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Newport Beach, Calif.Mindspeed Technologies Inc. recently extended its broadcast video product suite with a family of standard-definition (SD) physical media-interface devices.
Mindspeed's SD broadcast-video media-interface products include the single-channel M21202 video cable driver, M21204 video cable equalizer and the M21205 video reclocker, each supporting data rates from 143-Mbits/s to 540-Mbits/s. The products are pin-compatible with competing legacy products.
The M21202 is a high-speed, low-power, low-jitter cable driver designed to drive SD-only serial digital video data through 75Ω coaxial cable typically used in Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) www.smpte.org and DVB-ASI video applications.
Click here for the M21202 datasheet: www.mindspeed.com/web/products/index.jsp?catalog_id=746&cookietrail=0
The M21204 is designed to increase the maximum transmission distance of serial digital interface (SDI) and digital video broadcast-asynchronous serial interface (DVB-ASI) video signals across commonly used bandwidth-limiting 75Ω co-axial cable. Additionally, it reduces power dissipation through the use of flexible power supply voltage operation.
Click here for the M21204 datasheet: www.mindspeed.com/web/products/index.jsp?catalog_id=747&cookietrail=0
The M21205 clock-and-data-recovery (CDR) reclocker is designed to remove both random and inter-symbol interference (ISI) jitter from the retimed data and provide a retimed data stream compliant to SMPTE and DVB-ASI serial video digital data input. The M21205 reduces power dissipation approximately 50% (at 3.3V supply) when compared to competing devices with further reductions possible through lower supply operation, according to the company.
Click here for M21205 datasheet: www.mindspeed.com/web/products/index.jsp?catalog_id=748&cookietrail=0
Production samples are available now with volumes ramping this quarter. In OEM quantities, the M21202 single-channel SD video cable driver is $4.50, the M21204 single-channel SD video cable equalizer is $13, and the M21205 single-channel SD video reclocker is $13.
Mindspeed Technologies Inc., 1-949-579-3000, www.mindspeed.com


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With Microsoft Outlook application it is common to face sending or receiving errors. Sometimes due to some internal error you become unable to utilize Windows Mail, Live Mail and Outlook Express normally. Outlook error 0x800ccc90 is such a common Outlook errors generally prompts while accessing PST files or perform email tasks.
While checking your Outlook emails or trying to log on you will get below error code on the screen:
"There was a problem logging onto your mail server. Your User Name was rejected. Account: 'pop3.example.com', Server: 'pop3.example.com', Protocol: POP3, Server Response: '-ERR', Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 0x800CCC90."
If you are getting same kind of error then it is necessary to fix this Outlook error as soon as possible. As you know that Windows Live Mail or Microsoft Outlook Express are special utilities of Windows to send or receive emails. Microsoft Outlook becomes more popular with the name of Email Client. Not only it helps to send or receive emails but it also allows you to manage emails. Getting outlook error 0x800ccc90 is irritating when you become unable to access saved PST items. Due to this error you become unable to access stored emails, contacts, calendar entries etc.
Most often POP3 server fails to verify your entered password and prompts Outlook express error 0x800ccc90 on the screen. As a result you are unable to connect to the server. Having this error code shows that Outlook is unable to access mailbox emails. For this behavior of Outlook virus or malware invasion might be responsible which cause problem with mail server. This error message might be dangerous for your Outlook application. Ignoring outlook error 0x800ccc90 may result system crash or blue screen of death error. So it is necessary to get rid of error code 0x800ccc90 quickly.
Outlook express error 0x800ccc90 generally caused due to problem in PO3 server connection. So in order to resolve this error first you should check or fix this connection. Follow steps might be helpful in this regard.
- If you are using Outlook account then click on Tools tab and got to Select Accounts.
- Internet Accounts box will appear. If you are able to see Outlook emails then double click.
- Account property box should be opened. Go to Sever Tab.
- pop3.live.com should be written in the incoming mail dialog box.
- And on Outgoing mail dialog box server name should be smtp.live.com.
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Semantic MEDLINE is a web application that summarizes MEDLINE citationsnreturned bu a PubMed search.Natural language processing is used to extract semantic predications from titles and abstracts. The predications are presented in a graph that has links to the MEDLINE text processed.
To access Semantic MEDLINE, click here. (A (free) liscense for the Unified Medical Language System is required and is available at the site.) A quick tour video explaining Semantic MEDLINE can be watched here.
In using Semantic MEDLINE, begin at the Search tab by issuing a PubMed query; then move to the Summarize tab. Choose a summary type to specify the point of view of the summary (Treatment of Disease, Substance Interactions, Disgnosis, or Pharmacogenomics).
After selecting the topic of the summary, click the Summarize and Visualize buttons. A graph representing the summarized predications appears in the next screen; nodes represent concepts and edges correspond to relations of the predications. Clicking on an edge and then the Citations button located at the lower right corner displays the MEDLINE citations from which the predication was extracted.


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Novak Djokovic of Serbia became the first man in the Open era to win the Australian Open three times in a row.
MELBOURNE, Australia — His legs are stronger than in the past. So are his résumé, his nerves and his coaching staff. But Andy Murray of Britain still cannot solve the tennis riddle Novak Djokovic represents at the Australian Open.
But Murray — beaten again in the final Sunday — is in excellent company.
Melbourne and its blue hard courts are nearly a half-world away from the Serbian mountain resort Kopaonik, where Djokovic learned to play the sport, and from the less rugged hills of the Cote d'Azur, in Monaco, where he now makes his home.
But Djokovic, 25, has transformed Melbourne Park into his Grand Slam stronghold: the distant outpost where he is toughest to trump, not just for Murray but for all challengers.
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Djokovic has won four of his six major titles Down Under. No man has beaten him here since 2010, when Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France managed it in five sets in the quarterfinals.
Since that match, Djokovic has used the tournament as a launchpad to the No. 1 world ranking and reeled off three straight Australian Open victories, generating innumerable breaches in opponents' morale with his ability to rise to the big points and to contort and extend his body in successful pursuit of their best shots.
Murray, a former junior rival in Europe and ex-doubles partner, knows Djokovic's strengths as well as anyone. He shares many of them, but on Sunday, after more than holding his own in the early phases, Murray gradually faded — suffering from a toe blister and a surprising inability to break serve — as the top-seeded Djokovic put the finishing touches on his 6-7 (2-7), 7-6 (7-3), 6-3, 6-2 victory.
What seemed grindingly difficult early — the first two sets required 2 hours, 13 minutes to complete — seemed closer to routine by the end as Djokovic accelerated to win in 3:40, which qualified as a middle-distance final in this age of marathons.
"What a joy," Djokovic said after the match at Rod Laver Arena. "It's an incredible feeling, winning the trophy once more, and it's definitely my favorite Grand Slam, my most successful Grand Slam. I love this court."
Djokovic won his first Grand Slam title here in 2008 and is the first man in the 45-year Open era to win three consecutive Australian Open singles titles. Two other men have won three or more Australian championships in a row: Jack Crawford (1931 to 1933) and Roy Emerson (1963 to 1967).
But neither of those men, both Australians, nor perhaps any other tennis champion has covered the angles and the corners quite like the elastic-limbed Djokovic.
"When he's on defense, he can actually win the point with one shot; that's an evolution of the game," said Andre Agassi, the former American star and four-time Australian Open champion who handed Djokovic the trophy.
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|Mats Wilander
|Johan Kriek
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|Roy Emerson
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|Frank Sedgman
|Jack Crawford
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The idea of a "scene" is intrinsic to rock and roll, but for whatever reason it hasn't had the same cachet in country music. All roads have traditionally led to Nashville, but if there is one place that has always stood apart as country music's Liverpool or Seattle, it's Bakersfield, California. For a generation of artists including Vince Gill and pedal steel maestro Paul Franklin, the Bakersfield Sound, epitomized by Merle Haggard and Buck Owens, was their primary inspiration, providing a raw and personal counterpoint to what was happening in Music City during the mid-1960s.
