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BMI Consulting needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 12 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
Bariatric & Metabolic Intelligence (BMI)
We are a full service business consulting firm that specializes in bariatric surgery and metabolic medicine. Our biggest strength is our success in helping surgeons and hospitals increase their patient volumes while enhancing the quality of care they provide to patients. While we are a very creative company ahead of the curve in our industry, we are also very professional and traditional as are our clients.
We are targeting weight loss surgeons and Hospital executives (i.e. CEO, COO, CNursingO) Our customers are both clinical and business savvy. Surgeons are focused on clinical care but their most common complaint is that marketing is insufficient when, in reality, their internal processes and staffing are inadequate. Hospital executives are more business focused and concerned about the bottom line dollar and will do what it takes to get more patients to surgery.
Below are links to a couple of sites for inspiration. One we like the overall look and feel. The other has some flash animation of their logo which is very nice. This goal of this site is to be very professional and business oriented. Extreme colors will not work. We need imagery that incorporates business results, healthy weight loss (not skinny women, scales and tape measures) overall healthcare (hospitals, healthcare professionals) with an overall professional tone. Please be creative with layout, navigation, etc. If you have questions - please do not hesitate to just post something and ask - we will respond. Ensure our logo is incorporated into the design. I believe the attached has a transparent background. If you need any other version of the file, just let me know. Please also incorporate our slogan "Business Excellence for Clinical Experts" I need a homepage and interior layout design.
Nice web design example: http://www.advancedsurgicalnj.com/
Nice flash animation with a play on the logo: http://www.foundationsurgery.com/
Also - below is the outline of my link structure. The main bullets will need a link from the homepage:
o Services
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Memory analysis
Memory Analysis is the science of using a memory image to determine information about running programs, the operating system, and the overall state of a computer. Because the analysis is highly dependent on the operating system, it has been divded into the following pages:
OS-Independent Analysis
At the IEEE Security and Privacy conference in May 2011, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt presented a novel system, Virtuoso, that was able to perform operating-system independent memory analysis. Using virtual machine introspection accompanied by a number of formal program analysis techniques, his system was able to monitor the machine-level instructions and behavior of application actions (listing processes, network connections, etc) and then automatically generate Volatility plugins that replicated this analysis.
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Various types of encryption keys can be extracted during memory analysis. You can use AESKeyFinder to extract 128-bit and 256-bit AES keys and RSAKeyFinder to extract all private and public RSA keys from a memory dump [1].
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Spey Valley Brewery has some vegan options
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"Just wanted to let you know of my brewery, The Spey Valley Brewerys and our beer Spey Stout which uses no finings. I make very small batches of beer, just 18gallons at a time, but am hoping to produce a larger batch in a bigger brewery soon. I intend to bottle this batch so wanted to include it on your website to let anyone interested in trying it know that it is vegan friendly. The brewery is too small at this stage to have any kind of certification, but as I am the brewer I can assure you that nothing other than the malt, hops, yeast and water are used in the brewing process. Carageenan, PVPP and silica hydrogel may be used in the bottling process as they filter the beer prior to bottling, but they are vegan friendly processing aids and I will be speaking to the bottlers to see if they'd be happy to bottle without any fining.
The other beers from the brewery are not available in bottles yet and do use isinglass finings at the moment, but I am still working on getting the appropriate clarity using bentonite. I'll be sure to let you know when those become available.
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Suppose you've always wanted to start exercising, but you've procrastinated for awhile, a very, very long while. In fact, you are a comfortably sedentary 85 years old now, and it seems like it's too late to do any good. Well, according to new research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, it's never too late.
If they get moving, even people approaching their ninth decade can lengthen their lives and maintain their independence. All it takes is four hours a week of gentle activity such as walking.
Dr. Jeremy Jacobs of Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem and his colleagues studied nearly 2,000 seniors from 77 to 88 years old, dividing them into an active group (those who exercised at least four hours a week), and a sedentary group. Over a period of 18 years, the active group, they found, just lived longer.
Among active 70-year-olds, only 15 percent of active people died over the next eight years, compared to 27 percent of sedentary people. Among 78-year-olds, only 26 percent of active people died over the next eight years, compared to 41 percent of sedentary people. And among 85-year-olds, only seven percent of active people died over the next three years, compared to 24 percent of sedentary people. And these differences remained significant even after the researchers corrected for other influences on longevity, including health and risk factors.
The active group not only lived longer-they also lived better. Those who were active when they were 78 were nearly twice as likely to be still independently caring for themselves when they reached 85.
Obviously, it's critical to set up any new exercise program, no matter how gentle, in collaboration with your physician, and to take precautions appropriate to your age and state of health. But it's good to know that it's never too late. And, as Dr. Jacobs noted in an email to Reuters Health, walking in particular has psychosocial health benefits as well. "In addition to the physical benefits," he said, "The act of getting outside daily, meeting people, interacting with the outside world, and changing seasons are all ingredients of successful aging."


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by Emily Mouyeos*
I think it's safe to say that social media can no longer be ignored. B.L. Ochman of BusinessWeek even said, "Resistance to social media is futile." Like with most trends, some individuals were quick to jump on board while others needed and still need coaxing. Last week, I attended PRSA-NY's "How to Develop Your Social Media Policy" seminar and the attendees were all across the spectrum in developing their policies. It was quickly described as a "time of therapy" for those who have already been through the ringer. Alayna Francis from Swiss Re and Taylor Morris from the American Heart Association served as panelist to walk attendees through their experience in creating a policy.
Here are my takeaways as to why it's important to have a social media policy:
Encourage consistent messaging and accountability: When creating your social media policy you should determine who is in charge. Who will serve as the gatekeeper? This is extremely important for companies or organizations that have several departments or chapters. Because it only takes seconds to start a Facebook page, the policy should validate whether or not starting that Facebook page will be worth the effort in the end. Without taking this necessary time to make sure the social media presence aligns with your overall objectives and strategy, your company can quickly find itself having a split personality. Here at BurrellesLuce our social media policy is created and enforced by the Marketing team. Input is gathered from appropriate company officials and updated as needed.
Evaluate effectiveness: As communication professionals, we can all agree that more is not always better. As if measuring traditional forms of media wasn't hard enough, we now have to qualify our efforts with the monster we know as social media. Quality is key. Especially since social media is built around community and networks. Your social media policy should help determine if your efforts are helping meet and exceed your objectives and goals. Check out some company's who have already reported ROI with their social media engagement.
