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The Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (FAIR Act), Public Law 105-270, signed into law on October 19, 1998, directs Federal agencies to submit an annual inventory of commercial activities which are not inherently governmental, but which are being performed by Federal employees. The US Department of Education (ED) is providing the following information in accordance with the FAIR Act and guidance from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Questions Regarding ED's 2001 Inventory Links to FAIR Guidance
Below are links to download the US Department of Education's (ED) 2001 Commercial Activities Inventory. The inventory was prepared in accordance with the FAIR Act, OMB Circular A-76, its March 1996 Revised Supplemental Handbook, and other OMB guidance. The inventory includes the number of ED Full-time Equivalent (FTE) employees performing functions that could be considered commercial in nature. After review by OMB, the Department is hereby making the inventory available to the public.
Several years ago, the Department undertook an aggressive effort to contract out its major activities. Contractors now perform the following activities:
- information technology support, computer center, network and telecommunications operations;
- debt collection;
- training and development of ED staff;
- student financial assistance services;
- grant proposal review;
- parking and shuttle bus services;
- library services;
- copy center services;
- warehouse and publication distribution;
- call centers, hotlines and public inquiry services;
- mail room services, and
- research and special studies.
As a result of its effort to outsource, ED's FTE staff dropped from approximately 7,500 in 1980 to its current level of around 4,700. ED is the smallest Federal department.
2001 Commercial Activities Inventory
The 2001 inventory contains the following components:
|Part A
|Part B
|2001 Commercial Activities Inventory
|Attachment I
|Organization Key (POC/Unit Descriptions)
|Attachment II
|US Department of Education Principal Operating Components
|Attachment III
|US Department of Education Headquarters and Regional Office Locations
The inventory is available in both MS Word and PDF formats. Click on the appropriate link below.
2001fair.doc (1102K) - US Department of Education 2001 Commercial Activities Inventory in MS Word format.
2001fair.pdf (332K) - US Department of Education 2001 Commercial Activities Inventory in PDF format. PDF format allows viewing of the inventory electronically on most computers. The Adobe® Acrobat® Reader, which is available free, is required to view and print PDF files.
Inventory Challenges and Appeals
Under Section 3 of the FAIR Act, ED's decision to include or exclude a particular activity on or from the Commercial Activities Inventory is subject to administrative challenge and appeal by "interested parties." Section 3(b) of the FAIR Act defines an "interested party" as:
- A private sector source that (A) is an actual or prospective offeror for any contract or other form of agreement to perform the activity; and (B) has a direct economic interest in performing the activity that would be adversely affected by a determination not to procure the performance of the activity from a private sector source.
- A representative of any business or professional association that includes within its membership private sector sources referred to in 1. above.
- An officer or employee of an organization within an executive agency that is an actual or prospective offeror to perform the activity.
- The head of any labor organization referred to in section 7103(a) (4) of title 5, United States Code that includes within its membership officers or employees of an organization referred to in 3. above.
An interested party may submit an initial challenge to the inclusion or exclusion of an activity within 30 working days after publication of OMB's Federal Register notice stating that the inventory is available. The challenge must set forth the activity being challenged with as much specificity as possible, and the reasons for the interested party's belief that the particular activity should be reclassified as inherently governmental (and therefore be deleted from the inventory) or as commercial (and therefore be added to the inventory) in accordance with OFPP Policy Letter 92-1 on inherently governmental functions or as established by precedent (such as when other agencies have contracted for the activity or undergone competitions for this or similar activities).
The Department will review initial challenges. Written notification of ED's decision will be transmitted to the interested party within 28 working days of receiving the challenge. The notification will include a discussion of the rationale for the decision and, if the decision is adverse, an explanation of the party's right to file an appeal.
Appeals of an adverse decision to an initial challenge must be transmitted to ED within 10 working days after receiving the written notification of the decision. The Department will decide the appeal and transmit to the interested party a written notification of the decision together with a discussion of the rationale for the decision within 10 working days of receipt of the appeal. ED will transmit to OMB and Congress a copy of any changes to the inventory that result from this process, make the changes available to the public and publish a notice of public availability in the Federal Register.
Submit Challenges and Appeals to:
US Department of Education
Office of the Chief Financial Officer
ATTN.: Gary Weaver, ROB-3, RM. 3600
400 Maryland Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20202-4249
Questions Regarding ED's 2001 Inventory
For further information regarding the inventory, the Department requests that questions or comments be submitted in writing. E-mail questions to firstname.lastname@example.com or fax questions to (202) 205-0323, ATTN.: Gary Weaver. The Department has established an inventory hotline as well. The number is (202) 401-3848.
Links to FAIR Guidance
OMB FAIR Act Users Guide OMB developed this guide to assist the public in reviewing and understanding the commercial activities inventories developed by agencies under the FAIR Act. Includes the list of Activity/Function codes and explanations of Reason Codes.
OMB Circular A-76, Performance of Commercial Activities Establishes Federal policy regarding the performance of commercial activities and implements the statutory requirements of the FAIR Act.
A-76 Supplemental Handbook Provides updated guidance and procedures for determining whether recurring commercial activities should be operated under contract with commercial sources, in-house using Government facilities and personnel, or through interservice support agreements (ISSAs).
OFPP Policy Letter 92-1, Inherently Governmental Functions Establishes Executive Branch policy relating to service contracting and inherently governmental functions. Its purpose is to assist Executive Branch officers and employees in avoiding an unacceptable transfer of official responsibility to Government contractors.
FAIR Act of 1998 The Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-270), provides a process for identifying the functions of the Federal Government that are not inherently governmental functions, and for other purposes.
US Department of Education Contract Information Contains currently available RFP's, Forecast of Contract Opportunities, CBD Notices and other useful information for organizations wishing to do business with ED.


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THE PUBLIC EYE: Top Ten Taxes
The US has a deficit problem. The Congressional Budget Office predicted that, if the US maintains the current tax code, we will only produce annual revenue of 18 percent of gross domestic product. Thus running annual budget deficits of $800 billion. The bipartisan 2010 Simpson-Bowles Commission recommended that we deal with this imbalance by raising additional revenue of $2.2 trillion over the next ten years. We must increase taxes. -more-

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Hi everyone...
I'm not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but sometimes when i click on the link which leads to a member's profile who wrote a particular Quick Tip, it will take me to spectre's profile instead of the actual member who originally wrote the Quick Tip.
For example, a Quick Tip that xmaddness had written, was currently being displayed. I clicked on the link below the Quick Tip which was supposed to have lead to xmaddness' profile, but instead lead to spectre's profile.
I noticed that this happens to other Quick Tip author's profiles too...just not xmaddness' Quick Tip.
I hope i didn't confuse everyone.


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An oft repeated sight at CES this year was a dual-core phone or tablet hooked up to a 50″+ TV to display either games or 1080p video to the amazement of all that would behold it.
I had grown so accustomed to it that it took being home for a brief period to remember that we don't actually live in that world quite yet and that it is still an impressive feat. Watch the video below to see our own Nick Gray go head-to-head on an Optimus 2X with a hapless opponent at the LG booth in a Mario Kart-ish game Shrek Kart from Gameloft (Thanks Vlad) (We never caught what the game was so if anyone knows please let us know in comments). Up close and personal the image wasn't perfect, but the frame rate was excellent and considering the absolutely flawless 1080p playback we saw displayed elsewhere it seems likely that the imperfections were due to the game not being designed for that resolution.
We are still short a proper control scheme for hardcore gaming, but now that devices are actually coming to market with the requisite power to play them I'd be surprised if we don't see more solutions for that shortcoming emerge and of course the Playstation phone will certainly be taking aim at filling this very gap.
As Taylor pointed out in his recent post on the Atrix 4G the writing is on the wall for Android to leverage the lessons of Chrome OS and Google TV to take aim at being the one device to rule them all for you at home, at work, or on the move. I feel like the prediction that we will just be carrying one device that does everything is made every year, but that possibility did seem within reach at CES this year (albeit with the help of a couple accessories).
Getting back to the Optimus 2X we know that it is coming to Korea and Europe in the next couple weeks and filtering out to other countries in the following weeks and months. Speculation has been that T-Mobile might be the U.S. launch partner. If you missed our hands-on video and photos of the Optimus 2X you should check them out here.
