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Last night's "Toucherception" on Monday Night Football between the Packers and the Seahawks, which has officially become the climax on the replacement referee dumpster fire for those who follow the NFL, seems like an appropriate topic.
One day before Toucherception, the San Jose Mercury News published a piece featuring the thoughts of FOX officiating expert and former head of league officials, Mike Pereira (pictured, right), on the replacement officials. Pierera, as you may recall, was hired last year as the Pac-12′s interim coordinator of football officiating. Not one month into his stint with the conference, he fired (or, "did not to renew the contracts of") 11 officials who worked conference games in 2010.
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The Bibleworks forum member Adelphos has often mentioned the name of R.D. Wilson.
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Robert Wilson was born in 1856; he graduated from Princeton University at the age of twenty. He went on to earn both a Masters degree and a PhD. He then did further post-graduate work in Germany for two years...
Wilson was but twenty-five years of age when he determined that he would invest years of careful study in the text of the Old Testament so that he could speak with authority as to whether or not it has been preserved in an accurate format...
Robert Wilson estimated that he might live to about seventy years of age. Since he was twenty-five at the time, that would give him about forty-five years remaining to accomplish his goal. Accordingly, he divided his projected remaining years into three periods of fifteen years each. Here is how he would pursue his plan:
For the first fifteen years, he would study every language that had a bearing on the text of the Old Testament. He set himself to the task. During that time he mastered forty-five languages! He not only became an expert in Hebrew and its kindred tongues, but he learned all the languages into which the Scriptures had been translated down to the year A.D. 600.
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College Students and Hippies of Yesteryear have a Soft Spot for their Communist Heroes
The hippies in the Sixties saw a brotherhood of man. They wanted to link arms and sing Kumbaya. Live in their communes. Get high. Have unprotected sex with multiple partners who bathed infrequently. While being one with nature. And poop and pee in the great outdoors. Like the animals. Only with less grooming. For they hated the Man. And didn't want anything to do with their parent's generation. They protested any figure of authority. Protested the Vietnam War. And protested against their government. Speaking truth to power. And yearned to bring the Marxist-Leninist revolution to America.
The hippies were rabid anti-capitalists. Which is why they loved communism. Where there were no possessions. No religion. Or greed or hunger. Just imagine all the people sharing all the world. Words from John Lennon's song Imagine). Former Beatle. And one of the leaders of the counterrevolution. Not to be confused with the other Lenin. Vladimir Ilich Lenin. Of Soviet Marxism-Leninism fame. Or, rather, infamy. One of many icons of the counterrevolution. Along with Mao Zedong. Ho Chi Minh. Fidel Castro. And, of course, Che Guevara. Whose bearded and beret-wearing image adorns many a university dorm room wall and student t-shirt to this day.
College students today, just as the hippies of yesteryear, still have a soft spot for their communist heroes. Thanks to many of these hippies of yesteryear having joined the establishment. And are now teaching our kids in college the evils of capitalism and the goodness of government. Despite their one-time fierce opposition to the Man. Guess things change once you get money. Like someone in the rock band The Who said when asked if he still hopes to die before he gets old (a line from My Generation-a song about youthful angry rebellion against their parent's generation). The reply was that being old wasn't all that bad when you were rich. Something the old hippies of the Sixties no doubt discovered. And best of all they got rich by taking money from the capitalist pigs. Their students' rich parents. Or the taxpayers who worked in that detested capitalist system.
Nations with the Marxist Brotherhood of Man with No Possessions have been the Worst Places to Live
It is ironic that without capitalism these communist-loving parasites could not be parasites. For if no one was creating economic activity there would be no income to tax. Or to pay for the one thing growing more expensive than health care. College tuition. Interestingly, there is no 'Obamacare' for our colleges and universities. No. They never label them greedy despite their being the greediest of them all. But you know who they do label as greedy? The taxpayers who oppose higher taxes to pay for the ever higher cost of higher education. They're the greedy ones. Not the old hippies of the Sixties. And their fellow anti-capitalists.
Another interesting thing about these anti-capitalists? They yearn for one-party rule. Which is why public education teaches our kids to distrust capitalism and to trust government. And our colleges and universities teach our kids to be ashamed of their nation's past. And the importance of diversity. Which is code for anything that isn't American. For America was founded by rich white slave-owners who stole the land from the Native Americans. And America's imperialist aggression is the only source of strife in the world today. While ignoring the expanding communist revolution that was spreading out from the Soviet Union into the Eastern Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. The one ideology that has killed more people than any other. Through state oppression, wars and famine.
Yes, this brotherhood of man where there are no possessions have been in fact the worst places to live. The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Mao's Peoples Republic of China, North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, etc. These are all nations that had gulags or reeducation camps for political prisoners. Those people who spoke—or thought—truth to power. They all had police states where the people lived in fear of their government. They suffered for the want of the most basic items (soap, toilet paper, etc.). There was state censorship. They persecuted anyone practicing any religion. The people suffered from constant hunger. And the occasional famine. They killed anyone trying to escape their communist utopia. Or sent them off to hard labor and torture. If they escaped successfully then the state punished any family remaining behind. To warn others what would happen if they escaped their communist utopia.
The Great Flaw of Socialism is being unable to Determine What is the Greater Good
Why did these communist states have police states and brutally oppress their people? Because they had to. When the communists built the Berlin Wall it wasn't to keep people from West Berlin out of East Berlin. It was to stop people escaping from East Berlin to West Berlin. For the East Germans were suffering a terrific brain drain. Capitalists believe in liberty. The freedom to do what they want. And to get paid for their services. A highly skilled doctor expects a higher salary than a janitor. And that just isn't going to happen in a communist state. You get what the state gives you. No more. Creating a heck of a free rider problem. When your economic system works based on the Marxist premise from each according to ability to each according to need what you get is a lot of people showing little ability and a lot of need. For the more ability you had the harder they forced you to work. While the greater your need the more you got. Such a system encourages people to do the minimum and not be extraordinary. Which is why Sony, Samsung, Microsoft, Apple, The Beatles, etc., did not come from communist countries.
