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My answer -- Chase Headley -- certainly had something to do with the Padres's dearth of talent.
Headley just seemed in a good place. That was my takeaway coming out of 2011.
A switch-hitter, he'd come to know both his game and the terrain.
Too often an easy out against dime-a-dozen lefties, he figured out last year how to trigger his right-handed swing and now was able to bang fastballs that used to go by him.
He was 27, a peak year for many ballplayers. Petco Park held no more unpleasant surprises for him. After being misplaced in left field, he'd settled into third base. He told me he was set with his playing weight, a challenge early in his career when the front office insisted he bulk up. He predicted several more home runs than the four he hit in 2011.
Does Headley belong in the All-Star Game? You might think nobody from the Padres (20-41) belongs in the All-Star Game. Or maybe you consider Headley too bland for the honor. Other than draw walks, what does he do? That's a question I've been asked. You may prefer Will Venable or Huston Street.
Your opinion about Headley probably is shaped by how much you value on-base percentage, especially if that OBP draws heavily on walks. Headley is on-basing .383. That's third among National League third basemen (the leader and presumptive All-Star starter, David Wright of the Mets, is at .455). Headley is hitting with thump, too, with seven home runs and 16 doubles. For what it's worth, only one other NL third baseman, Hanley Ramirez of the Marlins, has more stolen bases than his seven.
Only two other NL third basemen -- Wright (3.7) and Martin Prado (2.9) of the Braves -- have more win shares than Headley (2.8) in FanGraphs.com's rankings.

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The CTA has plans to introduce on-board bus tracker screens on buses that travel on one express route between the Loop and South Deering, the agency said Friday.
The CTA for months has been testing a bus tracker screen aboard one No. J14 Jeffery Jump bus, the agency's first route with elements of bus rapid transit, express bus service that typically relies on dedicated lanes and traffic signal priority for buses.
By this summer, all 25 Jeffery Jump buses will have the screens, which show arrival times for buses that connect to the route, CTA spokeswoman Tammy Chase said. Other buses also may eventually get these screens.
"Right now the focus is on the Jeffery Jump," Chase said.
The CTA last fall refashioned the Jeffery Boulevard route, which travels between Washington and Jefferson Streets and 103rd Street and Stony Island Avenue.
The route has dedicated bus lanes during rush hour. The CTA plans this year to implement technology that would give buses on the route traffic signal priority over cars and a lane to bypass traffic at Jeffery and Anthony Avenues.
The CTA said the dedicated bus lanes have made northbound service 12 percent faster and southbound service 11 percent faster.
The CTA this week added five northbound and three southbound Jeffery Jump buses this week to handle extra riders from the southern Red Line five-month track overhaul project. The route saw an average of 12,500 weekday riders in March.
In the next few years, the CTA is set to introduce bus rapid transit in the Loop and on Ashland Avenue.


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Do you have difficulty sleeping or concentrating? Have you lost your appetite or interest in pleasurable activities? Are you sad most of the time? If so, you may be depressed.
The Mind/Body Health Newsletter reports that depression is more common than coronary artery disease, cancer or AIDS. It causes greater day-to-day impairment in quality of life than diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis or ulcers.
Depression costs industrialized countries several billion each year in treatments, absenteeism, and lost productivity and wages. It's estimated that by 2020, depressive illnesses will become the leading cause of disease in developed countries.
Many factors contribute to depression including genetics, poor diet and sleep habits, and food sensitivity. Illnesses and their treatments, drug interactions, improper metabolism and social isolation are other causes.
A family history of depression suggests biological vulnerability. Psychological makeup plays a role. Pessimistic, dependent people with low confidence who are easily overwhelmed by stress, are prone to depression. A major loss (death of a loved one, job termination) and work stress are also linked to depression.
Symptoms of Depression
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) lists the following criteria for major depression. At least five must be present every day during the same two-week period. Do any of these apply to you?
- Depressed mood most of the day.
- Diminished interest or pleasure in most activities.
- Reduced or increased appetite.
- Insomnia or excessive sleeping.
- Extreme restlessness or lethargy.
- Fatigue or loss of energy.
- Feelings of worthlessness, guilt, hopelessness or pessimism.
- Diminished ability to think, concentrate or make decisions.
- Recurrent thoughts of death or suicide.
- Irritability or excessive crying.
Although five of the foregoing suggest severe depression, take action if you checked any criterion.
Tips for managing depression
- Seek professional assistance. Getting help is not a sign of weakness. Mental and medical health specialists, who practice in community health centers, hospitals, company EAP programs and private offices, offer evaluation and treatment.
Get a thorough medical examination to rule out health causes. If you have severe or chronic depression caused by a chemical imbalance, medications will be prescribed to alter brain chemical action and improve mood, sleep, appetite, energy level and concentration.
Talking with a trained counselor or psychologist can be effective in treating less severe or non chronic depression. Therapy can be helpful alone or used in combination with medication.
Sometimes, it is helpful to discuss certain work problems with a supervisor or co-workers. Focus on improving the situations, not personalities, and end talks on a positive note.
- Recognize and change negative thoughts and behaviors. Negative thoughts are often unrealistic, and tend to have a generalized, exaggerated, spiraling quality.
You are what you think. You can choose to dwell on and enlarge mistakes or hurtful feelings which will contribute to depression. Or, you can stop negative thoughts and replace these with more positive, constructive ones.
If your supervisor suggests changing part of a report, you can think, "I made another mistake. I'm useless . . ." Or, you can monitor negative thoughts, note whether you made similar mistakes before, and replace the irrational, negative belief with a more positive statement. "I haven't made this mistake before. . . Now I really know how to improve my reports . . ."
Focus on opportunities, constructive ways of dealing with challenges. Practice positive self-talk. Emotionally believe you can control situations. Listen to motivational quotes during your commute.
Don't take customer complaints personally. You're usually the outlet for their anger and frustration with the company policies, services or products.
- Enhance confidence. Prepare a list of accomplishments and positive personality characteristics. Post this where you can read it daily. Build on accomplishments. Each day, enhance some previous performance.
Think and talk about things you want. Review fortunate experiences in a journal. Note the role belief and hard work played in achieving successes as well as strategies used.
Participate in activities that give pleasure and a sense of accomplishment. Plan enjoyable activities daily. Watch a movie, get a massage, take a class on a topic of interest, join a hiking group.
- Develop meaningful relationships. Associate with positive, supportive people who believe in your abilities. Help others as well as yourself by volunteering for a cause in which you believe.
Join a support group. You may be surprised to learn an evening with a group of depressed people can be enjoyable. Support groups provide a forum for mutual acceptance, understanding and self-discovery.
- Safeguard health. Keep a journal to chart eating and sleeping habits, and enjoyable and stressful activities. Identify factors that may be contributing to depression, and replace these with more positive ones.
Minimize stress by exercising, meditating, engaging in hobbies, and creating a relaxing morning routine. Don't take work problems home.
- Set realistic, attainable goals. Break large tasks into small, achievable ones. Set priorities.
Postpone major life decisions, such as changing jobs or getting married. Wait until depression lifts.
Questers Dare to Change Your Job and Life, by Dr. Carole Kanchier, offers numerous tips for strengthening healthy personal qualities and moving forward in your life career. https://www.amazon.com/Questers-Dare-Change-Your-Life/dp/1508408963


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PencilHead was too artistic to me, it almost didn't feel like an AMV.
x2 on both accounts. Transforming the source footage into something that's so radically alien from its origins just makes it hard for me to appreciate it as an ANIME music video, however great its technical and creative merit. Best of the Year has to be the total package, and for me, All That You Can't Leave Behind ties it up with a very nice bow.
x3 I have to say as amazing as the technical and effect work in Pencilhead was, there were alot of times were I wasn't feeling accurate sync between the audio and video, which is very important to me. Example: Starting at 1:08 where the song starts repeating "right here, right now". I pretty much felt no sync there. Still a great video though, and has many great aspects.
