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Sailor's Creek
Other Names: Hillsman Farm, Lockett Farm
Location: Amelia County, Prince Edward County, and Nottoway County
Campaign: Appomattox Campaign (March-April 1865)
Date(s): April 6, 1865
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan [US]; Lt. Gen. Richard Ewell and Maj. Gen. John B. Gordon [CS]
Forces Engaged: Corps
Estimated Casualties: 9,980 total
Description: On April 6 at Sailor's Creek, nearly one fourth of the retreating Confederate army was cut off by Sheridan's Cavalry and elements of the II and VI Corps. Most surrendered, including Confederate generals Richard S. Ewell, Barton, Simms, Kershaw, Custis Lee, Dubose, Hunton, and Corse. This action was considered the death knell of the Confederate army. Upon seeing the survivors streaming along the road, Lee exclaimed "My God, has the army dissolved?"
Result(s): Union victory
CWSAC Reference #: VA093
Preservation Priority: II.2 (Class B)
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E-volo, a Karlsruhe-based company that is developing the Volocopter VC200, hoped to be the first electric two-seater in the rotorcraft world, has received significant support from German authorities. A new aircraft category is being created, while subsidies are boosting the project.
In 2011, E-volo flew a single-seater, thus claiming the first flight of an electric vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. French-Australian engineer and commercial helicopter pilot Pascal Chrétien, who flew an electric helicopter two months earlier (see Rotor & Wing, November 2012), is formally contesting the claim.
"The innovative concept of an electric VTOL convinced the supreme authority for aviation in Germany, the Federal Ministry of Transport, to such an extent that it has commissioned a two- to three-year program for the creation of a new category in aviation," company manager Alex Zosel told Rotor & Wing. The German Ultralight Aircraft Association, the German Sports Aircraft Association and the civil aviation authorities will work with E-volo. They will define "a new manufacturing specification" and rules for where and when the Volocopter has permission to fly. They will also issue training specifications for future pilots.
After "extensive endurance testing of the cabin, the landing gear and the rotor array," test flights of a VC200 prototype should begin in the middle of this year. They will take place on a glider airfield in Bruchsal. This is where the factory of DG Flugzeugbau is located. A specialist of gliders, DG Flugzeugbau will build the airframe in carbon-fiber composites.
The VC200 will be lifted by an array of 18 rotors. E-volo targets a speed of "over 54 knots," a ceiling of 6,500 feet and a maximum takeoff weight of 990 lbs. Today's battery technology would only allow 20 minutes of electric flight. Therefore, like Chevrolet has done with the Volt electric car, the VC200 will be fitted with a "range extender." A piston engine will run at constant rpm, driving a generator that will charge the batteries. This will make the VC200 a serial hybrid aircraft.
E-volo hopes progress in battery technology will enable reaching one hour of electric endurance within the next few years.
An optional pusher propeller will enable "an even faster flight." Separately, the VC200 will be equipped with a rescue parachute. E-volo officials would not discuss pricing.
The federal ministry of economy and technology has granted £2 million ($2.6 million) as a subsidy. So far the company has spent "over £500,000," or around $650,000, Zosel said.
One of the three company founders, Zosel is the entrepreneur. Physicist Thomas Senkel used to specialize in the development of electric drives and the construction of ultra light vehicles. Meanwhile, Stephan Wolf has developed the software for the onboard flight computer.
Right from the start of the project, they chose a configuration based on an array of rotors. "Higher redundancy offers higher safety," Zosel explained. The Volocopter can land safely "even if some drives fail."
However, in case of total loss of power, it can't perform an autorotation. "Autorotation requires a variable pitch of the blades, which we do not have," Zosel admitted. This notwithstanding, helicopter aerodynamics department at the University of Stuttgart are currently investigating the braking effect of E-volo concept's rotors.
Flight controls use a fly-by-wire system, hence a claimed easiness of piloting. "Without any steering input, it would just hover there on the spot," noted Senkel, who piloted the proof-of-concept VC1 aircraft, commented at the time.
If the pilot moves the joystick forward, how does it translate into rotor movement? For forward flight, the Volocopter changes its pitch angle. Thus, the rear rotors increase their rotation speed and the front rotors decrease it. The same principle of differentiated speeds is applied for turns. Several independent and mutually monitoring airborne computers control the rotation speed of each drive separately.
The VC1 has 16 rotors. With its four arms, it measures approximately 17 feet by 17 feet. It has an empty weight of around 180 lbs, including the batteries.
It first flew on Oct. 21, 2011. In 2012, the Lindbergh Foundation awarded its annual Lindbergh prize to E-volo.
This, and the claim for the flight of an electric VTOL, caused bitter feelings for Pascal Chrétien. The electric helicopter he had designed, with the support of France-based motorsports specialist Solution F, had flown in August 2011.
Chrétien has a record from a local court-appointed bailiff (in France, a bailiff can be an official witness). The Guinness World Records 2013 do list the first flight that took place in Venelles, southeast France. E-volo's Wolf hinted it was not a real flight because it was too low. An official at the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, the Lausanne, Switzerland-based international air sports federation, told Rotor & Wing that there is no particular criterion to meet for an aircraft flight to be considered as such, "except taking off the ground, maybe under its own power."
In fact, Chrétien blames the French civil aviation authorities, which would not let him fly because there was no corresponding helicopter category at the time, he asserts. He infringed the law to perform his flights. They took place on private property, far from airports, he insists.
In hindsight, Chrétien concluded on E-volo, "by contrast, the German authorities let them fly and their government even supported them afterward. Good on them," adding: "France is one of the rare countries where you have to hide to develop innovations."


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Weiss began the season with a hernia and tried to play through it.
"Coming down for the first game of the year and thinking 'How are you going to get through the game?' is probably not the right way to start," Weiss said Tuesday during the Wings' locker room cleanout at Joe Louis Arena. "I have to be smarter. It's not my first year, I've been around a bit and should be a little bit smarter and should have spoken up earlier and maybe some of this could have been avoided. But sometimes that's not my style. I'll tend to do that and it got me in some trouble this year. (This season was) a huge disappointment, but in saying that it kind of fuels the fire for this summer and next year."
The hefty salary he signed in the offseason – a five-year deal worth $24.5 million – to be the Wings' second-line center to replace Valtteri Filppula helped fuel the pressure of making an immediate impact.
Weiss, 31, managed to play just 26 games this season totaling two goals, two assists and a minus-4.
Filppula had a career-high 25 goals in his first season in Tampa Bay with 33 assists in 75 games.
"I'm not big on saying much about (injury) stuff and it got me into some trouble, there's no doubt about it," Weiss said. "I should have been smarter in taking care of it sooner and not played through it as much.
