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The Onslow Commission for Persons with Disabilities hosted its third annual Disability Day Ice Cream Social Saturday afternoon at Jacksonville Commons Rec Center.
The Onslow Commission for Persons with Disabilities hosted its third annual Disability Day Ice Cream Social Saturday afternoon at Jacksonville Commons Rec Center.
The event promoted public awareness and inclusion of the disabled and serves as an annual stage to inform of general and work-related rights for the disabled.
More than 150 patrons enjoyed free ice cream and games and browsed informational booths at the event. One of the more popular attractions for the children was a fish bowl carnival-style game where a ball could be tossed into one of many bowls for a small prize.
On the dance floor, tunes such as The Chicken Dance and The Electric Slide kept people�s feet moving as they took a break from the information booths. Service dogs also helped with another welcomed distraction for the children.
�We try to come to this thing every year,� said Mary Metts, a Jacksonville resident and mother of a 6-year-old son with autism. �It�s so easy to isolate yourself when you have a child with a disability so these kinds of events a good chance to get out of the house and socialize with other people in similar situations.�
Joining the disabled persons advocates were representatives from Onslow Country Sheriff�s Office and Jacksonville Fire Department. Outside the rec center, volunteer firemen supervised children as they investigated and played in a fire truck.
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�Our community is very diverse,� Shreve said. �Since people are moving around all the time, we feel like we can�t have enough of these kinds of events to get this information out there.�
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A Farmington man was charged Friday by Ontario County sheriff's deputies with third-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
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2014: Comedian, actress, author and TV host Joan Rivers dies at age 81 at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City a week after experiencing complications during what was scheduled as a minor throat procedure at an outpatient clinic. She stopped breathing during the procedure, but was later resuscitated and put on life support. Rivers died without ever having woken from a medically induced coma. She originally rose to fame in the 1960s on her mentor Johnny Carson's "The Tonight Show" and eventually became the first woman to host a late night network talk show in 1986 with "The Late Show with Joan Rivers." She also appeared in movies such as "Spaceballs" and "The Muppets Take Manhattan," but in later years became more known for red carpet interviews with celebrities, often alongside her daughter Melissa Rivers. She also co-hosted the celebrity fashion show "Fashion Police" and starred in the reality TV series "Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?" with her daughter. [ + - ]
2008: Sen. John McCain accepts the Republican presidential nomination at the party's convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. [ + - ]
2006: Australian wildlife expert and TV personality Steve "The Crocodile Hunter" Irwin dies after being pierced in the chest by a stingray barb while filming an underwater documentary film at the Great Barrier Reef. He was 44 years old. [ + - ]
2001: Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. The park, which has an overall nautical exploration theme to it, is the most expensive theme park ever built, estimated to have cost more than $4 billion. [ + - ]
1998: Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University. [ + - ]
1993: French actor Hervé Villechaize, best known for playing Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, on the television series "Fantasy Island," dies at age 50 in North Hollywood, California, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He also played evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film "The Man with the Golden Gun" and was an acclaimed painter. [ + - ]
1993: New York Yankees pitcher Jim Abbott, who was born without a right hand, pitches a no-hitter against the Cleveland Indians. Abbott, who retired in 1999 after nine seasons in the major leagues, is seen here earlier that season. [ + - ]
1991: Country singer Dottie West dies at the age of 58 from injuries she suffered in a car accident five days earlier. West was the first female country Grammy winner, winning in 1965 for her top-10 hit "Here Comes My Baby Back Again." Some of her other hits included "Would You Hold It Against Me," "Paper Mansions," "Country Sunshine," "Last Time I Saw Him," "A Lesson in Leavin'" and "Are You Happy Baby?" [ + - ]
1986: Hall of Fame baseball player Hank Greenberg, one of the premier power hitters of his generation, dies of metastatic kidney cancer at age 75 in Beverly Hills, California. Greenberg, who played all but one season of his 13-season MLB career with the Detroit Tigers, was a five-time All-Star, was twice named the American League's Most Valuable Player and won two World Series titles with the Tigers. He still holds the AL record for most RBIs in a single season by a right-handed batter and also became famous as the first Jewish superstar in American professional sports. In 1940, he became the first American League ballplayer drafted. He was released on Dec. 5, 1941, two days before Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, but re-enlisted and ended up serving 45 months, the longest of any major-league player. [ + - ]
1981: Singer and actress Beyonce Knowles is born in Houston, Texas. [ + - ]