Along with that, Scorpion's video had a very well told story and a more detailed concept to me.


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The Volusia County Council approved a zoning amendment Thursday afternoon allowing houses on "tourist"-zoned land in Ormond-by-the-Sea — where homes already exist, but only as exceptions to the law.
Joseph Kohler will get to start building his house in Neptune Park. The neighbors, who lost a battle Thursday to keep some county zoning restrictions that would limit him, still hope to keep their old neighborhood the same.
The Volusia County Council approved a zoning amendment Thursday afternoon allowing houses on "tourist"-zoned land in Ormond-by-the-Sea — where homes already exist, but only as exceptions to the law.
"Sometimes change happens," Vice Chair Joyce Cusack told roughly 20 neighbors who attended the meeting to oppose the amendment. "We might not like it, but it happens."
County Chair Jason Davis was the lone no vote against the measure, which is tied to a property-rights issue that's been going on for years.
"I've been out there, talked to them, and they didn't want to change the character of their place. I said, 'you are the voters; you're who I work for,' " Davis said.
The zoning amendment came out of a settlement agreement with Kohler, who owns two parcels in the beachfront Neptune subdivision. In 2007, Kohler applied for the necessary special exception and variances to build a new home on his land. He got denied by the council, lost on appeal to a judge and eventually pursued a claim under Florida's Bert Harris Act.
The Bert Harris claim sought about $275,000 in damages Kohler suffered because of over-regulation by the county.
Thursday's vote served to end that, to the dismay of neighbors who fear an intrusion of large beach homes. Most of the homes in Volusia's three affected neighborhoods are small, single-level houses built in the 1940s and 1950s. The houses allowed now can stand up to 35 feet high.
County staff said the amendment will help alleviate property owners of the special exceptions and variances that hampered their ability to build or even improve on their homes. Some neighbors said they appreciated that process because it increased their control.
Councilman Doug Daniels, who represents the area, argued: "That, in effect, turns us into a homeowners' association."
"In order to fix the Kohler problem, you're going to affect the rights of 100-plus property owners," argued Dennis Bayer, an attorney for the neighbors, who then argued they didn't see a problem with the zoning as is.
"I wasn't aware that there was anything that needed to be fixed in our area," said Debbie Carter, who lives in the O'Byrne neighborhood north of Neptune and was against the change. "We don't have a problem."
The county also passed a yearlong waiver of variances for residents who want to make their homes conform to the current zoning. Those free variances will stay attached to the property and transfer to future owners. (If a house is nonconforming with its zoning, some homeowners pointed out, banks won't refinance.)
Councilman Josh Wagner offered an idea of limiting the height to less than 35 feet — the tallest one in those areas now is 28 feet, and most are 10 to 12 — or staggering them, with shorter houses on the beachfront. But others argued the height doesn't make much difference; anything taller than a person blocks the ocean view.
"Unless we're going to make (Kohler's) house 4 or 5 feet, I don't see where it makes a difference if it's 10 or 20 or 30," Daniels said.
There are very few empty lots in any of the affected neighborhood, but residents worried about new additions on existing homes without an approval process.
"With what's proposed, at least the way I understand it, it could potentially be a free-for-all, with everybody saying, 'I want a second story,' " said Eric Sauers, who lives in a house that used to be the office of the Ormond-by-the-Sea Hotel.
"I respectfully suggest that not a lot of people are going to do that right now," Kohler's attorney Alex Ford said.
Alan Davis, who recently bought a house in Neptune Park, asked the council to reconsider the environmental impact on the dunes and sea turtle nests.
And neighbors like the Browns said they'd be watching that closely as Kohler builds his house.


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TOTOWA, N.J. (AP) — The manager of a popular New Jersey diner who felt he wasn't getting his fair share of the profits tried to have a hit man kill his uncle, who co-owns the restaurant and a second diner in New York City, authorities said Wednesday.
Georgios Spyropoulos, the 45-year-old manager of the Tick Tock diner in Clifton, asked an undercover trooper posing as a hit man to kill Alexandros Sgourdos and to get rid of the body so it couldn't be found, authorities said.
The 57-year-old uncle also manages the other Tick Tock diner, a popular tourist spot across the street from Penn Station, in Manhattan.
Authorities said Spyropoulos resented the control his uncle exerted over the New Jersey restaurant, which was featured on Guy Fieri's Food Network show, "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives." They said he also felt his uncle was taking an unfair share of the profits.
"I think it's an understatement to say they weren't close," Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa told a news conference.
Spyropoulos was being held in lieu of $1 million bail on charges of conspiracy to commit murder, attempted murder and unlawful possession of a weapon. A message was left for his attorney.
Chiesa said investigators believe Spyropoulos was motived by greed and wanted to steal a large amount of cash that his uncle kept in a safe.
Spyropoulos told the undercover officer, Chiesa said, to make sure to get the combination to his uncle's safe before killing him. Spyropoulos suggested the undercover officer kidnap the uncle from his Clifton home and torture him until he gave up the combination, Chiesa said.
The nephew provided the officer with a $3,000 down payment, a photo of his uncle, a map of his home and his daily schedule, including how he parked his car, authorities said. He also allegedly provided an unregistered handgun.
"Once I leave here today, this is on," authorities say the undercover officer told the owner's nephew during an April 2 meeting.
The total payment for the killing and disposal of the body was to be $20,000.
The nephew wanted to make sure the body was not found so that it remained a missing person case, not a murder investigation, authorities said.
If his uncle's wife posed any problem, Spyropoulos told the officer to kill her, too, authorities said.
Authorities said a search of Spyropoulos' home turned up two semi-automatic handguns, a shotgun and what the attorney general's office called an "assault-style rifle." Chiesa said six cellphones and several thousand dollars in cash were recovered from the nephew's Mercedes Benz.
Both Spyropoulos, who is originally from Athens, Greece, and his uncle, live in Clifton.
Authorities said the undercover operation was started as the result of a tip from a state police informant.
Chiesa acknowledged that the case played to New Jersey archetypes involving nefarious plans hatched in diner booths.
"This is sort of out of a script right in New Jersey, where you're going to meet at the Tick Tock diner to rub out your uncle to advance yourself," he said. "I understand that reaction of it, but from a law enforcement perspective, we're focused on the safety of the person who is the target."
The classic chrome diner, a popular spot among fans attending Jets and Giants games at the stadium in the Meadowlands a few miles away, is considered a landmark to many people who live or travel along Route 3 in northern New Jersey.
Patrons lunching there Wednesday were shocked by the news.
"It's your basic New Jersey family diner," said Bela Makula, a frequent customer who works nearby. "A standard, New Jersey diner that people try to emulate all over the country."
Asked if he thought the case reflected poorly on the state, Makula replied without a pause:
"Everybody knows that New Jersey is full of criminals and killers."


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U of I's Wise believes med school should be small
U of I's Wise believes med school should be small
Jun. 19, 2014
URBANA, Ill. (AP) — A new medical school being discussed for the University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign campus should be small and complement the school's other operations, the campus' chancellor said.
Chancellor Phyllis Wise said during an address to the University Senates Conference on Wednesday that a lot of work still needs to be done on the proposal, but that the school could be an important addition, The News-Gazette reported (http://bit.ly/1ioCXLI ). The group includes faculty from all three University of Illinois campuses.
