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The victim wants justice.
Recently, the man, a work crew supervisor, was threatened with a knife by one of his employees. No blood was drawn; still, the victim wants the defendant to plead guilty and be sentenced to probation and anger management classes. As the man explains his concerns, Cesar Vega, an assistant district attorney in the Worcester County District Attorney's Office, listens intently. He then tells the victim that, should the defendant plead guilty to assault with a dangerous weapon—a felony—it could trigger "an immigration consequence." Because the victim was not injured, Vega does not feel that the punishment—in this case, possible deportation—fits the crime.
"I don't think it would be appropriate for me to put [the defendant] in that situation so everyone can have a free-for-all with him. But before I make any offer, before I do anything in court, I absolutely need your input," Vega tells the victim. "My job is to make sure I hear from everyone involved, including the defendant. I have to take everything into account." As an alternative to the plea bargain, Vega suggests pretrial probation, which allows the court to place a defendant on probation without an admission of guilt. That way, the defendant's immigration status would not be jeopardized.
Though the victim is, at first, reticent regarding the compromise proposal, Vega eventually convinces him that this is the best resolution. Considering the interests of the defendant as well as the victim may seem more like the role of a defense attorney than a prosecutor. Yet Vega has a unique understanding of how a troubled life, without the rare gift of a second chance,can become forever unmoored. A dozen years ago, before he graduated from Suffolk Law, Vega was a high school dropout and teenage father killing time with the wrong people in the wrong places. He was never a gang member, but he hung out with close friends who were affiliated. As a juvenile, he was once arrested for a minor offense, but he knows it could have precipitated a downward spiral for a young man living a marginal life.
Yet through his own stubborn ambition to build a better life for his son—and through the belief of others, such as Gail Ellis, Suffolk Law's dean of admissions—Vega saved himself from society's abyss. "I was impressed by the fact that he just didn't give up," Ellis says. "Some people would have looked at his situation in high school and said, 'Here's one more kid who's going to wind up at a dead end.' And yet, there's something very special about him. He had that quality, that determination. It was so evident that he just had what we called 'a fire in the belly.'"
Even now, when Vega enters a courtroom, he recognizes that, had things turned out differently, he could have been a defendant instead of a prosecutor. "People take different paths, but it's not my place to judge them," he says. "It's about making the most of an opportunity. If they had the education and privilege I've had—and I do now see myself as privileged—they could be great doctors, attorneys, or anything else they wanted to be."
The Five-Year Question
Vega, 29, has been an assistant district attorney in Worcester, a city in central Massachusetts, since 2010. For the most part, the crimes he prosecutes, if they make it to trial at all, are relatively minor—disorderly conduct, assault and battery, larceny, and operating under the influence. Occasionally, while sitting in the courtroom waiting for one of his cases to be called, Vega, who grew up in Worcester, recognizes a friend or former classmate as a defendant. "Most of my friends from high school I still keep in touch with; a lot of them have had run-ins with the law and some still do, so I see people I know," he says. "I just look and say, 'Hey, how are you doing?' and that's it. With others, if there was more of a friendship, I do the courteous thing and shake their hand. I don't say anything about the case. In the past I've even gotten a case with a name I recognized, so I'll double-check the booking photo and the criminal record, and if I confirm that it's someone I know, I have to pass it off to someone else."
To a certain extent, Vega seemed destined to be an attorney. Both his mother and father were lawyers in their native Peru where Vega was born and lived until age 10. After years of experiencing financial hardships while they juggled law school and raising Vega and his three siblings, Vega's parents vastly improved their situation when his father became an officer in the navy. Still, his mother wanted to move to America. "My mom and dad argued about that all the time," Vega says. "My dad said, 'We're finally at a place where [the kids] can go to school for free at elite schools in Peru,' because he was in the armed forces, so they offered him the best. He had an elite profession, with good prospects, but my mom said, 'I have some family in the U.S., and I think that would be the better choice.'"
Life in America was nothing like what Vega envisioned based on sugarcoated situation comedies like Full House. His parents didn't speak English and could no longer practice law unless they attended law school here, something they could not afford. Instead, they were reduced to low-wage jobs, often more than one; his mother was a babysitter, and his father had a maintenance job in Sears and delivered pizza. The family's quality of living sank, and that transition was especially difficult for Vega's father. "For him to come here and leave everything put a strain on their relationship," Vega says. Eventually, they divorced, and his father returned to Peru. With his mother working, Vega began to fill his time in the streets. Though smart, he didn't like the structure of school and became an indifferent student. His friends formed a neighborhood gang, though Vega was never an official member. (One of those friends was murdered when Vega was a first-year law student.) He was arrestedand charged with malicious destruction of property for starting a bonfire. Later, he left home, moved in with a friend, and his girlfriend got pregnant. "We didn't really know enough to discuss the financial burdens of raising a child, nor did we carefully plan anything. We just accepted the fact we were having a baby and knew, basically, we had to find work and provide," he says.
"At first, I suppose, it was just an obligation that I had to be there and help raise my child. And I don't think I felt any excitement until my son was actually born. I think the whole process was so impressive to witness first-hand that I became emotional and felt a profound connection to my son, unlike anything I had or have experienced since." At 17, Vega became a father with the birth of their son, Jovann, and dropped out of school to help support the child. "At the time, my goals were to get a fulltime job as a mechanic or whatever, support my family, and get an apartment in subsidized housing."
By 19, he had a minimum-wage job at UPS, but, by his own admission, he "wasn't doing much." Then, he had an epiphany while hanging out in a house with friends. "Kids were running around with no supervision; no one even knew who owned the house. I just looked around and thought, 'This isn't where I'd like to be in five years,'" Vega says. "Something just said to me that this wasn't a place where I wanted my kid to grow up."
Beyond the Numbers
Vega got his GED and tried to enlist in the Navy but was rejected. A recruiter told him he would be accepted with 12 community college credits, so he enrolled at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester to study criminal justice. "When I took constitutional law and was reading all these opinions, I just loved learning that," he says. "I loved the policymaking, the interpretation of the law, arguing about the law, and the legal issues. I loved the intellectual aspect of it. That's when I [decided I] wanted to go to law school." Instead of the military, he transferred to Clark University as a prelaw major and worked two jobs while also caring for his son and playing on the school's soccer team. Entering his senior year, he had passable grades and LSAT scores but fell short of what he would need for law school. Vega applied to—and was rejectedby—every law school in Massachusetts, including Suffolk. Still, Mark Miller, one of Vega's Clark professors and the university's prelaw adviser, saw his student's potential and called Ellis at Suffolk to share Vega's story and encourage her to reconsider.
"Every year, I have students like Cesar [who] don't fit the typical mold but have many other indications that they will succeed and do well in law school," Ellis says. "When we're looking for students for the Law School, we look beyond the numbers. We look at their work ethic, their motivation, and how committed they are to the things that are important in their life, and from a young age, Cesar was so committed to everything in his life, it was an easy decision." Ellis called Vega and invited him to Suffolk for an interview. "Even though I read thousands of applications every year, there aren't that many that have the kind of passion that he had," Ellis recalls. "Because of that, I knew when I met him I would be very, very impressed, which I was. He came to Suffolk and he never let me down."
Vega moved from Worcester to Cambridge, but he managed to see his son "religiously" every weekend despite his academic obligations, he says. "I told him I was going to law school and he understood. We talked about it." Vega, who shares custody of Jovann, now 12, with the boy's mother, tries to instill in his son lessons that will help him steer clear of the rocky path his father traveled. When Jovann asks his father about legal terms or high-profile cases, Vega uses it as an opportunity to explain to his son the Constitution and his own rights. "My experience[s] with police officers in this area [weren't] initially pleasant, so as he's growing up, I try to prepare him and tell him [should he have an encounter with police] to keep his cool and say two phrases: 'I want my lawyer,' and 'I want my parents.'"
For his first year at Suffolk, Vega enrolled in the evening program. He then switched to a day schedule for his second year so he wouldn't need an extra year. He also took out loans so that the demands of a job wouldn't undermine his attention to his studies.
