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GOP's Gomez touts his support of Obama
Letter sent to Gov. Deval Patrick in January
Massachusetts Republican U.S. Sen. candidate Gabriel Gomez touted his past support of Democratic President Barack Obama and said he backed Obama's positions on gun control and immigration reform in a January letter to Gov. Deval Patrick.
Gomez now says he opposes reinstatement of an assault weapons ban, which Obama has been pushing.
At the time, Gomez was trying to persuade Patrick to appoint him on an interim basis to the Senate seat left vacant by the resignation of John Kerry.
In the letter, Gomez cast himself as a "moderate Republican" whose appointment would be good for Democrats and said he supported Obama in 2008. An aide said Gomez was referring to a donation he made to Obama's campaign in 2008, but that he voted for Republicans John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012.
"This appointment would be the ultimate demonstration of bipartisanship," Gomez wrote.
Gomez also wrote that the "two main issues that will dominate the political discussion during this appointment will be immigration reform and gun control."
"Given my Latino and Navy SEAL background, I have high credibility to contribute thoughtfully on these issues," Gomez wrote. "I support the positions that President Obama has taken on these issues, and you can be assured that I will keep my word and work on these issues as I have promised."
Patrick ultimately appointed one of his close former aides, William "Mo" Cowan, to the interim post.
Gomez then decided to run in the special election, where he has broken with Obama on the issue of the assault weapons ban.
During a debate Tuesday night at Stonehill College, Gomez said the 1994 assault weapons didn't achieve its goals.
"I don't believe that we need to do an assault weapons (ban)," Gomez said.
A Gomez aide said Wednesday that Gomez in the letter only meant he was willing to work with Obama and bring those issues to the table, but that he didn't back a specific policy agenda supported by the president.
One of Gomez' GOP rivals, Norfolk state Rep. Daniel Winslow, said the letter "reveals many contradictions that show Gomez has been double-dealing with the voters of Massachusetts."
Former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan also is running in the Republican primary.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Workshop 2: Making Writing Meaningful
Additional Resources
Atwell, Nancie. In the Middle: New Understanding About Writing, Reading, and Learning. 2nd Edition. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998. ISBN: 0867093749.
Blair, Linda. "Developing Student Voices With Multicultural Literature." English Journal 80.8 (December 1991): 24-29.
Booth, David. Reading & Writing in the Middle Years. Portland,
ME: Stenhouse, 2001.
Burkhardt, Ross M. and John H. Lounsbury. Writing for Real: Strategies for Engaging Adolescent Writers. Portland, ME: Stenhouse, 2003. ISBN: 1571103589.
Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. Turning Points: Preparing
American Youth for the 21st Century. NY: Carnegie Council on Adolescent
Development, 1989.
Carnignan-Belleville, Lynne. "Jason's Story: Motivating the Reluctant Student To Write." English Journal 78.3 (March 1989): 57-60.
Cynthia, Kay. "Real Classroom Writing." Teaching Pre K-8 (April 1995): 30.
Dean, Deborah. "Going Public: Letters to the World." Voices From the Middle 8.1 (September 2000): 42-47.
Duke, Charles R. and Rebecca Sanchez. "Giving Students Control Over Writing Assignments." English Journal 83.4 (April 1994): 47-53.
Dyson, A. H. and Sarah Freedman. On Teaching Writing: A Review of the Literature. Berkeley: Center for the Study of Writing, 1990.
Graves, Donald H. and Jane Hansen. "The Author's Chair." Language Arts 60.2 (February 1983): 176-183.
Hamblin, Lynda. "Voice in the Junior High School Classroom: Lost and Found." English Journal 90.1 (September 2000): 80-87.
Hansbarger, Julian Clark. "Making Constellations: Teaching Students To Write About Films." English Journal 79.6 (November 1990): 47-52.
Harvey, Stephanie. "Nonfiction Inquiry: Using Real Reading and Writing To Explore the World." Language Arts 80.1 (September 2002): 12-22.
Heath, Shirley Brice and Leslie Mangiola. Children of Promise: Literate Activity in Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms. Washington, DC: National Education Association, 1991. ISBN: 0810618443.
Hudson, Tate and M. Kay Alderman. "Increasing Success in Middle
Grades." English Journal 77.1 (January 1988): 86-88.
Johannessen, Larry R. "Teaching Writing: Motivating Inquiry." English Journal 78.2 (February 1989): 64-67.
Johnson, Holly and Lauren Freedman. "Using Adolescents' Oral and Written Narrative To Create Classroom Communities." Middle School Journal 32.5 (May 2001): 35-44.
Krogness, M. M. Just Teach Me, Mrs. K: Talking, Reading, and Writing With Resistant Adolescent Learners. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1995. ISBN: 0435088157.
Krueger, Ellen. "Media Literacy Does Work, Trust Me." English Journal 87.1 (January 1998): 17-20.
La Bounty, Jan and Patty Reksten. "Inspiring Struggling Writers With Photography." Middle School Journal, 32.5 (May 2001): 13-21.
Macrorie, Ken. The I-Search Paper. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1988. ISBN: 0867092238.
Manning, Maryann and Gary Manning. "Twelve Guidelines for Teaching Writing in Middle School." Teaching Pre K-8 (November/December 1994): 59.
Martin, Bill. "A Writing Assignment: A Way of Life." English Journal 92.6 (July 2003): 52-56.
Motivating Writing in Middle School. Standards Consensus Series. Urbana, IL: NCTE, 1996. ISBN: 0814152872.
Passis, Paige. "Turning Ripples Into Waves: Convincing Kids They Can Make a Difference." Voices From the Middle 6.4 (May 1999): 11-18.
Rief, Linda. Seeking Diversity: Language Arts With Adolescents. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1992. ISBN: 0435085980.
Rief, Linda. "Writing for Life: Language Arts in the Middle." Language Arts 71 (February 1994): 92-94.
Rief, Linda and Maureen Barbieri, eds. All That Matters: What We Value in School and Beyond. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1995. ISBN: 0435088483.
Romano, Tom. Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2000. ISBN: 0867094788.
Romano, Tom. Clearing the Way: Working With Teenage Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1987. ISBN: 0435084399.
Romano, Tom. Writing With Passion: Life Stories, Multiple Genres. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1995. ISBN: 0867093625.
Ruggieri, Colleen A. "Publishing With a Purpose: Caring for Our Community." English Journal 90.5 (May 2001): 60-65.
Strahan, David, Tracy W. Smith, Mike McElrath, and Cecilia M. Toole. "Profiles in Caring: Teachers Who Create Learning Communities in Their Classrooms." Middle School Journal 33 (September 2001): 41-47.
Swensson, Jackie E. "Write Now: An Alternative In-House Publication." English Journal 79.6 (November 1990): 60-63.
