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Second Sunday of the month, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Sunday Night Out Together, or SNOT, is a youth group activity in which the entire youth group goes out to eat after the Sunday night service. The restaurants vary and are normally decided on in the service that evening.
For more details, please contact Stephen Harwell, Student Pastor.


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Both Having Clause and Where clause is used to filter the data coming from the Select statement, but still there are some differences between them. These difference are given below:-
To show the difference between the Where Clause and the Having clause we will going to use the table EmployeeDeptInfo whose create query statement is given below :-
Create table EmployeeDeptInfo ( Employeeid int, Departmentid int)
and it contains the following data
Employeeid Departmentid
1 1
2 2
3 2
4 3
3 2
2 2
5 4
2 2
1) Where clause can be used with Select, Update and Delete Statement Clause but having clause can be used only with Select statement.
For example, the sql query
Update EmployeeDeptInfo Set departmentid =7 Where employeeid=4
will work fine but the query
Update EmployeeDeptInfo Set departmentid =7 Having employeeid=4
will not work
2) We can't use aggregate functions in the where clause unless it is in a subquery contained in a HAVING clause whereas we can use aggregate function in Having clause. We can use column name in Having clause but the column must be contained in the group by clause.
For example, the sql query
select * from EmployeeDeptInfo where count(employeeid)>1
will not work but the query
Select Employeeid, Departmentid from EmployeeDeptInfo Group By Employeeid, DepartmentId having (count(employeeid) >1)
will work fine
3) Where Clause is used on the individual records whereas Having Clause in conjunction with Group By Clause work on the record sets ( group of records ).
For Example, in the below sql Query
select employeeid, departmentid from EmployeeDeptInfo where employeeid=5
the where clause will search the table EmployeeDeptInfo for the record whose employeeid is 5 and then show the output.
but in the below query,
Select Employeeid, Departmentid from EmployeeDeptInfo Group By Employeeid, DepartmentId having employeeid=5
the result are first grouped by the Group By Clause and then they become again filtered by the condition defined in the having clause. Sometime , like above both queries, we get the same result with the help of Where clause and having clause but which way is best is determined automatically by the optimizer and it select the best way of executing it.
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Indeed, I agree with you Ganesh. I read couple of articles and it seems of good quality. Thanks Vivek for sharing our knowledge with community. By the way I also blog and have shared my 2 cents on same topic as How WHERE and HAVING clause work with GROUP BY clause, let me know how do you find it. Thanks
nice example but in what are all the conditions we can use where and having clauses? can you give answer for this quetion
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Checking in on… the WACPosted by Brian Goodman on December 30th, 2010
Sam Wasson, Co-Founder and Editor of bleedCrimson.net covering New Mexico State athletics, and Kevin McCarthy, Founder of Parsing The WAC, are the RTC correspondents for the WAC.
A Look Back
The WAC finished up non-conference play and no team did better than the Hawai'i in closing out its non-conference season. Playing shorthanded, the Warriors hung tough with the ACC's Florida State and then picked up wins over Utah (just its tenth in 57 tries) and a short-handed Mississippi State team from the SEC (playing without Renardo Sidney and Elgin Bailey). New Mexico State lost by 20 to St. Mary's and Nevada lost by 30 at Washington and by four at Portland while Boise State also lost by nine at Portland.
Player of the Week: San Jose State's Adrian Oliver was named the Player of the Week for the week of Dec. 20-26. Oliver scored a career-high 42 points in just 25 minutes of play in a 95-62 win over Puget Sound. The 42 points broke the 30-year old San Jose State single-game scoring record of 40 points. Oliver also broke the SJSU single-game mark for the most points in a half with 30, besting his own mark of 25 which he set last season. He also set a San Jose State record for most consecutive three-point baskets made in a game with seven and tied the school record for most threes made in a single game. Oliver out-scored Puget Sound by himself in the first half of the contest, 30-29. In the game, Oliver tallied 42 points on 12-of-15 (80 percent) shooting from the field. He hit 7-of-9 (77.8 percent) shots from three-point range and was 11-of-13 (84.6 percent) from the free throw line. He also recorded three rebounds, four assists, one block and one steal.
Top 10 Scorers Heading Into Conference Play:
- Adrian Oliver (SJSU) – 25.8 PPG
- Robert Arnold (BSU) – 16.2 PPG
- DeAndre Brown (LTU) – 16.1 PPG
- Justin Graham (SJSU) – 16.1 PPG
- Olu Ashaolu (LTU) – 15.4 PPG
- Zane Johnson (UH) – 14.4 PPG
- Tai Wesley (USU) – 13.8 PPG
- La'Shard Anderson (BSU) – 13.5 PPG
- Malik Story (NEV) – 13.3 PPG
- Dario Hunt (NEV) – 13.1 PPG
Top 10 Rebounders Heading Into Conference Play:
- Dario Hunt (NEV) – 10.2 RPG
- Olu Ashaolu (LTU) – 9.1
- Brady Jardine (USU) – 8.6
- Tai Wesley (USU) – 8.3
- Wil Carter (SJSU) – 7.9
- Joaquim Vander (UH) – 7.1
- Shawn Henderson (UI) – 6.4
- Matt Ballard (SJSU) – 6.2
- Brandon Wiley (UI) – 6.0
- Greg Smith (FSU) – 6.0
Power Rankings
1. Utah State (11-2)
Up Next: 12/29 vs. Hawai'i, 12/31 vs. San Jose State
Utah State heads into conference play as the only WAC team in the RPI Top 100 (56th) but has dropped over 20 spots in the last two weeks despite not losing any games. Utah State sports the league's best record at 11-2, however, they haven't exactly played a murderer's row schedule-wise. Believe it or not, their best win (based on RPI) is a win over 4-8 Long Beach State and four of their last five victories have come against teams with RPIs higher than 230 including last week's pastings of Western Michigan and Troy. The UtAgs open up conference play at home versus a resurgent Hawai'i squad on Wednesday night and then host San Jose State, also a team playing well, on Friday night. Tai Wesley is one of just three WAC players currently in the Top 10 in both scoring and rebounding in the league.
2. Hawai'i (7-2)
Up Next: 12/29 at Utah State, 12/31 at Nevada
Home cooking has aided the sparkling record (8-1 in games in the islands) but regardless, nobody expected such a record, especially early on with a mostly brand new team. The Warriors head into conference play as one of the hotter teams in the league with solid wins over Utah and Mississippi State in the very competitive Diamond Head Classic (won by Butler). Forward Bill Amis remains sidelined but seemingly should be back soon and guard Hiram Thompson is also hurting but still playing major minutes and performing effectively. Counting Amis, Gib Arnold's squad has five players scoring in double figures and boasting a 45% overall shooting percentage, plus 40% on three-pointers — this is not last year's UH roster. Hawaii is also holding opponents to 37% shooting. But 213 turnovers in 12 games needs roundball liposuction. UH opens up at Utah State and at Nevada so we'll know very quickly how much momentum they generated from their 5th place showing at the Diamond Head Classic.
3. Louisiana Tech (9-5)
Up Next: 12/29 at Boise State, 12/31 at Idaho
Louisiana Tech, 8-5 against Division I teams, their best win is against 6-5 Houston (RPI 216). They've played one game against a team with an RPI in the Top 100 and that was against Texas (10-2, RPI 26) to start the season. The Bulldogs have two players in the Top 10 in the league in scoring, DeAndre Brown (3rd) and Olu Ashaolu (5th) and two of the Top 12 rebounders in the league, Olu Ashaolu (2nd) and Brandon Gibson (12th). The Bulldogs are 3rd in the league in scoring averaging 71.3 points per game and they are third in the league in field goal percentage defense with opponents hitting 41.4 percent of their shots. The Bulldogs open up conference play at Boise State and at Idaho.
4. San Jose State (8-3)
Up Next: 12/29 at Fresno State, 12/31 at Utah State
The split for the Spartans is 4-1 at home and 4-2 roadin' it, the best away record in the league so far. SJSU leads the conference in scoring offense (yes, pick yourself up off the floor) at 75.9 points per game and star backcourter Adrian Oliver is coming off a 42 point performance. It a backcourt-led team with Justin Graham averaging 16.1 points a game on 51% overall shooting and 58% with his 33 trey attempts. But frontcourters Wil Carter and Matt Ballard must do better than 37% and 24% shooting respectively or such deficiencies may prove harmful especially when matched up against the bigs of Utah State and New Mexico State. SJSU meets Fresno State in Fresno on Wednesday and then heads to Logan for a New Year's Eve matchup with Utah State on Friday.
5. Boise State (7-5)
Up Next: 12/29 vs. Louisiana Tech, 12/31 vs. New Mexico State
The Broncos dropped their final non-conference game of the season at Portland but head into conference play with a chance to make an early statement with home games versus Louisiana Tech and New Mexico State. The Broncos are one of the four surprise teams in the league thus far. While their record is just 6-5 and they've lost five of their last six games, first year head coach Leon Rice has them playing competitive ball. They lost by just three against UNLV (11-2, RPI 13) in Vegas and by nine at Portland (10-3, RPI 36). The Broncos are the league's second best scoring team (74.9 PPG) and the third best scoring defense team (64.0 PPG).
