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SOURCE: Miller Energy Resources
February 12, 2013 09:34 ET
Alaska RU-3 Gas Well Flowing, Tennessee Completes Second Horizontal Well
Alaska RU-3 Gas Well Flowing, Tennessee Completes Second Horizontal Well
KNOXVILLE, TN--(Marketwire - Feb 12, 2013) - Miller Energy Resources ("Miller") (NYSE: MILL) releases an update today on its operations both in Alaska and in Tennessee.
Alaska Rework Update
Miller announced today that its wholly owned Alaskan subsidiary, Cook Inlet Energy ("CIE"), led by David Hall, successfully completed a work-over on RU-3 natural gas well on its Osprey platform on February 11, 2013. This is the second successful gas well CIE has brought online in the last two weeks. RU-3 is currently flowing and being unloaded in preparation for four-point flow test, test results forthcoming. Gas production from RU-3 is expected to be exported to help meet gas demand in the Cook Inlet.
CIE successfully re-established gas production from the Tyonek G-0 sand, which had been unable to produce gas since it was unsuccessfully reworked by a previous operator in December 2003. RU-3 encountered an average of 20 feet of net gas pay across an estimated 150-acre reservoir. The zone produced a total of 452 MMscf between May and December of 2003. The well went off production due to mechanical problems and had subsequently been plugged back to a shallower zone for an attempted completion. CIE successfully completed a complex fishing job to remove materials and equipment left in the wellbore from this previous completion attempt in order reopen the deeper proven reservoir and reestablish production.
Company estimates a minimum of 1.2 BCF of remaining reserves should be available from the zone. Immediately prior to going off production in December of 2003, the well was producing in excess of 2.0 MMcfd.
Over the past few weeks, CIE has been conducting simultaneous operations on RU-D1, RU-3, RU-4 and RU-7. Two weeks ago it announced the successful completion of the RU-4 gas well in Lower Tyonek sands, and since then, that well has been producing at approximately 1 MMcfd. CIE has also been conducting operations to replace a failed electric submersible pump (ESP) and add new perforations to its RU-7 oil well and is nearing 50% complete in those activities. In addition to the above, CIE is adding 34' of new perforations in its RU-D1 Class I disposal well to increase injectivity.
Tennessee Drilling Update
In its Tennessee operations, Miller completed its second successful horizontal oil well in the Fort Payne formation, the Maynard H-1, on February 4, 2013.The Maynard H-1 showed the same traits as the CPP-H-1 well with shows of oil and gas throughout the horizontal section of the well and is presently flowing back oil and treatment fluid. With these two wells being the first of their kind in Tennessee, Miller plans to take a methodical approach to completing and producing the two horizontal wells. This methodology will include testing various pumping methods, pressure maintenance programs and proper well configuration in order to maximize the horizontal drilling program in Tennessee. Two more horizontal wells are scheduled to begin within the next 45 days.
About Miller Energy Resources
Miller Energy Resources, Inc. is an oil and natural gas exploration, production and drilling company operating in multiple exploration and production basins in North America. Miller's focus is in Cook Inlet, Alaska and in the heart of Tennessee's Appalachian Basin including the Mississippian Lime and the Chattanooga Shale. Miller is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee with offices in Anchorage, Alaska and Huntsville, Tennessee. The company's common stock is listed on the NYSE under the symbol MILL.
Statements Regarding Forward-Looking Information
Certain statements in this press release and elsewhere by Miller Energy Resources¸ Inc. are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements involve the implied assessment that the resources described can be profitably produced in the future, based on certain estimates and assumptions. Forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, estimates and projections that involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated by Miller Energy Resources, Inc. and described in the forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to, the potential for Miller Energy to experience additional operating losses; high debt costs under its existing senior credit facility; potential limitations imposed by debt covenants under its senior credit facility on its growth and ability to meet business objectives; the need to enhance management, systems, accounting, controls and reporting performance; uncertainties related to the filing of its Form 10-K for 2011; litigation risks; its ability to perform under the terms of its oil and gas leases, and exploration licenses with the Alaska DNR, including meeting the funding or work commitments of those agreements; its ability to successfully acquire, integrate and exploit new productive assets in the future; its ability to recover proved undeveloped reserves and convert probable and possible reserves to proved reserves; risks associated with the hedging of commodity prices; its dependence on third party transportation facilities; concentration risk in the market for the oil we produce in Alaska; the impact of natural disasters on its Cook Inlet Basin operations; adverse effects of the national and global economic downturns on our profitability; the imprecise nature of its reserve estimates; drilling risks; fluctuating oil and gas prices and the impact on results from operations; the need to discover or acquire new reserves in the future to avoid declines in production; differences between the present value of cash flows from proved reserves and the market value of those reserves; the existence within the industry of risks that may be uninsurable; constraints on production and costs of compliance that may arise from current and future environmental, FERC and other statutes, rules and regulations at the state and federal level; the impact that future legislation could have on access to tax incentives currently enjoyed by Miller; that no dividends may be paid on its common stock for some time; cashless exercise provisions of outstanding warrants; market overhang related to restricted securities and outstanding options, and warrants; the impact of non-cash gains and losses from derivative accounting on future financial results; and risks to non-affiliate shareholders arising from the substantial ownership positions of affiliates. Additional information on these and other factors, which could affect Miller's operations or financial results, are included in Miller Energy Resources, Inc.'s reports on file with United States Securities and Exchange Commission including its Annual Report on Form 10-K, as amended, for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2012. Miller Energy Resources, Inc.'s actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward- looking statements as a result of a variety of factors, including those discussed in its periodic reports that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available on its Web site (www.sec.gov). All forward-looking statements attributable to Miller Energy Resources or to persons acting on its behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by these factors. Investors should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. We assume no obligation to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management's estimates or opinions change unless otherwise required under securities law.
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I haven't found any people images I like so far, so I'm staying with this theme again to see if this version resonates at all and, if so, which color scheme works best.
Revise of the blurb to come. Ya'll had some terrific suggestions.
Tuesday, a special author guest!
Sunday, July 24, 2011
I haven't found any people images I like so far, so I'm staying with this theme again to see if this version resonates at all and, if so, which color scheme works best.
13 comments:
- Landra said...
Like the middle one so far for color scheme. The sabertooth head's color is more realistic I think with the middle one, but I would almost like to see that coloring against the green. Regardless love the font and font color against the black background.
Getting there. People images are difficult.
- 24 July, 2011 20:33
- Caitlin said...
i much prefer this newer version than the last with the yellow cover that just kept on reminding me of a highschool science textbook. and like Landra, i prefer the colouring of the middle the most. ad love the heart rate monitor thingy (what do you call those?) over your name and i like the darker colour scheme etc. am curious what you're aiming for with people... looking forward to it1
- 24 July, 2011 21:50
- fairyhedgehog said...
I strongly prefer the left-hand one with the green background.
I'm not convinced that the link with "extinct doesn't mean forever" is going to work because it's not obvious to me that that's the most important thing about this current book.
I wonder if you can just rely on people checking out your other work if they like this one, or maybe a link in the book itself saying: 'you might like to read more...' or something.
- 25 July, 2011 02:38
A heart rate monitor is called an EKG.
I agree with fairyhedgehog's comment. Though not sure if left or middle is better. Maybe there's still too much going on in the cover?
- 25 July, 2011 03:43
- Simon John Cox said...
Hi Phoenix
I like the far left one the best, because I think the contrast between the sabretooth and the background is the strongest in that one, and because for me the theme of "pandemic disease" is implied more strongly by the green background...
- 25 July, 2011 08:45
- AA said...
