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EUGENE, Ore. -- Galen Rupp broke the American record in the men's 10,000 meters on Friday evening at the Nike Prefontaine Classic, crossing in 26:44.36. Rupp bided his time until the final two laps, moving in the front of the pack and getting the Hayward Field crowd on its feet. TrackTown was electric, as Rupp took his victory lap to a crowd of 7,500, the best crowd for "Distance Night" in the history of the Nike Prefontaine Classic. Rupp broke his own previous record of 26:48.00, set in 2011.
Chanelle Price continued her winning ways, capturing the USATF High Performance women's 800 meters in 2:00.38. Price executed her trademark racing style, staying out in front from the get-go. Maggie Vessey and the rest of the pack closed in the final 40 meters, but Price was able to hold them off for the win.
Reese Hoffa threw a season's best 21.64m/71-0 to win the men's shot put, his fourth Nike Prefontaine Classic victory in the last five years. Hoffa used his fifth throw to seal the victory, leading a 1-2-3-4 U.S. finish in the event. Joe Kovacs took the runner-up spot with a mark of 21.46m/70-5, while Diamond League leader Christian Cantwell held the third spot with his toss of 21.38m/70-1.75. Kurt Roberts, a late addition to the field after the withdrawal of Ryan Whiting and David Storl, finished fourth with his throw of 20.71m/67-11.25.
The event continues at 3:22 p.m. ET/12:22 p.m. PT with the men's triple jump. The first race is the men's international mile at 3:33 p.m. ET/12:33 p.m. PT.
NBC Sports Network will air the Nike Prefontaine Classic Saturday from 3:30-4:30 p.m. ET before NBC picks up the telecast from 4:30-6 p.m. ET. Video from Friday night's races are available on USATF.tv.
Full results are available on the Diamond League - Eugene website. Follow along live with USATF on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram with the hashtag #PreClassic.
The third stop on the summer-long Diamond League tour, the Nike Prefontaine Classic kicks off the first of two domestic Diamond League competitions.
The Nike Prefontaine Classic is part of the USATF Championship Series. The final stop of the summer is the USATF Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Tickets are available at sacsports.com.
Nike Prefontaine Classic Day One Quotes
Galen Rupp, men's 10,000m winner, AR
"I was just elated. I was really coming in here and looking at it as a good opportunity to run a 10k and work on my tactics. I didn't want to just look at it as a chance to run a good time. It's more about what's going to help me through next year and 2016. That was, honestly, my biggest focus going into it. Just competing, how I was going to finish, and to get the record on top of that was just a bonus."
"I thought I was in shape to get the record. I ran 26:48 three years ago, so I know I'm a lot stronger and my training has been much more geared towards 10K at this point. I didn't know what to expect coming in but I knew I had a great chance to run fast."
"This is right up there. I've had so many great memories here running for Oregon. It's just a special place for me. To be able to come back here, it feels like a while since I last ran here, and it was just a great way to end the night. It just shows you how special this place is. To get so many people coming out and this enthusiastic about a 10K and the other distance races they had...the main program is tomorrow and they have a great meet set up. To have this many show up Friday night, it's just phenomenal."
Chanelle Price, women's 800m winner
"At the end of the day, it was a training run. My coach was like, let's go back to the Chanelle that goes out hard and see what your body does. 40 meters out, I was like okay, we're seeing what my body is doing! If you're going to beat somebody like Brenda (Martinez) or those strong women, you're going to have to take them out hard to win in Sacramento. I think she's leaning towards the 800m, just from talking with her in The Bahamas. If I'm going to beat her, I'm going to have to take her out hard. It was just training and seeing how it went. I got the win."
"I was feeling good at 700m. I saw 1:28 and 1:43 and I think I got a little too antsy. My coach always says, don't race for time. When you run well, it'll come. I just punched a little too much coming down the straightaway but you win or you learn. 40 meters out, I knew they were coming but I was like, hold your form. I was happy to get to the finish line."
"I'm actually shutting it down until USAs. May has been a little hectic for me with Doha, the Bahamas and here, so I just want to get in some solid training these next few weeks. I've never won a U.S. title before and it's really important to me."
Mary Cain, women's 800m - 8th in section II, 10th overall
"I did a time trial on the track and it was only supposed to be 600 and Alberto said, you look great, keep going and I ran 2:03.2. I guess it's a little bit better but Alberto and I weren't expecting much. We're taking it slow and building into the season. I'm still a little disappointed. I think today it was the best I could've done. Tactically for the 800m, I'm still a little weak. I knew last year that if the race was fast and I was at the back, I was still going to run fast. But with this, there's still positioning stuff you have to worry about. on the backstretch, I was going to try to pass people and it didn't really work out. At first, I was really disappointed but it was a good training run."
Reese Hoffa, men's shot put winner
"(Having fans around the circle) was electric. We were so excited they were down there that it threw us off a little bit. There were so many people there. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it."
"I had one good throw, maybe two. i was missing positions out of the back and rushing my throws and kind of making a mess of everything, but I'm glad I got the one throw that got the win. It was a success, I just need to be more consistent."
"Christian is really powerful, Joe is powerful too, so to get a win against those guys is awesome because I was just trying to hold on for second. I didn't think I was going to win because of how I was throwing but I had that one throw and it felt good out of my hand. So I decided to yell a little bit and it reaffirmed that it was a good throw."


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Neolane Announces Another Year of Strong Growth in 2012
By: Business Wire
Feb. 5, 2013 06:30 AM
Despite challenging economic times and mounting consumer expectations, conversational marketing technology provider Neolane demonstrated once again that it understands the growing challenges marketers face. In the era of the activist customer--that has near-perfect access to information--Neolane has acted on its vision and helped global brands address new digital channels and empower them to sustain lifetime dialogues with their customers. Subsequently, Neolane announced $58 million in revenue and a 40 percent increase in global consolidated growth to close out another profitable year.
Gartner Research Vice President Laura McLellan noted in a January 2012 webinar that Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) will spend more on IT than Chief Information Officers (CIOs) by 2017. CMOs now have greater purchasing power and have recognized the need for easy-to-use, cloud-based marketing technologies that they can operate independent of IT. As the number of communications channels rises and Big Data volume increases, marketers are utilizing Neolane's platform to effectively reach today's digital customer.
Based on this innovative, next-generation marketing platform, Neolane landed leading global brands as customers including Interflora, L'Occitane, Royal Bank of Scotland, Transitions Optical, Vorwek, Waters Corporation and Wells Fargo Center. These brands selected Neolane for its vision, agility and position in the market as the only leading independent cloud-based digital marketing technology provider.
"In spite of a challenging global economy, Neolane thrived in 2012 by providing marketers with a platform that increases customer engagement through conversational marketing," said Stéphane Dehoche, president and CEO, Neolane. "With our innovative cloud-based marketing technology, Neolane is helping brands facilitate a deeper connection with their customers and prospects, resulting in increased customer lifetime value."
In 2012, Neolane continued its commitment to marketing innovation by providing brands with features to address new marketing opportunities, including:
Neolane also secured validation of its solutions and approach to conversational marketing from independent research firms and was named a Leader in Forrester Research, Inc.'s "The Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Campaign Management (CCCM), Q1 2012."1 Gartner recognized Neolane as a Visionary across three areas including the Gartner, Inc. 2012 "Magic Quadrant for CRM Multichannel Campaign Management,"2 the 2012 "Magic Quadrant for CRM Lead Management,"3 and the Gartner, Inc. 2012 "Magic Quadrant for Integrated Marketing Management."4
Currently, Neolane touts more than 400 customers globally, including divisions of 47 of the Fortune Global 500, and has expanded its global team to 300 employees. In 2012, the company attracted top talent in the industry to accelerate momentum, including the recent hire of Suresh Vittal as Chief Product Officer. Vittal, who has assumed responsibility for the company's global product strategy, recently served as Practice Leader for the Customer Intelligence business unit at Forrester Research, Inc. and brings to Neolane a deep knowledge of marketing technology that will drive product innovation.
"Neolane is the catalyst for change for today's brands," added Dehoche. "We understand the stakes are higher as marketers are operating in a digital world and need the right technology to optimize their efforts. Neolane assists these organizations with a market-driven approach to building the next-generation marketing platform."
1 – Forrester, "The Forrester Wave™: Cross-Channel Campaign Management (CCCM), Q1 2012," by Robert Brosnan, January 2012
2 - Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for CRM Multichannel Campaign Management," by Adam Sarner, May 22, 2012
3 - Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for CRM Lead Management," by Chris Fletcher, June 7, 2012
4- Gartner, "Magic Quadrant for Integrated Marketing Management" by Kimberly Collins and Adam Sarner, November 1, 2012
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I commend The Sun for its insightful endorsement of Richard Tisei in the 6th Congressional District race.
The Sun has demonstrated a commitment to candidates who can restore public confidence in our elected leaders through their proven integrity and tenacity, regardless of party affiliation.
Words cannot express my outrage at the disgraceful lies being bandied about the 6th Congressional District by the allies of incumbent John Tierney. They claim that Richard Tisei tried to block women's access to cancer screening. That is blatantly untrue. As a senator, I co-authored and sponsored the Mammography Standards Act, which assured high quality in cancer screening, and the Breast Cancer Initiative while battling breast cancer myself.
The Breast Cancer Initiative had a three-pronged approach to attacking the scourge of breast cancer; (1) education and awareness programs throughout the state, (2) funding of innovative research in our world-class Massachusetts hospitals, and (3) free mammography-screening services for uninsured and underinsured women.
At the same time, I authored and sponsored legislation that addressed inequities in access to chemotherapy for certain cancers. Four of the top five cancers targeted in this cancer treatment bill were women's cancers.
These initiatives became law because I had the support of both Republicans and Democrats. Fighting cancer should never be manipulated into a divisive partisan issue.
I ask the voters, particularly the women of the 6th District, a simple question: Whom should you trust to tell you the truth about Richard Tisei's longstanding support for women's health? You can believe me, a four-time cancer survivor, a former senator who actually worked with Richard Tisei on these specific issues, and a breast-cancer survivor who has been right next to many of you in a chemotherapy infusion chair or at hundreds of marches and events to fight breast cancer during the past 20 years.
Or you can believe paid political character assassins from Washington.
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Perfection was the word of the day for Barrington's softball team.
The Fillies ended a perfect season in the Mid-Suburban West with a perfect game from sophomore pitcher Keenan Dolezal.
Dolezal retired 21 straight batters before the Fillies got her the win in bottom of the seventh inning at the Fields of Dreams.
Barrington junior first baseman Katie Dehnert's hard infielder grounder with two outs and the bases loaded brought home Erin Ward with the winning run.
The 1-0 victory gave Barrington its first West Division crown since 2009 and the 16th divisional crown in school history.
The Fillies (28-1) finished 16-0 in the West, 2 games ahead of Fremd (19-7, 14-2).
"I couldn't ask for anything more," said Dehnert, whose big at-bat was followed by Loren Krzysko's single to left, giving the Fillies the bases loaded with Krista Moore (reached on an error) at second and Ward (walk) on first.
"I knew Keenan was throwing a perfect game but I couldn't say anything. I didn't want to mess it up. She is an amazing pitcher, as is Cassidy (Kraimer, who is 7-0). I knew they would pull through for us."
The Fillies became the sixth team to go undefeated in the MSL since it began the 16-game schedule in 1987. The Fillies did it 1994 and 2003 while others were Prospect in 1987, Hersey in 1992 and Conant in 2012.
Dolezal (21-1) was perfect for the first time in her two-year varsity career.
"What a terrific game played by both schools," said Barrington coach Perry Peterson, who notched career win No. 647 to tie Casey-Westfield's Denny Throneburg for seventh on the IHSA all-time list. "Keenan was masterful today but both pitchers were outstanding."
Fremd ace Ashlynne Schwantz (18-4) had a no-hitter through 4 innings and did not give up an earned run.
Barrington's first hit didn't come until Morgan Olszewski singled to right center to lead off the fifth.
The Fillies had back-to-back two-out line drive singles to right by Raegan Fingerman and Maggie O'Hara in the sixth but Schwantz got out of the inning with a popout to third baseman Julie Josten.
"I thought they pitched real well and we pitched really well," said Fremd coach Jim Weaver. "It had to be an intense game to watch. But both pitchers did a real good job and it came down to execution."
Dolezal executed the first perfect game of her career.
"Oh my gosh, this is the best thing ever," said Dolezal after her gem. "The whole team was so motivated to have an perfect season (in the West)."
Dolezal's sister Kiley, who was at Monday's showdown, also threw a perfect game for Barrington when she was a sophomore on April 25, 2009 against Libertyville.
"I can't do anything without my team," Keenan added. "I wasn't ever thinking about (the perfect game). I was always just thinking about getting the next out."
Barrington will look for its next out on Thursday when it visits MSL East champion Buffalo Grove for the 40th annual league championship at 5 p.m.


