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Here's a roundup of what's at stake over the weekend:
Kleybs, Agnes, Nadia, and K-Zak are into the semis of Seoul, with Klara ousting Dinara yesterday in straight sets. If you're an Ana fan, you'll be watching Kleybs' progress over the weekend in hopes that she's exhausted by the time she gets to Tokyo. Yes, it's come to this. Over in Tashkent it'll be Vezzie vs. Alla, each of whom are trying to win their first career titles. Go Vez!
As for the guys, Richard, Gilles, Techno, and Zverev are in the semifinals in Metz. The result of note? Techno reeling off 10 of the last 11 games to beat Marin in the quarterfinals. Seriously, what the french is going with that guy?
In Romania, Montanes, Granollers, Chela, and Andujar will duke it out for the last dirt title of the season.
Lastly, if you're interested at all, the qualie draw in Tokyo is pretty interesting. L-Rob is there and she won her first round match over #57 Sevastova (not an easy feat -- Sevastova won a title and beat Ana and JJ earlier this year), and she'll play the winner of Halep/Flipkens for a spot in the main draw. Whoever wins that Halep/Flipper match will have to turn around play Robbie later in the day. Good luck, Laura!
And as a random aside, I was totally shocked to see MGMT in the qualie draw. Didn't realize she'd fallen that far.

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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Saturday, July 15, 2006
"You certainly get interesting email."
That's what a friend wrote to me recently and he's right. He was referring to something I had forwarded to him... these photos and the accompanying note from the owner of a damaged piece of original art by Coby Whitmore. "Is it possible that this is of Marilyn Monroe?" he wondered. The owner had found my blog while searching for info on the artist. I sent him to The Illustration House's Walt Reed, because Walt simply is the leading authority on such matters. Sure enough, Walt was able to provide some good background information and a professional assessment of the piece:
Your picture is not of Marilyn Monroe. I recognize the model as one that Coby Whitmore used for several early story illustrations while he was at Cooper studios.
It is sad to see the condition. There are many paint losses and some bad attempt at restoration on an arm. By all means it should be repaired, but by a competent professional. Coby usually worked with designer's colors, a water soluble water color made by Winsor and Newton. It may cost a few hundred dollars, but well worth the investment, the picture is not worth much as it stands.
The owner asked me to pass along to readers that he will entertain serious offers for the piece. Anyone interested can email me and I will put you in touch with him.
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Voice of Experience: Eduard Telders, PEMCO Financial ServicesBy Mel Duvall | Posted 2002-09-16 Print
The chief security officer of PEMCO reviews his 13 years on the job.
Eduard Telders
Chief Security Officer
PEMCO Financial Services
Seattle, Wash.
Manager's Profile: Telders has served in various security roles in the banking and insurance industries since 1981. When he was taking the job at PEMCO 13 years ago, he wanted responsibility for both physical and electronic security of the company, and was designated "chief security officer."
His Responsibility: All aspects of security at the bank and insurance firm, which has more than $1.5 billion in assets. The company's security compliance officer (in charge of physical security management) reports directly to Telders, along with senior information security analysts, and the company's safety and security coordinator. He, in turn, reports to the chief technology officer.
Why a chief security officer? To Telders, it makes perfect sense to have one executive responsible for physical and electronic security, especially in the financial services sector. "The basic skill sets are the same, particularly when it comes to how you investigate an incident. The only difference is, you use a different set of wrenches depending on whether it involves computers or a physical breach," he says.
The political reality: Telders believes most companies recognize that having one executive in charge of all aspects of security is the smart way to go. However, he says, there are built-in barriers that often prevent executives from taking the step. "It's not based on whether it's a good idea or not, but over who is going to be in charge."
Why cost is a factor: "Physical security is often viewed as overhead at most companies—a straight cost—so there's a constant battle for resources" between a physical security department and information systems, he says.
When one head's better than two: Because he is able to see the bigger picture, Telders believes he can set better priorities than if two functions were divided. If funding is being cut, for example, he can ensure that the most important security issue—be it physical or electronic—continues to get funded. If the departments were separated, he says it's likely the executives in charge would protect their own pet projects, rather than hand over funding to another department.
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Comic actress Greta Gerwig has a versatile look—indolent or boyish, athletic or glamorous, always blond and beautiful but with broad shoulders and doughy cheeks that make her resemble an improbably attractive rugby player. The through line in her work is her pained gaze telegraphing that she's alone in the world, and she wouldn't expect otherwise.
Gerwig started her career in movies referred to as "mumble-core." By definition, a mumblecore film was a low-key drama set in post-college American life in the first decade of the 21st century, made with sweat and the contents of a piggy bank. Many of the actors were nonprofessionals, and the stories they told were about well-educated people too creative to get a law degree but too pragmatic to idealize bohemian poverty.
Both in front of and behind the camera, the mumblecore crew seemed like happy underachievers, confronting their tenuous existence with a mix of navel-gazing and bravery—in their element before the economy crashed and social media came along, with its opportunities and pressures to seek followers and a wider audience. This was a genre that celebrated the precocity of a certain kind of privileged, extended youth, with characters so different from the compulsively entrepreneurial go-getters graduating from their alma maters today that it's hard to believe their moment came less than ten years ago.
Gerwig was one of few recurring females in the mumblecore universe. She appeared in three movies directed by Joe Swanberg and one by the Duplass brothers, in each playing a buoyant intern type who expresses a deep insecurity by being incredibly kind. In Swanberg's Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007), Gerwig's character is an associate at a production company run by guys. "You're the smartest person here," one of her bosses tells her. Gerwig's character accepts the compliment but doesn't ask for a raise.
After stealing several films in a supporting role, Gerwig is finally set to own one. Frances Ha, a favorite at last fall's film festivals, is directed by Noah Baumbach, who previously specialized in harshly funny indie dramas set among misanthropic intellectuals like The Squid and the Whale (2005). Baumbach's work is often criticized for creating characters too scathing to believe, but this is a cheerful movie that fluidly dances between art and life (the title character is heavily based on Gerwig, who co-wrote the movie and is dating Baumbach). It's shot in crisp black and white, recalling Woody Allen's Manhattan, and the soundtrack includes airy tunes by Georges Delerue, who scored countless New Wave French classics. At a moment when we seem concerned about young people, as demonstrated by daily news stories about how they're loaded down with debt (and overly worried articles about how they're always texting and unable to make eye contact) Frances Ha is an argument for the dreamy beauty of being untethered.
Gerwig plays Frances, a 27-year-old apprentice at a dance company who doesn't have a boyfriend, money, or a career plan; her most intimate bond and proudest possession in life is the relationship with her best friend from college, Sophie (Mickey Sumner). But Sophie abandons Frances for a preppy financial analyst named Patch. There's little arc to the plot. Frances lives in Brooklyn with Sophie and then moves to Manhattan, where she lives with two trust-fund kids who help cover the rent; she goes home to Sacramento (also Gerwig's hometown) and takes a poorly planned two-day vacation to Paris. At her lowest, she spends the summer working as a hostess at Vassar College. Frances distances herself from Sophie just when she needs her friend the most, preferring in their family dynamic to play the mother instead of the child. The pair's closeness belies an odd, fierce competition in which each strives to be not the most successful but the most content.
