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Chile's Colchagua Valley: 10 steps for a whirlwind wine tour
Chile is home to world-class wineries, but it offers so much more.
From the lunarlike landscapes of the Atacama Desert in the north to Patagonia in the south to the towering Andes in the east to the cosmopolitan capital of Santiago, it's a country of vibrant cultures, stunning vistas and countless opportunities to make memories.
But so what? You're going for the wine.
If you have only a few short days in the longest north-south country in the world, fear not: Here's a step-by-step guide for a whirlwind wine tour starting in Santiago and ending in one of Chile's premier winemaking regions, the Colchagua Valley.
Step 1: Head south -- far, far south
Unless you're planning a weekslong drive down the Pan-American Highway -- complete with a short flight over a rain forest -- then you'll likely be flying commercial out of a hub such as Los Angeles, Dallas-Fort Worth or Miami. Consider catching a red eye and expect to be in the air for nine to 12 hours down to Santiago.
Step 2: Plan smart for the seasons
The seasons in Chile, like in the rest of the Southern Hemisphere, are opposite ours, meaning a 90-degree-Fahrenheit Christmas and a springtime wine harvest can make for intriguing trips. The top travel season is October to March, with a climate in Santiago and the main wine regions comparable to what you'll find in the Bay Area, from a chillier coast to a toasty valley.
Step 3: Make a quick stop in the city
After a morning arrival in Chile, grab a taxi or bus or rent a car to steer you into Santiago, about a half-hour from Aeropuerto de Santiago de Chile (SCL). Strap on the seat belt tight; many motorists on Chilean freeways drive like they've been on a wine tour of their own for a few weeks.
Santiago is a sprawling city of more than 5 million people flanked by the Andes in the east and a coastal mountain range to the west. Within this valley of views are many neighborhoods worth exploring. Given the whirlwind nature of this trip, however, you might only get to see a few. So, the crib notes: bohemian Bellavista to shop; the financial district, Sanhattan ("Santiago" plus "Manhattan"), for the high-end and the high-rises; Providencia for the food; and downtown to see the historic sites that have survived revolutions, earthquakes and multilingual graffiti artists.
Step 4: Sip and splurge in Santiago
Enough exploring. It's time for wine, and Santiago is home to some of the finest restaurants and wine lists in the country. The hot spots don't get busy for dinner until nearly 10 p.m., so wait around if you're looking for a scene or head out early if you're worried about getting a table.
The capital specializes in whatever flavor you're craving. Pair sauvignon blancs and pinots with the Pacific's bounty at chef Coco Pacheco's iconic Aqui Esta Coco seafood restaurant in the Providencia district. Or head downtown to the upscale restaurant Opera, get a taste of Peru at the renowned Astrid y Gaston, or grab a glass of carmenere at Argentine steakhouse Happening in Sanhattan. For a nightcap, wherever you are, put the wine aside and try a pisco sour, Chile's national drink. You'll be told to order them again and again, so get the egg white-lime juice-sugar overload out of the way early, and try not to wake up late.
Step 5: Follow senses, find the fresh air
With the morning sun shining and the skyscrapers and swarms of humanity in your rearview mirror, head south about three hours to the Colchagua (kohl-CHA-gwa) Valley, a winemaking region that has risen to international prominence in only a few decades because of an ability to produce quality red varietals for reasonable prices. It's the southern portion of the famed Rapel Valley and includes other, smaller valleys, such as the picturesque Apalta. On your way south, you'll cruise past dozens of fresh-fruit stands, gypsy camps, rock quarries and grapevines galore.
Step 6: Just cruise into Santa Cruz
The city of Santa Cruz serves as an ideal base of operations in the Colchagua Valley, and the aptly named Hotel Santa Cruz is a swanky spot to stay. Haven't had enough "Santa Cruz"? The hotel owners run a winery a short drive outside town, in the laugh-out-loud-named Lolol region, and offer hotel-winery deals. The wine isn't renowned, but the vineyards are charming, with llamas, a faux-moai (Easter Island) statue and a chairlift that climbs high above the vines to a perch with a spectacular valley vista.
Step 7: Go big and make it Montes
If you're in the Colchagua region, make sure you visit the noted Montes winery. Able to spend big? For 30,000 Chilean pesos (about $60), you can sample some of the winery's best selections and get the primo vino tour.
Outside, hop on a horse-drawn carriage, take in panoramic views of the Apalta Valley and taste the carmenere, cabernet sauvignon and other sugary grapes. Inside, tour the area filled with giant stainless steel and French oak vats and listen to the Gregorian chants filling the dark, damp barrel room, two steps from private tables for tastings. There, you'll sip at least one of Montes' Icon varietals. After these two tastings, bedtime will likely beckon.
Step 8: Meet the French connection
Wake up! There's more to explore in the Colchagua region. First up: Lapostolle's Clos Apalta Winery, one of the most beautiful vineyards in Chile, perched on a slope above the horseshoe-shaped Apalta Valley.
Lapostolle was founded in 1994 by the French family that makes the Grand Marnier liqueur, and they've put a lot of money, thought and time into the architecture and experience. The massive display of exposed granite in the wine library speaks to their intentions to link man and nature, and the tall wood posts in the garden rise high and frame visitors' views across the valley. But don't forget about the purple stuff. Lapostolle's wines from this vineyard have garnered some of Chile's top ratings.
Step 9: Viva la Viu; it's not a secret
After an extended tasting at Lapostolle, you'll be hungry. Head to Viu Manent's nearby San Carlos de Cunaco vineyard and grab a table out back at the Rayuela restaurant and settle in for a memorable meal filled with simple, seasonal ingredients highlighting the Colchagua Valley's world-class agriculture and Chile's nearly 4,000 miles of coastline. For an affordable bottle to remember, order from the Secreto line. The base grapes are carmenere, syrah, malbec or pinot noir, but the blend, as the name implies, is a secret. After lunch, take a tour of Viu, one of the country's first wineries, where some of the vines are more than 120 years old.
Step 10: It's time to make a choice
At this point, you've gotten more than a taste of the Colchagua Valley, so what's next? Well, that's up to you. Chile has other renowned wine regions -- including the Casablanca Valley for white varietals and the oldest region, the Maipo Valley -- that beg for a visit. And there's Valparaiso, a coastal city that's a World Heritage Site. Or you could grab a short flight to Argentina and savor some of the world's best malbecs. But, after a whirlwind tour, the choice might be clear: a few more days in the Colchagua Valley.
Bringing wine home
-- After touring Chile and tasting great wines from renowned vines, you might want to bring bottles back to the States. Here are some tips:
-- Don't count on carry-ons. Your wine will get confiscated -- even if you buy it from the duty-free shop -- if you transfer flights in the U.S. and don't put the purchases in your checked bags before boarding your plane.
-- Bring sturdy luggage and don't fill it up all the way. You'll need the room for the purple stuff.
-- Buy the wine at a vineyard or the El Mundo del Vino wine store in Santiago. It's about the same price as at duty-free, and you'll be able to prepack your bags.
-- Purchase inflatable plastic wine bags for protection. The wine stores sell them for a few bucks each.
-- Go for the carmenere. It's considered Chile's national grape, and it's tough to find good, reasonably priced varietals in the U.S. In Chile, $15 buys you a great bottle.


