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For PC users, LiveBinders is compatible with Firefox 40 and higher, Safari 4.0.5 and higher, Chrome 30 and higher, and I.E. 9.0 and higher.
For Mac users, LiveBinders is compatible with Safari 6.0.0, Chrome 30 and higher, and Firefox 21 and higher.
For Chromebook users, LiveBinders is compatible with Chromebooks 55.0.2883.103 (64-bit) and higher.
We also have apps for the iPhone, iPad, and Android.
While not a requirement, we suggest that you add the "LiveBinder It" bookmarklet to your browser, which lets you add web pages to a new or existing binder while you are browsing the web. Learn more about "LiveBinder It" here or go to the LiveBinder It page to add it to your browser page to.
To change your email preferences or email address, just click on your username at the top of the page. You will see a form with your current address and preferences. You can change any of the options shown, but you will need to enter your password again to make the change.
Your description and picture can be added on your account information page. To access this page, click on your username in the upper right. You will see selections where you can type your description/blog address and upload your picture.
Your description and/or picture will show up whenever someone clicks on your name as a binder author:
Students may sign up for LiveBinders using a teacher or parent's email. If the student forgets their password, an email will be sent to the teacher or parent's email address.
If you, as a teacher, already have a LiveBinders account, you may want to use a different email address for your student sign-ups. This is just in case the student enters your email address in the retrieve password box instead of their username.
If your student forgets their password, they should enter their username in the student section of the retrieve password page.
If your student will be collaborating with other students on a binder, the email they will need to use will be a combination of your email and the student username. For example, if your email is email@example.com, than the student's email (for collaboration purposes) will be email@example.com.
You can see a list of your student names by going to your profile page (click on your username in the upper right corner) and then clicking on See a list of student accounts.
Just send an email to email@example.com with your username in the email. If you are not using the email address that you signed up with, we will need a confirmation from your sign-up email address. Your account and all associated binders will be removed ASAP.
Please feel free to share with us the reason for deleting your account. We deeply appreciate the feedback!
Please fill out this form to change or cancel your LiveBinders subscription.
You can add web pages while you browse the web through our LiveBinder It feature. It is a bookmarklet tool that you add to your browser toolbar so you can add web pages that you find to a new or existing binder - without ever leaving the page.
The LiveBinder It page will have specific instructions for your browser. This video provides an overview for installing on most modern browsers:
There are two ways to add "LiveBinder It" to the iPad. One is to add it on to Safari on your Mac and then sync your bookmarks with the iPad. Here is an explanation of how to sync your bookmarks from your Mac to your iPad.
The second option isn't easy, but it will add the LiveBinder It feature to your iPad. Hopefully Apple will soon come out with a better way to add bookmarklets!
If you can't use the "LiveBinder It" bookmarklet because of your school's policy, there is another way to add links.
If you haven't already created a binder than,
Tabs organize content in a binder. A binder contains many web pages, or documents, where each web page/document is represented by a tab. For example, a binder with 20 tabs has a total of 20 web pages inside.
You can add more than one page to a tab by adding sub tabs. If you have an upgraded account, you can add base tabs to your sub tabs for a third level of content. Sub tabs are just another layer of tabs in a binder and can be added to an existing tab. When you click on a sub tab you open another page. Sub tabs are located in the grey area underneath a selected tab, as you can see below.
If you want to add more content to your sub tabs, you will need base tabs. Base tabs add a third layer of tabs in a binder can and be added to any existing sub tab. When you click on a base tab you open another page. Base tabs are located in the grey area underneath a selected sub tab, as you can see below. Base tabs are only available to our subscribers.
After logging in, select the binder you want to edit. You can either click on the yellow Edit button from your My shelf or click on the Edit icon (the binder with a pen) in the top bar once you are inside the binder. When you are in Edit mode in your binder, you can add, rename, and delete tabs as well as insert new URLs and upload other content. See the screenshot below on how to add tabs:
To add content to your binder, click on the Add Content button.
To change binder information such as its name, description, and default tab color, click on the Binder Settings button.
Log in to your account. Select the binder you want to edit from the My page. Open the binder in Edit mode and double click the text area of the tab or sub tab you want to rename and type the desired name.
To type a longer tab name, click on Add Content and type in the box there.
Log in to your account and select the binder you want to edit from the My page.
Then select the tab that you want to move or copy, then click on the Move Tab button. Select the action you wish to take. You can do the following from the Move/Copy Tab menu:
Select the tab that you want to color, then select the tab's pull-down menu by clicking on the red arrow next to the tab title.
Select a color and click Apply.
Note: You can change a sub tab color or a base tab color but you won't see the change until you move to another tab.
Select the tab, sub tab, or base tab that you want to delete. Click on the red arrow next to the tab name. Select Delete from the pull-down menu and then confirm the deletion in the pop-up window.
LiveBinders keeps track of every page in your binder. If you want to re-use web pages or files from a previous binder:
Results will display with the most recent first.
To upload a single file, log in and open the desired binder in Edit mode.
There is currently a 5MB file size limit on file uploads for the free version of the product. You can upgrade to upload larger files.
Please note: Uploaded files are public in the free version of the product. Our subscription version offers private uploaded documents. You can upgrade to upload private files. To learn more about Document Security for your uploaded content, click here.
Note: You can upload any type of file, but Microsoft Office documents will show up a links inside the binder because Microsoft applicatons do not run in the browser. PDF files will show up inside the binder on all browsers. JPG files will also show up inside the binder on all browsers.
Collaborator Upload
If both the binder owner and the collaborator are subscribers, the collaborator can upload their file to the binder owner's account. This is the default for our subscibers. This box can be unchecked if uploading to the owner's account is not desired.
To upload multiple files do the following:
There are two options for inserting multiple files:
Number one above works well if you are inserting the files in a new binder or if you want them to all be inserted at the end of the binder or tab. Here is how to use that feature.
If you need a more interactive insert, than number two is your best option. It will let you go from tab, to sub tab, to base tab, inserting files where you need them.
To use this feature, do the following:
Note: Do not insert private files as links. Private files must be opened inside the binder to maintain document security.
There may be occasions where you prefer to have your uploaded files show as links instead of showing up as content in the tab or sub tab. Here is how to do that:
To clear the contents of a tab, but not the tab name or color, do the following:
When you have a tab with subtabs it is sometimes nice to add an image to the tab so that it is not blank. We let you search the Flickr database for images that you are allowed to use.
Log in to your account. Open the binder you'd like to change from the My page by clicking on the yellow edit button below the binder.
You can use an image for your binder cover using one of these methods:
Go into your binder in Edit mode. If you are planning to use a tab for the binder cover, go to that tab. Click on Settings at the top, then click on Cover. You will see a menu with the three options.
You can simply insert the link for a YouTube video in the binder and it will show up embedded in that tab. Optionally you can search for YouTube videos within LiveBinders:
Note: Dropbox recently changed their policy and pdf documents will now show up as downloads instead of embedded in the binder. If you want pdf documents embedded in the binder, you can upload them directly to LiveBinders or use Google Docs or Box.net.
You can easily add documents from Dropbox by going to the tab where you would like the document and then:
You can embed a QR code for the current binder or for another site. This is often convenient when you are giving a presentation and want to give your audience a link on the projector.
Many multimedia products offer embed codes so that you can embed them right in your binder. Examples include YouTube, Prezi, and Slideshare. To use embed codes from these products, first find the embed code on their site and copy it.
Here is an example of grabbing embed code from YouTube:
If you need to have an image in a text frame, please follow the steps below:
You should see your image in the text. You can continue to use the same temporary tab for other images and then just delete it when you are done.
In addition to having a web page show up in LiveBinders, you can also link to web pages. To do this you will need a text template:
To link to documents that you are uploading do the following:
There are many reasons why you might want to insert a binder in a binder including:
Shelves are also a great way to collect binders and you can insert a shelf in a binder from the same menu.
To embed a binder or shelf:
LiveBinders can automatically display a title page with your binder title, cover, and description as the first or second page. You can also have LiveBinders automatically insert a table of contents that will be updated automatically as you change things in your binder.
Just go into your binder in Edit mode and click on Binder Settings > Layout and then select the tab where you would like to see your title page or table of contents.
LiveBinders provides links to other binders, comments, and counts inside the binder where other viewers of the binder can see them. You may not want these options on your binder and if you are a subscriber, you can remove all of these options.