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A trio of fabulous Czech Glass teardrop beads in pink, yellow and purple drizzled with gold, have been accented with seed beads and simply suspended from a chain.
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NEWARK, Del., Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- iBio, Inc. (NYSE MKT: IBIO) today announced that it has been notified by the NYSE MKT (the "Exchange") Staff that the Exchange has accepted the Company's plan of compliance which was submitted on December 21, 2012. The plan submitted in December 2012 was in response to the Staff's notice that the Company was not in compliance with the Exchange's continued listing requirement set forth in Section 1003(a)(iii) of the NYSE MKT Company Guide. This rule requires a listed company to have stockholders' equity of at least $6,000,000 if it has experienced net losses in its five most recent fiscal years. In connection with accepting the Company's compliance plan, the Exchange has granted the Company an extension until October 14, 2013 to regain compliance with the $6,000,000 stockholders' equity requirement.
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During the extension period, the Company will be subject to periodic review by the Staff of the Exchange. The failure by the Company to make progress consistent with the accepted plan or to regain compliance with the continued listing standards by the end of the extension period could result in the Company being delisted from the Exchange.
In addition to the foregoing, the Company expects to receive notice from the Exchange that it does not satisfy the $4,000,000 stockholders' equity requirement set forth in Section 1003(a)(ii) of the NYSE MKT Company Guide following the filing of its Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended December 31, 2012, since it experienced net losses in three of its most recent four fiscal years. The Company anticipated this when it submitted its compliance plan and designed the compliance plan, which has now been accepted, to address its non-compliance with both the $6,000,000 and $4,000,000 stockholders' equity requirements.
About iBio, Inc.
iBio develops and offers product applications of its iBioLaunch™ and iBioModulator™ platforms, providing collaborators full support for turn-key implementation of its technology for both proprietary and biosimilar products. The iBioLaunch platform is a proprietary, transformative technology for development and production of biologics using transient gene expression in unmodified green plants. Advantages over other systems may include: success with proteins difficult or impossible to produce with other methods; broadly applicable to biologics, including therapeutic proteins and vaccines; production time measured in weeks instead of months or more. Additional benefits may include: surge capacity for remedial action against bioterrorism and pandemic disease; product entry that is unconstrained by traditional process patents, and significantly lower capital and operating costs for comparable production. The iBioModulator platform is complementary to the iBioLaunch platform and is designed to significantly improve vaccine products by increasing potency and lengthening duration of effect. The iBioModulator platform can be used with any recombinant expression technology for vaccine development and production. Further information is available at: www.ibioinc.com.
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KLRU Q Night at the Movies spotlights a classic film on select Saturday nights at 8 p.m. This month's feature films will be:
4/6 – Four Weddings And A Funeral
The intermittent romance between a charming Englishman (Hugh Grant) and a beautiful American woman (Andie MacDowell) who always seem to run into each other at weddings. Cast: Hugh Grant, Andie MacDowell, Kristin Scott Thomas.
4/13 – What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?
A Hollywood child-star has-been (Bette Davis) torments her famous sister (Joan Crawford), now in a wheelchair. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono.
4/20 – Hound Of The Baskervilles
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes (Peter Cushing) is hired to investigate. Cast: Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Christopher Lee.
Planet Of The Apes
An astronaut (Charlton Heston) goes by time warp to a future planet ruled by smart apes who keep humans as slaves. Cast: Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall, Kim Hunter.
4/27 – Shake Hands With The Devil
A medical professor (James Cagney) recruits a U.S. student (Don Murray) for the Irish Republican Army in 1921 Dublin. Cast: James Cagney, Don Murray.


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Fifteen members of the Mount Vernon Tiger football team were named to the District 8-2A All-District team for the 2013 season. Kris Ables, Aquavion Evans and Noah Craver received first team nods. For a listing of all the players honored, see the December 19 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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KCS is also pursuing opportunities to improve public safety through engineering activities. Last month, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development hosted its bi-annual Transportation Safety Summit, covering topics from quiet zones to rail safety and crossing closures.
KCS signal project engineer Danny Lites joined the Federal Railroad Administration Region Five and mayor of DeQuincy, La., to provide various perspectives on crossing closures.
Among other topics related to crossing closures, Lites talked about KCS' considerations during closure negotiations. He emphasized that KCS' first concern is for the safety of the public and that eliminating a crossing provides the highest level of crossing safety. KCS approaches most crossing closures from a corridor standpoint, but will work just as aggressively on a single crossing closure opportunity. Considerations include train count, motorist traffic, changes in traffic patterns, traffic control devices, proximity of other crossings, crossing redundancy and the potential to create trespassing issues.
Since 2000, in the U.S., KCS has gained 133 public and 42 private crossing closures. Now, 215 of the remaining at-grade crossings on the system are marked as targets for closure.
On the same day, KCS public safety director Allen Pepper spoke at a similar event with the Texas Department of Transportation. His topic was KCS' public passive sign program in Texas. This program includes the installation or update of a YIELD sign, crossbucks with reflective striping and an emergency notification sign facing the driver on both sides of the crossing, all with a cement base.
KCS has already implemented the passive sign program at public and private crossings in all U.S. states in which it operates with the exception of Missouri. The Missouri program is expected to take place this year once master agreements are in place.