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Citigroup has slammed Nasdaq's $62 million (£39.2 million) compensation plans for market making firms that lost hundreds of millions of dollars during the botched Facebook initial public offering on 18th May.
In a letter sent to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, seen by Reuters, Citi said that Nasdaq's actions amounted to 'gross negligence'.
The IPO was riddled with technical problems, which led to a delay of 30 minutes on share trades being processed. The problem stemmed from Nasdaq's IPO Cross - a pre-IPO auction process that the exchange put in place in 2006 that allows traders to place orders and agree on an IPO price before the stock is officially launched - which couldn't handle the trading demand.
Citi said that the exchange, which has a minimal amount of regulatory duties and technically only has a liabilities cap of $3 million (£1.9 million) a month, should not have immunity from compensating for all losses, which are estimated to exceed $500 million (£316 million).
The letter said: "Nasdaq cannot cloak its actions in immunity because it was acting exclusively as a for-profit business, and not as a market regulator, when it made the grossly negligent business decisions that caused market participants hundreds of millions of dollars in losses."
This isn't the first market making firm to lambast Nasdaq for its role in the IPO, after it was revealed that UBS lost £227 million as a result of the glitch and intends to sue the exchange for full losses of what it described as a "gross mishandling of Facebook's market debut."
UBS said: "UBS' loss resulted from NASDAQ's multiple failures to carry out its obligations, including both opening the Facebook stock for trading and not halting trading in the stock during the day. We will take appropriate legal action against NASDAQ to address its gross mishandling of the offering and its substantial failures to perform its duties."
Nasdaq originally revealed that it had earmarked $13.7 million (£8.8 million) for compensation, but later said that it would add to its $13.7 million compensation by offering brokerages reduced trading costs, to bring compensation fees up to $40 million.
However, these initial plans were not well received within the financial industry. Knight Capital, one of Wall Street's largest trading firms that suffered losses during the IPO debacle, has blasted the compensation as paltry and has also hinted that it might also take legal action.
It has since been revealed that the compensation has been upped again to $62 million, and comment letters on the proposals are due to the Securities and Exchange Commission this week.
Nasdaq has made it clear to firms that suffered losses that its decision to offer compensation is voluntary and it isn't obliged to reimburse for the full amount. It has also given strict parameters as to which type of orders can be reimbursed, and has said that firms that claim the compensation will lose their right to sue the exchange.
In other news, Knight Capital also recently suffered a trading glitch, which caused it to suffer losses of about £281 million. It was later revealed that the problem was triggered by the accidental reactivation of old computer software.

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I want the next generation to have the same shocked reaction we did when we found out Vader was Luke's father.
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DeWitt County will be purchasing a new notification system to alert citizens during emergencies, in part, with a contribution from Exelon.
Clinton, IL - DeWitt County will be purchasing a new notification system to alert citizens during emergencies, in part, with a contribution from Exelon. This new crisis communications tool serves as a reliable method of mass communication that will fully and automatically inform the community of issues allowing first responders and emergency personnel to focus on providing the aid and services needed.
Exelon's Clinton Power Station recently hosted county and community leaders for an informational luncheon and presented a check for $10,000 to DeWitt County in continuing support of the new system. "This capability makes DeWitt County residents safer," said DeWitt County Sherriff, Jered Shofner. "We would not have this without Exelon's continue support. Clinton Power Station is a great neighbor and a huge player in keeping DeWitt County safe," Shofner said.
The new notification system can instantly send large volumes of interactive calls to landlines, mobile devices, answering machines and voicemail and can also be web-based. It's a total system that provides everything needed to deliver outbound calls in the event of disasters, child abductions, severe weather, school closings or major road construction.
"Working hand-in-hand with community first responders multiple times in a given year keeps us all on the same page," said Bill Noll, site vice president for Clinton Power Station, "and continuing our support for this system is one more way we can do that and it makes the station and the community a safer place to be."


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They say everything in Texas is bigger, but bigger isn't always better.
Case in point: our number of uninsured residents. Approximately two out of every 10 Dallasites do not have health coverage— that is around 446,000 people!
Are you one of the uninsured living in Dallas? It's time to take responsibility for your personal health. Below are six reasons to get covered this month.
After Jan. 31, 2016, you can't buy a health insurance plan through the U.S. government's Health Insurance Marketplace for the rest of 2016 unless you have a life change — like having a baby, getting married, or losing other health coverage — that qualifies you for a Special Enrollment Period.
If you don't have health coverage in 2016, you'll pay a penalty of either 2.5% of your income, or $695 per adult ($347.50 per child) — whichever is higher. In some cases, however, you might qualify for an exemption from this federal requirement.
This month you can apply for health insurance right on campus.
Representatives from the Young Invincibles will be here the first week of classes (Jan. 19-22). They can help you enroll for health care and answer any questions you may have about getting health insurance or using HealthCare.gov.
Representatives from Be Covered Texas will also have information tables on campus the week of Jan. 11-15.
The above campus visits are open to the community as part of a citywide effort to promote healthier living and win a national title.
You see, Dallas was selected for President Obama's Healthy Community Challenge. This national competition includes 20 cities nationwide, each vying for the title of Healthiest Community.
The city with the largest increase in health coverage gets bragging rights, a healthier community and a visit from President Obama to celebrate their success.
Don't wait until you become sick to get health insurance. People who get seriously ill or injured can quickly go bankrupt if they do not have health insurance.
You may be healthy now, but if you're human you will get sick. It is unavoidable. Be smart and be insured!
Texas has been working to make sure its residents can afford health care.
That's why 79% of Texans can find a 2016 health plan for $100 or less, 73% can find a plan for $75 or less and 66% can find a plan for $50 or less.
Also, most people who apply for health insurance qualify for a premium tax credit that lowers their monthly insurance bill.
For example, 85% of Texans who signed up for health care coverage in 2015 — a total of 804,918 people — received a tax credit, and consumers saved an average of $244 per month.
Buying health care is convenient with HealthCare.gov . You can browse Texas plans and pricing at the click of a button! You can also apply by phone, by paper application or with in-person help.
Of course, each health care plan is unique, so take time to find what's best for you. Don't just buy what your parents chose or your best friend swears by.
Note: As the Affordable Care Act's coverage provisions have taken effect, 17.6 million Americans have gained health coverage, and since 2010, America has reduced its uninsured rate by 45%. In Texas, the adult uninsured rate dropped from 27% in 2013 to 20.8% in the first half of 2015.


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Late Saturday and into Sunday morning, city and state crews will work together in a major operation to clear ice from Fort Worth highways.
Department of Public Safety Trooper Lonny Haschel told NBC DFW the Texas Department of Transportation said it will bring in heavy equipment to remove ice that has formed on bridges and overpasses on Fort Worth freeways.
The city of Fort Worth, TXDot and the DPS are working to remove "cobblestone ice" -- rocky ice formations on highways throughout Fort Worth.
The latest news from around North Texas.
Haschel said 18-wheelers can continue driving the highways if they are moving. DPS will help move the trucks that are stuck on the ice to the side of the road, so ice clearing can continue.
NBC 5 crews on Friday and Saturday captured on camera several vehicles, including 18-wheelers that had a tough time navigating the downtown I-30/I-35W mix-master and other highways around Fort Worth.
The state of Texas Task Force will reportedly include heavy duty equipment, including road maintainers, sand trucks, salt trucks and other resources.
The ice is the result of the winter storm system on Thursday and Friday that brought sleet, freezing rain followed by freezing temperatures.
Keep returning to NBC 5 and NBCDFW.com for new details on this developing story.


