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In "Colleges' Concerted Campaign for Ignorance" (The Chronicle, December 17), Kevin Carey continues his own concerted campaign of misrepresenting the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities' reasons for opposing the development of a federal registry of college students. Impossible as it for Mr. Carey to fathom, the driving force behind our opposition to a federal student unit-record data system has always—and continues to be—the belief that the price for enrolling in college should not be permanent entry into a massive data registry. Such a registry would collect individual data about students throughout their lifetimes, with no serious discussion about what data should not be collected or what privacy safeguards would remain. One could argue that Mr. Carey and other proponents would prefer no safeguards, having free rein to collect what they want, when they want, without having to seek permission from Congress, students, parents, or anyone else.
We have good reason to be concerned that such a registry would prove irresistible to future demands for use and additions to the data for noneducational purposes. A 2009 study by the Center on Law and Policy Information at Fordham Law School on the state of privacy protection in states' K-12 student databases (which, across the nation, are being linked to higher-education databases) provides some sobering revelations. According to the report's executive summary:
Most states collected information in excess of what is needed for the reporting requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act and what appeared needed to evaluate overall school progress. The majority of longitudinal databases that we examined held detailed information about each child in what appeared to be non-anonymous student records. Typically, the information collected included directory, demographic, disciplinary, academic, health, and family information.
Some striking examples are that at least 32 percent of the states warehouse children's Social Security numbers, at least 22 percent of the states record children's pregnancies, at least 46 percent of the states track mental health, illness, and jail sentences as part of the children's educational records, and almost all states with known programs collect family wealth indicators.
We found that, given the detailed and sensitive nature of the information collected, the databases generally had weak privacy protections. Often the flow of information from the local educational agency to the state department of education was not in compliance with the privacy requirements of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
Furthermore, as was reported by the media in February 2010, the Education Department's head student-privacy official protested what he saw as the agency's "zeal to encourage the collection of data about students' academic performance" and argued that "the department's approach to prodding states to expand their longitudinal student-data systems violated the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act." By happenstance, the official was fired by the department.
We recognize there are instances in which it is appropriate to collect individual student data. For instance, such data must be provided by recipients of federal student financial aid. There also are several longitudinal studies conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics in which individual student information is obtained to examine questions regarding college financing, student characteristics, program persistence and completion, and postbaccalaureate education and employment. However, these studies are based on a sample of students—not the entire college population.
The solution is not to collect whatever data that exists about an individual and then decide what to do with it, if anything. Policymakers need to specify what issue they want to address, what research questions help address those issues, what data inform those research questions, and what is the best way to collect that data within our culture of rights and laws. This has been woefully lacking in the current debate.
David L. Warren
National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities


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MGL has a look at the UZR data from 2008 so far and how it compares to his pre-season predictions. He also gives a leaderboard of best and worst performances by position, but pay attention to sample size issues. Defense needs at least twice as much sample as offense before it becomes as meaningful so think of 60 games worth of defensive play as just one month of offensive stats.
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Pirelli P Zero Silver: The First Road Tire Derived from Formula One Arrives
The return of Pirelli to Formula One, for which the Italian group is exclusive supplier for the 3-year period 2011-2013, has placed the tyre at the centre of attention for sports' lovers and drivers around the world. Pirelli has demonstrated, also in virtue of the tyres required by the Formula One teams for this season, how tyres are fundamental in determining the performance of a car. An ever vaster public, gran prix after gran prix, has seen that tyres, sports ones and those destined for road use, are not simply "things that are black and round", but a fundamental and sophisticated component of the vehicle, capable of making the difference in terms both of performance and safety. A product which includes research, advanced technology and complex production processes, at the same time rich in manual activities and highly automated processes, of artisanal knowledge and hi-tech innovation.
To highlight all these aspects, illustrate the activities and strategies that are at the base of the planning, development and production of tyres "made in Bicocca" and to present a new tyre which is born of the experience in Formula One and destined for the premium market, Pirelli has chosen an original form of communication and an exceptional setting: the Hangar Bicocca, one of the most prestigious exhibition spaces for contemporary art at the international level.
The phases and components of the production process at the base of every tyre have been synthesized through a series of representations (graphic elaborations, films, multi-media installations realized by the art groups N!03 and Invernomuto ) in an area of over 1,000 square metres. From the use of raw materials, to the phases of research and planning, from the manual skill of the "sgorbiatori", the tradesmen who carve tread prototypes, to the end product. The language of contemporary art becomes an instrument of interpretation, story-telling and dissemination of the processes of research and industrial production, to reveal to the general public that which at first sight does not appear and which Pirelli has called "The invisible heart of a tyre". An industrial reality as fascinating as it is complex.
The decision to focus on the premium segment, in fact, requires Pirelli to develop and introduce onto the market products which are always more sophisticated in a macro-economic scenario of reference in constant and rapid evolution.
In this sense, the recent technological experiences gained in the Gran Prix represented a further opportunity, supplying indications and leads for Pirelli researchers in the development of a new high-performance tyre which broadens the group's premium range: the P Zero Silver, the first road tyre derived directly from Formula One tyres, which is the latest offspring of the P Zero family with which it shares not only the name and aesthetic references, but above all the planning models and material technology and production processes. In particular, the modeling and relative data, gathered Gran Prix after Gran Prix, allowed for a faster development of the new tyre, reducing the time required from the two years normally taken up by this phase to only a few months, and to verify their performance in the laboratory, giving new competitive advantages to Pirelli: greater speed in the execution of new products and the availability of a process of planning tested at the highest sporting levels, particularly suited to high performance tyres.
The event, together with the presentation of the new tyre, took place today with the participation of Marco Tronchetti Provera, chairman and CEO of Pirelli, Francesco Gori, CEO of Pirelli Tyre, the economist Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Stefano Domenicali, technical director of Team Ferrari, Jenson Button, Team McLaren driver, and Severino Salvemini, professor of company organization at Milan's Bocconi University and culture expert. In particular, the chairman of Pirelli illustrated the group's strategy and more generally reflected on the role and competitiveness of the industry, also in light of the present macro-economic scenario. Domenicali and Button underlined the fundamental contribution that the tyres make to the performance of the cars and explained the interaction between tyre and car. Fitoussi illustrated what the role of a multi-national company could be and the significance of industry in the present context. Salvemini insisted on the evolution of the concept of product quality and the transformation of consumption.
The exhibition was also an occasion to underline the links between men, machines, production and markets; a combination of factors that becomes a protagonist, almost as an entity unto itself, of every industrial reality with a history and tradition. Where passion and reason, calculation and risk, vision, courage and pragmatism, find that right balance which is at the base of every great challenge and which literature, in particular, when industry is a theme, has been able to capture in some of its highest and most representative moments, some of which have been interpreted by the actress Licia Maglietta.
P Zero Silver, from the track to the road
As a tradition for the Italian group, which has always developed products for the road also thanks to sporting experiences, P Zero Silver transfers to all drivers the main innovations introduced by Pirelli into the process of development and production for Formula One, a process that during the season has guaranteed a constant and speedy evolution of the product offered to the Teams.
What the P Zero Silver shares with the tyres of the Gran Prix is the modelling process, that is the phase in which the tyre is imagined and developed with the aid of sophisticated mathematical models, the technology of development and production of compounds, and the construction process. In particular, the new tyre will be produced at the Settimo Torinese industrial and technology hub, the Pirelli group's most advanced research and manufacturing plant in the world, where all the compounds for Formula One a currently produced, to be then assembled at the Sporting hub in Izmit, Turkey.
The latest offspring of the P Zero family (more information in the attached table), which guarantees performance, greater durability and lower environmental impact, will be on sale in a limited edition from Spring 2012 and was developed to respond to the ever more differentiated needs of the highest market segment, increasing the Italian group's premium range and consolidating its strategy of further growth in that segment in all geographic areas.
Pirelli's premium strategy
The greater focus on the premium market resulted in first half sales, also boosted by the participation in Formula One, rising in the segment by over 30% compared with the same period a year earlier. In particular in the first half of this year group high-end sales rose from 60% to 65% in Europe, which represents the biggest market for this segment in the world. The premium segment, which is the part of the market with the highest margins, is seen growing also in the coming years at a speed more than double that of the total tyre market. The high end segment, in fact, has shown in recent years a less cyclical performance than standard products, emphasizing the less cyclical nature of the tyre sector in general compared with the auto sector.
In the decade 2000-2010, the world auto market grew at an average annual rate of 2%, passing from 56 million cars sold to 69 million, while the tyre market grew at an average rate of +2.8%, passing from 925 million euros to 1.22 billion euros. The high end auto segment grew over the same period by 2.8%, bringing its quota of total sales from 11% to 12%, while premium tyres grew by an average 4.7% per year. The different speeds of the car and tyre markets become even more evident in the years when the market contracted. In 2009, the tyre segment experienced a sales decline of 10% while auto sales fell by 22%.
The combination of these factors which see the tyre industry differentiate itself from the auto segment and the premium segment grow at a faster rate than the total tyre market, is destined not only to be confirmed in the coming years, but to become more intense. The high end tyre market, in fact, benefits from the ever greater diversification of the demands of the end consumer. In mature markets, as in growing economies, the evolution of styles of consumption offers, in fact, new business opportunities, as they redefine the premium segment, associating it no longer solely to performance and luxury, but to products always more linked to questions of sustainability and safety, areas well presided by Pirelli thanks to its avant-garde skill and technology. This last piece of data was also confirmed in recent research carried out by one of the most authoritative tyre sector magazines Neue Reifenzeitung and presented to the Association of German automakers (Vda). This research, which collects the tests on tyres carried out around the world by certification authorities and sector press, underlines Pirelli's first place in the reduction of a tyre's rolling resistance, with a consequent reduction of fuel consumption and therefore of harmful emissions, and in the improvement of performance in the wet, an essential factor for safety. Further, they influence the broadening of the high-end tyre market, not only the growing and always more differentiated demand for high performance tyres, a consequence of the greater spread of high cylinder cars and SUVs, there is also an increase in the demand for winter tyres and tyres of low environmental impact. The phenomenon of the spread of "green" tyres is linked not only to ever more stringent rules, but also the change of consumer sensibilities towards ecological issues.
The traditional positioning of Pirelli in the highest market segment makes the Italian group one of the leaders at the world level in the high performance tyre sector and number one in the prestige segment, that is the one destined for marques like Aston Martin, Bentley, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Lotus, Maserati, McLaren and Porsche.
Pirelli's global strategy, responding to the evolution of markets
To maximize its growth strategy, Pirelli relies on an efficient and strategic distribution of its production sites in the different areas of the world and on continuous investments in research and development which allow the group to anticipate and deal with the continuous changes in the international scenario with the maximum efficiency.
This investment, which annually amounts to around 3% of the total sales of Pirelli Tyre and place Pirelli at the top level of investment in this area, allowing the company to use technologically advanced plants and systems of production, such as Mirs and the computerized system for compounds (CCM) among the most evolved in the tyre industry worldwide, and to continually innovate its range of high performance products, not only in the auto sector but also in truck and motorcycle, increasing competitiveness in all markets.
In the period 2006-2010, Pirelli invested a total 1.5 billion euros in all geographic areas, differentiating the type of investment based on the needs and the characteristics of single markets. This strategy is destined to intensify over the period 2011-2015 with investment foreseen at 1.9 billion euros, of which over 500 million already by the end of this year. The group's investments are distributed in Europe, South America, the Nafta area, Far East, the MEA area and Russia and have followed two objectives, each complimentary to the other: increasing production capacity of the premium range in all markets and the localization of the greater part of that additional capacity in areas of fast growth, in order to satisfy the rapid increase of demand.
In Europe, where 760 million euros have been invested since 2006, Pirelli has rationalized its industrial presence, aiming to improve productivity and competitiveness of the sites and enriching the premium range, both increasing the range of high end tyres and developing innovative solutions, like the Cyber Tyre, the intelligent tyre capable of "reading" the road and of adapting the car's performance to the continuing change in driving conditions. The growth strategy in Europe is focused in certain countries in particular: in Germany where investments have brought a development of plant efficiency at Breuberg, which hosts the production of high performance tyres for cars and motorcycles; in Italy, where the Settimo Torinese hub has been established, for which the group invested around 160 million euros; in Rumania, where since 2005 investment has been 300 million euros for the car and steelcord plants in Slatina, destined to reach 450 million by 2014.
The premium strategy adopted by Pirelli in the Nafta area is similar, where the group counts on the Mirs plant in Rome, Georgia, and on the new industrial hub in Guanajuato, Mexico, destined to satisfy all the markets of this area, with a production capacity foreseen at 5 million pieces per year by 2015. The Mexican plant will allow in this way the South American plants – a part of whose production is today aimed at North America – to concentrate on local demand.
This local-for-local strategy takes on particular relevance in Brazil. The major South American market has, in fact, undergone profound social and economic changes which, together with a strengthening of its currency, impacted industrial costs, which are constantly rising, and favour, at the same time, the expansion of the middle and well-off classes in the country and the local premium market, which until now had been little developed. Satisfying the growing demand for high-end tyres permit the group to recoup those points of profitability possibly lost as a result of diminished industrial competitiveness. Not by chance, Pirelli recently began production also in Latin America of 'green performance' tyres, which will be a part of the premium range and by 2015 will account for 50% of local production.
The other "engine of the world" which combines favourable industrial costs with an explosion in demand is China, where some of the major car makers are increasing their production with the opening of new plants. The rest of South East Asia and India present conditions of capacity and industrial costs which are favourable, but do not yet represent an entry market because of their lack of infrastructures capable of permitting the development of demand that would justify investment in this phase.
In Russia, to satisfy growing local demand, Pirelli signed an agreement with Russian Technologies to acquire production plants from Sibur Holding for car tyres for a total production of 11 million pieces by 2014.This production, which will focus on winter tyres, is destined to the markets of Northern Europe and the countries of the CIS.
The evolution of the macro-economic framework and the central role of industry: the crisis as opportunity
During the course of the event "the invisible heart of a tyre" and the presentation of the P Zero Silver, particular attention was given to the rapid evolution of the world economic scenario and assets. A picture emerged in which the current crisis of the western model can find a way forward, transforming itself into an opportunity, only through the construction of new economic systems which are more virtuous and which, among other things, are able to bring manufacturing back to the centre of economic strategies, which have for too long been dominated by financial markets.
This evolution was developed, in its main economic and social implications, by the economist Fitoussi who underlined the changes which have taken place in the European and international economic scenario and the consequences for manufacturing industry. "The products have changed but also the manner of producing them – Fitoussi said. "And the centre stage is being once again occupied by the value of work and the development of relations between new technologies and manual, artisanal skills".
Art and industry, the role of labour
Today's event also brought out the traits that art and industry have in common. First of all, the ability to put together different elements: manual work, the ability to imagine the future and creativity. And it was for this reason that Pirelli chose to present its new tyre in a space like the Hangar which was transformed from an industrial structure to a place of contrast between different cultures and for the elaboration of new art forms. A link between art and industry, man and machine, captured also in great literature, as shown in the readings of Licia Maglietta.
Between art and industry, that which is more attentive and socially responsible, there exists another profound link: the capacity to understand and anticipate cultural and social change, in a reciprocal exchange of sensibility and language. "Art – as stated by Severino Salvemini – has the long view on the evolution of world scenarios and the relationships between people and captures its least visible signals. The companies that know how to create relationships of listening and participation with contemporary art have a greater chance of seeing in advance the signs of change in the culture, customs, needs and values of man and adapt to the evolution of markets: an additional tool for competitiveness in a world that is changing."
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SYDNEY — Bolivia's soccer team was given a reprieve from what it calls soccer apartheid when the sport's world governing body on Tuesday suspended its ban on internationals played at high altitude.
FIFA had effectively prohibited Bolivian capital La Paz and Ecuadorean capital Quito from staging World Cup qualifiers because of the altitude, when they imposed a limit of 2,750 metres above sea level in December.
The only exceptions to the high altitude ban were if visiting players were given one week to adapt to games over 2,750 metres and 15 days for games over 3,000 metres. Foreign clubs, however, are obliged to release their players only five days ahead of internationals.
That FIFA ruling caused an outcry in the Andean nation who traditionally play home matches in La Paz, the world's highest international venue at 3,600 metres above sea level.
On Tuesday at FIFA's executive committee meeting in Sydney, the Bolivians were given a reprieve when the committee agreed to suspend December's decision to impose an upper-altitude limit until the full results are known of FIFA's study into soccer in extreme conditions, including temperature and humidity as well as altitude.
"The FIFA Medical Committee have recommended that teams must acclimatise properly if they play at high altitude. The Committee wants to examine this, and other extreme playing conditions such as heat, pollution or humidity," FIFA president Sepp Blatter told a news conference.
"The Chair of the Medical Committee wishes to consider the wider implications of football under extreme conditions, so the Executive Committee has provisionally suspended last year's decision against playing at altitude."
Qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup can now go ahead at the high-altitude venues while FIFA considers changes to laws for match conditions at international and domestic club level.
Blatter said FIFA had taken into account lobbying from South America.
Last month nine federations from the South American Football Confederation, notably minus Brazil, signed a declaration of support for Bolivia.


