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Suffolk, ss. Division of Administrative Law Appeals
Richard K. Erickson,
v. Docket No. CR-06-295
Worcester Regional Retirement Board,
Appearance for Petitioner:
James B. Triplett, Esquire
Triplett & Fleming
25 Camp Hill Drive
Oxford, MA 01540
Appearance for Respondent:
Sean McGrail, Esquire
Donohue, Rauscher & McGrail
23 Harvard Street
Worcester, MA 01609
Administrative Magistrate:
Judithann Burke
Pursuant to G.L. c. 32 s. 16(4), the Petitioner, Richard K. Erickson, is appealing from the April 25, 2006 decision of the Respondent, Worcester Regional Retirement Board (WRRB), denying his application for Section 7 accidental disability retirement benefits. (Exhibits 1 and 2). The appeal was timely filed. (Exhibit 20). A hearing was held on October 2, 2007 at the offices of the Division of Administrative Law Appeals (DALA), 98 North Washington Street, 4th FL, Boston, MA.
At the hearing, twenty (20) exhibits were marked. The Petitioner testified in his own behalf. The Petitioner stated his argument for the record. One (1) tape was made of the proceedings. The record was left open until November 5, 2007 for the filing of post hearing memoranda of law. The filing date was extended to November 26, 2007, then to mid-January 2008. No post-hearing memoranda were received through January 31, 2008.
The record closed as of that date.
Based upon the testimony and documents submitted at the hearing in the above-entitled matter, I hereby render the following findings of fact:
1. The Petitioner, Richard Erickson, d.o.b. 11/13/1946, began employment as an Intermittent Police Officer in the Town of Oxford in 1972. He was appointed as a Permanent Intermittent Police Officer on August 25, 1975. He was so employed through 2005. Throughout this same period of time, he also held jobs with five (5) different private employers at various times. His longest outside private employment was that of a truck driver from approximately 1983 through 2003. (Testimony and Exhibits 2 and 15).
2. As an Intermittent Police Officer, the Petitioner was required to perform all of the tasks of a full time police officer. These tasks are delineated in the Employer's Statement in this record. (Exhibit 15).
3. A report of a physical examination for the Town of Oxford dated January 19, 1978 reflects that the Petitioner was 6'2" tall and weighed 247.5 pounds at that time. This was characterized by the physician as "obese". The report also reflects that the Petitioner's diastolic blood pressure was "slightly elevated" and that he had a "soft functional" heart murmur. (Exhibit 8).
3. The Petitioner did not work full time, i.e. forty (40) hours per week on a regular basis as a Permanent Intermittent Police Officer. From or about 1983 through 2003, he drove the truck two (2) or three (3) days per week in order to supplement his income. He regularly drove from Oxford, MA to Hartford, CT, then to Albany, NY, and back again, all in one (1) day. (Testimony).
4. The Petitioner was not a member of the Worcester Regional Retirement System (WRRS). (Exhibit 6).
5. The Petitioner filed for accidental disability retirement benefits on May 10, 2005, stating in his application that he had a cardiac disability and that he had begun to experience shortness of breath and difficulty performing strenuous activities more than two years prior to the filing of the application. In 2003, two years prior to filing his application, he weighed between 400 and 425 pounds. (Exhibits 2 and 18).
6. The Petitioner never filed a Notice of Injury or any injury reports while he was serving as a Permanent Intermittent Police Officer. (Exhibit 19).
7. D.M. Lyons, M.D., the Petitioner's treating cardiologist, answered the Disability Certification section of the Statement of Applicant's Physician, "yes, yes, no". (Exhibit 14).
8. A majority of the Single Physician Medical Panel Doctors answered the Certificates "yes, yes, no". At the time of the three Panel evaluations in early 2005, the Petitioner weighed 285 pounds. (Exhibits 3-5).
9. The WRRB denied the Petitioner's Section 7 application on April 28, 2006. (Exhibit 1).
10. The Petitioner filed a timely appeal. (Exhibit 20).
The Petitioner is not entitled to prevail in this appeal for several reasons. He has not met the threshold requirements for entitlement to the benefits set forth in G.L. c. 7(1).
First and foremost, the Petitioner was not a "member in service" during his employment as a Permanent Intermittent Police Officer. G.L. c. 32 s. 7 (1) provides that, as a condition of allowance of benefits, the applicant be a "member in service".
The Petitioner, who had intermittent employment with the Oxford Police Department, was not a member in service. He paid no accumulated deductions into the retirement system and he cannot avail himself of an accidental disability retirement.
Next, the Petitioner's own treating physician, Dr. Lyon, failed to certify that his disability is causally related to his employment. Accordingly, the Petitioner's application did not meet the threshold criteria for the convening of a Medical Panel.
PERAC regulation 840 CMR 10.09 provides:
(2) At any stage of a proceeding on an ordinary or accidental disability retirement application the retirement board may terminate the proceedings and deny the application if it determines that the member cannot be retired as a matter of law.
Notwithstanding the deficiencies in the Petitioner's application already noted herein, the local retirement board did not avail itself of this provision and convened a Medical Panel.
The majority of the Panel failed to certify that the Petitioner's disability is such as might be the natural and proximate result of a personal injury or hazard undergone while in the performance of his duties.
Finally, the Petitioner was overweight early in his career and his diastolic blood pressure was slightly high at that time. By 2003, when he began to experience cardiac symptoms, he weighed 400+ pounds. He never filed any injury reports or Notices of Injury related to his employment with the Oxford Police Department.
Accordingly, the decision of the WRRB, denying the Petitioner's application for accidental disability retirement benefits is affirmed.
So ordered.
Division of Administrative Law Appeals,
Judithann Burke
Administrative Magistrate
DATED: March 10, 2008
This information is provided by the Division of Administrative Law Appeals .


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The Federal Aviation Administration on Thursday delayed a plan to save money by shifting airport weather reporting responsibilities from specialized contractors to full-time air traffic controllers amid uncertainties in the industry about workloads and flight safety.
Soon after sequestration kicked in on March 1 and began forcing across-the-board budget cuts throughout government, FAA took up an existing plan to save $57 million a year by adding weather data filing to the duties of controllers by the end of this fiscal year. The agency had begun implementing the shift in duties on Wednesday at 14 airports, with others set to follow later this year and next, but then on Thursday postponed the move.
"Air traffic controllers currently provide quality weather observation services at more than 300 airports around the country," said Deputy Assistant Administrator Laura Brown in a Thursday statement. "The FAA pays contractors to provide those same services at an additional 140 facilities around the country. In an effort to reduce costs without reducing the services or impacting safety, the FAA has been working through a phased plan to train controllers to take over those duties from the contractors. After further reviewing the plan, the FAA has made the determination that it will extend its weather observer contracts through the end of this fiscal year to allow for more stakeholder input on how to proceed going forward."