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Oh, you sad, hot, hot, sad, self-publishing celebrity hottie fools. How we revel in your abandon. And your photos from vacations, home, cars, wherever you and your camera and your Twitter and Facebook and Tumblr accounts take you. We do so love this trend.
This week's Sextastic Twitpic Roundup includes some real doozies of a show, including Miley Cyrus with another one of her patented see-through tees, Rosie Jones on holiday and barely covering her assets, the underrated Arianny Celeste in a bikini, Selena Gomez also in a bikini and looking special hot, the precocious Jenner sisters hugging one out, and so much more goodness. You owe it to yourself and to your community to check these puppies out. Enjoy.


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Health department workers are spending the week spraying insecticide up and down the streets of Brazil's major cities, trying to kill as many mosquitoes as possible before Carnival. The giant festival of parades, music and dancing attracts millions of visitors from around the world.
As crowds pour into Recife airport, they're met with bands and warnings, according to NBC News. Staffers in mosquito-decorated T-shirts offer information about the Aedes aegypti mosquito that's spreading the virus across Latin America and the Caribbean.
"In a couple of days we will have about 1.5 million people on these streets during Carnival," said Jailson Correia, health secretary for the northeastern coastal metropolis.


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Professional Community for Car Dealers, Marketing, Advertising and Sales Leaders
Last month I wrote an article on ADM about a new announcement from Google that will give dealers who manage their own Adwords campaigns a big boost in relevant ad building tools. (See Google Disrupts The Market With Dynamic Ads For In Stock Vehicles)
Dealers who outsource their Adwords management have more options if they want to implement inventory based advertising, which has proven to be very efficient when setup properly.
So, I have created a few screen shots on how the new system works to spur your creativity. There are so many ways that this can be implemented, especially if you want to have compelling ads based on Manufacturer and Models.
I would love to hear from ADM members on how this new feature could be used at their dealership.
The dynamic advertising feature is ideal for websites that have product pages that change often. Vehicle Detail Pages (VDP) are constantly changing, so having ads show for ONLY in stock vehicles has a great appeal. What is most compelling is that Google will scan the dealership website each day to make sure that the vehicles it choses to advertise are still available.
In the example above, I created a campaign for used cars based on cars that are in stock. I called the campaign "In Stock Used Cars" (see green box) and selected the "Dynamic Search Ads" option, shown in red. Campaigns have associated budgets so by configuring Adwords in this way, I can control the amount of dollars allocated to VIN level advertising.
Once the campaign is setup, you can create Ad Groups. Ad Groups can be setup for specific manufacturers or they can be broad. The customized strategy that dealers will use for this new feature is not covered in this article, but you should start to see how granular this can be set. The initial setup may take a few hours but the long term benefits will easily pay off.
In this Ad Group I am focusing on any used Acura that is in stock. The Headline will be written by Google based on the VDP data that it finds on the page. If the VDP is for a 2011 Acura MDX the headline could read "2011 Acura MDX" or some variation based on the Page Title and the content on the page. The granularity of the headline will be improved over time as well as search matching criteria.
Google is not requiring dealers to provide an inventory feed, which has many good points. Once this Ad Group is setup, and a few ad variations created, we have one more step to take before we can start advertising all used Acuras in stock.
The next step is to click on the "Auto Targets" (green box) tab in the Ad Group setup and select the website pages that have Acura VDP's. In the example below, I am using the syntax for Dealer.com websites which can break out Acura cars in the /used/Acura directory or /certified/Acura/ directory on their website. (see red box)
The slashes are important to keep in place. VinSolutions websites do not distinguish new and used VDP's by the URL; all VDP's have /vd/ in them. In this case you will need to use the Page Title feature or adjust your strategy.
Cobalt websites Vehicle Detail Pages have a clear pattern between new and used cars, like Dealer.com. Their pattern is /vehicle-details/certified- or /vehicle-details/used- or /vehicle-details/new-.
There are currently four choices on how to select pages to advertise dynamically. Those four choices are as follows:
Any of these options should be able to get dynamic ads working for your dealership. For example, using the Page Title search feature on a VinSolutions website, you could identify any pages with the words "Used Acura" in the page title to find valid VDP's.
With any new technology, there are limitations. Dealers who use dynamic ads are somewhat dependent on the URL structure of their Vehicle Detail Pages (VDP) and how well the Page Titles are formatted. Dealers who "frame in" their inventory would not be a candidate for this product.
Dealers should never frame in their inventory but just today I saw a very respected dealer use framing. This defeats any SEO benefits that your website platform could provide and now it will impact dynamic advertising opportunities.
Dynamic ads, since they are not generated by an inventory feed like used by Haystak, Cobalt, and Dealer.com have the potential to be misread. I'll have some more specific data on how well Google's tools are doing to present the perfect ad for every in-stock piece of inventory.
If you like being kept in touch with the latest strategies and technology for digital advertising come back to the ADM Community website frequently. If you are serious about improving the ROI of your digital marketing investments, join me at DMSC where the top vendors offering paid search services will be speaking and sharing their winning ideas for 2013.
Which digital advertising companies will be at DMSC? Cobalt, Haystak, Dealer.com, Dominion Dealer Solutions, Now Marketplace, VinSolutions, DealerTrack, Dealer eProcess, CarMercial, and many more thought leads.
If you would like to join me at DMSC, register today by calling Carrie Hemphill at 908-601-6475 or by visiting http://www.DigitalMarketingStrategies.org.
I hope to see you in Orlando, Feb 5-7th at DMSC.
If you found this article helpful, will you please share this link on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+. Thanks in advance!
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I can't imagine any company that can scale a human run Adwords campaign that can do VIN level advertising in a real-time, daily updating environment, that could be profitable and billed at a price that dealers would pay.
Adwords campaigns should NOT be 100% automated and manually created and inspected campaigns have the potential to perform better, but some aspects are better automated.
I'm a fan of a hybrid approach, and it is what PCG Digital offers, but you do bring out a common complaint: mediocre customer support and strategy for Adwords.
The good news is that there are a handful of companies whose "give a s***" meter is high and are delivering a good ROI for dealers seeking to outsource their paid search.
Let's see how this works. Automated ads almost never outperform human-made campaigns. I've been into PPC all the way back to the GoTo.com days. Even Google reps can't come close to what a smart well equipped and trained advertising professional can do. This industry is full of mediocrity. Dealers with mediocre ability lose.
Still, an interesting development. Google is extending these type features to increase ad spending.
That's a good idea Ralph and something you should have had it created and sold it!
This isn't really that much different from how Facebook has created custom advertisement marketing via CRM dB import, except Google smashes FB's face in when it comes to making money through online marketing.
Makes me wonder when Google will allow the same technique for ease of importing in entire inventories for advertisement purposes. Unless there is a 3rd party mechanism out there that does it (someone must have created something by now and I've been sleeping or missed it). You can do it for pushing inventory to Craigslist you have to be able to do it for Google AdWords.
https://www.google.com/cars/ (just the tip of the iceberg), one day this will all be integrated into one streamlined solution that will adapt with your preferences, robotically, literally.
This is long overdue... In 2009 I showed several product managers at Google how many car dealers were creating individual Google Adwords search advertising for specific used vehicles where the sponsored listing in the SERP would use the vehicle detail page as the destination URL. My request at the time was on behalf of the Ford Digital Advertising program and it was to create an application extension that would index the dealer's vehicle inventory detail pages to make it easier to generate such ads for specific vehicles... Looks like it took them awhile!
At any rate, I have used the tactic of specific Google Adwords listings for each vehicle (normally used) to save many ISM jobs during the recession... Because it absolutely works far better than you can imagine if you have not tried it before! If you need to sell more cars starting today, get to work and use your Google Adwords account to create individual ads for each used vehicle you want to sell.
Just the beginning of the granular control Google will provide dealerships and any other group with an inventory (dB) of products.
see you in Orlando. good information.
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A man who pleaded guilty to trying to extort $15,000 from former Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Hines Ward will spend two years on probation.
Joshua Van Auker, 26, pleaded guilty Tuesday in front of an Allegheny County judge to a lesser version of the original charge of attempted theft by threatening to expose a secret, court records showed.
Ward's assistant, Raymond Burgess, contacted authorities last fall after Van Auker sent him a text message claiming to have damaging information. Detectives with the county district attorney's office investigated and determined that Van Auker decided to make the demands after learning his girlfriend "had been involved in a prior physical relationship with Ward," according to a criminal complaint.
The woman was not identified in the complaint, and authorities never described the information Van Auker claimed to have or said whether it was even true.
Burgess went to investigators, the complaint said, and afterward spoke again with Van Auker, who repeated the extortion demand by saying, "It's called buying silence, brother." Detectives watching that encounter in October arrested Van Auker.
Burgess has said an envelope Van Auker gave him purporting to contain the damaging information contained only papers, not pictures, but Burgess has declined to otherwise describe its contents. Ward's manager, Andrew Ree, has said the extortion attempt was "the act of a desperate individual trying to get money from a celebrity." Ree didn't immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.
Van Auker didn't answer a cellphone number Friday used to contact him last year. The man who answered the phone said he had loaned Van Auker the phone last year but doesn't currently know how to reach him.
The attorney who represented Van Auker after his arrest last year, David Shrager, said he had no part in the plea bargain. He said he thought prosecutors "gave the kid a good deal."
Prosecutors did not object to the probationary sentence, said Mike Manko, a spokesman for the district attorney's office. Van Auker was "very cooperative" during the case, Manko said, adding that Ward and his attorney agreed with how the case was handled.
When Van Auker was arrested, Shrager described his client as "naive and inexperienced" and apologized that Ward's name was dragged through the mud.
"Hines Ward's an essential part of Pittsburgh history. ... He's a great guy," Shrager said at the time.
Ward, 36, retired last year after 14 seasons with the Steelers. He had 1,000 catches for 12,021 yards, both franchise records, and was MVP of the Super Bowl XL, which the Steelers won in 2006.
Ward is now a commentator for NBC Sports and continues to be a marketable presence in Pittsburgh, where he has owned businesses and still appears on television commercials.