6. Idaho (6-5)
Up Next: 12/29 vs. New Mexico State, 12/31 vs. Louisiana Tech
Idaho looks to get off to a good start in conference play against the outpost schools, New Mexico State and LA Tech. Idaho head into league play as the lowest scoring team in the league averaging just 64.4 points per game but are second in the league in assists per game (13.4) and are the second best three point shooting team in the league (38.5 percent). The Vandals are allowing just 66.0 points per game. Not surprisingly the Vandals do not have a player in the Top 15 in scoring, however, they have three of the top 15 rebounders in the league in Shawn Henderson (7th), Brandon Wiley (9th) and Luiz Toldeo (15th).
7. New Mexico State (6-8)
Up Next: 12/29 at Idaho, 12/31 at Boise State
The Aggies' struggles have come because of a spate of injuries that at one point had wiped out four of their five projected starters, Troy Gillenwater, Hamidu Rahman, Gordo Castillo and Wendell McKines. Castillo is back on the court but McKines has not played all season due to the broken foot, Gillenwater has not played since the first half of the New Mexico game in Albuquerque on December 11th and Rahman has not played since the December 13th game against Arkansas-Pine Bluff. The Aggies have played eight games against teams in the Top 125 RPI but have lost all eight. The four wins have come against Louisiana twice (1-8, RPI 309), Arkansas-Pine Bluff (0-11, RPI 279) and Pacific (5-5, RPI 126). Head Coach Marvin Menzies believes that two of the remaining three players who are out with injury could see action in the next couple of games. Under Menzies, the Aggies have tied for the regular season title ('07/'08), reached the conference tournament semifinals ('08/'09) and won the conference tournament ('09/'10) in his first three seasons and has led the Aggies to a 32-16 record in conference play. The Aggies have just one player in the Top 15 in scoring, Christian Kabongo (11.5 PPG, 13th) and just one Top 15 rebounder, Tyrone Watson (5.6 RPG, 11th). The Aggies open up on the road making the Idaho swing first in Moscow then to Boise.
8. Fresno State (4-6)
Up Next: 12/29 vs. San Jose State, 01/03 vs. Nevada
The Bulldogs are actually in the positive at home with a 3-2 record but the road hasn't been so hospitable at 1-4. Taking heed of the admonition that a child shall lead them, frosh backcourter Kevin Olekaibe tops the squad in scoring at 10.7 a contest. The Greg Smith Funk remains ongoing as he is mired at 9.7 points per game along with 6.3 boards each time out. Point guard Steven Shepp just returned from academic exile and should help with the assist-to-turnover ratio. Believe it or not, Steve Cleveland's team lacks a familiar name in the top 15 point producers in the WAC, indicating just how much Paul George and to a lesser extent Sylvester Seay are missed offensively. League play commences with San Jose State coming to town on Wednesday, followed by Nevada on Monday.
9. Nevada (3-10)
Up Next: 12/31 vs. Hawai'i, 01/03 at Fresno State
Nevada's struggles have come because they lost 83 percent of their scoring through the NBA Draft and graduation. They have really struggled to find consistency and their two Division I wins have come against Montana (6-4, RPI 140) and Portland State (6-5, RPI 247). Nevada opens up conference play versus resurgent Hawai'i and then heads to Fresno to take on Fresno State.
A Look Ahead
The league did not look good in non-conference play so the WAC will revert back to a one-bid league. It's the swan song for Boise State as it completes its farewell tour in the WAC before jumping to the Mountain West next season. Everyone is 0-0 starting tonight and with the change in format to the conference tournament, finishing in the top four in the league assures playing no more than three games in three days (just two games if you're the first or second place finisher) whereas a bottom four finish means a trip to the Big Dance will require winning a four-game in four days gauntlet.


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NEWS- Bad rap: The long night before the trial
The night before last Tuesday's March 28 trial for three Albemarle boys ages 13-15 accused of conspiracy to commit murder and blow up a school, the parents were weighing possible outcomes, as they've been doing ever since their children were taken away in handcuffs nearly two months ago.
The prosecution had rested March 17, and at least one father believed his son stood a good chance of coming home. The boy's mother had busied herself that weekend getting his room ready and during his call home that evening the boy told her confidently, "Mom, I've had a good last day here."
His father calmly rattled off the list of hurdles his son might face if found guilty.
There's college, for one thing. "You have to put it on the application," the father said. His son had set his sights on joining the Air Force, but there's no enlisting with a felony on your record. Employers typically run background checks.
And the boy's county school had been traded for the Blue Ridge Detention Center, where a simple sign in the hall announces the "Education" section of the facility. Would his public school even take him back, especially when the charges included "blowing up a schoolhouse"?
One teacher, who wishes to remain anonymous, describes how frightened employees have been– on a daily basis– since the arrests.
One boy's parent attended a school board meeting the night before the first trial and feels officials hadn't closed the door on her son. "They were very fair," she says.
But while school employees who know the boy spoke out in his behalf, if he were found guilty, she says, her son would be unable to enroll in any county school ever again.
The decision to allow a student convicted of a felony to return to class is made by the School Board. "This occurs so rarely," says Steele Howen, executive director of county administrative services. "It's a school board issue. They meet and decide what happens."
The consequences for a minor are "devastating in many respects," says Bill Hicks, an attorney for one of the boys. While they don't lose their right to vote or other civil liberties, they may very well lose their friends, community support, and a host of educational and career opportunities.
One of the boys says he's afraid his personality has changed, and friends won't like him anymore. "I'm not going to act goofy anymore," he told his mother.
Since the 1990s, when adolescent crimes temporarily surged, childhood has been losing ground, according to Dan Macallair of the San Francisco-based Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. Even though adolescent crime is down across the country, Macallair says adults have continued a pattern of "over-reacting" to juvenile threats of violence.
Was there a less serious crime the boys could have been charged with? "Other things might have been charged," Hicks says, but "the easy answer is probably no."
"The prosecutor could've elected to try these kids as adults," notes Andy Block, director of the JustChildren program at the Charlottesville Legal Aid Justice Center, about the two boys who are over 14.
Because of the seriousness of the charges, Block puts a sentencing outcome at "50/50" whether a guilty verdict will send them to the Richmond correction center, or home under strict supervision.
"All of the options are available in this case," Block says– from lengthy incarceration to probation. In one possible scenario involving probation, known as "deferred disposition," kids who are found guilty can still have their records wiped clean when they turn 21.
Hicks stresses that a guilty verdict for any of the kids in this case is not synonymous with a felony conviction. That's only in adult court. In the language of juvenile justice, it's "a crime that would be a felony if it were committed by an adult."
As for what that all means to parents without their children, as one mother says, "I don't think we know the full impact yet."
Students convicted of felonies can return to county schools (such as Albemarle High, shown here) if the board allows their return, or it may send them to an alternative school, says assistant county attorney Mark Trank.


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Miami-Dade County
Sean Taylor's girlfriend offers tearful testimony in murder trial
The trial started Monday with Sean Taylor's shining moments.
Prosecutors displayed a photo of Taylor on draft day. Another photo showed football helmets spanning his career: from the University of Miami to the Washington Redskins to the NFL Pro Bowl. Still another photo depicted Taylor, his longtime girlfriend, Jackie Garcia Haley, and their baby daughter on Easter Sunday.
Garcia Haley, dressed in all black, somberly identified each photo, fighting back tears as she took the stand during the first day of trial for Eric Rivera, the man accused of murdering Taylor during a botched burglary in November 2007.
But like Taylor's life, her testimony ended in heart-breaking fashion as Garcia Haley recounted the horrifying night that intruders forced their way into their Palmetto Bay house.
She and Taylor, who had been dating since their days at Gulliver High, went to bed around 10 p.m., their 18-month-old daughter at their side. Past 1 a.m., Taylor roused her. He heard a noise. Where was the machete? By the bed, Garcia Haley whispered.
"He proceeded out toward the bedroom door," Garcia Haley told jurors. "I attempted to call 911. I heard a really loud noise, similar to a gunshot. A scream, like an 'Aaahh.' I think it was Sean.'"
Garcia Haley did not see who shot Taylor. She hid under the covers and called 911. After a few moments, she emerged and inched toward Taylor, who gasped for air but was unable to speak.
"I saw him laying on the floor face down. I just saw all this blood," Garcia Haley, 30, told jurors.
Frantically, she tried to soothe him, grabbing a towel to try and stop the bleeding. When Miami-Dade police officers arrived, Garcia Haley sprinted to let them in to the gated home.
"I ran outside and screamed for help. I told them someone was dying, to please hurry," Garcia Haley said.
Paramedics whisked Taylor away to Jackson Memorial Hospital. The gunshot severed Taylor's femoral artery, Miami-Dade prosecutor Ray Araujo told jurors. "The bleeding was massive and quick," Araujo told jurors during opening statements Monday. He said Rivera fired the fatal shot.
Before following him to the hospital, Garcia Haley rushed to her mother's house to drop off her 18-month-old namesake daughter — and change her blood-soaked clothes.
