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Building regional innovation hubs to support entrepreneurship and job growth
October 7, 2011 – The Blackstone Charitable Foundation today announced the launch of Blackstone Accelerates Growth, a $3 million initiative that aims to help Maine transition to an innovative economy that supports sustained economic growth in years to come. With a goal of helping Maine companies add an additional 10,000 quality jobs over the next 10 years, this initiative will establish regional hubs of innovation and entrepreneurship which will serve as catalysts to propel new and existing businesses to greater levels of profitability and job growth. This grant is part of the Blackstone Charitable Foundation's $50 million entrepreneurship initiative.
Blackstone Accelerates Growth will help Maine tackle the challenges that a rural geography and historically slow growth present its existing companies. By bringing a network of proven entrepreneurial services to companies in regions across the state, high potential companies and entrepreneurs will receive skills training, mentoring, and coaching services. Over time, this will build a critical mass of thriving companies throughout Maine.
Blackstone Accelerates Growth will support local partners including:
Blackstone Accelerates Growth has the potential, over a ten year period, to help Maine entrepreneurs create more than 10,000 sustainable and higher paying innovation jobs, a significant impact in a state of 1.3 million. The program expects to add an additional $664 million in new revenues to Maine's economy over those ten years and have a significant indirect, multiplier effect in job creation and economic improvement. In the first three years, 250 companies will be served, and more than 400 students will be prepared for work with innovative companies in regional centers.
The project was announced at an event today at Brunswick Landing and was attended by Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone; U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe; U.S. Senator Susan Collins, Karen Mills, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, U.S. Representative Michael Michaud, U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree, Deputy Commissioner of the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development Deb Neuman, University of Maine President Paul Ferguson, Maine Technology Institute Chairman Jim Detert and Peter Vigue, Chairman of the Board, President & CEO of The Cianbro Companies.
"The Blackstone Charitable Foundation is pleased to become a partner in Maine's transition towards an innovation economy that creates jobs," said Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone. "Blackstone Accelerates Growth will supercharge the efforts of talented local partners and public servants that have shown success in fostering entrepreneurship, and will launch a new state-wide approach that directly tackles the challenges of a rural economy. New hubs of innovation will help start-ups get off the ground and existing companies increase profitability by connecting entrepreneurs who are focused on developing markets, innovating technologies, and growing access to capital."
"I commend the Blackstone Charitable Foundation as it officially launches its remarkable $3 million commitment to accelerate Maine's economic growth. As we confront these challenging times of historic proportion, it is investment from companies like Blackstone that creates win-win propositions by sparking the kind of creativity and entrepreneurial spirit that creates crucial economic opportunities for hardworking families. We are immensely fortunate that Blackstone has chosen to partner with our great state in this watershed effort," said U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe.
U.S. Senator Susan M. Collins said, "Maine has a long tradition of innovative thinking, skilled craftsmanship, and business savvy. Blackstone Charitable Foundation's generous investment in entrepreneurial services in our state will provide a strong boost to our next generation of innovators and job creators. I commend the Foundation for its visionary approach, and I am heartened by its decision to commit charitable dollars to producing sustained economic growth and robust job creation here in Maine."
Maine Governor Paul LePage said, "The number one priority for my administration is jobs, so I am delighted that the Blackstone Charitable Foundation has recognized Maine's potential to accelerate the growth of Maine companies which will result in job creation. This $3 million endorsement from one of the nation's leading investment and advisory firms will connect Maine businesses to training and support that will help them grow. The entrepreneurs of today are our business leaders of the future and when they are given the tools to succeed our entire economy benefits."
The grant to Maine is the most recent commitment in the Foundation's 5-year Entrepreneurship Initiative announced in the spring of 2010. Influenced by the urgent need for job growth in the wake of the economic collapse, Blackstone changed its Foundation's mission and committed $50 million to fostering entrepreneurship in places with high unemployment. The Foundation looks for innovative projects and catalytic ideas that can meaningfully contribute to the economic rebuilding of the nation.
What They Are Saying: A Quote Roundup
Congressman Mike Michaud:
"We need to be doing everything we can to promote the innovative jobs of tomorrow, and this is exactly the type of investment that we need in Maine right now. A collaborative regional approach will bring companies and communities together to reach their shared economic development and job creation goals,"
Betsy Biemann, President of the Maine Technology Institute:
"The initiative will make a meaningful impact not only on the economy but on the lives of Maine people and communities. Blackstone Accelerate Growth will change the trajectory for entrepreneurs today, and engage the next generation of entrepreneurs who are eager to innovate and start businesses."
Don Gooding, Executive Director, Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development (MCED):
"We are extremely grateful and excited about this generous grant to help grow Maine. Our Top Gun program is now able to expand statewide and we believe this will help further accelerate entrepreneurial growth and create jobs."
Paul Ferguson, President, University of Maine:
"This new collaboration will allow UMaine to extend its Innovation Engineering program to more Maine students and more business leaders, providing both inspiration and practical support to the innovators who will help define our state's economic future. We are pleased to join in this effort, and we look forward to its positive impact on statewide economic development."
About The Blackstone Charitable Foundation:
The Blackstone Charitable Foundation was founded at the time of The Blackstone Group's Initial Public Offering in 2007 with substantial commitments from the firm's employees. Influenced by the enterprising heritage of the firm and its founders, The Blackstone Charitable Foundation is directing its resources and applying the intellectual capital of the firm to foster entrepreneurship in areas hardest hit by the global economic crisis. Through its investment expertise across several asset classes and geographies, Blackstone has a unique perspective on the global economy and a heightened understanding of how entrepreneurial activity is often the crucial catalyst in the growth of successful businesses, industries and communities. (For more information, see http://www.blackstone.com/CharitableFoundation.htm.)
About Innovation Engineering:
Innovation Engineering® is a groundbreaking program, developed by the University of Maine and alumnus Doug Hall of Eureka! Ranch, that teaches businesses and students a systematic approach to innovation. This proven approach reduces the risk involved in doing something new and increases the speed of development. Businesses can use the system to develop and accelerate a continuous flow of innovations that will increase profitability. Students learn how to employ the tools and methods of innovation in any field to solve real world problems whether they plan to start their own businesses or work in existing organizations. These skills are essential to success in the global economy and will prepare graduates to lead the commercialization of new products, services, and technologies.
About MCED/Top Gun:
A leading-edge virtual resource, MCED offers many entrepreneurship programs to ensure that Maine's most promising start-ups receive the assistance necessary to meet their full potential. Programs include: Campus Ventures, which provides mentoring, curriculum and community to competitively selected entrepreneurs; Top Gun, a venture development and mentorship program for early-stage start-ups; and Lunch-and-Learn seminars, which serve as an asset to the learning experience. MCED partners with numerous organizations, and relies on a robust network of volunteer mentors and professional services providers, to ensure that Maine's most promising start-ups receive the assistance necessary to achieve their full potential. (For more information, see http://www.mced.biz)
About the University of Maine:
The University of Maine, founded in 1865, is the state's premier public university, located in the town of Orono. As Maine's land-grant university and the flagship institution in the University of Maine System, it is among the most comprehensive higher education institutions in the Northeast, attracting students from across the U.S. and more than 60 countries. It currently enrolls 11,250 total undergraduate and graduate students who can directly participate in groundbreaking research working with world-class scholars. Students are offered 88 bachelor's degree programs, 64 master's degree programs, 25 doctoral programs and one of the oldest and most prestigious honors programs in the U.S. The university promotes environmental stewardship on its campus, with substantial efforts aimed at conserving energy, recycling and adhering to green building standards in new construction.
About The Maine Technology Institute:
The Maine Technology Institute (MTI) is a publicly-financed, industry-led nonprofit corporation created by the Maine Legislature to stimulate research and development of new technologies for the market, generating good jobs across Maine. MTI offers early-stage capital and commercialization assistance in the form of competitive grants, loans and equity investment. Since 1999, MTI has funded development of innovative technologies across Maine's seven technology sectors, biotechnology, composites and advanced materials, environmental technologies, forest and agriculture products, information technology, marine technology and aquaculture and precision manufacturing. More about MTI at: www.mainetechnology.org.