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Tuesday's Tip – Hiring a Professional Genealogist Part II
This is a continuation from a post in June about hiring a professional genealogist.
Some of the comments I've received from both professional researchers (getting paid) and those who are not professional researchers (not getting paid) are similar.
I feel like a novice when I walk into a new records office or repository even though I've been researching for more than 5 or 10 years!
This can be true for anyone. When you walk into a new place to look for records, a place you have never been, there can be a feeling of insecurity. Do I know what I'm doing? Will anyone help me? The same can apply to a place you walk into that you haven't for months or years or where the records are difficult to use. For example, in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, locating deeds is a difficult process. I had to write my own guide on how to navigate these 10-15 steps before I could even look at the deeds on microfiche. They are organized by the Torrens system not a Grantor and Grantee index system. When I haven't been in that office for many months to look for records, I feel like a novice starting over. I ask for help, use my guide, and go through the process again.
Should I hire someone to look for records in a repository or should I just order the records sight-unseen?
Every repository is different. Some will let you examine records before purchasing them, others will not. If you are on a budget like many of us, see if the Family History Center has the records you seek on microfilm. Chances are $7.50 a roll to pull a record is cheaper than ordering it through the State Department of Health or Vital Records office. If you need quite a few from different rolls of film, see if those rolls exist in that locale and if there is a researcher there who can pull them for you. Again, you need to weigh the costs.
Another thing to consider when you may have to order records sight-unseen is to look for indexes. Every index as you know, was not created equally. The way you view a name may not be the same way I do. And just one mis-stroke of a typewriter can change a name from one thing to another. FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, libraries, repositories, and other resources have indexes. Search them out and look for more than one for the same record set. See what you find. It just might be that you discover an index that has a few more fields of information such as a street address or name of a parent that tells you this is or is not likely the person you seek.
I feel like I'm wasting a researcher's time if I hire him or her and she can't find anything for me.
You are not wasting anyone's time. By searching for those records and finding they do not exist, for whatever reason, is a result. This needs to be noted and sourced in your research reports and database. Noting this also helps you in the future when you wonder, 'Did I look into that resource?'
Have you worked with a professional genealogist? What was your experience? What did you find difficult or easy about the process? We'd love to hear from you!
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Jacques necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 48 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
We are a Commercial Cleaning Company that requires:
1. Re-design/improvement of existing 5 page A4 brochure
2. Design of a new 5 page A4 brochure for our second and new cleaning company.
- We are a Commercial Cleaning Company and require two designs for two A4 5 page brochures
- Our website address is:
- http://www.procleaningsolutions.co.uk
- We currently use a 5 page A4 Proposal Pack/Brochure that is printed and sent out to a potential customer everytime we bid for a cleaning job.
- The problem is that the file is massive (over 100MB) which means we cannot email it and at the same time, we cannot write on the document/make word changes or include words.
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Mali: 5 killed, including 2 Malian soldiers, after suicide bomber attacks army patrol near Gao
BAMAKO, Mali – A suicide bomber on a scooter attacked a Malian army patrol in the troubled northern city of Gao on Saturday as other militants in a car sprayed the troops with gunfire sparking a clash that left three suspected militants and two soldiers dead, an official said.
The attack, in which four other soldiers were wounded, underscores the challenges facing the country following a French-led military intervention, which succeeded in liberating the three main towns occupied by the al-Qaida-linked groups in northern Mali. While the initial military campaign has succeeded in securing the largest population centers in the north, the extremists have found refuge in sparsely populated areas, from where they strike using roadside bombs and suicide attacks.
Lt. Col. Souleymane Maiga, head of public relations for the Malian army, told The Associated Press that a unit of Malian soldiers was on patrol at around 1:30 p.m. near the village of Amakouladji, located 45 kilometers (30 miles) north of Gao, when they spotted a suspicious man on a scooter and stopped him. While they were searching him, a car surged forward, and began spraying the troops with machine gunfire.
"That was when the jihadist on the motorcycle set off the bomb that he was wearing," Maiga said.
Two soldiers and three militants died, and four other Malian soldiers were wounded in the attack, he said. No foreign troops were involved.
France sent around 4,000 troops to Mali in January after the jihadists, who had already taken over a territory as large as France itself, began pushing south, threatening the last bastion of government control. It was just a matter of weeks before they succeeded in flushing out the militants from the three main northern cities and in early February, French President Francois Hollande made a triumphant stop in Timbuktu, which just days earlier had served as the Malian headquarters of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb.
It was only a matter of days before the suicide bombings began, first in Gao, where there have been at least four, then in Kidal and Timbuktu, which have had two each, respectively. The suicide bombings have so far not caused mass casualties in large part because they are mostly going off at checkpoints, killing the soldiers stationed there.
Saturday's attack appears to be more sophisticated, involving a double attack using the car as a distraction.
Associated Press writer Rukmini Callimachi contributed to this report from Dakar, Senegal.
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Next month, the 17-campus University of North Carolina will receive a 2013 WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) Award from the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education's Cooperative for Educational Technologies for the development of a system-wide Online Proctoring Network that has standardized and streamlined the test proctoring process for students, faculty, and proctors. The network promotes academic integrity by providing online students across the UNC system with a pool of qualified local and remote proctors and testing centers. The secure "one-stop" system allows students, faculty, and proctors to schedule appointments, securely transfer exam documents or passwords, and receive automated reminders when an action is required. The network is already in use at ten UNC campuses, and two additional campuses will come on board in spring 2014. To date, nearly 13,000 students have used the system to schedule more than 60,000 exam appointments.
Through UNC Online (http://online.northcarolina.edu), UNC campuses currently offer 328 online programs—214 degree or degree-completion programs, plus 114 certificate and licensure programs. Students pursuing one of the 72 baccalaureate programs may enroll entirely online as juniors and seniors. A number of UNC campuses have articulation agreements that enable students to complete their first two years online at a regional community college and then seamlessly transfer into a UNC online program as a junior. Of the 137 programs offered at the master's degree level, 56% are in education and health professions.
Established by WCET in 2004, the WOW Awards are presented annually to colleges, universities, and organizations for exceptionally creative, technology-based solutions to a significant problem or need in higher education. WOW awardees will be recognized during WCET's 25th Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, November 13-15.
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Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dangerous-divergences-unseen-since-2007-2013-08-21
Aug. 21, 2013, 8:31 a.m. EDT
By Mark Hulbert, MarketWatch
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — You can't say that the stock market
isn't giving us plenty of warning that downside risk is both high and
The latest big warning comes from the failure in late July/early August of the NYSE Advance/Decline line to confirm the stock market's new highs. This non-confirmation is potentially quite worrisome, according to several of the market technicians I monitor, because it means that an unexpectedly few stocks were participating in the broad market's march into new-high territory.
From the perspective of this non-confirmation, the stock market's decline over the last couple of weeks is therefore not a surprise.
The NYSE Advance/Decline line is calculated by taking the number of issues that rise in price on a given day, and subtracting the number that fall. This net number is added to the cumulative total of prior days' readings, resulting in a historical data series.
• Need to Know: Crucial gut checks before the U.S. markets open
This series topped out in May, according to several of the technical analysts whose services I monitor. When the broad market averages rose to new highs in July and early August, in contrast, the A/D line apparently failed to join in.
(I say "apparently," because Jim Stack, another of the analysts I monitor, calculates that the NYSE A/D line actually did hit a marginal new high on July 23. However, he added in an interview that he nevertheless thinks it's worrisome that it hit only a marginal new high in the face of much higher new highs by the major market averages.)
The warning that comes from the A/D line joins another indicator that captures many of these same market cross-currents: The High-Low Logic Index. As I pointed out a month ago when devoting a column on the subject, the High Low Logic Index in June issued its first sell signal in years—the first, in fact, since late 2007, well in advance of the stock market's terrible losses in 2008 and early 2009.
Hulbert: What Great Rotation?
Is there such a thing as the Great Rotation? MarketWatch's Mark Hulbert isn't so sure.
The High Low Logic Index was created by Norm Fosback in 1979, then the President of the Institute for Econometric Research, and currently editor of Fosback's Fund Forecaster. It represents the lesser of two numbers: New 52-week highs and new 52-week lows (both expressed as a percentage of total issues traded). High readings are bearish, while low levels are bullish.
In its own way, therefore, the High Low Logic Index captures the same underlying divergences also reflected by the A/D line.
The index's latest reading is 5.9%, even higher than the 5.1% reading registered in June. According to Ned Davis Research, which has studied the index's long-term track record, sell signals are generated whenever it rises above 4.4%. In fact, the index's latest reading is even higher than its highest level from late 2007, the previous sell signal.
To be sure, neither the A/D line nor the High Low Logic Index is a short-term indicator, typically issuing signals months before eventual market carnage — if not years. As Dan Sullivan, editor of The Chartist, recently pointed out, the A/D line in 2007 hit its peak on June 1, more than four months prior to the bull market peak in October of that year. Prior to the October 1987 stock market crash, the A/D line's peak came in March. And prior to the bursting of the Internet bubble, the indicator's peak was "years early."
For the moment, Sullivan remains bullish — but worried, acknowledging that the A/D line's recent behavior is a "longer term" concern. Stack is even more worried, having decided this week to reduce the equity exposure in his managed accounts and build up cash.