"I've done it in the past and been able to play through those types of things, but I'm not 23 and 24 years old anymore," Weiss continued. "So that's a bit of a wake-up call that you're getting older and you're going to have to be smarter with these types of things."
Weiss had sports hernia surgery on Dec. 23 with the expectation that he would return to action following the Olympic break, but he wound up experiencing multiple setbacks.
He had a second procedure on April 21 to repair an issue with scar tissue.
"I think the first time was a complete repair," Weiss said. "This time it wasn't as much but still pretty sore. I feel pretty good right now. It's just a matter of letting it heal properly and making sure that you do your rehab properly and get all of those muscles in there strong again and get ready to take the beating of training and getting back into camp.
"I've got that out of the way now and hopefully that's the end of it," Weiss said. "We'll go through that in the next few weeks and obviously be in contact with the doctor and go through that protocol and then he wanted me to get back on the ice in about six weeks and see how it is."
When training camp began, Weiss was slated to center another newcomer, Daniel Alfredsson, and Johan Franzen.
"We thought Stephen was going to be our second-line center, we needed more offense," Wings general manager Ken Holland said. "Prior to last year he produced 48 points or more in five of seven years. It was a disappointing year.
"Mike Babcock demands our players play 200-foot hockey," Holland continued. "It's been a great formula for us. Mike had put responsibilities on him that he might have had those same responsibilities in Florida, but it was a new coach, new linemates, new environment. I think he struggled early and then had a bit of groin injury and then came back."
Weiss, who had scored 20 or more goals four times in his last seven seasons in Florida, missed the final 26 games of the 2012-12 season with a wrist injury.
"It's hard to know where he's going to be in September," Holland said. "A lot of where he's going to be is going to be about … in the next month, is he going to be healthy? Was that small surgery that was performed last week or was that the answer to what ails him. Is he able to have a June, July and August where he's able to hit the guy and come to camp healthy, fit and ready to go or are we going to wake up in early June and he's where he was a month ago and we're going to continue to be looking for answers as to why he isn't getting healthy. I don't have an answer for you. I thought he'd be healthy six weeks ago. So for me to stand here and say he's going to be healthy in a month, he's going to have a great summer, he's going to have a great year, I don't know that. We need him to get healthy before anything positive can happen. He's not healthy."
Weiss is confident he'll be ready for the start of training camp.
"It's been a big disappointment, but I don't know how much I'd change other than being a little smarter in the summer and maybe a little smarter at the start of the season, not trying to play through these types of things as much as I did," Weiss said. "Even though it was my first year and I wanted to do things the right way, maybe taking a little time off at the start of the season would have done me better than pushing through and trying to be a little bit of a hero that way. So I got myself into some trouble that could have been avoided by being a little bit smarter."


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Instagram: All the life we can fit into 15 seconds
Instagram announced this week that it would add a mobile video component to its photo-sharing service. Some industry watchers noted that the new app's 15-second limit is also a typical advertisement length, and wondered whether the whole plot was just a product-placement scheme. Others sniffed that the addition was derivative thievery: what Instagram was proposing seemed remarkably similar to what Twitter's video arm, Vine, was already doing. Tech writer Farhad Manjoo called the development lazy and "a sad day for Silicon Valley."
But if Instagram Video is a Vine rip-off, it's also a rip-off of any of the numerous other sites dedicated to the easy creation of sound-bite videos: Viddy, Cinegram, Echograph. (Rather, since the resulting products are often more visual than aural: eye bites?) The new video represents the era of the morsel, the tiniest of visual gulps. In his Thursday reveal, Instagram chief executive Kevin Systrom demonstrated the technology by premiering a video of a latte preparation. "Let's focus on the latte itself," he enthused, as the audience watched 15 seconds of a barista's hand over a mug of coffee.
The eye-bite influx speaks to our general impatience and frenetic attention spans, to our self-involved need to self-document, to all of the social media themes we typically fret about. But it also speaks to the way consumers are increasingly expected to become auteurs. Instagram video is artistic training wheels.
Facebook-owned Instagram currently has about 100 million active users. It is beloved for its various photo filters, through which pictures can be made to appear as though they were shot in 1967, or in a film noir. While Vine videos top out at six seconds, Instagram's maximum will feel comparatively luxurious. Or, comparatively tedious.
"The narrative arc of a picture is complete in a single moment," explains Sam Ladner, a sociologist and Microsoft researcher. "But when you look at a video, you're captive to the videographer's narrative." She isn't sure how easy it will be for users to transition from one medium to the other. "We're going to see a lot of Instagrammers attempt to make the leap and do it quite badly -- to the point where 15 seconds will feel like an eternity."
Spend 20 minutes watching an assortment of Instagram-type videos and you'll see a bleating goat, a slow-pan of sushi, a man hit in the crotch with a football. Madonna's first Instagram video is 15 straight seconds of booty-popping -- reliably crowd-pleasing -- but other than that, the selection feels unfinished. There are jokes that seem both as if they needed more time to unfold, and also as if they were flabby and needed cropping.
"No one's made a great Vine video yet, for example," says David Wilson, a documentary filmmaker, whose "We Always Lie to Strangers," is playing at the AFI Docs film festival this weekend. "But," Wilson says, "I've seen a lot of interesting ones."
In some ways, he says, the briefness of the videos is a positive catalyst. "If I'm teaching a video class and I say, 'Go out and make a five-minute video,' students get the deer-in-headlights look. But if I say, 'It has to include the color red, and it has to use this prop, and it has to be about this theme,' " then students find the boundaries helpful and ultimately liberating.
"Limits right now," Wilson says, "inspire creativity."
It's the haiku theory: Writing a great three-line poem is difficult but effective in poetic training.
Popular social media in recent years have been all about creativity-inspiring limits, whether in terms of brevity or bandwidth. Until 2010, YouTube required all uploads to be shorter than 10 minutes, prompting a rash of mini-sitcoms and spastic vloggers. Instagram -- the still-image version -- forced users into a square pictorial frame. The unexpected boxiness required even amateur point-and-shooters to consider composition. The filters required them to consider mood (even while negating any requirements for actual lighting knowledge).
And, of course, the most popular numerical limit in the past four years is 140: the number of characters allowed in a single tweet.
Back when Twitter was launched, people thought the length restrictions would result in intelligence restrictions, too -- that the medium was a graveyard of boring breakfast observations. Instead, the site at its best became a comedy/commentary workshop with an instant feedback mechanism: the retweet.