A communist state has a planned economy. Instead of a free market economy. Communist state planners manage the economy from top down. Telling the raw material industry what materials to extract. They tell what factories get these raw materials and what they are to build. Etc. Whereas in a free market economy the economy is driven bottom up by the consumers. When consumers start buying a lot of one thing the price for that one thing rises. Attracting other businesses into the market to meet that rising demand. Who place orders with their wholesalers. Who place orders with their manufacturers. Who place orders with their industrial processors. Who place orders with their raw material extractors. Hundreds of thousands of decisions happen as this consumer demand travels up the stages of production in a free market economy. Giving the people what they want. And not what a state planner decides to give to the people.
This is why communist (and socialist) states are oppressive dictatorships. Because state planners decide for the people. Which must start with the supreme decision maker. The Joseph Stalin, the Mao Zedong, the Ho Chi Minh, the Kim Jong Un, the Raul Castro, the Hugo Chávez, etc. And these people don't take polls or hold elections. Well, at least elections that are legitimate. Kim Jong Un continues the state policy of his predecessors. No economic reform. Money goes to the military first (especially for his nuclear toys) and whatever is left over may go to the people. And anyone who disagrees with him or thinks wrong goes to the gulag. Or is executed. Like his uncle. While the people suffer the want of the most basic things. Like food. North Korea to this day still suffers the occasional famine because of its economic policies. But one problem the North Koreans don't have? Deciding where to go for lunch.
"Where do you want to eat? I don't know, where do you want to eat?" This can go on until someone forceful makes the decision for the group. Often making no one happy. But it will end the endless "where do you want to eat?" This is the great flaw of socialism. Being unable to determine what is the greater good. Because people rarely agree on what's best for other people. Just look at the recent budget agreement that made few people happy. They were unhappy because they disagreed on what was the greater good. People are different. One size does not fit all. You just can't please all of the people all of the time. So you have to force your will on the people. The only mechanism that makes socialism work. Force. Because people can rarely agree on where to go to lunch let alone national policy. And this is why all communist/socialist states end in brutal dictatorships. Because only force can make people live in a world without choice.
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Approaching the Year of Faith
A Former Anglican Theologian Rethinks Vatican II: June 17 issue column.
The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) is a topic much spoken of today, especially in light of the impending Year of Faith announced by Pope Benedict XVI in his motu proprio Porta Fidei.
This pronouncement seems to have caused much excitement among the faithful. But for some, the excitement is tinged with a touch of trepidation because discussions on Vatican II often provoke anti-ecclesial rhetoric among certain circles of clerics and laity.
As I am a relatively new member of the Church, I know of a good number of people who might all too soon point out that my strong allegiance to the Pope and the Church can be attributed only to the fact that I am still too green in the Church for my views to be of any critical good.
It may naturally be construed that my argument for unflinching obedience to the Church, which is often accused of being uncritical and unintellectual, stems from nothing more than a lack of understanding of how things have worked out in the Church since the Second Vatican Council.
Or perhaps my case for obedience arises from the sheer zeal of being a new member of the Church.
To exercise the kind of obedience I propagate, "progressive" voices say, is to set the Church back to its pre-conciliar ways.
For these "progressive" voices, the Second Vatican Council represents absolute freedom, autonomy and a breaking away from the centralized modus operandi of the Church, often even to the extent of according to the Pope a role of mere ceremonial primacy: No more does he exercise supreme and universal authority over the Church. Rome, in this new economy, has become a nonessential entity.
Some have even resorted to accusing the Holy See of being "controlling," "bullying" and "imperialistic." Evidently, the Protestant Reformation of 1521 continues even within the Catholic Church itself today, and one wonders how far it will go.
The truth is, having been a Protestant for more than 20 years of my life and having spent a number of these years dabbling in what many have thought to be "progressive" ways of thought, I have experienced the impending bankruptcy of such absolute free thought.
It was the need for a sacred magisterium based on apostolic ministry in communion with the Successor of St. Peter that brought about my decision to be a member of the Holy Catholic Church.
As a former Protestant, I very well understand that one cannot be more Protestant than to seek the absolute self-accorded authority of private interpretation in all matters of faith and morals.
Furthermore, a rendition of Christianity that exalts unguided free inquiry — and I emphasize the word "unguided" — can be nothing more than an exercise of narcissistic intellectualism that enthrones self-reasoning above the age-old ecclesial enterprise of truth which employs the twin pillars of faith and reason.
You see, the notion of absolute free thought is a superfluous fallacy. We are all bound by some kind of ideology, whether or not we are honest enough to admit it.
If we do not subscribe to an authority above the self, then it simply means that one has appointed oneself as the absolute authority. No one is absolutely free; if we are not submitted to an external authority, then we are imprisoned within the confines of self-defined authority.
The irony lies in how self-appointed authoritarians often accuse the Church of dictatorship.
Of course, there might also be those who claim, "We obey God [or Scripture], but not necessarily the Church."
This incongruent notion itself stems from a deficient construction of the nature of the Church and her relationship with the divine life of the Holy Trinity, which, in turn, is a result of enthroning oneself as the arbiter of reason.
Because of this, I will not venture to address questions such as: "Are there times when the Church may be wrong?" or "Were there not times when the Church had to retract its views on certain issues?" Such questions betray undue over-humanization of the Church and ignorance of its ontological nature of being not just human but also divine.
To misunderstand the foundational nature of the Church and her participation in the divine life of the Holy Trinity is inevitably non-Catholic, and this, in the era of the earlier Church councils, would have been unapologetically condemned as heresy.
Divine truth never changes, even though its pastoral implications may be misapplied and newly appropriated over time.
In addition to that, to attempt to engage such questions would soon lead independent inquirers to question even the infallible nature of the Church and the extraordinary infallibility of the Pope, both of which are essential ecclesial dogmas. Or has Vatican II opened the doors for even such issues to be subjectively debated without so much as posing an impact on one's salvation?
Unfortunately, even many who consider themselves to be accomplished Catholic theologians have pandered to this error of defect.
Catholic teaching is akin to a stack of milk cans arranged like a pyramid on the supermarket floor. One primary dogma logically leads to several others, and those several others also have dogmatic implications on various other aspects of Catholic belief. This is called the "hierarchy of truth."
When one unwittingly plucks out a can from the stack, the entire structure crumbles. This is often what happens when a self-appointed authority, rather than enforcing strongholds on the stack of cans, removes a can because of intellectual fashion and fancy, thinking this to be a newly granted concession arising from the Second Vatican Council.
Unfortunately, most people who are guilty of this action also lack the intellectual prowess to reconstruct an alternative hierarchy of truth in a consistent way because they fall short of the age-old wisdom possessed by the Church.