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As the Syrian death told climbed toward half a million, Putin gave the "Home of the Brave" Left a new argument for letting the slaughter continue, fear of Russian military power.
Why So Many Children Are Being Killed in Aleppo
By Rick Gladstone
27 September 2016
They cannot play, sleep or attend school. Increasingly, they cannot eat. Injury or illness could be fatal. Many just huddle with their parents in windowless underground shelters — which offer no protection from the powerful bombs that have turned east Aleppo into a kill zone.
Among the roughly 250,000 people trapped in the insurgent redoubt of the divided northern Syrian city are 100,000 children, the most vulnerable victims of intensified bombings by Syrian forces and their Russian allies.
Though the world is jolted periodically by the suffering of children in the Syria conflict — the photographs of Alan Kurdi's drowned body and Omran Daqneesh's bloodied face are prime examples — dead and traumatized children are increasingly common.
The routine in east Aleppo, where shellshocked children are exhumed from rubble and left writhing in bloody clothes on dirty hospital gurneys, is a confluence of Syria's young population, failed diplomacy and the reality of a war that appears to be worsening after more than five years. More...
Oops. @HillaryClinton calls for no-fly zone in Syria. Slippery slope for sending US troops and confronting Russia. #badidea #DemDebate— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) December 20, 2015
Americans can't afford a presidency under Clinton, either. By "expanding a no-fly zone" in Syria, Stein said, Clinton has provoked a potential nuclear war against Russia.What I find amazing about the position of these two is that they don't take the stand of the die-hard Assadists and claim that no civilians are being harmed. They know that children are being slaughtered in great numbers and the principle reason they give for the United States standing by and not interfering is because of what these killers might do to us. And these are also people who stand on principle when it comes to voting regardless of the consequence, even if it means we have to suffer a Trump presidency. Go figure. Why would black people follow them? When push comes to shove, we already know how they will react. Reuters reported:
See also: Russia now "carpet bombing" Syria from bases in Iran
Russia said to send more warplanes to Syria, diplomacy 'on life support'
By Dmitry Solovyov and Ellen Francis | MOSCOW/BEIRUT
30 September 2016
Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to ramp up its air campaign, a Russian newspaper reported on Friday, as the United States said diplomacy to halt the violence was "on life support" but not dead yet.
Fighting continued to intensify a week into a new Russian-backed Syrian government offensive to capture rebel-held eastern Aleppo and crush the last urban stronghold of a revolt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that began in 2011.
Moscow and Assad spurned a U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire agreed to this month and launched attacks on rebel-held areas in Aleppo in potentially the most decisive battle in the Syrian civil war. More...
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O's remain undefeated on road trip, crush Royals
Baltimore beats Kansas City 9-2 on Monday
Chris Davis and J.J. Hardy each drove in three runs and the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Kansas City Royals 9-2 on Monday night to extend their winning streak to a season-high five games.
Davis, who leads the majors with 97 RBIs, drove in a pair of runs with a sixth-inning double and another with a sacrifice fly in the first inning.
Hardy homered, his 17th of the season, in the four-run sixth with Davis aboard. He picked up another RBI in the third when Davis scored on his ground out.
The Orioles' 18-hit attack matched their season high and included seven players with multi-hit games, including three each by rookie Henry Urrutia, Nick Markakis and Hardy. Nate McLouth reached base five times -- two hits and three walks.
Scott Feldman (2-1), who was acquired in a July 2 trade from the Chicago Cubs, was the beneficiary of the offense, picking up the victory.