A separate FAA move to save money by closing contracted towers at 149 airports by June remained in limbo Thursday. President Obama on Wednesday signed a bill allowing the agency flexibility to cancel planned furloughs of controllers by repurposing longer-term airport improvement funds. The FAA is still studying that legislation, according to a spokesman.
"The contract towers are still on the closing list for June 15, 2013," Ron Taylor, president of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, told Government Executive. "In a nutshell, the FAA has the controllers in a holding pattern.....low on fuel."
Adding weather reporting duties to the daily routines of controllers is a promising or worrisome idea, depending on who is asked. "With adequate training and staffing, air traffic controllers can take over contract weather observer functions at some of the medium-to-lower-level air traffic facilities," National Air Traffic Controllers Association spokeswoman Sarah Dunn said in a statement. "Safety is always the number-one priority for air traffic controllers, whether the responsibility is separating planes or giving weather advisories. We are not actively pursuing taking on the CWO duties, but we do understand that budgets are tight and shrinking, and that the FAA is looking for ways to do more with less."
Airports Council International -- North America President Greg Principato said his organization is "extremely pleased that the FAA will be taking time to work closely with airport operators and other affected stakeholders on its CWO transition plan. ACI-NA will continue to work with the FAA and our member airports over the next few months to ensure airport operator concerns are addressed."
Air traffic controller Todd Lewis was warier. "We're required to have extensive training and knowledge of all aspects of the current weather, with the exception of being forecasters," said Lewis, who is NATCA's secretary and treasurer for the contract tower in Santa Fe, N.M. "This includes all kinds of precipitation, cloud types, ceilings, wind direction and intensity, visibility and obscuration; in-flight and on the ground." Because the hourly weather report is automated through instruments, controllers need to originate a weather report "only when the system is down or there is a big change in the weather between hourly reports," he said.
The problem, however, is that "having to stop every hour to observe and disseminate a weather report makes it very difficult to do when you are busy. Filing an hourly weather observation takes your full concentration, even when you are not busy. In FAA towers and contract towers, controllers are usually too busy to stop at a certain time every hour to redirect their focus to a lesser-priority duty without additional staffing and training."
At least one weather specialist held up the middle ground. Dan Sobien, president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said, "Weather observation is an inherently governmental function and should be handled by government employees. However, most government employees should be trained, and not just with a three-week course, to understand what they're looking at."
Though the union leader would prefer full-time federal employees to contractors for safety reasons, he acknowledged that this costs money. "If controllers are working to guide planes down, weather reporting is a secondary function and something will fall through the cracks. The more eyes on the sky the better" for weather forecasting, Sobien says, "but that shouldn't be their main job."

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Three days have now passed since President Obama's State of the Union speech, which means that Scott Rasmussen's Presidential Approval Index, which is based on a three-day rolling cycle, is now entirely post-SOTU. Thus, if Obama were to get a bounce from his speech, it should show up by now. And it hasn't:
As of today, Obama's overall approval rests at 49/49. Just before the SOTU, Obama's numbers were a little better: an Approval Index of -5, and an overall approval rating of 52 percent. His numbers generally have been improving of late, and that trend could resume, but not because of anything that happened Tuesday night.
This is particularly interesting because Obama's 2010 SOTU gave him the biggest one-time bounce of his administration so far–bigger than the passage of Obamacare. You can see the spike on the above chart. The bounce didn't last long, but it was very distinct.
This year that didn't happen. Why? Probably not because there was anything particularly wrong with the speech; I didn't do any systematic review, but I believe focus groups and polls suggested that listeners generally liked it. Rather, I think the problem was that the SOTU was no different from many other speeches Obama has given, including last year's SOTU; and, more important, voters have seen enough of the Obama administration that they are no longer swayed by a speech. It will take actions, not words, to impress them at this point.
If the latter inference is correct, it may mean trouble for Obama and the Democrats. Their strategy until now has generally been "more cowbell," based on the belief that Obama can turn the tide of public opinion by giving speeches. This year's data suggest that the cowbell era may be over.
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"It's just a blessing," she said. "It gives you hope."
The 71-year-old was talking about the CyberKnife, which began operation this month at the Leo W. Jenkins Cancer Center on the campus of the Brody School of Medicine at ECU. On Feb. 11, she became the first patient to be treated with the device that projects high doses of radiation at tumors with pinpoint accuracy.
Glisson has had two previous radiation regimens for her cervical cancer. One required 21 treatments over five weeks. Another required a hospital stay for radiation implants where she had to lie motionless for three days and take intravenous fluids.
"This is so much better," said Glisson, of Greenville. "No needles, no fluids, it doesn't affect my appetite. This is a heaven-sent machine."
With built-in X-ray imaging and computers that can make minute adjustments to compensate for tumor or patient movement, the CyberKnife can deliver its radiation with minimal damage to surrounding healthy tissue. It also eliminates the need for invasive head or body stabilization frames. ECU's machine has additional upgrades for even greater accuracy and speed.
Glisson lay in a custom-fitted mold for each treatment, which lasted about an hour from the time she walked in the room until she left, with only about 30 minutes of actual radiation treatment. Other radiation therapies can last hours because the beams must be of lower intensity to spare neighboring tissue.
The CyberKnife can treat benign tumors, malignant cancers and other medical conditions anywhere in the body.
"The CyberKnife is critical for several reasons," said Dr. Ron Allison, professor and chair of radiation oncology at the Brody School of Medicine and director of the cancer center. "First, in a rural population many cancer patients are so far from a radiation oncology clinic that they won't get treatment. They can't make the 10-45 visits required due to distance, gas costs and being away from home. For most of these patients, the CyberKnife is able to treat in one to five visits."
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One measurement of the success of Glisson's treatment, Allison said, would be if she felt less pain from her tumor, indicating the radiation beams did their job. That result is exactly what happened.
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Vatican Council
Pope John Paul II
The Year of Jesus
- The Year of the Holy Spirit
- the Year of the Father
An immensely important part of God's providential preparation for the
New Millennium has been the pontificate of Pope John Paul II. An original
thinker, both as philosopher and theologian, he was uniquely qualified to
ascend the throne of Peter to continue and bring to fruition the teaching
of Vatican II.
The Second Vatican Council has been characterized as a pastoral
council; however, it could be more accurately called a personalist
council. Personalism is a modern intellectual movement that has influenced
every other discipline. It prefers to speak of the human person, of
creativity and freedom, rather than of nature, law, authority and duty.
