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Not far from the southern tip of Mendocino National Forest, the city of Ukiah is an ideal destination for travelers in search of outdoor attractions. Hotel guests in Ukiah can bring their swim trunks and enjoy the crystal-clear waters of Lake Mendocino and Clear Lake, then head east to explore the beautiful trails at Low Gap Regional Park.
One of the region's most unique and exciting attractions, Vichy Hot Springs offers a rare, naturally carbonated spring experience that can't be missed! Visitors staying at our accommodations in Ukiah will surely recognize why the city is often called "City of Ten Thousand Buddhas," as it is home to one of the largest populations of Mahayana Buddhists in the Americas.
With the Fetzer, Frey and Parducci vintners nearby, Ukiah is well-known for its robust wine culture. Ukiah hotel guests can select their favorite bottle and pair it with any of the delightful dishes at Club Calpella Restaurant, Ruen Tong Thai Cuisine, or the Bottle Shop Eatery.
Visitors are also encouraged to sample the local culture, with a trip to the Ukiah Players Theater, the Grace Hudson Museum, or the Mendocino Ballet. Before heading home, stop in for a fill-up at the World's Largest Redwood Tree Service Station.


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Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, 2014/09/04 - Two new solar projects for Conergy: one in South Wales (13.5MW), the other in Cornwall, southwest England (4.45MWp) - Conergy.com.
Wayne David, Member of Parliament for Caerphilly, South Wales: This is tremendous news for the local area
It will send out a positive message about the Rhymney Valley and the future of solar power.
Hamburg/ Milton Keynes, 4 September 2014 Conergy, one of the worlds largest solar downstream companies, announced today that it has acquired the rights to build and operate two solar power plants in the United Kingdom with a combined capacity of 17.95MWp from the developer Solar Securities for an undisclosed sum.
The larger of the two projects, a 13.5MWp plant on a disused coal mine in South Wales, has permission from local authorities to operate for 35 years, while a 4.45MWp plant in the county of Cornwall in southwest England, has permission for 25 years on a 35-year land lease. When built and connected to the grid by Conergy towards the end of the year, the plants will together produce enough electricity to power the equivalent of 3,200 homes.
Alexander Gorski, Global COO and CEO Europe, Conergy, said: Last year in the US solar was second only to gas in new power capacity additions, and as the cost of technology reaches a very competitive level and capital costs continue to decline, solar will continue to grow rapidly, in established markets like the UK and new emerging markets. Conergy has strong local networks globally and were always on the look out for good projects. These two are excellent additions to our portfolio.
Conergys projects business trebled in size globally in the first half of 2014 compared with the same period in 2013, with the UK making an important contribution that is expected to be sustained into 2015. The acquisition brings Conergys business in the UK so far this year to around 150 MWp in capacity.
Robert Goss, MD Conergy UK & Ireland, said: Solar is increasingly eating into coals market share globally so its fitting that we should be starting a project in South Wales, which produced a lot of the coal that powered Britains industrial revolution. The site in Cornwall meanwhile is one of the best in the country, as its on higher ground and away from the coast.
Nicholas Richardson, Solar Securities, said: Were delighted the projects are going ahead with Conergy, one of the most experienced and best builders of large solar projects in the world.
Power generation from solar doubled in the last twelve months in the UK, producing a record 7.8% of demand on 21 June.
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Conergy is one of the worlds largest downstream solar companies, specializing in the design, finance, build and operation of high performance solar systems for homes, businesses and utility-scale power. Founded in 1998, the company pioneered the expansion of solar power internationally, and today combines innovative technology and industry-leading engineering with access to capital. Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Conergy has a global sales network and established subsidiaries in 11 countries. The company is privately-held and majority-owned by Miami-based asset management firm Kawa Capital Management, Inc.
Conergy UK & Ireland, based in Milton Keynes, has worked on some of Britains most pioneering projects, including the UKs first large scale solar farm (5MW) and a wave-shaped rooftop installation at Nationwide Building Society headquarters. The company is one of the five biggest builders of solar farms in the UK, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
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Founded in 2010, Solar Securities (Group) Limited (SSGL) is a UK developer of ground-mounted PV systems backed by RO Group, a well-established UK property, investment and trading group. To date Solar Securities has developed and exited sites with a combined capacity of 28.8MWp, and has a pipeline of further quality sites in development across southern England and Wales.
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Depending on who you ask, Yoshihiko Noda is a fiscal policy expert, a conservative who believes the Class-A war criminals were not in fact so, or the ailing Democratic Party of Japan's last hope to regain the public's trust.
The new prime minister describes himself as more of an "ordinary man" who "doesn't have the elegance or the looks" to charm voters. "I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset," he acknowledged in a magazine article published in August.
But what the Chiba Prefecture native lacks in appearance he makes up for in effort.
"I am convinced that out of all the active lawmakers, no one has done more early morning campaigning (at local train stations) than I have," he said.
Born May 20, 1957, Noda at age 54 is the third-youngest politician following Shinzo Abe and the late Kakuei Tanaka to be elected prime minister since 1945.
Policywise, he is considered a tax hike advocate who believes this is key to mending the nation's ailing finances, and he's less bent on shedding the nation's nuclear plants, unlike his predecessor, Naoto Kan, although it has been said he won't push for any new reactors.
Noda was reportedly interested in becoming a journalist, but his father, a former member of the Ground Self-Defense Force, persuaded him to enter Matsushita Institute of Government and Management after graduating from Waseda University.
Noda worked various jobs, including checking home gas meters and being a home tutor, before he won a seat in the Chiba Prefectural Assembly in 1987.
He started reaching out to voters at train stations on Oct. 1, 1986, and continued the practice until June 2010, when he was named finance minister.
Pundits say pressing the flesh helped Noda hone his speaking skills and sense of humor. Asked in recent weeks how he would approach the opposition camp, Noda, quoting a popular 1990s TV drama, said he, "wouldn't mind repeating a marriage proposal 101 times to the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito."
When he became senior vice finance minister in 2009 after the DPJ came to power and, as required, his family's assets were made public, Noda joked that he "learned for the first time that my wife has some secret savings."
Noda won a seat in the 1993 Lower House election on the ticket of the now-defunct Japan New Party (Nihon Shinto).
In 1996, he lost his seat, making it tough for his family to make ends meet.
"It's nice to buy your kids new pants and shoes when they grow out of their old ones," Noda said in a speech Monday. "But without a job, it was difficult for me to do that."
Noda's career suffered another setback in 2006, when he was the DPJ's Diet affairs chief. Party colleague Hisayasu Nagata made an accusation against a Liberal Democratic Party executive in the Diet based on a fake email hinting at a political scandal. Noda was criticized for not being able to prevent this fiasco and resigned his post along with DPJ President Seiji Maehara.
Despite the scandal, Noda quickly gained clout within the party and was touted as one of seven future DPJ leaders, along with Katsuya Okada, who is set to exit as secretary general, Yukio Edano, the departing chief Cabinet secretary, and Maehara.
Noda lost out to Yukio Hatoyama in the September 2002 DPJ presidential race, during which he called for a "rejuvenation" of the party. He was considered a potential candidate again in 2008 but declined at the last moment and thus lost some close allies, including former land minister Sumio Mabuchi.
Noda is known to be close to Maehara, a fellow Matsushita Institute graduate, as well as DPJ veteran Hirohisa Fujii, considered one of his mentors in fiscal policy.
"I am worried that Noda will follow the same path as Fujii," Fukashi Horie, a political science professor emeritus at Keio University, said, citing how Fujii resigned in 2009 as finance minister after DPJ members opposed his efforts to achieve a fiscal balance.