Gill and Franklin's joint collaboration, Bakersfield, pays tribute to the impact that sound had on each of them at the earliest stages of their musical development, with 10 tracks equally split between Merle and Buck classics, including "The Bottle Let Me Down" and "Together Again." The project grew out of Gill and Franklin's participation in the Time Jumpers, the all-star Nashville crew whose weekly Monday night jams at the 3rd & Lindsley Bar & Grill have become the stuff of legend. Whenever Gill's turn came around to lead the band, he often leaned on those Merle and Buck songs he'd learned in his youth, and was always taken aback by the response they received.
"The reaction would be pretty overwhelming, really," Gill says. "So that got us thinking about doing a whole album of those songs. The other thing is that I don't think there's a better era of music in which to showcase the steel guitar and the style I play with my Telecaster."
Franklin agrees, adding that while he and Gill grew up in different parts of the country – Detroit and Norman, Oklahoma, respectively – the Bakersfield sound had already made an indelible impression on each of them by the time they first picked up their instruments. "My first pedal steel was a Fender 400, and along with that I got a copy of Buck's You're For Me album," Franklin says. "That music gets right to the core of who I am. When we both started, we didn't know the difference between Bakersfield and Nashville, but we were both drawn to it as we were learning how to play. Vince was hearing James Burton and Roy Nichols, and I was hearing Ralph Mooney and Tom Brumley. On top of that, the songs were just so melodic and the lyrics were beautiful on their own. The whole Bakersfield thing was just genius."
It's hard to think of a more humble Nashville star than Vince Gill. Although a Country Music Hall of Fame inductee in 2007 and a Grand Ole Opry mainstay for more than two decades, he comes across as a working musician at heart, an artist consistently striving to remain at the top of his game, both as a singer and guitarist. Gill's close ties with musicians such as Franklin, whose career began backing Barbara Mandrell and Mel Tillis and led to him becoming one of the most versatile and innovative pedal steel players around, is what has predominantly kept that fire burning.
"I've known Paul for over 30 years and I've always adored his playing," Gill says. "So as a musician it's a no-brainer to work with a guy who's probably the deepest well when it comes to that instrument. The fact that he wanted to make a record with me was very flattering, and hopefully a tribute to my musicianship. More than anything, I think this is a guitar record as much as a vocal record. We talked about making an instrumental record, but that idea ended up being pretty boring for both of us."
Instead, they homed in on the other unique aspect of the Bakersfield sound: the songwriting. What made this California town – which in the 1960s still had a modest population – such a hotbed for country music remains up for debate. The infusion of Dust Bowl refugees over the previous three decades, and more importantly the stories they brought with them, was the biggest factor. But neither Gill nor Franklin can go much further in explaining the plethora of musicians and songwriters besides Merle and Buck, such as Wynn Stewart, Tommy Collins and Harlan Howard, who called Bakersfield home.
"For me, it came down to the fact that Buck and Merle wrote their own songs," Gill says. "There weren't tons of guys that wrote their own songs here [in Nashville]. There was Hank Williams obviously, and Willie [Nelson] – although his popularity came much later. The majority of artists here had songwriters who wrote for them. I've always felt that, whether it was James Taylor or Roy Orbison, when they wrote their own songs they could make those melodies really suit what they did best. When you think about the way Buck sang and the way Merle sang, those songs were tailor made. I think therein lies the biggest difference with that collection of songs, and history would bear that out in a big way, especially with Merle's legacy. With Buck, being on Hee Haw and then the death of Don Rich and a few other things sort of slid him on a different path than Merle. But early on, writing his own songs and doing what he did, it was pretty powerful. Unstoppable, really."
In reinterpreting that power on Bakersfield, Gill embraced the challenge of pushing his already renowned guitar skills to the level of his heroes, especially on the Hag signature tunes "Branded Man" and "The Fighting Side Of Me," which earned the author's endorsement in the album's liner notes. In recent years Gill has also been invited by Eric Clapton to take part in his annual Crossroads guitar festival, something Gill admits has made a significant impact on his approach.
"Those were so invaluable in helping me feel a sense of validation," he says. "Here's Eric Clapton who, I'm not saying he wasn't paying attention to my career as a country music artist, but he saw the musician in me." As genres continue to blur, the irony of Bakersfield may well be that it brings Gill a whole new audience who simply appreciate classic songwriting and top-notch musicianship, whether it comes with a Nashville tag or not. With the city now cool again thanks to the help of Jack White, the Black Keys, Robert Plant and others, Gill seems ready to join the party.
"I think the perception [of Nashville] was always a little bit incorrect, but now everyone's going, 'Hey, it really is true; it really is a melting pot,'" Gill says. "I think I knew early on, 30 years ago, that country music didn't embrace the idea of a guitar god the same way that rock and roll did. Guys like Eric and Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix were more famous for playing guitar than anything else, and I knew that it would be my voice and my songs that would be looked at first because Nashville's a town full of great guitar players. The guy who parks your car is probably a great guitar player. I knew that my guitar playing wasn't the be-all-and-end-all of who I was, but that people would just eventually find out, and that was fine with me."


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A probation-compliance check turned into a drug bust when authorities found an ecstasy and hash-oil extraction lab at an Alpine home, a federal official said Tuesday.
Sheriff's deputies were conducting the check on a probationer who lives at a house on Summerhill Terrace near Harbison Canyon Road when they discovered the drug lab about 2 p.m. Monday, said Amy Roderick, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
Two people at the home, Issac Villegas and Corinne Lachappa, both 21 of Alpine, were arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking and drug manufacturing, Roderick said.
Roderick said authorities were at the house until about 8 p.m.


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Question: I have a bet with my wife on the stars of the show thirtysomething. She thinks that Sela Ward was married to Ken Olin on the series. I cannot put a name to the actress, but I am certain that Sela Ward was on Sisters, not thirtysomething. I do remember the actress also being on another show with the gentleman that played Kirk on Dear John with Judd Hirsch. What is the actress's name from thirtysomething?
Televisionary: Ah, me. It's getting to the point where nothing works with you people. Not nagging. Not yelling. Not begging. I give and I give and I give. So I'll ask once again before I dive once again into the job I love so: Please tell me what you're betting when you're betting. It makes me happy. And a happy Televisionary is a chock-full-of-facts Televisionary.
That said, the missus is mistaken. Actress and former model Mel Harris played Hope Steadman, wife to ad man Michael (Olin) in the series, which ran on ABC's Tuesday-night lineup from 1987-91. Harris's last series was Something So Right (which launched on NBC before jumping to ABC), in which she did indeed star with Dear John's Jere Burns. You also may have seen her as Jen's mom on Dawson's Creek.
The mix-up is certainly nothing to be ashamed of, since the aforementioned Ward, also an ex-model, is the same physical type and stars in ABC's Once and Again, the latest show from thirtysomething creators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick.
I sincerely believe thirtysomething got a bad rap. At the time many (myself included) referred to it as whinysomething, since it seemed its main characters did nothing but kvetch and obsess over everyday problems parenthood, relationship and career stress, etc. In addition, the series is often cited as an emblem of '80s materialism and self-absorption.
In hindsight, however, it was a well-executed show, particularly the religion-centric "mike van dyke show" episode, named by TV Guide as one of The 10 Best Holiday Episodes of All Time.
And those guys did have it pretty tough after all. Nancy (Patricia Wettig) had cancer, Gary (Peter Horton) got killed, everything said or done by Michael brought down the wrath of Hope in the latter years and even little Ethan (Luke Rossi) launched a rocket into his own eye.
As the little kid who lived next door used to say, Ouchie.


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QUETTA: Another body of a missing Baloch person was recovered from Turbat on Thursday, the police said. The body was identified as Nor Bhaksh, a resident of Nasirabad area in Turbat, who was listed as missing a month ago. His relatives had held government functionaries responsible for his disappearance. "Five people are still missing from the Nasirabad area of Turbat," a close relative of the victim told The Express Tribune, adding that the families also held a news conference in Quetta and Kech districts for the safe recovery of the missing persons. According to the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, an organisation striving for their recovery – as many as 165 bodies of missing persons have been recovered in the past year in different parts of Balochistan. Interior Minister Rehman Malik however, said that 116 bodies were found.