Assuming the game developers start delivering content that fully utilizes the power of the forthcoming dual-core handsets would you consolidate your gaming and mobile worlds or do you prefer to keep them compartmentalized?


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The Open Group Summit 2014 – Amsterdam
Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™
You can view the Proceedings from this event here.
The Open Group hosts events throughout the globe on topics such as Enterprise Architecture, Business Transformation, Business Architecture and Boundaryless Information Flow™.
Amsterdam is the venue for our upcoming summit. It's not only a great place to visit but The Netherlands is also an important country for The Open Group for a number of reasons:
- There are over 2200 individuals from The Open Group member organizations based throughout The Netherlands
- The Netherlands ranks as the number 3 country in the world for the number of TOGAF® 9 certified individuals and as the number 1 country in the world for the number of ArchiMate® 2 certified individuals
What you will learn:
This summit will address some of the key challenges facing effective information integration and enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™:
How EA and business processes can be used to facilitate integrated access to integrated information by staff, customers, suppliers and partners, to support the business
- How organizations can achieve their business objectives by adopting new technologies and processes as part of the Enterprise Transformation management principles – making the whole process more a matter of design than of chance
- How organizations move towards the interoperable enterprise, switching focus from IT-centric to enterprise-centric
Enabling Boundaryless Information Flow™
The modern enterprise has moved beyond the point where information technology merely supports or enables the business, increasingly information technology is the business. However the information itself cannot create business success and competitive advantage. There is a requirement for the integration of the information, and integrated access to that information, in order to support the many different business processes of the enterprise - both internal, and spanning the key interactions with suppliers, customers, and partners.
To achieve the interoperable enterprise there is a requirement for an integrated information infrastructure within which the information flow is boundaryless. An infrastructure that provides Boundaryless Information Flow™ has open standard components that provide services in a customer's extended enterprise that:
- Combine multiple sources of information.
- Securely deliver the information whenever and wherever it is needed, in the right context for the people or systems using that information.
This summit will address some of the key challenges facing effective information integration and Boundaryless Information Flow.
Organizations presenting will include:
- Philips; IBM; Hewlett Packard; Capgemini
On Monday and Tuesday, we will focus on Boundaryless Information Flow™ and Open Platform 3.0™ as well as issues related to EA, professional development, Business Architecture, Risk Management, mobile, social and cloud computing.
On Wednesday, we turn our attention to workshops, case studies and tutorials based on Open Group standards and certifications such as TOGAF, ArchiMate, Open CA and Open CITS, as well as examining the Healthcare vertical.
Early bird registration is available for The Open Group Amsterdam Summit until 30th March.


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American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown Strongly Urges Justice Department to Appeal Court Decision on Tobacco Warning Labels
Press Release • Nov 08, 2011 03:59 EST
The American Heart Association ardently disagrees with today's ruling by a federal judge blocking the implementation of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) new graphic warning labels on cigarette packs. These warning labels are a vital part of keeping children from becoming addicted and helping current smokers quit. We strongly encourage the Justice Department to appeal this ruling. There is a clear reason why the tobacco industry is fighting these warning labels—they work. Many other countries already require graphic warning labels, and research has clearly shown that they are effective in reducing tobacco use. We know from decades of experience that the tobacco industry will fight any laws that reduce its profits from selling a deadly product. Today's misguided court ruling could result in more deaths from tobacco addiction and more profits for the tobacco industry. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 45 million Americans smoke cigarettes, about 20 percent of the population, and one in five high school students still smoke. The new health warnings represent an aggressive and welcome approach to reducing smoking rates that have leveled off in recent years as tobacco companies continue to launch campaigns to entice new smokers and maintain current customers. The American Heart Association believes that the graphic depictions of smoking-related diseases on cigarette packages will drive home the message that tobacco use is an equal opportunity killer, affecting smokers and nonsmokers alike. In the United States, about one-third of smoking-related deaths are linked to heart disease and stroke. Cigarette smoking causes about 443,000 premature deaths each year and about 49,000 of these deaths are due to secondhand smoke. Undoubtedly, the new graphic health warnings, if allowed to proceed, will heighten awareness about the dangers of smoking and more importantly, encourage smokers to quit and discourage smoking initiation. We are confident that future court rulings will reverse Judge Leon's decision and allow the FDA to move forward with these important warning labels. http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/CigaretteWarningLabels/default.htm . For more information, visit www.heart.org .


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One of two things is happening:
Either A. all this talk of unicorns has educed a "sympathetic horn growth" in the appropriate unicorn region or B. the largest, most intrusive underground pimple has nested in the conveniently central local of my forehead.
Either way, today was just not the day to deal with such things, so a headscarf was my response.
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A company calling itself Commercial Online Manuals is now offering our customers insertions in the Expo Guide catalogue for three years at a cost of 1,018 per year.
None of the exhibitions/trade fairs organised by Elmia are behind this catalogue, and we wish to bring it to the attention of all our exhibitors that the letter from Commercial Online Manuals is misleading. The contract is formulated in such a way as to make it very easy to sign it without realising what one is committing oneself to. In addition, the annual cost is only shown in small print.
As some of you may recall, a company called Construct Data Verlag (CDV) used the same methods when offering exhibitors insertions in the Fair Guide catalogue. CDV was brought before the courts and found guilty of misleading marketing practices. Also stay away from International Fairs Directory.
Fairlink, the professional and industrial council for Scandinavian trade show organisers, estimates that some hundred Scandinavian companies fall for this scam every year. The figure for companies in the rest of Europe must run into the thousands.
For more information visit: www.fairlink.se or http://stopecg.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html
On 20 February 2007, following a year-long dispute with Austria's Schutzverband gegen unlauteren Wettbewerb (Association for Protection Against Unfair Competition), Construct Data Verlag agreed to:
- Stop sending out misleading forms to companies within the EU and countries affiliated to the EU.
- Withdraw all its demands against the companies, located within the EU and countries affiliated to the EU, with which it is currently in dispute.This means that:
1) Companies which have already been affected, and have informed Construct Data Verlag that they have signed the form in error, do not need to take any further action.
2) If, however, any company should, in the future, mistakenly sign a form from Construct Data Verlag, it will be sufficient for the company to inform Construct Data Verlag that the form was signed in error, and that Construct Data Verlag shall not send any more demands.
This agreement also means that Construct Data Verlag has only a very small possibility of taking legal action regarding this matter against any company in an Austrian court of law.
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Reuben & Paul's Rancho Reubidoux
Paul and Reuben live in sunny and dry Southern California, where water is scarce and lush tropical gardens and acres of green lawns (while all too frequently built with the aid of high doses of irrigation) can seem downright irresponsible. But at their self titled Rancho Reubidoux home, they have proven that garden style doesn't have to come with a hose attached.
One of the things that makes this garden so special is the ever changing and evolving collection of arranged flea market finds which elevate the more spare plantings and keep things inviting and interesting. In my opinion, some of the still-lifes that mix plants with quirky objects and rusty remnants border on high art (but I'm no art expert — I just know what I like).
Paul and Reuben's blog has many more images, as well as lots of insight into their projects and how they are inspired to create their garden. Heavy influences here are recycled treasures, water wise plants, and making the inexpensive look like something of value. My personal favorite is the before and after of the enviably cool vinyl sofas that they painted with createx paint (full how-to) to be much more colorful and interesting.
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The fate of planned new and increased coastal ferry tolls that go into effect July 1 remains in the hands of General Assembly committees.
The fate of planned new and increased coastal ferry tolls that go into effect July 1 remains in the hands of General Assembly committees.
House Bill 475, which calls for removing the tolls and expanding the ferry division�s efforts to generate more revenue in their place, goes before the House Transportation Committee Tuesday at noon.
The bill was scheduled for hearing last week, but was pushed back because of a heavy agenda.
Several lawmakers are optimistic about the bill�s chances in the House chamber.
Rep. John Torbett, R-Gaston, one of the bills primary sponsors, is vice chairman of the House Appropriations Committee.
�My hope is we can get it into the budget,� he said, adding that not tolling the ferries �makes perfectly good common sense.�
Torbett said that despite living more than 300 miles from the coast, he got involved in the ferry issue because �after talking with people, I just understood it was the right thing to do.�
He said the legislature had to work toward the good of the entire state and not divide votes on an east and west basis.