One of his favorite classes was contracts, taught by Professor Carter G. Bishop. "I felt a connection with him. He was funny in the classroom and he worked hard to get you involved, because contracts could be the most boring and difficult subject," Vega says. "He was effective, but he made it entertaining."
During his Suffolk years, Vega applied unsuccessfully to be a law clerk for federal magistrate Timothy S. Hillman JD '73, then a federal magistrate and an adjunct professor at Clark. Vega, who had taken one of Hillman's classes, offered to work for the judge for free as a full-time judicial intern just to gain legal experience. Hillman, recently confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a U.S District Court Judge in Worcester, was so impressed by Vega that he personally recommended his former student to Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early for Vega's current position as assistant district attorney. (Vega's mother alsonow works at the courthouse as a social worker in the Department of Children and Families.)
Vega brings "his skills and interest in his community to the job," Early says. "He cares about the people he grew up with, and he cares about the community he grew up in." He recalls Vega's handling of a case involving a woman assaulted in a nightclub. Even after a potential plea agreement fell apart, Vega tried the case and won a conviction. "Cesar helped the victimthrough the difficult judicial process, empowering her and helping her face her attacker," Early says. "Cesar did everything a good D.A. is supposed to do and then some."
Someday, Vega would like to argue a case before the Supreme Court; for him, there is no greater achievement as an attorney. In the meantime, he teaches law as an adjunct professor at Quinsigamond Community College, and he spends as much time as he can with Worcester's youth. Though he now lives 30 minutes north in Leominster, Massachusetts, Vega still feels a deep connection to this community of young people, where the temptations that once lured him are more prevalent than ever. When he speaks, he never hesitates to share with them the story of the boy he was, and the man he has become."
First, I tell them what I do, but I tell them I haven't always been like this," Vega says. "I tell them about growing up here and what happened to me: I hung out with people who weren't up to good and I got caught up in that. I had a child [at a young age]. I give them the whole situation, [and] then [I] get that question [about how he has succeeded] after dropping out, because everyone tells them that after dropping out they're doomed, and that's not the case.
"I do it for selfish reasons," he continues. "I want more people like me in school, and in law school," he says. "I tell them what I would have told myself when I was a kid—open up your mind. There's a lot more out there to learn. There's so much more out there than what you think and what you see based on your surroundings now."
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Congressman Chris Collins released this statement Thursday:
"Today's unfortunate defeat of the House farm bill speaks to the dysfunction in Washington that continues to stand in the way of solving real problems for real Americans.
"Agriculture is a critical industry in New York's 27th Congressional District, impacting our local residents far beyond those directly doing the hard work of farming. Our farmers and growers deserve a Congress that can come together and pass a long-term farm bill. It is essential to help our agricultural industry plan and prepare.
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Other Affiliations:Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at the Argonne National Laboratory
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Research Interests:Large scale parallel and distributed systems; parallel computer architecture; and parallel programming.
Marc Snir is Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at the Argonne National Laboratory and Michael Faiman and Saburo Muroga Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He currently pursues research in parallel computing. He is co-PI for petascale Blue Waters system.
He was head of the Computer Science Department from 2001 to 2007. Until 2001 he was a senior manager at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center where he led the Scalable Parallel Systems research group that was responsible for major contributions to the IBM SP scalable parallel system and to the IBM Blue Gene system.
Marc Snir received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1979, worked at NYU on the NYU Ultracomputer project in 1980-1982, and was at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1982-1986, before joining IBM. Marc Snir was a major contributor to the design of the Message Passing Interface. He has published numerous papers and given many presentations on computational complexity, parallel algorithms, parallel architectures, interconnection networks, parallel languages and libraries and parallel programming environments.
Marc is AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, and IEEE Fellow. He has Erdos number 2 and is a mathematical descendant of Jacques Salomon Hadamard.


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A report this past week of an impending global wine shortage created a stir as media outlets from the United Kingdom to New York City, Los Angeles and beyond latched on. Then, the buzz went sour when industry experts debunked the report.
Among those taking the shortage report with a grain of salt was New York Wine and Grape Foundation President Jim Trezise.
�Frankly, I�m not at all sure this research is credible, as many in the industry have already panned it, so I think it makes more sense to let it play out,� Trezise said.
The report released by Morgan Stanley Research said there was a global undersupply of about 300 million cases of wine in 2012, the largest deficit recorded in almost 50 years. Why? Wine production in Spain, France and Italy ��the world's largest wine-producing countries ��has sharply decreased with less land being used to grow grapes, the report said. Meanwhile, wine consumption worldwide has increased 8 percent since 2000, with wine production peaking in 2004 and declining ever since.
But experts such as the International Organization of Vine and Wine, an intergovernmental winemaking and viticulture agency, predicted global wine production will spike 8.8 percent in 2013 � its highest level in seven years. And wine industry analysts such as Stephen Rannekleiv noted that Spain, Italy and France had bigger harvests this year than previous seasons, and barring some unforeseen shock to supply or demand, could see no looming shortage.
Regardless of the conflicting reports, Trezise and others were focused on New York�s bountiful 2013 wine-grape season.
�We had a nice crop this year,� said John Iszard, wine sales and marketing director at Fulkerson Winery � on Seneca Lake, near Dundee ��as he poured from a selection of Fulkerson wines for visitors at Ryan�s Wine and Spirits in Canandaigua.
Like Trezise,�Iszard didn�t put much stock in reports of a global wine shortage.
Kaleigh Wood of Shortsville, who was enjoying a sampling of wines at Ryan�s tasting bar, said she found the banter a bit interesting. �I think there is probably enough stock of wine,� she said.
John Brahm, winemaker and owner of Arbor Hill Winery and Grapery in South Bristol, said trends come and go and that applies as well to wine. �It is the nature of things,� he said.
If indeed it turns out there is a wine shortage, Brahm added, he stands ready to crank up production to meet demand.
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OCALA, Fla. (AP) Former Major League Baseball player John ``Champ'' Summers has died in north Florida. He was 66.
Summers' wife, Joy, says he passed away Thursday after a 2 1/2-year battle with kidney cancer.
Starting in 1974, Summers played 10 seasons in the majors for six different teams.
His wife said Thursday ``his favorite team was Detroit. He stayed there the longest, and he loved the fans.''
Besides playing for the Tigers, Summers also played for the Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres. He later spent time as a hitting coach for the New York Yankees.
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Indianapolis, IN - Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita commends the U.S. Attorney's office for filing federal charges against a former Indianapolis insurance executive in connection with a $3 million fraud scheme. The investigation against James Harrold began in Rokita's Securities Division. The Securities Division obtained a cease and desist order against Harrold in February of 2001. Harrold fled to Central America and was arrested this month in Belize on charges he fraudulently obtained a passport there. Federal prosecutors are seeking to have Harrold extradited.
The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Indiana says Harrold faces charges including mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. Harrold was formerly the Indiana sales manager for American Family Life Assurance Company, or AFLAC.
"An arrest warrant was issued for Mr. Harrold in November of 2001," Rokita said. "This case should send a message to white collar criminals that they may be able to run for a time, but they can't hide. We will eventually find them and bring them to justice. I want to thank U.S. Attorney Susan Brooks for her persistence in this matter."
Harrold allegedly convinced investors in Indiana, Ohio, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota, Missouri, and Florida to put money into a scheme where he claimed they would earn monthly profits of 20% on a minimum investment of $5,000. If convicted of the charges, Harrold could face a prison sentence of up to 200 years and fines of up to $7.25 million.


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Corey Rich, Saints gain a little revenge for loss in national championship with 10-7 victory on Saturday.
GAFFNEY — This won't exactly ease the pain of last season's NCAA Division II lacrosse national championship. But it might help.
Limestone knocked off No. 1 Dowling College, 10-7, Saturday afternoon at Saints Field in a rematch of the 2012 title game at the New England Patriots' stadium in Foxboro, Mass. Senior attack Cory Rich scored three goals and had two assists for the Saints.
