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EEOC Says Company Fired Older Employee, Replaced Her With Much Younger Worker
PHOENIX – Red Rock Western Jeep Tours, Inc. violated the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) by terminating Gloria N. Rose, who was 75 years of age at the time, and replacing her with a significantly younger worker, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed this week.
The EEOC alleges in its suit (Case No. 3:09-CV-8147- DKD ), in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, that Red Rock Western Jeep Tours, Inc. (Red Rock) fired Rose because of her age after only two days of employment. The complaint further alleges that after terminating Rose, Red Rock hired an 18-year-old worker with less experience to replace her. Such alleged conduct violates the ADEA, which prohibits age-based discrimination by employers against individuals age 40 or older.
EEOC Phoenix Regional Attorney Mary Jo O'Neill said, "Employers must not rely on age-based stereotypes about older workers, many of whom are highly qualified with significant experience that can benefit a company's bottom line. Older people deserve equal opportunities to participate and succeed in the workplace."
As part of its suit, the EEOC is seeking monetary relief for Rose, an end to any discriminatory employment practices by Red Rock Western Jeep Tours and other remedial relief. The EEOC filed suit only after exhausting its conciliation efforts to reach a voluntary settlement.
EEOC's Acting Phoenix District Director Rayford Irvin said, "With the graying of the U.S. workforce, companies must be vigilant in ensuring that age discrimination does not occur. Employers must understand that it is illegal to terminate older employees without just cause and replace them with younger workers."
In July of this year, the EEOC held a public hearing on recent developments in age discrimination, including the effect on older workers of widespread layoffs, threats to employee benefits and controversial recent court decisions. The Commission also issued a technical assistance document on waivers of discrimination claims as part of severance agreements. Further information is available at http://www.eeoc.gov/press/7-15-09.html and http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/qanda_severance-agreements.html.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.
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By Saturday morning, every major league team will have played its first game of the 2012 season. That includes opening day in Japan (March 28), opening night in North America (April 4), opening day in North America (April 5) and opening day for everyone else in North America (April 6).
But although every team is gearing up for action, not every player is so fortunate. Whether by choice or by circumstances beyond their control, 10 veteran players who have become household names during their careers remain unsigned.
Those 10, listed in order by the likelihood of them landing a deal:
SP Roy Oswalt. After not landing the deal he was seeking (with the St. Louis Cardinals or Texas Rangers), he announced earlier this spring that he planned to sit out the first part of the season. He should be on a major league mound by June, if not sooner.
DH/OF Johnny Damon. Agent Scott Boras told ESPN.com on Monday that Damon will sign with a team by May 1. However, Boras isn't sure which team it will be, creating plenty of doubt about whether he and Damon have any serious leads at this point.
DH/OF Vladimir Guerrero. He recently worked out for the Cleveland Indians, who need more offense but apparently don't need another one-dimensional DH. Unless a situation presents itself soon in the majors, Vlad could shop himself to teams in Japan.
C Ivan Rodriguez. There appeared to be some interest from the Kansas City Royals when starting catcher Salvador Perez was lost to knee surgery, but the team then traded for backup Humberto Quintero.
3B Miguel Tejada. He was unceremoniously booted from the San Francisco Giants early last September and has drawn very little interest since then. In February, he expressed a desire to return to the Oakland A's, with whom he started his career. That feeling wasn't mutual, even though the team lost starting third baseman Scott Sizemore to a season-ending knee injury.
DH Hideki Matsui. Like Guerrero, he is limited by his inability to play outfield and could consider ending his career where he began it: Japan. The Yankees and A's both had some level of interest in bringing him back but ultimately went in different directions.
SS/2B Edgar Renteria. He reportedly turned down a pair of minor league contracts, one of which was from the Milwaukee Brewers. He appears headed toward retirement, by his own choice.
1B Derrek Lee. Like Renteria, he appears content with hanging up his cleats. There has been very little chatter about Lee this spring despite the fact that he was targeted by several teams at the trading deadline last July.
OF/DH Magglio Ordonez. He attempted a comeback but recently tweeted that he is close to announcing his retirement. Teams apparently aren't willing to gamble on his troublesome ankles.
SP Javier Vazquez. Even before the 2011 season ended, Vazquez admitted he was leaning heavily toward retirement. On Monday, he told MLB.com that nothing has changed, though he has yet to officially call it quits.

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I was trying out to learn building an application for the XO laptop using Mono (to use C# on another platform). I have been following this link to develop a small "HelloWorld!" Activity.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cross-pla ... play=Print
I am currently using Mono on Windows 7. Although, there is no error in the application, but on trying to run the application, a dialgue box appear saying "LabActivity" (name of the program) has stopped working.
There's some description displayed in the Error/Message box in MonoDevelop.
Screenshot: http://img94.imageshack.us/i/scr2f.png/
Please could somebody explain me the problem?


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There's been a lot of trying top make our house pretty recently, with not a lot of success. First we were trying to make it pretty to sell it (pretty, but no danger of being described as interesting) and now we're trying to make it pretty so that we will enjoy
being trappedliving here.
The problem is we're slobs. We also threw out almost everything when we thought we would be moving into a shoe box in London. Also we never really had many things we loved in the first place, just weird hand-me-downs and assorted crap that we seem to attract like magnets. We also have no money (hello giant roof bill) to buy things we do love. But mostly we're slobs. Which means our house will never look like Zoe's. Which makes me sad.