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Authorities are asking for the public's help finding a man who wore a cowboy disguise during a US Bank robbery in Lakeside on Thursday.
A man wearing a cowboy hat and a fake beard walked up to a teller at the bank inside the Albertson's grocery store on Winter Gardens Boulevard and presented a note demanding money, according to the FBI.
The note said the robber had a gun but no weapon was displayed. After receiving and undisclosed amount of money, the man left the store.
No one was injured during the incident.
The man was described as white, about 40 years old, roughly 6 feet tall and about 175 pounds. He was wearing an orange and blue plaid, long-sleeve shirt, dark-colored pants and a cowboy hat with a red and white striped band.
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Durban - New regulations outlined in a proposed school transport policy will mean that any transport operator wanting to carry pupils would have to apply for a special licence.
The National Scholar Transport Policy, which is in its final draft stage, is aimed at regulating the transport of pupils and ensuring that vehicles contracted to schools are roadworthy.
Transport minister Dipuo Peters said her department and basic education would finalise the Scholar Transport Policy that would be forwarded to the cabinet for approval before it was taken to Parliament. The policy document had been two years in the making.
"This policy seeks to address safety, accessibility by learners and law-enforcement," she said at the Global Road Safety Partnership Africa Summit held last week.
The act would require the two departments to establish a national interdepartmental committee with officials from the provincial Education and Transport departments. Progress reports would be submitted to the ministers and MECs.
Key elements of the policy include:
The establishment of safety norms, standards and regulations instituted by the national department of transport.
All pupil transport vehicles to be easily identifiable with unique branding.
All operators must have the correct vehicle licences, be licensed and registered with the provincial regulatory entity.
All vehicles transporting pupils must be roadworthy.
The department of transport would establish a driver code of conduct, which would include preventative measures for emergencies. First aid and advanced driver training would also be provided.
Parents and school principals have welcomed the proposed legislation.
School minibus and bus accidents are frequent.
In May, KwaZulu-Natal transport MEC Willies Mchunu said bakkies transporting children to and from schools were "ticking time bombs" that should be outlawed.
This was after five children had been killed and 24 injured when the bakkie they were travelling in veered off a gravel road and plunged into a sludge pit on a farm near Mooi River.
On Monday Cape Town principal Shahien Gaidien, of Dennegeur Avenue Primary, who lost three pupils in a bus crash nine years ago, said he hoped the proposed measures would iron out the "grey areas".
The bus his school's children were travelling in had been poorly maintained, which resulted in uneven wear on the brake linings.
Valerie Philipps lost her son, Jody, in the Blackheath railway crash, also in Cape Town, in August 2010.
Ten children were killed in the accident.
A taxi had been taking 58 Rheenendal Primary School pupils to school when it collided with a train.
The driver, Jacob Humphreys, was sentenced to 20 years on 10 counts of murder and four of attempted murder after the incident.
"I hope this will bring about change," Philipps said.
Provincial education departments would be responsible for contracting transport operators while transport departments would be tasked with registering and licensing vehicles and designated routes.
Oversight committees, consisting of provincial transport and education department officials, parents and interested parties would also be established.
Pupils who would benefit from the government-provided transport would be selected by education departments and schools.
The payment of service providers would be based on kilometres travelled and would be uniform throughout the country.
The transport cost would be carried by the government.
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With much anticipation, we finally started orientation and school this week. 48 grads, and 48-1 undergrad (a guy decided to ditch arch for computer science). 90% of the 2 day orientation was, in my opinion, rather bland, unrehearsed, and unnecessary. Many people left half-day. But here are some notes from the good 10%.
Professional Advisory's Council – Supporting the UW as well as being supported by the UW, the PAC is in collaboration with the school.
The PAC talked about the "previously linear" trends that are changing to "integrate design with interdisciplinary" approach, "BIM", "sustainable design", and that it is "global process, in which Seattle firms are designing all over the world." Well…duhh…but they also talked about the lack of firm diversity (white male dominance) and the 2030 Challenge (carbon neutral), which was new knowledge to me.
Talks of a Department of Architecture dates back to the 1890s at UW, and was realized in 1914 with the School of Architecture. Apparently, the small "School" was in a temporary building left over from the AYP Expo and was called the "shack".
The UW owns property in Rome, in Palazzo Pio (Campo de' Fiori), unsurprising called the UW Rome Center. It was founded by the Department of Architecture, and there are (expensive) studio study abroad opportunities there, as well as Japan, India, Mexico, England, and others.
We have a College "Swap Shop", a no-regulation recycling closet for unused studio material. Give/Take I guess. I want to see how it is at the end of the year.
Gould Hall, the architecture building, was designed by the faculty in 1972. It has a built in photo-lab/darkroom and woodshop.
Integrated Design Lab – still looking at what it's about.
This is the 3rd year undergraduate studio. We're doing "STICK STUDIO" - more on that later. One thing, the author of all those Ching books, designed the studio...
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Ratings agency Moody's will not change BlackRock's ratings after Barclays announced it would be selling its stake in the asset manager.
The agency affirmed BlackRock's A1 senior unsecured and P-1 ratings with a stable outlook, after it announced it would repurchase up to $1 billion in shares, through available cash and debt raising of $500m.
Rory Callagy, vice president at Moody's, says: "Although leverage increases modestly as a result of this transaction, it is manageable within BlackRock's current A1 rating level.
"We expect that BlackRock will continue to generate sufficient levels of operating cash flow to meet short-term maturities, strengthen its liquidity position and reduce the incremental leverage from this transaction within several quarters."
He adds "The size of this share repurchase transaction does not place undue stress on BlackRock's debt protection metrics and liquidity." (article continues below)
Barclays had announced it would be selling its entire holding in the asset manager at the start of the week.
After the sale by Barclays, BlackRock will have one large equity investor in PNC Financial Services Group, which held a 20.9% stake in the asset manager at the end of March.
However, Moody's believes the group may trim its holding or divest it completely over Basel III regulations. The agency warns BlackRock would face negative rating pressure if weere to issue more debt for a "significant repurchase" of PNC's stake.
The ratings could also come under negative pressure if it were to increase balance sheet risk through further direct investments or increasing exposure to capital markets.