While personalism was intended as an antidote for authoritarianism (such
as that of the Soviet and Nazi regimes) in which the individual human
person is devalued, in the democratic countries it has resulted in
erroneous interpretations of man and unbridled views of freedom. However,
although the Second Vatican Council used the contemporary language of
personalism it did not do so apart from the authentic truth about man and
his world enshrined in the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas and Sacred
Since the Council two erroneous polarities seem to have dominated the
discussion of the Council's merits. On the one hand there are those who
count themselves as progressives. In some cases they contributed to the
Council or simply rejoiced in its personalism, but who now for the most
part interpret it falsely, after the fashion of the world, without
reference to either Christian philosophy or Sacred Tradition.
On the other hand, there are those who reject the Council's orientation
and its documents (in one degree or another), and who see the Church
before the Second Vatican Council as the last integral expression
of the Catholic faith. This integralist view takes many forms, from subtle
suspicion to overt attack on the Council, its teaching and its pastoral
In the midst of this time in salvation history, God seated a man on the
chair of Peter who had spent his adult life integrating personalism with
the perennial philosophy of the Church and her Sacred Tradition. To these
personal intellectual gifts he added the charism of Peter to guide and
protect his judgments when they would have influence on the direction of
Church teaching. This combination of intellectual insight and supernatural
charism manifests a special providence of God who provides for the Church
to enter the Third Millennium of Christianity and build a civilization of
Perhaps, even more remarkable has been the integration of the man
himself, who in his own life has shown himself totally disposed to the
will of God, through the Blessed Virgin Mary. In carrying out the teaching
of the Council, the Holy Father has shown a true evangelical freedom that
risks treating others' consciences and freedom with the same respect with
which God deals with every human being. This is perhaps the greatest
teaching he has given us, his personal example of supernatural respect for
each and every human person.
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For over twenty years the Self Culture Club, held ice cream parties, dinners and plays to raise funds for the library. Subscriptions were also sold for $1.00 per year. In 1929, the library was turned over to the municipality. Later the library was moved into a room in the city hall.
In 1961, with the approval of the voters in the county, the Tulsa City-County Library System was established. The Broken Arrow Library then became part of this organization. In late 1963, the library moved from the city hall into a new building designed by Bob Hale, at 121 East College. The library remained in this location until 1985. In that year, the original building was sold and a larger one opened at 300 West Broadway. This site happened to be the former homestead of one of the original members of the Self Culture Club. The library was designed by BSW, with Chief Boyd as the project architect. The building was designed for a collection of 45,000 items and was soon overwhelmed by new customers.
As part of the 1998 Bond Issue, the building was renovated in 2000, again with the help of Chief Boyd. Two separate meeting rooms took the place of one large room with a movable divider. Bright colored carpeting designed by Chief as well as a special children's entrance was added to make the building brighter.
In 2011 the architectural firm of Selser Schaefer helped re-design the library to make the building more energy efficient and make better use of existing space. New windows, electric doors, improved lighting, new restrooms, along with an improved service desk, updated colors and layout of materials make the building inviting. Funds for the remodel came from Tulsa City-County Library's Capital Reserve.
For close to a hundred years the public library has played an important role in the community. As Broken Arrow has grown and developed, so has the library.
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Really entertaining course - the second half in particular has some great effects that I can't wait to try out on my own material!
An amazing course for intermediate users. It covers The Echo's very wide capabilities and explains tweaking parameters in enough detail to help in future courses. Experiment for hours while learning.
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Gov egghead: Companies should have daily PT
Then only small firms will be fat cats
One of the government's top social-policy eggheads has said that companies should have exercise periods for their staff, according to reports.
Professor Julian Le Grand, a bigwig at the London School of Economics, outlined his plans during a speech to the Royal Statistical Society this week. His remarks were reported in the Evening Standard.
The idea of the prof's plans is that rather than people opting-in to healthy lifestyles, they would be compelled to take active steps in order to do anything unhealthy.
"It is not like banning something," said Le Grand to the assembled number-crunchers.
"It's a softer form of paternalism."
Thus, if you didn't care for corporate PT you would have to specifically choose not to join in; normally, your enthusiastic participation would be assumed. All companies with 500 or more employees would have to provide organised exercise sessions (and presumably associated showers, gymnasia and such).
Likewise, those thinking of taking up the demon weed wouldn't be able to buy any snout until they had paid a fee and applied for their governmental smoking permit. One might also presume some kind of cooling-off period for people seeking to buy shitty deep-fried food, or maybe an obstacle course or something to be completed before you could reach the Sara Lee cakes at Iceland.
Prof Le Grand claims input into many recent government notions, including the recent brainwave in which new kids are given some gov cash to kick off a savings account at birth. Families are then encouraged to top this up from their own resources, ensuring a decentish sum of money gradually builds up. Then, when the kid has become a teenager, the entire painfully-accumulated stash is automatically given to them to do with what they will, no matter what their parents may think of the plan. This pretty much ensures that it won't get spent on a deposit for a house, tuition fees or anything remotely sensible.
(Some bitter old curmudgeons put away money for their kids' future in such a way that they can't blow the lot as soon as they turn 18, but this is without help from the good professor.)
Le Grand also openly admits that he is "one of the principal architects of the UK Government's current public service reforms introducing choice and competition into health care and education". ®


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Scripture: Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought for a man to stand in the breach before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.
31 Therefore I have poured out my indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath. I have returned their way upon their heads, declares the LORD God.
Observation: Israel and Judah were set to receive judgment for their sinful way. But like any loving parent, God very much dislikes to punish His children. He would not even judge Sodom and Gomorrah until He had personally stopped at Abram's tent and given him opportunity to intercede for the cities. (Genesis 18) God desires and waits for His people to pray.
Application: Surely it is the prayers of God's people that have postponed the judgment that our nation well deserves. What else can explain God's patience with a nation that has a godly heritage yet has murdered 50+ million babies? What else can explain withheld judgment on parades specifically held for the purpose of flaunting sin!
Prayer: Lord, you are looking for intercessors; my you find one in me. Amen
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You may recall Robert Burneika, the Lithuanian strongman who had been preparing for his MMA debut mostly by high-kicking watermelons. Becoming the next Mariusz Pudzianowski is a questionable goal to shoot for, but Burneika took the first step Friday night at MMA ATTACK 2 in Katowice, Poland, by scoring a second-round stoppage over Polish tomato can Marcin Najman, who also happened to be Pudz's first MMA victim. We kept our expectations low for this matchup, and the fight still fell short, for two main reasons:
- The way Burneika lunges forward with those front kicks suggests that he may not have had a legit Muay Thai coach in his camp.
- Najman spent the entire fight running in circles to avoid engaging, which gave the match an unfortunate Kimbo/Houston vibe. In five-and-a-half minutes of fight time, Najman threw less than ten strikes. I think it's safe to say that he respected Burneika's power a little too much.