Of course I'm also hampered by N's allergy to (in no particular order and not exclusively) knick knacks, collections of knick knacks, collections of anything, Cath Kidston fabrics, chairs that look good but aren't "comfortable", typographic art work (he's dyslexic, they make his head hurt) and objects that suggest the 1970s. Or 60s.
He's not keen on the 50s either.
He does however let me keep the rabbit indoors and will cycle to asda for ginger beer when I NEED a Jamaican Mule. So I think I'll keep him.
*photos of Zoe's home by Zoe and via her blog, Conversation Pieces and The Seventy Tree.
* and you've seen her wedding to the super-sweet Neil, who doesn't have allergies to nice things, right?


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Online Gambling's PokerStars Bets on U.S. Return
Just two years after online gambling company PokerStars was shut down in the U.S., and with its founder is living overseas with a warrant out for his arrest, the company says it wants to return to the U.S. Alexandra Berzon reports on digits. Photo: Getty Images.
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- 20 Apr 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It
Overview — Despite certain criticisms, more and more companies in the world practice some form of corporate social responsibility. This paper offers a pragmatic alternative framework for CSR with a view towards developing its practice in an evolutionary way. The authors' extensive experience working with CSR practitioners convinces them that exhorting companies to hone their CSR practice under a shared value framework does not reflect the reality for a majority of businesses. CSR executives oversee a variety of social initiatives that may or may not directly contribute to a company's business goals. The role of an executive is to achieve the difficult task of reconciling the various programs, quantifying their benefits, or at least sketching a logical connection to the business, and securing the support of his or her business line counterparts. This role, when performed well, would lead to the development of a CSR strategy for the company. Key concepts include:
- Ideally, well-managed CSR creates social and environmental value, while supporting a company's business objectives and reducing operating costs, and enhancing relationships with key stakeholders and customers.
- There is no one-size-fits-all CSR model. Individual companies typically engage in a variety of programs motivated by a wide range of perspectives and corporate protagonists.
- In current practice, the management of philanthropic initiatives happens in what the authors label as Theatre 1; supply chain and cause marketing initiatives happen in Theatre 2; and transformative ecosystem initiatives occur in Theatre 3. These different initiatives are typically managed at different management levels, and some are staff functions and others line functions, resulting in a messy state of affairs. Gaining a unified vision is a central challenge of coordinating CSR efforts in all three theatres.
- In addition to empowering CSR executives to practice strategic initiatives, strong leadership and support for CSR initiatives at the top levels of executive management is critical.
- The strategic role of a Corporate Responsibility Officer needs to be established as an independent full-time position having access to the CEO and having input to the development of the company's business strategy.
Author Abstract
The authors argue for a strategic and pragmatic, rather than ideological, approach to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). They assert that, despite criticisms of and debate about the value of CSR initiatives to society and to corporate profitability every company needs a CSR strategy. Using a "three theatre" CSR framework, the authors demonstrate why the question for corporations is not whether to engage in CSR, but why they need to develop CSR strategies that both enhance CSR practice within each theatre and coordinate the independent efforts from across the three theatres. The authors claim that their perspective is a departure from the Shared Value framework, in that they embrace the inherent value of corporate philanthropy (theatre 1) on one end, as well as transformational business models with potentially limited short-term financial returns at the other (theatre 3). Furthermore, the authors seek an end to the fruitless debate about CSR definition and instead focus on providing pragmatic guidance for corporations to significantly improve their social and environmental contribution through a strategic process of continuous CSR auditing, editing and development.
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- Working Paper Publication Date: April 2012
- HBS Working Paper Number: 12-088
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18 U.S. Code § 872 - Extortion by officers or employees of the United States
Whoever, being an officer, or employee of the United States or any department or agency thereof, or representing himself to be or assuming to act as such, under color or pretense of office or employment commits or attempts an act of extortion, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; but if the amount so extorted or demanded does not exceed $1,000, he shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., § 171 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 85, 35 Stat. 1104).
Words "or any department or agency" were inserted to eliminate any possible ambiguity as to scope of section. (See definitive section 6 of this title.)
The punishment provided by section 171 of title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., of fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment of not more than 1 year, or both, was increased for offenses involving more than $100 to conform to Congressional policy reflected in later Acts. See section 4047(e)(1) of title 26, U.S.C., 1940 ed., Internal Revenue Code, and the punishment provision following paragraph (10) of said subsection.
1996—Pub. L. 104–294 substituted "$1,000" for "$100".
1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted "fined under this title" for "fined not more than $5,000" after "extortion, shall be" and for "fined not more than $500" after "he shall be".
1951—Act Oct. 31, 1951, changed punctuation to make section applicable not only to persons falsely representing themselves as Federal officers or employees at the time of extortion or the attempt thereof, but also to Federal officers and employees who attempt or commit extortion under color of office or employment.
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Flawless vocal production is just a click away. From quick corrections to limitless creativity, Nectar 2 treats your voice to sweet results. Bring a vocal track to life with the only complete set of tools designed specifically for voice. Add impact with modeled plate reverb, harmonic saturation, and a wealth of creative effects. Stay in tune and remove distracting breaths without tedious, time-consuming editing. Instantly transform a single vocal take into a dynamic, harmonized ensemble. Whether you're tracking or you're mixing, Nectar 2 delivers professional vocals in an instant.