"Society is now telling us that writing smartly in public is a skill that you should have," says Nathan Jurgenson, a social-media theorist and contributor to future-pondering journal "The New Inquiry." "And society is now telling us that being a decent photographer is good for your social life" through services like Instagram. "And now, we're starting to be asked, are you good at moving images? Are you good at audio?"
We're learning how to be creative in steps, with social media doling out assignments one at a time. We're lurching along in six- to 15-second intervals, practicing our scales before trying sonatas. That banal debut Instagram video of the latte preparation? It didn't look much like art. But it did look like a technical-skills project a professor might assign group of beginner students. It did look like something that might get better.


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Somalia's Pirates: The Laws of Supply And Demand
Come to think of it, there's not much difference between the rent the Somali pirates are extorting and the bribes the United States government pays to Sunni militias in Iraq to co-opt them. Instead of hanging pirates, maybe the U.S. should pay off some pirates and have them keep other would-be pirates in check.
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Some articles, you read and you just have to respond to: such is the case with the November 25th commentary, "Why Don't We Hang Pirates Anymore?" by Wall Street Journal columnist, Bret Stephens. It's sad to imagine that these are the type of writers that shape, guide, and God forbid, inform public opinion –including those of policymakers—in the United States.
It's one of the most uninformed, elitist and bigotted commentary that I've read recently.
Stephens is outraged by the recent proliferation of piracy off the coast of war-torn Somalia and concludes that it's basically due to barbarism and that the solution must be borrowed from the 18th century--summary execution by hanging, of any of the pirates, when apprehended.
His commentary is replete with ethno-centric myopia and religious bigotry. He must be aware of it; if not, then the commentary is even much sadder.
So, why have the Somali pirates attacked as many as 90 vessels already, this year alone? Consider the lunacy parroted by Stephens: "The view of senior U.S. military officials seem to be, that there is no controlling legal authority. Title 18 Chapter 81 of the United States code establishes a sentence of life in prison for foreigners captured in the acts of piracy. But, crucially, the law is only enforceable against pirates who attack U.S.-flagged vessels, of which today there are few."
Does this columnist, who writes for one of the world's major newspapers really believe that the Somali pirates –presuming they even know of the U.S. law—ponder over these issues and would be deterred from their hijacking missions on the high seas if the vessels were U.S.-flagged? Are the legal consequences of their actions really some of the issues factoring into the pirates' actions? I very much doubt this.
And it's certainly not for a lack of sophistication or intelligence, on the part of the Somalis. After all, they clearly have intelligence about the movement of large vessels –and that's how they hijacked the Saudi vessel with $100 million worth of oil. They also use GPS devices to get to their targets and back, and they have sophisticated communications systems, including satellite telephones. Why, they might even read newspapers such as The Wall Street Journal online, including columns such as Stephens'. They are, without doubt, not your grandfather's pirates.
Yet Stephens goes on to discuss other irrelevant issues, such as the inadequacy of international law, in dealing with the Somali pirates—he is obviously warming up towards something.
Moreover, the columnist notes, captured Somali pirates presented another quandary. "The British foreign office recently produced a legal opinion warning Royal Navy ships not to take pirates captive, lest they seek asylum in the U.K. or otherwise face repatriation in jurisdictions where they might be dealt with harshly, in violation of the British Human Rights Act."
In March 2006, Stephens adds, the U.S. Navy took 11 pirates captive but ended up handing them over to Kenyan jurisdiction. "The injured spent weeks aboard the USS Nassau, enjoying First World Medical care." Need I even bother characterizing this writer's mindset? His words here reveal much about him.
So, the prescription Stephens offers can't be surprising; and he presents it with a sense of glee.
Cicero, Stephens notes, considered pirates "hostis humani generis—enemies of the human race," fit to be dealt with accordingly. So Stephens offers the solution, as recorded in a 18th century legal dictionary: "A piracy attempted on the Ocean, if the Pirates are overcome, the Takers may immediately inflict a Punishment by Hanging them up at the Mainyard End; though this is understood where no legal judgment may be obtained."
Are these merely hypothetical philosophical musings of a clueless writer? Hardly, since Stephens continued: "Severe as the penalty may now seem (albeit necessary, since captured pirates were too dangerous to keep aboard on lengthy sea voyages), it succeeded in mostly eliminating piracy by the late 19th century—a civilizational achievement no less great than the elimination of smallpox a century later."
"Today, by contrast," Stephens mourns, "a Navy captain who takes captured pirates aboard his state-of-the-art warship will have a brig in which to keep them securely detained, and instantaneous communications through which he can obtain higher guidance and observe the rule of law."
Yet, less he is accused of bigotry, Stephens concedes: "Piracy, of course, is hardly the only form of barbarism at work today: There are the suicide bombers on Israeli buses, the stoning of Iranian women, and so on."
Isn't the pattern obvious here? Can anyone believe that it's merely a coincidence that all the alleged acts of barbarism are perpetrated by Muslims?
What about the wanton bombing raids by the U.S. military –"shock and awe"—and the attendant untold civilian deaths and unprecedented destruction during the initial stages of the U.S. invasion of Iraq? These actions will never cross Stephens' imagination as acts of barbarism and possibly war crimes.
That millions of Americans, including children, live with hunger, below the poverty line, in a country with no shortage of multi-billionaires and multi-millionaires: these conditions will never occur to Stephens as barbarism incarnate. These are merely the effects of "market forces" the necessary "collateral damages" of unfettered U.S. capitalism.
What of the fact that untrammeled American capitalism has now pushed the system to the precipice—record unemployment; business closings; foreclosures; credit draught; multi-billion dollar federal corporate welfare--through greed, corruption, and outright theft on Wall Street: these are also presumably the necessary consequences of capitalism? Not barbarism for sure.
Yet, consider conditions in Somalia: A country that doesn't manufacture arms and yet is awash with American and Russian supplied weapons; a former Soviet puppet state; a current U.S.-puppet state, further disintegrating; a nation with no law and order; and, a nation with no functioning government, schools, hospitals, or economy.
Tens of thousands, if not millions of restless young men, in a country abandoned by the rest of the world to resolve its conflict; and they see vessels sailing by laden with goods worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Almost mocking their conditions of poverty and anarchy.
The Somalis could well argue that the world is getting what it deserves for abandoning Somalia. Why, they could even argue that they too are following their own peculiar form of market forces.
The laws of supply and demand; the rest of the world supplies the ships, and the Somalis demand the ransom.
Come to think of it, there's not much difference between the rent the Somali pirates are extorting and the bribes the United States government pays to Sunni militias in Iraq to co-opt them. Instead of hanging pirates, maybe the U.S. should pay off some pirates and have them keep other would-be pirates in check.