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BlackBerry Jam
They sit there in the room, their eyes fixed on the head of the table. There stands a man, quite probably the team's manager. He is speaking, presenting some gem of long-since-forgotten lore. Those watching him seem rapt, focused, intent upon his brilliance. But look again. Notice the strain around their eyes, the sweat upon their brows. See the twitching of the hands, as though each man and woman in that room could keep their hands upon the table only with great effort. Watch longer; see the hands slipping off the table, sliding towards pockets and purses. See realization cross the faces, observe the hands forced jerkily back towards the table, as if their owners were fighting against some horrid, hypnotic compulsion. Over and over again, the hand is pushed back.
But attention is finite, will power limited. Eventually, a hand reaches a pocket. It slips out seconds later, an object tightly clutched in its grip. A flicker of bliss passes across a man's face as he glances furtively down at the object in his hand: a BlackBerry.
So it was in 2005, in the days when the Blackberries ruled the world. Coming out of the distant north, from a place, or so it is said, far out on the rim, Blackberries quickly came to dominate the corporate world. Everyone had to have one. At the very thought that the Blackbery network might go down, panic would spread across the land. A few months later, in 2006, Webster's Dictionary proudly proclaimed the new word of the year : "Crackberry." BlackBerry seemed unstoppable, its spread inexorable. And then, as rapidly as it had grown, BlackBerry shrank, faded, vaninshed away. Of that invincible empire, but a single outpost remains, fighting to not vanish away and be forgotten. What force, what power broke the might of BlackBerry?
That is correct: what destroyed BlackBerry was its own success. Confident in their power, they forgot that when you build the perfect mousetrap someone will come along with a cat. Unlike a mousetrap, the cat does not need to be reset, it doesn't need the mouse to come to it, it is fun to play with, and it keeps your feet warm at night. Also, the purr is soothing. While BlackBerry's co-CEOs were busily dismissing the iPhone as, "a toy," Apple and Google were busily striking deep into the heart of their empire. iPhones and Android phones are not just business devices. They are entertainment devices and are fun to use. BlackBerry, or to be more accurate, Research In Motion, stood still while those around them kept moving.
One of the challenges in innovation is that what a company becomes good at, it naturally wants to keep doing. Innovation becomes an exercise in perfecting the existing product and building up impenetrable barriers to competitors. The catch, however, is that the wall that keeps others out also keeps you in. Research In Motion kept making better and better "business" phones. They let their product define them until they could no longer change as the world around them moved on. In 2007, the first iPhone arose to challenge the BlackBerry. Much to RIM's surprise, this upstart "toy" proved surprisingly popular. RIM's attempt to respond with a touchscreen phone of its own was a dismal failure, and their attempts at an Appstore and at adding an MP3 player to their phones were equally unsuccessful. From owning some 70% of the market in 2006, the BlackBerry is now less than 2%. That was the price of their success.
Real innovation is a messy business. It requires trying a great many different things and being wrong most of the time. Indeed, successful innovators fail far more often than they succeed. When a company does succeed, though, it naturally wants to protect and extend that success: they start thinking about how much more successful they would be if only all those messy, and costly, mistakes could be eliminated. They start looking for reasons why their product is invincible, instead of experimenting with things that might kill it. Your cash cow is sacred only to you; to everyone else, it's just hamburger waiting to happen. Guided by their successes, Research In Motion focused ever more tightly in making better and better Blackberries. That single-minded obsession caused them to develop corporate tunnel vision: all they could see in the future was their own inevitable triumph. In that, they joined with other great companies such as Polaroid and Kodak, who missed the digital photography boat, IBM which was dethroned by the PCs it invented, Digital Equipment, whose CEO declared the PC, "a toy," Barnes & Noble, which was successfully Amazoned, and a host of others.
So how does a company remain innovative?
Recognize that the more tightly you focus, the less you see. Sometimes it pays to take your eyes off the ball and look at the big picture. What else is going on? Pay particular attention to those competitors you see as jokes. What are they offering your current customers and, even more to the point, what are they offering your potential customers? Apple and Google didn't take on BlackBerry in its corporate strongholds; rather, they vacuumed up all the rest of the oxygen and the corporate strongholds followed.
Remember that mistakes are part of the game. You can learn from them or hide from them: it's your choice whether you are receiving feedback or experiencing failure.
Put your focus on process and strategy, not just on results. When you think strategically, you can start to anticipate the moves others might make. Unlike chess, the rules don't have to stay the same. If you're making the rules, someone else will break them. Why wait for them to do it and seize the initiative? And if someone else is defining the rules, you have nothing to lose by breaking as many of them as you can. Who says a business phone can't play music, videos, and games? Research In Motion, that's who.
Those meetings are still going on. Hands are still slipping into pockets. Men and women are still furtively glancing down at the objects in their hands. Today, those objects are Droids and iPhones. Tomorrow?
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LOS ANGELES – In a Mars first, the Curiosity rover drilled into a rock and prepared to dump an aspirin-sized pinch of powder into its onboard laboratories for closer inspection.
The feat marked yet another milestone for the car-size rover, which landed last summer to much fanfare on an ambitious hunt to determine whether environmental conditions were favorable for microbes.
Using the drill at the end of its 7-foot-long robotic arm, Curiosity on Friday chipped away at a flat, veined rock bearing numerous signs of past water flow. After nearly seven minutes of pounding, the result was a drill hole 2 1/2 -inches deep. Images beamed back to Earth overnight showed a fresh borehole next to a shallower test hole Curiosity had made earlier.
The exercise was so complex that engineers spent several days commanding Curiosity to tap the rock outcrop, drill test holes and perform a "mini-drill" in anticipation of the real show.
Team members shared their excitement of Curiosity's latest hijinks on social media.
The "full drill hole was a success! I'm sure it was LOUD and they heard the drilling action for MILES!" tweeted rover driver Paolo Bellutta.
Previous Mars landings carried tools that scraped away the exterior layers of rocks and dirt. Opportunity and Spirit -- before it died -- toted around a rock grinder. Phoenix, which touched down near the Martian north pole in 2008, was equipped with an ice rasp to chisel frozen soil.
None, however, were designed to bore deep into rocks and collect pulverized samples from the interior.
With the maiden drilling out of the way, it'll take several days before Curiosity transfers the powder to its instruments to analyze the chemical and mineral makeup.
The cautious approach is by design. Curiosity is the most high-tech spacecraft to land on Earth's nearest planetary neighbor and engineers are still learning how to efficiently operate the $2.5 billion mission.
Project manager Richard Cook of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory previously predicted that drilling would be the hardest engineering task since the landing, which relied on never-before-tried tricks including a rocket-powered platform and cables that lowered Curiosity in an ancient crater last August.