"I believe if we do this right, if we make it small, if we make it complementary, we make it (an) out of the ordinary, conventional mechanism of an academic structure, that we will be able to build something that will be important to our campus" and the towns, region and state, Wise said.
The proposal is in its early stages. It would create a public-private partnership with the local Carle hospital that Wise said would allow the university to not ask the state for more money, or take money away from other university endeavors.
Some faculty from the university's College of Medicine in Chicago have been skeptical of the idea. The existing small medical school in Urbana is a regional campus of the Chicago medical school, where the proposed new medical school would be independent.
Don Chambers, a professor at the university's Chicago campus, said the details will be important. Most of them have not been worked out yet.
"I think my colleagues could buy into this once they understand the details, and once they understand and we all understand this is really complementary and not adversarial," he said.
A feasibility study on the medical school projects an opening date in 2017. Start-up costs are pegged at about $100 million.
Wise says she hasn't yet start formally raising money for the idea.
Information from: The News-Gazette, http://www.news-gazette.com


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Each Wednesday, blogger Matt Vensel will highlight five statistics that really mean something for the Ravens.
2.8 — yards per rushing attempt for Ray Rice, Bernard Pierce and the Ravens through two games.
The Ravens were stubborn with the run in the second half Sunday against the Cleveland Browns, but it's hard to argue with the results, as they ran the ball with Rice or Pierce on 27 of their 39 second-half plays to come from behind to win, 14-6. Still, the Ravens haven't exactly established a running game so far. They have actually run the ball 57 times, which ranks 10th in the NFL, but it's not as surprising when you consider that they have run 158 total plays and are averaging just 2.8 yards per run. Only four teams — the Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants — are averaging fewer yards per carry.
124.2 — Joe Flacco's passer rating when the Browns blitzed.
Browns defensive coordinator Ray Horton didn't blitz as often as he did in Week 1, sending just 10 blitzes at the Ravens quarterback Sunday. There was probably a reason for that. According to Pro Football Focus, Flacco completed seven of his 10 attempts when the Browns blitzed, for 73 yards and a touchdown. He had a quarterback rating of 124.2 on those plays. Through two games, Flacco has completed 15 of his 28 attempts against blitzes for 180 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. He has been sacked twice when blitzed.
101 — receiving yards allowed by Lardarius Webb on Sunday.
Webb made nine tackles against the Browns, second only to middle linebacker Daryl Smith. But it's usually not a good thing when your cornerback is making so many tackles. (Just ask Cary Williams.) Webb allowed five completions on the six passes Browns quarterback Brandon Weeden threw into his coverage Sunday, according to Pro Football Focus. Those receptions added up to 101 receiving yards. It was the first time Webb had given up 100 receiving yards in a game since the final game of the 2010 regular season.
49 — quarterback pressures for the Ravens so far this season.
If the first two weeks are any indication, the pass rush will be a major strength for the Ravens this season. They have generated 49 total quarterback pressures, including 34 in the win over the Browns, according to Pro Football Focus. Rush linebacker Terrell Suggs has two sacks and leads the team with 13 pressures. Strong-side linebacker Elvis Dumervil, who has gotten fewer snaps but is often on the field in passing situations, has two sacks and 10 pressures. Those two have a lot to do with the Ravens being tied for fifth with eight sacks.
Two — receiving touchdowns in two games for Marlon Brown.
When the undrafted rookie out of Georgia found the end zone against the Browns, he became the answer to a potential trivia question: Who was the first player in Ravens history with a receiving touchdown in each of his first two NFL games? That's right. Marlon Brown. He has eight catches for 110 receiving yards through two games and ranks second to Torrey Smith among Ravens in both categories. He has done all that despite being targeted just 12 times. Maybe Flacco should throw it his way more often.
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I want to thank Marine Log, BIMCO, and the Moderator, Admiral Sid Wallace, for the invitation to be here. And, thank all of you for being here today. I always enjoy the opportunity to talk about the Federal Maritime Commission and its work.
When I received my advance copy of the Presentation Program for this conference, "Safe Passage, Safe Harbor 2000," I was struck by the wide range of issues being considered over the course of the two days. The program reminded me of just how diverse and interesting the policy issues affecting the maritime transportation industry are, and how great are the challenges affecting this particular corner of the world. But if the challenges are great, so are the opportunities to positively influence an activity of vital importance that is the underpinning for the international trade on which the vitality of the world's economy depends.
The Ocean Shipping Reform Act
I have been asked here today as one of the five Federal Maritime Commissioners to give you my thoughts about the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998, its implications for international ocean liner shipping, and the future of ocean liner regulation.
In the most expansive version of my standard speech about the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998, I trace the history
of the ocean carrier antitrust immunity all the way back to Alexander Committee investigation of 1913. It is a stem winder!
My first public appearance as a Commissioner was a speech to a trade group on the new legislation. It was an evening event and my remarks began after 9:00 p.m., following several hours of cocktails, dinner, and a lengthy business meeting. You know, I started my speech and I had not even gotten through the 1959 hearings of the House Special Subcommittee on Steamship Conferences when I heard bodies falling off chairs and hitting the floor all over the room.
You all are very lucky! Sid has heard that speech and threatened to cut me off pretty early in the century if I started down that road.
Ocean carriers engaged in the United States international trade have been regulated since the early part of the last century. In 1994, Congress began to seriously consider revisions to the most recent version of the law providing for the oversight and regulation of international ocean liner shipping -- the Shipping Act of 1984. Following four years of review and deliberation, Congress passed and the President signed the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998. The Federal Maritime Commission, the body charged with the regulatory and oversight mission to ensure a fair system of ocean transportation, completed its work on the implementing regulations and the new act became effective last May.
As we approach the one year anniversary of OSRA's effective date, this is a very appropriate time to review the goals of the new law, whether it is working as intended, and consider what challenges may lie ahead.
The Ocean Shipping Reform Act is not a total deregulation of the ocean transportation system. Congress preserved and reaffirmed the antitrust immunity for ocean carriers and retained some elements of tariff publication and the common carriage system. Congress also continued the Federal Maritime Commission as the body to oversee and address substantially anticompetitive collective carrier activity.
But, even if the new law is more evolutionary than revolutionary, it is a dramatic shift in emphasis for ocean shipping regulation -- Congress and the President believed that a more competitive and efficient transportation system would be fostered by placing greater reliance on market forces rather than government regulation.
OSRA was designed and intended to encourage and facilitate commercial relationships tailored to meet the needs of the parties. OSRA contemplates a diverse, dynamic world of ocean shipping. OSRA is about -- creating "win-win" partnerships. The possibilities for creative business relationships and the opportunities contemplated by OSRA are much greater than under the previous law.
The corollary to this enhanced freedom is that more responsibility is placed on the parties themselves. A carrier representative recently observed that "[service contracting] forces both sides to sit down at the negotiating table .... and negotiate what's best for them." As one shipper recently noted, 'the contract today is really a blank sheet of paper."
The parties must now examine and thoroughly understand their own needs and capabilities. They also have to understand the business and needs of their partners. And, especially in the realm of global contracting, the parties will have to learn to trust each other in order to achieve truly mutually beneficial long-term commercial relationships.
The Mission of the Federal Maritime CommissionUnder the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998
So, how does the new act change the mission of the Federal Maritime Commission and what will the Commission look like as we move into the new millennium under OSRA?
First, I expect that the Commission will devote more of its attention to identifying and addressing major market-distorting problems that are not being addressed by competition and, if left unchecked, would undermine the deregulatory or pro-competitive goals of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act. I believe that service contacting and carrier agreements must be at the center of Commission interest and activity.
