.
Airlines have tended to absorb some of the impact of the tax on their flights out of the UK in order to remain competitive, so its abolition would be an obvious boon for them. That is not in itself an argument for doing away with APD, since all forms of transport are taxed.
It must be said that Ryanair is showing little sign of being dissuaded from operating out of Scotland in general, regardless of the existence of APD. True, Prestwick's share of the Ryanair cake has been cut, from 24 flights next summer to 16, but many flights have been migrated to Glasgow Airport. There will be nine flights out of Glasgow during summer 2015, as well as 32 out of Edinburgh.
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Still, there is some justification in the claim that APD disadvantages regional airports, which lack the huge captive market of a Heathrow or a Gatwick. The Scottish Government and the airlines argue APD is doing damage to Scottish tourism and that abolishing it would increase the number of direct international flights to Scotland. If more airlines came here, goes the argument, there would be more competition for landing spaces, which would help underused airports like publicly owned Prestwick.
Abolition might well have a positive effect on traffic in and out of Prestwick, but that is only one of the challenges the airport faces. It is disadvantaged where business travellers are concerned by being less conveniently located than Glasgow or Edinburgh airports. Some 27 per cent of Ryanair's travellers fly with it on business. It is not hard to see why they might be more attracted by services straight to Glasgow; Prestwick has excellent transport links but is markedly further away from the city centre. Prestwick's folksy branding (remember "Pure Dead Brilliant"?) might not have helped.
Prestwick Airport is an important national and local asset. It generated £61.6 million for the Scottish economy in 2012 and supports 300 jobs directly and very many more indirectly. As a site, meanwhile, it has the longest commercial runway and parallel taxiway in Scotland, allowing for all types of aircraft to be accommodated, not to mention its own railway station, which neither Glasgow nor Edinburgh can claim.
So what next? The Scottish Government is due to publish a long-awaited report after the referendum on its plans for Prestwick, drawing on an expert evaluation of its viability. The Scottish Government believes the airport can be returned to profitability but the question is: how? Passenger services may be just one avenue of opportunity.
The Scottish Government is seeking the power to abolish APD, though doing so would jar somewhat with its hugely ambitious carbon emission reduction targets, which it has repeatedly missed.
Would such a move help Prestwick? Perhaps, but it seems unlikely this move alone would be enough to save this important local hub.


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None of us - including, of course, me - can get away with inaccuracy, inanity and plagiarism with impunity any longer. Informed bloggers can quickly bring us to heel, as The Sun's Bizarre columnist Victoria Newton is discovering to her continuing embarrassment. As the Independent on Sunday's (anonymous) media diarist points out, her column is being subjected to close scrutiny by a new blog. Vickywatch is dedicated to "to finding inaccuracies in her Bizarre column and exposing its absurdities to ridicule."
Its latest entry suggests that Ms Newton fell into the trap of lifting a piece about Marilyn Manson from the New York Post's diary which contained an inaccuracy she then repeated. The blogger, who calls him/herself Darwin, has eight entries already this year and more than 50 since the blog was launched last November with a claim that "there are so many mistakes in her column... from basic facts to downright lies", adding: "Another common feature is the use of the words 'I can exclusively reveal' which more often than not truly mean 'I have received a press release' or 'I have read this on the internet'."
So, modelling the blog on Private Eye's Hackwatch, the self-confessed non-journalist has been exposing Bizarre items previously carried in rival papers and others that have been lifted, without attribution, from various media sources, such as MySpace.
By far the best/worst example of Newtonian misbehaviour (or extraordinary prescience) concerns the Bizarre readers' poll awards. It would appear that the winners - who include Justin Timberlake and Madonna - were presented with their awards before readers had had the chance to vote.
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Flickr/MellyjeanNot to ruin the ooey-gooey Valentine's Day atmosphere or anything, but online dating fraud is quickly becoming one of the costliest consumer scams in America.