Just for a while, at least, Rich felt a little better about an 11-10 loss in a game that meant so much more than on this misty, wet, cold February day in South Carolina.
"It was a long summer and winter," Rich said. "We tried to say it wasn't a revenge game, but I wanted revenge. I had a long summer because of those guys."
Could this impressive win be enough to vault fourth-ranked Limestone (2-0) to the top of the Division II polls when they come out next week?
"I sure hope not," Limestone head coach J.B. Clarke said. "You just want to keep plugging away. People want to come after us anyway. We don't need that in front of our name. … It would be silly for us to be No. 1 right now. Maybe you put us ahead of Dowling, but I don't think you can put us at the top of the polls just yet."
Limestone scored a pair of man-up goals in the first half following Dowling penalties and then tacked on another when Connor DeVoe scored on a pass from Riley Loewen with 7.9 seconds left in the half to give the Saints a 5-3 advantage.
"Certainly, the power plays helped a lot," Clarke said. "We played well. I told the team at the half that we were up, but we had three man-up situations in the first half and they had none. Usually, that turns around. It sure did."
Dowling scored a man-up goal, its second straight, to make it 9-7 with 9:20 left in the game. Limestone was able to use most of the clock in that fourth quarter, however, and Todd Nakasuji cashed in on a crucial goal with seven minutes remaining to basically put it out of reach.
"It was a big win," said Loewen, the reigning national player of the week. "But we can't take too much from it because it was Dowling's first game of the season. We just wanted to come out and play hard and worry about us and what we wanted to do. … But it's a confidence-builder, especially with the schedule we have. It's a good boost, for sure."
Nakasuji had two goals, while Devoe, Zach Cummings and Reid Reinholdt each had one. Cummings, DeVoe, Loewen and Vinny Ricci had assists.
Limestone goalkeeper Christian Dzwilewski, a senior who transferred from Providence College, had 13 saves, including a few spectacular ones in the second half.
"He's just that athletic," Clarke said. "He's a superior athlete and prepares well. He's mentally focused for each game and he practices like that. Sometimes we have to take him out of practices so we can score some goals."
Dzwilewski said it was never comfortable in the net, not even ahead three goals in the fourth quarter.
"We just dug deep," he said. "We knew it was going to be a messy game with the weather and the grass and all that. … There were a lot of shots I could see and some I should not have let in. But I think the offense really pulled us through to keep the pressure off."
Limestone plays Wednesday at Lees-McRae, then has home games March 2 against Wheeling Jesuit and Coker before facing No. 5 Merrimack and No. 3 Le Moyne, both in Baltimore.


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What is a valve cover gasket?
The valve cover is a plastic or metal cover on the top of the cylinder head. Not to be confused with the head gasket, the valve cover gasket seals the surfaces between the valve cover(s) and the cylinder head(s).
How does the valve cover gasket work?
The valve cover sits atop the cylinder head, and the valve cover gasket is sandwiched between them to keep circulating oil inside. The majority of valve cover gaskets are molded rubber, tailor fit to the valve cover and mating surfaces. Where applicable, the spark plug tube gaskets are part of the valve cover gasket, and are replaced at the same time.
What are the symptoms related to a bad valve cover gasket?
Oil leaking from valve cover gaskets can result in a burning smell coming from under the hood. Valve cover gaskets need to be replaced when they begin to leak oil. Oil leaks can damage other engine components, especially belts and hoses.
Can I drive with a valve cover gasket problem?
A vehicle can still be driven with a leaking valve cover, but the leaking oil will cause other problems over time. Spark plug wells can fill with oil, causing a misfire. Oil dripping on coolant hoses will cause them to become soft and eventually burst. And the smell of burning oil will become more noticeable in the cabin. In the most extreme cases, excessive oil leaking onto exhaust manifolds can cause a fire.
How often do valve cover gaskets need to be replaced?
Repair intervals vary greatly by vehicle and driving conditions. The valve cover gasket does not wear like a tire or a ball joint, but eventually the gasket's rubber or cork will degrade to the point of leakage. Often, leakage of the valve cover gasket is visible during normal servicing (such as an oil change) so it typically doesn't go unseen for too long.
How are valve cover gasket issues diagnosed?
It is easiest to spot oil leaks when they are new or fresh. The technician may clean the fluid around the leak and direct you to come back later to confirm where the leak is coming from. With more progressed oil leaks, the technician will also add a dye to the oil. After the vehicle has been driven with the dye, a UV light will be used to pinpoint the leakage and recommend repair.
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The average cost for a Valve Cover Gasket Replacement is between $404 and $572 but can vary from car to car.
How is a valve cover gasket replaced?
The technician will remove the valve cover, remove the old gasket, and clean all gasket surfaces before installing the new valve cover gasket. On some engines, removal of the intake manifold, or other major parts may be required in order to access the fasteners on the cover. After completion, the area will be checked for leaks.
RepairPal Recommendations for valve cover gasket issues
A high quality gasket should be used. Often, the OEM gasket will have the best seal. Some manufacturer suggest adding special silicone to specific areas to ensure a proper seal. Where applicable, a valve clearance inspection and adjustment should be performed.
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Some modern engines have multi-piece valve covers with integrated parts, such as PCV Valves or coil pack holders. Increasingly, they are also made of plastic. Proper care should be taken so as not to damage this style of cover. The leak itself should also be properly diagnosed, as it is not uncommon for the valve cover itself to come apart, and require complete replacement.
Can I replace the valve cover gasket myself?
Repairing your own car is an extremely rewarding process that can also save you money. But before you dive in, it's important to be sure the issue has been properly diagnosed. Seemingly obvious symptoms can lead the inexperienced down a rabbit hole of replacing parts that don't fix the problem. Proper diagnosis can save more money than guessing at what's broken! If you're unsure you have the right tools or experience to diagnose a problem, consider reaching out to a RepairPal Certified Shop. The vast majority of Valve Cover Gaskets only require simple tools to replace. However, the procedures vary wildly from car to car. Prior to ordering parts or attempting this repair yourself, look online for guides on how to replace the part in your specific vehicle. Some will require significant disassembly of the top end of the engine in order to remove the Valve Cover. Specific torque specifications and torquing sequences should also be observed to prevent damage to the Valve Cover or gasket.
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Reds may sell Anfield naming rights
Liverpool's principal owner John W Henry says he is prepared to consider selling the naming rights to Anfield to raise funds.
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Henry also called upon the Premier League to implement Financial Fair Play properly - accusing some of the Reds' rivals of ignoring UEFA regulations designed to try to make clubs balance the books.
The American revealed he and his Fenway Sports Group are looking to the overseas market to boost Liverpool's income and that a rebranding of Liverpool's historic home could be on the cards.
"This club should be able to significantly increase its revenues but it won't be easy," he told the Tomkins Times. "But I don't see it happening at the local level - the vast majority must come from our global agenda.
"A naming rights deal at Anfield could occur if the partner were right. We haven't [yet] pursued it."
Henry said Liverpool are looking to be self-sufficient and criticised clubs who overspend. Manchester City posted losses of £197 million for the 2010-11 financial year while Chelsea have already paid more than £60 million to recruit new players this summer.
UEFA has the power to bar clubs who declare losses of more than €45 million over a three-year period from European competition, but Henry doubts that will happen and called upon the Premier League to act.
"The mandate of Financial Fair Play in Europe is for clubs to live within their means," Henry said. "Recently I was told that half of the clubs in the top divisions within Europe are losing money and 20% are in straits of varying degrees.
"We believe the league itself may have to adopt its own rules given that clubs seem to be ignoring UEFA's rules, which may be porous enough to enable clubs to say that the trend of huge losses is positive and therefore be exempt from any meaningful sanctions."
Liverpool have been criticised for paying excessive transfer fees for players since FSG's 2010 takeover, with almost £130 million having been spent, but Henry said: "It's up to LFC to invest properly in players going forward so that the club can not only be sustainable but a powerhouse."