I like the left (green) one.
- 25 July, 2011 18:22
- Phoenix Sullivan said...
Thanks all! I will continue to tweak per comments. Getting something that looks natural big and pops at the thumbnail size is hard!
I'll also consider whether the Extinct tagline needs to be on the cover. Maybe there's a more creative way to use it in the description. It is meaningful to this story what with mammoths and saber tooths being cloned, but it could well be I'm trying too hard with it.
Ooh, Jurassic Park 4 was just greenlighted for production. Maybe that and any new updates on the mammoth cloning project will put readers in the mood for a new take on an old trope...
@Caitlin: Since I want to convey "medical" in the cover, I was looking at using people in the health profession. The female MC is a veterinarian and the male MC is with the Center for Disease Control. The people thing came up when a few folk suggested the original cover draft needed people.
I'm not a people person myself, but I'm willing to try on all suggestions!
- 25 July, 2011 18:38
- Jo-Ann said...
Hi, Phoenix
Well done, you picked yourself up and kept going despite your original cover receiving less-than-flattering feedback.
The newer versions are more consistent with the thriller, horror or spec. fic. genres. I prefer the green background myself, although all three are passable. I especially like the detail (fur and eye) on the skull.
- 25 July, 2011 21:42
- Wilkins MacQueen said...
I prefer the green background on the left.Tells me there is growing going on. Extinction to life.
I love this theme. I've always been taken with it. The Jurassic movies are favorites of mine. Delighted number 4 found its legs.
- 25 July, 2011 22:51
- Sylvia said...
Definitely better. This works for me. I love the monitor line with a beat, showing me that lives are at stake (although I don't know if it is about the sabretooth coming to life or people being threatened - and I don't think that matters). This is a bit fussy, but : I like the green background (for a clear science feel) and the middle skull (less orange). But if I had to choose just one, it would definitely be the left one.
- 26 July, 2011 08:34
- Chelsea P. said...
Green, green, a thousand times green.
- 26 July, 2011 16:27
- Phoenix Sullivan said...
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your input. Oh, did I mention thank you?
Per feedback, I think I'll work on muting the green background just a bit and toning the orangy hue of the skull down to its more natural color so it's more eye-pleasing but still pops out, especially at thumbnail size. I think I'll kill the subtitle too, "Extinct doesn't mean forever," though it breaks my heart to do it. That'll take some busy-ness out of the cover.
Hugs to all of you! You guys are THE BEST!
- 29 July, 2011 06:55
- Sarah Laurenson said...
I like the green as well. And oddly enough, didn't see the difference between the other two until I read the comments and went back to look again. The difference in the background was striking enough to have my eye focus on that.
Not sure what the green (or grey) stuff is and not sure if that's a good or bad thing.
We do have to kill our darlings sometimes.
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania's prime minister and president have agreed to set aside their bitter rivalry for the good of the country and to stop insulting each other.
Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Wednesday that he and President Traian Basescu signed an agreement to cooperate last week after Ponta's center-left alliance won 68 percent of seats in Dec. 9 parliamentary elections.
Basescu's office said the president had handed the seven-point agreement outlining "institutional collaboration" between the prime minister and the president to European Union leaders last week during a trip to Brussels.
The enmity between the two men had poisoned the political atmosphere in Romania for months and EU leaders had voiced concern there could be more political feuding after the elections.
Before the election, Basescu had said he would be reluctant to reappoint Ponta as premier, calling him "a pig" and "a compulsive liar." However, Basescu relented and asked Ponta on Monday to form a new government.
The Mediafax news agency quoted Ponta as saying "we won't call each other names and we won't use comparisons to the animal kingdom."
The agreement signed on Dec. 11 at the Cotroceni presidential palace was published later Wednesday.
Its purpose was "to maintain political stability, and to ensure a functioning climate at an institutional level, good governance and winning back the confidence of international markets," adding that both the government and the president will "respect their constitutional attributions."
In the agreement, Ponta and Basescu pledge to sanction politicians "for going beyond the rules of good behavior, good manners, decency and politeness," adding that politicians will avoid "tough expressions, attacks of any kind."
Romania is committed to NATO, the EU and a strategic alliance with the United States., the agreement says.
Ponta has named his Cabinet of 20 ministers with three deputy prime ministers, some of whom will retain their current posts. Parliament is expected to approve the makeup of the government on Friday.


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September 23. 2017 5:35PM
A New Hampshire high school banned the American flag at a pep rally, and you won't believe what happened next!
Actually, you probably would. People lost their minds, reacting with outrage before getting the facts.
We have nothing against a little righteous indignation now and then, say when a state school investigates a sorority for singing, or elementary schools ban kids from having best friends to spare the feelings of other students.
But for indignation to be righteous, you have to know what you're talking about.
When Union Leader columnist Jennifer Horn read about the flag flap in Londonderry, instead of blowing a gasket, she took the time to find out why flags were not being allowed.
In the past, students had treated American flags disrespectfully, and Londonderry pep rally organizers didn't want to offend people by repeating that behavior. So no flags as props from now on. School officials went out of their way to ensure proper treatment of the American flag.
The Daily Caller picked up the story under the misleading headline, "This High School BANNED American Flags For A Pep Rally. The Reason Might Surprise You."
How many times was that story posted, shared, and commented on by people who failed to read past the headline?
An old adage holds, "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
That was before instant electronic communications and social networks. How much faster can a lie travel these days?
People should be reading, sharing, and talking about the news online. We encourage you to do so on the Union Leader's Facebook page.
But it's also important to read before you react. Give the truth a chance to put its pants on.


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For the 28th year, the Kenan Center in Lockport will present the Storrs All High Photo Show, featuring the work of high school students from across Western and Central New York. This year's show opens Sunday, March 3, with a free public reception from 2 until 5 p.m. at the Kenan Center House Gallery, 433 Locust St., Lockport.
Twenty-three schools are represented in this year's show: Akron, Amherst, C. W. Baker, Cassadaga Valley, Cattaraugus Little Valley, Clarence, Fayetteville-Manilus, Genesee Valley Educational Partnership, Kenmore East, Kenmore West, Lewiston-Porter, Newfane, North-Rose Wolcott, Palmyra-Macedon, Pembroke, Randolph, Skaneateles, Southwestern, Sweet Home, Tonawanda, Warsaw, West Seneca and Williamsville North.
Sixteen category awards will be presented. They are: best school overall, best of show, student processed and best of show commercially processed, black and white, color, urbanscape, landscape, floralscape, portrait, waterscape, computer generated, still life, journalism/documentary, sports, architecture and animal. In addition, one student from each school will be recognized with a merit award.
The show is named in honor of Lockport artist William Storrs, who passed away in 2005. An accomplished artist and long-time contributor to visual arts programming at the Kenan Center, Storrs was instrumental in starting the All High Photo Show, which was designed to showcase the photographic work of high school students throughout Western New York. He was an active participant in the installation of the works, as well as the awards presentation.
Awards will be presented at 3 p.m. The exhibit continues through Sunday, March 24. Gallery hours are: Monday-Friday, noon to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday, from 2 until 5 p.m. Kenan Center House Gallery exhibitions are sponsored by M&T Bank, the Kenan Arts Council and the Grigg-Lewis Foundation, with award support provided by The Buffalo News/NeXt and individual sponsors. Award judge is photographer Alec Maslowski.
For more information call 716-433-2617 or visit www.kenancenter.org.
The Kenan Center is a regional community center for arts, education and recreation located on 25 acres in historic Lockport. Facilities include a sports arena, a 153-seat theater, education building, outdoor recreational fields, and the Kenan house, an 1800's Victorian mansion featuring a year-round art gallery and formal gardens.