1972: Swimmer Mark Spitz captures his seventh Olympic gold medal as a member of the winning U.S. team in the 400-meter medley relay event at Munich, Germany, becoming the first Olympian to win seven gold medals. [ + - ]
1971: Actress Ione Skye, best known for the 1989 movie "Say Anything...," is born Ione Skye Leitch in Hertfordshire, England. [ + - ]
1967: "Gilligan's Island" airs for the last time. The sitcom ran for 98 episodes over three seasons. Although it earned solid ratings, including ranking in the top 20 its first two seasons, it would grow in popularity during decades of syndication, especially in the 1970s and 1980s. [ + - ]
1965: Albert Schweitzer, the theologian and physician who received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of "Reverence for Life," dies at age 90 in Lambaréné, Gabon. [ + - ]
1964: The Animals give their debut performance at the U.S. Paramount Theater in Brooklyn, New York. [ + - ]
1962: The Beatles begin recording at EMI's Abbey Road Studios for the first time, recording "Love Me Do." [ + - ]
1957: Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus calls out the National Guard to prevent black students from enrolling in Central High School in Little Rock. [ + - ]
1957: The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel. The car turned out to be so unpopular that it was taken off the market after only two years. [ + - ]
1951: In the first live coast-to-coast TV broadcast, President Harry S. Truman addresses the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference in San Francisco. [ + - ]
1949: Golfer Tom Watson is born in Kansas City, Missouri. In the 1970s and 1980s, Watson was one of the leading players in the world, winning eight major championships and heading the PGA Tour money list five times. He was the No. 1 player in the world according to McCormack's World Golf Rankings from 1978 until 1982. His eight major championships included five British Open championships, two Masters titles and one U.S. Open title. [ + - ]
1941: A German submarine makes the first attack against an American ship, the USS Greer, three months before the United States officially entered World War II. The incident led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to issue what became known as his "shoot-on-sight" order. [ + - ]
1939: A Bristol Blenheim is the first British aircraft to cross the German coast following the declaration of World War II. [ + - ]
1928: Actor Dick York, best known for his role as the first Darrin Stephens on the sitcom "Bewitched," is born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Stephens starred on "Bewitched" starting in 1964, but was forced to give up the role in 1969 because of a debilitating back injury he had suffered a decade earlier. He spent the rest of his life fighting not only back pain but also an addiction to prescription painkillers before dying from complications of emphysema at the age of 63 in 1992. [ + - ]
1923: The maiden flight of the first U.S. rigid airship, the USS Shenandoah, takes place. [ + - ]
1908: Author Richard Wright, whose work, including "Black Boy" and "Native Son," helped redefine discussions of race relations in America in the mid-20th century, is born in Roxie, Mississippi. He died of a heart attack at the age of 52 on Nov. 28, 1960. [ + - ]
1893: English author Beatrix Potter first tells the story of "Peter Rabbit" in a letter to the eldest son of her former governess Annie Carter Moore. [ + - ]
1888: George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film. [ + - ]
1886: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to Gen. Nelson Miles in Skeleton Canyon, Arizona. [ + - ]
1862: Following his victory in the Northern Virginia Campaign, Gen. Robert E. Lee moves north with 55,000 men of the Army of Northern Virginia through the Shenandoah Valley in his first invasion of the North. Lee's invasion attempt was eventually repulsed by the Army of the Potomac under Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, who intercepted Lee's forces and attacked near Sharpsburg, Maryland. The resulting Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single-day battle in American history and is widely considered one of the major turning points of the war. [ + - ]
1846: Architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham, who took a leading role in the creation of master plans for the development of a number of cities, including Chicago and downtown Washington, D.C., and designed several famous buildings, including the Flatiron Building in New York City and Union Station in Washington, D.C., is born in Henderson, New York. [ + - ]
1803: Sarah Childress Polk, the first lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849 as the wife of President James K. Polk, is born Sarah Childress in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. [ + - ]
1781: What would become Los Angeles, California, is founded as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porziuncola) by 44 Spanish settlers. The settlement remained a small ranch town for decades, but by 1820 the population had increased to about 650 residents. [ + - ]
Los Angeles is founded, Arkansas' governor calls out the National Guard to prevent the integration of a Little Rock school, swimmer Mark Spitz sets a new Olympic gold medal mark, and Google is founded, all on this day.


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From: Canadian Space Agency
Posted: Monday, February 25, 2013
The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), today celebrated the successful launch of the Canadian space telescope, the Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat). NEOSSat launched at 7:31 (EST) from Sriharikota, India aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket together with Department of National Defence''s satellite Sapphire.