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Two of the major factors in climate change are the emission of greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, and deforestation in the tropics. The latter is a major concern because tropical forests help absorb carbon dioxide, release their own carbon when burned, and provide important habitat for many bird species. Two authors of an op-ed in today's New York Times argue in favor of a forest preservation program that they call carbon ranching.
Reversing tropical deforestation could be surprisingly cheap and easy because it can be driven by simple economics. Right now, it's worth more to a logging company or a peasant to convert the rainforest to stumps or soybeans than it is to leave that rainforest intact. One hectare (about 2.5 acres) of forest cleared and converted to ranchland or crops produces a piece of land worth, on average, $200 to $500. But that's nothing compared to the value of preserving the rainforest as a sponge for carbon dioxide.Carbon offsets have limitations, of course. There is a limit to the amount of carbon that a tree can hold, and forest preservation would be a way of holding steady rather than true reduction of emissions or warming rates. For a program like this to work, it would need to be part of an overall frame work that would include cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Still, it is an interesting proposal, and one that could have positive effects regardless its contribution to slowing climate change.
On European markets, the right to emit one ton of carbon dioxide trades today at more than $20. With each hectare of intact rainforest storing around 500 tons of carbon dioxide, that means that each hectare has a value of $10,000 as carbon dioxide storage, far more than the value of even the most productive tea or soy plantation.
As a recent World Bank report put it, "Farmers are destroying a $10,000 asset to create one worth $200." To the farmer or agribusiness corporation, of course, that makes perfect sense, because that $10,000 is all theoretical. It can't put food on the table or deliver dividends to shareholders.


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Clarkson Beats the Buzzer in Lakers Overtime Win
Can we interest anybody in a tipped-home, buzzer-beating game winner from one of L.A.'s two rookies?
OK … but hold that thought.
The weird thing about the Las Vegas Summer League: winning only sorta matters. Of course, any time competitive young men take the floor, getting a W is the goal … but for the teams sending players to fill their rosters, simply getting a full look at various players up and down the roster can take precedence over the result. It's all about getting ready for the regular season, when the wins matter above all.
But nobody told that to the players on Monday night.
Indeed, at a sweaty Cox Pavilion, the Lakers and Warriors battled through a spirited contest that ultimately took overtime to decide a winner.
Kendall Marshall, who started 45 games for the senior squad last season, made a key defensive play with 17 seconds left, then drained two deciding free throws with 12.7 seconds left to put L.A. up a point … only to watch GSW's Justin Holiday drain a long two with 6.1 remaining.
Game over?
With the clock ticking down, No. 7 overall pick Julius Randle was quickly triple-teamed on the baseline, but still managed to get a shot up to the rim from the baseline that juuuuuust missed. No worry! There was second round pick Jordan Clarkson flying in for the victory with a put-back. A wild finish had L.A. smiling.
"That's my second game-winner," said Clarkson. "My first tip in."
"He's always in the right spot at the right time," added Summer League coach Mark Madsen. "You saw that on the tip in."
The Warriors had rallied from as many as 11 down in the second half to tie the game up in the final minutes at 84, even forcing the Lakers into a stop on the final possession to force the extra session. The win was L.A.'s first after consecutive losses to start summer league, in advance of their next game on Wednesday evening.
On more of a macro level for the Lakers, Summer League has traditionally taken on even less importance from the standpoint that L.A., always in the playoffs, hasn't had a first round pick – let alone a lottery pick – in years. Thus the development on that end hasn't been as much of an issue. Things are different in 2014, though.
That's due in large part to Randle, L.A.'s highest draft selection since James Worthy went No. 1 overall in 1982. The 19-year-old forward missed the first game as he'd yet to sign his contract, but debuted with 10 points and two boards in 20 minutes of Sunday's Game 2. That was Randle's first competitive action since the NCAA championship game in April, so naturally, he eased into the action a bit.
But against the Warriors, Randle's motor started to rev a bit faster, his activity picking up on both ends of the floor towards 14 points, four boards, three assists and a block in 27 minutes.
"My wind was a lot better today," said Randle. "Physically I felt great. The back-to-back wasn't an issue."
"A powerful presence at 6-9, 250, Randle showed what L.A. thought would translate quite well to the NBA: an ability to beat bigger players off the dribble, then take a bump in the paint before finishing with a soft touch. Four of his five field goals came in such fashion, typically after he faced up to the basket from about 17 feet on the right side of the floor.
Perhaps more importantly, the competitive spirit and fire that a warrior of no less reknown than Kobe Bryant have praised of late was evident from Randle in the second half specifically. It's no guarantee that a player of his size and athletic ability has a motor that's constantly running on both ends, but that's perhaps the thing that has L.A.'s brass, and Randle's new teammates, most excited.
"Julius is a beast, man!" exclaimed Clarkson.
That Lakers' brass, onlooking each game from the stands, appeared collectively pleased (well … honestly, it was mostly poker faces from Mitch Kupchak and Co., but they must have been pleased) with the play of 46th overall pick, Clarkson, the team's leading scorer through three games at nearly 19 points a night after games of 21, 16 and 19. While he's done plenty of work off the dribble to get into the paint, Clarkson's also been effective from the three-point line, hitting 7 of 14 attempts.
It may just be Summer League, but signs of promise from L.A.'s two rookies are already in evidence.


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Baker heads to China to talk up green policies
ST. PETERSBURG -- Mayor Rick Baker is bound for Asia yet again.
Fresh from a recent goodwill trip to Japan, Baker is set to arrive in China on Sunday as part of a national delegation of mayors known for their green initiatives. The delegation will visit Beijing, Qingdao and Shanghai before departing Sept. 14.
It won't cost taxpayers a dime, the city says. The cost of the trip is being funded by the Starr Foundation, a billion-dollar private foundation that supports globalization. Read more on the foundation's Web site.
Other members of the delegation include Mayor Ralph Becker of Salt Lake City and Mayor Kathleen Novak of Northglenn, Colo.
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The Appropriations Committee will consider a budget proposition on Monday that has already been approved by Governor Johanns and committee chair Senator Roger Wehrbein.
The two main features of the proposal would include higher property taxes and either an income or sales tax increase. However, state aid to education, university spending, and most other state agencies would not have significant cuts this time around.
Lincoln Senator Chris Beutler, a member of the Appropriations Committee, says questions still remain about the proposal, but there is a good chance it will advance to the legislature soon. He says the fact that Wehrbein and Johanns have found an agreement is an encouraging sign.
A contributing factor to the budget this year is the low level nuclear waste suit facing the state. Some of the sales or income tax increase would go toward the reserve fund, which would be used to either balance the budget or to settle the suit.
The committee will discuss the budget proposal Monday morning before presenting it to the legislature.