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INDIANAPOLIS -- Who is Cordarrelle Patterson?
That might be the question on the minds of casual NFL draft observers after seeing the Tennessee wide receiver's name posted at the top of the charts, but scouts and coaches can't stop raving about the most explosive playmaker in college football.
Patterson set school records for all-purpose yards (1,858) and became the first NCAA player to score a touchdown four ways since 2008 (receiving, rushing, punt and kick return). Patterson scored 10 touchdowns (five receiving, three rushing, one kick return and one punt return), while also setting an SEC single-season record with a combined kickoff and punt return average of 27.6 yards.
Now, Patterson's feats as a do-it-all playmaker certainly caught the attention of NFL scouts and coaches searching for an explosive offensive weapon, but his rapid development as a receiver is what really pushed him to the top of the charts. Patterson totaled 46 receptions for 778 yards and five touchdowns during his only season of major college football. (He was a two-time All-American at Hutchinson Community College in Kansas before transferring to Tennessee in the spring of 2012.) Most impressively, Patterson demonstrated the ability to blow past defenders on vertical routes, making him an attractive option for teams in need of a receiver to stretch the field.
As I broke down Patterson's tape, I came away impressed with his acceleration, burst and overall explosiveness. He shows the rare ability to go from zero to 60 in a hurry, which makes him a scary receiver to defend one-on-one. Additionally, Patterson flashes extraordinary skills with the ball in his hands. He has a knack for making defenders miss in the open field, yet is a physical runner with the capacity to run through arm tackles in traffic. Patterson's a threat to score from anywhere on the field, making him a hot commodity in draft rooms across the league.
From a development standpoint, Patterson must continue to refine his route running. He needs to vary his stems and releases to set up defenders, and eliminate some of the extra steps getting in and out of breaks. Although Patterson was able to get open against elite competition in the SEC with raw skills, he will have to improve his footwork and overall savvy to consistently separate from top corners in the NFL.
Additionally, Patterson must continue to increase his football IQ through extensive classroom work and film study. With only one season of major college football experience, Patterson has limited exposure to some of the concepts (sight adjustments, hot reads and route conversions) featured in most NFL playbooks, which could impact his transition to the pro game. A quality position coach can help Patterson overcome his inexperience, but the Tennessee standout will need to put in the work to make it happen.
Based on our conversation on the NFL Draft Tracker podcast and other interactions leading up to the NFL Scouting Combine, I'm confident Patterson will demonstrate the commitment required to become a solid pro in the mold of Donald Driver.
Here are five potential fits for Patterson's game:
Miami Dolphins (No. 12 overall)
Ryan Tannehill enjoyed a solid rookie campaign, but the Dolphins must surround him with better weapons on the perimeter to maximize his talents. Patterson is a dynamic playmaker with exceptional speed, quickness and running skills. He is a rare receiver with the capacity to stretch the field, while also demonstrating the savvy, awareness and explosiveness to turn short passes into big gains. Given Joe Philbin's history of featuring a potent aerial attack built around the talents of a strong-armed passer and a host of electric pass catchers, the addition of Patterson would be a sensible one.
Carolina Panthers (No. 14)
Panthers general manager Dave Gettleman has stated that he'd like to see Cam Newton making more plays from the pocket, but the lineup features only one explosive weapon on the perimeter (Steve Smith). The addition of Patterson would give Newton a legitimate burner on the outside with the capacity to blow past defenders on vertical routes. Additionally, Patterson's presence would alter the way opponents defend Smith, creating more big-play opportunities in the passing game. Furthermore, Patterson would give the Panthers an eventual No. 1 receiver to build around when Smith, who turns 34 this summer, decides to hang it up.
St. Louis Rams (No. 16 and 22)
Jeff Fisher is on record saying Sam Bradford's struggles can be attributed to the lack of talent around him. While most would point to the Rams' leaky offensive line, the fact that Bradford hasn't played with a legitimate No. 1 receiver during his career is certainly one of the issues affecting his play. The team attempted to upgrade the receiving corps with a few draft picks a season ago (Brian Quick and Chris Givens), but neither is an explosive playmaker of Patterson's caliber. Furthermore, Patterson's speed and burst would be enhanced on the Rams' turf field, creating numerous problems for defenses. With a legitimate weapon to target in the passing game, the Rams could continue to close ground on their NFC West division rivals behind a Bradford-Patterson connection.
Pittsburgh Steelers (No. 17)
The Steelers likely will need to replace the explosiveness of Mike Wallace, as he's expected to depart via free agency. Patterson definitely fits the bill. He is an exceptional runner with the ball in his hands, which would allow Ben Roethlisberger to target him on slip and bubble screens on the perimeter. Although Wallace's big-play ability would be sorely missed in Pittsburgh, the addition of Patterson would ease the transition and make the Steelers' offense more dynamic and explosive in future years.
Minnesota Vikings (No. 23)
If Christian Ponder is going to develop into more than a game manager, the Vikings must surround him with dangerous options on the perimeter. Obviously, Percy Harvin is a threat, but the rest of the Vikings' receiving corps is lacking. Patterson would give Ponder a long-ball specialist on the perimeter; his speed would open up the rest of the field, giving Harvin space on short and intermediate routes. Additionally, Patterson would give the Vikings an effective counter to the eight-man fronts designed to take away Adrian Peterson on the ground. With Patterson capable of running past defenders in isolated matchups, the Vikings could torch opponents with the deep ball following play-action fakes. In a division where offenses reign supreme, the addition of Patterson could help the Vikings maintain a spot near the top of the NFC North.
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Ambient light sensor readings got quite a bit of an overhaul in iOS 6, and now include Lock screen auto-brightness and better memory management. This has lead to many people experiencing issues with auto-brightness settings. iPhone 5 users in particular seem to be having trouble. If your auto-brightness isn't working under iOS 6, here's how to reset it and get it back in gear.
- Go into a dimly lit or dark room.
- Launch the Settings app from the Home screen of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
- Tap on Brightness & Wallpaper.
- Turn the auto-brightness setting to Off.
- Adjust the brightness slider to the level you would like your screen brightness to be at in the given environment. For instance, if you're in a completely dark room, you'll probably want to put the slider all the way to low or pretty close to all the way down.
- Turn the auto-brightness setting to On again.
- Now flip on a light switch.
- Watch the brightness slider move upwards to adjust to the new light entering the sensor.
As long as the brightness slider is moving on its own, you have successfully re-calibrated the sensor and it should work properly from here on out.


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Emeril's, New Orleans
- By Michael Moaba
- | From Bill Cosby, Autumn 94
In New Orleans indulgence is not only desirable, it is inevitable. The city's historic French Quarter, which Tennessee Williams described as "rakish and elegant," is perhaps the last bastion of guiltless revelry in America.