"Let's hope Noda will be more resilient," Horie said.
Popular DPJ Upper House member Renho was not only listed as one of the initial party members to endorse Noda's candidacy for Monday's DPJ presidential race but was also one of the few present at his kickoff speech to the media Friday.
A heavy smoker and drinker who can hold his sake well, Noda also likes to watch professional wrestling. He has practiced judo since high school and holds a black belt, which may explain his stoutness.
The witty speaker has even made that a joke in one of his speeches. "They are calling us a heavyweight Cabinet," Noda told reporters in 2004 after being named a member of the DPJ's shadow Cabinet. "I think I am contributing to that with my weight."
Noda is married and has two sons. On Tuesday he revealed he hasn't been able to see his family since being elected DPJ president. "They did leave me a message on my cellphone, though," he said.


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Bringing Plato to the Underprivileged
In many ways, the debate over the value of the humanities has been shaped by those who have a lot—affluence, one or more degrees, prestigious positions, and the privilege of voicing their opinions via newspapers and blogs.
But what might those who have relatively little say about the value of Plato, of poetry, of postmodernism? If you're poor, can you still learn something from Henry David Thoreau? If you're homeless, can you still find meaning in a Baroque painting?
Last month, I got to ask such questions while spending some time with Kathryn Pope, who teaches writing at Antioch University in California. As I describe in an article today, Ms. Pope directs Antioch's Bridge Program, which provides humanities courses, free of charge, to low-income adults.
Admissions counselors often recruit at high schools and college fairs; each summer, Ms. Pope goes to shelters, community centers, and rehab facilities, talking to those who are, by any measure, in transition. About 35 people enroll in the program each fall, and they go on to read Homer and Descartes, and Langston Hughes and Alice Walker, to name just a handful.
In an era where student recruitment is a fast-and-furious affair, with e-mails hitting prospects' inboxes every second, Ms. Pope's approach is slow and steady. She waits a while to call prospective students, so they have time to think about whether they're ready to commit the time. "Once we have you, we want to keep you," she tells them.
Listening to Ms. Pope's pitch at a stop in Santa Monica, I was struck by what she didn't say. She didn't say that the nine-month program would somehow change everyone from head to toe. She didn't describe the campus as a haven of light and love and scrumptious cafeteria food. And she didn't promise that students would leave with a piece of paper that would surely get them a job. In other words, hers was not the usual admissions presentation.
On the contrary, Ms. Pope, as well as students who have completed Bridge, describes its benefits in relatively modest terms. Some of those benefits are tangible: Many students who complete the program go on to enroll at two- and four-year colleges or professional schools. Others describe becoming more confident and curious, or developing a sense of connection to their community.
If that sounds corny, you should talk to Terry Moore, who completed Bridge a few years ago. He's not a corny guy, and he doesn't overstate what the experience did for him. The program, he says, opened him to authors and philosophers he had never heard of, to ideas he had never considered. He still struggles with writing, he says, but not as much as he did before he took the program's writing courses. "I had to trust in myself," he says. "I had to learn how to do that."
Mr. Moore spent many years in prison and eventually kicked himself free of drugs. Before enrolling at Antioch, he also had to overcome his longstanding suspicion that school was a waste of time. As a young man, he had reached a conclusion: "I thought, I've got to make money. It was all about me getting mine." In other words, he saw value in material gain, but not in, say, reading books.
That's changed. Mr. Moore, who works as a handyman, wishes he could take all the courses again, just so that he could try harder, learn a little more.
Antioch's program is not a panacea, nor is it for everyone. But perhaps its story should remind the well-heeled, well-read, and well-credentialed among us that to dismiss the so-called intangibles of learning is, just maybe, a luxury.Return to Top


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Savory Pork Supper Recipe
Fresh green beans and mushrooms are coated with a creamy rosemary-seasoned sauce, then served over pork chops and fettuccine in this skillet meal shared by Stephanie Moon, of Boise, Idaho. It cooks quickly on the stovetop, so it's a nice family supper for busy weeknights.
- 4 boneless pork loin chops (4 ounces each)
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1-1/2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms
- 1/2 pound fresh green beans, cut into 2-inch pieces
- 1/4 teaspoon minced fresh rosemary
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 8 ounces uncooked fettuccine
- 1. In a large skillet, brown pork chops in oil and butter on each side; drain. Remove and keep warm. In the same skillet, saute the mushrooms, beans and rosemary for 2-3 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Stir in the soup, water and pepper; bring to a boil.
- 2. Top with pork chops. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10-15 minutes until pork juices run clear, stirring occasionally. Meanwhile, cook fettuccine according to package directions; drain. Serve with pork chops and top with sauce. Yield: 4 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 each: 402 calories, 16g fat (5g saturated fat), 24mg cholesterol, 594mg sodium, 50g carbohydrate (4g sugars, 5g fiber), 16g protein.
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"I've made this recipe several times. Frozen green beans will work in a pinch. I also like to slice my pork chop (I reduce the recipe for one person) like what I would for stir-fry."
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"This was really good. I made a few changes though...I left out the mushrooms and doubled the green beans, I used Cream of Celery soup and I parboiled the beans for about 10 minutes."
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The Lakers have lost a lot of games this season, 11 in total. They've come under the direction of three different coaches, and, except for a game and a half, the team has been forced to play without point guard Steve Nash.
The Mike Brown era seems so long ago now, but four losses came in the team's first five games of the season.
Bernie Bickerstaff lost just once, hosting the San Antonio Spurs, primarily in the third quarter when the Lakers were outscored, 22-16.
Coach Mike D'Antoni is responsible for six losses, two without the services of Pau Gasol who is out with tendinitis in both knees.


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Johnny Test and his dog are a duo of awesomeness. Johnny's sisters, are nerds. But, they know how to turn Johnny into some wacky sh*t!
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Luke 10 moves from the story of the Good Samaritan to the story of Mary and Martha. Though different themes come up, they are closely related issues. First, the Good Samaritan is contrasted with two liturgical specialists, a priest and a Levite, and his ministry to the wounded man suggests sacrificial service. Oil and wine would not be typical medicines, but were basic elements in the temple ritual. The Good Samaritan story is a demonstration that obedience — i.e., compassion — is better than sacrifice; or, better, that obedience is the superior form of sacrifice.
Second, the story of Mary and Martha rings changes on this same issue. Martha is busy preparing a meal for Jesus, which against the Old Testament background has sacrificial connotations. Martha is acting as a "priest," who is preparing the "bread" of the Lord. But Mary is doing the better thing, not concerned with the preparations for the (sacrificial) meal but with sitting at the feet of Jesus and listening to His word. To put it in other terms, the point is not that Bible study is superior to showing hospitality; rather, the point is about the proper way to show hospitality. It is wonderful to prepare an elaborate meal for a guest; that is a way to honor the guest. But preparing an elaborate meal at the expense of the guest is not hospitable. And offering "sacrificial food" while ignoring the voice of the Lord is not just bad manners but fundamental rebellion.


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With less than two weeks to go until Dorothy House's 2012 Santa Dash, time is running out for people to enter the sponsored the festive fun run around Winsley Dozens of people have already registered to run, jog, walk or jingle their way around the 6km route dressed as Santa Claus on Sunday, December 2.
Registration for the event, which starts and finishes at Dorothy House in Winsley, will run until November 30 or until the event is full and costs just £15 per person.
Participants will all receive post-race refreshments and a free Santa suit.
Among those who have registered for the event is 51-year-old Clare Laker from Bath, who is entering to raise money for Dorothy House as the hospice cared for her mother.
