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A city worker battles blowing snow in downtown Toledo. Monday's conditions were blamed on the polar vortex.
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North America's sudden fascination with the swirling, icy-cold air mass called the polar vortex has — if nothing else — expanded the meteorological vocabulary of millions of people, from late-night talk-show hosts tossing around their quips to ordinary people who share opinions on Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of social media.
But it's also quietly opened up an ethical debate among mainstream scientists over how hard they should promote any and all possible links between climate change and the planetary effects of it, especially when they're in early phases of research.
In today's wired-up world of rapid, online communication, the lines can get blurred between perceptions of scientists doing their jobs and environmentalists crying wolf.
First, let's set the stage with a description of what the polar vortex is.
Think of it as a cap above the Arctic Circle held in place by the jet stream, a band of strong wind that surrounds it. The jet stream gets its strength and energy from the convergence of cold air in the north and warm air in the south.
Under normal circumstances, the polar vortex spins at speeds of 100 mph or more.
Meteorologists say it's like a child's spinning top: When it's whirling at full speed, it stays in place.
When a weak spot forms in the jet stream, the polar vortex can become unstable and wobble like a spinning top does when it's slowing down. Or, as some experts said in interviews posted on the Internet, it can wobble like humans do after imbibing too much alcohol.
For whatever reason, the polar vortex strayed from home last week.
It shifted or may have even broken apart when the atmospheric pressure that normally holds it back weakened.
It brought Arcticlike wind chills of nearly minus 50 degrees to the Great Lakes region and the Upper Midwest, as well as unusual cold to the South last week. Toledo saw daily low record temperatures of minus 15 and minus 14 degrees.
The polar vortex hasn't held that tight a grip on North America for about 20 years.
But it's done a number on parts of Europe and northern Asia more recently.
An iceberg melts off the coast of Greenland. The Arctic has less than half the sea ice it did 50 years ago each September, the most critical month there because it's the end of the summer thaw and the beginning of the refreezing period.
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The polar vortex is not new, contrary to conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh's assertion it was a concept created by the liberal media just last week to promote a climate-change agenda.
The term was used in academic papers as far back as 1940.
By the 1950s, it was in more than a dozen scientific articles. The American Meteorological Society said it included the term "polar vortex" in its very first AMS Glossary of Meteorology it published in 1959.
"It's kind of interesting the media just picked up on the term," meteorologist Jeff Masters said. "We've been using it for years."
Mr. Masters is meteorology director for Weather Underground, a popular online weather-tracking firm founded in Ann Arbor. It's now owned by the Weather Channel.
Climate change is, of course, a long-term trend people generally associate with global warming, even though scientists have said it is not completely synonymous with it.
Under certain models, a few parts of the world gradually may be getting cooler while the rest of the world swelters.
But that's not what we're talking about here.
Arctic sea ice
The debate over the polar vortex comes down to how much the massive loss of Arctic sea ice may be weakening the strength of the jet stream in the atmosphere, making the jet stream and the polar vortex unstable.
The Arctic has less than half the sea ice it did 50 years ago each September, the most critical month up there because it's the end of the summer thaw and the start of the refreezing period.
Ice refreezes as temperatures drop, but not necessarily all of it does. And scientists who specialize in the study of ice argue the new layer is thinner and less robust than what has been there for centuries.
Box, left, and Francis.
Promoted largely by Jennifer Francis, a research professor for Rutgers University's Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences who specializes in Arctic atmospheric issues, the research is in its early stages. It is not widely embraced, nor is it widely refuted by mainstream science.
The hypothesis goes like this:
The loss of sea ice has warmed up the Arctic Ocean because it has exposed more water, allowing more sunlight and heat to be absorbed.
Ocean water, because it's darker than ice and snow, warms faster and accelerates the melting.
A warmer ocean warms the lower atmosphere. That's well-known among oceanographers.
But the question is how much of an effect that has on the jet stream's ability to keep the polar vortex in check come winter.
"It's a very plausible hypothesis. Weather patterns and the jet stream: It all fits together," Ms. Francis said.
Young research
She has tested the hypothesis largely through computer modeling, using atmospheric data from the past 30 years.
Although the research has attracted several other meteorologists and oceanographers, it's in its infancy.
Ms. Francis said she presented her research at a scientific conference for the first time in December, 2011. Her first paper was published in March, 2012.
"Clearly, there is much more work to do. We're a lot closer to the beginning than the end," she said."It's totally an emerging field."
She sees last week's buzz over that hypothesis as a positive thing. She credited Mr. Limbaugh's cracks for drawing more attention to the issue and for bringing her research under the international spotlight.
"I see it as a great opportunity, actually, because people are listening. If they're willing to listen to people who know what they're talking about instead of those who don't, they might learn something," Ms. Francis said. "We were able to get out there in front of the public in ways we haven't before."
James Overland, an oceanographer in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, said Ms. Francis' hypothesis is an interesting one worthy of more research.
Mr. Overland described himself as a moderate supporter of it, someone who believes the Arctic's melting has global consequences but hesitates to say if this is one of them.
"The changes in the Arctic itself are very big and ongoing and are beyond the point of no return," Mr. Overland said. "It's a real paradox. Just a little global warming gives a lot of Arctic warming."
He said the warming ocean forms a "bubble of warm air."
"It changes the wind patterns. The only way of looking at it is the air is warming faster than at the midlatitude," Mr. Overland said, referring to the latitudes that encompass most of the United States. "When you get more of a wavy pattern [in the jet stream], the winds on the part of the wave carry winds south."
Greenland serves as a natural buffer, causing ripples in the jet stream like rapids in a river, he said.
But "a little bit of warming on the west side of Greenland may amplify the jet stream that's already there," Mr. Overland said.
Sorting things out
Scientists know the Arctic is warming. But the difficulty is sorting out what it all means.
"Is it random or is it a symptom of something going on? There's not enough data yet to prove these linkages," Mr. Overland said. "It could be we're changing the probability for more events, or the randomness. We need to be aware these changes are taking place. There's not enough years of data to prove it one way or not."
There's a disagreement within NOAA over how much faith to put into the hypothesis.
Martin Hoerling, a meteorologist for NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., said he doesn't believe it's worth pursuing because he hasn't found evidence that a warmer ocean in September still affects the jet stream come January.
"There are many reasons why winds weaken, and Arctic sea ice could be one of them, but how do you test them?" Mr. Hoerling said. "Correlation is not the same as causality."
A "growing body of circumstantial evidence" may exist, Mr. Hoerling said, but no smoking gun to prove anything.
The hypothesis should be recognized as just that: a hypothesis, he said.