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"So, yes, I'm no longer affiliated with Epic. I have many wonderful memories, and wish my friends the best in their future projects."
Well, I think most of us saw that coming the moment Mike said that he was leaving his position a couple of months ago. It took him a while, but now he's off
Do we need a story everytime someone leaves a gaming company?
He isn't leaving in the traditional sense.
""Mike Capps is retiring from his role as president of Epic Games to take on the ultimate boss battle of fatherhood and spend more time with his family. He will continue to serve on Epic's board of directors and advise on the development of our games. We thank Mike for the 10 years he's spent leading our studio, implementing practices that enable us to create amazing games and technology, and making Epic one of the best places to work.""


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Disney plans to sell fruits with help from Mickey
LOS ANGELES CNN recently reported that a unit of the Walt Disney Co. is planning to sell a line of fruits and vegetables appealing to children starting this fall. With sales help from its popular theme park characters—Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Goofy—Disney Consumer Products said Friday is will "launch a line of products called Disney Garden."
Among the new items are Mickey-shaped snack trays featuring celery, peanut butter and raisin or apple, cheese and cracker combinations. Other products will offer servings of honey orange carrot coins, cheesy broccoli bites and miniature pears, plumbs and oranges.
What's Hot: Halloween Kit Kat bars return with new designs
Just in time for the Halloween season, Hershey Co. is bringing back its Kit Kat Ghoulish Collection. The iconic light, crispy wafers covered in milk chocolate feature four holiday-themed spooky designs etched over the four-stick bars.
Though the Kit Kat Ghoulish Collection is not a new endeavor for 2007, the company has replaced last year's designs with all-new ones: Spooky Snacks bats, You've Been Bitten fangs, Happy Hauntings ghosts and wickedly delicious Best Witches. The designs are available in single packs and king-size packages.
Convenient packaging, healthier profiles drive soup sales
Boosted by convenience and more healthy options, sales of soup have been strong at drug stores. Sales of ready-to-serve wet soup were up over 10 percent for the 52 weeks ended Aug. 12, 2007, according to Information Resources Inc. Sales of condensed wet soups surged ahead nearly 6 percent during the same time period.
Consumers' desire for more healthful food options is responsible, in part, for the boost in sales. Soup is a heat-and-serve product that gives consumers a convenient way of eating a balanced meal. It's also an easy way for consumers to get an additional serving of vegetables into their diets.
Much of the growth has been due to introductions with a more healthful profile. A report on the category by Mintel International Group points out that while canned soups have traditionally had high sodium content, new low-sodium products have addressed the issue with reduced-sodium options.
In addition to low-sodium and low-carb products introduced, organic and natural products also have been taking more space on store shelves. The success of Wolfgang Puck's soup line in 1999 and his brand's expansion into organic products has opened the door to higher-priced, higher-value soups—a trend that mainstream brands have noticed. Campbells, for example, is highlighting the natural sea salt in its low-sodium Healthy Request Soups in its new campaign for that brand.
In fact, research conducted by Campbell's revealed that 65 percent of respondents said lower-sodium soups brought them back to buying the Campbell's brand.
General Mills' Progresso, the other power brand in the category, has been active in the low-sodium segment, as well. The company launched Progresso Reduced Sodium Soups last year and continues to add line extensions to the successful brand. Two of the newest flavors added to the brand's lineup are chicken & wild rice and Italian-style wedding.
SOUP: A category for consumers looking for lunch on the run
29 percent of respondents eat lunch at their desk
15 percent of respondents eat lunch in their car*
*Mintel International Group Limited's "What's For Lunch" survey
Progresso also recently teamed up with Weight Watchers to launch Progresso Light, a canned soup with a Weight Watchers' Points value of zero. The soups, which contain 60 calories and 4 grams of fiber, deliver a full serving of vegetables. The new products are being touted as "a whole new option in ready-to-serve soup" because they are the first to gain the trusted Weight Watchers endorsement on the front label.
Healthfulness is only part of soups' appeal. Convenience also is a key factor. "Soups are really convenient and can be eaten for lunch, a snack or for dinner. So they have multiple uses and are very versatile," said June Jo, an analyst for The Hartman Group.
Microwavable containers and one-cup portable portions are giving the category an even faster, more convenient profile. A recent study from Mintel reported that before shippable soup and single servings in microwavable bowls, soup was not a realistic option for people eating on the go. These new options make soup easier to handle and widen the category's appeal for consumers. "Anything manufacturers can do to make soup simpler and faster to prepare will help drive sales," Mintel's report stated.


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A political reporter whom I greatly respect, and who asks not to have the comment attributed to him, writes to comment on one possible side effect of the IRS scandal: "Not to be paranoid, but the IRS scandal may make it easier for the immigration-bill advocates to push their amazing bill through Congress while the public's mind is elsewhere, if only because it gives the media another excuse not to actually look at the contents and economic impact of the bill."
PAUL ADDS: I share this concern. In fact, this evening I expressed it during a conversation with several folks who work on the Hill.
There are at least two ways in which the current, scandal-rich environment might affect immigration reform. It could, as Scott's contact fears, enable the Schumer-Rubio legislation to fly more-or-less under the radar during a critical period of time, thus increasing the likelihood of passage. Alternatively, it could undermine President Obama's standing and thereby help Republicans overcome the Hispanic panic attack that has provided the impetus for amnesty. This might make passage of Schumer-Rubio, or some variation thereof, less likely.
My sense is that Schumer-Rubio will pass in the Senate under any plausible scenario, making the House the key battleground. Consideration in the House should take a pretty long time. By then, perhaps, the public's mind will be much less diverted by Obama administration scandals (but perhaps not).
But this doesn't mean the conservative portion of the public will be focused on immigration. Fox News probably will limit its coverage mostly to occasional disingenuous appearances by Sen. Rubio, who likely will face only friendly fire.
We'll continue to bang the drum, along with other bloggers and, I'm confident, National Review. But in the end, I think it will be up to conservative talk radio to keep conservatives focused on the horrors of Schumer-Rubio.
And Scott's contact is correct to worry that, with so many scandals heating up at once, conservative talk radio's attention understandably will be diverted, at least for a while.


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When a former Doherty Memorial High School student was in court earlier this month facing charges after a Worcester car crash in May that seriously injured his passengers, Central District Court Judge Andrew M. D'Angelo devised an unusual ruling. The judge ordered Jameson Trumble, 18, a talented art student, to paint a portrait and donate it to a children's hospital for brain-injured children.
When a former Doherty Memorial High School student was in court earlier this month facing charges after a Worcester car crash in May that seriously injured his passengers, Central District Court Judge Andrew M. D'Angelo devised an unusual ruling.
The judge ordered Jameson Trumble, 18, a talented art student, to paint a portrait and donate it to a children's hospital for brain-injured children.
Mr. Trumble's charge of driving negligently was continued until late 2015 without a finding. The judge also barred Mr. Trumble from driving until Jan. 21, 2014, ordered him to attend the Brains at Risk program and complete 200 hours of community service.
Judge D'Angelo is among several area judges who see great merit in the occasional creative sentence, one that offers hope of rehabilitating an offender while satisfying society's need for punishment and restitution.
Judges have five considerations when they sentence defendants, whether it is after a trial or a plea.
Punishment, rehabilitation, protection of the public, restitution and detriment (to society) are taken into account, Judge Paul L. McGill said during a recent day at Western Worcester District Court in East Brookfield.