"Today marks another milstone for Canada''s world renowned space sector. This microsatellite is a testament to Canadian ingenuity and leadership in advanced space technology," said Minister Paradis. "Our Government will continue to support the development of this vital sector to ensure it can continue to foster innovative technologies and create high-quality jobs for Canadians."
Known as Canada''s "Sentinel in the Sky", NEOSSat is the world''s first experimental microsatellite designed to detect and track space objects, debris and satellites. Funded and managed jointly by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), NEOSSat will perform multiple tasks, while carrying out two distinct missions serving the needs of the science and defence communities.
"Today''s successful launch is a great accomplishment made possible by Canadian specialized expertise and technology that has literally pushed the boundaries of innovation. As NEOSSat becomes fully operational, the satellite will provide us with key data and imagery from the unique vantage point of space to become our Sentinel in the Sky" said Gilles Leclerc, Acting President of the CSA.
The suitcase-sized NEOSSat will orbit approximately 800 kilometres above the Earth, searching for near-Earth asteroids and space objects that are difficult to spot using ground-based telescopes. Because of its location, NEOSSat will not be limited by the day-night cycle and will operate 24/7.
For more details about the microsatellite NEOSSat, visit: http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/neossat/default.asp
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Venice. A romantic town with a rich history dating to about the second century. Venice would rise to power and dominate much of northern Italy, the Adriatic Sea and become the launchpoint of the Crusades.
Please forgive these photos which for some reason have become defective and so I decided to scan them in order to preserve them. The defects are obvious in some but should not detract from the images. I will one day edit out the blemishes.
Venice is a truly amazing city with so much to see and photograph. I have literally hundreds of photos including some truly amazing pictures from Carnivale (Marti Gras) with the fantastic costumes parading through the immensely crowded Piazza San Marco.
Venice is also the quintessential Italian tourist trap with thousands upon thousands of tourists from every part of the globe crodwding into too narrow streets buying overpriced merchandise, generally poor quality food (unless you leave the traditional tourist areas) and finding practically no public restroom facilities. I was there so many times (mainly to show my visiting friends and their wives) I could conduct guided tours, though I much preferred other less travelled villages and historical treasures off the beaten path.
I have decided to to post just a few pictures of some of the common sites. I returned to Venice about five years ago and found the great restoration projects that had begun in San Marco Square were finally complete and city had a fresh, newer look.
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Residents wait for their turn at a food bank in Cumberland, Maryland.
Cumberland, Maryland, is in the western handle of the state, sitting atop Virginia near the narrows that once funneled settlers through the mountains and into the West. It's the biggest city in the area, with about 20,000 people. The railroads were once the largest industry here, and freight trains still rumble through the downtown, past an old sign for the Cumberland Steel Company and a hilly jumble of old red-brick factories, two-story offices, and church spires. Now, as in almost every other rural part of the country, the biggest employer is the local hospital.
The hospital, Western Maryland Health Systems, is participating in a statewide experiment that officials hope will control hospital costs and also make the state's population healthier. The State of Maryland has been trying to control health-care costs since the 1970s, but its efforts are getting new attention because the federal government gave the state a waiver under the Affordable Care Act to continue the experiment and study the effects.
Hospitals like Western Maryland Health will see their reimbursements through Medicare and Medicaid capped and stabilized, replacing a fee-for-service model that reimbursed doctors and hospitals for every test, treatment, and medication administered. Critics of the fee-for-service system have long argued that it underpays doctors for preventive care and rewards them for both unnecessary treatments and substandard care that can result in further illness, like when patients pick up an infection during a hospital stay and must be readmitted. The hope is that Maryland's model will encourage doctors and hospitals to practice more preventive care and work to keep patients healthier.
The challenge for the state becomes apparent in a city like Cumberland, and surrounding Allegany County. The county has a poverty rate of 16 percent. A notch above the national average and seven points higher than Maryland's, the health of the country's population is ranked third poorest in the state. In Allegany County, the particular health problems faced by low-income families are abundant: obesity, poor nutrition, asthma, and untreated mental health issues, just to name a few. "The single biggest challenge in Allegany County is our poverty," says Dr. Sue Raver, a health officer at the local health department. "Poverty drives most of our negative health results."