But before taking to the boozy streets of the Quarter to hear live jazz until the wee hours, take a short taxi ride to Emeril's, where some of the city's most innovative food is served.
Emeril Lagasse, who opened his restaurant four years ago in the now trendy warehouse district, was only 25 when he took over as executive chef at Commander's Palace in 1982 after the departure of Paul Prudhomme. He earned his reputation as one of the city's best chefs during his eight-year tenure there.
His spacious, 130-seat, high-tech restaurant is light and airy by day and dramatically austere by night. Its bare wood floors, office-style oak chairs and white tablecloths create a simple setting where the diner is center stage. The staff is highly motivated and confident that your experience will be memorable. Chef Lagasse does not disappoint.
The food at Emeril's is eclectic: a mixture of classic Creole with influences from the chef's New England and Portuguese heritage. Lagasse describes it as "new New Orleans" cuisine.
Hints at the pleasures to follow begin with a basket of freshly baked rolls and jalapeño pepper corn muffins. Outstanding starters include a lusciously textured and mildly spicy Creole seafood gumbo, smoky New Orleans barbecue shrimp with small, homemade biscuits and pan-roasted, live Maine scallops with roe. The scallops are stuffed with truffle mashed potatoes and truffle sabayon.
Entrées continue to delight the palate. A seasonal local fish called escolar (tapioca fish), which is similar in texture to sea bass, is pan-seared and served on a ragout of Louisiana crawfish. Succulent, grilled, seasonal magret duck breast in a Worcestershire sauce is presented with a savory, black-pepper brioche pudding and sugar snap peas. Vegetarian options include a creamy risotto with Oregon morel mushrooms and white truffle shavings served with a wild-mushroom bread crouton and a baked vegetable-and-potato lasagna with homemade ricotta cheese and a Creole-style tomato sauce.
Emeril, whose alchemy in the kitchen can be viewed from the curved, stainless-steel food bar that seats 10, favors the Jackson Pollock-style of food presentation. Splashes of colorful sauces and drizzles of flavored oils adorn every dish. The aesthetic is echoed by a massive Abstract Expressionist painting by New Orleans artist Doyle Gertjejansen.
Desserts are not to be skipped at Emeril's. Hawaiian vintage-dated chocolate is used in the chocolate buttercream cake with white-chocolate sauce. Pecan pie is enhanced with chocolate chips and caramel sauce. But the restaurant's signature dessert is an unforgettable banana-and-graham-cracker-crust cream pie. The dessert is layered like a napoleon and comes with caramel sauce and dusted with chocolate shavings.
Selecting wine at Emeril's is made easy by their well-organized wine lists. The first presented is the basic list, which offers a selection of well-priced wines ranging from 1992 Duckhorn Sauvignon Blanc, $28, to 1988 Beaucastel Châteauneuf-du-Pape at $70. California sparkling wines such as Domaine Chandon Reserve Brut at $36 are listed separately from the Champagnes, which include Mumm Extra Dry at $48 and Louis Roederer Brut Premier at $50. Emeril's also offers private-label Napa Valley wines, produced and bottled by Trefethen Vineyards: a 1990 Chardonnay at $4 a glass or $18 a bottle and 1984 Camille Cabernet Sauvignon at $4.50 a glass or $20 a bottle.
Sommelier Erin Ryan White is eager to assist and can offer a separate reserve list of more expensive wines. This list offers little depth, however, and includes only a handful of wines from vintages prior to the 1980s, including a 1964 Camile Giroud Pommard at $165 and a 1949 Château Latour at $550. White is currently working on a new list of all wines.
After coffee, what could be better than a Cognac and a good smoke? Cigar smoking is permitted at the bar at anytime and, officially, at the table after 1:30 p.m. during lunch or 10:30 p.m. during dinner.
When ordering cigars, as many as five humidors can be brought to the table. One is handmade by general manager Mauricio Andrade's Ecuadoran father. There are about 50 brands and sizes including Macanudo Vintage '88, Partagas Limited Reserve and Partagas 1844, Punch Maduro, Arturo Fuente Hemingway, La Gloria Cubana, Don Lino cigars and Davidoff mini-cigarillos.
As the smoke begins to rise and the Quarter to beckon, call for a taxi and anticipate your next move.
--Michael D. Moaba
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Phone: (504) 528-9394
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Savvy families shopping for college know that tuition typically rises faster than inflation. So Lauren Seely and her parents in Northwest Washington were startled to learn this year that an upper-tier private college on her short list had frozen its price.
Tuition and fees at Mount Holyoke — $41,456 in fall 2011 — would not rise one dollar in 2012. That helped clinch Seely's decision last spring to enroll at the Massachusetts women's college.
The freeze reflects a growing movement to hold the line on price in higher education's private sector, a strategy often targeting those who qualify for little or no financial aid but who worry about how to pay for college in uncertain economic times. For many families, aware that sticker prices for private schools can be at least three times higher than for public ones, these concerns are intensifying as application deadlines approach early next month.
At least 24 private schools froze tuition this year and eight cut it, according to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, which said both totals were unprecedented. Other colleges advertise minimal price hikes. Catholic University in Northeast Washington raised tuition and fees 3 percent this year, to $36,520, its lowest increase in three decades. The average increase for private, nonprofit universities was 4.2 percent, according to the College Board.
"The recession that we've gotten through and the doldrums we're in with the economy right now are affecting the ability of families to pay for school," Catholic University President John H. Garvey said. "It's something we have to be sensitive to."
These can be risky moves for nonprofit institutions with high fixed expenses. Hiring a skilled faculty and keeping average class size small — two chief selling points for private colleges — is not cheap. Capping tuition or slowing its growth is especially challenging for schools without major endowments. Skeptics also wonder how such schools can afford to maintain aid for students in need.
One payoff for the schools is prominence in a competitive and turbulent market. Mount Holyoke doubled down on its bet in November, taking the extremely unusual step of freezing tuition for a second straight year. Seely was thrilled.
"They're making it easier for us to graduate without having tons and tons of student loans and difficulty starting real life and real jobs," the 18-year-old said.
Seely's mother is a fundraiser for a nonprofit organization, and her father works for the federal government. She has no siblings. The Seelys had saved for her college expenses, and their daughter did not qualify for financial aid. But they were still very price-conscious. "The freeze made a big difference," said her mother, Kelli Seely.
Many factors drive prices in a multilayered market with about 4,500 degree-granting institutions nationwide — public and private, nonprofit and for-profit, two-year and four-year, online and brick-and-mortar — all jostling for the attention of millions of prospective students.