The single most important pro-competitive element of OSRA is the provision allowing for confidential service contracts. Under OSRA, the Commission is the only entity with access to all service contracts. I expect a major focus for the Commission in the future will be to understand what is happening with service contracting to ensure that the important role for these contracts envisioned under the new act is not circumvented or undermined.
In addition, I expect that the Commission will continue to focus attention and resources on analyzing and understanding carrier agreements and their potential for unreasonably reducing transportation services or unreasonably increasing transportation costs. This is particularly important in light of the increasing popularity of discussion agreements, combined with the right of carrier agreements under OSRA to issue voluntary guidelines.
It is clear that under OSRA that Congress expects the Commission to be vigilant and willing to take strong action to ensure that the pro-competitive features of the act are not undermined by anti-competitive behavior. While Congress retained the carrier's antitrust immunity and the Ocean Shipping Reform Act clearly contemplates a greater reliance on the marketplace, minimal government intervention, and flexibility for the carriers when structuring agreements,
Congress directed the Commission to be more proactive in its application of its injunctive powers.
OSRA is a "paradigm shift," and it has been the catalyst for the agency to take a completely fresh look at its strategic objectives and performance goals. I am very pleased that Chairman Creel initiated a review to examine the agency's structure and a proposed reorganization has been forwarded to Congress for review before implementation. I believe the proposed reorganization is a major step in ensuring that our priorities and structure comport with the vision of OSRA -- and that we are properly allocating our scarce resources to accomplish these priorities. Congress expected us to do this. And with only 131 employees, we had no choice but to focus our efforts on our most important missions.
A second major challenge for the Commission is to explore ways to further reduce regulatory costs and burdens that limit market flexibility without serving substantial regulatory interests or needs. It is clear from the act that Congress expects us to pursue this objective. Now that we are finished with the major part of the rulemaking, I would like to see the Commission examine all of its rules and regulations in an effort to further identify and eliminate unnecessary regulatory costs and burdens.
And, for the first time in several years, the Commission will be up to full strength. We have two new Commissioners to help meet the challenges of the new legislation. Joe Brennan of Maine was sworn in last November and Tony Merck of South Carolina joined the Commission early this year. Their knowledge and experience will add depth and breadth to the Commission's deliberations. I am looking forward to working with both of them in the months ahead.
What Will Ocean Shipping RegulationLook Like in the New Millennium?
During the coming year I expect that we will see a lot of Congressional interest in the Ocean Shipping Reform Act. Congress should and will regularly and routinely review the implementation of its handiwork and any changes that may affect the OSRA or its underlying policy. And just as it did in the Shipping Act of 1984 and the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1998, Congress can and will change the law if necessary to address problems in the law or changing realities.
Whether to provide carriers with antitrust immunity has been a fundamental ocean shipping policy question for Congress since the Shipping Act of 1916. It was controversial then, but it has been continued in every Congressional review of ocean shipping regulation since, up to and including last year's Ocean Shipping Reform Act.
There are a number of activities and developments that -- combined with the unhappiness of some stakeholders with the legislative efforts that resulted in OSRA -- ensure that the issue of antitrust immunity will continue to be discussed and debated.
As he promised to do last year when Congress passed OSRA, Chairman Hyde will focus the attention of the House Judiciary Committee on ocean shipping regulation and carrier antitrust immunity. He has scheduled a hearing for March 22nd and he intends to reexamine the carrier antitrust immunity in light of several ongoing developments.
One of these developments is the recent sale of the last major U.S. owned global liner carrier to a Danish company. Even though Maersk-SeaLand will operate vessels under the U.S.-flag, this development raises the question in some circles of why the United States should preserve antitrust immunity that, on one level, may be benefit only foreign-owned companies.
Another ongoing development that may influence the future regulation of ocean transportation in the United States is the state of competition policy in the rest of the world. The antitrust immunity provided for collective carrier activities under U.S. shipping law is in part premised on the fact that antitrust immunity is provided for carriers by our trading partners.
International perspectives on competition policy, however, have been evolving in recent years. Just look at the recent experience of the trans-Atlantic carriers with the European Union. A number of entities and countries are currently in the process of reviewing antitrust immunity and the value of collective carrier activities. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Union, Canada, Australia, Japan -- these are a few examples of entities and countries currently reviewing their competition policies.
These deliberations by our trading partners and international organizations of which we are members will certainly influence discussion about the future of carrier antitrust immunity under U.S. law.
The continuation of antitrust immunity in the long-term may well depend on whether policy makers in the United States and abroad continue to believe that the conditions and economics of international ocean liner shipping dictate some degree of antitrust immunity -- that the disadvantages of carrier antitrust immunity are outweighed by broader public benefits to international trade -- and that government oversight is effective in preventing abuse by the carriers of the antitrust immunity.
I am pleased to see that following lunch, Mike Murphy, a representative of American President Lines, will address just this question -- whether the antitrust immunity is still relevant and necessary. I hope that in his remarks Mr. Murphy articulates a broad public policy reason for continuing the antitrust immunity that might be embraced by other stakeholders affected by this issue -- shippers, ports, intermediaries, labor, and consumers.
I expect that both the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Senate Commerce Committee will hold hearings on the new law. I think much of the Congressional attention will focus on how the law is working in the real world -- whether there is a general satisfaction that the balances and compromises embodied in the act benefit the public and facilitate international commerce, whether the pro-competitive elements built into the act together with FMC oversight have prevented carrier abuse of the antitrust immunity, and whether the various groups involved in ocean transportation -- carriers, shippers, intermediaries, labor, and ports -- are as groups benefitting from the new law as Congress intended. In the short to mid-term, whether the new law is a practical solution to real world problems is more likely to affect the immediate future of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act than any generalized debate over the merits or demerits of antitrust immunity .
This then begs the question of how the Ocean Shipping Reform Act is working.
Because the Ocean Shipping Reform Act contemplates a very different environment from the previous scheme of heavily regulated common carriage, the learning curve is steep. Many of the participants -- shippers, carriers, and intermediaries -- are having to learn a new way of business and a new attitude about entering into ocean transportation arrangements. For all the parties, it is taking some time to prepare for, enter into, and make successful the types of relationships contemplated by OSRA.
While some groups and legislators called for revision of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act even before the new law went into effect, Congress just spent four years considering the regulation of ocean shipping and just completed action on the matter last October. I would be surprised to see any major changes to the law until Congress has the opportunity to see how the Ocean Shipping Reform Act does or does not achieve its objectives. And it is really too early to have an answer to that question.
While it may take some time to fully understand how the act is working, there are at least some preliminary indications that the new law is having a positive impact on the business of ocean shipping.
One indication is that confidential service contracting is increasingly being utilized as the means of moving cargo. 95,357 service contracts and amendments were filed with the Commission between May 1st and January 31st. Over a quarter -- 29% -- of the total service contracts filings during the total fifteen year period covered by the Shipping Act of 1984 have been filed in the last nine months under OSRA. This is a very dynamic market for service contracting.
There is also some indication that the terms and provisions of service contracts are starting to vary from contract to contract as parties obtain experience with the process and tailor contracts to address individual needs. One recent press report indicated that "carrier and shipper representatives who spoke [at a seminar] ... said service contracts negotiated in the busy trans-Pacific trades this year will evolve significantly from those negotiated last year." I believe the use of service contracts will only continue to expand as the parties become more comfortable with the process and with their business partners.
Another indication that the act is performing as Congress intended is this past year's experience in the east bound trans-Pacific trade. In 1998, the conduct of the carriers in that trade gave rise to multiple allegations of abuse, an FMC investigation, and concerns that competition would be all but eliminated in the trade during this year's peak season. To my knowledge, the Commission has heard few reports of the type of alleged carrier abuses that caused so much concern in 1998.