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Fiery Coke gives Tigers finishing pop they need
In wake of Valverde's struggles, lefty locks down Yanks for two-inning save
By Jordan Bastian / MLB.com | 10/14/12 9:58 PM ET
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10/14/12: Phil Coke records a trio of strikeouts and surrenders only one hit over two scoreless innings of relief to close out Game 2
NEW YORK -- Tigers manager Jim Leyland needed to look Phil Coke in the eyes, read his body language, gauge his response. The question consisted of only four words, but they were of great magnitude under the circumstances.
Hours before Detroit's 3-0 victory over the Yankees in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series, Leyland called Coke into his office. One day after another meltdown by Jose Valverde, the Tigers needed to have someone ready to handle the closing duties if the score was tight.
Leyland needed to know if Coke was up to the task.
"Can you do this?" asked the manager.
The left-handed reliever answered in a big way.
Following a strong seven-inning performance from starter Anibal Sanchez, Leyland handed the ball to Coke, who finished the game with a two-inning assault on the strike zone. This was the first installment within Leyland's closer-by-committee plan, which went into effect Sunday and will last until the club feels Valverde has regained his mechanics and confidence.
Coke cruised through the eighth and was told he would handle at least one batter -- postseason hero Raul Ibanez -- to open the ninth.
No problem.
Coke reeled off 28 pitches, including 23 for strikes, collecting a save and sending Detroit back home with a 2-0 edge in the ALCS. Valverde has claimed the ninth inning as his territory to the point that Coke did not even realize he earned a save with his outing in the Bronx. The lefty knew he was credited with a game finished and assumed he earned a hold.
Reporters insisted that he picked up the save.
"Ok, cool," said Coke, shrugging off the bit of statistical confusion. "Good times. I'm not thinking about it that way."
That is the easygoing Coke found inside Detroit's clubhouse.
On the mound, it is a different story.
"He's a very intense kind of guy when he's out there," Tigers catcher Alex Avila said.
Through the first two games of this series, Coke has logged 38 strikes among his 44 pitches in three innings. That is a snapshot of Coke's mentality when coming out of Detroit's bullpen.
"Don't let down. Don't back off," Coke said. "Go out there and continue pounding the zone and make them swing at pitches I want them to swing at."
Leyland turned to Coke with Detroit clinging to a three-run lead in the eighth inning, when the Yankees had two left-handed hitters (Ichiro Suzuki and Robinson Cano) and a switch-hitter (Mark Teixeira) due up. Coke held lefties to a .685 on-base-plus-slugging percentage in the regular season, and he breezed through the eighth accordingly.
In the ninth inning, Leyland could have gone in a couple different directions.
Ibanez was set to lead off, followed by right-handed hitters Russell Martin and Alex Rodriguez. Serving as the ninth-inning cleanup man was lefty-hitting Curtis Granderson. Leyland had right-handed setup man Joaquin Benoit warming up in the bullpen, but he stuck with Coke.
Coke was not surprised to still be out there for the ninth.
"He told me that I was going to face one, maybe more," Coke said. "I was stating my case for more."
After Coke struck out Ibanez, Leyland did not flinch in the dugout.
Benoit was ready, and Yankee Stadium was buzzing. Less than 24 hours earlier, New York's fans watched the local nine produce four runs -- via a pair of two-run home runs, including one from Ibanez -- in a stirring ninth-inning rally against Valverde.
"I was, personally, surprised that [Coke] went out for that second inning," Tigers reliever Octovio Dotel said. "Righties came up and Benoit was ready."
During the regular season, right-handed hitters posted a .396 average and a 1.050 OPS against Coke. Leyland was more focused on the fact that Martin had a .226 average off lefties this season, and Granderson -- a favorable matchup, especially during his ongoing postseason slump -- loomed after Rodriguez.
"Sometimes the game falls in place for a manager," Leyland said. "It fell in place with Raul -- as hot as he has been -- with Raul leading off in the ninth inning. It kind of fell into place. Then we know how dangerous Russell Martin can be, but the numbers said he has not hit lefties that great."
Martin struck out swinging and Rodriguez followed with a base hit up the middle.
Coke moved forward unfazed, striking out Granderson to end the game.
It was precisely what Detroit needed.
"Guys have to step up throughout the playoffs," Avila said. "When guys are struggling, other guys have got to step up. He did a good job today."
Asked if he enjoyed being trusted with that situation, Coke cracked a grin.
"Do you want me to say no?" he said to an eruption of laughter.
"I was really cool," he then added. "It's nice to have the skipper's confidence in you. ... It was really cool for him to leave me out there. I was prepared for whatever he was going to do."
That is the answer Leyland hoped to hear.


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JOLIET, Ill. (MCT) — With a 38-year sentence at age 59, Drew Peterson most likely will spend the rest of his life in prison.
The former Bolingbrook police officer acknowledged as much in a tearful, rage-filled monologue before his sentencing Thursday. Barring a successful appeal, Peterson will not be eligible for release until he's 93. But he estimated he would not make it that long because he has developed high cholesterol and has been twice diagnosed with skin cancer since his incarceration at the Will County Jail.
"I'm not looking for any sympathy, but anything you sentence me to, you're sentencing me to the Department of Corrections to die," Peterson told the court in a raised voice choked with emotion.
Peterson's new life will stand in stark contrast to the one he knew as a police sergeant, when he busied himself by riding motorcycles, flying airplanes and chasing younger women. But it won't be that different from the nearly four years he has spent in jail after being charged with killing his third wife, Kathleen Savio.
Peterson was transferred to the Stateville Correctional Center on Friday morning, less than 24 hours after receiving his sentence. He stayed there only a few hours before being sent to his new home at the Pontiac prison. He is in the maximum-security facility, which has a protective custody unit. The assignment was based on factors such as his conviction, length of sentence, program needs, and medical and mental health requirements, per Illinois Department of Correction protocol.
Officials have not said whether he has a cellmate or if he will be in solitary confinement as he had been during his jail stay.
As part of his daily routine there, he will remain in his cell for most of the day, though he will be allowed out for meals and showers. Most inmates also get about five hours of recreation time outside per week, Illinois Department of Corrections spokeswoman Stacey Solano said.
Peterson already seemed to be envisioning a dreary existence.
"I don't do well in incarceration," he said during his 40-minute courtroom soliloquy. "Due to the bad food and lack of exercise (in jail), I have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, borderline diabetes, a variety of skin issues, and I've had two bouts with skin cancer."
Prisoners can earn work privileges and be assigned menial jobs in the kitchen, laundry room or other areas of the detention center. The shifts, which are not daily, are at least four hours long, Solano said.
Though the Will County Jail has a similar jobs program, Peterson did not participate in it because he was kept separate from the rest of the jail population.
The sheriff's department, which oversees the facility, kept him segregated there amid concerns that his high-profile case and law-enforcement background could make him a target of inmates looking to build tough-guy reputations.
As such, Peterson had been kept in the jail's medical unit since his May 2009 arrest. He spent most of his time in his cell, which was 8 feet wide by 5 feet deep. He was given an hour or two in an adjacent day room each day, but that's about it.
His attorney Joseph Lopez, however, said he does not believe such measures need to be taken in state prison. Though high-profile inmates often attract unwanted attention — Jeffrey Dahmer, for example, was slain in 1994 while serving multiple life terms — Lopez thinks Peterson can protect himself.
"He's got a black belt in karate. He knows how to defend himself," Lopez said. "He's a gregarious type of guy. I'm sure the inmates will love him once they get to know him."
Peterson did not seem as convinced on Thursday.
"Originally, I had some cute and funny things to end with," he said, "but in closing now it's time to sentence an innocent man to a life of hardship and abuse (in) prison, and I don't deserve this."
Illinois Department of Corrections officials would not say what safety precautions would be taken in their facilities, but Solano said such issues are considered during an inmate's initial evaluation.
"IDOC will continue to ensure proper placement of all offenders as the health, safety and security of inmates and staff remain the department's top priority," she said.
Peterson will be allowed visits in prison, with some facilities allowing up to five per month. He had similar privileges in jail, but few people had actually come to see him. A visitor's list released shortly before his murder trial included his brother, sister and a small number of friends. Only two of his six children — his sons Thomas and Kris with Savio — went to see him in jail.
His older son, Stephen, who is raising his father's two youngest children, had not visited in the three years leading up to the trial. However, the two communicate frequently via collect phone calls from the jail. Illinois prisoners also have regular telephone contact — as long as it's collect — with people on their approved contacts list, Solano said.
Peterson's attorneys informed him after court Thursday that he could be transferred to Stateville as early as Friday. Despite his rage-filled monologue in court, he seemed to take the prison transfer in stride.
"He's ready for it," Lopez said. "He says he wants a change of scenery."
And that's just fine with Savio's family.
"I think he should have gotten 60 (years) myself," her brother Henry Savio Jr. said. "But he is going to spend the rest of his life in jail so I'm OK with it. He deserves to die there."