Earth is warming. Oceans are becoming acidified. Glaciers are retreating.
Those are facts, Mr. Hoerling said.
But when the media overplay research in its early stages that has not been around long enough to be refuted or embraced by mainstream science, the public gets mixed signals about the faraway, nebulous concept of global climate change and can throw its hands in the air out of frustration, he said.
"Absolutely. If the science can't support it, it undermines things where science is pretty solid about how climate change is affecting weather," Mr. Hoerling said. "It gives the impression the science [of climate change] is uncertain and fragmented."
Another view
Jason Box, a climate-change researcher at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, is one of the world's pre-eminent Arctic researchers.
Formerly part of Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center, he has done annual field research in Greenland for years and has contributed to many of North America's leading publications and on network news programs.
He isn't convinced there's a strong correlation between warmer Arctic oceans and the polar vortex's most recent visit.
He and a few other researchers said one of the best explanations for what occurred appeared in an article published Monday in AtmosNews, a publication of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. The story can be found at http://www2.ucar.edu/atmosnews/opinion/10886/cold-hard-facts
The article does not suggest a cause-and-effect between Arctic sea loss and the movement of the polar vortex.
But it noted the freeze — as long as it seemed to last for the three days last week of dangerously low wind chills — was a relatively fast-moving system from a meteorological standpoint.
"A powerful dip in the jet stream pulled the frigid air south so quickly that it's had little time to modify," the article said. "... Sometimes it's not just the cold but the rapid swings between the cold and warm that cause trouble."
Migrating polar vortex or not, many North Americans may be surprised to learn this has — statistically, for a wide geographic region — been another winter of unusual warmth.
Citing data from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, the article states America has had four times more daily record highs than record lows as of last Sunday. Most have been in the Southeast.
While North America froze last week, Australia was smashing heat records with temperatures reaching 118 degrees.
As for the line you've likely heard about it getting colder than Mars, forget it. According to Mr. Masters, low temperatures on Mars reach minus 225 degrees.
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WOODSTOCK – Cary-Grove senior Dean Christakes embraces the leadoff role because he can see a lot of pitches, which in turn can help his teammates get a look at the opponent's starter.
Christakes ditched that plan to lead off Tuesday's game. Trojans coach Don Sutherland urged his players to attack fastballs and Christakes was happy to oblige.
The C-G shortstop singled on the first pitch from Woodstock's Austin Butts, stole second and scored two batters later, starting a four-run first inning. The Trojans made those runs stand up for a 4-3 victory in a Fox Valley Conference crossover baseball game at Emricson Park.
"Yesterday, we were taking a lot of pitches and Suds wanted us to hunt the fastball early in the count," Christakes said. "The whole team did that pretty well today. We came off hot and luckily enough our lead held up."
Christakes reached base three of the four times he batted, and although he did not score again, he helped C-G (6-4 overall, 2-0 FVC Valley Division) set the early tone. The Trojans stole three bases in the first inning, while Christakes stole two more later.
"Dean has a great approach at the plate and is not afraid of a curveball, and will attack a fastball early in the count," Sutherland said. "He has great speed, a lot of people have great speed, and he has great baserunning instincts. He worries pitchers, he worries catchers at the top of the order."
Matt Sutherland's hard ground ball got past shortstop Alex Ferguson in the first inning to score Christakes. Sutherland scored on Andrew Splitt's double, then Jimmy Perkins singled in a pair of runs for a 4-0 lead.
Splitt (2-0) and Larkin Hanselmann made those four runs stand, although Woodstock (2-3, 0-3 FVC Fox) made it interesting in the sixth inning.
"It's always nice when the team puts some hits together and scores four runs in the first inning," said Splitt, who threw five innings for the pitching win. "It's better to have the bases loaded and not score than go three up, three down. It's a plus when we get guys on base, we just have to come through [with more hits]."
Woodstock's Jordan Sumner doubled and scored in the first, then tripled and scored in the fifth. Butts left after tweaking his shoulder in the fifth and sophomore left-hander Justyn Eisenmenger kept the Trojans scoreless the rest of the game.
The Blue Streaks' Zach Kammin doubled to lead off the sixth and scored on Ben Haulotte's single, when Don Sutherland called for Hanselmann. The junior left-hander kept the margin at 4-3, then worked a perfect seventh.
"We've been falling behind in every game, so that was outstanding jumping on those guys for four runs in the first inning," Sutherland said. "We got guys on several innings, so that piece of the game was not so good."
Woodstock coach John Oliveira said Butts will see the trainer on Wednesday, but did not think his injury was serious.
"We gave ourselves opportunities after opportunities," Oliveira said. "I counted six left on base in scoring position. We made it a game, the offense was just one hit away. I couldn't be more proud of that."
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In college, I sometimes enjoyed late-night guitar jams with other students. It was great fun for us, but probably not so much for our neighbors.
Of course, many people participated in guitar jams in college, including the musicians Freebo and Jerry Donahue, who did so nearly 50 years ago in Germany, with Freebo using a borrowed guitar from a student down the hall.
But unlike my jam-mates and me, both Freebo and Donahue went on to notable music careers, with Freebo best known for playing bass for a decade with Bonnie Raitt, and Donahue for playing guitar with Fotheringay, Fairport Convention, The Hellecasters and more.
Freebo and Donahue joined forces again, both playing guitar and with Freebo on vocals, at the Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Goleta on Feb. 9, as part of the Song Tree Concert Series. The focus was on Freebo's singer-songwriter material over the last 15 or so years, including a number of songs off his new solo album Something To Believe.
Many of the songs were thoughtful, such as "When There's No Place Like Home" from the point of view of a homeless person; the paean to love called "That's What Love Is;" "Standing Ovation," which was inspired by Freebo imagining what he would want at his funeral for a job well done; and "Something To Believe," which considers what might have been going on in the head of his friend, Eric Lowen, who was slowly dying of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
Others were in the humorous vein, like "She's My D-O-G," which Freebo introduced by telling how he was once accused of being a male chauvinist when a reviewer mistakenly thought the song was about a woman and not a, well, D-O-G. The song "My Personal GPS" is both funny and clever, with lyrics like, "So I make a wrong turn / I'm feelin' lost and afraid / Then I hear my Angel callin' / Recalculate!"
The most hilarious of the bunch was "She Loves My Dog More Than Me," a "mostly true story" about his wife and dog. In one verse, Freebo sings about an intimate encounter that was disrupted by a "cold nose a pokin' somewhere it should not have been," which took him "out of the zone" and left him "holdin' the bone."
