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SAN FRANCISCO – Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. continued his fight today against an attack on the state's innovative use of DNA to identify suspects of violent crimes, asserting that "DNA is the fingerprint of the 21st century."
In an argument before the federal court of appeals in San Francisco, Brown's office defended the state's voter-mandated collection of DNA from adults arrested for felonies.
"California is at the forefront of solving crimes through new and innovative uses of DNA technology, and I intend to do everything in my power to defend the state's ability to reduce crime by collecting DNA from those arrested for felonies," Brown said. "So far, DNA collected from arrestees has led to the identification of suspects in more than 970 rapes, murders and other very serious crimes," Brown added.
This case arose when the ACLU filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the state's DNA arrestee program. The Attorney General prevailed in the United States District Court, and the ACLU appealed to the federal court of appeals.
Samples are taken through a simple procedure using a wooden swab to collect DNA from the inside of a person's cheek. Strict safeguards ensure that the samples are used only by law enforcement officials to identify an individual and not for any other purpose.
Brown pointed out that about 40 percent of homicides and 60 percent of rapes go unsolved. For example, many of the victims of the Grim Sleeper might still be alive if the suspect had been identified from DNA taken when he was previously arrested.
Collecting DNA samples from those arrested for felonies is a profoundly important way to help solve murders, rapes and other very serious crimes. It should be noted that almost half of those arrested for felonies are repeat offenders.
In 2004, California voters approved Proposition 69, which required law enforcement officers to begin last year taking DNA samples from every adult arrested for a felony.
The program is accomplishing its purpose: identifying criminal suspects. In its first 18 months, DNA collected from arrestees has lead to the identification of 970 suspects of serious felonies. For example:
• DNA collected from Donald Carter, 56, arrested in Sacramento in 2009 on a felony drug charge, was linked to the unsolved 20-year-old murder of Sophie McAllister, 80. Although Carter's drug charge was dismissed, he was later charged with murder and his trial is pending.
• In April 2009, Christopher Rogers, 34, was arrested in Sacramento for assault with a deadly weapon, which was ultimately reduced to a misdemeanor. But his DNA, collected at the time of arrest, was matched to DNA taken at the scene of a 2004 murder in Sacramento. In October, Rogers was arrested and charged with murder. He awaits trial.
• In August 2009, Rene Hernandez, 26, was arrested in Watsonville for felony assault. His DNA was linked to a February 2009 sexual assault of a Watsonville woman, and he was arrested on multiple charges related to that crime. His trial is pending.
• In May 2009, Anthony Vega was arrested in Los Angeles County on felony drug charges, which were later reduced to misdemeanors. His DNA, collected at the time of arrest, was linked to two separate crimes committed in Orange County, a burglary in 2007 and a 2008 armed home invasion robbery. A preliminary hearing is scheduled.
• Earlier this year, Joshua Graham Packer, 20, was arrested in Santa Barbara on armed robbery charges. His DNA was matched to a sample taken at the site of an unsolved 2009 triple murder in Ventura County. He was arrested for that crime in April and charged with murder.
Oral arguments in the case were scheduled today in the Ninth Circuit United States Court of Appeals at Seventh and Mission streets in San Francisco.
Attached are briefs filed in the case. An earlier press release on the DNA felony arrestee program can be found at http://ag.ca.gov/newsalerts/release.php?id=1936&


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Drifting Toward Plutocracy: Inexorable Concentration of Capital Undermines the Drive for 'Shared Prosperity'
Like seismic waves rippling outward after a tectonic shift, reverberations are roiling the economic-policy landscape after the U.S. launch of the groundbreaking new analysis by Thomas Piketty, the scholar from the Paris School of Economics whose landmark tome – "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" – has newly jolted the economics profession.
Any Washingtonian or World Bank Group staffer who somehow missed the news of Piketty's celebrated series of speeches and seminars last week – in Washington, New York and Boston – received an unmistakable signal this week about what an important intellectual breakthrough Piketty has achieved. President Jim Yong Kim on Tuesday cited Piketty while putting the issue of economic inequality at the top of his list of priorities during his review of the Spring Meetings of the Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Noting that he was already about halfway through reading Piketty's "Capital," President Kim sent a clear message that the skewed global distribution of wealth, as analyzed by Piketty and emphasized by many officials at the Bank and Fund's semiannual conference, should be top-of-mind for policy-watchers at the Bank and beyond – indeed, at every institution that hopes to promote shared prosperity.
Piketty's scholarship is now receiving widespread acclaim as a landmark in economic analysis, and is being recognized both for its "exhaustive fact-based research" and its sweeping historical perspective. More of a patient dissection of hard data than a political roadmap, Piketty's book has quickly become the subject of multiple praiseworthy reviews, notably in the New York Times and the Financial Times. One usually level-headed Bloomberg View analyst, recoiling from the "rapturous reception" accorded to the book, may have gone slightly overboard this week in asserting that Piketty's insights had been greeted by American liberals with "erotic intensity."
Predictably, Piketty's book has also quickly become the target – "Piketty Revives [Karl] Marx," blared a Wall Street Journal headline; "Marx Rises Again," warned the New York Times' lonely conservative scold – of the whack-a-mole ideological purists in laissez-faire Op-Ed columns, who forever seem tempted to equate modern-day liberalism with long-gone Leninism. Eager to publish denunciations of any idea, however modest, that might justify (heaven forfend) tax increases on stratospheric income-earners and the top-fraction-of-the-One Percent, the free-market fundamentalists on the Wall Street Journal's editorial board – unabashed cheerleaders for plutocracy – have opened up one of their trademark barrages via their Op-Ed columns ("This book is less a work of economic analysis than a bizarre ideological screed"; "The professor ought to read 'Animal Farm' and 'Darkness at Noon' "). The Journal's jihad clearly aims to demean or discredit anyone who might flirt with such Piketty-style notions as restoring greater progressivity to the tax code. (Egad: Progressive taxation? Next stop: Bolshevism.)

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Wigan boss Roberto Martinez hailed the late capture of Kilmarnock striker Conor Sammon.
The prolific forward joined on a three-and-a-half-year deal moments before the transfer deadline expired.