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/10/would_you_trust_a_dot_bank/
Would you trust a dot-bank site more than a dot-com?
Top-level domain for verified banks only proposed
Posted in Networks, 10th October 2011 15:19 GMT
Would an exclusive internet address for banks help prevent phishing and identity theft?
That's the hope of a new project from a financial services trade group in the US, which plans to apply to domain name overseer ICANN early next year for a ".bank" top-level domain.
BITS, the technology policy arm of the Financial Services Roundtable, with the support of the American Bankers Association, plans to form a new company to manage the bid.
According to the project's general manager, Craig Schwartz, a .bank domain would increase the level of security and trust when users bank online. Unlike .com or .co.uk addresses, only vetted financial institutions would be able to register a .bank domain.
"Ensuring sub-domains are given only to qualified candidates, that leads to a more secure space from the get-go," Schwartz said.
Today, it's possible for any criminal to buy an address such as log-in-to-your-barclays-account.com, set up a phishing site, and then hope enough people are gullible enough to think it's an official Barclays site and hand over their login credentials.
But only a real bank would be allowed to register a .bank address. Coupled with cryptographic signing using the new DNSSEC domain security standard, this could give consumers a higher degree of confidence in .bank domains than they do in other extensions.
BITS, working with registry services partner VeriSign, is also working on other possible security measures not available in other top-level domains, Schwartz said.
Because .bank domains would be limited to authorised entities, Schwartz said he anticipates fewer than 10,000 .bank addresses being registered.
The Financial Services Roundtable and the ABA together have a membership than comprises the majority of American banks. FSR members alone have revenue of over $1.2 trillion, and many are US subsidiaries of overseas banks.
But BITS is by no means guaranteed to have its .bank application approved.
Under ICANN's rules, between 12 January and 12 April next year, any company with at least $185,000 to spend on processing fees can apply for any string it wants as a top-level domain.
Last month, for example, moves stepped up to bid for .london and .scot.
Despite the pedigree of its supporters, BITS may find itself competing against other applicants for the .bank contract.
As well as legitimate rival bids from banking organisations in other countries, it's possible some crafty investors may risk cash filing spurious .bank applications in the hope of getting paid off to go away.
But the organisation hopes its plan to self-designate as a "community" will smooth its passage through ICANN's convoluted application process, in which a so-called Community Priority Evaluation can enable a well-backed applicant to trump its rivals.
Potentially confusing the .bank value proposition, some large banks may also apply to ICANN for their own "dot-brand" extensions, enabling domains such as mortgage.barclays or johnsmith.hsbc.
"Most of the dot-brand examples people bring up are big, well-known banks," said Schwartz. "But there are thousands of banks around the world that don't have that awareness or don't have the resources [to apply to ICANN] as the large ones do. We see this as an opportunity to reach out to small and medium-sized banks."
Nevertheless, educating the world's internet users to only trust .bank domains when they bank online may take considerable time and marketing money to pull off without confusing consumers.
It may not even be effective at preventing phishing. Recent research from the Anti-Phishing Working Group found that only 9 per cent of phishing attacks use a variation of a real brand today, which suggests that many internet users don't even look in their browser's address bar.
If BITS' bid for .bank is successful, it may take a few years for the domains to find their way into the public consciousness, but BITS thinks the domain may also work as a business-to-business play.
"A B2B opportunity is likely in the first phase, with potentially B2C coming down later," said Schwartz. BITS sees potential benefits using .bank to transmit transactional information between banks, he said.
BITS is also considering applying to ICANN for other financially-oriented extensions, possibly including .insure and .invest, according to Schwartz. ®


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Week 4: Get involved in preparedness in the community
Preparedness Tip #1
Check your child's school Web site or call the school office to request a copy of the school's emergency plan. Keep a copy at home and work or other places where you spend a lot of your time and make sure the school's plan is incorporated into your family's emergency plan. Also, learn about the disaster plans at your workplace or other places where you and your family spend time,
Preparedness Tip #2
A community working together during an emergency makes sense. Talk to your neighbors about how you can work together during an emergency. Find out if anyone has specialized equipment like a power generator, or expertise such as medical knowledge, that might help in a crisis.
Preparedness Tip #3
If disaster strikes while you're at work do you know the emergency preparedness plan for your workplace? While many companies have been more alert and pro-active in preparing for disasters of all types since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, a national survey indicates many employees still don't know what their workplace plan is for major or minor disasters. If you don't know yours, make a point to ask.
Preparedness Tip #4
Read the information on your city, county and/or state government web sites as well as the "Be Prepared" section of www.redcross,org or Ready.gov and print emergency preparedness information. Be sure to keep a copy with your disaster supplies kit, it can provide telephone numbers, addresses and other information you need when electronic connections are not available options for obtaining the information.
Preparedness Tip #5
Check out volunteer groups you could join in your area. Red Cross, Salvation Army, various church groups all have response plans for disasters. Check with your local health department about joining the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC).
Preparedness Tip #6
Learn CPR. You may be able to help save someone's life.
Preparedness Tip #7
After a disaster people's behavior may change—not able to sleep, not eating, nightmares, flashbacks, constant crying, depression. Recognize all these are normal reactions and let people know you are there and you will all get through this together.


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They were dominated, then they celebrated.
Such are the vagaries of the World Cup points format that applied Thursday to the U.S. soccer team. An emphatic 1-0 defeat to Germany was followed by high-fives and hugs among the U.S. players, gleeful over their ascendancy into the round of 16.
The U.S. found some strategical middle ground between going all-out for a win that was not required to advance to the next round, and circling the wagons around their net in an effort to secure a scoreless tie. Any notion to constantly push forward — if it ever were entertained — probably was abandoned when the field turned up slick from relentless rain. Their few excursions were unfulfilling, typically without even a shot being unleased at the German goal.
In the entire game the U.S. managed only four shots, with one on goal. Just two corner kicks speak to the lack of an attack. The U.S. offense was muted from start until nearly finish. In second-half stoppage time U.S. midfielder Alejandro Bedoya's blocked shot from inside the box, and Clint Dempsey's subsequent oh-so-close header represent about all the Americans could muster.
At the other end, all Germany had to show for a two-to-one advantage in ball possession and 13 shots was a single goal. The U.S. defended efficiently, denying the Germans good looks, and the winners had to call on their specialty — the set piece — to escape a shutout.
The towering German defender, 6-foot-6 Per Mertesacker, left his post and joined the mix of potential receivers in the box for a corner kick. Exploiting his basketball height, Mertesacker adroitly headed the ball at Tim Howard. The U.S. goalkeeper blocked it, but the rebound headed right to Thomas Mueller, whose thunderbolt in the 55th minute was the only score.
Granting one goal — coming out of a dead-ball situation, at that — earned the U.S. a blue ribbon for its defense.
The turf conditions, the persistent rain and the Group G standings made a win unnecessary for Germany to move on. Those factors lightened the Americans' burden somewhat, but Germany badly wanted to get on the board, as signaled by the insertion of stone-cold scorer Miroslav Klose for the second half.
Considering Germany's galaxy of capable scorers and its unconventional offensive scheme that eschews the standard forward position, any opponent would be delighted to hold them to a goal and take its chances.
There was a small but meaningful consolation prize for not winning the group. The U.S. attack might have been partly stunted by lingering weariness from their exhausting draw Sunday with Portugal, so an extra day before their next match will be welcomed. As the group runners-up, the Americans next play Tuesday, against Belgium. Germany copes with a quicker turnaround, playing Monday against Algeria.
If it were momentum that fans of Team USA wanted entering the knockout phase, they didn't get it. But given the extenuating circumstances of the game with Germany, especially the peculiarities of group play at the World Cup, Americans should take a few steps back and examine the entire body of their team's work over the course of this Cup.
They would like the wide-angle view — because 16 other teams are going home.