Clare said: "A friend told me about it after she saw it advertised. My mum was cared for by Dorothy House and we spent time at the hospice before she died. It's a great local cause but also one I have benefitted from myself so taking part in the Santa Dash seemed like a really good thing to do.
"I have talked some friends into doing it too and we are asking people to guess our average time to help raise money. Two of our group are going to be abroad while the race is on, so they can't take part, but are going to try and run 6km wherever they are at the same time to add into our average times and support us."
This is the second year Dorothy House has run the event, with more than 100 people taking part in 2011 to help raise £11,000 for patient care.
Event organiser Phillippa Watson said: "This is the second year for the Santa Dash and we're really pleased with the numbers that have already signed up. Last year we received overwhelming feedback from participants who really enjoyed the day and the challenge so this year's event is sure to be great.
"We want as many people to sign up as possible to help us raise even more money than last year – so I would urge anyone interested in taking part to register as soon as possible and help us make this year's event a big success."
For more information about the Santa Dash and to register online to take part, visit www.dhsantadash.co.uk


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Discussion in 'Texans Talk' started by Wolf, Dec 8, 2007.
Jethro Franklin seems like someone to hang your hat on hope he stays with his boyz awhile overseeing their complete development, then elevated to DC. I think he is missing one more piece to the puzzle- specificly a competitive RDE w/big play ability, the right one would put Okoye & Co. over the top, right now opponents are able to lock down the rookie while Mario has transformed into a beast @ LDE. just imagine a sack machine coming hard from the right side how it would balance the attack
Yep. Again, two of his sacks against the Tacks came from him playing on the left. There was a discussion in the offseason about whether Mario should play next to Amobi (it was more with the assumption that Mario would be weakside DE and where Amobi would go) or whether they should create havoc from both sides of the line. But the best they've looked was when they were lined up together and stunting.
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USF releases 285 pages of notes on Leavitt
Attorneys representing USF have released 285 pages of hand-written notes from the school's investigation into former football coach Jim Leavitt, but due to redactions throughout the notes, Leavitt's attorney has submitted a motion asking for access to the unredacted notes, as well as extensive documents USF has excluded from its release.
Attorney Wil Florin, who is representing Leavitt in his lawsuit against USF, wrote in the motion filed Friday that the school's "extensive albeit improper redaction" has rendered the investigators' notes "virtually incomprehensible" and "useless in their present form."
After public records requests were made by the Times and Leavitt's attorney, USF declined to release the notes from their investigation that led to the January firing of Leavitt. However, USF agreed to release some notes into evidence in a hearing last month, with several key names and portions of interviews redacted to protect their identities. USF also declined to include more than 100 documents from the evidence, usually citing attorney-client privilege. Florin's motion argues that USF "had wrongfully withheld a large number of documents" from evidence, including incorrect use of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) to exclude some.
It's unknown when the matter will be heard in court -- hearings had been scheduled for this week, but Florin said those had been postponed by scheduling conflicts. Leavitt was fired Jan. 9 after USF's investigation ruled that he had committed "serious violations" of its conduct code. The investigation found that he grabbed the throat of walk-on running back Joel Miller and slapped him twice in the face during halftime of USF's Nov. 21 game against Louisville, then lied to investigators and interfered with their investigation. Leavitt has denied all the charges against him, and his lawsuit seeks part of all of the $7-million left unpaid from his contract with USF.
The 285 pages of notes give a much more thorough look at what was asked of witnesses and others who talked to witnesses, compared to the 31-page summary that was the only information released by USF at Leavitt's firing. Among the new details gleaned from the hand-written notes from USF's two investigators, attorney Thomas Gonzalez and USF vice president Sandy Lovins:
-- It was known that Leavitt had opened a bloody cut on the bridge of his nose in the same halftime when he head-butted a helmeted player, linebacker LaDre Watkins, and an interview with Florida Highway Patrol officer Benny Perez, who works security for the team, suggests he thought Leavitt had a concussion after the game as a result of the head-butting. "I didn't let him drive home because I thought he had a concussion," Lovins' notes from the interview with Perez state. "I called wife and said you need to pick him up." It's unclear from the interviews whether the head-butting occurred before or after Leavitt's interaction with Miller.
-- After 75 pages of interviews, in the middle of Lovins' notes, there is a list of phrases that seem to read like summary statements, though not as emphatic as the one ultimately included in USF's investigation. They read "upon review it appears more plausible that ... the reviewers find it more credible ... when viewed in overall context , it appears most ("more" written beneath it) likely that ... could not be conclusively determined ... despite follow up or an attempt to get that info, it remains uncertain." There is no context in the notes to show what the phrases were intended to represent.
-- In an interview with Glen Besterfield, USF's associate dean for undergraduate studies, who was not in the locker room during the halftime in question, he tells investigators about a conversation with USF President Judy Genshaft. "I remember Judy saying that only thing that can take down a prez is 'docs & jocks'" the notes read.
-- The extent of protective redaction varies greatly from witness to witness -- some are identified by name throughout their testimony, even in conversations explaining the importance of maintaining their anonymity, while others are redacted in all instances.


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iPod is great because it can store thousands of music in a small device, without the bother to change cds/MDs.
so to have 1000 books in 1000 SDcards is just not as convenient to have 1000 books in one memory card. (while convenience is one major sell point for ebooks; and in direct comparison: mp3s)
That is an excellent point, and I expect that the answer to which is more important is going to be different for different folks.
However, consider that mp3's are a bit different from books in that they only last for 2~4 minutes each, so an audiophile has a very strong need to carry thousands of mp3's around with him. Books, on the other hand, last a bit longer per "file," so the need to carry a huge number of them around at once may be low enough to offset that somewhat. Then there's the detail that SD cards themselves are really quite small, so you
carry even as many as a dozen or so fairly easily; particularly if the reader had storage slots build into its cover as my PalmPilot's case has.
Those who wish to carry around their entire libraries would be disappointed (or have to get a shoebox), but others might not be too bothered by that trade-off.
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Steve Chiotakis: One of New York City's main commuter railroads is buying new train cars. But they can't link up with the nation's 10 remaining so-called "bar cars" that have ridden those tracks for years. So stockbrokers ordering booze on the ride home may soon be a thing of the past. Jill Barshay reports.
Jill Barshay: Joanna Solano is mixing a vodka tonic. She tends bar on the Metro North line between New York City and Stamford, Conn. She says the people in the bar car are like a family.
Joanna Solano: Mostly stock, people from Wall Street, advertising, marketing. Hard day at work, stress at work, this is happy hour for them.
But the states of Connecticut and New York are calling last orders. Marjorie Anders from Metro North Railroad says the state legislatures didn't fund enough regular cars for all the commuters.
Marjorie Anders: We have a lot of people who need a seat more than they need a bar car. So if we get enough cars out there so that we can satisfy our customers, then maybe we'll have time to think about ordering some bar cars.
Anders says commuters will still be able order booze from Metro North's concession stands on the platform and take the drink aboard.
In New York, I'm Jill Barshay for Marketplace.


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New coach talks with team
UND football coach Bubba Schweigert met with his team Monday afternoon for the first time as a group.
"We're going to talk about how we're going to run the program," said Schweigert, who was hired in late December. "We'll talk about responsibility and accountability. We're going to do it day by day. We won't look farther than what we can do today. That's how you have to approach this."
Schweigert hasn't had much time to relax since his hiring. He's had to put an assistant staff in place and search for recruits with the Feb. 5 national signing day deadline lurking.
On Monday at Memorial Stadium, though, Schweigert had his first chance to get the returning players to buy in to his plan.
"The first message has to be how we do things as a team and part of that is being a good teammate," Schweigert said.
