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There they go again. The Field Board of Education lowered the "pay to play" fees for Field High School athletics at its November meeting.
I take issue with how this lame duck board went about decreasing the fees. This was not on the agenda; it was brought up by one of the exiting board members. She mentioned they had asked the prior administration about the financial impact of decreasing fees, but never received an answer. She asked how they would go about decreasing the fees. The superintendent said he could make a recommendation, which he then proceeded to do. The board voted on the recommendation and it was unanimous.
At no time during the discussion of this topic did any board member ask the treasurer what was the financial impact of their decision. The board had no idea what the financial impact was of their vote. I even went up after the meeting and confirmed with the treasurer that he was not consulted.
As a CPA, I take issue with this board's fiscal irresponsibility. How can a "bare bones" district like Field after failing their sixth levy attempt reduce revenue at the very next board meeting?
The good news is we have a new board starting in January. The bad news is this board has one more meeting and who knows what they have planned for that meeting.
I have been a vocal opponent of past levies and switched to a proponent of this last levy effort. With this kind of fiscal irresponsibility it makes me think maybe the Field district should not be trusted with more taxpayer money.
The challenge of the new board will be to convince voters that they, unlike the old board, can be fiscally responsible. I hope they rise up to that challenge.
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Rod Love; the Fly Rod Picture Thread
After it was mentioned on the Reel Love thread which is full of our members favorite fly reels in photographic form, it seems that we could do with a picture thread for those much adored fly rods as well.
Here's the starter, a custom Flea and my trusty old Far & Fine.
Followed by, 1995 9' PM-10 #5 rod and an 8' 6 weight Orvis.
On the water with a 13' #9 weight Spey rod;
I know there are more pictures of rods but I'll need to find them :) You guys are out there taking pictures of these like they are girlfriends so you might as well start putting them all in one spot :D
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The top rod is my 15' 8/9 Meiser which I want buried with me. To steal a line from the movie 'Blades of Glory', I could not love a human child more. The bottom rod is my 9' 10 wt. Wintson BIIX. It's a close second. I've got a lot of rods, but those are my favorites.
Another shot of the Meiser.
Another shot of the Winston.
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Here are two rods I built in 1980. One is a 7'9" Orvis Far and Fine, the other a Scott Pow-R-Ply 8 1/2'/#5. My insert wraps were inspired by the great work of Russ Peak. These remained my favorit rods for about a 4 or 5 year period when they were both superceded by the next generation of Orvis rods, the Western Series and then new generations of materials and designs on to the present. However, having built them from quality blanks on my own they will always remain very special to me.
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Here's my 10'6 Diawa Exceler 8wt in action on the Yampa River, CO
And the first outting of my 9' Albright A5-NS
I'll get close up images tonight and post them.
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Alot of character in those rods that have seen more use :) Mine are all pretty inexperienced but no less loved:
A Sage VXP 9' 9wt, never fished
My 9' 9wt Orvis Clearwater II and my son's 9' 6wt Redington Crosswater
My 8.5' 6wt Fenwick HMX
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Ard, I was wondering how long it would take to get this thread going. It's a natural followup to the Reel Love thread.:thmbup: Lots of great rods already on the first page. Those are some beauties Ard! I'll see what I can find on the PC to add to it, maybe get around to shooting a few this weekend.
DiverDan, that's a very impressive collection you have!
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undiagnosed of course! :thmbup:
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There are more, here's one I don't talk about. Got it after the winter set in and have not cast it yet :D
I'll do a better job of that once I have the reel that goes with it :)
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Awesome thread, great looking rods.
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Hardy, in addition to the nice rods those are some nice looking capes with the rods.
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Engineering Campers Drum Up Bright Ideas
"Can we get a drum roll from the drum shirt?" Bethany Brinkman asked, and Lydia Fleck promptly obliged, tapping out an electronic tattoo on her belly.
The fanfare heralded the moment all gathered in Heuer Auditorium were waiting for. Would the Rube Goldberg machine work? Brinkman, who'd overseen its construction by Fleck and 21 other high school girls attending Sweet Briar College's annual Explore Engineering summer course, hedged her bets.
"If something doesn't work, just encourage it to work," she told the students.
And with that, a croquet mallet triggered a chain reaction of moving marbles, balls, whirring motors, popping balloons, cascading water and a wind-propelled sailboat — to name just a few of the "events" that the girls, divided into eight teams, had designed into the contraption. Rube Goldberg devices, named for the cartoonist famous for drawing them, employ a series of complicated actions to achieve a simple result.
In this case, a piñata at the terminal end exploded candy and confetti. And, albeit with some "encouragement," it all worked. The thing ran the length of the auditorium, from the top seat row to the bottom, turned a corner, continued across the front of the room, and hung a left toward the waiting piñata.
In between were who knows how many feet of PVC pipe, gobs of pink and green duct tape, a 10-foot tower made of two-by-fours from which a bucket full of water hung precariously, myriad other sundries and string — lots of string.
Each team was responsible for a section of the machine. They had to include at least one electrical circuit, a gyroscope and five mechanical events. Brinkman pointed out the difficulty of the achievement to the parents who'd come to see the final demonstrations, which conclude the weeklong course.
"We really challenged them with an open-ended problem," she said. The designs had to work on their own, but the true test was making them work with the teams on either side. That meant cooperating with each other and maintaining communication as components were tested and revised.
Earlier in the week, Hank Yochum, director of Sweet Briar's Margaret Jones Wyllie '45 Engineering Program, emphasized the point. "We think these are important skills for engineers to have and we really want them to practice those skills," he said on Wednesday.
The annual summer course receives funding from the National Science Foundation to help recruit and retain women in the engineering field. But they also are a thorough introduction to Sweet Briar and its engineering program — which is distinguished in all sorts of ways by being at a small liberal arts and all-women's school.
The difference was evident to Fleck, a rising senior from Poquoson, and her teammate Casi Huvard of Chesterfield. Both have attended other engineering camps.
"This is the only camp where you don't feel so lost," Huvard said.
"The college kids actually come up and help you," Fleck noted, and Huvard agreed, saying they're helpful without looking down on you.
The pair sat across from each other over a table littered with wires, batteries, circuit boards and pieces of a deconstructed toy drum. They were working on the week's other big project, to design and make "intelligent clothing." Fleck and Huvard are the creators of the aforementioned drum shirt, inspired by the habit of drumming on your stomach.
It was Wednesday — the day when the design-test-improve work begins in earnest. Up to that point, they were learning mechanical and electrical engineering concepts, given project guidelines and told to plot their creations. On Tuesday, they shopped for supplies at the Goodwill Store and Home Depot.
Letting them dream up their own inventions within specific parameters is an important aspect of the camp, Yochum says. "We teach them some basic things and then say 'What can you do with that that's cool?' "
Some of this year's better-living innovations were slippers with lights and proximity sensors in the toes to navigate in the dark; a jacket fitted with skin temperature and conductivity sensors to display the wearer's mood, pain or discomfort; a rummageless purse wired to light up inside when opened (the additional rotating shelves proved too ambitious for two days' work); pants that inflate in the seat (a technically complicated achievement, much to the delight of project faculty advisor Scott Pierce); a prom dress with a motorized hemline; and a hat that lights in the dark and turns off in light using photo resistors and a microcontroller.
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The family of a missing North Philadelphia woman is working hard to keep her disappearance from fading into the past.
It's been almost six months since anyone saw Franchesca Alvarado. Her family is dealing with the pain with the help of another family with a similar story.
Alvarado's sister Alma Rios says her family has grown used to waiting for news of her sister, 22, who was last seen on March 13.
"She went to Atlantic City March 17 with a male friend from Philadelphia, and never returned," said Rios. "It's been an emotional roller-coaster."
Sitting in a grieving center she helps run -- next to the funeral home where she is employed -- Rios says she believes Philadelphia police have done a good job. Still, she says, it's hard not knowing what happened.
Rios, who helped create this grieving center for the community, says her own family gathers here to talk about her sister's case. Rios believes her sister's background may have kept her disappearance from getting more attention.
"She lived in the Hunting Park area. And it's an area where certain people would be intimidated to be in if they're not from around there," Rios said. "And I think that because of the crime rate in this community, I think people think that it's just the norm for an inner city girl like my sister to be missing.
