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Pesticide Practices
We've all seen them. The obvious signs that pests are feasting on the plants that you're paid to take care of, destroying their beauty with each bite. Aesthetics aside, pests will not only converge on the plants and grounds you're responsible for, they'll quickly eat away at your bottom line as well. In order to keep pests from feasting on your hard work and profits, pesticide treatment is a must. A proper pesticide treatment method ensures safety, while at the same time keeping slugs, snails and other pests from readily dining on the fruits — or foliage — of your labor.
Pesticides are a solution to maintaining grounds or repairing grounds to their original state, but improper use can put more than pests at risk. If not used properly, children, animals and workers within the proximity of pesticide treatment can be exposed to harmful chemicals, with risks severe enough to hospitalize individuals and kill small animals.
For instance, opening pesticide containers, connecting application equipment or transferring pesticides to another container for application all entail the possibility of exposure. For their own safety, applicators should observe safety precautions carefully. Workers should be sure to read all labels, wear adequate protective clothing and equipment, and carefully choose the pesticide-handling area.
When used properly, though, pesticides can be safe and effective. For instance, popular insect baits use metaldehyde as an active ingredient. To reduce the possibility of a hungry pet or curious toddler sampling the bait, evenly disperse metaldehyde-based pellets 10 to 20 centimeters apart. Doing so will not adversely reduce effectiveness, and safety will be increased.
A pet should not be on grounds recently treated with pesticides, and a young child clearly should not be unattended in such an area. You can avoid mistakes like these by following guidelines and addressing these issues with your clients prior to application.
Two factors affecting your pesticide treatment method include the present season and the time of day you make pesticide applications. Some pests are night feeders, seeking damp shelter during the day. Therefore, dusk is an optimal time to spread some baits. Dusk treatments are also beneficial from a safety standpoint because most people are no longer on the grounds or property.
As a manager, it is your responsibility to make sure that all employees who handle pesticides are properly trained. Each of your employees should have a copy of your training program. Employee training should include:
Learning to read and understand the product labels and directions.
Chemical hazards, including signs and symptoms of acute exposure.
Common ways that pesticides can enter or be absorbed into the body.
Emergency aid procedures.
Safety procedures, including proper handling techniques.
The type of treatments grounds professionals can use varies. For safety purposes, some varieties of pesticides should have formulations with repellents. Insect baits often contain a sweetener to lure targeted pests. While this attracts pests, it can also catch the attention of other animals, specifically dogs. To combat this, bittering agents are added to some baits in order to repel children and pets that mistake them for a snack. One of the more popular bittering agents is Bitrex, the most bitter substance yet to be discovered. It is odorless, so even animals with the keenest sense of smell cannot detect its presence until they taste it. Specifically targeted pests are still attracted to the bait, while non-targeted and beneficial animals remain at a much lower risk.
Of course, all pesticides are tested carefully before they can be registered by the EPA and before they are sold. Part of this testing includes determining possible effects on non-target organisms, such as pets. You should follow the same re-entry procedures for cats and dogs as is recommended for humans. Wait until the treated area dries (in the case of liquid application) and, for granular materials, comply with labeled directions for re-entering the treated area.
While proper pesticide application drastically reduces the likelihood for poison exposures, safe storage is equally significant. Before planning out your storage facility, consider that there are some guidelines already established by regulatory bodies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and you must be in compliance with their standards. Your first step toward compliance with established safety standards is designing a proper maintenance site, mix-and-load area and storage facility. Select an area that is spacious, away from any body of water or stream, and where you can restrict entry of unauthorized persons. Next, design and build a non-pervious, permanent concrete pad adjacent to the chemical storage shed for mixing and loading, and a separate, sealed concrete pad on which to wash equipment.
This is necessary because, according to university and EPA studies, even small amounts of chemicals repeatedly dropped on the ground in the same location can build up over time and contaminate the soil, ground and surface water. Ideally, you should construct a shelter over both pads to protect employees from inclement weather and minimize the rainfall-based runoff from the pads. Install a chemical-resistant sump basin and pump to facilitate the collection of any spills, and design them to pump into a chemical holding unit.
Make sure your storage shed includes these options:
Secondary leak-proof flooring below chemical-resistant grating to collect spills and prevent runoff and contamination.
Chemical-resistant shelving.
Hands-free mix-and-load enclosed chamber.
Automatic ventilation system.
Hand- and eye-wash basin with a hookup to a potable water source.
Sump system in the flooring.
Special chemical-resistant interior lighting.
Employee safety posters.
Leaflets and material safety data sheets (MSDS) written in English and Spanish.
Temperature control or insulation, depending on climatic conditions.
Visible signage written in English and Spanish on the exterior of the buildings.
Once you have installed your storage facility, you are ready to stock it. Some simple, common-sense rules pertain to the safe storage of these pesticides. Keep similar pesticides together. For example, if you keep herbicides with herbicides and fungicides with fungicides, an employee who is conducting the application will be less likely to make a mistake in mixing the wrong ones together. Also, you should store flammable chemicals in a separate area. Once these containers are empty, triple rinse and crush them so that they can be transported to an approved landfill or waste facility.
A curious child can easily wander to an unlocked shed or cabinet that houses pesticides and other hazardous chemicals. To reduce this risk, keep the pesticide at least 4 feet off the ground in a well-ventilated area. Additionally, buying only as much pesticide as is needed per application can prevent a surplus of poisonous chemicals from sitting for long amounts of time without use. This method is not cost-efficient for landscapers or groundskeepers, so it is important that pesticides are stored properly.
