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THE DALLES — Last Friday's season opener between The Dalles and Hood River Valley was a lot more tame than the 2002 version.
Shades of last year were practically non-existent at Bob Williams Field, as the Indians and Eagles combined to score 20 points — 85 less than last year's 69-36 shootout.
The Eagles weren't setting any school points records on Friday, nor were they exposing craters in The Dalles' defense like last year.
Instead, HRV rode its retooled defense to break down the Indians and escape with a 13-7 win.
"We won this one with our defense," coach Mitch Sanders said of his team, which held the Indians to 136 yards of total offense, while recording two interceptions and five sacks.
"There is still a ton of room for improvement, and we need to cut back on the penalties (18). But The Dalles throws the ball as well as any team we will see this year, which says a lot about the job our secondary did," he said.
Safeties Adam Mack and Kyle Maurer teamed up with the cornerback foursome of Danny Newton, Terry Sanders, Nolan Johnson and Alejandro Lozano to prevent Indians quarterback Bo Gridley from finding a rhythm.
Coach Sanders said he was also pleased with the play of his linebackers, who are led by junior returning starter Bryan Williams.
"If I had to name a defensive player of the game, I would probably give it to Bryan," Sanders said. "He never made any mistakes, and made a ton of tackles in the middle of the field."
Williams also grabbed a key third-quarter interception, which halted an eight-play drive.
Junior Luke McCarthy and senior Rocky Level provided insurance on the outsides, and frustrated Gridley into numerous hurried passes — one which ended up in Level's hands with 5 minutes to go.
"Everyone on the defense made plays for us," Sanders said. "There were no busted coverages, and the juniors and seniors really complemented each other well."
Sanders also praised the work of senior linemen Zach Royall, Jorge Lujano, Heath Goin and Jason DeHart, who resembled the 2002 line as they opened gaping holes for Level, Maurer, Newton and Bond.
The O-line helped propel Level to a varsity career high of 174 yards, highlighted by a 42-yard scramble that set up HRV's first score at the 6-minute mark of the second quarter.
On that drive, Newton punched the ball in from 6 yards out to help the Eagles rebound from an 85-yard touchdown run on the Indians' first drive of the game.
With the score tied 7-7, HRV took over on downs and drove the length of the field before Level rambled 36 yards up the middle for the go-ahead score.
Johnson's extra point sailed wide right, however, and after he missed a field goal on the last play of the half, the Eagles were forced to cling to a six-point lead for the rest of the game.
"Alex (Princehouse) is still learning how to hold the football on kicks," Sanders said. "The whole team knows that we have a ton of room for improvement. But we did come away with a win, and everyone contributed."
Sanders complimented Princehouse, the junior starting quarterback, on his ability to run the double-wing, double-tight offense.
He said there were no fumbled snaps, and while Princehouse's only two pass attempts fell incomplete, Sanders still has confidence in him if the Eagles need to throw the ball downfield.
"He didn't make any major mistakes, which is what the quarterback in this offense needs to dom: he said. "He ran our base offense very effectively and blocked really well. Overall, I'd say he played a solid first game for us."
Sanders also tipped his cap to the new members of the offensive line for helping the Eagles rack up a total of 391 yards.
Center Alex Dominguez, guard Cam Lucas, and tight ends McCarthy and Goin teamed up with Royall, Lujano and DeHart to create a formidable front seven for the wings to run behind.
Level led the way with 174 yards on 22 carries, while Bond carried 13 times for 90 yards, Maurer seven times for 68 yards, and Newton 12 times for 45 yards.
Terry Sanders and Lozano also got into the act for one play each, running for 10 and 4 yards, respectively.
"I liked how we ran the football," coach Sanders said. "The one thing we need to correct is the execution of our blocking assignments. But I don't expect us to be perfect in the first game. All I know is, we will be better this week."
The Eagles travel to Benson on Friday night for a rematch of last year's 42-26 home win. Sanders said the Techmen return most of their linemen and skill players, and should provide a good early-season test for his squad.
"This game should prepare us well for the IMC," he said. "They have a lot of athleticism at the wideouts and some strong linemen on both sides of the ball."
The Eagles will follow up Friday's game with two home dates against league foes Summit (Sept. 19) and Hermiston (Sept. 26), which won the league in 2002.
Oregon Live.com has picked HRV to win the IMC this year, with Hermiston finishing second and Pendleton third.
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About 1 to 3 percent of Americans develop tennis elbow — an overuse injury that causes chronic pain around the outside of the elbow — but the treatments given to many sufferers appear to be ineffective in the long run.
A clinical trial published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that patients who received standard treatments such as a cortisone injection and physical therapy fared no better after one year than those who went untreated, with most recovering completely.
Australian researchers recruited 165 people with the condition and randomly assigned them to one of four groups. The groups got either a cortisone shot alone, a shot with eight weeks of physical therapy, a placebo shot with eight weeks of therapy, or a placebo shot alone.
One year later, the researchers found that none of the treatments worked better than a placebo for long-term relief and that those who had the cortisone injection (either alone or with physical therapy) were significantly less likely to have made a full recovery than those who had a placebo or physical therapy without the cortisone shot.
The cortisone shot, however, was much better than the placebo for relieving pain and immobility and improving a patient's quality of life within the first four weeks of treatment.
Interestingly, physical therapy provided somewhat smaller benefits than the cortisone shot for short-term pain relief, but it also didn't hinder recovery, as the cortisone shot did.