Schweigert said he's getting a better handle on his personnel through watching game and practice video.
"I'm still evaluating everything," Schweigert said. "It's everything. How are guys doing in school? How are they approaching their treatments? Their workouts? Then, we'll evaluate the depth chart."
Schweigert also continued to round out his coaching staff on Monday, announcing the hiring of Joel Schwenzfeier as outside linebackers coach.
Schwenzfeier, who coached running backs at UND a year ago, is Schweigert's first hire off former coach Chris Mussman's staff.
Schwenzfeier played for UND from 2007-10 and was a standout defensive back.
"Joel has a special connection to UND football and will provide us with a link to the surrounding area and many former UND players," Schweigert said. "We are moving him back to the defensive side of the ball where his passion lies. In my short time working with him, I respect his work ethic and commitment to bettering our football program."
Schwenzfeier made 37 career starts and played in all 44 games at strong safety during a four-year career at UND. He finished his career with 10 interceptions and tied a UND single-game record with three in the 2009 season-opener at Texas Tech.
Schwenzfeier was named to the media's All-Great West first team following his senior season in 2010. He had three interceptions in that season, including taking one back for a 100-yard touchdown return.
Schwenzfeier's hire completes UND's defensive hires. The team is expected to name a running backs coach and special teams coach this week.


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Over the objection of doctors, the state Senate on Tuesday passed one of three health reform-related bills intended to address California's medical provider gap.
Lawmakers passed SB491 by Democratic Sen. Ed Hernandez of West Covina, which will expand the role of nurse practitioners. The 21-12 vote was the bare majority needed for the bill to move to the Assembly.
The Senate also is considering two other bills - SB492 and SB493 - to expand medical services provided by optometrists and pharmacists. For example, optometrists could check for high blood pressure while pharmacists could order laboratory testing to detect diabetes.
All three bills face heavy opposition from the California Medical Association. The doctors group has argued that the state should focus on building more medical schools, adding residency slots and expanding programs that help doctors pay off student loans in exchange for working in underserved communities.
SB491 would give greater independence to nurse practitioners to treat Medicaid and Medicare patients even if the doctors they work for do not. Supporters said the change is necessary to serve rural and minority communities as California prepares to insure million of new patients under federal health care reforms.
Hernandez said nurse practitioners already are allowed to work independently in 17 states. One of those, Arizona, saw an increase in nurse practitioners moving there after the change was made.
"We need to do something to address the provider shortage," said Hernandez, an optometrist by training. "We have to look at making sure we get more individuals access to primary care."
But some lawmakers of both parties worried that the change would create two classes of medical care and argued that not all Californians will have access to quality care provided by doctors.
Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, said she would rather get more primary care doctors into the field.
"This is a situation where we really need to make sure that even if people live in underserved communities that they get the best health care we can provide," Jackson said. "And I don't believe allowing nurse practitioners to practice without any oversight gives those people the protections that they need."


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From Phelim McAleer, the director of FrackNation.
28 October, 2015
From Phelim McAleer, the director of FrackNation.
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09 December, 2014
Blaming Climate Change Yet Again
As this year comes to a close the usual suspects—within the media and among the most corrupt of the alleged scientists peddling the scare of CAGW—are already declaring 2014 the hottest year ever. The cause? Climate Change. Yes, climate change causes climate change! Elsewhere, according to Doyle Rice in USA Today) some scientists who have actually looked at evidence blame California's persistent drought on natural variability:
Natural weather patterns and climate variability, not man-made global warming, are causing the historic drought that's parching California, says a study out today from federal scientists.
"It's important to note that California's drought, while extreme, is not an uncommon occurrence for the state," said Richard Seager, report lead author and professor with Columbia University's Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory. The report, "Causes and Predictability of the 2011-14 California Drought," was sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
The report did not appear in a [pre-publication] peer-reviewed journal, but was reviewed by other NOAA scientists.
"In fact, multi-year droughts appear regularly in the state's climate record, and it's a safe bet that a similar event will happen again," he said.
The persistent weather pattern over the past several years has featured a warm, dry ridge of high pressure over the eastern North Pacific Ocean and western North America. Such high-pressure ridges prevent clouds from forming and precipitation from falling.
The current study notes that this ridge—which has resulted in decreased rain and snowfall since 2011—is almost opposite to what computer models predict will result from human-induced climate change.
Naturally, a serial liar, and one of the world's prominent propagandists for the pseudo-scientific conjecture of CAGW, the rather vexatious Michael Mann, had to express denial:
"The authors of the new report would really have us believe that is merely a coincidence and has nothing to do with the impact of human-caused climate change?" Penn State meteorologist Michael Mann wrote in the Huffington Post Monday."Frankly, I don't find that even remotely plausible."
It could be interesting, one day, to list all all things which that fraudulent fellow does find plausible—the survival of the Loch Ness monster and the sway of reptilian aliens among us, a fair observed might expect—versus all the facts, verities, truths and the concept of the null hypothesis which he indubitably regards as implausible.
Mann cites the fact that the NOAA report focuses primarily on the lack of precipitation, not the unusually high temperatures that have been measured in the oceans as well as across the state of California. […]
Peer-reviewed studies are divided on whether the drought can be blamed on climate change.
Ah, yes, we cannot be certain whether climate change could be blamed on climate change—for, after all, droughts may lead to droughts! Perhaps the rather silly but lucripetous Dr. Mann ought to have paid more attention to The Hockey Schtick rather than to his own thoroughly worn comfort-object, the spurious hockey stick:
A paper published in Living Reviews of Solar Physics finds from 2 cosmogenic isotope proxies that solar activity at the end of the 20th century was at the highest levels of the past 1200 years. Many other papers also confirm that solar activity reached a Grand Solar Maximum at the end of the 20th century. However, according to the IPCC, this has nothing to do with 0.7C of global warming since the end of the Little Ice Age in 1850.
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13 August, 2014
Things Not Caused by Climate Change
The list of the deleterious and not so deleterious effects of supposed anthropogenic global warming (such as more and fewer bushfires, greater and lesser droughts, increasing warmth and increasing coolth, angrier sharks, and such softer sea-shells by a susurrant sea shore) ever grows—alarmingly!—continually!—exponentially!—CATASTROPHICALLY!—so we thought it might be more advantageous to compile a list of all the things which, currently, according to the consensus of "climate scientists", are NOT caused by climate change (though, of course, we must keep an eye on future editions of "peer-reviewed" pseudo-scientific journals):
Things Not Caused by AGW:
the Elder Futharc;
La Gelée d'Oranges à l'Anglaise;
heliocentric theory;
the hortatory subjunctive;
knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to heaven;
leather knapsacks;
most paper cuts;
signet rings;
some asteroid strikes;
tyromancy; &
the Elder Futharc;
La Gelée d'Oranges à l'Anglaise;
heliocentric theory;
the hortatory subjunctive;
knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to heaven;
leather knapsacks;
most paper cuts;
signet rings;
some asteroid strikes;
tyromancy; &
See also "Unsettled Science".
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14 February, 2014
Time's Up
Back in 2012 my father and I attended a "conversation" on climate change which was held in Hobart. The four main speakers spouting the pseudo-scientific bullshit that night were Prof. Tim Flannery, Prof. Will Steffen, Prof. Lesley Hughes and some slow, boring economist, Mr. Roger Beale.
After the forum had concluded, I managed to approach Prof. Flannery; I asked him when Brisbane would run out of water, and Flannery kindly professed: "Within the next couple of years."
Now, "a couple of years", surely, means "two years" and it has now been two years since our colloquy. Has Brisbane run out of water? I checked the figures here and here; it appears that Brisbane's dams average over 89% capacity, with several over 96%.
