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Today @NCCapitol (May 15): Senate to take on regulation rollback bills today
Posted May 15, 2013
Raleigh, N.C. — Good morning and welcome to Today @NCCapitol for Wednesday, May 15. This is WRAL's roundup of what you need to know about North Carolina state government today.
CROSSOVER RULE REMINDER: Crossover is the deadline by which bills at the General Assembly that don't raise or spend money must pass either the House or Senate in order to remain eligible for consideration for this session. There are several ways to work around that rule, but the deadline is important for most legislation. This year's crossover deadline is midnight Thursday evening.
CROSSOVER UPDATE: There are two days left in the crossover period and today may see the most robust debates. That's because opponents of a bill who lose a vote have the option of "objecting to third reading."
Some background: All bills are "read" three times in a legislative chamber. The first reading is merely an acknowledgment of the bill's filing. Pretty much everything passes first reading. Second and third readings are when debates and votes actually happen.
Most bills, except those that raise taxes or fees, can receive their second and third readings in one day. However, if a measure is controversial, an opponent can "object to third reading," even if the measure passes a first vote. That objection forces another debate and vote on a separate day.
So any bill that is subject to crossover but hasn't passed second reading by the end of the day today can be killed by that procedural objection.
Therefore, lawmakers will try to shove anything with a hint of controversy through at least its second reading vote today.
SCHEDULING NOTE: Both the House and Senate are scheduled to convene their sessions before 10 a.m. today. As with yesterday, neither chamber will begin moving bills until the afternoon. The skeleton sessions merely allows lawmakers to move bills between committees and process legislation being reported in from committee more quickly.
The Wrap @NCCapitol (May 14) WRAP: Capitol Bureau Chief Laura Leslie and reporter Mark Binker catch up on all of Tuesday's action in The Wrap @NCCapitol.
SENATE TODAY: The Senate is expected to take up two long-fought environmental measures when it convenes at 2 p.m. Senate Bill 515 would repeal the Jordan Lake Rules, a regional water quality management plan that has long been a source of contention between environmentalists and local governments and developers. The rules were put in place in 2004 to improve water quality in Jordan Lake, a major source of Triangle drinking water, by restricting upstream discharges and runoffs.
Senate Bill 151, "Coastal Policy Reform," would do away with the state's restrictions on the use of "terminal groins" – they're also known as hardened structures or jetties – to protect inlets and property along the coast. For years, North Carolina disallowed the structures. Scientists warned lawmakers and policymakers that groins interrupt the natural movement of sand up and down beaches and dunes. While that might protect one piece of property, it can damage others, especially on North Carolina'a coast, where storms shift thousands of tons of sand several times a year.
Also Wednesday, the Senate is expected to pass a bill that overturns outdoor smoking bans in cities, on beaches and on community college campuses. Under Senate Bill 703, no local ordinance on outdoor smoking could be more restrictive than state law. State law places no restrictions on smoking outdoors.
WRAL.com will carry the Senate session live from 2 p.m. until at least 6 p.m. Check the Video Central box on our home page.
HOUSE TODAY: Under the schedule announced by House Speaker Thom Tillis at the end of Tuesday's session, the House Wednesday will meet from 2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., take a dinner break, and then come back to work from 7 p.m. until midnight.
A bill put forward by Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Henderson, would allow local governments to stop advertising certain local meetings and other government actions in the newspaper. The measure has sparked a lot of debate about government transparency and has caused something as a legislative scramble as lawmakers worked to have their counties added to, or removed from, the bill.
House lawmakers are also expected to vote a second time on a bill that gives the governor more power over hiring and firing state workers. Although the measure was controversial in committee, it passed its second reading without much debate Tuesday.
Also on today's calendar, House Bill 918 is likely to get some debate. This measure would require more reporting by independent expenditure committees that spend money to help or oppose candidates. The bill would require faster and more regular disclosures of donors to and spending by such effort. A misunderstanding about what exactly the disclosure rules required stalled the bill earlier this week. The bill is backed by staffers at the state Board of Elections.
ASHEVILLE WATER: A Wake County Superior Court judge has granted a temporary restraining order halting the city of Asheville's transfer of its water system to the Metropolitan Sewerage District. Judge Don Stephens issued the order Tuesday afternoon, hours before the date for a transfer set by state legislation. The City of Asheville had sued the state after the Republican-led legislature passed the bill. Gov. Pat McCrory said he would let the bill become law without signing it. More from the Asheville Citizen-Times.
I-40/440: Triangle drivers could see less congestion when road crews begin overhauling an 11.5-mile stretch of Interstates 40 and 440 early in 2014, the North Carolina Department of Transportation said Tuesday. DOT crews and construction crews from Granite Construction Company and RS&H Architect-Engineers-Planners, Inc. will work to keep three lanes of Interstate 40 open in both directions throughout the entire project, dubbed the I-40/I440 Rebuild. Officials had previously estimated that only two lanes in each direction would stay open. The extra lane could alleviate traffic headaches and delays for the approximately 110,000 drivers who travel the roadway each day.
COMMITTEES: Committee meetings will likely be called and moved throughout the day. For a full list of the meetings as scheduled this morning, check the main @NCCapitol page. Among the highlights:
Senate Education (10 a.m. | 544 LOB): Senators will take up the bill that allows county governments to take over property owned by school systems. Right now, although most school construction is funded by county taxpayers, school districts have control of the upkeep and management of the buildings. Counties say they deserve control since they pay the bills. Schools say they should keep control of the buildings they use to educate children. WRAL.com will carry this meeting live. Check the Video Central box on our home page.
House Judiciary A (10 a.m. | 1228 LB): Lawmakers will take up bills that restrict cities from regulating the size of soft drinks, allow employers to decide whether to pay for birth control coverage, protect social media accounts from prying by employers and something called the "Religious Freedom Restoration Act."
House Judiciary C (10 a.m. | 415 LOB): The committee takes up a bill updating the state's midwifery law and a bill prohibiting the use of Sharia law in North Carolina courts.
House Commerce (10 a.m. | 643 LOB): The committee looks a bill that requires labeling of children's products that contain certain chemicals.