Van Horn, Leigh. Creating Literacy Communities in the Middle School. Norwood, MA: Christopher-Gordon, 2001. ISBN: 1929024428.
Wormeli, Rick. Meet Me in the Middle: Becoming an Accomplished Middle-Level Teacher. Portland, ME: Stenhouse, 2001. ISBN: 1571103287.
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Transforming the Teaching Profession
Wake-Up Call
Uniform Graduation Rate
Focus on Rural Education
Teaching About 9/11
Odds and Ends
Quote to Note
Upcoming Events
Transforming the Teaching Profession
On July 29, in a speech to the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, Secretary Duncan said the U.S. should radically transform the way that teachers are recruited, assigned, evaluated, and compensated, in order to recognize and reward its great veteran teachers, attract top students into the field, and make the country more competitive. He called on teachers to rebuild their profession, to give themselves more autonomy in exchange for performance-based accountability. "Teachers must own this and drive this," he explained. "Change can only come from the men and women who do the hard work every day within our classrooms." He also called for higher salaries to make teaching more competitive with other venerated professions like law, medicine, and engineering. He suggested that starting salaries of around $60,000 and top salaries approaching $150,000 would help change the economics of the profession, while acknowledging the difficulty of finding more funding when governments at every level are wrestling with debt and deficits. "I am sure some people will immediately say that we can't afford it without even looking at how to redirect the money we are already spendingand mis-spending," he observed. "To them I say that there is more than one way to mortgage your future. We can't mortgage our future by under-investing in education."
On July 30, the Secretary announced the 16 teachers selected as 2011-12 Teaching Ambassador Fellows. Five teachers will become full-time employees at the Department in Washington, D.C., and 11 will remain in their classrooms and participate on a part-time basis. "I'm committed to listening to teachers' voices as we work to develop policies that will support reform and strengthen the teaching profession," he noted. "I've come to rely on the Fellows for their invaluable feedback and their ability to facilitate dialogue with teachers across the country. I look forward to working closely with this year's Fellowsparticularly as we work to fix the No Child Left Behind Act." Now in its fourth year, the Teacher Ambassador Fellowships were created to give outstanding teachers an opportunity to learn about national policy issues in education and contribute their expertise to those discussions. Fellows, in turn, share what they have learned with other teachers in their professional networks, contributing to a greater understanding of federal initiatives and encouraging broader input into policy and programs designed to improve education at all levels of government. The 2011-12 Fellows will continue to work with the 54 previous Fellows from the past three classes.
- Every other Thursday through August 25, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, the Department is hosting "Summer Seminars at Six," a four-part summer information series for teachers. The next seminar, titled "Fixing What's Broken in No Child Left Behind," will be on August 11. Archived videos and related materials from both the July 14 and July 28 seminars are available online.
- On ED.gov, 2010-11 Fellow Laurie Calvert blogs about her experience at the "Save Our Schools" rally, 2011-12 Fellow Greg Mullenholz blogs about his first week at the Department, and Ben Firke blogs about teacher-turned-Senior Program Advisor on Teacher Initiatives Brad Jupp.
- Throughout the summer, TEACH.gov has been profiling teachers of all subjects and grade levels who have inspired their students and increased their classroom's performancein the hope that these stories will help the best and the brightest discover their pathway to teaching.
Wake-Up Call
Last week, Secretary Duncan traveled to Des Moines for two education events, highlighting the need to promote educational excellence for students in Iowa and across America. First, with U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, he visited Carver Community School and participated in a lesson with local teachers and children. He also joined a roundtable discussion with community leaders from across the state to hear about how quality early learning programs have benefited urban and rural communities. (Note: Iowa intends to apply for the Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Fund, a new, $500 million state-level grant competition that will encourage states to develop bold and comprehensive plans for raising the quality of early learning initiatives.) Then, the Secretary delivered the keynote address at Governor Terry Branstad's Iowa Education Summit. He discussed the need to elevate education to empower citizens to compete in the global economy. He also provided an assessment of Iowa's progress in strengthening its education system. The summit was aimed at building a consensus on how to ensure all students receive a world-class education.
Uniform Graduation Rate
This summer, states will begin reporting high school graduation rates for the 2010-11 school year using a more rigorous four-year adjusted cohort, as developed by the nation's governors in 2005. Since data reporting requirements were first implemented under No Child Left Behind, states have calculated graduation rates using varying methods, creating inconsistent data from one state to the next. The transition to a uniform high graduation rate requires all states to report the number of students who graduate in four years with a standard high school diploma, divided by the number of students who entered high school four years earlier, and accounting for student transfers in and out of school. States may also opt to use an extended-year adjusted cohort, allowing states, districts, and schools to account for students who complete high school in more than four years. In addition, schools must maintain documentation for students who have transferred. States will continue to report graduation rates at the state, district, and school levels, including rates for subgroups of students. The Department anticipates that the more rigorous method will result in lower reported graduation rates, but it will reflect a more accurate calculation of how many U.S. students complete high school.
Focus on Rural Education
Throughout the month of August, the Department will hold events and engage in outreach efforts to promote the strengths, challenges, and key opportunities in rural education. Ongoing efforts will include spotlighting the work of educators and students in rural areas on the Rural Education Resource Center. Also, senior Department officials will participate in White House Rural Council roundtable discussions in several states and hold meetings at the Department's headquarters to continue learning from rural students, teachers, and researchers. According to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), over half of public school districts (56%), nearly one-third of public schools (31%), and almost a quarter of students (23%, or 11.3 million) reside in rural communities. Class sizes are generally small, and overall graduation rates are high in many rural areas. Yet, rural students are less likely than their peers nationwide to access postsecondary education.
Earlier, in Tennessee, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Rural Outreach John White hosted a White House Rural Council roundtable discussion in Greeneville (July 18) and offered remarks at the Southeast Regional Rural Education Summit in Nashville (July 19).
- During a recent webinar, state education officials learned more about how the National 4-H and Cooperative Extension programs can help with the effort to turnaround low-performing schools and end the dropout crisis.
- On ED.gov, Amy French, a career counselor in Sullivan County, Tennessee, blogs about her work in rural Appalachia.
- The White House "Champions of Change: Rural America" web site profiles rural leaders, from farmers and ranchers to educators and small business owners, who are helping the country confront the challenges of the 21st century.
Teaching About 9/11
In just over a month, America will observe the 10th anniversary of September 11. However, many of today's elementary and secondary school students are too young to remember the day and its meaning. To help educators prepare for the difficult but important task of teaching about 9/11, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, the Pentagon Memorial Fund, and the Flight 93 National Memorial offered a free online conference to provide educators with resources and strategies for addressing the attacks. Discussions with content experts and workshop sessionsrecorded and archived onlineidentify resources available at each organization, supply background information on 9/11, and encourage conversations on how to document, preserve, and interpret recent history and current events.