The dramatic landing gave way to a labor-intensive checkup of Curiosity's various instruments. The drill was the last tool to be tested.
While Curiosity executed the first rock drilling on Mars, the method has been used on other celestial bodies.
The Apollo astronauts wielded a handheld, battery-powered drill into rocks and delivered pieces to Earth. The Soviets deployed spacecraft that drilled into the lunar surface to collect rocks for Earth return and also used robotic drills on missions to Venus.
Once Curiosity finishes its rock analysis, the team's focus will turn to starting the drive to a mountain, expected to take nine months with stops. It is there that scientists hope Curiosity would uncover signs of organic molecules, the chemical building blocks of life.


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South Florida, one of your own needs your help in his bid for a share of the Grammy Awards spotlight.
Self-described former Wellington High marching band "nerd" Ricky Ficarelli and his pop trio, King the Kid, are among seven finalists in the Grammy Awards' Gig of a Lifetime contest. Online balloting, which began with more than 1,500 entries, continues until 3 p.m. Thursday at Facebook.com/TheGrammys.
Among the most valuable rewards for the Gig of a Lifetime winner are a chance to play for music-industry influencers at a Grammy Awards-sanctioned event and an appearance in a Microsoft TV commercial.
Ficarelli, 19, left South Florida during his senior year of high school to seek musical fame in Los Angeles, and now lives in Bend, Ore., where King the Kid is based. The drummer met the other members of the band, lead vocalist and bass player David Michael Frank and guitarist Jose Mostajo, both 21, in L.A. Their Gig of a Lifetime entry, "We Are the Ones" (below), is from the band's debut album, "Start Something," released on iTunes last month.
The past several months have been a blur for Ficarelli, who says the move from L.A. to Oregon (where Frank had gone to college) gave them the slower environment necessary for the warp-speed recording of "Start Something," which was done in less than four months. No friends, no fans, no distractions.
"The nature and the outdoorsiness are out of this world," Ficarelli says by phone during a break in early-morning recording work. "I'm on my patio right now looking at a volcano covered in snow… In five minutes I could be at an amazing waterfall."
Ficarelli was in a band backing the L.A. rapper De Storm when he met Frank, who was friends with the Peruvian Mostajo. The three clicked and quickly threw themselves into the idea of creating a band and an album. The name, King the Kid, is an acknowledgement of youthful empowerment, he says.
"We think of it as taking your life into your own hands, being independent," says Ficarelli, who admits that his parents pay for his health insurance. "People think of kids like us, that we need management and whatever. But we have the attitude that you can do it yourself."
But for the Gig of a Lifetime, King the Kid will need help. Ficarelli says they were nominated by some fans, and didn't think they had a shot until they saw their vote totals climbing.
"We saw fans tweeting and thought, 'We're not gonna win this,' but in the last week or two we went with some songs on live streams, Facebook, Tumblr and YouTube. Our fan base is not deep yet but they're growing," he says.
That social media is a key tool in the success of King the Kid (at KingtheKid.com and Youtube.com/kingthekidla) will not surprise anyone familiar with the Ricky Ficarelli backstory.
About three years ago, Ficarelli started uploading video of his pop-song covers to YouTube, including a solo drum version of Justin Bieber's "Baby." A week later, Bieber himself turned up on "American Idol" and ended a performance of "Baby" with a brief, but memorable drum solo. The subsequent flood of Google and YouTube searches for variations of "Bieber Baby drums" ended with Ficarelli's face up next to Bieber's.
Ficarelli's JoBro good looks made it impossible for Bieber fans not to take a shot on his video, and the clicks just kept rolling in. After 10 million views and 60,000 subscribers, YouTube itself branded Ficarelli a "YouTube sensation," and added him to its 2011 Digitour, a 27-city club tour that included web stars of the day such as Dave Days and the Gregory Brothers of "AutoTune the News" fame.
At the time, Ficarelli scoffed at the idea of "sensation" and his name in the same sentence. But on Monday the comments under King the Kid's "We Are the Ones" video included "i think im in love with you Ricky...<3"
So, parents, the next time marching band tryouts come around, get out there and make your kid feel like a king.
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SANDY, Utah (Monday, Aug. 20, 2012) – Real Salt Lake returns to CONCACAF Champions League play on Tuesday, Aug. 21, when it will host Panamanian champions Tauro FC at Rio Tinto Stadium in the second of four Group Stage matches. The match will be broadcast live on Fox Soccer Channel, CONCACAF.com and ESPN700 AM starting at 8:00 p.m. MT.
RSL lost its first CCL match, starting slowly and giving up an early goal before losing DF Nat Borchers to a second half red card to fall 1-0 at Costa Rican champions C.S. Herediano on July 31. Tuesday's game is almost a must-win for RSL, which needs to make up three points on Herediano in its three remaining Group Stage game to have any shot of winning Group 2 and advancing to the tournament's Knockout Stage.
Tuesday's game will be Tauro's first in the 2012-2013 CCL. The most decorated club side in Panamanian history, Tauro qualified for this edition of the tournament by winning the Panamanian Clausura Final over league counterparts Chepo on May 22.
This is Tauro's fourth time in the CCL. The club participated in three of the first four editions of the tournament, missing out only on the 2009-10 competition. Tauro has never advanced past the Group Stage of the CCL, getting bounced from the Group Stage in the 2008-2009 and 2011-2012 tournaments and losing in the old Preliminary Round in the 2010-2011 competition.
Tauro FC – which has won a record 11 Panamanian titles – is led by Panamanian manager Juan Carlos Cubilla and features of a number of Panamanian internationals, including recent national team call-ups Leonel Parrish, Marcos Sanchez, Ricardo Amor and Jean McLean.
Real Salt Lake has a quick turnaround after Tuesday's match, continuing its three-game in six-day stretch by traveling to Philadelphia to take on the Union in a league match at PPL Park on Friday, Aug. 24. The Claret-and-Cobalt returns to CCL play on Sept. 18, when it'll once again face Tauro FC, this time at the Estadio Rommel Fernandez in Panama City for its third of four Group 2 matches.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Celia Keenan-Bolger, who has portrayed shy girls and fearless young ladies, is about to try something new — playing a mother.
The 36-year-old Tony Award-nominated actress said Wednesday she has signed on to star in Sarah Ruhl's new play "The Oldest Boy." It begins previews Oct. 9 at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center.
"I've never gotten to play a mother onstage," Keenan-Bolger said. "I've barely gotten to play a grown-up. So I'm really excited."
In "The Oldest Boy," she will play the mother of a toddler who is believed to be the reincarnation of a high Buddhist teacher. His parents must decide whether he should begin spiritual training far away or stay home. Rebecca Taichman will direct.