The 24-year-old Irish frontman has scored 15 goals in 20 starts this season Martinez told Wigan's website: "Conor is a young, hungry player we have been looking at for a while. He has developed in an incredible manner over the last six months and it's fortunate that we've been able to move for him before he has achieved his full potential."
He added: "We are delighted to welcome him on board."
Dublin-born Sammon, whose arrival on an undisclosed fee has come too late to see him feature in the squad in the Barclays Premier League, admitted it had been a wrench to leave Killie.
"It was a big decision to leave a club that has been so good for my career but I'm a Wigan Athletic player now and I want to prove to everyone here they've made the right choice, and prove myself in the Premier League,'' said the former Republic of Ireland Under 21 international, who will wear the number 18 shirt at the DW Stadium.
Martinez added that the arrival of Sammon concludes a satisfactory month in the transfer market.
"Our main priority was to finish January stronger than when the window started,'' he said.
"We've achieved that by keeping our best performers, who attracted well deserved attention within the game and we've got real satisfaction to be able to retain the services of Tom Cleverley and Ali Al Habsi until the end of the season, which is a major positive for us.
"The return of James McCarthy, Franco Di Santo, Victor Moses and Emmerson Boyce after long-term absences all feel like fresh signings into the squad. The fans can be proud and excited about the challenge ahead."


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text: Crop Tour Twitter 101: What to Watch For August 18, 2013 07:29 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Nate Birt Top Producer Managing Editor Email You'll find plenty of people talking about the 2013 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour on Twitter this week—just search for the hashtag "#pftour13". But whether you're a Crop Tour tweep or a news consumer in the cab or at the office computer, some common advice. "Don't focus on yield calculations from individual fields," says Brian Grete, Pro Farmer senior market analyst and leader of the tour's eastern leg. "That isn't what we are trying to do, and we actually discourage scouts from tweeting individual yield results. Instead, we look at the entire area we cover as one big corn field. Twitter is most useful for getting a general idea of what scouts are finding. And the pictures are valuable." On the eastern leg, Grete says, folks to watch on Twitter include: Chris Barron (@chrisbarron24) Todd Calfee (@todd_calfee) Peter Meyer (@openingprint) Kyle Wendland (@yoohoo26) Chris Narayanan (@ChrisNarayanan) You can follow our findings and coverage throughout the week in the Crop Tour section of our homepage. And you can even sample your fields the same as we do on Crop Tour and enter your results via our Virtual Crop Tour page. Don't forget to follow along on Twitter via #pftour13. You can also follow Crop Tour leaders @ChipFlory, @BGrete, @JasonFranckNC and @MNWeedWizard for tweets from the field and @JuliJohnston and @MeghanPedersen for Crop Tour results. Back to news


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Super Bowl: Five Strange Snacks to Serve
Super Bowl Sunday has indeed become America's day for pigging out. It's estimated that the average consumer devours some 2,000 calories worth of snacks during the game MarketWatch's Charles Passy joins the News Hub.
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Sure, Diaz has been racking up awards like nobody's business. He got his MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship in 2012. Last week he won the British Sunday Times EFG Private Bank short story prize -- worth more than $45,000 for a single short story -- with "Miss Lora," one of the stories in his latest collection, "This Is How You Lose Her."
But he doesn't have a Nobel Prize. At least, not yet.
Yes, he has a Pulitzer -- that came back in 2008 for his first novel, "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao." His website, which can't keep up with his accolades, notes he has also won a National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Malamud Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a PEN/O. Henry Award.
The Nobel was a slip of the tongue -- a slip that's been picked up by major outlets.
"Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning author Junot Díaz visited The Colbert Report to discuss immigration reform," writes Entertainment Weekly.
"Junot Diaz, winner of the
For the record, Junot Diaz has not won the Nobel Prize. Nope.
He is one of the scholars behind Freedom University, a college that was formed in response to Georgia legislation banning undocumented immigrants from studying at the state's top universities. That's what he was on Colbert to discuss.
"Freedom University is a Georgia college dedicated to educating undocumented immigrants. Why?" asks Colbert.
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Actor, instructor, and "fight master" Rob Johansan led Wabash students through a workshop on stage fighting. In this shot, Johansan gets his hands on freshman Reed Hepburn. The workshop is part of an ongoing effort by the Wabash Theater Department to bring professional actors, directors, and instructors to campus — to build the students' skill sets and to provide networking opportunities.


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The following features trace the history of the Macy's Light Show from its earliest days at the John Wanamaker department store in the 1950s to the present. Each year brings new improvements to the show, with an abiding respect for tradition.
Retailers have always kept the Light Show up-to-date, and the latest version, produced by Macy's, is no exception. While retaining all the beloved elements of the John Wanamaker original, the revamped production — dubbed the Millennium Edition by designer Larry Kerecman — modernizes the equipment while allowing the Grand Organ to cast its holiday spell. Back in the 1950s "Light Show Larry" was fascinated by the Magic Christmas Tree as were many other boomers. He built a model of it at home and that helped launch him on a career as an electrical engineer. His recent projects include the restoration of the historic Electric Fountain in Denver.
Macy's famous Parade Studio in New York has manufactured new "flats" bearing the light-bulb-outlines of each traditional character. Large circles are cut through the panels to allow more of the beautiful Wanamaker Organ sound to get through. Colored LED lights have replaced the traditional incandescent bulbs at great savings of electricity. In 2008 the Magic Christmas Tree made a glorious return after several years' absence. Macy's built a new and larger version capable of displaying all the colors of the rainbow. It has the capacity for numerous special effects.
Julie Andrews, Macy's new narrator, closely follows a script very much like the original. The scrim backdrop allows much more of the Organ's glorious sound to get through than did the original heavy plush drapes. Many Philadelphians consider the Yuletide season incomplete without a trip to the Grand Court to hear the Wanamaker Organ and see the Holiday Pageant of Lights. Today many light-show performances conclude with live organ music, especially around regular organ-concert times.