While it is imperative to keep dangerous chemicals out of children's hands, it is as important to take the proper precautions to keep pesticides from harming the environment. A pesticide spill can seep into the ground, possibly entering a nearby water supply or contaminating the landscape or turfgrass. In order to prevent this, use caution when applying pesticides near natural water sources such as reservoirs, lakes, ponds and wells.
In the event an accidental spill or large leak occurs, you must be prepared to locate and control the source. Re-direct large spills away from water sources, ditches or storm drains. Instruct employees, as part of their training, to report the spill as soon as possible. Keep a supply of absorbent materials such as kitty litter or dry sawdust close by to reduce the spread of a spill, should one take place.
Once a pesticide is in your possession, you are responsible for its safe transport. The safest way to carry pesticides is in the back of a truck. Flatbed trucks should have side and tail racks. Never carry pesticides in the passenger compartment of a vehicle: hazardous fumes may be released and spills may cause injury and be impossible to remove from seats. Never carry pesticides in the same compartment with fertilizers, seed, food or feed. Inspect containers before loading to be sure all caps and plugs are closed tightly and legible labels are attached.
Also, never leave a vehicle unattended when transporting pesticides in an unlocked trunk compartment or open-bed truck. You are legally responsible if curious children or careless adults are accidentally poisoned by pesticides left unattended and exposed in your vehicle. Whenever possible, transport pesticides in a locked compartment.
Each time you water a landscape, the leftover moisture attracts pests such as slugs and snails, leaving them primed to assault plants by nightfall. Because water is obviously imperative to maintaining attractive grounds, snails and slugs are expected to remain in the increasingly damp conditions. A pesticide must then be equally effective when wet as it is in dry conditions.
Professional formulations include active ingredients such as metaldehyde at levels that are high enough to kill pests the size of slugs and snails, but not dogs or cats. For example, for a dog to ingest a potentially fatal amount of a metaldehyde-based bait, it would have to consume such a highly concentrated amount of pellets that they would have to be eaten straight from a container. By using the treatment method mentioned earlier, the spreading of pellets evenly across a desired area will work against a dog's or cat's innate hunger to automatically eat substances that look and smell like food. Plus, the bittering agent will take affect before the pet can ingest too much bait if it is spread evenly. Also, animals that prey on target pests already contaminated with a pesticide are at virtually no risk.
Another consideration is wind drift. While applicators are trained to follow precautions to minimize off-target movement of pesticides, a combination of wind and application conditions occasionally may cause drift if precautions aren't taken. Two types of drift may cause chemicals to move off target. Particle drift occurs when the wind scatters small spray droplets off the application site onto neighboring shrubs, flowers or lawns. Less common, vapor drift occurs when chemicals evaporate and move with air currents to other sites. In either case, an applicator should be aware of wind conditions to any drift potential.
Pests are a serious problem for grounds professionals because they can devour acres of property and fine landscaping. Without the threat of pesticide, a single species of pest can consume a property in a matter of days. Pesticides offer a solution to this problem, but to ensure safety it is crucial for professionals to learn the proper methods for handling chemicals. This will make certain that landscapes will be restored to their original beauty while people, pets and non-target animals can safely continue to enjoy pest-free treated property.
Thomas Brancato is director of marketing and sales for Lonza, Inc. (Allendale, N.J.).
Other sources include Sharon Rinehimer with RGF Environmental Group, Inc., and the Michigan State University Pesticide Education Program.
Spread pesticides smoothly and evenly, while making sure there are no clumps that can be mistaken as pet food.
A bittering agent is added to some pesticides to help deter children, pets and beneficial animals from ingesting toxins
Keep pesticides out of the reach of children and pets by storing them in a well-ventilated area at least four feet off the ground and away from food.
Keep absorbent materials handy such as kitty litter or dry sawdust, to minimize the effects of a spill.
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Competing project applications on overlapping sites in the German Baltic Sea have created headaches for the regulator. The Bundesamt fur Seeschifffahrt und Hydrographie (BSH) was tasked with drawing up the region's first offshore transmission network plan.
Three project clusters have been outlined in the first draft of the Bundesfachplan Offshore 2013 for the Baltic Sea. But identifying each cluster's capacity "cannot…be done on the basis of applications to the BSH", states the draft document.
Each cluster currently features proposed projects whose sites overlap each other, notes the plan. Given that competing projects have yet to be awarded development rights, it is not possible to calculate total cluster capacity.
BSH has instead used the average area per turbine quoted in Baltic Sea applications and compared this with North Sea permitted projects, in order to arrive at a theoretical 'turbines per cluster' number. This is then multiplied by an assumed capacity per turbine of 7MW.
The formula has resulted in average density of two turbines per km² and a total capacity in the German Baltic Sea of just under 3.7GW.
Cluster 1 is located within offshore wind priority area Westlich Adlergrund and so far features two permitted projects; E.ON's 480MW Arkona Becken Südost and Iberdrola's 400MW Wikinger. BSH has estimated an eventual total cluster capacity of 1.7GW.
By contract, Cluster 2 is not in a priority zone for offshore wind, but several applications have been submitted. BSH has allocated it a cluster capacity of 1.3GW.
A third and final cluster, Kriegers Flak, has been awarded development priority. BSH has earmarked a total capacity of 722MW. One project is already well-progressed, EnBW's Baltic 2, while there are two competing applications in the southern part of the zone.
Germany's recently-published offshore network development plan makes it clear that clusters in priority areas should be awarded earlier transmission links to shore.