As Frances, Gerwig has an unkempt beauty. She's clumsy, wears a uniform of tunic and leggings, and constantly needs to push her hair away from her face. She's shot in a way that makes her appear almost ogreishly tall, towering above the tidy women with clipped bangs that her male roommates bring home at night. She offers to take one of her dates out for dinner, then raggedly sprints through the East Village looking for an ATM and returns a long while later, bleeding from her arm. "I'm not a real person yet," she tells him by way of apology.
Frances's handsome date is played by Adam Driver, best known as the reptilian, sweet but borderline sociopathic boyfriend of Lena Dunham's Hannah Horvath character on Girls. Frances Ha is bound to draw argued-over comparisons with Dunham's series. As writers and performers, Gerwig and Dunham both come from a do-it-yourself background and bring an anti-Hollywood aesthetic to their exploration of female friendship and young people in New York trying to build creative careers; and both are, by the entertainment industry's narrow definition of prettiness, big-boned exotics. But while Frances is gentle and self-effacing, Hannah is brazen and theatrically masochistic. Hannah, who aspires to be a writer, sees her youth as a commercially viable product. She does drugs not for fun but because it gets her a paid writing gig; her process of self-discovery is indistinguishable from her process of building a career.
At times, Dunham's Hannah can seem painfully unaware of her privilege, treating minor financial or personal setbacks as if a tectonic plate has moved asunder. ("I don't really think that you guys are understanding the severity of this situation," Hannah tells her parents when they ask her to join them in celebrating their 30th anniversary and she wants to go on a date with a pharmacist she just met. "I have been dating someone who treats my heart like it's monkey meat. I feel like a delusional, invisible person half the time. So I have to learn what it's like to be treated well before it's too late for me.")
But Hannah's anxiety fits our precarious time: Though she was raised in a comfortably middle-class household, she's coming of age at a moment when being rich seems like the only alternative to being poor. As the show goes on, Hannah's anxiety has evolved from a shtick into a disabling obsessive-compulsive disorder; and generational anxiety has become a central theme, with characters contending with alcoholism and chronic underemployment. Hannah is desperate for success because the gap between victory and failure seems to be growing wider; she demands attention because its opposite, utter invisibility, terrifies her.
Frances, meanwhile, is an expert in acting as if everything is fine. When she breaks up with her boyfriend or loses her job or feels spurned by Sophie, she drinks a little too much and goes home. Frances's perception of being young—and this film's, too—feels formed in a bygone era, when youth was meant to be squandered and ambition was something to hide. Frances is not especially opinionated—she's not one to boast that her approach to life is superior—but she has an idealized notion of the artist as a noble outsider. Much of the time, it seems she's reacting to the same fears that Hannah faces by denying them.
To this otherwise light and fleeting film, Gerwig brings an emotional depth, making Frances seem like she's smiling on the brink of collapse. In recent years, after her mumblecore launch, Gerwig had been exploring characters for whom failure seemed so inevitable that it might be easier not to try. In Greenberg (2010), also directed by Baumbach, she plays Florence, a babysitter in L.A. who wants to improve her station in life but is in no particular rush. "I've been out of college as long as I was in, and no one cares whether or not I wake up in the morning," Florence says, observing, not complaining. (Gerwig supposedly said this to Baumbach the first time they met.)
Gerwig has also excelled when she's allowed to be strange—not just goofy but bizarre. In Whit Stillman's quirky musical Damsels in Distress (2011), about a group of college-aged women who treat their own depression by attempting to help even sadder classmates, she plays a girl with odd coping strategies, like inventing a dance she hopes will become an international craze. In Alison Bagnall's The Dish & the Spoon (2011), she plays Rose, a young woman who, after finding out that her husband has cheated on her, takes up with a homeless teenage boy. Rose and the boy share an innocent romance during a blistery winter week. But she has violent urges that she never sees through. Deciding whether to return to her husband, she tests how she might live without him, uncertainly performing a vicious version of herself.
Frances Ha isn't Gerwig's dancing debut. She's danced in several earlier films, often without a partner. Gerwig, who studied ballet for many years, turns her solos into moments of reluctant self-acceptance. In The Dish & the Spoon, on the stage of an abandoned auditorium, she begins with an arm-flailing tap dance and then, after taking off her socks and shoes, slides, spins, and bounds across the stage, which seems almost too small to contain her.
The casual unfolding of Gerwig's career makes her success seem like a whimsical accident, a myth different from the one surrounding the slightly younger, famously driven Dunham, who was scheduling meetings with HBO before most people buy a couch. It's not quite that: At Barnard, where Gerwig studied English and philosophy, she co-founded an improv group and wrote plays. When she was a junior, she went to Cinema Village and saw Andrew Bujalski's Funny Ha Ha, considered by many to be the first mumblecore film. She went back to see it the next three nights. She met Joe Swanberg through friends during a trip to Chicago, and they decided to collaborate. Yet a few years ago, she was still working as an SAT tutor, and in interviews, not wanting to seem opportunistic, she says things like, "I don't force a lot of decisions on my life" and "I'm pretty happy with whatever occurs."
On the surface, the trajectory of Gerwig's career recalls that of Diane Keaton, who became famous for her collaborations with boyfriend Woody Allen. Keaton went on to star in movies directed by Warren Beatty, whom she also dated—her ambitions often seeming catalyzed by the grander purpose of supporting the ambitions of someone she loved. In her early career, Keaton, like Gerwig, had a tendency to play unintimidating characters whose charm rested not in their wit but in their acknowledgment of how witless they were. But Keaton's characters, belonging to an earlier generation, seemed to expect that a man would eventually show up. Gerwig's don't. Frances has little faith in romantic love—she's not sure if it's even something worth pursuing.
Being "relatable" has always been a useful trait for performers. But in our era, those famous for appearing familiar give fodder to a distinctly contemporary fantasy: that anyone with a platform—a Twitter account, say—might be able to make a living by being herself. Gerwig, according to The New York Times' T magazine, has become "the go-to actress for offbeat, likeable female roles." Gerwig's likability is a product of her quiet ambitions, self-deprecating humor, and comfort in being an outsider. Our era has also popularized a narrative about the enterprising outsider—we admire bloggers and venture capitalists and start-up founders, people who have taken some aspect of the fragmentary nature of the way we live and made it profitable. Most of Gerwig's characters, like Frances, are too humble to brand themselves; unlike Hannah they choose to own their invisibility. Gerwig is both an embodiment of the Internet generation and a rebel against its competitive ethos.
In Frances Ha, Frances choreographs a piece that begins with a crowd of dancers moving independently and ends with them walking in sync but still immune to each other's presence—their loneliness like an uncanny precondition they can't ever address. There's an intoxicating frivolity to Frances Ha, with its musical sequences and city montages, its joyous disregard for the crueler aspects of young adulthood today in favor of a platonic idea of youth. The film borrows back in time from the communal insouciance of 1960s hippies and 1990s slackers. It's Gerwig, with her palpable sense of precariousness, who grounds it in contemporary life. Frances isn't a hippie or a slacker, and she's not in a relationship; it's not clear where she belongs. Even as the movie gestures toward a pat happy ending, it treats isolation as a truth one can either resist or embrace.
Frances, in her endearing pragmatism, chooses the latter. At one point in the movie, she sprints and bounces through downtown Manhattan with David Bowie's "Modern Love" playing in the background. No love is more modern than that toward oneself.