Nor have the fears about the elimination of competition in the trade been realized. This may be due in part to the FMC's interest, but I believe it has more to do with the fact that OSRA dramatically changed the regulatory landscape. Market forces and competition, not regulation, helped determine last year's outcome. Confidential contracting fostered direct and individualized commercial relationships between shipper and carrier. And as rates went up, substantial new capacity was added to the trade by both new entrants into the trade and existing players. This is what OSRA contemplated.
But one contracting season does not a successful act make, and we really do need several rounds of service contracting and more experience with the new law before we know how the act is doing. In this trade, as in others, the Commission continues to monitor carrier activities, especially for the use of "voluntary guidelines" to undermine confidential service contracting.
The Commission will have a very important role to play as Congress reviews implementation of the act and examines these ongoing developments. The Chairman has announced that the Commission will perform an assessment of the Act. With this assessment, the Commission will be well prepared to play a positive and productive role in the process -- providing Congress, the President, and the public with information and analysis about whether the act is performing as Congress hoped and intended.
Again, I thank you for the opportunity to be here with you. I hope I have been able to convey some of the things that have made my tenure at the FMC so interesting for the last year and promise to make the future -- for me and the industry -- even more interesting.
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Huset: Scandinavian Style for Your Kitchen
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- Specialty: Tableware and linens with clean lines and fun patterns
- Price range: $$
- Website: huset-shop.com
Huset is the Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish word for "house," and that's exactly what you get — timeless Scandinavian design to make your house a home.
From classic and clean Sagaform to bright and happy Rice dk, Huset stocks leaders and innovators in Scandinavian design, many whom aren't available in the US from anywhere else. The inventory covers the spectrum between pop art and Nordic neutrals, so there's something for everyone. After all, warm, wood-topped canisters and punchy melamine trays dress up any kitchen, whether it's custom or IKEA.
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Anonymous Monk,
That question wasn't very specific so my response will be somewhat generic.
First, did you use the IDE to record a session that selects the item from the unordered list? If so, does replaying yield the same results? If not - you should start there.
Second, you say "... trouble verifying data in.." which leads me to believe you are not using the select() method but perhaps the get_select_options() method. It is hard to trouble shoot without knowing which method you are using and how are you using it (example)?
Third, If there is truly some reason WWW::Selenium doesn't have a method you need, you have a number of options. You could use one of the myriad of HTML parsing modules on CPAN and parse it yourself. You could subclass it and fix which ever method is broken.
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JSC IT strives to ensure trouble-free access to campus technology for students, staff and faculty. We oversee eight labs on campus, both PC and Mac-based, as well as assist JSC community members with college-owned hardware, software, and access from personal devices to the College network. Our friendly and professional staff is here to ensure the efficiency, comfort and security of our campus labs, as well as to help you utilize technology for learning, teaching and support.
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JSC IT oversees 8 campus labs across campus. We take pride in these labs being accessible and well-supported. Hours and printing capability vary, so please check the MyJSC Portal for the most recent information.
- Academic Computing Center, Willey Library, 2nd Floor
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Last Friday our company outing took us to two wineries for tours and tastings, one of which was DeLoach Vineyards. If you've ever visited DeLoach, nestled in the lovely Russian River Valley of Sonoma, you'll know how impressive it is. As well it should be. The winery is owned by Boisset, one of the largest French wine companies – they own and import a number of wines from France and run a few properties in California, too. The family's line up ranges from easy-drinking quaffable wine to collectible Burgundies. They have positioned themselves at the forefront of the eco movement in wines, packaging a few of their wines in PET bottles and converting DeLoach to organic and then biodynamic farming.
DeLoach is pretty cool in that it has an organic farm, with herbs and vegetables galore, as well as chickens laying fresh eggs and sheep roaming about. It's what you'd call self-sustainable.
Walking through the vineyards with Lisa Heisinger (yeah, she knows her stuff), the general manager, we heard all about their biodynamic practices, as well their efforts to recycle (water & grape pumace). In the barrel room they described the artisan practices used in making Pinot Noir – manual punchdowns, natural yeasts, minimal oak, etc. While I love all of these efforts, it's still wine made from a big company. With a lot of money, who can afford to implement these practices. That said, they are a big company that helps the little guy. We were joined by one of the "little" guys that day.
His name is Ulysses Van der Kamp and he owns Van der Kamp vineyard, which is located in Sonoma Mountain and has been around for over 100 years. You immediately want to talk to Ulysses due to his rugged good looks and piercing blue eyes. He's a farmer. He grows grapes. Pinot Noir grapes, to be specific. That's pretty much it. This man lives and breathes Pinot Noir. His passion is contagious and draws you in. He's the kind of guy that does not take vacation because the grapes don't take vacation. He personally visits each vine at least 12 times a year, doing the pruning himself, focusing on the entire life of the vine. I actually asked him if he gave the vines proper names! (he doesn't)
Ulysses (I choose to call him by his first name because I love it) loves DeLoach and DeLoach loves him. They've been working together for a few years and in 2006, DeLoach released the first Van der Kamp Vineyard Pinot Noir, part of their Vineyard Designate series. As a grower, dedicated to organic farming and sustainable living, I think Ulysses wants to sell to a winery that feels the same way about the vines. Though he has no say in what happens after DeLoach takes the grapes, he is clearly pleased with the outcome in the bottle – as are we. This wine was fantastic. Bright fruits, lots of dried herbs on the nose. And the palate, while bright with acidity and red fruits, is also coating with its texture, savory character and super lingering finish. A great food Pinot and we loved it with the myriad of foods we had on our plates for lunch.
While it is still a wine run by a big wine family, who makes everything from artisan Pinot Noir to easy-drinking value bottles, they are a big company that thinks like a small one and they represent what you want a "big" company to do – use their money to give back to the earth (organic, recycling, etc) and utilize the artisan growers of the region, like the very lovely Ulysses. Hats off to DeLoach for all that they do up there – making fantastic wine, maintaning a beautful place to visit and most importantly, doing what they can to better the earth they use and the people around it.
Stay tuned for the Van der Kamp Pinot Noir to show up in our selection. And we hope to head down to Sonoma to talk further with DeLoach and Ulysses.


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SOAP ROLES: Barnabas Collins, DARK SHADOWS (1967-1971); Dr. Field, AS THE WORLD TURNS (1964-1966)
1971 Golden Laurel Award nomination for Star of Tomorrow, Male
Alan Carter: Talk about being known for and stereotyped by a role. It's not like DARK SHADOWS lasted 40 years or that Frid played the role all that long, but there was something about him and the show that made us, literally, run home from school to watch. Do kids run home to watch soaps these days? No, they have DVRs and Hulu and cell phones and the internet. But I imagine if Frid was around on DARK SHADOWS, they'd still be running.
Roger Newcomb: Jonathan Frid became a pop culture icon in a role that was only supposed to last a few weeks. He didn't debut until the 211th episode of DARK SHADOWS but his Barnabas helped catapult into the sensation it would become. Here's hoping that Frid makes a cameo in the new Johnny Depp Dark Shadows movie that will go into production sometime this year.