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Recently the organ case itself has been left uncovered, with the Magic Christmas Tree standing before it. Spotlights now illuminate the case in brilliant shifting holiday colors and patterns. Much of this re-design was spearheaded by Wanamaker Organ curator Curt Mangel. By placing the Organ in the forefront of the show, Curt allowed the Reigning Monarch of All Instruments to weave its spell in special productions that join the Tree and organ with imaginative lighting effects as Peter Richard Conte plays festive Yuletide music. The result is a popular sensation that rivals those in other cities, including the New York Radio City show and the great Rockefeller Plaza Christmas Tree.
The Macy's Parade Studio redesign has also helped lessen the common retail criticism that Christmas comes earlier each year, because the show is able to be put up much more quickly. In days of yore the curtain was installed in late September and removed by early February after the last characters had been removed. Each character was individually hoisted and connected. Because of its complexity, the Wanamaker show took the efforts of at least three men to install it. The prolonged after-hours schedule was partly due to its being done as overtime after employees' daily shift, and also for the safety of customers. Al Goessler of the Wanamaker staff supervised the work and the show's operation. Just hauling up Santa's train to the very top of the Court could take from closing 'til opening the following morning.
The Show itself was computerized in the 1970s but nonetheless required two operators to run it. Since the Macy's rebuild, the show is entirely automated. Macy's installed winches in the ceiling and began hanging the lighted figures on horizontal trusses that can easily be raised as a unit, enabling sections to be set up and removed in considerably less time.
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There are 34,500 LED lights on the Macy's Magic Christmas Tree in six colors: red, yellow, green, blue, purple, and cool white, which breaks down to about 5,750 lights in each color. It is topped by a red Moravian (or Advent) star. The lights on the tree, the snowflakes, and the snowmen are dimmable.
The rest of the light show has about 65,000 LED lights (the Parade studio attempted to do an actual count, but found it impractical to finish). Colors include red, yellow, orange, green, blue, pink, purple, warm white, and cool white. The LEDs use 90 percent less electricity than standard incandescent bulbs (which were from 5 to 7 watts per bulb in the old show). LED colors are purer than incandescent colors, and cameras sometimes have difficulty capturing the violet and white shades.
The vertical strands have four steady LED colors: red, purple, blue and green. They also have two incandescent blinking colors: blue and white. These blinkers are still incandescent because the blink is in the bulb and is not controlled by the computer. LEDs are not developed enough yet to handle blinking.
The old Wanamaker tree contained an estimated 23,500 lights, many custom-tinted just for the Show in shades of pink and purple, and the figures contained 29,000 bulbs. The show was fed by 1200 amps.
When it was in use, the Dancing Waters (TM) Enchanted Fountain system used 3000 gallons of water. There was really no tank for the water. Rather, a heavy rubber sheet was placed in the balcony orchestra pit. It is fortunate that that sheet never developed any leaks in its long history of use. Restoration of the accompanying Fountain-and-Colored-Light Show on the balcony in front of the Organ case is not being considered at present because a redesign would be needed to protect the Organ and low-lying light and plug-in power strips that illuminate the case. Also Macy's new Christmas tree is wider than its predecessor.
The original Santa Express train engine weighed 700 pounds and the two cars weighed 500 pounds apiece. The entire Wanamaker light show—minus the tree—weighed three and a half tons.
The original Magic Christmas Tree had 85 individual tree branches, topped by a cone-shaped section and crowned with a five-pointed star. That star had white, amber and blue lights. The figures had 23,635 individual 7-watt light bulbs. The vertical strings of lights contained 5906 bulbs, powered by 40 circuits so that the lights could be programmed to "chase" back and forth.
The total electrical consumption during the 21 climactic seconds when the entire Wanamaker show was lit was a staggering 288,000 watts. Not everything could be turned on at the same time during the Grand Finale—the power surge would exceed the rated capacity of the feeder cables coming from the transformer vaults in the basement. Although this was a lot of incandescent energy, it was not wasted. The resulting heat helped warm the Grand Court.
The Store's famous light show has always been one of Philadelphia's most hallowed traditions since its inception in November 1955. It was devised by Frederick Yost, a Yale University theatre-lighting graduate who came to John Wanamaker and pioneered many of the beautiful Grand Court displays that kept the store in the forefront of retailing.
Yost was following a long tradition. Previous years, stretching back to the era of John and Rodman Wanamaker, featured grandiose Christmas and Easter displays that ran the full height of the Grand Court. Stage-carpentry schemes right out of Hollywood covered the Wanamaker Organ wall with staircases, balconies, draperies, "stained glass," greenery, paintings and rich tapestries. By the time of World War II a relative austerity set in. The exposed organ case was backed by colored curtains and giant lit candles were placed atop it. The Enchanted Fountains were added, dancing to music.
By the 1950s Baby Boomers were poised to fall in love with the Organ and Christmas decorations. Yost took the show in a new direction by draping the Organ entirely in blue-green curtains that conformed to the curves of the case, and by adding the Magic Christmas Tree to the fountain display. Like the fountains, the huge tree could be lit in any color or mix of colors, and could even be lit in different colors in thirds from the top down. The trunk of the tree, actually a huge electrical strip with color-coded plugs, was held up by girders inside the central tower of the organ's pipe screen and by a boom reaching over the Herald Angel, and the front pipes were removed to secure the tree. Between shows, the tree patterns changed at random during the shopping day. Large golden bells hung in an arc around the tree.
Mirror balls were used to create artificial snowflakes. Reportedly at one time water was also directed out of the balcony and into a main-floor receptacle, but this feature literally dampened customers' spirits.
The Show Evolves
Over the years various figures were added, including trumpet-blowing Wanamaker Eagles, Sleighs, a Volkswagen Beetle, Stockings, and Trumpet-bearing Bears, which were included in the early '80s to support a store promotion of Rudi Bear stuffed cubbies. Wanamaker's gradually extended its decorations to the exterior of the store, and huge lighted pendants and festoons hung at the central entrances on Market and Juniper Streets. Wanamaker's also marketed light-show merchandise more than retailers that have followed, and had a light-show coloring book in its Crystal Tea Room restaurant, a light-show necktie, a video and other popular tourist merchandise. The fountain show became too old to be used and was discontinued around the turn of the present century. For a number of years following September 11, the raising of a huge American flag concluded the show as the Organ played "God Bless America." More recently, Macy's has sent spotlights careening across the vaults of the Grand Court, projecting giant stars, Christmas trees, snowflakes and reindeer between shows.