"Perhaps she's just got involved with some wrong people and is hanging out with them, perhaps?" she says.
Support from another grieving family
Rios says Alvarado never would have left behind her 3-year-old daughter. While it's been a very difficult time, Rios says her family's been getting support from the family of another young Philadelphia mother who went missing recently.
"A couple weeks after my sister went missing, Melanie Colon went missing and the cases were very similar. They found Melanie dead," Rios said. "We have kind of similar cases. Melanie was 22 years old, they were both from the same area, they knew a lot of mutual friends, we're both Spanish."
Rios says when her family holds vigils and other events to honor her missing sister, Melanie Colon's family comes out too.
She says the families are supporting each other -- as one grieves and the other continues to search.
Standing on a nearby street corner, Melanie Colon's brother Ralphie says the two families have a special relationship.
"Emotions. Emotions, emotions, emotions," he said. "I look at her family and I see my family."
Colon says he's tried to bring attention to his sister's murder.
"She was found shot to death in Juniata Park -- right down the block from here, actually a couple blocks down -- she went missing on May 8 of this year. The guy she left with -- he's nowhere to be found still.
"I made the Facebook page for Melanie so we can find who killed her," said her brother.
Like Franchesca Alvarado's family, Colon says his family is helping his sister's young son deal with her absence.
"He gets sad. He just started school and that was hard for my family because Melanie was supposed to be there," Colon said. "How are we supposed to tell a child his mother was murdered? How are we supposed to tell him she was shot six times?"
Excruciating wait for answers
Colon says he believes the police are trying to find out what happened to his sister.
"But the 12th it's going to be four months that she's been dead and I just be so hurt talkin' about it. I just want someone to find something out because it's wrong. It's wrong what people have to go through . . . they don't even have a body."
"We found my sister. They don't even have nothing. I love them and I look up to them so much because they have so much faith," he said.
Alvarado's sister Christina Diori says her family's not giving up ... and she has an idea why the case hasn't gotten more attention.
"The media made errors. They said someone had told them that she was an escort. I had to contact them so they could fix that," Diori said. "I think that's another reason why we didn't get the media attention we were supposed to get for Franchesca."
Sitting in the grieving center, Diori says she still expects her sister will return. She says the family's contacted national TV shows about the case -- to no avail.
"Somebody out there knows something and we even have a reward," she said. "All we care about is getting Franchesca back home."
For Alvarado's family, the wait continues.
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The Chicago Fire garnered a signature win when they absolutely needed it. And most importantly for Chicago, the team now finds itself in a realistic position to catch a playoff spot with only four regular-season matches remaining.
The Fire won for the fifth time in their past six matches and were led by midfielder Marco Pappa's hat trick en route to a 3-0 victory against Real Salt Lake at Rio Tinto Stadium in front of 20,762 at Sandy, Utah.
Pappa had been in a significant scoring funk, having failed to find the back of the net since June 26 against the New York Red Bulls.
Now Chicago (7-8-15, 36 points) is within three points of those Red Bulls, who currently hold the final wild card position with 39 points.
"That was great to see," Fire defender Dan Gargan said of Pappa's performance. "He's a player that we need, and when he's sticking the ball into the back of the net, that's phenomenal for us because that's just another weapon that we have. It's been coming. He comes to training every day and puts in extra sessions. He's such a talented player."
Everything went right for the Fire in the first half, and especially in the first 15 minutes. Pappa tallied a ninth-minute goal with his right foot. Then in the 11th minute, Salt Lake captain and midfielder Kyle Beckerman leveled Chicago midfielder Daniel Paladini to the ground and was shown a straight red card.
Defensively, the back line did its job and kept Salt Lake (15-9-6, 51 points) off of the scoreboard as RSL clearly missed having the play of Beckerman in the midfield.
With Pappa zoned in, the Fire were in the driver's seat. In the 36th minute, Pavel Pardo set up Pappa by dribbling past RSL's Yordany Alvarez and passing the ball forward just past Salt Lake defender Nat Borchers. Pappa did the rest with a left-footed strike past RSL goalkeeper Nick Rimando for a 2-0 lead.
Pappa capped off the night with his third goal in the 75th minute, doing all of the work himself to get past Chris Schuler on the right sideline and then striking the ball inside the far left post for his eighth tally of the season.
The absence of Fire midfielder Sebastian Grazzini, out with a hamstring injury, completely took a back seat. Chicago maintained possession for large portions of the game and did all of the little things right to garner just their second road victory.
"We are on a bit of a roll," Gargan said. "It certainly feels good. I think it's something that we certainly believe in, that we're capable of these results. We want to keep going in that direction."
Salt Lake had its chances, but throughout the first half RSL struggled to put anything on frame. The most significant opportunity came in the 28th minute when Alvaro Saborio got behind the Fire's defense and pushed the ball wide left. Soborio was all alone as Fire defender Josip Mikulic was not on the same page as Fire defender Cory Gibbs and Mikulic decided to push up for an offside call. Saborio was several yards onside.
The only uplifting moment for RSL's 20,000-plus crowd was seeing Salt Lake's Javier Morales make his first appearance since May 7, when he suffered a fractured and dislocated ankle.
Analysis: The Beckerman red unquestionably changed every aspect of the match. But the Fire deserve some props for enduring the moments when RSL was trying draw something in the infraction department.
Gargan's matchup against Fabian Espindola could have gotten out of hand, but Gargan played an intelligent and effective game after both players were shown yellows in the 16th. RSL fans were shouting for a 20th-minute foul in the box on Gibbs, but official Baldomero Toledo was not buying Will Johnson's effort to try and draw a penalty kick. When Chris Wingert fouled Pappa harshly on the sideline in the 33rd and probably deserved a yellow, there was no aftermath or retaliation.
"You don't have to be dirty to be a good player," Gargan said. "I certainly think that they have a couple of them that could have handled themselves better. We had to be smart, to not even up the score, because they certainly were looking to do it and do everything they could to get one of us tossed."
The cooler Fire heads prevailed on Wednesday. The big challenge of course is maintaining this confident and composed play on short rest in Houston this Saturday.


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- Single newborn screen or routine second screening for primary congenital hypothyroidismStuart K Shapira
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA Electronic address
Mol Genet Metab 116:125-32. 2015..However, based on the one-screen state experiences, with appropriate modifications in screening method and algorithm, the two-screen states might convert to single screen operation for CH without loss in performance...
- Future research directions to identify causes of the increasing incidence rate of congenital hypothyroidism in the United StatesStuart K Shapira
Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, US Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Pediatrics 125:S64-8. 2010....
- Genetic risks to the mother and the infant: assessment, counseling, and managementStuart K Shapira
NCBDDD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, NE, Mailstop E 86, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Matern Child Health J 10:S143-6. 2006
- Association of paternal age and risk for major congenital anomalies from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997 to 2004Ridgely Fisk Green
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Ann Epidemiol 20:241-9. 2010..The objective of this study was to examine the associations between paternal age and birth defects of unknown etiologies while carefully controlling for maternal age...
- Birth prevalence rates of newborn screening disorders in relation to screening practices in the United StatesVicki S Hertzberg
Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Atlanta, GA, USA
J Pediatr 159:555-60. 2011....
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Genet Med 11:874-9. 2009..This study examined developmental disabilities and issues that required special education services within a population-based sample of children with Duarte galactosemia...
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ATG chief brands West End theatres "not fit for purpose"
Ambassador Theatre Group chief executive Howard Panter has said that most West End theatres are "not fit for purpose" and should be replaced.
Speaking at the International Theatre Engineering and Architecture Conference in London, Panter, who owns 11 West End theatres, said that theatres upwards of 100 years old were not built to last this long, and as such are ill-equipped to cater for modern-day audiences.
"The trouble is, there will never be enough room in those buildings for enough leg space, enough bar space, enough showers for artists, whatever it might be. There simply won't," he said.
As a model, he referred to Broadway, where a number of theatres have been demolished and rebuilt "without any diminution of values or standards".
"This is not about taking away theatre, it's about making theatres better in the theatre capital of the world," he added.