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It's Here! Our Top Ten Favorite Modern Design and Fashion Blogs
Dec 31, 2012 2:53:14 PM
Self-described as "fashion inspiration from real people around the world," Lookbook is more than a blog, it's a social network of Fashionistas who regularly submit images of everyday people (often themselves) in fashionable outfits. With more than 725,000 registered members, Lookbook utilizes a voting system to rank user-submitted looks via a "Hype" button (similar to Facebook's "Like"), allowing popular looks to be featured more prominently. With an emphasis on "Street Style," Lookbook's audience is predominantly female (80%) and influential, with 50% of members running their own blog or website. Top Contributors Include:
2. The Sartorialist
The Sartorialist is the blog of Scott Schuman, former writer for GQ, Vogue Italia, Vogue Paris, and Interview. A photographer as well as a writer, The Sartorialist features daily images of fashion on the streets and runways of the world's fashion capitals: Milan, Florence, New York, London, among others. Itself an example of a simple aesthetic meant to highlight the content, The Sartorialist focuses more on the beautiful imagery and less on the words. After all, a picture does speak for itself. Popular Posts Include:
- On the Street….One More Time, Milano
- On the Street…..Young Milano
- On the Street….Unbuttoned Elegance, Milano
3. hypebeast
Were you to miss the last several eons of human history and read its "About" page, you'd think Hypebeast was singlehandedly responsible for getting humans out of animal skins. Phrases like "The impact of Hypebeast has been paramount in constructing today's outlook on lifestyle" notwithstanding, Hypebeast is a premier Culture blog with a focus on all things Fashion, Arts, Design and Music. Decidedly male in perspective, Hypebeast's audience varies from sneakerheads, to gamers and techies, among others. Popular Posts Include:
- Nike 2011 Holiday Air Pegasus 92
- The Glitch Mob – More Voltage (Exclusive Mixtape Stream)
- Spike Jonze & Olympia Le-Tan "Mourir Aupres de Toi" Short Film
4. Honestly, WTF?
Owned by Erica & Lauren, a stylist and a designer, respectively, "Honestly WTF?" is all about the extraordinary things that blow their mind or make them say, "Honestly. WTF?" The site offers daily musings on style and fashion and features posts on various subjects, including do-it-yourself projects, art, and travel. Popular Posts Include:
5. Atlantic – Pacific
The blog of Blair Eadie, a self-described "east coast girl currently loving California life," Atlantic – Pacific could best be described as the style musings of an East Coast transplant, in pictorial format, that is. By day a merchant for a major specialty retailer, Blair credits her day job for her daily inspiration. Popular Posts Include:
6. Oh, Joy!
Founded by Joy Deangdeelert Cho, a graphic designer, Oh Joy! primarily focuses on visual collections of things Joy enjoys most. A published author of Creative, Inc. and, most recently, Blog, Inc., Joy launched Oh Joy! in 2005 to write about her three favorite pastimes (besides being a mommy): design, fashion and food. Unlike many of the blogs on this list, Joy does a fair amount of writing about the beautiful images she posts. Readers rejoice! Popular Posts Include:
7. Cupcakes & Cashmere
Two guesses as to the focus of this blog. Although you'd be forgiven for answering "cupcakes and cashmere," the answer is actually fashion and food. Founded by Emily Schuman in 2008, the blog documents the things that Emily finds inspiring. Popular in large part for her simple but effective tutorials ranging from how to make a braided bun to how to apply dewy makeup, Cupcakes and Cashmere is at once accessible and insightful. Popular Posts Include:
8. Japanese Streets
Not to be outdone by Cupcakes and Cashmere, Japanese Streets takes the prize for most explanatory blog name. Focused on the street fashion of Tokyo and Osaka, Japanese Streets was started in 2002 by photo-journalist Kjeld Duits. With over 30,000 photos, readers will be hard-pressed to run out of content on this blog. For those seeking to replicate the looks without copying them exactly, Japanese Streets offers a color palette associated with each outfit — a handy little tool indeed. Popular Posts Include:
- traditional japanese colors: yellow and browns
- traditional japanese colors: blues
- traditional japanese colors: pinks and reds
9. Chictopia
Similar in scope to Lookbook.nu, Chictopia is an online community of fashion lovers. Boasting a membership of over 250,000, Chictopia plays host to daily street-style postings from its thousands of members. Featuring a voting system that allows members to upvote looks they like, Chictopia is best described as the Facebook of fashion. Founded by Berkeley grads Helen Zhu and Corinne Chan in 2008, Chictopia has quickly become the premier online fashion communitiy. Popular Posts Include:
- Do It Yourself: T-Shirt Weaving
- diy: how to make a custom cut out tee
- Influential Blogger of the Year Award
10. Hel Looks
Created by Liisa Jokinen and Sampo Karjalainen, Hel Looks is a street style blog from Helsinki, Finland. Started in 2005, each post features a photo of a single model alongside his or her name and age as well as a brief description of the outfit. More so an impartial chronicle of Helsinki street style than an opinionated blog on what to wear, Hel Looks' simple layout and format is reflected in the styles it reflects.
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Hi all,
I have a question about malware, and how to detect it.
What's to stop a program from masquerading as something useful (say a download manager, or something similar, to convince a user to allow it outbound through their firewall) but actually embedding some malware into their code?
For example, what would stop something from running the same kind of code that teamviewer or join.me runs on a person's system without actually telling them that it's running? How would you detect if something like that were happening?
I was just wondering about that, and I thought this might be a good place to ask. If this information is available somewhere, please point me in the right direction, and I'll be happy to read it.


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SJ7154 : Crewe Station
taken 2 years ago, near to Crewe, Cheshire, Great Britain
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Crewe railway station
This railway station, opened in 1837, was once among the busiest in the world and has passed into folklore. It is still a significant railway junction, where the trunk line from London Euston splits into three branches for North Wales, Manchester and the main line continuing towards Preston and Glasgow (the Liverpool branch leaves the main line at weaver Junction about 5 miles south of Warrington). To the south there are lines to Stoke/Derby and Shrewsbury/Cardiff. Freight trains usually avoid the station by using tracks to the west which pass under the main line and Chester branch in tunnels.
The station buildings were refurbished extensively in 1985, and are being refurbished again from 2014 onwards although there is the possibility of the station eventually being replaced altogether as part of the High Speed 2 project.
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Boy, 4, falls from 9th-floor window
Montgomery County police investigating
SILVER SPRING, Md. —
Montgomery County police said a 4-year-old boy is in serious condition after falling from the ninth-floor window of a Silver Spring apartment building.
Police were called to the 8800 block of Piney Branch Road for a report of an injured child about 3:15 p.m. Thursday. The boy was taken to Children's National Medical Center in Washington and is listed in serious condition.
Upon further investigation, authorities said they found the boy's family inside the apartment. There's no word yet on how the child fell or whether he was being supervised at the time.
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About sixteen miles outside of Ames, Iowa sits the township of Colton. Colton gained recognition (though not growth) in the fifties when multi-millionaire Simon Marsh made it his home. Almost fifty years later, only a single Marsh remains in the area. The youngest Marsh, Fulton, runs the perpetually empty Drake Motel. With more employees than guests and an endless stretch of free time in front of them, Fulton and his longtime friend Harry are forced t...


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Fiesta, Back to School & More
Kids know how to party! Check out these festive celebrations from the Apartment Therapy Family channel, which posts kids' parties every day. We'll be bringing you a roundup of these inspiring parties every week.
• Maggie's Bows & Fiesta Party
• The Nielson's Back to School Party
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FLOSS and FOSS
by Richard Stallman
The two political camps in the free software community are the free software movement and open source. The free software movement is a campaign for computer users' freedom; we say that a nonfree program is an injustice to its users. The open source camp declines to see the issue as a matter of justice to the users, and bases its arguments on practical benefits only.
To emphasize that "free software" refers to freedom and not to price, we sometimes write or say "free/libre software," adding the French or Spanish word that means free in the sense of freedom. In some contexts, it works to use just "libre software."