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Mr. Borgese, who lives in Manhattan, questions whether hunting down a $300 e-book reader would rank as a priority for the New York Police Department.
If that's the case, then what does he hope to achieve by finding out the location of the Kindle? Rhetorical question -- we all know what he hopes to achieve, and Amazon wants no part of it.
Mr. Borgese, who lives in Manhattan, questions whether hunting down a $300 e-book reader would rank as a priority for the New York Police Department.
If that's the case, then what does he hope to achieve by finding out the location of the Kindle? Rhetorical question -- we all know what he hopes to achieve, and Amazon wants no part of it.
If you had bothered to read the entire quote, he did *not* ask for Amazon's help in finding the Kindle - what he asked them to do was *disable* it. Which has some merit - if Amazon did disable those devices when stolen, it would kill the black market for stolen Kindles. But as noted in TFA, this poses a problem, as it's too easy for someone to contact them, pretending to be you, and reporting *your* Kindle as stolen...
What *should* happen is that Mr. Borgese files a police report on the stolen Kindle, and can then contact Amazon, with the police report number as evidence that he's not some practical joker. Amazon then disables that device, so that whoever stole it (or whoever bought it from the thief) can no longer gain the benefit of having it. This reduces the potential for mischief (and, in the case that the person simply misplaced the device, puts the onus on *him* to reverse the process), while still destroying the resale value of the stolen item.
This is more or less what Mr. Borgese attempted to do. But Amazon has no mechanism for this - they want to be contacted by a law enforcement officer with a supoena. Which the police probably won't bother doing, unless the theft is tied to drug dealing, terrorism, pedophilia, or whatever BS is high on their public relations agenda this week.
Lloyd B.
Why not just provide a way to disable the kindle that is associated with an amazon account until that same account enables it again? Then I can disable it if I left it somewhere.. if I recover it, I can enable it. No one else can. The kindle should not say what the name of the account is or anything that the thieves can use to identify what account to try to hack in to either. There shouldn't need to be any human involvement in here, I've already authenticated who I am by being able to login (with a password, auto-login should not be sufficient).
Obviously this assumes that 1) Currently unbricked kindles can be re-associated with a different account, and 2) The person it was stolen from can still brick a kindle even after re-association for a period of time, in case the first thing the thief does is re-associate it. Say, 48 hours to report your kindle stolen to Amazon, and they'll still disable it [and remove any charges made to your account, if that's possible from the Kindle, etc.].
Ideally they should just force you to authenticate with your existing account before you can disassociate/re-associate the device.
E.g. the moment you click 'disassociate', the device actually becomes bricked until the device password is entered.
When you associate with a new account, the password you type becomes the 'device' password.
There ought to also be a way to password-lock the kindle as you can with cell phones. And they should take care to make sure a thief can't easily defeat the device password.
Indeed. Mobile phone corps can disable use of the phone (well, your sim card), and then re-enable it if you find it a day or two later.
Yup, yet another good reason not to purchase a Kindle.
It just proves yet again that anything like DRM or 'trusted computing' has nothing to do with providing benefit to the consumer, even in the few cases where it might in theory be useful.
In order to disable the device, they have to be able to distinguish one device from another. That means tracking (and beyond just an account-login level).
I.. thought.. that we didn't *like* that sort of thing. My Slashdot mindthink interpreter could be malfunctioning, but I doubt it.
You actually think that they have no record of a serial number of the device that your account is linked to?
How would they send you the books you purchased? Your account is tied to the device so you can use it.
That's not any more "tracking" than your cell phone company does to give you the calls to your cell phone.
They have "activated" it to be tied to your account.
Just as Amazon should be able to have the accout owner log in online and enter in their username/password and validate a captcha to disable ther device.
They purchased it didn't they? It's tied to their credit card to be able to buy books with it right? So If you can make a binding purchase with the devices authentication and that is enough for them to charge your credit card, isn't it enough verification for them to disable the device?
We only dislike that sort of thing when its used against us. When used the way we want, even if its the identical privacy infringing feature we used to hate, all of a sudden we like it.
But as noted in TFA, this poses a problem, as it's too easy for someone to contact them, pretending to be you, and reporting *your* Kindle as stolen...
This is such bunk... I worked for a couple years in customer service for the cell phone industry. If you call and report your phone lost or stolen, it is automatically added to a black list and can then only be reactivated by you. It can not be activated on another account while it is on the black list and can only be added to the black list if it is part of an active account. The only time you need a police report is if you have the insurance program and you want to get a replacement under the insuran
Replacing the SIM might get a GSM phone to work but there is no technological reason carriers can't block the phone by ESN.
I know for a fact that carriers keep detailed logs of network access including both SIM identity information and ESN's.
Theoretically carriers could ban a handset using it's ESN. Whether they actually do this in practice or not, I have no idea.
Here in the UK carriers block stolen phones from their IMEI all the time, and have a cross-carrier list of such phones.
But as noted in TFA, this poses a problem, as it's too easy for someone to contact them, pretending to be you, and reporting *your* Kindle as stolen...
What *should* happen is that Mr. Borgese files a police report on the stolen Kindle, and can then contact Amazon, with the police report number as evidence that he's not some practical joker.
First: how is a practical joker going to get my Kindle's serial number, mac address, and imei number? You are imagining a problem that does not exist.
Second: Why should the police be involved? If I leave my Kindle in an airport while visiting New Mexico, do I report it stolen? To who? My home town police? New Mexico?
Third: At what price level is Police involvement warranted? Its not exactly Grand Theft Kindle you know. Cops have a few more important things to do. Cops have no authority to get invo
The whole thing is egg squarely on amazon's face for one simple reason... remember the books they DELETED REMOTELY a few weeks ago. They DO have the power to find wayward accounts, and they DO have the ability to edit materials on the Kindle against user wishes.. more importantly, they have demonstrated they CAN and WILL use this ability.
Now that they've demonstrated this ability to cover THEIR ASSES... why can't they issue a "locking" order to YOUR device? Something like pay $25 and issue a locking code
As another commenter suggested, the most reasonable solution is to merely lock the Kindle and sent an unlock code to whatever email is currently on the account.
It's the Kindle owner's responsibility to maintain Amazon's contact information records. This really puts the responsibility on the Kindle owner without putting them in any particularly troublesome legal territory.
For Amazon right now, it's a lose/lose proposition; helping might cause liability and not helping might cause bad PR. The second is probab
Buy a $3 paperback book. Be kind and leave it for the next person.
Here let me fix that for you.
Buy a $10 paperback book. Be kind and leave it for the next person.
Let me fix that for you.
Buy a used $0.50 paper back book and not give a damn where you leave it or who has it because it was 50 cents.
the device was really stolen an no sold used
> Wouldn't it be a bitch if I called onStar and said "Oooh, hey buddy
Stolen cars show up in police reports.
So would you if you pulled this stunt.
but you can't USE the device unless you transfer the account to a new credit card. As the device is completely locked to Amazon it could be treated much like a WoW account sale where you have to sell your serial number through Amazon's service or it's not legit. Just handing the device off wouldn't be official and you'd have to prove you bought the device somehow.
I wish I had mod points, because this is exactly the issue. Let's say someone puts their Kindle up on eBay, and then after it sells calls Amazon and says that the device got stolen. How is Amazon supposed to know whether the device whether the device was stolen or not? Even worse, what happens if Amazon believes someone claiming to own your device and bricks it, where does that put them? It's entirely reasonable that Amazon won't do anything without a direct request from the cops (or presumably a court order).
That's the role a police report should play. When you file a report with the police, the police report number can be given to Amazon as evidence that an actual theft occurred. Amazon can then query the police to verify the report is genuine (insurance companies do this all the time in the case of auto accidents, theft of insured property, etc, so the mechanisms for this are already in place), and once they've done that can disable the device.
In your Ebay example, what would happen then is that the buyer of the now useless device could contact your police department, with the records of the sale, and you'd potentially be facing criminal charges for filing a false police report (cops *really* don't like people doing this, and they know where you live, so there's a real chance they'd follow up on this).
Don't you think cops have more to do than fill out paper work on a kindle you lost? Even if it was Stolen out of your back pack, who has time to have cops filling out paperwork for a 300 dollar device?
You might get away with filing such a report in Pincushion Arizona, but they will laugh you out of the station in Dallas.
Don't you think cops have more to do than fill out paper work on a kindle you lost? Even if it was Stolen out of your back pack, who has time to have cops filling out paperwork for a 300 dollar device?
You might get away with filing such a report in Pincushion Arizona, but they will laugh you out of the station in Dallas.
First off, let's clarify things. An item that you *lost* is not something you'd ordinarily file a police report on.
Second, the value of the device shouldn't be significant, except for determining whether it's petty or grand larceny. I know, in practice it is, but that's an issue with the police being focused on the wrong things (like harassing prostitutes and low-level drug dealers).
Third, why do the *cops* have to fill out anything? Have standard forms, which the person filing the complaint fills out, a
Getting Amazon to brick your LOST device is just as important as getting them to brick you STOLEN device. Lost and Stolen are equivalent as far as your device being in someone else's hands.
I'm telling you that walking in any busy police department in any city bigger than 100,000 people and asking for signatures on paper so that you can force Amazon to do something is a fools errand.
(Which is precisely why Amazon insists you do it, knowing full well you can never succeed).
Cops will tell you to file an insur
If your bike is stolen in Seattle they'll not only happily fill out a form they'll even send a squad car to bring the form to you if need be. How's that for service?
That's sad because $300 is still more than a week' s pay for many young and older people.
Ironically, Cops spend a good deal of time at the local mall arresting people for shoplifting stuff under $50.
Don't you think cops have more to do than fill out paper work on a kindle you lost?
Better? No. More lucrative? Probably.
The cops are supposed to be there to provide for the punishment of criminals (protect and serve? they do neither) and finding them is part of that job. So no, they don't have anything better to do than to fill out paperwork on something possibly stolen. People usually don't lose something the size and cost of the Kindle.
And why would they do that?
They sold it. They got their money.
Turning around and screwing the person who bought t does not bring the kindle back to their hands to sell again.
Amazon knows who owns it, that owner can prove who he is and which kindle he owns. Its this little magic thing called an Original Amazon Bill of Sale, you know, the one with your credit card and the serial number on the same piece of paper?
Just where do you get your gadgets that such things are unfamiliar to you?
how would you prove the device was really stolen an no sold used
You do what they do for passports: you require a police record indicating that you have reported it stolen. That way if the person you track down did not steal it the person who lied to you can end up in hot water for lying to the police, wasting police time etc. plus you have a reasonable defence.
Of course the better way to do it is the way that Apple does with the iPhone: you let the user trace their own device without company intervention. That way the end-user is directly responsible provided that th
He bought it from them and they have the serial number of the device they sent him. Why should it be a big deal for them to brick it on HIS request? If there's an issue with whoever wants to use it, it's between the other user and him, not him and Amazon.
Then again, I can understand how they wouldn't want to get into something where they don't know the gory details (i.e. he sold it and wants to ransom it for more money).
Seems like there might be a niche market here for a service to track (possibly using add-in 'root' software) high-end devices that are stolen.
Me, I don't have enough money that I can afford to forget and leave a $300 device laying around on an airplane...