Odds and Ends
On July 27, Secretary Duncan testified before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies on the President's Fiscal Year 2012 budget proposal.
On July 28, special guest Dora the Explorer joined the Secretary and Senior Advisor on Early Learning Jacqueline Jones for the last "Let's Read! Let's Move!" event of the summer at the Department's headquarters building.
More than 650 organizations intend to apply for 2011 Promise Neighborhood grants.
The summer 2011 issue of the Department's School Turnaround Newsletter is now available at. The newsletter is a resource for states, districts, and schools pursuing school turnaround under the School Improvement Grants (SIG) program. This issue details the National Education Association's (NEA) work with SIG schools, presents an example of a successful state monitoring system, and features an interview with a principal on implementing extended learning time.
The Department's Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) is working closely with students, families, the financial aid community, and others to develop model formats for financial aid offer forms. These forms, often referred to as Financial Aid Award Letters, are sent to prospective students by colleges, universities, and other postsecondary institutions to let them know how much financial aid they can expect to receive when they attend school. Interested parties are invited to offer comments on offer forms through Regulations.gov, as outlined in a July 29 Federal Register notice, by August 26.
NCES's "Graduate and First-Professional Students: Who They Are and How They Pay for Their Education, 2007-08" explores the types of programs in which these students are enrolled, the costs associated with those programs, and just how those costs are financed via aid and work.
Quote to Note
"The current debate about the debt ceiling and the deficit is not just about budgets and numbers. It's really about the fundamental promise at the heart of the middle-class American Dream. For much of the last century, America was a country where, if you worked hard, you and your family could enjoy the basic benefits of a comfortable life: a job, a home, affordable health care, quality education, and a secure retirement. Today, for too many Americans, these building blocks of middle class life are increasingly out of reachand that is creating uncertainty and anxiety. This is not good for the country. It's not good for our families. And it's not good for education. So, while I appreciate the hard work underway to cut spending and get our debt under control, I want all of us to work together to do this in a way that does not undermine the education of our children."
|Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (7/28/11), in his testimony on the President's budget proposal
Upcoming Events
The National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Week Conference will be held September 19 and 20 in Washington, D.C.
The NASA Explorer Schools 2011-12 school year is officially underway. If you work in an accredited K-12 education institution in the U.S. or a U.S. territory and would like to participate in NASA activities, please register online. You will then be contacted to set up an orientation.
On August 9, Department Chief of Staff Joanne Weiss will be on panel discussing collaborative school reform at the National Conference of State Legislatures' Legislative Summit in San Antonio (August 8-11). The Department will also exhibit at the summit. If you are attending this event, please stop by the Department's booth.
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Much like Words With Friends on iPhone and iPad is a cheaper, better implementation of the official Scrabble app, there are no-name Risk knockoffs that outclass the official app.
TouchArcade points out four in particular, Lux DLX2 ($6), Generals ($4), Strategery ($3), and DominionDominion ($2.49). Strategery sounds like the most bang for the buck: For $3, it's a universal app (for iPad and iPhone), and it offers single and multiplayer with the push notifications that Mark so hotly desires in the official Risk app, so you can slowly kill a day, one move at a time. But if you've got a favourite, tell us why. [TouchArcade]


text: Walking to the subway in Chelsea, the title of this artist's book in the window of a gallery caught my eye — wonder why…. There's a show of his crude, cartoony paintings in the back room of the gallery, but the handsome, friendly gallerist Mike Lyons Wier told me that there's been so much favorable attention to the "Pervert" drawings that he'll be showing them at the gallery this coming week, February 1-8. Check it out, and say hi to Mike for me. Lyons Wier Gallery, 175 Seventh Ave. @20th Street.


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FDA Launches Rare Review Into Diabetes Drugs
Federal regulators are looking into a multibillion-dollar class of diabetes drugs after recent reports that they could be linked to pancreatic cancer. Peter Landers reports on The News Hub. Photo: AP.
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Won't leave stuff in the cache container, as that is not in the spriit - but will try to meet folks. I know some with younger folks may have allergies to some things - so please...........if you are planning on coming to visit and may have food allergies - let me know and I will try to accomodate.
The cache is not a bad one for kids - just have to watch your step and it is a walk. I hope some folks enjoy this as a Halloween cache.
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Armstrong Seeks Dismissal of Federal Whistleblower Suit
In Rebuke Of Allegations, Armstrong Says U.S. Postal Service Should Have Known He Was Doping
Lawyers for Lance Armstrong fired a scathing shot at the U.S. government on Tuesday, asking a federal judge to dismiss a $120 million whistleblower lawsuit that accused him, and others, of defrauding his former team's sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service.
Mr. Armstrong, who was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles last year, admitted in January that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the races. He lost all of his major sponsorship deals and is banned for life from competition.
The lawsuit, filed in 2010 by Mr. Armstrong's former teammate Floyd Landis, alleged that Mr. Armstrong and others defrauded the government when they took sponsorship dollars from the Postal Service with the understanding that there would be no use of performance-enhancing drugs on the team.
But Mr. Armstrong, in a 25-page rebuke of the allegations, said the Postal Service should have known that he was doping. Allegations that he had used performance-enhancing drugs had received news coverage. But the officials "did nothing," the filing says. Armstrong was denying his use of performance enhancing drugs during this period.
"Instead, the Postal Service renewed the Sponsorship Agreement," Mr. Armstrong's lawyers, John Keker and Elliot Peters of Keker & Van Nest, LLP, wrote, and "basked in the favorable publicity of its sponsorship." The Postal Service began its sponsorship in October 1995, and extended its sponsorship until year's end 2004.
Mr. Armstrong's lawyers highlighted the benefits the Postal Service got from the team contract, which included access to a "private hospitality tent" on the Champs Élysées and private team receptions, "including exclusive dinners in Paris and invitations to the final night dinner" after the 21-day race ended in Paris.
Under the federal False Claims Act, citizens can sue for alleged fraud against the government, as Mr. Landis did in this case, and receive a reward of as much as one-third of any money recovered by the government.
The suit, which was first disclosed by The Wall Street Journal in 2010, also accuses Thomas Weisel, the owner of Mr. Armstrong's team, Johan Bruyneel, the team's manager, and Bill Stapleton, Mr. Armstrong's agent, among others.
Messrs. Weisel, Bruyneel and Stapleton also filed separate motions seeking a dismissal of the case Tuesday. Lawyers for Messrs. Stapleton and Weisel didn't respond to requests for comment. A lawyer for Mr. Bruyneel didn't offer any additional comment beyond what was on the court record. Mr. Weisel has said in the past he had no knowledge of doping on Mr. Armstrong's cycling team.
The U.S. Department of Justice joined Mr. Landis's suit in February, effectively taking it over. The Justice Department filed its own, separate civil complaint, but didn't name Messrs. Stapleton or Weisel as defendants.