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Fresh off their grand opening on Wednesday, the Bizaare Ave Café, 35-01 36th Street, is one of Astoria's newest dining experiences. Pine is hopeful that customers will take notice of some of the "bizarre" characteristics of his place, one that includes selling off the furniture.
"One thing that separates us from other cafes is that everything is on sale here, from the chairs to the chandeliers; everything has a price tag on it," Pine said.
Featuring an eclectic atmosphere that is designed to make the patron feel at home, the Bizaare Ave Café provides a wide variety of menu items including tapas, sushi, and bistro fare. The cafe will also feature live acoustic performances on certain nights.
"We want to appeal to every kind of person, whether they prefer to sit and talk with their friends or listen to live music," Pine said.
Pine understands the risk that comes with opening a new business in these harsh economic times.
"The challenge is to make the right investment, make sure the price range is fair, and that the atmosphere is inviting," he said.
Pine believes the hospitable environment and fair pricing will get people in the door, but the biggest advantage, he believes, is the cafe's proximity to other Astoria hotspots.
Sandwiched in between Kaufman Astoria Studios, the Museum of the Moving Image, and the soon-to-open Tony Bennett Concert Hall, part of the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, Pine hopes to attract different people of all ages, and he couldn't be happier about his establishment's location.
"Our location is a huge advantage to us, as we hope to get a big push from the movie and museum crowd, and once the new concert hall is finished it will be even better," Pine said. "This is also a big residential area so we hope attract them as well."
Another one of Astoria's famous attractions is the brand new beer garden at Studio Square, just next door. It looms large, but Pine is not worried. "We may attract the same clientele, but we are completely different type of place," Pine said. "I think it may actually help our business."
This is actually the second Bizaare Ave Café, with the first one being located in West Palm Beach, Florida.
"We want people to feel right at home here, almost as if they were in their grandmother's living room," Pine said.


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August 12, 2008-Western Circuit Regatta-Day One
Out there, doing it
The biggest race in Singapore is the Western Circuit Regatta sailed out of Raffles Marina in August; a three day regatta sailed over three weekends.
Kite Takedown
Click here to go to the event website for more photos and information.
On the first day we came, we met, we placed well down.
That's the way it goes sometimes, sail well: do badly, sail worse: do terribly.
We had three races on the first day; six short legs each. We had lots of sail sets, kite sets, jibes, takedowns; a lot of good training. The first race we were sharp. We got off the line well and sailed well; but we got third and corrected out to 5th. The next two races were worse; we again got 5ths and that was only because Foxy Lady dropped out. We should have done better.
At least the crew work was good. I have no complaints; they know their jobs.
My work could have been better: on two of the races I had terrible starts. On the last race we were over early, we fouled a boat and we were lucky to avoid a serious collision. Omar helped me get out of that one. Usually I don't like to feel some one's hand on my tiller, but Omar gave it a big shove right when we needed it. Thanks Omar. We were pushed over the line early and in trying to get back we fouled Aquavit. Then we had to do a 720. So we got away from the line in one piece but we were behind, and didn't catch up. A problem at the top mark put us completely out of it.
Anyhow, the races were brutally short, but that's the nature of the beast at Raffles; you have short races or you have really long ones. Today we had short races and we worked hard to get all 18 legs done without screw-up, which we did, except mine.
But it was really hard work. At the end of the day people were pretty tired, including Judy and me. In fact, were all exhausted.
Never mind, we worked hard, we felt tired, and that is what this crew expects.
So from that perspective we had a good day; we didn't win, but we're out there competing and that is what counts, and we are getting experience on the boat and that is what we need.
Next week we have a "passage race", a longer race out past Marambong and up to the Malaysian entrance mark. We will try again.
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Fred & Judy
Fred & Judy, S/V Wings, Singapore
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|Bo knows... paintball gear?
However, based on the pictures of some of the items, it looked more like it was going to be a garage sale for your neighbor, Russ, who lives down the street rather than an estate sale of priceless mementos owned by one of the most beloved coaches in Meeechigan history. I mean, I'm sure Bo's old Christmas ornaments hold value for somebody, and who wouldn't want to say they put together their Ikea furniture using Bo's power tools, but we at the MZone were hoping for a little...more.
According to the company behind the almost-sale, since it was Bo's son's stuff, they weren't sure what sports items would be included. With that in mind, here's our list of things that, with a few turns of the fickle finger of football fate, could have been for sale:
* The shoe worn by Michigan kicker Mike "Super Toe" Lantry in November, 1973 after he kicked a 44-yard field goal with :24 seconds left to break a 10-10 tie and lead Michigan to victory over Ohio State and Woody Hayes. The Wolverines finished the regular season undefeated and went on to win the Rose Bowl and with it, Bo's first National Championship.
|The original "replacement refs"
* The can of Stickum spray Brad Cochran was using when he picked off QB Chuck Long on Iowa's final drive in the waning moments of second-ranked Michigan's 10-9 victory over the top ranked Hawkeyes in Iowa City in 1985. The only blemish on the Wolverine record that year was a 3-3 tie at Illinois. Even still, after Bo's 4th win in Pasadena, the General captured his second National Championship.
* The autographed picture of Bo holding up the Little Brown Jug after second-ranked Michigan held on to beat Minnesota and QB Ricky Foggie in the second to last game of the 1986 regular season. After beating Ohio State in the regular season finale following Jim Harbaugh's victory guarantee, the Wolverines completed yet another undefeated regular season.