Keenan-Bolger said she has been a big admirer of Ruhl, whose other works include the Pulitzer Prize finalist "In The Next Room, or the vibrator play" and "Stage Kiss." Her admiration only deepened when she read the script for "The Oldest Boy."
"I had never read anything like it," Keenan-Bolger said. "It explores themes of what it is to be a parent and to be confronted by a different culture and religion. And it talks about teachers and students, which is something I think we don't talk about that much in America."
To get into the role, Keenan-Bolger has been reading heavily — including "The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" — and she plans to go on a Buddhist retreat in the coming days. "I feel like my world just got so much bigger just by getting to do this play," she said.
Keenan-Bolger's Broadway credits include the shy Laura Wingfield in this winter's stunning revival of Tennessee Williams' "The Glass Menagerie" and a fearless Molly in "Peter and the Starcatcher." She also has been in "Les Miserables" and "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee."
The rest of the cast of "The Oldest Boy" will be Ernest Abuba, Joel de la Fuente, Tsering Dorjee, Takemi Kitamura, James Saito, Jon Norman Schneider and Nami Yamamoto. Fuente, who plays her husband in the work, is the best friend of her husband, John Ellison Conlee, and even officiated at their wedding.
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Life after the SAMSA Sea Pledge Tour!
The official SAMSA Sea Pledge tour which drew to a close on 10 May 2013 was a great success for the Sustainable Seas Trust and all of those involved. It was a truly amazing and inspiring experience for our team and the awareness which was created for the need to sustainably manage our ocean resources was a message that was continuously sent throughout the tour.
As SST looks forward for the rest of 2013 we have a number of objectives and projects that we will work on in an effort to further increase awareness for this important cause as well as put into action ideas and projects that were passed on to us during the Tour.
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- The Spendour of South African Seas Book and Film
By April 2014, we will publish a book and produce a short film titled The Splendour of South African Seas, a publication that all South Africans will become involved in producing. Individuals can become involved by sending us their best pictures and video clips from dedicated locations around the country. We will be running monthly competitions for the best photo/video of the month where we plan to give the winners some awesome prizes! All photos that are sent in will also be published on website and Facebook pages.
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In this second installment of the episodic series, Adam Venture and his crew end up in 1920's Jerusalem after having escaped alive from the Caverns of Eden. On their continuous search for the Lost Garden of Eden, they become entangled in a thickening plot featuring a ruthless dig for the ancient King Solomon's treasure - but is that really all there is to it? Not all is as it seems…
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Ruth C. Stewlow, 83, of Toledo, formerly Adrian, died Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, at Windhaven Eldercare in Temperance.
Ruth C. Stewlow, 83, of Toledo, formerly Adrian, died Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, at Windhaven Eldercare in Temperance.
Born Oct. 7, 1930, in Monroe, she was the daughter of Daniel and Margaret (Wolf) Davis. She was a 1948 graduate of Adrian High School. Ruth married Jaye R. Stewlow on Dec. 22, 1973. He preceded her in death on March 12, 2013. She was employed by Dr. Richard Gilmartin, M.D., in Adrian, and then Lott Industries in Toledo, retiring in 1997. She enjoyed playing golf, sewing, interior decorating, but most of all, spending time with her family and friends.
Ruth is survived by her loving son, Steve (Darlene) Pifer; step-daughters, Cheryl Belt and Sheila Stewlow; sisters, Dorothy Kurtz, twin sister Rita Trolz, and Ann Schultz; four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by her daughter, Kathryn Pifer, and brother, Richard Davis.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until noon, Friday, Jan. 24, 2014, at the Michael W. Pawlak Funeral Home, 1640 Smith Road (at Jackman), Temperance, where funeral services will follow at noon. Memorials may be made to ProMedica Hospice. Interment will be private. www.pawlakfunerslhome.com.


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(Reuters) - Model N Inc shares surged 44 percent in their trading debut on Wednesday, fetching a market value of nearly half-a-billion dollars, as the business software maker's hold on the pharmaceutical market makes it an attractive investment option.
The Redwood City, California-based company had priced its offering of 6.7 million shares at $15.50 each, raising $103.9 million.
"They're very unique ... They've carved out pretty much an impenetrable market position in the life sciences area and they're taking that success pattern into other vertical markets such as technology," said Francis Gaskins, a partner at IPODesktop.com, an IPO research company.
Model N provides revenue management software to life science and technology companies that helps manage pricing, deals, contracts and rebates.
The company, which filed for an IPO in February, counts Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific Corp, Dell Inc and VMware Inc as its customers.
"They are moving more into cloud, which is always of great interest to investors, because that's based more on subscription revenue with additional recurring earnings," Gaskins said.
Shares of cloud companies such as Workday Inc, ServiceNow Inc, Guidewire Software Inc and Demandware Inc are trading well above their IPO prices.
Guideware shares have gained 183 percent, Workday shares 115 percent, ServiceNow 91 percent and Demandware 58 percent since their listing in 2012.
The market for business software is expected to reach $300 billion globally by the end of this year, according to market research firm Gartner.
"The timing of this (IPO) was to make a statement about the market for revenue management and about the maturity of the company," Chief Executive Zack Rinat told Reuters.
Rinat, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, also co-founded application software company NetDynamics, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems Inc in 1998.
Model N, which was founded in 1999, is backed by Accel-KKR Co LLC, a partnership between private equity firm KKR & Co LP and venture capitalist firm Accel Partners.
The company plans to use the proceeds to invest in research and development. It reported a net loss of $1.3 million for the three months ended December 31.
JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank acted as joint book-running managers.
Shares of Model N were up 4 percent at $21.15 on the New York Stock Exchange by afternoon after touching a high of $22.25 at open. About 4.1 million shares changed hands by 1229 ET.
(Reporting By Neha Dimri in Bangalore; Editing by Joyjeet Das and Sriraj Kalluvila)


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Omaha police are investigating a robbery Wednesday afternoon.
Officers were called to the Ring Ring Wireless near South 24th and Elm streets around 1:30 p.m.
The clerks told officers that two men entered the store and demanded money but did not show any weapons.
The robbers got away an undetermined amount of money and fled in a silver or gray sedan traveling southbound on 24th Street.
Police described the men as black, in their twenties with long braided hair.
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"The Pro Plus series of Air-Integrated Dive Computers has always been one of the best sellers in this product category. The new, updated PP3 has the looks, and features, to make it the leader in this group for years to come." Says Dan Emke, President.
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Welcome to the School of Digital Science at Kent State University!
If you like digital technology, want to do something interesting, exciting, and meaningful, and like the idea of working with students and faculty from across the university, you may find us to be the perfect match for your interests.