IN THE NEWS: Other stories we've been following include:
BUSES: Drivers who pass a stopped school bus could lose their license and pay a fine in addition to being charged with a crime, under a proposal that the House approved unanimously Tuesday.
GUNS: A bill put forward by Sen. Mike Woodard, D-Durham, would do away with a 1930s era requirement that Durham County residents register their firearms at the county courthouse. The measure, which is considered noncontroversial since law enforcement rarely looks at the paper registry, is due to be heard in the Senate today.
MCCRORY SPOX: The media relations office for North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory is again undergoing some changes. McCrory's office confirmed that Press Secretary Crystal Feldman has moved to the Department of Public Safety, where a spokeswoman said she started working Tuesday as deputy communications director. The departure by Feldman, who most recently worked for a House committee on Capitol Hill, means the top three people in McCrory's press office have all moved on since he took office in January.
DRUNK DRIVING: "The National Transportation Safety Board recommended on Tuesday that all 50 states adopt a blood-alcohol content (BAC) cutoff of 0.05 compared to the 0.08 standard on the books today and used by law enforcement and the courts to prosecute drunk driving," reports CNN.
BEER: "As of July 1, all 50 states will allow aspiring brewers to make their own beer at home. But states are still figuring out how to regulate the popular hobby," Stateline reports.


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The Denver Post reports that Broncos coach Josh McDaniels commented on the league's decision not to punish WR Brandon Marshall for a March 1 arrest on disorderly conduct charges in Atlanta:
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If you're planning a trip to Ireland, or just a jaunt to an Irish enclave in your city, knowing some funny Irish words and phrases can do a lot to increase your popularity (or give you a head's up on what the Irish natives are saying!)
Irish slang is a great way to ingratiate yourself with the locals if you travel to Eire. You may not want to necessarily use it yourself, at least not until you get the hang of how it's used.
Just keep your cool and bide your time. You don't want to be deemed "thick as a plank" or "not the full shilling" (as in "stupid"), or called a "glunterpeck" (Irish slang for an idiot.)
In fact, if you jump in too fast without knowing how it's done, the locals might just "slag" you. No, they won't be throwing gravel at you. Slagging is a form of light mockery. They'd just be making fun of you, but don't take it to heart. They mean well. They're merely playing around with your head.
The Irish have an excellent sense of humor, and if you spend much time around them, you'll discover it for yourself.
If an Irishman agrees with your opinions or actions, they wish "fair play to you." If all is going very well, you will be "suckn diesel."
These are just some of the funny Irish words and phrases you can pick up if you keep your ear to the ground.
Stout, whiskey and ale are the Irish drinks of choice. But don't overindulge, or the bar patrons might think you're "fluthered." That's when you can't keep your butt on your bar stool.
Want a pint of great stout? Don't ask for a glass. Tell the bartender you're in the market for a pint of "the black stuff." That's the local Guinness stout of which the Irish are so fond.
If you'd rather have a shot of vodka in your Coke, ask for a "volvo." That's how the Irishmen ask for their vodka/Coke drinks.
A night on the town, with a substantial measure of bar hopping, is known as being "on the rip" or "out on the razzle."
If you're really sloshed, you're "As full as a Catholic school," "bladdered," or "langered." If you're under the table, the locals will say you're "steamin'," "two sheets to the wind," or "plastered" (the latter word being one that's common in American lingo.)
Sometimes it's best to forego the booze, and have a "mineral" (a soft drink.) Your head will thank you tomorrow.
The Irish have a huge variety of words from which to choose to colorfully describe alcoholic overindulgence!
Want to avoid food poisoning or bedbugs? Stay out of any local hostelry that the Irish consider to be a "kip."
On the other hand, if a restaurant serves superb food, it's "me daza," or, in other words, it's excellent food. That's a slang term particular to the Cork area.
Take your umbrella with you if it's "lashing" out, or if you forgot it, just "leg it off" (meaning run quickly.) If you solved the problem by putting a newspaper on your head to keep out the rain, the locals will approve and say you're "sucking diesel," which means that you are doing something well.
If you meet a pal who introduces you to his parents, you may not understand the lingo. An "oul fella" is Dad, and Mom is the "oul dear" or the "oul wan." A girlfriend is "oul doll."
But in Ireland, you'd be going to the "pictures" if you want to see a movie. After all that running around, you might be a bit "shattered" (as in tired), but beware of pickpockets. In Dublin, a sly person you have to keep your eye on is a "sleeveen," and it's used to describe non-Dubliners or an unsophisticated person from a rural background.
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With a new high-tech loading system, the Mayfield Village Fire Department is looking to improve safety for both EMS workers and patients alike.
The system, now installed in two ambulances with plans for a third in the near future, allows for raising and lowering of the stretcher with the push of a button, greatly reducing the strain put on safety workers' bodies.
Created by the Michigan-based company Stryker, a power loading system in the ambulance will then lift the patient into the ambulance, with hardly any assistance from the safety worker.
An arm from the ambulance latches onto a bar under the cot, the legs collapse up into the rest of the stretcher and it is then simply pushed along a track into the back of the ambulance.
Lt. Craig Neyman with the Mayfield Village Fire Department said the department applied for and was awarded a grant of more than $34,000 from the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, which covered about two-thirds of the cost of the lifting system.
The department was also due for new battery-powered stretchers, which the village agreed to pay for, Neyman said.
"The city was great to work with. They took one look at it and said 'That's a great idea,'" he said.
The old system involved a lot of rough, harsh movements that put both the workers' and patients' safety at risk. Cots are much less likely to be dropped and the track in the ambulance also secures the stretcher in case of a crash.
"This is probably one of the biggest developments for safe patient transport," Neyman said.
While the system, with its 700-pound maximum load, will greatly help paramedics with heavier patients, Neyman said it will be used for all patients.
Through his research in applying for the grant, Neyman said he learned a typical back injury costs a fire department about $50,000, so the system will basically pay for itself by avoiding just a few injuries.
"It just totally eliminates back liability," he said. "We've come a long way."
An easy-to-follow green light system alerts workers when the system and batteries are working properly. Should something go wrong, a manual over ride can be activated to allow for transporting patients the old fashioned way.