"Jail time is one option, but we see people get released and re-offend time and time again, so obviously that doesn't work for them," he explained. "Then we look at what else we can do."
Paul Simone, the chief probation officer in East Brookfield, said he recalled unconventional sentences handed down in the Worcester juvenile court by then-Judge Martha Grace.
As a probation officer, he spent a Saturday along Cambridge Street watching as youths scrubbed clean the sidewalks, utility poles and other city property they'd tagged with spray paint.
"In the juvenile court, you try to put a mark on them (to change their behavior)," Mr. Simone explained. "The juvenile court is more rehabilitative."
But creative sentences don't always work.
When the teen driver who was behind the wheel in the 2008 car crash that killed her son was sentenced later that year to pay funeral costs, Natalie Cross was hopeful.
"I thought it would have benefited him more if he'd had to work towards the funeral costs rather than going to jail," Ms. Cross of Barre said.
Even though she'd lost her son, Ms. Cross was hopeful that the creative sentence would help Jeffrey Harnois understand the gravity of his actions and turn his life around. Ms. Cross' son, Patrick Provost, 17, was riding in a car with Mr. Harnois on July 18, 2008, when the vehicle hit a utility pole and Mr. Provost was killed.
But when Mr. Harnois took the family back to court because he didn't want to pay for a post-funeral dinner known as a mercy meal, her hope faded.
Eventually, he opted to serve time rather than do community service in a facility for patients with head injuries, and pay the funeral expenses. He's finished his sentence and has a child, something that upsets Ms. Cross, who sometimes dwells on how her son, Patrick Provost, won't be providing her with grandchildren.
While the unique sentence didn't seem to work in this case, Ms. Cross said she believes that in many cases defendants benefit more from having to learn the effects of what they've done.
"I think it's more helpful, but only if they're remorseful," she said.
For years defendants either grumbled or rejoiced when they were sentenced by Judge Milton Raphaelson in Dudley District Court.
"There were three kids who burned a cross on someone's lawn in Dudley and their lawyers wanted probation. My dad said, 'What are they going to learn from that?' " said Laurie Raphaelson, the daughter of Judge Raphaelson.
Instead, he sentenced them to read four books. One was about the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and another was about desegregation and a family that would not put their child on the bus, Ms. Raphaelson said, relating a conversation she had with her father, who's now 82. Despite having Lewy body dementia, he remembers many of the sentences he imposed.
When he got the book reports from the trio, the writing seemed too sophisticated to be their own. He met with them and discovered they probably weren't capable of reading the books, so he changed the assignment. Instead, they watched movies, read the books together and had discussions.
Ms. Raphaelson said her father wasn't concerned with being popular, but rather with giving everyone a chance. He believed drugs and alcohol play a role in most court cases and set up an Honor Court in Dudley, which he attended every Monday night.
It allowed him to make sure substance abusers were taking part if they were sentenced to be there.
"His feeling was that punishing people isn't going to solve the underlying problem," she explained. "He never wanted young people to have a criminal record that could affect their ability to get a job or go to college."
He gave all a chance, she said, but if they blew it, they'd most likely be serving time, which he always hoped wouldn't happen.
"He said, 'The House of Correction? I don't think they correct anything,' " she said.
Sometimes, unusual sentences drive home a point not just for the defendant. Elected Ohio Judge Michael Cicconetti has handed out so many interesting sentences there is a Wikipedia page about him.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported that two weeks ago he sentenced a drunken driver to view two bodies of victims killed in car accidents.
The defendant chose to complete the sentence to avoid jail time after he ran a stop sign and slammed into a car with a married couple inside.
It was the first time the judge had come up with such a sentence, but, he told the paper, he sees too many drunken drivers and wanted a "scared straight" punishment.
It's far more intense than some of his sentences, including one in which a man had to sit alone in silence in the woods for an hour after he was charged with disturbing the peace.
Judges like Judge Raphaelson who impose creative sentences do so because they care, his daughter said. After his long career, he believes he did a lot of good, and she believes he's right, because people approach her and tell her that quite often.
"I didn't save everybody, I know that for sure," he told his daughter a few days ago. "But I did save a lot of people."


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Man gets life sentence in fatal robbery
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) —
A Central Florida man has been sentenced to life in prison for a drug robbery that led to one of his accomplices being killed.
A Volusia County judge sentenced 21-year-old Leroy Rashad Gadson on Friday after a jury convicted him of second-degree murder.
Authorities say Gadson and four other men tried to rob a drug dealer at a Holly Hill hotel in April 2011. A shootout followed between the robbers and the drug dealer's associates, leading to Gadson and 19-year-old Donnell Ellis being shot.
Gadson recovered from his wounds, but Ellis died.
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Plant scientists hope to use epigenetics to improve crops
LINCOLN—Plant scientists long have known they can alter crops genetically to improve performance; they've been doing it thousands of years.
But what if they could dramatically improve crops by leaving the genes themselves unchanged but instead change how they're expressed in a way that would be passed down to future generations?
That question is at the heart of research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Center for Plant Science Innovation, and the results so far are encouraging. The findings, expected to be commercialized in the next couple of years, could play a role in helping meet the world's dramatically increasing need for food, said Sally Mackenzie, Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources plant scientist.
Specifically, scientists focused on a gene called MSH1, short for MUTS Homolog1, which is present in every plant. They discovered that if they "silenced" that gene in some plants, their growth patterns changed dramatically – dwarfed, highly branched and behaving as if they have seen high levels of stress, including cold, heat, sale, drought and high light. Then, after they reintroduced the gene and crossbred it with a plant that wasn't altered, the crossbred plant showed signs of enhanced growth, vigor, lodge resistance, high biomass production and higher yield.
Those changes in some cases were huge: up to a 100% increase in above-ground biomass, up to a 70% increase in yield in sorghum, for example.
"We changed the way the plant is expressing its genes, even though we didn't change the genes themselves," Mackenzie said. The process is called epigenetics.
Mackenzie stresses these key points about her lab's work:
It's not transgene-mediated modification, which is controversial in some parts of the world and heavily regulated, thus slow to reach the market.
It's worked in several crops so far—not so-called model crops, but actual agronomically useful crops, most importantly soybean, sorghum and millet, and also tobacco and tomatoes.
These changes can occur in just two generations of plants, rather than the 10 or more it can take for genetic modification to take hold. That's appealing given the sense of urgency in figuring out how to feed a world whose population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2050.
The potential of epigenetics to improve other crops is unknown. It's possible that most of the potential already has been reached in corn, for example, because it's been heavily hybridized. Until now, scientists couldn't know what percentage of improvements in corn was due to genetic changes and what percentage was due, unwittingly, to epigenetics.
Besides soybean and sorghum, it seems likely there's great potential for epigenetics to improve crops such as cotton and dry beans.
"And if you could do this in rice and wheat, you could perhaps change the world," Mackenzie said.
"It's promising, but I don't want to overhype this," Mackenzie said. Yet to be determined is whether these effects will be stable and able to be scaled up as the techniques are commercialized and expanded to more fields and more crops.
"It's important we explore this for every potential it offers for addressing some of the challenges in agriculture," she added.
The research is funded by the Department of Energy and National Science Foundation.
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Over at the New York Review of Books, physicist Steven Weinberg laments the decline in government funding for "big science," especially noting that the proposed James Webb telescope, a replacement for the aging Hubble telescope, is withering for lack of funding from Congress. Well, here's an idea to get those "anti-science" Republicans to cough up the dough: combine the two telescopes into one! Call it the "Webb Hubble telescope," after Bill Clinton's famous crony, and have the media use it to spot Democratic scandals like "Fast and Furious" that reporters somehow otherwise can't seem to find right under their nose.