In the suit, Mr. Landis accused Mr. Weisel, a powerful Silicon Valley investment banker, of having knowledge of doping on the team.
A lawyer for Mr. Weisel said in a filing Tuesday that Mr. Landis's lawsuit was "riddled" with "tenuous assertions of Mr. Weisel's purported knowledge" of doping on the team.
Mr. Weisel's lawyer went a step further, claiming that the Postal Service contract didn't specifically prohibit doping and that the payments weren't "conditioned on riders on the team not doping."
"Not surprisingly, we dispute much of what is being argued in the various motions by the defendants," said Mr. Landis's lawyer, Paul Scott, in an email Tuesday. "We will be responding on the schedule set by the Court," he said.
Mr. Scott and the government are scheduled to respond in September, according to the court docket.
If found to have violated the False Claims Act, Mr. Armstrong and others named in the suit would be liable for as much as triple the amount of the sponsorship, which was roughly $40 million between 1995 and 2004, the years in which the Postal Service sponsored the team, according to the lawsuit.
Mr. Armstrong's lawyers also argued in their motion Tuesday that Mr. Landis's suit was filed too late, just past the six-year statute of limitations. "It is now far too late for the government to revisit its choice to reap the benefits of sponsorship rather than investigate allegations of doping," Messrs. Keker and Peters wrote. Mr. Armstrong's lawyers didn't comment beyond what was on the record.
A spokeswoman for the United States Postal Service declined to comment.
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December 11, 2001
Photographer Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (NCSF) filed a lawsuit today, claiming the Internet censorship provision of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) violates the First Amendment right to free speech.
The provision stipulates that "local community standards" will judge whether or not something is indecent. Yet attorney John Wirenius argues that "By allowing the most restrictive jurisdiction to define what speech can be banned as obscene from the Internet, the CDA allows one community to limit what the entire nation is allowed to discuss, to read or to view. The First Amendment does not allow any one locality to impose its morality on the nation."
Artists like Barbara Nitke fear that their artwork could be targeted by John Ashcroft, who has promised to enforce obscenity laws.


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OAKLAND — Friends of a 31-year-old woman missing since last Thursday were out Monday morning canvassing the North Oakland neighborhood where she was last seen.
Erica Maskaleris was recorded on video just after 7 a.m. Thursday in the 3400 block of Telegraph Avenue, by a merchant's surveillance camera, friends said. Maskaleris, who is part-owner of an IT consulting company, was wearing jogging attire when she was last seen.
Family and friends said it was out of character for her not to contact anyone and of particular concern is that Maskaleris was scheduled to fly to Texas that night to visit a brother. She did not take the flight and the brother has since flown to Oakland.
Maskaleris is operations manager at GeekoSystems, a computer consultation company based in Oakland that she started with her late husband in 2009.
Friend Mary Lim-Lampe said Maskaleris lost her husband to cancer last year and even though she had gone through a "lot of hard stuff she was not distraught or depressed lately. She was excited about her trip to see her brother."
Lim-Lampe said people called Maskaleris' cell phone to no avail before it apparently stopped working Friday.
A prayer vigil was held for her Sunday night in the area where she was last seen.
"We're not sure what's going on and have had no feedback," said Gloria Rivera, 50, a friend from the First Congregational Church of Oakland, where Maskaleris attends services.
Rivera spent Monday morning canvassing outside of A Taste of Denmark Bakery.
Maskaleris is Latina, about 5 foot 3 and 220 pounds with dark brown, long curly hair. She was last seen wearing a gray sweatshirt, gray sweatpants and red tennis shoes.
Anyone with information is asked to call the police at 510-238-3641 or 510-777-3333.


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My recent column, 8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Bosses, drew a flood of responses. But there's one thing I didn't mention: An extraordinary boss communicates his expectations clearly to his team. That way, everyone understands what it will take to make your company succeed.
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Your boss wants to trust you. Really. Therefore, whenever you accept an assignment, follow through religiously, even fanatically. Do what you say you're going to do. Never overcommit, and avoid hedging your bets with vague statements like "I'll try" and "maybe." Instead, make your word carry real weight.
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I plan to replace a CFL lighting fixture in a small room (10' x 15'), due to its being too dim and giving less-than-perfect light.
I'd like to install something that would give me 3500K light with color rendering index (CRI) ≥ 85.
My options are seemingly halogen and LED. I'm OK with replacing the fixture, adding transformers, etc.
- Halogen bulbs I encounter seem to have low power efficiency, below 20 lm/W (example). This means lots of heat, which I would rather avoid.
- LED bulbs I encounter usually have CRI of 80 or worse (example), which I would rather improve on.
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What is winter without snow?
Going Nature's Way
The fog was so bad we were creeping along, trying to see the white line next to the shoulder of the road. It was Saturday night, December 1, and we were returning from Cambridge, where we'd been at the Morgan and Scout Bookstore for a book signing. Temperatures were in the 40s and the ground was wet from the melting of the leftover Thanksgiving snow — dangerous conditions. We just hoped there wouldn't be a deer standing on the side of the road, ready to leap out.
The forecast from weather.com predicts a warmer than average December throughout the Midwest, South, Ohio Valley and Great Lakes regions. In the first days of the month the temperatures are expected to be 10 to 30 degrees above average. But it's getting hard to say what is average or normal anymore. I just hope it isn't another winter that ... isn't.
Over the Thanksgiving weekend our grandchildren experienced the same joy and laughter that we did as kids, when they went sledding on our neighbor's hill. What adult Minnesotan doesn't remember those wonderful, wild, white days when the air was sharp against your skin, but it didn't matter, because adrenalin was coursing through your veins as you sped down a snowy slope. I love watching the kids engaged in this free and exhilarating connection with the outdoors. I even got on the sled a few times, but decided the ruts at the bottom of the hill were a bit too jarring for my old back. They will be less noticeable after a few more snowfalls. The kids ranged in age from 5 to 9 and were fearless, which I can't say for myself as I watched them careen past.
What is a Minnesota winter (or Christmas for that matter) without snow? Just plain brown and depressing; an extended November. And what would we do if the lakes never froze solid enough so that ice fisherman couldn't set up their houses and drill holes and play cards or whatever it is they do in those homes away from home? A Minnesota winter with snow and shovels and ice and windchill is part of our national identity. So what if people think we live in igloos. Imagine Prairie Home Companion without stories of Lake Wobegone gripped by winter. Impossible.
Admit it. It just doesn't feel right to go through December without snow.
I know that we are nearing the end of another year; that the Mayans have said it will be our last, yet we are making plans for the future. What that future will look like is the ultimate mystery, but we northern Minnesotans come from hardy European stock, if not even hardier Indigenous stock and we will meet the challenges ahead with stoic force. We will support and come to one another's aid when crisis hit, as it did in the summer with the floods. We will get outdoors, in cold or heat, and enjoy our natural resources.