Our undergraduate students get a broad exposure to digital technologies — information, software, and hardware — and they learn how different societies, professions, and organizations use those technologies. In your first year, you may take a class with a journalism professor, a computer scientist, an ethicist, or an architect. Our students learn how to manage a project and work on a team. They are the integrators, the hybrids — the ones who like to work with other people doing something creative in the real world.
Our graduate students come from a variety of backgrounds but also want to add breadth in their skill set. Students from a technical background may study enterprise architecture or management information systems, while students from a design background may study software development or telecommunications.
All of our students like to explore, and our degrees encourage breadth across multiple disciplines along with depth in one specific area. Our concentrations allow students to build on their strengths and interests and branch out in new directions.
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House Republicans raised the white flag Thursday on extending domestic violence protections to gays, lesbians and transsexuals after months of resisting an expansion of the Violence Against Women Act.
WASHINGTON | House Republicans raised the white flag Thursday on extending domestic violence protections to gays, lesbians and transsexuals after months of resisting an expansion of the Violence Against Women Act.
GOP leaders, who had tried to limit the bill before last November's election, gave the go-ahead for the House to accept a more ambitious Senate version written mainly by Democrats.
Democrats, with a minority of Republicans, were key to the 286-138 House vote that sent to President Barack Obama a renewal of the 1994 law that has set the standard for how to protect women, and some men, from domestic abuse and prosecute abusers.
It was the third time this year that House Speaker John Boehner has allowed Democrats and moderates in his own party to prevail over the GOP's much larger conservative wing. As with a Jan. 1 vote to avoid the fiscal cliff and legislation to extend Superstorm Sandy aid, a majority of House Republicans voted against the final anti-violence bill.
Obama, in a statement, said that "renewing this bill is an important step towards making sure no one in America is forced to live in fear" and said he would sign the bill "as soon as it hits my desk."
The law has been renewed twice before without controversy, but it lapsed in 2011 as it was caught up in the partisan battles that now divide Congress. Last year, the House refused to go along with a Senate-passed bill that would have made clear that lesbians, gays, immigrants and Native American women should have equal access to programs.
It appeared the scenario would be repeated this year when the House introduced a bill that didn't mention the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, and watered down a Senate provision allowing tribal courts to prosecute non-Indians who attack their Indian partners on tribal lands.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., who has spent months working on the issue, defended the Republican plan: "Our goal in strengthening the Violence Against Women Act is simple. We want to help all women who are faced with violent, abusive and dangerous situations. ... We want them to know that those who commit these horrendous crimes will be punished."
But the House proposal encountered quick and strong opposition from women's groups, the White House, Democrats and some Republicans, and on Tuesday, the GOP leadership agreed to give the House a vote on the Senate bill. It passed immediately after the House rejected Cantor's bill, 257-166, with 60 Republicans voting against it.
Vice President Joe Biden, who as a senator was instrumental in moving the 1994 act through Congress, praised Cantor for not standing in the Senate bill's way.
"He kept his word," Biden said.
The GOP decision to step aside and let the Senate bill pass came after the party's poor showing among women in last fall's election and Democratic success in framing the debate over the Violence Against Women Act as Republican policy hostile to women. Obama won 55 percent of the women's vote last November. Republican presidential candidates haven't won the women's vote since 1984, when Ronald Reagan held a 12-point lead over Walter Mondale among women.
The anti-violence bill should never have become partisan, said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., a sponsor of the Senate bill.
"That is why I applaud moderate Republican voices in the House who stood up to their leadership to demand a vote on the Senate bill," she said.
The Senate passed its bill on a 78-22 vote with every Democrat, every woman senator and 23 of 45 Republicans supporting it.
A turning point in the debate came earlier this month, when 19 Republicans, led by Rep. Jon Runyan, R-N.J., wrote a letter to their leadership urging them to accept a bipartisan plan that would reach all victims of domestic violence. The letter, Runyan said, was a catalyst in showing the leadership "a willingness of people in the House to really compromise" and see that the Senate "has a pretty good bill."
Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., a Native American, also wrote his Republican colleagues saying he was voting against the House alternative because "it falls short of giving tribes what they need to keep their women safe."
Indian women suffer incidents of domestic violence at rates more than double national averages, but Indian courts don't have jurisdiction over non-Indians, and federal prosecutors don't take up about half the violence cases on reservations because of lack of resources to pursue crimes on isolated Indian lands.


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It's a delightful piece of filmmaking with a marvelous cast topped by Meryl Streep in one of her smartest and most entertaining performances ever.
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It's tempting to say that Mamma Mia! has the worst choreography of any big-screen musical in history, though that would imply that what happens in the film IS choreography.
Yes, of course this is fairly old-fashioned entertainment, but it's really, really entertaining.
The good-natured silliness is contagious. When Streep runs singing through a Greek village, it's like a spirited homage to "The Sound of Music."
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OK for kids 13+
Upbeat, silly ABBA musical is flimsy but fun.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that this lightweight, sun-kissed musical will likely appeal to the teen girls (and their moms) who make up much of the fan base of the Broadway musical it's based on. Language is quite tame overall ("ass" is about as strong as it gets), but sexual innuendoes do fly -- there are plenty in the ABBA song lyrics alone -- and one of the main characters is a woman who gets pregnant but doesn't know who her baby's father is. There's also a brief, non-sexual glimpse of a man's bare butt and a fair amount of drinking, but it's mostly in the context of everyone having fun on a Greek island, and it's all pretty social in nature.
Messages: Allusions to infidelity, abandonment, and sexual indiscretions. A daughter lies to her mother about inviting three men from her past to her wedding. Otherwise, truly earnest and warmhearted..
Violence: Men and women yell at each other about past disagreements and misunderstandings; a mother and daughter argue.
Sex: Sexual innuendo in song lyrics and conversations (for example, a hand drill is waved around in a suggestive way to signal sexual intercourse). One character is very open about her cougar-like sensibilities, preying on a younger man -- and vice-versa. Lots of reminiscing about sexual escapades of the past. One scene shows a man's naked backside, though not in a sexual context. A sex toy is seen briefly during a dance sequence. A quick kiss between two men; one key character turns out to be gay.
Language: Fairly tame, with a few uses of "ass," "crap," and "frickin'."
Consumerism: A few labels: Duke University T-shirt, logos for Greek taxis. And, of course, the entire movie helps promote ABBA songs (and also the Broadway musical the movie is based on).
Drinking, drugs and smoking: Lots of alcoholic libations, but they're only consumed in social settings. Some cigar smoking; references to weed.