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One of the things about Metrix Create:Space that makes me happy is that it has become a hub for DIY 3D printing. We have one of the first 100 makerbots, and we have seen that community grow. We have built printers from scratch and from kits, and have ripped apart commercial beasts. Bre Pettis saw his first RepRap Mendel print here. Saturdays are slated for 3D printer topics, and we have a lot of 3D printers that just stop by now and then. At one point, we had 8 printers printing in the shop. This week we poured 20+ clonedels, and they're on their way to help grow the 3D printing community. It's hard to say we don't just breathe this stuff.
Makerbot Industries has issued a challenge, and we are positive that the Seattle Makerbot/Mendel User Group (SMUG) can win. We know that Makerbot knows there are more bots in Seattle than anywhere else, and we know we've seen a lot flow through here. There are countless school programs, most notably the UW's Open3DP which are just pushing 3D to the edge. Washington loves 3D Printing.
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K. Michelle to headline R&B show at Civic Center
It's a 'Mother's Day Love Fest' featuring performances by K. Michelle along with special guests Tank and K-Ci & JoJo on Friday, May 9 at the Beaumont Civic Center beginning at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $70, $65, $55, $50, $45, $35, $25, $20 and can be purchased at the Civic Center box office or Ticketmaster outlets including ticketmaster.com or (800) 745-3000.
K. Michelle is touring in support of the album Rebellious Soul, which features the radio singles "V.S.O.P." and "Can't Raise a Man." Earlier this year, the 30-year-old Memphis native had the opening slot on Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines Tour." After appearing on VH1's reality show Love & Hip Hop, she announced she will star in a spinoff to the series later this year. Tank has released six album, four of which were No. 1 on the Billboard R&B charts, has seen several Top 10 hits like "Please Don't Go," "Emergency," "Next Breath" and "You're My Star."
Brothers K-Ci & JoJo were the founding members of the group Jodeci and were nominated for three Grammy Awards. Top songs are "All My Life," "Crazy" and "If You Think You're Lonely Now."
The Civic Center is located at 701 Main in downtown Beaumont. For more information view beaumontcityevents.com.


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I've said before that the purpose of this blog is to make you laugh. That's still the case, but today I'd like to do something a little different. You see, yesterday I lost someone very near and dear to my heart. His name was James, and he was the son of two incredible individuals: John and Abby Gjertsen. (In a way, Abby is actually responsible for the creation of this blog: she is the one who first e-mailed me the "Under Neat That" cake, which in turn inspired me to start Cake Wrecks. So if you enjoy this site, you owe Abby a small debt of gratitude.)
James was born with a host of medical problems, and he overcame huge obstacles while spreading joy and inspiration to all who knew him his 482 days here on Earth. Through their blog SweetBabyJames.info John and Abby provided encouragement to other special needs families around the world, and James was able to touch countless lives. His legacy is assured, and will be one of unceasing joy, strength, and courage. (Click here for a beautiful video celebrating his first year of life.)
Not only are John and Abby close friends, they have been hugely supportive of Wrecks. So today, in honor of John, Abby, and sweet baby James, I'd like to dedicate this post.
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Makeup has come a long way in the last few years and new formulas last for hours under the harshest partying conditions. Amen! Your look should look effortless and undone, so pass on powder shadow and go for one of these perfect festival looks:
1. Classic liquid liner (wing optional). Simple + classic choice. Our favorite is
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until you take it off. To perfect the shape, watch our lovely Lauren Conrad demonstrate exactly how in our Get Catty video tutorial.
2. Cream longwear shadow all over the lids and lashlines for instant drama. Our favorite is Laura Mercier Caviar Stick in Steel.
3. Longwear liner on top + bottom lashlines. Effortless and chic option that says you're there for the bands but your eyes are defined. Our favorite is MAKE UP FOR EVER Aqua Eyes in Star Black. I had the privilege of doing Roxane Mesquida's makeup in this shot for the Jerome C. Rousseau S/S 12 campaign out in Joshua Tree and remember thinking that day it would be the perfect makeup for Coachella!
4. Inner rimmed eyes. Yes rimming your inner water line makes them appear a little smaller, but what you give up in size you gain in piercing power and mystery. While kohl and kajal formulas are standard, switch to a longwear liner so it lasts. Our favorite is
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While the weather forecast for Saturdays' Ravens game is in the high 40s — not exactly Green Bay territory — it can get chilly after being outside for a while. One of the best ways to keep the cold at bay is with a cup of spicy hot chocolate.
Traditionally, hot chocolate is just a thicker version of chocolate milk. This version is rich and full of character, thanks to cinnamon, orange peel and chiles. Don't be afraid — it's not as spicy as you might think. There is a little bite at the end, but nothing that will make you breathe fire.
Arbol chiles add the heat, while the ancho adds a fruity, almost raisin-like flavor. The orange and cinnamon give the drink that little hint of holiday cheer, and for the full effect, a peppermint stick can be used as a stir to add as much minty goodness as you desire.
This is a more grown-up version of hot chocolate — far removed from that powdered stuff. A shot of dark rum or good brandy helps fortify an already warming drink. Just be sure you make enough to go around.
Spicy hot chocolate
20 ounces 70 percent cacao bittersweet chocolate*
1 cinnamon stick
2 arbol chiles
2 ancho chiles
3 pints whole milk
1 pint heavy cream
Peel of 1 orange — use a vegetable peeler to create big strips that can be strained out.
Peppermint sticks for stirring (optional)
*This recipe was made with two 10-ounce chocolate bars, finely chopped with a serrated bread knife. If you want to use chocolate chips, it will make no difference, as long as they are 70 percent cacao.
Prepare the chiles by using pair of kitchen shears or clean scissors to snip off the stem end and cut down one side of the chile. Spread open the chile and bang or scrape out the seeds.
Place the milk, cinnamon stick, all chiles and orange peel into a large pot. Cover with a lid and bring the mixture up to a simmer. Then, turn off the heat and let it steep for 10 minutes.
Place the chopped chocolate (or chips) into a large bowl.
Strain the hot milk onto the chocolate. Whisk until combined.
Whisk in the cream.
Pour into a cup and serve immediately with a peppermint stick for a stir.
If you happen to have leftover hot chocolate that has been refrigerated, remember to stir or whisk before serving. Cheers!
While the weather forecast for Saturdays' Ravens game is in the high 40s — not exactly Green Bay territory — it can get chilly after being outside for a while. One of the best ways to keep the cold at bay is with a cup of spicy hot chocolate.


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Junk food enthusiasts everywhere can celebrate, as the return of Twinkies is assured. The cream-filled golden cakes synonymous with childhoods past will be on shelves as early as July. They will be accompanied by Ho Hos, Zingers and Ding Dongs, but won't be made by employees belonging to labor unions.
The company that bought the division of Hostess responsible for the production of Twinkies will set up shop in multiple locations across the country and bring jobs back to Columbus, Georgia and Emporia, Kansas-two locations that closed following the demise of Hostess Brands, Inc. amid a labor dispute last November. Investment groups Metropoulos and Apollo Global Management ( NASDAQ:APO) bought the brands along with other Dolly Madison products following a public outcry about the disappearance of the classic junk food staple.