Fellow theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber has previously spoken about the "shocking" state of West End theatres, and in 2000 called for the demolition of theatres such as the West End's Lyric and Apollo, the roof of which collapsed last December. Speaking to the Times, he suggested the Apollo and Lyric be knocked down and "replaced by a couple of top-quality modern theatres" or be knocked together to create improved, shared front of house facilities.
Panter also spoke about ATG's international expansion into both Australia and the Far East. He said the group was "actively working on" acquisitions and projects in Seoul, Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong.
"Australia is an interesting and growing market and we hope that in the not too distant future we will have one, two, three or more venues in there," he said.
"In Korea we have a site and two Korean partners and our intent is to build a new theatre there," he added.
Earlier this week, ATG announced the creation of two new business appointments as part of the group's international expansion.
Julia Potts will return to ATG after a three-year absence, during which time she has been executive director of the Almeida Theatre. She takes up the new position of UK business development director. Karin Gartzke, currently ATG's business development director, will now focus entirely on international initiatives.


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Lower Navarre (Gascon/Bearnese: Navarra Baisha,) is a traditional region of the present day Pyrénées Atlantiques département of France. It corresponds to the northernmost merindad of the Kingdom of Navarre during the Middle Ages. After the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre (1512–24), this merindad was restored to the rule of the native king, Henry II. Its capitals were Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and Saint-Palais. In the extreme north there was the little sovereign Principality of Bidache. Its extent is of 1,284 km2, and has a decreasing population of 44,450 (in 1901), 25,356 (in 1990).
Although this denomination is not completely correct from the historical point of view, it is also known as Merindad de Ultrapuertos ("the regions beyond the mountain passes") by the southerners, and Deça-ports ("this side of the mountain passes") by the Gascon-speakers. Despite its lost administrative cohesion, the memory of its past heyday has left an imprint on its inhabitants, who keep identifying themselves as Lower Navarrese and therefore Navarrese. The Nafarroaren Eguna or Day of Navarre is a festival held in Baigorri every year to strengthen their bonds and celebrate their Basque identity. The territory is also claimed by Basque nationalists to be one of the seven constituent regions making up the Basque Country.
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"Unlike You … I Am Not Rude"
Walking back from the local cafe this morning I saw an acquaintance. I used to think we were friends but came to realise this person does not have friends, only acquaintances. He was raised by an inneffective mother who smothered his younger brother and ignored him and a father who was an abusive alcoholic. At quite a young age he took himself off to social services and had himself put in a childrens home.
In the home he had no privacy, no possesions that did not get stolen and nobody who cared for him as much as his parents. This person grew up to be afraid of anything resembling commitment or dependancy. Friendship feels too close to both for this person to be capable of it. A couple of times he has invented spurious reasons to stop visiting and drinking tea with me which for almost a year he did daily. The last time our friendship cooled it was because I had become rather fed up with his attitude and stiring trouble between people.
When I saw him walking towards me this morning with his MP3 player plugged into his ears I noted a look of confusion cross his face. He clearly was uncertain whether to acknowledge me or not. "Morning", I said in a loud voice to save his confusion. He unplugged his ears and looked at me. "How are you?", I asked. "I am not rude", he said. "I am not sure what you mean", said I. "Well, unlike you and XXX, I am not rude – I didn't say 'fuck off' when I saw you". "Oh right", said I and continued after a brief pause, "well next time I should just say 'fuck off' and be done with it if I were you mate". I went on my way.
I can't be bothered with this person anymore. His ability to be confused whilst calmly assuring himself he is not is more work than I have the energy for right now. So now it is really simple: he can hate me with gay abandon as a 'rude person' and I can wish him more skills in human interaction and self-awareness. And we won't feel a need to talk about it.


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Tempe-based StateServ's software helps hospices improve service nationwide
StateServ Chairman Anthony Perre says it takes a big heart to help families provide comfort for their loved ones in hospice. "If you don't have a heart for it, then you don't belong in this business," he says. "We want to make a positive difference in people's lives."
In fact, Perre's company has made a positive difference in hospices nationwide, thanks to proprietary software that streamlines and improves the delivery of durable medical equipment (DME). StateServ's software is now used by more than 300 DME providers across the U.S., and the company continues to expand in Arizona, where, according to StateServ director of sales Andy Spencer, people use hospice care at a higher rate than the national average, with an estimated average daily census of 9,364 patients. While there are DME companies throughout Arizona (a 2008 report from the Durable Medical Equipment Task Force cites 212), StateServ is the only known hospice-specific provider, StateServ spokesperson Nancy Johnson says.
Perre co-founded Tempe-based StateServ in 2004, with Paul DiCosmo, CEO; and Chris Roode, vice president and chief technology officer. "We had a burning desire to help people," Perre says. "If you can combine doing something positive, pay it forward, give of your heart and create a business at the same time, that's pretty special."
StateServ started as a physical DME delivery service, providing quality and reliable equipment including hospital beds, oxygen and ventilators to patients in hospice-care settings and at home. At that time, there was a lack of technology in the hospice world, Roode says. "We had an opportunity to look at an industry we didn't know well, but could see how equipment provisioning occurred and it wasn't efficient," he says. "We knew that we could make a difference with our software and could free up the nurses and hospice directors so they could focus on delivering patient care."
With that goal in mind, the company devised a web-based portal for hospice personnel, patients and their families to order equipment in real time, 24 hours a day. "We utilized technology to deliver a much better customer service experience," Perre says.
Before StateServ's software came on the scene, ordering was done by fax and phone, resulting in inconsistent communication, long waits for delivery and billing delays. If a patient was placed in hospice care after 5 p.m., he or she would have to wait until the next morning for necessary equipment to be delivered. It was also typical for hospices to receive stacks of bills from DME companies that were 200-300 pages long, making it difficult to control costs.
Now, orders can be placed anywhere there is an Internet connection, and users have the ability to track the status of orders 24 hours a day. Hospice personnel can track equipment costs as they occur.
As word spread about StateServ, it expanded regionally and in 2010, launched StateServ Network Services to contract with DME companies across the country. "That's when the wave of standardization hit the industry and we changed the dynamic of how medical equipment is provided for hospice for the whole country," DiCosmo says.
In the early days of StateServ, Perre answered calls and took orders. DiCosmo and Roode delivered equipment. As the company grew, they added more employees (now around 160, not including subcontractors). The company now serves 45 states and 50,000 patients daily, according to DiCosmo.
By mid-2014, StateServ will have 14 "brick and mortar" locations across the country with medical equipment warehouses and trucks. They have increased their footprint to include more than 300 competitors nationwide that use their software and services. "We utilize our competitors to help deliver equipment in markets that we don't directly compete in," Perre says.
The industry has seen an explosion of hospice DME providers in the past few years, according to Infinity Hospice Care CEO Darren Bertram, a StateServ customer in Arizona and Nevada. DME companies have recently realized there's "an inefficiency in the market that StateServ has recognized for a long time," he says.
Since StateServ went nationwide, several competing companies have emerged. HospiceLink, an Alabama-based DME company that had participated in StateServ's network, came out with an "exact snapshot" of StateServ's services about a year and a half later, Perre says. Another company, Hospice Cloud, has also modeled its software after StateServ's.
But Perre isn't too concerned about the competition. "We welcome all competitors because hospices around the country know that we are the pioneers," he says. "We introduced all the technologies out there and everybody's trying to chase us."
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Moving with amazing speed, the House of Representatives today passed on a voice vote legislation designed to permit commercial horse packers to operate in Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks this summer as usual. The bill still needs to be considered by the Senate, however.
Earlier this week five Democratic congressmen from California urged the Republican leadership of the House Natural Resources Committee to resolve the horse-packing stalemate with a one-year remedy. The plan was to pass legislation to allow this summer's horse packing to commence while the National Park Service works to complete studies needed to determine a specific limit of horse-pack trips.
The current ban on commercial pack trips was spurred by the High Sierra Hikers Association, which filed a lawsuit to both get the National Park Service to meet the provisions of The Wilderness Act and to protect the sensitive environmental landscape of wilderness in Sequoia and Kings Canyon. The association is not trying to ban outright horse trips into the high country of the two parks, but rather seeks what it believes is a more manageable level.
Armed with a ruling that the Park Service violated The Wilderness Act in Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks with the way it managed horse pack trips, the hikers association wants U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg to order the agency to rein-in the pack trips.