Liverpool were Carling Cup winners and FA Cup finalists last season but Kenny Dalglish was sacked after they finished eighth in the league, with Henry outlining that a 19th title is the long-term aim at Anfield.
"Our goal is to win the Premier League. It's not going to happen this year, but that is what we are building for - first and foremost. That's only going to happen if our league performance turns around substantially."
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After Carlos Pena's single drove in B.J. Upton with the tying run, and the grounds crew practically following him across the plate, Selig said he would have not allowed the Phillies be crowned champions with a rain-shortened victory.
"It's not a way to end a World Series," Selig said. "I would not have allowed the World Series to end that way."
I believe he wouldn't. He would have played his "best interest in baseball," card and done the right thing.
Giving that, why couldn't he have done the right thing earlier? Perhaps not start the game at all, given the forecast? Or, once it started, said, "if we have to stop this, we won't have a rain-shortened winner?"
The late start times and scheduling are other matters he needs to correct. My thinking is the World Series is the ultimate. It's baseball's showcase event, and it should be treated that way. Too often MLB lets those who don't love it make the decisions and that has to stop.
If Selig's words are to be believed, he must follow them up with actions that mean something. So far, his legacy as commissioner has been the steroids era, interleague play, new divisional alignments and a work stoppage that killed the 1994 World Series.
Time to change that for the better. Schedule the Series start times so people can see the game, and if worse, to give you more leeway time with the weather. If you don't like playing this late in October, then you're going to have to do something about shortening the playoffs?
Since you won't reduce the number of games, then you must alter the regular season schedule. I have already suggested in these pages to have at least one day-night doubleheader a month. That would give you six days to play with. There are things that can be done, and in the end they won't hurt as bad as the embarrassment that was last night.


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Tacoma Station Partners with Housing Authority to Bring Spring Break Camp to Homeless Students
By Chloe Gould
The children beam at the mention of KBTC's Spring Break camp, their smiles turning to muffled giggles and excited explanations – they have built water-bottle rockets, drawn treasure maps and crafted roller coasters from foam tubes.
They are all students at McCarver Elementary School in Tacoma, WA, and they have been saddled with a big set of challenges: homelessness, neighborhood crime rates that are more than double the national average, and an underfunded school.
At McCarver, 91.6 percent of the children qualify for free or reduced lunches (to qualify, a family of four must earn less than $29,000 a year), and there is a 115 percent mobility rate. This is the percentage of students changing schools for reasons other than grade promotion, primarily, homelessness. The national average is around 14 percent.
KBTC, the local PBS station in Tacoma, started working with the Tacoma Housing Authority three years ago to give these children and their families a chance – a safe space and a supplemental education. One of their greatest and most-popular programs thus far has been the annual Spring Break camp, where kids rotate through three daily activities: literacy, math, and computer time.
The children – who have grown in attendance from around 20 the first year to over 50 the second – participate in math activities based on The Electric Company Extended Learning Program, write and perform a play with the help of a local theater, and explore the self-directed Ready To Learn computer games on the Lab website.
The station has rooted itself in the community, hinging its programs on open ears and willingness to compromise.
"We never wanted to be perceived as coming into the community saying, 'We know what's good for you all,'" said Ed Ulman, the director of development at KBTC. "Collaboration was the chief goal. Our outcomes were always focused on ensuring all partners were contributing in a substantive way."
One of station's greatest efforts has been its partnership with the housing authority and McCarver Elementary.
Before KBTC partnered with the project, the housing authority received a large grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to provide 50 families at McCarver Elementary with five-year housing vouchers. Ulman attended one of the original meetings about the Tacoma Housing Authority project, and knew it was an outlet for Ready To Learn outreach. It started with a lot of listening, he said, and identifying the needs among the existing partnerships.
The housing authority was dealing with much larger issues, Ulman said, like ending homelessness in the school's population and all of the hoops it takes to make that a more reachable reality. KBTC was able to offer supplemental, after-school programs like the Spring Break camp, parent training workshops, and the Ready To Learn mobile technology lab at existing tutoring programs hosted by the area's Peace Community Center.
The Spring Break camp, however, has been a family favorite in the community. It is five days of activity – complex crafts that turn classrooms into theme parks and time with community volunteers that act as mentors for small groups of the same children throughout the week.
"Even though I'm a fifth grader, I might not know all the words in the world," said camper Dollar Ganu in a video interview with KBTC.
She credits Martha Speaks for introducing her to that handful of undiscovered entries in the dictionary.
In its second year, KBTC transformed the camp into something more similar to the school week, with as little transition for the families as possible. The camp was extended to five full days (as opposed to the first year's half days), with a served breakfast and lunch, and transportation to and from McCarver – housing authority caseworks did so much as to drive vans to pick-up some children for the week.
"You're dealing with families. You're not dealing with a kindergartener. Your program needs to make accommodations with the parents, and encourage an on-going conversation," said Ulman.
Emilio Torrella, a McCarver parent with five children (3 at McCarver, and one enrolled in the housing authority's McCarver project), went to drop his children off at the Spring Break camp the first day and ended up staying the whole week. He loved the structure of the camp, which rotated between The Electric Company math activities, play writing and rehearsal, little gym and dance time, and Ready To Learn Lab computer games.
"It was things the kids connected with – I got to go from station to station with kids and help them out, and watch them learn and enjoy. That just really lit me up," Torrella said in a video interview with KBTC.
"As a parent, it's given me the safety and assurance to know that I have somebody in my corner," he continued.
In its all-inclusive, family-centered approach, the station also found a way to engage some of the children's older siblings in the weeklong camp. The third, fourth and fifth-graders reported on the activities of the week for a mini newspaper that they published with the help of one of the camp's volunteers.
The extra dose of Spring Break attention has also helped a few of the children with some behavioral issues. Ulman and Ann Dyer, the station's community engagement specialist, said the extra, more personalized attention that comes from the group of camp volunteers creates a safe, nurturing environment for kids with behavioral issues. The challenge is maintaining the progress past the last day of camp, they said.
"Since I get in trouble all the time, I turned my behavior around so I could be a terrific kid," said 7-year-old David McMullen as he sipped a Sierra Mist in a KBTC video interview.
"This has given me a boot up. It's really helping me out," said David's dad, DJ McMullen.
Although KBTC cycled through its Ready To Learn funding in September, the station plans on maintaining all of the community programs with help from its community partners. Peace Community Center just received a 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant, and they might take the lead on this year's Spring Break camp, Ulman said.
The partnerships the station has forged are what will keep it all going for the good of the students at McCarver and their families.
Chloe Gould is a recent graduate of the University of South Carolina's School of Journalism, and is working as an intern for the Ready To Learn Program at PBS.


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"The Originals" (8 p.m., The CW): The creepy vibes just keep on coming. When Klaus (Joseph Morgan) makes a grisly discovery in the Cauldron, he asks Marcel (Charles Michael Davis) for some help, but he refuses. That's just plain rude.
"The Biggest Loser" (8 p.m., NBC): Break out the tissues. The five remaining contestants have emotional reunions with their former selves as they watch video footage of their weight-loss journeys. But first comes a sprint triathlon consisting of half-mile swim, 12-mile bike ride and three-mile run.
"Justified" (10 p.m., FX): A search for a missing informant leads Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) into the wilderness, while Boyd (Walton Goggins) finds his life threatened by his last surviving relative.
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2015 Ford Transit: New Car Review
If you live in the United States, chances are you've spent some time in a Ford Econoline/E-Series van. For decades, Ford's iconic box-on-wheels has done yeoman's work for a wide variety of operators, from churches and schools to airport shuttle services and commercial contractors.
But the all-new 2015 Ford Transit marks a changing of the guard. With its slippery styling, carlike unibody construction and superior fuel economy, the Transit starts the next chapter for big American vans.