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Manchester education standards proposal derided at public hearingBy TED SIEFER
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MANCHESTER — The school district administration faced criticism during a public hearing Tuesday for not doing enough to distinguish the Manchester Academic Standards from the controversial Common Core standards.
The school board's Curriculum and Instruction Committee convened the hearing at Memorial High School to give the public a chance to provide feedback on the Manchester standards, which a group of teachers and consultants have been working on over the past school year.
The school board opted to develop Manchester-based standards after concerns were expressed in the fall about the Common Core State Standards, which have become a lightning rod for conservative groups and others who consider the standards unsound and too rigid. Supporters of the standards say they are essential in ensuring that U.S. students are globally competitive.
Ann Marie Banfield, education liaison for Cornerstone Action, a state-based conservative advocacy group, said she was disappointed that the administration did not incorporate the input she solicited from James Milgram and Sandra Stotsky, education experts who are also Common Core opponents.
"The district has access to the nation's top experts, and I have to wonder why administrators would not follow through with first obtaining their analysis and then offering that information to the public," Banfield said. "How can anyone who does not have this kind of expertise offer feedback at this time?"
Doris Hohensee, chairwoman of NH Families for Education, which has fought Common Core in Concord, said she had concluded that the Manchester standards were fundamentally similar to Common Core. "I don't understand why you spent $100,000 and 2,000 teacher hours to redevelop Common Core," she said.
One person, Glenn Ouellette, offered support for the standards. "Your standards are much better than Common Core," he said. "I believe students need to be creative."
Only five people spoke at the meeting, which was attended by about 20 members of the public. It was adjourned after 15 minutes. Superintendent Debra Livingston and her two assistants were on hand, as were members of the committee that developed the standards, but they did not speak.
The district has not made available a document summarizing the Manchester standards, but it has posted draft versions standards for each grade online.
The Common Core State Standards remain the basis for the bulk of the lessons, although Manchester does go its own way in certain areas, such as a greater emphasis on literature in high school language arts and a greater use of conventional math in the lower grades.
Mayor Ted Gatsas said after the hearing that he was pleased with the Manchester standards because "I have confidence in the teachers that worked on them."
Referring to the difference between Common Core and the city standards, he said, "I don't know if it's a big distinction, but there is a distinction, and a lot of people worked very hard to make sure there is a difference."
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The No. 1 challenge for the San Juan Basin Health Department during the next five years will be improving access to health care and battling obesity in La Plata and Archuleta counties.
Fifty-five people health-care professionals and interested community members who have been studying health issues for the last year, decided last week that obesity is a higher priority than substance abuse, mental health, clean air and water or oral health.
Improved access has been a given since the process began a goal so obvious that it drew a bye.
In response to the mandate, the health department will devise strategies and build partnerships to tackle the issues. The work must satisfy requirements of 2008 legislation and a 2011 state Board of Health order that county health departments update their public-health improvement plan every five years.
The revised plan needs to be approved by the health department board and sent to the state by the end of 2013.
Groups met Thursday in Durango and Pagosa Springs to discuss priorities. Points based on individual preferences were totaled to rate the five options.
Were going to concentrate on two issues because other health departments have found that addressing many needs stretches resources and dilutes impact, health department Executive Director Joe Theine said in Durango. But we arent going to stop what were doing.
The last statement referred to such established health programs covering communicable diseases, environmental health and education about lifestyle choices.
In addressing obesity, the health department will balance approaches that experts recommend with what works in Southwest Colorado, Theine said.
We want what works for the community and what works for us (the health department), Theine said.
Molly Gutilla, a doctoral candidate in public health at the University of Colorado, coordinated discussions. She has an internship at the health department.
The health summit Thursday arrived where it was through a series of meetings that began a year ago. Anyone interested was welcome to help determine what health issues are important in La Plata and Archuleta counties, which are served by San Juan Basin Health Department.
Scores of participants kicked around scores of suggestions, winnowed them to 11 and then to the five put on the table Thursday.
At the meetings in Durango and Pagosa Springs, attendees were given five cards each, with each card designated with one of the five health concerns. They had to grade the options with a number from 5 (most important) to 1 (least important).
The combined tallies showed obesity (188), mental health (173), substance abuse (131), clean air and water (98) and oral health (83).
Choosing a top priority was difficult because all options are worthwhile, Gutilla said. But ranking of topics was the only way to reach a consensus, she said.


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While many folks around the world have been enjoying their shiny new BlackBerry Z10's for weeks now, the one big market that everyone is waiting for still is the good ol' U.S. of A. AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon have been vocal about the fact their releases will be happening between March and April, with Verizon being the latest. However, to break it down and say yes you can walk into a store on this specific day and pick up a BlackBerry Z10, well that information hasn't been unannounced yet. In fact, even pre-orders have yet to be announced by U.S. carriers. To date the big three have only rolled out simple sign up pages to let folks know they will be carrying the BlackBerry Z10 phone.
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Special performance featuring Travis Barker, Chuck D, LL Cool J, Tom Morello and DJ Z-Trip on "Music's Biggest Night"
Ellen DeGeneres, Kat Dennings, Johnny Depp, John Mayer, Nas, Pitbull, Bonnie Raitt and Kelly Rowland are set to present at the music industry's premier event
Current nominees Dr. John and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band have been added to join a performance by The Black Keys, in addition to three-time Grammy Award winner Stanley Clarke, current nominee Chick Corea and current nominee Kenny Garrett paying tribute to Dave Brubeck, a performance by current nominee Juanes and a joint performance by Travis Barker, Chuck D, two-time Grammy winner and host LL Cool J, two-time Grammy Award Tom Morello and DJ Z-Trip, all on the 55th Annual Grammy Awards broadcast. The music industry's premier event will take place Sunday, Feb. 10 (8 p.m.), at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, and televised on the CBS Television Network.
Emmy Award-winning talk show host and current nominee Ellen DeGeneres, actor Kat Dennings, actor Johnny Depp, seven-time Grammy winner John Mayer, current four-time nominee Nas, recording artist Pitbull, nine-time Grammy winner and current nominee Bonnie Raitt and two-time Grammy winner Kelly Rowland will appear as presenters.
Eighteen-time Grammy winner Chick Corea is up for five awards: two in Best Improvised Jazz Solo for "Hot House" (along with Gary Burton) and "Alice In Wonderland," two in Best Jazz Instrumental Album for "Further Explorations" (with Eddie Gomez and Paul Motian) and "Hot House" (with Gary Burton) and Best Instrumental Composition for "Mozart Goes Dancing."
Five-time Grammy winner Dr. John, Grammy winner Kenny Garrett and Grammy winner and 19-time Latin Grammy winner Juanes each have one nomination: Dr. John is nominated in Best Blues Album for "Locked Down," Kenny Garrett has a nod in Best Jazz Instrumental Album for "Seeds From The Underground," and Juanes is up for Best Latin Pop Album for "MTV Unplugged Deluxe Edition."
Previously announced performers for The 55th Annual Grammy Awards are current nominees Dierks Bentley and Miranda Lambert, The Black Keys, Kelly Clarkson, FUN., the Lumineers, Miguel and Wiz Khalifa, Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Jack White, five-time Grammy winner, Grammy Legend Award recipient and 2000 MusiCares Person of the Year honoree Elton John and current nominee Ed Sheeran, Alicia Keys and current nominees Maroon 5, current nominee Bruno Mars, Rihanna and Sting in a special performance, nominees Zac Brown, T Bone Burnett (as musical director), Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) and Mumford & Sons, Elton John and Grammy winner and Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient (as a member of the Staples Singers) Mavis Staples paying a special tribute to the late Levon Helm, and Justin Timberlake.