Characters in Use Today
Characters in use today include two Bears, four Frostys, eight Reindeer, 50 Snowflakes, two Toy Soldiers, three Clocks, five Ballerinas, one Nutcracker, one Girl, one Prince, one Princess, two Candy Canes, Santa and the Conductor on the Santa Express Train.
Macy's Dickens Christmas Village
Macy's acquired the celebrated Dickens Christmas Village from Philadelphia's Strawbridge & Clothier Department Store. Numerous animated figures depict scenes in Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (1843). While not as popular as the Wanamaker Light Show, the village drew customers to the fourth floor Strawbridge's, and on one occasion a Dickens descendant presided at the season opening. After Strawbridge's closed, Macy's installed a drop ceiling in Egyptian Hall in the Fall of 2006 and placed the show there during its move into the John Wanamaker Building. Macy's also attires attendants in period garb and sometimes has carolers sing from the organ console loft. Children have an opportunity to sit on Santa's lap and share Christmas wishes. Lit Brothers department store ("Hats Trimmed Free of Charge") had a Colonial Christmas Village, which is now at the Please Touch Museum in Fairmount Park. Roy Insley's fanciful model "Wanamaker's at Christmas" is also displayed there.
Macy's Animated Windows
Macy's has also enlivened Market Street with a series of fanciful windows spreading holiday cheer to the sidewalks.
Light Show Storage
During the off-season the show is stored in the passageways around the Organ, making the area look like Santa's workshop. The Magic Christmas Tree is kept on the second floor, Chestnut Street, behind the ladies suit department. The branches are hung from trusses in the ceiling and the endpoints are color-coded for easy installation on the center trunk and connection to the electrical outlets. The rest of the light-show panels and trusses are stored on the second floor around and behind the Main Organ chambers. The sections are arranged in order from top to bottom as one travels from the control room, affectionately known as Frosty Central around the organ to the Thirteenth Street side of the second floor.
Wanamaker's maintained a large Toy Department at the south end of the Eighth floor. It included a real monorail for kids that made a circuit around the department from 1946 to 1984, and a sprawling electric-train layout. The rocket monorail cars have been moved to the Please Touch Museum.


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So my last column got quite a bit of feedback and press. People seem to feel rather strongly about the state of the indies right now. The consensus seems to be that everyone agrees that there needs to be something done about the state of indy wrestling and that if there isn't it will continue to decline. With that being said I have a proposal to run by the public before I press on and take it higher in the wrestling community.
Policing the indies for undertrained and undersized guys is an impossibility. There's just not enough guys with the time, money or the other resources to see something like that through. So, what to do? I spent quite a bit of time thinking about this situation and threw a few ideas at a few people. So this is what I think can be done to help.
I think there needs to be a guild or affiliation of legitimate trainers and a website where new and or prospective students can go and see who is near them and how much they charge to train. A legitimized trainers guild could be headed up by a loose council of the most respected trainers right now, the likes of Killer Kowalski, Dory Funk Jr., Johnny Rodz, Afa the wild Samoan, Lance Storm
, Scott D'Amore, and so on. From there, anyone who wants to train guys can petition the council for membership by submitting a resume and showing what they've got; a majority vote can give accreditation. Thus kids who want to train can then know that they are getting quality training from a reliable and accredited trainer.
These trainers who apply and are granted membership would then have to ensure the quality of their training or have their membership revoked and names removed from the database.
If we can't fix the 100,000 kids maybe we can get the 500 trainers.
I want to thank Lance Storm for taking the time to read my last article and comment on it on his website. He makes a very good point in that the promoters booking the poorly trained guys need to be held responsible for their actions. With a legit trainers guild the promoters would also have a resource to check when these guys asking for jobs tell them who they were trained by. I know I have talked with many a guy on the indies and, when I asked who trained them, had no clue who they were speaking of or what they had done, let alone whether the person deserves to be training guys.
Maybe this way we can cut down on the influx of poor workers streaming on a daily basis into this great business. Because bottom line, that's what this is. A business. And these guys are killing business.
Bad News was a VERY intimidating man. That is a well documented fact and is obvious from his promo pictures. The other side of Bad News was very different, yet no less as intense. When Bad News didn't like you, you knew it because he never gave you the time of day. But if he liked you he went out of his way to ensure you knew it as well.
The time I am speaking about in my career is the period when Stampede was petering out on the A Channel in Alberta and a large group of guys left the promotion to start their own with Western Canadian Extreme Wrestling. The core group of guys from Stampede at the time (Duke Durrango, Greg Pawluk, Dean Durrango and others) were the ones to break away and find a financial backer to start up this new promotion and make a run at it in Calgary. When they did this, they asked a lot of the other guys (myself included) to come along. I was torn, as the Harts were my trainers and mentors to this point, but they really hadn't treated me, or a lot of their guys, very well over the previous few months. A lot of money was owed to a lot of people and promises broken. Bad News was the guy at this time to smarten me up to a few things.
Bad News pulled me aside one day and asked me why I got into wrestling. I told him my reasons and his reply was so simple and to the point that it's almost laughable when you think about it, but something that doesn't register with a lot of young guys in the business until they get told it. "Have you achieved any of those goals to this point and can these guys (the Harts) help you any further to get to those goals?" I thought about it for a few minutes and the only reply I could find was "No."
Then he invited me to come out and check out a WCEW show. I did. Their first show drew over 800 people. No big names, no silly gimmicks. Just proper advertising and footwork, and good booking (that was Bad News' doing). Their next show drew the same and I was convinced. When I look back, there are times when I think maybe I should have "remained loyal." But I found out what my loyalty was worth when I found out the Harts had me pulled from a Japan tour and tried to put one of the family in my place.
Over the next few months, things went south rather quickly in the promotion. Seedy investors and racist owners made it quite the company. Bad News ended up quitting and a lot of the boys followed suit.
I was torn and ended up making a poor decision based of money instead of instincts. Lesson learned. Always trust your instincts. They are usually right. Bad News kept his faith in me though, and we trained together a number of times over the next year. He even put in a word for me with New Japan but they weren't taking any gaijin wrestlers at the time. I love Bad News for taking the time and effort to help me. And I miss him greatly. I will always remember the lessons he taught me and will always do my best to uphold the ideals he instilled in me.