NBC News reported that many of the company's old plants will reopen after it hires non-union employees to fill the vacated Teamsters and Bakery Union positions. Michael Cramer, Executive VP of the new Hostess, seemed adamant in his attempt to avoid working with unions, which refused to continue under the existing conditions and forced the hand of company officials last year…
"We're sure not going to invite the unions in," Cramer told NBC. The reopening of many of the original Hostess plants will mark a significant blow to labor unions, many of which are still smarting from the efforts to weaken organizations in Wisconsin and other places. The blueprint is enticing for; hoping to circumvent organized labor: simply dissolve the company, revamp the approach and use the same facilities to begin business again. Manufacturing jobs are filled quickly.
Of course, the protection offered by unions in exchange for dues was not delivered to members in the case of the Hostess debacle. Employees would have been forced to sacrifice large parts of wages or benefits in order to prevent the factories making Twinkies from closing. In many ways, the story of Hostess's end was the story of any failing company. There is no way to stop unions from forming, of course, making Cramer's company vulnerable to the same disputes that troubled the former Hostess.


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COVER- Invasion of the doggy snatchers? Uptick in area coyote sightings has residents nervous
An animal known for eating domestic pets has arrived in Albemarle, and reports from around the country suggest it's moving up the food chain.
A Minnesota woman watched helplessly last month as coyotes killed Callie, her miniature Pinscher, in her backyard. That same week in Broomfield, Colorado, Amy Archibald let her four tiny Papillons out in her backyard. Thirty seconds later, one named Ollie was gone.
In early March, a farmer in Winston-Salem claims his cow was killed and eaten by a coyote. And in Colorado, a state no stranger to coyotes, five attacks on people were reported over the winter in the Denver metropolitan area.
Residents in Albemarle's Stony Point area were alarmed to hear that a pet dog may have been attacked by a pack of coyotes in February, and the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries confirms that coyotes have moved into Central Virginia– including suburban Albemarle.
Buddy, a 90-pound Labrador in Mary Cox's Turkey Run neighborhood, was attacked February 19 in what initially was believed to be a dogfight, says Cox.
The morning after the attack, Buddy's owner spotted at least three and possibly five dog-like mammals with bushy tails and snouts that, based on research he'd done, he thought were coyotes, says Cox. Buddy's owner declined to comment for this article.
"Definitely, we're concerned," says Cox. "I've got a dog that's outside and kids that play outside."
Whether Buddy's attackers were dogs or coyotes, Sergeant Kenny Dove with the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries says he has no way of knowing. But one thing Dove is certain about: Coyotes have definitely arrived in Albemarle County.
Canis latrans–- barking dog–- is a highly adaptable species that has expanded its native Canadian range into all 49 continental states and Mexico. Dove knows of several confirmed sightings in the Shenandoah Valley, and he followed game department reports as they were first sighted in southern Albemarle, and then in the northern part of the county.
"They can urbanize," says Dove, "and they're opportunistic."
At 30 to 35 pounds, coyotes are smaller than wolves. They can hunt in packs–- or in pairs. Sheep farmers and hunters are often the first to know if coyotes are in the area, but the canine cousins of dogs don't limit themselves to killing animals in rural settings.
"They are so good at what they do," says Dove. "We don't want them here."
Indeed, Virginia allows coyote hunting without a license or permit every day of the week except Sunday. And there's no catch limit. The Department of Game and Inland Fisheries doesn't have a number on the coyote population in Virginia, but it's witnessed a rise in live coyote sightings as well as in dead coyotes, often as road kill.
"We know they're increasing," says Mike Dye, a wildlife biologist in the DGIF. "Coyotes are not native to Virginia. That's one reason they're listed as a nuisance species."
One theory on their arrival is that as their natural predator, the wolf, was decimated to near extinction, coyotes moved across Canada and down the Appalachian range. Coyote attacks are now reported all over the country.
"Previously, wolves were putting pressure on them," says Dye. "Now, man is the only predator."
Game department master conservation officer Steve Ferguson investigated the Stony Point attack. Coyotes?
"I can't say that it was," he says. "I can't say that it wasn't."
Ferguson finds it odd that a 35- to 45-pound coyote would take on a 90-pounder like Buddy, who has recovered from the attack. "Maybe for a pack..." he muses. "It could be a territorial issue or a food issue. Or it could have been dogs. The wounds were consistent with dogs–- but they're all related."
A year ago, a Crozet woman claimed she'd repeatedly spotted a cougar in her yard–- a claim that got no traction with the game department. With coyotes, there's no such skepticism.
Even if coyotes weren't Buddy's attackers, the department's Ferguson says he has seen two live coyotes since he's moved to Albemarle in 1994 and many more that hunters have killed.
Ferguson, who lives not far from the Stony Point neighborhood where Buddy was attacked, says, "I've actually heard them at my house."
So has Joe Ford in White Hall.
"Typically, you can sit on my front porch and hear 'em at least once a week," says Ford, who estimates he's seen them between 20 and 30 times. "I've seen 'em on Garth Road. And a lot of my buddies have killed 'em."
Twenty years ago, no one would have believed coyotes were in Albemarle, says builder Steve Kirschnick, an Albemarle native who reports sightings in Ivy, Earlysville, Scottsville, and Fontaine Avenue. Now, he says he wouldn't be surprised to spot a coyote behind the Rite Aid on Pantops, where he's building townhouses.
"Anyone who spends time in the woods is going to see them," says Kirschnick, a hunter who's killed around a dozen coyotes. "We do a lot of bow hunting," he says. And when hunters do turkey calls, coyotes show up.
The coyotes Kirschnick has seen average about 25 pounds, and the largest he's bagged was 41 pounds, 6 ounces. He put up a "coyote cam" near his Keene home, and caught one of the nocturnal creatures on film.
"They're very vocal at night," says Kirschnick, who describes their bark as similar to the yipping of a terrier, while they're about the size of a border collie. Often, the first time a hunter spots a coyote, he's hesitant to shoot, observes Kirschnick. "People," he observes, "don't want to shoot somebody's dog."
Coyotes hunt by smell, and the scent of a human sends them into skedaddle mode, according to Kirschnick.
"If they smell you, they take off," he says. "They don't sneak away. They bolt. If one smells you, it runs away yipping because it's frightened."
He's dubious about the notion that coyotes hunt in packs. His experience is that they travel solo, unless it's mating season or they're cubs who haven't yet gone their own way.
As a hunter, Kirschnick appreciates the thrill of bagging such an exotic (for now) trophy, but he'd rather they not become the latest species to find Albemarle a desirable place to live.
"I don't like the idea of them here because they're going to eat our small game," he declares. "They're going to eat our turkeys. It's a balance, and coyotes come in and can decimate them."
Last July, residents of Naples, Florida, were already on edge after officials warned them about coyote sightings. But what happened to Caesar, a cat that refused to come inside one night, turned worry into horror.
Security cameras on the property of Naples resident Carol Dinwiddie showed a coyote calmly stalking Caesar. When the cat tried to flee up a tree, the coyote followed. The result was fatal.
Dove from the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries stresses that coyote habitation doesn't have to be a cause for panic.
"I would be more concerned about stray dogs than coyotes," says Sergeant Dove.