In a motion filed earlier this year in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, the hikers association asked Judge Seeborg during a May 23 hearing to order the Park Service to reduce by 20 percent from 2007 levels the number of pack trips allowed into the parks' wilderness areas, and prohibit grazing of stock in wilderness meadows above 9,700 feet.
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Manic Street Preachers star Nicky Wire has dismissed speculation the band is planning to split, insisting their upcoming hiatus will help them discover a new sound.
The Welsh group is launching a greatest hits package later this month (Oct11) and performing all 38 singles released since 1991 at a special show in London at Christmas (11).
Wire previously revealed the rockers are preparing to take at least two years out of the spotlight and fans began to worry about the group's future.
But Wire insists the band will be back with a more "indulgent" sound in the future.
Wire tells Bbc Radio 4's Front Row show, "This (album) is drawing a line in the sand, really. When we come back it will be the final phase of us as a band and it has to be in a different form.
"We can't pretend a band in their 40s making guitar rock can have huge hit singles, because it just doesn't happen any more unless you totally sell out every single bit of your life. (It will be) something that is more indulgent I guess."
Wire is determined that when the rockers do make their comeback, they will continue to release CDs of their material, rather than selling records solely online.
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'Little Friend' is one big read
Human resource group plans holiday event
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Athens sees new jobs, lower unemployment
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Dupree instructing children's yoga now
Carroll: Four spheres should guide your ethics
It's beginning to look a lot not like Christmas
Griffin 'Administrator of the Year' in Georgia
SEC awards licensing to Athens company
Tech stocks may look hot, but understand what's driving gains
Smith, Cooper hope to make own marks
Different teams, similar goals
False suicide call gets man arrested
Oconee house fire causes damage
Car stolen from downtown Athens
Man robbed after giving man a ride
Man tells police pusher ripped him off
Cash, coins taken from parked truck
Handicap decal snatched from car
Ownership spat doesn't halt funeral
Bookstore locks clogged by glue
Hirst painting heading to Mars
Funk Brothers put backbeat into Motown
Tom Kenny finding his voice in the world of cartoons
Fund called on to help new mother
Thompson: Hitting the road again with Jesus
Parades set to fill the streets with cheer
Barnes: Georgia Club features Chef Paul
Breakfast with Santa set for Dec. 14 at mall
Want to give? New tools help pick worthy charities
Homeless thankful after holiday
Winter rabies clinic on Saturday
Teaching for the 'love' of it all
Man struggling with disease, bills
Clausen helps Vols blank 'Cats
Magill: Wall keys Georgia's devastation
Zimanek: Fiesta Bowl still on revved up Bulldogs' minds
UGA Athletic Association secures more tickets for SEC title game
Seminoles beat Gators; Alabama ends with win
Despite loss, Irish may receive BCS invitation
Gary expected to play Saturday
Despite risks, medical workers ready to get shots for smallpox
Disney cruise ship again disinfected after another virus outbreak
Hero's family offers thanks, warns about drinking and driving
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In the Northeast Invitational championship Friday, Evan Hock hit a grand slam and Rickey Whiteman hit a solo home run in Osceola's 16-7 win over Lakewood. Taylor Layner had nine strikeouts in four innings to get the win.
Layner made the all-tournament team along with teammates Mike Boriboun and Josh Townsend. Lakewood's Jeremy Brown, Morgan Harris, and CC Copeland, Clearwater's Dillon Stone, Northeast's Jerrod Flanagan, Indian Rocks Christian's Brad Miller and Brian Balbin and Largo's Mike LaGrange and Matt Piatt rounded out the tournament team.


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iptables 1.3.7 tgz package
I've been compiling the iptables 1.3.7 bz2 package that came out in December since I cannot find a tgz package for Slackware 11. Kernel 2.6.20 is giving me trouble with iptables (I've compiled the kernel several times with a new .config setup and it flops on the iptables build). Is there a tgz file somewhere for iptables-1.3.7?
You could have a look at the source directory on a slackware mirror, to see how the slackware iptables package was built. ie with which options etc. It'll be in the SlackBuild script. You might even be able to build a new slackware package from it.
iptables 1.3.7 for kernel 2.6.20
If you need an iptables 1.3.7 tgz you can download the version I compiled for kernel 2.6.20.
I didn't =). The package was compiled against a 2.6.19.x kernel after realizing 1.3.5 didn't work with the new kernels. There shouldn't be any problems with running it with 2.6.20. Perhaps someone else can comment on this.
I'm using the iptables-1.3.5-i486-2 package on my Slackware 11 boxes - the kernels are all either 220.127.116.11 or 2.6.20. It sounds more like the .config options for OPs kernel are the problem.
Well, when I try to compile the iptables package from source I get building dependencies then nothing to do. When my pc reboots and loads up my iptables rules I get an error in line 11 of the rules file that worked fine in kernel 188.8.131.52
Oh, and when I try to list the iptables rules I find out that no rules were read.
What I did was to keep iptables 1.3.5 and when upgrading the kernel I ran make mrproper, copied over my old .config file, ran make oldconfig, make, make modules_install.
I take it that you're still running 1.3.5 because the new one didn't compile. Can you post your iptables rules? It should be possible to identify what it's trying to load and determine what's missing in your new kernel. Alternatively, what are the dependency errors you get with iptables 1.3.7?
iptables 1.3.5 errors
Attempting to load iptables rulesets w/ kernel 2.6.19+ results in errors such as "Unknown error 4294967295" in stdout. After trying to load a rule and receiving one of these errors, filtering no longer works and networking is effectively shut down.
This bug was fixed in 1.3.6. The changelog can be viewed here.
It's not a case of improper kernel config, 1.3.5 just flat out doesn't work with 2.6.19+.
At this point I'd like to know what errors linuxhippy is getting and what are the missing dependencies. If there are particular targets that cause the errors, do they need to be used?
make /usr/src/linux-188.8.131.52
It says building dependencies and then after a couple minutes:
nothing to be done
Then I type:
make install /usr/src/linux-126.96.36.199
I see the screen fill up while it does compiling and then I get this:
make: Nothing to be done for `/usr/src/linux-184.108.40.206'
On reboot into the new kernel, all looks ok except that I get this statement:
iptables-restore: line 11 failed
When I do iptables --list my rules are not there. What do I need to do?
You need to to just type 'make' without the kernel directory. If that needs to be specified then just create the link /usr/src/linux to whichever kernel source tree you want. It also helps make things easier and more accurate sometimes if you are also running the kernel version you want to build for. I had no trouble compiling iptables-1.3.7-20070225 with kernel 22.214.171.124.
Should I first uninstall iptables 1.3.7 from my old kernel?
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The Art of Education Contest 2013: Update!
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We are half way through the "Art of Education" contest, and right now two schools from Washington State are neck and neck for the lead position: Cascade K-8 Community School (Shoreline, WA) and Kenmore Elementary (Kenmore, WA) each have over 2,800 votes so far!
It's not too late for your favorite school to jump into the top 16 schools by using these following tips…
- Set a daily reminder. Remind yourself to vote – and encourage your friends and family to do the same. You can set an alarm on your phone, calendar, or clock – just be sure to set it for a time of day you won't distract others – and when you'll be near a computer to vote!
- Break out in song! Last year's winner, Brunswick Acres, used a combination of video, dance, and music to urge the public to "Vote B.A. Daily." Collaborate with your students, teachers, parents, and administration in your community – and let your musical talents shine!
- Go digital. If your artistic talents lie in the visual arts or in creative writing, consider working with your peers to create a blog or website about the contest. Be sure to include reasons why you need their vote!
- Get the press involved. Write a persuasive letter to the editor of your local newspaper. Or invite a journalist to your school to showcase the financial need, meet the principal and art teachers, and see first-hand the energy of the students.
- Share, share, share! Be sure to send an invitation to all your Facebook friends to "like" the KRIS Wine Facebook page. Remind them often to vote – and do so creatively! If your son is in the school orchestra, snap a photo of him practicing, and email it to your out-of-state family members. Please always be sure to thank your friends and family for their help!
The 2013 Art of Education contest runs until October 31, 2013. Vote now for the chance for your school to win. Remember – anything can happen in the next two weeks. Good luck!