To remove these items, just go into your binder in Edit mode and click on Binder Settings > Layout and then click on the checkboxes of the items you would like to remove from the view of your binder.
When you upload content or add a webpage, LiveBinders shows a link to that content so that someone can click on that link and view the content outside of the binder. If you don't want to have these links in your binder and you are a subscriber, you can remove them.
To remove the links above the content or replace them with a simple icon, just go into your binder in Edit mode and click on Binder Settings > Layout and then click the pull down URL above the content and select the option that you want:
Note that your selection will be for all links in the binder.
Note that mobile devices need the capability to open content outside the binder, so if you select 2 or 3 the icon will show on mobile devices.
Google recently changed their policy so that Google sites will not sit in an iframe unless specifically granted permission. Here is how you grant permission for your google site so that it will work in LiveBinders:
Your Google Site can now be added to your binder with the link.
You can find out the date a binder was created, view the description, and see how many people have viewed the binder by selecting Details from the Options menu located next to the name of the binder.
If you are inside binder, you can find out more information about the binder by clicking on the Options button then clicking on Table of Contents then clicking on Details link. This detail page will have information about when the binder was created, when it was last edited, and all tabs in the binder and their links.
You can change a binder's background color and default tab color from the Binder Settings menu under Colors. To change individual tab colors, use the red arrow pull-down menu next to the active tab.
How to use the color selector:
Your username will show up by default as "Binder Author" inside the binder and on the shelf. You may want a different name displayed if you are collaborating with others on a binder or if you want to use your real name instead of your username.
To have a different name appear on your binder do the following:
Your new name will now appear as the binder author.
You may want people to view your binder with tabs on the side instead of on the top or, if you have many tabs, you may want to have viewers of your binder use the tab slider instead of the stacked tabs.
To select how your binder will be viewed, go to Binder Settings > Layout and use the drop-down labeled Default Tab View.
Please note that the editor only shows the stacked tab view, but viewers of your binder will see your binder with the layout that you selected.
Here are examples of the different tab layouts:
Sharing Public Binders
Sharing Private Binders
You can email a single private binder by emailing the binder link to one or more addresses.
Anyone who wants to see the binder will need an access key.
The access key can be a mixture of letters and numbers, no special characters.
The access key is case sensitive.
To enter an access key:
Access keys can be phrases with spaces (but not commas.)
You can type in multiple access keys (if you would like different access keys for different people) by separating them with a comma.
You can send someone a link to a specific tab, sub tab, or base tab in a binder. Here is how:
If the person that you are sharing the binder with has a LiveBinders login, you can share a private binder with them and it will appear on their shelf and they won't have to use an access key.
You can also collaborate with people and allow them to edit your binder as long as they all have LiveBinders accounts. They will be able to add and delete tabs and sub tabs, change text/tab names, and edit the binder in every way except for the binder settings and access - only the author can change the binder settings and access.
You can share your binder with another LiveBinders user from the shelf or inside the editor.
From the shelf, click on Options from the mouseover select Share then Assign.
From the editor, click on Share then Assign.
You must know the email addresses of the people you would like to invite to view or edit your binder. These need to be the email addresses that they used to sign up at LiveBinders. Type in those email addresses, with commas separating them, then click on Add.
If you have students who used their teacher's email to sign up for LiveBinders, then the other students will need to use a combination of the teacher's email and the student's username to add them as a collaborator. For example, if the teacher's email is email@example.com, than the student's email (for sharing purposes) will be firstname.lastname@example.com.
You can then send an optional email to everyone to let them know that you are inviting them to collaborate.
Note for subscribers: Both the teacher and the student accounts must be paid subscribers to share benefits of full collaboration. Please see about a Team discount.
You can embed a binder onto your blog page, wiki page or website. To do this from within a binder,
The binder icon will appear like this one on your web page:
You can also embed an open binder in a web page. This may or may not look good depending upon how many tabs and sub tabs are in the binder. Binders with fewer tabs and sub tabs look better in a small window than binders with lots of tabs. Just follow the step above, but copy the code from the box labeled Open Binder:
You can embed a table of contents for your binder onto your blog page, wiki page or website. To do this from within a binder,
You can copy a binder by selecting Copy from the Options menu underneath the binder on the shelf.
If you are inside a binder you can click on the Options button then click on Copy.
The new copy will be added to your My shelf. Mouse over your user name and select My Binders to see the copy.
Note: the Copy link will not show up if the author of the binder has decided that they don't want their binder copied.
The present feature lets you show a binder without any of the distractions of the top bar. To do this from within a binder by click on Options > Layout > Present.
LiveBinders created with a free account are not spidered by search engines. If you would like your binders to be available to search engines, you can either subscribe to LiveBinders or fill out this form.
Please see our search engine optimization page for more information on how to make your binders search engine friendly.
In addition to your account shelves, you can also create a shelf to organize your binders with other people's binders. These customized shelves can be private or public.
Here are three ways you can create a customized shelf:
Give your shelf a name, description, and tags. This will help you and other people find your shelves within LiveBinders. If your shelf is public, people can also search for it from Google.
Then determine if you want your shelf to be public or private. If you want to share a private binder, you must create an access key. Like a private binder, only those with the access key will be able to view your private shelf.
You can add anyone's public or private binder to your private or public custom shelves. However, if an author has chosen to restrict this access, you will not be able to add that binder to your shelf.
There are two ways to add binders to your shelf:
If "Add to Shelf" is missing - the owner has disabled the ability to add their binder to a shelf. You can contact the owner to request access or you can copy and paste the binder link to a tab in one of your binders. You can also bookmark the binder in your browsers' Favorites folder.
From your shelf, mouse over the binder to see the Options menu and click on Remove from this Shelf. The page will refresh and remove your binder.
On your My page, all of your binders are organized on "shelves." There are currently two kinds of shelves in your account: those that can't be shared and those that can be shared.
Sharing Public Shelves:
Like a binder, a shelf has a URL that you can share.
To share your public shelves:
You will see all their binders. You can then tweet, put the link on Facebook, or copy and paste the link into an email:
Sharing Private Custom Shelves
To share your private customized shelves, you will need to create and provide an access key for your shelf. Like your private binders, this will allow anyone with the access key and the link to view your private shelf.
To set your access key for your shelf,
To share your private customized shelf, click on the Share and Embed link from the Options drop down menu located under Shelf Details. Copy the link and email both the link and the access key to the person with whom you would like to share your binder.
You can embed a public shelf in most blogs and wikis (except the hosted version of Wordpress.)
First find the shelf you want to embed by clicking on an author name or on one of your shelves. Then click on the Options button in Shelf Details and then the Embed link.
You can select the following different options for embedding the shelf:
Embedding a shelf in a Google Site page is a little complex. This video will walk you through the details.
Here are step-by-step instructions:
To change the name of a shelf, just click on the Options button under Shelf Details and then click on Change Settings to bring up a menu to change your shelf settings.
To delete a shelf, just click on the Options button under Shelf Details and then click on Delete this Shelf.
Downloading a binder is a Pro and Pro EDU plan feature that lets you create an offline version (not editable) of your binder. If you have uploaded files to your binder and want a back up copy on your desktop, or if you need to present material in areas where they do not have wifi coverage, you can use this offline version of the binder. Your download copy of the binder is provided in a zip file format. Learn more.
Note: Once a binder is downloaded, the downloaded copy of your binder can't be edited. If you are playing your binder offline, none of the web links in your binder will work until you have a wifi connection. All of the uploaded files and the binder table of contents and tab search will work as usual.
If you have a problem with receiving a zip file with your download copy, please check for the following:
If you have trouble unzipping your file from your file folder, then download WinZip to unzip your file.
NOTE: A very long file name that has been uploaded to your binder may cause problems with certain unzip applications. Try using WinZip to unzip your binder or try uploading a version of the file with a shorter file name.
You need to be logged into LiveBinders to add comments.
The viewers of your binder can search tab names by using the search bar at the top. They do not need to have a LiveBinders account to search for tab names.
Auto-save is designed to automatically save your binder. If auto-save is taking too long, or seems to be saving too often, there is one of two possible problems:
It isn't the number of tabs that can make a binder too large, but more often something in the text frames causing the problem. If you copy/paste an image into a text frame, this will cause the binder to be too large, or if you copy/paste text from Microsoft Word.
If you are seeing a problem with slow auto-saves, please contact support immediately and provide a link to your binder.
To delete a binder:
Your binder will be deleted, but will be saved for 30 days in case you want to undelete it.