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Why buy property in marmaris Turkey
Many people know Marmaris as a rather lively party town, and though this is correct, the surrounding areas can offer peace and relaxation, as the area offers many other smaller resort areas, some quite well known like Icmeler and some that almost unheard of by many tourists such as Turunc, Selimiye and Bozburun and many more all offering their own different atmosphere in contrast to the lively centre of Marmaris.
Property in Marmaris went through a boom in the 1980's and this still continues today as tourist numbers seem to grow year in year, many of which have been visiting for many years, some who buy property in Marmaris for holidays, and growing number buying permanent homes with a large ex-pat community that have made complete lifestyle changes and moved to Marmaris to live, and investment in the area has also seen a big increase in recent years with the world's changing economic climate meaning that holiday home buyers in Marmaris seek a rental income too, so that they can easily manage the overall running costs and still enjoy their own holidays.
Property for sale in MARMARIS Turkey
Beautiful Marmaris is a holiday destination in the Mugla province of southwestern Turkey, located approximately 100km from Dalaman International Airport with a drive of approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes passing by some wonderful scenery of vast open green landscapes and finally heading down a steep mountain road which is where you catch your first glimpse of the resort and the azure of the Mediterranean Sea which will take your breath away.
A former fishing village that is today a huge port town with a huge natural harbour and yacht marina, and a very popular seaside destination that offers a lively atmosphere and a wonderfully warm climate like many coastal regions of southern Turkey. The resort offers something for all ages with many lively bars and nightclubs, several aqua parks, a long stretch of sandy beaches that curve around a peninsula meeting several other quieter resorts such as Icmeler, Turunc, and Selimye on the opposite side of the peninsula.
Many of the permanent residents have purchased homes in Marmaris from modern apartments close to the beaches to large luxury villas that can be set back away from the noise of the resort centre and be surrounded by the natural green hillsides of Marmaris, some lucky enough to boast amazing views over the area and the clear blue Mediterranean Sea.
The weather in Marmaris is that of full sunshine and high temperatures throughout the high season when temperatures near can reach almost 50 degrees centigrade on some days, though for some this is too hot, with lots of visitors preferring to visits in the early or later part of the season when the heat from the sun is much more comfortable to handle.
Winters in Marmaris are very mild, though it does receive a tremendous amount of rain, sometimes in small sharp showers and occasionally long bouts of heavy rainfall, when some area are prone to flooding as Marmaris does sit at the foot of the mountains.
The beaches in Marmaris can get rather crowded in the height of the summer as they are not so wide, though they do stretch some distance, with some slightly less crowded, and most will offer a wide range water sports with Banana rides, ringo's, jet skiing, water skiing and much more, and if you take the trip to nearby Icmeler beach you will find a wider and less crowded beach with its gentle sloping sands and shallow water being perfect for families with younger children.
Things to do in Marmaris
No matter how old or young you are Marmaris has something for you, water parks with slides and rides for all ages, excellent shopping facilities, deep sea diving, relaxing daily bout tours stopping off in secluded bays to cool off in the sea and enjoy a lovely barbeque lunch along the way, sunset boat tours are also amazing with the boats chasing the falling sun before its sets behind the mountains.
If you are little more adventurous you can head of on off-road jeep safaris, horse riding tours through the mountains, or white water rafting along the Dalaman River and for the more culturally minded you can book a Marmaris village tour and take in a traditional Turkish village life and see much more of the Marmaris area and its beautiful surroundings, just pop into one of the town's tour agency shops to see all the activities and tours on offer, you may need more than a week or two!
Where to buy property in Marmaris
When choosing to buy property in Marmaris , it depends on your reason for buying, when choosing investment property in Marmaris you would be advised to steer your search to central areas of the town as many of the towns visitors search for holiday accommodation within easy reach of the beaches and the towns nightlife and amenities.
Regular visitors who know the area well may choose to buy a holiday home a little further from the centre, often set back from the beaches in the quieter and more relaxed Amutalan area, though this areas still offers ample bars and restaurants for its residents as Armutalan is also popular with many of the areas expats and is a rather large residential area.
Those choosing to move to Marmaris tend to choose the quieter areas, such as Armutalan for its amenities and close proximity to the centre which is mostly active all year round, though several places do close down for the winter. Some choose areas on the outskirts of Marmaris to live away from the busy resort areas and enjoy a laid back and more traditional lifestyle, in villages such as Bozburun, Icmeler, Selimiye and Hisaronu (not to be confused with the lively resort of the same name in the nearby Fethiye area), though some of these areas can be quite deserted in the off season months, so a car is advised for travelling around the Marmaris area.
Required budget for property in Marmaris
This will depend on the chosen area and the type of property and lifestyle you require, though you will find that central Marmaris property for sale will usually come with premium price tags as they are highly sought after by investors looking or high rental yields.
Luxury Marmaris property with a view of the sea will also show at high prices in most areas, and for those on humble budgets you may be best to search the area of Amutalan as prices will be slightly lower even though Marmaris is not famed for its value for money real estate.
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Deputies to be deployed to Orange Co. schools next week
Sheriff's Office says assignments will be handled on overtime basis
When schools open in Orange County on Jan. 7, there will be a noticeable difference in security.
Additional deputies will be assigned to elementary schools in the wake of the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., at a high price to the county.
"Starting on Monday through the rest of the school year, we'll have deputies assigned to elementary schools," Orange County Sheriff's Office Capt. Angelo Nieves said.
In addition to school resource officers, elementary schools in unincorporated Orange County will have additional deputies on hand for campus security in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. It will cost an estimated $3 million.
"This is going to be a situation where they are working on an overtime basis," Nieves said. "We're going to be staffing over 300 positions a week."
Wanda Beale likes the idea of additional deputies, but she said the $3 million being used to cover the cost could jeopardize other areas.
"It's a good idea, but if they're going to take the cops from the streets, then they won't have that many cops," Beale said.
"We're not going to be pulling resources from other assignments and other locations," Nieves said. "We're still going to be working. We're going to address crime in Orange County."
Determining which schools will have additional deputies has also raised red flags for parents who believe if one school has additional deputies, all schools should have them.
"It's not fair, but it's not fair for them to put $3 million on cops when they can put the resources somewhere else," Beale said.
Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings plans to be at Lancaster Elementary with several deputies on Monday to see how the deployment works and provide resources to students and teachers.