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Salon, the online cultural and political magazine, has signed an agreement with portal site and search engine Go.com, which is partially owned by the Disney Corporation, that will give the portal site book-related content in exchange for Salon's placement in Go.com's book section.
Although no money will change hands, the deal gives each site something it was looking for. Benefits for Salon include Disney's deep marketing pockets. In return, Go.com gains the credibility afforded by editorial content, something few portal sites can boast.
Among the partnership's other elements are a co-branded site (from which the two will share ad revenue) and mutual links. "There is something to be said for an association with a high-level portal," noted Andrew Ross, Salon's v-p of business and development. "It also d sn't hurt to have an association with Disney."
In one of the more curious developments, Go.com has a bookselling arrangement with Borders.com, Salon's exclusive bookseller, until Salon signed a high-profile agreement with Barnesandnoble.com.
The affiliations raise slippery sales issues, especially on the co-branded site. According to Ross, purchases made via the Go.com site and the co-branded page will go through Borders.com, while anything that comes through Salon proper will go to Barnesandnoble.com.
Offman Named to Beat
In an effort to expand its book coverage Craig Offman, formerly with Time magazine, has been named Salon's new publishing correspondent. Laura Miller, Salon's senior editor for books, told PW that Offman would focus on "books, authors and the publishing industry. It won't be trade reporting, but he'll cover trends, controversies -- whatever's interesting to readers and particularly to readers outside New York." Salon is located at www.salonmagazine.com.


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The news today features the best-selling book on Japan Amazon for the last week of January, called Otto no Chimpo ga Hairanai, or "My Husband's D**k Won't Go In". It has outsold Haruki Murakami's just-released and much-awaited new novel, "The Killing of the Leader of the Band of Knights" (our translation), with over 110,000 copies of "My Husband's D**k Won't Go In" having been snapped up to date.
|Cover of "Otto no Chimpo ga Hairanai" ("My Husband's D**k Won't Go In")
Otto no Chimpo ga Hairanai is what is called a doujinshi (doh-jin-shee), literally, a "comrades' book," which is a genre of publication that started with aficionados of grossly erotic parodies of mainstream titles publishing them for each other - obviously in very small runs. However, with Otto no Chimpo ga Hairanai, the doujinshi genre seems to have made the leap to mainstream, much like the erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey that caused a cultural storm in the West back in 2011.
The press release for this book by the publishing company, Fushosha, says:
"My Husband's D**k Won't Go In" is a shocking true tale that tells the story of a woman's life. 18-year-old Kodama hooks up with a freewheeling young fellow student at university. But something happens on the first night that they sleep together. He simply cannot get it up at all. But, following this, they put the impotence issue to one side, deepen their relationship, and eventually marry. Yet, Kodama's desire for her husband to consummate the marriage remains unfulfilled, and she goes on to experience even greater tragedy."
Otto no Chimpo ga Hairanai has earned three and a half stars on Amazon Japan, but the two reviews voted the most helpful give it only one and two stars, and describe it as a depressing tale of low self-esteem on the part of the character, that hobbles their s*x life, that the couple in the novel do not try and address, and that sees them sleeping around with others. One or two reviewers express wonderment that it has outsold the new Murakami novel (in spite of having contributed to the feat themselves!)
Japan is in general far less prudish than the West, and a title like My Husband's D**k Won't Go In is much more likely to arouse curiosity than disgust. However, the depressing nature of the story itself seems to have disillusioned the majority of readers.
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Cuban President Raul Castro said that he would leave power in 2018, when his second term is finished.
"I would like to make clear ... this will be my last term," he said during a televised speech, reported CNN.
GlobalPost had previously written that Castro had hinted at retirement just days earlier.
Raul Castro took the reins of the presidency of Cuba in 2006.
His brother, Fidel Castro, has been in ailing health for nearly a decade.
Raul Castro was officially elected president in 2008 at 76 years-old.
His words on retirement came just hours after he was granted another five-year term by the National Assembly.
The legislature also made Miguel Diaz-Canel the country's first vice president Sunday.
Diaz-Canel is an engineer in his early 50s that has also served as minister of higher education, said CNN.
It seems likely that Diaz-Canel would replace Castro as Cuba's leader.
USA Today pointed out that he has risen higher than anyone who did not participate directly in the 1959 revolution.
"It represents a definitive step in the configuration of the future leadership of the nation through the gradual transfer ... of key roles to new generations," said Castro, reported USA Today.


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Ohio board recommends mercy for condemned killer
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The Ohio Parole Board has recommended mercy for a condemned killer set to die next month for killing a Cleveland produce vendor.
The board voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of clemency for Arthur Tyler, whose attorneys argue he is innocent in the 1983 shooting of Sander Leach.
The board ruled 6-5 to recommend that Gov. John Kasich release Tyler immediately. Kasich has the final say.
Tyler's lawyers say his co-defendant Leroy Head took responsibility for the shooting several times. Cuyahoga County prosecutors dispute Tyler's innocence but also pushed for clemency, saying the case doesn't meet current standards for capital punishment.
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They say that necessity is the mother of all invention, and for a duo of pest management professionals from American Pest Management (APM), Manhattan, Kansas, that meant finding a way to meet the current bed bug resurgence head-on with new inspection and treatment programs to proactively handle the increasing problem in their community. So far, the programs are receiving rave reviews.
APM's Bed Bug Community Outreach Program
After calls related to bed bugs sky rocketed, American Pest Management, Manhattan, Kan., saw a need to reach out and help educate their community about the increasing problem. So, in November 2010 the company introduced its Community Outreach Program.
"We felt that we needed to create bed bug awareness to help the community protect itself and help curb the spread from one place to another," says Travis Aggson, vice president, APM.
Part lecture, part hands-on demonstration, the Outreach Program covers bed bug history, biology, health impacts and treatment strategies, along with practical tips about how attendees can protect themselves on vacation, or when buying used furniture.
"We also bring in a mock hotel room including a twin bed, mattress, box spring, headboard, foot board, picture frame, and sometimes stuffed animals, a back pack or a clothes hanger, and show people how to inspect — where they need to look and where are the hot spots — and explain what they need to do if they find bed bugs," says Joey Hoke, general pest control supervisor, APM.
APM also provides attendees with hand-outs to reinforce the information covered in the program, or for them to share with others who did not attend.
Initially, APM invited the company's target audience, mainly property and hotel managers, and one representative from each business typically attended. The message was so well received, however, that the managers began to request meetings for other office personnel and for their property tenants.
Now meetings are attended by anywhere from 5 to 250 people and may be held on-site in APM's training room, or off-site at the group's choice of locations. Attendees have included everyone from Realtors, property owners, managers and tenants to EMTs and other first responders. Meetings for tenants at multi-unit properties have included pot luck dinners and BBQs. One appreciative tenant even penned a bed bug song on his banjo.
The positive impact of APM's Community Outreach Program has already reached beyond its attendees. After overhearing other hotel guests complaining to management about bed bugs in their room, one program graduate was able to step in and help her friends. "She told us how she used the skills we taught in class to inspect five hotel rooms for her friends," Aggson said.
Programs Fill Hole. Both of APM's new programs have their roots in the Bed Bug Forum sponsored by the National Pest Management Association earlier this year in Denver. After attending the conference in January, Joey Hoke, general pest control supervisor, APM, was inspired by the ideas and information presented there, but noted a hole in current approaches.
"There was so much great information about how to treat bed bugs once a client has an infestation," Hoke said. "But there was little information about how we can be proactive and prevent bed bugs from becoming a problem."
So Hoke and Travis Aggson, vice president, APM, began to brainstorm and together developed their first initiative — the Bed Bug Certification Inspection Program.
"Initially, we created the bed bug program in the same vein as our termite inspection program," Aggson said.
Under the new program, a member of the APM Bed Bug Team will inspect units as they become vacant. If a unit is absent of bed bugs, the manager will receive a certificate and can then provide an apartment or home that is guaranteed free of bed bugs at the time of move-in. If bed bugs are found, the technician will perform a curative treatment.
To test the concept, Aggson and Hoke held several bed bug summits with area property managers, hotel managers and university officials. Initial reaction was positive and by mid-March, they announced the first bed bug certified property in Manhattan, Kan.
In addition to certification, the program also provides clients with a sense of protection.