We are Minnesotans and we take pride in this beautiful state with its incredible abundance of lakes, rivers and streams. We are richer than any oil emirate, because we have freshwater that we can drink; that we absolutely need for survival. The question might be whether we really appreciate that fact, if our natural wealth, since it exists all around us, disappears from our view. It's hard to believe that most of our state is currently in a serious drought, but it is and the snow that falls in winter determines how much recharge our rivers and lakes and wetlands will get come spring. So I say to you. Think snow. And then get out and enjoy it.
Wishing everyone a white and merry Christmas.


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Late in 2008
Hopefully by the time they get to 2008 they will have come out with something a little (or a lot) better.
No-one likes it, the theory is that the 1M units "sold" are sitting on retailers' shelves.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told German business and economics magazine Wirtschafts Woche in an interview that the Seattle-based behemoth will delay the European launch of its moderately-awaited Zune MP3 player until next year. According to the interview, Ballmer cited the fact that Microsoft was losing money due to …
M$ will delay the Zune in Europe until they finally write and release a secure and mostly-bug-free operating system.
Sometime in the 35th Century, perhaps.
Caveat: Anyone who does get a Zune needs to know that, when you tell it to remove items from the library, *by default* it removes them from your computer's hard disk, too. Watch it!
Zune was a product of some guys wearing suits trying to make a hip new product. It has to be, because the Zune is full of lame ideas. Take, for example, the brown color. If someone said to you "I think brown is going to be the next 'in' color!", what would you think? Especially if the brown they are talking about is very close to what you flush down your toilet. And then to top it off, song sharing was called "squirting". Who thinks "squirt" is a cool word? Somebody out of touch with the target audience, that is who. Imagine squirting with your brown Zune. The whole concept sounds like diarrhea. Little wonder the Zune is failing. You should be happy such a braindead idea isn't making its way across the pond any time soon.
I hope they aren't thinking they can drop this stinker on the European market in 2008 when it'll be the better part of two years out of date. My old 4G/40GB iPod, even with crap battery life and mediocre sound quality, beats the Zune hands down. Surely it can't be that hard to design a better iPod?
Because Mactards piss me off and i thought i'd try it. If nothing else, it would upset the Applevangelists.
As it happens, i'm very pleased with it. It works. I watch ripped TV series and movies on it's great big screen and see a great picture with far better sound than the iPod ever managed.
The whole 2008 thing doesn't worry me. Why would i want to pay £250 for something i can import for £100? So i can't share music - no biggie. I'd prefer to listen to my own choices anyway.
Best of all, i don't have install iTunes, probably the single worst music controlling interface ever.
As ever, M$ has seen a rolling bandwagon and jumped to get on the back of it. Unfortunately, however, they appear to have missed the jump and landed flat on the ground in the settling dust. (Probably with their face in a pile of equine overflow.)
There seems to be a fair bit of that going on. It's funny that we never hear about this innovative new products that are going to make our lives complete UNTIL a competitor is marketing or developing something similar. From DOS to the flatpanel display interface (Surface? I forget), M$ have run after and jumped on bandwagons.
Most unfortunately of all, perhaps the one time they really should have landed in equine overflow they managed to corner the market. Dammit.
Microsoft were kind enough to give me a Zune as a thank-you for some feedback I gave them on their customer service (or lack thereof)...
... Have to say I'm impressed. To live with it isn't as 'cool' as the ipod but the sound quality is great and the interface is lovely. Graphics are so, so sharp. It's rugged and quite happily sits at the bottom of my bag with now complaints.
Plus since every kid with a Burberry baseball cap has an iPod the 'cool' has become 'commonplace'... My iPod has been sidelined. Long live the Zune.
ps. Only one issue. If you do get an import please be aware you can't use the marketplace as this is US only.
Well, all things considered, I for one won't be whining for it. I already own a Creative Zen Vision:M 30GB. Never had any problems with it (except resorting to import an adapter because only one store sells it locally and they're selling it for about twice the price than in Singapore).
I mean, come on. There are better players out there in the market. iRiver, MSI, one of those with wierd names from China, and they do just about as good a job at MP3s if not the same or better.
I'll gladly give this draconian piece that is created by the lizard empire a miss, thanks.


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Mr. President, Tear Down That Andy Griffith Ad
The Obama administration spent your tax dollars on a pro-ObamaCare ad, featuring Andy Griffith, that FactCheck.org found uses "weasel words" to "mislead" seniors about how that law would affect them. (As I blogged previously, FactCheck.org understated the case.) Nonetheless, over at Medicare.gov, the administration is still running that dishonest ad.
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(Alternate title: Find the Adjoint: Hopf Algebra edition)
I was chatting with Jonah about his question Hopf algebra structure on $\prod_n A^{\otimes n}$ for an algebra $A$. It's very closely related to the following question:
For a $k$-algebra $A$, is there a Hopf Algebra $H(A)$ such that for any Hopf algebra $B$, we have
$\mathop{Hom}_{k\text{-alg}}(B,A)\cong \mathop{Hom}_{k\text{-Hopf-alg}}(B,H(A))$?
In other words, does the forgetful functor from $k$-Hopf-algebras to $k$-algebras have a right adjoint? There are a few related questions, any of which I'd be interested in knowing the answer to:
- Does the forgetful functor from Hopf algebras to augmented algebras (sending the counit to the augmentation) have a right adjoint?
- Does the forgetful functor from Hopf algebras to algebras with distinguished anti-automorphism (sending the antipode to the anti-automorphism) have a right adjoint?
- Does the forgetful functor from Hopf algebras to algebras with augmentation and distinguished anti-automorphism have a right adjoint?
Unfortunately, I don't feel like I can motivate this question very well. My motivation is that the better I know which forgetful functors have adjoints, the better I sleep at night.


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The biggest introduction of a generic drug in pharmaceutical history is being met with tough business strategies by Pfizer and pharmacy benefit companies, according to recent letters to pharmacists. Many drugstores are being asked to block prescriptions for a generic version of Pfizer's Lipitor starting Dec. 1, when the company loses its patent for the blockbuster cholesterol drug and generic competition begins. Medco Health Solutions, among the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers, is one of the companies issuing instructions, seeking to have pharmacists keep filling prescriptions with the more expensive Lipitor for six months.
What? Has Medco lost its mind? Requiring pharmacies to use a more expensive drug? "Medco must be stupid" Some of you are probably thinking.
Pfizer has agreed to large discounts for benefit managers that block the use of generic versions of Lipitor, according to a letter from Catalyst Rx, a benefit manager for 18 million people in the United States. The letters have not previously been made public.