It seems to me, if dams average an 89% capacity, with none at all anywhere near empty, that Brisbane will not run out of water even within the next couple of years.
23 October, 2013
"Why the Global Warming Agenda Is Wrong"
UPDATE (October 27): "Ten Tests to Determine Whether You Should Be Concerned about Global Warming":
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22 May, 2013
John Cook et Alii Willfully Lie
The lucripetous and deceitful John Cook (an unscrupulous and shameless propagandist for the silly, pseudo-scientific conjecture of anthropogenic global warming) continues to lie in order to convince the gullible that, if a plurality of supposed experts suggest that anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide cause global warming, then everyone else must believe that any resultant warming will be catastrophic for the entire planet. He and his overpaid collabarators falsely and fallaciously claim that "among papers expressing a position on human-caused global warming, over 97% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming."
See "97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists' Papers, according to the scientists that published them" at Popular Technology:
See "97% Study Falsely Classifies Scientists' Papers, according to the scientists that published them" at Popular Technology:
The paper, Cook et al. (2013) "Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature" searched the Web of Science for the phrases "global warming" and "global climate change" then categorizing these results to their alleged level of endorsement of AGW. These results were then used to allege a 97% consensus on human-caused global warming.
To get to the truth, I emailed a sample of scientists whose papers were used in the study and asked them if the categorization by Cook et al. (2013) were an accurate representation of their paper. Their responses are eye opening and evidence that the Cook et al. (2013) team falsely classified scientists' papers as "endorsing AGW", apparently believing to know more about the papers than their authors.
See also Jo Nova's "Cook's fallacy '97% consensus' study is a marketing ploy some journalists will fall for":
What does a study of 20 years of abstracts tell us about the global climate? Nothing. But it says quite a lot about the way government funding influences the scientific process. John Cook, a blogger who runs the site with the ambush title "SkepticalScience" (which unskeptically defends the mainstream position), has tried to revive the put-down and smear strategy against the thousands of scientists who disagree. The new paper confounds climate research with financial forces, is based on the wrong assumptions, uses fallacious reasoning, wasn't independent, and confuses a consensus of climate scientists for a scientific consensus, not that a consensus proves anything anyway, if it existed.From WUWT:
UPDATE I: the demented Prof. Stephan Lewandowsky, one of John Cook's accomplices, also lies in order to enrich himself. See "The Lewandowsky Papers", by Ben Pile:
By "climate change denier", a pejorative term employed by dishonest awarmists, Ben Pile evidently means "sceptics of AGW".A culture of intransigence has developed in the shadow of the compact between politics and science, which can be seen in the Lewandowsky affair in microcosm. Lewandowsky's work unwittingly demonstrates that what is passed off as peer-reviewed and published 'science', even in today's world, is no more scientific than the worst ramblings of the least qualified and nuttiest climate change denier on the internet. It looks like science, certainly, but the product survives only a superficial inspection. The only difference being the institutional muscle that Lewandowsky has access to, but which unhinged climate change deniers do not. The object of the Professor's study is really his own refusal to debate with his lessers.
UPDATE II: see, also at WUWT, "The Collapsing 'Consensus'", by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley:
Environmental Research Letters ought to have known better than to publish the latest anti-scientific propaganda paper by John Cook of the dubiously-named Skeptical Science website. Here are just a few of the solecisms that should have led any competent editor or reviewer to reject the paper:
Yet the most remarkable conclusion to be drawn from Cook's strange paper is that the "consensus"—far from growing—is actually collapsing.
- It did not discuss, still less refute, the principle that the scientific method is not in any way informed by argument from consensus, which thinkers from Aristotle via Alhazen to Huxley and Popper have rejected as logically fallacious.
- Its definition of the "consensus" it claimed to have found was imprecise: that "human activity is very likely causing most of the current anthropogenic global warming".
- It did not put a quantitative value on the term "very likely", and it did not define what it meant by "current" warming. There has been none for at least 18 years.
- It cited as authoritative the unscientifically-sampled surveys of "consensus" by Doran & Zimmerman (2009) and Anderegg et al. (2010).
- It inaccurately represented the views of scientists whose abstracts it analysed.
- It disregarded two-thirds of the 12,000 abstracts it examined, on the unscientific ground that those abstracts had expressed no opinion on Man's climatic influence.
- It declared that the one-third of all papers alleged to have endorsed the "consensus" really amounted to 97% of the sample, not 33%.
- It suggested that the "consensus" that most recent warming is man-made is equivalent to the distinct and far less widely-supported notion that urgent action to prevent future warming is essential to avert catastrophe. [President] Obama fell for this, twittering that 97% found global warming not only real and manmade but also dangerous.
UPDATE III (28 May): it seems that Cook et al. are unable to search academic literature databases competently; see "'Landmark consensus study' is incomplete", by Shub Niggurath:
The Cook et al. numbers are somewhat replicable, only if search [were] limited to the Science Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index databases in Web of Science. Presumably, this made the job of classification easier. Contrary to claims, however, this makes their literature search incomplete. It is neither 'comprehensive' nor produces the 'largest' possible data set. The finding of incomplete search has further implications as it affects all conclusions drawn in the paper.
UPDATE IV (11 June): see Shub Niggurath's "Why the Cook paper is bunk: Part I":
Cook and co-authors rationalize the decrease in the proportion of papers supporting the consensus, via a convoluted theory, as evidence for a high degree of consensus. They contend the decrease implies more papers have accepted the consensus and therefore don't need to talk about it. At the same time, they take the increase in absolute numbers of orthodox position papers as evidence for 'increasing consensus'.UPDATE V (17 June): Shub Niggurath's "Why the Cook paper is bunk: Part II" is now available:
Now, Cook and colleagues have spread the message wide that 97% of a 'large number of scientific abstracts' support anthropogenic global warming […]. From the University of Queensland's press release:
About 97 per cent of 4000 international scientific papers analysed in a University of Queensland-led study were rated as endorsing human-caused global warming.How this happened is known: a large number of papers not stating a position on AGW were classified as 'implicitly' accepting the orthodox climate position. […]
The 'implicit endorse' category Cook's group invented, illustrates devilish intricacies that can arise in classification studies. Papers were added to the category merely because a predetermined rating system suggested it to volunteers, who then went looking for it. It serves as a paradigm that illustrates how researchers can imprint methodological and observer biases on material they set out to study.
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14 May, 2013
The Philospher's Preferred Instrument of Change: Tax
On ABC's Lateline, last night, Emma Alberici interviewed Prof. Michael Sandel (the text is that of Lateline's own transcription):
EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: Our guest tonight is the famed Harvard University professor of Government, Michael Sandel. Newsweek calls him the most relevant living philosopher.
Well, if Newsweek praise him—
EMMA ALBERICI: Which takes me to the dangerous political territory which you traverse in the book around climate change. Now, you talk about this market in buying and selling the right to pollute in a way that clearly demonstrates that you're not a fan.
What she means, by "the right to pollute", is the lawful, industrial emitting of carbon dioxide—the trace gas which is essential for life on earth—as a byproduct, for example, of generating affordable power.
MICHAEL SANDEL: Well, I think the best way to reduce carbon emissions would be a carbon tax, which is terribly unpopular, certainly in my country and elsewhere.This, of course, is assuming that "carbon emissions" need to be reduced on the further supposition that they cause global warming. Strangely, for a supposed philosopher, Mandel neglects to question those pseudo-scientific assumptions. Not so strangely, for an awarmist presenter on the awarmist ABC, Emma Alberici doesn't bother asking her guest for evidence to support his assertions.