Why should it be a big deal for them to brick it on HIS request? If there's an issue with whoever wants to use it, it's between the other user and him, not him and Amazon.
And what's the issue? He's mad because he left it on the table when we went up to the counter to get another latté?
I get it. Theft is bad. But how is bricking the device the answer? It won't un-steal the Kindle. So they brick it and what then? It goes into a landfill? Charming.
it is a fair question about our society. What good does it do to punish any law breakers. IE when you jail a murder does the victum return to life... (be it any un recoverable crime, murder/rape/molestation/arson/securities fraud) Sometimes it helps the victims feel better... However in this case with a device, and likely a opportunity thief, they may call amazon for help/support or decide once it is of no value for them they may return it. Or a reward may be much more affective (at a lower price.) Or
it is a fair question about our society. What good does it do to punish any law breakers.
Theft is a crime. When criminals face justice, society benefits. If the police were able to track down this thief, establish that he or she committed the crime, and bring him or her before a court of law to judge the offense, that would be OK. This isn't that. This is an individual saying, "They took my stuff, so I want them to get burned because of it." That's not justice, not in the societal sense.
I get the "if people think it's useless to steal them, they won't steal them so much" idea. Fine. But I'm not
...and Amazon isn't in the business of such things. They service of bricking even your own devices isn't teh service being offered. They'd have parents wanting to brick children's toys within a week's time. Besides, I think Amazon handled it incredibly well. They'll obey law enforcement. Beyond that, the ability to brick the device isn't a consumer feature. Sorry.
If there's an issue with whoever wants to use it, it's between the other user and him, not him and Amazon.
Supposing it happened the other way around. He left his Kindle in a coffee shop and the person who found it, rather than steal it, decided to note down the serial number and call Amazon to have the Kindle bricked as a mean-spirited prank. Amazon should require some level of "proof" of theft but a police report of the device being stolen should be enough to discourage any prank calls since falsifying one will land you in trouble. They should not need direct police involvement and a court subpoena.
How do you verify a police report? Should amazon then call to verify the report is really over a kindle?
Their are answers to those and more exist, they may even be simple enough for just a few cases. But amazon is a big retailer and obviously doesn't want to deal with the issues for little reward for them.
Having been a AT&T victim 10 years ago, where they got the wrong address for my cell phone account, and thus labeled my $125 purchase of phone as fraudulent, and couldn't ever get that label removed
Electronics companies could make versions that have restricted usage requirements (like it won't function without phoning home within a week), and the original registered owner has the right to order the company to activate some sort of kill switch. It would have to be clearly advertised so people become aware the devices are not for resale, but this might solve the theft problem. There is little use in stealing a product that is designed to self-destruct*. As long as the effort required for a thief to get
If someone steals your car, do you call the car manufacturer and ask them to disable the car remotely so no one can drive it?
Some high-end car manufacturers offer this kind of service. And who knows, maybe this story will make Amazon think they can sell Premium packages, for people who are willing to pay more for the guarantee that they'll track down your Kindle if you leave it on a bus.
If someone steals your car, do you call the car manufacturer and ask them to disable the car remotely so no one can drive it?
No, you have the police call OnStar and they disable it...
The surprising thing for me is that the companies that have this capability and are resisting this are missing an opportunity to make a lot of money on what some people obviously think is a valuable service.
I mean, seriously. Why should companies like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Dell, HP, or any manufacturer spend any amount of time helping to track down your stolen property to begin with.
For the same reason a company may provide services above and beyond what they technically *have* to... it builds customer loyalty. It's up to them to decide whether that's worth more than the potential hassle of dealing with issues like these.
Personally, I suspect it's for fear of lawsuits. Generally speaking, in this country, it seems like it's almost always safer to *do nothing* rather than trying to do the "right thing", which is sort of a sad state of affairs.
Why? Simple. Conflict of interest, and the appearance of impropriety. They stand to make money from the thief (or whoever they fence it to, or whoever the fence sells it to). They will make money from stolen goods. This is not the case for products that do not have on-going service charges applied. This appears to be a conflict of interest between them and their primary customers.
By helping track down a device reported stolen, they can appear to be above base profit motives, and, instead, appear to he
Or take a look at it this way. I could sell the device, and just to be a prick,report it stolen to the manufacture. It would
If Amazon sells you an e-Book on your precious Kindle, they will steal it back from you if the publisher changes their mind about selling an electronic version.
I also can't imagine the police ignoring a request like that. Even if it's a $300.00 device, I've never met a cop who won't pursue a theft if they think it's likely they'll catch the perpetrator and recover the item. For all the police's faults, ignoring a solvable, easily-prosecuted crime ain't one of 'em. Mind you, if a company won't cooperate with a police request relating to an investigation - subpoena or no - the company should be prosecuted itself.
You've apparently never tried to report a stolen wallet or backpack, or even modest laptop. You fill out forms, answer questions,a nd they do _nothing_. It's just not important enough.
You've apparently never tried to report a stolen wallet or backpack, or even modest laptop. You fill out forms, answer questions,a nd they do _nothing_. It's just not important enough.
What exactly are they supposed to do? A stolen or lost wallet/backpack/laptop is pretty hard to recover especially if you don't know who did it and more than a few minutes have passed since the theft. Unless whatever is stolen is fairly rare and easily identifiable, the cops can't really do much.
Actually look at the CCTV recordings of the coffee shop where the laptop was lost? Actually tell you how to contact the lost and found offices of _both_ bus lines that pick people at that terminal? Actually help you act against the spammer forging email in your name?
I've had all of these happen to me or to friends in my presence. They just didn't bring enough traffic ticket money or rise to the level of political significance to pull police out of their cars or out of their construction site traffic duty to
He said "solvable" and "easily-prosecuted."
"Hey, cop, someone swiped my wallet. I last saw it at 3 pm at work and noticed it was missing at 7 pm when I went to pay for dinner."
That's a bit different than "here is the SSN, name, address, phone numbers and a picture of the person who has my notebook." (true story)
In the first case it's a lot of work to investigate and very little chance of finding anything. In the second there's an excellent lead and a good chance of catching a thief.
usually what happens is that they do find somebody with a horde of stolen stuff.. and they prosecute for X number of stolen items from X places. They just never bother to tell YOU where they put the evidence and it goes out the back door of the police station. The reports help find a pattern of habitual offenders in the area and that is useful to them... but YOU will never here about that... after all, EVERYBODY is a suspect.
"if a company won't cooperate with a police request relating to an investigation - subpoena or no - the company should be prosecuted itself."
Did you really think about that sentence, or you posted in haste? There are multiple reasons why subpoena's are required of the police. I hope that you aren't advocating that we should surrender our civil rights.
The police may request all day long, but I am under no obligation to grant their request. Only when they bring a subpoena to the equation am I obligated to
There are multiple reasons why subpoena's are required of the police. I hope that you aren't advocating that we should surrender our civil rights.
I s'pose I did post in haste, at that. I posted sloppily and didn't check my terminology. I had thought the police would need a warrant for the information, not a subpoena, believing that the latter required that they have a charged suspect awaiting arraignment or trial. I see now that it's possible to get a subpoena as part of an investigation - although inasmuch as a warrant needs a judge's signature and a subpoena generally doesn't, I'd still prefer they use warrants.
if a company won't cooperate with a police request relating to an investigation - subpoena or no - the company should be prosecuted itself
That doesn't sound like the kind of society I want to live in. A subpoena is the process by which the police make a request you cannot legally refuse to cooperate with--- subpoena means "under penalty", and a subpoena is a "request" that carries a penalty for noncooperation. Most free societies have some sort of judicial oversight of this process. You sound like you're ar
Last year I absentmindedly left my GPS and Cellphone in the car (was running late to work). About an hour later I realized I didn't have my Cell on me and went out to the car to retrieve it. Lo and behold my TomTom 920T GPS, and my Motorola Q9c were both gone and the window in my car was smashed out. Rough retail value of the phone and gps together were around the $1000.00 range. The police came and took a report, I even actually still had the boxes for both units with the serial numbers. I've not heard anything since.
What really irks me is that I know for certain that the Cell Phone should be traceable. At least the police could have called Verizon and checked to see if it showed up in any of the 50-100 pawn shops in town. We're not talking major investigate work here, we're talking about what should be a 10-20min call. I called TomTom and also asked them if they could at least make it where that unit will never get an update.. they said it was a feature that many have requested, but at this point in time they didn't offer that.
I know that there are more important things like murders, etc.. but hey they had to take the time to take the report, could at least do a little diligence.
Second hand phones are usually sold to customers overseas. Probably true for stolen phones as well.
The person currently able to login to the Amazon account claims to have purchased lost the device.
Amazon doesn't know if he's sold it, given it away
Amazon doesn't know if someone else logged into his account (ex-partner/significant other?)
Amazon doesn't know if the device was repossessed by a credit card company.
Amazon doesn't have anywhere near enough information to start bricking, or reporting on the location of devices.
It's simple when the registered owner of the device reports it stolen they add the serial number to a list. Devices in the list can not be updated and will present a message giving the owners phone number to contact about returning the device. Owner is happy because they either get the device back, or they know it can't be used. I asked Apple to do much the same thing when I lost my iPod last year. I feel it is negligence on the manufacturer's part when they do not implement some form of an anti-theft syste
The correct thing for a finder to do is to turn it in to the airline or airport lost-n-found (however inefficient they might appear). If it is not duly claimed within a specified period, then they can claim the device. To protect themselves, Amazon ought to requir
Actually, in some places if an item is found, the finder can put up a notice to that effect, and if no-one claims it they become the rightful owner (naturally there would be all sorts of protections against abuse of this).
The content probably wouldn't be transferred though, but IANAL, and there might not be any specific law at all on the matter in your jurisdiction. This might also mean that if you find a laptop and it is unclaimed, you might not be allowed to destroy the data if there is a DMCA-like law in
You know how much work this took on my part? Very little - this fell under "other duties" while I worked there, and I was the only person at the time who worked these. The vendors like Amazon are refusing to help seeing only an expense and a loss of sales. This sheer and utter greed on their part with justifiable reason. If they can't do this because it's the right thing, than somebody needs to legislate good companies morals on their part.
Generally speaking vehicular theft is seen as high priority in the police. When's the last time you saw footage of six police cars chasing down a pick pocket?
In this case it's not even about someone picking someone else's pockets - it's the crew noticing something left behind on the plane and thinking "I'm having that".
If they had bricked it, they wouldn't be helping to solve the problem. The guy would have bitched about them not requiring any legal order and how easy would be for a social engineer to brick any device.
They actually taught the guy a valuable lesson: You are responsible for your property. You are a grown up, act like one.
Sorry, but if I leave a non-E book on a plane, it's too bad, someone else gets it. Why is the e-book any different?
Because a Kindle or Cell phone is tied to it's network 24x7 and THEY retain complete rights to modify the devices content under the software EULA and network TOS. If they can remotely deactivate it or modify it's content, why can't they mark the device "lost or stolen" at the owner/contract holder's request? A big part of criminal enterprise and drug trading is stealing phones to use with "throw away" SIM cards they get away with it for a few days then move on. Returning a lost phone for a regular person i
Thufir's a Harkonnen now.