A researcher studying practices and methods used by developers in the free software community decided that these questions were independent of the developers' political views, so he used the term "FLOSS," meaning "Free/Libre and Open Source Software," to explicitly avoid a preference between the two political camps. If you wish to be neutral, this is a good way to do it, since this makes the names of the two camps equally prominent.
Others use the term "FOSS," which stands for "Free and Open Source Software." This is meant to mean the same thing as "FLOSS," but it is less clear, since it fails to explain that "free" refers to freedom. It also makes "free software" less visible than "open source," since it presents "open source" prominently but splits "free software" apart.
Thus, if you want to be neutral between free software and open source, the way to achieve that is to say "FLOSS," not "FOSS."
We in the free software movement don't use either of these terms, because we don't want to be neutral on the political question. We stand for freedom, and we show it every time—by saying "free" and "libre".


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Armed robbers drag 18yo into games room at Goondiwindi hotel
POLICE are searching for three men who robbed Goondiwindi's Railway Hotel at gunpoint early this morning.
The three men entered the Herbert St pub about 1.20am, one of them wielding a firearm.
Two female staff members noticed the man was armed and attempted to flee the premises.
One escaped and raised the alarm with people nearby.
The other, an 18-year-old woman, was chased by the armed robber.
He grabbed her and dragged her back into the hotel's pokies lounge while the trio emptied the till and stole other items from before fleeing the scene.
No one was physically injured during the incident.
One of the men is described as being Caucasian, approximately 185cm tall with a solid build.
The two other men are described as having thin builds.
Police are urging anyone with information to contact local police or Crime Stoppers.
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Gulf Oil Spill Experts from Michigan Tech
By Jennifer Donovan | Published
The recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana is a burgeoning ecological and engineering disaster, There are so many aspects to the crisis that it can be hard to know where to turn for an informed comment.
Engineers, scientists and other experts from Michigan Technological University have research and practical expertise that they have offered to share with the news media. They include
Gerard Caneba
A professor of chemical engineering at Michigan Tech, Gerard Caneba's research focuses on a novel mechanism to efficiently produce polymer surfactants that can trap and recover oil. He is forming an interdisciplinary task force of Michigan Tech scientists and collaborators in the Gulf Coast states affected by the oil spill. He is applying a foaming surfactant technology he discovered at Michigan Tech to control surface and underwater oil spills, and his research group is working on environmentally benign alternative oil-spill dispersants. An entire chapter of a book by Caneba called Free-Radical Retrograde Precipitation Polymerization (FRRPP): Novel Concept, Processes, Materials and Energy Aspects, just published by Springer-Verlag, addresses oil recovery using the biodegrable polymer surfactant he developed.
Zeyad Ahmed
Zeyad Ahmed is a PhD student in civil and environmental engineering at Michigan Tech. A native of Iraq, his consulting firm designed some of the world's largest crude oil-water separators to separate crude oil from the waters that flow into the Tigris River in Iraq. They use gravity oil separators to separate mixtures of oil and water. These are long basins designed to give the flow of oil-water mix enough time to separate by gravity. Then water can be discharged via flow under the separation baffle, and the oil overflows to another collection tank. Ships' tanks etc. can be modified to serve this purpose. They are shaped like the big long oil-water separators, but they are mobile and can cruise in seas and pump oil-water in, discharge only water and store oil until it can be pumped to another ship. The process requires some modifications to the existing ships' tanks, but after the job is done, the baffles could be taken out and the ships can resume their normal functions. In this way, oil plumes can be captured before they reach coast. It would be worth it to have few of these floating separators standing by to capture oil from all types of accidents or disaster.
Judith Perlinger
An associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Michigan Tech, Judith Perlinger's expertise is in the transport and transformation of organic pollutants such as oil in water and air, and between the two. Many people do not know that organic pollutants in water can be a source of contamination to the air, through air-water exchange of chemicals. Perlinger could speak about the oil in the Gulf as a source of contamination to the air. She is preparing a proposal for NSF's Rapid Response Program to measure air-water exchange fluxes of oil components.
Charles Knobloch
A Michigan Tech alumnus, geoscientist and patent attorney, Charles Knobloch serves on Michigan Tech's College of Engineering Advisory Board. Arnold & Knobloch, his intellectual property firm in Houston, Texas, has seen a dramatic increase in new invention proposals to deal with every aspect of the oil spill, including environmental clean-up, environmental protection and ways to stop the flow of oil. He says he has heard from people ranging from retired oil company presidents to a Congressman and all kinds of garage inventors. Knobloch is a member of the Drilling Engineers Association and previously served on the Steering Committee for the Society of Petroleum Engineers Advanced Technology Workshop for Subsea Facilities Management.
Hugh Gorman
An associate professor of environmental policy and history at Michigan Tech, Hugh Gorman is author of a book title Redefining Efficiency: Pollution Concerns, Regulatory Mechanisms and Technological Change in the US Petroleum Industry. It examines the history of how the oil industry responded to pollution concerns over the course of the 20th century, including the extraction, transportation and refining of oil. He can speak to historical questions involving past efforts in the oil industry to prevent spills and control pollution.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has struggled almost from the start of his administration to fulfill a campaign pledge to avoid handling matters relating to Pilot Flying J, the family-owned truck stop chain run by his brother, Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam.
Now, an FBI investigation of alleged fraud by the sales staff at the nation's largest diesel retailer has brought increased scrutiny of the company and raised more questions about links between the governor and Pilot. They include:
— A top political adviser to the governor who also is orchestrating Pilot's public response to the Justice Department investigation.
— A current board member and part-owner of Pilot being appointed by the governor as the interim president of University of Memphis.
— Another board member running the parent company of a mining firm that wants to extract coal from public land in Tennessee.
Haslam's connections to Pilot were a central theme in the 2010 Republican primary and general election. Opponents attacked Haslam for refusing to disclose his personal ownership stake in the company, hammered the company for price gouging settlements after gas shortages caused by a hurricane, and derided the candidate as a billionaire oil man who would do the bidding of his father, Pilot founder Jim Haslam, and brother, Jimmy, the company's CEO, if elected.
The Haslam campaign rebutted those attacks largely by citing Pilot's "history of operating with integrity" and by criticizing "smears about a home-grown successful company." Those blanket dismissals will be harder to make in the future as the company grapples with fallout from the raid by federal agents and subsequent guilty pleas of five Pilot employees.
Haslam's chief campaign strategist was Tom Ingram, who has remained a paid adviser since the election while orchestrating Pilot's public response to the FBI raid.
Ingram, who also lobbies state government on behalf of other private clients such as the mining company seeking to extract coal from public lands, has said he doesn't lobby the governor directly. He shrugged off a reporter's question about whether he will stop his outside activities on behalf of Pilot once he's brought on to Haslam's re-election campaign payroll this summer.
"Of course not," he said. "Why would I?"
The governor also declared himself unconcerned about Ingram's other roles, including his position with Pilot.
"That's just how life works a lot of time," Haslam said recently. "Look, there's a whole lot of lobbyists who represent a whole lot of different people."
Dick Williams, who chairs Common Cause Tennessee, said the governor's deep connections to the business world — and his refusal to make full disclosures — raise questions about his impartiality.
"He just has so many relationships, business agreements and investments that it causes a serious potential for a conflict of interest," Williams said. "It's just hard to untangle that."
As he persevered in a tough GOP primary and trounced his Democratic opponent in the 2010 general election, Haslam promised that he wouldn't participate directly in government matters relating to Pilot. That pledge faced an early test in the governor's first year in office over a decision to request a federal waiver on gasoline standards after an explosion at the Valero refinery in Memphis, which was Pilot's largest fuel supplier in the area.