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Hi folks,
I have created a UserControl (a fairly complex with one various fields and other UI elements) and have databound my view's collection to an ItemsControl. So I have a scrollable set of UserControls arranged nicely on my window, the fields are properly connected to my data, etc., etc. But now...
I need to access one or more of the UserControls directly, rather than through their databinding. All the documentation I can find suggests I do something like the code shown below. (MyUserControl is the class for my UserControl, and ParamControls is the ItemsControl.)
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David and Dena Donaldson are pleased to announce the marriage of their daughter Gladys Maxine to Milo James Ross, son of Jack Ross and the late Ethel Ross. They were married in the Donaldson home on 8th Street in Ogden, Utah on 4 April 1942. (This post originally appeared in 2010 and is reposed due to Grandpa's death)
Gladys is a 1940 graduate of Ogden High School.
Milo is a 1939 graduate of Weber High School. He is currently employed with American Packing and Provisioning Company as a supervisor in Ogden.
The couple will make their home in Plain City.
While short and sweet, there is much more of a story behind those words. Milo and Gladys met in 1940 when Gladys and her sisters rode their bikes all the way to a celebration in Plain City. Later they would meet at the Berthana, which included a dance hall on the second floor (built in Ogden about 1914). The Berthana later converted to a roller skating rink before closing in the 1970's. The building is still there although I do not know what the use for the building is currently.
David Delos Donaldson and Berendena Van Leeuwen are Gladys' parents. Read more of her parents at this link: Donaldson-Van Leeuwen Family. David was a plumber by trade who had lung problems from being gassed in the Argonne of France in World War I. He suffered from lung ailments the rest of his life. He mostly worked in the Ogden area but worked prior to marriage in Phoenix, Arizona and Twin Falls, Idaho. He also sought work in Boulder City, Nevada during the depression and as a steam and pipe fitter during World War II in Napa, California. Apparently during World War II he worked almost exclusively in submarines. You can read more of their marriage and family at the link above. She went by the name of Dena her entire life.
Dena grew up LDS and David did not. David's parents were not active LDS and most of David's siblings joined the LDS church between the ages of 10 and 22. David and one brother did not. Dena saw that all her children were raised LDS with little difficulty from David. Apparently smoking is what kept him from being baptized (he picked up smoking after being gassed because he said it soothed his lungs). When the time would come for Milo and Gladys to marry, they wished to be married in the temple. For whatever reason, the Bishop determined that he was not going to allow them to be sealed without David being a member. I do not know which Bishop, but I have a suspicion it was Gladys' Bishop and that he knew the Donaldson family. He probably hoped to bring errant David around so his daughter could get married. The plan backfired. It would not have worked anyhow because David was pretty set on Gladys marrying a wealthy man and would not have minded if the wedding had not gone through. Milo said they wanted to get married and were not interested in waiting around for a Bishop to figure out what he was doing. A week before they were actually married, they decided to elope. They packed up and drove to Evanston, Wyoming on snow covered roads. They arrived and decided they better do it proper with family around. They enjoyed a meal and drove back to Ogden on a very snowy set of roads. Leading them to get married in the Donaldson home the next week or so. It would take them another 34 years before they finally made it to the temple to get sealed. Perhaps the Bishop was inspired.
They married in April and World War II was in full swing. They rented a place in Ogden for a few weeks until moving to Plain City and rented there (on 4700?) until they built a home after the war. Milo and a group of buddies then went off to Fort Douglas to enlist in October 1942 rather than wait until they were drafted. They anticipated at least a few more days or weeks in Utah before being shipped off. However, Milo was put on a train that same day to Camp Lewis in Washington. He spent the next two to four months there, he cannot remember for sure. Gladys would move to Camp Lewis to be with him through basic training. By this point the two knew they were expecting a baby.
Milo shipped out for Needles, California to Camp Ibis. Due to his experience with building, he was one of the men asked to lay out some of the buildings for the latrines and then helped in starting the construction of those buildings. Their division stayed there a few months before heading off to San Francisco from which he was put on a boat and headed to Hawaii. He landed in Hawaii on the 4th of July 1943 with the loudspeaker welcoming the men to Hawaii and announcing the birth of a son to Sergeant Ross. I have written of that baby at this link: Baby Milo Ross.
Gladys would live with her parents in Ogden until Milo returned from the rigors of war. Her parents moved from their address on 8th Street down to Washington Boulevard during this time.
Milo worked for American Packing and Provisioning Company some in high school and on afterward until he went into the service. American Pack would be sold to Swift & Company in 1949. This packing plant would remain in use until the 1970's when it was closed.
I have written previously about Milo's loss of his mother in 1925 and her family keeping him from having contact with his father, John William Ross. Here is the link: Ross-Sharp Wedding. He was raised by his Uncle Edward William Sharp in Plain City.
Anyhow, the family would go on to have 2 more children in 1946 and 1948. Milo received a homestead in Washington State in the late 1940's, early 1950's, but I do not know more about it. The homestead is believed to have been abandoned because of medical needs of Judy and the family returned to a newly built home in Plain City around 1948 or 1949. The family then built the current home at 2532 N. 4100 W. in 1955 and have resided there since.


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Past Exhibitions
From our Collections: War in the Trenches
September 7, 2013 - January 12, 2014
War in the Trenches echoes the themes of Transformations – A.Y. Jackson and Otto Dix by bringing together rarely or never-before exhibited artifacts and stories relating to several people and units that served in the First World War.
The landscape of the Western Front deeply affected those who encountered it. A member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, war artist A.Y. Jackson was one of over 600,000 Canadians who fought in the muddy trenches of France and Belgium, and were forever changed by the First World War. The objects from Glenbow's collections featured in this small but meaningful exhibition offer glimpses of that experience as shared by local men and women.
Like Transformations, War in the Trenches explores the war effort from perspectives before, during and after the trench experience in the form of recruitment posters, shells and mortars, flags, uniforms and one of the earlies memorial poppies made by Canadian soldiers.
War in the Trenches provides a glimpse of the material in our military history collection and provides complimentary insight into the ideas explored in Transformations: A.Y. Jackson and Otto Dix.