Taylor did not survive.
Garcia Haley was the first witness in the highly anticipated trial of Rivera, 23, who is charged with first-degree murder and armed burglary in a slaying that shocked the nation.
After numerous legal delays, Rivera is the first of five defendants to go trial.
Awaiting future trials: Charles Wardlow, 24, Jason Scott Mitchell, 25, and Timothy Brown, 22. A fifth defendant, Venjah Hunte, 25, already has pleaded guilty and may testify against Rivera.
There is ample evidence linking Rivera and the band of burglars to Taylor's murder, Araujo told jurors Monday.
Cell phone and toll records placed him and four other young burglars traveling from Fort Myers to Taylor's Palmetto Bay home and back again. Footprints of Rivera's Nike Shox sneakers were found in the home, including the kicked-in master bedroom door -- jurors on Monday viewed casts and photo of the prints.
A young woman even placed Rivera, 23, together with the other burglars immediately after the shooting of the former UM star. Rivera himself even penned a letter to a cousin, asking him to get the girl to lie to authorities about what happened that night, he said.
But perhaps the most damning evidence, Araujo told jurors, are Rivera's own words: he gave a detailed confession of the plan, the crime and the aftermath, including hurling the murder weapon into the Everglades.
"Nothing can hide the fact that this defendant confessed to the murder of Sean Taylor," Araujo told jurors in a detailed and meticulous account.
The thrust of Rivera's defense was not surprising. Defense lawyer Janese Caruthers argued that Miami-Dade detectives "ambushed" Rivera, who unwillingly tagged along on the ill-fated burglary but was not a willing participant.
"They were in such a rush and under such pressure to close the case that they forced my client to give a statement and they forced him to confess to a crime that he did not commit," Caruthers told jurors.
Miami-Dade prosecutors said the group of young men, all from Fort Myers, drove to Palmetto Bay believing that Taylor was not home. The plan was hatched when one of Rivera's cohorts attended a birthday party hosted by Taylor's sister, who showed off $10,000 in cash her brother had given her as a gift.
"It all started with a plan. A plan to score some easy cash," Araujo said.
In many ways, the Palmetto Bay home on Old Cutler Road was one of the central characters on Monday.
Garcia Haley told jurors that the home, purchased by Taylor, was used mostly by his relatives while they lived in Virginia. But that weekend, he was home nursing an injury and visiting family for Thanksgiving. And the hurricane shutters were drawn — which might have made the house appear empty.
She also told defense lawyers that Taylor often kept large amounts of cash inside the home, although she wasn't sure how many people knew about the money.
Crime scene technicians on Monday also presented evidence collected at the home, including the bullet casings found by the bedroom and on the first floor, where Rivera is believed to have shot out the sliding glass door in an attempt to escape the home after shooting Taylor.


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Tuesday, April 23, 2013 | 2 a.m.
Virgin America doesn't do anything halfway when it comes to promoting new service and amenities, and Monday's launch of three daily flights between Los Angeles and Las Vegas was no exception.
The airline, which included Las Vegas as one of its launch cities with flights to and from San Francisco when Virgin America began flying in 2007, turned McCarran International Airport's Gate D26 into a day club and welcomed its largest shareholder, Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson, to jump-start the entry into the city's most competitive market.
Virgin America joins five other airlines already offering 30 daily flights, including market leader Southwest Airlines. Virgin hopes to separate itself from competitors with comfortable, mood-lit Airbus A320 jets, a high-tech entertainment system at every seat, and customer service that has topped public surveys and won national and international awards.
Branson and Virgin America CEO David Cush hosted a red-carpet event at the airport, serving up "Virginitinis" developed by Cosmopolitan mixologist Christopher Hopkins, and they brought in a DJ along with actresses Krysten Ritter, Jaime Pressly and Adrienne Maloof and musician Joe Jonas on the inaugural flight from Los Angeles.
Branson is no stranger to Las Vegas, making public appearances on behalf of Virgin America and promoting his foundation. He's known worldwide as an adventurer, entrepreneur and philanthropist, and on Monday, he took six questions from the Sun:
What have you got planned on this Las Vegas trip?
I've got a speech later today. I do 20 speeches a year to raise money for our foundation. We put 100 percent of the money made from speeches to charity. And, of course, I'm here for Virgin America and the party tonight at the Chandelier at the Cosmopolitan. I'm Virgin America's biggest shareholder and it's got our brand on it. I love the airline and the people who run it. It's been the best airline in America for six years in a row. They all work enormously hard, so the least I can do is help put new routes on the map when they launch them. After Las Vegas, I'm going on to the Mojave Desert to be there for our first flight on our spaceship.
That's your Virgin Galactic project. What's ahead for that?
We're hoping to break the sound barrier. That's planned Monday. It will be a historic day. This is going to be Virgin Galactic's year. We'll break the sound barrier Monday and from there, we build up through the rest of the year, finally going into space near the end of the year. I'll be on the first official flight, which we look to have in the first quarter of next year. We're doing a number of test flights into space first.
While you're here, you're not planning on jumping off any buildings like you did when you were here in 2007?
I'm quite glad I'm not, actually. That kind of backfired on me last time. We were just calling attention to our flights to and from San Francisco and I was rappelling off one of the towers at the Palms. I normally do something fun, but that was one of those stunts that went wrong. The wind blew me into the side of the building on the way down. Traveling at 100 mph, hitting the side of the building — not a good idea. Fortunately, it was my bum that hit the side of the building. My bum was very bloodied and my ego was slightly bloodied. We still had a great party that night. I just couldn't sit down.
Virgin is launching its Los Angeles flights at a time when the Federal Aviation Administration air traffic controllers are being furloughed and flights to and from Southern California are being delayed. What are your thoughts on that?
It hasn't really affected us yet, and we don't know if it will. From an outsider, it just seems so sad that you have this rather strange system in America where you don't elect somebody to manage your country. If I'm running a company like Virgin, I run it to succeed. Running a country with two heads trying to run it doesn't make sense. Personally, I think the way your Founding Fathers set up the way to run America is not sound. In Britain, you have one party that runs the country and if you don't like it, you kick them out at the end of five years. Trying to balance everything is no way to run a country.
So what's next for you?
We've got a lot on our plates. On the adventure side, we've got our plan to explore the bottom of the deepest places in the ocean and we're obviously looking to go to space. So we're building submarines to go down and spaceships to go up. I plan to do both myself because I love these adventures. Most of my time, though, is spent on creating organizations to tackle problems. We have an organization called the Elders that goes to different regions to tackle conflicts. We've got the Carbon War Room to try to get on top of the problems of global warming and we've got the Center for Disease Control in Africa to try to tackle diseases. We also have the Oceanic Elders to look after our oceans and create more marine parks to protect species in the ocean, prevent overfishing and so on. So we're very busy.
Whenever you go on some of these adventures, do you ever get nervous?
I (soil) my pants nearly on many occasions. When things go horribly wrong, you wonder why on earth you did it. So I'm being a bit more careful. I'm not jumping off of any buildings in Vegas anymore.


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"reversed" proofing box
While most people need a warmer environment to ferment & proof the breads, when outside temperature are, year long, around 30C (86F) a cooler place is what is needed. A styrofoam box and a peltier module were the base of my project. After using the "cooler box" my dough seams to have more strength and the bread a much nicer oven spring and blooming... Here are some pictures. If anyone has wants to buld a similar box and needs a few answers, I'd be glad to provide answers (if I have them)
1. the components (the little white square in the middle is the main character. the rest - supporting actors)
2. proof of concept. It works!!! (red temperature is the enclosure, the black is the cooling element)
3. everything put together in a custom cut acrylic box fixed on top of a large styrofoam box
4. the inside of the styrofoam box
5. final product
6. final product in "production" (variations of +/- 1C from the set temperature)
7. the box can fit about 8 bannetons on 2 layers ...
8. ... or 2 custom cut proofing boards (2 layers)
It was fun building it, lots of fun using it!!!!


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This week I am upset. With myself, with stoopid Dinosaur Pile Up and their stoopid song with its stoopid riffs that I am stoopidly keen on.
Single of the Week!
Dinosaur Pile Up - 'The Most Powerful EP In The Universe!' (Big Brain/Friends vs. Records)
I rather like it when your ideas about who you are / what you like are thrown into confusion. And this is what Dinosaur Pile Up have done, just as I thought I was finished with this column and was about to send it off to the html hellhole in the sky. But on the basis of 'Opposites Attract' – a magnificently dumb and heavy of riff Weezer soundeylikey - I am prompted to declare that if this is what bringing Grunge back sounds like, I am going to welcome it with an open arms, if not a sweaty bared chest. Not comfortable with the idea of myself as a flasher, I listened to it again. And try as I might to turn that smile upside down I could not; my nice grown-up tea dress was morphing to dirty plaid before my eyes. And I hate Weezer. And I am not sixteen anymore, and I thought I had got over that fact, even though keen-eyed readers will be well aware I am regularly banging on about age and ancientness and mourning my youth (do today, in fact). Damn you Dinosaur Pile Up, but I like you. A lot.