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I am so excited about this pattern. I have worked very hard on trying to make the most simple, yet wonderful knit cupckae purse pattern. It is so simple that if you know how to knit and purl you can make it!!! It is litterally a piece of cake:) With lots of photos to help you assemble. Stitches nessecary to make: Knit Purl *Thats it, thats the beauty of this pattern* pair- size 8 straight knitting needles worsted weight yarn- for cupcake base, and worsted weight novelty or textured yarn for frosting Ribbon- 34 inches tapestry needle and this pattern


text: Last year I bought a used Beyers Gold 48" commercial mower. I got it from an individual that bought it new and used it just to cut his own grass (he had a couple of acres). I have a little over an acre myself. I beleive that Beyers Gold is just a "copycat" of the Bunton. It has a 48" flat front deck with 14 HP Kohler engine. It also has the Dalton Gear transmission and dual cog type drive belts on each wheel. I have always walked with the mower so I have always had it in the lowest gear. Well I bought a sulky and tried to speed up, but no matter where I put the speed lever it does not pick up speed. (it has 7 positions on the gear lever (no reverse)). The only thing I did notice is that when I was on an up slope in 7th gear the mower would stop going. The engine would not bog down it would just stop moving. The transmission was still turning but the wheels weren't. I did notce that the belt guides (pieces of "L" bracket are rubbing all four drive belts, should they be like this? The belts have actually worn grooves in the brackets. My other questions are: 1 - Since the mower stopped moving with the transmisson still turning do I need to replace the drive belts? Should all four be replaced at once? 2 - Why would I not notice any diffence in speed in other gears? 3- I'm not exactly a little person (250+), can I be doing any hard to the transmission/engine by using the sulky? thanks in advance. Bob E Louisville, KY


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His tattoo read "White Power" in 3-inch calligraphic letters. Emblazoned across his chest for all to see, the ink wasn't something I would normally have missed during my physical exam. In this case, though, his tattoo had been hidden by a bulky neck collar and the array of lines and tubes that come with being a comatose trauma patient. My patient's tattoo was an unwelcome reminder that the skin I inhabit can't be checked at the hospital door. Doctors aren't supposed to be racist.


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The Encore Fellowships Network began with a pilot program of 10 Fellows in 2009 in California's Silicon Valley, supported by the founding sponsors, The David & Lucile Packard Foundation and HP. By 2016, over 740 Encore Fellows have been matched with host organizations across the U.S.
Following tremendous success and national interest, Encore.org launched The Encore Fellowships Network. The Encore Fellowships Network makes it as easy as possible for independent organizations to start, sponsor or operate effective Encore Fellowships programs in their community or organization.
Fellowship opportunities are now available in programs in Arizona, California, Ohio, Oregon, New Mexico, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington – all members of a collaborative network.
The programs have been supported by a wide range of corporate, foundation and individual supporters and the participating nonprofits. Strategic expansion support has come from the Packard Foundation, Intel Corporation, the May and Stanley Smith Charitable Trust, the California HealthCare Foundation,the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group, HP and the Robin Hood Foundation.
The network of Encore-affiliated programs continues to expand across the U.S., with growing global interest and recognition in the Stanford Social Innovation Review Winter 2013 issue and selection of the Encore Fellowships Network as a finalist for the 2013 Eisner Prize for Intergenerational Excellence.
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Saka's Office Destroyed By Fire: Hafiz Oyetoro Loses Promotion Letter & Documents
March 20, 2014 – Fire Destroys Saka's Office: Hafiz Oyetoro Loses Promotion Letter & Documents
Comic Nigerian actor Saka who recently lost his father has suffered yet another loss.
The MTN money man lost many of his particulars to a strange midnight fire that gutted his office at Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education where he works as a lecturer.
The mysterious inferno razed the aforementioned college in Otto Awori, Ojo LGA of Lagos on Thursday the 20th of March. The whole theatre dept was completed destroyed.
Hear what the actor said about the inferno:
"What can I say, other than to thank God for the gift of life, because no live was lost in the inferno… We actually have good fire extinguishers, but nobody was around to do anything given the time the incident occurred. Fire fighters have been here but they did little and the authorities have been here too."
"I also lost my promotion letter, most painful was the fact that I was to submit some important documents for some international engagements but now this may not happen as the documents have also been lost to the inferno," .
Heya! May God return your loss Saka.


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'World Didn't End'
PORT ANGELES — A "World Didn't End Party," featuring performances by the bands Static Illusion and MCFD, is planned Saturday.
Doors will open at 8 p.m. at the Elks Naval Lodge, 131 E. First St.
The show will begin at 9 p.m.
Cover is $5, and the event is open to those 21 and older.
The music for each band ranges from classic to hard rock.
The party is part of a membership drive put on by the Elks Naval Lodge.
Quake legends event
PORT ANGELES — A look at Clallam County Native American earthquake and flood legends will be presented at the Museum at the Carnegie, 207 S. Lincoln St., from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Saturday is the 313th anniversary of a gigantic earthquake that struck the Pacific Northwest Coast and is believed to have measured about 9.0 on the Richter magnitude scale.
The Jan. 26, 1700, quake caused ground along the coast to permanently drop around 5 feet, lowering coastal forests into salt water.
An examination of Clallam County Native American accounts shows that earthquakes may be represented in their oral tradition.
One such story tells of a Great Flood, with details about severe tidal disturbances, incursion of salt water into fresh water and death and dislocation along the coasts.
Information on earthquake preparedness will be available, and a limited number of free hand-warmers will be given to visitors.
For more information, phone the Clallam County Historical Society's administrative center at 360-452-2662.
Night in New York
PORT ANGELES — "An Evening of New York Songs," starring vocalist Vicki Helwick and pianist Anna Nichols, will start at 7:30 p.m. today.
The performance will be at First Presbyterian Church, 139 W. Eighth St.
Admission is free to this event, co-sponsored by Readers Theatre Plus, a nonprofit group whose mission is to support the local arts scene.
While there is no cost, donations are welcome to help the Port Angeles High School's Roughrider Orchestra musicians get to Carnegie Hall.
More than 100 Roughriders, along with longtime music director Ron Jones, have been busy raising the $2,500 per student for this spring adventure to New York City with its Carnegie Hall crescendo Easter Sunday, March 31.
Veterans memorial
PORT ANGELES — This month's memorial for Clallam County veterans and members of the military who died recently will be conducted at Veterans Park on Lincoln Street next to the Clallam County Courthouse at 1 p.m. today.
The memorial, which lasts 15 to 20 minutes, is held the last Friday of every month.
The names of the deceased are read, their military background is noted, and a replica of the Liberty Bell in the park is rung after each name.
Financial aid help
PORT ANGELES — Potential college students can receive help with the financial aid process during free College Goal Sunday.
The informational meeting will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Peninsula College, 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Help with filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), a form that is required to apply for federal financial assistance for higher education, will be offered.
Attendees can talk with expert financial aid administrators, complete and submit the FAFSA, learn about filing deadlines and other important information regarding paying for college, connect with resources for undocumented students and other non-FAFSA filers, and enter to win a $250-$500 scholarship.
The event is open to those planning on attending a four-year college, community college or vocational or technical school, and to their parents or guardians.
Prize-winning author
SEQUIM — Nebula award-winning novelist Elizabeth Ann Scarborough of Port Townsend is the featured author at today's 6 p.m. Fourth Friday Reading.
The reading will be held at Rainshadow Coffee Roasting Co., 157 W. Cedar St.
Admission is free, but attendees are expected to patronize the business, according to the evening's host, Writers on the Spit, a Sequim and Dungeness writers' organization.
Scarborough will read from her book The Tour of Doom, a comic story set in a community that sounds suspiciously like Port Townsend.