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Clements-Jeffrey v. City of Springfield, Ohio, 2011 WL 3678397 (S.D. Ohio August 22, 2011) [PDF copy of opinion]
Services that help track down stolen laptops and other lost mobile hardware are indispensable. Consider, for example, the year-long saga of Jeff Blakeman who used MobileMe to help recover his MacBook Pro that a TSA agent stole from checked luggage. Or how Joshua Kaufman used the remote recovery application Hidden to snap pics of the creepy dude who made off with his MacBook.
It is hard to not rejoice when one reads stories about laptop thieves being brought to justice. And we generally feel no pangs of conscience over whether the apprehended criminal had any privacy rights that were violated when he was being monitored with the software.
But what if the person being tracked did not steal the device, and did not know that it was stolen? Do we then care about whether the remote tracking process violated that person's privacy? If so, how should that privacy right stack up against the theft victim's right to get his or her property back?
A recent case from Ohio shows how the privacy right of the innocent user can constrain the rightful owner from using all means of what we might call "remote self help." The court applied the Electronic Communications Privacy Act ("ECPA") in a way that should cause users and purveyors of theft recovery services to reevaluate their methodologies.
Hot communications using hot property
The facts of the case were salacious and embarassing. Plaintiff bought a non-functioning laptop for $60 from one of her students (she was a substitute teacher at an "alternative" high school). After she got the computer working, she used it to have sexually explicit communications with her out-of-state boyfriend — they even got naked in front of their webcams with one another.
As it turns out, however, the student who sold plaintiff the laptop had stolen it. The teacher claimed she did not know it was purloined. The original, rightful owner of the laptop had installed Absolute Software's LoJack for Laptops on the device. After it was stolen, and after it had made its way into plaintiff's hands, Absolute began its work of locating the machine and gathering information about its whereabouts and its user.
In this process, one of Absolute's employees obtained real-time access to what was happening on the stolen computer. He was able to collect keystrokes of the sexually explicit communications, and gather three screen shots of plaintiff and her boyfriend, both naked, fooling around on the webcam.
Absolute turned the information — including the X-rated screen shots — over to the police. Plaintiff was arrested and handcuffed. The criminal court dismissed the case against her.
But plaintiff (and her boyfriend) sued. They brought several claims against the police for violation of their constitutional rights, and claims against Absolute for, among other things, violation of the ECPA. Absolute moved for summary judgment on the ECPA claim but the court denied the motion. The court found that Absolute could not show, as a matter of law, that it should not be liable for the interception of the explicit communications.
Legitimate privacy expectation, even on a stolen computer
Subject to certain exceptions, the ECPA prohibits one from surreptitiously intercepting or disclosing the contents of any wire, oral or electronic communications of another. The defendants first argued that plaintiff could not put forward a valid ECPA claim because she did not have a legitimate expectation of privacy in these communications.
The court rejected this argument, finding that plaintiff's belief as to her privacy was reasonable both subjectively and objectively. She felt safe enough to engage in the explicit communications (subjective belief), and she demonstrated that she had no reason to suspect the laptop was stolen (objective belief). Had she known or had reason to know it was stolen, her claim of privacy would have been subordinated to the possessory interest of the owner. (As an aside, there was some interesting evidentiary wrangling that went on a few weeks ago about defendants' expert witnesses opining on internet privacy. Read more about that at Bow Tie Law.)
Public policy did not come to the rescue
Absolute next argued that certain exceptions to liability for violation of the ECPA should protect it. The court rejected each of these arguments. It found that the exception for those acting "under color of law" to track down "computer trespassers" did not apply, because Absolute was a private entity, not one acting under color of law. The court also rejected Absolute's argument that it could divulge the intercepted contents as a provider of an electronic communications service. The court found that Absolute did not provide an "electronic communications service to the public" as defined by the ECPA.
So Absolute was left with one final argument, namely, that public policy should shield it from liability for the unauthorized interception and disclosure of the keystrokes and screen shots. Absolute argued that the legal owner of the stolen laptop should be able to take steps to locate and recover that property, and that the rights of the property owner must trump those of a thief.
The court declined to implement such a per se rule, noting that:
It is one thing to cause a stolen computer to report its IP address or its geographical location in an effort to track it down. It is something entirely different to violate federal wiretapping laws by intercepting the electronic communications of the person using the stolen laptop.
In so many words, the court was saying that Absolute went too far in collecting the contents of the communications being made on the stolen computer. Had the information collection stopped at IP addresses and other non-content information, the remote tracking efforts may not have run afoul of the ECPA.


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I know I'm a couple of days late, but I'm back now and ready to announce the winner of Crochet Therapy
Monday, December 12, 2016
Sunday, December 4, 2016
Crochet Therapy and a Give Away
Crochet Therapy by Betsan Corkhill is a book I contributed to awhile back. The book came out in September and I'm finally getting around to blogging about it. I came up with two patterns for the book; a ripple throw and a small hexi rug.
There are several more designs in the book, here are just a couple
If you're interested in Crochet Therapy you can find it here. I love working on projects for books and magazines, but unfortunately I just don't have the time for too much. Currently I have no commissioned projects scheduled, so I'm working on gifts. A mix of crochet and knit. I'm really liking the fur pom poms right now, so I'm working on a few hats.
This is a short post, but I do want to offer a copy of Crochet Therapy to a fellow blogger. Since I've been away for so long I feel compelled to give something away. I have a couple extra copies and if you decide you would like to win one, then just leave me a comment. You don't have to do anything else, just comment. I'll randomly select a winner this coming Friday. Good Luck and I'll be back Friday!
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Self-Scheduling Method
Events using the self-scheduling method are not directly supervised by the Campus Recreation staff. These events allow participants to find mutually agreeable times to compete that best fits his/her schedule. Captains/players are provided contact information for other participants to aid them in setting up days/times to play.
After competing, opposing team captains/players are required to submit an online Results Agreement Form (RAF).
In addition to sport specific rules used for each event, the following rules govern play for events using the Self-Scheduling Method:
- RAF's are only available online or by clicking on the Results Agreement Form link to the left.
- Failure to submit a RAF prior to the deadline waives any right to appeal a submitted RAF from an opponent. Should competing participants fail to submit a RAF prior to the deadline, both will receive a forfeit for that contest.
- All RAF's must be submitted before 3pm on the specified deadline day. RAF's date/time-stamped after the deadline will not be accepted.
- If you have difficulty contacting a participant you are to play, it is your responsibility to contact the Campus Recreation Office as soon as possible. Failure to contact the office will still result in a forfeit should the match deadline pass. Contacting the office shows you are making an effort to play.


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Lately, $5 has had tight grip on the corn market. Bob Utterback shares what factors will have to play out to pull prices higher.
The corn market has been fighting back to previous highs, says Bob Utterback, Farm Journal Economist and president of Utterback Marketing. Here's a look at the daily July 2014 corn chart:
What will it take to push corn prices above the $5 threshold?
It won't be slow planting progress, Utterback says. "We are going to get this crop planted," he says. "I know guys in Missouri, southern Illinois and Kentucky who are done."
As of May 4, USDA estimates 29% of the U.S. corn crop is planted. That is behind the five-year average of 42% planted by early May. Farmers in Colorado, Kansas and Missouri are all 5 percentage points or more ahead of the average planting pace. Meanwhile, Minnesota, Iowa, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and North Carolina are all 15 percentage points or more behind average.
Utterback says a combination of three factors could make corn prices explode—but they must all occur. The factors are: a dropping corn yield estimate, lower-than-expected corn acres and higher-than-expected feed usage. "These three factors could break us up to the upside," he says.
For corn yields, Utterback says the national average yield would need to drive off the 164 bu./acre estimate to the 158 bu./acre to make the markets nervous. The market would also be nervous if planted corn acres were dropped to 91 million acres or lower. For feed usage, Utterback is particularly watching the hog consumption levels.
Utteback says this is the time when the bear has the biggest anxiety in the market because you are reaching target prices but you still have the threat of weather. "For the next 45 days, the bear has to be very cautious," he says. "This is not a gunslinger time. Get a floor built and prepare for a weather scare."
Utterback discussed current market conditions on Market Rally Radio with Chip Flory on Monday, May 5 15. Listen to the broadcast:
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