Those shrewd enough to avoid the Inquisition merely erode the entire theological enterprise into a series of socio-political creeds devoid of solid dogmatic foundations.
This brings us back to the upcoming Year of Faith. The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, is not unaware of the state of faith among Catholics today.
If I read his intentions correctly, the Year of Faith is more than being about basic evangelization, in the sense of introducing the Catholic faith to those who do not know Christ.I
t is also a call for all those who call themselves "Catholic" to return to orthodoxy of faith.
This is especially true when one keeps in mind that the Year of Faith is also expressly a commemoration of the opening of the much debated Second Vatican Council. The call to return to "faith" places the cause of the Council Fathers in proper light.
The fathers had never intended for the Council to be dogmatically pivotal in any way such that the Catholic faith be distorted or deconstructed in a way the earlier councils preceding it would hardly recognize.
Rather than employing a hermeneutic of rupture by applying erroneous principles of absolute independence unguided by sacred Tradition, the popes have been calling for the application of the hermeneutic of continuity.
In other words, Vatican II overturned nothing that had been solemnly defined by previous councils. If anything, it was an implementation of the desires of other councils preceding it.
The call of Vatican II was one of applying pastoral change to certain very crucial ecclesial practices, not one of "rectifying" timeless truth.
Unsurprisingly, this call for the hermeneutic of continuity has often been dismissed or ignored altogether by hearers who are characterized by self-defined agendas.
Pope Benedict XVI has gone even further to speak of a new kind of radicalism beyond that of radical ideology. It is a radicalism of obedience.
While few seem to be listening, fortunately, an ever-growing generation of younger clerics and laity are intently paying heed to his call. After all, Benedict XVI himself is no stranger to ideology.
He has found it to be a dead end — hence, his constant claim that the only way to an authentic renewal for the Church is through radical obedience. Ironically, "progressivism" is an ideology that is fossilized in the 1960s and the 1970s, despite having branded itself as being "progressive."
To be truly progressive is to transcend the intellectual confusion arising soon after the Council (which stemmed from various misinterpretations of the Council Fathers' intentions) and to move towards the timeless kerygma of the Church that is eternal in Christ.
It would be a gross misunderstanding to construe the Holy Father's call as a summons to unreason and anti-intellectualism. From the early days of the Church, Church Fathers have often employed St. Anselm's principle of fides quarens intellectum (faith seeking understanding) in their intellectual explorations.
This principle explicates the reality that human reason has intrinsic limits despite its potentials, and, when left unguided by divine revelation that is received in faith as its guiding source, intellectual adventures can and will go wrong.
One would have thought that 20th-century human history was enough to have demonstrated this reality. Seek to understand our faith we must, but not in open-ended ways that enthrone a right to establish our own conclusions on grave matters of faith and morals.
The thing about pendulums is that they swing. The post-conciliar children of the Church have a 50-year frame of reference to which we can refer, and we have seen the devastating effects of intellectual anarchy among clerics, religious and laity.
The pendulum now rests at the center, and this growing generation of younger Catholic clerics and laity recognizes that the only way forward is that of radical obedience.
Deacon Sherman Kuek is a moral and social theologian with the Diocese of Melaka-Johor in Malaysia.


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pdc rules!
personally im hoping for some (lots) of project natal sessions.. how do you program it? whats the api? also some info on the tech it self would be super awsome.. and demos.. silverlight or.net even for xbox/zune would also be great to have some sessions on.
but no keynode from the Gu? say it aint so... the Gu must keynote i say i'd also love to see some sessions with him, i know his busy but he's such a good speaker. Erik and Anders also have to have sessions A session on Rx with erik would be unmissable.
btw, since you both tweet, (Ritzy/Anyware if you're not following them) will you listen to feedback there as well?
Last year I heard that PDC09 whould be filled with WindowsMobile "7" (and CE 7) sessions/workshops/keynotes, is it sill going to be the case ?
I want to hear more about that top secret project Paul from Ping is working on, perhaps you're bringing WinFS back?
How long until we start to see anything about what the content will be at PDC09?
We're doing pretty serious levels of desktop WPF development, but we're (generally speaking) not interested in Azure, mobile or the web (our software connects directly to some pretty serious hardware). I appreciate that that makes us an edge case, but I'll need at least a general idea of whether there'll be any relevant content to make my case to management for a plane ticket from the UK!
We'd be interested in anything to do with desktop WPF, parallel programming (sonds like there'll be plenty of that) and general desktop .Net. The Rx framework looks awesome , BTW.
Finally! It is PDC09 time!!! Can't wait to see what content will be included in this year's conference.
I am very interested in the new SharePoint 2010. I know there is a SharePoint Conference in Oct. But I will attend PDC instead because I am a developer and there is more veriety of contents at PDC. But I still hope I will get alot of new information on SharePoint 2010!!!
The PDC09 conference site launched with 30 published sessions. You can view them here: http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions .
So far there are 2 SharePoint sessions published: http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions#/tags/SharePoint
Looking forward to seeing you at PDC09!
Probably have to pay my own way this year...so I'm hoping there's a bag this year
This PDC 2005 bag won't last forever...
Edit: Are there no PDC prices yet? The registration seems to be a contact form where someone will get back to you. Not really what I wasnt to do, I want to see $$$$.
Edit 2: Found it, http://microsoftpdc.com/Registration. Guess I didn't take the right happy-path
Have to wonder about this PDC, it looks a bit Tech Ed -ish. My understanding was that the PDC was always about the future, given that Channel 9 has already provided brilliant coverage of .NET 4 / VS2KA and a lot of concurrency stuff there doesn't seem to be too much First Time Shown technology here.
I just realized I can't go. TechDays is happening in parallel here in Calgary, sad for me. I'll watch the presentations online like usual
Well, not all sessions have been announced...
It would be awesome if this year's PDC had a mobile focus. I'd be in heaven!
Looking for SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Azure pricing and free offerings for developers, ZuneHD applications, Release of VS2010 and Parallel programming.
Yes, Ritzy and I both tweet. But realize that we also talk about a lot of non-Microsoft stuff. So you might have to endure.
If you want pure, unadulterated PDC goodness, make sure you follow @pdc09 and track the #pdc09 hash tag.
More tips here: https://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/archive/2009/06/19/pdc09.aspx
Hi Amy!
Thanks for forwarding the SharePoint sessions information! I should be attending PDC 2009 when funding got approved. Will definately drop by and say hi when I am there!