Goodbye Bad News. You will never be forgotten.
On May 26th in Cochrane, Alberta, there will be a Bad News Allen tribute show. The card is stacked for a Western Canadian show, and I highly recommend if it's within your power to attend as it will be a memorable night. It is headlined by a return match between "The Madman from the Sudan" Abdullah the Butcher versus Devon "Hannibal" Nicholson inside a steel cage. Their last confrontation was one of the bloodiest battles Alberta has ever seen. Also featured on the card will be TNA star Samoa Joe going toe to toe with the 400-pound Juggernaut in what can only be called a "hard-hitting" battle. In a match up of eccentric characters former WWE Intercontinental Champion Goldust goes one on one with Stampede's Ravenous Randy Myers, and rounding out the top of the card ECCW's Scotty Mac, three-time ECCW champion, takes on, well ... me! And I promise one of the best matches of my career, as I will be going balls to the wall in tribute to Bad News. Tickets are available online at www.ticketweb.ca or by phone at 1-888-222-6608.
Okay enough for this installment. As always, support your local indies. Any feedback questions, concerns, quandaries or queries can be sent to email@example.com or to MySpace at www.myspace.com/canadiandevine.
In the mean time and in between, that's it. Another edition of Devine Intervention. Bye Now.


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I'd like to thank everyone who commented on my blog in March. This list is inspired by Apple from Apple's Tree who started doing shout outs in February. In order to be included on this list, you must have a genealogy blog and it must be linked to your comment.
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This image shows the journey that light particles from [supernovas and galaxies] might make on their way to the space telescope's detectors. In this artistic shot patterns are created by light reflected in one of the gold-plated mirrors. XMM-Newton's three telescopes each contain 58 mirrors like this, and are among the most powerful ever developed.
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Friday, September 30, 2005
KitKat Coffee!
Name: KitKat Coffee
I know Marvo already covered KitKat Coffee this week, but if I don't review it, I don't get to eat it. I'd been looking for this bar for a few weeks when I finally saw it at the 7-11 I pass on my way home. There are a few 7-11s that I go to, but this one, on the corner of Santa Monica Blvd. and Virgil seems to stock the best candy. The store is clean and the candy fresh. Though a little pricier than a lot of other places I shop, I'm willing to pay an extra 10 cents for something that I haven't found elsewhere.
I was so excited by this bar that I bought two, one to eat when I got home and one to review, so by the time I took the photos, I knew that this was a good bar.
Upon opening the bar, the coffee scent is quite powerful and mixed with a sugary sweet smell. Where the Nestle Coffee Crisp bar smells like a creamy coffee concoction with toffee, the KitKat Coffee smells like a fresh brewed cup of black coffee. As with the Nestle KitKat Orange, the coffee flavor is actually in the chocolate (and maybe in the creamy filling of the crisps). It makes me wish that Hershey would release Coffee Kisses.
The bar is very simple and benefits from the addition of the coffee flavoring. It's pretty amazing how the KitKat can be so good with so many other flavor iterations (Orange, Green Tea, Dark Chocolate, Melon, White Chocolate) but I think that shows that it's a really well-engineered bar. The blank slate of the crisps and the vaguely vanilla cream can stand on its own or get a boost from another flavor.
I have my doubts that this will be added to the permanent KitKat repertoire (but they did add white chocolate, so who knows) but I'll enjoy it while it's around.
Rating - 9 out of 10
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Norfolk Manor Jelly Babies
Name: Jelly Babies
If you have ever watched Dr. Who with Tom Baker, you've seen him carry around that little white paper bag and offer folks Jelly Babies. I never knew what they were, just that they were different from jelly beans and not quite Swedish fish. I finally stumbled across them at a little grocer I stopped in after a meeting in San Francisco over the weekend that carried a lot of UK candies (I picked up a very fresh Curly Wurly while I was there too!).
Unfortunately, not having grown up in the UK, that is the sum total of my exposure to them. I had no idea until I started to make this post that the different colors had some sort of personality. This site has a pretty good history of the candies (apologies as they seem to have put black text on a dark blue background). The important thing to note about this review is the brand - these are Norfolk Manor Jelly Babies. The Bassett's Jelly Babies (the original) are not imported into the US (so I'll have to have someone grab some in the UK).
A jelly baby is simply a jelly candy with a grainy, crystallized sugar coating on it. Not quite a smooth as a jelly bean, the coating is like a very fine granulated sugar, only with flavor.
The colors are quite nice, in soothing herbal colors of red, green, another green, orange, yellow, another yellow, and black. The smell fruity and sweet, just like jelly beans. If you remember the Swedish Jelly Rats I reviewed a while back, they're kind of like that, but larger and with a bit more of a sugary coating. The shapes are wonderful, little pudgy-bellied, round-headed babies. The babies are flavored according to their colors, but I wasn't really able to figure it out. Orange is orange, yellow is lemon and one of the greens is lime. Beyond that, I can only say that they were fruity. Black might be currant, red might be strawberry.
They're exceptionally sweet and the flavor has no hint of tart to it, just a slight blessing of fruit aroma for the most part. They cute and easy to share and of course they're a nostalgia favorite for generations of Brits. I am, sadly, not terribly impressed with them. Should I find the Bassett's, I will probably give them a try, just to be sure that I'm not missing something. Just for the record, I do like jelly candies in general: gummi bears and Swedish fish and even some jelly beans, these were just too sweet without enough flavor.
More about Jelly Babies here.
Rating - 4 out of 10 (alas, I don't think I'm going to eat the rest of them)
POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:22 pm Candy • Review • Jelly Candy • 4-Benign • United Kingdom •
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Soft Core Candy
Chelsea, the producer for Radio Open Source emailed me today with this link. Someone has remixed the Passion Thursday: Candy episode as some sort of soft core highlights of the interview.
Don't worry, it's worksafe:
A Universal Passion - Candy Remix from Love and Radio
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Rocky Road
Name: Rocky Road
I know it seems odd that I've never had a Rocky Road bar before, but I've never been much of a marshmallow fan. To me the best thing about marshmallows is that they're a dessert you can make on the grill. If marshmallows disappeared from the earth, I'd probably only lament the loss of Rice Krispies treats.