This last song was also notable for an incredible guitar solo by Donahue, who has been called the "Bend Master of the Telecaster" for his unique string-bending guitar style. At times, it almost sounded like he was using a slide, but it was all in the bends, executed with great finesse.
Indeed, Donahue wowed the audience with his guitar mastery all night long, including the guitar showcases "First Encounter," "Around the Bend" and "Rockin' the Dog."
Freebo and Donahue welcomed a couple of guests to fill in the sound, namely drummer and The Rhythmic Arts Project founder Eddie Tuduri for "Sometimes It's For Nothing," and Song Tree organizer Tom Lee, who played stand-up bass for this one and a few more.
The show ended with the song "I'll Never Be Ready to Hang Up the Rock 'n' Roll Shoes," capping a fine performance by two friends who, during their college jam sessions, probably couldn't have imagined that they'd be performing onstage together nearly 50 years later.
Before This Feeling Is Gone
My Personal GPS
To The Light
When There's No Place Like Home
She Loves My Dog More Than Me
That's What Love Is
If Not Now When
First Encounter
Around the Bend
Standing Ovation
Sometimes It's For Nothing
Something To Believe
It Goes By Fast
Rockin' the Dog
She's My D-O-G
I'll Never Be Ready to Hang Up the Rock 'n' Roll Shoes
— Jeff Moehlis is a Noozhawk contributing writer and a professor of mechanical engineering at UCSB. Upcoming show recommendations, advice from musicians, interviews and more are available on his web site, music-illuminati.com. The opinions expressed are his own.


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Fluorescent Corals
Unlike fireflies, glowworms, and other bioluminescent creatures, these brilliant corals don't glow on their own. Instead, they absorb one color of light and emit light of another color—a process known as fluorescence.
Fluorescent objects absorb light at certain wavelengths, then reemit it. In the process, some energy is lost as heat. So the outgoing light has less energy—and a longer wavelength—than the light coming in. The change in wavelength means a change in color.
Fluorescent compounds may help corals survive, but the role they play is not yet well understood. Researchers are still studying these animals to find out more, but have suggested a few intriguing possibilities:
- Fluorescent molecules may serve as a sunscreen, protecting corals and the dinoflagellates that live inside them by filtering out harmful ultraviolet rays.
- Injured corals often form colorful patches. These colorful spots are also areas where the coral is making fluorescent molecules that act as antioxidants, capturing toxic oxygen radicals that threaten to damage cells.
- Corals glow by absorbing and reemitting light from the Sun. We can't detect their fluorescence in bright sunlight, but it's possible that some animals can. Many corals glow around their mouth and tentacles, and might use their light to attract prey.
This mural—presented as a life-sized, interactive exhibit in Creatures of Light—captures a slice of life on Bloody Bay Wall, off Little Cayman Island in the Caribbean Sea.
In daylight, creatures on this coral wall can be seen in fine detail. The same areas look very different at night, when lit by high-energy spotlights.
The brilliant patches of red, green and orange come from corals, fishes, and sea anemones. These vivid colors come from fluorescence, not bioluminescence. They only appear when the animals are illuminated by specific wavelengths of light.


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St. Joseph Hospital hosts art reception
January 18. 2013 1:10AM
NASHUA — St. Joseph Hospital will be showcasing the new round of local artists for its Art Reach Project at a community art reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 24 in the St. Joseph Hospital atrium.
Attendees will have a chance to view the art located in the main hallway of the hospital and discuss the projects with featured artists Fran Beloin, Ting Cai, Lisa Salerno, Tina Gagnon, Tom Fleming, Jill Mudge and Ken Fiery.
The large canvases of art hanging upper atrium will be sold at a silent auction. Pieces were created by Albine Vermot-Gaud, Gay Gawron, Jacqui Hawk, Hsiu Norcott, Hiltrud Otjengerdes Bennett, Marilene Sawaf and Patricia Steiner. Artists will be donating 15 percent of their sales to the St. Joseph Hospital Cancer Center.
Pre-bids will be accepted by contacting Ruth Axtell from New England Art Reach at 682-1615. To view available art, visit stjosephhospital.com/Art-Reach.


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OK, maybe you're right, for some reason I'm stuck on Forsberg cause maybe his ceiling might be higher. I honestly see a multi-player deal here. If Johanson comes this way, maybe Schroeder goes that way cause with Johanson and then Gaunce coming up, where does Schroeder fit in? That way we might be able to get them to toss in Wilson. Can you imagine Wilson and Kassian bearing down at you on the forcheck? Carlson could happen if we threw back that way Tanev but I like Tanev.Potatoe1 wrote:RoyalDude wrote: Johansson is decent but very limited offensively, he would make for a good 3rd line centre I guess.
LOL have you even seen him play.
Johansson skates like the wind and has a good shot. He made a good NHL team at 19 and then put up 46 points as a 20 year old. That is as good of a trend as you could expect from a guy taken out of the top5.
He is an excellent young forward.
If we could get them to take Ballard and somehow get Carlson back, we finally get that elusive, 3 right handed defenseman to go with lefties Hamhius, Garrison and Edler. But I think I'm dreaming.


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Although writer, historian, and philosopher Will Durant appreciated the influence of geology on civilization we cannot say with certainty that he would have joined us in Portland for AWRA's 48th Annual Water Resources Conference. But we suspect he would have greatly appreciated the breadth of the topics the Portland meeting will address. Just about every aspect of water resources - physical, chemical, economic, biological, social, geological, legal, hydrological, political, cultural - will be featured.
And what a venue we have! The Rose City, with the iconic Mt. Hood to its east, is one of the best conference venues in the USA and has an appropriate hydrologic address: on the Willamette River (USA's 19th largest by average annual discharge) just south of its confluence with the mighty Columbia River (4th largest). Indeed, the conference hotel, the Red Lion Hotel on the River, sits on the banks of the Columbia just off Interstate 5.
For pre-conference activities on Sunday, 3 November, there are three options. If you want to experience the grandeur that is the Pacific Northwest, be sure to consider one of our two field trips: 1) the Portland Water Bureau's all-day trip to the flanks of Mt. Hood and the Bull Run watershed, exempt from filtration as of this writing, one of the few large municipal water systems in the USA to enjoy such designation; and 2) a half-day trip to see Bonneville Dam and its appurtenances. For those of you thirsting for knowledge that only a classroom environment can provide, we'll have an all-day SWAT workshop.
One of Oregon's own, Steven L. Stockton, Director, Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will keynote the conference on 4 November. A Medford native and civil engineering graduate of Oregon State University, Steve brings wisdom, insight, and a calm demeanor rarely seen inside the Beltway.