I love the ending with the logo!
Also, I think the theme about PDC09 will be "Windows Everywhere" or "Syncronize live" revolving arround Live Mesh.
Wow! It is time for PDC again! Boy, time flies when you are having fun (with Win 7 RC ). Looking forward to the slew of multi-touch netbooks that will be coming out with its official release. Maybe there will be more info on WinMo 7 as well. [gleefully rubbing hands together.]
ive actually been following you both for quite some time so thats alright, ritzy should tweet more though
i didnt know the hashtag was official, gonna start tracking that then will you do the live twitter interview this year as well? that was really cool but could you please try and have localized times for stuff like that? makes it easier for us that wont be able to attend.
nice to see the page online, it wasnt when this was first posted. initial sessions looks good to, esp the win7 kernel one and the paralellism one.. im still hoping for project natal sessions and a GPGPU-in-.net session or 2 the DX compute shader one will be interesting too
Hi Tom,
I'm the PDC09 Content Owner, and your comments point out an interesting challenge we face with PDC sessions particularly this year. Before providing more details, I want to assure you that the focus of PDC definitely has not changed and many sessions are structured to complement and extend what you can learn at a conference like TechEd. If you attend PDC09, you will hear about the future of the Microsoft platform and you will see and hear about a lot of new products, services and technologies for the first time.
We definitely are looking for ways we can improve how we let people know what will be presented at PDC as well as better ways to make clear the session distinctions with conferences like TechEd. Let us know if you (or anyone else on Channel 9) have any suggestions for improving the sessions or how we disclose them.
Before responding to your comments, I want to provide a little context. Given that we only published a few initial sessions, it's difficult to get across the depth, breadth and uniqueness of the PDC sessions. Another challenge is we only have a short title and a couple of sentences in the abstract to describe a session. Given the few words we have to work with, it's difficult to get across the full scope of a session and how it differs from similar sessions at conferences like TechEd. Also, in many cases we are not allowed to disclose the new information that will be covered in a session until it is publically announced (often during PDC Keynotes).
Now I'll address some of your specific comments and see if I can change your opinion a little. In some ways, this PDC is a little less "future" than in the past. This is because we will be releasing a lot of major products and services around the PDC timeframe. At TechEd, you will learn about the release versions of these new products and how to best use our current platform in your business. These new products and services also will have a lot of great new features added in the next year or so. At PDC, we will tell you (in most cases for the first time) what you need to start planning for over the next 18 months to get the most out of all the new products and services we are releasing. Because of all the major releases happening around PDC, you will be hearing a little more this year about what will happen over the next eighteen months in addition to our longer-term plans. However, as in the past the PDC sessions this year will still largely be future focused with lots of new information not available at any other conference.
You mention .NET 4 and VS, and there will be sessions covering these products at PDC. As mentioned above, most of these sessions are being selected to complement and extend what you will hear at TechEd, and the focus for these sessions at PDC will be the new features that will be released over the next couple of years. You also mention concurrency sessions, and we included two when we launched the site this week. At PDC08 last year, we disclosed some of our tooling plans for concurrent programming. At PDC09 this year, we talk in much more detail about our new tools for concurrent programming as well as talk about future plans for the "new technologies" we are releasing at PDC. Some of this will be covered in the manycore session we just published. The other concurrency session is part of our new Technical Leaders series. In this session, you will get to hear Burton Smith, a Microsoft Technical Fellow and recognized worldwide expert in Concurrency) talk about where he sees the future of parallel computing and associated tooling moving and how he sees it affecting developers and businesses. It should be a fascinating session that fits perfectly in PDC.
Sorry for the long response. Like I said above, I hope this helps change your opinion a little.
Michael Suesserman
PDC09 Content Owner
I'm so glad there's so many videos featuring Jennifer here on Channel Nine. She really is a breath of fresh air to the developer world. What a cute, smart, funny woman ... I'm hoping to make it to this year's PDC just so I can try to meet her.
I'm so glad there's so many videos featuring Jennifer here on Channel Nine. She really is a breath of fresh air to the developer world. What a cute, smart, funny woman ... I'm hoping to make it to this year's PDC just so I can try to meet her.


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The girls woke up early, very early, & saw the snow falling. They were too excited to sleep.
In order to keep them inside, before 7 am, we made banana bread for breakfast. Lily mashed the bananas, while Ella & I put the other ingredients together. You can't beat homemade banana bread fresh (& hot) out of the oven. The girls did the sprinkles on their mini muffins.
The boys slept in while the girls finished the banana bread. I caught Jake in the act of buttering pieces 7, 8, & 9 of his banana bread.
We played outside twice. Our kids don't last too long in the snow & cold. It doesn't help that we don't have proper (waterproof) snow gear in North Carolina.
We warmed up with hot chocolate.
We watched Swiss Family Robinson, took naps, played Monopoly & created with play dough.
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Is Assisted Living Right for Your Aging Loved Ones?
Making a decision about whether assisted living is right for your loved ones is one of the hardest decisions we face today. Over the years I have worked with many adult children and their parents as they prepare to make the decision about when the parents should sell their family home.
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What is Modern?
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Modern homes vary greatly in style; however, they have some unifying qualities that distinguish them from other properties built over the last 60 years. Here are some characteristics often found in modern homes:
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August 14, 2013
Oregon and Southwest Washington | Second Quarter 2013, Volume XXII
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I expect that the market will continue to recover, relative to price, but I also expect to see price growth start to moderate, especially if interest rates continue trending upward.
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One of the many partners helping with Lincoln Square's growth has been Fordham University. On This week's Fordham Conversations the President of the Lincoln Square Business Improvement District, Monica Blum talks about the evolution of the area. Then WFUV's Marisa Galdi looks at the resurgence of the double-crested Cormorant, a bird whose population was almost wiped out.


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AMD is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December.
Accordingly, AMD publishes management research guided by empirical abduction and induction, or in other words, studies which use data exploration in order to:
AMD's mission is distinct from, but complementary with other Academy of Management publications. AMD focuses on reporting important and interesting findings or unusual empirical patterns that emerge from qualitative or quantitative research, which are not adequately explained by current theory. Whereas other AOM publications focus on the generation, testing, confirmation, review, and application of theories, AMD seeks discoveries that will prompt new lines of research or practice that may subsequently appear in other AOM journals.
The major criteria by which papers at AMD are judged are: (a) the importance of the discovery, (b) the technical strength of the research methods employed, and (c) the weight of the quantitative or qualitative evidence presented in supporting the premise and eliminating alternative explanations for the discovery. Papers will also be judged on writing style, structure, and length. Poor presentation is sufficient reason for the rejection of a manuscript. All articles published in AMD must be accessible to the Academy's wide-ranging readership. Manuscripts will be evaluated by the action editor in terms of their contribution-to-length ratio. They should be written as simply and concisely as possible without sacrificing meaningfulness or clarity of exposition. They should also be double-spaced, use one-inch margins and Times New Roman (or equivalent) twelve-point font.
Your paper has a higher probability of being accepted for publication in AMD to the extent that it:
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A primary objective of AMD is the timely dissemination of empirically driven insights that have significant implications for theory and policy. Therefore, authors should provide evidence of robust findings and explain how those findings and the insights drawn from them can be used to influence down-the-road theorizing to shape and improve the understanding of management and the functioning of organizations. Submissions that do not present strong evidence and new insights about important phenomena relevant to management and/or organizations will not be reviewed. Submissions that do not clearly explain the relevance of their work for improving our understanding of organizations and/or the practice of management will not be reviewed. A response to, or commentary on, a previously published article will only be considered only if it presents additional empirical evidence and makes an independent contribution that further illuminates the focal phenomenon. Such submissions will be peer reviewed.
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Holding: The exigent circumstances rule applies when the police do not create the exigency by engaging in or threatening to engage in conduct that violates the Fourth Amendment.
Plain English Holding: Police may enter a home without a warrant in response to an emergency (including the imminent destruction of evidence) so long as the police do not themselves create the emergency through conduct that violates the Fourth Amendment.
Judgment: Kentucky Supreme Court Reversed, 8-1, in an opinion by Justice Alito on May 16, 2011. Justice Ginsburg filed a dissent.
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- New curb on Bivens remedy? (Lyle Denniston)
- January's arguments: In Plain English (Lisa McElroy)
- Argument recap: Choosing the rule for warrantless searches when police create exigent circumstances (Holly Ragan)
- Argument day podcasts: Kentucky v. King (Adam Schlossman)
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Texture Packing
Spine can pack your individual images into a texture atlas or grid (spritesheet) for more efficient rendering at runtime. Spine's texture packer is a general purpose tool. While it can be used for your Spine skeletons, it can also be run separately to pack all the images for your applications.
In most graphics APIs (eg, OpenGL), a texture is bound, some drawing is done, another texture is bound, more drawing is done, etc. Binding the texture is relatively expensive, so it is ideal to store many smaller images on a larger image, bind the larger texture once, then draw portions of it many times. Spine can efficiently pack many smaller images on to larger images. The locations of the smaller images are stored in a simple data file so they are can be referenced by name in your application.
Spine uses multiple, advanced packing algorithms. Packing is done with numerous heuristics at various sizes and then the most efficient result is chosen.
The texture packer can be run two ways:
Packing during skeleton data export
While exporting JSON or binary, check
Create Atlas:
This is a convenient way to export both the data and atlas at the same time, but will pack only the images each skeleton references and ignores the folder structure and JSON files. To pack the images for multiple skeletons into a single atlas, use the next method of running the packer.
Using the Spine Texture Packer separately
Texture Packer from the main menu:
Then specify the path to the images to pack:
There are many settings to control how images are packed:
This can be intimidating at first, but for the most part the defaults will work fine. The most important settings are: 1) the max width/height, 2) whether premultiplied alpha is used, and 3) whether whitespace stripping is performed.
|Strip whitespace X/Y
|Removes blank pixels around the edges of the input images. The amount removed is stored in the atlas data so the images can be drawn in your application as if they were not whitespace stripped.
|More efficient packing is achieved by rotating some images 90 degrees. Applications must take special care to draw these regions properly.
|Two images that are pixel for pixel the same will only be packed once.
|Ignore blank images
|Images that are only transparent pixels will not be packed.
|Alpha threshold
|Alpha values below this are treated as zero when whitespace is stripped.
Region padding
|Padding X/Y
|The number of pixels between packed images. Some texture filtering averages neighboring pixels, so a padding of 2 is recommended to avoid neighboring regions from affecting each other.
|Edge padding
|The padding will also be applied to the edge of the page images.
|Duplicate padding
|The padding will copy pixels from the closest region. This can hide "seam" artifacts if texture filtering selects padding pixels.
|Min width/height
|The smallest size for any page image.
|Max width/height
|The maximum size of any page image. If the images don't fit in a page this size, multiple page images are output.
|Power of two
|Makes the output page dimensions a power of two. This is a requirement for some game toolkits.
|Makes the width and height equal. This is a requirement for some texture compression algorithms (eg, PVRT).
|Output PNG or JPG pages.
|JPG quality
|The compression for JPG output.
|Premultiply alpha
Multiplies pixel RGB values by the alpha value. This is recommended for proper blending.
Sets RGB values for transparent pixels to the RGB values of the nearest non-transparent pixels. This prevents texture filtering artifacts when RGB values are sampled for transparent pixels.
|A whole atlas is output for each scale specified.
|The suffix for each scaled atlas. If blank, files for multiple scales will be output with the same name to a subfolder for each scale.
|Atlas extension
|The file extension for the atlas data file.
|Combine subdirectories
|The current folder and all subfolders are packed on to the same pages. Any subfolder containing a `pack.json` file will not be combined.
|Flatten paths
|Subfolders are stripped from region file names. Image file names should be unique.
|Use indexes
|Image names are used without stripping any image index suffix (everything after the last underscore).
|Lines are drawn on the output pages to show the packed image bounds.
|Packing will not be as efficient but will execute much faster.
|Limit memory
|When unchecked, all images are loaded to memory at the same time to increase packing speed. Spine may crash if not enough memory is available.
|Current project
|When checked, mesh UVs for mesh image files in the current project are used to strip whitespace. When packing as part of data export, this setting is ignored and meshes in the current project are always used to strip whitespace.
These settings are hints intended for the application to optionally apply at runtime.
|Filter min/mag
|The texture minification and magnification settings.
|Wrap X/Y
|The texture wrap settings.
|The in-memory format.
These settings are not available on the settings dialog and may only be specified in the JSON configuration.
|Images in this folder and any subfolders will not be packed.
|If true, only one image is in memory at any given time, but each image will be read twice. If false, all images are kept in memory during packing but are only read once.
Folder structure
Spine can pack all images for an application in one shot. Given a folder, it recursively scans for image files. For each folder of images Spine encounters, it packs the images on to a larger texture, called a page.
If the images in a folder don't fit on the max size of a single page, multiple pages will be used. Note when packing is done as part of JSON or binary export, the folder structure is not used.
Images in the same folder go on the same set of pages. If all images fit on a single page, no subfolders should be used because with one page the app will only ever perform one texture bind. Otherwise, subfolders can be used to segregate related images to minimize texture binds.
Eg, an application may want to place all the "game" images in a separate folder from the "pause menu" images, since these two sets of images are drawn serially: all the game images are drawn (one bind), then the pause menu is drawn on top (another bind). If the images were in a single folder that resulted in more than one page, each page could contain a mix of game and pause menu images. This would cause multiple texture binds to render the game and pause menu instead of just one each.
Subfolders are also useful to group images with related texture settings. Settings like runtime memory format (RGBA, RGB, etc) and filtering (nearest, linear, etc) are per texture. Images that need different per texture settings need to go on separate pages, so should be placed in separate subfolders.
To use subfolders for organization without Spine outputting a set of pages for each subfolder, see the
Combine subdirectories setting.
To avoid subfolder paths being used in image names in the atlas file, see the
Flatten paths setting.
JSON Configuration
Each folder may contain a "pack.json" file to specify settings for that folder. Each subfolder inherits all the settings from its parent folder. Any settings set in the subfolder override those set in the parent folder. Note when packing is done as part of JSON or binary export, the JSON configuration file is not used.
Below is a JSON example with every available setting.
stripWhitespaceX: true,
stripWhitespaceY: true,
rotation: true,
alias: true,
ignoreBlankImages: false,
alphaThreshold: 3,
minWidth: 16,
minHeight: 16,
maxWidth: 2048,
maxHeight: 2048,
pot: false,
multipleOfFour: false,
square: false,
outputFormat: png,
jpegQuality: 0.9,
premultiplyAlpha: true,
bleed: false,
bleedIterations: 2,
scale: [ 1 ],
scaleSuffix: [ ],
scaleResampling: [ bicubic ],
paddingX: 2,
paddingY: 2,
edgePadding: true,
duplicatePadding: false,
filterMin: Linear,
filterMag: Linear,
wrapX: ClampToEdge,
wrapY: ClampToEdge,
format: RGBA8888,
atlasExtension: .atlas,
combineSubdirectories: false,
flattenPaths: false,
useIndexes: false,
debug: false,
fast: false,
limitMemory: true,
currentProject: true,
packing: rectangles,
silent: false,
ignore: false
Note that this is libgdx's "minimal" JSON format, so double quotes are optional in most cases.
Not all settings need to be specified, any or all may be omitted. For example, to turn off padding and to combine subfolders, this JSON can be used:
paddingX: 0,
paddingY: 0,
combineSubdirectories: false
To ignore all images in a folder and all subfolders:
ignore: true
The Settings dialog has a
Save JSON button which saves a JSON file with the current settings. This file can be named
pack.json and placed in an input image folder to specify settings for that folder, rather than writing the JSON by hand.
Texture atlas name
When using command line export, packing is done by specifying the texture atlas name using the
--pack or
-p parameter:
Spine -i /path/to/images/ -o /path/to/output/ -p atlasName
The texture atlas name is used to name the atlas and PNG files. Running this example would result in
atlasName.atlas and
Alternatively, if the
--pack or
-p parameter ends in
.json, then it used as a path to a pack JSON file:
Spine -i /path/to/images/ -o /path/to/output/ -p /path/to/atlasName.pack.json
When specifying a pack JSON file, the texture atlas name will be the pack JSON file name without the extension. In this example it would be
atlasName. To specify a different texture atlas name, a
name value can be specified in the pack JSON:
name: "atlasName",
paddingX: 0,
paddingY: 0,
combineSubdirectories: false
name value can only be provided in the pack JSON specified with the
--pack or
-p parameter. It cannot be provided in pack JSON files located in the image input folders.
Ninepatches are not generally useful for Spine skeletons, but can be useful for other purposes.
If an image file name ends with ".9" just before the file extension, it is considered a ninepatch. Ninepatch images can be created manually or by using this tool. The image must have a 1px transparent border. The upper and left edge may optionally have one contiguous line of black pixels which denote the split information, ie what part of the ninepatch will stretch. The bottom and right edge may optionally have one contiguous line of black pixels which denote the padding information, ie how content on top of the ninepatch should be inset. When this image is packed, the 1px border is removed and the split and padding information stored in the atlas data file.
Image indexes
Image indexes are not generally useful for Spine skeletons, but can be useful for other purposes.
If an image file name ends with underscore and then a number (eg
animation_23.png), the number is considered the "index" and is stored for the region in the atlas data file. The image name is stored without the underscore and index. This allows a list of all images with the same name to be retrieved, ordered by index. This makes it easy to pack sprite animations without losing the order of the frames.
Texture Unpacker
Spine also provides a texture unpacking utility which takes a texture atlas and writes out individual images from it. Any rotation in the atlas is undone and any stripped whitespace is restored in the individual images. Optionally
Premultiply Alpha can be removed from the individual images.


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SEATTLE (AP) — A man was apparently electrocuted when he climbed a 200-foot tower, touched a high-voltage power line and fell to a platform where his body was recovered by a Seattle Fire Department team.
Firefighters found a cap and a cellphone next to the body but nothing to indicate why he climbed the tower early Friday, said department spokesman Kyle Moore.
There was no one at the scene who said they knew the man, Moore said. The King County medical examiner's office took the body to determine his identification and cause of death.
"We don't know why he climbed the tower," said police spokesman Renee Witt. "There's nothing to indicate it was something other than an accidental death from trespassing."
The fire department initially received a report about 12:30 a.m. Friday of what appeared to be a transformer fire on the tower that carries 120,000-volt lines across the Lake Washington Ship Canal in the Fremont neighborhood.
It was followed by a report of witnesses seeing a flash of crackling sparks and a man falling.
Seattle City Light said it was too dangerous for firefighters to rush up the tower, Moore said. They were able to call in a Snohomish County helicopter for assistance. It spotted the body on the platform with no signs of life.
City Light turned off the power through the lines so a fire department technical rescue team could climb up and recover the body from the platform about 150 feet off the ground. The body was lowered to the ground before 7 a.m. in a basket.
The utility was able to switch electricity so only one customer was out of service during the recovery, said spokesman Peter Clarke.
It was the first such mishap Clarke could recall in his 13 years with the city utility. It would be possible for a "very determined" person to climb the lattice of metal in one of the tower legs, he said.
"We're going to be reviewing that to see if we can make it less easy," Clarke said.


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SPRINGFIELD – The potential arbiters of Illinois' pension-reform law have collected nearly $3 million in campaign contributions during the past 13 years from groups that support both sides of the issue, according to a published report.
The Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday that most of the money was collected by one justice, Thomas Kilbride, in a 2010 campaign to retain his seat that was the nation's most expensive of that type in a quarter-century.
Still, if a legal challenge to the newly minted pension-reform law reaches the high court, it will be decided by seven justices, six of whom have accepted campaign contributions from one or both sides of the debate: labor unions, business groups or a political fund operated by House Speaker Michael Madigan.
Madigan, a powerful Chicago Democrat, said last month the initiative could not have passed without his ability to persuade members of the House. A number of business groups have said they support the law, while public employee unions oppose it, saying it violates a part of the state constitution.
"Even the most honorable justice has to acknowledge this looks bad. It puts them in a bad light," David Yepsen, director of the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University, told the newspaper.
The Illinois Constitution calls for the election of judges and, in the case of Supreme Court justices, retention campaigns after each 10-year term. Elections cost money.
There is no legal limit on campaign contributions to judges, but the Judicial Code of Conduct prohibits them from personally soliciting or accepting contributions – a task left to campaign committees.
"Politics plays no role in any of the issues that we have before us," Chief Justice Rita Garman said in a December interview with Chicago Lawyer magazine. "If a legislative challenge goes up or down, [it's] based on whether it meets the standards of our Constitution. And I think our court will analyze it that way."
A court spokesman reiterated Garman's message but had no other comment on the matter Thursday.
The newspaper said that during his 2010 retention campaign, Kilbride, a Democrat and former chief justice, took in $1.47 million from the Democratic Party of Illinois, controlled by Madigan. His initial 2000 race benefited from $688,000 from the party. Another $583,000 in 2010 came from unions now opposed to the pension changes.
Madigan spokesman Steve Brown noted the judicial code rules on fundraising but would not comment further because of the litigation underway.
Republican Lloyd Karmeier won his 2004 race for the court with help from $266,000 in contributions from four major business groups, each of which lobbied in favor of the pension law Quinn signed.
Only Justice Bob Thomas appears not to have accepted contributions from any group with an interest in the law, according to the newspaper.
The justices aren't affected by pension changes. The Judges Retirement System was the only one of five pension accounts carved out of the bill. In response to a question by Rep. Dan Brady, R-Bloomington, Madigan said during House debate the reason for that was to eliminate the possibility of conflict if the judicial system reviews a lawsuit.
"If it's a conflict for judges to be in the pension bill," Brady said this week, "then it's a conflict they're taking money from the groups they'll make rulings about."


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What is an electroencephalogram?
An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test that measures the electrical activity in the brain, called brain waves. An EEG measures brain waves through small button electrodes that are placed on your child's scalp.
What steps should be taken to prepare my child for the EEG?
Consider the following when preparing your child for an EEG:
Wash your child's hair the night before. Do not put any oil, gel, or hairspray on his or her hair. If your child's hair is long, do not braid or put it up. Do not wear hair extensions because they can interfere with the test.
To get the maximum information from this test, your child's doctor will try to record EEG during wakefulness and sleep.
Give your child his or her medications as usual. Bring a list of all the medications (dose and schedule) your child takes to the EEG Lab.
Your child's doctors will give you instructions about when your child can eat before and after the procedure.
Your child's doctor may suggest doing the test when your child in in a sleep-deprived state, requiring minimal sleep the night before the test.
On the day of the EEG, your child should not have any drinks containing caffeine, such as caffeinated sodas, coffee, and tea.
Who does the EEG?
A trained neurophysiology technologist performs the test.
How is the EEG done?
Your child will be asked to lie down on a bed or stretcher. The technologist will explain the procedure to you and your child. The EEG technologist measures your child's head and makes small marks on the scalp with a washable marker or pen. Each marked area is rubbed with a gritty lotion so the electrodes transmit well. Glue is put on the electrodes, which are applied to each of the marked spots on the scalp. The marking of the scalp and the application of the gritty lotion can be uncomfortable for some children. The electrodes are connected to the EEG machine and the test begins. Your child will need to sit or lie as still as possible. He or she may be asked to breathe fast (hyperventilate), look at flashing lights, and try to sleep. The test takes about one hour and your child is usually videotaped during the EEG. Your child's doctor may order a video EEG to give more time to study the brain waves. The procedure is the same, but may last 6 to 8 hours, or even overnight.
What happens after the EEG?
Once the test is complete, the electrodes will be removed and the glue washed off with warm water and a washcloth. Sometimes, all the glue will not come off and you may need to wash your child's hair at home.
The technologist or nurse will give you further instructions and tell you when you and your child may leave.
Are there any risks involved with the procedure?
Experts in neurology have studied EEG for many years and report that it is a safe procedure with no apparent risks.
Who evaluates the EEG recordings?
A neurologist will read the EEG and then talk to your child's doctor about the results.


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Given a series of map layers is it possible to arrange them in some order, add basic map features (north arrow, scale bar) and then save the result as a JPG. I'd like to accomplish this in the background as a button-triggered event in an ArcMap Add-On.
I've seen ExportActiveView, but I think this will only work if I have the map layers already loaded into the ActiveView and on the users' screen.
Is it possible to create this map behind the scenes?


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JOB TITLE: Critical Care Flight Medic
LOCATION: Geisinger Medical Center Hospital
DEPARTMENT: Emergency Medicine
WORK SCHEDULE: Rotation
WORK TYPE: Part Time
Provides Critical Care Transport Paramedic (CCTP) level of care, within the scope of Act 37, to Life Flight patients in conjunction with the Flight Nurse. The CCTP functions and assists as a non-essential team member in GHS Emergency Departments and assists Emergency department health care providers to deliver care to Emergency Department patients as needed. The CCTP meets the qualifications to provide care for patients from birth to 100+ years range.