Your deleted binders are saved for 30 days and are accessible from the deleted binders page.
To access your deleted binders:
Your binder will appear back on your My shelf. Please note that the access will be "Private - Copy Disabled". You may need to make your binder public again, if that is what you wanted.
Deleting uploaded files in a binder does not delete them from your account.
Those files will be removed and you will regain the space that they were using in your account.
The Team Shelf is private library of binders that is available with the Team subscription account. The Team plan allows members to mark binders with the access of "Team Copyable" or "Team Copy Disabled." You can find the Team Shelf under All My Binders drop down menu located to the left of your My Binders page.


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Right to Information publication scheme
Our Right to Information publication scheme describes and categorises information routinely available from the department online and free of charge.
It has been developed to give the community greater access to information held by government. Information is grouped and accessible through seven classes.
- About us - who we are and what we do
- Our services - services offered by our department
- Our finances - what we spend and how we spend it
- Our priorities - what our priorities are and how we are doing
- Our decisions - how we make decisions
- Our policies - our policies and procedures
- Our lists - lists and registers produced by the department
Terms of access
All information in our publication scheme is available free of charge. Where possible these documents are available for you to download. Some PDF versions of scanned documents may not be readable by accessibility devices such as screen readers.
You have the right to submit a complaint if information in our publication scheme is not available. Any complaints are managed in accordance with our customer complaints procedure ( 135 KB).
We value your comments and any feedback you provide will be used to make improvements to our Publication Scheme. You can contact us at any time to provide feedback.

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As the Australian Government continues to grapple with the issue of how best to protect the nation from internet nastiness, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications has just lobbed a major new element into the debate in the form of a mega-report on cyber-crime.
The report - entitled Hackers, Fraudsters and Botnets: Tackling the Problem of Cyber Crime (pdf) - is a 260-page opus, published this week and compiled under the chairmanship of Ms Belinda Neal MP. In the foreword, Ms Neal writes that "the interests and needs of consumers and business [should] generally be elevated in the national Cyber Security Strategy".
Some of the steps that can be taken immediately include a national coordination point to oversee this broader strategy, a national cyber-crime reporting centre, better coordination and training for law enforcement agencies and public-private information sharing on a wider range of cyber-crime types.
These conclusions were based on evidence that the Committee heard, to the effect that Australian consumers (and businesses) were being targeted by cyber criminals as never before, with a total cost to Australian business as high as $649m a year.
The committee were also told that increasing internet speeds were likely to make the situation worse.
The report also came up with a series of some 34 recommendations that ranged from the banal - the Australian Communications Department should publicise the issues more widely and support the development of community-wide IT literacy training that includes cyber security – to the slightly more scary.
The latter include new obligations on both ISPs and end-users to keep the net free from viruses. So, the report recommends that end-users be required to "install anti-virus software and firewalls before the Internet connection is activated". They should then do their best to keep security up to date and "take reasonable steps to remediate their computer(s) when notified of suspected malware compromise".
ISPs would be obliged to provide security advice, inform users when their IP address has been flagged as linked to infected machine, and put in place a policy of "graduated access restrictions" – with disconnection as the ultimate sanction.
Bad news, too, for hackers. The committee wants law enforcement agencies to "target the underground economy in malicious IT tools and personal financial information", as well as disrupt botnets and prosecute "botherders".
For those already concerned about Orwellian tendencies in Australia's policy on the internet, there is yet more stuff to cause alarm. The Australian Communications and Media Authority will be asked to increase (further!) "its access to network data for the purpose of detecting malware compromised computers".
"This should include active consideration of how to increase access to network data held by global IT security companies and, in consultation with relevant departments, whether legal protections to address commercial, regulatory and privacy concerns are desirable."
In other words, the amount of seriously sensitive data to be held by government is going to increase dramatically – and government (at least in the shape of this committee) is not entirely convinced whether end-users need any legal protection in respect of this increase.
On the positive side, there is likely to be a push for specific protections against the unauthorised installation of software programs, particularly those that "monitor, collect, and disclose information about end users' Internet purchasing and Internet browsing activity".
For those puzzled by the irony of it all – the focus on protecting the consumer from nasty hackers "out there", coupled with complacency in respect of the role of the state – a short glance at the witness list is all that is needed. Big business (including security providers such as McAfee and Symantec), lawyers, government departments and police are there: the end-user is not.
As an exercise in top-down policy-making, this report is exemplary: if, however, Ms Neal is looking for wider acceptance amongst the community she is seeking to police, the report might have done better to trawl a lot wider. ®
While public debate on whether or not Communications Minister Stephen Conroy will be able to bring in legislation to support his great firewall project before the next election, a reader writes to suggest it really doesn't matter. The government just bought the AU last mile from Telstra and as part of the deal requires Telstra to "retire" their existing copper loop. In time, therefore, all ISPs will have no choice but to migrate to the Conroy-connector - at which point legislation to impose a filter will not really be needed.


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When New York artist Kyle M.F. Williams went looking for a bunch of old cell phones for an art project, he turned to a common source for such bulk purchases: eBay. As I wrote Tuesday, he wound up scoring 44 old Razr phones and, instead of gluing them to a scooter as originally planned, Williams dumped the personal texts and photos still on the phones into a book that you can buy on Amazon.com.
Williams assumed, based on the number of phones and other offerings by the seller who goes by techbosonline, that the Razrs came from a repair shop in Sugar Land. But late Tuesday night techbosonline replied to an email query and provided more details.
He doesn't want me to use his real name, but he's a Houston-area student who's in the middle of studying for finals. In an interview conducted via email and text message – which seems apropos, given the context – techbosonline said he doesn't repair electronics.
"I just buy phones, electronics, etc. and just resell them. Some are new, some work and others broken for parts. So no, I wouldn't call it a repair service," he wrote.
The 44 Razrs sold to Williams were not acquired from individuals. Some came from businesses that recycle old cell phones. Some came from Texas sources, while others were scored from around the U.S., so the phones may not contain personal information from local residents.
Former Razr owners in Sugar Land, you can probably rest easy.
As Williams' supplier, what does techbosonline think of the Razrs book?
"Props to Kyle Williams for being creative," he wrote. "It was interesting to see what people do with their phones . . . People should probably be more careful with what they put in their phones or they'll end up in a situation like this."
Techbosonline says there's more where that came from.
" . . . And let Kyle Williams know if he ever wants a sequel, I have thousands of phones available."


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OTTAWA — Only two of 1,161 witnesses to appear at B.C. "community hearings" into the Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline project said they support the $6.5-billion megaproject, according to a tally by two environmental groups.
The lone supporters of the two 1,170-km pipelines running from Bruderheim, Alta. to Kitimat, were Dennis MacKay, a one-time Liberal MLA, and former Port Hardy mayor Russ Helberg.
The hearings now move back to the "questioning phase," with participants able to put questions to any participant — Enbridge or government officials and technical experts, for instance — at panel meetings that start in Prince Rupert this week and conclude there in mid-May.
The three-person National Energy Board-Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency panel is then expected to receive both written and oral argument from that point until late June.
It will then spend the rest of the year preparing its recommendations, due to the federal government by Dec. 31.
But with a B.C. election in May, it appears the public debate over the issue will play out in the political arena rather than at the hearing process.
Emma Gilchrist of the environmentalist group called the Dogwood Initiative, pointed out that last year, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government took away the joint panel's authority to decide on the project.
"This is going to be a political decision whether we like it or not," she said in a joint news release with the group Forest Ethics Advocacy.
"Now, it's just a matter of whether British Columbians allow Ottawa to make this decision for us or if we elect a B.C. government on May 14 that will stand for our coast."
Gilchrist said that statement isn't an endorsement of a particular party.
"We are pushing all parties to oppose the expansion of oil tanker traffic on our coast," she said in an email.
"Currently, the NDP is opposed to Enbridge, but not saying much on" Kinder Morgan's proposed $5.4-billion expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby from 300,000 to 890,000 barrels a day.
"Meanwhile the B.C. Liberals are on the fence for both. So, we're continuing to pressure both of them in the run-up to the election."
Liberal Premier Christy Clark has set five conditions that must be met, four of which relate to safety, the environment and first nations issues, and one calling for B.C. to get greater economic benefits.
"Of the Liberals' so-called 'five conditions' to be met for the pipeline to go ahead, four are already requirements that exist in law," NDP environment critic Rob Fleming said in a statement Monday.