Determine Personal vs. Professional: During the seminar, I wanted the moderator, Steve Hasley of Gibbs & Soell Public Relations, to distinguish between internal and external social media policies. I quickly realized that wasn't going to happen. Unlike in the past, the line is blurred with social media. I would never use my personal email address book to send out my company's press release or a media directories service to send out my wedding announcement. However, I have used my personal Twitter account to announce my professional blog posts. In return, my personal tweets have diminished tremendously because I recognize that I'm a brand ambassador for my company. I am, like many other PR and marketing professionals, having a hard time figuring out how to balance the personal and professional when it comes to social media. A social media policy can help your employees walk this fine line.
If you'd like to see some additional social media policies, this post from Mashable.com features several examples.
How has creating a social media policy benefited your communication and marketing efforts? Any hiccups? Is there something you wish you would have considered before creating your policy? How often do you update your policy? Who is involved in enforcing it? If you haven't created a social media policy, what is your hesitation?
*Bio: Emily Mouyeos joined the BurrellesLuce account management team with a background in nonprofit communication and development. Her background and current experience with BurrellesLuce allows her to effectively address client needs and consolidate feedback for senior management. To Emily, nothing feels better than helping others achieve their goal, whether it's professionally or personally. By focusing on client management through the Fresh Ideas blog, she hopes to evaluate new client management trends, as well as provide insight to the pros and cons of current practices. She looks forward to connecting with the readers of Fresh Ideas for new perspectives and dialogue on issues that affect overall success. LinkedIn: Emily Mouyeos Twitter: @BurrellesLuce Facebook: BurrellesLuce


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Amtrak Capitol Corridor To Run Bike Share Program?
While riding the Amtrak Capitol Corridor train again today I found a card advertising a survey (pictured at right). I've been riding the Capitol Corridor trains for years, and I had some time to kill on my one hour 50 minute trip, so I figured "why not." I was a bit surprised, however, when I found out that the grand prize in a drawing of those that take the survey is a Brompton M3L folding bike. Seemed a little bit of an odd give-a-way item, and raised my interest even further.
Once I started taking the survey I found out why that bike was associated with this survey. Seems Amtrak is considering running a rental-bike program.
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New comics, new websites, new projects…2013 is a big year and there's lots to do.
the plan is still for Table Titans to launch on January 28th. That's not terribly far away, but if you're interested in taking a small peek at what I've got going on in my sketchbook, I highly recommend you sign up for both our facebook page, and our newsletter. I will be posting stuff there very soon.
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Life Science: Session 6
Classifying Reptiles
What is a reptile?
In the video, Dr. Jim Hanken shared part of the collection of reptiles stored at the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) at Harvard University. The specimens he showed us are part of a vast collection of reptiles and amphibians, the study of which is called herpetology, from the Greek word "herpeton," meaning "creeping thing." Historically, reptiles and amphibians have been grouped together. Fossil and other evidence conclusively shows that reptiles evolved from an amphibian-like ancestor. However, the features that distinguish reptiles from amphibians show that they are very different. These features reflect a transition from an aquatic life to life on land.
How are reptiles classified?
Reptiles are part of the domain Eukarya, which includes all organisms that have cells with a nucleus. They are included in the kingdom Animalia, with other organisms that are multicellular, ingest food, and have cells that lack cell walls. Further classification places them in the phylum Chordata. Chordates have a nerve cord running along the lengths of their backs (e.g., our spinal cord). As chordates with backbones, they are placed in the subphylum Vertebrata. Reptiles form the class Reptilia.
There are four existing orders of reptiles, including turtles, crocodiles and alligators, lizards and snakes, and tuataras. Dr. Hanken focused on comparisons between members in the class that includes lizards and snakes, showing evidence that snakes evolved from lizards. Recent advances in classification methods have determined that birds arose from a group of dinosaurs — as a result, they will likely be re-classified as an order within the reptiles.
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|Turtles. 250+ species. Body encased in shell made of bone with backbone fused to shell; sharp, horny jaw without teeth; land turtles (tortoises) and sea turtles.
|Crocodiles, alligators, and gharials. 22 species. Four-chambered heart (other reptiles have three-chambered hearts); extended jaw with teeth in sockets; five digits on forelimbs and four on hindlimbs.
|Lizards (Suborder Sauria) and snakes (Suborder Serpentes). 3,750+ species and 3,000+ species respectively. Skin with horny scales that is periodically shed; teeth in sockets; lizards have five digits on fore- and hindlimbs; snakes are limbless; snakes have hinged jaws.
|Tuatara. 1 species. Wedge-like skull; socketless teeth; primitive eyes under skin of forehead. Sole survivor of ancient branch of reptiles.
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NEW YORK (AP) – Federal authorities announced a crackdown Tuesday on predatory businesses that cheat "desperate and vulnerable" people harmed by the 2008 financial crisis with phony promises to consolidate their debt.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara told a news conference that charges were brought against the owner and three employees of a New York company that cheated over 1,200 customers nationwide after opening its doors in 2009. They were indicted on charges of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, along with separate mail and wire fraud charges.
He said Mission Settlement Agency promised to help people harmed by the economic collapse for a $49 monthly fee but instead often made them worse as it made $2.2 million in fees from customers it did not help while taking in more than $6.6 million in fees in all.
"The true mission of Mission turned out to be fraud and deceit," he said. "And for more than a thousand consumers, the dream of debt relief turned into a nightmare of deeper debt trouble."
Bharara said the prosecution was the first to result from a case referred by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency was created under the 2010 financial law known as the Dodd-Frank Act. The agency is charged with reducing the risk of a credit bubble by helping to ensure that borrowers are better informed and loans are more likely to be repaid.
Richard Cordray, the bureau's director, said similar prosecutions would be brought in the future to protect the 30 million Americans who are chased by debt collectors.
Bharara promised the prosecution would not be the last against those taking advantage of people struggling financially.
"Our concern is that predatory practices pervade the industry," he said.
U.S. Postal Inspector in Charge Phil Bartlett said the men arrested in the case lived lavishly, buying homes, fancy cars and operating a Brooklyn nightclub with money received from victims he described as "both desperate and vulnerable."
Jeffrey Lichtman, a lawyer for the company's owner, Michael Levitis, said his client had cooperated with federal authorities since being approached in February.
He said Levitis, who was freed on $1 million bail, was victimized by "rogue employees who were acting like cowboys in a sense."
"He'd gotten wind there were rogue employees making ridiculous promises. Some even started their own debt settlement companies," Lichtman said.