Previously announced presenters are nominees Beyoncé, Hunter Hayes, Carly Rae Jepsen, Ne-Yo, Katy Perry, actor Kaley Cuoco, 13-time Grammy winner Dave Grohl, actor and three-time Emmy winner Neil Patrick Harris, five-time Grammy winner Faith Hill, singer/actor Jennifer Lopez, three-time Grammy winner Tim McGraw, actress Pauley Perrette, seven-time Grammy winner Prince, TV and radio host/producer (and newly appointed honorary chair of the Grammy Foundation board) Ryan Seacrest and four-time Grammy winner Keith Urban. Two-time Grammy winner LL Cool J returns as host of the music industry's premier event.


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ATLANTA (AP) — Conan O'Brien wrapped up a four-day taping in Atlanta of his show on Thursday.
The 6-foot-4 O'Brien has never played organized basketball but is a big-time sports fan — his favorite teams include the Boston Celtics and Red Sox.
In tribute to Atlanta hosting college basketball's Final Four this weekend, O'Brien's guests Thursday night on his show — "CONAN" — that airs on TBS will include NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley, college basketball announcer Dick Vitale and music artists Macklemore & Ryan Lewis.
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Citigroup to cut 11,000 jobs, a familiar story
NEW YORK (AP) — Citigroup said Wednesday that it will cut 11,000 jobs, a bold early move by new CEO Michael Corbat.
The cuts amount to about 4 percent of Citi's workforce. Most of them, about 6,200 jobs, will come from Citi's consumer banking unit, which handles everyday functions like branches and checking accounts.
Citi said that it will sell or scale back consumer operations in Pakistan, Paraguay, Romania, Turkey and Uruguay and focus on 150 cities around the world "that have the highest growth potential in consumer banking."
The bank, the third-largest in the U.S. by assets, did not say how many jobs it will cut here.
Starbucks to open 1,500 more cafes in the US
NEW YORK (AP) — Another Starbucks may soon pop up on a corner near you, as the world's biggest coffee company plans to add at least 1,500 cafes in the U.S. over the next five years.
The plan, which would boost the number of Starbucks cafes in the country by about 13 percent, was announced at the company's investor day in New York Wednesday. Taking into account Canada and South America, Starbucks plans to add a total of 3,000 new cafes in its broader Americas region.
Worldwide, the company says it will have more than 20,000 cafes by 2014, up from its current count of about 18,000. Much of that growth will come from China, which Starbucks says will pass Canada as its second-biggest market.
Poll shows support for raising taxes on the rich
WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans prefer letting tax cuts expire for the country's top earners, as President Barack Obama insists, while support has declined for cutting government services to curb budget deficits, an Associated Press-GfK poll shows. Fewer than half the Republicans polled favor continuing the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy.
There's also a reluctance to trim Social Security, Medicare or defense programs, three of the biggest drivers of federal spending, the survey released Wednesday found. The results could strengthen Obama's hand in his fiscal cliff duel with Republicans, in which he wants to raise taxes on the rich and cut spending by less than some GOP lawmakers want.
As Obama and Republicans joust over ways to avoid tumbling over the cliff when the new year begins, the poll offers scant evidence that the public is willing to sacrifice much when it comes to specific cuts in the name of budget austerity.
Growth of US service firms accelerated last month
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. service companies grew at a slightly faster pace in November because sales and new orders rose, a good sign for the economy.
The Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday that its index of non-manufacturing activity rose to 54.7 from 54.2 in October. Any reading above 50 indicates expansion. November's figure is above the 12-month average of 54.4.
The report measures growth in a broad range of businesses from retail and construction companies to health care and financial services firms. The industries covered employ about 90 percent of the workforce.
US factory orders up 0.8 percent in October
WASHINGTON (AP) — Orders to U.S. factories rose modestly in October, helped by a big gain in demand for equipment that reflects business investment plans.
Factory orders edged up 0.8 percent in October, the Commerce Department said Wednesday. The increase slowed from a 4.5 percent jump in September.
Orders for core capital goods, a category viewed as a good proxy for business investment plans, increased 2.9 percent in October, the biggest increase in eight months. That represented an upward revision from an initial estimate of 1.7 percent. The increase came after big declines in the investment category this summer.
US productivity grows at faster 2.9 percent rate
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. workers were more productive this summer than initially thought, while costing their companies less.
The Labor Department said Wednesday that productivity grew at an annual rate of 2.9 percent from July through September. That's the fastest pace in two years and higher than the initial estimate of 1.9 percent. Labor costs dropped at a rate of 1.9 percent, more than the 0.1 percent dip initially estimated.
Productivity was revised higher because economic growth was faster in the third quarter than first estimated, while hours worked were unchanged. Productivity is the amount of output per hour of work.
Cashing in on Gangnam Style's YouTube fame
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — As "Gangnam Style" gallops toward 1 billion views on YouTube, the first Asian pop artist to capture a massive global audience has gotten richer click by click. So too has his agent and his grandmother. But the money from music sales isn't flowing in from the rapper's homeland South Korea or elsewhere in Asia.
With one song, 34-year-old Park Jae-sang — better known as PSY — is set to become a millionaire from YouTube ads and iTunes downloads, underlining a shift in how money is being made in the music business. An even bigger dollop of cash will come from TV commercials.
From just those sources, PSY and his camp will rake in at least $7.9 million this year, according to an analysis by The Associated Press of publicly available information and industry estimates. But for online music sales in South Korea, he'll earn less than $60,000.
Big miner buys pair of energy companies for $9 billion
NEW YORK (AP) — Mining company Freeport-McMoRan is buying a pair of oil and gas producers for $9 billion, creating a natural resources conglomerate with assets ranging from oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico to a huge copper mine in Indonesia.
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., based in Phoenix, said Wednesday it is paying $6.9 billion in cash and stock for Plains Exploration & Production Co. and $2.1 billion for McMoRan Exploration Co. The miner also will assume $11 billion in debt in the deal.
Plains Exploration, based in Houston, produces oil in California, Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, along with natural gas in Louisiana. McMoRan Exploration, based in New Orleans, is developing natural gas resources that lie deep below shallow water regions of the Gulf of Mexico.
Longer tamoxifen use cuts breast cancer deaths
Breast cancer patients taking the drug tamoxifen can cut their chances of having the disease come back or kill them if they stay on the pills for 10 years instead of five years as doctors recommend now, a major study finds.
The results could change treatment, especially for younger women. The findings are a surprise because earlier research suggested that taking the hormone-blocking drug for longer than five years didn't help and might even be harmful.
In the new study researchers found that women who took tamoxifen for 10 years lowered their risk of a recurrence by 25 percent and of dying of breast cancer by 29 percent compared to those who took the pills for just five years.
Olive Garden owner to hold off on worker changes
NEW YORK (AP) — The owner of Olive Garden and Red Lobster says it won't bump any full-time workers down to part-time status, after its tests aimed at limiting health care costs resulted in a publicity backlash that took a bite out of sales.
At the same time, Darden Restaurants Inc. isn't ruling out relying more heavily on part-timers over the long haul.
The company, based in Orlando, Fla., is set to announce Thursday that none of its current full-time employees will have their status changed as a result of the new regulations. The move will come just two days after the company lowered its profit outlook for the year, citing failed promotions and negative publicity from its tests that used more part-time employees. The tests were aimed at keeping down costs tied to new health care regulations, which will require large companies to provide insurance to full-time workers starting in 2014.