"And the fifth condition proves the Liberals are willing to sell out British Columbians for the right price."
Enbridge represenative Todd Nogier said the hearings prompted the company to alter the pipeline route and spend an extra $400-$500 million to make the company's "industry-leading" safety plan "even safer."
He didn't challenge the tally by the two environmental groups, but said "numerous" citizens submitted written statements of support for Northern Gateway.
"We also heard a number of energy producers during the hearings in Edmonton in September express strong support for the project as important in their attempts to access new international markets," he said in an email.
"Accessing international markets for energy is something an increasing number of people view as critical for the future of not only the industry but also the provinces and the country as a whole."
Project opponents who presented their views in person ranged from the environmentalist movement to an oilsands worker, a former naval officer and the ex-chief executive officer of BC Hydro.
"It is my contention that Enbridge has submitted marketing propaganda masquerading as economic analysis because of the one-sided, self-serving private benefit picture the proponent has presented," said economist Marc Eliesen, the ex-chief executive of both BC Hydro and Ontario Hydro, and one-time senior provincial bureaucrat in B.C., Ontario and Manitoba, mostly with NDP governments.
Enbridge is offering "bogus economics with misinformation being utilized by the proponent, by the oil industry and by the government of Canada and Alberta to justify this pipeline project," Eliesen, 71, said to the panel in January in Vancouver.
Helberg, presenting his position in Port Hardy last August, said he supports Premier Clark's demand for B.C. for a bigger slice of the project's profits.
"I recommend the project proceed with due consideration given to B.C.'s request for a greater share of the benefits, and that the legal and the treaty rights of the First Nations be addressed," he said.
MacKay, meanwhile, said much necessary human economic activity involves risk.
"Sixty years ago, as a youth of 10 years in age, I watched the Trans Mountain Pipeline being laid through the town site of Jasper, Alberta. Jasper National Park is within the Rocky Mountain World Heritage Site," he said in April.
"To this date I am not aware of any adverse environmental damage from that original pipeline that has been in the ground now for 60 years."


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For all my friends who suffer as a result of recent attacks on Social Security, Healthcare, Government pensions and any kind of state or government related income or welfare support issues.
The idea of a society that doesn't need social safety nets to function, that "Charity Alone" will be sufficient, or the idea that people who want 'Money From the Government' should just get of their asses and stop being leeches is wrong. It's a myth, propagated by conservatives, and the exact reason we moved away from that model is because it doesn't work. The sad truth is charitable contributions alone, aren't enough to keep societies afloat, fiscally or pragmatically.
The Conservatives in our government have been corrupted by a new wave of conservativism that is vehemently against Social Safety Nets, as if they are trying to create an Ayn Randian paradise. Ayn Rand, who originated in Soviet Union, under a different system has very unrealistically capitalist friendly views. So her writings and ideals radically diverged from the example of economics and government in Soviet Russia. And this is important to the validity of her arguments, because sadly, the example she had distorted her understanding in favor of this new, and growing conservative economic ideology movement.
It's a nice idea, to think that charity is enough to save a society from downfall during economic hardships. The sad thing is… It doesn't work, it harms people, and due to technology and automation, as well as disabilities and veterans issues, its not just bad politics. It's morally reprehensible. In times of economic downturn, believe it or not, it's actually more effective to financial recovery to just "Give People More Money", than it is to cut social program spending.
I know that to some, this seems really counter intuitive. But the thing is, in a society, recessions are murder on economies without social safety nets, and here's the kicker… It's cheaper to give people money, than it is to cope with the economic and social consequences of increasing poverty, inequality, homelessness, hunger, and unemployment. It's tried, and tested. So why are so many people so deeply in denial of this? Well, part of this is because of shoddy education about economics. They talk about simple 'Old School Markets', which simply do not exist anymore in a globalized economy. And this also exists in ignorance of the factors of globalization and automation to an industry and economy that, by necessity, makes a certain percentage of it's population unemployable, which is growing every decade.
Now, obviously, social safety nets have trade offs. At a certain point, if taxes on those who are wealthy or well of, or on society in general don't rise, social safety nets can bankrupt governments. I've written about this before, but have had a lot more time to think about it this go around, as well as a lot of information and research. And there is this perception in America that we are "close to such a tipping point". But in fact, in a globalized economy, the only thing keeping it afloat when unemployment rates spike, is social safety nets. The return on investment doesn't tip until much, much, much higher rates of network output. The idea that it's not, and that we have to cut social program spending in order to recover the economy is a bold-faced lie.
In economies like ours, social safety nets are like "An insurance policy for the economy", insuring that in times of drought, cataclysm, or economic hardship, that the system itself doesn't collapse. This understanding emerges to some degree, from an understanding that poverty and crime are directly proportional to each other. The stability of a society, and it's market, is hedged on how easy it is for the majority of people are able to provide for themselves and their family during hard times. The higher the rate of poverty, the more society is destabilized.
But here is the big clincher on this issue… Economic and Sociological effects related to poverty in globalized economies have massive feedback effects on crime, unrest, and social stability. And without sufficient means to acquire basic necessities in hard times, can lead to a run away effect of social destabilization, which in the long run has an ASTRONOMICALLY HIGH PRICE TAG. The damage to property from just 1 riot, can take such a toll on local and state governments that it can take decades to recover. Look at cities like Detroit, with one of the US's highest crime rates.
Poverty and economic struggle, has transformed Detroit into a precursory warning about societal degradation when we don't have sane and practical understanding of what makes societies like modern, globalized economic systems run. To some part, this comes from a very corrupting idea common in the Far-Right, and I call it "The Prosperity Gospel". This ideology owes its origins, and structure to religious fundamentalism in the form of a new kind of American Dominionist and Evangelical movement, which started to kick up at the start of the Cold War.
The idea goes like this, "Those with the most favor of God, will be prosperous, and those who aren't will not". That in order to become wealthy, you have to invest in God, with your literal currency. And this market has unfathomably exploded beyond all reason or sense. And it's EXTREMELY Predatory. Evangelicals have been using this new gospel to rob the elderly and impoverished for decades now, and have turned it into a multi-billion dollar industry. If for those of you who are Christians find something wrong with this, there is a good reason…
Because this runs counter to a lot of quotes from biblical scholars, and even the professed beliefs of many prominent biblical figures, even Jesus. Mark 25:10 goes like this, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." – Jesus. There is many other mentions of wealth antagonism in the bible. Proverbs 28:22 states, "Those who do these things to get rich are in reality seeking death because they are breaking the spirit of the eighth commandment." So how did this happen?
It is a product of the merger of fears brought about during the Cold War, and later by rhetoric of politicians of this new "Prosperity Gospel Conservative Take-over". The USSR, for those who remember before it fell, was a communist nation and also one with state-wide-ban on religious practice. This doesn't mean religion didn't exist, just meant that there was no freedom of religion, as there is in the US. And this galvanized a lot of Judea-Christian movements in the US at the time.
As a counter to this, "Under God" was added to the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, with fears of Soviet Russia and it's "State-Imposed Atheism". But that is perceptual flaw, and an oversimplification, in that it wasn't state-sanctioned Atheism, but a ban on religious freedom. Many debate this issue fervently, but God never appeared in the original Constitution, though the word "Creator" is mentioned several times in the founding documents, and beliefs of the founders. People try to ambiguously claim this was meant to "Invoke God", but even that is not necessary.
This goes hand in hand with accusations by the Religious Right that this is a "Christian Nation", to which it is decidedly not. This claim is based almost entirely on the claims, and statements of the drafters of the Constitution and the Founding Fathers themselves. Most of the founding Fathers were either deists, or atheists. Our Constitution is a foundationally "Secular Document". It was realized, and rightly, by our founding fathers that the merging of state and religion fundamentally undermined the principle of democratic rule, as well as acting as a "Force of Tyranny".
"For Jefferson, separation of church and state was a necessary reform of the religious tyranny whereby a religion received state endorsement, and those not of that religion were denied rights, and even punished." – Wikipedia
The fact is that our founding fathers wanted a separation of Church and State, to prevent one religious belief from being used to deny all others rights, is not a small one. They fundamentally wanted to build a nation that protected all people, of all walks and life. Now, understandably, our founding fathers lived in a time of much greater inequality than we do now. But that doesn't fundamentally incriminate the precept, as it stands quite well on its own. The current problem with this New American Conservativism, is that it departs wildly from both its religious origins and sinew, and from the supporting documents of our country. But it's worse than just that.