Listen at MySpace, here.
Arctic Monkeys - 'Crying Lightning' (Domino)
If this is about what I think it is, I am on cold, hard, familiar territory. And it is an exemplary seven inch subject. I know this Lo, this Becky Sharp, I remember those girls from school who could weep on demand, snatching all the sympathy while you keeping your tears to yourself was not a victory; it meant everyone thought you were a bitch. The Arctics' Jezebel arrives sucking on a strawberry lace. And though it is hard to avoid casting a blaring searchlight on Alex' notebook like some sort of Pop Police ('So Mr. Turner, you're the indie fucking Byron, are you?') I am not going to, because it seems to me to be too early to declare his genius; it is not entirely helpful. As for the song itself, it has rather a grand and bitterly theatrical air which just about works, bearing in mind that for me they have always been a band to admire rather than cherish. Though since this is a charity release, I may shelve my objections.
Tiny Masters of Today - 'Real Good' (Mute)
It seems to be that any song which has a Johnny as a protagonist is a proper pop song in the most traditional sense; it has a 50s shiny diner chromeyness to it. In fact, in what we shall loosely call my 'research' for this column, I found a whole actual website dedicated to this chart archetype (Chartetype? No. Anyway, said site - 'Johnny Songs' - is here). I am also happy to report that 'Real Good' sees TMOT finally fulfilling the promise of their press, releasing a single which is Hanson-happy and MmmmBoppy enough to raise a smile from the dowdiest, most difficult music-loving blowhard. This is enormously likeable, E-numbered punk-pop from a band too young for mine old heart to bear ('Oh, do shut up' etc).
Listen at MySpace, here
King Creosote – 'No One Had It Better (Bullion mix)' (Domino)
I feel a strange sort of fondness for King Creosote after his silly 'KC Rules OK' sticker campaign a few years back – it seemed a neat and old-fashioned way of him declaring how skill he was, without falling into the sort of ego-trap the likes of Kanye West tumble into regularly. And I couldn't feel fonder of the man who created 'Pet Sounds: In The Key Of Dee' if I tried. Luckily, for a morning where I am in no mood to have my hopes raised and dashed, their combined efforts are a joy, with Bullion's rangy, galloping approach to melody proving a neat counterpoint for KC's incredibly amiable intoning. This pulses like a skipping heartbeat fuelled by a defibrillator gone slightly wrong; it jumps oddly but never loses sight of the listener's wellbeing.
No videothing, but you can hear it as part of a Marc Radcliffe show here.
The Citadels - 'Golden Islands' (Friends Vs Records)
'Everything, all the time / I want to feel / Everything all the time' seems like a prayer too far to me, however swizzy your synth landscape and twinkly your Passion Pit-redolent single. It's not far removed from Leo Blooms' desire to have 'everything I've ever seen in the movies' i.e. too big an ask for most of us not to end up very disappointed indeed. All that said, wanting everything is a very good sentiment for a pop song. Even though The Citadels are not from paradise, but London, where I suspect they wake up every morning wanting the world, but settling for a tiny bedsit and the sort of half-life where things are only very occasionally, (and only for seconds) bathed in Powell and Pressburger Technicolor. In any event, happily it turns out that 'Golden Islands' is one of those moments, it being a pretty and pulsing three minutes which though very now and very MGMT (it's not their fault they got there first). Rather like having an anti-SAD super-light beamed into the circuits of your stereo. That is, lovely.
Little Boots - 'Remedy' (679)
Remedy is the point in the Little Boots album where she really shows her hand, flying a Steps-style flag so shamelessly indebted to the giddy pop music of the early 90s that one cannot be left in any doubt as to her influences (Rusko remix or no). And do you know, I happen to love it, it has a chorus so determinedly, almost brazenly tailored to literal dancing I was at the school disco in my head before I had a chance to tell off my synapses. You know, you can almost hear the moves, 'No more POISON' (hand to mouth as you pretend to drink a sickening dancefloor elixir, then wag your finger 'No') / 'KILLING my emotion' (motions stabbing) / 'I will not be FROZEN' (runs hands up and down arms in 'brrr' style) 'Dancing is my REMEDY REMEDY REMEDY' (generally goes nuts). So shoot me, I think it's a top bit of nonsense, whether your 'floor' is located in your kitchen or down your local discotheque.
Bastila - 'Ghosts' (Sunday Best)
This was a lovely surprise, Bastila being something of a new one on me. For the similarly uninitiated, they are in the business of making the sort of flickering, brightly-burning wibble rock that I am supposed to call new wave of shoegaze, but I feel this is doing it down. And even if the press release was not here to helpfully inform me that this was produced by Mark Gardener, that is the genre drawer in which my brain would have ended up. Really it is not so much music as a sort of impressionistic rock painting - and though this means it will be accused of being wetter than a Manchester winter in some people's books; the aural equivalent of a limp hand-shake, I find 'Ghosts' to be oddly romantic as it sweeps and soars.
The Nextmen ft. Ms. Dynamite - 'The Lion's Den' (Universal)
Gratifying though it undoubtedly is to hear Naomi back on a ragga tip, this could have comfortably been released about 10 years ago were it not for the saving grace of some utterly modern electronic flourishes, including some triumphantly artificial bass bin proddings (the best noise on this single, by far).
Cold Pumas 'Altered Yeast' & Male Bonding 'Stare At My Problems' (Split 7", on CYAN)
'Stare At My Problems' has been on my pod for quite some weeks. And it's cropped up -unexpected and unbidden - so many times now that I have gradually come round to its defiantly dischordant charms. It's thrashy, throwaway and has a chorus almost entirely made up of Oooh's - but there's a surprisingly pretty little coda at the end that rescues this from having too much punk spittitude (sorry) for its own good. 'Altered Yeast', despite being a wicked name for a record, is an utter racket. And sadly I am rarely in the mood for those.
Male Bonding MySpace Cold Pumas MySpace
Cougar - 'Stay Famous' (Counter)
'Digit Cleaver' - featuring the vocal stylings of Maximo Park's Paul Smith – is a very pleasingly blippy math rock tune you can have for nowt here.
The Molotovs - 'Come To Grief' (Fierce Panda)
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BWW Reviews: RENT Shares Love Onstage at the Actors Company
On January 25th, 1996, a brand new musical called "RENT" opened its doors for the very first time and was unlike anything ever seen before. Seventeen years ago, it was a show that revolutionized theatre. Today, "RENT" is still sung and performed by thousands in theatres all over the world. It has, without a doubt, become a soaring success.
And though so many of us have seen it countless times, its creator, Jonathan Larson, would never live to see his work come to life as he died of an aneurysm in the early hours of its opening night. But I know he would have loved its current production dedicated to him which is now playing at the Actors Company, directed and produced by Rowan Sutherland with Musical Director Melissa Sky Eagle, and Choreographer Marcus S. Daniel.
Set in New York's gritty Alphabet City, "RENT" follows a year in the lives of eight young bohemians, dealing with the hardships of AIDS, poverty, homosexuality, death, hate, homelessness, and love. With a talented ensemble cast in which members trade off in the lead roles for some performances, I will sing the praises of those performing on opening night. But take it from me, whatever performance you see will be just as amazing given the talent in the cast.
First I must mention the outstanding ensemble number "La Vie Boheme" with perfectly executed choreography and amazing musical harmony with each and every voice combining in ways that made the music rise up to the heavens. Marisa Zakaria, the soloist in "Seasons of Love" was outstanding with all the charisma and talent needed to shine in any role onstage. I am sorry to have not seen her in the role of Maureen which she will play at certain performances.
But the Maureen I did see, Brittany Carriger, along with her partner Joanne played by Hayley Silvers, performed the show-stopping "Take Me or Leave Me" raising the bar on character and harmony for the rest of the show. The audience was spellbound and the applause afterwards was well-deserved and heartfelt for their soul-barring performances.
And I can't rave enough about Andy Eubanks, whose ten years of ballet training was tested in the role of Angel as he danced and jumped up and down on a table and chairs in what appeared to be 5-inch stiletto heels. And then there was his riotous entrance as Pussy Galore! Congrats to costume designer Isabella Scannone on that outfit. Angel is pure love and Eubanks grabbed onto her heart and shared it with everyone in the theater.
Also loved the short "Voicemail #5" with the four parents leaving messages of love and concern for their loft-living children. It was a cacophony of sounds representing every single message any mother has left for her child at least once in her life.
The Actors Company is located at 916a N. Formosa Ave. in West Hollywood 90046. It is difficult to see the address at night, so look for the large CAZT neon sign on the building and turn into its driveway to find the theater. Hopefully signage for "RENT" will be added on Formosa as there were several of us having difficulty finding it on the night I was there. And be sure to sit close enough to the stage to see the on-the-floor choreography which may not be visible from farther-back theater seats. It is definitely not to be missed. And I do hope the sound levels will be corrected so that the music soundtrack does not drown out the singers so often in future performances.