To make these populations healthier, officials must tackle the issues associated with concentrated poverty. For now, state efforts are focused on improving the care of people with particular illnesses, by dispatching community outreach teams who visit homes make sure that a child with asthma or an adult with diabetes is taking his or her medication regularly and following doctors' orders, a routine that would decrease the need for emergency care. In time, however, some advocates hope that the system would reach even further back into preventive care, to provide nutrition and health counseling in ways that prevent illnesses from taking hold in the first place. "The Western Maryland Health System has been involved for years in community needs assessments and providing care appropriate to the needs, but now the shift is moving from more sick-care to more well-care," Raver says.
The availability of well-care would call for a more encompassing system than most Americans have access to now. "If you begin to work on controlling the health-care spending in an area, you have to be able to confront and understand some of those social determinants of health," says John M. Colmers, chairman of the state's Health Services Cost Review Commission and a vice president at Johns Hopkins Medicine.
In the area around Cumberland, the obesity rate is almost 29 percent, nutrition is poor and food insecurity is high. Educating local people in the basics of food choices and preparation, and the importance of exercise, is seen as critical to improving their health. Several organizations have been working to increase nutrition and physical activity in these communities, and help low-income families stretch small budgets, including their ever-shrinking food-stamp dollars, throughout the month. One is the University of Maryland's extension office for the county, staffed by educators who counsel families with children, run group nutrition and exercise education programs for youth and their parents, and help at local food banks, passing out recipes for healthy meals.
Katheryn Kinsman and Eileen Morgan of the UM extension office have been working in the area for 26 years. Over that time, they've worked with new parents whose electricity has been cut off because they can't afford to pay the bills. They've helped families who rent apartments without appliances in them. At times, they've had to buy clients a pot and wooden spoon before their nutrition classes could begin.
Teaching families to prepare nutritious, home-cooked meals is a key element of their sessions, and often instruction is as basic as teaching someone to chop and stir. Once, one of Kinsman's clients called excited because she'd made a home-cooked meal for the first time: It was Hamburger Helper. The lack of cooking skills seems mostly to be generational, say Kinsman and Morgan: Easy, inexpensive food that doesn't require home preparation has been available for decades. But the health effects of the carbohydrate-laden, fatty, salty diet that is so cheaply available in this country fall hardest on the lowest-income Americans, for whom fresh fruits and vegetables may seem out of reach, and who may not have the space and equipment—or, especially, time—to teach themselves to cook. Finely prepared home meals have become a luxury for the well off.
"If you're a mom with very little resources and several kids, and you go into the market and you can get a box of 12 cupcakes for a dollar, while apples are a dollar apiece, which are you going to buy?" asks Kinsman.
Add to that a general lack of safe space in which to exercise in many rural and urban areas. One of the programs offered by the local extension office is a class on exercise at the Cumberland community center. For families in outlying areas without cars, or who can't afford gas, however, just getting to the city center is a struggle.
Even gaining entry to home-counsel families is a problem. Routinely, Kinsman and Morgan visit homes only to find that no one will let them in. By contrast, large gains in health made in the early days of Britain's National Health Service came about, in part, because citizens there were willing to let the government prod them into living healthier lives. They were more accepting of the supports, interventions, and counseling the health service provided. In rural areas around Cumberland, Kinsman and Morgan have found that people are especially resistant to similar efforts. "There is an extreme amount of pride here, and just forming any kind of rapport here is hard," Morgan says. "Just getting in the door is hard."
The challenges faced by Kinsman and Morgan and their colleagues over the years hints at a problem that could be shared by the health-care providers in the Maryland plan. The state's health-care plan includes community outreach teams to visit patients' the homes to try to make sure people take their medicines and follow doctors' orders.
It's a tall order. Yet many service providers in low-income areas like Cumberland want a holistic system that incorporates the range of the population's health needs. Kelly Snyder works at HOPE Station in Cumberland, a nonprofit that provides services and peer counseling for people with mental health challenges. Once a month, she and her husband, Dan Snyder, the center's manager, run a local food bank. Employees from the extension office often come to help, pass out recipes, and teach people how to cook healthy food.
The problems HOPE station clients face are manifold: too little money, too little food, poor mental and physical health made worse by the lack of money and food, and a life that is greatly affected by the vagaries of policy changes in Washington, D.C. Kelly Snyder used the example of a potential minimum wage hike from $7.25 to more than $10 an hour, a proposal that is stalled in the gridlocked Congress, but one that President Barack Obama supports. "If you raise the minimum wage, then, for a lot of people who work part-time in low-wage jobs, their incomes will go up and their food stamps will go down," she says.