Tour of Doom, starring a heroic cat named Spam, is part of a new series that also includes the novel Spam Vs. the Vampire and Nine Tales O'Cats.
Scarborough won the Nebula award for science fiction for her 1989 novel The Healer's War and has since penned nearly 40 other books, including 16 novels with the late Irish writer Anne McCaffrey.
Writers are welcome to sign up for five-minute open-mic readings following Scarborough's readings.
Guidelines for open mic are available from coordinator Ruth Marcus at email@example.com or 360-681-2205.
For more about Scarborough's life and work and to download her electronic books, visit www.EAScarborough.com.
Irrigation coronation
SEQUIM — The Sequim Irrigation Festival crown is up for grabs at the annual festival coronation at 7 p.m. Saturday.
The event will be held in the Sequim High School auditorium, 533 N. Sequim Ave.
Sequim teens Angela Bentley, 16; Lavee Hess, 16; Christie Honore, 17; and Danyelle Wilson, 16, will vie for the crown.
Tickets are $5 and are available at the door or in advance at Gabby's Java & Gourmet Grub at 471 Business Park Loop, Pacific Mist Books at 121 W. Washington St. and Solar City Tanning, 135 W. Washington St.
For more information, phone the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce at 360-683-6197.
MAC annual meeting
SEQUIM — The Museum & Arts Center in the Sequim-Dungeness Valley's annual members meeting is at 1 p.m. Saturday.
The gathering will be at the historical Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2781 Towne Road .
All current and life members, as well as those who join or renew at the door, are encouraged to attend.
The Dungeness Schoolhouse is ADA-accessible, equipped with a chair lift leading to the upstairs auditorium.
The meeting includes the election of new board members, a photographic slide show recapping the past year of MAC achievements and a presentation by MAC Executive Director DJ Bassett about the organization's plans for the future.
Sequim Fresh Catering will provide refreshments following the proceedings.
The MAC owns and operates four facilities in Sequim: the Dungeness Schoolhouse, MAC Exhibit Center, DeWitt Administration Center and Second Chance Consignment Shop.
For more information, visit www.macsequim.org.
School celebration
SEQUIM — The Five Acre School Parent Service Organization is inviting the community that helped build it over the past 18 years to a grand-transition celebration from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday.
The celebration will be at the Sequim Prairie Grange, 290 MacLeay Road.
All past students, their families and friends, and the many individuals and businesses in the community that have supported it are invited.
A large group photo will be taken at 4:30 p.m.
Five Acre School founders Bill and Juanita Jevne are retiring and welcome Autumn Piontek-Walsh and Brian Walsh as the new owners.
Piontek-Walsh and Walsh each have backgrounds in education, child development and program management.
Five Acre School is a small community school adjacent to the Dungeness Recreation Area that serves 100 preschool through sixth-grade students.
An independent school that receives no government funding, it uses individualization, active learning and a high degree of accountability to successfully educate all students, according to the school.
The curriculum integrates traditional school subjects with music, theater, art, animal husbandry, conservation management and educational field trips.
For more information, visit www.fiveacreschool.com.
'At the Movies' set
SEQUIM — The city's and Olympic Theatre Arts' "At the Movies" program begins Saturday with a 2 p.m. screening of "Mamma Mia!"
All movies will be shown at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave.
Doors will open 30 minutes prior to the start of the movie and close five minutes after the start.
Admission is $5 per person, and individuals 16 and younger must be accompanied by an adult.
"Mamma Mia," which is rated PG-13, is the story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father and is told using hit songs by the 1970s group ABBA.
February's movie is "Silver Linings Playbook." It will be screened at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23.
Sierra Club meets
AGNEW — A luncheon potluck will double as the annual meeting of the North Olympic Group of the Sierra Club at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
The meeting and potluck will be at Olympic Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 73 Howe Road.
Sierra Club members and the public are invited, and are asked to bring a dish and/or beverage to share, as well as plates, silverware and cups for their own use.
Guest speaker Bob Aegeter from the Sierra Club's Seattle chapter will discuss environmental lobby day, set for Feb. 19 in Olympia.
He will cover the main environmental issues and how to meet with legislators to talk about issues.
Local Sierra Club events, outings and conservation activities also will be discussed.
For more information, phone Bob Sextro at 360-683-7643 or email email@example.com.
Fiber Frenzy auction
PORT TOWNSEND — The Port Townsend Library will hold its annual Fiber Frenzy silent auction at 6:30 p.m. today.
The auction will be in the library's Carnegie Building at 1220 Lawrence St.
Auction items will include yarn, patterns, tools and books.
The evening will include a free hands-on learning experience in wet felting with fiber.
The auction will raise money for new fiber-related books.
For more information, phone 360-344-3051.
'Cycling Vietnam'
PORT TOWNSEND — The Winter Wanderlust series continues today with "Cycling Vietnam" with Wendy Feltham and Larry Fisher.
The series continues at Quimper Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 2333 San Juan Ave., at 7 p.m. each Friday through Feb. 22.
Admission is $7, with youths younger than 18 admitted free.
Feltham and Fisher bicycled past rice paddies and shrimp farms, through forests of rubber trees and fragrant blooming coffee bushes, and encountered specters of a devastating war.
For more information, email Christopher Overman at email@example.com or visit www.wanderlustadventures.net.
Orca sleuths wanted
PORT TOWNSEND — Visitors to the Natural History Exhibit at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center in Fort Worden State Park can become "orca detectives" any Friday, Saturday or Sunday in January from noon to 4 p.m.
Those who visit the new Learning from Orcas Exhibit can look for clues that forensic scientists use in their investigations to discover more about toxics in the Salish Sea that affect marine life.
Various stations will have clues to help solve the mystery of what happened to Hope, the orca stranded on the Dungeness Spit in 2002.
Those who gather all the clues, write down and turn in answers will receive orca pens and be entered to win a raffle for two tickets on a spring bird-migration cruise.
Attendees also can work with a docent to investigate their favorite everyday products and how they rate in terms of toxics.
Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for youths and free for center members. A Discover Pass is needed to visit Fort Worden State Park.
For more information, phone 360-385-5582, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.ptmsc.org.
Joint surgery lecture
PORT TOWNSEND — Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Michael Thomas will offer a seminar on "Joint Replacement: Is It the Right Choice for You?" on Saturday.
The talk will be from 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Puget Room at Jefferson Healthcare hospital, 834 Sheridan St.
Thomas will discuss hip- and knee-replacement surgery, and discuss other alternatives for managing joint pain.
He will be joined by Mitzi Hazard, Jefferson Healthcare inpatient clinical supervisor and physical therapist.
Hazard will present a brief overview of the hospital's Total Joint Replacement program, which was developed in late 2012 by Jefferson Healthcare's orthopedic team to provide patients with a comprehensive approach to managing joint-replacement procedures.
Patients who are ready to make the decision for joint replacement work with teams of clinical specialists to outline step-by-step plans to get them back to mobility.
A question-and-answer session will follow the presentation.
Jefferson Healthcare Orthopedics Director Josh Martin will lead attendees on a tour of the orthopedic clinic and supporting hospital facilities.
Tour participants will be eligible for a raffle at the conclusion of the tour.
Refreshments will be provided.
Garden by the sea
PORT TOWNSEND — Organic vegetable farmers Marko Colby and Hanako Myers will present "Vegetable Gardening Near the Salish Sea" at a Jefferson County Master Gardener Yard & Garden Lecture series event from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday.
The series meets at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 4907 Landes St.
Admission is $10 at the door.
Colby and Myers, who operate Midori Farm just outside Port Townsend, will address the specifics of vegetable gardening in the area's unique micro-climates.
A variety of vegetables will be discussed, and topics will include planting dates, water needs, soil fertility requirements and fall/winter gardening.
Attendees can bring gardening questions for the WSU Master Gardener "Ask Me" table before and after the lecture.
For more information, phone 360-385-3478.
Historic PT walk
PORT TOWNSEND — The Olympic Peninsula Explorers will hold a "Historic Port Townsend" walk Saturday.
The walk is free and open to the public.