�We�ve got to get past that �us versus them� kind of thing,� he added.
Rep. Paul Tine, D-Beaufort, said Friday he is hopeful the bill would get a favorable report and move forward to the House Finance Committee, of which he is a member.
�We are hoping if we are successful, it will move quickly, because we are very aware of that July 1 date,� he said.
Ferry toll opponents such as lobbyists Joe and Henri McClees and Oriental Commissioner Larry Summers are urging residents to contact legislators in advance of the hearing to voice their support.
Another action that could potentially delay the toll rules from being enacted came to light last week after an overwhelming outpour of letters to the legislative Rules Review Commission.
The commission approved the rules for the ferry tolls in a Thursday hearing, but it also had received more than 100 letters of protest by early Friday. The process of a 10-letter rule calls for a delay for legislative review.
�If the commission receives 10 letters of objection from the public objecting to the rule and requesting legislative review, then the rule has a delayed effective date until the General Assembly�s next session and the legislature acts (or doesn�t act) upon the rules,� Amanda J. Reeder, counsel to the Rules Review Commission, said in an email.
Tine said he was not sure of the procedural effects of the 10-Letter Rule on the existing and proposed ferry legislation.
�I know it creates at least a review, but I don�t know if it automatically delays it,� he said. �The pending legislation (HB475) in its current form would undo tolls all the way, so obviously it would make it all moot.�
The legislature will ultimately decide the issue, which could go down to final budget negotiations.
�It creates a timing question,� Tine said of the letters� potential impact. He added that there was also a companion Senate bill, introduced by Norman Sanderson, R-Pamlico, which would abolish the tolls. Too, there are budget negotiations that historically take place as the session winds down. The Senate released its budget Sunday.
�But, until, they bang the last gavel, we�re going to keep working,� Tine said.
A spokesman with the state Department of Transportation communications office said Department of Transportation was aware of the letters and of the pending bills in the General Assembly, adding that in the meantime, plans continue to begin tolling on July 1.
The ferry division plans have included the recent installation of ferry toll booths.
The tolls were first mandated by the Legislature in its budget work in 2011, and then put on a one-year moratorium in the spring of 2012 on an executive order by then Gov. Bev Perdue.
Over the course of two years, there have been numerous public hearings along the coast, with the largest crowds coming to three hearings at Pamlico Community College.
Pamlico County hired the lobbyists to fight the tolls and a citizens group that includes Summers was formed, called �Don�t Tax Our Highways.�
The affected local ferries include the Minnesott Beach-Cherry Branch route across the Neuse River and the Auora-Bayview route over the Pamlico River.
The proposed charge for the Cherry Branch route would be $4 for the typical passenger vehicle and $1 per passenger. A commuter pass for $150 per year would also be available.


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It is possible that the main title of the report Lenz Microphthalmia Syndrome is not the name you expected. Please check the synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and disorder subdivision(s) covered by this report.
Lenz Microphthalmia syndrome is an extremely rare inherited disorder characterized by abnormal smallness of one or both eyes (unilateral or bilateral microphthalmos) and/or droopy eyelids (blepharoptosis), resulting in visual impairment. In rare cases, affected infants may exhibit complete absence of the eyes (anophthalmia). Most affected infants also exhibit developmental delay and mental retardation, ranging from mild to severe. Additional physical abnormalities are often associated with this disorder such as an unusually small head (microcephaly) and/or malformations of the teeth, ears, and/or fingers and/or toes (digits). The range and severity of findings may vary from case to case.
Lenz microphthalmia syndrome, which is inherited as an X-linked recessive genetic trait, is fully expressed in males only. However, females who carry one copy of the disease gene (heterozygotes) may exhibit some of the symptoms associated with the disorder, such as an abnormally small head (microcephaly), short stature, and/or malformations of the fingers and/or toes.
BCOR (MAA2 locus) is the only gene known to be associated with this syndrome.
Lighthouse International
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International Children's Anophthalmia Network (ICAN)
c/o Center for Devel Medicine & Genetics
5501 Old York Road
Genetics Levy 2 West
Philadelphia, PA 19141
Tel: (215)456-8722
Fax: (215)456-2356
Tel: (800)580-4226
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.anophthalmia.org
National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (NAPVI)
P.O. Box 317
Watertown, MA 02272-0317
Tel: (617)972-7441
Fax: (617)972-7444
Tel: (800)562-6265
Email: email@example.com
Internet: http://www.napvi.org
National Federation of the Blind
200 East Wells Street
at Jernigan Place
Baltimore, MD 21230
Tel: (410)659-9314
Fax: (410)685-5653
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Internet: http://www.nfb.org
American Council of the Blind
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Arlington, VA 22201
Tel: (202)467-5081
Fax: (202)465-5085
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31 Center Dr
Bethesda, MD 20892-2510
United States
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Fax: (301)402-1065
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Internet: http://www.nei.nih.gov/
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Genetic and Rare Diseases (GARD) Information Center
PO Box 8126
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Tel: (301)251-4925
Fax: (301)251-4911
Tel: (888)205-2311
Email: http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/GARD/EmailForm.aspx
Internet: http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/GARD
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PO Box 241956
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Internet: http://www.madisonsfoundation.org
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Balboa Park Station
Service Advisories
Service Advisories/ /
Welcome to Balboa Park
Balboa Park is the name of both a San Francisco neighborhood and a public park between Mission Street and I-280 north of Geneva Avenue. The park features a public swimming pool, children's playground, baseball diamonds and tennis courts.
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Lines Serving this Station
- Antioch SFIA/Millbrae
- Dublin/Pleasanton Daly City
- Daly City Warm Springs/South Fremont
- Richmond Daly City/Millbrae
Real Time Departures
Next trains departing from Balboa Park Station:
There's no parking at Balboa Park Station. The closest station parking is at Glen Park.
Bike Racks: Yes
Bike racks are available at most BART stations. Please review the BART Bike Rules.
Bike Station: None
FREE secure bike parking is available at several BART stations. Visit the Bike Section for more Bike Station information.
Bike Lockers: 12 keyed lockers are located at this station. Call Customer Services at 510-464-7133 to ask about availability of keyed bicycle lockers. Many stations have a wait list. Download an application form for keyed bicycle lockers.
Connecting Transit Routes
Balboa Park Station is served by San Francisco Muni.
Try BART's free trip planning service!
For a personalized trip plan with BART and connecting transit, call the BART Transit Information Center. It's fast, it's easy, and it's tailored just for you!
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Elevator Locations / Accessible Path
Learn more about the accessible path for this station.
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Sloane Square on a December morning is a bitterly cold place. The fire alarm has just gone off in Colbert next door to the Royal Court, so Johnny Harris and I leave and make for a bench, our breath pluming in the weak light.
Johnny Harris, slipping anonymously into the crowd, is one of the most gifted and naturalistic of modern film actors. "An actor has to burn inside, with an outer ease," said Russian-American theatre practitioner Michael Chekhov, and this appears to be true of Johnny, whose eyes are lit from within, a gaze seeking answers in the middle distance where hang his memories.
But before he found his métier, his quest had been long and fraught, the odds stacked against him. A Londoner, to his Lambeth manor born, he left school at 13. "I was at Michael Ramsey School in Camberwell," he tells me, "but I became an amateur boxer. I fought at the Fitzroy Lodge. My family didn't know I was boxing to start with. It was my secret little world. I won the junior ABA national title, fighting at light flyweight. Boxing was a huge part of my life. I even sparred with Azumah Nelson when he came over to fight Jim McDonnell for the world title in 1989. I remember getting paid seventy quid a round. That was a lot for a kid," he laughs.
"Then I met my then girlfriend, a French girl, and followed her to France. This was a year or two later. I abandoned boxing and went to Paris, which gave me enough space to find myself. Over there, I was allowed to be me."
So London he fled. In hindsight, was leaving essential for him to find his way in the world? "I was searching for answers," he says. "I searched in the wrong places a lot of the time, places which just threw up more problems.
"I was a plongeur in a restaurant just off the Champs Elysées. I was there for nearly three years all in. The concierge rented a room to me when I split up with my girlfriend and he got me reading for the first time. I read The Picture Of Dorian Gray at the Louvre, by the pyramid, my feet in the water and the sun on my back. It was beautiful.