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February 9, 2012
Dear Council Members:
I am pleased to report that in the first few months of NCTE's second century, we continue to make progress in our basic mission to promote "the use of language to construct personal and public worlds and to achieve full participation in society through the learning and teaching of English and the related arts and sciences of language." Building on the momentum of an exuberant and successful convention this past November in Chicago, one that attracted more than 6,800 attendees, the NCTE staff and Executive Committee have been furthering initiatives aimed to support classroom language arts teachers across the country and enable them to grow professionally and maximize their talent and artistry as practitioners who serve our nation's students. Specifically, we are proceeding in our efforts to launch the National Center for Literacy Education (NCLE) and to create our 2012 legislative platform (advocacy being one of our organization's stated core values). These moves, we believe, ultimately will strengthen teacher networks in productive ways and improve student learning.
In fact, as core standards are being implemented in schools across the country, the Council has a critical role to play in strengthening teacher networks. We stand opposed to any initiative or standards that would reduce educational opportunity or equity in our schools through top-down, one-size-fits-all implementation programs. In this respect, the Council is focusing its resources on supporting teachers and teams as they make their own professional decisions -- informed by reflection and research -- about how best to foster literacy learning. Our professional community is rising to this challenge and by sharing our knowledge and expertise, we can show that sustainable progress in literacy learning will be made when local educators have the freedom to collaborate and choose how best to approach critical instructional decisions.
Of course, I am aware that the course we are on as we negotiate admittedly rugged educational terrain is unsatisfying to some bloggers and commentators who would prefer that our organization expressly condemn, for example, policies such as the common core standards. We have never endorsed those standards; neither do we profit financially from them. And I should hardly have to add that any accusation that we implicitly embrace them because we have not publicly opposed them is an obvious either-or fallacy. What we have done is to focus on what we are best equipped to do: support teachers in their work environments and make reasonable arguments about education to the stakeholders who are willing to listen to us in good faith.
A recent polling of a random selection of NCTE members indicates that about twenty percent of our members are moderately pessimistic or pessimistic regarding how new standards will influence their teaching or their students' learning. By contrast, fifty-nine percent reported that they were moderately optimistic or optimistic about the potential influence of new standards. I do not offer these statistics to argue that one should be pessimistic, optimistic, or even neutral (twenty-one percent of the respondents). I offer them to remind us that our membership embodies various dispositions. Our leadership is not a collective of powerbrokers (I have generally felt more broke than powerbroker) who are trying to preserve a hegemonic bloc and suppress other viewpoints. Our leadership is a group that deliberates about the interests of NCTE and its diverse membership in the best traditions of dialogue and critique. These are the traditions that I have been a witness to and a participant in during the past two-and-a-half years as a guest and member of the Executive Committee. As your president, I certainly value such productive exchange and hope that it helps to keep us sharp in our activist thinking and wise in our actions.
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Morrigan Aensland vs. Lilith Aensland – Cosplay Clash
Morrigan keeps the streak alive as she defeats the half-vampire, Rayne. But will this succubus be strong enough to defeat Lilith, her own sister-self?
Vampy's Morrigan Aensland is the Darkstalker that can't be beat. She's very close to becoming the first inductee to the Arcade Sushi Cosplay Hall of Fame. But this next opponent might prove to be troublesome since she'll technically be facing off against herself.
Yukilefay is the next challenger, dressed up as Lilith Aensland. Lilith is the manifestation of Morrigan's power and is sort of seen like a sister to Morrigan. The two succubi are, in fact, the same person. Who will win this battle of the two halves?
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Jurors make abortion doc Kermit Gosnell wait for verdict in Philadelphia murder trial
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia abortion provider will spend another weekend in custody after a jury failed to reach a verdict in his murder case.
Dr. Kermit Gosnell is accused of killing four babies born alive. He's also charged in the 2009 overdose of a patient.
Watch Fox News' special 'See No Evil – The Kermit Gosnell Case,' hosted by Bret Baier, Friday May 3, 9 p.m. ET
Jurors deliberated for more than three days before leaving Friday without a verdict. They are to return Monday.
They must weigh hundreds of counts against the 72-year-old Gosnell, many of them allegations he performed illegal, third-trimester abortions.
Jurors asked questions Friday about the murder, racketeering and conspiracy charges.
Gosnell's lawyer insists there were no live births at the clinic.
His former employee and unlicensed doctor Eileen O'Neill of Phoenixville is also on trial, charged with fraudulently billing as a doctor. Eight other former employees have pleaded guilty.


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Amelia Gernand loves getting her students excited about history. She said they come to her class every day wanted to know what she is going to teach them.
"That shows me my students are invested in their education and they're excited to learn and that's the best thing to see," said Gernand.
Gernand teaches high school students history at the Detroit Institute of Technology.
She learned how to teach through The Rounds Project at University of Michigan.
Developed by The School of Education's Elizabeth Birr Moje and Robert Bain, The Rounds Project is a program modeled after how medical interns are trained to treat patients.
"Student interns do rounds through schools and through different classrooms for preparation for their student teaching semester," said Gernand.
Much like medical interns make rounds at hospitals, the teaching interns do rotations at three different middle and high schools working with "attending teachers." These are teachers carefully selected by the School of Education to work with their teaching interns.
"We decided that we would identify three attending teachers, three teachers in the field, who did the kinds of things that we were teaching in our courses," said Elizabeth Birr Moje, the associate dean for research and community engagement for the School of Education at the University of Michigan.
During each rotation the interns focus on a different teaching skill; which includes, selecting and using text, assessing students, planning lessons and teaching them.
Gernand is one of those attending teachers working with interns, but she herself went through the program.
"It was really beneficial to be able to observe a lot of different teachers and gain their best practices before I went into student teaching," said Gernand.
The teaching interns currently in Gernand's class agree with her there are benefits to this teaching program.
"It's just great to see all these different environments and how these teachers work," said Charles Inzucchi, a teaching intern from University of Michigan.
During the school rotations, the attending teachers are expected to intervene during a lesson if the intern makes a mistake, much like a doctor would intervene while a medial intern is treating a patient.
"They have had to learn to intervene without making the interns feel terrible but intervene in a way that models for them really great instruction, really great ways of working with students" said Birr Moje.
The Rounds Project began with social studies teaching interns, but has been expanded this year to include math and English language arts.
Birr Moje said they developed a handover system as part of The Rounds Project that helps the interns as they rotate in and out of classrooms.
"Just as a doctor or a nurse wouldn't leave a shift without making some notes, we don't want our students to leave the shift, the rotation without making some notes, without documenting what they've learned and passing that on" said Birr Moje. "The value of finding out who your students are, how the classroom works before you enter it, we think is quite powerful."
Birr Moje said faculty also adopted a system to hand over information about the interns as they move through the teaching program. She believes that's been one of the most important changes to the program.
"The way we're working together across all semesters of our program and all courses within a semester and trying to do a better job of connecting to the coursework," said Birr Moje.
Gernand appreciated that her program enabled her to observe different teachers so she could see different classroom management skills, teaching strategies and organizational skills.