A similar problem happens when people on disability see their benefits go up—a marginal uptick in income can mean a substantial loss of other benefits. For those people, the changes don't make them any better off. She says she sees it happen all the time in almost every policy area designed to help low-income families, like trying to smooth out an air bubble under plastic, only to see it pop up elsewhere. She wants the state and the government to keep that in mind as they think of making changes in health care. "They have to look at the whole picture," she says. "When you can't feed yourself it's going to cause depression; children are going without food, and that's the truth. Everything is like a ripple effect from there."


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Functional Neuromodulation, Ltd. Appoints Vince Owens to Board of Directors
"Vince brings to the Board additional operational experience, strategic vision and a successful track record as an entrepreneur in neuromodulation, one of the fastest growing segments of the medical device industry," says Dan O'Connell, Functional Neuromodulation Co-Founder and CEO. "We look forward to leveraging the expertise of Vince and our Board as we propel the company forward and deepen our understanding of the use of DBS for cognition in mild Alzheimer's disease patients."
Mr. Owens was previously Co-Founder, CEO and Director of Intelect Medical, a developer of DBS technologies to improve the lives of patients with Parkinson's and other neurological diseases. He was with the company from its inception in 2005 until its acquisition in 2011 by Boston Scientific for $78 million. Prior to Intelect, Mr. Owens was founding CEO and a Director of Biomec Cardiovascular, a developer of implantable devices for neuromodulation and cardiac rhythm management, which he led through acquisition by Enpath Medical. Mr. Owens earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and his MBA from Ashland University.
"Given the profound economic and societal impact of Alzheimer's Disease and recent disappointments in drug studies, there is an urgent need for effective treatments for patients. DBS represents a truly innovative and promising brain circuitry-based treatment method," says Owens. "Alzheimer's has the potential to become the largest DBS market indication, and Functional Neuromodulation's initial clinical research results and rapid execution of the ADvance Study has been quite impressive. I look forward to working with Dan and the Functional Neuromodulation team."
Mr. Owens joins Company Co-Founder and CEO Dan O'Connell; Founding Scientist Andres Lozano, MD, PhD; Kelly Holman, Managing Director of Genesys Capital; and Andrew D. Firlik, MD, Managing Partner at Foundation Medical Partners on the Functional Neuromodulation Board. Lothar Krinke, Ph.D., Vice President and General Manager of Medtronic's Deep Brain Stimulation business serves as an active Board observer.
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Founded in Toronto, Ontario in 2010, Functional Neuromodulation is dedicated to advancing the application of DBS therapies to help improve the lives of people with Alzheimer's and other memory and cognitive disorders. The company is currently conducting the ADvance Study at leading research centers in North America to evaluate the safety and potential clinical benefit of DBS of the fornix (DBS-f), a major inflow and output pathway in the brain's memory circuit, for patients with mild Alzheimer's. The Company has received funding from Genesys Capital, Foundation Medical Partners and Medtronic. For more information, visit www.functionalneuromodulation.com.
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Andre Villas-Boas has today insisted Fernando Torres is not for sale at any price, amid transfer reports linking him with a transfer.
The Spanish striker has struggled for form since his £50m move from Liverpool, and has been used mainly as a substitute this season.
Kenny Dalglish today continued to pledge his support to Liverpool striker Luis Suarez, as he FA disciplinary hearing continues this afternoon.
Suarez is alleged to have directed racial abuse towards Manchester United defender Patrice Evra in October. A decision is expected tomorrow.
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Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has insisted there is "no way on earth" the club will sell Luka Modric or Gareth Bale.
Arsene Wenger is prepared to loan out Ryo Miyachi to Feyernood in January in order to fie the Japenese youngster first team experience.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson could make a £20m bid for Jack Rodwell to bolster his midfield ranks.
Chelsea are said to planning an audacious bid for in form Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain.
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The Florida panther is a highly endangered subspecies of mountain lion; due to habitat destruction from urban and agricultural development, fewer than 50 survive. Protection under the ESA is essential in preventing the extinction of this imperiled animal and its environment. The grizzly bear is a threatened species, but sadly, the ESA listing of the Yellowstone National Park grizzly population is currently at risk.
You hear about them, but to see one in the wild is rare. Many are charismatic and popular, such as the grizzly bear and the Florida panther, while others are obscure and unknown, like the humpback chub and the pallid manzanita. Whether mammal, plant, fish, crustacean or arthropod, they all share a common trait—they are species whose continued existence is largely due to the protections afforded by the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Some, like the US population of only 30 Sonoran pronghorn, remain precariously balanced on the brink of extinction. Others, like the American bald eagle—though still classified as a threatened species—have made a remarkable recovery from near disappearance. Yet abroad, the endangered Bengal tiger remains at risk due to habitat destruction and illegal hunting to fuel an illicit trade. And the American alligator is no longer protected by the ESA, as its numbers have recovered to the point that its future seems secure.