In Euclid EMS coordinator Lt. Jay Northup has seen great improvements in worker health since the department switched to the power cots about 18 months ago and back injuries have dropped about 90 percent. Cot drops have also been basically completely eliminated.
Euclid handles about 6,200 calls per year, about six times as many as Mayfield Village.
"Now we have guys not having to waste their backs," Northup said. "The human body was not meant to do that 18 times per day."
While Euclid does use battery-powered hydraulic cots, it does not have the automatic loading system.
The success of switching to the power cots alone has made the automatic loading system more of a luxury than a necessity, especially during recent difficult economic times, Northup said.
"It's nice to have if you have the money to do so... but wants and needs are two different things," he said.


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New Delhi, Nov 28: Leading IT company IBM today entered into a multi-year agreement with optical telecom transmission equipment manufacturer Ordyn Technologies to manage its complete IT infrastructure.
IBM will provide global business and technology services, hardware, software, and IT Financing within the peripherals of its contract with Ordyn, company's statement said.
This deal will also enable Ordyn to leverage IBM's global domain knowledge and consulting expertise in the country's telecom space to ensure sustained growth.
According to the recent Indian Telecom Services Business report by Voice&Data, India's telecom services industry has grown 22 per cent to Rs 107,681 crore during 2006-07.
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The Record Industry's Political Theater
Political theater in American has become its own art form. Not surprisingly, few have perfected it better than Hollywood and the recording industry. Their skillful creativity is on full display surrounding a piece of legislation recently introduced known as the "Songwriter Equity Act" (SEA).
Countless articles have been written, interviews given and speeches made about the plight of the individual songwriters. Recording artists are making millions and the poor powerless songwriters are being swindled. Supporters of SEA claim the bill simply intended to give songwriters equity with those recording and profiting from their songs.
It would be a great story if it were only true.
The focus on individual songwriters is misleading. Few songwriters act as individuals. Most assign their copyright to one of three major publishers that control the vast majority of all musical compositions. These major publishers, then become "members" of one of three Performing Rights Organizations (PRO) that controls effectively 100% of the market. These PRO's then negotiate the price of royalties for the publishers and songwriters.
As a result, the songwriters and publishers have long been the 800 pound gorilla in the industry. The power of the publishers/songwriters is so great that two of the three PRO organizations the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers(ASCAP) and Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) have been deemed true monopolies by the government and have been forced to operate under a federally mandated consent decree since the 1940's. It seems as though the PRO's were using their absolute control of the copyright to songs to manipulate and artificially drive up royalties for songwriters/publishers. Under the terms of this consent decree, if market negotiations break down between these two PRO's and those seeking to license their songs, the rate is set by the U.S. Court for the Southern District of New York. The third PRO, the Society of European Stage Authors and Composers (SESAC) is currently in the midst of anti-trust trial and well on the way to a consent decree of their very own.
Despite the consent decree, the PRO's and songwriters/publishers have continued to attempt to use their government granted monopoly to distort market prices and extort more money from music distributors. The most egregious example of late is the case between ASCAP, Sony and Pandora.
When Sony sought to drive up the royalties Pandora pays to air its songs by negotiating directly with Pandora, they withdrew from ASCAP the right to control the royalties on digitally streamed music. Time was running out on Pandora's existing license so they requested a list of Sony properties so they could remove the songs from their repertoire. Sony refused to tell Pandora which songs they owned leaving Pandora with the choice of shutting down, risking exorbitant copyright infringement fines or paying whatever ransom Sony demanded. The situation was more akin to an episode of the Sopranos than anything resembling free market negotiations.
Fortunately, Pandora was able to get the courts to weigh in and put an end to Sony and ASCAP's monopolistic power play. The court set rates for Pandora using a predetermined formula for estimating fair market value in an industry segment where there is literally no competition.
That's where SEA comes into play.
Far from generating equity, the SEA is an attempt by the publisher/songwriter/PRO monopoly to re-rig the rate setting mechanism used by courts. The publishers previously rigged the system in the 1990's to prevent the rates of the then new performance royalty for recoding artists from influencing the publishers royalty rates. But now, publishers want the artists rates to be used in their own calculations. But the bill is a hypocritical one-way street as it also forbids the consideration of the publisher rates to be used in setting rates for artists. These two are either relevant to each other or they are not. The industry is trying to have it both ways to artificially redefine "market rates" to achieve the increases they failed to get in their monopolistic shenanigans with Pandora.
This increase in cost would of course come at the expense of all music platforms, restaurants, coffee shops, any other business that uses music and ultimately the listeners themselves.
In the end, despite the political theatrics being put on by the industry, the reality is that Pandora and others have stood up to the 800 pound publishing bully and won even in a system already rigged for the recording industry. SEA is just the next attempt by the biggest bully on the block to gain more unchecked power and game the system. There is absolutely nothing equitable about that.


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Obama returning to Milwaukee for Laborfest; 110 votes missing in state Senate primary recount; 13 more state new items
For the third time in seven years, President Obama will visit Milwaukee on Labor Day.
He's expected to speak at the city's Laborfest on Monday, but the White House has not released any details.
Obama spoke to about 7,000 people at the 2010 Laborfest. He also attended the event in 2008 during his first campaign for the presidency.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke also plans to be there. Her campaign spokesman Joe Zepecki was not immediately sure whether Burke and Obama will appear on stage at the same time.
Burke is running neck and neck with Republican Gov. Scott Walker. With less than ten weeks before the election, a new Marquette Law School poll has the two in a dead heat -- even though a third of the 800-plus registered voters still don't know enough about her to form an opinion.
The same poll gives Obama a 45% approval rating as president with 50% disapproving of his job. Obama's last Wisconsin appearance was in January when he spoke about job training at a GE plant in Waukesha.
110 votes missing in state Senate primary recount
The final result is still not known in a state Senate primary after Green County canvassers certified a recount yesterday with 110 ballots missing.
Democrat Pat Bomhack asked for the recount after the Election Night tally from Aug. 12 showed him losing to Ernie Wittwer by just seven votes out of 7,700 cast. Bomhack gained 28 votes in Monroe where the ballots were lost.
However, we still don't know who won the primary because recounts have not been completed yet in the Juneau and Richland county parts of the 17th Senate District.