"In Paris I got into cinema for the first time. I saw A Clockwork Orange. I saw Backbeat with Ian Hart as John Lennon. That was a stunning, believable performance which made me ask "How does he do that?" That's when I first started thinking about acting."
On returning to London, Johnny enrolled at Morley College in Lambeth. Nil By Mouth had just come out and Gary Oldman was from the Old Kent Road, which for me meant that becoming an actor was a real possibility. He came from my world, and those acting classes became my next little world, my next mask if you like."
How did acting affect him? "I had anger which needed outlet, and I also felt like I had something to say. I think acting evolves. It isn't now what it was when I first started out." Johnny, 39, was 21 when he began his classes. "I was working at the same time on building sites and in car parks to earn my living. I was discontented with the world. There was an answer, it seemed to me, that was eluding me. I couldn't find the eloquence to express it, but I felt it and I knew it was real.
"With actors, I saw people who could go to another place to work this feeling out. It was no more than that for me, just a desire to get it out. Whatever it was. Because it was hurting."
Johnny subsequently spent a lot of time in fringe theatre. "I loved it. It was a version of rock and roll at places like the Union Theatre in Southwark and The White Bear in Kennington. Eventually I started getting little breaks, doing short films, and they were winning awards. I then got a small part in Paul McGuigan's Gangster No.1, my first-ever paid film job. I was working with Malcolm McDowell, and it was only six years before that I was in Paris watching McDowell in A Clockwork Orange!"
What drove him on at this point? "I was petrified but was running on self will, pushing myself. I felt a fake on one level, that I was going to be called on it and made to go back to the building site, but I suppose that the boxing and the acting helped prove to myself that I could do it."
Johnny's enthusiasm for theatre and literature is real and voluble. Is he careful with the scripts he chooses? "I am. My tutor at Morley College taught me that acting is all about characterisation. I still use this same method for every part I play, so I favour scripts with subtext and depth."
And a role he'd especially like to play? "Berenger in Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros," he says. In the play, Berenger is involved in a major existential struggle in which he must commit himself to a significant cause in order to give his life meaning. "I read that play and it said more to me about my life than any kitchen sink dramas ever could."
Johnny has played a host of characters most actors are afraid to tackle such as Mick, the serial sex abuser from Shane Meadows' This Is England '86, a role which won him a best supporting actor Bafta nomination. He reels off the names of films he considers benchmarks of cinematic excellence: Dog Day Afternoon, Nil By Mouth, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The King Of Comedy, Mean Streets. "That's the sort of work I want to be doing, playing that kind of fantastic male lead." Does he use the Method? "I use a method of sorts, and I've studied the Method. But I think a lot people mistake what they think is the Method with just being angry. Being too intense can shut you off. What the Method is actually about is freedom within a scene."
His generosity of spirit overflows when he speaks of those he has worked with. "Vicky McClure [This Is England '86] is a phenomenal actress. And [the writer] Jack Thorne is one of my greatest friends. When I got married recently, for my wedding present he bought me an original volume of Miss Julie by [August] Strindberg. He's a lovely, thoughtful man. I don't think there's a more exciting writer in the country. And working with Shane Meadows [This Is England '86] was what I believe to be the epitome of good work. His preparation and the freedom he gives you, allows you to fly."
He's just finished filming Last Days On Mars with Elias Koteas, and next year Welcome to the Punch, in which he stars with James McAvoy and Mark Strong, will be released. Sustained by his family and friends and the love of his wife, Johnny is also made buoyant by his job. "When you're telling stories as an actor or writer, you're talking about life, so you should be intrigued by the world around you," he says.
And as if to corroborate George Eliot, who noted that acting humanises life, he adds: "This world works, and it will continue to work, long after I've gone. I have faith now. I believe in good. I believe in an inner happiness, and you can't get that with a pound note. You can't enjoy the good stuff of life, the success, if you haven't found humility. You have to work out what your own truth is," he says, smiling at me. "To thine own self, be true."
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By: Ms Marloes Schepers, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 10 Mar 2011
At last Tuesday's Jurassic Lounge we've asked our visitors some questions about mobile usage. People with a smartphone gave us some insight in the way they use their phone, how much money they spend on apps and which apps are their favourite! We are planning on doing some more surveys this month and the results, of course will appear on the blog.
Here are some quick facts that we've already discovered!
The survey was taken on the 8 of March 2011.
78 visitors so far took part in this survey.
49 different apps were mentioned in this survey.
90% of the participants had an iPhone.
The most popular apps are:
Angry Birds
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Now, please let us know: "What is your favourite app?"
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Thnx Marloes - this is interesting. I was a little surprised that the Facebook app was so high but on reflection it is the app that I use the most on my phone, although TripView is my favourite app as it helps me get the right bus and train at the right time!
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A coffee table does a lot of work. It needs to hold books magazines drinks food — even games on game night. You might want to put your feet up on it or the kids might need a place for coloring. Plus it's usually smack dab in the middle of the room where you can't miss it — so make sure it's a good one. Sculptural wood coffee tables tell their own story and can add a natural element and warmth to a room with multiple upholstered pieces. Sealers and of course coasters can help protect the surface from water damage. Sometimes a coffee table that isn't the standard height or width is exactly what a room needs. In this instance a very low coffee table creates a crisp horizontal plane in the foreground offsetting the long horizontal line of the credenza in the background. A higher table would have blocked the view of the credenza and competed with it; the varying heights add interest.
Coffee tables serve a variety of uses. Whilst some are used only for the display of ornaments in many homes they have replaced the family dining table. What functions your table must fulfill should be one of the key considerations when you are selecting it. You must decide whether you need storage and if so whether you want the items you are storing to be on public display or hidden from view. Lift top coffee tables sound like a good idea but are only really useful if you intend to keep the surface clear. Otherwise each time that you need to remove or replace an item you have to clear the top of the table first. Often a coffee table with a drawer or shelf can be a more convenient choice. A coffee table will be a key purchase for your living space. It is worth investing the time and energy into choosing a table that will meet both your aesthetic and functional needs and be something that you will use and love for many years.
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18 U.S. Code § 545 - Smuggling goods into the United States
Whoever knowingly and willfully, with intent to defraud the United States, smuggles, or clandestinely introduces or attempts to smuggle or clandestinely introduce into the United States any merchandise which should have been invoiced, or makes out or passes, or attempts to pass, through the customhouse any false, forged, or fraudulent invoice, or other document or paper; or
Whoever fraudulently or knowingly imports or brings into the United States, any merchandise contrary to law, or receives, conceals, buys, sells, or in any manner facilitates the transportation, concealment, or sale of such merchandise after importation, knowing the same to have been imported or brought into the United States contrary to law—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.
Proof of defendant's possession of such goods, unless explained to the satisfaction of the jury, shall be deemed evidence sufficient to authorize conviction for violation of this section.
Merchandise introduced into the United States in violation of this section, or the value thereof, to be recovered from any person described in the first or second paragraph of this section, shall be forfeited to the United States.
The term "United States", as used in this section, shall not include the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Wake Island, Midway Islands, Kingman Reef, Johnston Island, or Guam.
Based on section 1593 of title 19, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Customs Duties (June 17, 1930, ch. 497, title IV, § 593, 46 Stat. 751).
Reference in first paragraph to aiders, contained in words "his, her, or their aiders and abettors" was omitted as unnecessary since such persons are made principals by section 2 of this title. For the same reason words "or assists in so doing" in second paragraph were deleted.
Words "shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor," in first paragraph were omitted in view of definition of misdemeanor in section 1 of this title.
Conviction provision in first paragraph reading "and on conviction thereof" was deleted as surplusage since punishment cannot be imposed until a conviction is secured.
Minimum punishment provision "nor less than $50" in second paragraph was deleted.
Forfeiture provision was rephrased to make it clear that forfeiture was not dependent upon conviction.
The final paragraph was added to conform with section 1709 of title 19, U.S.C., 1940 ed.
Changes were made in phraseology.
2006—Pub. L. 109–177, which directed amendment of third par. by substituting "20 years" for "5 years", was executed by making the substitution for "five years", to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
1996—Pub. L. 104–294 amended Pub. L. 103–322, § 330004(18). See 1994 Amendment note below.