Still, he strongly advises against leaving pet food outside, and he notes that along with livestock, coyotes look at cats and small dogs as prey.
"If you've got a 10-month-old baby, you wouldn't leave it out in the yard," says Dove. "And you teach children not to approach wild animals."
Mary Cox is used to letting her children play down by the creek. "I have to worry about the creek being too deep," she says. "I never thought about wildlife. I guess I should."
But to Ferguson, public unawareness indicates how little a safety threat coyotes are. "Farmers and hunters know they're here," he says. "Otherwise, people don't know they're here."
At least until cats start disappearing.
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Not "decimated," but "devastated." "Decimated" means a loss of one tenth. From the latin for ten.
Pet peeve.
Pull the Sunday restriction off of shooting coyotes. These things are eating machines, breed like rabbits, and carry disease. Take all restrictions off of the hunters.
Reality, Are you saying coyotes only come out on sunday? Didn't know they were church going creatures!
For a moment I thought you were describing people. ;)
Nope Vertico, I'm saying they come out on Sunday as well.
I would have liked to see a pitbull skull next to the coyote's so we have a comparison. The coyote skull in the photo seemed to have healthy teeth.
Don't shoot the deer because they are cute! Shoot the "yote" because he will eat your yorkshire terrier. I say keep the coyote to solve the deer problem, no wait, import wolves to solve the coyote problem. Oh no, wolves eat yorkies too. dang, it's all the turkeys and squirrels attracting the prey animals so get rid of them! Oh jeez the DNR is behind the curve and not issuing enough tags! Let's have another meeting to discuss the problem. Hey, whats a feral pig? That's it by george, let's import feral pigs to feed the coyotes so they will leave the yorkshire terriers alone! Blay, Blah, Blah, why don't you get government out of the picture and stop developing into wildlife habitat? But if develop you must, stop complaining. Enjoy your wild neighbors, you will learn something that may make you respect and admire them.
Yes we need to do something about the coyote but if you have animals that are your pets and you love them, keep them inside and safe. Please don't turn them loose for the coyote and whatever else is out there to get them. You got these pets and taught them to love you and depend on you, now take care of them. Thanks
Is there any scent that can be put (safely) on a pet cat or dog so that a coyote wouldn't be attracted to it?
I was walking our then puppy on a dirt road in Shenandoah co. & one came up out of the woods & followed us about ten feet from us for about 100 yards before bounding back in the woods. this was September of 08......Was it rabid ? hungry ? Who knows.
Ran into a coyote at about 6pm a couple months ago in the backyard. One of our cats was within twenty yards of it, thankfully I looked out the window in time. I ran out into the yard to scare it away, and the coyote was less than impressed with me. It stopped in it's tracks and pretty much sized me up. Then is slowly walked away.
These things are hunting our livestock and animals. Take them out whenever you see them.
I was out hunting this past Saturday and was on my stand at approx. 5:15am when I heard a pack of coyotes attacking a deer or something. It was incredible and I will never forget the sound as long as I live! It reminded me more of a pack of hyenas than wolves. They had very high pitched voices and would get more excited as they closed in on whatever it was they were after. When they caught it there was another level of excitment still and I could hear them fighting over the meal as they tore it apart. We have seen Coyotes every so often and a friend of mine has even killed one, but I have never heard such a thing as what I heard that Saturday morning. It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Oh, and I never saw a deer that morning either...
I killed my first coyote two weeks ago in the GW National Forest in Rockingham County. Female weighing about 35 pounds, and suffering pretty badly from mange. I was deer hunting at the time, and she crossed in front of me about 25 yards away.
Coyotes have been in the Albemarle area for at least ten years, as I used to hear them when visiting friends in Rivanna. They have been in the GW National Forest for almost THIRTY years, as I saw them when backpacking as a teenager in the late 70's early 80's. Back then VDGIF kept denying their existence, despite confirmed sightings, scat, and tracks. They're doing the same thing now with cougars, who have been in the western part of VA for at least ten years. VDGIF likes to keep their head in the sand, so that they don't have to develop an actual management program for the big cats.
The DC suburbs aren't immune, either. I live just inside the Beltway, and we have coyotes roaming the stream valley park behind our neighborhood. This past summer, there were a lot of "lost dog" and "lost cat" posters on telephone poles in the area. Most of the dogs on these flyers were small dogs.
Just wait, you'll have them in your neighborhood pretty soon!


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Men Are From Mars, Women ... Love Cup Holders?
When you read the words of Clotaire Rapaille, a "French-born psychiatrist-turned-marketer" quoted in yesterday's interesting Slate article about the marketing of cars to women, it's hard not to read them in a voice that's sultry and French and not entirely serious, as if he's some kind of sales expert crossed with Pepe Le Pew (despite the fact that this doubtless has no basis in reality).
Rapaille told writer Libby Copeland that women just loooooove cup holders. Love them, love them, love them! They want four in front! More in the back! Cup holders for everybody!
Rapaille says women love cup holders because — and this is really what he told her — cup holders mean coffee, and coffee means safety, because of the memories we all have of our mothers preparing coffee with breakfast.
Copeland points out that Rapaille once told Malcolm Gladwell how surprising it is that "intelligent, educated women will look at a car and the first thing they will look at is how many cup holders it has."
Copeland presents a different hypothesis later in the article: that women ask a lot of questions about cup holders and other little things once they're at the dealership because they actually do more research ahead of time, so by the time they're on the lot, they're sweating the small stuff.
Maybe, maybe not. But quite frankly, when I was recently shopping for a new car, I was pretty surprised when the car salesman — undoubtedly doing what he'd been taught — went out of his way to identify an "extra cup holder" in the car he was showing me. I mean ... as a single person, the most likely arrangements of people in my car are (1) just me, or (2) me and one other person.
He knew this about me already, because car salesmen begin assembling a complete mental dossier on everything you have ever said about yourself as soon as you show up; it's what they do. And knowing what he did, he was still pointing out what amounts to a fourth cup holder accessible from the front seats.
Quite honestly, I like coffee, but I'm not that thirsty. For the most part, four cup holders just mean more leeway to forget to throw out yesterday's coffee cup.
I have to wonder whether cup holders aren't as much a thing with women as they are a thing with people who drive around a lot of kids. Statistically, those people might be more likely to be women, but it brings to mind one of the things I expect to change in the next 20 years in the marketing world: a reduction in the marketing to "women" and "moms," and an increase in the marketing to "parents."
For example, if my sister and I both shopped for cars, we'd need completely different things. Why? Because she's got kids to tote around on road trips, to baseball practice, with unexpected gaggles of other kids, and so forth.
There would be almost no automobile marketing, in fact, that would be relevant to both of us. I just need the most fuel-efficient little get-around car I can find. If there are kids around, I'll just strap them to the roof with bungee cords. (NOT REALLY.)
Copeland points out a dopey Ford Flex commercial where a bunch of mothers — who are actually referred to as "Real Housewives," bleh — talk about the fact that their new Flex is cooler than a minivan and doesn't embarrass their kids.
Putting aside the issue of whether parents ought to buy cars to impress their children, there's no reason whatsoever that all the people in the ad had to be women. None at all. Dads are just as likely, in my experience, to lament the perceived uncoolness of their minivans as women are. They're plenty aware of the implications of being a minivan person versus a "cool" car person.