* The football that Michigan recovered after Miami's failed onside kick attempt at the end of the Wolverine's victory over the #1-ranked Hurricanes in 1988. Miami was trying to come back from a 30-14 deficit with seven minutes left in the 4th quarter but it was not to be as the Wolverines held on in The Big House.
* Bo's gameplan notes for the '89 Michigan-Notre Dame game in which he specifically told his special teams coaches not to kick to Irish speedster Rocket Ismail. The Wolverines won that rainy day in A2 and ran the table, capped off by a thrilling victory against USC in the Rose Bowl (due to a gutsy, successful fake punt late in the game). The undefeated season marked Bo's third and final National Title as he retired on top, passing the reins to his longtime assistant Gary Moeller.
|Thankfully, we never kicked to him. Whew!
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Movies Filmed Here
Movies shot in Central Virginia
The epic historical drama Lincoln might be the most recent occasion when Hollywood has come knocking on our area's door, but it's hardly the first. Check out all the cinematic history (some parts of it more forgettable than others) that dots our landscape.
Virginia - (1941) - Starring Fred MacMurray, best known as the dad in My Three Sons, this melodrama was set at Monticola, a Howardsville-area mansion. Here, we find a southern belle who must choose between impoverished southerner Stonewall Elliot (MacMurray) and– egads– a Yankee industrialist.
Giant - (1956) - Texas rancher Rock Hudson visits a Maryland farm to buy a horse. What he finds is the owner's daughter, the lovely Elizabeth Taylor. It happened at Belmont, a cushy Keswick-area farm that plays a big part in what would turn out to be the final film in the short career of James Dean.
The Four Seasons - (1981) - Alan Alda and Carol Burnett headline this "romantic" comedy with extensive shooting at Pantops, which was owned at the time by the Worrell publishing family. It's now home to the Kluge-Ruhe Museum of Aboriginal Art. Nominated for four Golden Globes.
Lincoln - (2012) - The Academy Award-winning film starring Daniel Day Lewis (who won for Best Actor) and directed by Steven Spielberg, was shot at locations in Petersburg, Fredericksburg, and Richmond, Virginia. In addition, casting director Erica Arvold, who has her office in downtown Charlottesville, was charged with gathering extras for the film about our 16th President. Overall, Spielberg's production company, DreamWorks, pumped about $64 million into the Virginia economy.
Mutants in Paradise - (1984) - This film seems to have started and ended the career of its writer/director Scott Apostoulo. "This film makes Attack of the Killer Tomatoes look like Citizen Kane," writes one IMDB reviewer. It does, however, feature the film debut of boxing's former Lightweight Champion of the World, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini.
Morgan Stewart's Coming Home - (1987) - This dull (directed by Alan Smithee) knock-off of Ferris Bueller's Day Off takes place in Washington, D.C., but is actually filmed in Charlottesville. Whatever it lacks in artistic quality, it may be worth finding in the bargain bin because it probably shows more local scenes and extras than all the other pictures on this list.
Toy Soldiers - (1991) - Albemarle County's own Miller School plays "The Regis School," an academy of misfits and rebels shunned from America's elite prep schools who put their bad behavior to use when terrorists take the school hostage. Cinema's two greatest drill seargents Louis Gossett, Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman) and R. Lee Ermey (Full Metal Jacket) share screen time with the boy who would be Sam in Lord of the Rings, Sean Astin.
True Colors - (1991) - John Cusack and James Spader play two UVA Law students who pour booze on themselves at Macadoo's and go dancing at Trax. Even the Hook (which didn't exist then) has a tangential role. Our delivery driver lent his yellow Volvo to a scene filmed outside Trax.
A Kiss Before Dying - (1991) - Matt Dillon, Sean Young, and an ordinary house near the Korner restaurant served as key elements in this critically panned psycho killer story.
Sommersby - (1993) - They poured dirt on the streets of Lexington for this post-Bellum drama starring Richard Gere and Jodie Foster.
Major Payne - (1995) - After a critically acclaimed performance in Toy Soldiers, Miller School gets cast again, this time as the home of a JROTC program under the direction of hard-boiled Marine Benson Payne (Damon Wayans). Live grenades plus cute kids equals hilarity!
Hush - (1998) - The working title was Kilronan, the screen name given to Rocklands, the Orange County spread then operating as an inn (now a private residence). This dud of a film stars an up-and-coming actress named Gwyneth Paltrow playing daughter to abusive mom played by former local Jessica Lange.
Mickey - (2004) - Written and financed by John Grisham and partially shot at his Cove Creek Park baseball complex in Covesville, this boy-and-his-dad baseball picture was directed by another prominent Albemarlean: Hugh Wilson, the creator of WKRP in Cincinnati. Alas, despite starring Harry Connick Jr. and opening in about a dozen southern cities, it went quietly to DVD shelves.
War of the Worlds - (2005) - Supposedly set in New England, but they can't fool us. The spotlight shines once again on Lexington in one of this Tom Cruise blockbuster's most dramatic scenes.
Swedish Auto - (2006) - Western Albemarle/UVA grad Derek Sieg wrote and directed this tale of a voyeuristic mechanic, most of which was filmed on West Main. Stars January Jones before her Mad Men acclaim, Lukas Haas, and Mel's.
Live from the Hook - (2006) - The definitive documentary on the Charlottesville music scene of the '80s follows local legends Bob Girard of Johnny Sportcoat and Charlie Pastorfield of Skip Castro Band, and is a who's who of musicians then– Indecision– and now– Dave Matthews Band.