It departs from reality. The reality that economic, social and governmental systems that don't act cautiously with regards to an understanding of economies (which grow and change as eras and technology do ), are more fragile than we believe, and can be destroyed or greatly undermined by this shortcoming. Economic, social and governmental collapse is no laughing manner. And unless we are to flirt with fire, we should have sound social safety nets, social policy, as well as other systems to keep our society afloat in hard times. Moreover, we need to call out ideologies which are toxic, and dangerous to Democracy.
This new form of prosperity gospel driven, conservative, and dominionist fundamentalism, which is growing more rampant by the year in the Far-Right, is more than just a threat to our economy, to our pensions, and the well-being of the people… It's a threat to democracy and freedom itself. Because it demonizes the poor, minorities, and groups who don't hold political majority in the US, and because it seeks to undermine the very things which keep our country intact.
And it is ignorant to science, technology and progress, and has an infectious quality to scare people into submission. It would be no slight to claim that it seems almost fascist, because it's driven by a rabid nationalist, and strict adherence to traditional religious values. It tends to demonize and attack minorities, immigrants and outsiders in favor of what it sees as "True Americans", which also usually happens to be only white, heterosexual, cisgender, often wealthy or subservient, christian, conservative Americans. It encourages xenophobia, sexism, racism, classism, ableism and should be considered a serious threat to all American's way of life.
Because the fact is, as is revealed by the progress of time, technology and world markets, that the only societies that prosper, are the ones who see equality as a central tenet of their success and mutual well-being. Equality means that people are treated accordingly to their unique capabilities and qualities. Equality isn't the same treatment for all, as is argued by some conservative pundits. Even Thomas Jefferson understood this even in ignorance of the world and economy we currently find ourselves in. Equality means giving everyone equal opportunity to succeed, and societies that strive for it prosper as a result. They may not have the greatest piles of wealth, but they are just not stratified or capped by it.
The pure pursuit of only wealth and profit is the one most morally questionable of all human tendencies, as it naturally lends itself to more greed and avarice in it's pursuit.
And the lesson is taught again and again, and again. History is filled with examples of this, and it is said "Those who forget the lessons of History, are doomed to repeat it". We'd be wise to not forget this. And even recent discoveries of science, in the fields of psychology and neurology are providing examples of this which many of us already know. When given an unfair advantage, it distorts people's perception, and facilitates further greed, as well as a sense of entitlement to wealth. Here is a link from PBS on this topic.
Time and time again, as we peel back more about human nature, we find that the way we structure society, hold people accountable, and promote social and economic policies is directly proportional to the kind of problems we see. When we deregulate banks, they naturally become predatory because the system ends up rewarding bad behavior, and giving a perception of privilege. The studies of behavioral psychologist in his book "Predictably Irrational", Dan Ariely points out how our social systems and policies can distort our behavior, and shows means by which we can bring them back in line with what is favorable to the greater good.
The fact is, there is nothing socially equitable about a modern system (in light of modern automation, and globalization) without sufficient social safety nets. While human behavior clearly shows that while we can be charitable, it's not something that is a given, or readily promoted or rewarded in society. As such, this is something that society should regulate, and account for. And the histories of just American Economics points this fact out repeatedly. The times of the lowest taxes on the wealthy, and least social safety nets, have been the times of least prosperity and greatest inequality.
The health of the economy is directly proportional to the spending power of the majority of it's consumers. It doesn't follow that the Prosperity Gospel line of conservative thinking leads to a more stable, happy, and equitable society. Further, it's influence is destabilizing, not just to the US Economy, but to the globalized world economy. And that's why we need to be particularly careful about how we talk about issues of not just wealth inequality, but the necessity of social programs and socialized systems.
And let's face the facts here… Charity doesn't work in the long term, or large scale. Social safety nets do, and that is reality. So how about we start having a legitimate discussion about investing back into our economy through investing in the people who make that economy… Every one of us. Wealth does not create jobs, demand does, which is why the little people are so important to our nation, and our economy…
And the reason why they are the last people we should be mistreating.


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"Let's be frank, the only privately funded NHL arena (in Canada) that hasn't been a financial disaster is ACC (Air Canada Centre) in Toronto, where they have the Leafs and an NBA franchise. Everyone else lost their shirts. They lost their buildings and their teams."
Daryl Katz, Sept. 17, 2012
"I think we're a long way apart. Right now, I don't know how far apart we are. What is it? What do you want? We have been dealing with this for four years."
Mayor Stephen Mandel, Sept. 24, 2012
What does Daryl Katz really want, really need, to complete a deal to build a downtown arena?
That's the question on many minds these days, the one that has echoed around City Hall for almost a month, ever since a closed-door meeting in September where city councillors rejected requests from the Oilers' owner for new public dollars.
Those requests included tax breaks, along with casino money or a $6-million annual subsidy to help offset the cost of operating the arena, proposals that weren't part of the framework agreement council approved last fall.
Although that October 2011 framework agreement states "the Katz Group … is to pay all operating expenses, capital maintenance and repair," Katz insists some form of financial help was always contemplated.
Mayor Stephen Mandel insists someone from the Katz Group must attend Wednesday's council meeting to detail exactly what the company wants and needs for the project to go ahead, calling this a "drop-dead date."
Katz argued in a Journal interview last month that it would be smart for Edmonton to partner with the Oilers on the arena, as happened in Winnipeg, Pittsburgh and other cities.
"Fundamentally, all we want is a model that will sustain the team for the long term and is on par with other small markets, and what they've done to sustain their teams," Katz said.
Which leads to another, perhaps fundamental, question: What deals have been offered in other small-market cities to get new arenas built or to help owners sustain their NHL teams?
It makes little sense to try to compare Edmonton with Toronto, where the population is five times bigger and the TV market much richer.
But to understand the drawn-out negotiations between Katz and the city, and to put those talks in context, it helps to have comparisons.
The proposed Edmonton arena, which most seem to agree would help transform the city's downtown, can't be seen or understood in isolation. It's crucial to look at what happened, and continues to happen, in other small market NHL cities.
We decided to look at five other markets. The arenas we studied were chosen for several reasons: They were similar to the type of development proposed here (Columbus and Phoenix), they include linked deals like the one being floated in Edmonton (Pittsburgh), they are in similar-sized markets or were recently constructed (Winnipeg) or they were privately funding (Ottawa).
We set out to discover, for example:
what kinds of tax concessions, if any, were offered to get arenas built?
which arenas have ticket taxes, and who gets that money?
who owns the arena, and who gets the money from all the other events hosted there?
Daryl Katz wants the city to become the anchor tenant in an office tower he plans to build near the arena, a development he has said might be crucial to achieving the current design.
City manager Simon Farbrother has said the arenas and economics in every city are different, so it's impossible to pick out parts of various deals and expect them to fit exactly in Edmonton.
"In Alberta, we're looking at a different model, a different market, different revenue steams. It's a different scenario."
However, Farbrother agreed it's useful to "peel back the onion" and try to learn from arena construction deals around North America, which is why the city has studied what happened in Pittsburgh, New Jersey and Columbus.
Use our interactive infographic to look at the proposed Edmonton deal and five other NHL arena projects to see how they compare.


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When Steve Sinchak's new Intel network card became "really slow" after upgrading his Windows Vista PC with a pre-release version of Service Pack 1, he tried uninstalling its software driver and replacing it with a new one.
But to his dismay, the Chicago-area technology author and blogger found himself "stuck in a loop" during the InstallShield-managed process -- unable to replace his sluggish older driver with a new, peppier one.
"It's messed up to the point where I may have to use brute force to uninstall the driver, or wipe my hard drive and reinstall Windows Vista completely," he said.
Sinchak's is an example, admittedly an extreme one, of the driver problems that forced Microsoft to take the unusual step of holding SP1's availability to users until March even while announcing its release to manufacturing (RTM) on Monday.
Not even the hundreds of thousands of people who have already been testing Vista SP1, nor the many Windows developers accustomed to being able to download software on Microsoft's MSDN or TechNet Web sites immediately after RTM, will be able to get SP1 for another 6-8 weeks.
And if you are one of the unlucky Vista users using a driver known to break and need reinstallation after the upgrade to SP1, Windows Update will quarantine you from getting SP1 until the driver is fixed.