"Because you're able to observe a lot of different teachers you can see a lot of different classroom management skills, organizational skills, teaching strategies, and so being able to observe a wide variety of professionals helps to give you that a lot of teacher education programs can't give you," said Gernand. "It's all about being an effective teacher. Simply knowing your content would never make you an effective teacher you need to know the practical skills for how to reach students."
As a product of The Rounds Project, Gernand appears to be making an impact.
"She has been one of the most exciting social studies teachers I've had so far," said Deequan Moore, a freshman at Detroit Institute of Art.
The University of Michigan would like to expand their program one day to offer support to teachers during the first few years of their career.
Birr Moje said students who have been through The Rounds Project find themselves wanting to teach in urban schools because they're exposed to it and they see a real opportunity to make a difference.
For more information on The Rounds Project, click here.
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This past weekend Towson beat Penn State 10-9. Yeah, Towson is on a run to make it to the tournament, but they also played for another purpose. Towson's lacrosse team's Academic Advisor is fighting breast cancer. She undergoes chemo this week.
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Excluding Servicemembers' Housing Allowances from Income Determinations Would Increase Eligibility, but Other Factors May Limit Program Use
GAO-06-784: Published: Jul 31, 2006. Publicly Released: Jul 31, 2006.
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Although the Department of Defense (DOD) pays active-duty servicemembers who do not live in military housing a Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) to help them afford private market residences, expected growth at some military installations has raised concerns about whether nearby communities will have enough affordable rental housing for incoming personnel. In response to a congressional mandate, GAO assessed (1) how excluding BAH would affect servicemembers' eligibility to apply for federal rental housing programs and (2) factors that could affect their use of the programs in selected communities gaining military personnel. GAO compared servicemembers' eligibility for the programs as of December 2005 by including and excluding BAH from income determinations and examined factors affecting potential program use near four growing military installations.
Excluding BAH from income determinations for federal rental housing programs would have substantially increased the percentage of servicemembers eligible to apply for the programs as of December 2005, assuming military pay was their only income. To be eligible to apply for rental assistance programs of the Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and Agriculture (USDA), or to live in units produced by the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, households must have incomes at or below a specific limit, generally 50 percent or 60 percent of the median household income for their area. At the 50 percent income limit, 20 percent of servicemembers who received BAH would have been eligible if BAH were excluded from income determinations, compared with 1 percent with BAH included. Most junior enlisted members would have been eligible if BAH were excluded, as would have small percentages of senior personnel. However, at all levels, many would not have been eligible if their households had even modest income from other sources. Agency and community officials cited factors that could limit the role of federal programs in building housing or helping servicemembers afford existing units near four installations that GAO examined. DOD officials said that servicemembers would be unlikely to need the programs because BAH payments provide for the median cost of market-rate housing. Some community officials said the tax-credit program, which spurs housing production, could be useful if more servicemembers qualified. But developers would have to compete for tax credits, and market factors--such as the financial feasibility of building units that junior enlisted members could afford--could limit their interest. The HUD and USDA programs might help some servicemembers rent existing units, but--because the programs are not entitlements--servicemembers could face lengthy waits, and eligible civilians might wait longer for assistance.
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Comments: Consistent with our Matter for Congressional Consideration, the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, enacted on July 30, 2008, included a provision excluding the military's basic allowance for housing from income determinations for a rental housing production program. Specifically, the provision states that the housing allowance should be disregarded for the purpose of determining the income of individuals and area median gross income for residential rental properties that receive tax-exempt multifamily housing bonds. The provision applies only to properties that would be located in counties that host or are adjacent to military installations whose number of active service members grew by at least 20 percent between December 31, 2005, and June 1, 2008.
Matter: If the primary intent of excluding Basic Allowance for Housing from income determinations for federal rental housing programs is to help increase the supply of rental housing that servicemembers with the lowest incomes could afford, Congress may wish to consider first applying such a change only to programs intended to stimulate production of such housing, such as Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and tax-exempt multifamily housing bonds.
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Dec 21, 2018
Troubled Asset Relief Program:Monitoring of the Hardest Hit Fund Program Could Be StrengthenedGAO-19-100: Published: Dec 21, 2018. Publicly Released: Dec 21, 2018.
Oct 30, 2018
Department of Housing and Urban Development:Better Guidance and Performance Measures Would Help Strengthen Enforcement EffortsGAO-19-38: Published: Oct 30, 2018. Publicly Released: Oct 30, 2018.
Sep 10, 2018
Rental Housing Assistance:Actions Needed to Improve Oversight of Criminal History Policies and Implementation of the Fugitive Felon InitiativeGAO-18-429: Published: Aug 9, 2018. Publicly Released: Sep 10, 2018.
Jun 26, 2018
Lead Paint in Housing:HUD Should Strengthen Compliance Monitoring and Performance Assessment in its Rental Assistance ProgramsGAO-18-650T: Published: Jun 26, 2018. Publicly Released: Jun 26, 2018.
Jun 19, 2018
Lead Paint in Housing:HUD Should Strengthen Grant Processes, Compliance Monitoring, and Performance AssessmentGAO-18-394: Published: Jun 19, 2018. Publicly Released: Jun 19, 2018.
May 17, 2018
Rural Housing Service:Better Data Controls, Planning, and Additional Options Could Help Preserve Affordable Rental UnitsGAO-18-285: Published: May 17, 2018. Publicly Released: May 17, 2018.
Apr 26, 2018
Older Adult Housing:Future Collaborations on Housing and Health Services Should Include Relevant Agencies and Define OutcomesGAO-18-232: Published: Apr 26, 2018. Publicly Released: Apr 26, 2018.
Apr 24, 2018
Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation:Executive Branch and Legislative Action Needed for Closure and Transfer of ActivitiesGAO-18-266: Published: Apr 24, 2018. Publicly Released: Apr 24, 2018.
Apr 17, 2018
Substance Use Disorder:Information on Recovery Housing Prevalence, Selected States' Oversight, and FundingGAO-18-315: Published: Mar 22, 2018. Publicly Released: Apr 17, 2018.
Mar 22, 2018
Rental Assistance Demonstration:HUD Needs to Take Action to Improve Metrics and Ongoing OversightGAO-18-123: Published: Feb 20, 2018. Publicly Released: Mar 22, 2018.
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Artist Profile: Claire Reid, Tattoo Nomad
Claire Reid is a nomad. She travels across continents painting and tattooing eager collectors. Her style speaks of a quixotic existence, a jumbling of colors and shapes that betray stylistic definition. Her forms are fluid and organic. Personally, her look is bohemian, hippie, drum circle chic with the most elaborate body markings. She is her own chief.