Evan Almighty - (2007) - Directed by UVA alum Tom Shadyac, this sequel to the Jim Carrey vehicle Bruce Almighty reprises Steve Carell's role as a weatherman who gets the call from God (Morgan Freeman) to build an ark. Shooting in Crozet's Old Trail neighborhood wrapped in June 2006, and included a menagerie of animals, a 200-foot-long ark, and plenty of locals appearing as extras. That its nationwide reception was tepid didn't dim the enthusiasm of locals.
Food, Inc - (2009) - Local farmer Joel Salatin was included in this documentary about the dangers of corporate farming in the U.S. While Salatin and his farming techinques and philosophies were well-known in Central Virginia, the Shenandoah-based farmer raised the bar and helped to spread the idea of the local food movement to the masses.
World Peace and Other Fourth Grade Achievements - (2010) - Following Charlottesville teacher John Hunter, this documentary explores the transformation of students into citizens. Hunter's students participated in the "World Peace Game," which stimulates political, economic, and social challenges and allows the students an opportunity to witness and create global interconnectedness. The film, directed by UVA grad Chris Farina, premiered at the South-By-Southwest festival.
The Parking Lot Movie - (2010) - "It's not just a parking lot. It's a battle with humanity." Strong words for a documentary about Charlottesville's Corner Parking lot. But the film, shot and produced in three years, meshes drunken or unruly parkers with larger themes of awareness, justice, and community. Directed and produced by UVA grad Mehan Eckman and Christopher Hlad, the film has garnered rave reviews and premiered at the South-By-Southwest festival.


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Retrievers fall to UMass-Lowell
UMBC falls to 8-16 on season
Akeem Williams scored 30 points as Massachusetts-Lowell defeated Maryland-Baltimore County 71-61 on Saturday.
After trailing for much of the first half, Massachusetts-Lowell (8-15, 6-5 America East Conference) closed the half on a 12-4 run and led for the rest of the game. UMBC (8-16, 4-7) came within 54-50 with 5:20 to play, but the River Hawks responded with eight straight points to extend their lead to double digits.
Massachusetts-Lowell shot 54.3 percent from the field, went 9 of 14 from beyond the arc and hit 24 of 30 free throws. Williams hit 4 of 5 from 3-point range, going 7 of 9 from the field while knocking down 12 of 14 free throws. Antonio Bivins added 13 points for the River Hawks.
Rodney Elliott had 26 points for UMBC but the Retrievers shot just 32.8 percent from the field and 5-of-21 from 3-point range.


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Under investigation: David Williams playing against the Roosters. Photo: Anthony JohnsonDavid Williams, the Manly winger nicknamed 'Wolfman', is known to be fond of multi-bets that include the German Bundesliga football team VfL Wolfsburg.
However, Williams is one of up to seven players facing bans of between two and six matches for also including NRL matches as a leg in some multi-bets.
Fairfax Media has confirmed the names of three other players involved in the investigation but they are rookies, who have played little NRL or are yet to make their debut.
The list includes players from Melbourne, North Queensland and Gold Coast. At least one club is understood to have more than one player facing suspension.
At least two other players rumoured to be involved are regular first-graders, including a former Test forward and a back who represented another nation at last year's World Cup.
The majority of wagers were often small – most $5 or less – and there is no suggestion of match fixing. One high-profile player, who placed a small bet, is among those caught out but is not expected to be outed.
Some officials are also thought to have been caught in the investigation.
However, it is understood that the majority of the 25 violations detected in an investigation by the NRL integrity unit involved players in the NYC under 20s competition last year. Some are no longer playing in the NRL.
Not all of the players will be suspended, with seven believed to be facing bans.
The players were caught in an audit of TAB and other betting agency records. It is understood the players had bet from accounts in their own names, which required passports or driver's licences to be used as identification.
Some of the bets were placed using smartphone apps.
The NRL is in the process of finalising its findings, with an announcement expected on Thursday or Friday after advising the players of the allegations last week.
NRL officials were fuming on Wednesday that Williams' name had become public and both his club and agent George Mimis refused to confirm his involvement.
Williams is a former NSW and Australian winger but his form has dipped and he has spent most of the season languishing in the NSW Cup.
Storm coach Craig Bellamy Bellamy said he hadn't been told of a Storm player facing suspension for placing a $20 bet on an NRL match and threatened to walk out of a press conference on Wednesday if questions continued.
But Bellamy said any player caught gambling on rugby league was "quite foolish".
"From the rumours I'm hearing there doesn't seem to be much damage done from the size of the bets but I don't know how many times a year players and staff and coaches are told you can't bet on rugby league games," Bellamy said.
"It seems silly to me.
"I've got no idea why it has been happening – they all know. We know from other walks of life that gambling can be an illness so that might be an issue for the NRL.
"Anyone who has a bet after this has rocks in his head."
There is no evidence of spot or match-fixing but the NRL, which hasn't had an official betting partner since it severed ties with Tabcorp in 2012, still wants to send a message the behaviour won't be tolerated.
The NRL has taken the unprecedented step of partially funding a feature film, Broke, as part of its educational messages to players.
The Australian production – which stars Claire van der Boom, Steve Le Marquand and Steve Bastoni – deals with gambling issues and will donate any profits to the Men of League foundation.