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The program, which collects information from U.S. money-transfer companies including Western Union, is carried out under the same provision of the Patriot Act that enables the National Security Agency to collect nearly all American phone records, the officials said. Like the NSA program, the mass collection of financial transactions is authorized by a secret national-security court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
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Vator is bringing its popular Splash event to New York City.
The Splash event, hosted by Vator, is a celebration of entrepreneurship. The evening gathering brings together high-profile, successful tech entrepreneurs sharing their lessons and advice alongside promising startups showcasing their innovative ideas.
Hear their lessons and advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur.
The event, brought to you by RRE Ventures, includes keynotes from Avner Ronen, founder and CEO of Boxee, Henry Blodget, Founder and CEO of Business Insider, and Mike Hudack co-founder and CEO of Blip.tv as well as as VC/Judges RRE Ventures VC Adam Ludwin, Greycroft VC Drew Lipsher, Matt Meeker of Polaris, Venrock VC David Pakman, David Tisch, director of TechStars NY, Owen Davis of NYC Seed, Brian Hirsch managing partner of GSAVP, and FirstMark VC Amish Jani, Ron Bloom of Mevio, and many more. The event includes wine, beer and drinks, and ends with an afterparty.
The event will be held at Webster Hall on the evening of December 15. Save the date!
Meet up-and-coming entrepreneurs with innovative ideas that could change the world.
Be one of those entrepreneurs onstage by competing. Enter the Vator Splash NYC competition here.
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At the Splash event, one company will be voted by the audience to present one more time on the segment Splash Box - Vator's American Idol for startups, with venture capitalists as panelists.
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5:00 to 6:00 - Drinks, socializing and time to see demo pits
6:00 to 6:30 - Mike Hudack (Blip.tv)
6:30 to 7:00 - First five startups (Startups give 3-minute pitches. VC/judges include Amish Jani of FirstMark, Deborah Jackson of DBJ Capital, David Pakman of Venrock, and Ron Bloom of Mevio)
7:00 to 7:30 - Networking break and drinks
7:30 to 8:00 - Henry Blodget (Business Insider)
8:00 to 8:30 - Next five startup pitches (Startups give 3-minutes pitches. VC/judges have two minutes to discuss each startup. VC/judges include Matt Meeker of Polaris Ventures, Brian Hirsch of GSAVP, Traver Hutchins of Remedy Health)
8:30 to 9:00 - Avner Ronen (Boxee)
9:00 to 9:05 - Winner announced
9:05 to 9:30 - Splash Box - (David Tisch TechStars NY, Adam Ludwin of RRE Ventures, Owen Davis of NYC Seed, Drew Lipsher of Greycroft)
9:30 to 10:00 - More socializing and time to see demo pits
About the speakers
Avner Ronen is the founder and CEO of Boxee. Named one of Rolling Stone's "Agents of Change" for 2009, prior to Boxee Avner was the Head of Corporate Development and M&A for Comverse, Inc., a leading provider of software and service to Telecom service providers. He was responsible for acquisitions valued at $450M, which were key to the company's evolution from a voicemail company to a billing and VAS provider.
Avner joined Comverse in 2002 when they acquired Odigo, a company he co-founded in 1998. Odigo was one of the early Instant Messaging services on the web serving over 8 million users worldwide, and earned Avner the 2002 honor of being a member of Crain's "40 under 40."
Prior to Odigo, he served for four and a half years in the Israeli Defense Force in the special computer unit, MAMRAM
Mike Hudack is a co-founder of blip.tv and serves as the company's president and CEO. He is responsible for blip.tv's overall business strategy, focusing in particular on community relations along with syndication, distribution and advertising partnerships.
Prior to blip.tv, Mike worked as a developer and administrator for the National Hockey League, where he managed the team responsible for one of the biggest IT projects in the history of the League — consolidating and re-developing the NHL's internal applications, which serve hundreds of employees using dozens of technologies. Mike also developed the content management system for NHL.com and redesigned the software used to bring scores and statistics from dozens of simultaneous hockey games to fans in real-time.
Mike has spoken at SXSW, Streaming Media West, Beyond Broadcast, the Open Media Developers Summit, TelcoTV and dozens of other conferences and has served as a guest lecturer at NYU and elsewhere as an expert on video, blogging and citizen journalism. He has created and maintained more than a half dozen independent media projects, including warstories:CC, warblogs:CC and the Index of Evil. His independent projects have been covered by the Washington Post, USA Today, the PBS Newshour, NPR and Forbes, among others.
Henry Blodget is an American former equity research analyst, currently banned from the securities industry, who was senior Internet analyst for CIBC Oppenheimer during the dot-com bubble and the head of the global Internet research team at Merrill Lynch. Blodget is now the editor and CEO of The Business Insider, a business news and analysis site, and a host of Yahoo TechTicker, a finance show on Yahoo.
Blodget received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and began his career as a freelancejournalist and was a proofreader for Harper's Magazine. In 1994, Blodget joined the corporate finance training program at Prudential Securities, and, two years later, moved to Oppenheimer & Co. in equity research. In October 1998,[1] he predicted that Amazon.com's stock price would hit $400 (which it did a month later, gaining 128%). This call received significant media attention, and, two months later, he accepted a position at Merrill Lynch.[2][1] Blodget's influence continued to increase, and, in 2000, he was voted the No. 1 Internet/eCommerce analyst on Wall Street by Institutional Investor, Greenwich Associates, and TheStreet.com.
About the VC/judges
David Tisch As Director of TechStars in New York City, David will co-lead the New York City TechStars program alongside TechStars' Founder and CEO David Cohen. David Tisch is the Managing Member of Box Group, LLC, a New York City based seed-stage venture capital firm that focuses investments on disruptive technologies and exceptional entrepreneurial teams.
Prior to joining TechStars, David served as Executive Vice President of Interactive Strategies at kgb, a diversified global information services company. While at kgb, David focused on consumer facing initiatives, the companies rebranding efforts and served as special advisor to the CEO on new business opportunities. In addition, David founded and lead Knowmore.com, a social aggregation startup and wholly-owned subsidiary of kgb.
As an investor, advisor or mentor, David has worked with a variety of startups including Boxee, Flavors.me, CollegeOnly, Goodsie, GroupMe, Profitably, SuperKix, SneakerFiles, StatSheet and TroopSwap.
David has a B.A. in American History from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
David blogs about his experiences at davidtisch.com. You can find David on Twitter @davetisch.
Adam Ludwin is an Associate at RRE Ventures. Mr. Ludwin focuses on early and expansion stage investments across RRE's multiple technology verticals, with a focus on consumer & digital media, financial technology and mobile opportunities.
Prior to joining RRE, Mr. Ludwin worked at the design and innovation firm IDEO as a member of the business design team. At IDEO he led a team of engineers as an entrepreneur-in-residence to incubate a collaboration software start-up. Mr. Ludwin began his career at The Boston Consulting Group in New York, where he served clients in the technology, consumer, and financial services industries, and worked closely with the firm's Strategy Institute.
In addition, Mr. Ludwin is a two-time entrepreneur, having built and sold a social shopping platform and later a discussion system for securities trading desks.
Mr. Ludwin holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and a Ford Scholar, and a BS from the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated with Highest Honors.
Ron Bloom is the visionary CEO and business leader behind MEVIO. Mr. Bloom is ultimately responsible for MEVIO's strategy, positioning, business units, team building, operations, financing and hyper-growth, and has, along with Co-Founder Adam Curry, guided the company since its inception as PodShow, in 2004.
Bloom was the chief strategist in securing PodShow's marquee partnerships with partners such as British Telecom, Apple® and Sirius Satellite Radio and the company's elite private investors, including venture firms Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital and Sherpalo Ventures, DAG and Crosslink Ventures. He has gone on to guide the Company through its evolution into MEVIO, and spearheaded its growth to one of the fastest growing sites in 2007 (Compete.com rankings), becoming a Top 20 Internet Site in both Music and New Media in 2008 (comScore rankings in Music and Multimedia). He is often referenced as the visionary author of the media industry's rule and Fart's Law of consumer technology adoption.