In public colleges and universities, which serve more than 70 percent of postsecondary students, sharp cuts in state funding have driven steep tuition increases in recent years, although Maryland universities are a notable exception. The fast-growing for-profit sectorsets prices to generate returns for shareholders.
The private, nonprofit sector — from the Ivy League to small Bible colleges — wrestles continuously with how much to charge in tuition and how much to discount that price for individual students.
Demand seems limitless for seats in the most elite private colleges and universities, which experts say skews prices.
"Instinctively, people understand that where you go to college matters almost as much as whether you go to college," said Ronald G. Ehrenberg, director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. He said many schools spend huge sums to build high-end campuses and lure top faculty, which also drives up prices.
Over the past decade, tuition and fees at private, nonprofit four-year colleges and universities rose 2.4 percent beyond inflation, according to the College Board. Those prices don't include charges for room, board and books. But at the same time, schools are providing significantly more grant aid for those with financial need — and in some cases, for those who are not in need.
This practice, known as discounting, means that the net price students pay can vary sharply from the sticker price. In a 2011 survey, the National Association of College and University Business Officers found that 86 percent of first-time freshmen at private colleges received a grant from those schools, with the average grant cutting their tuition and fees in half.
The complexity of college pricing and mounting student debt have fueled popular anger. President Obama seized on that unrest in his 2012 State of the Union address.
"Let me put colleges and universities on notice," Obama said. "If you can't stop tuition from going up, the funding you get from taxpayers will go down."
So far Obama has not carried out that threat. But educators are mindful of the growing debate over college affordability.
Two years ago, a well-known private college made a splashy price cut.
Sewanee: The University of the South, in Tennessee, cut its tuition 10 percent in 2010 and guaranteed the price would remain fixed while a student pursued a four-year bachelor's degree. First-year Sewanee students now pay $34,714 in tuition and fees.
"Families are paying more attention to the relationship of cost, price and value than they did before," Sewanee Vice-Chancellor John M. McCardell Jr. said. "Eventually every institution is going to have to deal with it." He said applications to the school rose after the price cut. So did the size of the entering class.
Mount Holyoke President Lynn Pasquerella said her school's price freeze enables students to get through college with less debt.
"We don't want to be so expensive that we truly are going to create a system where there's economic segregation in higher education," Pasquerella said.
Many college presidents are skeptical.
"Anybody who freezes tuition, your first question ought to be how are you making up for the forgone revenue?" said Vassar College President Catharine Hill. Tuition and fees at the New York school rose 3.5 percent this year, to $46,270. Hill contends that the winners under a freeze are students whose families have the means to pay the full freight, while the losers, potentially, are the economically disadvantaged. "Focusing on tuition," Hill said, "can actually lead to policies that make access worse."
At Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where tuition and fees are $44,430, up 3.9 percent, President Ronald J. Daniels said he is uninterested in price freezes. Instead, he wants to move the university toward need-blind admissions.
"It's a driving priority for me," Daniels said. That means letting the sticker price rise somewhat as the university bolsters aid to families in need.
Among major private colleges and universities in the Washington region, none froze prices this year. But most increases were below the national average, according to a Washington Post analysis of College Board data. George Washington University in the District — which charges $45,780 a year in tuition and fees, the highest rate in the area — offers fixed tuition for undergraduates for up to five years as long as they are full-time students. In place since 2005, the GWU policy aims to provide financial certainty for families after students enroll.
Howard University had one of the highest tuition and fee increases in the area — about 12 percent — but officials at the D.C. school say their annual price of $22,683 remains competitive among local peers and top historically black colleges.
These days, parents and students have far more information about financial aid than ever before. But sticker prices still play a powerful role in shaping perceptions as students shop for schools.
Cinda Debbink has a son, Tyson Glover, who is a senior at Walter Johnson High School in Montgomery County and is applying to various public and private colleges. Her son Christopher Glover is a junior at Virginia Tech.
Debbink and her husband, who live in Kensington and own a graphic design business, are watching the bottom line. So is Tyson. She said he is shying away from the most expensive schools and has "kind of a mental $50,000 cutoff mark" — his annual limit for total price in tuition, fees, room and board. That scratched Boston College from his list, she said, even though Tyson and some of his friends were interested in that school.
"We've been saving through the Maryland college savings plan for years and years," Debbink said. "We said to Ty, 'Here's this much money. What can you do with it for four years?' So the price does matter."
Tomorrow: a look at trends in public university tuition.


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Collection contains a signed Spruce Kings hat, a signed game puck and a letter to Al Lefebvre of UNBC.
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Collection contains a signed Spruce Kings hat, a signed game puck and a letter to Al Lefebvre of UNBC.
Collection consists textual material, objects, and ephemera related to the history of the University of Northern British Columbia.
UNBC Office of External Relations
Fonds consists of personal papers, books, manuscripts, photographic materials, audio recordings and electronic records arranged into five series, which relate to Mr. Fawcett's personal life, his creative works and his relationships with membe...
Fawcett, Brian
Fonds consists of 1 copy of an unpublished manuscript ("A Man's Country") written by Norah Banbery Doherty, and a photocopied article written by Doherty for the 11 April 1939 issue of the Express and Star
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Williston, Ray Gillis
The fonds consists of audio reels and dubbed audio cassettes of a radio programs hosted by Jack Carbutt at CKPG Radio in Prince George, and includes transcriptions in electronic and textual format. This collection has been divided into the followi...
Carbutt, Jack
Prince George Oral History Group Collection
The initial collection consists of seven audio cassettes containing oral history interviews on various aspects of life in Prince George conducted by members of the PGOHG. These recordings document various social aspects of Prince George and region...
Collection consists of over 120 images, copy prints, originals, digitized images, postcards and reproductions of textual materials relating to the pioneers, wildlife, and trapping of the Prince George region.
Boudreau, Jack
Fonds consists of textual records, photographic items and published reports related to professional life and career of Bob Harkins, broadcaster, local historian, and former city councilor. Includes textual and photographic items related to devel...
Bob Harkins
Prince George Metis Elders Oral History Project Collection
Collection consists of oral histories gathered as part of Dr. Mike Evan's oral history project with the Prince George Metis Elders Society. Includes consent forms, transcripts, and the recorded oral histories on their original cassette tapes.
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Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum Collection
The Prince George Railway & Forestry Museum Society Collection consists primarily of textual, photographic, and cartographic records related to the regional developments of the railway industry in Northern BC. A predominant portion of the coll...