1994—Pub. L. 103–322, § 330016(1)(L), substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $10,000" in third par.
Pub. L. 103–322, § 330004(18), as amended by Pub. L. 104–294, § 604(b)(23), struck out "Philippine Islands," before "Virgin Islands" in last par.
Pub. L. 103–322, § 320903(c), inserted "or attempts to smuggle or clandestinely introduce" after "clandestinely introduces" in first par.
1955—Act June 30, 1955, inserted reference to Johnston Island.
1954—Act Sept. 1, 1954, permitted forfeiture of value of merchandise imported in violation of section.
Act Aug. 24, 1954, increased fine from $5,000 to $10,000 and imprisonment from two years to five years.
Amendment by Pub. L. 104–294 effective Sept. 13, 1994, see section 604(d) of Pub. L. 104–294, set out as a note under section 13 of this title.
Amendment by act June 30, 1955, effective July 1, 1955, see section 2(d) of act June 30, 1955, set out as a note under section 1401 of Title 19, Customs Duties.
Act Aug. 24, 1954, ch. 890, § 2, 68 Stat. 783, provided that:
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California's three-year-old electronics recycling program uses an approach no other legislature has copied, but James Mejia believes its virtues will become clearer as states seek to widen the scope of products covered.
Mejia is a longtime figure in California's scrap metal and electronics processing industries, and his advice helped shape that state's program, which requires buyers of new electronics with monitors to pay a recycling fee. Some of the money goes to the 528 California companies and agencies that collect the defunct equipment; the rest goes to the 63 physical recyclers to whom the collectors ship. Other legislatures have opted for an alternate strategy, requiring television and computer makers to pay for the eventual recycling of their products.
Mejia is above the fray in California for the moment, working as vice president of environmental affairs for Redemtech Inc., Columbus, Ohio, but from 2003 to 2006 he was chief operating officer at a Los Angeles electronics processor he helped launch. That company later became part of a Mississippi-based recycling chain.
"What other states fail to see is what California has built," Mejia said. "The e-waste collection infrastructure is impressive, especially considering that it was constructed in a relatively short period. California imposes e-waste processor standards and monitors them at a state level."
Requiring that recycling be paid for or carried out by manufacturers—the alternate approach adopted by Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon and Washington—will become increasingly complex if programs try to expand beyond display screens, Mejia said. The number of manufacturers subject to enforcement could become dizzying. "We're still in our infancy stage in regards to addressing the wide variety of e-waste categories. CRTs (cathode ray tubes) are only a small percentage of the e-waste spectrum," Mejia said.
When he was chief operating officer at Electronic Partners Corp. in Los Angeles, part of his responsibility was matching the output from the 3,000-horsepower e-waste treatment equipment to the needs of metal consumers.
"It was like a mechanical smelter. Instead of an ingot or a sow, you got a mechanical chop," Mejia recalled. "When you process circuit cards, the heavy elements, the coppers, the lead, metals with similar densities, end up in the same container. When you pull a sample, it's very close to a 123 alloy (a semi-red brass with tin, lead and zinc)." Sometimes the consumer wanted less lead than the 6 percent that typically emerged. "To lower it to 3-percent lead content, I added insulated (copper) wire to dilute the lead. It's a math trick, but it's no different from what a smelter does" by mixing additional metal with the original scrap.
Other output streams were aluminum chops with less than 1 percent copper and No. 2 ferrous busheling. "The e-waste process yields metal chops about a quarter inch (long)," he said. "If it's chopped too small, into powder, it's considered hazardous waste."
"After processing low-value electronics, the only fractions not sold were the fiberglass, ceramics and some insulation where different polymers were commingled," Mejia said. The lead content of cathode ray tubes was priced as an offset against fees. "At least 98.8 percent of the material (by weight) was marketable," Mejia said. The rest was classified as hazardous waste under California law and handled appropriately.
As flat-panel displays become more common and then get scrapped, recyclers will need methods to remove the mercury. "I'm doing R&D on it currently," Mejia said. "I haven't found the solution, but we're constantly working on it."
Mejia would like to see a regulatory system develop that discourages exports of electronic scrap and its derivatives, with processors disclosing how closely they live up to such a goal. Even if the foreign destination is a sophisticated smelter that can be trusted to minimize hazards, Mejia believes export should be a last resort. "For companies (discarding equipment) that have environmentally sensitive policies, export is not allowed. Keeping it in the U.S. is keeping jobs in the U.S., keeping our mills open and our smelters and our processing capability."
Ideally, even Quebec should be discouraged as a destination for e-scrap, he said. "It's not shipping to China, but it's going beyond our borders, putting the burden over to our neighbors."
California's processors of discarded electronics should be responsible for producing usable scrap from base metals, negating the option of leaving that chore for others to handle further downstream, Mejia said. "This would prevent (California's) Senate Bill 20 program from becoming a modified e-waste export program," he said.
California pays physical recyclers 48 cents a pound for processing eligible discards, with a guideline saying local collectors should receive 20 cents of that. "The split was established as 28 cents recycler/20 cents collector, and then the game started to be played. It eventually ended up in a 50-50 split in my business," Mejia said, but he isn't particularly bothered by this because processors also get sales revenue for what they're doing.
"A typical monitor, after glass treatment costs and using current commodity pricing, yields approximately 8.75 cents per pound before labor," Mejia said. Subtract labor costs of 0.1 cent per pound, and the California processor still gets a significant supplement to the money from the state program.
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Security duo nails robber
A KNIFE-WIELDING robber proved no match for security guard Jason McIntosh, who was equipped with just a torch and his dog Diesel.
CK9-SAS officers Mr McIntosh, 36, and Tyrone Taylor were at Wyalla Plaza when they saw two teenagers confront a staff member after he closed the Bottle-O on Monday night.
Police said the 17-year-old men demanded money while threatening the worker with a knife at 9.10pm.
The worker pointed out to the thieves that they were committing an armed robbery within metres of two security guards and they fled empty-handed.
Mr Taylor and his dog Shady tried to prevent the pair from running but they continued along Taylor St.
Mr McIntosh chased the offenders in his utility before he and Diesel cornered the thief armed with the knife.
He ordered the teenager to sit down and he put his hand in his hooded jumper pocket.
"I told him to remove his hand and he pulled out a knife," Mr McIntosh said.
"I said put the knife down, but he put it behind his back.
"He got a bit mouthy, so Diesel had a chat with him and he pulled his head in.
"I rolled (the offender) on to his stomach with my foot so I didn't get in harm's way because the knife was still pretty close."
The pair kept him lying on the ground until police arrived minutes later and arrested the teenager.
The police dog squad caught the second offender and both were charged with attempted armed robbery while in company.
Mr McIntosh said it was the first armed robber he had detained.
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Ferrer reaches Miami semis
Key Biscayne, FL – Third seed David Ferrer needed three sets to win his quarterfinal match Wednesday at the Sony Open, an ATP Masters 1000 event.
The gritty Ferrer fought back to beat Austrian veteran Jurgen Melzer 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 in 1 hour, 55 minutes at Crandon Park. The break-filled match saw Ferrer spoil Melzer's serve on seven occasions.
Ferrer, who led the ATP in titles and match wins last year, will meet the Gilles Simon-Tommy Haas winner in the semifinals. The 34-year-old one-time world No. 2 Haas stunned No. 1 superstar and two-time defending Miami champion Novak Djokovic here on Tuesday.
Two other quarterfinals will be staged Thursday when second seed Andy Murray battles ninth-seeded Marin Cilic and fourth seed Tomas Berdych tangles with eighth-seeded Richard Gasquet. The U.S. Open champion Murray titled here in 2009 and was last year's Miami runner-up to Djokovic. Berdych was the Sony Open runner-up in 2010.
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(BPT) – Seasoned tots with your filet mignon? Fries with parmesan cheese and truffle oil? But of course. Comfort foods with sophisticated flair are plated in abundance at the finest restaurants around the country, as chefs reinvent potato sides like fries and tots with new dips, toppings and custom spice blends. Excitement continues to build as these nostalgic dishes from the kiddie table can now be found making their way to grown-ups' plates.
In fact, Bon Appetit touted the "Return of the Tot" earlier this year and Business Insider, recently named fries the new "it" menu item for upscale New York City restaurants in 2013.