Brian Hirsch is a Managing Partner of Greenhill SAVP and a Co-Chairman of the Fund's Investment Committee. Prior to joining SAVP in 2004, Mr. Hirsch was a Principal at Sterling Venture Partners and led the firm's investments in technology-related companies. Mr. Hirsch is currently a board member of Flat World Knowledge, FTRANS, HomeSphere, MyNines, Pontiflex, RealDirect, Spanfeller Media Group, Three Stage Media, and TRAFFIQ. Brian previously sat on the board of YellowJacket (acquired by the Intercontinental Exchange, NYSE:ICE) and KnowledgeStorm (acquired by TechTarget, NASDAQ:TTGT).
Prior to joining Sterling Venture Partners, Mr. Hirsch was a vice president at ABN AMRO Private Equity ("AAPE"), the U.S. venture capital group of ABN AMRO N.V., one of the world's largest banks. Before joining AAPE, Mr. Hirsch worked as a senior consultant at KPMG in the Information, Communications & Entertainment (ICE) practice, where his clients included General Electric, CBS/Westinghouse and the Tribune Company.
Owen Davis is currently Managing Director of NYC Seed, a seed stage venture capital fund in New York City. Owen has worked in all aspects of the online world, including work with early versions of AOL and MSN. He created one of the first 200 web sites on-line and founded Thinking Media in the summer of 1995, an online marketing firm which pioneered client-side tracking of pages and advertisements, which has become the standard method for online measurement. He co-founded Sonata in 1999, a wireless company that provided location-based services and marketing to cell phones. Owen also co-founded, Petal Computing, a firm that developed software which allowed large numbers of commodity PCs to act like a single unit, useful in industries ranging from image rendering to pharmaceuticals.
Owen is the author of various patents in Internet methods and technologies. He is also the author of the book Instant Java Applets, available from Ziff-Davis Press. He is an original member of the World Wide Web Artists Consortium, and served on that group's original board. He was also an original member of the Board setting online advertising and media specifications and has served as Managing Director of the Wireless Advertising Association. Owen was named various times as one of the 100 Top Internet Executives in New York by The Silicon Alley Reporter and most recently was named one of the 100 most influential people in Silicon Alley for 2008. He received his bachelor's degree from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Andrew "Drew" Lipsher is a Partner with Greycroft LLC. Drew brings over fourteen years of media and entertainment experience to Greycroft. His experience has covered all aspects of the media business, including investment (private equity and venture), M&A, strategic planning, new business development, technology, operating and board level activities, restructurings, and divestitures.
Drew currently serves or observes on the boards of Greycroft's investments in Imagespan, Health Plan One, Vitals.com, Worldwide Biggies and Babble. In addition, Drew was involved with Pump Audio (sold to Getty). Drew has previously led investments in Musicbank, Rich Animation, Nest Entertainment, Palomar Pictures, ARTISTdirect (NASDAQ: ARTD), Listen.com (NASDAQ: RNWK), Youtopia.com (sold to 800-America), Planetout.com (NASDAQ: LGBT), Channel V (NYSE: NWS), and Accolade (sold to Atari).
Prior to joining Greycroft, Drew was the Head of M&A, Corporate Development, and Administration for Interscope, Geffen, A&M Records ("IGA"), a division of the Universal Music Group.
Pakman is a graduate of and a member of the Board of Overseers at University ofPennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science and is an avid musician and songwriter. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the First Growth Venture Network whose mission is to identify high potential entrepreneurs and to surround them with the network they will need to support their growth and holds a board seat with the New York Venture Capital Association.
Traver sits as Chair on the Board of Directors of Remedy Health Media- a leading cross platform company in consumer health. Board members include the Private Equity partners of Veronis Suhler Stevenson www.vss.com
As the co-founder of RHM and CEO until this past summer, Traver led the company to become a renowned "Leader in Consumer Health Educational Marketing". To accelerate its growth, he successfully engaged the leading Private Equity firm in the Communications space-VSS.
Having launched the company in the mid 90's, he led the successful transformation from being publishing-centric to its position today as a "cross channel communications company". Core to that was a build & buy strategy in the digital space while changing the corporate culture to support the (r)evolution. Accelerators of the strategy include the build of a digital lead gen platform www.remedylife.com and a health portal acquisition www.healthcommunities.com .
At the same time in the late 90's, Traver founded & chaired www.cornerdrugstore.com. This was an early "bricks & clicks" company which focused on bringing new customers via the internet to the challenged independent pharmacy arena. The startup rose $1.8M in angel funding. It was later sold to the JM Smith Corporation.
Traver has a BA in History & a Minor in Economics from the University of MN. He resides in Greenwich CT.
Non-Profit Boards include Trustee of the Citizens Budget Commission for 15 years and Executive Committee for 8 years. Director, Heart and Soul Charitable Fund for 5 years and Honoree in 2005. Founding Director for Project Sunshine, First Gala Chair, mentor to founder. President of the Congregation All Souls Church 1999, Trustee 1997-99 and now Deacon. National Board of Legal Momentum 5 years.
Amish Jani is a Founder and Managing Director of FirstMark Capital and focuses on seed and early stage investments in software, cloud computing, digital media, and Internet sectors. Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, Amish served as a Partner with Pequot Ventures. Amish sits on the boards of AppFirst, Aveksa, CollegeOnly, Conductor, IMImobile, Knewton, and Lumosity. Amish holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Follow Amish on Twitter at @amishjani.
Amish is an enthusiastic supporter of the New York City entrepreneurial community. He was recently named to the Silicon Alley Insider 2010 100 List, and regularly speaks at high-profile entrepreneurial events including SAI Startup 2010, TechCrunch Disrupt and TieCon 2010. He is actively involved with the Mayor's office, including initiatives such as Media.NYC.2020 and NY Venture Fellows, as well as the well-regarded incubator program TechStars in NYC. Amish has been featured in articles in Business Week, Internet Retailer, The Wall Street Journal and Forbes.com.
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[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the Borough of Milford 9-9-1991 by Ord. No. 555-91. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Unless otherwise set forth herein or unless the context clearly requires a contrary meaning, the following terms shall be defined as follows:
- The Borough of Milford in the County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey.
- The Commissioner of the Milford Borough Water Department, as established herein.
- The Common Council of the Borough of Milford.
- The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
- The Milford Borough Water Department, as established herein.
- The Superintendent of the Milford Borough Water Department, as established herein.
The Milford Borough Water Department, as the same exists on the date of the adoption of this chapter, together with all additions, accretions and replacements, is hereby continued and shall perform all of the duties and exercise all of the powers set forth in this chapter or as may, from time to time, be delegated to it.
The Department, as herein constituted, is charged with the duty of providing an adequate supply of potable water to the Borough and its inhabitants, as well as to those persons residing or located without the Borough who, by contract or otherwise, receive water service from the Department, and to the fire hydrants within the Borough. In fulfilling this duty, the Department shall be responsible for:
The individual meters and structures.
The maintenance and repair of all wells, reservoirs and pumps feeding said mains and lines.
The location of and siting of new wells, reservoirs and water sources as needed.
The installation, maintenance and repair of all purification and chlorination systems.
The storage and maintenance of equipment, parts and the like required for the operation of the system.
The making, keeping and maintaining of all records necessary to the monitoring of the system as required by the DEP and otherwise.
The making, keeping and maintaining of billing records, the reading of water meters and the processing and collecting of moneys for water usage from the customers of the system.
Without limitation, the doing of any and all acts necessary or desirable to ensure the functioning of the water supply system, with such other duties as may be, from time to time, assigned to the Department by the Council.
The Borough Water Department shall consist of a Commissioner, a Superintendent and such additional or alternate employees of the Borough as may, from time to time, be assigned to the Department by the Council and the Commissioner.