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SunFest Diary Friday: First rule of rain…don't talk about rain
In breaking news: A red-headed mermaid named Ariel seen eating hushpuppies outside of Tin Fish on Clematis Street, talking about feeling right at home.
Also…whoever took the Tiki idol or offended Mother Nature or whatever you did to cause the rain…make it right, man. This is getting OLD.
But you crazy SunFest fans…you don't let a little thing like scary wind gusts and wet clammy cold deter you, do you? Especially when …


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In these final days of the presidential campaign, both President Obama and Governor Romney are becoming more vocal about their support for immigration reform. While there is still distance between their stances, both agree that it is important to encourage foreign entrepreneurs to come to America and launch their dreams here.
This is smart and sound. By providing a fair and unencumbered immigration path for entrepreneurs and emerging foreign businesses, we lay a foundation both for stimulation of the local economy and for U.S. job growth.
But the best policy intentions are thwarted when the immigration bureaucracy slams the door in the faces of foreign business talent.
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When an elected board willfully decides that it can't trust the electorate with a decision as simple as whether it should have the ability to elect the board's chair, we're left wondering why, as should voters.
The discussion about how the McHenry County Board chairman is selected has gone on for a couple years now. Currently, the chairman is not elected by voters, but by fellow County Board members. The Northwest Herald's Editorial Board, state Rep. Jack Franks and others have said that voters should decide via a referendum whether they should elect the County Board chairman at-large.
Is it the most pressing issue in county government? No. Is it an issue that voters deserve to be able to decide? Of course it is.
Yet by an 11-9 vote Friday with four members absent, the McHenry County Board decided against placing such a referendum proposal on the April ballot.
Why is that? Some board members said it was unclear how much changing how the County Board chairman is selected would cost the county. Others said there wasn't enough time to draft an acceptable referendum question. Still others simply prefer the status quo, regardless how voters feel.
As with most issues, there are pros and cons to changing how the County Board chairman is selected. But that's what elections are for. Those on each side can present their arguments to voters, who then can carefully weigh those arguments and decide at the polling place.
Who's to say voters won't decide to stick with the current system?
The point is, it's their government. Voters deserve to decide whether they want to elect the chairman in a countywide election at the polls, or whether their representatives on the County Board should continue to elect the chairman.
The next election isn't until March 2014. We'll be sure to remind voters, and County Board members, that it's long past time to get this referendum item on the ballot.


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The lights are on
Have you ever seen that one movie with that dude in it? Chances are someone here has, and they want to talk to you about it. Grab some popcorn and discuss all things relating to the silver screen.
Anyone excited to watch movies in the next couple months?
I'm looking forward to Iron Man 2, Robin Hood, and The A-Team.
May 7
Iron Man 2
May 14
Robin Hood (aka Gladiator 2)
May 21
Shrek Forever After
May 28
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Sex and the City 2
June 11
The A-Team
The Karate Kid
June 18
Jonah Hex
Toy Story 3
June 25
Knight and Day
Grown Ups
June 30
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
Those are some good movies coming out, but come on Kensei!! Are your serious about Sex and the City 2 and freaking Twilight?
I'm really looking forward to August! I'm actually really surprised that you didn't mention Inception. Are you not looking forward to it or something?
May 7
Iron Man 2
May 14
Robin Hood
May 21
Shrek Forever After
May 28
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Sex and the City 2
June 18
Jonah Hex
Robin Hood
Seriously? Twilight? If I were you I'd of left that off the list... Oh yeah, MACGRUBER!!!! makin lots of cool stuff outta household materials! MACGRUBER! Gettin in and out of ultra sticky situations! MACGRUBER! The guys a friggin' genius! MACGRUUUBER!!!
god, that movies gonna rock (that was the theme song btw)
"If you really loved me you'd all kill yourselves right now" -Spider Jerusalem
You don't forget to put Twilight and Sex and the City 2, but you forget Inception, a Christopher Nolan movie, the same man that made The Dark Knight...
I don't like Twilight or Sex in the City, but its movies that people watch. My girlfriend watches that stuff, so I know someone watches it. Inception isn't on the list because it doesn't come out until July 16 I believe. I was just listing movies for May and June.
Ok, now I see where you were going with this thread, Kensei! I wasn't gonna knock you for putting Twilight and Sex in the City since I assumed you were referring to the generally popular movies that are coming out soon. The only things that look like sure-fire hits to me, are Iron Man 2 and Toy Story 3. I will most likely end up seeing all of these, though. Except for Sex in the City 2, god knows I will never watch a single episode or film adaptation to that series. At least the Twilight series delves into the "so bad it's good" territory occasionally. But don't get me wrong, they are still bad; I just have the occasional chuckle whenever a character spouts out a terrible pun.
Hahaha. Ya I hear you about Twilight series, only reason to watch it is to see how bad it is and make fun of it. Toy Story 3 does look good and I hope it will be as good as the last 2.
Inception was awesome!
Inception is one of my all time faves.


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Ed Straw was shown that he has the confidence of his constituency and Gary Dreher has been given a chance to serve as well after both won seats on the Chenoa City Council Tuesday.
Straw, who has most recently been the commissioner in charge of the parks, has been on the council since 1995, while Dreher has lived in the community the past nine years.
Dreher was the top vote getter with 193 in the three-person race for two seats. That was good for 39.39 percent of the 486 votes cast. Straw was a close second with 184 (37.55 percent) and Zach Corrie was a distant third with 109 votes (22.24 percent).
"I wasn't expecting to do as well as I did," Dreher said. "I thought I would be fortunate if I was the second vote getter."
Dreher moved to Chenoa after retiring as a maintenance supervisor for the Downers Grove school district. He has a daughter whose family has resided in Chenoa for quite a few years.
He is coming into city government understanding it will not be an easy undertaking.
"There seems to be a great deal of issues in town where people aren't getting along," Dreher said. "There seems to be a lot of unhappiness with the present regime. I'm just trying to get a handle on what's going on here."
Dreher is not new to serving the community. He had one term as a member of the Library Board. He also ran for mayor in 2010 as a virtual unknown.
"I'm hoping that we can work together for the interest of the community," Dreher said. "What's going on in Chenoa seems to be a microcosm of politics in America. People are having a difficult time compromising on issues, which is unfortunate."
Among the projects Dreher is interested in is recycling. He would like to see the community doing a lot more in the area of recycling.
Straw said he isn't sure if he will still be in charge of the city's parks or if he will find another position. He has held other department head positions during his 18 years on the council.
Straw is a proponent of trying to bring more business into the community and has been a supporter of the new sewer project that is taking place on the west side.
"I want to try to get some business in town," Straw said. "We have that field, which is why we've got that project."
Straw also pointed out that had there been utility availability before, it would have been more enticing for attracting businesses.
"They want something they can tap into," he said.
Incumbent, newcomer win 2 seats
Ed Straw was shown that he has the confidence of his constituency and Gary Dreher has been given a chance to serve as well after both won seats on the Chenoa City Council Tuesday.


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EDMONTON — Raj Sherman, driving past by chance, pulled over on 156th Street to give NDP candidate Lewis Cardinal an impromptu lecture on the science of door knocking one evening last week.
Cardinal and a single volunteer had paused between houses. Sherman didn't like what he saw.
"Lewis, you should be out here with four volunteers, buddy. Or five, you need to leapfrog," said the former Conservative MLA, now running for leader of the provincial Liberals, leaning out his car window to talk with an old friend.
"U-huh," said Cardinal, polite, but not buying a bit of it.
"We do take our time," he admitted, after Sherman drove off. "But I've tried the leapfrogging thing before. I couldn't keep up.
"If you're in a hurry, they know your mind is already next door."
Even before the election was called, candidates across the country were turning to the staple of electioneering — door knocking. Most swear you can't win a seat without it, some tally the number of doorbells rung above 10,000, and a candidate's style of door-knocking often says a lot about the personalities involved.
While Cardinal walks from house to house, ringing the doorbell himself, Laurie Hawn runs.
Hawn, the Conservative incumbent running against Cardinal in Edmonton Centre, is a former fighter jet pilot who talks as fast as he runs and his door knocking team functions with military precision.
Four volunteers with matching blue Laurie Hawn shopping bags stuffed with flyers speedwalk down both sides of the street when Hawn goes out. Hawn dashes from one side of the street to the other whenever a door opens.
"He has a very fast march," said volunteer Linda Singh on Thursday afternoon in Westmount, just as a door opened on the other side of the road.
"Laurie," yelled another volunteer, and Hawn dashed off, jumping over a puddle. He reached the door in time to ask, "Any election issues, federal issues top of mind right now?"
The woman mentioned the economy and the gun registry. Hawn said they were working on both, then asked "Can we count on your support at the end of the day?"
"I think so," said the woman.
Lawn sign, asked Hawn. The woman declined.
The whole exchange took about one minute and Hawn was off again, leaving a volunteer to confirm the woman's name and phone number on her clipboard.
Hawn says he can do 100 houses in an hour. There are 80,000 doors in his riding, he says, and at this rate, he should be able to get to a quarter of them before May 2.
"I've been looked on as the master door knocker in the area. A lot of other Conservatives have kind of patterned their door knocking after us," he said, crediting his technique for bringing down former Liberal deputy prime minister Anne McLellan in 2006.
"The only weapon you have is getting your face in front of the voters."
Door-knocking works because it's not just about convincing people to vote for the party. It's about recording potential votes so volunteers can get those voters out on election day.
Supporters will get a phone call, or if the campaign has enough volunteers, someone will stop by the voter's house just to check if they voted already.
"It's about identifying your vote," said McLellan, who held Edmonton Centre for four terms, and can be found now at the Mary MacDonald campaign office, trying to help the local lawyer win back McLellan's old seat.
MacDonald was also doo -knocking Thursday afternoon, choosing a Conservative stronghold in Elmwood because Sherman, the local MLA, volunteered to knock with her for several hours.
MacDonald's pace falls between Cardinal's and Hawn's. She jogs from house to house, ringing the doorbells herself. She doesn't have the same volunteer support around her, and she waits just a brief moment before dashing off to the next door. Her stamina comes from running a leg of the death race in Grande Cache last summer.
"Watch these little puddles; they freeze up a bit," she warned.
Hawn won Edmonton Centre with 49 per cent of the vote last election. Liberal candidate Jim Wachowich trailed with 12,661 votes, 27 per cent of the total.
But MacDonald said she can't knock any faster. She can't keep up if several volunteers line up houses for her. She needs to talk with people longer than Hawn does, to convince them to vote for her, not just identify those already leaning her way.
"I have to do both, I'm the underdog," she said.
Cardinal, a longtime community activist in Edmonton, just laughs when asked why he isn't jogging.
He tells a story from his recent municipal campaign, when he ran for city councillor in 2007 in Ward 4.
He was out knocking with his campaign manager once when a woman asked him if he had time for tea and pie.
His campaign manager shook her head, but Cardinal said yes.
They had their choice of pies and answered a list of questions from the homeowner.
When they were finished, the woman said she didn't normally have such spread of pie available. She was from a small church, and the members were coming over that night to decide who to vote for.
"I think it's going to be you," she told Cardinal. He recounted her words with a laugh.
"If you take the time with one person, they'll tell their friends," he said. "I tell them, take a look at what you have and vote from your heart. If we want principled leaders, you've got to vote with your convictions."
Cardinal lost the 2007 municipal election by a slim margin. He came in third with 18.9 per cent of the vote. Ben Henderson got 19.3 per cent that year and Jane Batty won with 20.8 per cent. Under the old system, Batty and Henderson both became councillors for the central Edmonton ward.
In the federal riding of Edmonton Centre, the NDP came in third in 2008 with 15 per cent of the vote when Donna Martyn ran in 2008.
Last week, Cardinal planned to knock until sundown. He called out one parting shot before turning to ring another doorbell.
"Remember the tortoise and the hare."