Wittwer, a former Department of Transportation budget director, says he'll talk to a lawyer before deciding whether to challenge Green County's final canvass.
It's not known why Monroe had ballots missing. City Clerk Carol Stamm told the county canvassing board that a poll worker might have mixed used and unused ballots before throwing the unused ones away. She also said it's possible that somebody took the ballots right after the polls closed. Police are investigating to see if a crime took place.
The final winner of the Democratic primary will face Republican Howard Marklein in November for the Senate seat to be given up by moderate Republican Dale Schultz.
Man gets 42-year sentence for killing restaurant cook who intervened in food fight
A Milwaukee man who killed a cook at a George Webb's restaurant was sentenced yesterday to 42 years in prison.
Jurors allowed Delorean Bryson, 29, to escape a life term by convicting him on a reduced charge of reckless homicide.
He shot Reginald Evans, 21, last December as the cook was trying to stop a food fight in which Evans and others in his group were harassing other customers.
Restaurant owner Thomas Aldridge said the shooting caused him to lose insurance for all of his diners after 31 years. He said sales are down significantly, and customers still want to know exactly where Evans had been killed.
Circuit Judge Timothy Dugan said Bryson lied during his trial, claiming he was drunk while remembering every small detail of what happened. Dugan also Bryson blamed everyone involved in the incident except himself.
Three others in the group were given jail time for the altercation that led up to the shooting.
Potawatomi tribe could forfeit 2,000 slot machines in state fee dispute
The Potawatomi tribe might lose almost 2,000 slot machines at its casino in Milwaukee if it keeps refusing to pay its annual fee to the state, according to letters obtained by the Journal Sentinel.
The newspaper reports that Potawatomi Chairman Gus Frank told Gov. Scott Walker that the tribe's estimated $25 million annual fee is paid in exchange for not allowing any other casinos within 50 miles.
Frank reportedly wrote that if Walker approves the Menominee tribe's Hard Rock casino in Kenosha, the Potawatomi's fee would amount to an illegal tax. That letter was written July 9.
Two weeks later, Walker special attorney Lance Boldrey said if the Potawatomi wins its case, additional gaming approved in 2003 by former Gov. Jim Doyle would be voided, and the casino would be limited to having 1,000 slots and video poker machines instead of its present 3,000 with the compact to expire in 2019.
Tribal spokesman Ken Walsh called the governor's warning "attorney bluster."
Walker told lawmakers Tuesday that the Potawatomi's refusal to pay its fee could put a crimp into the state budget.
Earlier yesterday, state and local leaders from Kenosha held a news conference to urge Walker to approve the casino, saying it would create thousands of new jobs. Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said he wants to make sure the casino will be successful enough for its owners to keep their promise to offset losses at other casinos in the region.
UW-Platteville reopens with most storm damage repaired
UW-Platteville will hold a "grand re-opening" tomorrow after a tornado whipped through the campus on June 16.
University System President Ray Cross will join Chancellor Dennis Shields at a news conference and a ceremony on the rear patio of the Engineering Hall.
The campus had an estimated $10 million in damage when a twister with winds up to 120 mph damaged a school park and half a dozen buildings. That includes Platteville's football stadium -- where new turf is expected to be fully installed by early to mid-September.
The Pioneers' first two home soccer games had to be relocated, but officials say all events after Sept. 9 will go on as planned. Parts of Memorial Park remain closed, and the school is preparing an online map. Campus dining facilities are back in full swing, serving students who've arrived early for fall classes.
Bomb threat temporarily closes Superior CVS
An apparent national effort to extort money from CVS pharmacies has come to northwest Wisconsin.
Media reports said CVS outlets across the country have been targeted with false bomb threats to try to get money from the chain.
In Superior, police were called to a bomb threat at that city's CVS Pharmacy around 2:30 p.m. yesterday. The store was closed for a short time while officers checked the building and found nothing suspicious.
Inspector general says Milwaukee FBI director used 'extremely poor judgment'
The U.S. Department of Justice's internal watchdog said former Milwaukee FBI office Director Teresa Carlson used "extremely poor judgment" by influencing an employee's testimony in a disability trial.
The inspector general released its report on the matter yesterday after the department's Public Integrity unit refused to prosecute Carlson.
Oak Creek native Justin Slaby filed a lawsuit, alleging he was wrongly dismissed from a training academy for FBI agents because he lost his left hand while serving in Iraq as an Army Ranger.
Slaby's attorney later said Carlson tried to get her former employee Mark Crider to testify against Slaby in a trial, claiming he was not qualified to be an agent due to his disability. Crider had previously supported Slaby, and he later testified to that effect at a trial last August in which Slaby won his right to train with the FBI.
Carlson's alleged influence was leaked out before the trial. Once that happened, she was transferred to Washington as a deputy assistant FBI director, a post she still holds. She has not commented on the inspector general's findings.
Wausau woman gets 2-year term for backing over toddler
A Wausau woman has been sentenced to two years in jail for killing a toddler while backing out of a driveway four years ago when she was 17.
Shanice Stands, who's now 21, was also put on five years of probation with a long list of conditions she has to follow. If she doesn't, she'll go to prison for three to eight years.
The incident happened in September of 2010 in Forest County. Stands was leaving a driveway when her vehicle ran over a three-year-old boy, who died the same night at a Rhinelander hospital. Authorities said Stands was high on marijuana at the time, and she did not have a driver's license -- only a learner's permit issued in Minnesota.
She was fined $5,000 as part of her sentencing yesterday. Half of her jail term is for four previous bail jumping charges. Stands pleaded guilty to felony counts of negligent homicide and driving under the influence of a controlled substance. Other charges were dropped in a plea deal.
--Ken Krall, WXPR, Rhinelander
Giant ragweed wins 'Biggest Weed Contest'
If you have weeds in your yard, they're probably nothing compared to the winners of the "Biggest Weed contest" at this month's Farm Technology Days.
The UW-Extension says Wayne Greeler of Neillsville had the grand champion -- a giant ragweed plant over 10 ft. tall and 7 ft. wide.
Ken McGwin of Montello actually had a taller ragweed. But his 12-footer didn't win because it was only 4 ft. wide.