Attendees will meet at Subway, 1300 Water St., at 9:30 a.m.
Routes of 5 and 10 kilometers (3.1 and 6.2 miles) through the downtown and uptown historic districts are available.
Grange meeting slated
PORT TOWNSEND — Quimper Grange will hold a potluck and a "Refining the Dream" session to discuss potential grange activities for the year at 5:30 p.m. Sunday.
The event will be held at the grange, 1219 Corona St.
Attendees can bring ideas for what the grange can do better, how to improve the hall and grounds, how to expand workshops and programs, and how the grange can better serve the community.
The event is open to those who would like to participate in shaping the future of Quimper Grange.
For more information, phone Marla Streator at 360-385-5924.
Fried chicken meal
QUILCENE — The Quilcene School Class of 2015 will hold an "Old-Fashioned Fried Chicken Dinner and Silent Auction" benefit from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. today.
Both events will be in the Quilcene School District multipurpose room, 294715 U.S. Highway 101.
The dinner will include fried chicken, whipped potatoes and country gravy, green beans, homemade rolls, dessert and beverages.
The cost is $10 per person.
The silent auction will begin at 5 p.m. and end at 6:30 p.m.
Mason bee talk
GARDINER — Mason bees, and their benefits to gardens, will be addressed by Christie Lassen at 9 a.m. Saturday.
The hourlong talk will be at Gardiner Wild Birds Unlimited, 275953 U.S. Highway 101.
Admission is $5.
Lassen also will present information on how to attract these bees and keep them in your garden.
Mason bees, small black bees about two-thirds the size of honey bees, were pollinating flowers in North America long before honey bees were introduced by colonists.
Mason bees do not create their own nesting sites; they look for either natural or man-made cavities to provide housing.
To RSVP, phone 360-797-7100.
Woodland workshops
FORKS — Two workshops to help woodland landowners make the most of their forest lands are planned by Washington State University's Clallam County Extension on Saturday.
"Specialty Forest Products" and "Cultivating Edible Mushrooms for Fun and Profit" will be at the state Department of Natural Resources conference building, 411 Tillicum Lane.
The forest-products workshop will run from 9 a.m. to noon.
The mushroom cultivation talk will be from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
WSU Extension Forestry Specialist Jim Freed will present both workshops.
The cost is $15 per couple or household for one workshop or $25 to attend both.
Those attending both events will break for lunch (on their own) from noon to 1 p.m.
To register, phone Clea Rome at WSU Clallam Extension at 360-417-2280 or email email@example.com.
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Dominion Transmission, Inc.
Third Revised Volume No. 1
Contents / Previous / Next / Main Tariff Index
Effective Date: 09/23/2000, Docket: RP00-555-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 305 Original Sheet No. 305 : Effective
General Storage Service
C. Maximum Daily Injection Quantity. The maximum daily
injection quantity for Customer shall be the sum of
Customer's daily injection entitlement as set forth in
Section 7.4.A. above, plus any additional injection
quantities that Pipeline has agreed to accept pursuant
to Section 7.4.B. above.
7.5 Winter Period Injections.
A. Unless provided otherwise in Customer's Service
Agreement, during the Winter Period, Customer may
tender to Pipeline quantities up to one two- hundred
fourteenth (1/214th) of Customer's Storage Capacity
for injection into storage, unless Pipeline has issued
an operational flow order in accordance with Section
11B of the General Terms and Conditions, governing
Winter Period injections. This limitation upon daily
injections is subject to the tolerance levels set
forth in Section 35.3.A of the General Terms and
B. While such operational flow order is in effect:
1. From time to time, Pipeline may post, on its
Electronic Bulletin Board ("EBB"), Receipt Points
where Customer may tender quantities for
injection and any conditions applicable to
injection through such Receipt Points.
2. Pipeline may limit or refuse to accept injections
not tendered in accordance with the operational
flow order and EBB notice, unless Pipeline has
expressly agreed in the executed Service
Agreement to accept specific quantities at
specified points on a firm basis during the
Winter Period.
3. Pipeline will continue to inject gas for
balancing purposes under FTNN, but Customer's
Storage Gas Balance will not be credited with
such quantities for the purposes of establishing
Customer's daily entitlement to withdraw gas, as
set forth in Section 8 of this Rate Schedule,
until March 31 of the Winter Period in which the
operational flow order is in effect, unless the
gas is received by Pipeline at the Receipt Points
specified in the EBB notice.


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By Sam Marshall
As leaves begin to fall in earnest this time of year, you notice lingering bunches of green in your trees. This plant, which is largely blamed for an increase in the number of stolen kisses this time of year, is often considered an unsightly and unwanted addition in the winter landscape. Of course, we also know this plant as mistletoe. However, before attempting to have it (or your entire tree) removed, first consider the benefits of mistletoe in the landscape (aside from those kisses).
Each year as I write this pre-Thanksgiving column, I wonder what else can be said about holiday foods. I know the column will be published the day before, but with all the pre-holiday prep and houseguests arriving, I'm guessing that some of you are reading this after Thanksgiving.
So here are a couple last-minute thoughts and recommendations on that holiday meal. If you're reading this later in the weekend, I hope you'll keep these in mind for another year.
Most of us spend our time racing from one thing to the next in an attempt to keep up with all of life's demands. But our uniquely American holiday of Thanksgiving is this week affording most of us the opportunity to eat too much and then fall asleep on the couch watching the Tony Romo-less Cowboys lose another game. More importantly, this is a time to reflect on the good times and people that make our lives richer. With that thought in mind and as a guy who likes to play in the dirt (OK, soil), I wondered, "What am I thankful for as a gardener?"
What does a vegetarian eat on Thanksgiving? As this big eating holiday approaches, we are inundated with recipes for how to thaw, dress and season a turkey, the main dish and delicious centerpiece for our holiday tables. But what if you have a vegetarian coming to dinner?
By Sam Marshall, Horticulture Agent
You have likely seen the vibrant pink plumes of muhly grass this fall, now a much-used and vibrant addition to home landscapes. Ornamental grasses are quickly establishing themselves as a common addition to landscape beds and along roadsides. And with good reason. Grasses afford interesting texture and graceful, arching foliage that adds movement to an otherwise stagnant landscape.
By Sam Marshall, Horticulture Agent
The big question is: Will you weigh the same on Jan. 1, 2016, as you do right now? Weight gain during the holidays is common with many Americans gaining between one and five pounds. While that doesn't sound like much, too often these extra pounds aren't lost after the holidays. And this goes on year after year.
If asked what truly matters in the world, most of us talk about real friends, family and doing something positive in the world. Rotarians speak of "service above self," something that might make this crazy world we live in a little less crazy. As much fun as sitting around waxing philosophical is, you came here looking for something about gardening.
I'm continuing on my quest to get people to eat more pumpkin. That pumpkin on your front porch can be more than just a doorstop or seasonal decoration. It can give your diet a real nutritional boost. The bright orange color is a dead give-away that pumpkins are full of important nutrients, antioxidants and beta carotene. The Produce for Better Health Foundation says that just one cup of cooked pumpkin contains only 50 calories. Pumpkin is an excellent source of vitamin A, which is an essential nutrient for proper health of eyes, respiratory tract, skin and tooth enamel.
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How Cool Would It Be To Play A Real Life Sized Game Of 'Angry Birds'?
Real life sized Angry Birds came true for people one day in a square in Barcelona, Spain. I found the video, a commercial for T-Mobile but very little on the event itself.
Of course wasting time on Angry Birds at one point or another has infected the majority of smartphone owners. How cool would it be to really watch a real game complete with a live band, catapulted birds and explosions?
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A fire started by lightning near the Oregon-California border has burned more than 10,000 acres in less than 24 hours and is threatening 170 structures. The Oregon Gulch Fire has burned one building and forced evacuations in Pinehurst, a rural community east of Ashland.
The Pinehurst Inn is just a few miles from the fire. Owner Denise Rowlett says it's smoky but she's still welcoming guests and cooking dinner. The inn is under an evacuation warning and Rowlett says she know she may have to leave it all behind.