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Seattle Sounders FC announced on Saturday that the club has signed former Liverpool defender Djimi Traore.
The 32-year-old spent 16 professional seasons in Europe, including seven with Liverpool, where he won the 2005 Champions League.
"Djimi has a great deal of experience and has played in the top leagues in Europe," said Sounders FC sporting director Chris Henderson. "He's a very good defender and makes smart decisions with the ball coming out the back. Djimi brings us confidence and leadership in the back."
Traore appeared in 150 games in all competitions for Liverpool, while he also enjoyed stints in England with Charlton and Portsmouth.
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Extreme lobbying, such as employed in Iraq, etc., etc?
Extreme lobbying, such as employed in Iraq, etc., etc?
Why is this marked as troll?
U.S. has no jurisdiction or vote or representation in Europe. Any opposition to European laws thus consists of some unofficial threats, right?
Nor is there a legitimate "political" reason. The only reason it might be happening is some companies (Facebook, etc.) are concerned about running into some customer-protection laws which are conveniently absent in U.S.
The OP is not that far off.
Because slashdot is owned by Dice Holdings, and Dice Holdings does business in the EU? If they fail to comply they can be fined, assets seized, etc etc.?
It will work similarly to DMCA take-down requests. Only affects companies with interests in the EU, failure to comply will open them up to being sued and hit with fines.
As proposed, Slashdot (a US company) could be forced to delete posts made by US citizens, if those posts mention someone in the EU.
NO. That is absolutely NOT what the right to be forgotten is about.
The right will give an individual to have THEIR data removed from sites. Data that they themselves uploaded, such as posts they made or photos they shared. If you see one of those photos and decide to write a blog post about it then your blog is perfectly safe and won't be covered by this right.
The right to be forgotten is not about purging information about yourself from the internet, it is about having companies delete your data when asked to. That means if you delete your Facebook profile it really is deleted, and Facebook can't carry on displaying your photos to other people or displaying your name in search results or store information about you any more. If other people post on their wall mentioning your name there is nothing you can do about it, beyond the usual legal protections against libel etc.
You should read the proposals, because apparently you only skimmed them. Yes, category 3 does include data about you, but only data collected by companies for commercial purposes. To be absolutely clear a newspaper article about your criminal behaviour would not be subject to removal. Blog posts about you would not be subject to removal. Only data collected for purposes like creating an online profile or establishing a business relationship.
Sovereign nations don't often let other countries dictate their policies, but they quite often listen to what other countries have to say about them. The article does not say that the US threatened the EC, it just says that the US is lobbying the EC. If one country is proposing to do something that another affects the interests of another country, the latter can and should lobby the former. Foreign companies and governments lobby the US government on a regular basis, this is just the reciprocal of that.
Sovereign nations don't often let other countries dictate their policies, but they quite often listen to what other countries have to say about them.
Dictate policies, no. Heavily follow them when they come from the US? Too often. Of course, the reverse is true (Berne Convention) and of course the real point is not that sovereign nation A is talking to sovereign nation B but that companies in sovereign nation A and B are using A to pressure/suggest/lobby B to change their laws to their own advantage.
The a
Yea, reciprocal. An 800 lb gorilla US over a 50 lb country or a 50 lb country over an 800 lb gorilla US.
Disclaimer: I'm a US citizen, and as with most of us, despise lobbyists. Our legal system has made it a feeding frenzy, and next to impossible for anyone to put a stop to.
What evidence do you have that the US is doing any more lobbying than the EU is doing in the US? None of us here are in love with lobbyists, but there is certainly plenty of foreign lobbying here, ref.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States#Foreign_lobbying [wikipedia.org]
They have very good reason to feel threatened. If Europe starts to get its act together, American people may start to think that it is possible and demand the same.
U.S. has no jurisdiction or vote or representation in Europe
Neither it has anywhere outside of its borders.
Any opposition to European laws thus consists of some unofficial threats, right?
Nobody cares if the threats are official or not. Everybody just caves in.
...the "right to be forgotten" raises some free speech issues...
is one way to look at it, but the other way to look at it is that free speech raises some privacy issues. As the Stanford Law Review article recognises, there's a tension between the two and different cultures choose to give them different weights. That doesn't make either culture right or wrong.
...the "right to be forgotten" raises some free speech issues...
is one way to look at it, but the other way to look at it is that free speech raises some privacy issues. As the Stanford Law Review article recognises, there's a tension between the two and different cultures choose to give them different weights. That doesn't make either culture right or wrong.
True, and in the pre-Internet days, it didn't matter very much if two different cultures weighed those two issues quite differently But it gets much more complicated when we're all connected. Suppose a European creates a Facebook account (hosted in the US) and later wants some information removed. Which country's laws should prevail? It gets even more interesting if it isn't a big international company like Facebook, but a small US-based blog site, that someone in a foreign nation chooses to participate in. Whose laws prevail then?
The Internet is a wonderful thing, but difficulties do arise when different countries' approaches to freedom of speech differ, and both counties share the same global Internet.
Which is why sovereign states often look at the Internet with very mixed feelings. In the old days, doing business in a country meant dealing souly with their laws, nowadays, you can do business worldwide without a presence anywhere, subject largely to laws of your own choosing.
China has chosen to largely block "web2.0" and just leave the foreign Internet as merely a reference tool. Other countries are either doing the same or wishing they could, to have something so central to the lives of its citizens tha
But it gets much more complicated when we're all connected. Suppose a European creates a Facebook account (hosted in the US) and later wants some information removed. Which country's laws should prevail?
Facebook has a HQ in Ireland, so the EU laws would apply
The only out for Facebook is if the European citizen was in the USA when they created and updated the account...
That's likely to be a vanishingly small percentage of facebook users.
It gets even more interesting if it isn't a big international company like Facebook, but a small US-based blog site, that someone in a foreign nation chooses to participate in. Whose laws prevail then?
That's not at all interesting.
The European courts have no jurisdiction. End of conversation.
Finer legal minds than ours have parsed issues like this for a couple decades now.
I think the free speech issues trump it. Look the right to be forgot requires dictating what someone else can do or say about what the know. That is by its nature invasive. The privacy aspect on the other hand is not. If you don't want to have record of your activities on Facebook or anywhere else don't use it. If you don't trust a business with your personal information don't do business with them.
The choice is between invasive regulation and education should be selected. If this is really a serious
You're assuming the person has control over his own personal information. He does not. Our corporate overlords have.
I think the free speech issues trump it.
I imagine that most Americans would feel that way, and I strongly suspect that you're an American. But my point is that different people see it differently: firstly because there isn't a universal "right" answer; and secondly because we've been brought up to see the world through different lenses. To take a somewhat silly but hopefully instructive example: according to Wikipedia, English is the only official language in 28 U.S. states. Imagine a bill which made English the only official language of France.
It actually has nothing to do with free speech. The right won't allow people to silence their critics, only to remove material they themselves uploaded. It is about limiting the ability of companies to keep your data forever and make it inaccessible to you.
For example if you delete your Facebook profile it is actually just made inactive and they keep everything you every posted, every photo you ever uploaded and all your personal information going back to the moment you registered. That's not a free speech
but you can't stop other people writing about the event or newspapers reprinting the photo
Except that you can. There's already been at least one case where a court used the "right to be forgotten" to ban people writing about an event or reprinting a photo:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/the-right-to-be-forgotten/309044/ [theatlantic.com]
You idiot. That happened on the other side of the world, not in the EU. The law is totally different. It isn't a "version" of the EU rule, it is entirely unrelated. A sensationalist web site fooled you into thinking it was.
With extreme prejudice? I've seen 24.
Our personal data is worth money to others. They don't want their money taken from them.
No, no, you misunderstand. In reality Facebook is selflessly fighting for our rights to remember. They would allow you to delete the data, but they are concerned about freedom of expression being preserved. They said it right here:
Facebook in particular has strong objections to the right to be forgotten, claiming it "raises many concerns with regard to the right of others to remember and to freedom of expression"
"But the right to delete data becomes far more controversial when it involves Fleischerâ(TM)s second category: âoeIf I post something, and someone else copies it and re-posts it on their own site, do I have the right to delete it?â Imagine a teenager regrets posting a picture of herself with a bottle of beer on her own site and after deleting it, later discovers that several of her friends have copied and reposted the picture on their own sites. If she asks them to take down the pictures, and her friends refuse or cannot be found, should Facebook be forced to delete the picture from her friendsâ(TM) albums without the ownersâ(TM) consent based solely on the teenagerâ(TM)s objection?"
If Universal posts the latest Spiderman movie and I re-post it, they can have it taken down. This is just normal copyright and that's not limited to big companies or rich people.
Finally, there is Fleischerâ(TM)s third category of takedown requests: âoeIf someone else posts something about me, do I have a right to delete it?â This, of course, raises the most serious concerns about free expression. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that states cannot pass laws restricting the media from disseminating truthful but embarrassing informationâ"such as the name of a rape victimâ"as long as the information was legally acquired.
The proposed European regulation, however, treats takedown requests for truthful information posted by others identically to takedown requests for photos Iâ(TM)ve posted myself that have then been copied by others: both are included in the definition of personal data as âoeany information relatingâ to me, regardless of its source. I can demand takedown and the burden, once again, is on the third party to prove that it falls within the exception for journalistic, artistic, or literary exception.
This one sucks and shouldn't be there. Obviously people should be able to talk about others even if it's not journalism or art.
Generally, I think the questions on what's ok and what's not have been solved in law long before the Internet existed. This is just about spelling out how hosters should deal with takedown notices etc.
If Universal posts the latest Spiderman movie and I re-post it, they can have it taken down. This is just normal copyright and that's not limited to big companies or rich people.
But the copyright for a photograph belongs to the person who took the picture, not the person in the picture. (I recognize that in some cases, they may be the same person.) Suppose in the example given the picture wasn't taken by the person depicted with the beer bottle but by a third party, who gave consent to the second party to post the photo in her album which depicts the first party holding a beer bottle.
In the US, people have certain rights to their image that are not based in copyright. The person in the picture does not own the copyright, but they still have the right to control commercial use of the photo.
In the US, people have certain rights to their image that are not based in copyright. The person in the picture does not own the copyright, but they still have the right to control commercial use of the photo.
But how would my example be commercial use?
In that case there would be no right to have the photo removed. The right to be forgotten only applies to data you yourself uploaded or your personal data that a commercial company keeps records of (like name, DOB etc).
This one sucks and shouldn't be there. Obviously people should be able to talk about others even if it's not journalism or art.
I think the issue is more subtle than that. The question that I think is important is how those people came to have that information. Did I give it to them with the expectation that it would be used for one thing and their publishing it is using for something else. For example, showing an ID to prove my legal right to drink alcohol and get entry to a bar - I don't expect that bar to keep a record of my ID and then post a list of every customer on the bar's facebook page.
This is a little different because the EU is not [yet] a major wrongdoer with respect to privacy. The protest is more to bolster their nerve against heavy pressure from the US govt (a ne'er-do-well).
It enables the EU commissioners to say "The US is divided on this issue of privacy, with the govt saying one thing yet important people and organisations dissent)." So they get to do what they want anyways.
I've seen more good rulings come out of EU than the US. With no in-depth information on a subject, I would more trust the EU with my person (/personal information) than the US (Government/US companies)...
I really wish we would adopt the European standards on privacy. This is one area where I freely admit the Euro's are doing things right and we are blatantly being ass backwards about things.
I'm so glad the EU is doing something right and we're standing up to unhealthy US corporate practices.
The right to be forgotten is a brilliant idea. I know, I had it myself.
Who gains? The people.
Who loses? Companies whose business model is to whore our data.
Obviously, this right could only be invoked if the invoker was not in debt to the data-holding company. Likewise, the data-holding company can not be held responsible for consequences of missing data.
There are also some subtleties. Should eg FB be o
The right to be forgotten sounds appealing, it really does. When I first heard about it it sounded like something I liked. However the more I thought about it the more I thought about the **AA's playing whackamole and the logistical nightmares of actually trying to implement such a thing. The next problem is how do you separate it from censorship? It's also next to impossible to cleanly state when and where it should be granted.
Can you demand the right to be forgotten by corporate databases? Facebook sounds
Susan remembers Bob before he went crazy and wants to keep his picture up from their wedding. Does Bob's desire to remove himself from Facebook trump Susan's right to remember her husband as he was before he took the crazy train out of town?
Susan certainly has the right to retain a personal copy of such a photo, but if she insists on keeping it posted on FB, I'll insist on some counselling.
(Survivor of a marriage that ended when my partner, as you so quaintly put it, "rode the crazy train out of town".)
In the EU, people already have
the right to obtain from the [data] controller:
(a) [snip]
(b) as appropriate the rectification, erasure or blocking of data the processing of which does not comply with the provisions of this Directive, in particular because of the incomplete or inaccurate nature of the data;
(c) notification to third parties to whom the data have been disclosed of any rectification, erasure or blocking carried out in compliance with (b), unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort.
(Data Protection Directive [europa.eu]). So Jewell at the very least would have a right to insist that news agencies publish corrections (and I'm relieved to read that he won libel actions too).
Some of your other examples don't make any sense to me, possibly because I'm missing some cultural background. Do you name and shame bad renters on a website? And with the employer background check - how is it going to help this ex-colleague if when another company does a background check along the
Their are dedicated databases that are used for things like rental history and the like. In my case my renter was stealing from me, something that most people don't want to risk. I have a right to make sure that information is published in dedicated databases of bad renters.
In the case of the ex-colleage my point is he should not be helped. He should have had the FBI called and he should be sitting in prison, however that is another discussion. The company chose not to do so because they feared the publicit
The next problem is how do you separate it from censorship?
Since you can only use it to remove things you yourself uploaded it is at worse only self censorship.
Can you demand the right to be forgotten by corporate databases? Facebook sounds easy enough, but what about credit agencies, employers and news agencies?
It is quite simple actually. You created your Facebook profile, all the stuff on there was typed in by you and uploaded by you. You have the right to have it deleted.
Credit agencies and employers gather data from a variety of sources and are legally required to keep it for a certain amount of time. Once the legal requirements are expired you can ask for this information to be removed. In the case of credit a
Is it really this simple? I have dealt with one form of regulation (including some Euro regs) for many years now and I have never encountered something that simple. I don't know enough about how they are trying to do things, but having been there - done that with other regulations over the years I've learned bureaucracy is never simple.
I'm not opposed to the concenpt of the 'right to forget', it's the logistical details that make me go, 'wait a moment'. If you have any good primers on the actual in's and ou
What about the arguments against censorship of people. Hypothetical Bob has his account on Facebook and wants everything about him removed from Facebook. Susan remembers Bob before he went crazy and wants to keep his picture up from their wedding. Does Bob's desire to remove himself from Facebook trump Susan's right to remember her husband as he was before he took the crazy train out of town?
What's so crazy about removing yourself from facebook. YES his right to remove himself from Facebook trumps Susan's right to have their wedding picture on Facebook. If she want's to remember him, frame a picture and hang it on the friggin wall. I don't get why people should have the right to post Bob's picture on FB at all.
Personally I threaten everybody with murder so they don't put any pictures of me on facebook.
I don't think you understand how the EU works. The Commission will circulate an idea and will give the private sector and the national governments a number of years to submit feedback, it will then come up with a draft and then after a similar process with a proposal, which is voted on by the democractically elected EU parliament. In addition, national governments also negotiate the text of the directive. Once everyone is happy, the directive is sent to the national governments who the implement it.
What the
I don't think you understand how the EU works.
I pretend I do
What the Commission has is known as a legislative initiative, not the right to impose laws.
And it also has the ability to strip amendments from EU parliament before giving the text to the EU council, we saw that for the now dead Computer Implemented Inventions Directive (CCID) for software patents
But the monopoly of legislative initiative is also a powerful tool. Remember the Laval case? After the EU parliament removed the country of origin principle from the Directive on Services in the internal market, the EU court of justice ruled that since nothing was said in the directive, th
is to end the illusion that people are perfect.
There used to be a "right" to be forgotten in the US.
People used to move a couple states away to reset the clock.
But, sadly, we sold out to the former Reichsmarshals of the world.
Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. -- James J. Ling