(Side note: I was friends with a guy many years ago whose wife was expecting a baby. He came in one day and said, "Well, I had a dream last night that I was about to have carnal knowledge of my wife, but we had to stop and run out to buy a minivan." "Subtle," I told him.)
The same thing came to mind when the "Amazon Mom" program appeared. It offers discounts and deals on things like diapers, and Amazon points out that it's "open to anyone expecting a baby or caring for a baby or young child, whether you're a mom, dad, grandparent, or caretaker. We just thought 'Amazon Primary Caretaker' didn't have the same ring to it." Har har!
Why not "Amazon Family," which happens to be what they call a similar program in the UK? Sure, a dad can join "Amazon Mom," but if there were a program called "Amazon Dad" aimed at parents who work long hours, it wouldn't make me feel any better (or make it any less gender-gross) if they said a mom could join as long as she was willing to be an "Amazon Dad." Moms are dads! Dads are moms! Cats are dogs! Chairs are tables! Words have meanings, you see.
Much of the marketing that targets women — all the "What will I feed the family that's healthy and affordable?" marketing, all the "beleaguered laundry-doer to a crowd" marketing, all the "quizzical in the grocery store over what my picky 8-year-old will eat" marketing — is actually marketing to parents, and it all applies to plenty of dads, every day, all over the place.
Dads also worry about what to pack in a lunch box, and also feel frustrated by getting home at the end of the day and being expected to cook or being at home full-time and dealing with the messes of that. Why ignore them?
When marketing is so specifically about moms, it not only doesn't particularly appeal to dads, but I suspect it alienates them. That's especially the case when the ad universe's "Mom," the parent who's running the house and collapsing at the end of the day, is contrasted with "Dad," the parent who dips the kid's feet in paste rather than buy socks and needs Mom to say, in these words, "That's really stupid."
This debate about decoupling the needs of parenthood from the needs of women — since to say parents are the same thing as women is both underinclusive and overinclusive — pops up not just in small things but in large ones. Public- and private-sector policies about work-life balance are often referred to as a problem of motherhood, when in fact work-life balance is an issue for both mothers and fathers, and for both parents and non-parents.
Much depends on how you frame an observation. Saying "women like a lot of cup holders" makes women sound obsessed with trivialities, or the safe embrace of coffee. But saying "some people, who are statistically more likely to be parents of kids and to drive them around a lot, like to have lots of places to put stuff" — well, that makes all the sense in the world if you've ever seen a parent sitting at a red light, reaching behind his seat into a canvas bag on the floor to fish out a juice box and then contort himself to pass it off to a child strapped into a car seat.
Perhaps if car marketing (and other marketing) could more thoroughly disconnect marketing to parenthood from marketing to gender, we could keep the things that make sense — like showing parents of both genders how much their kids will love back-of-the-seat video screens that mean no one has to play the license plate game ever again* — and lose the things that don't.
*Does not apply if you love the license plate game. Which you should. Of course, the top result for a form you can fill out to play the license plate game comes from a site called "Mom's Minivan." Sorry, dads! Your kids will just have to stare at the back of your head like chumps.


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The Adopt-A-Highway Program (AAH) was established in 1988 by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) in response to growing public concern regarding litter along the state's highways.
The Adopt-A-Highway Program (AAH) was established in 1988 by the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) in response to growing public concern regarding litter along the state's highways.
The AAH Program is administered by the NCDOT Office of Beautification, and is a joint effort between community volunteers and the NCDOT. Its purpose is to decrease the amount of litter on North Carolina's roadsides and improve the beauty and quality of the environment. Since its inception, thousands of AAH volunteers have worked to keep N.C. roadsides clean. There are some 6,000 AAH groups that have adopted approximately 12,000 miles of N.C. roadsides.
The North Carolina Sponsor-A-Highway Program provides a means for businesses, individuals and other organizations to sponsor roadside litter removal. An adopting group enters into a four-year agreement with the NCDOT. In the agreement a group agrees to clean its adopted highway a minimum of four times per year, or more when necessary. The AAH coordinator will put up two signs; one at either end of the adopted highway to acknowledge the group that has taken responsibility for cleaning the roadside. Each county has its own AAH coordinator who coordinates the adoption process and works with each applicant to choose a two-mile stretch of state-maintained highway to adopt. Our local coordinator is Niki Bell and she can be reached at 514-4716.
The AAH coordinator will make the following available to each group:
Orange safety vests to be worn during a pickup
Orange bags for miscellaneous litter and blue bags for items to be recycled
�Litter Pickup in Progress� safety warning signs
Once trash is collected, call Niki at the above number and tell her where you�ve left the bags. Someone from the NCDOT will come to pick up the orange bags so you do not have to dispose of them yourself.
If you are unable to make a commitment of this magnitude, you can still help out with New Bern�s litter problem. Fifteen minutes or whatever you can volunteer can greatly help the situation. Join the Craven County Clean Sweep Committee on Saturday, May 4 for the �Little Sweep.�
Meet at Lawson Creek Park at 9 a.m. Get your trash bag(s), gloves and a place to clean. You will be surprised at how 15 minutes can really make a difference. If May 4 doesn�t work for you, you can still get the bags and clean up an area of your choice when it suits you. Just call 633-1477 to let them know where to pick up the filled litter bags.
Judi Lloyd lives in River Bend and can be contacted at email@example.com


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Keeping Your Sanity While Engaging Your Audience Through Transmedia/
One of the questions I am most often asked about transmedia is whether this is a game for multinational media conglomerates or whether this strategy has something to offer independent and alternative filmmakers. This post, which was sent to me by the fine folks at Tribeca Film, tells the story of one such film and how they dealt with the challenges of creating a transmedia property on a shoe-string budget. Keeping Your Sanity While Engaging Your Audience through Transmedia.
by Jen Begeal
Summary: A successful transmedia project doesn't require a big budget or a large team. It just requires patience and foresight.
Cross-posted from The Future of Film blog at TribecaFilm.com, where leading filmmakers and experts within the film industry share their thoughts on film, technology and the future of media. Click here to follow commentary on the changing media environment on Tribeca's Future of Film blog.
Transmedia projects have multiple points of entry that follow multiple storylines across several platforms. This kind of attention to detail can be overwhelming to a small team, and let's face it, most transmedia projects function on micro budgets. Asking your audience to jump down the rabbit-hole with you requires finesse, timing, and above all energy. With so many moving parts it can be a daunting task to keep a project from becoming completely overwhelming.
In the spring of 2010 I joined a transmedia project already underway, called Zenith. Focused around a film (which was not set to release for months), our small team was tasked with designing and building a campaign that would invite our audience to engage with the film's central themes and incorporate them into their own stories. This is how we did it.
Zenith is a science fiction thriller, which takes place in two separate time periods: the present day and the year 2044. The film alternates between the realities of the two main characters: Ed Crowley, a paranoid conspiracy theorist, and his son Jack, a drug-dealing ex-neurosurgeon. Ed predicts a future where a hidden society controls the minds and actions of the population. Ed's future - Jack's present - has become a bleak reality where people are permanently numb, yet pay dealers like Jack for pain from expired prescriptions. Jack is pulled into his father's quest for the truth behind this genetic experiment when he is presented with the first in a series of ten VHS tapes that Ed has left behind.