"Oh my gosh! Medco isn't stupid, Medco is smart!" You're now saying. "After anal raping drugstores to the point where they have nothing left to give, Medco is going after the drugmakers and negotiating discounts! They really will be giving value to plan sponsors when they pass all those savings from Pfizer along!"
To which I will say..........BBBBBWWWAAAAAAHAHHHAAAHHHAAAHHAAAAAAA!!!!! You obviously don't know PBM's very well:
A pharmacy group and an independent expert say the tactic will benefit Pfizer and benefit managers at the expense of employers and taxpayers, who may end up paying more than they should for the drug. "I'm stunned," said Geoffrey F. Joyce, an associate professor of pharmaceutical economics and a health policy expert at the University of Southern California, after reviewing the letters. "This is just an egregious case. Clearly there's been some negotiation between Pfizer and the large P.B.M.'s saying we're going to make this cost-beneficial to them, but the plan sponsors are going to eat it."
"Eat it" in this case, is a polite way of saying "take it up the ass"
Objections to the deal were raised publicly on Thursday in a news release from a group called Pharmacists United for Truth and Transparency, which opposes some tactics of pharmacy benefit managers. The statement called the move "a blatant attempt" by benefit managers to keep Pfizer's discount while employers still have to pay the full price of the brand-name drug.
Got that? Medco negotiated a discount from Pfizer alright, and evidently is planning on keeping it all to itself. Now I only had a few business electives in college, so maybe an MBA out there somewhere can explain to me how that's not a kickback.
But is Medco really planning on something so brazen? Why don't we just ask them directly:
Melissa Mackey, manager of public affairs for Medco, said its letter described "a custom plan design, which is not a new concept," in which clients could "tailor their formulary to maximize value."
That, my friends, is a textbook case of corporate bullshit. You ever need an example of how to talk without saying anything, you just go back to that quote. Why don't we try just asking them a simple question that requires a simple answer:
Asked in an e-mail specifically whether Medco would pocket the Pfizer discounts while employers and taxpayers paid more than the generic price for brand-name Lipitor, Ms. Mackey declined further comment.
Yup. Think we have our answer. And I'm thinking we can expect more of the same when Medco merges with Express Scripts and controls a third of the market.
Tell me again why I'm supposed to be afraid of socialized medicine?
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IBM has released a Web analytics tool that combines two existing products from its acquisitions last year, Coremetrics, a Web analytics provider, and Unica.
IBM paid $480 million for the publicly held Unica, which makes tools to help businesses analyze customer data and predict their needs and actions. Unica had more than 1,500 customers at the time of the acquisition. The sale price of the privately-held Coremetrics was not disclosed.
Features from both those companies were merged to create a product that is intended to link analytics from a variety of platforms, including the Web and social media networks, and tie them to marketing efforts ranging from automated actions to sales opportunities.
This new tool, which was given the lengthy name of IBM Coremetrics Web Analytics and Digital Marketing Optimization Suite, will be delivered from the cloud -- no surprise there.
More than 85% of the Web analytics customers are already using cloud-based software-as-a-service through tools such as Adobe's Omniture (which Adobe bought in 2009 for $1.8 billion), Google Analytics, and Webtrends, said John Lovett, an analyst with Web Analytics Demystified, a consultancy and industry analyst firm.
IBM will be able offer its customers a hybrid system that stores clickstream data in the cloud, but also makes it available for on premise enterprise use. "That really brings the best of both worlds together," said Lovett.
But cloud-based delivery does have some big advantages in this market, according to Akin Arikan, IBM's multichannel marketing evangelist in its enterprise management group.
The cloud will include a data warehouse that will likely grow exponentially. For instance, a site with a million customers who make 10 different clicks each month will see data volume growth of 100 times larger per month. "This quickly gets into terabytes of data," Arikan said.
Customers will be charged based on the volume of interactions on the site and not on the storage consumed, Arikan said.
Users of the system will be able to access the tool through a variety of platforms, including tables and smartphones .
The suite not only captures data from the Web site, but extends it into other digital marketing, including emails and display ads, which means that the cloud suite has be talking to a number of third parties, such as ad serving networks, Arikan said.
Web analytics may be well suited for cloud, but Boris Evelson, an analyst at Forrester, said that tdoesn't apply to business intelligence (BI) applications. One problem is BI is not really well defined and is subject to a lot of customization, which is not something the cloud-based services are well suited for, he said.
"BI is very different for every client; it's very personalized," Evelson said. Business also want the ability to makes frequent changes, something that cloud-based BI apps don't necessarily allow.
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Point Reyes, CA: A Bevy of Burgers Straight From The Source at The Marin Sun Farms Cafe
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10905 Shoreline Highway 1, Point Reyes Station CA 94956 (map); 415-663-8997 ext 201, marinsunfarms.com
Cooking Method: Griddled on the flat-top
Short Order: Farm fresh, flavorful meats make for delicious burgers of the beef, lamb, and goat variety.
Want Fries with That? The fries are fine, but the crispy kale fried in pork lard is definitely the way to go.
Price: Beef burger, $13; Black & Blue, lamb, and goat burgers, $14; fries, $4; crispy kale, $7
Notes: They'll overcook your beef if you're not assertive about it. The flavor didn't suffer for being cooked medium, but next time, I'm insisting on medium rare.
Some things don't happen in the Bay Area all that often. One, a visit from beloved Serious Eats editor Carey. Two, weather that tops 80 degrees in the city. This freakishly awesome combination of factors led us to one logical conclusion: We've got to go on a food-venture.
So, we packed up a cooler with some tasty beers and my car with some fun friends, and headed north for Point Reyes. In addition to being one of the more stunning stretches of coastline ever, it's also home to some really good eats—Cowgirl Creamery Cheese, Tomales Bay Oysters (more on that soon!), and Marin Sun Farms meat.
Marin Sun Farms has become pretty ubiquitous when it comes to good meat in the Bay Area. Their grass fed, sustainable model and consistently flavorful, fresh products have won them fans among conscientious meat-eaters and hard-core carnivores alike. Their meats, available for sale at high end groceries like the Bi-Rite Market and Little Vine, and on menus at everywhere from Absinthe to Zuni, are an undeniable staple. You've likely had a burger made with their beef before.
But their cafe, a little roadside spot that doubles as a butcher shop, feels about as farm fresh as you can get without grinding up a side of cow yourself. And the burgers, available in beef, lamb, and goat form, are universally fresh, juicy, and flavorful. All of the patties are grass-fed and eight ounces; all are served on generously buttered, utterly delicious sesame seeded buns. And, regardless of meat type, all of the burgers had a wonderful, textural crust, courtesy of their time on the flat top.
Before we dive into the juicy burger specifics, I'd like to get my one overall complaint out of the way: the beef burgers are overcooked. We asked for medium rare, and they were definitely in the realm of medium. I will say that the flavor didn't suffer much from it, but next time, we plan on being pretty assertive with our temperature request.