Haslam acknowledged that he had spoken to his brother about earlier problems at the refinery but said he had delegated that decision to his deputy, Claude Ramsey.
"Obviously as governor I can't just totally abdicate my responsibilities," he said at the time. "But because I knew that somebody like you someday would ask a question, I said, 'Find out the right answer, talk to the local folks as well as our (Department of Environment and Conservation) people and come up with the right answer.'"
The state ultimately requested and was later granted permission by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to relax fuel standards.
A month later, Haslam endorsed his brother's right to speak out in a letter to the governor and other state officials against privatizing state-run rest stops along interstate highways.
"He's the CEO of a major Tennessee business that has their interests to defend," Haslam said. "And that's nothing new: Pilot's been talking about that, as has everybody else that has an interstate business — from McDonald's to everybody — else for years."
Jimmy Haslam has been doing furious damage control since the April 15 raid on company headquarters and the subsequent release of an FBI affidavit with transcripts of secretly recorded conversations among the sales staff. Federal agents say the conversations outline a scheme to defraud trucking companies of fuel rebates. Five members of the sales staff have pleaded guilty to mail fraud and are cooperating with prosecutors, as are two further current and former Pilot staffers.
The governor has maintained that he has had no active role in Pilot since leaving the company to run for Knoxville mayor in 2003. But his family continues to own a majority share in the privately held company with annual revenues of $31 billion, and Haslam has kept his personal share outside of a blind trust established for his other investments.
Haslam earlier this year named businessman Brad Martin — who once hired him as an executive at Saks Inc. in New York — as interim president of the University of Memphis. While Pilot has refused to publicly disclose the makeup of its board, it identified Martin as a director when it announced he would supervise the internal investigation into the FBI allegations. Incorporation papers filed in Kentucky also indicate that Martin is a co-owner in the company.
The Kentucky filings also show that Mike Loya, president and CEO of the Vitol Group's North and South American operations, is another board member. Vitol owns the company seeking coal mining permits in the Catoosa Wildlife Management Area near Crossville. Haslam adviser Ingram is also a lobbyist for the coal company.
Haslam has said he doesn't know Loya personally, and that he has had no part in the negotiations.
State Democratic Party spokesman Brandon Puttbrese said the multiple Pilot connections should cause Haslam to reconsider his refusal to disclose his income.
"The governor should quit hiding his income and come clean with taxpayers about how much money he's personally making from his endless inside dealing and show how much money he's been paid by his company Pilot Oil, which padded its corporate profits by stealing from small business owners," he said.


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Maria's Intro
January 13, 2011
This article was cross-posted from "A Girl Like Me," a program of The Well Project.
I was just turning 18 when I found out I was HIV positive ... I was very young. Back in those days, this was a death sentence. It was around the same time Magic Johnson came out saying he was positive. I was studying in a program in Kentucky named Job Corp and they did HIV testings to all the students that came in new. I remember before all of us kids were getting tested I was answering all the questions correct about HIV (how ironic). To me, this was a disease for prostitutes, drug users or homosexuals so I never thought I would ever be positive. A month passed and I kept on getting slips from the clinic telling me to come in. As I started getting homesick, I went to the clinic, and boom, there I remember an Asian doctor looking at me with eyes of horror ... asking me, why didn't you come sooner? I answered like any teen would: "I don't know." Well he sat me down and he didn't even prepare me! He just said "You have AIDS."
I went into shock. I didn't say a word. I saw my whole life pass in front of me! I thought I am going to DIE ... it's over and I will never marry or have kids. I received the news alone. All my immediate family was in Miami.
I got HIV from my first boyfriend. I was so lost. They told me there was another kid that had it and I could continue to stay there, but all I wanted was to go and die at home. I called my mom and she was always my strength. I told her "Mom, I have AIDS"; she paused and told me, "Don't worry, you will not die from this." Two days later I was home and just waiting for death. Back then, people were dropping like flies and AZT was the only thing available. I went to a social worker they referred me to and a doctor that gave me a paper saying 'if you take AZT, it may damage your internal organs.' I said NO WAY I'm taking that, and I believe I did the right thing not taking those high dosages of AZT back then. I didn't take any antiretrovirals for almost 10 years and kept myself healthy -- or as healthy as I could be -- with natural medicine. I do take my medication now.
It has been almost 20 years. I have learned a lot in this process and also helped many along the way, infected and affected. First of all, I never died as I thought ... I learned to love myself more and to take care of myself more. I have taken away the stigma of being HIV positive and taught many people. I also became an activist and HIV peer educator. I learned, in this process, that I am still living; to have hope; how being positive made me a more positive person! And that although I say I am HIV positive, the way I feel Is that I am a human being that happens to have the condition of being HIV positive. I have learned to be stronger, and in all of this journey where I am the most fulfilled is helping everyone, especially young people, because I also became infected at such a young age. So I have gone to schools to teach them and tell them "Look at me" -- not to toot my own horn, but I am an attractive female -- and they look at me and think.
I have been at many conferences and also a pre- and post- counselor testing people; as well as an HIV educator for Jackson Memorial Hospital for almost five years, a volunteer for the Red Cross and just very involved. I wish I would have had someone like me when I was told I was infected, to do as I do with people when I tell them: "You are HIV positive ... but wait" -- I hold them and say "Look at me, I am too ... you are not alone and if you do what you are supposed to do you will live a long life. Just look at me as your example." And that calms them down. :) That makes me happy ... to give is one of the most wonderful things a human being can do.
I just have so much to tell and my story is very complex. I have been through so much and learned so much in these 20 years and I am still going through different phases in my life ... with life's ups and downs. I can truly say that being positive saved my life and brought many learning experiences.
I remember my poor, strong mother when I told her. She told me "You will not die from this, but you will tell the family you have another disease" ... I was a kid and she was ignorant to the subject, but without her love and support I would have never made it. Being HIV positive is not a punishment; it is just a condition that we have to live with! And it's not a disease of homosexuals, drug addicts or prostitutes. I have seen everyone from infants to 80 year old ladies with this condition!
We have to empower ourselves and give ourselves self worth and teach people not to pity us -- and believe me, at the end of the day they end up admiring us ... because as I say, we are soldiers. We were struck with something delicate and serious. I am not going to sit here and minimize the seriousness of the illness ... it is not easy. That is also what I teach people that think "Oh, I will just not protect myself because I just take some pills and I am fine!" -- just because they see I look good and look healthy. They don't know the side effects and things we have to endure mentally with this illness! So with all this being said ... let's continue this battle because one day we will look back and say YES, WE MADE IT.
Peace and love,
Why Maria wants to be a part of A Girl Like Me: To empower other girls/women that after 20 years you can come out as a survivor. With all of the situations that we live being HIV positive, there is hope and a reason for all of this ... and basically what makes me happy and full of JOY is to HELP others. :D
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Time to Show My Face and Take the Stigma Away
Maria T. Mejia
I am a Colombian female who lives in Miami, Florida. I've been positive for 20 years. Although almost all my life I've been in long-term relationships with HIV-negative men, I am happily married to a woman who is wonderful and caring. We have been together almost three years and she is HIV negative. I have no children but we will look into having! I am an activist, a peer educator, a caregiver. I volunteered for the Red Cross in education for the Hispanic HIV community and also the American community. I was a pre- and post-test counselor. I have spoken in many conferences and done a lot of outreach in the community, especially in the schools for prevention and education. It is part of my everyday life to educate everyone I can on this subject. Being HIV positive is nothing to be ashamed about! We are strong women, and we will take away all the stigmas slowly but we have to open up.
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