"RENT" continues at the Actors Company through February 10 with performances Thursday to Sunday at 7pm, and a Sunday matinee at 2pm featuring (in order of appearance) Steven Silvers, Nathan Parker, Austin Scott, Kena Worthern, Andy Eubanks, Hayley Silvers, Brittany Carriger, Ra'Shawn Durell, Jessica Mayorga, Darrio Connor, Melissa Strauss, Michael Levine, Ella Bowen, Keith Taylor, Marisa Zakaria, Sandra Saad, William Shaffer, Lenar Jones, with Hayden Gold and Marcus Daniel in some performances as Roger and Angel. Tickets: $30.00 General Admission, $40.00 with VIP (On Stage) Seating at https://flashtheatreproductions.ticketbud.com/rent


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Hispanics Say They Have the Worst of a Bad Economy
III. Latinos and Homeownership
During the housing boom of the last two decades, homeownership rates increased to record levels (Kochhar, Gonzalez-Barrera and Dockterman, 2009). However, since then, the collapse in the housing market has brought declining homeownership rates and falling housing prices.
For Latinos, after reaching a record high of 49.8% in 2006, the homeownership rate fell to 47.4% in 2011, matching similar declines among other groups.
Falling housing prices have affected household wealth among Latinos more than other groups. In 2005, Latinos derived nearly two-thirds of their net worth from home equity. However, because many Latinos live in places where housing prices increased the most prior to the housing crisis—and have fallen the most since—the housing bust had a greater impact on Latino household wealth than any other group (Kochhar, Fry and Taylor, 2011).
The steep decline in housing prices has many Latino homeowners underwater on their home mortgages. According to Pew Hispanic survey, 28% of Latino homeowners say they owe more on their home than what they could sell it for—double the share (14%) of homeowners in the general population who say the same.
Being underwater varies by region. More than four-in-ten (41%) Latino homeowners in Northeastern states say their mortgage is underwater, a share greater than any other part of the country. By comparison, 32% of Latino homeowners in the West, 27% in the North Central region, and 21% in the South say they owe more on their mortgage than what they could sell their home for.6
Recent home buyers are more likely to be underwater on their mortgages than other homeowners. Some 39% of Latinos who bought their home between 2000 and 2011 say they owe more in their home than what they could sell it for. This compares to 22% of those who bought a decade earlier (1990 to 1999) and only 15% of those who bought between 1980 and 1989.
The Investment Value of Homeownership
Despite being hit hard by the housing market downturn, three-in-four (75%) Latinos agree that buying a home is the best long-term investment a person can make in the U.S. This compares with 81% of the general population who say the same (Pew Social & Demographic Trends, 2011).
Large majorities of many groups of Latinos say buying a home is the best long-term investment. Homeowners are more convinced than renters of the value of owning a home. Fully 83% of Latino homeowners say owing a home is the best long-term investment, while 70% of renters say the same. Even among homeowners who are underwater, three-in-four (74%) say buying a home is the best long-term investment.
Home Foreclosures
Latinos have been more affected by the home foreclosure crisis than other groups. According to a recent study by the Center for Responsible Lending (Gruenstein Bocian, Li, Quercia and Reid, 2011), the rate of completed foreclosures on loans originating between 2004 and 2008 was 11.9% for Latinos. That foreclosure rate was more than double the rate for non-Hispanic whites (5.1%) and higher than the rate for blacks (9.8%).
The Pew Hispanic survey asked Hispanics who do not own a home about their experience with foreclosure. According to the survey, 7% of Latinos who do not own homes say they lost a home to foreclosure in the past year. By contrast, 5% of the general public that does not own a home said the same in May 2010.7
- The Northeast Census region comprises Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. The North Central region comprises Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The South region comprises Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. The West region comprises Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. ↩
- Based on Pew Hispanic Center tabulation of Pew Social & Demographic Trends data from March 2010. ↩


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|Mama Qatar provides Gas to Egypt
The first edition was pulled back from the newsstand in one of the first incident of its own in 2013 when it comes to newspapers and state-owned newspapers in particular in Morsi's first regardless of what you think about the headline.
Of course speaking professionally this is a Front page headline that would make Mostafa Amin May Allah bless his soul curse the current editor in chief of Daily Al Akhbar and his journalists. Mostafa Amin got a school of his own when it came to headlines but fine one not a cheap one like that. This is a headline that suites tabloid newspaper not a newspaper with long history like Al Akhbar
Anyhow the second edition was printed and it had a different headline
|Below "Qatar gives away gas to Egypt"
I believe someone was fired today in Al Akhbar.
I am surprised , truly surprised that Al Akhbar Newspaper published this headline considering the fact that Al Akhbar is state-owned newspaper and currently is headed by Islamist leaning editorial team. There is nothing published on the front page except when it is revised by regime representative.


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Cancer Sufferers Sue Over Allegedly Cancerous Talcum Powder
Four women with cancer and the husband of a woman who died are suing Johnson & Johnson and Rio Tinto over the company's allegedly cancerous talcum powder.
In the US lawsuit, they claim the powder sourced from Rio Tinto Minerals Inc's mines are responsible for the women developing ovarian cancer.
According to court documents, they used Johnson Baby Powder and Shower to Shower to "dust her perineum for feminine hygiene purposes".
In the documents obtained by Fairfax Media, the companies are accused of knowing the "catastrophic health hazard associated with the use of its products" and failing to pass the information on to consumers.
"All of the defendants have been aware for nearly 40 years of independent scientific studies linking the use of their products to the increased risk of ovarian cancer in women when used in the perineal area," it's alleged.
Johnson & Johnson have defended their products and the safety of its talc.
Talking to Fairfax, a spokesperson assured both scientific and regulatory reviews had found talc safe for use in cosmetic products. They also claimed the labelling was appropriate.
While Johnson & Johnson has been subject to previous legal actions, this is the first major case to also target Rio Tinto.
This year two separate Missouri juries found that talc had led to terminal ovarian cancer. The cases saw a total of $172 million awarded to two women.
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For all youngsters (under-18) - forms finals of the UK Go Challenge. Played on 13x13.
Based on the UK Chess Challenge, the UK Go Challenge is for schools and junior players. Heats are run in schools, with an overall Final which can be also attended by junior players who did not play in a heat. See ukgochallenge.com.
For all youngsters (under-18) whether qualified from UK Go Challenge heats or not. Those still learning to play are encouraged to take part as well as those with established grades. Titles in age groups for boys and for girls.
Also U21 group in 2017 as part of MSA Youth Championships (uncontested). 2016's event was cancelled.
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STG Announces Upcoming Events: Ben Howard and More
Venue: The Moore (All Ages / Bar w/ ID)
Lauded British singer-songwriter Ben Howard is set to support Mumford & Sons on the east coast leg of their 2013 U.S. The musician's celebrated live performances have resulted in back-to-back sell-out tours, both overseas and in stateside. In the past year Howard appeared at various festivals worldwide, such as SXSW, Sasquatch! Music Festival, Bonnaroo, and Austin City Limits. Of his live set, KCRW explains "[he] has the audience in musical awe." Further tour dates below.
Howard's The Burgh Island E.P. is out now-having debuted #1 on iTunes in the U.K. and top 30 on iTunes in the U.S. The new music is also available as limited edition vinyl frombenhowardmusic.co.uk.
Howard continues to bask in acclaim from his breakout year, which includes a Mercury Prize "Album of the Year" nomination, two Brit Awards nominations for "Best Male" and "Breakthrough Act," and appearances on "The Late Show with David Letterman" and "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" His debut album Every Kingdom, now certified Platinum in the U.K., garnered attention with the The New York Times hailing, "Howard's songs...cascade from his fingers, gathering words and melodies as they go, carrying his reedy, tremulous voice as their crescendos surge," and NYLON Guys admiring "a mélange of intricate acoustic guitar work and sweet, hum-along choruses." Furthermore, NY Daily News praised the record as "fired by flinty textures of guitar," while Philadelphia Inquirer described it as "touched by tender lyricism."
James has released five singles this year, to considerable acclaim; for some reason, bloggers tend to pick up on the sense of isolation in his work and love to ruminate over his intricate beats. A few of his key tracks feature heavily edited, cut-up vocal samples from R&B records, but on his radical reading of Feist's 'Limit to Your Love' he sings the song himself, layering his voice. It's a powerful number. "'Limit to Your Love' was the first time I ever used my voice and I gave special attention to it," he says. "I thought, well, I'm using my voice here so I'll do something extra innovative."
Some may be interested to know that he recorded that song 18 months ago and wasn't even sure if he'd release it. Most of the album was written in his digs in New Cross and Deptford, though he'd often return to Enfield to clear his head and compose. No distractions there, no friends popping round, and if he looks out of his window it's green and silent. What's revealing is that he wrote the songs for his album at the same time as he was putting out the more experimental 12-inches. "I went through a lot of sounds. And the weird thing is, those songs don't sound like anything on those 12-inches - they sound completely different."
What is consistent, though, is the intoxicating effect his music is having as more and more people fall under its spell. Twelve months ago he was virtually unknown. Now James is the darling of the cutting edge, about to hit the mainstream, and there's no question that he knows what he's doing. "I have an obsession with emotion," he says. "I want to make dance music that actually connects with people in the way that a soul record does. I want my music to speak to you like a folk record does, in an organic, human way. It's the human touch that I want."