Bob Harkins Audio Recordings Collection
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John Hart Highway Photograph Collection
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Aleza Lake Research Forest Society fonds
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Prince George Women's Organizations Collection
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Prince George Women's Organizations
Includes an audiocassette and a CD copy of an interview conducted by Kent Sedgwick with Trelle Morrow on the history of architectural design in Prince George.
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Mabel Rutherford Photograph Collection
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Eric Allen Photograph Collection
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Reactions mixed on water group recommendations — now what?
Editor's note: This is the latest in a series of stories exploring local and state issues related to dairy farms.
Jody Lenz pulled one side of the bench away from her long dining room table and sat down. Across the table against the wall, next to the hutch, sat a mostly full 5-gallon water jug — now a necessity.
High nitrate levels in her well made that decision for her.
"I don't live in a Third World country and I'm buying my water as far out as I can see," she stated. "This is the plan, this is how we will get our water."
Agriculture contributed more than $550 million to St. Croix County's economy in 2014, according to the most recent information from University of Wisconsin-Extension, and employed roughly 10 percent of the population.
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But alongside the economic contributions, some residents believe large-scale farming could contribute contaminants — namely nitrates — to their drinking water.
Nitrates, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, can enter groundwater from a number of origins: some through farming practices such as spreading manure, some through household sources including lawn fertilizer or septic systems.
In December 2016, on the heels of an application to more than triple the animal count at Emerald Sky Dairy, the St. Croix County Board established a committee to study ground and surface water quality in lieu of enacting a moratorium against large-scale farms categorized as concentrated animal feeding operations or CAFOs.
Members were tasked with developing "sound, science-based recommendations" for policies to protect the county's water quality and met for the first time just days after a late-December 2016 spill at Emerald Sky Dairy. The spill went unreported until the end of March.
Improved data-gathering, transparency and weighing current farming and environmental regulations dominated a round of Water Quality Study Group recommendations overwhelmingly approved by the St. Croix County Board at its October meeting.
The recommendations stem from nearly nine months of research and discussions by the study group, which enlisted county supervisors, Community Development staff, UW-Extension staff, area farmers and other citizen members.
Out of more than 30 recommendations, the group narrowed the list to eight for the board.
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"These were things that were short-term goals," said citizen member Tom Zwald, whose family operates a dairy farm in St. Croix County. "We excluded anything that was long term when we did this just because these are things we can focus on right here in the now."
For Kim Dupre, a resident of Emerald township who heads Emerald Clean Water for All, a grassroots organization aimed at protecting the community's water supply, the recommendations signal a "journey — not a destination."
"It'd be really easy for the recommendations to end up on a shelf, in a binder and have nobody ever look at them again," Dupre said. "So, our next step is to make sure there is follow-through on these recommendations. That's what I'll be advocating for."
The takeaway
Lenz, a citizen member of the Ground and Surface Water Quality Study Group, came away from the nine months of biweekly meetings surprised and disappointed by how little regulatory control is at the local level.
"I feel like the really hard recommendations that I would have liked to have seen can't happen because we don't have the local control to do it," she said. "The state is still working hard to make sure that Big AgriBusiness can grow with as few restrictions as possible."
Chad Enerson, who halted plans to build a new house on his Emerald, Wis., property following the nearby Emerald Sky Dairy spill, remains skeptical of the recommendations.
He said he agrees with the county's approach to breaking up zoning in different areas, but he would have liked the recommendations to directly address how agriculture operators deal with waste. Larger operators, he said, enjoy more leniency than small businesses and farmers.
RELATED: Kewaunee County takes step to addresses water quality
"We look at the homeowner and small business and try to regulate them without looking at the farmers," he said. "I'm not against farming or the super-farmers coming in, but that regulation's got to apply to everybody."
Zoning, licensing and siting regulations, study group members concluded, could use some revision.
For Lenz, who grew up on a dairy farm in Kewaunee County and owns and operates Threshing Table, a community supported agriculture farm near Star Prairie, Wis., the most eye-opening event was when Kewaunee County Board Supervisor Lee Luft spoke to the study group.
"To know that there just isn't help when you need help," she said, referencing Kewaunee County's well-documented attempts to corral its water issues. "I don't know what more Kewaunee can do to prove that there should be no more cows. It's hard to hear and watch that happen and feel safe where we are."
RELATED: Dairy apprenticeship helps grads start new farms
Although few specific changes were proposed for how the county regulates livestock operation licensing and siting, one recommendation proposed exploring options to update the rules.
Recommendations for zoning and land-use regulation, however, include establishing groundwater recharge zones and encouraging common Private Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems and shared wells to promote higher standards.
Varying lot sizes for areas deemed environmentally sensitive were presented as another option.
"One thing we learned throughout the course of it is there are multiple sources for well contamination," Zwald said. "Depending on the topography, soils and subsoils you have, you could be in an environmentally sensitive area that would require different levels of construction or separations from your septic to your well to make sure your well is safe."


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It's getting so that you can't swing a dead possum around here without hitting another story about a coach or player texting something naughty. Today: Volleyball coaches gone bad.
Jeffery Steffens coached freshman volleyball at Union Mines High School in from Oct. through Dec., 2008, and, according to CBS13 in Sacramento, "kept in touch" with several of the players after the season had ended. In this case, keeping in touch apparently included text messages with photos of his wang. And that brings us to our ... quote of the week!
Union Mine varsity volleyball coach Mike Yates says he knows Steffens. "He works hard, he cares about the kids," he said. "I don't think he messed up, I just think he got caught up in a screwy situation."
Somehow the photos came to the attention of school officials — as they always do — and Steffens was arrested. He's now out on bail. High school freshmen are typically, what, 14? Jefferey, that's not what your Verizon Network had in mind.
Update: Steffens attends Sacramento State, which I guess has no women.
Former High School Coach Allegedly Sent Inappropriate Material To Two Students [Sacramento Bee]
Ex-Coach Accused Of Trying To Seduce Students [CBS13]


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Neglecting a balanced approach, North Carolina lawmakers have created a "fundamentally unbalanced" budget
RALEIGH (June 29, 2011) – State lawmakers passed a budget on June 2nd that will likely impede North Carolina's fragile recovery, a report released today finds, and place additional pressure on local governments, communities and families across the state.
The $19.7 billion budget for fiscal year 2011-2012 fails to take a balanced approach to the state's real fiscal challenges, a report from the Budget & Tax Center finds, and also reduces the state's investments in public structures that support economic growth.
The final budget, which spends $600 million less on public services than Governor Bev Perdue's budget proposal, increased the budget gap to $2.5 billion by adding $188 million in tax cuts for businesses and the wealthiest North Carolinians, the report states. In turn, the final budget is "fundamentally unbalanced" and uses unsustainable financing, by funding recurring expenses with one-time money and reducing long-term revenue availability with tax cuts.