The Water Commissioner shall be that member of the Council as may be assigned from time to time by the Mayor and Common Council. The Commissioner shall act as a liaison between the Council and the Department, shall report to the Council from time to time as to the status and needs of the Department and shall transmit the directives of the Council to the Department and oversee the Superintendent and employees to ensure that the work of the Department is carried out thoroughly, safely and efficiently and in full compliance with all requirements of law.
The Water Superintendent shall be the operation head of the Water Department. He shall be appointed by the Council for a term of one year and shall be eligible for indefinite reappointment. Prior to his appointment, he shall possess all licenses required by the DEP for such a position and shall additionally satisfy any and all criteria established by the Common Council.
The Water Superintendent shall:
Prepare and submit a monthly Superintendent's report to the Commissioner, Mayor and Council, including the following: the total volume of water produced from each well or other water source and the total production for the system; the amount of chlorine or other chemicals used; the details and cost of any and all repairs made; and comments or recommendations.
Prepare and submit operators' reports required by the DEP or other regulatory agencies.
Arrange for all sampling and laboratory work required by the DEP or other regulatory agencies.
Be present at all scheduled inspections by the DEP or other regulatory agencies.
Respond to emergencies in a supervisory capacity.
Prepare and assist in the promulgation of the Department budget.
Arrange for utility stakeout of water system facilities when requested by others prior to excavation within the Borough's streets or rights-of-way.
Be responsible for general operations, preventative maintenance and the monitoring and storage of supplies and spare parts for the system and the Department.
Participate in continuing education as required by the DEP or other regulatory agencies or by the Commissioner or the Common Council.
Generally, and without limitation, do any and all acts which may be necessary or desirable to the efficient, safe and thorough operation of the Department, as well as such acts as may be assigned to him by the Commissioner or the Council.
The Water Superintendent shall be paid a salary as may be, from time to time, fixed and determined by the Borough's Salary Ordinance. He shall, at all times, be deemed to be a professional employee of the Borough and shall annually execute a contract with the Borough incorporating the requirements of this subsection, as well as such other matters as may be agreed upon.
Clerical duties for the Department, including billing and the collection of funds, shall be performed by such person or persons as may be designated by the Council to perform such duties. The person or persons so designated shall, on a quarterly basis, report to the Commissioner on the amount of water usage billed, the amounts collected and the amounts remaining unpaid.
Labor duties, including the reading of meters for the Department, shall be performed by such person or persons employed by the Borough for general maintenance or labor purposes as may be designated by the Council or the Commissioner. When so designated and functioning as such, such person or persons shall be responsible to the Superintendent and Commissioner.
The Water Department shall have access to the services of the Borough Engineer, Attorney and Auditor as needed, upon the approval of the Commissioner and Council.
Except as to the Water Superintendent, all employees of the Department shall be paid the wages or salary which they would receive as employees of the Borough, without additional compensation for their assignment to the Department.
Any person desiring to connect with the water mains of the Borough shall make a written application to the Department. Connections shall be made by the Department at its earliest convenience following the receipt of a completed application and the appropriate fee.
For purposes of this section, a connection shall be deemed to include the physical tapping of the water main and the installation of a connection, the installation of a connector line from the main to and through the curbline and the installation of a curb stop and the supply and inspection of a water meter for installation by the applicant. All other aspects of the connection shall be the responsibility of and at the expense of the applicant.
The fee charged for connecting with the water mains shall be as prescribed in Chapter 10, Fees, of this Code.
[Amended 2-22-1993 by Ord. No. 573-93; 2-2-2004 by Ord. No. 686-2004; 12-19-2005 by Ord. No. 712-2005[1]]
[Added 5-2-2011 by Ord. No. 773-2011]
Notice. In the event of a leak to a waterline, the Milford Borough Water Department (the "Department") shall notify the property owner ("owner") and/or user of the property by the following methods:
By personally delivering written notice of said leak to the property owner and/or user of the waterline.
By affixing the written notice of said leak to a prominent/conspicuous location at the property.
Repairs by owner/user. In the event that the Department utilizes Subsection A(2) for notification purposes, the Department shall permit the owner and/or user seven days from the date upon which notice was provided in order to make any necessary repairs to the waterline. The seven-day period shall commence upon the day following the date upon which said written notice was affixed to the property or the date upon which the written notice was mailed pursuant to Subsection A(3), whichever is earlier.
Termination of water service. In the event that the owner and/or user fails to repair the leak(s) to the waterline within seven days from the date upon which notice was provided, the Department shall suspend all water service until such time as repairs are made.
Reconnection rates. The Department shall not return water service to the property until such time as a fee as prescribed in Chapter 10, Fees, of this Code has been paid for the reconnection of water services during normal business hours (7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.), Monday through Friday, excluding holidays, or for the resumption of water services during nonbusiness hours.[1]
Responsibility. For purposes of this section, owners shall be responsible for the waterlines from the Borough's right-of-way line of the street or the curb stop, whichever is nearest to the water main in the street. In the event of multiple curb stops, the curb stop closest to the road's right-of-way near the water main will be the extent of the Borough's responsibility.
[Amended 12-2-1991 by Ord. No. 558-91]
The following charges, rentals and rates are hereby fixed to be charged to all customers, both private and municipal:
Water usage rates. Where the Milford Borough Water Department has installed meters for determining the level of water usage by the customers of the Milford Borough Water Department, the water usage rates as prescribed in Chapter 10, Fees, of this Code shall apply.
[Amended 2-22-1993 by Ord. No. 574-93; 5-15-1995 by Ord. No. 560-95; 2-5-2007 by Ord. No. 727-2007; 11-7-2011 by Ord. No. 783-2011[1]]
Multiple uses.
For purposes of this subsection, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless a contrary meaning is stated or clearly implied:
- Any occupancy of a structure, whether for residential, commercial or industrial purposes, which is separate and distinct from any other occupancy or use in such structure.
- Any structure connected to the Milford Borough water supply system by a single waterline and meter, irrespective of the number of separate and discrete uses therein.
Notwithstanding anything contained in Subsection A of this section, in any user containing two or more separate and discrete uses, as herein set forth, the owner of such user shall be charged the rate set forth in § 10-7C(1) of this Code for each such separate and discrete use, without regard to the actual gallonage of water used by each such use or the user as a whole. Thereafter, the rates charged for usage of water in excess of the base rate as set forth in § 10-7C(2) of this Code shall not be charged to a user until his use exceeds the base gallonage established in § 10-7C(2) of this Code multiplied by the number of separate and discrete uses in the user, and the rates charged for usage of water in excess of the rate set forth in § 10-7C(3) of this Code shall not be charged to a user until his use exceeds the gallonage established in § 10-7C(3) of this Code multiplied by the number of separate and discrete uses in the user.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to any separate and discrete use which is separately connected to the Milford Borough water supply system with its own separate meter; such uses shall be billed as provided in Subsection A of this section.
The Water Department shall have the power to inspect any user to determine whether or not there is present therein a separate and discrete use, as defined herein. A failure to permit or otherwise cooperate with such inspection shall subject the owner of such user to a billing based upon an estimation of the presence of such use. The Joint Land Use Board, Zoning Officer and Building Office shall advise the Water Department of any permit issued by them or any of them which creates or continues a separate and discrete use in any user.
[Added 5-1-1995 by Ord. No. 598-95; amended 2-21-2006 by Ord. No. 714-2006]
Purpose; applicability.
The purpose of this section is to provide a set fixed quarterly fee for the provision of water to customers of the Milford Borough Water Department.
The quarterly fee established herein is applicable to all customers of the Milford Borough Water Department, including but not limited to industrial, commercial, residential or governmental users, unless specifically exempted by other applicable provisions of the Borough of Milford.
Establishment of fee and due date for payment.
The following fixed fee is established for the provision of water service to all customers of the Milford Borough Water Department: All customers of the Milford Borough Water Department will be charged a fee as prescribed in Chapter 10, Fees, of this Code.[1]
The fixed fee established herein is due upon billing and must be paid with the quarterly water service bill. Failure to pay the same when due will constitute cause for termination of water service.
[Amended 11-20-1995 by Ord. No. 601-95; 2-21-2006 by Ord. No. 714-2006]
Collection of all water charges shall be due and payable quarterly on the first day of March, June, September and December.