Our call for abstracts generated over 400 abstracts. We were able to secure additional meeting rooms at the Red Lion so that for most of the time there will be six concurrent oral sessions - a total of 89! As of this writing there are 320 oral and 74 poster presentations. There will be special sessions galore; here are just a few: Groundwater Governance; Watershed Scale Hydrologic Response to Projected Climate Change; Sediment, Geomorphology, and Society; Advances in Low-Impact Development; Aquifer Storage and Recovery; The Columbia River Treaty; Invasive Species; Integrated Water Planning in Washington State; Integrated Water Planning in both Oregon and Washington States; and Ecosystem Services in Floodplain Management. And if you think we have forgotten Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), think again! IWRM mavens Brenda Bateman, Cheryl Ulrich, Lisa Beutler, and their compatriots will see that you get your fill with plenty of sessions and panels.
Don't forget the Wednesday 2013 Symposium on Collaborative Modeling for Decision Support - Advancing Water Planning for 30 Years. This innovative event, a first for an AWRA Annual Conference, will feature a veritable 'Who's Who' of experts and enhance your conference experience. Speaking of experts, at a special Twilight Presentation on Wednesday evening, Philip C. Ward, Director of the Oregon Water Resources Department, will speak on: A New Day in the Klamath River Basin - Adjudication, Drought, Science, and the Rule of Law.
AWRA's 'Community, Conversation, Connections' mantra will be evidenced by numerous social events: the poster reception on Monday, a local special event on Tuesday, and the awards luncheon and student/young professional event on Wednesday. Immediate Past President Bill Battaglin is planning to lead the 5K Fun Run on Tuesday morning.
We expect about 500 multidisciplinary water resources professionals to descend upon our fair city to partake in discussions of science, engineering, Pinot noirs, policy, management, fish, economics, ales vs. lagers, ASR, and other great liquid issues of the day. You will be enthused by the location, topics, discourse, and the ability to access and network with an exceptional group of water resources professionals. Our outstanding Organizing Committee and the extraordinary AWRA staff are committed to your satisfaction!
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Morning Five: 09.29.11 EditionPosted by rtmsf on September 29th, 2011
- Southern Mississippi head coach Larry Eustachy received a three-year extension on his contract. You might recall that Eustachy gained some notoriety in 2009 for giving back a $25,000 bonus to his employer because he didn't feel as if he had earned it. In the two seasons hence, his Golden Eagles have gone 42-24 and were invited to the CIT postseason tournament in 2009-10. Southern Miss was in the conversation for an at-large bid in last year's NCAA Tournament prior to hitting a tough stretch during the last two weeks of the season. His extension does not include a salary boost, but it will keep him employed at the school through the 2013-14 season.
- Rick Pitino really must not want to end up in the 'fertile' recruiting grounds of the Big 12, searching for talent in a place like Manhattan, Kansas, rather than Manhattan island. In an interview with Adam Zagoria on Tuesday night, he went on a somewhat incomprehensible tirade about why Connecticut would be "dumb" to leave the Big East for the ACC if there was another spot available for the Huskies. He invokes none other than the legendary John Wooden to explain why UConn should not consider such a move: "Do you ever think [leaving the Pac-10] crossed his mind? No, when you're great winner, those things don't cross your mind. The only thing that crosses your mind is the ability to win a championship and carry on the great tradition you've built." He even goes so far as to suggest that the Huskies might be less successful in a conference like the ACC, citing Boston College's one soccer title as a relevant example. But… didn't Pitino tell us a hundred times in March that the Big East was by far the best basketball conference? Why would leaving the best basketball conference for a weaker one hurt them, Rick? We haven't seen video of this interview, but it reads like the rantings and ramblings of a man desperate to avoid irrelevance.
- We're all aware that Syracuse is headed to the ACC, although the when behind that move is still up in the air. What might also be up in the air is the idea Syracuse chancellor Nancy Cantor floated on Tuesday — Syracuse possibly playing some home ACC games in New York City. Calling the Orange "New York's college team," Cantor strongly stated that one of the must-haves for her school was to play some home ACC games in the Big Apple. Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim fired back with unequivocal statements to the contrary on Wednesday. Suggesting that Cantor was mistaken about which games might be played in NYC, Boeheim said, "we absolutely would not take conference games to New York City. It was never the intent… She meant games in New York. Yes. And bringing the ACC Tournament to New York." From an economic standpoint to the school, it makes a lot more sense to bring elite ACC teams to upstate New York and the enormous Carrier Dome than to try to play the likes of Duke, UNC, Maryland and others in the much smaller venues of Madison Square Garden or the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
- Speaking of the new NYC arena, we're already loving this place. New York always felt like it should be a two-arena kind of town, and the Barclays will now allow some interesting simultaneous events for people in the city to enjoy. The first example of this will now occur in 2013, as the Atlantic 10 has signed a five-year deal to bring its conference tournament to Brooklyn. If the league keeps with the format it has now so that the quarters, semis and finals occur on Selection Sunday weekend, savvy hoops fans might be able to commute between the Big East extravaganza at MSG and the best A-10 games over in Brooklyn. With a mere half-hour trip by subway line between the two arenas, hoops junkies like ourselves could find themselves in a heavenly situation.
- Let's finish with some really good news. Arizona's Kevin Parrom is back on campus in Tucson and is set to resume classes and begin rehabilitation from the shooting injury he suffered last weekend in his hometown of New York. The bullet entered his leg in the back of his right knee but head coach Sean Miller said on Tuesday that it's unclear how the injury will impact his basketball activities this season, suggesting that it will be at least a month before a true assessment can be made. Parrom, a junior who averaged 8/3 last season while knocking down 41.8% of his threes, is a key contributor for Miller, but at this point everyone is just happy that he's alive and not critically injured. Even in what has to be trying times for a young athlete, he still has his humor intact, tweeting at former conference rival Isaiah Thomas, "Idk what hurts more your shot that went in at the end of the game or the 1 i got this weekend smh lol." Well played, sir.


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March 3, 1949 - September 5, 2013
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Linda G. Jediny of Walden, NY, a homemaker, passed away on Thursday, September 5, 2013 at St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital, Newburgh, NY. She was 64 years old. The daughter of Richard and Lois Ziegler Lackey, she was born on March 3, 1949 in Ligonier, PA. Linda loved to work with crafts.
She is survived by her husband, Paul Jediny, at home; her mother, Lois McGinnis of PA; daughter, Margaret Enchautegui and her husband, Ruben of Walden; brother, Richard Lackey, Jr. of PA; sister, Carol Walker of Ohio; and granddaughter, Andreanna.