"Be willing to kiss it, bless it, let it go," Rowlett said. "You live in the woods, and this is always something that is in the back of your mind."
Crews from the Oregon Department of Forestry and Cal-Fire are getting help from the Green Springs Volunteer Fire Department. Rowlett's husband Donald is just home for a meal and a nap after more than 24 hours on the fire line.
"He smells like smoke," Rowlett said. "He's wet and dirty and tired."
A spokesman for the Oregon Department of Forestry says the goal is to stop the fire from crossing into the Soda Mountain Wilderness and to protect the communities of Pinehurst and Green Springs.
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This advisory explains how the conflict of interest law, General Laws Chapter 268A, applies to consultants and attorneys who personally perform services for state, county and municipal government.
The definition of a public employee in the conflict of interest law is very broad. It includes:
a person performing services for or holding an office, position, employment or membership in a [state, county, municipal] agency, whether by election, appointment, contract of hire or engagement, whether serving with or without compensation, on a full, regular, part-time, intermittent, or consultant basis.(1)
Public employee status is most easily attributed where an individual (e.g., attorney or consultant) personally undertakes to perform and does personally perform services for a public agency. In such situations, more often than not, an individual is a public employee for the purposes of the conflict of interest law.
- Example: An individual who is a full-time financial consultant to a state agency is a state employee.
- Example: A private attorney who has been individually hired to serve as trial counsel for a municipality in litigation is a municipal employee.
Determining the public employee status of an employee or member of a corporation or other business organization, including a law firm, which contracts or agrees with a government agency to perform services is more complicated. Employees of a corporation or business organization do not become public employees simply because the corporation or business organization has a contract with a public entity. Nor is the corporation or business organization, e.g., a law firm, itself a municipal employee. In some instances when a private business contracts with a government agency, however, an employee, officer or partner of the business who actually performs services for the government agency will be a public employee for purposes of the conflict of interest laws. The Commission has developed and applies a multi-factor analysis for determining whether a particular individual performing the services is a public employee.
The factors considered by the Commission include, but are not limited to the following:
- Whether the individual's services are expressly or impliedly contracted for. For example, if a contract requires the services of a particular individual in a corporation rather than leaving assignment of staff up to the corporation, the individual providing the services may be a public employee.
- The type and size of the corporation. While an officer or employee of a small, closely held corporation is more likely to be deemed a public employee, even an employee of a large, publicly held corporation may be a public employee if the other factors here suggest that outcome.
- The degree of specialized knowledge or expertise required of the service. The more specialized the services an individual provides to the public entity, the more it appears that the individual providing the services is a public employee.
- The extent to which the individual personally performs services under the contract or controls and directs the terms of the contract or the services provided. Greater personal responsibility for services and greater control over the terms of the contract suggest that the individual may be deemed a public employee.
- The extent to which the person has performed similar services to the public entity in the past. Repeated service by the same individual suggests that the individual is a public employee.
No one factor is dispositive; rather the Commission will balance all of the factors based on the totality of the circumstances.
- Example: A real estate consultant will provide real estate redevelopment services under his corporation's contract with a city. The consultant personally had performed essentially the same services for the city for the prior three years; he plans to personally provide up to 90% of the services under the contract; the provided services are professional and highly technical; and the corporation is small and 100% owned by the consultant and his wife. Even though the contract does not require his individual services, he is a municipal employee.
- Example: An employee of a large corporation (of which he is a less than 1% shareholder) serves as the administrator of a county hospital pursuant to a management agreement between the county and the corporation. The county approved her initial and continuing appointment; she previously had served in the administrator position as a regular county employee; the county contemplates her continuing to serve as administrator; and her services are specialized and significant. She is a county employee for G. L. c. 268A purposes.
- Example: University employees who provide services under the university's consulting contract with a municipal school committee are not, as a result, municipal employees under the following circumstances. Under the contract the university is to conduct hearings, set compensation for school employees, recruit, hire, appoint, evaluate, promote, assign, fire, suspend and dismiss school employees and consultants, including the school superintendent, and conduct collective bargaining with unions serving the university. Thus, the contract requires specialized knowledge regarding personnel management in a school setting, and one factor of the multi-factor analysis is met. Otherwise, the multi-factor analysis is not satisfied. The contract does not identify any individual employee of the university who must provide services. Instead, the university may choose its staff as it sees fit to perform the work required by the contract. Consequently, while performing duties under the contract, university employees are not required to comply with the conflict of interest law. Under the multi-factor analysis, any individual university employee does not become a municipal employee by performing services under the contract.
- Example: A contract between a large corporation and the department of public works authorizes the DPW to approve some of the corporation's supervisory personnel before they can work on the contract. The employees whom the DPW approves are state employees. Other employees who work on the contract, and who are assigned by the corporation and do not need to be approved by the DPW, are not state employees because the contract does not specify or otherwise "target" any particular corporation employee.
Due to the broad definition of public employee in G.L. c. 268A and the application of the multi-factor analysis, otherwise private attorneys who personally provide legal services to a public entity are public employees under the conflict of interest law, and subject to its restrictions. (3)
- Example: A medium-sized law firm provides legal services to a state agency. The law firm is hired because of the experience and specialization of one of its attorneys, who provides most of the hours billed by her firm to the state agency. This particular attorney is a state employee subject to the restrictions of the conflict of interest law.
Note that a consultant may be able to work on more than one project and/or for more than one agency, if the consultant has a single contract which by its scope allows such an arrangement.
- Example: A town hires a special counsel to represent it in litigation against the planning board. The town may, by amending the special counsel's contract, also hire the same counsel to represent it on other unrelated litigation involving the recreation department.
For further advice on determining if a consultant or attorney is a public employee and on applying the factors listed above, please contact the Ethics commission.
A consultant or attorney who becomes a public employee by personally providing professional services to a public entity is subject to all of the restrictions of the conflict of interest law concerning bribes, gifts and gratuities, self-dealing and nepotism, the standards of conduct and post-employment. A partner of such a public employee also may be subject to restrictions. (4) For additional information about these restrictions, see the Commission's website at www.mass.gov/ethics.
In terms of the impact on the private practice of a consultant or attorney, the most important consequences of public employee status come through the application of §§ 4 and 7 (state), §§ 17 and 20 (municipal) and §§ 11 and 14 (county). (5) These sections restrict the consultant's or attorney's ability both to represent ("act as agent or attorney for") and be compensated by anyone other than the public entity in any matter involving the public entity (§§ 4, 17 and 11) (6) and to have a financial interest in more than one contract at a time with the public entity (§§ 7, 20 and 14). In addition, the consultant's partners are restricted from acting as agent or attorney for anyone other than the public entity in any matter involving the public entity in which he participates or has participated or has official responsibility as an employee of the public entity under §§ 5(d) (state), 12(d) (county) and 18(d) (municipal). These restrictions do not apply to the consultant's employees or associates with whom he is not in partnership.
A. "Regular" Public Employees
1. Working for private parties
For a so-called "regular" public employee, i.e., one who does not qualify as a "special" public employee as discussed below, these restrictions greatly curtail the extent to which an individual can work or be compensated as a consultant or attorney outside of his or her employment by a public entity. For example, a regular municipal employee is subject to § 17 restrictions on providing services to private parties with regard to any particular matter in which the same city or town - not just his own department -- is a party or has a direct and substantial interest. (7)
- Example: An attorney in part-time private practice who is compensated for more than 800 hours during the preceding 365 days for services to the town is a regular municipal employee and thus could not represent a private client before the town planning board (or any other town board) or in litigation in which the town was a party. The attorney cannot be compensated by the private client for any legal services even if someone else made the presentation to a town board.
Sections 4 and 11 likewise restrict state and county employees, respectively, from doing work for, or receiving pay from, private parties.