[Added 2-21-2006 by Ord. No. 714-2006]
In the event of nonpayment of water charges, said delinquent charges shall bear interest at the rate of 8% per annum from the date the same become due and payable; provided, however, that no interest shall be due and payable if payment in full is made within 30 days of the date upon which it is due. All charges shall become a lien upon real estate, and the Borough shall collect the same, together with interest, costs and penalties, in the same manner as is used in the collection of taxes upon real estate.
[Added 2-21-2006 by Ord. No. 714-2006[1]]
The Department may shut off or disconnect the water supply of customers of the Milford Borough Water Department who are delinquent in the payment of water charges. In the event that the valve or curb stop has been shut off for nonpayment of charges, the same shall not be opened and service restored until all delinquent charges, together with interest, shall have been paid, together with a reconnection charge as prescribed in Chapter 10, Fees, of this Code.
No person, except an authorized employee of the Department, shall turn any valves or curb stops connecting a user to the water mains. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be subject, upon conviction, to a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment in the Hunterdon County Jail for a period of not more than 90 days, or both.
The Council may, from time to time, by resolution, provide for the adoption of such rules and regulations as may seem necessary and desirable for the proper regulation of the Department, which rules and regulations shall, upon adoption, be binding upon the Department and all employees thereof or assigned thereto.
[Added 2-21-2006 by Ord. No. 714-2006[1]]
Any property owner who has previously terminated Borough water service for any reason, other than the Borough's disconnection of water service for a customer's failure to timely pay water charges pursuant to §§ 42-15 and 42-16, and who seeks to have said water service reconnected shall pay a reconnection fee as prescribed in Chapter 10, Fees, of this Code to the Borough, plus labor costs for Milford Borough employees, and equipment costs, if required, which shall each be charged in accordance with § 3-49 of the Milford Borough Code.


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Consultant: Oracle's newest "cloud" strategy isn't cloud at all
- 17 January, 2013 16:26
Oracle's latest advancement of its cloud computing strategy is being called out as a "faux cloud" by a consultant and author, and as the latest example of cloud-washing, or the practice of vendors misusing the ubiquitous technology term.
BACKGROUND: Oracle launches line of on-premise IaaS systems
MORE ORACLE CLOUD: Once a basher, now a believer, Oracle chief Larry Ellison has come full circle on cloud computing
This week Oracle announced the availability of a service it previewed last year at Oracle OpenWorld that allows customers to rent Oracle hardware equipment and store it on their own sites for a monthly fee. David Linthicum, CTO and co-founder of cloud and SOA consultancy Blue Mountain Labs, says that's not cloud computing.
"Oracle labels (it) 'infrastructure as a service' but it is not actually a cloud IaaS offering -- it's the usual Oracle data center gear," Linthicum wrote in his blog at Network World sister-site InfoWorld. "Just as Oracle IaaS is not a true cloud offering, neither is Oracle's new 'Iaas On Demand' selection of rental application servers."
The service does not include self-provisioning, auto provisioning, multi-tenancy or the ability to measure service usage on a granular level, all of which are key components to a service being technically considered a "cloud," Linthicum says. "They seem to be just providing their products using other compensation models, in this case rent," Linthicum says.
Through a public relations official who works with Oracle, the company declined to respond to the claims.
PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION: There's an app for that
As part of the service announced this week, customers rent the Oracle hardware for a monthly fee, although it requires a three-year contract. Linthicum points out that the fee does not include licensing for peak-usage though. Standard cloud computing offerings include a single fee that incorporates the entire service's cost. Instead, Oracle is "renting its stuff and calling it a cloud."
Many companies considered as public cloud providers charge for additional costs beyond just the hourly rate though. Amazon Web Services, for example, in many cases charges customers for ingress and egress of data into its cloud storage system at a per-GB rate.
Oracle isn't alone in cloud-washing: Linthicum says it's "hugely rampant" in the industry, with virtualization providers calling their systems "private clouds." The National Institute for Standards in Technology defined cloud computing as having five characteristics: on demand self-service; broad network access; resource pooling; rapid elasticity or expansion and measured service. Linthicum says many virtualization vendors call their products cloud when virtualization is really just a piece of a private cloud.
As for Oracle, Linthicum says the company is adjusting to the fundamental shift in the pricing model cloud computing brings with it. The on-demand, pay for only what's used pricing in many cases eliminates the lucrative licensing models that Oracle and other tech companies have relied on, he says. "Oracle blew an opportunity to make a more comprehensive and meaningful move into the cloud market," he says and is now "kicking the can down the road when it comes to finding a real IaaS strategy, public or private."
Oracle released a data sheet explaining the service, in which it claims the monthly rate can end up being less expensive for some customers.
Network World staff writer Brandon Butler covers cloud computing and social collaboration. He can be reached at email@example.com and found on Twitter at @BButlerNWW.


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Just a thought: For some years my husband's work group collected toys and donated them to a school for homeless children. Walt and I started buying packages of underwear. What? Yes, packages of 3 undershorts, or 3 t-shirts, or 3 pairs of panties. We would buy them on sale at one of the major department stores; and in various sizes. We hesitated to do this the first year. The feedback from the school staff was so positive that we did it for the next few years, until Walt was no longer a part of this work group.
So, if you want to donate to a homeless shelter, or a home for abused spouses, or some group like that, consider underwear. It may not be as exciting as a toy, but it may last a lot longer. Another option is coats, jackets, gloves or hats. Just a thought.
And thank you to all of you who think of others, both at this time of year as well as at other times.


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FSF's Star Turn in the Android FUDathon, Part 4
Sep 9, 2011 5:00 AM PT
FSF's Star Turn in the Android FUDathon, Part 3
"Strike while the iron is hot" -- and the usual suspects have made Android licensing a hot issue. However, the title of the FSF article, "Android GPLv2 termination worries -- one more reason to upgrade to GPLv3," gives the game away. This is about politics, not licensing. About pushing a specific agenda. About promoting the GPLv3 license at the expense of the GPLv2, Linux, Android and reality.
It's natural that there will be people and organizations engaging in bit of opportunistic profile-raising when they see an opportunity. Sometimes, as with the FSF GPLv2 FUD, they overreach and need to be called on it. And sometimes they really put their foot in it, as the Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin did when he recently labeled businesses that don't contribute back code as "idiots."
One Size Does Not Fit All
If the GPLv3 were so wonderful, there would be no need to post articles saying, "Companies that sell products that use Android can help out by encouraging the developers of Linux to make the switch to GPLv3." Especially when the reality is that releasing the decryption keys to unlock mobile systems would kill Android on Linux, and the developers are already on record as saying they have no problems with the current license and have better things to do with their time.
The social and political objectives of the FSF (and by extension, gnu.org) are not always the same as other members of the community. In a world with various shades of grey and different needs and goals, the reality is that one license does not fit all projects, and zealotry is ugly.
What Isn't Free Software?
When I go to the Free Software Foundation home page, I see this:
you deserve to use software that is:free from restriction
free to share and copy
free to learn and adapt
free to work with others
you deserve free software.
Critics have rightly pointed out that by this definition, the GPL does not meet these standards. This doesn't make it a bad license -- sharing source code benefits everyone involved. However, heavy-handed attempts to impose further restrictions on end-users beyond the license, or to ask people to harass developers to switch, just come off as "sturm und drang" by nitpickers. Hopefully this doesn't presage the rise of the GNUstapo.