Zenith's director, Vladan Nikolic, first conceived the concept of multiple entry points for a project years before the advent of Facebook and Twitter. It wasn't until production got underway in 2008 that Internet technology had reached a point to where it could lend itself to an engaging multimedia experience. The term "transmedia storytelling" was the latest buzzword in the film community and its definition closely matched that of the filmmaker's vision of a new form of storytelling.
The transmedia project was multi-tiered. The first tier, an outreach campaign, was developed to connect with bloggers in the gaming, film, science fiction and conspiracy theory communities. The initial goal of the campaign was to get people talking about the conspiracy theory portion of the project, called Stop Zenith. With a tag line of "What is Zenith?" the outreach garnered mixed reactions, some bloggers were afraid they had been accosted by a group of conspiracy theorists while others embraced the deception with the understanding that this was all part of a much larger project. Partnerships with other websites were also developed, like that between Zenith and Above Top Secret (ATS), a conspiracy website with a multi-million member fan base. These partnerships were instrumental to attracting a larger, more engaged audience. They also showed our team that to keep the conspiracy plot moving, we had to think fast and build out our story lines with intelligence.
The second tier of the project was to develop online personalities who we would use to encourage conversation about Stop Zenith. One of my roles as a member of the transmedia team was to create over a dozen Twitter, Facebook and YouTube personalities to carry out the Stop Zenith message. While the concept was easy enough to start, we quickly found that managing so many feeds with such time and budget constraints were nearly impossible. Shortly afterward we scaled back the number of characters as well as their functions, limiting them to posting on The Conspirist, a transmedia blogging site.
Another concept we fleshed out was the VHS tapes. Ed's creation of and Jack's hunt for the tapes is a core component of the film. Our hope was that by releasing portions of the tapes from the film across video platforms like YouTube, we would attract an audience that would want to create their own versions of the tapes and continue the story. We started by asking friends and colleagues to create and post their own videos, and then reached out to others in the community. Though a few people were happy to jump on board, the reality was that many people were still not comfortable with downloading a video file from an undisclosed source to edit on their own and re-post. We released six tapes in total, the final of which correlated with the film's release.
After the initial theatrical release of the film we scaled back on the Stop Zenith project, which had been planned early on. We instead turned our focus onto the second part of our distribution strategy, a cross-platform launch that incorporated the DVD with a VOD release while the film screened in independent theatres across the country. This unique strategy earned a lot of press for the film and the transmedia project. Filmmakers began to question whether a festival release (which Zenith chiefly avoided) was still a necessary requirement for an independent film. As Zenith made its calculated progression across platforms we took the time to build a new social media presence in the form of a singular Facebook page and Twitter feed to provide updates on the film's distribution, showings, release information and reviews.
Zenith was met with both rave reviews and harsh criticism, which is to be expected with any experimental project. Some members of the audience embraced the transmedia component; others found it clunky and difficult to navigate. Overall, based on our viewing numbers and the amount of press we received, it can be concluded that we achieved success beyond any of our expectations. While certain components of the transmedia project worked before the release of the film, such as the outreach campaign, the partnerships and the websites, others benefited from the film's theatrical release and distribution, including the campaign with the tapes and the social media element.
While I don't believe every film needs a transmedia component, independent filmmakers shouldn't rule it out. Transmedia storytelling is a creative way to engage with a film's audience and Zenith proved that you don't need a big budget or large team to pull off a project that gets noticed.
ZENITH 2011 TRAILER from Surla Films on Vimeo.
Jen Begeal is a Social Media Strategist for Ride5 Media Group an award-winning creative agency in New York. She has worked as a Transmedia Producer for films such as Zenith and mindFLUX, and she is an active member of the New York Transmedia community. Follow Jen on Twitter @jlbhart or @zenithfilm.


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This Friday on AxXiom For Liberty with Kaye Beach and Howard Houchen 6-8pm Central – Miles Kinard author of the magazine exposé, American Stasi: Fusion Centers and Domestic Spying.Listen Live-LogosRadioNetwork.com click 'Listen' then choose your Internet speed. Logos Radio Network is a listener supported, free speech radio network and your contributions are vital but you do not have to be a subscriber in order to hear the show.
"This is no longer just a 'surveillance state.' We are on the fast track to a police state." -Miles Kinard, interview with the Spingola Files, Dec. 2012
We are very excited to introduce you to Miles Kinard, researcher and author of the magazine exposé, American Stasi: Fusion Centers and Domestic Spying.
What is a Fusion Center?
The principal role of the fusion center is to compile, analyze, and disseminate criminal/terrorist information and intelligence and other information (including, but not limited to, threat, public safety, law enforcement, public health, social services, and public works) to support efforts to anticipate, identify, prevent, and/or monitor criminal/terrorist activity. http://www.scribd.com/doc/19251638/Fusion-Center-Guidelines-Law-Enforcement
I jumped on Mr. Kinard's work on fusion centers last year when it was released and found his writing on the subject to be extremely lucid and his research, impeccable. You can get it for a song and instant download at Amazon.com
Miles Kinard's work explores these secretive 9/11 domestic intelligence units that are considered key by the Department of Homeland Security in its quest to know everything about everybody all the time.
There is at least one of these relatively new intelligence centers located in every state (
74 78 total) and precious little attention has been given to them by the mainstream media.
Secrecy, the waste of taxpayer dollars and especially the potential civil liberties violations were highlighted by Kinard's work. All of this and more was subsequently confirmed by a two-year bipartisan investigation by the U. S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations which released a 107 page report last October.
Tonight we will get a chance to talk to Miles about the state fusion centers as part of what he refers to as the "Surveillance Industrial Complex" in general and discuss the implications of these state-based (but federally controlled) spy centers that he identified in his exposé .
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Government policies are pushing home-ownership out of the reach of ordinary families, with prices likely to rocket to 13 times the average wage by 2020 if the Conservatives win next year's election, Labour has claimed.
At current trends, the cost of an average home could reach £359,000 by the end of the next Parliament, requiring a £72,000 deposit, according to shadow housing minister Emma Reynolds.
Ms Reynolds also accused the Government of failing to build enough homes, claiming that 1.3 million new properties are needed to fill the housing gap and unveiling figures suggesting that Labour councils are building 300 homes a year more than Tory authorities.
And she challenged the traditional Conservative claim to be the "party of home ownership", pointing out that owner-occupation is lower under the coalition than in any year of the last Labour administration.
But ministers said her assault was "not credible", insisting the rate of house-building has risen to its highest since 2007 and accusing the former Labour government of a "truly appalling" record on housing.
Housing minister Brandon Lewis hailed figures showing that almost 40,000 households have now bought homes through the Government's Help to Buy scheme, which supports people struggling to raise a deposit on a home by offering equity loans or mortgage guarantees to cover up to 20% of the value of properties worth up to £600,000. Of those, 32,000 involved the purchase of newly-built homes.
Quarterly figures showed that more than 80% of the purchases were by first-time buyers, creating what Mr Lewis called "a new generation of home-owners" and contributing to a 34% increase in private housebuilding during the first year of the scheme.
Ms Reynolds said that Help to Buy was boosting demand without increasing supply, fuelling the surge in house prices.
In a speech in Nottingham, she said: "While the Tories say the housing market is back on track, the truth is they've presided over the lowest level of house building since the 1920s.