At first glance, the Transit looks like an homage to the similarly sleek Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, but that's because we Americans aren't privy to Ford's overseas portfolio. In fact, Ford has been building aerodynamic Transits in Europe and elsewhere since 1986, whereas Mercedes didn't modernize its van lineup till 1995. So Ford was first, and the Transit has been redesigned no fewer than three times since then -- most recently last year. That means we're getting the latest and greatest version, shaped by countless miles of service in practically every imaginable scenario.
As ever, customizability is king in this segment, so there are three body lengths to choose from, along with two wheelbases and three roof heights. A windowless cargo van is offered for business use, while the passenger wagons offer plenty of space and luxury. The U.S. version will also benefit from an exclusive engine lineup, including Ford's robust EcoBoost twin-turbo V6 and a hardworking 5-cylinder turbodiesel that's particularly good on gas.
Now that the 2015 Ford Transit has arrived, will anyone miss its predecessor? Nostalgia aside, we doubt it. There have been countless advances in automotive technology since the Econoline's day, and the Transit employs them to great effect. Bottom line: Don't buy a new van without giving Ford's latest a try.
What's New for 2015?
The 2015 Transit is an all-new model.
What We Like
Vastly improved drivability; highly customizable; capable engines with fuel-efficient turbodiesel option; modern look and feel
What We Don't
Price can escalate quickly
How Much?
Fuel Economy
The 2015 Transit's standard powertrain consists of Ford's familiar 3.7-liter V6 and a 6-speed automatic transmission. Output is pegged at 266 horsepower and 249 lb-ft of torque -- a bit lower than usual for this engine. Likewise, the Transit's optional 3.5-liter EcoBoost twin-turbo V6 has been slightly detuned, though we can't imagine anyone complaining about its projected 320 hp and 400 lb-ft.
Slotting in between is a new 3.2-liter 5-cylinder turbodiesel that promises ample low-rpm grunt and the lowest fuel consumption of the bunch. It's expected to crank out 190 hp and 346 lb-ft.
Notably, all U.S.-market Transits are rear-wheel drive, so we don't get the front-wheel-drive version offered across the pond. If you're bummed about that, you may want to give the smaller, front-drive Transit Connect a look.
We'll bring you official output and fuel-economy numbers as the Transit's Summer 2014 launch approaches.
Standard Features & Options
The Transit is offered in three main trim levels: cargo van, XL wagon and XLT wagon. Note that the wagons are available in 8-passenger, 12-passenger and 15-passenger configurations.
The cargo van ($30,560), offered with either single or dual rear wheels, starts with 16-inch steel wheels with hubcaps, power mirrors, variable intermittent wipers, a tilt-telescopic steering wheel, power windows and locks, front air conditioning and a 2-speaker AM/FM stereo with an auxiliary input jack.
The XL wagon ($33,095) adds standard 8-passenger seating, tinted windows all around, front foot-well illumination, a full-length cloth headliner and six audio speakers. The 12- and 15-passenger versions also get rear air conditioning.
The XLT wagon ($34,595) steps up to a chrome grille surround, silver wheel covers, automatic chrome-trimmed headlights, rain-sensing wipers, adjustable driver lumbar support, full-floor carpeting, a rear dome lamp with theater dimming, reclining rear seats and an upgraded 8-speaker CD audio system.
As usual for a full-size van, these trim levels are just the beginning. In addition to the two available wheelbase lengths, you can choose from three different roof heights depending on what your parking parameters allow. You can even order the Transit as a cutaway or chassis cab if you so desire -- these models are generally equipped like the cargo van.
There are also numerous options to consider, highlighted by long-arm exterior mirrors, 16-in alloy wheels, Crew Chief commercial telematics, cruise control, power front seats, leather upholstery, a rearview camera with trailer hitch assist, rear parking sensors, a keyless entry pad, satellite radio, the SYNC voice-command system and the MyFord Touch infotainment system with a 6-in color touchscreen, a navigation system and steering-wheel-mounted controls.
The 2015 Ford Transit comes standard with 4-wheel anti-lock disc brakes and stability control with rollover prevention technology. The cargo van has only driver and passenger front airbags, while the passenger wagons add side-curtain airbags and thorax airbags.
Behind the Wheel
Ford's European engineers have been designing nimble, carlike vans for years, and the 2015 Transit lets American drivers reap the benefits. You'll never forget that the Transit is a very large vehicle, of course, but its carlike unibody platform gives it a massive drivability edge over the old E-Series. Nonetheless, Ford claims the Transit can actually haul more stuff than its predecessor, so it doesn't give up as much toughness as you might think. Unibody construction is the future, no doubt, and with the arrival of the 2015 Transit, Ford's future is right now.
Other Cars to Consider
Mercedes-Benz Sprinter -- If you're thinking the legendary Sprinter must be prohibitively expensive, check the pricing. You may be pleasantly surprised. In terms of brute force, however, no Sprinter can match the Transit EcoBoost.
Nissan NV -- Nissan's full-sizer is both contemporary and affordable, with brawny V8 power on tap if you want it. Shame there's no diesel option.
RAM Promaster -- Cargo-only to start, with a passenger wagon waiting in the wings for 2015, the FIAT-derived Promaster is similar in concept to the Transit. See if the oddly angled steering wheel is to your liking.
AutoTrader's Advice
Our eye's on the diesel-powered Transit, though we wouldn't mind the EcoBoost model, either. This Ford is one to watch.


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NASA's Launch Services Program announced today that it selected United Launch Alliance's (ULA's) proven Delta II launch vehicle to launch the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission.
"United Launch Alliance is honored that NASA has selected the Delta II to launch this critical science mission," said Jim Sponnick, ULA vice president, Mission Operations.
"While we achieve mission success one-launch-at-a-time, the ULA team has a long history of many successful missions launched on Delta II, including 50 missions for our NASA customer. In addition to the Delta II, the ULA team is also successfully launching a wide array of missions on the Atlas V and Delta IV systems. The Delta II launch system continues to offer excellent reliability and value to our customers and we look forward to launching the ICESat-2 mission together with the NASA team," said Sponnick.
The newly contracted mission is scheduled to launch in July of 2016 from Space Launch Complex-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
ULA's Delta II has launched the majority of NASA's critical science missions over the last decade including the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, Genesis, Phoenix Mars Lander, Stardust, and the twin GRAIL spacecraft.
ULA's next launch is the Atlas V SBIRS GEO-2 mission for the Air Force scheduled for March 19 from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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1916 Brooklyn Dodgers World Series Press Pin
Starting Bid - $500, Sold For - $3,525
Brooklyn Dodgers press pin issued for the 1916 World Series against the Boston Red Sox. All pre-1920 World Series press pins are extremely rare. This pin is also very significant to Dodgers collectors as it commemorates the first modern-day World Series appearance for Brooklyn. The colorful pin features a blue-and-white enamel border that reads "World Series" and "1916" in gold lettering. The center displays a convex baseball design in gold that reads "Brooklyn." The very high relief design of the baseball center of this pin makes it especially susceptible to wear. This is a very high-grade example of this condition-sensitive pin, far superior to most such pins, with perfect enamel and virtually no wear at the highest point of the design. Manufactured by Dieges & Clust; threaded-post back. Diameter: 0.75 inches. Nr-Mt. Reserve $500. Estimate $1,000/$2,000. SOLD FOR $3,525
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Focal Audio Dôme 5.1 home theater speaker system
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|$2,595 (as tested) / AUDIOPLUSSERVICES.COM
|Focal's diminutive speaker system can deliver high-performance sound to style- conscious homes
|• Satellites are beautifully built, using top-notch components • Vivid and transparent sound with fine imaging • Lots of mounting options for satellites
|• Limited dynamics as compared with larger speaker setups • Requires careful sub and crossover adjustment • Speaker connections only accept skinny wires
Key Features
|• Dôme satellite: 1-in metal-dome tweeter, 4-in woofer; 6¾ in high, 4¼ lb • Dôme subwoofer: 8-inch woofer, 100-watt amp; 15 in high, 18 lb
The problem with most so-called lifestyle speakers is that they sacrifice performance in order to perform their disappearing act. A typical lifestyle-friendly combo shifts deep-bass production to a single discreetly placed subwoofer, with the remainder of the sound divided between a few inconspicuous satellite speakers. But along with the potential minuses, there's an advantage to this approach: Freed from their bass-production duties, the satellites are easier to position for optimum stereo and surround imaging.