Key Features
- Explore 11 powerful tools in one plug-in: Harmony, Plate Reverb, FX, Pitch, Delay, De-Esser, Saturation, Compressors, Gate, EQ, and Limiter.
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Whether you're a producer, engineer, musician, or voiceover artist, Nectar 2 helps you easily recreate classic vocal styles or create brand-new ones—all thanks to a wealth of intelligent tools designed specifically for voice.
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Transform vocals or subtly enhance them with Nectar's extensive suite of creative vocal tools, both when mixing recorded vocals or when tracking your favorite vocal artist.
- Add harmonies to your vocal tracks for lush choruses or melodic backing vocals. Explore the new Harmony module to play with intelligent automatic settings, or define your own with a MIDI controller.
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Even the biggest superstars might need a little help here and there. Bring out the best in any vocal performance with Nectar's corrective tools.
- Reduce unwanted or exaggerated "ess" sounds from your vocals with the intuitive De-Esser, primed for smooth results thanks to extensive modeling inspired by the DBX 902.
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Dive into Nectar 2 with a simple workflow to get immediate results, or dig deeper to reveal intuitive advanced controls.
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You'll always have backup singers by your side with Nectar 2's new Harmony module. Want great-sounding harmonies quickly? Nectar 2 intelligently generates in-key harmonies using the lead vocal as a guide. Feeling more hands-on? Define your own custom harmonies by playing notes on your MIDI controller. Whichever method you choose, Nectar 2 provides flexible, natural-sounding vocal accompaniments to enrich your vocal production.
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- Tailor the settings for only your harmonized accompaniments with Solo Voices mode, which allows you to audition the module's added voices independent of the guide vocal.
- Choose from suggested keys with Nectar 2's Key Detection, or quickly set the track's key yourself to inform harmonization.
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- Check the impact of gain reduction and other settings through new metering views, then adjust to taste.
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Kate Spade. Anthony Bourdain. Both were successful, and both died last week after committing suicide.
While those two deaths made headlines nationally, the sad fact is that suicide is becoming a major issue in our country, with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noting that in 2016, it was the leading cause of death for Americans.
According to a new CDC report, in 2016, nearly 45,000 Americans age 10 or older took their own lives. The report indicates that suicide rates in the U.S. have increased nearly 30 percent since 1999.
The numbers in Utah are even more alarming. Since 1999, our state has seen an increase in suicides of 46.5 percent, the fourth-highest increase in the nation. Our neighbors in Idaho have seen a 43.2 percent increase; Wyoming, a 39 percent increase; Colorado, a 34.1 percent increase; New Mexico, an 18.3 percent increase; and Arizona, a 17.3 percent increase.
The three states with larger percentage increases in suicides than Utah are North Dakota, 57.6 percent; Vermont, 48.6 percent; and New Hampshire, 48.3 percent.
Nevada is the only state in the nation to see a decrease in suicide rates, with 1 percent fewer deaths by suicide from 1999 to 2016.
The numbers are more than alarming – they are a national health crisis, one the CDC admits the nation is behind in addressing. As Americans, we need to understand the problem, and work toward finding realistic ways to address it. Locally, all we have to do is look at the suicide deaths in our county jails to see a small sampling of a larger problem.
As to why suicide rates are up, the CDC report offered this: "During 1999–2016, suicide rates increased significantly in 44 states, and 25 states experienced increases (greater than) 30 percent. Rates increased significantly among males in 34 states, and females in 43 states. Additional research into the specific causes of these trends is needed.
"Suicidologists regularly state that suicide is not caused by a single factor; however, suicide prevention is often oriented toward mental health conditions alone with regard to downstream identification of suicidal persons, treatment of mental health conditions, and prevention of reattempts. This study found that approximately half of suicide decedents did not have a known mental health condition, indicating that additional focus on nonmental health factors further upstream could provide important information for a public health approach. Those without a known mental health condition suffered more from relationship problems and other life stressors such as criminal/legal matters, eviction/loss of home, and recent or impending crises."
Unfortunately, there's no clear data to show why more Americans are choosing to take their own lives. It's easy to point to technology and the changes it brings to how we handle our everyday lives; it's also easy to say that the nation has lost its way, with no clear moral compass. Both of those are assumptions, and until we have hard data, it won't be clear as to why suicides deaths are spiking.
What can we do until we know more? First, take the time to talk with your friends and family, and maybe even go out of your way to accommodate a stranger. A random act of kindness may be just the thing someone needs to brighten their day.
Also, we need to be realistic with our loved ones who may be suffering from mental health issues. Long gone are the days when mental health issues are ignored; professional help is out there, and being depressed, for example, is something for which treatment may be needed. Don't delay in getting someone you love help.
If you need help, there's also the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, as a caller to our office reminded us last week: 800-273-8255.
This is an issue we need to address. As Americans, we all need to do our part in raising awareness. Someone's life depends on it.


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Joshua Tree Boulder House
At first glance the front of this home appears to be built into natural boulders. Unfortunately, that aspect turns out to be faux, but the other design elements of this desert hideaway makeup for its lack of rock integration. With the use of metal, wood, concrete and glass, this green getaway disapears into the desert landscape.