I met her quite by accident or at least by the divine design of one who wants us to believe in accidents. Researching another article for this site, I was looking at pictures of full chest pieces. Twice, on different days, I came across Claire's work. It is unusual that I would notice a name or any text while staring at a beautiful piece of art. But I did. Then I looked further, reviewing her online portfolio, and found images of tattoos given around the world. I wanted a piece. More so, I wanted to be part of this motion around and forward. I wanted to be on that globe. I forgot the other article. I wrote to Claire.
This was the first time that I was searching for work simply for the sake of having the artist do it. If there are rites of passage in tattooing, this was one.
She wrote back. It was more than a month later. She was in New York, somewhat secretly, and would have time to work on a piece. The timing was terrible. I have no money. Nomads don't need to pay rent, but I do. Nevertheless, I found a way. I made the choice of spiritual and artistic creation over immediate, more corporal needs. So, I stepped deeply into the murk.
I meet Claire at Tribulation Tattoo in the East Village, NYC. The warlocks and gremlins that hang the upside down crucifix in its window (right across from a church, no less) mock her hippie style.
The tattoo we chose (and I say we because Claire was an active and helpful partner in the design and conception process) was of two tarot cards: The Magician and The Fool.
The Fool, always pictured walking off a cliff, is the risk-taker--his next step always across some great divide. Alone, he is nothing more than his namesake. But when paired with the powerful and potent Magician--the giver of spells, sorcery and sanctity--The Fool is transformed. His risks are rewarded, his dares desirable.
That is the point where I find myself. I am leaping and believe that there is a force to plant a field beneath my feet when I return to ground. We begin an 8-hour-plus session on my leg. She tattoos and listens. She understands The Fool.
After The Fool, she starts working on The Magician, but after these past eight hours, she must leave soon. We've gotten the face of The Magician down, transformed by her alchemy into a Rembrandt painting and The Fool card, altered so that he is walking out of the card, constantly in motion.
We start making plans for its completion and further expansion. When I see Claire next year, we will add a stained glass window on the back of the leg and then begin working below the knee. The design will go down to the feet--down to the apex of movement, down where The Fool--and this tattoo nomad--push the globe forward again.
Claire still has available appointments during her guest stay at Tribulation Tattoo until this Saturday, April 24th. You can contact the studio at 212-539-1953.
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A U.S. Grains Council shipment of 44 metric tons of distiller's dried grains with solubles to Algeria in January represents the first imports of U.S. DDGS by the country.
The DDGS will be used in feeding trials scheduled to begin in February or March.
The recipient of the DDGS, ECI Boudiab, is the largest feed grain importing company in Algeria.
For over a year, the Council has been in discussions with ECI Boudiab regarding the set up of DDGS feeding trials in Algeria.
"Government officials are unfamiliar with corn co-products such as DDGS or corn gluten feed," said Kurt Shultz, USGC director of Mediterranean and Africa.
"Currently the import duty on corn is 2.5 percent while the duty on DDGS is 30 percent.
"The Council will also use these trials to educate end users about DDGS and its use in poultry and ruminant feeds and work with the government to reduce the duty and open the doors for future imports," he said.
The Council projects that Algeria could easily import 100 to 200 tons of DDGS annually, once the industry becomes comfortable with the product. The Council's strategy in the North African region is to promote co-products such as DDGS and corn gluten feed in addition to U.S. sorghum and corn.
Shultz said that once importers become familiar with multiple feed ingredients in their rations, U.S. exporters will benefit because the United States is the only country exporting multiple products such as corn, DDGS and sorghum in one vessel.
Currently Algeria imports 2.2 million to 2.4 million tons (86.6 million to 94.2 million bushels) of corn annually with a U.S. market share of 50 percent to 60 percent.


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'Horrible choices' for US next move in Iraq
The fall of Mosul and Tikrit to Sunni Islamist forces led by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has once again put the ongoing unrest in Iraq - and the consequences of the US invasion and subsequent withdrawal from the country - back into the headlines.
While there's been plenty of hand-wringing and finger-pointing - President Barack Obama is to blame, no he's not, George W Bush is at fault - constructive suggestions about where the US can go from here are much scarcer.
While most commentators agree that something has to be done, opinions diverge as to the next step for US policymakers.
It's time for the US to get more involved, writes Washington Institute for Near East Policy fellow Michael Knights.
"With ISIS forces capturing city after city, Washington has to do more (and quickly) to prevent the loss of government in Iraq," he argues in Foreign Policy magazine. "Intensified US on-the-ground mentoring of Iraqi military headquarters and perhaps US air strikes might also be needed to reverse the collapse of Iraq's military."
While Mr Obama may feel bound by his campaign promise to end the war in Iraq, he writes, circumstances dictate a change of policy.
"The Middle East could see the collapse of state stability in a cross-sectarian, multiethnic country of 35 million people that borders many of the region's most important states and is the world's fastest-growing oil exporter," he writes. "Any other country with the same importance and the same grievous challenges would get more US support."
He concludes: "Washington doesn't have the luxury of treating Iraq as a special case anymore."
The editors of Bloomberg View caution that this week's developments expose the "real possibility" that Iraq could be disintegrating, "with transnational badlands under ISIS's control that serve as a base for the training and radicalisation of foreign volunteers".
US "personnel and equipment" are engaging militants in Nigeria and Somalia, they note. "US interests in Iraq are worth at least as much of a commitment."
In the New York Times, Harvard Kennedy School fellow Nussaibah Younis agrees that the US must provide military aid to defend Baghdad and help Iraqi forces retake Mosul.
In the long term, however, he says that won't be enough. In order to undermine the growing Iraqi insurgency, the US must urge Iraq to address the underlying political grievances of the rebelling Sunni minority. "An influx of American weapons will only add fuel to the fire consuming the country," he writes.
The US must urge Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki from pushing for dictatorial emergency powers, and instead institute reforms to incorporate Sunnis into the government. In addition, Iraqi counter-insurgency efforts should be sensitive to the Sunni civilian population.
"If the Iraqi Army sends Shiite militant groups or Kurdish forces to the heart of Sunni-dominated Mosul, or if it carpet-bombs the city and arbitrarily arrests or kills groups," he writes, "it will alienate the hearts and minds essential to winning this battle."
Charlie Cooper of the think tank Quilliam agrees that Mr Maliki needs to "challenge the jihadists ideologically" by reaching out to Sunnis.
"This is the well from which most ISIS fighters are drawn," he says. "Taking a purely heavy-handed approach will just feed into the jihadist propaganda."
If the New Yorker's Dexter Filkins take on Mr Maliki is accurate, however, the Iraqi president may be unwilling to budge.