Some international agreements on global warming have included provisions, often at the insistence of the US, to allow countries to meet their obligations either by reducing their own emissions or by paying other countries to reduce theirs. The worry, it seems to me, my worry, is that if we're trying to generate a global ethic on the environment, on climate change, we're going to have to cultivate a sense that we are all in this together. And if we allow rich countries to buy their way out of shared sacrifice, I'm concerned that this could erode the attitudes, the sense of common commitment and shared sacrifice that we will need truly to tackle the long-term challenge of reducing emissions. So attitudes matter. And sometimes monetary incentives can damage or erode or even corrupt attitudes that we need to support a shared public, in this case global, ethic.So, if richer countries were to transfer more wealth to poorer countries, it would be bad because that sacrificing of money wouldn't be as sacrificing as losing wealth by making energy less affordable for the less affluent. Why, pray, do we even need a "global ethic"? If global warming were truly endangering us all would not prudent, cost-effective action be more important than possibly protracted attempts to alter ethics? Would Prof. Sandel prefer that ethical positions be shared on, say, the evils of slavery or the wickedness of the use of torture in police investigations, ere such practices be banned?
EMMA ALBERICI: But isn't that problem equally levelled around the carbon tax in so far as if only one country does it – the whole idea of an emissions trading scheme was that everyone was going to be doing it together, wasn't it? I mean, the carbon tax will only apply in one territory.
MICHAEL SANDEL: Well ideally I think the major countries should try to get together and agree on – to enact carbon taxes, but I think if the major economies begin to do so, I think that can have a desirable effect for others. I'm all in favour of anything we can do internationally to create a sense of shared responsibility to tackle climate change and global warming. My worry was that simply relying on tradeable pollution permits, giving rich countries the right essentially to buy their way out of shared sacrifice would undermine the global cooperation, the shared ethic we need as citizens of this planet to do something serious about climate change.
Right, and that "something serious" to "tackle climate change" is to ruin the economies of wealthier countries.
EMMA ALBERICI: What are your attitudes towards the compensation element? I mean, in this country we have a carbon tax and then in some circumstances households were overcompensated for the effect of the tax on their particular household budgets. And we see the same thing with big corporations being compensated for the harmful effect of such a tax.
By "overcompensated" Alberici means that people have been assigned slightly more funds—taken from taxpayers—than the Government has calculated—using, too often, imagined figures—might be the average burden foisted on ordinary taxpayers by various rises in costs after the imposition of the "carbon" tax, without taking into account the deleterious effect on the economy generally.
MICHAEL SANDEL: Well I think that trying to offset the regressive aspects of a tax, helping those who are least able to bear it, is a good way of making a carbon tax politically acceptable without putting the greatest burden on those who can least afford it. I'm not familiar with the way the compensation works with regard to companies. But I wish that we in this country would adopt a carbon tax and helping alleviate the burden on those who can't afford it. Because I think it would begin to change habits and change attitudes as well as practices and the emissions themselves with regard to one of the biggest challenges long term that we face.
Well, there you go: a philosopher, and promoter of global ethics, wants to change others' habits, beliefs and practices; he therefore advocates that governments impose additional taxes on them in order to force the changes he supports. How philosophical and ethical!
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04 April, 2013
"FrackNation" Reviewed
"FrackNation" is an independent feature documentary by Phelim McAleer, funded by the public through Kickstarter, that aims to correct the record about "Gasland"—an alleged documentary—which has persuaded people, who haven't taken the time to research the matter, to believe that fracking—induced hydraulic fracturing—is so polluting that you can get sick from breathing the air as you drive through Pennsylvania and that the farmers are in dire need of help. Josh Fox, the director of "Gasland", was unwilling to talk about the historical facts that disprove one of the movie's most memorable and influential scenes of a man setting his water of fire, and dismissed them as "not relevant". McAleer then tried to post the video on different websites of Josh Fox stating the historical records of people being able to light their water on fire before fracking was irrelevant, but was silenced by HBO—supposedly because of copyright. This motivated McAleer to make his own movie based on what the affected farmers in Pennsylvania really had to say.
Phelim McAleer starts his investigation into the effects on farming that fracking had made by talking to the farmers themselves. He finds that a majority of the farmers and families involved with fracking were in favour of fracking and claimed that there were no ill effects, and that very few families opposed making much-needed money by leasing their land for drilling. Some opponents of fracking claim that their water was polluted because of fracking and that they got sick from drinking from their wells; one man even stated that because of fracking there is now weapons-grade uranium in his water along with a list of other dangerous and deadly chemicals. McAleer also found that there has always been methane and iron in those wells—and not from fracking—and that the families who say that their water is contaminated are unable to produce on film anything but clear water instead of the murky red or brown water shown in Gasland. McAleer and his crew then ask some real scientists about the affects of fracking on the environment.
McAleer asked several researchers (including journalists and engineers) about the effects of fracking and, each time, was told just how safe fracking is and how much Josh Fox misrepresented the process. Fox said that fracking was unsafe, destructive, polluting and could even lead to earthquakes. However, these claims prove to be false. James Delingpole, the journalist and author, said that shale gas is the miracle of the early twenty-first century; in terms of safety and environmental friendliness and economic efficiency, shale gas is about the best thing going in the world right now, he says.
Josh Fox used his film "Gasland" to try to scare decent people into believing that natural gas is bad and to convince us through lying and deception that the gas corporations are evil and are deceiving hard-working farmers into leasing their land to them, which those corporations would pollute beyond repair. Phelim McAleer, after investigating the matter himself, shows the public the truth about fracking.
As a compelling film that keeps you interested: 7 out of 10;
As a documentary that gives corrective arguments along with stories, interviews and visual confirmation of facts, presented in an interesting way: 7 out of 10.
(Cross-posted at Alfred's Review.
DISCLOSURE: Deadman helped fund FrackNation; see his earlier post "FrackNation".)
UPDATE I: see "What Happened to the Media", by Phelim McAleer:
For [anti-fracking] journalists and activists there has been no better story about the evils of fracking than the Hallowich family in Washington County Pennsylvania. Mrs Hallowich told news outlets from across the world how her family's health was destroyed by fracking activity near their home. She claimed her family and in particular her children were suffering devastating health impacts caused by fracking and said her children could some day have cancer as a result. […]This narrative was only strengthened when it emerged that the Hallowiches had settled a legal battle with an oil and gas company and received a financial settlement. And if any further proof was needed the settlement was covered by a non-disclosure clause—which the journalists and anti-fracking activists took as evidence of wrongdoing and then the cover up of the wrongdoingBut let's not forget that journalists, when they want to be, can be enterprising. So they worked out that the agreement covered minors–who of course have to be protected from corporations and, in the eyes of the law, sometimes even their parents. So they petitioned a court to release the details of the agreement because the court and not the parents were allowed to decide what was right for the children.The court decided that there was no reason why the lawsuit covering the children should be kept secret and ordered all the documents should be released. […]To the dismay of anti-fracking activists and, I suspect, their journalistic supporters, the document dump confirmed that the Hallowiches had lied to them. The documents confirmed that even as they were claiming to media that fracking was damaging their children's health, the Hallowiches were sitting on scientific and medical evidence that their children were healthy and not affected by fracking. […]
In my documentary, FrackNation, we interviewed the Sautner family in Dimock, PA. They had given dozens of interviews and in all of them claimed their water contained three types of uranium—"two of them weapons grade." Not one journalist ever asked for the science behind these claims. It was a story that was too good to check.The publicity surrounding Dimock, PA is one of the main reasons that fracking is now banned in New York—even though test after test by the PA state scientists and the EPA have revealed that there is no contamination in the water. But these results—overturning a key allegation of anti-fracking activists—have received very little media coverage.It is the same with the Hallowiches. When the evidence proved their allegations wrong, the media just refused to publish the science and moved on to the next exciting allegation. And in the meantime families who know no better are frightened of fracking, worrying if their family's health will suffer. Journalists owe it to these families to follow the story of the Hallowiches to the very end and publish the science that shows their water is clean and their family is healthy.