"We want all of our customers to have the same good experience," said Microsoft senior product manager, David Zipkin, in an interview Monday. "That's why we're erring on the side of caution."
Cancel or allow or shut up already?
Service Pack 1 remains the milestone by which many companies and consumers judge when a Microsoft product is truly bug-free and mature enough to deploy. Any delay in SP1 could have an adverse effect on Vista uptake, which has been generally strong -- more than 100 million copies shipped -- despite a lukewarm market response.
Zipkin points out that most drivers, once re-installed after the SP1 upgrade, should work properly.
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Bruton Smith's Bristol Motor Speedway, from the window of Jimmie Johnson's plane Friday morning (Photo: Jimmie Johnson)
By Mike Mulhern
"Four weeks now I've had superior cars," Biffle says. "Now I'm not going to have those all year, we know. But I'm going to enjoy this as long as I can."
Biffle not only has a new crew chief, Matt Puccia, but an all new over-the-wall team, all in all 20 new guys. "I'm still learning all their names," Biffle says.
"I had a fair bit of pressure last fall to go with (crew chief) Drew (Blickensderfer), because he was long-time with the company. But I wanted to stay with Matt."
Blickensderfer then moved over to the Richard Childress camp.
Biffle's lap at 125.215 mph (15.324 seconds) was far off Ryan Newman's 2003 track record of 128.709.
Biffle has played in the shadows of teammates Carl Edwards and Matt Kenseth the past year or so. But this year he appears to be breaking out again.
Puccia took over the team boss spot Greg Erwin held with Biffle for several years. "Greg Erwin did a great job as well; we made the chase three of the four years we were together," Biffle says. "But the deck was just stacked against us last year."
Greg Biffle, on the Bristol pole, and riding the wave (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
Biffle appeared on the verge of winning the Daytona 500 three weeks ago. But he couldn't catch Kenseth, even with a push by Dale Earnhardt Jr.
And Biffle is still chaffing at all the second-guessing: "Daytona, we beat that horse until it was completely dead.
"The mistake I made at Daytona was, going down the back stretch I did not get on the brakes (to hook up tighter with Earnhardt). And I didn't get five or eight car-lengths off of Matt's bumper and then make a run at him.
"I thought -- like everybody else in this world -- that Dale Jr. would be able to eventually migrate up to the rear bumper of Matt….and that once I got there I would pull out or side-draft him or go by him.
"It just never happened.
"I am in disbelief we didn't get there.
"I think the same thing happened to Kevin Harvick: Jeff Burton was pushing him, same as Junior was pushing me, and they still couldn't go by Denny Hamlin, who was by himself.
"I wish I could go back and do it over. I would have slowed down (to hook more tightly with Earnhardt and gain speed).
"But when you are coming for the Daytona 500 win, you aren't thinking of putting on the brakes and slowing down."
Again the next week at Phoenix Biffle had a shot to win late. "At Phoenix I needed to be a little better; I picked the wrong front shocks in final practice."
And again last week at Las Vegas: "I would have thought third was nothing to shake a stick at, but there were a few cars faster than us.
"We've got a little bit of work to do to catch up to Tony Stewart and Jimmie Johnson on the 1-1/2-miles. But we know we are real close to them."
Yes! Bristol Motor Speedway is one of the Seven Wonders of the American sports world (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
And next week's two-mile test at Los Angeles' Auto Club Speedway?
"I am really excited about Fontana; it is one of my favorite tracks," Biffle says. "We have a brand new car, that has really good wind tunnel numbers. We feel it's our best car in our fleet so far.
"With the new fuel injection, and all the data, we will be able to keep a better eye on not burning our engine up…which is what we did there that one time."
The other two big stories Friday: Robby Gordon and Bruton Smith.
Gordon -- the man who, with Roger Penske's pending defection to Ford, is the only man still on the Dodge roster for 2013 – failed to make the 500 field after his engine failed to fire for practice.
That would normally not be a major story here; however the situation surrounding Gordon's problems made it one.
"Robby was out there on the line ready for practice, and then the car just wouldn't fire," crewman Randy Rodriguez said. "Four McLaren engineers came running over there to help, and they spent 1-1/2 hours with it, but couldn't figure it out.
"So we have to go home. No practice, you can't qualify."
NASCAR officials, asked about the situation, referred reporters to McLaren engineers, who could not be found.
Dodge execs, likewise, could not be found for comment.
Gordon, one of only three NASCAR drivers this year running Dodges (along with Penske men AJ Allmendinger and Brad Keselowski), says he has called Dodge boss Ralph Gilles since Penske announced two weeks ago that he would be moving to Ford. But Gordon says Gilles has not yet returned his inquiries.
Gordon had engine problems at Daytona and tried to get an engine from Penske, the only other team owner building Dodge engines. But Gordon said Penske's price (which he wouldn't specify) was too high.
Dodge itself apparently doesn't build NASCAR engines or have any other engine building source.
And then there's Bruton Smith, who owns this track, and Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and several other major NASCAR Sprint Cup venues.
Smith, never one to shy away from the spotlight, is making big waves with his surprising proposal to build a copy of the legendary 23-kilometer-long German track the Nurburgring ( http://bit.ly/dC6pWQ ) within 10 miles or so of his Las Vegas track.
And then Smith topped that by announcing he had applied for one of those casino gambling licenses New Hampshire is proposing. Table games and all, Smith said, if he gets approval for a casino somewhere near his New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon.
Smith says the proposed new Las Vegas area track – a copy of what Formula 1 legend Jackie Stewart called 'the green hell' – would be built on land owned by the federal Bureau of Land Management, though he still didn't know the precise location.
Smith also said the new track would be used only for street-car testing, by car makers, not for racing.
And Smith's description of the project appears to have a number of curious holes.
One, Nurburgring is trademarked.
Two, building a hilly track like Nurburgring in the flat Nevada desert might seem improbable.
Three, constructions costs.
Stay tuned. There's probably a lot more to all this than Smith has so far let on.
A new 14-mile long road course, modeled on Germany's Nurburgring, in Las Vegas...and a full-boogie casino near New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Bruton Smith certainly knows how to make some headlines. (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
RE: Robby Gordon. Whether at the dealership or the race track, Dodge's bottom ranked customer service remains constant.
Mike you are probably the one with enough sack to ask NASCAR this question. Ask them if Dale Jr or the new queen of NASCAR Danica Patrick had Mclaren's new EFI fail and were not able to get on the track to practice. Would NASCAR send them home as NASCAR's rules require the team to turn at least one lap in order to be able to qualify. Or would they make a last second rule change claiming Mclaren's system was at fault and they are allowed to take a 43rd place starting position?
My guess is they would not send a "star" home, but because Robby Gordon's team is is a small single car effort that is currently having to do the start and park thing to survive, NASCAR does not care. They would rather sweep this issue under the rug then come forward and admit this system is not all they claimed it to be.
I cant believe there was not more concern from NASCAR and Mclaren regarding this new system failing like it did. Why didn't Mclaren put a whole new system in Robby's car as it sounds like it was clearly a EFI issue that sent Robby Gordon home.
Mike please stay on top of this and please keep us fans informed of what you find or what you dont find when NASCAR, Mclaren and Dodge blow you off and "dodge" the question! My guess is Robby will take the high road and not badmouth NASCAR's new system as we have seen if you question NASCAR's system or intentions you could get fined $25,000 like Brad Keselowski did.
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I agree with you. i am appalled at the cavalier way the powers that be, and some of these teams too, are looking at this efi thing. yes, efi is good, big picture. but there are issues, and yet nascar and mclaren seem to be just shrugging their shoulders. i really dont understand the politics about this whole thing. i must be missing something. nascar would never let a supplier come into this sport and play around as carelessly as this mclaren bunch. and you're right that robby isn't big enough to catch anyone's attention. robby is playing it all very politically correct; i've talked with him at length this weekend.
but someone needs to stand up and point out the emperor is wearing no clothes.
That's a nice picture from Jimmy's plane, but I can't help being reminded of Alan Kulwicki's flight into Bristol for the Spring race. I wish that you hadn't posted it.
1993, and i remember it all just like it was yesterday....he was a good man....and now 38 forever...
Bummer Robbie!! If you are a race head like myself you follow f1 and they have Efi problems too. There systems are triple redundancy like an airplane. I was kind of set back when I heard they were going with that system!!
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The Connecticut Post reports that prosecutor Kevin Dunn told a state judge in Bridgeport on Wednesday that the state won't pursue misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct charges against Kupchick.