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I Had Breast Cancer and I Am Looking to Get a Larger Harder Nipple So That It's Not Flat.
Doctor Answers 3
Firmer Nipple
Nipple firmness after nipple rescontruction is possible with the use of injections such as Artefill. While still exprimental, this technique is showing some promise in published case reports. Another idea is to implant cartilage or a dermal graft. Ask your plastic surgeon about these options:
1. Dermal graft
2. Injectible filler
3. Revision surgery
Harder Nipple (Post-Breast Cancer)
Very difficult to achieve. Seek in person evaluations for options from boarded plastic surgeons in your area. I might try cartilage gratfs. From MIAMI Dr. Darryl J. Blinski, 3205 598 0091
Need a bit more info, but you do have options
So it's a bit unclear whether you have already had nipple reconstruction and it went flat, or are researching to find out how to prevent flattening after nipple reconstruction.
This is a problem that has dogged us plastic surgeons for quite some time. Although we can often get a nipple quite upright, the scarring and tissue remodeling combined with pressure can often lead to nipple flattening.
Either way, whether you have already had a nipple reconstruction, or are about to, there ARE ways to make nipples remain upright long term. I've had success in both types of patients by using an implant material within the nipple reconstruction. Which material and the exact technique will be up to your reconstructive surgeon. I prefer alloderm, a commercially available cadaveric human dermis product. In my hands this product and the results have withstood the test of time. There are also other products available and you should discuss this issue with your surgeon and see if you can come up with a plan.
Good luck!
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Local motocross rider Dylan Osborne headed to championships in Tennessee
Dylan Osborne knows what it means to race at the Loretta Lynn Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tenn.
For several years, Osborne, 15, has gotten on the Internet to watch videos and read stories about the annual motocross races on the property. This year, Osborne won't be watching it on YouTube.
Instead, he'll be competing against racers from across the U.S. in the 30th annual American Motorcyclist Association Amateur National Motocross Championships, Aug. 1-6.
"All the companies are at Loretta's and they're watching the top riders of every class, looking for somebody to sponsor next year," Osborne said. "I'm kind of nervous because you're basically racing for your next year's sponsorships."
It's one of two national races Osborne will compete in before school starts. He'll also be racing at the National Motosport Association's Ponca City Grand National Motocross Championship July 24-30 in Ponca City, Okla.
They're the first national motocross races for Osborne, who also races in the World Off-Road Championship Series, a series of off-road races around the western U.S.
Off-road beginnings
Osborne first starting riding motorcycles when he was 5 years old because of the influence of his stepfather, Don Crum. Osborne mainly rode trails, but eventually progressed into racing.
"When he got started, we really didn't have racing on the brain, to be honest," Crum said. "I still was doing off-road type stuff, so, obviously, I was kind of an influence and probably leaned him toward trying some off-road events. That's kind of where his heart was."
Osborne started riding motocross at 12, using it as a training ground for off-road races. But the two styles of racing initially didn't click.
"It wasn't something he was a big fan of at first because it wasn't something he grew up doing," Crum said. "He was out on his own, and he wasn't as competitive at it. He'd go and he'd be the kid in the back of the pack."
Part of the problem, Osborne said, was the length of time. Off-road races would last roughly an hour and a half, but motocross races are only a few laps and last about 15 minutes.
Comparatively, it was the difference between a distance runner and a sprinter.
"It was so much different compared to off-road," Osborne said. "I was used to trying to get in a groove. Off-road races are so long and motocross races are so short, and that was a big factor playing with me when I first started."
Now, it's a different story.
As Osborne continued riding motocross, he picked up on the nuances of the sport — coming out of corners fast, hitting jumps properly, seeing better lines around obstacles — and was able to improve not only in motocross, but in his off-road races.
"He started going to a desert race and he started attacking the course like it was one great big, long motocross track," Crum said. "Now, all of a sudden, he was actually racing an off-road event rather than just riding it."
Osborne said the change in his style was because of motocross.
"When I started riding off-road on little bikes, I was kind of trail riding, just taking my time. Getting into motocross and how competitive it was helped me get into racing at a race pace for as long as I could," he said.
"On a motocross track, you're sprinting the whole way, so you want to get into everything fast, come out of everything fast, and that really helps in an off-road setting, too."
Approaching nationals
Part of the reason Osborne never made it to a national motocross race before is simply that he never tried.
Last September, while working with former off-road racer Steve Hatch in Arizona, he had to write down goals.
"I had both Ponca City and Loretta Lynn's on there, trying to qualify," he said.
At the beginning of the year, Osborne sat down with Crum and his mother, Rebecca, and the three talked about making it to the two national races. You don't want to say 'Well, that's crazy' but in the back of your head you're thinking, 'Well, I don't know,' " Don Crum said.
Ponca City only takes the top 12 qualifiers in each event from five regions around the country. Loretta Lynn's takes the top six from seven regional races around the country.
Among Dylan's competition to qualify for Loretta Lynn's, Rebecca Crum said, were racers from Oklahoma, Texas, California and as far away as Minnesota and Louisiana.
What didn't help was abdominal surgery in late May, 12 days before the regional race in Lakewood.
The family nearly gave up on the idea of qualifying for Loretta Lynn's.
"We had pretty much just ruled it out," Don Crum said. "We wanted him to get over it and past the disappointment of not going. It's like, OK, for whatever reason it's not going to happen this year and it can just be a future goal. There's next year."
But as the qualifying races drew closer, they started discussing the possibility of going anyway.
"I was just really concerned about a week later, while that event's taking place, and he's sitting at the house in Grand Junction and he's possibly feeling better and he's going, 'Why aren't we over there trying?' " Don Crum said.
Osborne talked to his doctor a few days before the race, who told him, "You're free to do whatever."
"And that's all Dylan heard," Rebecca Crum said.
Off to the races
Normally, the family would spend the week before the race at the track preparing. Instead, the family made a last-minute decision to head to Thunder Valley Motocross Park in Lakewood.
Races began June 11, a Saturday.
"Wednesday came around and I felt that much better every day," Dylan said. "I said, 'You know what, Mom, why don't we go out on Thursday?' "
He practiced Thursday night and the family left at 4 a.m. Friday to get a day of practice on the course.
Despite having to ride a bit more over the seat and the difficulty of taking corners because of some discomfort after the surgery, he finished fourth in the 250 C Stock class to qualify.
At Ponca, he'll be riding in the 250 C Stock, the 250 C Modified, and the schoolboy classes.
Both races could be the culmination of a dream, especially at Loretta Lynn's, where professional riders, including Ricky Carmichael and Travis Pastrana, have gotten their starts.
Osborne knows what it will take.
"It comes down to you, your mental ability, your physical ability, and what you want to lay down on the track and give it your all," he said.