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The Dow Jones industrial average rose 82.71 points to end at 13,034.49. The Standard and Poor's 500 closed up 2.23 points to 1,409.28. The Nasdaq composite was down 22.99 points to 2,973.70.
Benchmark crude fell 62 cents to finish at $87.88 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent crude, which is used to price international varieties of oil, fell $1.03 to end at $108.81 per barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
Heating oil fell 1.3 cents to finish at $2.9907 a gallon. Natural gas added 16.1 cents to end at $3.7000 per 1,000 cubic feet. Wholesale gasoline fell 5.12 cents to $2.6378 a gallon.


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Heroes all? A word cheapened by overuseEDITORIAL
July 30. 2014 11:36PM
Joseph Cespedes was a Manchester police officer for nearly six years, and before that he was a member of the NYPD. On Tuesday he pleaded guilty to accepting money and cocaine from an illegal alien drug dealer in Massachusetts in exchange for favors. It is the latest in a series of stories featuring New Hampshire police officers behaving badly.
Last week two Seabrook officers were fired for using excessive force against a 19-year-old man, whom one of the officers slammed against a concrete wall. This past spring, former Manchester officer Stephen Coco was sentenced to a year in jail for felony hit and run, which he committed in an unmarked police vehicle.
The Weare Police Department has settled multiple lawsuits after officers illegally charged motorists with wiretapping for simply recording the officers at work, and after one officer fatally shot an unarmed, fleeing suspect. And who can forget former New London Police Chief David Seastrand, who resigned in a deal with the Attorney General's office last year after a young woman accused him of offering to drop charges against her if she posed nude for him.
Most police officers serve honorably in a tough job. A few do not. And yet we hear incessantly that all who wear the badge are heroes. Brave, yes. But heroes?
The same word is used often to describe all teachers and firefighters, even when the news carries stories of teachers sexually assaulting students and firefighters committing arson.
These are all difficult jobs that require a certain level of courage and dedication to one's community. We are thankful that so many smart, honest, capable people volunteer to do them. But it cheapens the word "hero" to use it so casually. "Hero" is a term that must be earned; it is not handed out with a badge or a teaching certificate.
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Supreme Court justices on Tuesday will chew over several challenges to farm programs filed by disgruntled California raisin and table grape growers.
One case to be considered behind closed doors Tuesday touches on the state-run California Table Grape Commission. The other challenges a federal raisin-marketing order. In both cases, justices will decide whether the appeals of lower court decisions merit full-bore consideration next year.
In both cases, the legal questions seem arcane, while the consequences affect the real world. They represent the latest fronts in a long-running dispute between farmers who like programs that promote collective action and those who prefer to go their own way.
"These programs were created in a different era," said Steffen Johnson, a lawyer who wrote a brief in support of some dissident raisin farmers, "and frankly, it was an era when farmers didn't have access to international markets."
The grape commission case started with plant patents developed by federal scientists and subsequently licensed to the Fresno-based commission. The legal question now is whether the U.S. Agriculture Department can be sued.
The raisin case began when Fresno-area farmers challenged the authority of a government program that requires them to set aside part of their crop in reserve. The pressing legal questions now include when and how individuals can pursue claims against the government.
"The question is very important," Johnson said. "If you're going to require giving these crops to the government, you're going to have to pay for it."
At least four justices must agree for the court to accept any case, and most petitions are rejected without comment. At first blush, the cases lack the sizzle of others that will be considered Tuesday. These include Idaho's refusal to allow the insanity defense in criminal trials and the sentencing of a convicted Texas murderer.
But for farmers, they could have long-term consequences. At their core are several dozen marketing orders at the state and federal level, which began during the New Deal as a way to manage fluctuations in farm supplies and prices. The programs cover crops that range from California almonds to Washington state potatoes.
The raisin marketing order requires "handlers" who process and pack raisins to place part of their product in reserve, with an industry committee to decide how much they're to be paid for this set-aside tonnage. Raisin handlers set aside 47 percent of their crop during the 2002-03 season and 30 percent for 2003-04, but they were paid for only part of what they gave up.
"The federal government, without providing the just compensation required by the Fifth Amendment, extracts title to a hefty portion of a farmer's annual raisin crop as a condition for giving the farmer permission to sell the remainder of his crop on the market," attorney Michael W. McConnell, a former federal appellate judge, wrote in a brief for Fresno-area farmers Marvin and Laura Horne.
Unhappy with the raisin program, the Hornes and others formed what the Obama administration termed a "scheme" ostensibly to exempt themselves from the set-aside requirement. The Agriculture Department subsequently ordered the Hornes and their coalition to pay more than $650,000 in fees and penalties.
In a brief defending the department, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli wrote that the farmers "identify no reason why the imposition of a civil penalty and other assessments for noncompliance with a regulatory scheme constitutes a taking of property without just compensation."
Many growers, moreover, support the marketing order as good for the raisin industry, which the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals noted last year "has long been an important one in California."
The appellate court rejected the Hornes' challenge, saying farmers were regulated only after they "voluntarily chose to send their raisins into the stream of interstate commerce."
By contrast, a lower appellate court sided with dissident farmers who are challenging the California Table Grape Commission over different issues.
Grape grower Dan Gerawan joined Delano Farms and others in disputing patents licensed to the table grape commission. Gerawan, whose prior farm program challenges have reached the Supreme Court as well, and other dissidents say the three varieties of grapes already had been put into public use before being patented. The legal question is whether the Agriculture Department has sovereign immunity from the lawsuit challenging the patents.
"Only this court can resolve this matter and bring clarity to this important area of the law," Randolph D. Moss, a former assistant attorney general, wrote on behalf of the grape commission.


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If you care about movies, you've probably noticed that Illinois politicians from the mayor to the governor have been eagerly promoting Chicago as a setting for Hollywood movies.
Their press agents have ginned up story after story about the importance of making movies in Chicago, rather than Toronto. And the politicians have offered tax breaks to lure movie crews here, to generate jobs and millions of dollars worth of business for Chicago production companiesSo I've decided to help these political friends of ours by pitching a locally produced Hollywood movie based loosely on a Chicago Outfit street boss who is scheduled to be released from federal prison in Milan, Mich., on Wednesday.
Here's my working title:
"Jimmy Marcello, the Three Wise Men and the Family Secrets."
Jack O'Rourke spent 27 years with the FBI working on Chicago Outfit cases, and I called Jack to ask about Marcello, who goes by the low-key nickname Jimmy "The Man."
"Jimmy Marcello is the new underboss," O'Rourke said. "The street mobsters are happy. Marcello was the underboss for [late mob boss] Sam Carlisi, and now Marcello's coming out of prison, he's got a whole crew eagerly waiting for him.
"He's a man with a singular lack of humor," said O'Rourke, now working as a private investigator. "Word is that some rough stuff might start again."
What makes Marcello a natural for the movies is that he's already got friends and relatives in the production end in Chicago. He's been in prison since 1995, so he might be ready to dabble in something artsy, like film.
The Three Wise Men in the title refer to the three real wise men believed to run the Chicago Outfit--John "No Nose" DiFronzo, Joseph "The Clown" Lombardo and Joe "The Builder" Andriacchi.
They're wise because they're low-key. And they're smart enough to let Marcello become the public street boss and take the heat.
Family Secrets is the name of the FBI's investigation into more than a dozen unsolved Chicago Outfit murders. Federal indictments from Family Secrets are expected early next year, law-enforcement sources said.