"Property managers have started adding bed bug addendums to their leases," Aggson said. "Certification gives them not only the documentation that units are absent of bed bugs at time of move-in, but also provides them with a timeline should an infestation occur in the future. A timeline can be helpful if it becomes necessary to establish who is responsible for paying for a treatment in the future."
For renters, the certification provides peace of mind that there will be no unwelcome surprises after move-in day.
Currently, three property managers who each oversee 20 to 300 apartment units or single-family homes are enrolled in the program. When tenants move out, APM will come in, inspect and certify, or inspect and treat each unit.
"Reaction to the Certification Program has been great so far, but some property managers want us to take the program even further," Aggson said. "They want us to prevent bed bug infestations. Since there is no way to really prevent them from coming in, we decided to focus on proactively preventing the spread of bed bugs."
So while they began to implement the Bed Bug Inspection Certification Program, Aggson and Hoke began to work on a preventive protocol.
"We continued to brainstorm internally and contacted BASF to discuss preventative treatment options," Aggson said. "They helped us identify several treatments that bed bugs aren't resistant to that have residual effects for six to 12 months."
Working with BASF, APM began testing the proactive protocol at a local hotel that was experiencing ongoing bed bug problems.
"In the first four months of treatment, we have controlled the spread, and have had no new signs of bed bugs, and no complaints of other problem pests, either," Aggson said.
As a result, APM recently introduced the company's new Bed Bug Proactive Treatment Program.
"The Proactive Program involves a partnership between the pest management professional, property manager and occupants or tenants," said Aggson. "When we start a program we ask the property manager to arrange a potluck dinner, or provide some kind of refreshment with us as 'the entertainment.'" APM uses these meetings to educate attendees about bed bugs, their life cycle and what to do in case of an infestation.
Once the Proactive Program is underway, technicians will systematically visit every unit and following the first step of APM's bed bug protocol, inspect and treat every room as if there are bed bugs present. Proactive treatment applications are made in common harborage sites concentrating in bedrooms, wall voids and closets. Monitors are also set. Follow-up inspections and treatments are conducted every six months.
"Following the NPMA protocol, if you have bed bugs in a hotel room, you need to inspect and/or treat the infested unit and the adjacent units," Hoke said. "Because we do inspections and proactive treatments twice a year, if bed bugs are found, we only have to treat the infested unit because the adjacent units will have been treated already. Treatment becomes a much less-invasive process."
In addition to giving property managers a proactive option that's less invasive and more discreet, the Proactive Treatment Program can also help customers keep treatment costs under control.
Two customers currently enrolled in the Proactive Treatment Program had seen curative treatment costs for their multi-unit properties skyrocket past $20,000 in 2010, and beyond in 2011.
"These managers ran through their risk-analysis and determined that for some of their properties it made better financial sense to treat proactively than wait to treat until after there is another problem," said Aggson. "It's almost a case-by-case decision."
As another benefit to customers, APM is revamping the company's Web site (www.americanpestonline.com) to include a page listing all certification and proactive program partners. Once launched, the page will allow anyone searching for apartments in the Manhattan or Kansas City area to find properties that are using a proactive approach to bed bug inspection and treatment.
"With all the college and military housing in the area we have a high turnover rate," said Aggson. "Now anyone looking for an apartment in the area managed by one of our partners will know they can feel confident that every possible step is being taken to make sure they don't have a bed bug problem in their new home."
American Pest Management's new programs may have been developed out of a necessity to provide proactive options for customers in the fight against bed bugs, but they have also helped boost the company's bottom line. Revenue for bed bug work in 2011 is projected to triple 2010 totals.
"This process has taught us to use our knowledge and be flexible. The protocols are changing as we learn more and it's an ever-changing exercise as we continue to provide service effectively and efficiently," said Aggson.
The author is a freelance writer based in Milwaukee, Wis. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Large regional banks continue to outperform money center banks, despite the compelling stock price multiples for the largest bank holding companies. Deutsche Bank analyst Matt O'Connor noted on Thursday that while the KBW Bank Index ( I:BKX) "is down 13% from the March 26 high, this reflects a nearly 30% pullback on average in the Money Centers," including Bank of America ( BAC), Citigroup ( C) and JPMorgan Chase ( JPM), while "using the S&P Commercial Bank Index (excludes Money Centers), the stocks are down a modest 3%--despite sharply lower interest rates, slowing economic growth and a much larger potential hit to capital from new proposed rules." Summing up second-quarter results for the 17 large banks covered by his firm, O'Connor said that net interest margins (NIM) "were down just slightly on average and remain okay for now, but are not sustainable if rates remain at current levels." The net interest margin is a bank's average spread between its average yield on loans and investments and its average cost for deposits and borrowings. Over the past two years, banks have enjoyed lower funding costs as checking account balances grow, and higher-cost deposits reprice. But with short-term rates unable to head any lower, while long-term rates continue to decline and the Federal Reserve considers additional moves that could push long-term rates even further down, many banks are focusing on cutting expenses. Bank of America, for example is pushing for $5 billion in annual cost savings through the end of 2014, through Phase 1 of its "Project New BAC" program, which focuses on the company's consumer business. During the company's second-quarter conference call, CFO Bruce Thompson said that "we made progress on expenses, which declined $2.1 billion from the first quarter, of which approximately $900 million was due to the absence of annual retirement eligible stock-based compensation awards that impacted the first quarter." Thompson said Bank of America was still on track to exceed the 20% of the $5 billion in annual cost savings by the end of 2012 from Phase 1 of the expense reduction program. The CFO said that he expected Phase 2 of Project New BAC -- focusing on wholesale and investment banking --would lead to expense reductions of "approximately $3 billion on an annualized basis, which would be fully phased-in by mid 2015," for total target annual expense reductions of $8 billion by the end of 2015. O'Connor said that eight other large U.S. banks covered by Deutsche Bank "remain focused on reducing costs where possible, even if they don't have an official cost cutting initiative in place." Another major theme for many of the large banks was continued strength in mortgage revenue, as the refinancing wave from the expanded Home Mortgage Refinance Program, or HARP 2.0, continues. O'Connor said that "production volumes were mostly higher (driven by good refinance activity) and gain-on-sale margins remained strong," during the second quarter, and that he expects the low rates and HARP 2.0 "to continue to help mortgage activity in 2H12... however, gain on sale margins should eventually come down over time." Here are O'Connor's two favorite picks among stocks of large U.S. banks, followed by his two buy-rated money center banks:
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April 15, 2008
One of the great early American examples of a lawyer ensuring that unpopular defendants got a fair trial, even defendants with whom the lawyer may have disagreed took place in Boston in 1770. The lawyer was John Adams and the defendants were the British soldiers who were accused of murder from their involvement in the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770.
The Law Library of Congress has posted copies of three published accounts of the records and transcripts of the trial, a history of the Massacre and trial, and a character sketch of Adams that includes his Speech on the Boston Massacre.
Great reading on one of the great ethical responses of the revolutionary bar!!
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Testimony to the New York City Charter Review Commission
Testimony to the New York City Charter Review Commission
Testimony of City Councilmember Brad Lander
To the New York City Charter Review Commission
April 20, 2010
Chairman Goldstein, members of the Commission, thank you for this opportunity to present testimony on potential changes to the New York City Charter.
As Alexis de Tocqueville wrote more than 180 years ago, democratic practice in our cities is the foundation of American democracy. I urge you to keep that spirit in mind as you deliberate changes to our city's constitution.
At its best, deliberative changes to the New York City Charter can contribute to this centuries-old tradition of grassroots municipal democracy – of engaged citizens committed to promoting equality, inclusion and participation in government, thoughtful debate, and democratic practices that balance the extraordinary range of interests that make up both New York City and the United States. This happened twenty years ago, against the odds, when the Charter Review Commission led by Fritz Schwarz included thousands of people, and helped our city move toward more democratic, more diverse, one-person-one-vote practices.
But the opposite is also true. An inadequate process risks real harm to our local democracy – through a cycle in which the people of this city lose faith in their government, become more cynical and less likely to participate, as less democratic and more managerial processes are adopted, and core democratic values are eroded.
To be blunt: While I have deep respect for the individuals on this panel and your service to our city, this Commission poses real risk of falling into that negative cycle, and doing concrete harm to our local democracy.