The weeds were measured in their normal growth forms. There were winners each day of the three-day farm show. They'll all get to learn more about their weeds since they're receiving weed-identification books.
Review: Child porn investigations delayed in four cities
Milwaukee is apparently not the only place in Wisconsin where child pornography investigations have been delayed.
The Journal Sentinel obtained a spreadsheet yesterday showing that 41 cases waited for at least two months to be investigated at state Department of Justice field offices in Wausau, Eau Claire and Madison as well as Milwaukee.
As of late February, the average delay in the 41 cases in question was more than a year. The longest was 3 1/2 years.
The documents were the result of a DOJ review. Spokeswoman Dana Brueck told the Journal Sentinel it did not identify a problematic pattern at any other the state's field offices outside Milwaukee. She cited a number of reasons why cases could be delayed, due to things like the quality of the tips received and the complexity of certain cases.
Milwaukee field office Director Willie Brantley was let go after investigative delays were exposed at his facility. Milwaukee Agent Anna King quit. Those cases showed that a Racine man was left free to molest a boy he was babysitting, and a drug and alcohol counselor from Pewaukee did not have to register as a sex offender in his abuse case.
Woman pleads guilty to feeding oxycodone to toddler who died
A western Wisconsin woman has been convicted on reduced charges for drugging her boyfriend's young daughter to death.
Amanda Butts, 23, pleaded guilty in Trempealeau County to reckless homicide and no contest to felony child abuse. One other abuse charge was dropped along with a count of illegally serving narcotics to a minor.
Prosecutors said Butts was babysitting 22-month-old Alexis Behlke in June of last year when she bruised the toddler and fed her a combination of drugs that included oxycodone. Officials quoted Butts as saying that Alexis was whining and would not sleep so she gave the child the drugs to settle her down. Her boyfriend was working at the time.
Butts' sentencing date has not been set. A scheduling conference is scheduled for Sept. 8.
Online court records also show that Butts has a plea hearing scheduled Sept. 29 on a Jackson County charge of obstructing an officer. That charge came about three months after the child's death.
Birnamwood teen escapes alleged abductor
Shawano County authorities said a 14-year-old girl managed to escape an attempted abduction about 1:10 p.m. yesterday on a farm near Birnamwood.
Deputies said the girl was walking on a sand road between two corn fields when a tall teenage boy tried to grab her. Officials said the girl broke free and went to a nearby house to call 9-1-1.
There was no immediate word on whether the girl was injured. Deputies said they're looking for a person of interest in the case.
--Larry Lee, WSAU, Wausau
Court appearance set for ex-deputy accused of killing wife, sister-in-law
A former Dane County sheriff's deputy is due in court tomorrow on allegations that he murdered his wife and sister-in-law two months after being diagnosed with ALS.
WIBA Radio in Madison said Andy Steele, 39, is being held in the Rock County Jail in Janesville to avoid a conflict of interest with the Dane County jail staffers who used to be his co-workers.
Steele's wife Ashlee and her sister Kacee Tollefsbol were found shot at the Steele family home last Friday. Authorities said Andy Steele apparently tried to take his own life during the incident. He was taken to a Milwaukee medical facility for treatment before he was transferred to jail.
He'll make his first court appearance on closed circuit TV on the same day the murder victims will be remembered at a memorial service in their hometown of Stillwater, Minn.
Andy Steele was booked for homicide, but online court records did not show him being charged as of this morning. He was a deputy for 14 years before retiring in June once he learned he had Lou Gehrig's disease.
DOT summary says combination of factors caused Green Bay bridge to sag
State transportation officials said a "highly unusual" combination of factors caused a high interstate bridge in Green Bay to sag last September.
The Department of Transportation released a summary yesterday of its final report of the incident in which a support pier went down 2 ft. and caused part of the Leo Frigo Memorial Bridge on I-43 to sag. No one was hurt at that time.
Minor corrosion was also found on 17 other piers. It took 2 1/2 months to make the repairs, and the DOT said the final cost was $10 million -- much less than the $18 million to $20 million that was originally projected.
Officials said soil conditions caused the foundation of steel piling to corrode and buckle. Those factors included a porous fill of fly ash in the upper levels of the soil, and the water and soils surrounding the piling had high amounts of chlorides.
Project manager Tom Buchholz told WLUK TV in Green Bay it was amazing the bridge still stood after the sagging incident.
"We're very, very lucky," he said.
As part of the repairs, crews installed probes that monitor rust and corrosion, and pilings at eight spots on the bridge will be tested every two years.
Dove hunting season starts Monday
Wisconsin's newly extended mourning dove hunting season will begin on Labor Day.
Officials agreed to let hunters shoot the cooing doves from Sept. 1 through Nov. 29. That's 20 days longer than in the past.
The Department of Natural Resources says Monday is also the start of the early teal and goose hunts. The early teal season will run through Sept. 7. The early goose hunt goes through Sept. 15.


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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Tony Dungy knows the Indianapolis Colts need to make some personnel changes, especially on defense. His approach to coaching, however, will remain the same.
``I don't know any different ways to do it,'' Dungy said. ``We've got a very good offensive system in place, a very good defensive system and a good special teams system. We've got good players and good coaches, and we've just got to continue to grow on that.''
The Colts lost 20-3 on Sunday at New England -- Indianapolis' perennial nemesis -- and it dropped the AFC South champions to 13-5. It was a disappointing finish for a team that many thought had a good shot at getting to the Super Bowl.
``When you don't win the ballgame, there's a little bit of an empty feeling,'' Dungy said. ``We'll be able to, in another week or so, look at the season in total and realize that we did have a fine year.''
Record-setting quarterback Peyton Manning, the league's MVP, and all of his top receivers ) Marvin Harrison, Reggie Wayne and Brandon Stokley -- will all be back, and owner Jim Irsay is ready, if necessary, to designate running back Edgerrin James the Colts' franchise player and lock him in place at least one more season.
On defense, Dwight Freeney led the league with 16 sacks and helped the Colts produce an NFL-best turnover margin of plus-19. Punter Hunter Smith was second in the NFL in net yardage, and Mike Vanderjagt remained the most accurate field goal kicker in league history.