Focal isn't new to the satellite/subwoofer world, having introduced its Sib & Cub combo a few years back. Now, with the Dôme system, the company has ramped the performance level up a few notches by incorporating many of the same components used in its more exotic speaker offerings. Unlike the Asian-built Sib & Cub, the Dômes are manufactured at Focal's factory in Saint-Étienne, France, giving the company a tighter rein over production.
The Dôme 5.1 package is more compact than its Sib & Cub brand mates, making it the smallest Focal home speaker system yet. Despite its diminutive size, the Dôme satellite is no lightweight: The cast-aluminum enclosure feels solid enough to withstand being run over by a small car. Each of the five satellites is about the size of a large grapefruit with a slice taken off the front. This flat area forms a baffle where the two drivers are squeezed in. While I would hesitate to use the word "woofer" to describe any 4-inch driver, it's hard to deny the quality of this baby-size edition of Focal's Polyglass design - the same type used in its much larger Chorus series. The tweeter is a top-drawer affair, too, its aluminum/magnesium inverted dome very similar to the one used in Focal's pricey Profile and Electra S models.
Following the dome theme, the system's cylindrical, rounded-top subwoofer looks a bit like one of those concrete stanchions used to block cars from entering a pedestrian street. With a single downward-firing 8-inch woofer, the ported Dôme sub is also exceptionally compact, consuming less than a 1-foot-diameter circular patch of your precious floor space. Rear-panel connections include both line- and speaker-level inputs, while the built-in 100-watt amp can be set to turn on automatically when it senses a signal.
The Dôme satellite's built-in pedestal can swivel 90°, and a supplied mounting plate lets you mount the speaker on a wall or ceiling. Optional stands are available if you want to position the satellites on the floor, although I found that they sounded better when I kept them near a room boundary. Speaker-wire connections are by way of a small screw terminal recessed into the base. The terminal can handle stripped bare wires up to around 14 gauge, but it's tight enough in there to rule out any fancy, audiophile-type cables.
Achieving a smooth bass blend is tricky with any sub/sat system, and it only gets harder as the satellites shrink in size and the crossover point moves up in frequency. As I mentioned above, keeping the Dôme satellites near a wall or ceiling helps to flesh out their low-frequency extension a bit, and this in turn makes it easier to achieve a good blend with the subwoofer. I spread the three front-channel Dômes evenly just under my 8-foot-wide projection screen, with the two surround channels up high on the side walls, just behind the listening chair. The sub worked best when pushed into my room's front-left corner, as this helped to bolster its output a bit.
Running the Audyssey MultEQ XT automated setup on my Integra receiver resulted in a too-high subwoofer level, with the receiver attempting to squeeze out bass that simply wasn't available with the system. After experimentation with lots of familiar CDs, I found that setting the sub level some 5 dB lower provided a much better blend, although this meant that the bass could sound a tad lightweight at times. Focal claims that the Dôme satellites can go down to as low as 80 Hz, but in practice, a 120- to 130 Hz crossover point worked much better. Getting these adjustments just right proved critical in avoiding a noticeable peakiness in the upper bass.


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David Furman
born in Berdychiv , 1919
David Furman David Zelikovich Furman was born in 1919 in Berdychiv. He worked as a carpenter before the war and was drafted into the Red Army in 1939 to train in Vladivostok. He fought at the Stalingrad front during the war.
Current Video: I Defended Stalingrad
David Furman, born in Berdichev in 1919, was one of the 1.1 million Soviet soldiers who fought in the Battle of Stalingrad, the seven-month battle that turned the war on the Eastern front and left one and a quarter million German and Soviet soldiers dead. Furman left school at the age of fourteen to become a carpenter like his father, but he was drafted into the army in 1939. He was stationed in the Far East until the war broke out in 1941, when he was taken to the front. He fought at the front until 1943, when he lost his leg in battle. By the time that Stalingrad began, in August 1942, Furman had already received word that his entire family - his father, Zelig; his mother, Leyke; his sister, Kheyved and his two brothers, Moyshe and Berl--had been murdered by the Nazis in Berdichev. He knew what he was fighting for.
In this clip, Furman, whom we first met at the synagogue soup kitchen in which the interview takes place, tells about his experience in the war. Viewers should note that the question posed to him is "Tell us something about Berdichev? Were you born in Berdichev? Tell us about the old days? Tell us about your schooling?" Rather than talk about his childhood or his hometown, Furman shares with us his proudest moment--his military service. He rushes through his childhood and neglects his postwar life, but straightens his back, raises his chin, and lets out a smile as he tells us that he fought in Stalingrad! Not only that, but he pulls out of his pocket a snapshot of himself decorated with military medals, as though he expected an international camera crew to show up at the soup kitchen that day. For David Furman, every day is Victory Day.


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Oil, Water and Words: Energy and the Digital Future
by Karen Hovde
Books, and the libraries that house them, for all their staid reputation, stand as major players in the plots of a substantial number of science fiction works. Books burn in the fires of Fahrenheit 451 and teach apocalypse survivors essential skills in Dies the Fire. In Earth Abides, Ish, a survivor of the Great Disaster and now an old man, sits on the steps of the long-abandoned university library, pondering its useless legacy for a population that lives by the bow and arrow.
Global catastrophe and apocalypse are surely the stuff of fiction and where lesser cataclysmic events such as earthquakes and severe storms interrupt the lives of contemporary, industrialized populations, they have been on a scale for which the rest of the infrastructure compensates. But catastrophe can build in subtle, slow trickles that presage a torrent, a cumulative event with implications fully as severe as the sudden tsunami. Those trickles are running now, and their names are energy and digital information.
The energy element has several tributaries, the two most significant being climate change and peak oil. They share the factor of being mildly controversial, in that the scientific and expert communities regard them as givens (with a range of potential future scenarios), while numerous doubters give voice in the governmental, business and general populations. Climate change is most evident in an accelerating global warming trend, with its significant and deleterious effects on water and resource availability. Peak oil, perhaps less well known, is the premise well established in geochemical science that the worlds petroleum and natural gas reserves are in the process of depletion. Decline of yields mirrors a corresponding world oil discovery peak (discovery peaked in the 1960s), and while the debate rages over the precise year of peak oil (estimated to be somewhere between 2005 and 2020), the concern should be with the realities of the slide down the other side of the peak [1], [2].
It is not the place of this essay to deal with the pros and cons of substitutes for oil. Suffice it to say that alternative energy sources come nowhere near providing the cheap, safe, uncomplicated and overwhelmingly available benefits of oil. And the unfortunate factor that intrudes on any discussion of new fuels and new technologies is that of the zero sum game. The natural and economic resources are finite. Those diverted to one form of substitution steal from something else.
So why should the digital information industry care about water and tar sands? Electricity. Remember the electricity aliens from old science fiction movies? The Internet is an electricity being. It was born, lives and dies with electricity. It eats electricity and, like any good alien, eats it exponentially.
Item Feb. 2010: Severe drought in Venezuela causes an electricity shortage that is expected to lead to higher oil prices. The worst drought in 10 years has dried up the water that generates hydroelectric power. In an effort to stem the hours-long blackouts that have gripped the nation for months, President Hugo Chavez has indicated that he may divert electricity from oil-producing and -refining operations. Venezuela owns 3.5% of the worlds known oil supplies [3].
Item: The western states of California, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada have had their eye on Washingtons mighty Columbia River for years. Giant waterworks projects were proposed as long ago as 1968; one of the more current plans is for an undersea pipeline that would carry water to Southern California from the Columbia [4].