Dunn said the charges were dropped because Kupchick believed she was protecting her sister's daughters when she got into a fight with their mother at Kupchick's home in Fairfield. Additional details of the incident weren't released.
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MONTROSE — As the Class 4A State Golf Championships came to a close Tuesday, a Cortez golfing maestro stood back, smiled, relaxed and watched his favorite sport.
The Montezuma-Cortez High School team was playing its final hole of the season at Cobble Creek Golf Course.
Now, head coach Micah Rudosky, 42, can exhale for a few weeks. But then it's back to golf. Then more golf. And more golf.
Golf is his passion and he lives and breathes it.
M-CHS' head coach is also the club professional at Conquistador Golf Course. Besides running a golf course with his wife of 17 years, Anett, the golf pro has to go to work. Micah makes a living on the greens in Florida and California during the winter months.
Micah is gone for work weeks at a time. It is something the Rudoskys are accustomed to. It is the life of a pro athlete. Something Micah's son, Jakob Rudosky, is following in his father's footsteps.
Jakob, 16, shot an even-par 72 his second round at Cobble Creek helping the Panthers to place eighth in 4A and make All-State. M-CHS finished sixth as a team. His two-day total was an impressive 146.
Jakob, a junior at Dolores High School, hopes to play college golf and go pro like his dad and coach.
"It's definitely nice to have him there to coach me along the way. He knows the game better than anyone does," Jakob said. "Going to his tournaments and caddying for him, I want to be playing right there with him, too. It's motivation to be a pro and want to practice a lot."
Micah Rudosky grew up in the Phoenix area and golfed at Scottsdale Community College. At 22, Micah hit the pro circuit and saw major success at 24. That's when he decided he could make a living doing what he loves. Micah's greatest accomplishment was qualifying for the PGA Championship in 2007. Of course, his dad, Roland Rudosky, was a golf pro and is the former club pro at Conquistador. Micah moved to Cortez in 1993 and succeeded his dad as the Conquistador club pro in 1997.
Moving to Cortez
Micah has been the golf coach at M-CHS for 10 years. Playing golf is a breeze for Micah. But with coaching comes certain challenges. Especially when one of Micah's players is his oldest son.
"It's difficult coaching your kid in the game of golf," Micah said. "He kind of wants to vent out on you when things aren't going well, but you try to treat them (players) all the same. That's what I try to do. It's the toughest thing, I think, I've had to do."
Being a father and coach is more difficult than being away from home for long periods of time. Although golfing in the Sunshine State, while it snows in Colorado, has its advantages, that mental aspect of golf can be distracting. Micah knows things are in good hands back home.
"She's my No. 1 assistant out there. It's the only way to make that work. What a great job she does with the kids," said Micah about his wife Anett, who is a native of Sweden and became a U.S. citizen this year. "That's why I feel I've been successful at my golf. I can go away and not think about that. It's being taken care of."
Growing up around golf, perhaps it is natural that Jakob would pursue a life of Scotland's pastime.
"As soon as I could walk, I had a golf club in my hand," Jakob said. "(Micah) helps with whatever I need to be successful. I like to play good also to make everyone realize he's a good coach."
A solid
Jakob drove the ball with strength and accuracy Tuesday to make par. The end result was by far his best state finish. Jakob was paired with two-time 4A Western Slope Region champion Kyler Smith (Palisade) in the second-round. The coach's son outplayed the region champion by eight strokes.
"If I play my game, I'm just as good as him (Smith). It's always a good battle between me and him. It ups my confidence to beat kids like that," said Jakob, who mentors his 12-year-old brother Christopher on the golf course.
It's officially the high school golf offseason. But Jakob isn't settling down. He will play in occasional warm winter weather tournaments out of state. Jakob also recently went on an unofficial golf visit to the University of Kansas.
First thing is first, though. It's almost basketball season and Jakob is a guard for the Dolores Bears.
"I told my coach (Larry Schwartz) that after state, that I'm going to start coming to open gym," Jakob said. "It keeps you in shape for the winter. It doesn't even bother me to walk 36 holes, because you're running all winter." Staying in shape is important. Amateur golfers carry their own clubs thousands of yards each day.
However, there's a good chance that someday someone will be carrying Jakob's clubs as his caddy on the professional circuit.
"If he wanted to be a professional, fine," Micah said. "I look for him to get a good education and if golf can help him along with that, then that's what we're trying to do."
As the old cliche goes — like father, like son.
And, in this case, it's also like grandfather, like grandson.
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The NFL and NBA Remind Us That Baseball Still Reigns Supreme
January is a difficult month for me. Gone are the holidays that distracted me from my baseball-less existence. The cold and dark days serve only as a reminder that the 162 game grind is still far away. And key free agents still don't have a home!
I enjoy football. I really do. Nothing gets me through the winter quite like watching grown men beat the hell out of each other over an oblong pigskin. But three of the four playoff games this past weekend were over before the fourth quarter even started!
And yes, Derek Rose and the Chicago Bulls certainly know how to take me HIGH-UH; but on Saturday night — when I really needed them to get me through the weekend — the game was over before the second half.
Where art thou, Evan Longoria? Robert Andino? David Freese?
And where there is no clock, there is only the potential for glory. In baseball, there is no garbage time.
Hate me. Fine. Just don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.


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Keith Goldner is active this season both on Advanced NFL Stats and his own blog, Drive By Football. As he has updated his Markov Chain model (see also here), I'd suggest finding Keith's new articles on either of these two sites. In my opinion, Keith's work on his expected points models is a must read for anyone who wants to learn analytics, because he's perhaps the best at making sure that readers can understand how he sets his models up.
Jene Bramel is a good follow if you like in game analysis on Twitter. After the Cowboys 24-17 victory over the Giants, this tweet caught my eye, where Jene mentions a Bear front.
I never found that Bear, but at 5:18 in the second quarter – one of the more interesting drives in the game, from the standpoint of a defensive front junkie – we see this:
Though this is formally a nickel front, and there really isn't a 3-0-3 diamond here, there are a couple things of note. There are six players across the line. Bruce Carter is in the gap between the RDE and the R (rush linebacker), just inside the tight end. Sean Lee is at the 50 behind Bruce (a few yards in front of the left offensive tackle), and another player is in the other 50, a few yards in front of the right offensive tackle. The "lineman" in the two point stace, to the left of the nose guard in this view, isn't playing a 5 technique as much as he is playing a 3, and the whole front looks as if Rob Ryan is guessing a run to the left side of the line.
That's exactly what happened. The Giants ran left. Bruce Carter defeated his block and the run gained almost nothing. And it's almost pure stubbornness to run a running back into the heart of this kind of formation.
Otherwise, I saw plenty of 2 and 3 man fronts, and at one point, perhaps a 4 man front.
After the game, I found that the day of the game, Chase Stuart had this article online, comparing the relative skills of Eli Manning and Tony Romo. And no, it isn't the usual media fawning exercise.
Update: for more Rob Ryan fronts, this thread has screen shots of the first 10 Ryan fronts of the season.


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Baby Pasta Shells with Asparagus and Marinara Sauce Recipe
A light Spring pasta dish the whole family will enjoy; baby shells are tossed with chopped asparagus and a light marinara sauce. Quick and easy, perfect for vegetarians or meatless Fridays.
Asparagus is in season, and I'm probably the only one in my house who truly loves it, so to get everyone else on board requires some work (or sneaking into their food). Chopping it real small and combining it with cute little pasta shells which hug each bite of asparagus works perfect in my house!
Having a toddler and a teenager in the house, I try to come up with quick and healthy, well-balanced meals everyone will enjoy because making separate dishes is not an option in my house. I always have marinara sauce on hand to use throughout the week. I make large batches of it and freeze the rest in portions in zip-lock bags. You can make a double batch of this sauce to use for other recipes throughout the week or freeze it for a later time. This recipe requires having cooked marinara sauce on hand, so if you don't have any make the sauce as your first step.
I wish there was more variety in pasta shapes for high fiber and whole wheat pastas. If you prefer to use a high fiber pasta, low carb or gluten-free pasta you can use elbows instead.