Visitation will be held on Monday, September 9th, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Gridley-Horan Funeral Home, 39 Orchard Street, Walden, NY. Cremation will be in Cedar Hill Crematory, Newburgh, NY.
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Teller recounts terror of robbery
WAILUKU – A bank teller said that she feared for her life when a robber appeared to point a gun at a fellow teller last week at First Hawaiian Bank in Pukalani.
"I was scared. . . . We were all scared," said teller Rina Alejo, who was testifying in a preliminary hearing in Wailuku District Court on Tuesday involving suspects in the robbery. "You don't know if somebody is going to shoot you."
Alejo identified Kula resident Richard "Ricky" Vance, 25, who was in the courtroom, as the robber and testified that he waved what appeared to be a gun concealed by a bandana in the air and told everybody in the bank to get on the ground. She said that the 15 people inside the bank, including the customer in front of her, immediately dropped to the floor.
Vance threw a reusable blue Walmart bag at her, told her to give him all the money she had and swore at her to hurry up, she told the court. Alejo said he demanded money from three other tellers.
She said Vance later pointed the weapon at another teller, telling her to "hurry the f— up before I shoot somebody."
Alejo said Vance exited through the main entrance, and she later heard the sound of a dirt bike.
Detective Wendell Loo testified that the pair made off with $9,682.
After the testimony Tuesday afternoon, Wailuku District Judge Kelsey T. Kawano ruled that there was probable cause to support charges of first-degree robbery and terroristic threatening against Vance and his accomplice, Michael Santino Sobel, 28, of Pukalani.
In testimony during the preliminary hearing, Sobel was identified as the man on the dirt bike who aided in the getaway.
Kawano continued bail of $105,000 for each man; both are scheduled to appear in 2nd Circuit Court on March 7.
Testifying at the preliminary hearing was Christina Sawyer, 20, of Kula, who was initially charged with first-degree robbery and terroristic threatening in the case. She agreed to testify against Vance and Sobel in exchange for the dismissal of the terroristic threatening charge and a reduced charge of second-degree theft, according to her attorney, William Sloper.
The prosecution waived her bail, and she was set to be released.
Sawyer, who said she was a friend of Vance, testified that Vance planned the robbery and had talked about it a couple days before the incident, though she was not sure if he was serious.
"All of a sudden, on the 19th it got real," she said.
Sawyer said she met Sobel for the first time at the Pukalani Shell and Car Wash on Feb. 19. She said that Sobel drove Vance to the bank on the dirt bike and that Vance instructed her to wait on the side of Kula Highway by Longs Drugs.
After the robbery, she testified, she followed Vance and Sobel up the highway in a maroon Toyota Corolla, where the three met on a back road. Sawyer said she saw the blue bag and drove Vance to her house. They both looked through the money in the bag, then Vance changed his clothes, removing a black hooded sweatshirt, bandana and dirt bike gloves.
Sawyer drove Vance to the Minit Stop in Pukalani, where Vance had a conversation with Sobel and handed him some of the stolen money, she said.
Sawyer and Vance then headed to Kahului where she used some of the stolen money to buy some lingerie at Macy's, she told the court. Sawyer said that she later deposited some of the money into her account at American Savings Bank.
On Feb. 20, the pair made their way to the Westin Maui Resort & Spa in Kaanapali, where they were arrested by police officers, Sawyer testified.
Defense attorney Jon Apo, who represents Vance, and Deputy Public Defender Gregory Ball, who represents Sobel, questioned Sawyer's recollection of the events, noting that she was on oxycontin at the time.
She confirmed the claim but said that she had a clear mindset that day.
Bank supervisor Debbie Herrera testified that some of the money that was stolen Feb.19 was marked bills, a precaution used to trace stolen money back to the bank. Alejo, who has been a bank teller since 2004, told the court that every morning they have a cash can that has money from the previous day, as well as marked money.
Loo and fellow Detective Stephen Orikasa found some of the marked money at Sobel's residence and in Sawyer's wallet. Detectives also found the yellow-and-black dirt bike at Sobel's residence.
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'Women For Herman Cain' Is A Thing That Actually Exists
In response to allegations that Herman Cain is a philandering gropemaster, his campaign has launched a new Women For Herman Cain section on its website. On it, female supporters of the Georgia businessman are encouraged to share their stories and leave messages of support. And it's hilarious.


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Now because of the stupidity of the makers of the wireless router we are using
but that is currently inaccessible and since I want the arduino to use my laptop or desktop's Ethernet plug to connect to the router via wifi, would not work because of the mac address changing in-route.
I did lose the password as I made the admin password too complex for me to remember. I have considered resetting the router to factor settings, however what concerns me is that when the when time warner first set up the router. I found there were already entries in the routing table that I did not enter.
What are they, I don't know. If I reset to factory settings, and those entrees are erased, I am concerned about what may happen to the internet connection. Last thing we need is paying for a tech to come to our house to fix the modem.


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by Susan Mikula Campbell
Wheatfield is now $2.228 million "in the black," compared to the deficit of three years ago.
"Frankly, we're in very good shape," Supervisor Bob Cliffe said at Monday's Town Board meeting, noting that the town's annual financial report update was filed with the state comptroller's office on March 28. The report summarizes the town's financial status as of Dec. 31, 2012.
Of the town's eight operating budgets, only one, fire protection districts, is still a little bit in the red at $67,606, Cliffe said. Also, long-term debt, originally at $15.6 million, has been reduced to $11.6 million.
Cliffe credited the work of Ed Mongold, town budget director, as the primary reason for the healthy unreserved, unappropriated fund balance. He also praised town department heads for not spending money unless necessary.
Cliffe noted that when he took office the town was $663,000 in the red, including funds designated to reduce taxes "that we didn't have."
Mongold said in his report that revenues have exceeded expenses for the third year in a row due to a slight increase in sales tax revenues, a slight increase in water and sewer revenues due to the hot dry summer, and the careful monitoring of expenditures with the purchase order system implemented two years ago.
He is recommending that water rates be increased for 2013 to provide needed cash for the water district fund. Although this fund had a total fund balance of $156,414 at the end of 2012, the cash balance was only $5,783. The fund balance primarily represents outstanding water bills from which the cash will not be collected by the county until 2013.
In other matters:
•The board approved spending $5,000 again this year for special Niagara County Sheriff's ATV patrols. Councilman Larry Helwig noted that farmers complain about ATVs because they destroy crops and residents complain about the noise. He asked that the town prosecutor be notified that the Town Board wants fines for these offenders.