UPDATE II (23 April): see "Tribeca festival shuts out dissent" by Phelim McAleer:
Our mistake was to believe the Tribeca Film Festival's claims to want diversity of opinion and people who are passionate about film.
As a journalist who made a documentary looking at the factual deficiencies in the first "Gasland," I put some inconvenient questions to Josh Fox as he was speaking to the media on the red carpet.
The farmers milling around nearby decided to join in with pointed but respectful questions of their own. After all, they know their land better than anyone, and they felt aggrieved that their lives and communities had been misrepresented by the first "Gasland."
They asked Fox if he now accepted that the water in Dimock, Pa., is clean. He'd claimed that Dimock was one of the most contaminated areas in the United States because of fracking. But state scientists and then the EPA investigated and found the water clean.
The farmers asked Fox if he'd accept the science and apologize for calling their community a wasteland. He didn't reply.
There was silence also when they asked Fox if he's going to withdraw his claim that fracking has caused a spike in breast cancer. That's been debunked by the country's top cancer experts, but Fox has remained silent, allowing the fears to linger. […]
It seems that inconvenient questions aren't welcome at the Tribeca Film Festival. […]
One staffer said they were not allowed in "because you're making trouble." Another was more honest: "We just don't feel comfortable letting them into the movie," she explained.
The festival organizers called the police just in case the farmers didn't get the message that they weren't welcome.
Julia Mineeva, a Russian journalist who's covered the film festival for five years, thought she'd stumbled across a great story and started interviewing the various groups. When she went in to see the movie she was asked to leave, followed, put in handcuffs, arrested and charged with trespassing.
It seems that covering both sides of a story is an arrestable offense at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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I am a criminal defense attorney, hoping to work with you. The questions I had to clarify were as follows: To make sure I understand, You received a ticket in florida for not wearing a seat belt. Question one: Do you have a florida or Ga. license?
Second, when did you pay the ticket and did you receive a reicept from the court indicating you paid your fine. If not, you may go to the court clerk and obtain a "certificate of disposition." Not only does this document show that you have no outstanding criminal matters, you should also obtain a similar document from the department of motor vehicles which shows that your payment of the fine FULLY SATISFIES the ticket and that NOTHING FURTHER is requried of you. You probably want a print out indicating that your license is fully active and valid.
3) if your question is "Why doesn't my payment in Florida satisfy Georgia?" please let me know so I can cite the VTL which would make this conundrum legal.
Finally, when you are satisfied with the work I have provided for you, please rate my answer three or more stars so that I get credit for my work. Please ask as many follow up questions as you need to, even afterrating my answer. Please do not rate until you are satisfid.
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Sorry I missed you due to problem with this chat comm ... I am on since 3PM and could not connect with you!!! I have Valid GA license. I went to court with intent to settle but the judge give me no choice but plea not guilty!!! Ned some advice of handling this type of offense. First how do I have a fair trial, second if I go to court can the judge increase my fine plus assess points? I am working in FL but perm resident and DL from GA
I finally got your information that you provided. Please give me a short time to conduct some research so that I can give you the most accurate answer possible and I will post what i find on here. Is that acceptable? One more clarifying note-the judge who you said would not allow you to plea to anything, that was the Fla. judge?
Yes ... I got ticket in FL. I believe her name isXXXXX but not 100% sure, she is in court room 411. She asked me several funny questions then making fun of my driving record, the proceed with the ful amount fine of $114.00. I was upset and want to fight it now! Already lost 2 unpaid working hours! Please help.
Thank you. I got the CoD, what kind of info do you need on special disposition remake I saw 5.2.13 pam 411. with plea: Denied, continued to 5/2 9am #411 with witnesses (there were no witnesses except me, officer and god).
I thought it was a hearing/trial but the police officer and/or state attorney was not there. And it willl continue on May 2, 2013 at 9AM. Thank you.
Good morning :-) I am still waiting. Did want to put any pressure on you but wondering will I hear from you by this weekend? Thank you.
No problem J
I rather you got it right instead fast but misleading or wrong L
That is exactly my point. He was not there at the time the accident occurred. Plus I did not think it was fair for him to make that kind of statement. Like he did me a favor earlier and now decide to not able to grant another as one is the limit!!!
The judge also bias and unfair but she is the Queen in court and I am afraid of upset her. But I hope the law "forces" her to follow the rule.
If he saw me without seatbelt; he should have stop me instead of asking me about previous accident. After went away then turn right back, I hope he has a camera or video to support his facts. Most likely he does not or did but not saying so. So is my word against his and most likely the judge will side with him which is totally unfair. It is just $114.00 with no point and so far I have wasted 2 working hours and many more for the hearing. But I am fighting for the principle!
But I don't know the law that is why I need your help and I will compensate you for your effort. I rather pay you than those bastards.
On your response on 4/4 at 9:46 AM, you stated that you would need more time to do additional research.
"I will find those details in the criminal procedure law. I look forward to getting back to you, and this, in just a little while.
That is the portion of the code dealing with penalties."
I assumed you would get back to me will clearer and more detail of what I need to prepare for my May 2 hearing date.
Let's assumed this is all you got. I can take this and prepare my case.
But let's play court hearing situations.
This is base on what I said that he told me. On that date if he said that he saw me not wearing seatbelt and issued me the ticket at the time I violate the law but he has no picture no video to support his side. And he said I did wear seatbelt. The judge would look at my driving record and yes during my 30 years of driving I did twice not wearing seatbelt. But I have no history of this officer if he ever makes up story to support his citations. SO the judge will have to make a decision with no real facts or related facts and most likely she would cite with the officer. This is unfair, but how am I going to fight this? Do you have any info that I can use to defend myself?
One final question, I thought the presumption of innocence until proven guilty and the officer must prove the charge against me beyond a reasonable doubt. Is that still the law of the land?
Thank you! You are the best, XXXXX XXXXX be sign on around 10:30 PM EST if you needed me or more info. Have fun with your meeting.
Hello-I wanted to let you know I'm online right now so please ask me any specific questions you might have. I have to unpack that seat belt statute and the infraction law again to present to you. SOrry if you have given me this information but what county in Florida did this occur? I easily found that if you were to just plea out, the ticket would cost you $30 and no points. but after that, if you fight the ticket, procedures vary amongst counties. I will gladly look into this for you as soon as you tell me the county. Since the majority of infractions fought are speeding tickets, finding information about no seat belt is more challenging...but I like a challenge. Look forward to hearing from you.
That is great if you can do that. The ticket was issued in Jacksonville FL in Duval county.
Thank you for your help.
Wow, I am speechless …
Let me summarize what you just told me. Regardless of facts the judge can fine me base on my driving history alone and can fine me up to $1000.00.
What happen to the presumption of innocence until proven guilty! The officer did not have to show up or prove that I did it. And the judge was not there but able to make her decision base on no facts and my previous driving record!!!
Is this is Florida law or this type of logic is what we are facing with in this wonderful country – USA.
So why bother with the hearing or the law book, we just donate money to the city so the can build better court and pay the judge and the police officer!!!
Last, what about what you have told me last week that the officer has no right to issue me that ticket as it was after the fact!
Perhaps I misunderstood the info you have provided.
All I ask is just a fair hearing and a fair judge.