Lucky for potato lovers, recreating restaurant-quality fries and tots at home can be as easy as preheating your oven, no culinary degree needed. Frozen food companies like Alexia offer a wide variety of premium fries and other potato sides that serve as the perfect starting point and are available at grocery retailers nationwide. Using all-natural, American-grown potatoes, Alexia's premium fry and puff varieties like Spicy Sweet Potato Fries or Seasoned Potato Puffs – a fresh take on the basic tot – give at-home cooks an easy way to recreate a popular restaurant trend right in their own kitchen.
"With all of our premium oven-baked puff and fry varieties, we wanted to give consumers a quality side dish to make an everyday meal extraordinary," says Mike Smith, vice president and general manager of Alexia Foods. "We use the highest quality ingredients and latest flavor innovations to ensure we stay ahead of trends and give food lovers premium side dishes to complete their homemade meals."
For a gourmet twist on a classic dinner menu, try pairing an oven-roasted chicken with a grown-up tot seasoned with a delicious blend of roasted garlic, cracked black pepper, sour cream, and chives.
Oven-roasted chicken with warm lettuce and spring peas
Makes four servings
Serve with Alexia Crispy Seasoned Potato Puffs
Chicken ingredients:
1 3 – 4 pound chicken, rinsed and patted dry
Kosher salt
Freshly ground pepper
1 lemon, halved
1 head garlic, halved crosswise
1/2 bunch fresh thyme
4-6 bay leaves
Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling
Warm lettuce and spring peas ingredients:
1 cup dry white wine
1/4 red onion, finely chopped
1 bay leaf
6 black peppercorns
4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes
1 cup spring peas (frozen peas can be substituted)
1 large head butter lettuce, leaves separated
To prepare the chicken, preheat the oven to 350 F. Season the chicken cavity with plenty of salt and pepper; stuff the lemon halves, garlic, thyme and bay leaves inside. Tie the legs together with kitchen twine. Drizzle the skin with olive oil and rub all over; season with plenty of salt and pepper. Place the chicken breast-side up in a roasting pan; roast for 1 hour, or until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thigh registers 165 F. Let the chicken rest 15 minutes before carving.
While the chicken is roasting, prepare the lettuce and peas. Combine the wine, red onion, bay leaf, peppercorns and a pinch of salt in a saucepan; simmer over medium heat until the mixture is syrupy and just coats the bottom of the pan. Whisk in the butter cubes, a few at a time, to thicken the sauce and give it a shine. Season with salt and pepper and keep warm. (Remove the peppercorns and bay leaf before serving.)
Place the peas in a small pot of salted boiling water until heated through; drain. Toss the peas, lettuce and warm butter sauce in a bowl until the lettuce wilts slightly.


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RabbitA speed horse running as an entry with another, usually come-from-behind horse. The rabbit is expected to set a fast pace to help the chances of its stablemate.
Racing SecretaryOfficial who drafts conditions of races and assigns weights for handicap events.
RailThe barrier on either side of the racing strip. Sometimes referred to as the "fence."
Rail RunnerHorse that prefers to run next to the inside rail.
RankA horse that refuses to settle under a jockey's handling in a race, running in a headstrong manner without respect to pace.
Receiving BarnStructure used by horses shipping in for a race who do not have a stall at that racetrack.
Refuse1) When a horse will not break from the gate. 2) In jumping races, balking at a jump.
ReinsLong straps, usually made of leather, that are connected to the bit and used by the jockey to control the horse.
Reserved1) Held for a particular engagement or race. 2) Held off the pace.
Ridden OutA horse that finishes a race under mild urging, not as severe as driving.
RoanA horse color where the majority of the coat of the horse is a mixture of red and white hairs or brown and white hairs. The mane, tail and legs may be black, chestnut or roan unless white markings are present. Starting with foals of 1993, the color classifications gray and roan were combined as "roan or gray."
RouteBroadly, a race distance of longer than 1 1/8 miles.
RouterHorse that performs well at longer distances.
Run-Out BitA special type of bit to prevent a horse from bearing out (or in).


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WHITTIER – An armed man who held his wife hostage for nearly 12 1/2 hours gave himself up to authorities early Friday morning.
A crisis negotiator from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department convinced the man to surrender, according to Officer Brad White, spokesman for the Whittier Police Department.
Roger Jameson, 43, of Whittier was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, assault with a deadly weapon and making terrorist threats. Police recovered a gun.
Jameson's wife suffered minor injuries to her face and was taken to a local hospital. She left the site with blood running down the right side of her face from what appeared to be a cut under her eye. White said the suspect hit his wife but he didn't know how many times.
No shots were fired during the standoff which ended at 4:22 a.m. Friday. Police evacuated residents on Bright Avenue and shut down nearby streets.
The incident started around 4 p.m. Thursday in an apartment in the 7900 block of Bright Avenue when police got a call about a disturbance involving a man and a woman. Police still don't know what led to the dispute.
Officers who responded to the call saw the man breaking windows in the apartment. They soon learned that the man had a handgun, White said.
Officers surrounded the place and called in the sheriff's Crisis Negotiations Team as well as its Special Enforcement Team which is the sheriff's SWAT team.
The man refused to come out.
"He barricaded himself in a closet in the bedroom," White said. The suspect had his wife with him, White added.
Deputies were able to get a phone into the apartment.
A four-block perimeter was established Thursday around the scene, with the Red Cross setting up an evacuation area nearby for residents of the building and neighboring structures. White estimated over 50 people were evacuated.
The Sheriff's Arson/Explosives unit was also at the scene.
Reports that there were children in the suspect's apartment were unfounded, White said.
As of Friday afternoon, Jameson was being held at the Inmate Reception Center in Los Angeles. His bail is $180,000.
There was no court date listed yet.
– City News Service contributed to this report


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The figure above is taken from the 2004 edition of The Limits to Growth . It shows the typical curves that the models of the study produce. These curves are similar to those of oil depletion studies based on the "Hubbert model". The similarity is not casual, the theory and the method behind the two approaches have a lot in common.
It is safe to say that, in the 1950s, Marion King Hubbert and Jay Wright Forrester didn't know of each other's existence. Yet, working independently, they were setting the basis for a new science. They were not the first to study the limits of the world's resources. But they were the first to do that using mathematical models that could be extrapolated into the future.
Marion King Hubbert, a geologist working at Shell Oil in Houston, was using an empirical approach for studying crude oil production. In 1956, he published his, now famous, forecast that oil production in the US 48 lower states would peak around 1970 and then decline. It did. In the same paper, Hubbert applied his method to the whole world, arriving to the conclusion that oil production worldwide would peak around the year 2000. This long term forecast might turn out to have been approximately correct as the world peak ("peak oil") is still expected for the first decade of the 21st century.
Fig. 1 Hubbert's forecast for the world's oil production, from his 1956 paper
Jay Wright Forrester, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, had a background in engineering and his goals were more ambitious than those of Hubbert. In the 1950s Forrester had developed a new approach to modeling that he had called "system dynamics". The idea was to use the digital computers, newly developed at the time, to solve a set of differential equations that described the system under study.
Forrester started using his method with physical systems. Then he moved to simple economic and social systems. From there, an obvious step was to model the whole world, something that had to take into account, among other factors, the limits to Earth's resources. Forrester developed his first world models in the late 1960s and published his results in 1971 in a book titled "World Dynamics". But the real impact of Forrester's ideas arrived as a study performed by a group of young scientists at the MIT who used Forrester's approach to develop more detailed models of the world's economy.
Dennis Meadows, Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William Behrens III published their work in 1972 with the title of "The Limits to Growth." The book developed a series of scenarios according to various hypothesis on the availability of resources and on world policies that could be developed and implemented in the future. All the scenarios, except for some special cases, generated the collapse of the world's industrial and agricultural systems at some date within the 21st century. Forrester had arrived to similar results in his 1971 book.
A typical result of the 1972 LTG study is shown in the following figure for what the authors had called the "base case" model. In this model, the resources in input correspond to the best available data and it is assumed that the current policies and economic trends remain unchanged over the period considered.
Fig. 2 Base case model of the 1972 edition of The Limits to Growth.