Moving on! The classic beef burger ($13) is topped with house cured bacon, tomato, and cave aged Gruyère. Again, despite being overcooked, the patty's loose grind, gush of juice, and deep, beefy flavor immediately made me a huge fan of this burger. The meaty, smokey bacon and subtly pungent Gruyère were excellent additions to the well salted beef; the tomatoes, disappointingly, were lacking in vibrancy and flavor (and there's just no excuse for that considering the unreal tomato season we've been having).
The black & blue burger ($14) has a virtually identical patty to the standard beef, but is topped with sweet red onions, rocket, and Point Reyes Blue cheese. The crisp onions and fresh bitterness of the rocket were nice additions to the rich beef and bun, but the blue cheese, while excellent on its own, was just too strong for the burger (granted, I almost always feel this way about blue cheese on burgers, even if it is the incomparable Point Reyes blue).
The lamb burger ($14) is topped with a slice of mild manchego cheese, and a pile of bright green chimichurri. While it's meant to come with lamb bacon, the cafe was out (no!), forcing us to resort to standard pork bacon. And while the beef burgers were certainly past medium rare, this burger was cooked to order, at medium (their recommended temperature). The lamb, incredibly tender and nicely fatty, had a strong, distinctive flavor—so strong that the flavors of the toppings didn't come through, save a slight vegetal flavor from the chimichurri. No major complaints from me, though—with lamb this good, I'm alright having it dominate the flavor profile.
The goat burger ($14) was similarly recommended at and cooked to medium, and is served with caramelized onions, Chenil chevre, and an herbed shiitake mushroom conserva. Other than being as rich and juicy as the preceding patties, I didn't get a terribly distinct goat flavor from this burger (Wes disagreed, and deemed this one his favorite). Perhaps it was because I was so taken with the toppings—the creamy, tangy pile of fresh goat cheese, the meaty, pungent mushrooms, and the sweet caramelized onions would have made a fine sandwich on their own.
The burgers are served with a nice side salad and crunchy, tangy quarter pickles. Hand-cut Kennebec fries ($4) are a decent side-order option; made from potatoes from their ranch in Inverness, the spuds are cooked in pork lard. While fresh tasting and decently flavorful, the fries could have stood for a shake or two more of salt, and weren't quite as crisp as I'd have liked.
The crispy kale ($7), on the other hand, is a must-order as far as sides are concerned. Fried in pork lard and topped with finely grated parmesan, a squeeze of lemon, and a zig zag of aioli (because frying your kale in pork lard just isn't taking it far enough!), the incredible balance between the rich fattiness with the tang of citrus made for one of the best iterations of kale chips I've ever had.
A worthy food-excursion? I'd say so. And considering our next stop involved that cooler of beer and a whole pile of oysters to shuck, it's a day I'd happily repeat, 80-degree weather or not.
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Tourist Development Council executive director Jennifer Jenkins set a lofty perch to reach for the fiscal year just ended.
Tourist Development Council executive director Jennifer Jenkins set a lofty perch to reach for the fiscal year just ended.
She and her team missed by this much.
With a September that brought in a bed tax revenue increase of 26 percent compared to the prior year � the second consecutive month showing an increase of 26 percent � TDC bed tax collections for the year ending Sept. 30 spiked 14 percent compared to last year.
Jenkins set a goal of 15 percent and was still trying to move on from her near miss on Monday.
�The numbers are very high for the past two months,� Jenkins said. �The last month we had any kind of increase like that 26 percent was in January.
�It�s great. Especially when you think that we really didn�t have a chance to kick in our concentrated marketing strategy until February.�
But that 15 percent � that would have been icing on a delicious cake.
And the work hardly ends as Jenkins has set a goal of 20 percent growth in bed tax revenue for the coming fiscal year, including a 30 percent increase in revenue for the so-called shoulder seasons of fall and winter.
To convert percentages into dollars, this past year�s fiscal year TDC budget was crafted based on a revenue projection of $600,000. The TDC collected nearly $900,000 in bed taxes.
As a result the TDC advisory council recently increased the projected budget for the just-started fiscal year at $650,000.
�I want to set those high goals because I don�t want us to be complacent,� Jenkins said. �I don�t spend ad valorem dollars. I spend bed tax dollars and I have a lot of partners. I owe it to them not to be complacent.
�And we have done this with not a lot of money. Six hundred thousand dollar is not a lot in the big picture.�
One critical aspect of the prior year, Jenkins said, was contracting an in-depth multi-layered research of a kind the TDC had never performed and provided a trove of important information about who visits Gulf County, why and what they do, where they come from and want from their experience.
The research helped shape marketing approaches across multiple platforms and was noted repeatedly by elected officials during decision making months after the research findings were released.
�The research really put us on the right track,� Jenkins said. �I don�t think we could have done what we did without the research.�
The outstanding last two months have been fed in part, Jenkins said, by an increase in international tourists from Europe and Great Britain. Jenkins noted two men from the UK who came on vacation and stayed for the recent Songwriters Festival.
The �shoulder season� is strong in other key ways.
�I also have heard from partners that they are able to keep their workers on, they are not having to lay off as much,� Jenkins said, adding that jobs are as important in her bucket list as heads in beds.
Jenkins said she also pleased with the informational kiosks built by county maintenance crews and placed at eight parks around the county.
She also emphasized the face time her team � staff grew as Jenkins took nearly all functions of the TDC in-house � devotes to getting out in the community and �talking to people and our partners.�
�That has been very important,� she added.
The results are evident in climbing traffic on the website, a growing number of �fans� on the TDC Facebook page and growing traffic at the TDC Welcome Center in Port St. Joe.
�It has been really busy just today,� Jenkins said on Monday.
Next year�s visitors� guide will jump from 68 pages to 80 and will include new sections, such as pages devoted to hunting, and partners.
But as is the case in the world of Jennifer Jenkins, works remains.
�I really missed snowbird season though I can chalk that up to just being new here,� Jenkins said. �I would like to get ahead of Spring Break in April and May and I missed out some on fishing.�
She also wants to implement a proposed �beach ambassador� program emphasizing enjoying paradise in a safe manner, a kind of concierge/beach patrol.
There will also be a signage program pertaining to county ordinances on beach driving and pets, but signs that will not be �in your face.�
�Now we are ready to polish (the foundation laid the past year) up a little bit,� Jenkins said. �My team is excited about it.�


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Florida task force seeks major overhaul to Stand Your Ground law
The statewide task force to review Florida's Stand Your Ground law will begin its work Tuesday, but a state senator who formed his own task force is recommending the law be rewritten to make it more difficult for defendants to claim self-defense.