The ESA is a safety net for over 1800 species, including nearly 600 foreign species. Considered one of the strongest environmental laws in the world, it requires federal agencies to make every effort to protect and recover imperiled US species and their habitats. Over its 32 years of existence, the ESA has been remarkably successful in preventing the extinction of 99 percent of protected species. Unfortunately, the US Fish and Wildlife Service's implementation of the ESA has been lackluster, frequently requiring litigation to force the agency's compliance with the law and to challenge scientifically fraudulent listing decisions. According to a recent report by the Center for Biological Diversity, at least 85 species have gone extinct without ever being afforded ESA protections, including 24 species whose listings were delayed.
The protection mandated by the ESA to facilitate species recovery has made it a frequent target of developers, ranchers and extractive industries. They criticize the effectiveness of the law, claiming that it impairs development and access to our natural resources. Those statements, regardless of their legitimacy, have led to a weakening of the ESA through regulatory changes. This has allowed—among other things—agreements with landowners permitting land development, regardless of the long-term implications to protected species. Not satisfied with such administrative changes to the ESA, those opposed to the law have continued their efforts to seek assistance from anti-environmental politicians on Capitol Hill to legislate its destruction.
One of these politicians is Representative Richard Pombo (R-CA), a rancher from central California who has been determined to undermine the ESA since his election in 1992. In September 2005, relying on factual misrepresentations, Pombo and his colleagues succeeded by a vote of 229 to 193 in achieving his objective of demolishing the law with the passage of H.R. 3824, misleadingly named the "Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act" (TESRA) in the House of Representatives. Far from providing any recovery benefits to threatened or endangered species, TESRA eliminates the requirement to designate critical habitat for listed species, allows the Secretary of the Interior (instead of scientists) to determine what constitutes the best available science in making listing decisions, removes the mandate to achieve species recovery, and exempts state agencies from ESA consultation requirements upon the adoption of conservation agreements. TESRA also requires the government to pay landowners, developers, extractive industry and others for the loss of the value of any proposed activity if it is prohibited by the ESA. This would set a precedent of paying landowners to comply with federal law while also bankrupting the endangered species program by allowing landowners to extort maximum payments from the government.
Since the battle to protect the ESA was lost in the House, the stakes for threatened and endangered species could not be higher in the Senate. Already, Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) has introduced S. 2110, the "Collaboration and Recovery of Endangered Species Act" (CRESA). Like Pombo's legislation, it is intended to undermine the protectionist mandate of the ESA. If passed, CRESA would make habitat protection requirements completely discretionary, eliminate mandatory timelines for listing decisions, allow developers to destroy one species by protecting another, give industry interests final say over species recovery plans, and provide tax breaks to developers to comply with the law.
More moderate bills are expected to be introduced as well, but with the passage of Pombo's bill in the House, any bill passed by the Senate could be combined with TESRA—threatening the integrity of the ESA. The lynx, the manatee, the California condor, the Devil's Hole pupfish, the Cumberland sandwort and the hundreds of other protected species (as well as species awaiting listing) cannot afford a weaker ESA. The motives of the wealthy developers, ranchers, extractive industries and their political allies must not be allowed to jeopardize the life-saving protections of the ESA. Only through massive public involvement and protest during the Senate's deliberations will the ESA have any chance of being preserved.
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Aussie Joe wrote:If your jet can take the weight of the 2200mAh nanotech... do it!!! It will go faster because it will have a much much higher "C" rating allowing the voltage to stay higher for longer!
ergocentric wrote:even with the same C rating the available current will be higher because: available current = capacity x C rating
One thing to keep in mind about C rating is if you require a higher C rating you are getting shorter flights
1C = one hour
12C = five minutes
30C = two minutes
Who wants a two minute flight time?
I was talking about voltage and model speed, less voltage sag = more RPMs . standard 1300mah 11.1v - 25-35c Vs nanotech 2200mAh 11.1v -45-90c , the nanotech 2.2 will kick A$$, and he will have a longer flight time.