Cloud Cult is an experimental chamber rock band from the Midwest who has stayed true to the concept of DIY "Indie Rock" for more than 15 years. The band has remained independent for the past decade and a half in favor of keeping total control of the ethical aspects of their music and business, despite enticing offers from notable major labels. In the process, Cloud Cult has sold over 100,000 albums out of lead singer/songwriter Craig Minowa's organic hobby farm. The band has come to be known for its philosophical lyrics, as Minowa has used many of the songs to search for answers to spiritual questions after the unexpected loss of his two-year-old son in 2002.
Cloud Cult's live shows include the rock band along with violin, cello, trumpet, trombone and French horn. Two live painters create original artwork on stage during each performance. Cloud Cult has participated in many of the US's leading festivals including Coachella and Sasquatch and has performed live on NPR's World Café, WNYC's Soundcheck and Last Call with Carson Daly. Minowa was tapped to score 12 hour-long documentaries for National Geographic's "America the Wild," and during the 2010 Superbowl, the band was featured in cartoon form performing their song "Lucky Today" in an Esurance commercial.
Cloud Cult will support the release of their latest studio album Love with a North American tour in March thru May 2013, including performances at this year's SXSW Festival. Along with the new album, the feature-length documentary on Cloud Cult "No One Said It Would Be Easy" will debut in early 2013 on Netflix, iTunes and Amazon. A full-length biography about Cloud Cult's journey as a band by author Mark Allister is slated for release in late 2013.
John Lennon once said he didn't believe that musicians created emotions in their listeners. Rather, he believed that an artist's role is to bring feelings to the surface that already live deep within us. Thus, while all human beings are connected to one another in some way, there is a special bond we feel with the artists that help us shine a light within our own core.
A few days after George Harrison passed away in 2001, Yim Yames (Jim James from My Morning Jacket) was moved to record this six-song EP of Harrison covers, paying tribute to a man that he never met, but with whom he felt a special connection. The tracks have a serene quality that mourn the loss of a legendary spirit while celebrating his enduring influence.
On the EP, Yames performs beautiful renditions of four cuts from Harrison's classic album All Things Pass as well as two of the Beatles tunes that he penned. These six tracks have a raw, minimalist feel - featuring little more than Yames's vocals and acoustic guitar. With all the space, the room in which the tracks were recorded truly serves as another instrument in the mix, creating an ethereal aura for a backdrop.
From his warm, multi-layered vocals on opening track "Long Long Long" to his near-whisper at the end of album closer "All Things Must Pass," Yames sings in a fittingly intimate manner. In the album's liner notes, he refers to Harrison as "a prime example of the healing power of music." These words apply just as much to this EP. As the final chords on Tribute To ring out, one can't help but feel a deep, satisfying sense of catharsis.


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I wrote here a few weeks ago about the "high-value data sets" – three per agency – that the federal government would soon be releasing at Data.gov. They were released on January 22nd, and we've been poring over them ever since. More on that below.
Tomorrow, agencies are supposed to have their "open government" sites put up – sites where they make their data feeds available and easily findable for the public. There are a couple of different sites monitoring when those sites are going up.
Data, data, data – that means more direct oversight of the government by more people. We talked about all this at our December 2008 policy forum, Just Give Us the Data!
When I wrote recently about the release of agencies' high-value data sets, though, I worried:
Rather than substantive insight into government management, deliberations, and results, we might get a lot of data-oriented play-toys… [P]ublic choice economics predicts that the agencies will choose the data feeds with the greatest likelihood of increasing their discretionary budgets or the least likelihood of shrinking them.
So I decided to grade them:
To help focus agencies on releasing the data that is high-value for genuine government transparency, I plan to examine the three data-streams each agency releases and grade the agencies on whether their releases provide insight into agency management, deliberations, or results.
With the help of Cato interns Solomon Stein and Sasha Davydenko, I assigned three points to each feed that had to do with management, deliberation, or results. The resulting numerical scores – 9, 6, 3, or 0 – translate into grades: A, B, C, or D respectively. F was reserved for agencies that didn't produce feeds.
The results follow these few comments:
- There's no science to determining what is management, deliberations, or results. We made some judgement calls. But on the whole we feel pretty good about getting it right.
- We graded the data sets that were posted on data.gov by the deadline. Several agencies have added data sets late. They get no credit. We're not the "nice" teacher. We're the mean one that you learn from.
- Some agencies produced more than three of what they think are "high-value data sets." If any three were actually about management, deliberations, or results, we gave them full credit.
- Almost uniformly, the agencies came up with interesting data – but "interesting" is in the eye of the beholder. And interesting data collected by an agency doesn't necessarily give the insight into government we were looking for. It's data about the agency that matters.
- Time and again, we found that "money is management." If the data has to do with in-flow and out-flow of funds, chances are good that it's high-value data. Hey, there's nothing wrong with paying attention to the money. Accountants need love too.
- The documentation of data sets probably had an effect on the grading. There were some data sets that were almost perfectly inscrutable. Agencies, imagine that you're giving the data set to your Aunt Zelda. Have you described what it is well enough for her to understand?
- Our grading did not take into account the quality of the data or its true utility for the purposes to which it might be put. That's for people digging deeper to find out. We're just going on what agencies said the data was about and how well that reveals their inner workings: their management, deliberations, and results. That's our idea of high-value.
Without further ado, the results!
Department of Agriculture – D
The Ag Department produced data feeds about the race, ethnicity, and gender of farm operators; feed grains, "foreign coarse grains," hay, and related items; and the nutrients in over 7,500 food items. That's plenty to chew on, but none of it fits our definition of high-value.
Department of Commerce – C+
Commerce produced four feeds that it calls "high-value," but we could only fully agree on one: "Patent Grant Maintenance Fee Events." That's a record of money coming in for patents granted from September 1, 1981 to the present. And money is management.
Another – applications received by a couple of broadband programs (assumedly for money) – is close enough to management that we plussed up Commerce's grade. But the other two – collaboratively collected precipitation data, and information about billions of dollars worth of research stretching back to 1964 – might be high-precipitation or high-dollar, but it's not what we think of as high-value.
Department of Defense – D
It was a good news-bad news story from the Department of Defense. On the good side, it produced an impressive six data-sets! But the bad overwhelms the good: not a one was high-value in our estimation. They were each just collections of survey data about absentee voting and election administration overseas.
DoD! Drop and give us 20 push-ups! Then go find us some better data feeds.
Department of Education – D
Ed didn't make the grade. Its three feeds – really two feeds and a metadata file – contain 2007 data about fourth- and eighth-graders' educational achievement, which doesn't teach us anything at all about the agencies' management, deliberations, or results.
Department of Energy – D
One might expect to be invigorated by data feeds from the Energy Department, but these feeds provide shockingly little insight into the agency's operations. All six of its alleged "high-value" data feeds are bibliographic data about research studies and reports from scientific conferences. This information may give researchers somewhere a jolt, but it's an information black-out on data about the agency itself.
Department of Health and Human Services – C
By our reckoning, HHS needed a bit of a helping hand to make its "C" grade. One feed wasn't what the doctor ordered: a directory of all animal drug products that have been listed electronically since June 1, 2009. That data would tranquilize an elephant! (It may be helpful to Dr. Doolittle, of course, just not the government transparency effort.)
Edging close to high-value, but not enough for a full grade, was data on claims filed with HHS's Office of Minority Health (OMH). More data and better documentation of the data might have won this feed a full letter.
But along with the OMH claims data, what breathed life into HHS's data effort was the "Part B National Summary Data File." For all of Medicare Part B, the data describes allowed services, allowed charges, and payment amounts. That's important enough, and clear enough, that we classified it as "management" and scored one for HHS.
Department of Homeland Security – B
We agreed that two of DHS's three data sets were high value. Under the simple rule that money is management, we credited the data about supplementary FEMA grants for public structure repair and the data about FEMA grants for mitigation of future disasters because they included dollar figures. The list of all federally declared disasters is no doubt interesting, but not high-value for our purposes – a transparent agency.
Department of Housing and Urban Development – D
HUD was another agency producing interesting and relevant data – but not high-value for transparency purposes. Its data feeds include information about housing authorities and properties, as well as data about lawsuits, but not information about the management, deliberations, or results of the agency itself.
Department of Justice – D
Interesting data is not necessarily high-value, and the Department of Justice also falls into that trap. The data it provides about prison populations and prison employment might be good for researchers, but it's not so helpful to the people who want to understand how the Justice Department does its work.
Department of Labor – A
The Department of Labor really got to work and put out some helpful data! DoL's "Research and Evaluation Inventory" includes costs for various projects along with their current status. The Workforce Investment Act Net Impact Evaluation Dataset shows how programs created under this law affected employment – results! And the Project GATE (Growing America Through Entrepreneurship) Final Evaluation Dataset does the same.
This is great work by the Department of Labor to produce some truly revealing information.