The public perception is that this Commission was created in a cynical backroom deal by the mayor to win a third term around the twice-expressed will of the people, that its timing has been manipulated, and that it will primarily consider changes that are pet projects of the mayor. While I believe Mayor Bloomberg has done many good things for our city and serves with honorable intention, he has not increased the quality of participation and engagement in local democracy. As you are all his appointees, I believe it is appropriate to ask you to be mindful of the challenges this presents. The fact that we are led by our richest individual, who opted out of campaign finance practices designed to promote a level playing field and outspent his opponent 14 to 1, who led the effort to change the term limits law around the will of the people, and now wishes to see changes that would take our democracy further in a direction that would make it more managerial and potentially friendlier to candidates of enormous wealth is a profound and unfortunate barrier to your goals of a Charter revision process that represents the best in democratic practice. And again, while I deeply respect the individuals on the panel, I do not believe that the Commission sufficiently represents the breadth of interests which must be represented.
This set of problems has been made worse by a rushed timetable, which has resulted in public hearings with too little advance notice, in one case scheduled on a religious holiday, all of them just barely outside of Manhattan, with extremely poor attendance and public participation.
I do not set out these concerns to score political points, but simply to urge you – as citizens who I know care deeply about the quality of our local democracy – to be mindful of the profound challenges and very real risks that you face in this process. I do not believe that you can overcome them simply with the good will, personal integrity, and intelligence that I know you bring to your efforts. I believe you will need to explicitly consider and address these risks in the scope of issues you choose to address, the process you use, and the alternatives you propose.
Now, to my more substantive testimony:
In part for the reasons outlined above, I believe that the only appropriate issue for you to place on the ballot this fall would be changes to the City's term limits law. It would be deeply inappropriate for you to present a term limits change together with some of the alternatives that have been discussed as priorities of the mayor – for example, non-partisan local elections, or diminishing the power of the public advocate or community boards. Instead, you should place a public review of the previous term limits change on the November 2010 ballot, and then prepare the way for a full and broad review of the entire Charter, a process for which there is simply neither time nor democratic good will at this moment, and set that process in motion for consideration in 2012.
Only Consider Review of Term Limits Law for 2009
Because the term limits law was changed by the Mayor and the City Council in 2008 in a manner that overrode the twice-expressed will of the voters and that raised significant citizen outcry, I believe it is appropriate to review these changes to the law at this time.
I am not going to express an opinion on the substance of the issue at this time. Any position I take would – for understandable reasons – be viewed by many in the current context as primarily self-interested, and I believe that is the wrong message for our elected officials to send. You have heard, and will hear, substantial testimony on this point from a wide range of interests.
I would, however, urge you to place any proposed change to the term limits law on the ballot, by itself, as the sole issue this fall. Since 2011 will be an extremely low-turnout election, the only choice is between this year and 2012. Waiting until 2012 would upend another election cycle and is unfair both to potential candidates and the public. Moreover, people have had plenty of time and debate on this issue, and voters could go to the polls well-informed this November.
Other Issues Should Not be Considered This Fall
Other major issues should not be considered this fall, for several reasons. There is insufficient time for a full and considered review of the entire Charter. As noted above, I believe you risk real harm to democratic process if you select for consideration several issues that have been identified as of particular interest to the Mayor.
In particular, it would be the height of cynicism to place items on the ballot with the likelihood – intended or otherwise – that populist anger about the term limits change would spill over to diminish the power of offices other than the Mayor's (e.g. the public advocate, community boards), or further increase the power of future wealthy candidates by proposing non-partisan elections. These two changes in particular should not be presented by your Commission.
While non-partisan elections perhaps sound appealing, they are in fact an anti-democratic process. While our current Mayor seems to find partisan affiliation personally confusing, something to change like a wardrobe, political parties have been part of the DNA of American democracy from the very beginning. They provide the opportunities for citizens to come together in broad coalitions that represent not simply interest groups, but governing philosophies. Non-partisan elections would replace the 225+ year democratic political tradition of this country with one that gives significant advantage to wealth, since it is candidates with the ability to spend excessively who would most be able to make their voices heard.
On a more mundane level, I believe that my own election last year shows that the process we have in place works very well to represent diverse interests. I was one of five candidates in the Democratic primary, and then one of five candidates on the ballot in the general election (Democrat/Working Families, Republican, Libertarian, Conservative, and Green Parties). Both elections were amongst the highest-turnout races in the city. There was plenty of choice in both elections, and to deny Democrats in my district the opportunity to select their candidate in a robust primary would have disenfranchised them.
A Comprehensive and Democratic Charter Review for 2012
I strongly urge the commission to propose changes for the 2012 ballot in these areas that need real examination:
Require Real Community Planning and Involvement
•Require a proactive and comprehensive planning process for the city that goes beyond zoning to look at community needs, requires upfront community participation, mandates a real examination of the fair share criteria in ULURP, and increases the ability of Charter-defined bodies outside the administration to begin proactive planning initiatives.
•Update "fair share" provisions in the charter to improve the current standards for public facilities, clarify that publicly-funded facilities are included, and to force the City to address the benefits and burdens of growth for communities.
•Update the land use process to allow for negotiations around ancillary issues that would allow the community to address the benefits and burdens of proposals.
•Strengthen community boards, by giving them sufficient numbers of capable planning staff and centralized technical assistance, while also requiring that appointees are representative of local stakeholders and comply with conflicts of interest and transparency rules.
Reestablish the Balance of Power Between Branches of Government
•Increase the budgetary powers of the Council, including revenue estimates & consideration of the budget in segments, to allow real review.
•Expansion of Council legislative powers that unfairly put great powers in the Mayor's control beyond Council oversight.
•Advice and consent on all major mayoral appointments, including the Chancellor and all commissioner-level positions.
•Limit the proliferation of agencies controlled by the Mayor outside of legislative scrutiny.
•Fix budgets for independent offices as a static fraction of the total City budget so the public advocate, comptroller, community boards and others


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Mobile street hawkers who trade from pick-up vans and utilise public parking bays in commercial areas around Petaling Jaya might end up with an extra rental fee of RM400 a month or close to RM5,000 on an annual basis.
The RM400 fee is on top of the annual RM180 licence fee.
Petaling Jaya mayor Datuk Mohamad Roslan Sakiman said street hawkers who are supposed to be on the move have developed a trend of using a parking bay for more than half a day.
"Street hawkers who jostle for parking bays like in SS2, Section 14 and PJ New Town contribute to the traffic congestion in the commercial areas and is one of the major problems, unsolved over a decade," he said.
Roslan added one of the main reasons behind the traffic congestion was mobile street hawkers occupying a major share of the road on both sides, leaving hardly any space for the public and the vehicles, to move with ease.
"Though the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) has taken strict action in towing away the pick-up vans, hawkers are not deterred. They are back as soon as the enforcement officers are gone. We have to come up with new guidelines to curb the misuse of the parking bays," he said.
Roslan added the Health, Legal and Enforcement sub-committee had decided to impose the charge of RM400 per month or RM5,000 on annual basis for a street hawker who wanted to use the parking bay to trade their wares.
At yesterday's full board meeting Roslan called upon the sub-committee to discuss the matter in-depth before the fee was made compulsory.
He also added that a study must be carried out to ascertain whether the locations were suitable for mobile street hawkers.
"All approval to allow mobile street hawkers to utilise the parking bays must be viewed on a case-to-case basis. The sub-committee must see from the aspects of cleanliness, health and traffic conditions," he said.
Councillor Tiew Way Keng said the amount of RM400 per month was based on the agreement with the firm that manages the parking lots.
"It is based on the terms and conditions drawn up by the private firm that will charge RM400 if a trader or even a tyre shop uses a parking bay for their businesses," she said.
Residents in PJ have expressed concern over disordeliness in some parts of the city, which they said was caused by MBPJ failing to enforce regulations against street hawkers who use the parking bays and double park thus blocking parked vehicles.
Resident Awang Had Salleh, 56, who was an observer at the full board said the most affected areas were SS2, Section 14 and the PJ New Town, which becomes inaccessible in the afternoons until late evenings.
"Some open up the side of the pick-up vans and take up more space. In certain roads in Section 14, they go up to the middle of the roads, leaving little space for motorists and pedestrians," he added.