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Picture Pages: Short Yardage Slant
wsg Slanty, the football-playing, jean-vested gecko who is inexplicably the first hit in Google images for "line slant football", or at least was a year ago.
One of my main concerns going into the season was what would happen to the short-yardage defense that Michigan was so good in a year ago without Mike Martin and RVB. Turning a third and short into a punt is 50% of a turnover, and Michigan could paper over a lot of deficiencies last year by telling Mike Martin to destroy some guys on third and one, thus allowing other guys to tackle.
Illinois disclaimers are in full effect—they can't do anything against anyone—but the Illini could do even less of anything against Michigan Saturday, and getting bombed on short yardage was a major part of that.
Michigan blew up Illinois short yardage with slants. Multiple times we saw this pattern:
- Michigan slants away from a power run.
- The playside end gets inside and upfield of the tackle or end trying to block down on him.
- The pulling guard bangs into the playside end.
- Linebackers profit.
Actually, Michigan doesn't so much "slant away" as show one defense and run another. When Michigan isn't running their base 4-3 under call they are inverting it by blitzing Ryan and moving everyone else over a gap.
Let's see it in action. /fishduck'd
It's fourth and one on the second and final Illini drive to make it past midfield, just before the half. Michigan has just stoned a power run by Riley O'Toole for a half yard to set up this opportunity. Illinois comes out in one of their standard sets, a pistol with two tight ends to one side of the line and twinned WRs.
Michigan is in an over this time since the strength is to the boundary, but Illinois will move a tight end over and not have an unbalanced strength on the line on the snap anyway so whatever.
This is what Michigan does:
They're essentially moving everyone over a a gap and dropping Ojemudia into a short zone. On run plays he "folds" which consists of backing off, keep an eye out for cutbacks, and allowing the linebackers to run to the frontside. If you're watching a replay and are wondering if Michigan's doing this gap-shift thing, the WDE backing off the LOS is a sure tip. If you watch for it, you will find it—Michigan runs this on upwards of 20% of downs.
On the snap, Ojemudia backs off and the line shoots down. Gordon, who is right behind Ojemudia in the above frame, has followed the TE across the field and now takes contain responsibility to the playside.
You can see the slant better from this angle:
Campbell is now attacking outside the left tackle, like he's a WDE. Roh and Ryan both shoot gaps to the inside. They get penetration, giving up an outside crease to do so.
Ryan gets under fast. He's essentially through clean, so the pulling G has no choice but to pick him off. Demens is already a yard off the LOS and charging as the handoff is made.
Now it's all about tackling.
Demens went inside out here as the back tried to go north and south on fourth and inches. That allows him to use the pile as help, and look at Desmond Morgan popping up to say hi/clean up any messes.
If you take a second look at this frame:
Note how Morgan is also clean and has stepped playside as the slant develops. He's still trying to check for any potential cutbacks and find the gap he's going to fill; he is available if the back makes Demens miss or threatens to power to the line.
[After THE JUMP: play it sort of again, Sam.]
Play It Again (Except Before, And Only Sort Of)
This is actually an earlier play, but it's a very similar setup. Short yardage, Pistol, twin WR, a two-TE set that starts off twinned but ends up with an H-back to the play side. The major difference is that Michigan is not showing man, so the safety doesn't move with the TE and Ryan ends up the contain instead of Thomas Gordon.
Also, Michigan is not slanting. Roh is head up on the tight end, and Washington is actually moving playside into two guys.
Roh just destroys his guy mano-a-mano and gets into the backfield.
Also check out Washington just below Roh. He eats a double and gets kicked out of the hole, but his playside move forced that G to deal with him and no one releases to the second level.
The net effect is the same as the Ryan slant above, except it seems like the OL is trying to slide past Roh and Roh is actively trying to impact him. Above, Ryan's trying to make a tackle when he gets hit. Here Roh knows he's just clearing the way.
Thanks to Washington successfully occupying both guys he was whomping into, Michigan gets both linebackers to the hole clean.
(Also Jake Ryan helps out with the ankle tackle there.)
Just watch Roh, DE to the top of the screen.
Things And Stuff
Illinois disclaimers apply. Not good, not good, not good.
Either way the key is to get a two-for-one on the LOS and get that linebacker a free hit. Kenny Demens has improved massively the last couple weeks and is now getting approving profiles in the things that used to be newspapers largely because of plays like this where the defensive line has laid out a TFL for him on a golden carpet. (Also he is making plays in coverage.)
The line does this by either using their agility and a Mattison play call to threaten a single gap so effectively they take out a pulling guard, or by plain whipping a tight end, as Roh does. In both plays, Quinton Washington seems to do nothing but no one releases to the second level.
At some point Michigan is going to get a much stiffer test on the OL but after three weeks of seeing this from Washington and Campbell I don't think MSU is going to be that test.
Roh knows what he's doing and has absorbed a lot of technique. This is the kind of thing Roh has been doing all year, for a given definition of "all year" that does not include Alabama and an option team. He's not physically overpowering; he is good with his hands and smart about what his role is. He could have futilely attempted to chase the back here—in fact did on an early somewhat successful power play by the Illini:
eyes on the back here
He got to the sideline, likely got told that he should be going for the guard, adjusted, and picked off a third and one with a play that does not show up on the scoresheet. The play after the jump there is a +2 that involves flat beating a guy with no help from the playcall. Illinois disclaimers apply; don't really care. He's finally found a position where he can make plays. That position move has been a success.
Washington is also doing things that don't involve penetration. On both of these plays he keeps Morgan clean by occupying two blockers with a slant and then a playside step. He made other plays in this game where he shot into the backfield; do that and the OL starts worrying about you and second level blocks stop happening and linebackers walk around with feathers sticking out of their mouth, saying "what canary?"
The linebackers are generally more decisive. The Demens see-gap-hit-gap-eat-soul is one part of it; also you can sense Morgan feeling the play behind that. He eases to the playside a bit to give him an edge on someone who might be releasing backside. He's reading the play through, and he shows up to help at the right spot. There's an air of "I am no longer a confused freshman" to him.
They'll still go blank on plays here and there, so this is a trend instead of a law of nature. You can sense their confidence growing, though, as they gain faith in the idea they're not going to eat a block a nanosecond after the snap and that if there's a slant on the play isn't going to cut back like whoah.
I like Greg Mattison. Also turtles.
I <3 Gmatt
Now I completely understand what Hoke and Mattison (and, well, Brian) are referencing when praising Roh while pointing out that his contributions will not necessarily result in stats that show up on the sheet. These detailed analyses also give me far greater insight into how one missed assignment (that I could not spot on my own), one misread, one false step can negatively impact the entire defensive playcall.
"Footwork in unison..." Ah-ha moment. I got it.
Love reading these.
Don't you mean Ojemudia, not Clark, "backs off". I'm pretty sure you do, because I can't find Clark
Suggest just going with "Clarmudia" from now on.
Hurt to piss for a week.
The test for it isn't all that much better.
Sounds too much like an STD.
Edit: Dammit, ChiBlueBoy beat me to the joke.
The eternal question...
is it Devin Ojemudia, or Devin Clark?
But on a slightly more serious note,
Is it MARRY-o or MARR-io (excuse my crude phonetic spelling), Because the announcers never could agree back in Manningham's day
Despite what a friend of mine from New Jersey says, it's MARR-io. Like this guy:
Does the openness of the slot guy bother anyone else?
I know this shifts the focus somewhat away from what actually happened (a run), but it looks like when Kovacs runs over to cover the slot guy, said guy has a good 7-8 yards to run a hitch or quick slant.
Is this something that a better QB will check into? It looks like once he has the ball in the video there's still plenty of cushion to work with. Is our coverage always this soft? Is this standard cushion when we "know" it's going to be a run? I would think we would press a little.
That's the first thing I saw too. In the very first picture, a bubble screen (or even just a "smoke" pass) is a free first down if the QB throws it anywhere near the WR. Sparty historically isn't averse to audibling to bubble screens, so I hope the defensive backs' alignment is one that is used based on an opponent's tendencies.
Thanks to you, Slanty is now the 4th highest result as well. Way to go Brian.
is MGoBlog at it's finest.; shining a light on the hidden games within the game. Fantastic.
Turtles carrying severed heads?
Wow! From the video of the 4th down it is apparent our defense has thoroughly scouted the Illinois offense. Notice how Gordon does not "follow" the TE across the field, he actually anticipates the movement and starts running before the TE does.
MWA HA HA HAAA! I like!
Don't have to look far at all for an example of this. They do this on the very 1st play of the game - slant left and Beyer steps forward then backs into the short zone. doesn't work so well this time though with both the safety and Ryan going wide with the jet action.
"Washington is also doing things that don't involve penetration."
Words to live by, yo. From a man married over 20 years to the young 'uns.
This post is great, why I love this blog.
It is also a postscript to all of the posts about why having Demmens line up a yard behind Martin so he could get killed by a guard on every play was a horrible idea. GERG should be forced to read this post - and then be hit in the head with a beaver. Not the stuffed kind (or the good kind - you know what I mean) but a real live water mammal with teeth and claws.
In regards to D-line slanting, I know others have asked on these boards about the nuances of slanting and what it does/how it works, there was another 3rd & 1 play where Demens makes a stop/TFL (3:31 in the parkinggod highlight video); it's pure domination by the Michigan defense, reminiscent of last year. I rememberd the play from the game, saw the highlight video the other day, and made note of it in few-days-old thread. I'm not a blog-master and can't break it down so eloquently, and maybe there's not as much going on in said play to break-down, nonetheless it's another play that exemplifies that this defense may still be a "3rd & short to bringing-out-the-punt-team", defense.
This is a perfect example of why it is not always necessary to slant toward the run play. In college we had a similar play call with the line slanting and the LBs going the opposite way as the line. This allows the LBs to fill those gaps even faster because they can anticipate where they need to fill.