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text: Geneva B. Condra, 83, of Chattanooga, went home to be with the Lord on Wednesday morning, Feb. 13, 2013, at her home.She was a member of New Hope Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Whitwell, Tenn., for the past 55 years.Mrs. Condra retired from TVA after 33 years of service. She was an avid bowler and was also a member of the Chattanooga Choo Choo Camping Club.She was preceded in death by her husband, Roy Condra; son, Steve Condra; and her siblings, Charles, Ed and Thayer Bell and Dorothy Stanley.She is survived by her loving and devoted daughter, Connie Condra; Chattanooga; sister, Barbara Coppins, Jacksonville, Fla.; sister-in-law, Elaine Bell, Marietta, Ga.; special family friends, Wanda Hunt, Chattanooga and Beverly Monroe, Columbus, Ohio; several nieces and nephews.The family would like to thank Lisa Ayers for her loving care given to Geneva and also Bill Griffis.Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday in the funeral home chapel with the Rev. Dr. Mark Dowell officiating.Burial will be at 3 p.m. at Condra Cemetery, Whitwell, Tenn., with Rev. Phil Layne officiating.Visit www.heriategfh.com to share words of comfort and view the memorial tribute.Memorial contributions may be made to the Steve Condra Memorial Fund % Diane Martin, Whitwell High School, 100 Tiger Trail, Whitwell, TN 37397.The family will receive friends from 2-8 p.m. today and from 11-1 p.m. Friday at Heritage Funeral Home, 7454 East Brainerd Road.


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Penn, Irving
Penn, Irving, 1917–2009, American photographer, elder brother of Arthur Penn , b. Plainfield, N.J. studied Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (1934–38). Originally a painter, Penn began working working for Vogue in 1943 and became one of America's most successful fashion photographers, known for his cool, refined, and glamorously stylized images. In portraiture, Penn used plain backgrounds and natural light and was famously adept at capturing the essence of his sitter's personality. He photographed many of the world's most famous people and also traveled worldwide to capture other human subjects. As beautifully composed as his figural work, Penn's still lifes form a kind of collective memento mori in their concentration on the ruined and the ephemeral—cigarette butts, fragments of objects, fruit pits, chewed gum, and the like. A superb technician, from the 1960s on he printed his photographs using an arduous platinum-based process that produces great permanence and imparts uniquely deep, velvety, and luminous tones to his images. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City the National Gallery, Washington, D.C. the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles and at the Art Institute of Chicago, which owns his archives.
See his Moments Preserved (1960), Worlds in a Small Room (1974), Passage (1991), People in Passage (1992), and Irving Penn: A Career in Photography (1997) study by J. Szarkowski (1984).
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Figure 4-2 shows estimated
total water withdrawals, by sector, from 1900 to 1998 (Shiklomanov, 1998; Shiklomanov
et al., 2000). Agricultural useprimarily for irrigationis by far
the largest proportion, accounting in 1995 for 67% of all withdrawals and 79%
of all water consumed. Municipal, or domestic, use represents only about 9%
of withdrawals. There are large differences, of course, between continents,
with the greatest absolute volume of irrgation withdrawals in Asia.
Over the past few years there have been many projections of future water withdrawals;
virtually all have overestimated the actual rate of increase (Shiklomanov, 1998).
Figure 4-2 also shows projected total global water
withdrawals estimates made for the UN Comprehensive Assessment of the Freshwater
Resources of the World (Raskin et al., 1997). The central projection represents
a Conventional Development Scenario (CDS), with best-guess
estimates of future population growth, economic development, and water-use intensity.
The upper and lower lines represent high and low cases, where the assumed rates
of growth are altered. Under the core CDS, global water withdrawals would increase
by about 35% over 1995 values by 2025, with low and high estimates of 23 and
49%, respectively. The greatest rates of growth are projected to be in Africa
and the Middle East, with the lowest growth in developed economies. These projections
are very dependent not only on the assumed rate of population growth but also
on the different assumed rates of water usage. They do not take potential climate
change into account.
The amount of municipal water withdrawals is dependent on the number of urban
dwellers, the level of development (related to the availability of a piped distribution
network and sewage systems, amongst other things), income levels, and price
where actually applied to water. Per capita withdrawals in many developed countries
are falling, and this may more than offset an increasing population: Total municipal
withdrawals in the United States, for example, are falling largely as a result
of increasing prices, conservation education provided by water utilities, and
increasing use of water-efficient appliances. However, municipal withdrawals
in developing countries can be expected to increase with living standards; under
the CDS, per capita withdrawals in these countries are projected to rise toward
those in more economically developed countries. Rapid urbanization in developing
countries is expected to lead to very substantial increases in total municipal
water withdrawals.
The industrial sector currently accounts for approximately 20% of current withdrawals.
This water is used primarily either in processing (food processing or heavy
industry) or for cooling; the relative proportions vary between countries. Future
industrial water use is expected to rise substantially as industrial development
continues, but the increase probably will be less than the increase in industrial
production as water is used with greater efficiency (using less per unit of
production, for example, or relocating power generation plants to coastal areas
to use seawater for cooling). Under the CDS, total industrial water use increases;
this increase is concentrated largely in Asia and Latin America (Raskin et al.,
The amount of water used for agriculture is dependent primarily on the level
of irrigation development, the pricing of water, and the reliability of supply.
Future irrigation uses are a function of the rate of expansion of irrigated
land, irrigation efficiency, and pricing practices. Efficiency is projected
to improvepartly as a result of changes in the cost of water and partly
as a result of technological developmentsbut this may be more than offset
by increases in the area under irrigation. The amount of increase, however,
is very uncertain; it depends on, among other things, assumed rates of population
growth (increasing demand) and assumed changes in world agricultural markets.
Previous estimates of future water use have tended to overestimate the rate
of increase because the rate of expansion of irrigated land has been overestimated
(Shiklomanov, 1998). The expanded use of pricing to reflect water scarcity is
being strongly promoted by international organizations and will affect the quantities
used. However, many regions that historically have been dependent on rainfall
are using supplemental irrigationa factor that will increase irrigation
Estimates of future water withdrawals are notoriously uncertain, largely reflecting
uncertainties in the future rate of population and economic growth. There is
an analogy here with GHG emissions scenarios. Also important, however, are possible
changes in the way water is priced. Much agricultural water, for example, currently
is heavily subsidized, and a shift toward a more economic price
for water is likely to have a very significant effect on use. The World Bank
and other economic development agencies are pushing for major reforms in the
way water is priced and sold, as well as the use of water markets as an efficient
way of reallocating existing supplies and motivating efficiency.
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Niagara County Community College will host a spring 2013 job fair on Tuesday, April 9, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Main Cafeteria, G-Building, on the campus at 3111 Saunders Settlement Road, Sanborn. The job fair is free and open to the public.
There will be more than 50 local employers participating in the job fair looking to fill both part-time and full-time positions. Serious jobseekers should dress for success and bring multiple resume copies. For more information, contact the NCCC Student Development Office at 716-614-6290 or visit the website at http://www.niagaracc.suny.edu/studentlife/development/index.php.