Located in Joshua Tree, California, which is known for its rock climbing and beautiful desert landscape, the Joshua Boulder House sits on 2.5 acres of land with views of the surrounding desert. The home is professionally landscaped with drought-resistant trees and desert plants which make it low impact and disguise the neutrally colored home.
The 2-bedroom home takes up 1,700 square feet and comes with stained concrete flooring with radiant heat, a 2-car insulated garage, and beautiful floor to ceiling doors with low-E glass which open to connect the inside space to the outside.
See more photos at the Joshua Tree Boulder House Gallery.


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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has created guidelines for both public playground and home playground equipment.
Public Playground Equipment
CPSC Public Playground Safety Handbook (publication #325) presents safety information for public playground equipment in the form of guidelines. The guidelines were first published in 1981 with revisions in 1991, 1994, 1997, 2008, and 2010.
CPSC Public Playground Safety Handbook
CPSC Public Playground Safety Handbook (Español)
Home Playground Equipment
CPSC Outdoor Home Playground Safety Handbook (publication #324) is intended as guidance for homes and residential child care facilities. The guidelines were published in 2005.
CPSC Handbook for Outdoor Home Playground Safety
CPSC guidelines are recognized as "standard of care" that should be followed by professionals in the field.


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What is your plan to survive a zombie apocalypse? Simple as that. You wake up 8 o'clock and the first thing you feel, is a bad feeling. You look outside and see a man eating another man. And it looks up and you take notice it is a zombie. All your family members aren't with you, they are safe in Alaska and they didn't include you because you had plans already. Now.....what do you do?
My plan would be to get supplies, and hopefully I can get a car, drive to the gun store, get 3 guns, tons of ammo and go to a grocery store and grab tons of food, then go to homedepot and grab some boards while still surviving. Go back to my house and barricade myself. When I'm done ill pick 4 survivors to trust. 1 male, 2 females.
Then wait it out and if needed, I'd go n get supplies.
Holy....fandango, its been ages.
Reveal my secret identity as Bullshit Man and barricade my house while staying near the window saying "This is bullshit" and "You're all bullshit." Then later I'd do something about it. Maybe.
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Get various kinds of weapons ie guns ammo but mainly swords, various supplies like food and medical and seeds for farming and secure a car. Then drive to ocean secure a boat, go out and secure a small island but not something too huge for a few people like Hawaii something small for a couple dozen people like the island off the coast of California near LA, there just the right size and close enough to the main land for supply runs and too wait out or live out the zombie apocalypse.
"Oh beef cake you're so strong, I want you!" -Master Roshi-Dragonball
1 go to my nearest amo and weaponary store.. load up on bullets and guns..
2 acquire large swords/ efficient weaponry that does not require amo
3 gather up and get tinned foods that can last a few years/ dried food products and protein/mineral shakes AND DONT FORGET THE COFFEE
4 a large boombox (zombies are attracted to sound so a boombox may be a good decoy if thrown further away from myself i could get them to get away from me for a ssmall time frame perhaps enough for me to escape if need be)
5 petrol, gasoline and oil so i can burn those mother fuckers and refuel my vehicle
6. A vehicle prefferably a hummer or jeep
7 first aid kit
8 batteries and a walkie talkie
9 group with people from old muay thai class and wushu class.. i need some kick arse people to do some serious zombie arse whooping
10 drive to the country side and find shelter prefferably hillside or high up. (advantages of this are in the country side= less people, easy to grow produce in future if we survive, easy to counter attack zombies, less likely chance of being stuck in corners and dead ends of streets, easy for rescue copters/planes to see you)
11 whoop some arse
reboot, reload, restart shoot for the stars
left4 dead style plus im a zombie expert been killing zombies for a long time now already have a plan
SAO is just awesome
1. Get as many melee weapons as possible.... And by that I mean ALL(not much of a gun person )
2. Ironically get some guns( not a lot but enough) also ammo
3. Go through my wood in my back yard and hop the gate into the gated community( BIG houses)
4. get a car and go to all the stores I can go to to get food,then warehouses, then base for even more food
5. Get as much gasoline possible also a generator and may some solar panels
6. Get my friends and their stuff
7.get barricading stuff for the community/house I live in (at that time)
8.get more supplies(camping and other stuff)
9. Get food plants
10.secure whole community
11. Secure town
12. Secure city
13. Secure state
14. Secure America
15. Secure northamerica
16. Gather group of assassins and secure the world effectively claiming the world for America
17. Watch it burn
This is how it gows
Tired so tired.
I'll EAT them before they eat me!
Polluting the world 1 fart at a time!
Find a beautiful an skilled woman to survive with, have crazy zombie-apocalypse sex with and eventually re-populate the planet with her....
The normal.
I forget to log off when I leave, ALOT
Do not use fire!!!! Dude that is freakin awsome!! Where did ya get te notice from?? Just curious.
anything and everything possible to survive.
1. Pack up my swords and axes, maybe my crossbow
2. Make sure my maint. kit is good to go with plenty of oil, sharpening stones, rags and rust-removal stuff
3. Grab a box of protein bars and water purification tablets/filters, maybe a bottle of Centrum
4. Clothes
5. Find friends
6. Run amok
No firearms? All I have is a 12 GA shotgun at home and probably a dozen shells. It'd be heavy and I have had NO firearm training. A gun would be wasted on me. I've had plenty of training with swords and blades, though.