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Research Topics
Martin E Keisch
Affiliation: St. Vincent's Comprehensive Cancer Center
Country: USA
Detail Information
- Accelerated partial breast irradiation: a valid choiceMartin E Keisch
Breast Cancer Res 7:165. 2005
- Initial clinical experience with the MammoSite breast brachytherapy applicator in women with early-stage breast cancer treated with breast-conserving therapyMartin Keisch
Department of Radiation Oncology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 55:289-93. 2003..We present the results of the initial clinical testing of the MammoSite balloon breast brachytherapy applicator in women with early-stage breast cancer treated with breast-conserving therapy...
- Applying innovations in surgical and radiation oncology to breast conservation therapyMartin Keisch
Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
Breast J 11:S24-9. 2005..This article also addresses interesting research on delivering radiation therapy intraoperatively and looks ahead toward applications aimed at minimizing the physical, biological, and psychosocial impact of breast conservation therapy...
- Accelerated partial breast irradiation: the case for current useMartin E Keisch
Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Breast Cancer Res 7:106-9. 2005..The logic behind this approach is reviewed, and the currently available data are presented to support the current use of carefully applied partial breast irradiation techniques in appropriately selected and informed patients...
- MammoSiteMartin Keisch
Mount Sinai Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
Expert Rev Med Devices 2:387-94. 2005..The background leading to the device will be examined, current clinical results will be reviewed and alternative technologies will be discussed...
- Imaging findings after breast brachytherapyLisa E Esserman
Department of Radiology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, 4306 Alton Rd, Miami Beach, FL 33140, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 187:57-64. 2006..The purpose of this study was to determine whether there are imaging changes specific to partial breast radiation therapy with interstitial catheters or a single balloon...
- Five-year results: the initial clinical trial of MammoSite balloon brachytherapy for partial breast irradiation in early-stage breast cancerPamela R Benitez
Department of Surgery, William Beaumont Hospital, 3577 W 13 Mile Rd, Suite 201, Beaumont Cancer Center, Royal Oak, MI 48073, USA
Am J Surg 194:456-62. 2007..This report presents the 5-year results of the treated patients...


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Welcome to Potter's Lake. On the surface, this small, midwestern town seems like paradise. People are generally friendly to one another, the summers are lazy, the lawns are well-manicured, and white picket fences line many of the streets. But still waters invariably run deep. If one peels away the pleasant mask and gazes beneath, a different picture takes form.Practically every house that has been standing for more that twenty years has reported a haunting of one variety or the other, and some townsfolk tend to be little bit quirky. Local Legends, wives' tales, and sightings of the supernatural abound. In short, Potter's Lake is a very strange and unusual place.The bizarre happenings in this Kansas community are only symptoms of a greater malady, a cancer that will consume its host, then spread across the world. Something is brewing beneath this town's pleasant veneer, and if it is left unchecked, humanity itself stands at risk.


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Rescuers Save Deer Trapped On Frozen Connecticut RiverThe state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection says coyotes chased the deer onto the thin ice covering the Farmington River.
City And State Point Fingers Over Death Of East Harlem DeerThe deer's death came after the city said despite its concerns, it would hand over the deer to the state Department of Environmental Conservation to be relocated upstate.''
Cuomo Wants Deer Spotted Roaming Around Harlem Moved To New HabitatLast week, crowds lined up outside Jackie Robinson Park to get a closer look at the creature.
Crowds Gather At Jackie Robinson Park For Glimpse Of Deer Hanging Out In HarlemWhatever you want to name him, New York City Parks' Urban Park Rangers are making sure everyone behaves.
Deer Won't Leave, Gets Aggressive When Man Takes Selfie In Staten Island WoodsA Staten Island man had a wild encounter recently when an eight-point buck showed up in his cellphone pictures.
Ballot Questions On How To Handle Deer Population Confuse Residents In Saddle River, NJHouses in Saddle River, New Jersey may cost on average $2 million, but the deer come free.
NJ State Trooper Saves Drowning Deer From Swimming Pool, Authorities SayPolice say the struggling buck recovered and returned to the wild after being safely pulled from the pool.
From Long Island To New Jersey Deer Have Been Darting Out In Front Of DriversDeer can be a serious problem on the roads during the autumn months. Deer have been darting out in front of drivers from Suffolk County, Long Island to Cedar Grove, N.J.
Caught On Video: Deer Attacks Driver After Being Struck By CarAt around 8 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 17, a deer dashed across Oak Glen Road in front of a GMC Envoy, which clipped it.
NYC To Install Deer-Crossing Signs On Staten IslandNew York City is acknowledging the growing deer population on Staten Island by installing deer-crossing signs at 21 locations around the borough.
Deer Breaks Into T.J. Maxx Store On Staten IslandAn employee arriving to open the store around 8 a.m. discovered the front window smashed in and the deer running around inside.
Saddle River Residents Debate Ways To Thin Deer PopulationResidents are concerned about the spread of Lyme disease, destruction of shrubs and gardens, and vehicle collisions.


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By Diane Selkirk
Web Exclusive, June 5, 2006
"I asked the universe for you.
When your daddy and I decided we wanted to have a baby, I spent many hours imagining you. I asked for someone who wanted to join our lives: A child with a sense of adventure, an easygoing personality, a love of learning and change, someone who would live life joyfully. This seemed a lot to ask for, but I also really wanted a girl with curly red hair. So I asked for that too."
Each year on Maia's birthday I fill a page with words for her; small pictures of who she is, descriptions of what we've experienced together, my hopes and dreams for her, and my worries. Sometimes the words come quickly, and I fill the paper with fixed images of my quickly changing daughter. Other years I need to sit a while, catch my breath and try to recall the sound of her emerging voice.
The letters are a promise and commitment—to both of us. While I write them I often imagine Maia as a young woman, a box of letters on her lap, a soft light falling on her. The scene is unhurried as she reads each letter slowly, studying each word. She searches them, looking for images that connect her back to her earlier self.
In an era of rapidly composed emails and family dinners sandwiched between activities (when dinner happens at all), writing Maia gives me a chance to connect with what it means to be a mother. Too often, our days of parenting slip by without acknowledgement and we trust our memories to cameras, scrapbooks and recorders. When I write my memories on paper, I capture more than just an image; I capture the shape and texture of my love for a little girl with curly red hair.
"I could list each of your accomplishments and transitions but I think the most wonderful part of your second year was watching your personality develop. You are a lovely, loving 'little kid' (as you call yourself) and are always aware of what is happening around you. If someone is sad or crying you want to 'hug them, hold them, make them feel better', if they are laughing or singing you are eager to laugh with them and join them in song."
We are told that letter writing, as an art, is slipping away from us. It is seen as inefficient and impractical. Opening the mailbox to find a small envelope with familiar handwriting (the kind that brings a surge of expectation, and the desire to curl up and share a moment with the author) is an experience that is nearly forgotten. Instead, we send out emails with recycled platitudes about family and friendship and we feel guilt that we don't take the time to say more. But there is more to say to each other than "forward this to ten people you really love." Many of us have simply forgotten where to begin.
When we don't know how to write each other, how do we write our children? Where do we even start if we promised ourselves to write every year and now, suddenly our one-year-old is seven, and the lovely box we made to contain our annual letters has only one letter in it? And how do we take the rich experience of loving someone and reduce it to a few phrases?
"You have grown so big. I promise I will try to make each day special by fiercely protecting the magic that belongs to childhood. I will try to help you grow at the pace you want to—even though it feels much too quick to me. But when you nurse to sleep in my arms each night and the bigness you have grown into during the day is able to recede, I will hold that brief glimpse of your tiny baby self close to me."
In her book Etiquette (1922) Emily Post lamented to her readers that letter writing was falling out of fashion "The art of general letter-writing in the present day is shrinking until the letter threatens to become a telegram, a telephone message, a post-card."
Perhaps letter writing has never really been threatened, maybe it is simply an art that waits quietly, there for each of us to discover. I think we avoid letter writing because we are not sure of the rules. It seems a bit old-fashioned and archaic and something that might be very easy to do wrong. And it often seems that other people can capture our feelings much more clearly and easily than we ever could ourselves. Why commit our own unsure words to paper when there are cards and poems that say what we mean so beautifully.
But words are like any other type of art. There is no wrong way to tell our children we love them, if it comes from inside us. And it is never too late for a letter. A promise of a yearly letter is not one that needs to be abandoned when one, two, three letters are forgotten. Carefully chosen words are gifts—both to our children but also to ourselves. When I give myself permission to sit down and let the words spill out, without judgement, without censor; I am letting my heart open and I'm telling myself that everything I feel has value.
I have a letter my Nana wrote me before she died. I probably had others from her over the years, but this one was the final one. It tells of her hospital room, the flowers in her vase, the weather outside her window. She also tells me how my eyes sparkled when I visited her. That's it. It is a perfect letter that serves as a gentle tether to a woman who has turned to mist in my memories.
Emily Post was reassuring to her readers in 1922. After providing pages and pages of letter writing etiquette she clarified it all with these words "Write as simply as possible and let your heart speak as truly and as you can. Forget, if you can, that you are using written words, think merely how you feel—then put your feelings on paper—that is all."
"This morning when you woke we decided to spend your final day of being three doing special things together. Then you began to panic, you said were not ready to be four; that you were not ready to change. What if tomorrow you were no longer able to fit under the table when you wanted to hide, you asked? What if tomorrow when you woke, you were so different you no longer felt like you?
You began to cry. Telling me that you were so happy being three; telling me that you wanted to be three for another year or two. I held you close and my eyes filled with tears. I told you we could pretend, until you were ready, that you were still three. You looked me in the eyes, brushed my hair back and then kissed my cheek. You told me that you couldn't be three any longer; that life changes and you had to grow up. Before I could cry, before the rising sob reached my throat, you leapt off my lap and ran to the door, calling after me that I was too slow, you were ready to go."
Diane Selkirk is a Vancouver, BC WAHM who enjoys writing for a variety of magazines when she is not writing letters to Maia. http://www.dianeselkirk.com/