This image was published by the Time Magazine in 1972. From http://www.holmestead.ca/reserved/popexplo/popexplo.html
The work of the LTG team had a huge impact, with millions of copies of the book sold. Hubbert's work also had a considerable impact, although mostly within the world of specialists in crude oil. However, as years passed, both studies were strongly criticized. The period of apparent abundance of the 1990s seemed to caused the total obsolescence of all ideas and theories that predicted bad times ahead. The Limits to Growth, went through a phase of active demonization that pictured it as having been "wrong" in its predictions. Even though the collapse envisioned in the scenarios was to take place only in 21st century, still today for most people the LTG study is an example of flawed predictions. Hubbert's work, instead, was simply forgotten.
But the models and the ideas that were behind these studies were not abandoned. The Limits to Growth study was updated and the latest version was published in 2004. It is, at present, generating again considerable interest. Hubbert' ideas and methods were revived in the late 1990s by Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrere who started what we call today the "peak oil movement."
The results of the models that we are discussing have not changed much if we compare the early work with the recent updates. Here are some results of the 2004 version of The Limits to Growth. This is, again, the base case model. As you can see, the collapse of the world's industrial and agricultural system is still generated for this case for approximately the same date as in the 1972 version.
Fig. 3 Base case model of the 2004 edition of The Limits to Growth.
Here is, instead, an example of recent results obtained by Jean Laherrere who uses a Hubbert-like approach for describing the production of the main categories of fossil fuels. The date for peak oil is shifted of some years forward with respect to the early predictions by Hubbert, but the bell shaped curve remains about the same.
Fig. 4 From Jean Laherrere, 2006.
These results indicate that, in the coming decades (or even years), we may see the reversal of some of the growth trends that we came to see as the natural order of things. Peaking and decline is expected not just for fossil fuels, as shown before by Laherrere, but also for most mineral commodities (see a recent study by Bardi and Pagani ). These are just subsystems of a vaster system that may collapse in the coming years according to the LTG models.
So, "Hubbert modeling" and "world modeling" have a lot in common but, of course, they are also very different. Let's now examine more in detail how the two methods are related and what are the specific differences.
The Hubbert model is purely empirical. It postulates that the production of crude oil and of other mineral resources will follow a "bell shaped" curve, often taken as the derivative of a logistic function. Modeling production means to fit two parameters to the bell shaped curve: past production and the available reserves. Good data obtained from geological estimates are, therefore, a crucial element of the model, which is considered to be a tool for forecasting future production. The model is robust, in the sense that it depends on just a few parameters, and it has turned out to produce reasonably reliable predictions. Of course, it is rare that the model generates the amazing precision of Hubbert's 1956 forecast for the US oil production. But, on the whole, the model is able to detect an impending production peak, as it has happened for cases such as the North Sea oil production, that peaked around the turn of the century. The Hubbert model, in itself, says nothing about what could be the consequences of the global peaking of oil production, even though "peak oilers" tend to see it as an important turning point for mankind.
World modeling studies based on system dynamics start with a detailed description of the main features of the system under study. Obviously, that implies drastic simplifications in describing the world's economy. Nevertheless, world models are much more complex and detailed than the simple Hubbert one. In addition to quantitative data on the available resources, these models include such factors as market, technology, government policies, regulations and others. Because of the large number of parameters and the inherent uncertainty in the data, the results of the models may vary considerably depending on the parameters in input. For this reason, these models are not considered as predictive tools, as Hubbert-style models are, but, rather, as descriptive tools. The idea is that, if the model can describe the system under study, it can be used for understanding how one can control it. In the case of world modeling, the authors of the LTG studies always emphasized that their models were not "predictions" but rather scenarios and that their purpose was understanding what policies should be implemented for avoiding collapse.
Let's go a little more in depth on how system dynamics is used in order to simulate the whole world. In the LTG studies, it is done by aggregating the elements of the system into a relatively small number of variables: 1) natural resources, 2) agriculture, 3) population, 4) capital, 5) pollution. Here are the main elements of the model in graphical form according to Magne Myrtveit.
Fig. 5 – the main elements of the world model, according to Magne Myrtveit (https://bora.uib.no/bitstream/1956/1974/1/WPSD1.05WorldControversy.pdf)
As you see, the model takes into account mineral resources, but just as one element of a more complex system. However, it is perfectly possible to use system dynamics for modeling specific sectors of the economy, for instance for the extraction of a mineral resource. One of the first models of this kind was made in 1974 by Roger Naill who worked in close contact with the LTG team and used the same software to model natural gas production in the United States.
You can find a detailed description of Naill's model at http://www.albany.edu/cpr/sds//DL-IntroSysDyn/ch6_f.htm. The model is complex, involving such parameters as prices, technology, market responses and others. Nevertheless, the fundamental concepts of the model are simple: the resource is supposed to be finite; extraction is assumed to be driven by market factors and ultimately slowed down by the rising costs caused by depletion. The final result is a bell shaped curve similar to the typical Hubbert curve. Here is what we can call the "base case" model of this study, taken from "Towards Global Equilibrium" (1974)
Fig. 6 – Natural gas production in the 48 US lower states as modeled by Roger Naill in "Towards Global Equilibrium" 1974. "Usage rate" is what is normally called "production". The peak of the usage rate curve occurs for about 1975 in this scenario.
We can now compare Naill's results with those that Hubbert had proposed in 1956 for natural gas production in the United States
Fig. 7 – Natural gas production in the US as modeled by Marion King Hubbert in 1956.
One difference that is immediately apparent in these models is that Hubbert's curve is normally symmetric or slightly skewed backwards, as in this case. Naill's curve, instead, is skewed forward; as it seems to be the case for most system dynamics studies of this kind. The reason for the forward slanting curve lies in the built-in tendency of the market of compensating for depletion by increasing the effort of extraction. This strategy succeeds in retarding the production peak. However, since the extractable amount is finite anyway, postponing the peak must be paid with a more rapid decline. Apart from this point, the two models produce similar curves and, in this case, indicate approximately the same date for peaking.
Several decades after that these models were proposed, we can say that neither one provided an exact description of reality. Natural gas production in the US did peak in the early 1970s, as Hubbert had predicted and as Naill's models tended to indicate. But, after about 10 years of decline, production stopped following a bell shaped curve. It picked up again and peaked a second time approximately in 2000, without having reached again the level the first peak. This behavior may be explained in various ways (see a recent reassessment by Luis de Souza), but that is not the point here; models are always approximate anyway. The point is that when modeling the production of a single mineral resource, the Hubbert approach and system dynamics generate very similar curves.
That doesn't mean, of course, that world modeling is the same thing as Hubbert modeling. World models take into account many more elements than resource depletion models. In particular, as early as in the first LTG study, one of the elements of the model was called "pollution;" something that, today, we see as mainly related to global warming. Depending on the input parameters chosen, the collapse that the LTG world models generate may be caused mainly by resource depletion or by a runaway climate change.
If global warming hits us first, our worries about resource depletion are of little importance and the reverse is also true. At present, we can't say which problem is the more immediate one. What we can say is that fossil fuels (and crude oil in particular) are the crucial resource of the world's economy. In the hypothesis that resource depletion is a more pressing concern than global warming, the vision of impending "peak oil" and "peak fossils" is equivalent to that of the "base case" model of the LTG studies. In both cases, we see the collapse of the industrial society due to resource depletion.
So, it may be that peak oil and "peak civilization" will coincide as an event taking place in the first decades of 21st century. Of course, we are not there yet, but the world's economic system is letting out ominous creaking noises. Are these signs of impending collapse? We won't have to wait for many years to know.
There would be much more to say on the subject of peak oil and world modeling. One is how the results of the first LTG study have been so effectively demonized and marginalized; a fate that peak oil studies have avoided – although they received a fair share of political criticism as well. That will be the subject of another post.
I wish to thank Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Magne Myrtveit and several others who introduced me to the fascinating world of system dynamics
Matthew Simmons was one of the first of those involved in peak oil studies to re-examine the story of The Limits to Growth. His 2000 essay on this subject can be found at http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/files/172.pdf
A detailed reappraisal of the world model controversy can be found in Magne Myrtveit's 2005 paper at https://bora.uib.no/bitstream/1956/1974/1/WPSD1.05WorldControversy.pdf
Jean Laherrere has also re-examined the LTG study in this paper, pubshed in the ASPO-Ireland site
Another recent positive reassessment of the LTG study by "Big Gav" can be found at http://anz.theoildrum.com/node/3572
A description of how Roger Naill generated the Hubbert model from system dynamics assumptions can be found at http://www.albany.edu/cpr/sds//DL-IntroSysDyn/energy.htm. His model was published for the first time in "Toward Global Equilibrium, Collected Papers". D.L. Meadows and D.H. Meadows (eds), Cambridge, MA, 1974, pp 213-256.