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WICHITA FALLS, Texas – A Crowell, Texas-based cap manufacturing facility has agreed to settle a sexual harassment and constructive discharge lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
The EEOC's suit charged that Crowell Contract and Design, Inc. subjected embroidery machine operator Deanna Collins to a sexually hostile work environment created by the president and a co-owner of the company, Timmy Christopher. According to the EEOC, Christopher would tug on Collins' pants and made multiple threats to Collins to pull down her pants. He followed through with these threats when he pulled her pants down in front of her co-workers, humiliating and embarrassing her, the EEOC said. The continuing harassment, culminating in this invasive behavior, forced Collins to resign her position, according to the EEOC.
Sexual harassment violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In February 2007, Collins filed a discrimination charge with the EEOC, initiating an investigation by the agency's Dallas District Office. The EEOC filed suit (Civil Action No. 7-08-CV-0038-O) in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Wichita Falls Division, after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement.
"This settlement should serve as a notice to employers that the EEOC does not consider the threat or the act of pulling a woman's pants down in the workplace to be a sophomoric prank," said Robert A. Canino, regional attorney for the EEOC's Dallas District Office, whose jurisdiction includes Crowell. "This kind of conduct is invasive, offensive, and a violation of federal law."
Under the settlement, Crowell Contract and Design has agreed to pay Collins $21,500 and will take corrective measures, including providing training to all its employees regarding the law against sexual harassment and the proper procedures for investigating complaints of discrimination. The company has also agreed to post a notice informing its employees of the law and to whom they can complain if they believe they have been harassed in the workplace. The company is also enjoined from further discrimination on the basis of gender, including sexual harassment, and from retaliating in any way against person for reporting or complaining about discriminatory practices.
Devika Seth, senior trial attorney with the EEOC's Dallas office, said, "To have such a high-level official subject a subordinate employee to such mistreatment has the potential to establish the acceptance of such behavior in the workplace. We hope this settlement shows that there will be accountability when such an abuse of power occurs. We are proud that Ms. Collins came forward and asserted her right to work in a harassment-free environment."
During Fiscal Year 2007, the EEOC and state and local fair employment practice agencies received a combined total of 12,510 sexual harassment charge filings nationwide, the first annual increase since FY 2000.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the agency is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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2011-12: Raced in the #2 seat on the varsity boat at the Head of the Charles (10/22) … competed in five races during the season … member of the MIT A four team in the #1 seat at the Foot of the Charles (11/19) … saw action the MIT varsity boat in the #1 seat at the San Diego Crew Championship (3/31); at Yale (4/7); against Harvard (4/14); versus Cornell (4/21); and at Penn (4/28).
Off The Water at MIT: Majoring in mechanical engineering … concentration in economics.
High School: A 2010 graduate of Duxbury High School … US Rowing Club Nationals bronze medal in LW 8+ in 2009 and 2010 … rowing captain … lettered four times in swimming and once in track … league Sportsmanship Award … Harvard Book Award … NHS president … chemistry and biology awards … Partridge Award … honorable mention US Rowing Scholastic Honor Roll.
Personal: Father was on the wrestling team at MIT … mother was on the ski team at Smith College.


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Owen Clark Jass Band at WAG's Jazz under the Rooftop
The WAG's Jazz on the Rooftop takes it downstairs to the Muriel Richardson Auditorium when the Owen Clark Jass Band kicks off the Jazz under the Rooftop winter series at 7:30pm, Friday, October 7. Tickets are $21 for WAG members, $25 for non-members, and include free Gallery admission the day of the concert. They are available in person at the WAG or online at wag.ca.
A big fan of old jazz and dance music, Clark published Musical Ghosts: Manitoba's Jazz & Dance Bands, 1914-1966 two years ago. His October concert will be a narrated multi-media presentation, a powerpoint show of images from this book. It will include life music related to various entertainment venues from years gone by.
A graduate of McGill University, Clark is an accomplished performer, conductor, teacher, and composer. He has been composer/audio engineer for productions at Manitoba Theatre Centre and the Manitoba Planetarium. He and his group perform in a wide variety of musical genres—jazz, rock, country, pop, Latin, and musical theatre.
The next Jazz under the Rooftop concert takes place Saturday, November 19 with the Keith Price Quintet.
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We recently discovered an Indian grocery store very close to H's workplace. We've been living in this part of the world for almost 2 years now and H has been at the same office too for the same length of time, yet we had no idea that a store like this even existed! I was very happy to see a few vegetables here that I haven't been seeing in the stores we normally go to. I bought a few taro root tubers from this place the other day.