Item January 2010: Google Energy LLC, subsidiary of Google, Inc., has requested permission from the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to buy and sell energy [5].
Electricity is provided by hydroelectric power, the burning of oil or coal and nuclear power plants. Worldwide water and oil resources are compromised by current supply and increasing global demand. Climate change restricts the availability of water and limits the ramping up of coal use. Nuclear power plants need abundant supplies of cheap water, and cheap oil underpins the construction of all these plants and the infrastructure that delivers it to homes and businesses.
Google knows that its energy alien, housed in an estimated 24 or more data centers, consumes hundreds of megawatts of energy a day day in and day out. Internet companies are fully aware of the current and projected energy needs of their burgeoning businesses. A smaller data center might consume as much as a large university, about 31 megawatts, including everything from stadium lights to its medical school. A larger complex 180 megawatts would be enough to provide energy for a city of 900,000 inhabitants. Data centers on average use about as much electricity as large oil refineries. Data centers, or server farms, are a billion dollar business. They are composed of buildings and entire warehouse-sized complexes crammed with computer servers, and for every dollar spent on power, an additional dollar goes for temperature control. According to Department of Energy estimates, data center power requirements will increase from 1.2 percent to 4 percent of all power consumption in the United States in the next few years [6].
As the software industry moves increasingly to a web environment, Internet companies are building their own data centers. Initially concentrated in California and suburban Washington DC, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are all headed for the hills the hills in this case being those of Washington State and the generators of the Columbia River [8]. Local utilities are hard-pressed to handle current demand in the context of existing exigencies such as infrastructure failures and weather-related outages (storms or air-conditioning draws). Add the double whammy of realistic, projected shortages and/or soaring costs for oil and water. Then consider that the rivers that provide the water for agriculture and hydroelectric power and for filling all the reservoirs and Sigg bottles have their genesis in the mountain snow packs, and that global warming is quietly working on the mountains. The disappearance of more than 80% of Mount Kilimanjaros fabled snows is predicted to have worldwide implications for drought. And in the Yakima basin in Washington, this winters reduced snow pack spells problems for irrigation [9]. The Yakima River is a tributary of the Columbia River.
The first premise of this construction is that the Internet, those massive layers of data and code residing in increasingly energy-hungry warehouses around the economically beleaguered United States (and elsewhere) is going to reach a point where growth will be constrained by energy limits. With the possible exclusion of nuclear fusion energy, there are no rational expectations that significant unknown sources of energy can be unlocked through advances in science and technology. Depletion of fossil fuel resources can only be mitigated by a combination of efficiency gains, conservation and substitution of renewable and nuclear fission energy [10]. The second premise is that the success of the effort to divert, conserve and find substitutes for fossil fuel resources will be severely impacted by the already demonstrable effects of climate change, particularly with respect to water.
Is it wise for the information world to dedicate itself unreservedly to the digital format? (And we havent even mentioned sunspots; a new 11-year cycle of heightened solar activity brings increased risks for power grids, cyber warfare or sharks, which gnaw underwater cables.)
The publishing industry, willingly or not, has committed itself irreversibly to digitization [11]. It can neither sustain a physical inventory of backlists nor withstand the storm surge of the worldwide digital marketplace. Libraries are constrained by materials supply, linked as they inextricably are to the publishing industry and also by the access and format preferences of their patrons. Academic libraries subscribe to indexing products that are overwhelmingly digital, to associated digital text, to independent digital serials titles and to an increasing array of electronic books, archives and other full-text products. The legacy that was once restricted to paper stored in physical buildings, on the steps of which our fictional hero sat, is flowing ever faster to the hard drives in the servers in the data centers. Hard drives were not intended to be long-term storage devices in the event of prolonged power outages [12]. How they might perform in that capacity remains to be seen. Can we really delude ourselves that the electricity and the water and the oil will be sufficient to sustain indefinitely the infrastructure of the digital medium? There is an ever more visible thread running through the writings of those concerned with the fragility of the information universe a thread that is at once both more rational and thus more worrisome than the alarmist prophecies of fiction and doomsayers. From the ruminations of thoughtful and articulate workers in the industry to feature articles in New Scientist, the question is being asked what happens to our stored knowledge if something goes wrong? Or, as is the theme of this essay, what happens when the something that goes wrong is the simple projection of prohibitive parameters of energy and climate factors?
There is an analog for knowledge and concern for its fate in an uncertain future. Deep inside a sandstone mountain lined with permafrost on the Norwegian Arctic island of Spitsbergen is a vault designed to hold and preserve around 2 million seeds. The three million dollar project was initiated by the Norwegian government to safeguard the worlds seed heritage (the worlds food supply) from nuclear war, climate change, terrorism, rising sea levels, earthquakes and the collapse of electricity supplies. It has meter-thick reinforced concrete walls, airlocks and blast-proof doors. It is a seed depository, not a seed bank, and it is not an apocalypse film set. It is real designed and constructed by a government that was willing to do something more than whine and fret about uncertainty.
Museums hold a publicly accepted mandate to preserve the artifacts of cultural heritage, and libraries follow a similar conservation mandate, albeit for a lesser galaxy of objects. It would be silly and pointless to envision a second doomsday vault on Spitsbergen housing copies of the worlds literary and scientific heritage. But it is not silly to be realistic about the vicissitudes of the path we tread as we purchase, utilize and store for future use the hard-won body of knowledge on which civilization as we know it depends. Libraries need to hold to that stewardship mandate, to preserve and celebrate the integrity of print formats. They should preserve in print form the worlds literary canon and seminal philosophical and scientific works. They should keep in book form the kind of functional information people take so easily now from the web: basic tenets of health and education, instructional literature for building and maintaining essential services, for the raising of plants and animals a body of print back-up tapes so that when the lights flicker and the blackouts roll, there will be some place to go, and something to hold onto so that the human heritage of both the practical and the esoteric will not go also into the blackness.
Resources Mentioned in the Article
[1] Campbell, C. J., & Laherrere, J. H. (1998, March). The end of cheap oil. Scientific American 278(3), 78.
[2] Kunstler, J.H. (2005). The long emergency. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press.
[3] Garrett, J. B. (2010, February 24). Venezuelas drought could increase oil prices [Blogpost]. Heatingoil.com. Retrieved April 14, 2010, from www.heatingoil.com/blog.
[4] Southern Nevada Water Authority. (2008). Colorado River augmentation study. The Authority. Las Vegas, NV. Hardcopy can be requested at www. snwa.com/html/wr_colrvr_augmentation.html. See also Brean, H. (2008, May 31). Varied options, big ideas, slim hope for water: Report lists 12 alternatives to Colorado River water. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved April 14, 2010, from www.lvrj.com/news/17150881.html.
[5] Smith, R. (2010, January 8). Google seeks to tap power markets. Wall Street Journal, 255(6), B1-B10.
[6] Brandon, J. (2008, March 17). Saving energy in the server room. PCMag.com. Retrieved April 14, 2010, from www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2271432,00.asp.
[7] Mehta, S. N. (2006, August 1). Behold the server farm! Glorious temple of the information age!
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[8] Katz, R. H. (2009, February). Tech titans building boom, IEEE Spectrum. Retrieved April 14, 2010, from http://spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/buildings/tech-titans-building-boom.
[9] Spokane Public Radio broadcast. March 3, 2010.
[10] Nel, W.P., & Van Zyl, G. (2010, January). Defining limits: Energy constrained economic growth. Applied Energy, 87, 168-177.
[11] Epstein, J., Gleick, J., Egan, J., Shapiro, J., & Petre, P. (2010, March 11). Publishing: The revolutionary future. The New York Review of Books. Retrieved April 14, 2010, from www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/mar/11/publishing-the-revolutionary-future/.
[12] Simonite, T, & Le Page, M. (2010, February 2). Digital doomsday: The end of knowledge. New Scientist, 2745. Retrieved April 14, 2010, from
Karen Hovde is an associate professor in the university libraries, Northern Illinois University. She can be reached at khovde<at>niu.edu.