Sen. Chris Smith, D-Fort Lauderdale, said Monday the controversial law should be revised to allow law enforcement officers more leeway to investigate shootings of unarmed victims and make the self-defense protection less available to criminals looking for an out.
"We wanted to make sure that we put together an accurate report, to give the governor direction, to give the Legislature direction and to give the governor's task force direction," he said. "Every day this law is being used and misused in courtrooms throughout the state of Florida."
His task force recommended that those claiming self-defense should have the opportunity to make their claim before a grand jury, which can decide whether to bring charges or dismiss. The group also pushed for more clear wording in the statute and a new system to track all the cases where stand your ground is used as a defense. The 18-member group did not recommend that the law be repealed.
Gov. Rick Scott's official task force on public safety meets Tuesday to establish its mission and plan future meetings. That 19-member panel will put forth recommendations to the governor and the Legislature about Stand Your Ground and other safety issues.
Smith was not assigned to the public safety task force and said his request to present his findings to the group on Tuesday was denied. The inaugural meeting is mainly for organizational purposes, and public testimony will not be allowed. The public will be able to speak at future meetings.
"I guess I'll attend and maybe put [the recommendations] on their windshield wipers in their cars campaign-style afterwards," he said.
Like Smith's task force, the governor's panel includes both prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys, who often square of in court in self -defense cases.
Mark Seiden, a Miami criminal defense lawyer who claims he has never lost a self-defense trial, said he will come to Tallahassee with an open mind on the law but respect for the right to bear arms.
"There are certainly many positive points to the law and whatever we do we should keep in mind that our state and our country have a strong Second Amendment background," he said.
Katherine Fernandez Rundle, Miami-Dade's state attorney, said her office has seen stand your ground defenses used in hundreds of cases, with some trying to apply it to domestic violence crimes. She referenced the case of Sherdavia Jenkins, the 9-year-old girl caught in crossfire of a Liberty City gunfight. The shooter unsuccessfully claimed stand your ground.
Fernandez Rundle said she would keep an open mind, but she's found the law has had "very little consistency in application."
"Our experience here is that there have been some tragic unintended consequences and that there have been some unfortunate legal consequences," she said.
Smith said his task force reviewed about 100 cases where a stand-your-ground defense was used successfully.
In several cases, task force members agreed that the law had been used by guilty people to escape justice.
"This is being used in many, many cases," he said. "This is being used with a prostitute killing her john, this is being used in gang fights, this is being used everywhere."
(Herald/Times reporter Katie Sanders contributed to this story.)
To read more, visit www.miamiherald.com.


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2013 CES Demonstration Shows MEAS
Mobile Emergency Alert System Reaches Key Milestones with Test Streams for Device Makers, Standardization Progress
International CES Demonstration Shows How Mobile DTV Broadcasting Will Deliver Video, Audio, Photos, Maps, and Other Vital Information to Millions at Once
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 4, 2013 – When disaster strikes, public safety officials need an instantaneous way to reach millions of people at once. Superstorm Sandy's aftermath in the Northeast demonstrated both the fragile limits of cell phone networks during times of emergency and the life-saving ability of TV broadcasting.
A flexible new system being demonstrated next week at the International CES® combines the reach and reliability of broadcasting with the mobile communications that Americans depend on to stay informed, especially during a crisis. At the "CES Mobile TV TechZone" (Central Hall 14340), the Mobile Emergency Alert System (Mobile EAS) will demonstrate how a single broadcast can deliver reliable, rich-media alerts to mobile devices anywhere, anytime.
"Mobile Digital TV is growing with more broadcasters on the air and more devices available to viewers. Our efforts to deploy the new Mobile Emergency Alert System are also expanding, with the availability of test streams for device manufacturers to incorporate M-EAS as they develop new consumer products. Those streams are available now on www.MobileEAS.org. We're also working closely with the ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee), which is expected to finish standardization of Mobile EAS by March," said Convergence Services CEO John Lawson, a long-time expert in emergency alerting and key player behind M-EAS.
Equipment Manufacturers, Chipmakers Developing M-EAS Products
Utilizing the newly available test streams, Mobile DTV solution provider Siano and mobile device accessory manufacturer Elgato already are working on future products designed to support Mobile EAS for mobile viewers, in anticipation of the final ATSC standard. Mobile phone manufacturers, including Mobile DTV leader LG Electronics, also are working on incorporating M-EAS capability into their devices.
Prototype LG smartphones used in the CES demonstrations will offer not only audio and visual indications of emergency alerts, but also a vibrating mode to notify all users (including those with vision or hearing loss) about an emergency. The demonstrations in the Mobile TV TechZone will show how easy it will be for local TV stations to transmit Mobile DTV signals with rich-media alert content. The simulations will be based on national and local emergency scenarios, including a hurricane threat in North Carolina, a "tornado in the Northeast and "an impending tsunami on the West Coast.
The 2013 CES Mobile EAS demonstrations are being conducted with the support of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), LG Electronics (which developed Mobile EAS receivers) and its Zenith subsidiary (which provided technical support and funding), and Harris Broadcast (which equips TV stations with the necessary equipment.) Mobile EAS requires no additional radiofrequency spectrum and is a "dual-use" of existing TV transmitters and towers. Standards- based equipment to upgrade stations for Mobile DTV transmission is already available commercially.
Avoiding Cellular Congestion in Emergencies
Using conventional TV broadcasts that are enhanced with data and Mobile DTV transmissions, the Mobile EAS demonstration shows the system's capabilities. The system will deliver multimedia alerts (utilizing video, audio, text, and graphics) to Mobile DTV-equipped cellphones, tablets, laptops, and in-car navigation systems. Utilizing the inherent one-to-many architecture of broadcasting, M-EAS alerts to mobile devices avoid the roadblocks and chronic congestion of cellular systems during emergencies.
The Mobile EAS system would complement the recently activated cellular-based system that transmits up to 90-character text messages to mobile phones.
"Mobile DTV will be a significant enhancement for local public safety communications because millions of devices will receive alerts simultaneously – just as easily as reception by a single device. Video, photos, graphics of evacuation routes, text and audio can all be transmitted through the system to reach anyone with a mobile device, including those with disabilities," said Wayne Luplow, vice president for LG's Zenith R&D subsidiary, which together with PBS developed the core technology enabling M-EAS.
The new alerting application developed for Mobile EAS utilizes existing standards for implementation. The U.S. broadcast standard for mobile television, the ATSC A/153 Mobile DTV Standard, uses Internet Protocol (IP) at its core. The use of IP allows the new application to be flexible and extensible. Data delivery, non-real-time delivery, and electronic service guides are all included. Mobile EAS is compliant with the international Common Alerting Protocol and designed for full incorporation into the U.S. Integrated Public Alert and Warning System.
John I. Taylor, 847-941-8181, [email protected]
Dave Arland, 317-701-0084, [email protected]


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