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Edie Brickell
Edie Brickell is an American singer/songwriter, born March 10, 1966 in Dallas (Oak Cliff), Texas.Read More
In the late 1980s Brickell was the lead singer with the (now renamed) folk-rock group Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, whose 1988 debut album Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars was a critical and commercial success. The band's follow-up album, Ghost of a Dog (1990), fared less well. As a solo artist, Brickell released Picture Perfect Morning (1994) and Volcano (2003). In 2006 she reunited with some of the original members of the New Bohemians and they released the Stranger Things album.
Brickell had a role as a folk singer in the 1989 film Born on the Fourth of July. Her version of Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" is featured on the film's soundtrack. Many computer users know her from the "Good Times" video which was included as part of the multimedia samples on the Windows 95 installation CD-ROM.
Brickell married songwriter Paul Simon in 1992. They have three children. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.


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President Obama has been on a blitz while pushing what seems to be an evergreen priority for Democrats these days: "infrastructure investment." In his State of the Union speech, President Obama spoke of Merica's "deteriorating roads and bridges" and proposed what he called a "Fix-It-First" program that would see the government hire construction workers to work on America's infrastructure.
This worry is overblown. The Reason Foundation put out a report this week that found America's infrastructure is in fine shape, though there's certainly work to be done.
All 50 states lowered their highway fatality rates from 1989 to 2008 and 40 states reduced their percentages of deficient bridges during that time. Nationwide, the number of deficient bridges in the country fell from 37.8 percent of all bridges in 1989 to 23.7 percent in 2008.
The Reason Foundation study tracks spending per mile on state-owned roads and measures road performance in seven categories: miles of urban Interstate highways in poor pavement condition, miles of rural Interstates in poor condition, congestion on urban Interstates, deficient bridges, highway fatalities, rural primary roads in poor condition and the number of rural primary roads flagged as too narrow.
Moreover, if America's infrastructure is in bad shape, it's not because of a lack of government spending. Reason Foundation found that inflation-adjusted infrastructure spending has grown by 60% in the last twenty years despite the government controlling roughly the same amount of road mileage.
It's popular to cite th World Economic Forum rankings of world infrastructure, but misleading. The U.S. was ranked 16th in infrastructure according to the WEF, behind similar countries like Canada. But the top countries in the world for infrastructure are small and dense - those of the Netherlands and Singapore, for example. Among the world's largest countries, the U.S. stands behind only Canada, and among the world's most populous countries is bested by France, Germany and Japan. U.S. infrastructure certainly comes out well compared to the rest of the European Union, as Charles Lane pointed out.
There are certainly things that the federal government can and should do in the area of infrastructure investment. Last year, Ed Glaeser laid out a positive agenda - because President Obama at the time was on a previous pro-infrastrucutre blitz - for infrastructure investment that would focus on market reforms and decentralization that would fix what needs to be fixed while staying humble in scope.
LET USERS PAY: In the early days, we paid for infrastructure, such as the Erie Canal and the Brooklyn Bridge, by charging tolls. That was easy to do, as demand for these improvements was enormous. But our fondness for big projects gradually and dangerously moved us away from this ideal. The Highway System is meant to be funded with gas taxes paid into the Highway Trust Fund, but funding formulas mean that the taxes each state pays into the fund rarely match the money received.
The stimulus delivered a dollop of highway spending provided with general tax dollars, and the Congressional Budget Office projects that the Trust Fund will be broke by 2014. Yet Congress is now promoting a vast new road spending bill. The budget the president presented yesterday supports paying for infrastructure with current user-financed mechanisms, but also proposes tapping part of the savings from ending the war in Iraq and winding down operations in Afghanistan, which just means using general tax revenue to pay for highways.
DE-FEDERALIZE TRANSPORT SPENDING: Most forms of transport infrastructure overwhelmingly serve the residents of a single state. Yet the federal government has played an outsized role in funding transportation for 50 years. Whenever the person paying isnt the person who benefits, there will always be a push for more largesse and little check on spending efficiency. Would Detroits People Mover have ever been built if the people of Detroit had to pay for it? We should move toward a system in which states and localities take more responsibility for the infrastructure that serves their citizens.
INSTITUTIONALIZE MAINTENANCE FUNDING: Throughout the world, political leaders love to cut ribbons on new projects, but they hate the hard work of maintaining older infrastructure. The natural result is that bridges become unsafe and highways are riddled with potholes. As I suspect that states and localities will always do too little to invest in maintenance, this would be a good place to redirect federal spending.
Instead of funding new projects, the Highway Trust Fund could instead become solely a road and bridge maintenance fund. Obamas 2013 budget moves in this direction by espousing a fix-it-first policy, but that isnt the same as tying future tax revenue to needed maintenance.
Despite President Obama's dire warnings, American infrastructure is not "crumbling." Infrastructure investment isn't a magic wand for economic sluggishness. There are positive steps in a federal infrastructure reform agenda that can be undertaken, but President Obama's dire warnings about the decrepit state of American infrastructure aren't true and aren't helping move the conversation forward.


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I have for years marketed myself as a craftsperson, holding to all the values and traits you have so beautifully communicated Ben.
I think it is important to point out though, to any self employed 'craftspeople' that aspiring to this level of artisanship will not always be your ally in the 'real world' of trying to make ends meet.
Clients on the whole do not 'get' this attention to detail this passion and therefore are unwilling to pay a premium for it, so unless you can do all this and still bring it competitively and remember you have to be competitive against the 'blodgers' who don't give a monkeys about quality it may be better reserved for personal projects.
Having said that i still continue to adopt the approach of a craftsperson but loose a lot of potential clients who don't understand why my prices are higher. I think my main issue is dealing with local market and would perhaps have more success with a pre educated market who understood the difference between cutting edge, best practices versus pre 2003 DW table design!! help!! aghhh!