Conjuring up the past is not remembering; it is replacing.
Break into a local National Guard armory and take a Tank or Uparmoured Humvee and open a can of whoop ass.With my luck they and all their weapond would be deployed ti Afghanistan. Rescue a hottie in disress and la la la la .....
Find a twinkie....find a twinkie.....
Ononoki has invaded your wardrobe.
Where the fuck are all these gun shops!?
All I have is some big knives and a sharpener, cricket bad hockey stick and a spade...
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Gibson Artists Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with New Recordings
Oasis, the Killers, and Razorlight are just a few of the Gibson artists confirmed to re-record the Beatles' legendary Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in honor of its 40th anniversary.
Gibson artists James Morrison, the Fratellis, and the Kaiser Chiefs will also take part in the special recording sessions for BBC Radio 2.
To record the new versions, audio engineer Geoff Emerick will use the same one-inch four-track equipment that he used during the original 1967 sessions. The results will be aired on BBC Radio 2 on June 2, a day after the anniversary.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released June 1, 1967, and went on to be regarded as one of the best and most influential releases in rock history. George Martin, who produced the original, has said, "For me, it was the most innovative, imaginative, and trend-setting record of its time."
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Re: Father Charged With Felony Murder in Son's Heat-Stroke Vehicle Death
I thought Miko told me 16 months, but, he was very young either way! He was so adorable in that movie!
I still haven't picked up the re-release of, "Pet Sematary," with extra footage!
He's been in a few other things. I know he mentioned one of the, "Nightmare on Elm Street," series.
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It's 4:33 PM here. I'm in the US, ET.
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Prosecution has to establish motive.
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The mother did searches, too!
for all the innocents, and women and couples who cannot have their own.
Lower than low!
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Btw of course it's felony murder. Never heard of misdemeanor murder
I'll kill you for a dollar if it's in the cards today
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Being a parent myself, I cannot conceive of any situation where I would forget my daughter was riding in the back seat. It just doesn't sound plausible and any parent would see why it isn't. That being said, coupled with the suspicious behavior of the mother makes me think that this was deliberate and planned. The mother is not angry or harbors any resentment toward her husband? C'mon, what a fucking snow job!
I don't think you're being cynical, I think you make a very interesting, albeit disturbing point.
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Not the brightest candles in the box are they?
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Police: Father was 'sexting' as son was dying in hot car
Surprising claims came to light during a hearing Thursday for a Georgia man whose toddler son died after being left in a hot car, a man prosecutors sought to portray as an unfaithful husband who wanted a child-free life.
Among the most shocking allegations: Justin Ross Harris messaged six women, sending and receiving explicit texts -- some including nude images -- from work while his 22-month-old was dying, a detective testified at the hearing.
Harris' attorney repeatedly objected to Cobb County, Georgia, police Detective Phil Stoddard's testimony claiming that Harris sexted the women -- one of whom was underage at the time -- but the judge allowed it.
Police say Harris, 33, left his toddler, Cooper, strapped into a car seat under a baking sun for seven hours while he went to work June 18. Records show that the mercury topped 92 that day, and police say the temperature was 88 degrees when the boy was pronounced dead in a parking lot not far from his father's workplace.
At the hearing, Cobb County Chief Magistrate Frank Cox found probable cause for the case against Harris to move forward with respect to murder and child cruelty charges.
"For him to enter the car ... when the child had been dead and rigor mortis had set in, and the testimony is the stench in the car was overwhelming at that point in time, that he -- in spite of that -- got in the car and drove it for some distance before he took any action to check on the welfare of his child, I find there is probable cause for the two charges contained in the warrant," Cox told a packed courtroom.
The judge denied bail for Harris, who has pleaded not guilty.
In addition to the charges he faces in connection with his son's death, Harris may also be charged with felony sexual exploitation of a minor and misdemeanor illegal contact with a minor, Stoddard said.
Internet searches
The detective also testified about Internet searches that could raise eyebrows given the context of the case.
Before his son's death, Harris had visited a Reddit page called "child-free" and read four articles, Stoddard said. He also allegedly searched how to survive in prison.
Among the other details police have released is that Harris and his wife, Leanna Harris, told them they looked up how hot a car needed to be to kill a child.
Five days before Cooper died, Ross Harris twice viewed a sort of homemade public service announcement in which a veterinarian demonstrates on video the dangers of leaving someone or something inside a hot car.
Leanna Harris told police that she had recently seen a story on a state initiative aimed at reminding people not to leave children in cars and that it was a fear of hers, Stoddard said.
Death highlights key role of digital evidence
Ross Harris "stated that he recently researched, through the Internet, child deaths inside vehicles and what temperature it needs to be for that to occur," police have said, adding that Harris told investigators "he was fearful that this could happen."
During questioning, Leanna Harris "made similar statements regarding researching in car deaths and how it occurs," according to police.
The time frame for the alleged research remains unclear.
'I felt his pain; I even wept'
Thursday's probable cause hearing was expected to last 90 minutes; it stretched for some three hours.
A good chunk of that time was spent discussing how Ross Harris acted after he pulled into a shopping center asking for assistance with his son.