"Fewer affordable homes were built last year than the last year of the Labour Government. The fewest number of social homes built since records began."
She added: "Government ministers like to talk about Help to Buy. We support help for first-time buyers, but the Government simply haven't understood that boosting demand without boosting supply risks pushing prices out of reach of the very families and young people who are struggling to get on the housing ladder.
"The Tories claim to be the party of home ownership. But the truth is, home ownership today is at its lowest point in any year since 1987... For every year of the last Labour Government, home ownership was higher than it is now.
"They pay lip service to aspiration, but what's the point in talking about it if you're not willing to make it happen? The only way to ensure more people can buy their own home is to build many more homes."
Labour analysis suggests its councils are committed to building 862 homes a year, compared with 508 by Tory councils and 393 by Lib Dems, she said.
Leader Ed Miliband tweeted a picture of a Labour poster from the 1945 election hanging on his office wall, promising "a non-stop drive to provide a good home for every family". He said: "It's still relevant today. Once again we need a non-stop drive to provide a good home for every family. Labour will get 200,000 homes a year built by 2020."
Mr Lewis said: "This speech from Labour just isn't credible. Here's one fact they won't tell you - under the last government Britain was building fewer homes than at any time since the 1920s. Labour's record on housing was truly appalling.
"By contrast, housebuilding is now at its highest for a number of years and we have already delivered over 445,000 new homes, including 200,000 affordable homes.
"Labour would cut housebuilding through taxes and red tape - and it's hard working taxpayers who would pay the price for this failure."
New figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government showed that 27,167 equity loans for new-build homes have been taken up under Help to Buy in the first 15 months of the scheme, while 5,388 newly-built homes were bought under NewBuy. Some 7,313 sales were completed over six months with mortgage guarantees, which can be used with older homes.
The average price of properties purchased under the equity loan scheme was £208,000 and £151,000 under the mortgage guarantee. The highest number of equity loan sales were in Wiltshire with 469, Leeds with 457 and Central Bedfordshire with 427, while Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Bradford, Manchester, Country Durham, Bedford, and Birmingham each racked up more than 300.
Mr Lewis said: "Hard-working families are getting the homes they want, while house-building has increased to its highest level since 2007.
"It's no accident that, since the start of the scheme, private house-building has shot up by a third and continues to climb. Developers are increasing their output, and taking on new workers at the fastest rate since records began."
Alex Hilton, director of campaign group Generation Rent, said the figures showed equity loans were having a limited impact in areas where homes are most expensive, like London.
"These numbers prove that Help to Buy is not delivering where homes are most needed, which is where there are jobs," said Mr Hilton. "And yet the publicity around Help to Buy continues to prop up a dysfunctional housing market that, like an addict, snorts ever more cash from the pockets of renters and from taxpayers in the form of Housing Benefit."
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Do tax increases kill jobs? Minn. soon to find out
Dik Bolger is a lifelong Minnesota Democrat, a gray-bearded baby boomer with a braid down his back whose Minneapolis printing company's plant displays work by local artists and sculptors.
He backed Mark Dayton for governor, but his take on the Democratic chief executive's plan for new business taxes could be the voice-over for a Republican campaign commercial.
"We're screwed," Bolger said, if the tax goes through. His 79-year-old company competes nationwide and overseas for work with major brands like Chanel. "If you're bidding for a $100,000 job on a national basis and tax expenses push you a couple of percent higher, then I'm not competitive."
For generations, Minnesotans lived out the progressive argument that high taxes and high services were what gave the state its fabled quality of life. But the patience of business owners is being tried more than ever, as Dayton and the Democrats who now control the Capitol mull a menu of tax increases that would primarily hit company ledgers -- just as most states are going the opposite way.
Dayton has proposed tax changes he says would make the system fairer and also bring in $2 billion in new revenue. Much of the gain would come from a state sales tax on "business-to-business" purchases like legal, accounting, banking and printing costs. Few states tax such services. He would also boost Minnesota's personal income tax rates from eighth to fourth highest in the nation, behind only Hawaii, California and Oregon.
Meanwhile, many other governors_Republicans and even some Democrats-- are trying to cut their income taxes and make other changes to attract businesses. That includes many of Minnesota's neighbors in the Midwest, such as Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Whether taxes kill jobs is one of the longest-running arguments in politics, and it's about to get tested in a big way in this region.
"I'm the kind of person willing to pay more in taxes because of all the attributes and benefits Minnesota offers," said John Taft, CEO of Minneapolis-based RBC Wealth Management. "But you do reach a tipping point where the cost of government gets too high and this would push us past that tipping point."
Dayton wants the new money to eliminate a $1.1 billion state budget deficit. He also wants more for public schools and colleges, job-creation programs and low-income medical assistance. He's arguing that such amenities are what perennially put the state near the top of livability lists.
"I've heard this for 30 years and I'm not insensitive to it," Dayton said of the argument that high taxes make businesses look elsewhere. However, "I say we're not the lowest-taxed state, we're the best value for people's taxes." Minnesotans try not to scoff as they contrast the state's attributes with the likes of its more down-market neighbors. Minneapolis' bustling downtown Nicollet Mall, the Twin Cities' array of theaters and first-class museums, and the state's expansive parkland and its 19 Fortune 500 company headquarters -- the second-most per capita in the country_are what make talented people want to be here, they said. It's no coincidence that Minnesota's unemployment rate is lower than Wisconsin's (5.5 percent vs. 6.6 percent in December) and its per capita income higher ($44,560 vs. $39,575).
"What's real is that quality of life is a decision-maker for the big players," says Democratic Rep. Alice Hausman.
To the east, Wisconsin is like a photo negative of Minnesota politically. On the day Dayton unveiled his tax proposal, Republican Gov. Scott Walker said he might "put a little bit more of a push" into luring Minnesota companies. He had already put Wisconsin "Open for Business" billboards along Minnesota borders; he's now pushing for a $340 million income tax cut.
South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard's administration has sponsored print and radio ads and direct mail directed at unhappy executives.
"Tired of Taxes? Call Me," read the postcards.
"I can tell you that we are actively working a number of lead prospects from Minnesota," said Pat Costello, Daugaard's commissioner of economic development, though he wouldn't reveal any.
Not all of Dayton's proposed changes are increases. He wants to lower the overall sales tax rate to help middle-class families, reduce the corporate income tax and freeze business property taxes. But he's also wiping out a sacrosanct clothing exemption the Mall of America uses to attract out-of-state shoppers.
Minneapolis is the fourth-largest printing center in the U.S., according to Printing Industry Midwest, a trade association. Bolger said he's fine with paying higher personal income taxes.
But he said his Bolger Printing company had to shed more than 100 of his 320 jobs because of the recession, and "I never want to go through that again" if he starts losing jobs to lower cost competitors.
"I'm a 58-year-old Minnesota boy. Wisconsin is probably not in my future," Bolger said. "But I would have to shrink employees, decent middle class jobs. I thought that's what this is about."
AP reporters Brian Bakst in St. Paul, Scott Bauer and Todd Richmond in Madison, Wis., John Hanna in Topeka, Kan., Catherine Lucey in Des Moines, David Mercer in Springfield, Ill., and Sean Murphy in Oklahoma City contributed to this report.


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