But, I thought it was high time I gave it a try - after all, how did I know I wouldn't like it? First, the package is just fantabulous. It's flashy red mylar and the lettering is bold and you can spot it easily from 20 feet. No wonder, it's a big bar. At 1.8 ounces and the size of a tree limb, it's a sizeable purchase for 75 cents.
The bar is rather unappealing when pulled out of the package, but really, when you look at most candy analytically it's unattractive. I first pulled the bar apart for the photo and the sugary smell is just fantastic. It's like putting your head into a box of Count Chocula.
The marshmallow isn't overly sweet, but it's foamy and has a good rubbery pull to it. The chocolate coating though is very sweet and the cashews are rather hard to discern. The mixture of textures is the real treat in this bar, with a real focus on the marshmallow, the light airyness of the bar sets it apart from just about everything out there. I hardly feel like I've eaten almost two ounces. It still hasn't changed my mind about marshmallow in general, but I can see why it's such an enduring favorite.
Rating - 6 out of 10
POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:00 am Candy • Review • Annabelle's • Chocolate • Marshmallow • 6-Tempting • United States •
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Espresso Truffle Bar
Name: Pike Place Espresso Truffle Bar
On my quest to find a good consumer coffee-infused chocolate bar, I found this at Target recently. It's not quite mass-marketed but at least it wasn't prohibitively expensive.
The package heralds the candy as a "Truffle Bar" but it really doesn't rise to that level at all. As far as I know, a chocolate truffle is a mixture of chocolate and butter and/or heavy cream. It's usually dipped in chocolate because it's gooey but may be rolled in cocoa to keep it from sticking to things. The fascinating thing about a chocolate truffle is that it's more fat (often) than chocolate, but this fat helps to highlight the intense and subtle flavors of chocolate in ways that a higher cocoa solids bar is not able to. This bar had no such center. The center was slightly softer than the plain chocolate outer shell, but more like a Frango than a melty chocolate cream.
The coffee flavor in the firm center comes from "Turkish grind decaffeinated [coffee]", which probably explains the graininess of the center. The bits aren't big enough to be considered crunchies but large enough to interfere with a smooth texture. Of course being decaffeinated means that there won't be much of a problem with eating this bar before bedtime.
Overall the bar is a little sweet but has a nice chocolately flavor and a really good punch of coffee once it melts on the tongue. The chocolate and coffee blend well, with good woodsy notes and a slight acidic bite.
It's not my dream coffee bar though, so I'll keep looking. (I'm not sure what I'm looking for, but it's been a fun quest.)
Rating - 6 out of 10
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New Venture and Website Launched by Institute for Robotic Process Automation
The Institute for Robotic Process Automation (IRPA), an independent professional association for buyers, providers, analysts and influencers of robotic process automation, today announced the launch its new venture and website, www.irpanetwork.com. The network will serve as the first association of its kind, a knowledge forum and solutions center dedicated to robotic process automation.
IRPA is the brainchild of Frank Casale, who, since founding the Outsourcing Institute 20 years ago, has become known for his ability to reliably anticipate business trends. With this new venture, Casale aims to build the go-to source for thought leadership and services related to robotic process automation, a technology that promises unprecedented gains in operational agility, process efficiency and accuracy and a 25-40 percent cost savings.
Robotic process automation is the application of advanced software and algorithms to complete routine tasks and operations previously performed by humans. The technology can capture and interpret existing applications for processing transactions, manipulating data, triggering responses and communicating with other digital systems.
Casale alerts outsourcing buyers and sellers to "brace for impact" as process automation creates the next wave of innovation and dramatically changes business and the global economy. "Robotic process automation will force IT and business executives to completely rethink the way they plan, source and budget for their most critical projects," says Casale. "The primary objective of IRPA is to help business leaders understand how this trend will help them to cut costs, increase efficiency and improve business processes."
A free, basic membership at www.irpanetwork.com grants access to expert commentary, industry white papers, best practices, and a global network of thought leaders, practitioners, providers and advisors.
"As service providers leverage robotic process automation in their offerings, they will be able to provide significantly higher levels of value to buyers," says Raheem Hasan, Chief Marketing Officer of IRPA. "We're on the forefront of this business revolution, and we're excited to bring others into the game."
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faddal necesitaba un nuevo diseño de animación en Flash y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
2 ganadores han sido elegidos entre 31 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
I have 2 contests merged into one!!
1. Complete new web design
2. Flash Animation (Intro and Transitions)
Please no Templates
Basically I want a complete new website which will incorporate the Flash and the Website as one. I really need this site to Impress anyone who visits it.
The idea is to allow the visitors to the site to know that we are a serious and successful company.
SAH Global
Developing Visions
Desired Color Scheme:
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Desired Style:
Corporate, Clean, Global, Appealing to the Eye, Easy to Navigate
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Vector Formats (.eps, .pdf or .ai); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
I have the write for the pages.
The website should be editable by myself so that i can amend, and insert text and pictures at anytime.Â
Basically for the flash I want something that will not take to much time to download and only very brief (about 5 seconds max) as the intro to the website, which there after it takes us to the main home page.
There are a few flash intros which i really like and can forward those over to you for you to get a feel of what i am looking for.
Once the onto the website, I would Like to have the following tabs with the sub folders listed below them>
1. Home (obviously with all the tabs that go across)
2. Company Profile
   a. Introduction
   b. Chairmans Message
   c. Management Team
   d. Business Partners
 3. Projects
   a. Health Care
       1. PTC Hospital
   b. Communications
       1. Broadband via Satellite
    c. Real Estate and Developement
       1. Luxury Hotels
        2. Property Management
     d. Greenfields
       1. Solar Energy
4. News (will need a bit of help from you guys regarding the layout)
5. Contact Us
About the site, I am looking for a clean yet eye catching site which is set to impress. I would like the site to be full screen (if it is centered then the colors go to the edge). Transitions to be flash smooth and fast to load. In regards to the Projects tab for each project i want a different colored theme where the background color changes to match the tab of the home page. Also, due to the region of the world we are dealing with i would need to give the option to view as flash or basic html.