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The Great Game is a daily exciting Treasure Hunt that you do on your own time when ever you want around the Westminster area of London. Upon purchasing your ticket please email firstname.lastname@example.com to redeem. There a different tickets for different groups of people. Single route - for 1-2 people or 2-4 people is great for seeing the sights and using your brain. Race Pack - two routes of equal length for between 4-8 people, that start and finish at the same location - great for competing with your friends and family. Once the ticket is redeemed via email your treasure hunt pack will be mailed out to you so please provided your address in your email. Each pack includes a clipboard, a real compass, a map, the clues sheet, a prize sheet, a guide to London and a pen. Let us know the time you wish to begin your hunt and we will book you a table at the finishing "Treasure" a historic London Pub steeped in History, where you will 20% off your food and drink bill. The Hunt starts at Big Ben and takes roughly 2-3 hours to complete, solving clues and riddles and puzzles as you wind through the Westminster area of London viewing the sites of the city and trying to find the "Treasure" - The pub, where you simply show your Treasure Hunt to the staff to get your 20% discount on your food and drink bill. You will be sure to have a fantastic half day or evening out!
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NEWCASTLE, ON (RNN) – A Canadian family with an autistic child received a disturbing letter from an anonymous neighbor on Friday.
The neighbor, who called herself "one pissed off mother," wrote an offensive tirade against the parents whose teenaged child suffers from severe autism.
The neighbor claimed that Karla Begley's 13-year-old son, Max, is a "nuisance and a problem…with that noise polluting whaling [sic] he constantly makes!!!" The neighbor also goes on to call the boy an "idiot", "retarded" and a "wild animal kid," and suggests they should euthanize the boy.
Max was diagnosed with autism when he was 2 years old.
When neighbors found out about the letter, many came out in support of Max and his family. They hope to find out who wrote the letter.
Police now have the letter and the Begley family plans to press charges if a suspect is identified.
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Triad offers parents the ability to manage their child's meal account balances through an online management service called Pay Schools Central This service benefits students, parents and the school cafeteria. Management of your child's account through this online service will ensure that they never have to worry about carrying cash for lunch purchases and having the money with them at the start of lunch service. Your concerns about lost money between the time your child leaves home and the lunch line are eliminated. Our school cafeterias are already recognizing the time savings as more and more transactions are made using our ID card based system, as opposed to providing cash, for each meal purchase in the service line.
Using the Pay Schools Central service, parents can log in at any time to make a deposit to their child's account, view their child's account balance, set up recurring deposits to their child's account, set up e-mail notifications when their child's account falls below a certain dollar amount, or request a report showing what the child has purchased on their account. Payments processed before 8 p.m. should post to the student's account the next morning, in most cases.
Creating a PaySchools Central account is easy, quick and free! Next, the system will take you through a step-by-step registration process (Flyers and Step-by-Step Guides are linked below). Once your account is created, you will find a variety of features that will make the management of your student's fees easier. Go to www.payschoolscentral.com and select the "Register" under the login. The screens will guide you through the process to establish your account and link your child's lunch account. Please contact your child's school for their ID number.
View Pay Schools Video Overview and Account Creation
An internet convenience fee will be applied during each transaction. The fee is only charged when you add money to your child's account. Account payments can be made using a major a credit card (a 4.9% service fee based on the purchase amount will be applied) or ACH‐Electronic Check (a flat $1.25 per transaction - regardless of the purchase amount). If you have multiple children enrolled in the District, you can add money to each child's account during the same transaction. All families can establish a service account to view their child's balance and see what they have purchased without having to incur this fee.
Transactions processed by www.payschoolscentral.com are safe and secure using Secure Socket Link, SSL, technology with Digicert. With this technology, parents can be assured that all student information, credit card information and all other student data will be highly encrypted and secure.
If you choose not to use www.payschoolscentral.com for credit card transactions, the District continues to accept cash and checks at each school cafeteria. Students can bring their deposit to their classroom teacher in the mornings and accounts will be manually updated by food service employees. We appreciate receiving these transactions in envelopes with the child's name and teacher clearly printed on the outside.
If you have any questions about this, please contact the Sodexo Food Service staff at the Triad Central Office Building. 667-8851 x1211.


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The Home School Legal Defense Association not only protects the rights of homeschoolers to teach their children at home, but it also protects many other parental rights issues that affect homeschoolers, such as daytime curfews.
HSLDA believes daytime curfews are unconstitutional since they restrict a minor's movements and unnecessarily stigmatize any student seen outside during school hours as truant. Many of the ordinances give authority to the local police to hold any minor seen outside during the day.
This has caused many problems for homeschoolers, who tend to have flexible school hours and can go to jobs and field trips during the day. As a result, when HSLDA received a call from Suzanne Haney that the Big Spring City Council was to be meeting soon for the second reading of a new daytime curfew, we immediately got involved. At first reading, the curfew passed by a 4-3 vote. Haney, armed with HSLDA's memo describing the unconstitutionality of the proposed ordinance, helped defeated the curfew on July 22.
Below is an eyewitness account by Suzanne Haney:
Thank you and your staff at HSLDA for helping Big Spring Christian Home Educators in our efforts to defeat the proposed ordinance providing for a daytime curfew. At last night's city council meeting the measure failed by a 5-2 vote. This was the second and final reading. On first reading the ordinance proposal passed by a slim 4-3 vote. The credit and glory go to our Heavenly Father, because His Spirit changed the thinking of the two council members who switched their vote from the first time!
The council chamber was packed with concerned citizens - not just homeschoolers. At one point when the doomed fate of the ordinance was obvious to everyone, one of the supporters of the ordinance asked for a show of hands in the room of who supported and who opposed the curfew. Only three people present raised their hands in support. It was a dramatic moment for those of us who had prayed and worked for the defeat of the curfew.