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GAINESVILLE - Despite numerous warnings from officials to stay off the roads amid hazardous driving conditions, the Georgia State Patrol was forced to engage in a car chase earlier this afternoon in Hall County.
According to authorities, the GSP was called in around 4:40 p.m. to assist local officers in pursuing a 2010 Toyota Prius. The vehicle, which had earlier been reported as stolen, was leading local police on a pursuit when the GSP joined the chase, but eventually the chase was called off and authorities lost contact with the suspect vehicle.
The GSP says later in the afternoon, an officer that had been tasked with searching for the stolen Prius spotted the vehicle in the area of Tanner's Mill Road, at which point the suspect initiated yet another pursuit.
During the course of this second pursuit, the GSP says the Prius slowed down and a passenger emerged from the vehicle. This individual, who was later identified as 31-year-old Melisa Allen of Buford, was captured shortly thereafter.
The trooper that had initially spotted the vehicle was able to re-establish contact with the suspect car near the intersection of GA-53 and Tanner's Mill, leading the driver to exit the car and attempt to flee on foot. The suspect, whom authorities have identified as 30-year-old Gainesville resident Christopher Lamar Whitfield, was captured following a foot chase of roughly 100 yards.
Following their arrests, authorities say both Whitfield and Allen admitted to having consumed methamphetamine, and were taken to Northeast Georgia Medical Center for evaluation.
The GSP says that after the pair is released from the hospital, the Whitfield will face charges of felony fleeing and attempting to elude, DUI, reckless driving, and an assortment of other traffic charges. Allen will not be charged in the case, according to the GSP.


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Remember The Downtown Lunchtime Recital Series began March 12th at the First Reformed Church of New Brunswick (9 Bayard Street)?
Well today, the recital series is back again with "Trio Allegro Picante" presenting works by Claude Debussy and Ohio composer Rick Sowash at 12:15 p.m.
A free lunch follows each FREE recital.
Two more Downtown Lunchtime Recital Series events also take place in April so check in early next month for those performance details, or click above flyer to enlarge.
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Bennett Haselton writes "If you read no further, use either the BestParking or ParkMe app to search all nearby parking garages for the cheapest spot, based on the time you're arriving and leaving. I'm interested in the question of why so few people know about these apps, how is it that they've been partially crowded out by other 'parking apps' that are much less useful, and why our marketplace for ideas and intellectual properly is still so inefficient." Read below to see what Bennett has to say.


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I like the "warnings" in Sticky Password Pro 6 beta, and I'm assuming that they are just logins with insecure passwords.
With the rate of website passwords being leaked, would it be an option to flag passwords that are regularly used? Possibly with a future feature of a "Uniqueness" option on the More button, showing accounts with passwords bearing a resemblance to the selected account.
eg Select the PSN account, chose Uniqueness from the More menu, and have it flag the xbox account that has only one character difference.
I realise it is a little late in the Beta to have extra options added to the More menu, but could the regularity of a password be added to the warning or insecurity test?
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PALM HARBOR — State Rep. Peter Nehr has found a new venture to replace his failed flag shop and prop up his sagging financial fortunes: He has opened an Internet sweepstakes cafe, a type of business that Pinellas County Sheriff Jim Coats considers illegal gambling and has worked to keep out of the county.
Though Coats and his staff met with Nehr last year to talk about the sweepstakes cafe industry, Coats said he didn't know until Tuesday that Nehr had opened a sweepstakes cafe in a Palm Harbor strip center.
Coats wasn't the only official surprised by Nehr's new business. So was state Sen. Mike Fasano.
Fasano, sponsor of a bill in the state Senate to establish new controls over sweepstakes cafes, had recruited Nehr last fall to introduce a companion bill in the House, but Nehr chose not to file the bill. Nehr never told Fasano he was going into the sweepstakes business himself.
"I had no idea and I'm shocked," said Fasano, R-New Port Richey. "We reached out to Nehr and he agreed to it. We were disappointed that we were not able to get a House sponsor. I don't want to go beyond that."
Internet sweepstakes cafes are cropping up throughout Florida. They sell Internet time to customers, who then sit at computer terminals and access casino-style sweepstakes games. A small storefront cafe can make more than $20,000 a week.
The proliferation of the cafes has ignited a debate about whether they constitute illegal gambling. But to Pinellas County's sheriff, there is no debate: They are gambling operations, and in 2009 and again last December, Coats wrote letters to local cafes ordering them to shut down within 30 days or be subjected to investigation and possible prosecution.
Last May, Nehr and a Tallahassee lawyer, William Pfeiffer, came to see Coats. They wanted to know his stance on Internet sweepstakes cafes.
"I told them as far as I'm concerned, they are illegal," he said.
But Nehr, a Republican who represents north Pinellas County and a sliver of Pasco, contends he hasn't done anything illegal. "This is a legitimate business that has been vetted and found to be completely legal in the state," he said. "I'm entitled like anyone else to open a legal business to earn money for my family."
For 18 years, Nehr owned a flag shop in Tarpon Springs. He filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009 and for a while said that his legislative salary was his only income.
But on March 1, Nehr formed Fun City Phone Sales LLC. The same month he bought Fun City Sweepstakes at 38541 U.S. 19.
Behind the darkened windows are tables with 45 desktop computers. Customers buy a phone card and get 100 sweepstakes points for every $1 they spend for a card. It takes 25 points to play one sweepstakes game.
Customers swipe the card at the computer to play. With the click of a mouse, they can simulate the spinning images of a casino slot machine. Afterward, they collect their winnings from the cashier. Phone cards sold at Fun City can also be used to make long-distance phone calls outside the cafe.
Nehr said his cafe is a franchise of Phone-Sweeps, LLC, a Florida-based company that sells prepaid long distance telephone cards and licenses local Internet cafes. Represented by Pfeiffer, Phone-Sweeps cafes are in seven states. In Florida, the company has franchised cafes in Jacksonville, Gainesville, Alachua, Lake City, Daytona, Sarasota and Fort Lauderdale.
Nehr says what makes his business different and legal is that he sells a product: the phone card.
"The other establishments, there was never a prepaid phone card," he said. "Everyone else has been selling Internet time. I opened a store that sells prepaid long distance cards, and I promote it by having a sweepstakes . . . just like when you go to McDonalds and they have a game."
That makes little difference to Coats.
"As far as we are concerned, they are illegal," he said, adding that if he received any complaints about Nehr's business, "then we would send them a notice like we have in the past."
Because the cafes exist in a legal gray zone, each county has developed its own approach to them. While Coats has decided they are gambling and will not be allowed in Pinellas, other Tampa Bay counties, most notably Hillsborough and Hernando counties, have left the door open. Coats said he has been hoping the Legislature would clarify the situation for law enforcement.
That was one of Fasano's goals, too. Senate Bill 222 would have created new regulations over the cafes. But the lack of a House sponsor for the bill set Fasano's effort back.
Fasano said Nehr told him he didn't file the bill by the deadline because House leaders told him the bill had no chance. But in an interview with the St. Petersburg Times, Nehr said he decided not to file it because he "didn't want to submit a bill that made it look like it was self serving to me." He also said there was another bill moving in the Legislature that would ban the cafes entirely, making his bill pointless.
Without more legislation, the state has no enforcement power over sweepstakes cafes. Leaving enforcement up to each county is fueling the debate about the legality of the cafes.
"I believe they are legal," said Lawrence G. Walters, an Altamonte Springs lawyer who writes and presents on gaming issues. "The problem is, law enforcement claims that they look and feel too much like gambling, then it must be gambling. But until the Legislature changes the law, they are allowed to operate. This is going to have to be solved legislatively."
Walters said law enforcement is trying to bully cafe owners into shutting their doors.
"It's really just an effort to try and scare them out of existence. The industry is not backing down. They are well within their rights to present sweepstakes entertainment."
Bills to ban sweepstakes cafes have no chance of passing this year, said state Sen. Nancy Detert, chairwoman of the Committee on Commerce and Tourism.
No matter. Coats has a message for Nehr.
"We told you our opinion. You chose to open the business, you stand the risk."
Times staff writer Elisabeth Parker contributed to this report. Contact Demorris A. Lee at firstname.lastname@example.com or (727) 445-4174