The investigation into the mob killings is part of a larger racketeering conspiracy case involving many of the top Outfit types, going back to the 1970s.
In February, I told you how Family Secrets began--although then I didn't know the name of the operation. Top mobster Nick Calabrese had been swept into the government's witness protection program. He had a falling out with his brother, Frank, while they were in the federal penitentiary at Milan.
Another friend of theirs at Milan, gossiping and telling stories with the Calabrese brothers, was Jimmy Marcello.
Calabrese began telling federal authorities about more than a dozen unsolved Outfit killings, including the baseball-bat murder of Anthony Spilotro and his brother, Michael, which was captured in the Hollywood film "Casino."
When Nick Calabrese did not return home from prison, and word leaked that he was in the witness program, the rest of the Outfit began to panic.
Hence, Family Secrets.
Last summer, the FBI dug up a stretch of ground under a parking lot at Sox Park in Bridgeport, looking for the remains of another Outfit thug who disappeared years ago. Only a few bones were found, and federal authorities said they haven't established if the bones belonged to Michael "Bones" Albergo, the vanished mob soldier.
And there are other unsolved murders, including that of hit man and thief Ronnie Jarrett, who was shot to death in front of his Bridgeport home in 1999.
As part of Operation Family Secrets, the FBI got search warrants for hair and DNA samples from many top Chicago Outfit soldiers and bosses.
Lombardo is just one who was ordered to consent to a DNA mouth swab and federal haircut. That kind of attention truly aggravates the wise men.
"We expect the three wise men to lie low and let Marcello do what he wants," a top law-enforcement source told me Tuesday. "They don't want to draw attention to themselves. After the mouth-swabbing went down last winter, they're figuring, if someone wants to be the guy, let him. If Marcello wants to play it like a brazen John Gotti type, they'll say, `Go ahead.' What better way to get the attention off yourself than to let Marcello get the spotlight."
Expect everyone who visits Marcello to be under FBI surveillance. And expect his story to play out against the larger theme of Family Secrets.
My movie title, "Jimmy Marcello, the Three Wise Men and the Family Secrets" might be too long, but according to my law-enforcement sources, there are some fascinating characters with names like Pudgy and Little Al and Fat Mike.
But I'd better work quickly.
Before it can become a movie, it might become an audio production--on FBI tape.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Stock futures are moving higher before the latest data is released on the housing market, one of the bright spots of the year with just a few trading days left.
Volume is extremely light Wednesday, because of the holidays and because markets are still seeking a resolution to the budget showdown in Washington.
Dow Jones industrial futures are up 20 points to 13,085. The broader S&P futures have added 2 points to 1,421.80. Nasdaq futures are up 3 points to 2,661.75.
Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller issues its 20-city home-price index for October at 9 a.m. Eastern. Prices rose in most major U.S. cities in September, more evidence of a housing recovery that's providing a boost to the economy.
Still, another pillar of the economy, retail spending, is appearing weak this holiday.


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On March 8, 2014, I reached ten years of service at Magenic Technologies. When I started in 1999 (don't do the math just yet), Magenic had only been around a few years and it was my first consulting job. I stayed at Magenic for about 5 1/2 years. During that time, I went from an application development consultant in Visual Basic to a Business Intelligence Architect specializing in SQL Server Analysis Services and MDX.
At that point in my career, I was beginning to travel more and take on a much larger leadership role as Magenic was growing beyond that first office in Minneapolis, MN. I went to work for one our customers, XATA Corporation, as their Data Architect. For the next 4 1/2 years I learned a lot about transportation management and how important data was in that area. (My Twitter handle and domain name, DataOnWheels, was established during this time.) I also learned what it meant to live with your code and architecture after the consultant left. While at XATA, I continued to be involved in the SQL Server community which was very helpful for the next step.
There came a time in my stint at XATA, that it was clear that it was time for me to move on. I started the process of looking at what was available in the market. When I went to Magenic's career site, I found that my job or its nearest equivalent was available. I called Carole Cuthbertson, "V-mom", and asked about coming back. We had lunch a week later and the transition back to Magenic was set in motion. (So, if you leave a company you like for good reasons, never burn bridges! You might want to go back.)
When I told my wife that I was going back, she was glad I was. This kind of surprised me as I had been doing a lot of traveling before I left. She noted that I was happier working at Magenic which was better for our family. That was the final push I needed and I returned to Magenic. As I come up on this anniversary, I am really at great point in my career. I truly enjoy being a Practice Lead at Magenic and still consider it a a great place to work.
I recently was talking with a customer who pointed out that communicating ideas with 3 points is very effective. Ironically, I probably should have known that from all of the ministry training I went through. So, I thought I would conclude this post with the three reasons why I enjoy working for Magenic.
1. Family
As I noted above, my wife was happy when I went back to Magenic. What I realized is that no matter how hard it got, Magenic would do what they could to help your family while you worked for them. I realize that everyone's experience is different, but I saw them work with consultants who were going through tough times with their family.
During my first couple of years there, I lost both of my maternal grandparents over two successive Christmases. I was close to my grandparents so when the news came, I still remember Tim Wold, my project manager and Magenic's employee #1, telling me to go take care of my family and he would work out the details on his end. That was characteristic of management and leaders throughout my time here. Family matters to the owners, Greg Frankenfield and Paul Fridman, and that is carried through to the company.
My family has always been treated very well and they enjoy participating at the various events that the company has had from the Christmas party to the summer picnics.
2. Opportunity
When I joined Magenic, I had no idea what it meant to be a consultant. With mentoring and coaching, I was able to grow from a consultant to a practice lead. I am a technical leader in the company and have been able to expand my career throughout the years with their help. One of the biggest career changes was moving from application development to business intelligence. This has significantly shaped my career today in ways I would have never thought 15 years ago. During my time there, I was also encouraged to give back both internally and externally. This has opened up some great opportunities through the years.
3. Appreciation
Appreciation can take on a couple of different forms. Of course, being paid to do what you love is awesome! Even better when it pays well. However, there is more to appreciation than the paycheck. Magenic has an interesting culture which I had to learn through the years. Because we are hired to go and work at customer sites, it was not always known what or how we were doing. Magenic is a place where you can and should speak up about what your doing. While seeming counterintuitive and self serving at times, letting managers and other leaders know what I was doing, paid dividends for my career. Just as importantly, they were able to understand more about what was going on.
To me and my experience with Magenic, these are 3 key reasons that I returned and stay today. I am now in a place in my career where I need to give recognition to those whom it is due more than receive it. I have the opportunity to impact others in their careers and to help Magenic continue to grow.
I encourage all of you who read this to look at where you work. What is the culture like? Do you like what you do? Can you see yourself there in 5, 10, 15 years? Keep your core values in mind as you seek to change companies or careers. If you have had a job move conversation with me, I have likely told you something like "The grass is always greener on the other side, but a lot times it's because of the manure."


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O'Brien Staying at Penn State
Coach Weighed Offers, Not Leaving PSU
O'Brien Staying at Penn State
Coach Weighed Offers, Not Leaving PSU
State College —
Bill O'Brien is staying at Penn State.
O'Brien's agent, Joseph Linta, said Thursday night that the Nittany Lions' head coach garnered interest from several NFL teams for vacant jobs at the next level.
But Linta said the "heartstrings" of O'Brien's experience from Penn State's 8-4 season in his first year outweighed the potentially big raise he could have received as an NFL head coach. He said O'Brien made the decision to stay at Penn State and not move forward with potential NFL opportunities Thursday.
O'Brien has been lauded for guiding Penn State to a successful season following strict NCAA sanctions on Penn State for the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.