Baby Pasta Shells with Asparagus and Marinara Sauce
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 4 • Serving Size: 1-1/4 cups • Points +: 7 pts • Smart Points: 9
Calories: 282.5 • Fat: 3.6 g • Carbs: 52 g • Fiber: 4.2 • Protein: 11.2 g
8 oz baby pasta shells (gluten free use brown rice pasta)
1 bunch thin asparagus, tough ends removed
1 1/2 cups homemade marinara sauce (recipe follows)
1/4 cup Pecorino Romano
salt and fresh pepper to taste
Boil about 4 inches of water in a large pot, when boiling add asparagus and cook about 2 to 3 minutes, or until tender crisp. Drain and chop into small bite sized pieces.
Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil (you can use the same pot from the asparagus not to dirty too many dishes). Cook pasta according to package directions for al dente.
While pasta is cooking, in a medium saucepan heat 1-1/2 cups marinara sauce. Drain pasta and RESERVE a cup of the pasta water.
Return pasta back to the pot and toss with marinara, asparagus, grated cheese, salt and pepper and a 1/4 cup of the pasta water or as needed to loosen the sauce. Divide between four bowls and top with fresh pepper and more grated cheese if desired.
Quick Marinara Sauce
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 6 • Serving Size: 1/2 cup • Old Points: 1 pt • Points+: 1 pt
Calories: 51.5 • Fat: 0.8 • Carbs: 9.0 g • Fiber: 1.1 • Protein: 0.1 g
1 tsp olive oil
2-3 large cloves garlic, smashed
28 oz cans crushed tomatoes (I love Tuttorosso)
1 small bay leaf
1 tsp dried oregano
2 tbsp chopped fresh basil
salt and fresh pepper to taste
In a medium pot, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add garlic and saute until golden, careful not to burn. Add crushed tomatoes, salt, pepper, oregano, and bay leaf. Stir and reduce heat to low. Cover and let simmer about 15 – 20 minutes, add basil just before done.
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Peter and Rosemary Grant win Balzan Prize
Peter and Rosemary Grant of Princeton's Department of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology have been selected to receive the Balzan Prize for
their work in population biology.
The International Balzan Foundation annually awards four prizes for scientific and academic excellence. Each prize is valued at 1 million Swiss francs (about $800,000), and winners are expected to earmark half of the money for future projects to be carried out by young researchers. The award ceremony will take place on Friday, Nov. 11, in the Swiss Houses of Parliament in Bern.
The Grants were selected for "their remarkable long-term studies demonstrating evolution in action in Galapagos finches," according to the foundation. "The work of the Grants has had a seminal influence in the fields of population biology, evolution and ecology. It is generally regarded as the most significant study of evolutionary change in the field that has been carried out in the last 30 years."
Peter Grant is the Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology and Rosemary Grant is a senior research biologist at Princeton. For three decades, the married couple have traveled to the Galapagos Islands off the coast of South America to study the various species of finch that influenced Charles Darwin when formulating his theory of evolution. The Grants conduct research on how the finches have changed as a result of dramatic climatic differences.
Both are interested in the interplay of genetics, ecology and behavior, and especially in the question of why and when one species separates into two. In 1991, their joint publication, "Evolutionary Dynamics of a Natural Population: The Large Cactus Finch of the Galapagos," earned the Wildlife Publication Award of the Wildlife Society. They also received the E.O. Wilson Prize of the American Society of Naturalists in 1998, the Darwin Medal of the Royal Society of London in 2002 and the Grinnell Award of the University of California-Berkeley in 2003.
The Grants are members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the General Assembly of the Charles Darwin Foundation.
Since 1961, 106 scientists, scholars, artists and institutions have been honored with the Balzan Prize, including Mother Teresa, the Nobel Foundation and Paul Hindemith. Previous Princeton winners include Charles Gillispie, the Dayton Stockton Professor of History Emeritus, and Anthony Grafton, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History.


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Passing notes in study hall or getting your best friend to ask a boy if he likes you or, you know, LIKES you, is so last century. Nowadays, teenagers are snapping naked pictures of themselves on their cell phones and sending them to their boyfriends and girlfriends.
Many of these pictures are falling into the wrong hands — or worse, everyone's hands, via the Internet — and leading to criminal charges.
Some parents are aghast.
"I just don't understand why kids would do a stupid thing like that," said Rochelle Hoins of Castle Rock, Colo., where 18 students in her twin sons' middle school sent around nude pictures of themselves last year. "We did dumb things when we were kids, but not like that," said Hoins, whose sons were not involved.
Similar cases have been reported in New Jersey, New York, Alabama, Utah, Pennsylvania, Texas and Connecticut.
"It used to be that kids would make mistakes, and it was local and singular and everyone knew it was part of growing up," said Catherine Davis, a PTA co-president in Westport, Conn., who had a frank talk with her two sons after several students' nude self-portraits recently spread through the wealthy New York City bedroom community. "Now a stupid adolescent mistake can take on major implications and go on their record for the rest of their lives."
School administrators in Santa Fe, Texas, confiscated dozens of cell phones from students in May after nude photos of two junior high girls began circulating. The girls had sent the photos to their boyfriends, who forwarded them to others, officials said.
In La Crosse, Wis., a 17-year-old boy recently was charged with child pornography, sexual exploitation of a child and defamation for allegedly posting nude photos of his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend on his MySpace page. The girl had taken the pictures with her cell phone at her mother's home and e-mailed them to the boyfriend, authorities said.
"They were pretty graphic," said sheriff's Sgt. Mark Yehle. "I think they just do it to impress their boyfriends. When he breaks up, he 'vents,' in his words, by posting them. He apparently didn't think there was anything wrong with it. He didn't know it was illegal."
Psychologists said the phenomenon reflects typical teenage hormones and lack of judgment, with technology multiplying the potential for mischief. It also may reflect a teenage penchant for exhibitionism, as demonstrated on MySpace and countless other Web sites and blogs.
Brianna Moran, 15, who attends the same school as the girl in the La Crosse case, said she is not surprised by such behavior. "They probably think they're hot or something. If you look at people's MySpace, all the pictures are slutty," she said.
In suburban Syracuse, N.Y., several teenage girls sent naked pictures on their phones to their boyfriends, only to learn that another boy had collected them from the Web and was trying to sell a DVD of them.
Some boys are photographing themselves, too. In Utah, a 16-year-old boy was charged with a felony for sending nude photos of himself over a cell phone to several girls. Four middle school students — two boys and two girls — in Daphne, Ala., took photos of themselves on their cell phones and traded the images back and forth, authorities said.
Some nude photos have even turned up in parents' e-mail inboxes.
The images are complicating the work of investigators whose job is to find exploited children. Authorities trying to identify youngsters in naked photos are increasingly discovering that the teens themselves took the shots, said John Shehan, a director at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Connecticut police Sgt. Jim Smith, who investigates cybercrime and online child pornography, conducts seminars in which he warns parents about the use of cell phones to send nude pictures.
"It's often so spur of the moment that they're not thinking about where those images might end up," Smith said. "They might think it's just fun and games at the time they do it, but these images can really spread like wildfire."
Associated Press correspondents Todd Richmond in Janesville, Wis., Robert Imrie in Wausau, Wis., and Don Mitchell in Denver contributed to this story.


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Week of 10/5/09 - 10/11/09
* Quarterly Meeting with Multnomah County Chair Ted Wheeler
* Taped promo and interview for Portland Community Media
* Budget Funding Briefing with Sue Keil, Director of Portland Bureau of Transportation
* Portfolio Bureau Directors' Monthly Lunch
* Meeting with Gresham Mayor Bemis, Councilor Shirley Craddick and Mount Hood Cable Regulatory Commissioner John Kilian
* Dinner with the Gresham City Council
* Gresham City Council Meeting - all of above in connection with my role as Commissioner in Charge of Cable Communications and Franchise Management, whose staff serve all of Multnomah County. The Bureau of Emergency Communications does, too.
* City Council meetings Wednesday morning and afternoon
* Oregon Opportunity Network Banquet
* Women's Leadership Luncheon, PSU's New Leadership Oregon program
* Meeting with David Olson and Mary Beth Henry, Cable Communications and Franchise Management
* Meeting with Ann Beier, Director of the Office of Healthy Working Rivers
* Welcome speech and reading of Mayor Adams's Proclamation at 44th Annual American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA) Conference
* Meeting with Sanford Inouye, Vice President of Government Affairs, Comcast Cable
* Sat along on the 911 operations floor with staff. Fascinating and impressive!
* 7th Annual Ropin' Roses Dinner and Auction, Portland Rose Festival Foundation
* Basic Rights Oregon Annual Fundraising Dinner
Dinners at home: Monday