2. Working for multiple agencies
The purpose of § 20 is to prevent public employees from using their position to obtain contractual benefits from the government, and to avoid the public perception that they have an "inside track" on such opportunities. Under § 20, a "regular" town employee may not have a contract with the same town agency by which he is employed. He generally would have to comply with the many restrictions of § 20(b) to maintain an interest in a contract with a town agency other than the one by which he is employed. (8) To contract to privately provide part-time (500 or fewer hours per year) services to another town agency, for example, a regular town employee would have to comply with disclosure requirements and obtain approval from the board of selectmen.
- Example: An engineer who is hired by the school committee to assist in renovations of the high school can contract with the town library to prepare drawings only if she files a statement disclosing her interest in the contract with the town clerk, the contract requires less than 500 hours of work per year, the director of the library files a statement with the town clerk certifying that no employee of the library is available to perform those services as part of their regular duties, and the board of selectmen approve.
Similar restrictions apply to "regular" state employees under § 7. (9) The restrictions of § 14 applicable to "regular" county employees are substantially different. (10)
B. "Special" Public Employees
The conflict of interest law seeks to balance the need of government to attract qualified public employees with the need to protect the integrity of government. In order to achieve that balance, the law places less strenuous restrictions on employees who work less than full-time for public entities and who, thus, may be designated "special" public employees. Special public employees include employees who hold positions for which no compensation is provided and employees whom the voting body for the public entity has classified as special employees because their positions allow them to hold other jobs during normal working hours or because they work a limited number of hours for the public entity. (11) In order to be a "special" employee, state and county employees must meet one of these criteria; municipal employees must, in addition, be designated as "special" municipal employees by selectmen, the city council or aldermen. In a municipality with a population of more than 10,000, selectmen may not be special municipal employees; if the population is 10,000 or fewer, selectmen are automatically special municipal employees.
1. Working for private parties
The restrictions imposed by c. 268A on private professional activity by public employees are greatly reduced where the public employee has "special [public] employee" status. For example, with regard to providing private services, a special municipal employee is subject to § 17 restrictions only with regard to any particular matter in which he participated at any time as a municipal employee, or which is, or within one year has been, a subject of his official responsibility, (12) or which is pending in his own agency.
- Example: An architect who is a member of a city historical commission, and who in that capacity is a special municipal employee, may not accept compensation from a private client who brings a matter before the commission, may not appear before the commission on behalf of the client, and may not prepare or sign documents that the client will submit to the commission. The architect, however, may appear before or submit plans to the zoning board of appeals or planning board on a project not subject to commission review.
- Example: A private attorney who is a member of a school committee, and is a special municipal employee, cannot represent clients before the school committee but may represent clients before the planning board, building inspector and the board of health.
If he serves as a public employee on sixty days or fewer (13) during a 365-day period, a special employee even can act as an agent or attorney for, and receive compensation from, a private party in a matter pending before his own agency, provided that he has not participated in the matter and it is not, and in the previous year was not, a subject of his official responsibility.
- Example: A call firefighter works for a town fire department for fewer than 60 days in a 365-day period, and is designated as a special municipal employee. As a professional engineer, he could design fire protection systems for the town and submit plans with regard to a particular matter requiring a permit from the town fire department so long as he does not participate in or have official responsibility for approving or signing off on the permit as a call firefighter.
- Example: A part-time assistant town counsel who is a "special" (and an attorney in private practice), who has responsibility only for the specific matters assigned to her, and who provides legal services to the town on sixty or fewer days within a 365-day period, could represent private clients in matters involving the town that were not assigned to her and in which she did not participate as assistant town counsel even where the matter was being handled by other attorneys in the town counsel's office.
The restrictions of §§ 4 and 11 are similarly relaxed for special state employees and special county employees respectively.
2. Working for the same agency or multiple agencies
Special employee status also makes it significantly easier for public employees to have more than one contract with different agencies within the same public entity. Thus, simply by filing a disclosure with the town clerk under § 20(c), a special municipal employee may contract to provide professional services to a municipal agency other than his own if he does not participate in its activities or have official responsibility for them.
- Example: A private consultant who is a member of the conservation commission, and is a special municipal employee, can provide consulting services to other municipal boards if she does not participate in their activities or have official responsibility for them as a commission member, following submission of a disclosure of her financial interest in the contract pursuant to § 20(c).
- Example: A member of the housing authority who is a special municipal employee and has a private engineering consulting practice could provide contract services to the conservation commission without violating § 20 by simply filing a disclosure with the town clerk.
A special municipal employee may even have a financial interest in a contract with his own agency if he discloses his interest in the contract and also obtains approval from the selectmen, city council or board of aldermen under § 20(d).
- Example: A physician who consults with the city's board of health on an HIV/AIDS project, and whose position has been classified as that of a special municipal employee by the city council, may also consult with a medical research group who has contracted with the board of health to study the West Nile virus, provided that he files a statement with the city clerk disclosing his interest in the contract and the city council approves.
Section 7(d) and (e) set forth analogous procedures for special state employees, with disclosure instead to the Commission and approval instead by the governor. For special county employees, however, there is no provision permitting employment with their own county agency. Section 14(c) only permits a special county employee to contract with a contracting agency if he does not participate in or have official responsibility for its activities and if he files a disclosure with the Commission and receives the approval of the county commissioners.
In summary, special public employee status makes it possible for public employees who are professionals to privately practice their profession within their employing public entity's jurisdiction, even with respect to matters involving or of interest to their employing public entity, with certain reasonable and limited restrictions (as described above). This includes attorneys in private practice who are public employees only by virtue of their personally providing services to a public entity. By imposing on special public employees only these limited restrictions, G. L. c. 268A protects the public interest in avoiding conflicts of interest without unduly discouraging public service by privately practicing professionals.
Generally, individuals who directly contract with public entities to personally perform services are G.L. c. 268A public employees. By contrast, most employees of entities with public contracts are not G. L. c. 268A public employees. In most cases, the public agency is seeking the entity's services (provided by whichever of its employees the entity chooses) and not the services of any particular employee or officer of the entity. In other cases, however, the opposite is true. The multi-factor analysis attempts to identify these other cases.
In addition to whether the individual's services are expressly or impliedly called for under the agreement, the smaller the entity in question (and the higher in the entity's organizational chart the individual), the more specialized the services, the more the individual personally participates in providing the services and the more extensive the individual's history of providing the services to the agency, the more the balance is weighed in favor of concluding that the individual is a public employee for G. L. c. 268A.
A consultant or attorney may be a public employee because a public entity either contracts with him individually or contracts with a corporation or commercial entity which he owns or runs or in which he serves as an employee, if the circumstances are such that the factors set forth in Section II, above, weigh in favor of concluding that the individual is a public employee. In either case, the consequence is that a public employee must comply with the provisions of G.L. c. 268A. For those individuals who meet the requirements to be "special" public employees, the conflict of interest law allows greater leeway to serve private clients, work for multiple public agencies, or work on different projects for the same agency.
ISSUED: August 2006
1/ G.L. c. 268A, §§ 1(d), 1(g) and 1(q).
2/ Specific statutes related to individual municipalities and local municipal ordinances also may govern who is a public employee. Consult your city solicitor or town counsel for additional information.
3/ Attorneys should note that the Massachusetts Rules of Professional Conduct may prohibit representation of a particular client because of adverse or competing interests, or because of a perceived conflict of interest. The conflict of interest law, which focuses on the conduct of government employees, and so includes attorneys who are government employees, imposes additional requirements. Even if they work in a non-legal profession as public employees, attorneys must comply with the conflict of interest laws in accepting work from other government agencies or private legal work outside their public employment.
4/ The term "partner" is not specifically defined in G.L. c. 268A. However, the Commission has construed the term in several opinions. See EC-COI-87-34; 87-29; 86-03; 85-62; 84-78. The term "partner" is not restricted to those who enter formal partnership agreements. Thus, where business ties are indeterminate, the Commission has held that a partner is any person who joins with another, formally or informally, in a common business venture, and that the substance of the relationship is what matters, not merely the terms the parties use to describe the relationship.11/ EC-COI-84-78. For example, the Commission concluded in EC-COI-93-24, that members of a professional corporation are not "partners" for purposes of the conflict of interest statute.