Some Takeaways
- If you are a coder, do not give up your control over your work by assigning copyrights to an organization that says "trust us." They may decide at some future date to "leverage" your code in ways you never intended;
- Remove any references to "or any later version" of the license. If you wouldn't give them a blank check, don't give them the license equivalent;
- Keep in mind how a magician will always try to get you to focus your attention on one hand, so you don't see what the other hand is doing. The original article overemphasizes section 4 of the GPL to make a case for "permanent" risk, in the hope that you won't notice the ease of obtaining a new license without encumbrances in section 6, or ignore the fact that take-it-or-leave-it licenses are always interpreted in the recipients' favor;
- Don't believe everything the license says. The GPL says that you have no rights if you do not accept the license, which is simply not true. The GPL (any version) only applies to the extent that copyright law currently allows it. Post-Feist, there are more restrictions on what is actually copyrightable. There is no "sweat of the brow" copyright, nor other material that fails to meet, even slightly, the constitutional basis for copyright -- to "promote the progress of science and useful arts," aka encouraging creative expression;
- If someone is particularly nasty, keep in mind that courts have also held (Assessment Technologies v. Wiredata) that even the copying of complete copyrighted programs without the copyright holders' permission is allowed if the only way to extract non-protected data is to do so, and that abusive copyright holders can lose their rights;
- There are always alternatives, whether it's a particular program, a toolchain, or an operating system.
The Ultimate ConsequencesCasting doubt on Android and Linux licensing has two easily discernable effects. Manufacturers, for their part, will be more likely to consider other platforms, and who can blame them?
And it's a safe bet that Google is working on a BSD-hosted version of Android as a fallback. I know if I were them, that's what I'd be doing, just in case.


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Legal marijuana is delivering a powerful buzz to the typically unglamorous Denver industrial real estate market. Booming sales of cannabis have pot merchants scrambling to find enough vacant warehouses suitable for growing their product. Not every municipality in Colorado allows marijuana cultivation, and in Denver, where it is OK, very little space is available. Denver's industrial vacancy rate of 3.1 percent is abnormally low - the lowest in decades, according to brokerage firm Colliers International. Commercial real estate tracker Xceligent Inc. estimates that marijuana cultivation and manufacturing facilities in the city occupy about 4.5 million square feet - the equivalent of 78 football fields. 'This industry has come on so fast that initially I was uneasy - it seemed like a fad,' said Brad Calbert, president of the Colliers International brokerage in Denver. 'But what's making it sustainable is supply, demand and capital. Supply is deficient, demand is excessive, and capital is abundant.' Rabid demand for warehouses is pitting pot dispensary against pot dispensary, while landlords capitalize by charging premium lease rates. Industrial brokers report instances of warehouse space leasing for as much as four times the prices paid before medical marijuana sales began to boom in 2009. The newest wave of impact in the industrial market is occurring as recreational pot sales, which began Jan. 1, are robust. State budget officials are projecting sales of $613 million over the next year - more than 50 percent higher than previous projections. That's on top of an estimated $345 million in medical dispensary sales. January sales tax figures released Monday suggest that the market may be smaller than those projections. Some recreational stores have been forced to curtail sales because strong demand from customers has outpaced supply. 'Nobody is growing enough marijuana,' said Jason Thomas of Avalon Realty Advisors, a firm that specializes in finding warehouse space for cannabis cultivation. 'Activity is off the charts, but we're still not meeting demand.' Thomas said that almost all owners of dispensaries and recreational stores are looking for more grow space, either to serve their own customers or to sell wholesale to other undersupplied merchants. At a nondescript, unsigned warehouse near Interstate 70 in northeast Denver, master grower Evan Schick has to tiptoe gingerly among a green expanse of 750 marijuana plants. Growing space is so valuable that it's a waste to create aisles between the rows of cannabis that supply Walking Raven dispensary in Denver. With each plant producing an average of 2 ounces of smokeable buds, the retail value warehouse's inventory at any given time is worth about $500,000. And that's in a 3,000-square-foot building - small by comparison with other cultivation facilities. Larger warehouses can accommodate plants worth millions of dollars. Numbers of that magnitude explain why pot-shop owners are generally reluctant to talk about the location and size of their growing operations. Yet the facilities are pervasive throughout Denver. Hot spots include the I-70 and I-25 corridors, South Santa Fe Drive, Brighton Boulevard and the Platte Valley west of downtown. Capital in the industry often comes in the form of cash. Marijuana's illegal status under federal law limits the ability of dispensary owners and grow-house landlords to hold bank accounts and use conventional commercial loans. Calbert related an anecdote told to him recently by the owner of a Denver warehouse. The owner was negotiating a lease with a cannabis cultivation operator and sought assurance that the grower was a good credit risk. The grower walked out to the parking lot, opened his car's trunk, and showed the landlord a suitcase filled with $1 million in cash. Brokers say the competition for warehouses by cash-rich growers and dispensary owners is problematic for traditional warehouse tenants, such as supply and distribution companies. They're faced with a choice of paying sharply higher rents or finding facilities in less convenient suburban locations. Industrial space in the city of Denver leases at an average rate of $4.74 per square foot, an increase of 21 percent over the past two years, according to Colliers International. But examples are plentiful of marijuana businesses willingly agreeing to far higher rates - $17 per square foot or more - in order to secure space. 'The cost to play here is really tough if you don't have adequate capital,' said Elliott Klug, co-founder and CEO of the Pink House Blooms chain of marijuana shops. 'I thought $17 was the going rate for class C office space. It looks like they're charging me the same rate (for warehouses) that some oil and gas companies are paying for offices.' Walking Raven dispensary co-owner Luke Ramirez is searching for additional grow space. The rates he's being quoted make him feel fortunate to be paying just $18 per square foot for one of his two current warehouses. But unwavering consumer demand for recreational marijuana make him and other owners willing to pay what the industrial market demands. 'We cannot grow as much as we could sell right now,' Ramirez said. 'Nobody can.' He has found a building he's interested in leasing, but won't disclose its location. 'I can't say where,' he said. 'There are a lot of other people out there looking, ready to come in and make a higher offer.'
Pot-growing warehouses in short supply as demand for legal weed surges
- Steve Raabe, The Denver Post
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The Michigan Public Service Commission's report on the implementation of Public Act 295 of 2008 states that:
"[T]he [MPSC] is aware of several undertakings which suggest a positive influence on employment and economic growth in the state. … Indeed, there has been economic development in Michigan that can be attributed to the Act."[23]
The commission commits what economists call the "broken windows fallacy." On the surface, there may appear to be an underlying benefit to smashing a window because it would mean profits for local glassmakers and window installers. But is it really beneficial to destroy the window and redirect money meant for other things to replacing it?
By requiring utilities to forgo lower-cost sources of conventional energy in favor of higher-cost "green energy," supporters of the act might be able to point to individual investment projects and jobs. However, the important economic consideration for the commission and the people of Michigan should be the net economic effects of the mandate, not just some of the isolated financial benefits.
The jobs that are lost due to higher energy costs are not as easy to identify as the jobs created by new energy construction projects, but they are just as important. While Public Act 295 might generate visible new jobs and construction projects, our projections clearly indicate that Michigan electricity ratepayers will pay higher rates, face fewer employment opportunities, and see investment redirected to other states.
Business firms, particularly those with high electricity usage, may begin to move their production (and emissions) out of Michigan to locations with lower electricity prices. Start-up firms or relocating firms may refuse to locate in Michigan at all. In both cases, the emissions — as well as the jobs and other economic benefits — will simply occur elsewhere. Therefore, the Michigan policy is unlikely to reduce global emissions, but will likely send jobs and capital investment outside the state.


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The Instigator – Sinnae-dong, Jungnang-gu.
When I first arrived in Korea in 2005 I was based in Jungnang-gu, which is on Seoul's most north-western extremity. On face value, there wasn't really much going for the place but it was close to the Costco in Sangbong, so I used to walk down to it every so often to get more cheese. I also found a little hill, which was often described as a mountain, next to me, which I would wander up regularly because I had the mornings free. This mountain was called Bongwhasan, and the subway station at the end of line 6 is named after here. When it was a little warmer I would also walk to Bongwhasan to take the train into Itaewon. This was as adventurous as I got back then. After a while, I got a little bored with seeing the same things.