Dungy and the rest of the coaching staff will take some time off for vacations, watch the rest of the playoffs on TV and maybe attend the Senior Bowl on Jan. 29 in Mobile, Ala., to scout many of the top players coming out of college this year.
Then it's back to work, preparing for the combine at the RCA Dome next month and then the college draft April 23-24.
``You never know who's going to be available, but certainly when you've got an offense like ours you want to keep it tooled up and going well,'' Dungy said. ``Obviously, defensively is where we would probably look in the draft, but I don't see any major philosophical changes. I think we just keep fine-tuning and keep improving and keep growing with a lot of the guys in our system already.''
Among the Colts' potential free agents are linebacker Rob Morris, cornerback Nick Harper and safety Idrees Bashir -- all starters.
``We'd like to get everyone re-signed,'' Dungy said. ``It's not an easy procedure, but hopefully we can get as many guys back as possible and then figure out where we go from there.''
An unavoidable byproduct of the Colts' success, of course, is a spot toward the bottom of the draft order, but Dungy said that didn't necessarily mean the Colts would place greater emphasis on trades or free-agent acquisitions.
``I think you can find some guys (in the draft) that can help you -- Robert Mathis has been a big help to us, and he wasn't a first-day choice. Raheem Brock was probably a really big part of what we've done, and he wasn't even one of our draft choices. So you can find guys in a lot of areas.''
Whatever happens, he said, won't be dictated by a heat-of-the-moment desire for change while the loss to the Patriots is still fresh.
``I always like to focus in on the whole season,'' Dungy said, ``and that's one of the things our coaches will do: make an analysis of every guy's performance throughout the season and kind of classify each player where we think they're going to be next year and look at it on an objective basis.''
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Erie County (PA) Genealogy
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Magdalena Koopmann Peters Reinger
Anna Maria Peters Arn - John Arn
These pictures and information about them have been provided by Myrtice Gifford Forsythe. Any inquiries about this family or the photos may be directed to her. Myrtice Gifford Forsythe is the 2nd Great Grand daugther of Magdalena Koopmann Peters Reinger, and Great Grand daughter of Anna Maria Peters Arn, who was born at sea during her mother's 3 month trip to America. The story below is a limited biography of Magdalena, her daughter Anna Maria, the trip to America, and life in Erie, PA. Anna Maria had a daughter, Clara May Arn, who married Franklin Earl Gifford, granfather to Myrtice Gifford Forsythe. It is most interesting to note that Myrtice Gifford Forsythe has ancestors of two lines who at one time resided in Erie County, yet no one in her Gifford line, except her 3rd Great Grandfather, William Gifford, resided in the county.
Magdalena Koopmann Peters Reinger was about 64 years old (picture dated about 1880)
The following story of "the good life in America" (meaning that times really were NOT easy!) has been told by Myrtice Gifford Forsythe, about her 2nd great grandmother and in turn her great grandmother.
This is a limited biography of my great great grandmother and her life after arriving in America. MAGDALENA (KOOPMANN) PETERS was born between Thursday, March 7 and Monday, October 14, 1816 in Hamburg, Germany. August Heinrich Peters, her husband, was born in Germany. It is currently unknown where in Germany August was born or who his parents were.
In November 1854, August and pregnant Magdalena boarded the sail vessel, Kleine Anna, at the port of Hamburg, Germany and sailed for the port of New York. During their journey, August became ill. He died on Saturday, December 2, 1854 and was buried in the Atlantic Ocean. A witness to his death and burial was Jacob Heim, a close friend. Magdalena was about 39 years old when she and August sailed for America. Their child was born on Monday, January 15, 1855 on the Kleine Anna. When Magdalena landed in America, in February 1855, she was a widow and a new mother, of a baby daughter, my great grandmother Anna Maria Peters. All of her baggage was stolen and she knew no English. Luckily she was able to obtain a job for a banker wet nursing his baby son, while nursing her new daughter.
Somehow, Magdalena made it to Erie, Erie County, Pennsylvania, where she met JOHN REINGER sometime between 1855 and 1858. (John was born circa 1822 in Baden, Germany and he emigrated to America in 1845.) John's first wife, Margrett, died in childbirth in October 1852 or 1853 and it is not known if the child survived. There is no marriage record between Magdalena and John Reinger, but on Monday, March 21, 1859, Magdalena and John had a baby girl, Margaretha Katharina Reinger.
The 1860 deed list for Erie shows a listing for a Magdalena Reinger. She bought a lot on the northwest corner of Seventh and Plum Streets, then on the outskirts of Erie. They were dividing up an estate and she put in a successful bid for lot #1 832.
John enlisted as a volunteer in the Army in Waterford, Pennsylvania during the Civil War on Thursday, December 24, 1863. He was in Company G, 111th Regiment, Pennsylvania Infantry Volunteers. John was 5'5" tall, had hazel eyes, dark hair, a light complexion and was about 42 years old. His occupation was a carpenter. At the time John enlisted, there was $200 to $300 bonus being paid for volunteers. John's name appears on page 1047 in the book entitled HISTORY OF PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEERS by Samuel P. Bates. In July 1864, John developed a heart disease, a result of rheumatism contracted in the army while lying on the damp ground in wet clothes. He received an honorable discharge from the Army on Wednesday, July 19, 1865.
John was naturalized in Erie on Monday, September 28, 1868. His sponsors were John Dunlap and U.E. White. The deed book lists show Magdalena and John sold the house on the northwest corner of Seventh and Plum Streets in December, 1874 to an Adolph Hippely for $900.00. Right after this sale they must have left for Portage, Wisconsin. John died in Portage, Wisconsin from heart disease on Friday, December 31, 1875 at about 53 years old.
Magdalena remained a widow and must have returned to Erie. She applied for a pension from the government for John's Civil War service. She was turned down in Erie as it was reported that John's death was not related to him having served in the Army. Circa 1889, Magdalena traveled by stage coach back to Wisconsin, where she again applied for a pension from the government, and this time it was granted - a mere $8.00 per month until her death.