Department of State – D
The State Department may have come up with some of the least helpful information of all agencies. Data about attendance at international exchange and training programs in East Asia and Eurasia is only slightly more helpful at exposing the workings of the agency than the dreary "Bibliographical Metadata of the Foreign Relations of the United States Series." That's right – a list of books. (Alas, we're being unkind. Someone loves these books, so we do too. But you'll forgive us if we don't read them just now, or look at the data about them ever again.)
Department of Interior – D
Interior has mastered the "interesting, not high-value" category. Its four data-releases reveal: counts of wild horses and burros in various areas; a list of government-designated recreation areas; data about wildland fires and acres burned from 1960 through 2008 (updated annually); and a list of ways to work for the government for free. Interesting … but no thanks.
Department of the Treasury – C
Tax Year 2007 County Income Data is not high-value. The latest quarterly report on bank derivatives activities is not high-value either.
But the Treasury Department's purchases, trades, or other dispositions of troubled assets in the TARP program (Targeted Investment Program) – that's high-value! With one true high-value data set, Treasury earns a "C."
Department of Transportation – D
Steering the public away from its own functions, the Transportation Department released feeds about tire safety, vehicle safety ratings, and child safety seats. This is good data to have, of course, but it doesn't drive openness about the department itself.
Department of Veterans Affairs – C
Data about Veterans Compensation and Pension by County doesn't make the cut as far as high-value, but we were willing to salute the release of data about "the factors that impact veterans' employability resulting from participation in the VR&E Program." This is in the "results" category – data that can reveal how, and how well, a program works. For producing this information, the Veterans Department gets a respectable "C."
Central Intelligence Agency – F
Secrecy has its place, but not when it comes to data about the operation of the CIA. With no data released, the CIA gets an "F."
Consumer Product Safety Commission – F
Our frustration at the lack of data from the CPSC had us gnashing our teeth – on lead-painted toys!
Environmental Protection Agency – D+
The EPA's data sets about new ways to test chemicals' toxicity levels and water quality measures for the Chesapeake Bay are great. But they're not our idea of high-value, which is data that goes to agencies' management, deliberations, and results. We give the agency a little credit for TRI-CHIP, the Toxics Release Inventory Chemical Hazard Information Profile dataset, just because it's so important. But overall we didn't get a look into the agency from its data.
Executive Office of the President – A
With the president's focus on transparency, the EOP had better get this right! And it did. We agree that five out of six of its data sets are high-value.
A crosscut of data about budget authority for global change research activities reveals what is going on across the government on this issue. A similar set of data goes to nanotechnology work across agencies. Same with research and development budget in the area of networking and information technology across agencies for FY09 and FY10.
We even like the "improper payments" data. Hate the sin, love the sinner; don't blame it on the messenger – pick your trite saying: We like to see this data, even if the underlying substance is regrettable.
The stinker in the bunch is no stinker at all, by the way. It's historical data on economic forecasts. But that doesn't provide insight into today's EOP.
Overall, a clear "A" for the Executive Office of the President. More than three data feeds that are indeed high-value.
Export-Import Bank of the United States – D+
The user ratings that others gave to the Ex-Im bank raised their grade over a flat D. At least someone likes this data. But it's so poorly documented that we couldn't tell whether the data sets are high value or not. You read this and tell us what it means:
This file contains the small business authorizations recorded during FY 2010 up to the last month closed in the Bank's financial and administrative systems.
OK. Authorizing who…? To do what…? Give us something we can work with Ex-Im Bank! Your data isn't going to sell itself!
Federal Bureau of Investigation – F
Our investigation turned up no data. We're throwing the FBI in the transparency slammer.
Federal Communication Commission – F
Failing to release data is pretty uncommunicative, don't you think?
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – F
No data? No credit. Do not pass go. Do not insure $200.
Federal Election Commission – F
Does it take an election campaign to get data out of you?
Federal Reserve Board – D
The Fed issued two feeds: 2008 home mortgage loan application register data, and 2008 data on small business, small farm, and community development lending. Sorry – no and no.
Federal Trade Commission – F
We think that running an agency without data transparency is an unfair and decptive trade practice.
General Services Administration – A
The agency that's central processing for management of government should get this right, and GSA did. We agree that five of GSA's seven feeds are high-value.
The cash and payment management data gets credit, especially under the general rule that money is management. We were interested to see three different data feeds dealing with federal advisory committees. The membership of these committees help guide agencies' policymaking, so we credit these as being data about "deliberation." The dataset that "represents time taken to hire a GSA employee," well, we're not sure about that – maybe management.
The catalog of federal domestic assistance is good to have out there, and the list of federal government contractors too. But those don't get right at management, deliberation, or results. Those duds notwithstanding, GSA has three high-value data feeds and gets an "A."
Merit Systems Protection Board – B
Credit goes to the MSPB for its data feeds on petitions for review received, decided, and pending by month at MSPB headquarters. Same for data on initial appeals received, decided, and pending by month for its regional and field offices. These are both management data if we ever saw it.
But we found meritless (for our purposes, anyway) the data store of 2007 survey responses summarizing the existence of positive performance management practices and employee engagement scores. Whatever that is doesn't seem like the stuff we want to learn from the MSPB.
You know you can count on NASA for cool data, but cool does not necessarily mean high-value. Its contributions – data about nighttime surface temperatures on earth, images of earth, and estimates of the horizontal near-surface currents of the Tropical Pacific ocean – don't open up the true final frontier: NASA's inner workings.
National Archives and Records Administration – D
NARA produced some important – if mind-numbing – data, none of which unfortunately deserves credit as high-value. XML versions of the Code of Federal Regulations are neat, but that's no insight into NARA. The Archival Research Catalog data set is an important record of what NARA has produced, but it's not about the workings of the agency.
The Organization Authority Files data set contains a highly detailed presentation of the evolution of names and administrative histories of Federal and non-Federal organizations. That's catnip for a researcher into federal administrative history. It's valium for those of us seeking after open government.
National Science Foundation – C
The NSF – funder of so much data collection – comes up pretty anemic when the question is data about itself. Generously, we've given it credit for data about FOIA requests: received processed, response times, and so on.
Its data feeds naming fellowship award recipients and revealing grant funding rates don't do enough to show the public how the agency works. For the one decent feed, though, NSF garners itself a "C."
National Transportation Safety Board – D
The NTSB is really good at collecting and disseminating transportation safety information, but what about NTSB-focused information? Not so good. Perhaps it's an excess of modesty, but the NTSB's 12 self-identified high-value data sets don't meet our criteria even once.
NTSB's data is all about the accident statistics, which is no surprise because the agency has so much of that data near at hand. We want to see what's in its head and its heart, though, with data reflecting the agency's management, deliberation, and results. From that perspective, this data was a wreck.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission – C+
The NRC's one data feed is a thing of beauty: a list of contracts for greater than $100,000, their purposes, suppliers, dollar amounts, effective dates, NRC identifying number, and award types. That's just the kind of information that can help one see how the agency is run.
Now if they could just find two more like that…
Overseas Private Investment Corporation – C
OPIC provided two data sets about greenhouse gas emissions attributable to projects the agency is committed to. That's neither here nor there when it comes to core tranparency, though it might be all there for someone researching the environmental impacts of OPIC.
We did credit OPICs data about the net impact on the economic and social development of OPIC projects' host countries.
Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation – B
The PBGC produced some pretty good data. One spreadsheet contains a list of multiemployer plans receiving financial assistance payments from the PBGC from the period 2005 through 2009. That's management. Key financial data from PBGC's financial statements for the periods ending September 30, 1992 through September 30, 2009? Remember the rule: money is managment.
The one that we couldn't see clear to credit was list of all single-employer defined-benefit pension plans trusteed by the PBGC since its creation in 1974. That's data about the agency that could be useful for oversight, but it's too far back into history rather than the present-day functioning of the agency. All in all, though, a respectable "B" for the PBGC.
Railroad Retirement Board – D
The RRB produced statistical data about railroad workers, retirees, and annuitants, but nothing that gives us insights about the agency, so nothing we would call high-value.
Securities and Exchange Commission – F
Shares of this agency's stock are falling.
Small Business Administration – D
Useful data, maybe. But the SBA didn't manage to produce any data about itself. One data set is a collection of federal, state and local licenses, permits and registrations small businesses need to operate. (Can we say we'd like that list to be shorter?) Another data set is a collection of links to federal, state, and local financial assistance programs for small businesses. That's fine data, but not high-value. Finally, there's a "mashup" of URLs for city and county web sites and city and county location data. Cool data, but not valuable in terms of what we're looking for.
Social Security Administration – A
SSA declared a whopping 14 of its data sets to be high-value. In among that, there had to be three high-value data sets, and there were.
Like SSA's disability claim acceptance rates, for example. That's good management data. Same with data on hearings before administrative law judges and their dispositions. Workload indicators for each hearing office in the Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (i.e., pending, receipts, dispositions and average processing time) – it seems mind-numbingly boring, but it's also management data that we'll treat here as high-value.
Kudos to SSA for getting the data out.