text: Alright folk, after alot of talking I figured it was about time that somebody started a little thread that us Winnipegers and southern Manitobans can use as a simple way of letting others know if we are planning a ride instead of using the northern riders thread (which is quite large and hard to follow at times) The purpose of this thread is to set up rides or just throw out an open invitation for anybody listening to join up and hit the dirt (or pavement if your into that kind of thing). I would like people to avoid using this as a thread for posting pictures and off topic conversations, yes you can link to a thread of pictures you took on a ride, but lets avoid letting this thread balloon out of controll and turn into another northern riders thread. Please try to keep postings simple such as: Date: June 7th Time: Noon Meeting Point: The Forks Destination: Agassiz Forest (or no destination if its not decided) Sound good? (and no im not planning a ride for tomorrow, thats just an example)


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Johnsonite® introduces Eco-Naturals Collection of rubber tiles and treads
Silk Plants. Cheap, assembly line, fake imitations of Mother Nature's beautiful plants which will be placed in some corner of home or office décor. This statement would have been an agreeable one, some 20 years back, but in the current scenario, this is not at all the case.
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After receiving treatment at Children's National, your family will receive bills for both professional (physician) and hospital (laboratory, X-ray, medication, etc.) services. Insurance companies require that these services be billed on different forms.
Our computer systems currently keep these charges separated, and as a result you will receive two bills for each date of service. The physician bill/statement is purple (cumulative for all services) and the hospital bill is green or blue (separate account for each service). For more information, including advice on how to obtain a cost estimate for your child's care, please review our FAQs.
We provide several options for paying your bill, including:
You can pay the hospital bill and physician bill online through a secure payment portal. Please note:
The blue or green statement (hospital bill) includes fees for room and board, use of equipment, nursing care, outpatient facility exam room and medications.
The purple statement (physician bill) includes fees for examinations, consultations and readings and interpretations of outpatient tests, such as laboratory, X-rays and CT scans.
You will receive a blue or green statement for each date of service – except if your child is having therapy services and is categorized as a "recurring patient." In that case, you will have one account that spans an entire month.
We also bill a facility charge for outpatient hospital-based clinic visits. This is separate from the cost of the medical provider and includes the cost to run the facility such as supplies, equipment, exam rooms, educational resources, counseling and other staff. Charges are based on the type of visit and hospital resources it takes for your child's care. The exact charge cannot be calculated until after the medical services have been provided and their visit is finished.
Medicaid covers the full outpatient facility charge, so you will not have a balance to pay for the charge. If you have Children's National financial assistance, this program covers the charge based on a sliding scale up to 100 percent. If you have commercial insurance, the portion of what you will be responsible for depends upon your plan's benefits and deductible amounts.
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Janus Adams: History takes sail this weekend
This weekend, the tall ships of OpSail2012 (http://www.opsail2012ct.com/) will be berthed in Connecticut. Friday's staggered arrivals will be greeted by opening ceremonies at Niantic Bay. Saturday, the fleet will weigh anchor at 9 a.m. and assemble in all their full-sail glory for a majestic procession east to New London. There, the tall ships will be met by Governor Dannel Malloy for Connecticut's official OpSail2012 festivities.
In the lead will be the U.S. Coast Guard Barque Eagle. Built in 1936, "twilight of the era of sail," as OpSail organizers note, it is the sixth Coast Guard cutter since 1792 to bear that all-American name. "To maneuver Eagle under sail, the crew must handle more than 22,000 square feet of sail and five miles of rigging. Over 200 lines control the sails and yards," according to the organization.
The world of sail: the precision, cooperation, and grace that will turn scene into spectacle as 23 tall ships and their crews sail into view.
Following Eagle will come the amphibious dock landing ship, USS Carter Carter Hall; the ketch Ticonderoga; the motorsailer New Horizons; the gaff schooner Tyrone; two Yard Patrol boats from the U.S. Naval Academy; the 250-foot, three-masted square rig tall ship Cisne Branco from Brazil; the gaff-rigged topsail schooner Appledore V; the auxiliary schooner Brilliant; and others.
Completing the parade of sail will be Connecticut's own Amistad; built in the shipyard at Mystic Seaport, living history museum of "America and the Sea."
It was 173 years ago this month: 53 Mendi men, women, and children bound to slavery overthrew their captors aboard the cargo schooner, Amistad. For weeks they zigzagged the U.S. coastline, north from Cuba, until they were captured off Long Island, brought to shore in New London and into the pages of history on August 24, 1839.
So began the Amistad Incident, the international human rights scandal of its day and first anti-slavery victory in the Supreme Court. On Nov. 27, 1841, Mendi survivors of the ordeal sailed home from New York Harbor. There, in 2000, the AmistadAmerica would make her maiden voyage in the Parade of Sail, appropriately taking her position on America's Freedom Day, July 4.
As a member of the AmistadAmerica's founding board of directors, I was at a screening of a documentary about the Amistad Incident when a man spoke up. Never before had he (a white man) so understood the brutality of slavery, said he, bristling at references to our AmistadAmerica as the "freedom schooner." Recalling how one Mendi man had been seized while walking to the store, he said: "If what happened to them happened to me, I would want my children to know that I was kidnapped on my way to Stop & Shop, not on my way to freedom."
Yet, he admitted, the broadening of his understanding of slavery had come to him as both epiphany and "liberation." "We have such an important story to tell," says AmistadAmerica board Chair Fredrica Gray. "The struggle for freedom initiated by the 53 Africans aboard the Amistad, is relevant to every human being on the planet."
Indeed, that man's experience and retelling of the tale is AmistadAmerica's mission. "We must ensure that each school child in our state and across the country knows and understands the value of this story," says Gray.
"That's why we are so proud of our Amistad and the story it carries as Connecticut's official ambassador to the Tall Ships Parade. It is essential that we tell the truth about our nation's history and how we got from Point A to Point B. We need to understand the road traveled."
"Sometimes," wrote Henry David Thoreau, "we sailed as gently and steadily as the clouds overhead, watching the receding shores and the motions of our sail; the play of its pulse so like our own lives, so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labored hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective; now bending to some generous impulse of the breeze, and then fluttering and flapping with a kind of human suspense."
Alas, so it is: ships at sea and the message of sail.
Columnist Janus Adams is an author, historian, and social commentator. Her email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Indie Game: The Infomercial. "If StarCraft is a sport, Divekick is a crime scene." That's Action Button founder (and sometime Kotaku contributor) Tim Rogers giving his trademark infomercial-style pitch for Divekick, an absurd two-button fighting game he did not make but would still like for you to play.
Tim, if you ever get sick of making games, you've got a bright future as an infomercial pitchman. In 1996.


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The bike appears to be based on a R100R Mystic. At least that is my current guess. I agree who ever did the caf?® work did a wonderful job. If anyone knows about this bike we want to know more.


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An expert witness at the trial over the Deepwater Horizon disaster says BP drilled its ill-fated Macondo well in an area where a magnitude 6 earthquake had struck four years before the blowout.
Andrew Hurst is a geoscience professor at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He was a witness for Gulf Coast residents suing BP and other companies involved in the drilling project. He testified today that the April 2006 quake likely weakened rock formations on the sea floor that already were more fragile than in other parts of the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurst is an expert in petroleum geology. He said he has seen evidence that BP knew about the earthquake before it started drilling the well about three years later.
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Flu Season
- The vaccine combines protection against H1N1 and seasonal flu
- Traditional injection, nasal spray, and the new intra-dermal injections are available (check with your healthcare provider)
- You can infect others one day before and 5 to 7 days after becoming sick
- It can take up to two weeks for the antibodies to develop after being vaccinated
What is the Flu?
The flu is a viral infection caused by the influenza virus. It affects the respiratory system and can cause mild to severe illness. Sometimes it can lead to death. Each winter, during flu season, the virus spreads around the world. While it is possible to get the flu at other times of the year, it is less likely.
There are two main kinds of influenza virus: Type A and Type B. The strains are usually different from one year to the next.
If you have the flu, you can infect others one day before you notice any symptoms and up to five days (sometimes more) after you become sick. This means you may be infecting others even before you know you have the virus.
Symptoms usually start abruptly. They may include some or all of the following:
- High fever and chills
- Severe muscle aches
- Severe fatigue
- Headache
- Decreased appetite or other gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea (more common in children than adults)
- Runny nose, nasal congestion
- Sneezing
- Watery eyes, conjunctivitis
- Sore throat
- Cough (can last for two or more weeks)
- Swollen lymph nodes in the neck
Symptoms usually last between 7 to 10 days, but you may still have a cough and feel tired.