•The board approved the annual agreement with Highway Superintendent Art Kroening for this season's road repairs and improvements, expected to cost $400,000. These include: a quarter-mile of overlay for Jennifer Court leading to Lancelot Drive; 1.5 miles of milling and overlay for Hoover Road and Brent Drive to Lockport Road; a half-mile of overlay for Katherine Drive from Walmore Road to Rebecca Drive; a half-mile of overlay for Rebecca Drive from Jagow Road to Lancelot Drive; a half-mile of overlay for Washington Street from Schultz Street to Hunt Street; a quarter-mile of overlay for Hunt Street from Niagara Road to Stoelting Street; a quarter-mile of overlay for Wurl Street from Hunt Street to Niagara Road; a half-mile of milling and overlay from Witmer Road from Niagara Falls Boulevard to Ferchen Street; and various minor road repairs. The board also is discussing allocating funds for the repair of Craig Drive and whether the work can be done this year or saved for next year.
•Kroening also reminded residents that the Highway Department will be back to scheduling brush pickup next week and to "put the butt ends facing out to the road."
•Assessor Brigette Grawe alerted residents that the state budget includes a proposal that would require all basic STAR recipients to register with the state Tax Department to receive or continue receiving the STAR exemption. Currently, there is no way to check whether somebody is filing on a second residence in another municipality, she said. The basic STAR is only for the tax filer's primary residence.
She said the program will apply to 2014 exemptions, and taxpayers will be notified by mail when it is time to register.
Senior citizens who receive enhanced STAR deductions will continue to register yearly through the town assessor's office, she said.
•Recreation Director Ed Sturgeon reported that the Easter break camp at the Youth Center last week was a sellout success and that some of the kids "wanted to know if they could come back this week."
•The next Town Board meeting will be at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 22.


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An Affair To Remember
She was 82. He was 95. They had dementia. They fell in love. And then they started having sex.
Melinda Henneberger chatted online with readers about this article. Read the transcript.
Bob's family was horrified at the idea that his relationship with Dorothy might have become sexual. At his age, they wouldn't have thought it possible. But when Bob's son walked in and saw his 95-year-old father in bed with his 82-year-old girlfriend last December, incredulity turned into full-blown panic. "I didn't know where this was going to end," said the manager of the assisted-living facility where Bob and Dorothy lived. "It was pretty volatile."
Because both Bob and Dorothy suffer from dementia, the son assumed that his father didn't fully understand what was going on. And his sputtering cell phone call reporting the scene he'd happened upon would have been funny, the manager said, if the consequences hadn't been so serious. "He was going, 'She had her mouth on my dad's penis! And it's not even clean!' " Bob's son became determined to keep the two apart and asked the facility's staff to ensure that they were never left alone together.
After that, Dorothy stopped eating. She lost 21 pounds, was treated for depression, and was hospitalized for dehydration. When Bob was finally moved out of the facility in January, she sat in the window for weeks waiting for him. She doesn't do that anymore, though: "Her Alzheimer's is protecting her at this point," says her doctor, who thinks the loss might have killed her if its memory hadn't faded so mercifully fast.
But should someone have protected the couple's right to privacy—their right to have a sex life?
"We were in uncharted territory," the facility manager said—and there's a reason for that. Even the More magazine-reading demographic that thinks midlife is forever (and is deeply sorry to see James Naughton doing Cialis ads) seems to believe that while sex isn't only for the young, exceptions are only for the exfoliated. We're squeamish about the sex lives of the elderly—and even more so when those elderly are senile and are our parents. But as the baby boom generation ages, there are going to be many more Dorothys and Bobs—who may no longer quite recall the Summer of Love but are unlikely to accept parietal rules in the nursing home. Gerontologists highly recommend sex for the elderly because it improves mood and even overall physical function, but the legal issues are enormously complicated, as Daniel Engber explored in his 2007 article "Naughty Nursing Homes": Can someone with dementia give informed consent? How do caregivers balance safety and privacy concerns? When families object to a demented person being sexually active, are nursing homes responsible for chaperoning? This one botched love affair shows the incredible intensity and human cost of an issue that, as Dorothy's doctor says, we can't afford to go on ignoring.
Dorothy's daughter, who contacted me, said that, in a lucid moment, her mother asked her to publicize her predicament. "We're all going to get old, if we're lucky," said the daughter, who is a lawyer. And if we get lucky when we're old, then we need to have drawn up a sexual power of attorney before it's too late. Who controls the intimate lives of people with dementia? Unless specific provision has been made, their families do. And for Dorothy, which is her middle name, and Bob, which isn't his real name at all, that quickly became a problem.
"Who do you love?" Dorothy asked me, right after her daughter introduced us. She'd married her first—and only other—sweetheart, a grade-school classmate she'd grown up with in Boston and waited for while he flew daylight bombing raids over Germany during World War II. Together they had four children, built a business, and traveled all over the world, right up until she lost him to a heart attack 16 years ago. But she never mentions him now and doesn't like it when anyone else does, either, because how could she not remember her own husband? Her daughter visits every evening, and because Dorothy loves kids, her daughter pays the housekeeper to bring hers over every afternoon, "and she thinks they're her grandchildren, and it makes her happy."
But even showing me around her well-appointed, little apartment in the nice-smelling assisted-living facility was an exercise in frustration for Dorothy: She joked and covered, but she might as well have been guiding me through Isabella Stewart Gardner's house, because all around were tokens from her past that have lost their meaning for her. There were tiny busts of Bach and Brahms, a collection of miniature porcelain pianos, Japanese woodcuts, and some Thomas Hart Benton lithographs she picked up for a few dollars in the '40s. "These are all my favorites," she said, pointing to shelves of novels by the Brontes and books about Leonardo da Vinci and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. But her expression said that she couldn't recall why she liked these volumes best, and what I think she wanted me to know is that she once was a person who could have told me. When her daughter mentioned Bob's name—Bob, who was led away in January, shouting, "What's going on? Where are you taking me?" right in front of her—it wasn't clear how much she remembered: "He came and he went, and there's nothing more to say."
So it was left to her daughter, her doctor, and the woman who runs the assisted-living facility to explain how this grown woman, who lived through the Depression and survived breast cancer, managed a home and mourned a mate, wound up being treated like a child. "Come back anytime," Dorothy told me sweetly.