By 1897, when she was about 81, Magdalena was living in Wisconsin with a Mrs. Dora Thurler. She earned her room and board by watching Dora's little children. In 1902, Magdalena was living with a J. Clemons in Portage, Columbia County, Wisconsin and she died there from pneumonia on Monday, November 24, 1902. She was buried in Gonton's (presently Oak Grove) Cemetery in Portage. There is no monument or headstone with the REINGER name on it.
Her daughter Anna Maria Peters, by August Heinrich Peters, was raised in Erie and married John Arn a resident of Erie. John Arn was from Bern, Switzerland. Anna and John had a daughter, Clara May Arn, who married my grandfather Franklin Earl Gifford, of Marquette Co., Wisconsin, a descendant of William Gifford (1758-1846). William Gifford and several of his sons, had moved to Erie County, PA, after 1820 where he died at the home of one of the sons, but the line through Franklin Earl Gifford had never lived in Erie County, yet he (Franklin) married someone from there.
|Anna Maria (Peters) Arn about 1910
|John Arn - date unknown
John Arn Family about 1891, probably in Wisconsin. Note an elderly Magdalena in the rocking chair
This page has been designed, and is being maintained by Bill Klauk.
This page was originally created on Friday, March 9, 2001.
This page was last updated on Friday, February 9, 2007.
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ONLINE retailers are set to see a huge jump in spending as post-Christmas stocktake sales continue through January.
New data from the Australian National Retailers Association predicts online spending to jump 28 per cent in Victoria from Boxing Day to January 14.
In-store spending was set to drop 3.2 per cent over the same period.
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ANRA chief executive Margy Osmond said the growth in online was not surprising. "You would anticipate a larger increase in online as it is coming from a lower base.
"It's much harder to achieve sizeable gains for in-store sales because this is a much larger base and more people are becoming accustomed to online rather than in-store shopping," she said.
Despite the drop, in-store sales were still worth more than three times the value of online sales.
Victorian in-store sales were tipped to reach $3 billion, while online would be worth at least $780 million.
Overseas websites such as ASOS have offered up to 70 per cent off during the post-Christmas sales.
Ms Osmond said the competition from online retailers did not suggest sales were better value online than in-store.
"There is competition from overseas, certainly, and the ability for online overseas retailers to offer prices that do not reflect the cost of doing business in Australia or the cost of importing goods into this country - like GST costs - can mean Australian retailers operate at a disadvantage," she said.
Retail consultant Brian Walker said online sales would grow 8-10 per cent this year.
"What we're seeing is a definite spike in the growth of online, much higher at Christmas than it has been throughout the year ... there's a real demand for online commodity-type products, things like perfume, socks, things (consumers) already know or have pre-bought," Mr Walker said.
More than a quarter of online sales went to overseas-based websites that used bigger discounts and improved shipping processes to help lure customers in, he said.
Myer store operations manager Tony Sutton said the retailer was happy with its stocktake sales both in-store and online.
"It's in line with expectations ... (in-store) traffic's been pretty solid all the way through," Mr Sutton said.
"Online is growing at a very rapid rate ... we had a really good start to the stocktake sale online and that has continued."
Mr Sutton said some of the best selling items this year included men's business shirts and casual wear, with a large number of men shopping post-Christmas.
Other popular items included coffee machines and cosmetics.
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Those markings are gibberish,
Really? I didn't know you were fluent in what is odviously Cyrilic based languages, all of them.
apparently from a batch of individual hand stamps, some of them apparently broken.
Um do you know what that particular alphabet looks like? How do you know if the stamps were broken, were you there when they were stamping the gun? And need I point out that the gun is over 50 years old and some wear is to be expected.
It was common practice in Darra and other centers of primitive gun making to mark the guns with something that looked like factory markings.
Do you have a source for this claim?
Since both the gun maker and his customers were illiterate in any language,
that is so racist it hurts, all of my Pakistani friends can actually read and write, probably at least three lanaguages, more then me any way. And more importantly craftsman usually are at least literate as far as they need to be to function in thier craft, and more importantly Why would the markings not be in Arabic or some dirivative there of? Why Russian?
any thing would do.
Okay, even if they could not read, you apparently assume that these markings are there to be pretty, I'm fairly sure that they meant something to someone.
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EU court ruling honors citizens' 'right to be forgotten'
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An astounding variety of data supports the conclusion that our earth's climate is changing due to increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere. The economic, social, and environmental implications could be catastrophic. Moreover, scientists have reached a consensus that the increase in GHGs is indeed anthropogenic, caused by fossil fuel burning and deforestation. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the GHG that contributes the most to climate change because of both its abundance and long atmospheric lifetime. With the rapid economic development of China (the world's leading CO2 emitter) and India's increasing energy demands, the rate of CO2 emissions is accelerating, leaving politicians, scientists, and engineers with an international problem of an enormous scale.
More long-term technological development is required to substantially shift to renewable energy sources that do not emit CO2. Thus, short-term solutions are being considered that enable us to continue using fossil fuels. At present, coal-burning power plants provide 42% of electricity in the US, but at the expense of accounting for ~36% of US CO2 emissions. Among a portfolio of strategies to mitigate anthropogenic CO2 emissions, one high-impact option is carbon capture and storage (CCS). The idea is to capture the CO2 from the flue gas emitted from the smokestacks of coal-burning power plants and subsequently store it underground in a geological formation. The geological formation can be thought of as a sponge for CO2, sequestering it from the atmosphere where it would, otherwise, instigate global warming.
An advantage of the CCS process is that it can in principle be retrofitted to existing coal power plants. A coal power plant retires after a long 45 years of use; a plant built today will, if left unchecked, continue to emit CO2 for 45 years coming. The economics of completely abandoning a prodigious investment in a young plant to curb CO2 emissions are unfeasible. CCS technologies are attractive because they can prevent climate change while protecting current investments.
Already, commercial-scale CCS technologies are in operation, but not at the scale of a large coal power plant. Its market-readiness for mass-adoption is complicated by two broad issues. The first issue is related to the tremendous rate of CO2 emissions. A back-of-the-envelope calculation reveals that the US alone releases from its coal-burning power plants enough CO2 to fill the Empire State Building 300 times every hour. Even given the magic chemical or material that captures CO2 from the flue gas, imagine how much of it we would need. The second issue is that the CCS process places a parasitic energy load on the plant, and that is the focus of this article. The most energetically intensive part of the CCS scheme is capturing the CO2 from the flue gas, separating it from the other components (mainly nitrogen - then why even separate the CO2? - see Note below) Capture technologies at present are estimated to cost 25-30% of a plant's power output, driving up the price of electricity by around 80%.