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What is an IRA?
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Here's an example: You're 45 years old. You have a Roth IRA with $10,000 in it, of which $7,000 is contributions and $3,000 is earnings. You can withdraw up to $7,000 without paying any taxes. If you withdraw the $3,000 in earnings, however, you'll pay income tax on that sum at your current rate.


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It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the Hudson Valley. Each evening as the sun sets, my neighborhood transforms into a sparkling display of holiday magic, complete with more reindeer and Santa Clauses than I can count. The Family Friendly Hudson Valley calendar is packed with festive events, and no doubt your own calendars are filling up with fun, too. In the hustle and bustle of the season, why not take some quiet time at home to enjoy these classic Christmas stories.
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- How the Grinch Stole Christmas, by Dr. Seuss
Read this story of yuletide transformation and quirky, lovable characters, and watch the animated version (narrated to perfection by Boris Karloff) ABC Family.
- The Friendly Beasts: An Old English Christmas Carol, by Tomie dePaola
Read or sing along with dePaola's story of the animals who gave gifts to the Christ Child. Complete with sheet music at the back of the book, this tale can bring a nativity set to life as children recreate the role of the donkey, "shaggy and brown."
- Christmas in the Manger, written by Nola Buck and illustrated by Felicia Bond
This charming board book recreates the nativity story for the smallest readers in rhymes that highlight key symbols of the season. Older readers can memorize the poem and watch it come to life in a local live nativity display, or simply appreciate the symbolism of putting that star or angel atop the tree.
- The Nutcracker, written by Janet Shulman and illustrated by Renee Graef
This story of tradition, sacrifice, and love comes to life in Shulman's retelling of E.T.A. Hoffman's beloved fairytale. Watch the ballet with costumes by Maurice Sendak or simply bask in the beauty of Tchaikovsky's score (excerpts included with this text).
- The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Clarke Moore
Share the poem that defined our modern-day Santa Claus as you set out cookies for that "jolly old elf." Listen closely for the faint sound of jingle bells and be sure to watch the film version on ABC Family.
- Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree, by Robert Barry
This rhyming story shows how Mr. Willowby passes on the joy of the season, little by little; read it with friends or loved ones as you decorate the tree or distribute gifts, and then, pass it on.
- The Twelve Days of Christmas, by Laurel Long
With this lavishly-illustrated rendition of the classic carol, you can finally learn all the words and sing along, page after stunning page.
- The Wild Christmas Reindeer, by Jan Brett
You know Dasher and Dancer, but Brett introduces readers to eight other reindeer with names and illustrations inspired by Ukranian folklore. Readers will love getting to know new magical reindeer and can still remember that "most famous reindeer of all" by watching the 1964 film here.
- Christmas in the Big Woods, written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and illustrated by Renee Graef
Step back from the frenzy of the holidays and enjoy this joyful glimpse into a simpler season with the Ingalls family.
- A Christmas Carol: A Colors Primer, written by Jennifer Adams and illustrated by Alison Oliver
Introduce the smallest readers to colors and the infamous Mr. Scrooge; then watch one of the many delightful family versions of Dickens' tale of redemption with Mickey, Disney, or the Muppets.
And may your holiday season be anything but a humbug.
About the Author: Erin Newcomb loves books of all sorts. When she's not reading and playing with her two daughters, she enjoys teaching literature courses at SUNY New Paltz. She holds a PhD in literacy education and is working toward a world record for number of interlibrary loans. You can catch up with her on Twitter @ErinWyble and on her blog PhD Mama.


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Are you talkin' to me?! LOL
Aggies are always talking bout Aggies....
Just personally it gets old....
I get the excitement, but jeez, y'all have won nothing of substance since Coach Bryant....I'd be happy to talk about the Wonder That is Aggies once you guys win a Championship of some kind.....
And the 3 loss 98 season Big 12 Championship doesn't count
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Here's my thoughts...I would revel in the fact that I had such an awesome game in Tuscaloosa. Then I would have nightmares about the game next year. Somehow, I believe CNS will exact retribution. If Mr Football can survive that, he's one hell of a player.
Personally, I'll be happy to see "Johnny Football" punched in the mouth and shut the hell up, within the rules of the game of course.
Roll Tide Roll!!!
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I'm still not sure I understand the idea behind this thread. Is the suggestion that the Aggies will have a colossal meltdown next season akin to Arky's from 2012? I'm not sure where that idea comes from, but I find it preposterous. While I think we're in the better position to win the west next season, I suspect the Aggies will be nipping at our heals all season long. They lost some talent, but they have tons in reserves, not unlike us (granted, we're more deeply stocked with top-shelf talent, but the Aggies have serious athletes).
I think the chances of them melting down are literally about 0.1% of their chances of winning the west.
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Hey everyone - the question is whether aTm will have an Arky meltdown, not who will win the game September 14. They won't.
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I don't think they will have the year that Arkansas had this past year. The Aggies seem to have a much better coach.
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. - Ellen Parr"
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I don't think the Aggies situation is the same. Arkansas had been strong for several years before collapsing after the coaching change. The Aggies came out of nowhere last year after being down with a new coach and a Heisman QB nobody had heard of prior to last season. An Aggie collapse would be chalked up to one year wonders and people figuring out Manzeil.
I don't see an Arkansas-style meltdown happening without the same kind of leadership vacuum Arkansas had.
Roll Tide Roll!!!