U.S. Agency for International Development – B
We really liked USAID's database containing funding levels of U.S. Trade Capacity Building (TCB) activities designed to promote economic growth through international trade. With that data set, USAID is "TCB" in a different sense – takin' care of business. We also credited statistics about U.S. official development assistance detailing it by country and implementing agency.
We couldn't credit the data set containing U.S. economic and military assistance by country from 1946 to present. Historical data, good. But unless it shows how an agency or program produced results, it's not our idea of "high-value."
Solid job by USAID, though, and a "B."
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – D
The EEOC might want to put an ad in the paper looking for a database administrator. Its one feed doesn't cut it as high-value for our purposes. Statistics on employment by race, occupation, gender, state and job category are good to have around, but they don't let us see how the EEOC does its work.


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Apple blogger Jim Dalrymple of The Loop recently posted an email from a reader regarding the whole Apple Maps debacle and the release of Google Maps on iPhone.
The headline Dalrymple used was, "Apple pulls one over Google" and the email he posted implies that it was Apple's plan all along to make Apple Maps a horrible experience to force Google to make a better mapping application for the iPhone.
(A little background: One of the reasons Apple ditched Google Maps was because Google wouldn't agree to provide advanced data like turn-by-turn navigation. So Apple was forced to ditch Google to come up with its own solution. That solution stank.)
Anyway, that is some twisted, bizarre spin.
Apple screwed up. Tim Cook even apologized for screwing up. Apple lost this round to Google. Period.
Dalrymple would probably argue that his intention in publishing the email was to show "users win."
Yes, users did win in the end, but not in the way Apple planned.


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My client's truck tried to kill him the day he got it. Here's how it went down: he test drove it, negotiated a price and signed some papers. When he took delivery the next day, it was a little colder than it had been the day before. He pulled off the lot and headed down the road. As the engine warmed, he turned on the defroster and hit the fan. A split second later he felt a sharp pain in his eye. He pulled onto a side street and put the truck in park, realizing instantly that something sharp had just come from the defroster duct and poked him in the eye. It was still there. He called 911 on his cellphone and asked for an ambulance. While he waited he called the dealer and told them to come get their truck; he didn't want it anymore. He did not use the magic words but he was "revoking" his "acceptance" of "non-conforming goods".
Everyone has a vague notion defective products can be returned to the seller. But it is not always the case that you can do it so easily, especially with an automobile. The example above is good because it has egregious facts. But first, let's take a quick look at the law. Most of the states in the US have adopted the Uniform Commercial Code which governs the sale of goods. When a buyer accepts goods which turn out to be defective, he may have the right to revoke his acceptance if the goods are defective and the defect is such that it was not apparent at the time of delivery. Most states have adopted the language (below) verbatim. For our purposes, "nonconformity" = "defect".
The buyer may revoke his acceptance of a lot or commercial unit whose nonconformity substantially impairs its value to him if he has accepted it [ ] without discovery of such nonconformity if his acceptance was reasonably induced [ ] by the difficulty of discovery before acceptance.
While this definition looks simple, there is a lot of nuance in there. What sort of nonconformity is necessary for you to revoke? The law says it must be one which substantially impairs the value of the goods to the buyer. What is substantial? We could chase these definitions in circles all day (depends on what your definition of "is" is) but let's get back to my client by the side of the road.
What is the defect in his vehicle? It shoots shards of glass into the eyes of the driver as it is being used for its normal purpose. Did the defect substantially impair the value of the vehicle to him? I dunno. Ever try to drive while you have a shard of glass jabbed into your eyeball? I haven't but my client said it was an issue. I believed him.
I had another client who had the steering wheel fall off in his lap as he was driving along the freeway. Substantial? How about if your car was delivered with no spare tire? I kid you not - the Michigan Supreme Court said, Sure - Why not?!
The law also requires that you revoke as soon as you discover (or should have discovered) the defect and before any substantial change in the goods occurs. In other words, stop using the goods and revoke quickly.
In the case of the truck, the dealer offered to clean the defroster ducts at no charge but refused to refund my client's money. No thanks. We filed suit. Notice that his was not a lemon law suit . It hadn't been out of service enough days or enough times to qualify. This was a simple revocation case. We sued the dealer and also sued the manufacturer under the Magnuson Moss Warranty Act (in case the broken glass was the result of a manufacturer's defect) and something funny happened. The manufacturer and the dealer began fighting with each other.
If your opponents want to fight amongst themselves, let them. I later found out what they were fighting about. The glass in my client's eye (which had been removed later that day at the hospital) was in the defroster duct because the driver's door window had been smashed as the truck was offloaded from a car hauler. Glass got all over the dash and some fell down the ducts. The dealer seemed to think the manufacturer was on the hook for that and the manufacturer thought the dealer should pay. I don't know exact details. I would have asked what role the car hauler played but the case didn't last long enough for me to volunteer that thought.
They took my client's deposition and heard him tell his story under oath. When he was done, the manufacturer's attorney told me the revocation would be honored and my client's purchase price would be refunded. I got the impression that they weren't done with the dealer yet but it wasn't my concern if those two wanted to keep fighting. My client had been made whole. And his eye was fine.
Some of you may recall a recent piece about how dealers can legally sell vehicles without disclosing their history of broken window glass and other things. The Michigan version of that law was passed AFTER I handled this case.It wouldn't have prevented the result in this case (the law says you cannot revoke simply because of undisclosed damage and repair). I merely point it since these stories all seem to tie-in with one another.
So, if you buy a product that is massively defective and you find that out after you take delivery, you may be able to return it. Depends on how defective it is and how quickly you return it. Many sellers won't just agree to the return however so I strongly urge you to consult with an attorney in your state before doing this on a big ticket item. And here's a little hint: Many attorneys will talk to potential clients for a free initial consultation and you can run this by them for free. It's usually a straight forward question. I know I answer this one all the time for people I've never met before. If it ends up being litigated, that's another matter altogether. Cross that bridge when you get to it, if you're not by the side of the road with a piece of glass stuck in your eye.
Steve Lehto has been practicing consumer protection and lemon law for 23 years in Michigan. He taught Consumer Protection at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law for ten years and wrote The Lemon Law Bible. He also wrote Chrysler's Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation and The Great American Jet Pack: The Quest for the Ultimate Individual Lift Device both published by Chicago Review Press. Follow him on Twitter before your friends do. Twitter: @stevelehto


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Forget the cake. James Taylor spent his birthday playing in an all-star football game in an NFL stadium.
GASTONIA � Forget the cake. James Taylor spent his birthday playing in an all-star football game in an NFL stadium.
The Highland Tech senior started at center for the South, which won the Blue-Grey National All-Star Classic 36-18 Saturday at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Fla.
�It was pretty cool getting to play in this game on my 18th birthday and just getting to go down there and play with a bunch of national all-stars,� Taylor said. �The talent down there was ridiculous.�
Watch a reply of the game here.
Taylor and his 48 South teammates wore grey uniforms. One of four players to represent North Carolina in the game, Taylor joined Concord wide receiver Alex Asbury, Mayodan McMichael wide receiver Dakota Hopper and West Henderson linebacker Jon Musser.
�We had two days of practice and it was amazing to see a group of new guys like that jell together because we only had maybe five hours of practice together and one walk-through Saturday morning,� Taylor said.
The Taylor fan club in attendance numbered 22, including 11 family members who live in Florida.
Taylor said his 6-foot, 285-pound size made him the smallest lineman there. He still managed to earn a starting role and thereafter rotated each possession with the other center, Derick Spargo of Idalou, Texas.
The head coach for Taylor�s team was Larry Ryans, a former Clemson wide receiver who had a brief NFL career. Ryans now operates an athletic training facility in Greenwood, S.C., Taylor said.
Matt Grothe Sr., father of recent South Florida quarterback Matt Grothe, doubled as offensive coordinator and line coach for the South. Perhaps the most recognizable name on the South coaching staff was wide receivers coach Ricky Proehl, the former Wake Forest and Carolina Panthers receiver.
Taylor found it tough standing on the sideline while the defense took the field. After all, he�s accustomed to playing every snap for a Highland Tech program that has always experienced low participation. Taylor started four years on the offensive and defensive fronts for Highland Tech and also handled long-snapping duties. The center position, however, was new to Taylor this past season.
Taylor�s performance in the Blue-Grey National Super Combine at the New England Patriots� training complex in June earned him the spot in the game. The selection committee whittled an initial pool of 4,600 prospects down to 200 super combine participants before choosing the final rosters.
�The coaching staff was excellent down there,� Taylor said. �They just told you what to do, told you what was wrong, helped you with your technique. They�re just there to help us get ready for the next level and how to be a leader.�
Taylor hopes the all-star game will help him earn a spot on a college roster. He�s scheduled to work out at Limestone on Monday and he visited Wingate during football season. If he doesn�t receive an offer, he plans to attempt to walk on at Wingate.
His experience in Florida can only help.
�I just want to thank all my previous coaches that they gave me the skill set to be able to do this and most importantly thank God that he gave me the ability to play at a high level like this,� Taylor said. �I hope I can continue to play at the next level.�
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