Awang also claimed some traders blocked the parking bay overnight with old vans and would use the bay in the day after removing the van left at the side of the road.
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New photo clue prompts fresh search
Washington: A new clue in one of the 20th century's most enduring mysteries could soon uncover the fate of American aviator Amelia Earhart, who went missing without a trace over the South Pacific 75 years ago, investigators said on Tuesday.
Enhanced analysis of a photograph taken just months after Earhart's Lockheed Electra plane vanished shows what experts think may be the landing gear of the aircraft protruding from the waters off the remote island of Nikumaroro, in what is now the Pacific nation of Kiribati, they said.
Armed with that analysis by the State Department, historians, scientists and salvagers from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, are returning to the island in July in the hope of finding the wreckage of Earhart's plane and perhaps even the remains of the pilot and her navigator Fred Noonan.
Ric Gillespie, executive director of the group, acknowledged that the evidence was "circumstantial" but "strong" but stopped short of predicting success. The new search is scheduled to last for ten days in July and will use state-of-the-art underwater robotic submarines and mapping equipment.
"The most important thing is not whether we find the ultimate answer or what we find, it is the way we look," he said. "We see this opportunity to explore ... the last great American mystery of the 20th century as a vehicle for demonstrating how to go about figuring out what is true."
Earhart and Noonan disappeared July 2, 1937, while flying from New Guinea to Howland Island as part of her attempt to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe.
Extensive searches at the time uncovered nothing and many historians are convinced they crashed into the ocean. In addition, conspiracy theories, including claims that they were US government agents captured by the Japanese before the Second World War, still abound despite having been largely debunked.


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The scene outside the High Court sitting in Ventersdorp was quiet on Wednesday as the trial of two people accused of killing rightwing leader Eugene Terre'Blanche continued.
A small group of local residents and Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) members in camouflage uniforms gathered outside the court on Tuesday.
The AWB members' cars were draped with flags and posters, one of which read: "We want justice", against a picture of Terre'Blanche's face.
Chris Mahlangu and a teenager, who may not be named, are charged with beating Terre'Blanche to death in his farmhouse outside Ventersdorp, in the North West, in April 2010.
Both have pleaded not guilty of murder, housebreaking, and robbery with aggravating circumstances.
Mahlangu has claimed that he acted in self defence. The teenager has denied involvement in the crime.
On Tuesday, the investigating officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Tsietsi Mano, testified that Mahlangu had planned to castrate Terre'Blanche after the murder.
"Mahlangu said he pulled Terre'Blanche's pants down and exposed his genitals. His intention was to dismember Terre'Blanche, but he decided against it."
Mano said Mahlangu had stated that he went into a storeroom on the farm and found an iron rod. He and the teenager then entered Terre'Blanche's house through a window.
They found him lying on his back on the bed. Mahlangu allegedly hit him on the forehead, then twice more on his face. The teenager took the rod from him and hit Terre'Blanche on the face and chest.
Mano was questioned about a claim that Terre'Blanche had sodomised Mahlangu.
He told the court that the sodomy claim had not surfaced during the investigation and his interviews with Mahlangu.
The minor's legal representative, Norman Arendse, will continue his cross-examination of Mano on Wednesday. – Sapa


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If every Friday is set aside for the same ho-hum dinner-and-a-movie, "date night" will repeat like Groundhog Day and eventually become a grind. That kind of drudgery can derail even the most starry-eyed-in-love couple (think Prince William and Kate Middleton).
We asked Tina B. Tessina, Ph.D. (aka "Dr. Romance"), psychotherapist and author of The Unofficial Guide to Dating Again, for five ways to bring back the spark:
1. Get nostalgic. Think back to when you were first dating. Go back to the place where you first met, watch a DVD (complete with popcorn) of the first movie you saw together, hit Happy Hour at the bar near your old job or wander through the park with a picnic lunch.
2. Take to the water. There's something very soothing and seductive about water. Take a tour of fancy fountains, visit a restaurant near a lake, stream or the ocean or order a catered picnic and take it on a ferry ride. If you live on a coast, hit the beach with some cheese and wine (assuming it's legal in your state/county). Live in a tourist destination? Take a gondola ride, complete with a singing gondolier.
3. Act like a tourist. Even if your town is somewhat ho-hum, find the hidden treasures. Have dinner in a nice hotel with cocktails at the piano bar, visit local attractions like museums or the aquarium or take a stroll through art galleries in the area followed by dinner at a sidewalk cafe. Some towns still have drive-in movies — the most romantic date ever!
4. Get some culture: Search out small theaters, college events and speakers, even high school plays and sports. The energy in these less-commercial activities will inspire you and provide plenty of fodder for great conversation.
The bottom line: Make a weekly commitment to doing something fun together. You pick one week, and he picks the next. Time together should open endless possibilities of fun — not endless dinners (and a movie) stuck on repeat.


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Due to unforeseen circumstances, three deluxe packages for The Lodge at Chaa Creeks 2012 Maya Winter Solstice celebration have become available, marketing administrator Larry Waight announced today.
We thought we had been booked out, but I just discovered that three Maya 2012 Winter Solstice all-inclusive vacation packages are now available, which means three lucky people can now get in to join what promises to be an experience of a lifetime, Mr Waight said.
Chaa Creeks 2012 Maya Winter Solstice event has been highly anticipated since it was announced earlier this year. Combining hands-on education about Maya civilisation with tours of ancient Maya archaeological sites including some of the most important ancient cities in the Mundo Maya, or Maya World, the all-inclusive Belize vacation packages were designed to immerse guests in Maya culture prior to the December 21st Winter Solstice, which had been highlighted on the Maya Long Count calendar thousands of years ago as a pivotal date for humankind.
However, modern conspiracy buffs, various internet sites and even a major Hollywood film have helped promote speculation that the Maya Long Count calendar ends abruptly and signifies the end of the world on December 21 2012. Mr Waight said nothing could be further from the truth.
Those (apocalypse) theories are absolute and utter nonsense, Mr Waight said. December 21 2012 was and still is a hugely important date for the Maya. Its true that the date marks the completion of the 13th Baktun of the Maya Long Count calendar, a cycle thousands of years long, but interpreting that as the end of the world is taking a giant leap into fantasy world, he said.
There will be celebrations throughout the Mundo Maya, an area encompassing all of Belize and parts of Guatemala, Mexico, Honduras and El Salvador to commemorate the event. Huge crowds are expected at Mexicos ancient Maya site of Chitzen Itza and large celebrations are planned for Tikal in Guatemala. Mr Waight said Chaa Creeks celebrations are unique due to their more intimate, culturally holistic nature, emphasis on an authentic Maya experience and range of activities.
Its going to be a lot of fun, and the package is set up so that guests can structure their time and learn as much or as little as they want at our representational Maya village where there will be workshops in Maya arts, crafts, cooking, farming, healing and other areas, he said.
Dr Jaime Awe and Dr Allan Moore, two of the worlds leading Mayanists, will be giving presentations and authors Rosita Arvigo and David Ruiz, anthropologist Joe Awe, and Maya flautist Pablo Collado will be among other expert speakers and workshop leaders.
There will also be a wealth of activities and things do, such as canoeing, horseback riding, nature walks, Maya ceremonial cave explorations, even Caribbean snorkelling on the Belize Great Barrier Reef. We wanted to do something really special for the 2012 Winter Solstice, and everyones very happy with the results. Its structured to be deeply rewarding and at the same time deeply relaxing, Mr Waight said.
The highlight of the event will be on the solstice itself, December 21 2012, with a traditional Maya feast, music and candle light procession to the ancient Maya temple of Tunichilen located in Chaa Creeks 365 acre nature reserve.
The Maya Winter Solstice 2012 all-inclusive vacation package can be booked for seven, four or three days beginning December 15, Mr Waight said, and will interest everyone from professional Mayanists to families, friends and couples.
Far from being the end of the world, we think this is going to open up a whole new way of looking at the world for everyone taking part in this event. This is the very centre of the Heartland of the Maya, and it is going to be very interesting to see what happens the night of December 21, 2012.
Whatever happens, at least everyone here at Chaa Creek is going to be very well prepared for it, he added.
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