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INDIAN LAKE - Though it seemed scary, I've wanted to go white water rafting since I was a kid because of a photo we had on the wall of my dad negotiating some rapids with his friends during his days as a guide in the 1980s.
I never had the time or money, but this spring, I was determined to give it a try. So I found a rafting company that would let me tag along on a trip.
Adirondac Rafting is owned by Bob and Kerry Rafferty. They live in Lake Placid and commute to Indian Lake to run trips from the spring to the fall, two days a week in the early and late season and four days a week from June to August.
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A raft races down the Hudson River during a recent excursion, with reporter Jessica Collier seen far right.
Bob worked for another rafting company for years, then set out on his own to open Adirondac Rafting. He cultivated a whole family of rafters; his children Brad and Alissa are both Adirondac Rafting guides now.
I grew more and more nervous in the days leading up to my rafting expedition, especially after a week of snowy mornings ensured that the trip would be a chilly one. But I get up early the last Saturday in April and made the hour-and-15-minute drive to Indian Lake to Adirondac Rafting's River Base.
Kerry greets me and tells me that they weren't sure I'd show up on this cold day. The company takes a deposit of half the trip price when reservations are made, and they don't allow cancelations two weeks or closer to the trip day, or they'd have people cancel every time it's cold. Even with the deposit, they still get cancelations, most often from that one guy in each bachelor party trip (they get a lot of those) who partied a little too hard the night before.
Considering the distance I travel, I'm surprised to meet so many people from the Tri-Lakes area. A woman named Carrie from Saranac Lake hands me some gear, and I meet guides from Lake Placid, Saranac Lake and Tupper Lake throughout the day. One of the guides was even a classmate of mine at Tupper Lake Middle/High School, and we have a nice catchup session as he helps distribute gear to the line of Boy Scouts.
The guides give each person wetsuits and a wetsuit jacket, booties and mittens made out of wetsuit material, a "splashguard" shirt to go over the top, a helmet and a life preserver. They advise me to take off anything that's cotton - yes, including underwear - and to put on anything wool or fleece I can add.
Then they check to make sure each life preserver was secured tightly because, as they explain, if someone falls out of the boat, guides will pull that person up by the straps on his or her life jacket.
After that, everyone loads onto an old school bus. We drive a few minutes down the road and pull into a parking area where at least five or six other large, repurposed schoolbuses have herds of brightly geared rafters gathered at their bases. One of the guides tells me there are maybe 10 or 11 companies total that launch from the same spot.
Brad Rafferty stands on the edge of a raft and goes through the safety guidelines for the day: Keep a hand over the top of the paddle so you don't smack someone with it - the number-one injury they see, Brad says - and if you fall out, swim or float, but don't try to stand up in the river.
Then the day's rafters are grouped into boats. A large group of Boy Scouts from the Rochester area are split up into three boats, and two groups of 20- and 30-somethings each get their own boat. I'm grouped with a couple from Boston - Aaron Kerlin and a woman who's name I did not catch the spelling of - and a father and son pair from south of Rochester, Olie and Eryk Olson. Olie is 54, and he has been rafting every year since the 1970s, save a few years' gap after Eryk was born 22 years ago. Brad will be our fearless leader for the day.
There's a little lagoon where all the rafters launch and practice their paddling techniques before heading out on the river - all forward, left forward (the people on the right side of the boat paddle backward), all back, etc. Our boat gets the hang of it pretty quickly and pulls over to the side of the lagoon to wait for the rest of the Adirondac Rafting boats.
Down the river
We all embark on the Indian River together. It's not long before the river starts rushing around us and we hit some Class III rapids. They include some sudden drops and bumps, and the water splashes high in the front of the boat, getting us all a little wet.
Once or twice, it crosses my mind of how cold it would be if I were to take a dive into the river so early in the trip, but the rapids are tame enough that I don't think that will be a concern. I am amazed that Olie and Eryk in the front of the boat are able to stay in, though.
After 3 miles of the Indian River, we meet up with the Hudson River. For the most part, we rest our paddles, but when we need to avoid a rock, Brad tells us to paddle. Usually a quick few strokes is enough to get us on the right path, then he tells us to rest again.
The river has enough flat sections for us to collect ourselves in between each batch of rapids. Brad warns us about the "holes" where rafts can get stuck, which carry interesting names like "Turkey Baster."
Each section, rapid and recognizable landmarks on the river has some name that imaginative guides have dreamed up over the years. The origins range from obvious, like Elephant Rock, a large rock sticking out of the middle of the river, to historical, named for loggers who used to push lumber down the river, like the Harris Rift rapid.
Brad tells us that the spring's water levels have been low in comparison to last year, when the Hudson hit the highest levels ever recorded, but the week of rain and snow before that weekend had brought the levels up a few inches. We see some traces of last year's flooding: first a dock stranded almost vertically in an island in the middle of the river, then later an aluminum rowboat that wrapped in half around a tree along the riverbank.
Hitting the rapids
After a stop for lunch, Olie tells me I have to try riding in front. I resist because I'm scared, but he's persistent enough that I give in and get in the front next to Aaron's partner.
I'm nervous once we hit our first rapids. As we hit, I can clearly see from my front-row viewpoint the big dips as we fly into them, and I shove my foot into the strap at the bottom of the boat to secure myself. After I realize I'm not going to be airborne the second we hit a few bumps, I start to enjoy the excitement of seeing the surface of the water fall before we do.
I let Aaron switch with me so he can try the front of the boat after a little while, before we hit the Kettle Mountain Rapids. That's the one Brad says is the most challenging. As we fall into the biggest dip, he tells us to get into the middle of the boat. We huddle toward the middle and are thrown around with the impact, but we all make it through.
As we turn around to assess the rapid we conquered, though, we see a woman from another boat bobbing in the water after being tossed out. A kayaker grabs her and pulls her to the closest raft. T.J., my guide friend, pulls her out of the water and brings her to the raft she fell out of, which she jumps into. All the Adirondac Rafting boats wait for her to get settled back in, then we take off to traverse more rapids.
There's a good stretch at the end of the trip when there are no more rapids, a nice cool-down at the end of the day. Brad, a teacher during the school year, lets Eryk get in the back and steer the boat for that section. The rest of us sit back and enjoy the scenery.
We pull over in North River and haul the boat up the riverbanks, grateful to load our shivering bodies into the heated bus.
The total trip is 17 miles, with 14 of those on the Hudson, and it takes about five hours total.
I'm glad I overcame my fear to enjoy the experience of rafting the Hudson. I'm already planning the next trip with my dad, who is energized after reminiscing about the fun he used to have as a guide.
For more information on an Adirondack Rafting Adventure, call 518-523-1635 or 800-510-RAFT or visit www.lakeplacidrafting.com.


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My second-favorite TV judge has a saying: "Say it and forget it, write it and regret it." No truer words were ever spoken, except maybe "wear sunscreen or your nose will drop off of your face in 30 years." (By the way, my most favorite TV judge has a great saying too: "What are you, an idiot?")
Last year I wrote— right here in this paper — that one of my many New Year's resolutions would be to learn how to play the ukulele. And I meant it. Did I do it? It was a New Year's resolution. What do you think?
I don't really regret writing that, because my intentions were good. As long as we all have good intentions, the outcome isn't important. It's the "you get a trophy for just showing up" syndrome.
I think I also resolved to sleep more, eat more chocolate and stay up later. Check, check and check. Of course I know becoming a slug is no way to live and it's certainly not a good resolution. I didn't mean to become a slug; it's just that my lifestyle sort of took me in that direction.
It seems that beginning on the day after Christmas, we are all bombarded with commercials encouraging us to lose weight and get in shape. All the big players are reaching out to us, from Weight Watchers to Jenny Craig to Nutrisystem to Hydroxycut. And they all say the same thing (besides "you're first week is free"). Every billion-dollar weight loss company tells us that to be successful in weight loss, we have to change our lifestyle.
Ugh. Really? Can't I just take some pills or something? Can't I just go under the knife and wake up built like Jenny McCarthy? Apparently not. Apparently there is much work to be done. Apparently I have to change my lifestyle.
This past year, much of my lifestyle has not been one to encourage and embrace a healthy future. Years ago I worked for a doctor who once told me that if our body is a temple, then mine was the temple of doom. That's because I've been able to get away with a lot, and never suffered the repercussions. I could eat and drink whatever I wanted. I could roll in at 4 a.m. and be back to work, bright eyed and bushy tailed by 8 a.m. I could eat enough mashed potatoes to spackle the White House and enough hot green chili to ignite the same White House. And I never suffered.
These days my body is not so forgiving. This whole "changing the lifestyle thing" is obviously a good idea, but it has been difficult for me to admit the time has come. Well, actually the time arrived about 10 years ago, but I ignored it. But I think those days are over. Ugh.
So, New Year's resolution? Yes, we should all try to make changes for the better. Is it possible to change one's lifestyle? I believe it is. Am I going to write it here and regret it? Not on your life. What am I? An idiot?
Terri Chance is a 41-year resident of Broomfield, mother of three and an astute observer of the hilarity of everyday life. Email her at email@example.com.


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Sumter County, Ala. At least a dozen people are still hospitalized in west Alabama after falling ill last weekend following a funeral. In all, people from 9 states have been hospitalized because of the outbreak in York. Officials with the Alabama Department of Health say that at least 30 people were hospitalized in serious condition due to the illness.
More than 100 people attended the funeral last Saturday at Eastern Star Baptist Church in York. Hours after the service is when the first patients turned up at the town's hospital.
"We actually started receiving people early Sunday morning. They came in around 1 AM," says Gus Weiss, who is a registered nurse and supervisor for the emergency room at Hill Hospital. "I think our youngest person was one and our oldest person was about 64 or 68."
Since then, at least 60 victims of the illness have been treated at Hill Hospital.
"This is not your typical upset stomach where you feel that if you just burp one time I can feel great," says Weiss. "This thing presents with a sharp stomach pain. Very uncomfortable, diarrhea, nausea, as some say you're going from both ends, and there's a lot of it. So, that's almost your key right there."
In a conversation via phone Wednesday afternoon, an official from the funeral home which conducted Saturday's service told Newscenter 11 that at least one employee from the funeral home was hospitalized from what were thought to be symptoms related to the outbreak. She also said that earlier in the day Wednesday another employee for the funeral home passed. She stressed that at that time there was no evidence that his death had anything to do with the outbreak. Instead, preliminary information revealed that he possibly died due to a heart attack.
According to some residents in York, what happened last Saturday is affecting how they eat now.
"Before you eat you always pray and ask God to bless the food because you never know what's in the food, but God always knows," says William Spencer.
As for the outbreak, preliminary tests from the Alabama Bureau of Clinical Laboratories have come back positive for salmonella.
Aside from Alabama, some people who attended the funeral have since been hospitalized in: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri and Oklahoma.