I have the logo and will provide for you also.
This contest was originally listed in multiple categories:
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The 1830s were the heyday of the formation of anti-slavery societies. Associations were established at the town, county and state levels. This is a partial report about the formation of the Franklin County, Massachusetts, Anti-Slavery Society which was established on December 8, 1836. The society was to be an auxiliary to the state anti-slavery society. The aim of the society was to abolish slavery through constitutional means and to combat public prejudice against African-Americans. The Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald was the newspaper in Greenfield, Massachusetts, from June 26, 1827 to June 27, 1837. It changed its name to the Gazette & Mercury.
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Racing-inspired rubber inserts liven up this men's sweater with central zipper.
The rubber decorations across the upper part of the Scuderia Ferrari sweater are accentuated by contrasting piping that recalls the excitement of speed on the track. The dynamism of the piece is highlighted by the double rib knit, while the piping also profiles the central zipper, the front pockets, and the fixed hood. The cuffs are outlined in tone-on-tone bands, while the hem is elastic and the hood comes with a drawstring to adjust the fit. The sweater will add a bold touch to every outfit and is unique with the unmistakable Ferrari Shield, outlined in red.
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Charles Self Appointed to Head GSA's FTS Office of Information Technology Integration
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Charles Self has been appointed to the position of Assistant Commissioner for Information Technology Integration (ITI) in the U.S. General Services Administration's Federal Telecommunications Service. Mr. Self, who has been acting in the position since October 1996, previously served as the ITI Deputy Assistant Commissioner and the Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM) Director, one of four nationwide programs in ITI.
In making the announcement, Bob Woods, FTS Commissioner said, "I am very pleased to have Charlie as part of the FTS executive management team and look forward to his continuing to thrill our customers."
ITI has been recognized by both industry and customer agencies as a leader in their innovative approach to procurement. Much of this innovation has taken place under Mr. Self's direction. In addition to the FEDSIM program, ITI is responsible for the Federal Computer Acquisition Center (FEDCAC), the Federal Information Systems Support Program (FISSP), and the Federal Acquisition Services for Technology Program (FAST). ITI is responsible for providing more than $850 million annually of technical and contractual assistance to Federal agencies in all areas related to the acquisition, integration, management and use of information systems and technology.
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S. Rogai needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 163 designs submitted by 57 freelance designers.
Inventors Business Center
This is a logo for a business that is going to be hip, cutting edge and innovative. A business center for new inventors to bring their inventions to market. It will be a buiding that houses all of the key players needed to take an invention or product to market. Patent attorneys, prototype makers, web developers, product reps, distibutors, infomercial production. I am a very detail oriented and meticulous business man whom is looking for fresh new vision to brand a company that I expect to take public in 5 years or less.
We are a company that deals with thousands of new inventors to help them with all facets of bringing their inventions to market. We turn ideas into revenues.
I am open to interpretations and want any and all ideas or visions that one can provide.
I want the logo to incorprotate the name but be simple and easy to duplicate on any form of marketing materials needed.
I may use the abreviation IBC when refering to my business but may not be able to use everywhere due to trademarking of that but I would like an emphasis on those letters in the logo.
I like logos that I see that are outlines of things and or silhouettes
but dont hold back your ideas and be bound by that.
I am envisioning simple few colors. I keep thinking silver when I think of this logo.
I am not opposed to a light buld in the logo but every invention type company I ever see uses this logo ang I feel it is overused.
Thanks you all for theconsideration to create my logo and I look forward to seeing your ideas!
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The evolution of gene regulation
How microbial neighbors settle differences
Munich, 05/26/2009
Even microbes are governed by the principle of supply and demand – at least at the genetic level. Not all of their gene products, the blueprints for proteins, are required at all times. That means most of their genes only become active when they are needed, as is the case in higher organisms. In the simplest case, a transcription factor will activate the gene in question at the right time. Genes that are regulated in a somewhat more complex manner, on the other hand, are kept inactive by a repressor that is removed only when the gene is needed. Which of these two regulation mechanisms will develop is a question of demand, along the lines of a "use-it-or-lose-it" principle: if genes are frequently active, then, as a rule, they will be directly induced. Genes that encode more rarely used proteins, on the other hand, tend to be kept inactive by repressors. LMU physicist Ulrich Gerland and Professor Terence Hwa of the University of California have now demonstrated using computer simulations and theoretical analyses that another – indeed opposing – principle also comes into play: "wear-and-tear". According to this principle, direct activation can lead to harmful changes. "Which of the two principles prevails depends on evolutionary criteria such as the population size and the periods over which environmental changes take place," says Gerland. "Our study may serve as a useful basis for more detailed studies of the evolution of regulatory systems." (PNAS Early Edition, 22 Mai 2009)
Up until the middle of the 20th century, biochemists spent most of their efforts studying metabolism, i.e. obtaining energy from food. Less importance was given to the – technically inexplicable – question of how proteins were regulated as a response to internal and external signals. The biology of regulation only came into its own as an independent research field when technical progress opened the window to scientific analysis of DNA, the carrier of genetic traits, and to the synthesis of proteins, the most important functional elements of the cell. It quickly became clear that complex and diverse regulation mechanisms adapted the genetic activity of cells to internal and external conditions – even in microorganisms.
It is known, for example, that the intestinal bacterium Escherichia coli in the digestive tract of young mammals can break down lactose, the sugar abundant in mother's milk. To do this, the bacterium produces the enzyme lactase – but only if lactose is actually present. Most of the time, however, lactose is not present. At these times, the gene that encodes the lactase enzyme is blocked by a repressor. Only one key fits the lock to this protein, to detach the repressor from the lactase gene: a lactose molecule, as a single, unmistakable sign that this sugar is present and now available as food. Other genes, however, are regulated without the use of repressors: these genes are directly activated by a transcription factor that binds to them.
These are only two simple examples of mechanisms that regulate gene activity, and they are functionally equivalent. "The question was raised long ago as to whether nature's choice in favor of one of the two mechanisms is only random, or whether there are specific criteria," reports Gerland. "Studies have shown that the demand for a gene product is a decisive factor: it is mostly genes whose proteins are required most of the time that are directly activated. Proteins such as lactase, on the other hand, which are only used some of the time, tend to have genetic codes that are only released from their repressor when needed." The "use-it-or-lose-it" principle was proposed to explain this, which demands the frequent use of regulation factors because they would otherwise be subject to damaging effects.