Victims of these so-called "Romance Scams" lost an average of $5,500 in 2011 alone, according to the National Consumers League – and the figure could be even higher.
"Because of the deeply personal nature of this scam, we believe that this type fraud goes widely under-reported," the agency says.
Just take this recent study backed by The UK's Serious Organized Crime Agency (their version of the FBI): They found as many as 200,000 British daters have been duped by online romance schemes – 2% of the population.
Scammers love to target dating sites because they're often chock-full of prime candidates for fraud: people (usually women) over age 40 who are divorced, widowed, elderly or disabled.


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I remember Wizards & Warriors quite well. It was indeed a buggy piece of crap at release, but it wasn't too bad after a few patches. I tried playing it again a few years ago, but it was impossible to get it to run in Windows 7 with an Nividia card.


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The Numismatist
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The NUMISMATIST is a colorful, high-quality, educational magazine for collectors of coins, tokens, medals and paper money. Published since 1888 by the nonprofit American Numismatic Association (www.money.org), it features 104-120 pages of informative, illustrated articles about the historical and entertaining aspects of numismatics; reports of hobby events and new coinage issues; and advertising by nationally respected coin dealers. The magazine is a members-only benefit requiring a login (provided by firstname.lastname@example.com) to view the entire content.
To log into the app, use your email address that is on file with the ANA as the username and your member number as your password. DO NOT use your Money.org login, as these are different systems requiring two different logins.
To log into the app, use your email address that is on file with the ANA as the username and your member number as your password. DO NOT use your Money.org login, as these are different systems requiring two different logins.
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doesn't down load new issues One has to uninstall the app and then reinstall the app to be able to re login and get the next issue. Also it crashes most times when initially opening it after not having it open for a while. --The content is great though.--
Doesn't work First the icon isn't even the right one, when you launch the app the text is almost unreadable due to white on green, after choosing storage it just doesn't do anything, no login or anything. I might as well download the PDF and view it on my phone!
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Worthless App. When the app opens it allows you to preview the magazine but you have to enter your login and password to access the full magazine. The app does not store your user name or password so you will have to enter it every time. When you enter your login and password it will ask if you want to visit the publisher website. If you check no then nothing happens. You have to check yes if you want to read the magazine. This app is nothing more than a portal to the Money.org website.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a decision destined for appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court, a state court judge has ruled the state's medical marijuana distribution law is unconstitutional.
At the same time Friday, Clark County District Judge Donald Mosley dismissed drug trafficking charges against two men who operated a storefront pot dispensary in Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/yxAW89 ) that in his order, Mosley concluded the law frustrates the intent of a voter-approved state constitutional amendment by failing to clear the way for a patient to legally obtain marijuana.
Prosecutors did not return a phone call seeking comment.
Mosley threw out charges Sept. 12 against the same two men, Sin City Co-Op owners Nathan Hamilton and Leonard Schwingdorf, but prosecutors obtained new indictments against them two days later.


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Friends with You rejoices
"A fast connection with the abstract being inside us all," promise the organizers of the art exhibition "Get Lucky," currently on display through Saturday, September 25, at The Box (70 NE Seventeenth St.). Those same folks are the makers of the odd-but-endearing line of plush toys known as Friends with You. Stitching their way toward world domination since 2002, Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval have created a wildly successful menagerie of whimsical stuffed characters. One favorite is Malfi, a beak-free penguin who can visit "great wealth or death" upon his owner. In other toy-related endeavors, the pair also created modular wooden playthings and collaborated on art installations, including an immense stuffed whale that spilled its guts in San Francisco (with artist David Choe) and a toy tornado in Tokyo (with fellow plush makers). Here at home, a special Friend dubbed The Fur Liaison (that's him, above) will help you "Get Lucky." As Malfi advises: "Good luck and be careful." Admission is free. Call 305-607-5527. - Nina Korman
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Cinema Tropical landed on our shores barely half a year ago, and already the Latin film series has become a don't-miss event for local culture vultures and cineastes. With indie offerings arriving from all over Latin America, the event presents a chance to see films from our southern neighbors who possess a voice and vision far removed from the compromising influence of Hollywood. This month's feature, Sebastian Alarcon's touching comedy El Fotografo (The Photographer), follows the exploits of photographer Simon in 1962 Chile as he sets out to create his fotonovela masterwork -- a photo-illustrated novel -- with a varied cast of friends. But in his desperation to achieve his dream, Simon caves to the whims of capricious producers, disappointing those around him and himself. Screenings take place at 7:30 tonight and 8:00 p.m. Saturday at the Tower Theater, 1508 SW Eighth St. Tickets cost $8; there's a two-for-one special on Saturday. Email for info: firstname.lastname@example.com. -John Anderson
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Just in case you were looking for a soothing, high-culture way to help victims of Hurricane Charley, Amici dell'Arte and Neighbors 4 Neighbors present some much-needed Classical Relief. Local opera, classical, and musical theater artists will perform to raise funds for disaster victims. Can't stand all that trilling and warbling? No problem. Get tickets for others, or simply make a donation of any amount at Allegro Music (4537 Ponce De Leon Blvd., #102, Coral Gables). Address checks to Neighbors 4 Neighbors. Get your classical groove on at 7:30 p.m. at the Coral Gables Congregational Church, 3010 De Soto Blvd., Coral Gables. Admission is by minimum donation of $15. Call 305-373-4340, or visit www.amicidellarte.org. -- Patrice Elizabeth Grell Yursik


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As of Sunday and throughout the week dermatologists of Maccabi Health Services will examine beach goers across Israel for skin cancer, free of charge, and distribute leaflets on the damages of sun exposure.
The tests will be offered at beaches in Netanya, Nahariya, Haifa, the Kinneret, Tel Aviv, Bat Yam, Ashkelon and Eilat. A tent will be erected on each beach, allowing for complete privacy during the examination.
Some 1,200 new patients were diagnosed with skin cancer in 2007, Health Ministry statistics indicate. About a third were diagnosed at an early stage of the disease.
About 450 people in Israel die of skin cancer every year.
Skin cancer morbidity has gone up between the years 2000 to 2007, among men and women.
Recommendations for healthy exposure to the sun:
- Avoid sun exposure as much as possible between 10 am and 4 pm
- Wear a hat, sunglasses and sun protective clothing
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To start off PlayStation Store PLAY, Stealth Inc: A Clone in the Dark is sneaking onto PS3 and PS Vita today. Well, we say "sneaking," but we're shouting about this from the rooftops. What's the opposite of sneaking? Unsneaking?
Hello! It brings me great pleasure to announce that the renaming competition for Stealth B**stard, our wonderfully nefarious stealth-puzzle-platformer, was a complete success! Rather than picking just one of our favorite entries, we've chosen two and fused them together to create one ultimate, unified gaming title.
If you've not yet heard of Stealth B**tard, it's our deadly stealth platform game with a fast paced twist! Following your birth in a cloning lab, you find yourself trapped in a vast and overwhelming network of dastardly chambers, replete with vicious, yet hilarious, booby traps and deranged robots! Your task is simple; stay out of sight and get to the exit. Persevere to the bitter end and you might just discover the secrets of this vicious world!
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One of the biggest tradeoffs in renewable biofuels pertains to the raw materials of the process. The most common renewable raw materials for biofuel production include wood waste and straw. But obtaining the cellulose from these sources is difficult to do because of its complex structure.
Starchy materials, like that from food plants are much easier to work with and cheaper to process, but it puts food in competition with energy for the use of the plants.
Now, a team of researchers from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, has found a "molecular switch" that could play a key role in simplifying and lowering the cost of using the lignocellulose from wood waste or straw to make biofuels.
In order to use the lignocellulosic waste from sawdust or straw the long cellulose and xylan chains must be broken down into smaller sugar molecules. To do this, fungi are used, which by means of a specific chemical signal can be made to produce the necessary enzymes. But this procedure currently is very expensive and requires ancillary steps to speed the conversion process.
"Lignocellulose from wood waste or straw is the world's most common renewable raw material, but due to its complex structure, it is significantly more difficult to exploit than starch," said Robert Mach, a professor in the Institute of Chemical Engineering involved in the research.
Biofuel manufacturing uses the Trichoderma fungus, which produces enzymes that are capable of breaking down the cellulose and xylan chains into sugar molecules. The fungus does not, however, always produce these enzymes, so production must be stimulated using an 'inductor' (disaccharide sophorose). Sophorose as a pure substance currently costs around EUR 2500 ($3,213.50) per gram, Mach said.
"The high costs of the chemical inductor are a decisive price driver in biofuel manufacturing," he added.
Mach's group has focused on a molecular switch that regulates enzyme production in Trichoderma. As a result, it is now possible to manufacture genetically modified fungi that produce the necessary enzymes fully independently, significantly lowering the cost of biofuel production, he said.
"To date, enzyme production by Trichoderma requires the use of the costly inductor which has to be produced in a side process and then added to the fermentation," Mach said. "Our idea was to engineer the transcription factor (TF) to make it kind of permanently active."
"A single point mutation in a regulatory domain of the activating TF (i.e. xylanase activator 1, or Xyr1), which was identified by screening of mutants seemed to be responsible for such phenotype," he added. "We constructed a corresponding version of Xyr1 (bearing this mutation) and inserted it in other Trichoderma strains.
"Indeed this single point mutation confers the phenotype, whereas a native Xyr1 could complement the mutant," Mach explained. "Strains bearing this mutation are 'glucose blind' (meaning they are a strong repressor of cellulase formation) and can be induced only marginally. In other words, they are deregulated by having their major regulator engineered.
"The regulatory domain of Xyr1 receives signals from repressing carbon sources as well as from inducing," he added. "The point mutation in this domain is making Xyr1 permanently active and deregulated."
Many different strains of fungus have been analyzed with varying productivity.
"In one of the strains a random mutation occurred which stopped the chemical in the fungus from functioning," Mach said. Even without an inductor, this mutated fungus always produces the desired enzymes, and unlike other strains of fungus, does not stop doing so once a high glucose concentration has been reached.
"It's always on," says Mach, who has been working in this field since the early 1990s.
Through genetic analysis the team has been able to identify which gene is required for this behavior and which protein the gene mutation affects. As a result they have been able to induce the same mutation in a targeted fashion in other fungus strains.
Mach explained that to characterize of the mutation the team "used whole genome sequencing, for expression analysis of strains we used qPCR, enzyme production was measured via determination of total secreted protein and ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) tests. Genetic evidence for the function of the mutation was determined by transformation of other strains and by complementation of the mutant with a mutated or a native Xyr1, respectively."
Mach added that other genetic changes are now being tested in a targeted manner, which could result in further improvements and leading to even more productive fungi.
Mach said the team's industrial partner, Iogen Corp., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, will evaluate scaling up the process, and there is still a lot of engineering to do. But he adds "if we can make the next generation Xyr1, we are very close [to a meaningful industrial scale] because it all works in production strains."
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Statement of Terry O'Sullivan, General President of LIUNA, on the Status of Highway Bill Reauthorization in Congress
"With the Jobs and the Safety of Americans at Risk, Congress Must Feel Compelled to Act"
Jun 25, 2014, 10:15 ET from Laborers' International Union of North America
WASHINGTON, June 25, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Terry O'Sullivan, General President of LIUNA – the Laborers' International Union of North America – made the following statement today on the status of Highway Bill reauthorization in Congress:
With the jobs and the safety of Americans at risk, Congress must feel compelled to act on a long-term Transportation Reauthorization bill, and not just a short term extension. A fourth of America's bridges are deficient or obsolete. Poor road surfaces, such as potholes, are now a contributing factor to a third of traffic fatalities, needlessly costing approximately 10,000 lives every year.
That is why LIUNA has been traveling through Congressional districts across the country with its crushed "getting schooled in infrastructure" bus, carrying a replica of a chunk of fallen bridge. The symbol has resonated with Americans from Pennsylvania to Ohio to Michigan, attracting crowds, elected officials and news media who believe Congress must pass a long-term, full-investment Highway Bill this year.
While there appears to be movement on ensuring that the Highway Trust fund does not go bankrupt by the end of this summer, Congress has no valid excuses to not act on a long-term plan. There are multiple viable options which would end the duct-taping of our failing roads and bridges and provide the long-term investment our nation, our people and our economy needs. If Congress fails, it will be due to cowardice in standing up to extremists who are willing to destroy the critical transportation infrastructure of our country to make an ideological political point.
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has found the will to work in a bipartisan manner to pass its piece of the reauthorization. It is time for the rest of the Senate and House of Representatives to do the same.
Our failing transportation infrastructure does not discriminate by political party – we are all affected. We should be able to expect a bipartisan solution.
See LIUNA's campaign to press for long term, full investment in our roads and bridges – including radio ads, billboards, online action and the "Getting Schooled in Infrastructure" school bus tour – at www.FixOurBridges.org.
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Well, the first of the big patent litigations is over. Since this one involves Apple, the big winner is obviously the highly innovative company from Cupertiono, right? The company from which all others copy, right? Well, no, not exactly. The big winner is Nokia.


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Mozart Chic
16th Arrondissement
- Baby Ready
- School Age Action
- Cool for Teens
Our preferred vacation rental agency partner in Paris provided this review of this standalone apartment in the 16th arrondissement. This spacious, stately, and elegant four-bedroom kid-friendly apartment offers the true Parisian insider experience for up to seven people. With its expansive living areas, high ceilings, and streamlined décor, the 275m2 flat epitomizes comfort and charm in the City of Light. Perfect for families or groups wanting to share accommodation without sacrificing on space, everyone can find a piece of home here; the beautiful living areas are ideal for sharing and preparing meals, relaxing by the marble fireplace, or even playing foosball! Indeed, this property is truly meant to be experienced and enjoyed, as attested by the large, plush sofas, flat screen TV, ample dining space, and ease of the layout. The modern kitchen is a delight for chefs with a island and gas stove. The property's large windows add to its stately appearance, but also give onto lovely balconies that overlook a private street accessible only by a secure gate, insuring privacy and tranquility. The Mozart Chic is a true haven and home; a place of beauty, comfort, and convenience.
Our Reviewer's Favorite Features
- Baby Ready: Crib and highchair available
- School Age Action: Near age-appropriate sights and activities
- Cool For Teens: Near age-appropriate sights and activities
- Hard-to-source spacious 4-bedroom Paris rental
- Located in the 16th away from the tourist bustle but within easy reach of city highlights
- Well-appointed accommodations
- Modern gourmet kitchen
- Large windows with pretty city views
- Rental includes access to a private parking space
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- Delicate furnishings not suitable for toddlers
- Week-long rental; reduced nights may be possible on requested
- No air-conditioning
- Elevator available
- Concierge services available on request
- Additional cleaning available on request
- WIFI Is free
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- Paris sightseeing
Local Excursions
- Arc de Triomphe
- Place des Vosges
- Picasso Museum
- Louvre Museum
- Notre Dame
- Tuileries Garden
- Pompidou Center
- Eiffel Tower
- Luxembourg Garden
- 4 bedrooms/3 bathrooms
- fully equipped kitchen with island, gas burners, double sinks
- decorative fireplace
- washer/dryer
- balcony
- elevator
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