The legislature made 28 percent of its $1.7 billion in total cuts in the public education budget, 26 percent in health and human services, 20 percent in the UNC system, and 10 percent in justice and public safety programs. According to the report, cutting investments in early childhood education, reducing funds for classrooms and making post-secondary education more costly will only diminish the quality of the state's workforce, at a time when the need for jobs and worker retraining has never been more urgent.
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William Saito is the special advisor to the Cabinet Office of The Government of Japan and he is coming to Tech In Asia Tokyo 2015. He will be speaking at the session titled "The Panel Without Fear" from 1.30-2pm Japanese time on Day 1 of the event where he will share some hard truths about Asia's startup ecosystem.
Named by Nikkei as one of the "100 Most Influential People for Japan," Saito began software programming at an early age and started his own company in high school. By the time he was named Entrepreneur of the Year in 1998 (by Ernst & Young, NASDAQ and USA Today), he was recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on encryption, biometric authentication and cyber security.
After selling his business to Microsoft, he moved to Tokyo in 2005 and founded InTecur, a venture capital firm and consultancy that identifies innovative technologies, develops global talent and helps entrepreneurs become successful. In 2013, Saito was appointed a Special Advisor to the Cabinet Office for the Government of Japan.
Similarly, in 2012 he served as a council member on national strategy for the Cabinet-level National Policy Unit, and prior to that, was named as the Chief Technology Officer for the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC). He is a Foundation Board Member at the World Economic Forum (WEF), and has been named by the WEF as both a Young Global Leader and Global Agenda Council member.
Saito also advises several national governments around the globe. In Japan, he has also served as an advisor to METI, MIC, MEXT, and MLIT; the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS); the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST); and the Information Technology Promotion Agency (IPA), among others.
He teaches at multiple universities, serves on several corporate boards, appears as a commentator on national TV and is the author of numerous publications in addition to writing a weekly column for a prominent Japanese business newspaper. His best-selling management book, The Team: Solving the Biggest Problem in Japan, was published by Nikkei BP in 2012, his follow-on book, Is Your Thinking up to Global Standards?, was published by Daiwa Shobo in late 2013 and his autobiography, An Unprogrammed Life: Adventures of an Incurable Entrepreneur, was published in 2011 by John Wiley & Sons.
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The Madrugada Residence Hotel is like a small hidden treasure close to Playa Bonita in Las Terrenas.
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We went as a group to this hotel on one of our numerous vacations and this time around, we chose Mexico and Madruga residence precisely. It was a lot of fun for us, we enjoyed our holiday and hope to come back next time to meet this same experience, a very big shout out to all the staff members working here because in one way or another, they immensely contributed to a wonderful and successful holiday for us. The hotel surroundings are quite relaxing and at home because it is surrounded by beautiful trees and flowers, the atmosphere was peaceful and very encouraging. One thing you should know if you are planning on visiting this resort and that is the fact that the hotel has many villas and they are all decorated differently but beautifully. The villa we were ledged in had the simple and basic amenities and it was also fully equipped. It had a fully functional kitchen with the utensils available and a bathroom which had the necessary toiletries within them. The service here was great and we couldn't have asked for anything different from what we got. Although at the beginning, we kind of got off on a wrong foot with the reception staff but it was all sorted out and we started all over again. The pool was pretty fun for us and the hotel is also kid friendly in case you are thinking if a family vacation. We had a great time, will be back.
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Minneapolis-based Fairview Health Services is cutting its workforce by 240 positions. Of those, the company says 70 are considered actual layoffs. The rest will come through attrition, or are positions the company will leave unfilled.
Spokesman Ryan Davenport says the job cuts will span the organization and include all job classes, including administration and patient care support.
Davenport blamed first-quarter operating losses and the need to cut spending for the job reductions.
"Lower than expected hospital patient volumes, certainly a need to reduce our costs," said Davenport. "We are certainly anticipating cuts unfavorable to hospitals and health care systems at the state and federal level, so this is really a move to try and respond to those factors."
Davenport says Fairview began notifying employees of the pending cuts earlier this month. The job cuts amount to just over 1 percent of Fairview's 21,000-person total workforce, and should be complete by the end of June.


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It is going to be more difficult to pass a Farm Bill this year that puts a priority on crop insurance, since Kansas won't be represented on the Senate Agriculture Committee, said Mel Thompson, Ag Assistant to Sen. Pat Roberts.
"Pat Roberts tried to educate everyone on the importance of crop insurance," Thompson said. "The senators in Michigan and Mississippi deal with different crops then we do in Kansas. They don't depend on crop insurance like Kansas farmers do. It's going to be a battle — and we don't know who's going to win in the end."
The 2008 Farm Bill will expire on Sept. 30 after being extended — a move that was estimated to save $23 billion. But, according to Troy Dumler, Kansas State University ag economist, it has only saved the government $11 billion.
He said estimate show that over the next 10 years (2013-2022) the government will spend $969 billion on agriculture, which amounts to less than 1/10 of one percent of the budget.
But now, Congress is planning to start work "soon" on a 2013 bill — and officials guess that the 2013 Farm Bill will look extremely different from the one implemented in 2008.
"They've pretty much scrapped the whole thing," Dumler said.
Roberts said that, in the creation of the 2008 Farm Bill, Sen. Roberts spent a great deal of time with Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), explaining to her how important crop insurance is to Kansas farmers.
"She didn't understand because they deal with specialty crops in Michigan," she said. "It was eye-opening for her to see everything that happens in Kansas."
He said Roberts hopes what he shared with the committee in the past few years will still be imbedded in their minds, so that they'll make decisions that are good for Kansans as well.
Meanwhile, Dumler said they do not really know what is going to come out of the Ag Committee, but he expects that they will make enterprise units permanent and establish units for irrigated and non-irrigated fields.
"In Kansas, you either pray for rain or you irrigate your fields," he said. "But it won't do much to help the local farmer, if severe weather hits. It's not going to help to cover deep losses."
Still, Dumler knows how important crop insurance is to farmers — especially after seeing how hard they were hit with severe weather in 2002, 2007, and 2011.
"Farmers depend on crop insurance," he said. "It's their safety net. This is an imperfect system. There are limitations to the program that could really limit the farmers from getting funding — like eligibility requirements and the $50,000 limit."
Dumler said he doesn't know what the Ag Committee will come up with for the next Farm Bill, but does know one thing: it will be different from the 2008 bill, and farmers will need to adjust their current practices in order to make a living.
"You've got to weigh what the market will bear and plant accordingly," he said.
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