Using computer simulations and theoretical calculations, Gerland and Hwa have now demonstrated that a second – even opposing – principle also comes into play: "wear-and-tear". Its name reflects the fact that constant use of regulators can also lead to detrimental consequences. The two researchers therefore investigated whether other factors that can affect the evolution of microorganisms play a role. "Our results clearly show that both principles are valid, even though they are actually contradictory," Gerland says. "In this conflict between maximal and minimal use of the regulators, other criteria do in fact come into play: the population size and the periods over which the environmental changes stretch."
Genetic regulation in small populations existing in an environment that only slowly changes is governed by the "use-it-or-lose-it" principle, with maximal use of the regulation proteins. In the opposite case, however, it is more "wear-and-tear" that comes into play with minimal use of the proteins. "The evolution of regulatory systems is still barely understood," reports Gerland. "So far, appropriate theoretical methods have also been largely lacking. But the time-dependent selection shown in our example may now prove to be an important factor in regulatory development. Many questions are still open, and our results will hopefully prompt further investigations." (suwe)
"Evolutionary selection between alternative modes of gene regulation",
Ulrich Gerland and Terence Hwa,
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Kackel Dackel, the infamous German game in which a plastic dog craps rainbow turds, is coming to Japan as "Buriwan" for short (the full title is "Burittoderuwan" ブリッとでるワン, with "buri" referring to the noise made while pooping).
In case you missed Kackel Dackel when it first raised eyebrows a few years back with this ad, here's more info about the game, including Google-translated English instructions on how to play. They should come in handy if you ever want to play with poo. Well, Kackel Dackel poo.
Here are some photos from Japanese site Yuukan Gadget.
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The Bills like the depth they've put together at cornerback.
S Reshad Jones is hoping to give the Dolphins even more in 2013.
Patriots RB George Winn had an explosive streak in his college days.
G Brian Winters said negating the speed of NFL defenders is the biggest adjustment he'll have to make as a Jets rookie.
Whether they start at cornerback or not, Corey Graham and Jimmy Smith will see plenty of playing time for the Ravens.
Are the Bengals a poor fit for Hard Knocks?
LB/DE Jim Houston has been named the 28th best Browns player of all time by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Former Steelers coach Bill Cowher had himself a fender bender in New York City.
The Texans had their social media accounts hacked over the weekend.
Colts assistant offensive line coach Hal Hunter shares his thoughts on the team.
Jaguars RB Maurice Jones-Drew's foot is feeling well enough for him to play golf at a fundraiser.
The Titans hope CB Blidi Wreh-Wilson is a fast learner.
Everything you need to know about visiting Broncos training camp.
Chiefs T Eric Fisher is most looking forward to putting on pads at training camp.
The Raiders are well represented at an exhibit on "Pro Football and the American Spirit" at The Haggin Museum in Stockton.
Rolando McClain thinks that T D.J. Fluker will be a leader with the Chargers.
S Will Allen hopes to bring a different mindset to the Cowboys secondary.
Giants DE Justin Tuck called DE Jason Pierre-Paul a "new age Superman."
Should the zombie apocalypse come, Eagles QB Matt Barkley is prepared.
How are the Redskins stocked at right outside linebacker?
Bears C Roberto Garza wants help from fans in his effort to keep kids from dropping out of school.
Five Lions in need of rebound seasons.
Former Packers WR Desmond Howard is one of the speakers at the NFL's rookie symposium.
A remembrance of the late Korey Stringer from the Vikings.
Jeff Schultz of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution thinks DE John Abraham can still help the Falcons.
A look at the most overrated and underrated Panthers players of all time.
Saints WR Marques Colston isn't showing any signs of slowing down.
Buccaneers WR Vincent Jackson is making an impact on and off the field.
LB Kevin Minter got less attention in college than his Cardinals and LSU teammate Tyrann Mathieu.
Making the case for the 2001 Rams as one of the most compelling teams of the century.
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EDITORIAL: Safer cars saving lives
If you're a longtime motorist, you may have noticed a few changes in vehicles over the years.
That's putting it mildly. Today's passenger cars are a far cry from the vehicles of yesteryear.
One area of particular progress has been safety.
But if you look around, you may have noticed one area the safety of cars has lost ground. That area would be right behind the car. Over the years, driver visibility has, on average, been disappearing.
It's no surprise, then, that the federal government estimates that backing vehicles kill nearly 230 Americans a year, including 110 children, according to a recent Associated Press article. Backing accidents also injure an estimated 17,000 persons each year.
Recognizing the emergence of a problem, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration started studying the issue way back in 1993.
In 2003, U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-New York, first proposed legislation that would require better visibility standards.
Finally, a federal bill requiring auto manufacturers to improve rear visibility was passed by Congress with strong bipartisan support and signed into law in 2008 by President George W. Bush.
Almost five years later, however, the standards have yet to be required.
The U.S. Department of Transportation had a Feb. 28, 2011, deadline to issue new guidelines for car manufacturers, but the deadline has been extended three times by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
Guess why?
Yes, manufacturers are fighting the requirement and have asked to push back the implementation date - originally September 2014 - by two years.
That's because the proposed rules would require rearview cameras and display screens as standard equipment, adding as much as $88 to the cost of nine out of 10 new vehicles and up to $203 to the rest.
So the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers instead wants to go with special mirrors that are cheaper. The manufacturers are concerned about adding to the cost of new vehicles, now averaging about $25,000.
Cost is, of course, a valid concern.
On balance, however, one has to ask these questions:
How much are the lives of 230 Americans a year worth?
How much is the life of just one American worth if, for instance, it's your child?
Who would you nominate to be among the 460 Americans who can be expected to die if the further delay requested by the industry is granted after 21 years of inaction?
Finally, who among us isn't willing to pay an additional three-tenths of 1 percent to save hundreds of lives over the next decade?
Who isn't willing, that is, other than auto manufacturers who were bailed out of their own certain death by U.S. taxpayers?