What is the point of fighting when you are facing with this stupid law that the judge can do whatever she please and completely disregarding the law or fairness!!! How could this happen is USA?
So give it to me straight, am I going to have a fair trail? They can jack the fine up to their eye ball if they wish, as long as they give me a fair trial, I game.
Update: You also once told me, "I easily found that if you were to just plea out, the ticket would cost you $30 and no points", what happen to that? Is that a valid option for this stupid Florida state?
I am so upset reading your input/feedback/advice, could not believe this is the USA!!!
It is not you it is the stupid system that we elected those unfair judges to drive us nut!!!
After a good night sleep, I could not upset at the system but need to work within it with your help and knowledge, so please help me. I will fight this and hope for a fair judgment. I am thinking or planning to ask him me following questions during my trial:
Do you have any picture or concrete facts to support what you saw that I did not wearing my seatbelt or video. Do you have a video in your car? was it on when you stop me.
When did you notice that I did not wear seatbelt? Why did you stop me instead of asking was I the same one you stop earlier in the morning?
Why did it take 10 minutes to stop you?
Were you "seat belt enforcement" detail, "looking" to cite people for driving w/o a seatbelt. If so, how many seat belt tickets did you write that day?
How many seat belt tickets did you write on the day I got the ticket?
Was there any other traffic that obstructed your view so that you didn't see me wearing my seatbelt?
Why did you drove away then decide to turn back and cite me for not wearing seatbelt? Did you notice additional fact that make you decide to give me the ticket then?
Did you take times to listen to my explanation?
What condition was I when you stop me the first time and the second time when you give me the citation? Was I tired and sweating?
I need to be calm thru out the process.
Any additional questions I should ask? What is my chance base on what you knew?
What ever you could help that would be greatly appreciated.
Actually I think we did not finish or complete this question, but I respect your wish and rated you. so you would feel comfortable to continue ... looking forward to complete this issue and thank you for your times.
I have limited access to computer right now and have other matters need to take care of ... I should be back in FL by Monday. Thank you
First of all, I have a family matter that took me away from Jacksonville … I am back and ready to receive your advice and fight this case as it is schedule for May 2. 2 weeks from today!!!
I trust your judgment but wish that you would get straight to the point how I can win this case or at least have a fair hearing.
What you have explained about cross examination is very useful, but I do not have years or even weeks to be expert at this. I just want to win this.
I have listed a bunch of questions and hope that you would advice or point me to a right direction.
BTW, I have no problem of rating you, and truly understood you would get pay 100 times more than that. But seriously I am a result oriented kind of person, and I also hope you are in it for fun and challenge not for the money. You will get compensate well base on the result of this case with bonus.
Please help.
I have read all the info you have provided unless I miss something, please be kind to point them out. First you did give me hope that you seem to like good challenge. Then you start giving me bad news about the judge can fine me up to $1000.00 even without the officer show up just base solely on my previous driving record; then you finally give me some pointer on cross examination; I thought we are on to something; then now base on this last reply, it seem like your hands are tied and that is all you can advice or help.
I felt like I get a lot of running around and since March 29, after more than 2 weeks I am just little better than I was after I saw that judge.
But I do appreciate your times maybe that is just my luck.
Great ... I think it is just a miscommunication and bad assumption. Great example, I never said that you are afraid of challenge nor even have a thought that you are afraid of challenge but you assumed I said that.
I am looking forward to receive your clarification.
Thank you for your times as always.
I do understand ... The only reason I call JUSTANSWER because the question is closed but they said if you do not touch it for 8 hrs it would. It really did not make sense but I asked them to reopen it but they refuse and call you instead!!!
And yes take as long as you want but my court date still May 2 unchanged and I need the info before then.
Take care
Last Tuesday early morning, you wrote, "let me work on a summary later today. I hope this will be satisfactory."
I have waited. And today I received 2 responses, both of them with good info. And useful too.
I am trying to tie all the info you have provided so I can be educated with my case, knowing the judge will BS her way and get me to pay her unfairly. It is not a comfort feeling.
I agreed knowledge is power … but that only count in front of a fair judge, base on my interaction with her the first time plus the Florida law, you cited early … I am death!!!
I am more than happy to give you my citation but I rather do it privately than post it on the website for the world to see including that unfair, closed mind judge.
Follow-up 4/19 8;21pm EST
Are you there? Need to hear back from you still thanks ...
Great ... Let's meet online tonight. Let's say 7PM or 10PM would be better for you?
PS And thank you!
Thanks ... see u at 7 PM EST
It is 6:59 I am here ....
Got your "last minute" postpone at 6:57 PM. 9 if fine
Hello .... I am still here 8:15
9:00 are you there?
9:11 call me please XXX-XXX-XXXX
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It is 10PM
10:22 Close to 9!!!
Hi I'm here tonight if you need to talk. I also thought that if you had questions we could work on them more instantly which makes me the minority in NY an in as uses.
I really am sorry for missing our "date" as I was looking forward to it. I hope we can still connect. It's challenging to balance city life and the limited allowances of JA at times. Please accept my apologies.
Did you print out our communication?
Been waiting since 6:59. Please clarify your recommendation ...
What is the best way to interact with u online?
And yes I have the print out
10:45 are you there? call me
10:49 start hate this website ... or maybe the service!!! Still waiting ... I am online, you are online but couldn't connect ... suck!!!
I am still here and frustrated that I can not be in touch with you. And you know my phone # XXXXX not able to call!!!
I don't think it's allowed at all on this site, unfortunately. It could get us both in a lot of trouble. But just so you know, I am picking through all the work with a fine tooth comb to create something you can take with you to your hearing. It's a 14 page exchange so it takes time to be meticulous but I'm up late working on it. You can ask mne questions here in the mean time tonight and I am here to answer them.
Thank you! :-)
I am online so if you communicate with me for a little bit. If you need me tonight leave me a question otherwise, we'll talk another time. IF you've been especially imporessed by my work and feel a bonus is appropriate it would be very much appreciated! At any rate its been a pleasure serving you.


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- Kenny Perry, a Kentucky native, is sure to receive plenty of fan support during the PGA Championship. (Chris Condon/PGA TOUR)
For Kenny Perry, it will be the sweetest of good-byes. Sure, there will be some nerves Thursday morning when he tees it up at Valhalla Golf Club in the PGA Championship. But those will be nothing compared to the joy he is feeling this week.
Perry is going out in style. He could not have scripted it any better.
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Perry twice lost major championships in playoffs. The first of those came at Valhalla in the 1996 PGA Championship when he was beaten by Mark Brooks. At the 2009 Masters, Perry lost to Angel Cabrera.
Perry won 14 times on the PGA TOUR. Some of his finest hours came late in his career when he played outstanding golf and in the process qualified for the 2008 U.S. Ryder Cup team. The biennial competition was at Valhalla for the first time and the Americans posted a stirring triumph with Perry, the hometown hero, front-and-center as a veteran leader for Captain Paul Azinger.
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Perry spent most of three days before this week reacquainting himself with the Jack Nicklaus-designed Valhalla layout.
"It's going to be a great challenge," he said. "I want to be competitive."
Perry wants his good-bye and his thank you to be perfect.
Kenny Perry comments on Valhalla before the PGA Championship


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Moffett's manifesto, accompanied by a smile, defined Wednesday's rehearsal for "Voices From Slavery," a re-enactment in narrative and song. The script is an unaltered transcript from actual interviews conducted in the late 1920s and '30s with 500 former slaves, Moffett said. "This was a (Works Progress Administration) project that employed college students as interviewers. The ex-slaves were age 84 to 100 at the time of the interviews."
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