Growing up, I don't really remember my mother ever buying/cooking taro root (arbi in Hindi, chembu in Malayalam). I do however remember eating some kind of a sabji made with it by T maushi (aunty). T maushi was a lovely Maharashtrian lady who took good care of our family and cooked many a meal for us a long time back when my mother couldn't do much around the house since she was still recovering after major surgery. T maushi was an excellent cook and made very simple, yet tasty Maharashtrian fare in no time at all. The arbi sabji, one of her signature preparations, was something I just loved. Since then, every time I've seen arbi, I've always associated it with T maushi.
This particular recipe that I followed is not T maushi's, but just something I came across on Shyamala's blog. It sounded really good and I wanted to try it out.
I have only listed the ingredients I used. You can find the original recipe along with the exact amounts of the ingredients used here.
Ingredients:7-8 big taro tubers (arbi/chembu)
3-4 tbsp oil
Cumin seeds
Garlic powder
For the spice mix:3 Tbsp chickpea flour (besan)
2 Tbsp rice flour
Red chilli powder
Coriander powder
Turmeric powder
Method:Cook and peel the taro tubers. Slice into 1/4-inch thick rounds.
In a large vessel, add the flours and the spices. Mix well.
Throw in the taro root rounds and coat with the dry spice mix. Dust off the excess.
In a large pan, heat oil. Add cumin seeds followed by asafoetida and garlic powder.
Place the spice-coated rounds in the pan and shallow-fry. Cook till a nice crust is formed and the rounds are crispy and golden brown on one side (takes about 4-5 minutes), and then flip over and cook the other side similarly.
Serve hot. This tastes great as a side dish with some steaming hot rice and sambar or rasam.


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Presidential Libraries in Texas
Did you know that Texas is home to three presidential libraries?
This is more than any other state in the United States!
Presidential libraries contain important historical documents and artifacts, as well as museums that sponsor educational programs.
For history buffs, like the members of my family, these are wonderful places to visit and learn.
George Bush Presidential Library and Museum
1000 George Bush Drive West
College Station, Texas. 77845
A current special exhibit runs from September 1, 2011 to July 29, 2012, and is entitled "Headed to the White House." It is an interactive exhibit that includes includes hands-on activities that explore the presidential election process from primaries through inauguration.
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum
2313 Red River Street
Austin, Texas 78705
Beginning December 2011, the LBJ Library will be undergoing a major redesign that will culminate in a grand opening scheduled for December 2012. Its exhibits will incorporate new technology with interactive elements. Most of the present library, however, will remain open to the public during this redesign.
George W. Bush Presidential Library
1725 Lakepointe Drive
Lewisville, Texas 75057
Lewisville, Texas is the temporary location for the presidential library and is not open to the public.The permanent Presidential Center will be located on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and is expected to be dedicated and opened to the public in 2013.


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Are you suggesting flipflop and nowonmai talk sense in their posts directed at me?
Nope. Which is why I said:
Besides, the two Brits have their own issues with you, as far as you being a traitor, supporting the killing of British troops and all that stuff goes. I'll leave all of you to sort that out, but I can see how you've managed to offend some folks.
The question is can you see it?


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South Florida leaders discuss gun control
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz held a meeting Friday with South Florida police chiefs, mayors, and others to discuss ways to curb rising gun violence.
She called the roundtable in the wake of the school shooting in Newtown, Conn.
"We have a very complex problem that we cannot simply say there is no answer for," said Wasserman Schultz. "In the two years since Tucson, 54,000 deaths from gun violence have occurred in this country. Thousands of those were kids."
Those deaths include 13-year-old Lourdes Guzman DeJesus, who police say was accidentally shot and killed by a classmate showing off a pistol he was taking to school.
They also include 16-year-old Bryan Herrera, shot and killed while riding his bicycle to study with a friend.
"Of the last four and a half years that I've been the school superintendent, I have buried 44 children who have died violent deaths in Miami, all of them in the streets of Miami, not in schools," said Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho.
These leaders are determined to reduce gun violence, and see ways of doing it.
"Mental health issues, gun registration, Baker Acting, having school resource officers armed, there are just so many different issues and I think everybody understands there's no one solution to this problem," said Broward Sheriff Scott Israel.
One partial solution discussed would be to require thorough background checks for sales at gun shows and preventing public spaces to be rented for gun shows.
Across the country, 68 percent of all murders, 41 percent of robberies, and 21 percent of aggravated assaults are committed with a gun, according to the FBI Uniform Report.
"We have far too many people getting hurt, injured, killed by guns in Miami-Dade County and we need to take the guns out of those folks that shouldn't have any guns," said Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez.