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Jeff Civillico is the PERFECT Choice to Host Your
Jeff Civillico has hosted every type of corporate event there is – general sessions, awards banquets, game shows – for dozens of top companies and associations: Disney, OSHA, AT&T, Verizon, Caterpillar, Grainger, AAA, Honeywell, Culver's, A&W, Rite Aid, Men's Warehouse, Cisco… the list goes on and on! Jeff's "10,000 hours" of hosting / performing experience has equipped him to handle any situation that may arise at an event. Having someone as experienced and confident as Jeff to run the show is truly priceless.
Jeff is Comfortable on Any Stage...
On-Stage Hosting – Highlights
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and in Front of the Camera.
Jeff is equally comfortable in front of the camera, with extensive live and taped TV experience both as a host and a guest. He has hosted morning shows, lifestyle shows, red carpet events, and interviewed dozens of celebrities including Mike Tyson, Olivia Newton- John, Imagine Dragons, Dennis Rodman, Eddie Griffin, Wayne Newton, Eva Longoria, George Lopez, and Carlos Santana. Jeff's experience as both a live on-stage presenter and an on-camera host personality makes him the ultimate "double threat" to host your event. Consider having Jeff host your event on-stage, and have him capture moments on-camera during breaks and at social events to create recap and promotional videos. In this way Jeff truly becomes the face of your event / conference and ties everything together.
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Corporate events require an Emcee who is confident, polished, and able to adapt to on-site changes. Every event brings challenges, many of which are unavoidable– sessions run long, speakers finish early, tech malfunctions happen… Jeff has established himself as someone who not only makes those situations work, but actually thrives in the last-minute environment of live events. Jeff has 75 minutes of clean, corporate-appropriate material he can draw from to intersperse through a single event, or a multi-day conference to keep your attendees engaged every step of the way.
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"Jeff Civillico is the REAL Deal! Jeff is the entire package! He kept our audience engaged from start to finish and his emcee skills were impeccable and absolutely impressive. His flexibility and positive attitude made working with Jeff a breeze and an absolute pleasure. Jeff has a unique talent at making connections with all attendees from entry level employees all the way to c-level executives… our entire team LOVED him and we can't wait for the opportunity to work with Jeff again!"
– Melinda Carter, National Sales Strategy Program Manager, Sprint Corporation
"Jeff Civillico is in a word… FUN! Jeff recently hosted our National Sales Meeting where his energy was contagious. Not only that, but Jeff did the homework and incorporated our culture into his craziness. It proved to be a winning combination for all. Our team looks forward to working with him again."
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"Jeff Civillico's energy and enthusiasm are best described as contagious. He is a professional in every sense, and he kept everybody engaged and entertained throughout our 2018 incentive trip. Amazing as Portugal was, Jeff's performances made the trip even more memorable."
"Jeff did an incredible job with the Avast show at Mobile World Congress as our Emcee. His comfortable yet energetic presentation style was very impactful. His flexibility and positive attitude came through every day. Jeff's willingness to modify his role allowed our team to develop the best presentation and we were so thankful! Needless to say he is highly recommended and we hope to partner with him in the future!"
"I could not have been more delighted to have Jeff Civillico return as the MC for the 2018 Nevada Governor's Global Tourism Summit! Beyond being an incredible entertainer, Jeff's flexibility, calm demeanor, and go-with-the-flow attitude contributed to the smooth execution of our conference program. His ability to engage and connect with our attendees from all over the world never ceases to amaze me. Having a professional like Jeff has truly taken our summit to the next level!"
– David Peterson, Interim Director, Nevada Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs
"We've used Jeff at several events this year and he's fantastic. He is super entertaining, gets the crowd engaged and can adapt on the spot to whatever comes his way. Jeff takes the time to understand the business and event, ensuring he knows his script and how to deliver it. Very memorable events!"
– Jennifer Story, AT&T, Lead Manager – Marketing Communications for AT&T Partner Exchange
"Jeff infused excitement and energy into our event bringing it to a whole new level. He can quickly adapt his comments and humor to play off the content delivered during the presentations. Our audience wants him back next year!"
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Mr. Don D. Lundrigan wrote to my father Keith McDonald on August 26, 1947 about the First English Evangelical Lutheran Church. Here is a link to a very lovely church in Pine River that may be the one in question: http://www.1stluth.org/
It was a letter and court documents regarding the title of the land for the church. Apparently when the deed was first written up by my great-grandmother Amarilla it was done slightly wrong and they wanted to "quiet the title," on the land the church is situated.
Unfortunately he does not reference the Book and Volume of the deed in question. He goes on and comment that "The church has occupied this property for well over the period required for them to obtain the property by adverse possession." He does assure that there will be no injury to any interests the family may have?
Reading through the documents it looks very complicated and involves other people and a bank. There were approximately eight pages of various motions.
Mr. Lundrigan went on to be in the state legislature. Here is a link to information and photo of Mr. Lundrigan:

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|V.S. SETTALURI, V. - New Mexico State University
Submitted to: American Peanut Research and Education Society Abstracts
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/5/2011
Publication Date: 7/11/2011
Citation: Kandala, C., Sundaram, J., V.S. Settaluri, V.S. 2011. Estimating the Kernel Mass Ratio in Peanuts Nondestructively Using a Low-Cost Impedance Meter. American Peanut Research and Education Society Abstracts. 5.
Interpretive Summary: None is required.
Technical Abstract: Earlier, we investigated the possibility of estimating the mass of the kernels in a given volume of unshelled peanuts using a commercial impedance meter. Measurements of impedance and phase angles of peanut samples were made from 1 to 10 MHz at intervals of 1 MHz. The measured values were correlated to the mass ratio of the kernels and an empirical equation was developed from which the mass ratios of unknown samples were estimated. The results were encouraging and to make the process simpler and lower in costs, we identified three frequencies in this range and made measurements at these frequencies using an impedance meter developed in our laboratory. Impedance and phase angle of about 150g of peanut samples held between two parallel-plate electrodes in a vertical cylinder were measured using this impedance meter. The samples were then shelled, and mature kernels were collected and weighed. The ratio of the kernel weights to the in-shell peanuts (mass ratio) was correlated to the measured values using an empirical equation. The equation is validated using it to estimate the mass ratio of peanut samples not used in the calibration, and comparing the results with those obtained by weighing the kernels. This method is low-cost, fast and nondestructive.


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What Are You Drinking, Joshua Greene?
Checking in with drinks industry folks—booze-writers, distillers, brewers, bartenders, and winemakers—about what drinks they're excited about now.
Joshua Greene has been the editor of Wine & Spirits Magazine since the mid-eighties. We were curious about how he got his start in wine and how the wine scene has changed since then. We chatted with him about how the Wine & Spirits team goes about rating wines, plus new wineries he's excited about, and where he goes to drink wine in NYC. Here's what he had to say.
How did you get into the wine-writing world? When did you really get into wine, and how did you end up at Wine & Spirits?
I came out of college with a plan to write fiction, and supported myself by waiting tables and serving wine as a 'sommelier.' That was my title at Wheatleigh, in Lenox, when the Simons had just bought the property and I was the only server who knew how to use a waiter's knife.
Later, I moved back to Princeton where my partner was working for a company that financed magazines and I eventually went to work with her, selling the financial and management services for the firm. We worked with just about any kind of special interest magazine you could imagine, from a water ski title to a magazine for defense contractors and another for glass-making crafts. Wine & Spirits was the last magazine we brought in before we left the company to start our own management firm. The publisher came to us six months later and we wrote a contract to manage the magazine for him. Back then, it was called Winestate's Wine & Spirits Buying Guide. The first thing I did was shorten the name and trademark it. That was October 1984. I spent the next several years building a presence for the magazine in the New York market, running tastings and developing the editorial, while my partner, Marcy Crimmins, managed the books. In 1986, the publisher headed back to Australia, where he still publishes an Australian magazine called Winestate, and I took over running the US magazine for him, eventually purchasing it in 1989.
I didn't write extensively for the magazine at first, but in those first five years, I spent a lot of hours running tasting panels and began to develop a perspective from blind tasting. A lot of people think blind tasting is tricky, or that it isn't as relevant as the context of where the wine grows or how it is made. But I think if you train yourself as a taster, your initial reaction to a wine, blind, is tremendously valuable, especially if you consider the patterns of those reactions. Which vineyards consistently turn you on? Which brands consistently show well? I've spent a lot of time trying to describe those reactions and those patterns; that's what I focus a lot of my writing time on.
Can you tell us a little bit about how wines get tasted at Wine & Spirits?
We present the wines in numbered glasses with a key that gives information on appellation, vintage and variety, but nothing more. We taste in short flights, then ask for a simple yes or no on each wine: We ask our tasters if they would recommend the wine based on the information they have. Is this a 2010 Meursault you would tell someone to buy? If a majority of the panel says yes, we talk about it and consider the panelists' different perspectives. Then, armed with those often conflicting perspectives, our critic for that region tastes the wine, sometimes several times over the course of several days, always blind, assessing it, scoring it based on his or her own taste, giving consideration to how it develops, and writing a review.
Last year, we tasted 12,500 wines this way, in our two offices (New York for all imported wines and San Francisco for all US wines). Our critics travel and taste in the regions they cover, but the only ratings and reviews we print in the magazine are straight out of our blind tastings.
What are you drinking these days when you're not at work? Do you have a personal cellar?
A friend and I went through two bottles of Loire whites last week at En Brasserie in New York, a Muscadet Vieilles Vignes from Luneau-Papin and a Cour-Cheverny from François Cazin. Both benefitted from decanting, something that surprised our server there.
The week before, when our editorial team was in San Francisco, we brought some bottles to Old Mandarin, a northern Chinese restaurant near the ocean; the star of the evening with their Mandarin lamb was a 1963 Sandeman Porto, a bottle George Sandeman had given me on a recent visit from Portugal.
Most of what I buy for drinking at home or with friends is Finger Lakes riesling, particularly from Wiemer and Ravines, or Champagne—I love Pierre Péters and Larmandier Bernier, and Roederer when it comes to rosé. Otherwise, my cellar overlaps with the magazine's. We just raided that cellar for a range of older Barolos to taste with Piemontese cheeses at Acquerello in San Francisco. The Poderi Colla 1996 Bussia Dardi Le Rose was the most memorable—fresh and beautiful.
How do you think the wine scene has changed in the last decade or so?
Every generation puts their own stamp on the wine business, and those stamps have been quite different over the past several generations, especially given how much of a developing market the US remains for wine.
The current twentysomethings drink a lot more wine than their predecessors, having grown up with their Boomer parents who may have introduced them to wine at a younger age than when those Baby Boomers were growing up in the sixties and seventies. Young people are getting into the wine business, both on the production side and on the sommelier side, earlier than ever before, with some great new talents making wine in their early twenties (like Gavin Chanin in Santa Maria) and bright 21-year-olds landing plum jobs as sommeliers (like Chad Zeigler, now at RN74).
Meanwhile, in addition to splurging on legendary names now and then, whether by the glass or by investing in a bottle, young people have pushed the industry to make sweeter red wines, and have driven the moscato boom.
What regions around the world do you feel are offering particularly great value in wine these days?
Wherever growers aren't paying exorbitant amounts of money for land. Or where they've owned their land long enough so it's just part of the family. Or where classic wines are out of fashion. Or where there's simply so much wine around that it remains inexpensive for the delicious drinking it offers. Like southern Italy or Greece, where there is a huge amount of great wine waiting to be discovered, whether from Santorini or Naoussa in Greece, or Basilicata, Sicily and Campania in Italy. In Spain, you can still find absurdly inexpensive wines, even at the high end. Consider a 1998 white wine from R. López de Heredia at $50. How can you manage to inventory a wine for 15 years, in barrel and then in bottle, and sell it for $50?
Then there are all sorts of Atlantic whites, like Muscadet and amazing chenins from Anjou and Touraine; or Vinho Verde in Portugal, where you can find refreshing whites for $9 a bottle. For my taste, the Old World offers better values in general than the New, where you often have to pay a fair price to get a top wine. But that doesn't mean you can't find great values in Finger Lakes riesling, or Columbia Valley cabernet.
What new American producers are on your radar? New producers elsewhere?
I'm watching several projects in Oregon, including Mark Tarlov's new wine with Louis-Michel Liger Belair, Chapter 24; recently, Jadot, Larry Stone and Jackson Family Farms have all invested in land in the Willamette Valley. It will be interesting to see what they do with it.
Overseas, Quinta da Manoella in the Douro Valley, where Jorge Serodio Borges and Sandra Tavares are rebuilding a vineyard that's been in the family for generations. Their Vinhas Velhas red wine, from vines planted 120 years ago, is worth checking out. Talinay is a new vineyard in Chile at the edge of the Atacama desert, in the arid shadow of a coastal rain forest. The soil is a solid block of pure white chalk. Felipe Muller is growing pretty astonishing sauvignon blanc there, which bodes well for the chardonnay, pinot noir and syrah his firm, Tabalí, has planted there.
What are a few of your favorite wine lists / restaurants to drink wine in NYC?
I can always find something I want to drink on Thomas Pastuszak's list at The NoMad, with some real deals in the midst of some very expensive bottles. He shares my love of the Finger Lakes and has one of the best selections in the city.
Down the street from NoMad, Sean Josephs has put together a remarkable list of wines in the midst of a crazy list of Bourbons and American whiskies at Maysville. It's a place you can drink very well for $50 or less.
I always enjoy Paul Grieco's take on wine at Hearth, not only for the riesling and Sherry he's championed, but for a lot of the other wines he gets behind.
You can spend a lot of money on wine in New York, but there are some places where you can also choose not to and still drink well, like Jean-Georges, or Del Posto, two places run by wine passion first and foremost. Though the lists are written and maintained by top-flight sommeliers, it's the men behind the scenes, Bernie Sun in the case of Jean-Georges and Joe Bastianich in the case of Del Posto, who set the bar high for the lists.
More interviews with wine folks
Jon Bonné
Kermit Lynch
Christina Turley
Eric Asimov
Dan Petroski
Tyler Colman
All products linked here have been independently selected by our editors. We may earn a commission on purchases, as described in our affiliate policy.


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As we fall headlong into the future I take heart in the trends. Not the 24-hour news channel Dr. Phil reality that everything's gotten and getting worse, not the grandfather-speak about how good it was so long ago. I'm really excited about right now. I live in a great, safe, prosperous city, I want for nothing - and every song I ever loved is inside one tiny little box which is also my cell phone. If I get bored tonight, I might watch one of thousands of movies or tv shows without leaving my house. When I'm wondering where my daughter is, I can send her a short message and she'll get it in seconds - if she's downtown or if she's in another country.
The most fantastical kings and queens couldn't have imagined the comfort and the connectedness of my life right now, right here. In the history of mankind we have never lived longer, been happier or felt safer. As Pinker tells us, our chance of being violently murdered was 1/50th of what it was 500 years ago. And that's not to mention how much less slavery, warfare and of course disease we face than our ancestors ancient and not so ancient. Tim Minchon points out that for all our distance from pure water and the chemicals in the air (and make no mistake, I'd prefer there be fewer!) we still live twice as long as people just a century ago. I live in Manhattan, on 42nd street. My kids can go out at night here. You couldn't say that 20 years ago. When I was a kid, you didn't want to get stuck in a park at night. Now you can traipse through the Bronx. The world we live in right now is better than the world our parents lived in. It's far better than the one our grandparents lived in. Now, if you disagree, fine. Please leave this site. But if you get this simple and crucial point - that the world can get better, then you can understand me. I believe in a Star Trek future. I see gods and other superstitions fading in our memories as we progress into a better, cleaner, safer world. I see art and culture flourishing. Hell - even our TV shows are better written then they were 20 years ago.
And this is why I build and create - from websites to hardware to art to poetry. Because it can all be better, more amazing and more wonderful. I'm so sure of this, I dedicate my life to it. Come with me, and let's see what can be done.


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A Break Tank and Booster set with a hygienic Type AB air gap "Boost-A-Break" shall be installed – model BTAB3-10A - as manufactured and distributed by Arrow Valves Ltd - Tel 01442 823123 www.arrowvalves.co.uk. The unit shall have a 24 litre nominal cistern and stainless steel raised valve chamber, with a lid, screened weirs, cistern drip tray with two DN40 connections, which require an overflow pipe. The pumps shall be centrifugal with stainless steel impellors and housings. The pump speeds shall be varied by an integral inverter to provide a constant pressure. The pump controller shall feature alternate pump starting. The duty at 100% output shall be 4.0 bar@ 1.6 lt/s and be controlled by a pressure transducer, which is damped with a 24 litre pressure vessel. The cistern level shall be controlled automatically by two servo solenoid valves operated via stainless steel conductive electrodes and controller. A low-level pump cut-out shall be controlled by electrodes in the cistern, which shall automatically reset once the cistern is sufficiently full. The cistern shall feature a high-level alarm linked to a volt free BMS relay – model BTBMS2. The unit shall feature a stainless steel base plate and be acoustically attenuated by anti-vibration feet and stainless steel braided flexible hoses. A 35 mm supply is required, which must maintain a dynamic pressure of 1.0 bar.


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Ski areas enjoy late-season snow
Pat's Peak approaches record season
Local ski areas aren't complaining about Tuesday's late-season storm.
At Pat's Peak in Henniker, officials said this season is coming close to a record that was set two years ago.
In 2010-2011, the mountain had about 200,000 visitors. So far this year, about 190,000 people have hit the slopes at Pat's Peak.
Officials said they may not break the record this year, but they're happy to have their second-best season. They said the heavy snowfall on Tuesday will help them push through the final two weeks of the season.
Pat's Peak will close its skiing areas on Easter Sunday to get ready for a big snowmobile event the following weekend.
At Mount Sunapee, the forecast is for several more weeks of spring skiing thanks to the most recent snowfall.
Officials said that if they get the 10-12 inches they expect Tuesday, the mountain will have had almost 60 inches of natural snow since the beginning of February. They said the storm will help extend their spring skiing season.
Last year, Mount Sunapee closed on March 22, but officials said they'll be open long past that this year.
Overall, Sunapee officials said visits are up 25 percent over last year.


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Shards are items needed to be used to exchange to people such as the Move Relearner so the player's Pokémon can remember a move. These items were introduced in Generation III.
Shards can be traded to the Diving Treasure Hunter on Route 124 for Evolutionary Stones. Blue shards for a Water Stone, yellow for a Thunder Stone, green for a Leaf Stone, and red for a Fire Stone. Shards can also be traded to Hikers underground who give the player an item in exchange. They can be traded for weather TMs on Route 212. Or by Mr. Fuego in Fuego Ironworks for a Star Piece if the player trades one to him per color. Jugglers in Violet City and Fuchsia City trade the player for berries in exchange of shards. These items are found via Dive or occasionally using the Dowsing Machine in Mirage Spots. in the Hoenn region games, underground in the Sinnoh region ones, and smashing rocks in the Johto region. All can be bought for 3000 and sold for 100.
In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2 in Driftveil City in the hotels are people who will trade shards of a certain color for a move such as, in the hotel north of the Driftveil market there is a man called the master move tutor and will trade red shards for the moveset, of which includes: Ice Punch, Thunder Punch and Fire Punch for ten red shards. Gunk Shot and Low Kick can be bought for eight shards, Super Fang, uproar, Seed Bomb, and Dual Chop for six. Drill Run, Bounce, Signal Beam and Iron Head for four and Bug Bite and Covet for two. They can also be sold.
Diamond, Pearl and Platinum Versions ([Sinnoh]] regions or IV generation):
The description is the same for each colour. Red*, Blue*, Yellow* and Green*
A small ......... shard. It appears to be from some sort of implement made long ago.
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Hello. Super Destroy FX is a collection of
Audio Units and
VST plugins
by Sophia and
Tom 7.
These plugins are free for you and your friends to use. You can use them for whatever you like, but we'd appreciate it if you:
The source code for some of these plugins (and many unfinished plugins) is available for your perusal and modification. You can also download complete project archives on this page.
Please direct your comments, suggestions, and questions to the guestbook / message board, or email us.
News and release infos are here.
Installation instructions are here (in our FAQ).
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We have Audio Unit versions of our plugins at our Audio Units web page. They are mostly complete, but until they are 100% complete, we're going to keep them on a separate web page. They are universal binaries.
Windows: Version 1.1.1 - 9 Sep 2005
Mac: Version 1.1 - 8 Jan 2003
Geometer is a visually oriented waveform geometry plugin. It works by generating some "points" or "landmarks" on the waveform, moving them around and messing them up, and then reassembling the wave from the points. Each of these three stages can be done in a variety of ways, combining to make millions of different effects. However, Geometer has a real-time display of what your settings are doing to the sound, and a prominent built-in help system to explain what each setting does.
Version 1.0 - 8 Jul 2002
Scrubby goes zipping around through time. Speeding up or slowing down playback, moving backwards or forwards, Scrubby does whatever it takes to reach its destinations on time. If necessary, you can discipline Scrubby by using pitch constraint control, and of course you have a choice between robot mode and DJ mode.
Version 2.0 - 8 Jul 2002
Buffer Override can overcome your host app's audio processing buffer size and then (unsuccessfully) override that new buffer size to be a smaller buffer size. It makes a lot more sense if you just try it out and hear what it does. It can sound like a stuttery vocoder or a stuck beat shuffler or many other delightful things. In certain hosts, you can also "play" Buffer Override via MIDI notes and even sync it to song tempo.
Version 1.4 - 8 Jul 2002
Transverb is like a delay plugin, but it can play back the delay buffer at different speeds. Think of it like a tape loop with two independently-moving read heads. There are lots of parameters to control and a parameter randomizer for the impatient. Tom's first "released" plugin. Fun!
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Rez Synth allows you to "play" resonant bandpass filter banks that process your sound. In the right hosts, MIDI notes can trigger individual filters or banks of filters (up to 30 per note) with controllable frequency separation.
Skidder turns your sound on and off. While that may not sound very rewarding, you have a great deal of control over the rate, pulsewidth, on/off slope, panning width, etc. You can also relinquish some control to randomization. Skidder can also sync with your song tempo and can be triggered by MIDI notes.
We also have more plugins. They're on
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The Destroy FX team is not currently available for hire, but here are projects that we have done:
SFX Machine RT - A cool multi-effects audio suite capable of very unique, bizarre, and wonderful sound mangling. Sophia did the real-time update of this plugin for Audio Unit and VST formats. Sophia also developed the Backwards Machine plugin.
Pluggo - The never ending plugin. Pluggo is a collection of 100+ unusual and great effects and instruments. Plus, it also lets you turn your Max/MSP creations into plugins that you can use in other apps. Sophia did the Audio Unit update for Pluggo (plus a bit of work on Max/MSP).
URS Classic Console Plug-Ins - These are faithful, high-end models of classic hardware equalizers and compressors. Sophia did the Audio Unit and VST versions of all of their plugins as well as the RTAS/AudioSuite versions of a some of them.
Abbey Road Plug-Ins - These are authentic recreations of Abbey Road Studios equipment. Sophia did the Audio Unit and VST versions of most of their plugins.
reFuse Software - Sophia did the native Audio Unit, VST, and RTAS versions of their Lowender subharmonic bass synthesizer plugin.
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MACC reveals 'worrying statistics'
KUALA LUMPUR: More than 50% of those arrested by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) in the past three years were aged below 40.
MACC deputy chief commissioner (prevention) Datuk Shamshun Baharin Mohd Jamil expressed concern over the finding and said it as an "alarming situation".
Of the 2,329 people arrested since 2014, 1,267 were below 40.
"People in this age group are supposed to be nation's backbone, who will shape the future of our country," he said in his keynote speech at a public forum organised by the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (Ideas) yesterday.
Shamshun said about 982 investigation papers were opened, 932 people were detained and 258 charged by the anti-graft body last year.
"MACC plans to engage with youths this year. The Gen-Y group always finds an easy way. We have to guide them from young and create awareness of what is happening around them," he said.
On MACC seeking more allocation, Shamshun said the extra funds were for them to implement what they planned for the year.
"We need more whistle-blowers who can voluntarily come forward to report or provide information on corruption activities."
He said such individuals will be protected under the Whistleblower Protection Act 2010, that shields informants from action. – by Ashwin Kumar thesun
Weeding out graft among youths
Datuk Shamshun Baharin Mohd Jamil (pic) told reporters that the commissions' plan for 2017 would be to focus on Government agencies, as well as arresting the growing trend of corruption among youths.
Responding to questions on cuts to the MACC's budget, he said it was an issue faced by all agencies, though the commission had appealed for more funding to carry out its plans.
"We can't do everything at once because of (MACC's) strength and budget. But my concern is also about how many of those arrested are under 40 years old," said Shamshun Baharin, adding that 54% of those arrested (1,267 of 2,329 cases) were under 40.
He attributed the trend to the generation's environment and wanting to take shortcuts, which MACC aimed to combat with the establishment of a corruption prevention secretariat in higher learning institutions.
During his keynote address at the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) forum titled 'Supporting the MACC in the fight against corruption', Shamshun Baharin said 2016 had been a successful year for the commission.
He revealed that arrest numbers had gone up from 841 (2015) to 932 (2016), of which 258 suspects had been brought to court, as of Dec 15 last year.
At the event, IDEAS CEO Wan Saiful Wan Jan launched a signature drive under its #NyahKorupsi campaign, to support the MACC.
"Our goal is to have more Malaysians come out in support of the MACC because it has made more investigations and arrests of corrupt top officials. There may be a time when they will need our help," he said.
He said IDEAS would collect as many signatures as possible before delivering it to MACC chief commissioner Datuk Dzulkifli Ahmad.
To sign the petition, visit www.change.org/p/sokong-sprm-perangi-rasuah.
The other forum panellist included Transparency International Malaysia president Datuk Akbar Satar, Centre to Combat Corruption and Cronyism executive director Cynthia Gabriel, Friends of Kota Damansara chairman Jeffrey Phang and Sinar Project co-founder Khairil Yusof. - By Qishin Tariq The Star/ANN
Just you wait, MACC boss warns corrupt politicians
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has warned corrupt politicians to "be careful".
Its chief commissioner Datuk Dzulkifli Ahmad, in a live television interview yesterday, said he had previously stated that he would take action on anyone involved in corrupt practices, including "politicians of any rank".
"On my 100th day as MACC chief, I said that I will not be stopped from taking action against politicians.
"Tonight, I would like to say to corrupt politicians, just you wait (tunggulah)," he said.
Dzulkifli added that the MACC was not worried about "protected individuals" who committed systemic corruption.
"There is no issue about them being protected, I can guarantee that all those who commit corruption will not be left alone. I will take action against them without fear or favour," he added.
But Dzulkifli admitted that the MACC had its limitations in terms of logistics.
"There are only 2,900 members and officers in the whole of the MACC, of which only 900 carry out legal enforcement as others are in the prevention and education departments, among others.
"Now if you look at the civil service alone, there are 1.6 million of them, so that is one.
"Besides that, is budget, that has been cut, and it is at its lowest since 2013," he said.
Dzulkifli, however, added that he would not allow the limitations to stop the anti-graft body from carrying out its duties.
The Astro Awani interview is Dzulkifl's first ever live interview since his appointment in July last year.
Dzulkifli, a veteran in the civil service, was the head of the National Revenue Recovery Enforcement Team of the Attorney-General's Chambers before being appointed chief commissioner.
He took over from Tan Sri Abu Kassim Mohamed, and his tenure is until July 31, 2021.
- By D. Kanyakumari The Star/ANN
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From spystyle April 2006
Here is the simplest explanation of mild-dots I have ever read:
The simplest way is:
(size of object in millimeters) / (size of object in mils) = range in meters.
Just teach yourself to use the metric system.
Average man = 1750 mm
Beer can = 130 mm
Kneeling man = 1200-1250 mm
Human head (width) = 150 mm
The beauty of the mil dot system is that it doesn't matter what units you use, as long as you are consistent. If the spacing of 1 mil through the scope is X units high, then it is 1000 X units distant. The units can be feet, yards, or meters, it doesn't matter. If you want the answer in yards, think of how many yards one mil subtends.
Example: If one dot spacing is 0.5 yards (18") high, then the distance is 1000 * 0.5 = 500 yards away. A 6' tall person would subtend 4 dots at 500 yards, or 2 dots at 1000 yards. If you want the answer in meters Mr Hugh's' advice is fine. The metric system has advantages at times.
The problem with the mil dot system (as compared to a laser rangefinder) is in estimating the actual size of the target. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes not. Mil dot accuracy in terms of percent range accuracy will be the same as the error in estimating the target size. If you think a man is 6' tall and he's 2 mil high in the scope, but he's really 5'6" you will think he's at 1000 yards when in fact he's at 917 yards. If you're shooting a .308 you will shoot high by about 80 inches. Not even close, and that isn't considering any other error sources. At ranges 400-700 yards the mil dot system works pretty well. Closer than that you probably don't need anything other than an eyeball estimate (with a little practice).
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Thanks, Popeye.
This beats the "hunter hangover" system by a long shot.
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I have second focal plane Bushnell fixed 10 x 40 scopes with DOA reticle. I bought a mil - mil reticle in first focal plane, and what a difference. The 2 advantages were: 1) zero of the scope and 2) estimating the distance of the object based on size at a distance using the reticle and how many mils it occupies.
I am now a believer in mil - mil and first focal plane. I believe Primary Arms, Falcon and SWFA offer affordable and reliable FFP scopes. I have a Falcon M18. 4 - 18x50 and it cost me $400 Canadian Pesos.
I am now a believer in mil - mil and first focal plane. I believe Primary Arms, Falcon and SWFA offer affordable and reliable FFP scopes. I have a Falcon M18. 4 - 18x50 and it cost me $400 Canadian Pesos.
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I believe in the KISS principle. Mil-Mil scope with 1st focal plane. No matter what scope magnification the scope is, it will always yield the correct adjustment.
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LeBron sticking to his promise of Game 4 heroics
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SAN ANTONIO — A day later, LeBron James didn't back down.
When the Miami Heat were embarrassed by 36 points in Game 3 of the NBA Finals, James took all the blame and even lauded his teammates for playing great. Shortly after that 113-77 debacle of a Spurs' victory ended Tuesday night, James insisted that he would do enough to change the way the Heat compete in Game 4.
And Wednesday, James' tune was the same.
"I'm putting all the pressure on my chest, on my shoulders to come through for our team," James said, virtually echoing what he had vowed the previous night. "That's the way it is."
That's not necessarily the same game plan that Heat coach Erik Spoelstra would prefer, but by now, it's just become assumed that when the stakes are highest, it's all going to be on James anyway, whether that's the actual reality or not. If the Heat win Game 4, odds are James will be credited as the reason why. If they lose Game 4 and go one loss away from elimination, then it'll be widely considered as James' failure.
"Look, we have great confidence from our guys and their ability to bounce back and respond in a big way," Spoelstra said. "And that's all our focus is the next 24 hours — how do we prepare ourselves to play our best game of the series tomorrow night. That's the only thing that matters. LJ has proven himself enough in this league and on the biggest stage. He is going to … he'll be better."
When the Heat arrived Wednesday for practice in San Antonio, after a particularly difficult-to-stomach film session to recap Game 3, James had his practice jersey slung over his head, letting the piece of mesh fabric sway down his back much in the way that a cape would.
Fitting. In Game 4, he might need a hero's effort to save the Heat.
"We're not worried about LeBron," Heat guard Dwyane Wade said. "He's going to find his way. He's going to get in a groove. As teammates you try to figure out a way to get him an easy basket in a breakout, try to get it back to him, get a lay-up, so he can see the ball go in. As a scorer you need to see it go in. Besides that, we're not concerned about him at all."
Strangely, some of the Spurs sound as if they're not concerned about James either.
Danny Green has had a phenomenal start to these finals, and James' former Cleveland teammate raised a couple eyebrows after Game 3 when he said that while the Spurs were executing their plan against him as they would hope, the reigning and overall four-time NBA MVP was hurting his own cause as well.
"I'm just saying, we all know what he's capable of doing," Green said. "I don't know what's going on, but he's not playing his best basketball right now. It's not just us. We're doing a decent job of making it tough for him, but I don't know what's going on. He's not playing LeBron basketball. … It could be a number of things. It could be stuff going on behind the scenes."
When told of Green's comments, James smiled.
"I'll be better. I'll be much better tomorrow night," he said.
The 36-point loss matched the largest that James has endured in his career, and his minus-32 rating was the worst of his 899 previous games. He was 7 for 21 from the field — his shooting has been subpar in every game so far in this series — and did not get to the foul line, a byproduct of both the Spurs taking driving lanes away and James shooting the jumpers than San Antonio is daring him to try.
Spoelstra said the Heat would find ways on the film to clean up some of the many issues from Game 3. Wade had a far more succinct approach.
"As players I think we figured it out in the game," Wade said. "We're playing terrible. So the film session just brings it to light a little more. It's not really much we can learn from that, from the standpoint of schemes, we just have to do what we do a lot better versus the team. So film session gives you an opportunity to … in front of your teammates, in front of your coaches, to really own it up. Own up to it, and move on."
And there was plenty for the Heat to own in that film session.
Starters Udonis Haslem and Mario Chalmers missed all seven of their shots and did not score. The Heat were outrebounded 52-36, 19-9 on the offensive end. They gave up a Finals-record 16 3-pointers on 32 attempts, and got blown out of a game where Tony Parker, Tim Duncan and Manu Ginobili were really quite ordinary.
"There ain't no explanation," Haslem said. "There ain't no excuses."
The way James was talking on Wednesday, it's all-or-nothing time for the Heat.
"It's just something we've grown over the years, being able to bounce back in adverse situations," James said. "And no matter the circumstances, this is going to be probably one of the toughest, because … we're going against a team with championship DNA and championship pedigree on the floor and a must-win. We're going to be ready for it. We're going to accept the challenge and see what happens."


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But not even NBC executives were prepared for exactly how dismal the ratings would be for its Thursday night midseason entry Do No Harm. The Jan. 31 bow of the Steven Pasquale drama's 0.9 rating (and 3.1 million viewers) made it the lowest-rated in-season scripted premiere in the history of the Big Four networks and earned it the ax after two episodes. PHOTOS: Overheard at TCA: Sound Bites From TV's Winter Press Tour Then came news that Christina Applegate would exit Up All Night, the comedy she's headlined for two uneven seasons, as the Lorne Michaels-produced show attempts to switch from single-camera to multicamera. Sources say the series is not dead yet -- co-stars Will Arnett and Maya Rudolph declined comment on their status -- but admit prospects for survival are bleak. At the same time, Smash, a show championed by Greenblatt, returned Feb. 5 with a poor 1.2 rating, a decline of nearly 70 percent compared with last season's Voice-fueled debut. Struggling midseason comedy 1600 Penn is being pre-empted Feb. 14 by The Office after managing a 1.3 rating with 3.3 million viewers for its Jan. 24 episode. New drama Deception earned a low 1.3 rating with 3.3 million viewers for its Feb. 11 episode (and that was an increase of nearly 20 percent week-over-week in the demo). New comedies Go On and The New Normal -- which benefited from the fall boost at NBC -- have seen their ratings plummet after the holidays, and awards magnet 30 Rock's January finale generated a 1.9 rating (4.9 million viewers). Adding salt to the wound, the network's top-rated comedy, Office, ends in May. All of this puts enormous pressure on The Voice to deliver for its second cycle of the season -- and without Christina Aguilera and Cee Lo Green (replaced by Shakira and Usher). And even that one hit doesn't solve NBC's long-term problems. "It's going to take more than The Voice to turn their fortunes around," notes Brad Adgate, senior vp research at Horizon Media, who adds that while ratings erosion was inevitable, "no one anticipated that the falloff would be this great." But if Greenblatt -- and NBC -- is under the microscope from owner Comcast, insiders say he still has the support of boss Steve Burke, who is giving him plenty of latitude. (Comcast also announced Feb. 12 that it will buy out GE's 49 percent ownership of NBCUniversal for $16.7 billion.) One source close to Greenblatt describes NBC's recent woes as "hellacious" but adds that he is focused on rebuilding, however slowly. He has ordered 27 pilots this season, a massive haul that includes an already-ordered-to-series Michael J. Fox comedy. Sources say the thinking is that even further investment is needed to right the ship. STORY: Christina Applegate Exits NBC's 'Up All Night' Some have noted that NBC's much-derided Jay Leno experiment at 10 p.m. produced better ratings than some of the current time-slot occupants. But no one expects the network to return to a variety format -- even at one-fifth the cost of a flop like Do No Harm. "When you have a bad show and you put it into a tough time period, fairly bad things happen," notes a top producer. "Does that mean strategically they return to the most disastrous decision in the history of NBC? No, it doesn't mean that." Indeed, the modest ratings for Rock Center With Brian Williams -- the previous occupant of the 10 p.m. Thursday slot -- look healthy compared with Do No Harm's nosedive. Rock Center pulled in a 1.3 rating (with 5.5 million viewers) for its inaugural Friday installment on Feb. 8, which was 85 percent better than Do No Harm did the night before. But NBC brass might have upset Williams with the move. He closed Rock Center on Feb. 8 with a segment characterizing Friday as its "latest resting place." Sources at NBC News say Williams was angered that Burbank execs did not give the show the promised promotion, while plans to expand it to multiple weekly airings have been abandoned. Another executive suggests Greenblatt is focused on doing too much too quickly and should rely on more inexpensive, unscripted fare to plug holes while he homes in on building specific nights. At the moment, NBC has little to use for schedule spackle save for Law & Order: SVU reruns -- which will fill 10 p.m. Thursdays for now -- and a few series in waiting, including the thriller Hannibal. The Celebrity Apprentice returns March 3, and Eva Longoria's Ready for Love follows March 31. Also on the roster is an Anne Heche comedy whose title might serve as a call-to-action for the network: Save Me. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Marisa Guthrie firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge has scheduled the summer's final Family Fishing Day for Saturday morning.
Activities will take place at the refuge's South Gate Recreation Area from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and include basic instruction and fun fishing opportunities. Youths younger than 16 can fish without licenses.
Participants may take their own equipment or use equipment and bait provided by the refuge. All children participating in the fishing clinic will receive a free T-shirt.
An entrance permit is required for all vehicles. Permits may be obtained at pay stations near the entrances or at the Visitor Center.
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In three minutes, journalism students in the introductory broadcast class (JRN310) provide updated news and information about Stony Brook University as well as national, international news and campus calendar.
In three minutes, journalism students in the introductory broadcast class (JRN310) provide updated news and information about Stony Brook University as well as national, international news and campus calendar.
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The BrikWorld Arkeais hangs at the fringes of a galaxy sadly far removed from the wanton, careless, and chaotic destruction caused by the star empires at the metaphorical heart of the BrikVerse. But it is no stranger to a delightful array of violence. Its inhabitants have stood as a bulwark against encroaching tides of NegaVerse warriors since time immemorial. So long have they fought against the Nega-Blox (whose portals into this universe are mysteriously and disturbingly stable in this region of space), they have become fractious, unable to decide how best to end the seemingly eternal threat (and also to sometimes indulge in gleeful violence against one another in order to avoid the insanity spawning, mind numbing, monotony of the easy blok kill).
Arkeais sits at the center of a MultiVersal Nexus, and so the NegaPortals aren't the only otherworldly intrusions despite being the most prevalent and the most dangerous. Arkeais is a HubPlanet, calling out through all existence and drawing other realities to its timespace like moths to a flame. Originally a BrikWorld, Arkeais has become increasingly cut off from its home dimension as its natural properties bend the fabric of reality around it. Though still technically connected more to the BrikVerse than any other Verse, none can say how long that will remain the situation. Eventually, if left unchecked, Arkeais will isolate itself into its own pocket reality, its only contact with anywhere or anywhen else being the unstable portals which riddle the planet itself and the space immediately surrounding it.
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There are hundreds of Arkeaisian Factions, with minor ones popping up everyday. Some are new and some are very, very old. There are factions within factions, factions that exist solely to combat other factions or subvert their influence in some way, factions that mimic cults of personalities, factions that place their faith in objects of power instead, factions that are offspring of older factions, factions which were once one faction but then became two due to time and/or distance apart, and so on and so forth. Whether due to experience, great influence, or sheer power, however, there are only a handful of major Arkeaisian Factions. Though these major factions certainly come into conflict with one another often, they are able to affect more change than their smaller cousins and can spend more of their time and resources fighting the invaders. Without these powerful leaders, Arkeais would fall under Nega control in a matter of hours.
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The Order of Automatic Binding is a knightly order dedicated to the stalwart defense of Arkeais who reason that the NegaVerse will eventually either get the idea and stop sending agents through the portals or they will run out of warriors to send. They look forward to the promised time of building and rebuilding the BrikWorld 1x1 brick at a time.
Sons of Mim
The Sons are a purist, extremist rebel faction who believe that the only way to save the BrikWorld from NegaTaint is to destroy it utterly. Many of the Sons are convinced that a new world will be born from the molten fires of the last, all impurities burned away. This prophecy is likely supported by the amazing ability possessed by many of their Heroes to reshape and control ABS on a molecular level. At any rate, the Sons of Mim are united by the driving philosophy that if they can't play well, they will at least die well.


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Democrats in New York ran for cover in response to fallout after Gov. Andrew Cuomo said confiscation is the goal of new gun laws introduced in the state legislature. "Confiscation could be an option. Mandatory sale to the state could be an option," Cuomo said in December.
The plan was shelved after it was estimated it would cost over a billion dollars to "buyback" around a million so-called assault weapons in the state.
"The cost of confiscation would make it impracticable, if there's anything approaching a million of them, putting aside the other issues that would be involved,'' a Cuomo administration source told the New York Post.
But despite the budget-busting cost of a mandatory buyback, Democrats in the state are determined to confiscate firearms from law-abiding New Yorkers, as the video below demonstrates.
During an exchange on January 15 in the New York State Assembly, Republican Steven F. McLaughlin said the gun bill proposed by Democrats included provisions to confiscate weapons, but the proposals were rejected because they would have sunk the legislation.
The exchange underscores the fact that Democrats in New York and Washington are not merely interested in outlawing what they erroneously describe as assault weapons, but are determined to confiscate them.
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When war broke out in the Pacific, the San Francisco Bay Area quickly assumed a prominent role in America's "Arsenal of Democracy." Older coastal batteries, airfields and military posts were supplemented by a network of hastily constructed barracks, warehouses and staging facilities stretching from Camp Stoneman in Pittsburg to Fort Cronkhite in Marin County. New shipyards were built in Richmond and Sausalito and existing yards were expanded in San Francisco, Oakland and Alameda. Bay Area cities were unprepared for the massive influx of laborers needed to run factories and shipyards. The rapid migration of workers severely taxed housing, education and other services. And because they were scattered around the bay, getting workers to and from shipyards tremendously strained transportation systems, with Richmond, Vallejo and Alameda among the hardest hit.
The mammoth mobilization and production effort caused profound social changes and land use impacts that still affect us today. The Bay Area is rich in historic districts, sites, buildings and structures that chronicle the region's transformation, ranging from dry docks, cranes and shipbuilding facilities, to coast defense batteries and ports of embarkation. Although many of these historic places have been lost over time, remnants of the region's "military-industrial machine" have been successfully adapted to serve contemporary civilian needs. With the conversion of coastal batteries to picnic areas, shipyards to subdivisions, blimp hangars to movie sets and officers' quarters to wedding venues, the Bay Area's once-mighty "Arsenal" has been pacified through preservation.
Multi-billion dollar projects are underway at former military installations throughout the Bay Area, including Hamilton Field, Alameda Naval Air Station and Mare Island Naval Shipyard. Other projects in the pipeline include Treasure Island, hailed as "San Francisco's next neighborhood," 2 and Hunters Point Shipyard, promising to deliver "jobs, homes and opportunity."3 More accustomed to plotting subdivisions on undeveloped land than building in dense urban settings, base reuse developers are sometimes reluctant to invest the time and money needed to come up with creative solutions for reusing "obsolete" infrastructure. All too often, historic places are sacrificed in the name of expediency.
Among local government officials and base reuse developers, historic places are alternatively viewed as a marketing tool and a key to revitalization or a deterrent to economic reuse. Bus placards advertising Bayport Alameda, "a new community that celebrates the heritage of Alameda," lure prospective buyers with a vintage photo of a Pan Am Clipper and the tagline: "Alameda was once home port for the China Clipper flights. Come see what has just landed."4 The website for Lennar Mare Island states that "preservation of Mare Island's historic resources [is] an integral part of the reuse plan,"5 although long-term plans call for substantial demolition in the island's historic district.6 Citing the need to eliminate "visual blight," all 22 buildings in the Oakland Army Base Historic District will be bulldozed for construction of a suburban-style office park.7
Hamilton Army Air Field (Novato)
Deactivated in 1974, Hamilton Field was among the first successful transfers of a military base to the private sector for redevelopment in the recent wave of closures. The project's mix of homes, office space, retail and recreational amenities is intended to create a "small-town feel" where residents can "live, work, play and belong."9 Much of the old Spanish Mission Revival architecture has been preserved, including housing, barracks and hangars, as well as the base hospital, firehouse and theater. Cavernous hangars have been converted into a half-million square feet of office space; three former barracks recently reopened as the Villas at Hamilton, a "vibrant community for independent seniors"; the old headquarters building is now the Novato Arts Center; and the firehouse is slated to become the Hamilton Field History Museum.10
Fort Barry/Headlands Center for the Arts (Marin Headlands)
After sitting vacant for 15 years, HCA initiated an innovative renovation program whereby Barracks Building 944 was upgraded--one room at a time--by granting commissions to artists. "The Latrine Project," by Bruce Tomb and John Randolph, remodeled a decrepit military bathroom to meet the Center's contemporary needs, hanging plumbing from the ceiling to "provoke awareness of water systems and how they function."14 For "The Mess Hall Project," artist Ann Hamilton "magically transformed the formerly dim, damp, low-ceilinged dining room and cluttered kitchen into the Center's main gathering place, where sumptuous meals are shared, culture gaps are bridged, collaborations are inspired and creative revelations arise."15 This model has been replicated by HCA at other Fort Barry buildings, including the 1907 Army storage depot, which was innovatively restored by architect Mark Cavagnero and artist Leonard Hunter in 1999. All of these projects were completed under the watchful eye of the National Park Service, which ensured their compliance with the Secretary of the Interior's rehabilitation standards.
The Presidio (San Francisco)
One of the largest and most innovative preservation projects in the Nation, the Presidio boasts several award-winning rehabilitation and adaptive reuse projects. Old Letterman Hospital (constructed in 1924, expanded in 1933), the busiest army hospital in the country during World War II, has been reborn as the Thoreau Center for Sustainability, converting the original hospital wards into energy-efficient office space for non-profit tenants. The Mission-style Building 39 (1938), formerly the Sixth Army Headquarters, has been rehabilitated by the San Francisco Film Centre to provide state-of-the-art screening facilities, office space, conference rooms, an exhibit hall and a cafe for tenants in the film industry. The renovation and expansion of the Presidio Fire Station (1918)--adding a new truck bay, kitchen and dining facilities and lounge space--was honored by the California Preservation Foundation in 2000 for "combining a historically sensitive design approach with modern technological and spatial requirements."16 Future projects include the proposed conversion of the Public Health Service Hospital (1932) into a 350-unit apartment complex, which will be the park's largest historic preservation project to date.
Rosie the Riveter--World War II Home Front National Historical Park
As a "partnership park" with no land or buildings actually owned by the National Park Service, the success of Rosie the Riveter is dependent on collaboration with other government agencies and private property owners. Most of the historic properties within park boundaries, including the former Richmond Shipyard Number Three and the Ford Assembly Building, are owned and maintained by the City of Richmond. With funding from the California Coastal Conservancy and the Association of Bay Area Government's Bay Trail Project, the Richmond Redevelopment Agency recently commissioned the design and fabrication of interpretive signage for a 3.4-mile section of the Bay Trail passing through the Park. Due for completion in 2004, sites linked by the signage program will include the Rosie the Riveter Memorial, the Ford Assembly Building and "perhaps the Park's largest historic resource--the coastline itself, which was reconfigured as the basin for Shipyard No. 2."17
Essay by Michael Buhler, Regional Attorney/Program Officer Western Office, National Trust for Historic Preservation
1. "Home Builders Face Big Roadblocks with Re-Use Projects on Ex-Military Bases," HBA News (Home Builders Association of Northern California), January/February 2002, p. 14.
2. Chuck Finnie, "Treasure Island project expected to go to mayor's cronies," San Francisco Chronicle, April 6, 2003.
3. Lennar/BVHP, LLP (www.hunterspointshipyard.com).
4. Warmington Homes California (www.Bayport-Alameda.com).
5. Lennar Mare Island (www.lennarmareisland.com).
6. In its 2002 report to Congress, the National Park Service warned that "plans to demolish or relocate historic buildings," together with the proposed 8.5 million square feet of non-residential new construction, "could seriously diminish the historic character of individual areas of the Landmark and of the entire island."
7. Draft Environmental Impact Report for Oakland Army Base Redevelopment Plan, Port of Oakland, April 2002, p.1-18.
8. "Shea Homes Opens Sunny Cove and Newport Communities at Novato's Hamilton Field," July 14, 2000 (www.sheahomes.com).
9. Maura Thurman, "Developers hope community atmosphere attracts buyers," Marin Independent Journal, January 24, 1999.
10. New Hamilton Partnership/Woodley, Wright & Lynn (www.tjwright.com).
11. The Point (www.thepointart.com).
12. "San Francisco: Art for the City, A City for the Arts," Newsom for Mayor Policy Brief (2004).
13. Headlands Center for the Arts (www.headlands.org).
14. Id.
15. Id.
16. Michael Buhler, Award-Winning Design Solutions (California Preservation Foundation, 2001), p.80.
17. Id.
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KOMU Addresses Coverage Confusion
The most important job of KOMU is to deliver the most accurate information to viewers. Despite giving the accurate information, sometimes viewers are not satisfied with a way we cover the story. In this week's your view story, KOMU 8's Sarah Hill explains how both KOMU and the viewer made a valid point. KOMU covered the story about recent changes in consumer preference in movies and media and how these changes impacted the video rental businesses. In that story, we said Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy with a picture of a local Blockbuster store. We did not mention that any of them locally or nationally were closing. One local Block Buster store manager was not satisfied with our story. She had a couple of e-mail correspondences with the station and eventually put a sign in her store window.
The sign said, "KOMU aired a picture of our store and said that Blockbuster filed bankruptcy. That information is correct; however, we are not a corporate Blockbuster. We are privately owned and will remain open regardless of what Blockbuster Corp. does. We tried offering correction with KOMU, however, they refused."
KOMU 8's News Director Stacey Woelfel says, "I think telling the story of the business relationship between the local store and the national chain would really help the story out because it did imply I think through the superimposing of the image of the local store that the local store was about to close its doors. No. The story did not say that. But, I can understand why the owner of that store would be upset by the story use of its local image."
"It might happen more often than people think. We do the story where everything we have is accurate and that was the case with this story. But, the person doesn't like the way video was used or the angle that we took, and so they think it's not right, but in fact it is accurate. We stand by that," Woelfel said.
KOMU tried multiple times to contact the manager of the Columbia Peach Tree Blockbuster Store, but she did not respond to our request for an interview.
If you'd like to comment about our coverage of the Blockbuster story or anything else, you can call us on Your View comment line at 573-884-NEWS or watch Friday nights at 6:00 as we report your view of the news.


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Custodial Accounts for Children
Because individuals must be of legal age to own property, many parents use custodial accounts as ways for moving funds and assets into their children's names.
The concept of custodial accounts was originally established under the Uniform Gifts to Minors Act (UGMA). These accounts were an easy and legal way to transfer the ownership of assets to a child. UGMA accounts were fine for financial assets such as cash, bonds or stocks. Recently, most states have adopted the Uniform Transfer to Minors Act (UTMA) that provides some additional capabilities for the property to consist of real estate or other more complicated types of property.
With a UGMA or UTMA account, the parent creates a custodial account on behalf of the minor child. Assets are transferred into the account and the custodian, usually a parent, manages the account until the child reaches legal age. At that point, the child can do whatever he or she wishes with the assets.
These accounts are often used to save for college educations or to create some net worth for a child. While they are usually established by a parent, other adults (such as grandparents) can establish UGMA or UTMA accounts and act as custodian.
Transfers are irrevocable
If you are considering transferring assets into a custodial account, remember that the gift is irrevocable. You cannot change your mind later and take the assets back. Your child becomes the owner when you make the transfer. Most states set 21 as the age when the custodial accounts end. However, some states set age 18, between 18 and 21 or between 18 and 25. Check the laws of your state.
Gift tax implications
Transfers into a custodial account are just like any other gift. You can make annual gifts up to $14,000 in cash, securities or other property to anyone without owing any federal gift tax and without filing a gift tax return. The annual exclusion applies to each person receiving the gift.
If you are married, gifts can be considered to be one half from you and one half from your spouse. In other words, two parents can give up to a total of $28,000 per year to a child without owing any gift tax. However, a simple gift tax return may be required if you use this gift-splitting technique. Consult your tax advisor.
Income tax implications
When the assets become the child's, any income the assets produce is taxed to the child. There are special tax rules that apply to children under the age of 18, 18 year olds with earned income less than half of their support, and 19 to 23 year old students with earned income less than half of their support. These rules are commonly called the "Kiddie" tax.
The tax laws provide that the first $1000 in 2014 of investment income from assets held in the child's name is tax free. The next $1000 is taxed at the child's tax rate (usually the lowest rate of 10%). Investment income greater than $2000, is taxed at the parent's rate until the child is no longer subject to the Kiddie tax. The Kiddie tax rules were changed in 2007 and you may want to consult a tax advisor to determine how the rules may apply in your situation.
Qualifying for College Financial Aid
Using a UTMA or UGMA account to receive assets transferred from parents may limit or reduce your child's ability to qualify for needs-based financial aid to cover college costs. This is because many financial aid programs require the student to use 35% of their assets for college before being eligible for aid. The same programs may only require 5% of the parents' assets to be used in the calculation. You may want to investigate this if your child's qualifying for financial aid is going to be important.
Custodial accounts are an easy and convenient way to transfer funds to children. There are limited income tax benefits and there may be negative implications for your child's ability to qualify for college financial aid. However, often the major factor to consider is that your children will be able to use the funds as they please once they reach a certain age. This is all the more reason to make sure your children have a proper financial education.
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Tuesday afternoon round-up (and Open Thread)
This is one of those days where my day totally didn't go as planned . . . but for good reasons. How often can one say that? Plans or no plans, though, the news marches on and there's so much interesting stuff I want to share with you.
When Rep. Louis Gohmert (R.) pointed out to Eric Holder that Holder seemed remarkably unfazed by the fact that Congress had held him in contempt, Holder, showing remarkable contempt for Congress, snapped ""You don't want to go there, buddy! You don't want to go there, okay."
If it were me, I'd hold Holder in contempt just for that — that is, for the gross disrespect with which he spoke to a Congressman while actually appearing before Congress. Certainly, if this had been a courtroom and Holder had spoken that way to a judge, Holder would instantly have been cooling his heels in a jail cell. Holder also seems to have forgotten that Holder's an appointee (a mere employee), while Gohmert is a representative of the people.
Aside from the obvious crude, vulgar conduct, what's noteworthy is that Holder insists that, while he's personally pained that he was held in contempt for refusing to turn over Fast and Furious documents, he still has no intention of turning over the documents. Holder's arrogance tells you a lot about the state of Washington, D.C. today. Holder knows that, because he and his boss are black, Congress will do precisely nothing to force him to abide by Congress's demands and his constitutional obligations.
May I speak frankly? John Kerry is a brainless, cowardly, dishonest, antisemitic cancer infecting the American body politic. To the extent he's also Secretary of State, I'd say that his particular disease is widespread in American politics and comes from the top. Just sayin'.
I already heard from a reliably Leftist friend why we shouldn't believe data showing that health insurance premiums have skyrocketed since Obamacare went into effect: Because insurance brokers are facing competition from Obamacare, the sampling of 148 insurance brokers must be discounted on the presumption that those queried were lying when they provided insurance pricing information. The friend implied that a larger sampling would have made a difference, but that's a sop to the stupid. If he thinks brokers are inherently dishonest because they don't like Obamacare, then it's irrelevant how many one surveys.
I see things a little differently. I'm pretty damn sure that, if you force everybody to buy over-the-top insurance that exceeds what most people want, and make half of the purchasers pay for the other half, premiums are going to go up quickly and frequently.
Still on the healthcare front, this is exciting news: four men with severely damaged spinal cords are able to move their legs again thanks to electrical stimulation that may be retraining both brain and spinal cord. That's just totally freakin' amazing and I hope it's something real and not just anomalous.
I had a whole bunch of links and arguments lined up to discuss the ironic news that the CEO of OKCupid, the company that started the witch hunt against Brendan Eich, is on record as having donated to a pro-traditional marriage politician (more than one, in fact, if you count his 2008 donation to Barack Obama). Then I read Ace and realized I didn't have anything to add to the subject.
Dennis Prager explains why the Mozilla boycott is important and, more than that, necessary to preserve American liberties (emphasis mine):
As Princeton professor Robert George warned on my radio show, today the Left fires employees for opposition to same-sex marriage. Tomorrow it will fire employees who are pro-life ("anti-woman"). Then it will be employees who support Israel (an "apartheid state").
The reason to boycott Firefox is not that it is run by leftists. Nor is the reason to support the man-woman definition of marriage. It is solely in order to preserve liberty in the land of liberty.
If Mozilla doesn't recant and rehire Eich as CEO, McCarthyism will have returned far more pervasively and perniciously than in its first incarnation. The message the gay Left (such as the Orwellian-named Human Rights Campaign) and the Left in general wish to send is that Americans who are in positions of power at any company should be forced to resign if they hold a position that the Left strongly opposes.
And right now that position is opposition to same-sex marriage.
Think about that. In the United States of America today, the belief that marriage should remain defined as the union of a man and woman is portrayed as so vile by the Left that anyone who holds it is unfit for employment.
The battle over Firefox is the most important battle in America at this particular moment. If you use Firefox, uninstall it, and use Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, or Safari. For Windows, try Pale Moon, which is based on the Firefox engine and will import all of your bookmarks; for mobile devices, you can try Puffin.
America can have liberty or it can have Firefox. Right now, it cannot have both.
Victor Davis Hanson details how, in just five years, Obama has destroyed the world order as it existed since 1942, one that saw America use a variety of strategies to encourage countries that support individual freedom and to isolate, weaken, and perhaps destroy those that don't. Obama has not retreated to the isolation America embraced after WWI, when it left the world alone and asked the world to leave it alone. Instead, Obama is very deliberately cultivating or encouraging freedom's enemies, while manifestly abandoning freedom's (and America's) allies.
Funnily enough, Obama's official foreign policy on behalf of the United States of America precisely tracks the legal definition of treason (18 U.S. Code § 2381):
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
Allow me to channel Elmer Fudd: "Be afwaid. Be vewy, vewy afwaid." And as Fudd wouldn't have said, the Pax American is officially over; let Armageddon begin.
Obama and his minions are gloating about Obamacare's 7.1 million enrollments. They seem to have lost sight of the fact that forcing people into a government program is entirely separate from the government program's actually functioning. Michael Ramirez hasn't forgotten that little detail.
Maybe none of this is surprising considering that the mayor's name is "Outlaw":
One-thousand "brothers in blue" came to pay their respects this afternoon to Officer Alexander Thalmann, 22, killed in the line of duty in New Bern, N.C., last week.
Thalmann's partner, Officer Justin Wester, 23, is recovering from a gunshot wound to his leg from the shootout that left convicted felon, Bryan Stallings, 35, dead.
The incident happened March 28, in the housing projects known as Craven Terrace.
The town's grief was made even more painful by the local administration's handling of events following the young officer's death.
For unknown reasons, newly elected, Mayor Dana Outlaw chose to attend Thursday's funeral of the career criminal.
Adding insult to injury, last night's planned memorial for local citizens to say "goodbye" to Alexander Thalmann was cancelled by the mayor's office.
It was alleged that two of the city's aldermen had invited relatives of the killer to attend the vigil. Rather than rescind the invitation, the city chose to cancel the event.
You actually don't have to go any further than the title to Daniel Greenfield's post to know that he's written something good and important: Islam Is What Happens When Civilization Loses.
I've mentioned before the main reason an Ivy League liberal I know refused even to consider Sarah Palin as a vice-presidential candidate, despite reluctantly conceding that (a) she had more governing experience than Barack Obama in 2008 and (b) she would have been an apprentice, if she won, not the main player. That was all irrelevant. What matter was that Palin, unlike prep school, Ivy League communist Obama, "is not one of us." I thought of that liberal when I read about Kathleen Parker's unconscionable snobbery.
Have you registered yet for American CurrentSee, a free online magazine that seeks to give a voice to conservative American blacks? I hasten to add here that the magazine is not limited to black writers or black issues. In other words, it's a magazine that's truly diverse, rather than a monolithic magazine that simply pays lip-service to some abstract "diversity." The magazine examines politics and social issues that affect blacks, but that also affect all of us who want a strong, unified, freedom-loving country. So far, I'm pleased that I signed up.
And finally, I continue to be completely impressed by Amy Purdy's turn on Dancing With The Stars (this time with a new partner for the week):


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Disney's Musical TARZAN takes audiences on an unforgettable jungle journey right in the centre of Stuttgart. The Stage Apollo Theatre in Stuttgart presents the famous story of the young man who is looking for his roots and finds the love of his life, a show with spectacular lighting effects, breathtaking aerial choreography and music by Phil Collins.
Nearly 2,000 people at the Stage Apollo Theatre in Stuttgart are whisked away to the jungle... the light shimmers, the birds twitter and Tarzan and his companions swing from vine to vine, seemingly defying gravity, as the jungle drums rumble and the waves whisper in the distance. Against this perfectly recreated jungle backdrop, Disney's musical TARZAN tells the famous, universally popular story of the young man who grew up with gorillas and meets the beautiful Jane when searching for his family origins. It's the beginning of a great love story between two people from two different worlds who are suddenly confronted by the decision of their life.
As if from nowhere, the 24 actors keep appearing above the audience's heads, swinging headfirst around the auditorium at breathtaking speed. At every show 2,000 people are transported from the city to the depths of the jungle, into a magical world of acrobatic feats with an awesome backdrop and exhilarating music by seven-time Grammy winner Phil Collins. The drums roll for eight jungle-beat performances every week.
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