"Maliki is a militant sectarian to the core," he writes. The US was able to restrain the prime minister's more dangerous tendencies when its military was on the ground there, but that has all changed.
"Time and again, American commanders have told me, they stepped in front of Maliki to stop him from acting brutally and arbitrarily toward Iraq's Sunni minority," he writes. "Then the Americans left, removing the last restraints on Maliki's sectarian and authoritarian tendencies."
This is why, Filkins says, it was important for the US to have kept some military on the ground in Iraq - a view echoed by former Bush-era ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad.
"What the Americans left behind was an Iraqi state that was not able to stand on its own," Filkins argues.
The US is probably better off just trying to force Mr Maliki out of office, writes Commentary magazine's Max Boot:
Maliki has presided over the disintegration of Iraq. He doesn't deserve a third term. The country desperately needs a new leader. Until a change of leadership happens, there is little point in sending more US aid which, if Mosul is anything to go by, is likely to wind up arming the insurgents.
The Washington Post's David Ignatius says Mr Obama must start by raising awareness in the US of the growing threat in Iraq. Then, he argues, the president must solve the civil war in Syria if it wants to prevent violence from engulfing Iraq:
The administration is finally developing a serious strategy for Syria, which will include a CIA-trained guerrilla army to fight both President Bashar al-Assad and al Qaeda extremists. In addition, (if skittish Arab allies agree), US Special Operations forces will train Free Syrian Army units to create a stabilisation force for liberated areas. If the ambitious plan moves forward, the hope is to train 9,600 fighters by the end of this year.
Lehigh University Prof Henri J Barkey also thinks ending Syria's civil war is the key to peace in region.
"The perception of Washington policymaking in Syria as dithering and less-than-professional has arguably spread throughout the region," he writes for the American Interest. "The administration can begin to reverse this image if it is willing to encourage the region to come up with its own solution. That effort would have to start in consultation with Turkey and Saudi Arabia, and it would have to include Iran as well in the end."
The American Conservative's Rod Dreher takes an opposite view - greater involvement in the Syrian civil war will only make matters worse, as US weapons could end up in the hands of anti-Western militants -a similar fate to some of the arms the US gave Iraq :
A decade after American troops invaded Iraq as a response to al Qaeda's 9/11 attack - a decade that saw nearly 4,500 US deaths, tens of thousands of American casualties, 134,000 Iraqi civilian deaths, and cost the US taxpayer at least $1.7 trillion - the capital of that woebegone country is in danger of falling to Islamist berserkers who are more radical than al Qaeda. Yet the US is continuing to arm and train Syrian rebels. We never learn.
Doing nothing is an option, writes the Federalist's David Harsanyi, despite the obvious criticism that it likely would mean that "more than 4,400 U.S. troops and over $700 billion had been wasted in a war that ended but was not won".
But would another 4,000 deaths fix things, he asks. "If a decade of nation building brought us this, what could we possible gain by seriously re-engaging?"
He concludes: "It's difficult to understand how spending another five or ten years sorting out a sectarian civil war can possible be in our best interests."
He says all of the choices the US is presented with are horrible.
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MySQL stores accounts in the
user table of the
mysql system database. An account is defined in
terms of a user name and the client host or hosts from which the
user can connect to the server. For information about account
representation in the
user table, see
Section 6.2.2, "Grant Tables".
The account may also have a password. MySQL supports authentication plugins, so it is possible that an account authenticates using some external authentication method. See Section 6.3.9, "Pluggable Authentication".
There are several distinctions between the way user names and passwords are used by MySQL and your operating system:
User names, as used by MySQL for authentication purposes, have nothing to do with user names (login names) as used by Windows or Unix. On Unix, most MySQL clients by default try to log in using the current Unix user name as the MySQL user name, but that is for convenience only. The default can be overridden easily, because client programs permit any user name to be specified with a
--useroption. This means that anyone can attempt to connect to the server using any user name, so you cannot make a database secure in any way unless all MySQL accounts have passwords. Anyone who specifies a user name for an account that has no password is able to connect successfully to the server.
MySQL user names can be up to 32 characters long Operating system user names may be of a different maximum length. For example, Unix user names typically are limited to eight characters.Warning
The limit on MySQL user name length is hardcoded in MySQL servers and clients, and trying to circumvent it by modifying the definitions of the tables in the
mysqldatabase does not work.
You should never alter the structure of tables in the
mysqldatabase in any manner whatsoever except by means of the procedure that is described in Section 2.11, "Upgrading MySQL". Attempting to redefine MySQL's system tables in any other fashion results in undefined (and unsupported!) behavior. The server is free to ignore rows that become malformed as a result of such modifications.
To authenticate client connections for accounts that use MySQL native authentication (implemented by the
mysql_native_passwordauthentication plugin), the server uses passwords stored in the
usertable. These passwords are distinct from passwords for logging in to your operating system. There is no necessary connection between the "external" password you use to log in to a Windows or Unix machine and the password you use to access the MySQL server on that machine.
If the server authenticates a client using some other plugin, the authentication method that the plugin implements may or may not use a password stored in the
usertable. In this case, it is possible that an external password is also used to authenticate to the MySQL server.
Passwords stored in the
usertable are encrypted using plugin-specific algorithms. For information about MySQL native password hashing, see Section 126.96.36.199, "Password Hashing in MySQL".
If the user name and password contain only ASCII characters, it is possible to connect to the server regardless of character set settings. To connect when the user name or password contain non-ASCII characters, the client should call the
mysql_options()C API function with the
MYSQL_SET_CHARSET_NAMEoption and appropriate character set name as arguments. This causes authentication to take place using the specified character set. Otherwise, authentication will fail unless the server default character set is the same as the encoding in the authentication defaults.
Standard MySQL client programs support a
--default-character-setoption that causes
mysql_options()to be called as just described. In addition, character set autodetection is supported as described in Section 10.4, "Connection Character Sets and Collations". For programs that use a connector that is not based on the C API, the connector may provide an equivalent to
mysql_options()that can be used instead. Check the connector documentation.
The preceding notes do not apply for
utf16, and
utf32, which are not permitted as client character sets.
The MySQL installation process populates the grant tables with an
root account, as described in
Section 2.10.4, "Securing the Initial MySQL Account", which also discusses how to
assign passwords to it. Thereafter, you normally set up, modify,
and remove MySQL accounts using statements such as
GRANT, and
REVOKE. See
Section 13.7.1, "Account Management Statements".
To connect to a MySQL server with a command-line client, specify user name and password options as necessary for the account that you want to use:
shell> mysql --user=finley --password db_name
If you prefer short options, the command looks like this:
shell> mysql -u finley -p db_name
If you omit the password value following the
--password or
option on the command line (as just shown), the client prompts for
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U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder, announced Thursday that his re-election campaign will begin accepting donations in the increasingly popular digital currency bitcoin.