Downstairs, in her bright, tidy office, I met the woman who runs the facility—one of the nicest I've seen, with tea service in the lobby and white tablecloths in a dining room that's dressed up like a restaurant. In 30 years of taking care of the elderly, she's seen plenty of couples, but none as "inspiring" or heartbreaking as Dorothy and Bob. Which is why she keeps a photo of the two of them on her desk. In the picture, Dorothy is sitting at the piano in the lobby, where she used to play and he used to sing along—with gusto, usually warbling, "I dream of Jeanie with the light brown hair," no matter what tune she was playing. She is all dolled up, wearing a jangly red bracelet and gold lamé shoes, and they are holding hands and beaming in a way that makes it impossible not to see the 18-year-olds inside them.
Before Dorothy came along, the manager said, Bob was really kind of a player and had all the women vying to sit with him on the porch. But with Dorothy, she said, "it was love." One day, the staff noticed that they were sitting together, then before long they were taking all their meals together, and over a matter of weeks, it became constant. Whenever Bob caught sight of Dorothy, he lit up "like a young stud seeing his lady for the first time." Even at 95, he'd pop out of his chair and straighten his clothes when she walked into the room. She would sit, and then he would sit. And both of them began taking far greater pride in their appearance; Dorothy went from wearing the same ratty yellow dress all the time to appearing for breakfast every morning in a different outfit, accessorized with pearls and hair combs.
Soon the relationship became sexual. At first, Dorothy's daughter and the facility manager doubted Dorothy's vivid accounts of having intercourse with Bob. But aides noticed that Bob became visibly aroused when he kissed Dorothy good night—and saw that he didn't want to leave her at her door anymore, either. (Note to James Naughton: Bob did not need what you are selling.) His overnight nurse was an obstacle to sleepovers, but the couple started spending time alone in their apartments during the day. When Bob's son became aware of these trysts, he tried to put a stop to them—in the manager's view because the son felt that old people "should be old and rock in the chair." When I called Bob's son and told him I was writing about the situation without using any names, he passed on the opportunity to explain his perspective. "I don't choose to discuss anything that involves my father," he said, and he put the phone down.
But according to the facility manager, the son was convinced that Dorothy was the aggressor in the relationship, and he worried that her advances might be hard on his father's weak heart. He wasn't the only one troubled by the physical relationship. The private-duty nurse who had been tending Bob also had strong feelings about the matter, said the manager: "At first, she thought it was cute they were together, but when it became sexual, she lost her senses" for religious reasons and asked staff members to help keep the two of them apart.
Employees wound up choosing sides—as did other residents, including some women who were apparently jealous of Dorothy's romance. And because the couple now had to sneak around to be together—for instance, cutting out when they were supposed to be in church—their intimacy became more and more open and problematic. At one point, the manager had to make Bob stop "pleasuring her" right in the lobby, where Dorothy sat with a pillow placed strategically over her lap. In all of her years of working with elderly people, the manager said, this was not only her worst professional experience but was the only one that left her feeling she had failed her patients. She had a particularly hard time staying neutral and detached, she said, because she kept thinking that "if that was my mom or dad, I'd be grateful they'd found somebody to spend the rest of their lives with."
One day when Dorothy's daughter arrived to visit, she found Bob sitting in the lobby, surrounded by a wheelchair brigade of dozing people who had been posted around him by the private-duty nurse to block Dorothy from approaching him. That's when Dorothy's daughter got the state involved and started throwing around the word lawsuit, which only made things worse, the manager said. "Once she started talking legal, that pushed things over the edge." The state did send someone in to try to mediate the situation—but then the mediator was diagnosed with cancer and died just five weeks later. Though the mediator's replacement tried to pick up where he had left off, she was never able to establish a rapport with Bob's son.
Finally, Bob's family decided to move him and insisted that neither he nor Dorothy be told in advance. No one in either family was there the morning Bob's nurse hustled him out the door. Later, the manager called his son and asked if there was any way Dorothy might come and visit just briefly, to say goodbye. The son thought about it for a few days and then said no, his father was already settled into his new home and was not thinking about her at all anymore. The lawyers told Dorothy's family that there was no way they could make the legal case that Bob's rights were being violated by his family, because you couldn't put people with dementia on the witness stand.
Dorothy's son-in-law, who is a doctor, suspects Bob's son of fearing for his inheritance. Bob had repeatedly proposed for all to hear and called Dorothy his wife, but his son called her something else—a "gold digger"—and refused to even discuss her family's offer to sign a prenup. According to Dorothy's daughter, Bob's son told her, "My father has outlived three wives, including the one he married in his 80s, and your mother is just one of many." But surely Bob's safety was a true concern, too, and maybe his son had religious or moral qualms? "I don't think so," the manager said. "I don't think he meant his dad any harm, but he couldn't see what his dad needed. … He wanted his dad to have a relationship but on his terms: You can sit together at meals, but you can't have what really makes a relationship, and be careful how much you kiss and don't retire to a private place to do what all of us do."
Though Dorothy might or might not remember what happened, "there's a sadness in her" that wasn't there before, the manager said. Bob "gave her back something she had long lost—to think she's pretty, to care about her step and her stride." She eats in her room now rather than in the dining room where she shared meals with Bob. And she no longer plays the piano. A new couple in the facility has gotten together in the last few weeks. The manager called their families in right away and was relieved to see that they were happy for their parents, and the families have been taking them on outings together. As a result of the whole experience, the manager, who is 50, recently had a different version of "the talk" with her 25-year-old daughter, instructing her never, ever to let such a thing happen to her or her husband: "I hope I get another shot at it when I'm 90 years old."
Dorothy's doctor also took their experience personally. "Can you imagine as a clinician, treating a woman who's finally found happiness and then suddenly she's not eating because she couldn't see her loved one? This was a 21st-century Romeo and Juliet. And let's be honest, because this man was very elderly, I got intrigued; my respects to the gentleman." His patient was happier than he could ever remember; she was playing the piano again, and even her memory had improved.
And though the doctor never laid eyes on Bob, in general, he said, the fear of sex causing heart attacks is wildly overblown: "If you've made it to age 95, I'm sorry, but having sex is not going to kill you—it's going to prolong your life. It was as if someone had removed the sheath that was covering [Dorothy], and she got to live for a while." But after the trauma of losing Bob, Dorothy's doctor came close to losing his patient, he said, adding that most people her age would not have survived the simultaneous resulting insults of depression, malnutrition, and dehydration. "We can't afford the luxury of treating people like this. … But we don't want to know what our parents do in bed."
Then the daughter interjected that Bob's son certainly didn't want to see them having oral sex, and the doctor proved his own point. Holding a hand up to stop her from saying any more, he told her, "I didn't need to know that." But maybe the rest of us do.


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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted Wednesday to revise its long-standing guidance to employers on how to properly evaluate job applicants' criminal histories in pre-employment screening.