The CCTP performs duties to provide the highest level of patient care and maximize patient satisfaction and works under the supervision of the Life Flight Program Director, Chief Flight Nurse, Regional Supervisors, and the Life Flight Medical Director(s)
Demonstrates good organizational skills and effective communication skills
Demonstrates excellent critical thinking skills, knowledge, judgment and leadership in an independent and uncontrolled environment
Demonstrates the ability to be confident, personable, self-motivated and function with tact and poise in stressful situations
Demonstrates the ability to make rapid and clinically accurate decisions and innovation under adverse conditions
• Completion of an approved paramedic program and current Pennsylvania state certification as an EMT-Paramedic
• BLS, ACLS, ITLS or approved equivalent trauma course and PALS Required. NRP, Hazardous Materials training or equivalent required within six months of employment. FP-C certification required.
STABLE certification preferred.
• Knowledge of medical and legal aspects of emergency care including state limitations on the paramedic scope of practice required
• Working Knowledge of electronic health record programs required
• Knowledge of medical terminology, gross anatomy and physiology required
• Principles of basic and advanced life support required
• Minimum three years' experience with an emergency advanced life support unit
• Critical care transport experience preferred
All Life Flight employees that are directly involved in patient care or the direct transport of a patient are required to have successfully pass N-95 respirator fit testing as a condition of employment.
Work is performed in a clinical environment. Requires excellent physical, psychological and emotional health with no physical limitations working aboard an aircraft or a CCGT ground ambulance.
Crew members must be able to wear a program provided flight helmet with night vision goggles. Crew members do have the option to personally purchase an alternative program approved helmet that is compatible with Geisinger Life Flight's night vision goggles
Employee cannot exceed 275lbs in weight in flight gear.
The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements and criteria considered necessary to successfully perform the job.
Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
Located Danville, Pa., the largest tertiary/quaternary care teaching hospital in the region, is licensed for 475 beds, including 89 pediatric beds in the Janet Weis Children's Hospital. GMC, a Magnet Hospital, maintains the region's only Level 1 Regional Resource Trauma Center with additional qualifications in pediatrics. GMC offers an array of highly specialized medical and surgical services, including neurosciences, cardiovascular services, transplantation, women's health (in the Women's Pavilion), oncology and orthopaedics. The Hospital for Advanced Medicine serves as an integrated center for the most critical patients. Outpatient services are available on and off campus.
One of the nation's most innovative health services organizations, Geisinger serves more than 1.5 million patients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The system includes 13 hospital campuses, a nearly 600,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. Geisinger is known for its focus on caring and innovative programs including the ProvenCare® best-practice approach to maximize quality, safety and value; ProvenHealth Navigator® advanced medical home; Springboard Health® population health program to improve the health of an entire community; ProvenExperience™ to provide refunds to patients unhappy with their care experience; and Geisinger's MyCode® Community Health Initiative, the largest healthcare system-based precision health project in the world. With more than 215,000 volunteer participants enrolled, MyCode is conducting extensive research and returning medically actionable results to participants. A physician-led organization, with approximately 32,000 employees and more than 1,800 employed physicians, Geisinger leverages an estimated $12.7 billion positive annual impact on the Pennsylvania and New Jersey economies. Repeatedly recognized nationally for integration, quality and service, Geisinger has a long-standing commitment to patient care, medical education, research and community service. For more information, visit geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
** Does not qualify for J-1 waiver. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.
*Domestic partner benefits not applicable at Geisinger Holy Spirit.
NYSSOS serves the interests of New York orthopaedists and their patients by helping to create an optimal practice environment in which to provide quality and efficacious orthopaedic care.
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Government tries to jolt EV sales with charging station subsidies
Norway boasts the highest per capita ownership of electric cars in the world, for a number of interrelated reasons, it seems. The tax on purchases of new cars, all of which are imported, can be more than 100 percent, depending on weight and fuel efficiency, but it's almost zero for electric cars. The annual automobile tax is about a seventh of the tax burden for a gas-powered vehicle. This savings is apparently enough to offset the higher sticker price of electric cars. According to a friend of ours who is Norwegian, the American Tesla sells for 580,000 kroner, or ¥9.6 million, and there is a six-month waiting list. We asked our friend if there were enough high-speed charging stations in Norway, and he said there are about 4,000, which is not considered enough but he says most people are "satisfied" with charging their EVs at home, where it takes about 8 hours to top them off.
In addition to offering tax breaks, the government promotes EVs by subsidizing the installation of charging stations. EVs do not have to pay road tolls, and they can use lanes that are normally limited to buses and taxis. More significantly, despite the fact that Norway's wealth is derived from oil, its gas prices are among the highest in the world, twice as much as they are in Japan. So while EVs are very expensive to buy , in the long run they are much more economical thanks to the government.
One of the reasons auto-related taxes are so high in Norway is that the country has no automotive industry to protect. Electric cars are manufactured in Japan and are relatively cheap, but much less popular. At last week's Tokyo Motor Show, Carlos Ghosn, the CEO of Nissan, which makes the electric Leaf, admitted that EVs weren't selling as well as expected and that the company's sales goal of 1.5 million units by 2016 would not be reached.
According to Sankei Biz, EV sales in Japan have picked up slightly in recent months, and as of October 120,000 electric cars have been sold in Japan since they were introduced. About 87,000 of these were made by Nissan. Ghosn says the main reason the target won't be met is "lack of infrastructure," meaning lack of charging stations.
In August, Toyota, Nissan, Honda and Mitsubishi announced that they would jointly build more recharging stations throughout Japan to promote electric vehicle sales, with the help of government subsidies, and last week the four automakers agreed on the details of "specific financial assistance" to parties who install charging stations.
Tokyo Shimbun reports that at present there are 1,900 quick charging stations in Japan and about 3,500 normal charging stations. The government will provide subsidies of up to ¥1.7 million to businesses that install quick recharging stations on their properties and ¥400,000 to businesses that install normal recharging stations. The government's aim is to increase the number of quick stations by 4,000 and normal stations by 8,000, though no timeline has been given.
These subsidies are being offered through both the central government and local governments. Maintenance of the stations will also be subsidized for a limited time. If the business is a convenience store, it has to have parking for at least ten cars, and if it's a gas station it has to be open 24 hours. Applications for the subsidy, however, will only be taken until February of next year.