Can we improve capture technologies to reduce the energy costs for separating CO2 from the flue gas? The laws of thermodynamics allow us to calculate the minimum theoretical energy requirement for the separation of the CO2 from the flue gas. That is, the same thermodynamic laws that preclude the construction of a perpetual motion machine say that, no matter how ingenious of a capture process we design, there will always be an energy cost for separating the CO2 from the flue gas. Fig 1 shows a plot of the minimum energy required (per mole of CO2) to separate the CO2 from an ideal gas mixture as a function of the CO2 concentration in the starting mixture. As a sanity check, note that a mixture that is already pure CO2 takes zero energy to separate. For the flue gas from a coal-burning power plant, the CO2 concentration is ~13 mol %, and the minimum theoretical energy requirement from the graph (green dot) turns out to be ~5% of the output of the coal power plant, suggesting that there is room for improvement in current carbon capture technologies.
One might ask, instead, why not just capture CO2 from the very air we breathe? Fig 1 shows that, as the fraction of CO2 in the mixture decreases, we need more and more energy to separate it from the mixture. The CO2 concentration in the air is a measly 0.039 mol % (red dot), rendering energy costs for a separation from air four times that of a separation performed on the flue gas from a coal power plant-- even if we were to develop the most efficient separation process nature allows. Another reason to avoid separating CO2 from air is that, for every liter of CO2 to be recovered from the atmosphere, 2500 liters of air must be processed. This excessive air flow rate through a capture process and the increased separation energy costs for such a small CO2 concentration in the air lead to the following conclusion. Procrastinating CCS on coal power plants and instead resolving to capture CO2 out of the the air we breathe-- after the flue gas mixes with the atmosphere-- will lead to larger separation costs in the future. This is important to consider given that a CO2 molecule released today will stay in the atmosphere for a time comparable to our life span, absorbing sunlight and warming our planet throughout the entire duration.
The separation energy requirement stems from the tendency of all physical systems to increase a mathematical quantity called entropy; an intuitive, qualitative definition of entropy is "disorder". The second law of thermodynamics states that an isolated system will maximize its disorder. Fig 2 shows an isolated system (the black box) containing the flue gas in two disparate states (both at the same temperature and pressure). CO2 molecules are depicted as red spheres, whereas all other components of the flue gas are depicted as blue spheres. In state 1, a barrier exists that separates CO2 molecules from the rest. If we remove the barrier, the second law tells us that CO2 will spontaneously mix with the other components, entering state 2, without the help of some outside influence. Because each of the molecules can now explore a greater volume, the disorder of the system has increased, as nature prefers.
In carbon capture, we are starting off in state 2, and we desire to move to state 1. Unfortunate for CCS, going from state 2 to state 1 involves a decrease in disorder (entropy), and this will not happen spontaneously without some outside influence. That is, isolated physical systems tend to maximize their entropy, and if we want to decrease a system's entropy, we must input energy into the system. In the context of carbon capture, if we want to separate the CO2 from the flue gas, it is inevitably going to cost energy. The laws of thermodynamics allow us to calculate the minimum energy requirement by considering a reversible process from state 2 to state 1, and this is a lower bound-- for the most efficient, ingenious process yet-to-be-discovered.
The utility of the entropy of mixing concept is to check how much more progress we can possibly make with capture technology and set realistic targets. The conclusion is that there is room for improvement, but CCS technologies will inevitably incur a sizeable parasitic energy cost on a coal-fired power plant. Since the energy cost is a decreasing function of the concentration of CO2 in the starting mixture (Fig 1), we see the energetic benefits of capturing CO2 from coal power plants now, rather than later, after it mixes in the air.
------- The math behind the generation of Fig 1 for those interested ----
** The idea for this blog post came from a course I am taking at Berkeley titled "Carbon Capture and Sequestration". An interactive iBook is coming soon: Berkeley Lectures on Energy: Carbon Capture and Sequestration by Berend Smit, Jeffrey Reimer, Curt Oldenburg, and Ian Bourg.
A Brown and B Freeman. Analysis and Status of Post-Combustion Carbon Dioxide Capture Technologies. Environmental Science and Technology. (2011) 45 (20), pp 8624-8632.
Smith, Van Ness, and Abbott. Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics.
Sponge analogy for a geological formation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROEFaHKVmSs
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Pavilion project hits potential permit snag
November 6, 2009
Recent renovations at the Moffat County Fairgrounds Pavilion hit a snag this week, though the work largely is finished.
City and state officials said the county and its electrical contractor did not pay for permits to do the work, which included hanging new sheetrock and thin braces for the ceiling, as well as installing new flooring and lights and moving a wall.
Craig City Manager Jim Ferree said the county would not need a permit for flooring, and that sheetrock work also might be exempt if it is purely cosmetic.
However, the braces installed to the ceiling to keep it from sagging are structural, and that kind of work requires a city permit.
Moffat County Commissioner Tom Mathers said he and other officials didn't realize the braces, known as purlins, constituted structural work.
He said he had no problem buying a permit from the city and would open the Pavilion to city inspectors as soon as they are ready.
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Ferree said there generally are no punitive penalties for not pulling a permit even in residential remodels.
In all cases, however, the property owner must buy a permit and submit to an inspection, Ferree said.
In the Pavilion's case, the city wants to make sure the finished work is safe for public use, he added. It may ask the county to pull down some of its sheetrock to see if it was hung securely.
State officials do not expect to ask the county or its contractor to tear out any electrical systems for its inspection, said Angie Kinnaird Linn, director of the state Division of Registrations Business and Technical Section.
She added that the county will face no penalties for not having a permit, as it was the contractor's responsibility.
The contractor will have to buy a permit at double the normal rate.
Mathers said county electrical contracts indicate it is the contractor's responsibility to meet his or her obligations to state.
However, officials had been told by another contractor that the work wouldn't need a permit because it was limited to installing new fixtures.