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Dorothy B. Losier
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Mrs. Dorothy B. Losier, age 89, of NewHall, CA, formerly of Palmyra, Missouri, passed away Friday, December 28, 2012, at the Henry Mayo NewHall Memorial Hospital in Valencia, CA.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, January 5, 2012, at the Lewis Brothers Funeral Chapel in Palmyra. Burial in the Greenwood Cemetery in Palmyra. Visitation will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, January 4, 2012, at the Lewis Brothers Funeral Chapel.
Dorothy B. Losier
Jan 2, 2013 at 9:00 PM Jan 2, 2013 at 9:00 PM
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July 30, 2013 > Newark Police Department receives grant
The Newark Police is pleased to announce that the California Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) has awarded a $27,800 grant to battle alcohol-related crimes. The funds will be used for both educational and enforcement purposes. Our hopes are to increase protection for youth and to bring problem locations into compliance.The grant is one of 53 awarded in California to local law enforcement agencies through ABC's Grant Assistance Program (GAP), totaling $3 million.The funds will be used to reduce the number of alcoholic beverage sales to minors, obviously intoxicated patrons, illegal solicitations of alcohol, and other criminal activities such as the sale and possession of illegal drugs.


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Do you have a game that you have unlocked Platinum in? Or two? Or three, or more? Do you like going trophy hunting and reminiscing about your unlocked ones? This is the group for you my friend.
Good luck. Whenever I try it on FUBAR, it will probably be a pain as well. I can't wait to hear the trophy list of blood dragon come out. Also wonder how long it will be. The trophies on far cry 3 were pretty easy. I predict it will probably be 6-8 hours. What do you think J?
The 6-8 hour mark sounds about right. I think Undead Nightmare was around 5 hours and Festival of Blood was only 3 at the most. But this one seems like a bigger stand alone DLC than those other two, The achievement list has been leaked. Most of them are for finding all items and finishing all side quests. So in this one you have to do everything to get a trophy. No Platinum because its stand alone DLC.
Here is the achievement list. They are the exact same as the trophies except no Gold, Silver, or Bronze. I can't believe they don't have a special achievement or anything for unlocking all of them.
Well that answer my question. Thanks J. I wish it did have a plat. That will be a easy plat. I just watched the new trailer for Beyond: Two souls. The game looks great. I wonder if the trophies on that will be as easy or harder as the ones on heavy rain? They'll probably be pretty easy.
Stand alone DLC never has platinum's. Same thing with most download only titles. I'm extremely excited for Beyond: Two Souls. From the top of my head I'd say that's my most anticipated game from this year, since BioShock was already released. That and GTA V are at the top of my list. The trophies might be along the same line as Heavy Rain's. Just story trophies and taking different paths.
Yeah I know. This is my second anticipated, and GTA V is probably 3rd. I'm most excited for last of us. I think though that both beyond and last of us trophies should be pretty easy.
I lost some excitement for The Last of Us, to be honest. I haven't been keeping up with the trailers and reveals as much as I thought I would.
I'm the opposite. Not saying you wrong, just saying I'm excited. It's probably the game I'm most excited for because I remember seeing it revealed, and see it grow from there. I'm tell you it looks like my type of game. Great graphics, great story/voice acting, and an intense gameplay that's going to keep me on my toes. I can't wait. The game though in the past week that easily escalated for me is Beyond 2 souls. I mean it looked good, but this past week, it looks spectacular. Heavy rain was great, and this looks even better. GTA V I'm really excited, and I'm curious to see what they do to the story. I mean lets face it, it looks great, will probably be a blast to play, but I'm wondering about the story. I mean GTA is a older franchise, and I'm not sure how much new ideas they have I wish the best. If I had to do a Anticipated game of 2013( Not including Bioshock Infinite) it would probably
1. Last of us
2. Beyond: Two souls
4. Battlefield 4
5. Splinter cell: Blacklist
Honorable mention: Batman Arkham origins(more info)
What's yours J? Any games you think are getting to much? For me, I'm sad to say but Assassin's creed 4 black flags. I know how you are about AC, but I thought 3 was great, and I thought they should stop from there. The ending made you think they would stop. This pirate thing, I'm not sold. It looks pretty good, but this might be a small flop. I hope it's not, but its looking like it might. What do you think J?
Is anyone else going to jump in the discussion with us? lol
My absolute most anticipated from this year was BioShock Infinite but since that game has released my new number one is:
1. Beyond: Two Souls- I really can't wait for this game. I love an emotional story driven game and this looks to blow most games out of the water. The fact that it takes a step back from shooting bad guys or aliens or whatever and focuses on dialogue is great. When David Cage said it was going to be a dark, emotional, mature storyline I knew it had great potential.
2. Grand Theft Auto V- These games are a blast to play and this one looks beautiful. As for the story, Rockstar is changing the approach with this one. 3 different characters with their own story to tell and experience. They are working to make this a better storytelling game.
3. Watch Dogs- Everything I've seen for this looks promising. It just looks like there is so much to do with all the power you have in the game. I think it looks great and its going to be one of the first games I get on PS4.
4. As of now probably Soul Sacrifice (because I like JRPGS) or Splinter Cell.
5. Toss up Between Battlefield 4 and Killzone: Shadow Fall if that comes out this year.
I'm also very excited for The Evil Within which will probably come out in 2014. Its from my favorite genre being Survival Horror.
Games I'm tired of is, yes AC since yearly releases are ridiculous and Ubisoft lied when they said they were taking a few years off from the series and COD. Never cared for the series and I'm burnt out from hearing about every game every year. I'll really have to think about other games that I think should take a few years off.
I know. Come on guys. Join in if you want! :). Anyways, yeah I really like COD, but it really needs to stop, or take a long break. Please, that would be great. Yeah those are the 2 series that I think should stop or take a long break.
I'm not too crazy for the franchise. Mainly because I can't stick with just multiplayer for a long time. The only games I can really play hours of online is Battlefield and Killzone. I just really prefer singleplayer or co op games.
I know. That's how I am. For me, I would rather be blown away with a great story, then a addicting multiplayer. What I hope strt happening is less crappy online multiplayer. Not all games multiplayer is bad, but there's alot where it's bad. I mean did spec ops the line, and tomb raider doesn't needmultiplayer. I don't think last of us needs a multiplayer. I just hope last of us doesn't follow spec ops and tomb raider by creating a crappy multiplayer. I bet if those games didn't have a multiplayer, they'd get better reviews. I'm just hoping last of us doesn't continue the trend. I'm telling you though, this is going to be one of the greatest game of year races yet. I mean I think the final 4 will be Bioshock infinite, Last of us, GTA V, and Beyond two souls. I have seen all the trailers, and played one, and I think they will be amazing. Can't really say which is the best because I've only played one. I'm just freakin excited for these games.
Multiplayer does play an affect on scoring a game because its part of the whole game. Could have Tomb Raider and Spec Ops gotten some better scores if it weren't for the multiplayer? Yes. I'm very happy that BioShock Infinite didn't have multiplayer because that can take away from the main game. Ken Levine said that adding in a multiplayer would have been completely unnecessary because you are playing the game solely for the single player story and you don't need that distraction of a multiplayer to take away from your experience; and you don't need to worry about having certain team members focusing on that side of the game.
I don't think The Last of Us needs MP either. Uncharted 2's multiplayer was very good, I thought mainly because it felt so unique. I wasn't too crazy for Uncharted 3's multiplayer because it didn't change anything. So what does that mean for The Last of Us? I just hope they upgrade it instead of keeping it the exact same.
Its sort of like the multiplayer for AC. AC Brotherhood and a great MP. That was my favorite part of the game. It was intense and always kept me on my toes. AC Revelations was the exact same and didn't change ONE THING. I played it so much in BH that I barely played it in Revelations because it was the same song and dance. That was a MP type that could die out quickly if nothing for it changed. AC III came around and I only played it once and never touched it again. The MP was dried out and not worth playing anymore. Goes to show you; not every game needs a multiplayer.
Exactly. I mean I think the developers add multiplayers because most people want to do more after story. They think they should add multiplayer to increase the experience, but usually, it brings it down. What they should do is add some gameplay, more exploration throughout the game. Gives you a reason to go back to the story.
DLC never hurts either. DLC is the reason why I went back to Sleeping Dogs and Mass Effect.
True. Dlcs never hurt. I wonder when the DLC of Bioshock infinite will come out.


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FOR millions of TV viewers around the world, Daniel Craig escorting the Queen as they parachuted into the London Olympics opening ceremony was an entertaining gag about modern Britain not taking itself too seriously.
But the ceremony's artistic director, Slumdog Millionaire's Danny Boyle, also managed a service for a compatriot, Sam Mendes, by jumpstarting the momentum for his new Bond movie, Skyfall, with a dramatised skyfall.
Despite widespread disappointment about the confusing Quantum of Solace and a delay in production because of MGM's financial troubles, the 23rd Bond instalment is turning into a movie marketing dream.
Also working for Skyfall has been the worldwide attention on the 50th anniversary of the series since Dr No, Adele's hit theme song and a trailer that suggested all the expected action, glamour, grit and exotic locations.
When the movie premiered in Britain, warm to salivating reviews noted that Bond had a proper story this time - dealing with a cyber attack on MI6 - and that Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of American Beauty, had restored integrity and emotion to the series.
Instead of a simultaneous global release, like so many Hollywood blockbusters, maximising hype and minimising piracy, the Skyfall distributors are staging a progressive global rollout that started with red carpet premieres in European capitals.
In two weeks, Skyfall has surged to worldwide box office takings of $US321 million ($A308 million) and is expected to pass $US400 million this weekend, including at least $US65 million from the North America opening.
Boosted by higher ticket prices for large-screen and other premium cinemas, Skyfall appears likely to become the highest-gross Bond movie - overtaking Casino Royale's $US594 million.
Craig will attend a Sydney premiere next week and the film will open nationally a week later, a month after Britain.
The managing director of Sony Pictures Releasing, Stephen Basil-Jones, said the delay was to launch the movie after high school and university exams on a date that would allow it to run through into the January holidays.
He expects it to easily out-perform both Casino Royale's $32.2 million and Quantum of Solace's $31 million, with hopes of taking $40 million.
''It's all come together,'' Mr Basil-Jones said, ''the Olympic launch and all the other star power, [including] Javier Bardem as a foe after people saw him in No Country For Old Men, [as well as] Ralph Fiennes and Judi Dench.''
David Seargeant, the head of Amalgamated Holdings, which owns the Event cinema chain, believes Skyfall is the best movie in the 007 series and thinks it will attract repeat viewers.
''For a number of people, their first reaction is: 'I want to see it again'. That doesn't happen with a lot of films,'' he says.
While box office takings are up 1 per cent on the same time last year, Mr Seargeant believes Skyfall's release is perfectly timed - following the final Twilight instalment, it will have a clear run until the big Boxing Day releases - after a flat run for movies.
''We've had a drought of great films and I think there's a lot of pent-up demand,'' he said. ''Twilight definitely has its audience but Bond is going to go so broad. It's just what the market has been waiting for - a big picture like this.''