5/ Additional exemptions may also be available. For example, a consultant who is a municipal employee may also apply on behalf of a private client for a building, electrical, wiring, plumbing, gas fitting or septic system permit unless he is employed by or provides services to the permit-granting agency or an agency that regulates the activities of the permit-granting agency. Consult your city solicitor, town counsel or the State Ethics Commission for additional information.
6/ Note that a consultant who, as a public employee, is prohibited from acting as an agent on behalf of a private client before a government board may, behind the scenes, provide advice, provided he is uncompensated. In contrast, an attorney may not provide pro bono counsel even behind the scenes because he would still be acting as an attorney.
7/ Note that G.L. c. 268A, § 17 generally permits a municipal attorney to represent both the municipality and a municipal employee in defense of a civil rights action where the complaint alleges liability in both the employee's individual capacity and official capacity. See Commission Advisory No. 84-03: Municipal Lawyers Representing Both a Municipal Employee and a Municipality in the Same Suit. Restrictions under the Rules of Professional Conduct may apply.
8/ Section § 20(b) permits a "regular" municipal employee to have a financial interest in a contract with a city or town if he is not employed by the agency which has the contract, is not employed by an agency which regulates the activities of the contracting agency, and does not participate in or have official responsibility for any of the activities of the contracting agency. In addition, the contract must be made after public notice or, where applicable, through competitive bidding. The state employee also must file a disclosure of his or his immediate family's financial interest in the contract with the city or town clerk. If he is contracting with an agency to provide personal services, then, in addition to the requirements above, the services must be provided outside the normal working hours of the municipal employee, the services must not be required as part of his regular duties and he must not be compensated for them for more than 500 hours in a calendar year, and the head of the contracting agency must file a certification with the city or town clerk stating that no employee of the agency is available to perform those services as part of their regular duties.
9/ The requirements of § 7(b) and § 20(b) are the same, except that under § 7(b), the employee's disclosure and the certification by the head of the agency must be filed with State Ethics Commission instead of the city or town clerk.
10/ Unlike § 7(b) and § 20(b), the exemption available for regular county employees under § 14(b) does not require any disclosure to be filed, and applies only to a contract made through competitive bidding in which the direct or indirect interest of the employee and his immediate family together amount to less than ten percent of the total proprietary interests in the corporation or other commercial entity with which the contract is made. Of the three exemptions, § 14(b) is the only one to include a maximum allowable interest. In addition, eligibility for the exemption for county employees is different. All three exemptions require that the employee not participate in or have official responsibility for any of the activities of the contracting agency. Under § 14(b), an exemption is available only if a "regular" county employee does not participate in or have official responsibility for any of the activities of the contracting agency and the contract is made through competitive bidding. In addition, the employee's direct and indirect interests in the corporation or other commercial entity with which the contract is made, and the interest of his immediate family, may not in the aggregate amount to ten percent of the total proprietary interests of the corporation or commercial entity.
11/ "Special state employee" a state employee: (1) who is performing services or holding an office, position, employment or membership for which no compensation is provided, or (2) who is not an elected official and (a) occupies a position which, by its classification in the state agency involved or by the terms of the contract or conditions of employment, permits personal or private employment during normal working hours, provided that disclosure of such classification or permission is filed in writing with the state ethics commission prior to the commencement of any personal or private employment, or (b) in fact does not earn compensation as a state employee for an aggregate of more than eight hundred hours during the preceding three hundred and sixty-five days. For this purpose compensation by the day shall be considered as equivalent to compensation for seven hours per day. A special state employee shall be in such a status on days for which he is not compensated as well as on days on which he earns compensation. G.L. c. 268A, § 1(o).
"Special county employee", a county employee who is performing services or holding an office, position, employment or membership for which no compensation is provided; or who is not an elected official and (1) occupies a position which, by its classification in the county agency involved or by the terms of the contract or conditions of employment, permits personal or private employment during normal working hours, provided that disclosure of such classification or permission is filed in writing with the State Ethics Commission and the office of the county commissioners prior to the commencement of any personal or private employment, or (2) in fact does not earn compensation as a county employee for an aggregate of more than eight hundred hours during the preceding three hundred and sixty-five days. For this purpose compensation by the day shall be considered as equivalent to compensation for seven hours per day. A special county employee shall be in such a status on days for which he is not compensated as well as on days on which he earns compensation. G. L. c. 268A, § 1(m).
"Special municipal employee," a municipal employee who is not a mayor, a member of the board of aldermen, a member of a city council, or a selectman in a town with a population in excess of ten thousand persons and whose position has been expressly classified by the city council, or board of aldermen if there is no city council, or board of selectmen, as that of a special employee under the terms and provisions of this chapter; provided, however, that a selectman in a town with a population of ten thousand or fewer persons shall be a special municipal employee without being expressly so classified. All employees who hold equivalent offices, positions, employment or membership in the same municipal agency shall have the same classification; provided, however, no municipal employee shall be classified as a "special municipal employee" unless he occupies a position for which no compensation is provided or which, by its classification in the municipal agency involved or by the terms of the contract or conditions of employment, permits personal or private employment during normal working hours, or unless he in fact does not earn compensation as a municipal employee for an aggregate of more than eight hundred hours during the preceding three hundred and sixty-five days. For this purpose compensation by the day shall by considered as equivalent to compensation for seven hours per day. A special municipal employee shall be in such status on days for which he is not compensated as well as on days on which he earns compensation. All employees of any city or town wherein no such classification has been made shall be deemed to be "municipal employees" and shall be subject to all the provisions of this chapter with respect thereto without exception. G.L. c. 268A, § 1(n).
12/ "Official responsibility" means the direct administrative or operating authority, whether intermediate or final, and either exercisable alone or with others, and whether personal or through subordinates, to approve, disapprove or otherwise direct agency action. G.L. c. 268A, s.1(j).
13/ The term "serves" means substantive, rather than ministerial, services performed on any portion of a calendar day. EC-COI-98-6. When more than one employee of a law firm or a consulting firm is a special public employee, the 60-day restriction will apply to each of them individually.


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Companies Turn to Developing World for Financial Returns
July 23, 2012
In a post-recession world where Western governments no longer offer the lucrative investment options that they once did, companies are increasingly turning to the developing world in order to generate financial returns. This tendency now seems to be converting into a scramble, as economic powerhouses like Russia, China and the United States compete to get their domestic companies ample business, says Alexander Benard in Foreign Affairs.
In this regard, American policymakers should take a peek at the playbook of their Chinese counterparts, whose aggressive domination of opportunities in the developing world is quickly shutting out competition from American companies. To this end, Chinese officials employ a number of shrewd but effective policies that promote their own business ventures at the expense of Western ones.
- By opportunistically employing its vast currency reserves in order to become the banker of developing nations, China is able to negotiate from a position of strength on its firms' behalf.
- The Chinese government also subsidizes many of its largest, multinational firms, thereby allowing them to undercut potential competitors in contract bidding processes.
- Further, bids for developing world contracts are often coupled with promises of vast infrastructure investment, the latter of which is paid for by the government.
The result of these unyielding policies is a drastic increase in Chinese involvement in global trade: its annual trade and investment in Africa, for example, has increased from $10 billion 10 years ago to $120 billion today.
If American policymakers fail to learn vital lessons from Chinese actions, then their firms will be in danger of missing out on crucial investment opportunities. Though it would be uncharacteristic of the federal government to play such a direct role in domestic firms' overseas operations, this does not mean that it cannot reform its many appendages so as to stay out of the way.
- Current assistance operations for multinational corporations are spread across several departments and agencies that often work at cross-purposes; combining these programs into a single office would better facilitate their use.
- Washington should also revise its policies regarding the promotion of individual companies -- while attempting to remain transparent, the government misses perfectly ethical opportunities to promote domestic firms.
- Regulators should also reconsider many of their burdensome rules that govern international commerce.
Source: Alexander Benard, "How to Succeed in Business," Foreign Affairs, July/August 2012.
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