The evidence provided by HSLDA of the unconstitutionality of the proposed curfew played an effective part in the ultimate decision by the council. It was apparent that one council member in particular was moved to respond to item III of Mr. Mason's memorandum regarding the vagueness of the curfew. Quoting from the memorandum, he says:
If the terms of the ordinance are so ambiguous or uncertain that it cannot be understood by persons of ordinary intelligence as to the act it forbids or requires, then it denies due process and will be found to be unconstitutionally vague. Similarly, if the wording of the ordinance is such that the police officers lack certain 'minimal guidelines' by which to enforce it, the likelihood of 'arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement' increases. Kolender v. Lawson, 461 U. S. 352, 357-358 (1983).
To say that we are elated is probably an understatement! We thank God for our Constitution and the opportunity to see it at work. We also thank God for HSLDA, Chris Klicka, James R. Mason III and their wonderful staff for standing in the gap when our basic freedoms are threatened. May God bless you all!
Kindest regards,
Suzanne Haney
For more information on why HSLDA opposes daytime curfews, visit: http://www.hslda.org/docs/nche/Issues/D/Daytime_Curfews.asp


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This post originally ran in April, but we thought now would be a good time to revisit it, giving the impending release of Eat, Pray, Love, based on Elizabeth Gilbert's mega-bestseller of the same name. So, this week, when you're bombarded with ads for the movie, the trip, or the collection, remember these words from everyone's favorite fuck-up: Blow it all, catastrophically, and start over with good cheer. After all, if she hadn't made some serious mistakes in her life, who knows where she'd be? More importantly, we'd all miss out on a chance to ogle Javier Bardem.
What if failure was not only an option, it was the only option? According to a recent article by Elizabeth Gilbert (she of Eat, Pray, Love fame) in this month's O magazine, we'd all be a lot better off. In fact, "Failure is the Only Option" is the title of the piece, in which Gilbert suggests we'd be happier if we screwed up. Early. Often. And big.
Now, easy for her to say: her divorce, after all, begat one of the publishing world's most staggering successes in recent memory (soon to arrive at the multiplex near you), not to mention an amazing round-the-world adventure and another go at the whole Committed thing. (So, it's probably no surprise that she'd encourage failure on an epic scale: she, after all, is living one serious silver lining.) In the course of making her case for failure, she hits on one of our main theses about the overwhelm women feel in the face of limitless options, and why those options trip us up so colossally: They're So. Damn. New.
Here's a little bit of what she says:
We don't have centuries of educated, autonomous female role models to imitate here (there were no women quite like us until very recently), so nobody has given us a map. As a result, we each race forth blindly into this new maze of limitless options. And the risks are steep. We make mistakes. We take sharp turns, hoping to stumble on an open path, only to bump into dead-end walls and have to back up and start all over again. We push mysterious levers, hoping to earn a reward, only to learn–whoops, that was a suffering button!
We've all accidentally pushed the suffering button. This new job is gonna rock! Quitting this job is gonna rock! This cheese rocks so much, I'm just gonna keep eating it! I'm totally gonna rock these 5-inch heels all night long! How can we ever know if we're doing the right thing?
Maybe the better question is When can we know if we're doing the right thing? To which, the only correct answer is: after we've done it. In which case, if it was the wrong thing, it's too late to do anything but pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and try something new (or swear off cheese altogether). But until we've given what may or may not rock a shot, well, we're generally operating without a map. (When you think about it, it's terrifically ironic: women, who are so talented at comparing ourselves to others, don't have a whole lot of comps to go by while charting our own course through this life.)
Of course, the major failures–the ones we're afraid of making–are more significant than a blister or a day spent, uh, divesting oneself of sins of the Cowgirl Creamery variety. But the half-full way of looking at it might be that all those missteps are indeed serving a purpose: in many ways, women today are making the map. And while, one might expect the moral of a story called "Failure is the Only Option" to be something along the lines of "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take, so you might as well go for it!", Gilbert's points are more charitable: stop pressuring yourself to be perfect, and every time you blow it, consider it a gift to your little sisters. Failure as philanthropy. Check it:
Let's just anticipate that we (all of us) will disappoint ourselves somehow in the decade to come. Go ahead and let it happen. Let somebody else go to art school. Let somebody else have a happy marriage, while you foolishly pick the wrong guy. (Hell, I've done it; it's survivable.) While you're at it, take the wrong job. Move to the wrong city. Blow it all catastrophically, in fact, and then start over with good cheer. This is what we all must learn to do, for this is how maps get charted–by taking wrong turns that lead to surprising passageways that open into spectacularly unexpected new worlds. So just march on. Future generations will thank you–trust me–for showing the way, for beating brave new footpaths out of wonky old mistakes.
So here's to blowing it. And here's a word to the wise, from a sister who's been there: half a wheel of Mt. Tam is too much cheese.


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Officials including athletic directors and school principals could face criminal penalties if they fail to report suspected child abuse.
That's the focus of a bill that will get a public hearing Wednesday afternoon before the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee.
State Rep. Gerald M. Fox III, co-chairman of the committee, said Tuesday that the bill is aimed at stopping the chain of administrative silence that led to the Penn State University sex scandal of 2011.
"This is to prevent people in supervisory roles to handle abuse claims privately rather than reporting to police," said Fox, D-Stamford, who introduced similar legislation last year. It's based on the sex-abuse case against Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State assistant football coach who was found guilty last June of 45 charges of sex abuse.
Currently an athletic director or person in similar supervisory role can be fined no more than $2,500 for failing to report the abuse of children 16 and under.