Articles in this Issue
Crisis Informatics Introduction
Twitter-based Information Distribution during the 2009 Red River Valley Flood Threat
The Use of Community Radio in Managing Natural Disasters in Indonesia
Helping Libraries Prepare for the Storm with Web Portal Technology
Mobile Live Video in Emergency Response: Its Use and Consequences
Sense-making and Information Management in Emergency Response
Communities Communicating with Formal and Informal Systems: Being More Resilient in Times of Need
Oil, Water and Words: Energy and the Digital Future
The Corporation as Stakeholder in Information Education
IA Column: Possibilities Abound


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C Gabriel Alperovich, MD received his undergraduate degree from the University of Rochester, New York followed by his residency at University of New Jersey, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine in Camden. He earned a fellowship at University of Maryland, Shock Trauma Institute.
Dr. Alperovich is the clinical associate professor at Finch University of Health Sciences at the Chicago Medical School and the affiliate clinical instructor at the Midwestern University/Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine.
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Dr. Arntz has advanced training in shoulder surgery with extensive experience in treating the most complex shoulder disorders. Additionally, Dr Arntz is a board-certified hand surgeon. Recognized in the Seattle and Renton community as a shoulder and upper extremity specialist, Dr. Arntz is proud to have had thousands of physician and patient referrals.
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Dr. Arntz is a member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery, the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, and the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery.
Navanshu Arora, MD is a University of Missouri-Kansas City fellowship-trained physician specializing in Hematology & Oncology.
In 2008, Dr. Arora received an award for "Top 10 Doctors" which recognizes patient satisfaction. He has contributed to more than 20 publications and actively pursued teaching students and residents in the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Dr. Arora held the position of docent for UMKC students and won the outstanding docent award. He was also elected as a Fellow for the American College of Physicians.
He did enroll the highest number of patients through the cooperative group trials for two years running. He also has been a principal investigator in a breast cancer trial.
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Friday, May 14, 2010
Is Marketing a Necessary Business Expense?
While there are various talks on whether to take Marketing budget as necessary business expense or a investment. A video from Vault Analytics talks about it and shows how McDonald and Amazon took over the World by investing heavily in Marketing.
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Good Clean Fun: String Art, Piggy Bank & Sheet Tent
Today's Scavenger is all about fun finds for families and chasing the winter blahs away. These are cheerful and guaranteed to brighten up a dull day indoors.
• Chicago, IL: Butterfly String Art - $45
• New York, NY: Giraffe Rocker - $50
• Brooklyn, NY: Balloon Dog Bank - $50
• Austin, TX: Sheet Tent - $145
• Chicago, IL: Orange Locker - $375
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November 25, 2012
Terry Collins, co-founder of KPOO 89.5FM, and Willie Ratcliff, publisher of the San Francisco Bay View, blessed the airwaves last Tuesday afternoon with a warm and revealing discussion of life and resistance and the upcoming Black Media Appreciation Night, honoring the champions of independent Black media. Black Media Appreciation Night is this Monday, Nov. 26, 8 p.m., at Yoshi's, 510 Embarcadero West, Jack London Square, Oakland. For tickets and more information, go to http://www.yoshis.com/oakland/jazzclub/artist/show/3104.


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Blacksburg High School athletics supporters who purchased tickets for a gun raffle fundraiser are being offered their money back.
Blacksburg High School athletics supporters who purchased tickets for a gun raffle fundraiser are being offered their money back.
The raffle, organized by the Blacksburg High School Athletic Booster Club, was called off following a meeting between school officials and the booster club Tuesday evening. School and district leaders said they were unaware of the raffle, and in a statement distributed Wednesday, Superintendent Quincie Moore called the raffle "inconsistent with the district's mission and goals."
Booster Club President Kevin Tessner said the club simply aimed to support the school's athletics programs, not stir controversy. He said the winner would have received a certificate redeemable for a Sig Sauer P938 at a local gun shop, only after passing a proper background check.
The parent and volunteer-run club, which formed in August, operates independently from Blacksburg High School.
Moore said the issue provided an opportunity for the district to examine its relationship with support organizations through Cherokee County.
"… I believe it is important that we ensure that all such organizations are acting in accordance with the mission of the district," Moore said in the statement. "In that regard, I very much appreciate the full cooperation and understanding of the Blacksburg Athletic Booster Club in suspending its raffle."
Following Tuesday's meeting, the booster club agreed to offer any funds already collected back to ticket-holders. Tessner said the club is planning alternate fundraisers, like a pancake breakfast in May.
"We've just got work as a group to decide what we're going to do and go from there," Tessner said. "We're just trying to do what we can do to support the kids."
Any person who purchased tickets and would like a refund should contact the booster club member they bought them from, or contact Tessner at 864-839-5616. Money not returned will be donated to Blacksburg High athletic programs.


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Pick up a copy of the paper for Grasshopper Fest Clue#1
Next Friday, Oct. 26, the Grasshopper Festival kicks off at 5 p.m. in downtown Augusta.
Friday's events will run 5 to 8:30 p.m. and they include:
• Free admission
• Vendor booths
• Sloppy Joe (or hot dog) dinner and dessert, $5 per plate
• Extended hours and discounts at downtown businesses
• Games/inflatables/petting zoo
• RKO Blues Band from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
• Live entertainment from local youth
• Weird and Unusual Sidewalk Tours by Adam Catlin, paranormal investigator
Saturday, Oct. 27
• Free admission
• Augusta Arts Council movie starts at 10 a.m.
• Trick or Treat Street immediately following the movie
• Chili Cook Off, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., judged by local celebrities. Don't miss the "People's Choice Award."
• Farmer's Market
The event is sponsored by Downtown Augusta, Inc. email@example.com
Vendors should contact Candice at 316-680-4801.


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Hawks continue homestand with Cavs
The Atlanta Hawks will try to find some consistency when they resume a four-game homestand Monday versus the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Atlanta has alternated decisions over the last nine games and ended up on the right end of 97-88 decision over the Orlando Magic. Ivan Johnson scored 21 points and pulled down 10 rebounds off the bench, while Josh Smith also had 21 points for the Hawks.
"It was real fun, I got a lot of work in. It was good. Certain times you need to step up. Somebody has to step it up (when the starters are out). I try, I do what I can," Johnson said.
Devin Harris added 17 points in the win, helping Atlanta improve to 23-13 at Philips Arena this season. Harris had missed the previous three games because of injury.
Hawks big man and double-double machine Al Horford missed his second straight game because of an illness and is questionable Monday. Horford leads the Hawks with 17.6 points and 10.3 rebounds.
Atlanta will also host New York and Philadelphia on the homestand and is even with Chicago for the fifth spot in the East, just 1 1/2 games behind the Brooklyn Nets.
Cleveland limps into Monday's matchup with the Hawks riding an eight-game losing streak, which continued with Sunday's 112-92 loss at New Orleans.
Cavs All-Star Kyrie Irving returned to action after an eight-game absence due to a left shoulder strain and tallied 31 points and six assists for Cleveland, which suffered its fifth straight loss on the road.
"I thought in the first half we got a little jolt from (Irving's return). But I thought it was much better in the first half than it was in the second half," Cavs coach Byron Scott said.
Tristan Thompson chipped in 12 points and 10 boards for the Cavs.
Cleveland is only 9-27 away from Quicken Loans Arena and is still without rookie guard Dion Waiters. Waiters is nursing a strained left knee and is out indefinitely.
Atlanta has dropped two of the first three matchups with Cleveland this season, but is still a dominant 8-2 in the past 10 encounters between the teams. Cleveland has lost five of eight and six of its last 10 at Atlanta.


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Blind Items Revealed
August 29, 2013
This still A list mostly movie actress who is an Academy Award winner was at dinner this week with her husband and a few of her friends. When the husband started to correct something our actress was saying, she turned to him and said, "When I want you to talk, I will tell you." The husband shut up for the rest of the dinner and just stared down at his phone.
Julia Roberts