The move came just hours after the U.S. Federal Election Commission's unanimous vote to allow political contributions in bitcoin.
Polis said his office worked for weeks on bitcoin.polisforcongress.com in anticipation of the FEC ruling.
The site launched shortly after the vote, and the Boulder Democrat is believed to be the first in Congress to accept bitcoin donations.
"There's enormous interest in digital currency, including bitcoin," Polis said Thursday. "It's very exciting that the FEC is keeping its regulations up to date."
Polis said the move fits well in his district, a hotbed for tech startups.
"I think it's appropriate the congressman from the area would be the first to use (digital currency) for donations," he said.
Polis has long been an advocate for bitcoin, even poking fun at paper currency to make his point.
Two months ago, in a tongue-in-cheek letter to Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen in response to a senator's call to ban bitcoin, Polis said the dollar bill is unregulated and unstable, and urged regulators "to take immediate and appropriate action" to limit its use.
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Meeting Minutes
November 2, 2007
Board Members Present: Mary Jo Green, Debra McKinney, Elizabeth Tucker, Jessica Clark Justman, Alan Stager, all via phone.
HEAB Staff Present: Connie Hutchison, Sherrie Nelson, John Whitt, Mary Lou Kuzdas, Cassie Weisensel
Others Present: Paul Nelson, WAICU; Jacky Thomson, Alverno; Nicole Estes, Marquette University; Carla Smith-Lebeck, Marquette University; Sharon Wilhelm, UW System Administration via phone; Kristofer Frederick, UW System Administration.
Chair Mary Jo Green called the meeting to order at 9:03 a.m.
There was not a quorum of board members present at the meeting so meeting minutes will be approved in February 2008.
Biennial Budget Update: HEAB did very well in terms of getting financial aid in the budget. WHEG-UW has an appropriation of $50,000,000 in FY08 and $55,000,000 in FY09, WHEG-Tech has an appropriation of $17,130,200 in FY08 and $17,548,000 in FY09, WHEG-Tribal has an appropriation of $414,000 in FY08 and $424,000 in FY09, Tuition Grant has an appropriation of $25,456,600 in FY08 and $26,077,500 in FY09. The Veterans' Tuition Remission program was also created as a HEAB administered program and given an appropriation of $5,013,700 in FY08 and $6,562,300 in FY09. Minority Undergraduate Retention Grant was increased by $19,000 in FY08 for an appropriation of $775,900 and increased by another $19,000 in FY09 for an appropriation of $794,900. HEAB was also provided with funding to restore a .64 position that was lost in the 0507 biennial budget.
Aid for Incarcerated Citizens: An employee of a mental health hospital specifically for patients who are repeat sex offender notified HEAB that some incarcerated patients were receiving financial aid that far exceeded their actual need. Apparently, patients had not indicated that their room and board is already covered by the state because of their mandatory incarceration. Connie has been working with a group of financial aid professionals, Mary Jo Greene, Deb McKinney, Liz Tucker and Marilyn Krump to develop a policy to help schools gather all information needed to determine accurate financial need for these citizens. This group plans to bring something to the February meeting.
Representative Nass Complaint: Representative Stephen Nass asked both Executive Secretary Hutchison and Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen to investigate whether or not student rights had been violated when UW campus staff asked students on the UW-WHEG wait list if they would voluntarily agree to speak publicly about their financial aid status. Connie completed an investigation into this matter and determined that the schools followed proper protocol when contacting students. Connie also indicated that HEAB would abide by the decisions made by Attorney General Van Hollen. The Attorney General found that this was a federal matter and no state laws were violated. The request from Rep. Nass to the Attorney General and the response from Attorney General Van Hollen are included with this document as part of the minutes.
AES ADMINISTRATION PROCEDURES COMPLAINT: Mary Jo talked about a letter all board members had received from a Mr. Breuer concerning his daughter's Academic Excellence Scholarship. Mary Jo and Connie shared with the Board their written responses to Mr. Breuer and the members concurred that the letters by Connie and Mary Jo addressed Breuer's concerns.
The 1999-01 Budget Bill required HEAB to begin annual reporting on the effectiveness of the Minority Undergraduate Retention Grant. The last annual report noted that among student recipients surveyed, 89.62 percent indicated that the grant positively affected their decision to return to or stay in school. 79.41 percent of the respondents either have earned a degree or certificate or continue to work towards obtaining a degree/certificate. In addition, over 91.51 percent of the recipients plan on living and working in Wisconsin after graduating. As those numbers are approximately what they were the year before, we continue to believe that this program is very effective.
The Board discussed the report.
In 2007-08, WHEG-UW has committed 125.60% ($68,801,195) of its appropriation with 29,516 awards. This is 858 more awards and 4.60% less committed than at this time last year. WHEG-WTC has committed 162.28% ($27,798,846) of its appropriation with 32,373 awards. This is 540 more awards and .04% more committed than at this time last year. WTG has committed 103.82% ($26,428,119) of its appropriation with 9,604 awards. This is 2,112 more awards and 16.56% more committed than at this time last year. WHEG-TRIBAL has committed 130.99% ($529,218) of its appropriation with 326 awards. This is 89 more awards and 36.00% more committed than at this time last year. The number of applicants through October 30, 2007, for the 2007-08 academic year was 232,973. That number last year at this time was 226,742. Applicants in 2006-07 totaled 254,376.
The members of the board consented that the Board meeting schedule for August 1, 2008 would be switched to August 8, 2008. This provides time for all sectors to submit their recommendation for the 2009-2011 Biennial Budget request.
Moved by Liz Tucker, seconded by Debra McKinney, to adjourn the meeting. Motion carried and Chair Mary Jo Green adjourned the meeting at 10:10am.
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Tobacco giant loses display battle
One of the world's biggest tobacco firms has lost a Supreme Court fight against a planned cigarette display ban.
The UK's highest court dismissed an appeal by Imperial Tobacco against the Scottish Government's attempts to ban the open display of cigarettes in shops.
At a London hearing, lawyers representing Bristol-based Imperial asked a panel of five Supreme Court justices to analyse the issues.
This came after twice failing to persuade Scottish judges to set aside legislative provisions.
Ministers say display bans are needed to protect future generations from the "devastating effects" of smoking.
Imperial argues that there is no credible evidence that display bans cut tobacco consumption.
Imperial, the firm behind Lambert & Butler and Richmond cigarette brands, also opposed a ban on tobacco vending machines.
It argued that the laws dealing with display bans fall outside the scope of the Scottish Government and are matters reserved for the UK Parliament in London.