Witnesses told police they heard "squealing tires, and the vehicle came to a stop," Stoddard testified. Harris got out of the car yelling, "Oh, my God, what have I done?" Stoddard said.
The 33-year-old father then stood there with a blank look on his face, the detective said. When a witness told Harris his son needed CPR, Harris went to the other side of his vehicle and made a phone call, apparently to tell someone his son was dead, a witness told police, according to Stoddard.
Harris never called 911, and when an officer told him to get off his phone, he refused and even said, "F*** you" before an officer took his phone and handcuffed him, the detective said.
He also alleged that Harris told police he couldn't reach anyone on his telephone, but phone records show that Harris made three calls after he discovered his son's body, and one between him and his employer lasted six minutes, Stoddard said.
Who is Justin Ross Harris?
However, witness Leonard Madden offered a different version of what happened. Madden and an acquaintance were leaving a restaurant when they noticed a commotion and approached within 3 or 4 feet of a clearly distraught Harris.
"He was crying. He was hollering," Madden testified, recounting the father saying, "Oh, my God! Oh, my God, my son is dead!"
"I felt his pain; I even wept," Madden said.
Strange behaviors
According to Stoddard, Harris made statements that police felt were strange, including "I can't believe this is happening to me" and "I'll be charged with a felony."
"It was all about him," Stoddard said. "'Why am I being punished for this?' It continued. It was all very one-sided."
The detective said Harris talked about losing his job. He testified that messages between the Harrises indicate the two were having financial problems.
Ross Harris had recently been passed over for a promotion, and the couple had two insurance policies on Cooper, one for $2,000 and one for $25,000, the detective said.
Stoddard also testified about how Leanna Harris acted when she arrived at a day care enter to pick the boy up and employees there told her Cooper had never been dropped off.
"Ross must have left him in the car," she replied, according to the detective. Witnesses said they tried to tell her many other things could have happened, but Leanna Harris insisted that Ross Harris must have left the boy in the car, Stoddard said.
He also testified that when Ross and Leanna Harris were in an interview room, Ross Harris told his wife that Cooper looked "peaceful" and that his eyes were closed when he was removed from the vehicle. He told his wife, "I dreaded how he would look," Stoddard said, noting how Harris had used the past tense.
The detective added that the boy's eyes and mouth were not closed when he was taken out of the SUV.
At another point in the interview room, Stoddard said, Leanna Harris asked her husband about what he had said to police.
"She asked him -- she had him sit down, and he starts going through this. And she looks at him, and she's like, 'Well, did you say too much?' " the detective testified.
'Nothing was weird'
While prosecutors painted Ross Harris as a terrible, in fact criminal, father, the defense called witnesses who testified on his behalf.
James Alex Hall, who worked with Ross Harris and had run a Web development company with him for the past two or three months, said Harris didn't act out of the ordinary on the day his son died.
"I would say normal as you could be. Nothing stuck out. Nothing was weird," Hall said.
Ross Harris was scheduled to meet friends for a 5 p.m. showing of the movie "22 Jump Street," according to Stoddard, but he told them he'd be late. He left work at 4:16 p.m., and it would have taken him about 10 minutes to get to the theater, the detective said.
When Harris didn't show up 30 minutes into the movie, Hall stepped outside to contact him. Harris didn't respond to texts, and phone calls went straight to his voice mail, Hall said.
Asked whether Harris was a guy who talked about how life might be without a child, Hall said he was the opposite: the kind of dad who talked about his child to the point that people were tired of hearing about it.
"He said he loved his son all the time," Hall said.
'That pain ... never goes away'
On cross-examination, a prosecutor asked Hall whether he was aware of allegations that Ross Harris had been sexting various women. Hall replied no and conceded that, if that were true, he didn't know everything about his friend.
In what might be a harbinger, the defense repeatedly asked witnesses if they knew Harris was deaf in one ear, perhaps indicating that Harris might not have heard his child in the back seat when he got out of the car and when he returned to it.
"He is deaf in one ear or mostly deaf," a friend testified about Harris. "I always have to go to the other side of his head to talk to him," said Winston Rowell Milling.
'It's easy to get distracted'
Defense attorney H. Maddox Kilgore said after several witnesses testified that he didn't feel anything presented at Thursday's hearing indicated that Ross Harris intentionally left Cooper in the car, which would be key to finding him guilty on the charges.
"It's not even criminal negligence enough to support a misdemeanor," he told the judge, asking him to dismiss the warrant. "It's easy to get distracted when you get behind the wheel. Everyone does it."
Kilgore said he himself had forgotten boxed-up leftovers, a comparison on which the prosecution seized. Someone might remember that they left spaghetti in the car after 30 minutes, said Assistant District Attorney Chuck Boring.
But Harris not only forgot his child, he got an e-mail from his son's day care during the day and at one point went to the vehicle to place lightbulbs inside, never once remembering Cooper, the prosecutor said.
"I think it's remarkable he didn't stick his head in that car," Boring said. "He knew what he was going to find."
Accident or murder in hot car death?
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Cooper was buried Saturday in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
The Cobb County Medical Examiner's Office determined that the child's cause of death was "consistent with hyperthermia and the investigative information suggests the manner of death is homicide," according to a Cobb County Department of Public Safety statement.
The Medical Examiner's Office is waiting for toxicology test results before making an official ruling on the toddler's death.