Under the proposed bill, such neglect could result in a Class A misdemeanor, with penalties of a year in prison and a $1,000 fine.
Fox said that the penalty could be negotiated and possibly toughened before it reaches full votes in the House and Senate. He's looking forward to testimony in the public hearing to discuss the issues.
He said the point of the legislation is, hypothetically, not to punish a young public school teacher who misses signs of abuse, but rather the administrators who might try to dismiss cases or cover up cases that should be investigated by law enforcement.
"This would target people trying to protect their organizations or themselves, rather than staff," Fox said in a phone interview Tuesday.
The bill would amend current law on so-called mandated reporters, who under state law are required to observe children for signs of either physical or sexual abuse and report it.
The state Department of Children and Families is expected to testify in favor of the bill in the hearing, which starts at 2:30 p.m. in the Legislative Office Building.
Michael P. Lawlor, a former lawmaker who is under secretary for criminal justice policy in the state Office of Policy and Management, said Tuesday that the list of mandated reporters has expanded over the years, from teachers, doctors, and clergy, to coaches and those in authority at youth-oriented activities.
"There are people in the course of their professions who come across information on children who are being abused either physically or sexually," Lawlor said.
"They have been trained and should be under the obligation," he said. "People who run powerful institutions have a conflict of interest sometimes even though they have clear evidence of children being abused. That has to be stopped."
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Futures contracts for agricultural commodities have been traded in the United States for more than 150 years and have been under Federal regulation since the 1920s. When the CFTC was created in 1974 with the enactment of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act, most futures trading took place in the agricultural sector. Over the years, the futures industry has become increasingly varied and complex.
Significant dates in the history of futures regulation before the creation of the CFTC and significant dates in CFTC history from 1974 to the present are given here.
- Futures Regulation Before the Creation of the CFTC
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John Steele's Property Caretaker Intervenes In Copyright Trolling Case, Alleging Identity Theft
from the prenda-law-comedy deptRemember the comedy routine that really was a copyright troll court hearing involving notorious copyright troll lawyer John Steele and a bunch of lawyers who all denied representing the plaintiff? We hoped that people would take that transcript and turn it into a movie, and now, apparently, we may have Act II. Ars Technica and Fight Copyright Trolls both have the odd story of a man named Alan Cooper, who just happens to be employed by John Steele... but as a "caretaker" for some property Steele owns in Minnesota. And, well, I'll let his lawyer explain the details:
My client had for several years acted as a caretaker for a Minnesota property owned by an attorney by the name of John Steele. When visiting his property, Steele had on numerous occasions bragged to my client about a plan involving massive copyright legislation in multiple jurisdictions. He also specifically instructed my client to contact him if anyone asked about various corporations, that Cooper was to call him. When Cooper confronted Steele about that, Steele told him not to worry about it. Needless to say, my client was suspicious, but did not know what to make of this situation. Upon learning about the many lawsuits filed by AF Holdings and learning that AF Holdings has a CEO with an identical name he began to investigate further, eventually prompting him to retain counsel.This letter was sent to the court on a few different cases involving these companies. In at least one, the judge apparently didn't think this mattered. After saying that it was "reviewed by the court," the judge also said "the court will take no action on this request." In the other cases, the lawyer for AF Holdings, Michael Dugas wrote a response which does not attempt to clarify the situation, but instead basically tells the judge it's false and not to worry about it:
[...] When investigating this matter and calling the number listed on the wefightpiracy.com website, I confirmed that Steele is currently "of counsel" with Prenda Law. I called and emailed local counsel, Michael Dugas to give notice of representation and find out if there was in fact a different Alan Cooper with AF Holdings. Within an hour of giving notice to Prenda Law and local counsel of my representation, Steele himself called my client several times in a row and asked if he had been talking to attorneys in Minnesota. Because I had not yet heard from from attorneys Dugas or Steele, I looked for an alternative phone number for attorney Dugas and found a different number than the one that appears on the pleading.... Calling that number, I heard a voicemail message which said "Prenda Law." I again left a message, but have received no response. Because I have no response from Dugas or Steele, and because Steele has contacted my client, my suspicious are now increased.
Today, I receved an email from another attorney at Prenda Law, Paul Duffy, suggesting that their client, AF Holdings, probably would not volunteer information. I reasserted my request to confirm that there was another Alan Cooper at AF Holdings. Shortly before sending this letter, Duffy emailed me again and said that I should not contact his office again.
My client would like certainty that his identify is not being used without his knowledge and against his will as the would be CEO of AF Holdings, LLC or as a manager of Ingenuity13, LLC....
I write to respond to the November 29, 2012 letter filed with the Court by Attorney Paul Godfread. In his letter, Attorney Godfread accuses AF Holdings LLC of being a sham corporation and fraudulently holding his client out as its CEO. Both of these accusations are categorically false.Note that the letter leaves out the important part. You know, the part where they say that the "Alan Cooper" on these documents is a different Alan Cooper. It seems like that would help settle manners, especially if the initial claims were false.
Attorney Paul Godfread filed an identical letter in a similar case currently pending before the Honorable Judge Joan N. Erickson. In a text entry, the Court indicated it reviewed the letter and "will take no action on [Attorney Godfread's] request." Plaintiff respectfully requests that the Court reach similar decision. By way of separate action, Plaintiff will address Attorney Godfread's egregious behavior.
Filed Under: alan cooper, copyright trolls, identity theft, john steele
Companies: af holdings, ingenuity13, prenda law