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There is no argument for doing nothing
Published 6:34 pm, Friday, January 4, 2013
If the federal government wants to get you, your basement arsenal will not be much protection.
We spend about as much on our military as the rest of the world put together. If you get to thinking another American Revolution is in order, it's a guarantee you'll be outgunned.
This would appear obvious. It's apparently not. The nation's debate on guns is forced to accommodate people who believe they are poised to stand up to an Obama-led reign of tyranny, egged on by interest groups claiming to stand for freedom but who are mostly interested in selling more guns.
In reality, the line on legal weaponry is arbitrary. We could move it further out and allow people to buy backyard missile launchers. We could recognize the times in which the Second Amendment was written and restrict possession to nothing more advanced than what was available in the late 18th century. But it's wrong to say anything permissible today is sacrosanct.
Not that people won't argue the point. "Once you start drawing the line, where do you stop? That's why it is important to not just look at this emotionally." Those were the words of noted gun enthusiast Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas. He's not too bright, by all accounts, but he deserves credit for putting voice to this argument.
Because we do draw the line, right now. Or can you buy, say, an assault helicopter down in Louie's home district? I've never been there. Maybe Walmart has a wider selection in Texas.
We decide where the line is. And it's in the wrong place.
It's also wrong to say laws can't change anything. This country had an assault weapons ban for 10 years, and it's true it was not as effective as proponents had hoped. It didn't stop Columbine, as gun-control detractors never tire of pointing out. Nor, incidentally, did an armed guard on that school's campus.
But a law that wasn't effective is an argument for a better law, with fewer loopholes and more enforcement. It is not an argument for doing nothing.
Then there are those who say this is just another left-right political issue. In The New York Times, columnist Ross Douthat said the push for better gun control was about the "self-righteous certainties of the American center-left," equating it with New York City cracking down on extra-large sodas.
Chris Powell, a columnist on state issues often featured in these pages, says gun control is about making the "political left feel more righteous," adding that what they "really want" -- he's using his mind-reading powers, apparently -- is to disarm the law-abiding.
It is, in its own way, as offensive as the ramblings of the NRA's Wayne LaPierre trying to blame shootings on anything other than guns.
Maybe they haven't yet grasped what actually happened in Newtown.
This is not self-righteousness. This is not another left-right issue. We're not talking about the estate tax.
People just want it to not happen again, whatever that takes. That's all.
But there's every reason to doubt real change is coming. The nation's attention has already wandered. There was that fiscal cliff drama, resolved only with the promise of another budget showdown in a few months. And the president remains confronted with a House of Representatives whose majority members see no need to meet him halfway on anything, especially not on an issue so vital to their re-election hopes.
No one would have believed it immediately afterwards, but it's likely our federal gun laws will change hardly at all. And we'll gird ourselves for the next Sandy Hook, which, as we've seen, could happen anywhere.
Hugh Bailey is assistant editorial page editor of the Connecticut Post.