Diagnosis and Treatment
Over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold products should not be used to treat infants or children less than two years of age. Rare but serious side effects have been reported. They include convulsions, rapid heart rates, decreased levels of consciousness, and even death. Serious side effects have also been reported in children aged 2-11 years. Research is ongoing about the safety of OTC products for this age group.
Flu diagnosis is usually based on symptoms. Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. In some cases, your doctor may take samples from your nose or throat to confirm the diagnosis.
Antiviral Prescription Medicines
Most people with the flu do not need antiviral medicine. Your doctor will decide. You may need it if you are in a high-risk group or if you have a severe illness (such as breathing problems).
Antiviral medicines may help relieve symptoms and shorten the time you are sick. They must be taken within 48 hours of the first symptoms. Antiviral medicines include:
- Zanamivir (Relenza) — Although highly effective against currently circulating influenza, this medicine may worsen asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
- Oseltamivir (Tamiflu) — Highly effective against currently circulating influenza.
- Amantadine (Symmetrel) — Not reliably effective against influenza Type A.
- Rimantadine (Flumadine) — Not reliably effective against influenza Type A.
Please note: Oseltamivir and perhaps Zanamivir may increase the risk of confusion shortly after they are taken, especially in children. Children should be closely monitored for signs of unusual behavior.
Rest and Fluids
It is important to get plenty of rest when your body is fighting the flu. Also, drink a lot of liquids including water, juice, and caffeine-free tea.
Over-the-Counter (OTC) Pain Relievers
These medications are used to control fever and to treat aches and pains. Adults can use acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
Over-the-Counter (OTC) Pain Cough Medicines
These include decongestants, expectorants, anti-histamines, cough suppressants, and cough drops.
Herbal Treatment
Elderberry extract may reduce flu symptoms. Researchers found that products containing elder-berry, such as Sambucol and ViraBLOC, decreased symptoms in some studies. But be aware that herbal remedies are not regulated by the government. The supplements you buy may not have the same ingredients as those studied and may contain impurities (things that should not be in the product).
Prevention — Ways to Avoid Getting the Flu
The best way to prevent the flu is to be vaccinated. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that anyone aged six months and older should get a flu vaccine. You must be vaccinated each year since the virus changes every season.
Two forms of the vaccine are available: flu shots (injection) and a nasal spray. You should get vaccinated as soon as the vaccine becomes available. The nasal spray is currently approved for healthy people aged 2 to 49 years old. It takes about two weeks for the vaccination to protect you against the flu. Pregnant women and anyone with asthma should not receive the nasal vaccine. They should have a flu shot instead.
- Wash your hands often, especially when you come in contact with someone who is sick. Wash your hands for 15-20 seconds with soap and water. Rubbing alcohol-based cleaners on your hands is also helpful.
- Avoid close contact with people who have respiratory infections. The flu can spread starting one day before and ending up to one week after symptoms appear. If you have to be in close contact with a sick person, wear a facemask or a disposable respirator.
- Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw away the tissue after you use it. Coughing or sneezing into your elbow or upper sleeve is also helpful.
- Do not spit.
- Do not share drinks or personal items.
- Do not bite your nails or put your hands near your eyes, mouth or nose.
- Keep surfaces clean by wiping them with a household disinfectant.
- Sometimes it is beneficial to take antiviral medications to prevent the flu. Talk with your doctor about taking antiviral medications if you are exposed to the flu and if you are at high risk for complications of the flu, or you are a healthcare worker, public health worker or first responder.
If you have the flu and live with someone who is at risk for complications (e.g., elderly, babies, someone with cancer), that person may need to take antiviral medications to prevent getting the flu from you. Remember that these medications are not a substitute for getting vaccinated.
Vaccination is still the best way to prevent the flu.
Those who SHOULD NOT be vaccinated:
Influenza vaccine is not approved for use in children younger than six months. Their caregivers should be vaccinated instead. People who are sick with fever should wait until their symptoms pass to get vaccinated. Some people should not be vaccinated before talking to their doctor. This includes:
- People who have a severe allergy to chicken eggs.
- People who have had a severe reaction to an influenza vaccination in the past.
- People who have developed Guillian-Barré syndrome (GBS) within six weeks of getting an influenza vaccine previously.
Review History
This information was last reviewed September 2, 2012 by physicians at Broadlands Family Practice. Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.


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Professor Ehrenberg, whose research focuses on political ideologies and the history of political thought, has devoted a lifetime of teaching, scholarship and activism to deepening the content of democracy. He has written extensively on the theory of the state, democratic revolutions, socialist theory and the political implications of intensifying American inequality. His courses include Classical and Modern Political Theory, American Political Thought, Marxism, Inequality and Democracy, The Politics of the Civil Rights Movement, and many others. He is working on a book exploring the structural and ideological changes that have accompanied the last 30 years of intensifying American economic inequality.
Professor Ehrenberg's previous books include Israel and Palestine: Alternate Perspectives on Statehood, published in 2016 and co-edited with Yoav Peled; The Iraq Papers, published in 2010 and co-edited with LIU Brooklyn faculty members J. Patrice McSherry and José Rámόn Sánchez and Connecticut College faculty member Caroleen Marji Sayej; Servants of Wealth: The Right's Assault on Economic Justice, published in 2006; and Civil Society: The Critical History of an Idea, 2nd edition (2017; first published in 1999). For the latter book, he received the Michael J. Harrington Prize of the Caucus for a New Political Science of the American Political Science Association for the Best Book of 1999; the book has been translated into several other languages. In addition to these and other books, Professor Ehrenberg has written many articles in professional journals, made frequent appearances as a commentator on radio and television; and presented his research at numerous national and international scholarly meetings for many years.
Professor Ehrenberg has received the Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement; the David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching from LIU; and the Alfred McCoy Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Political Science Association's Caucus for a New Political Science. His many positions at LIU Brooklyn have included chair of the Political Science Department and chair of the Faculty Senate. He serves on the editorial boards of Science & Society and New Political Science.
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(Pocket-lint) - Polaroid, which has a had a rough time finding its place in the world since the demise of the instant camera, could be about to launch an Android compact system camera at CES in January, if rumours are to be believed.
The story, first picked up by habitual gossip site Photorumors, implies that official press shots and specs have been leaked in Russia.
The details, which happen to be in Russian of course, are fairly thin. However, they do say that the camera, dubbed the Polaroid IM1836 (catchy, we know), will come with a 3.5-inch touchscreen display, a 10-30mm lens, pop-up flash, HDMI output, built in Wi-Fi, and a 18-megapixel sensor. Oh, and will run Android, much like the Samsung Galaxy Camera and the Nikon C800.
TechRadar, which has also spotted the rumour, points out that it looks a lot like Nikon's CSC range - the J1 and J2 - although it is not sure whether, at this point, Nikon is making the camera for Polaroid to rebrand its own.
With CES just weeks away (5-11 January) and Pocket-lint in attendance in Las Vegas for the whole week, you shouldn't have long to wait to find out whether your next CSC camera could or should be from Polaroid.
Let's hope, if true, it comes with an app to help you relive the old days - now that would be meta.
We will keep you posted.
UPDATE: Polaroid CEO Scott Hardy has informed Imaging Resource that the company is indeed to launch an Android-based CSC at CES. "There will be an Android powered, interchangeable lens camera introduced by Polaroid at CES 2013," he said. "Additional information and specs will be released during the show."


text: J. Cole stopped by Harvard University today to drop some knowledge on a lecture hall full of Ivy Leaguers. In somewhat of an open forum lecture, entitled "The Next Move: A Conversation with J. Cole," the Roc Nation artist discussed his influences, his family's support of his rap career, and how he rocked his first show at the age of 14. This piece definitely gives us some insight on J. Cole, but it can really compare to the brilliance of Lil B's NYU lecture. Hit the jump for the full video.