At the boy's funeral, Leanna Harris said she loves her husband and stands by him.
"Am I angry with Ross?" Leanna Harris told mourners. "Absolutely not. It has never crossed my mind. Ross is and was and will be, if we have more children, a wonderful father. Ross is a wonderful daddy and leader for our household. Cooper meant the world to him."
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Syria Unrest May Translate to Higher Gas Prices
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Gasoline futures prices were ready to close at their highest price in more than a month on Tuesday (Aug. 27), buoyed by strength in oil prices on the back of risks tied to Syria. And with the U.S. Labor Day holiday, the rally in the futures market may be a threat to prices at the pump, according to AAA.
MarketWatch reported that on Tuesday afternoon, September gasoline added nearly 9 cents, or 2.9%, to $3.04 a gallon on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That would be the highest settlement for a most-active contract since July 23, according to FactSet data.
The oil market is weighing the increased possibility of U.S. strikes in Syria and "motorists in the U.S. may pay higher gas prices in the days ahead if this sentiment continues," said Michael Green, a spokesman for AAA said on Tuesday.
"The potential risk could break the recent trend of very stable prices at the pump," he said. "Higher futures prices do not always translate to higher pump prices, but it should be a concern for motorists with Labor Day approaching."
The average national price for a gallon of regular gasoline stood at $3.54 on Tuesday. Prices are already on track to be the fourth most expensive on record for the Labor Day holiday on Monday, according to AAA. The most expensive Labor Day average was $3.83 a gallon in 2012.
National average gasoline prices have been "unusually" stable, holding at $3.54 for 13 of the previous 15 days, Green said. They have declined 30 out of the previous 39 days for a total of 13 cents a gallon, "which is a very slow rate of decline," he said.
"Motorists would be paying even less for gasoline today if not for the very expensive price of crude oil," said Green. "Domestic West Texas Intermediate crude has closed above $100 per barrel every day since July 3, which is the same day the military took control of Egypt."


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Two arrested in oxycodone bust
Men under investigation for several months
Two arrested in oxycodone bust
Men under investigation for several months
ROCKLAND, Maine —
Two men from Lincoln County have been arrested in Rockland and charged with selling oxycodone.
Police arrested Andrew Goupil, 33, of Wiscasset, and Joseph Dupaw, 68 of Dresden, as they were about to board a ferry to Vinalhaven.
Maine Drug Enforcement Agents said they have been selling hundreds of oxycodone pills in Lincoln and Knox counties for several months.
Agents said the pair had been under investigation for several months.
Investigators said $1,500 was seized along with 200 pills worth $7,000.
Goupil is charged with aggravated trafficking and has two prior drug convictions.
Dupaw is charged with trafficking and violating bail conditions from a recent arrest in Lincoln County.
The men are being held at the Knox County Jail.


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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. graduated from Morehouse College in 1948 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology.
The new members of the Kershaw County Board of School Trustees are finally here.
Is it possible to love your pet too much?
After nearly a decade, countless hours of research, dozens more hours of writing and re-writing, and meeting strict deadlines, it's finally here.
More than a month has passed since the Kershaw County Board of School Trustees voted to move its district office into the former Howden Buffalo property in Camden.
I refuse to make a New Year's Resolution this year.
Q: How does being the principal of Camden High School differ from being the principal of Lugoff-Elgin Middle School?
Kershaw County School District (KCSD) Chief Financial Officer Donnie Wilson is working as a financial consultant for the Fairfield County School District.
Fewer graduation requirements. A possible reduction of required school district staff development days. Four-day school weeks.
Apparently, there is not much of a correlation between a person's age and level of maturity.
It's that time of the year again.
Despite a harsh wave of criticism, Kershaw County Board of School Trustees Chairman Joey Dorton is standing by the board's decision to spend $1.25 million to purchase the former Howden-Buffalo property on U.S. 1 and convert it into a new district office.
Santa Claus is old.
In 2005, Earl Wilson wanted to help.
Two years and nine days.
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Leonardo DiCaprio's Dance Moves at Coachella Are a Must See!
Leonardo DiCaprio has been keeping a low profile during his time at the 2014 Coachella Music Festival, but one sneaky fan caught a video of him dancing in the crowd during MGMT's show on Saturday (April 12) in Indio, Calif.
The 39-year-old actor is seen in the beginning of the clip shaking his booty to beat MGMT's hit song "Kids," and then the video cuts to Leo doing some big kicks while dancing with some of his pals. He definitely seems to be having fun!
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Leonardo DiCaprio
That same day, Leo was seen hanging out at the Desert Pool Party held at the Bootsy Bellows Estate.
WHAT DO YOU THINK of Leonardo DiCaprio's dance moves?
Leonardo DiCaprio's Dance Moves at Coachella
Click inside to watch MGMT's full Coachella set…
MGMT's Full Coachella 2014 Set


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Replication is becoming increasingly popular as a way of distributing data; however, most companies aren't prepared to support the additional complexity that comes with a distributed database. I know from my distributed database experience that good tools can make a big difference, not only in assisting the start of the replication, but in the administrative tasks afterward. Replic-Action from Casahl Technologies is a replication software that assists with distributing data between the most popular data sources. Replic-Action is one of the best replication tools available because of its rich feature set and easy-to-use screens and because of what it does after you set up replication.