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Forza Horizon is gearing up for its October 23 launch, but you can give it a spin and get a bonus livery for doing so. The demo will be available on October 9, and Microsoft and Playground Games have released a trailer to celebrate.
The demo covers the Colorado region, with a variety of cars and event types to keep you occupied. Completing events in the demo will also mark them as "Rivals Mode" events, pitting your times against other players. Finally, the demo will offer a "section" of the larger game map to get a sense of the open world--but no word on just how big that section will be.
If you download the demo and then play the game, you'll get a custom 2013 SRT Viper GTS livery out of the deal. That may sweeten the pot enough to purchase the game for racing fans, but it will probably have to be one heck of a demo to coax an additional 50 bucks out of people for the season pass.
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Seashore Trolley Museum
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Closed cars had a roof, floor, end bulkheads, and sides with windows that could not be removed, although they could be opened.
Closed cars were generally in use during the cooler months of the year. Some closed cars had coal-burning water heaters that heated the cars.


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Nick Barmby has been sacked as manager of Hull City, less than five months are being promoted to the role on a full-time basis.
Barmby was believed to have been suspended by the club last week, although the Tigers made no official confirmation. It is believed his comments made to BBC Radio Humberside prompted the club to reprimand him.
A second disciplinary hearing is believed to have been presided by owners Assem and Ehab Allam, which led to his dimissal.
The club released a statement which read: "The reason for the dismissal relates to certain comments made by Nick in recent interviews. The comments concerned were wholly misleading and implied that the Board had not made funds available to Nick to strengthen the First Team squad during the January transfer window.
"Such is not only completely untrue, the comments made by Nick contradicted the Board's publicly stated position that funds would be made available to Nick during the January transfer window. As stated in previous interviews, the Board accepted every transfer request from Nick and in fact actively encouraged him to strengthen the squad should he feel it was necessary.
"The Board consider the comments made by Nick unjustifiably cast public doubt on the honesty and integrity of the Board and its members. The relationship between the Team Manager and the Board is of prime importance to the success of any Football Club. In making the comments Nick made, he completely undermined the trust and confidence that needs to exist between the Team Manager and the Board."
The club's head of football operations, Adam Pearson, was sacked a week ago as the Allams refused to confirm whether or not Barmby had been suspended.
Pearson, 47, spent six years as chairman of the club from 2001, had his consultancy role terminated "without notice and without compensation".
Hull lost 2-1 at West Ham in their final game of the season, finishing eighth in the table and seven points outside of the play-off places.
After the match Barmby candidly spoke with about his aspirations for the club in the future, as they seek to return to the Premier League.
"I want this club to be pushing because, if we push, we get better, standards get higher and this club needs to be in and amongst the teams pushing for promotion," he said.
"Everything's got to be right, we've said things and we've got to back them up, including me."
The 38-year-old was appointed caretaker coach after Nigel Pearson left the club for Leicester City in November 2011, before he announced his retirement from playing January this year prior to his appointment as manager on a full-time basis.
He won 13 of his 33 games during his tenure as Tigers coach.


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Featured News
Higher Learning Commission gives green light for consolidation
April 15, 2013 | Ashli O'Connell
The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) has notified the presidents of the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, Central Bible College, and Evangel University that their application to consolidate the three institutions has been approved.
"I am thrilled and thankful that the journey we began over two years ago has culminated in this moment," states Dr. George O. Wood, general superintendent of the Assemblies of God and chairman of the Transitional Board of Trustees for the consolidation.
The consolidated Evangel University will open fall 2013. The Transitional Board meeting last month unanimously elected Dr. Carol Taylor, currently president of Vanguard University, Costa Mesa, California, as president-elect of the University. She will serve as chief executive officer and lead all consolidation efforts as plans move forward. She begins her duties July 1, 2013.
In November 2010, the church's executive presbytery began a process to consolidate the three institutions. Early in January 2011, the boards of directors of the schools met and agreed to appoint a Task Force that would provide a mission statement, core values, structure, governance and bylaws for the consolidated university.
The Task Force report in May was sent to the boards and subsequently, in separate actions, approved by each. This report then went in August 2011 to the General Presbytery and on to the biennial business meeting of the Assemblies of God. Both bodies voted overwhelmingly to move forward with the consolidation.
Once approval from Assemblies of God business meeting in session was received, more than 200 people from all three of the schools began working on various facets of the application to the HLC. The 6,000-page report was submitted last June.
Wood expressed deep appreciation to Presidents Byron Klaus (AGTS); Gary Denbow (CBC); and Robert Spence (EU) who worked untiringly for this effort. He also thanked the David Green family who donated $5 million to make the consolidation possible.
"Now our real work begins," he said. "As we consolidate the student bodies, there will need to be much thought and effort given to developing the structure of the university."
The Assemblies of God Theological Seminary will be embedded into the university and will have oversight of the School of Theology and Church Ministries within the university, including all classes both undergraduate and graduate. This school will be the first to begin in fall 2013. Other schools to be phased in as soon as possible are the Schools of Arts and Sciences; Behavioral Science; Business and Communications; and Fine Arts.
It is anticipated the full implementation of the consolidation will be completed by 2020. During this time, the full structure of the university will be implemented and the vision for the school will be established in its most expanded form.


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Winslow Wheeler, of the Washington-based Centre for Defence Information, says the debate following last week's auditor general report needs to move beyond the eye-popping cost, muddied procurement process and what cabinet ministers knew — or didn't know.
"It needs serious and objective people to look at it and to come up with fact-filled findings that translate into conclusions and recommendations, rather than vague, fuzzy-worded auditor reports and high-octane politician statements," Wheeler said in an interview Monday.
"Your opposition parties seem to be acting like typically weak politicians, crying foul and demanding resignations knowing that not much is going to happen. I'm not sure where all of this is going other than adding to the volume level of Canadian politics."
In its response to auditor general Michael Ferguson's inaugural report, the Harper government last week committed to specifically reviewing the acquisition and sustainment costs of the F-35.
It also said, among other things, the Defence Department will provide "technical briefs as needed on performance schedule and cost" to the new secretariat that will oversee the replacement of the air force's aging CF-18s.
But Wheeler questioned whether the military, which was accused in Ferguson's report of overselling the merits of the plane, is capable of delivering an impartial assessment.
No one in either Canada or the U.S. is asking what they're getting for the billions of dollars they're about to spend and whether the aircraft will perform as promised, he said.
"Even if this flying piano works, it will still be a gigantic disappointment in terms of performance," said Wheeler, who's testified before Parliament on the F-35 and spent years as an analyst at the U.S. General Accounting Office.
Specifically, he says an ongoing, independent analysis should challenge the manufacturer's "glitzy" claims on things such as the term fifth-generation aircraft, which he describes as slick marketing.
Tough questions need to be asked about the aircraft's actual stealth capability because there are certain types of radar, already in existence, that can detect the F-35, said Wheeler.
Other questions need to be asked about the aircraft's ability to defend itself from air-to-air missiles fired at a distance and how it performs as a fighter.
"These are all very basic questions that neither your country, nor mine has looked into," he said.
Last week, the Pentagon released a Selected Acquisition Report for the Joint Strike Fighter and it suggests operational testing and evaluation of the F-35 will not be completed now until 2019.
"We won't know what (kind of aircraft) we have until after that testing and the laundry list of fixes is in and we can cost them out," said Wheeler.
A former head of the air force, retired lieutenant-general Ken Pennie, said all new aircraft go through teething pains.
"Seems to me the problems of performance on F-35 are relatively minor and not much different than any other complex aircraft at this stage of development," said Pennie, who was chief of air staff between 2003 and 2005. "I'm not sure there is much to audit until it gets out of the development cycle and we know more."
And even if the research is conducted, he said the "issue of costs is so highly charged nobody will really listen to the facts."
Wheeler said waiting until 2019 to evaluate the plane would be a disaster for the Royal Canadian Air Force because the current fleet of CF-18s only have enough airframe life to take them into the early 2020's.
The country's top military commander, Gen. Walt Natynczyk, gave the plane a vote of confidence on Monday.
"This is a research and development project that has come a long way," Natynczyk said while attending a ceremony in Ottawa marking the 95th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge. "It is flying and it will have all of the tools that our men and women need."
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BOSTON – Sen. Richard T. Moore, D-Uxbridge, announced today that the 73rd Citizens' Legislative Seminar will be held on Tuesday, Oct. 14th and Wednesday, Oct. 15th from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the State House.
The CLS is a citizen seminar that aims to educate the public on the commonwealth's legislative process.
Established in 1976, the two-day seminar features presentations by senators and staff on the day-to-day operations at the State House. Topics include history of the Legislature, the legislative process, the parliamentary role of the Clerk of the Senate, and the future challenges of the Legislature.
CLS participants will also attend a legislative hearing and Senate session where they can see first-hand what they learned and participate as "senators" in the Senate Chamber.
Any interested residents of the Worcester and Norfolk senatorial district are invited to contact Sean Riley at the State House Office at (617) 722-1420, or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com, by Aug. 28th to seek Sen. Moore's nomination.
Participation is on a first-come, first-serve basis.
For more information about Sen. Moore's efforts to promote civic engagement and learning, visit
www.senatormoore.com, or follow him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/senatormoore) or Twitter (www.twitter.com/SenDickMoore).