The company's civil court challenge delayed the implementation of these laws.
Ministers intended to introduce the display ban in large shops in Scotland in April.
Imperial initially sought a judicial review of minister's plans for display bans.
A judge in Scotland ruled against the firm in September 2010.
Imperial appealed, but three judges rejected their challenge in February.
That decision was welcomed by Scotland's public health minister Michael Matheson, who said the proposals would play a "crucial role" in preventing youngsters from starting to smoke.
But Imperial voiced disappointment and appealed to the Supreme Court.
Cancer Research UK's tobacco policy manager, Robin Hewings, welcomed the decision: "It's good news that the tobacco industry has failed in another attempt to stop important policies to help cut youth smoking. Openly displaying cigarettes next to sweets and crisps sends the message that smoking is a normal part of everyday life while cigarette vending machines are a temptingly easy way for young people to buy cigarettes."
He said the latest defeat for the tobacco industry came in the face of claims by tobacco producers that restrictive policies surrounding the sale of tobacco were illegal. Over the last twelve months tobacco firms have lost cases in Scotland, England, Norway and Australia.
"Experience suggests they're aiming to intimidate governments from taking on tobacco companies and delaying policies that are not in their interests," Mr Hewings continued.
"Tobacco companies also claim that plain packs are illegal and will challenge them in the courts. Independent legal experts have said their cases are poor, so we expect the defeat today to be followed by further defeats for the industry over plain packs. We look forward to the measures coming into force in Scotland in April 2013."
In the latest ruling, the justices unanimously dismissed Imperial's appeal, ruling that the two sections "are within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament".
Scottish Minister for Public Health Michael Matheson said: "We know that reducing the number of people that smoke will have wide benefits for Scotland's health and these bans will play a crucial role in preventing young people from taking up smoking."
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Joseph Francis Eiswerth was born 18 September 1921 in East Palestine, Columbiana County, Ohio. He was the only child of Edward Charles Eiswerth and Angela Catherine Kavcic (anglicized Couchie). His father, Edward, had traveled west from central Pennsylvania to find work.
When Joseph was a few years old, the family moved back to Limestone Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, where Edward had been raised.
Joseph stayed on the farm with his parents until his 21st birthday when he enlisted in the United States Navy. He served at Quonset Point, Rhode Island and in 1945 on the inaugural voyage of the USS Helena (into a hurricane). He was discharged on 29 October 1945.
After WWII, he moved to Williamsport, Pennsylvania to get a better education and life than he could have had on the farm. He met and married Evelyn Marie Eck on 5 November 1946 at St. Boniface Church. The video below is from their wedding day (with Oma's graduation at the beginning).
He worked 2nd shift while attending Williamsport Technical Institute. There he met Guy Reeder and Art Shaw and together they formed a construction partnership called Eiswerth, Reeder and Shaw (names listed in alphabetical order to be fair.)
He even built his own house in 1954. Here it is in 1971 getting a new roof.
Joseph and Evelyn had 7 children in the span of 6 years (the first two were twins).
My family lived in Ohio, so we always spent a week at Oma and Opa's over the summer and had another visit at Thanksgiving or Christmas. Below is a picture of my brother and me with Oma and Opa. Opa loved to wrestle with his grandkids.
Between high school, college and moving to Fort Wayne, I haven't seen my grandparents much over the last 15 years. But I was lucky to have a change to visit my grandparents during the summer of 2010 and 2011.
Opa will be buried on Tuesday, March 5 at St. Boniface Cemetery.
You might not have wanted to answer my genealogy questions, but I'll still miss you, Opa.
You can read other blog post about Opa that my dad wrote for my blog a couple of years ago:
Sentimental Sunday - What My Dad Learned about His Dad - Part 1
Sentimental Sunday - What My Dad Learned about His Dad - Part 2
Sentimental Sunday - What My Dad Learned about His Dad - Part 3
Sentimental Sunday - What My Dad Learned about His Dad - Part 4
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For weeks I have been following the story of State Rep. Cherelle Parker's DUI case. When the news of her arrest first broke it struck me as one of those stories news outlets would be compelled to run, and yet it wasn't a great story. There were no salacious details that made us want to gawk or even want to talk about the peccadilloes of an elected official. It was – to be blunt – run of the mill.
If Parker were not a state representative, the story wouldn't have made any of the local media outlets. How many other DUI arrests have you read about in our newspaper or on local Web sites?
However, when Municipal Judge Charles Hayden dismissed all charges against Parker less than six months after she was arrested on April 30 for driving under the influence, the story changed. Hayden summarily dismissed the testimony of two police officers in the 14th District, a district hardly known for crooked cops, and two breathalyzer tests, which registered Parker's blood alcohol level at .16, twice the legal limit.
According to police, Parker was driving the wrong way on Haines Street, a one-way street, at approximately 12:15 a.m. The officers stopped her after she turned onto Baynton Street, where they administered the tests and arrested her. In dismissing the charges, Hayden said he found the two officers "less than truthful," citing conflicting accounts as to whether or not there were other cars on the street at the time of the arrest.
Hayden was also concerned that one of the officers testified that he made 200 DUI arrests but only half of those were convicted.
When the news reported Hayden's decision, which was to find there was no probable cause to stop Parker's car that evening and tossing the breathalyzer tests as a result, it came to light that the judge and the defendant are Facebook friends.
For the one person out there who does not know what a "Facebook friend" is, it is when you share your profiles with each other, meaning they can see any information, pictures, comments you post to your page and vice versa. The State Attorney General's Office (Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams recused his office from the case, citing his personal friendship with Parker) asked Hayden to recuse himself from the case to eliminate the appearance of impropriety. Hayden said no.
It is an interesting 21st century conflict, a first of its kind, presumably for both parties, and for the courts in general. So often privacy arguments flow from the petitioners to the bench not vice versa. It brings up the question of whether or not judges and elected officials for that matter have a right to reasonable discretion when it comes to mingling their official roles in unofficial venues such as Facebook.
It's doubtful anyone would argue that Hayden does not have the right to have a Facebook page. The question is whether or not its appropriate for him to hear cases of people he knows well enough to "friend." And of course, the question becomes who decides what it means to be friends on the new cyber frontier.
The real question for me though is why Hayden wouldn't want to recuse himself. Obviously he ruled in Parker's favor, and she has been vindicated. But what if people believe that she "got off" because she and Hayden know the same people (they are both reportedly from political camps that are in the Northwest Alliance, which the Inquirer calls "an influential coalition of city Democrats")?
Parker decried her innocence beginning the day after she was arrested. It was barely a story. It certainly wasn't a scandal. Now every motion, every request is reported. Is Facebook really worth all this trouble?
Jennifer Katz


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