Replic-Action provides replication-tracking and status- checking screens. Your operations and administrative staff members will find that Replic-Action's job administration, restart, error notification, and logging capabilities make this product easy to use when you're supporting distributed databases.
Table 1 shows a partial list of data sources that you can access through Replic-Action. For a full list, see Casahl's product catalogs and Web site. The ODBC drivers for the data sources listed ship with Replic-Action. Casahl plans to support OLE DB in future releases.
Replic-Action lets you access data sources rather than just databases. You can move data among data sources such as text files, spreadsheets, email, and data warehouses. Also, you can replicate email, newsgroup discussion threads, and live Excel spreadsheets.
Screen 1, page 60, shows the Composer Objects, which include the Replic-Action Jobs and Replic-Action Component Objects. These Composer Objects are the administrator program tools that you use to set up, configure, and program a replication job.
Replic-Action has built-in support for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, such as those offered by PeopleSoft, SAP, and Baan. Replic-Action recognizes certain objects and formats such as SAP R/3's Business Application Programming Interface (BAPI), Remote Function Call (RFC) Tables and Application Link Enabling/Internal Documentation (ALE/IDOC). Screen 2, page 60, shows SAP's replication properties and functions that Replic-Action can work with. This capability, for example, lets someone using an SAP system receive a purchase order that someone else created with a PeopleSoft application.
Replic-Action provides merge replication with conflict resolution, snapshot and transactional replication, data scrubbing, transformations, column mapping, Visual Basic (VB) and Java scripting, workflow triggering, and old-fashioned import/export capabilities.
Add to that list enterprise-level functionality such as scalability, three-tiered architecture, Micro-soft Transaction Server (MTS) and COM support, load balancing, and realtime transaction processing.
Application Examples
The following application scenarios describe ways in which you can use Replic-Action with any DBMS.
Purchase order workflow. You can use Replic-Action as the middle tier between Microsoft Exchange, Outlook, and SQL Server. After you enter purchase order data into a SQL Server database, you can use Exchange and Outlook for the approval routing process. Also, you can write the application to support mobile users who are disconnected from the network. This feature lets you easily upload orders (e.g., entered on a remote laptop) to a mainframe database after you connect to the network again. As is typical in a mobile application, Replic-Action makes it easy to download data to a laptop.
Mainframe integration. Replic-Action can move data between SQL Server and a DB2 or other mainframe database, on a realtime or periodic basis (e.g., hourly, nightly, and weekly). Replic-Action uses Real-Time Transaction Processing (RTTP) for realtime data and replication for periodically moving data.
Microsoft Access to an enterprise-class database. Two-tier applications that attach database tables to Microsoft Access are popular because they're easy to create. However, most companies discover that using attached tables limits scalability. Using Replic-Action instead of attached tables gives you more control and better scalability because you write less code and use better error checking and logging. Also, you take advantage of Microsoft Access' smaller number of connections before overloading the DBMS.
Reporting and data mining in SAP R/3. With the proper security, users in a realtime-enabled Excel spreadsheet can access SAP R/3 through Replic-Action. This combination lets multiple users work with the same spreadsheet simultaneously.
PeopleSoft to SAP R/3. Users who want to transfer data between PeopleSoft and SAP databases can choose a solution. Replic-Action lets you transfer data in realtime through RTTP or periodically with replication.
Lotus Notes to Microsoft Exchange. Replication is easy with Replic-Action's built-in connectors to each system. Replic-Action has worked with Lotus Notes for many years and is considered a solid player in this arena.
Testing Replic-Action
I installed Replic-Action on my 90MHz Pentium I laptop with 32MB of memory and Windows 95. I then completed bidirectional replication between a Microsoft Access Northwind database and a SQL Server 7.0 Northwind database that was on the same machine. The replication worked with the ODBC connection to SQL Server 7.0.
Then I tested a 4-way 400MHz Pentium III server with 4GB of memory, 40GB of disk space, and Windows NT 4.0, Service Pack 4 (SP4). To test bidirectional replication between a SQL Server 6.5 (SP5a) database and a Microsoft Exchange 5.5 folder, I chose the Authors table from the Pubs database and selected a new empty public folder called Authors. I started the replication, and before I could Alt-Tab to the Exchange window, Replic-Action had put the SQL Server records in the Exchange folder. Then I changed a record in the Exchange folder to see whether Repli-Action would change the record in the folder. Before I could display the records from the SQL Server table, Replic-Action had made the change in the folder.
The installation on both systems was easy and straightforward. Replic-Action recognizes the environment that you're installing to and determines the right mix of programs, services, and DLLs. Preparation before installation was minimal and consisted mostly of verifying domain and server names.
The Learning Curve
Replic-Action from Casahl Technologies simplifies replication. If you need to perform simple replication tasks, you can accomplish a lot in a short time. However, as with any product that has many features and flexibility, prepare to spend time learning how to do more complex jobs, such as replication requiring a data transformation. If you're a novice to the database world or replication, you'll spend more time learning the business and application complexities of distributed data than you'll spend learning this tool.
The documentation contains several tutorials, demos, and white papers. For a novice or expert, the Getting Started manual is the best place to start.
When you need to distribute many data objects with different databases and different application systems that share data, Replic-Action is worth the money. Replic-Action also provides great support of administrative tasks after replication.


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