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I'm starting to learn real quick that EQing a car is different from EQing a studio, or a home stereo. Very, very tedious getting the stage to sound right in a car setting. Obviously taking into account the car, acoustics, space, speaker, levels of the different stages and subs, I'd like to see/hear how others here have their stages EQed.
Ex: Front stage rolled off at 200hz, +2db 5q @ 600hz, bell curve 8000-14000hz peak @ +5db.
Ex: Rear stage rolled off at 8000hz, +5db 8q @ 100hz, -8db 3q @ 1000hz.
Ex: Sub....you get the point.
If you're not able to do q on your EQ I guess skip that, also delays on speakers if you have that capability. Also, What you're trying to achieve in your overall stage, or within a particular eq....make kick/vocal/snare...front/rear stand out.
I couldn't find another post like this, so I'm hoping a lot of people will share, maybe someone can find that missing thing in their stage.


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These scenery landscape flower trees are very helpful props for model train track and building. The landscape model flower trees are full of golden and orange flowers made of sponge and with iron wire trunk. Perfect to enhance the appearance of your model landscape with a touch of authenticity.
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TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A Topeka facility has earned national recognition for its work caring for premature babies.
Stormont-Vail HealthCare is one of only eight facilities in the country to earn disease-specific certification from the Joint Commission in care of premature infants. The Joint Commission awarded the facility its Gold Seal of Approval for Prematurity for Stormont's compliance with national standards for health care quality and safety.
Terra and Louie Constantino are experiencing it firsthand. The Topeka couple has spent every spare moment of the past week at Stormont's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with their newborn triplets, Louie, Giovanni and Rocky. They say having a NICU ten minutes from their home has allowed them to spend precious time with their newborns, while still caring for three big brothers at home.
Danielle and Randy Rickert also appreciate the convenience. The Fort Riley couple have spent the past month making the hour drive to spend as much time as possible with their sons, Maddox, Liam and Kennedy. Randy, who is a solider at Fort Riley, says it would be a problem for him to get the time to drive to Kansas City or further. WIth the NICU so nearby in Topeka, he says he's been able to see Danielle and the babies at lease every weekend.
The certification offers assurance that the care the infants are receiving is more than just convenient. Deb Salsbury, a neonatal nurse practitioner, says Stormont had to prove to t he Commission that the facility offers safe and quality evidence-based care to patients.
Salsbury says it was a two-year process. Staff focused on reducing and preventing infections, as well as improving nutrition for preterm babies by working with moms on expressing breast milk so their children could get breast milk for as long as possible.
Their other focus was skin care. Salsbury says, when born babies are premature, their skin is thin and fragile. She says the NICU looked at how to improve skin integrity by increasing the humidity provided to preterm babies.
Salsbury says the certification is a tribute to the high quality and dedication of the entire staff.
Of the eight facilities with the certification, Stormont is the only one in Kansas. The next-closest facility is in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Tie::Array::CSV::HoldRow - A Tie::Array::CSV subclass for deferring row operations
use strict; use warnings;
use Tie::Array::CSV::HoldRow;
tie my @file, 'Tie::Array::CSV::HoldRow', 'filename';
print $file[0][2];
$file[3][5] = "Camel";
This module is an experimental subclass of Tie::Array::CSV, see usage information in that documentation.
While the usage is the same, the timing of the file IO is different. As opposed to the base module, the file is not updated while the reference to the row is still in scope. Note that for both modules, the parsed row is still held in memory while the row is in scope, the ONLY difference is that the file reflects changes immediately when
hold_row is false. To reiterate, this option only affects file IO, not memory usage.
When multiple rows are kept alive/removed/modified there was the possibility that conflicting directives could be given to a single physical line. To combat this possibility, as of version 0.05, all (living) child row objects are made aware of line number changes in the parent (outer array) should these occur. Futher if a row object is alive, but the parent object removes that line, the row object is remains intact, but the links between the row object and parent/file are severed.
Joel Berger, <email@example.com>
Copyright (C) 2012 by Joel Berger
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News Feature
Originally published in The Weekly Packet, January 24, 2013
Rep. Kumiega outlines approach as chair of Marine Resources Committee
by Jessica Brophy
Second-term Maine State Representative Walter Kumiega (D-Deer Isle) was recently appointed chairman of the Marine Resources Committee, which oversees policy relating to the Department of Marine Resources and the state's commercial fisheries.
Kumiega said the committee's primary role is to listen to bills presented related to the fisheries and make sense of them, asking intelligent questions and working toward a final bill. The DMR often drafts bills, with the help of the committee, and then the committee will make further recommendations.
This legislative session looks to be a busy one, as the DMR is already working on several bills to bring forward.
These include proposed changes to the lobster licensing system, a marketing plan for Maine lobster and potential shut-down or restriction powers for the DMR in times of economic crisis in the lobster industry (such as the backlog of product and low boat price for lobster in summer of 2012).
While these are some of the bigger, more pressing issues, Kumiega said he has a bill related to sea cucumber harvesting, and there is likely to be work done on improving sustainability for the shrimp industry as well. The open period for bill suggestion ends in a few weeks, and then Kumiega will have a better understanding of what is on the agenda for the upcoming legislative session.
He has heard, however, that there will be a bill to allow the landing of lobster caught while dragging for other species in Area 3 (federal waters). Currently, Maine law does not allow lobster to be landed this way, and many draggers and trawlers unload in other states—primarily Massachusetts—because that state does allow landings of lobsters from dragging. Such a bill would allow boats to return to selling at Portland, said Kumiega. However, Portland Harbor is getting crowded with cruise ships, pleasure craft and other commerce as well as shorefront development, and Kumiega is unsure whether boats would return to sell in Portland.
In terms of the marketing plan, Kumiega thinks the recent data on landings and values shows its need. "It's a pretty grim picture," said Kumiega of the 2012 landings data, which shows landings up nearly 20 million pounds to a total of 123 million pounds. The worth of those landings, however, dropped by nearly
$4 million. The problem, said Kumiega, is that lobstermen cannot continue to work that much harder for less. The marketing plan, which would promote Maine lobster, is being presented as a five-year plan with a "sunset" or automatic repeal clause.
"We'll know if it's working," said Kumiega.
Kumiega said there are still some kinks that need to be worked out to the DMR's potential "emergency measures" plan. Kumiega has attended a few of the hearings already, and said as DMR Commissioner Pat Keliher described the short-term move to a three-day-per-week fishing schedule with an afternoon curfew, fishermen were already telling him how they would get around it.
"That's what they do, fish," said Kumiega.
Kumiega said the emergency measure is "something I hope we don't have to use," but he thinks it might be worth trying to see if product landings can be slowed and the boat price brought up during a crisis. "If we try it once and it doesn't work, we'll have to find something else," said Kumiega. One of the tricky parts will be establishing the "trigger" mechanism, or defining what constitutes an economic emergency in the lobster industry.
The industry has already taken note of what happened last year and is building bigger and better capacity for transport and storage, dealers and lobstermen alike, said Kumiega. "If we come out of this with better handling, that will make a difference in time," he said, though he admits most fishermen are concerned with how much of that difference will end up in the pockets of fishermen.
When it comes to lobster licenses, Kumiega thinks it's a good time to incorporate changes. "The wait lists are so long," said Kumiega. Zone C, which includes Stonington, Deer Isle, Blue Hill, Brooklin, Surry, Sedgwick and Brooksville, has an open licensing system, where anyone who completes the apprenticeship program can get a license. Other zones have waiting lists that require a certain number of trap tags (associated with licenses) to be retired.
Kumiega thinks the DMR's proposed new three-tier licensing system offers a good alternative, where new entrants or those with few landings historically can fish a reduced number of traps, or more based on landings, and be able to move up based on retiring licenses (so someone at the second tier with 400 traps could move up to the full allotment of 800 traps if another fishermen with 800 traps retires).
It may also be the time to think about instituting lowered trap limits for those just entering the fishery. "There's going to be a lot of turnover in the industry in 15 or 20 years," said Kumiega. "The average fisherman is in his 50s. Having new entrants start with fewer means that in 15 or 20 years we'll have everyone fishing at the lower level."
Kumiega said his other priority, as chairman of the Marine Resources Committee, is to start figuring out how to "let people back into the closed fisheries."