The original 1956 article by Marion King Hubbert can be found at


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Welcome to Ninux, a troubled land that has never seen peace. Here, cataclysmic wars and global upheavals create the background for rich adventures. Whether you are on the continent of Grath fighting off the Fandormans or part of the resistance opposing the evil Tremlord of Cycruss, or on Telton exploring places that have only been named, there is fighting to be done. Take to the sky and fly to Kezin, or go deep into the belly of Amez and find the Shienless. Things are changing, magic isn't the way it used to be, the gods aren't the same and life isn't either , but the way things were isn't as important now.
The land of Ninux has never seen peace. When faced with war, many people fled to the arguable safety of the caverns beneath the earth, creating the Shienless. Since then, the land has seen the effects of a great cataclysm that created the Floating Island and the rise and fall of dozens of gods who attempted to meddle in the affairs of men.
As time rolled on, people began to lose faith in their gods. What were once grand globe spanning religions shrunk down to local cults worshiping small time gods. The grand, earth creating powers of the gods slowly dwindled away. People turned to magi-arts to replace them, creating an industrial society.Not driven by their gods to make war, the people of the world came together and created great cultures and greater cities. Magi-arts make it possible to put magic into the hands of the worker, but at a great cost.
Ninux has room for any kind of adventure, each era has a unique atmosphere that can be used as the background for any style of game. From the discovery and exploration of the Ancient Order, the religious crusades and war of the Fandormans of the Old Order, the horrific post apocalyptic survival of the Dark Order, the traditional feel of the New Order, to the revolutionary and industrial Magical Order
In the Ancient Order you will explore a new land that has just been freed from the grip of mighty dragons and giants. The reign of the ancients has peeled back allowing the new followers of Ninux to grow and prosper. A new world awaits enterprising adventurers. New magic is developing and the artifacts wielded by the ancients are valuable prizes. Chaos still rules the vast wilderness and the frontier very slowly shrinking. Barbaric races and uncivilized tribes are slowly adapting a new way of life, but some are not willing to succumb easily.
In the Old Order you will adventure in a world divided by war. Among the first to become civilized, the dwarves and the elves form a union to hold back the industrious humans. Some believe the Fandormans as the union calls itself are fueled by a love of nature or the old ways, but some think that it is a xenophobic hatred that drives them. Either way, war has broken out and consumes the land. You will pick a side. Will you be among the Fandormans or the Humans, an alliance between humans, half-elves and orcs. Will you join the Shienless, a race of people spawned from the people that ran to Amez, the caverns beneath the earth, to seek protection from a world encompassing war. The followers of Ourhus are a powerful religious force whose vast resources make them a potent presence in this time of war.
In the Dark Order you will be one of few who still live. You will wander alone trying to take back the world from darkness. After the Fandorman War, the magic of the world was consumed as the Doctrines of Ourhus destroyed each other. You walk along the remains of a magic devoid world. The island of Kezin has been created and perhaps bears the only save haven in the world. While you try to live by scraping together what is left of society, the Shienless thrive below.
In the New Order the world has pulled itself together and you will walk among a slowly recovering world. The disillusioned survivors of the Dark Order spurn the worship of their gods. You will adventure among the cult followers of ancient religions, some wishing to spread the forgotten love of their ancient deity, other wishing to find secrets of old magic and power. Meanwhile the darkness must slowly be pushed back and unity must be reestablished among the world. This is the typical era of play.
In the Magical Order you adventure in a land where magic has taken over. Creatives practice magi-art making magical tools and putting them into the hands of everyone. Gravity defying cities float through the air and menial labor is performed by mindless automatons. Legions of Creatives labor to create the things that people now take for granted. Criminals roam through the streets of tremendous magical metropolises and gangs make the roads dangerous. Politics get in the way of progress and the poor roam, jobs taken by the magic that they crave. Adventurers aren't needed to delve the dungeons of long ago or to fight the monsters of the wilderness. Mysteries involving the still living cults and disappearances resulting from mob activity are abound


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AMERICUS, Ga. – The King University softball team ran into a hot pitcher on Wednesday night at 20th ranked Columbus State University. The Cougars' Mollie Russell didn't allow a hit in the complete game victory as Columbus State defeated King 2-0.
In what turned out to be a pitcher's duel, King's Hannah Light nearly matched Russell pitch-for-pitch. Light allowed a couple base runners over the first couple innings before the Cougars finally broke through in the fourth inning.
Kristen Carr recorded the game's first hit to leadoff of the bottom of the fourth, a double to right field, before a walk put runners on first and second. Suzanne Carney, who pinch ran for Carr, scored on a bunt single by Morgan Knight to get Columbus State (25-11) on the board. The Cougars would tack on an unearned run later in the inning, and that was all Russell needed.
Russell didn't allow a base runner until the seventh inning when Fallon Thomas reached on an error. However, Russell wasn't fazed as she retired the next batter to complete the no-hitter, and give Columbus state the 2-0 victory. In the game, Russell struck out 13 batters against zero walks.
Light only allowed those two runs, one earned, on two hits while striking out six.
King (12-20) will be in action again tomorrow when they take on Young Harris College. The doubleheader from Young Harris, Ga., is scheduled to start at 2:00 p.m.


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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is pleased to announce Sirisha Kothuri's PhD Dissertation Defense: "Incorporating Pedestrian Considerations into Signal Timing."
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Time: 10:00am - 12:00pm
Location: Engineering Building 315 (ITS Lab)
Adviser: Dr. Christopher Monsere
The role of walking in the development of healthy, livable communities is being increasingly recognized. In urban areas, intersections are often viewed as a deterrent to walking, as their operation primarily favors automobiles, leading to large and unnecessary delays for pedestrians. There is currently very limited research on accommodating and/or prioritizing pedestrians at signalized intersections in the North American context. Pedestrians are often considered as a deterrent to efficient vehicular traffic flow and therefore active efforts to include them in operational decisions at intersections have been lagging. This research aims to fill that gap by understanding factors that influence pedestrian crossing behavior at signalized intersections and developing cost effective and easily deployable signal timing strategies that could be employed at intersections, to increase efficiency for pedestrians.


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For the past year, I've participated in an egg CSA from Van Cheeseman at Flora at Bluebird Farms. I love getting the eggs every week ($4 for a dozen) because they taste so good and the colors in the cartoon are beautiful.
Every week, Cheeseman urges me to try his duck eggs. "The chefs love them because the yokes are so rich," he always says. So recently, I switched up my order, toting home a dozen eggs from Cheeseman's runner ducks.
So how do duck eggs differ from chicken eggs? They are much larger, almost filling the palm of your hand. The texture of the egg shells also is silky smooth, so smooth, in fact, that if I were an artist, I'd want to try painting them. Crack open an egg, and you find the shell is tough, requiring two smacks on the side of the bowl. Duck egg yokes also are larger than chicken eggs and a deep, orange color.
Anxious to compare tastes, I scrambled up a few duck eggs with a little butter and salt. They were creamier than chicken eggs. Next, I tried duck eggs in a mushroom and basil quiche. When I make quiche, I separate the whites from the yokes, mix the yokes with the cheese and veggies, whisk the egg whites into peaks, and mix in the whites just before baking. With duck eggs, the yokes are so big, there's not a lot of whites leftover. So duck eggs would be perfect for custard, but not a good choice for, say meringue pie.
The next day, I took my leftover quiche to lunch to share with my coworkers, who have eaten my quiches made with regular eggs. Their opinion? The duck egg quiche is richer and more yellow. They gave it a thumbs up, all around.
Since great tasting food often has a down side, here it is for duck eggs: A duck egg has 200 percent of the RDA for cholesterol (yikes). Calories? About 130 calories for a duck egg versus 70 for a chicken egg. Happily, the rich and delicious taste of a duck egg means it is energy dense and packed with nutrients: twice the Vitamin A and five times as much B12 as chicken egg.