The issue became a controversy because an estimated 65 million Americans have some type of criminal record, which can make it very difficult to get a job. Researchers found in 2009 that a criminal record cut chances for a job callback or offer by nearly 50 percent.
But employers, charged with guarding companies' assets and the safety of their workers and customers, say record checks are essential in judging job seekers' judgment, trustworthiness and reliability.
Rather than establish new rules, the revamped guidelines provide more clarification and detail on the standards that were first established in 1987. They also make recommendations on how employers can avoid EEOC scrutiny when they're considering job seekers with previous arrests and convictions.
Carol Miaskoff, an EEOC assistant legal counsel, said the new guidelines reasserted "fundamental legal positions the commission staked out over 20 years ago, providing more in-depth legal analysis with updated factual research."
Wednesday's 4-1 vote to adopt the revised regulations capped a two-year review of the issue by the EEOC, which enforces Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That law that bars employers from using job-screening standards that have a disparate racial impact.
Denying jobs solely on the basis of criminal convictions is illegal, because it would disproportionately affect African-Americans and Hispanics, who have higher rates of arrest and criminal conviction. If current incarceration rates continue, one in 17 white males are likely to go to prison at some point in their lives, compared with one in six Hispanic males and one in three African-American males.
To pass muster, job denials based on criminal convictions must be shown to be "job-related and consistent with business necessity," according to EEOC guidelines. This means the employer must show that it considered three factors: the nature and gravity of the offense, the amount of time since the conviction and the relevance of the offense to the type of the job that's being sought.
That standard has stood for 25 years, but a 2007 U.S. Appeals Court ruling found legal shortcomings, including a lack of legal analysis and factual research to support the standard. Those problems, and the increased availability of criminal-record data online, prompted the commission to update its guidance to employers.
The new guidance addresses those concerns, providing national criminal data on African-Americans and Hispanics that shows "criminal-record exclusions have a disparate impact based on race and national origin," Miaskoff said.
Along with numerous examples of policies that meet the "job-related" and "business necessity" standard, the new guidance analyzes the legal genesis of these standards in light of Supreme Court and federal appellate court case law.
Even if an employer can show that a job denial based on a criminal record met the "business necessity" standard, a plaintiff may prevail at trial if he or she can demonstrate that an employer refused to adopt "a less discriminatory but effective employment (screening) policy or practice," Miaskoff said.
The National Retail Federation expressed concern that the new guidelines recommend that employers not ask about convictions on initial job applications and that when they do, "the inquiries be limited to convictions for which exclusion would be job-related for the position in question."
Doing that would "restrict employers' ability to ensure the safety of their workers and customers," said David French, the federation's vice president for government relations. He said the federation would continue to discuss the issue with the EEOC and other business organizations.


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Gonzales at the Press Conference Announcing the Memorandum of Understanding on Ballistics Information Sharing
Asheville, North Carolina November 16, 2006
Good afternoon. I am joined today by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Michael Sullivan. We have been having very productive meetings yesterday and today to discuss a variety of law enforcement issues of importance to the people of the United States and Canada. The friendship of our two countries is as healthy as our common border is long. And in the last few years, we have secured unprecedented levels of cooperation between our criminal justice systems. On Tuesday I visited Buffalo, New York, and was reminded of the challenges that law enforcement agents on both sides of the border are facing. And I saw evidence of the strength of our collaboration with Canada, and our shared commitment to keeping our people safe from crime. Every day, American law enforcement works side-by-side with our Canadian partners to shut down criminal operations and protect our citizens. Today we share more information, we train together, we conduct joint operations. We are safer, but not yet safe. We must continue to build upon this cooperation, and we must take full advantage of the partnerships formed at gatherings like this one. The Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Accessing Forensic Firearms Data I
have just signed will be a part of our efforts. This agreement will enhance the ability of our countries to share forensic ballistics information electronically and in real time. It will improve our ability to identify and link crime scene evidence and will advance our joint efforts to fight gun crimes. Currently, the ATF uses the same ballistics collection and identification technology as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. This technology allows us to collect and search images of bullets and cartridge cases recovered from crime scenes, and from firearms seized by law enforcement officers. The Integrated Ballistics Identification System, or IBIS, allows information to be collected nationwide in Canada and the United States. Before today, ATF and the RCMP shared IBIS data on an ad hoc basis—a viable but cumbersome solution. We could be much more efficient by better connecting our systems, and that is what this agreement seeks to do. The technology has recently been developed to allow us to link these networks, and now we have an agreement in place allowing for a much more integrated process. Previously, a cop investigating a gun crime in New York, who suspected a connection to a similar crime across the border in Toronto, would face such a complicated and labor-intensive ordeal in pursuing that lead, it was likely to just never happen. Now, he will be able to follow a streamlined electronic trail directly through the IBIS network. Lab techs will be able to compare evidence in both systems, and our law enforcement officers will save valuable time in their investigations—allowing them to concentrate on solving crimes instead of filling out paperwork. It is an important step forward and a concrete example of how we are tearing down barriers to law enforcement, and constantly strengthening our international partnerships. And now I would like to invite Secretary Chertoff to make a few comments. ###


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Eleanor Anderson Wright, 90 - December 19, 2012Eleanor Anderson Wright, 90, of Colorado Springs, CO, formerly of Gothenburg, passed away Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012.
She was the daughter of distinguished Nebraska farmers, Esther and Fred Anderson, and was born on the family farm on May 20, 1922.
Wright graduated from Gothenburg High School in 1931. She then attended Kearney State Teachers College and graduated from St. Luke's Hospital Training School for Nurses at Denver, CO, in 1943.
She served as 2nd Lt. with the U.S. Army during World War II as an operating room nurse.
At Hawaii in 1945, she was united in marriage to Russell Marcus Wright of Denver, former World War II Navy Lt. and prominent Denver architect. The couple remained together 63 years.
Wright and her husband resided at Denver where they raised four daughters.
Following her husband's retirement from his architectural firm of Linder, Wright & White, the couple traveled throughout Europe, lived briefly in Denver and at Gothenburg. They then moved to San Luis Obispo, CA, for 12 years, where her husband worked as an architectural consultant, and she worked as an RN at Cabrillo Senior Care Center.
In the early 1990s, they resettled in the Denver area where she worked part time as a nurse for the Sable Senior Care Center, and in 2006, they moved to Colorado Springs to be near their daughter and her family.
Wright touched many lives and was loved by those who knew her, according to family members. She enjoyed quilting and playing bridge. She was also interested in politics, and while in the Denver area, she was an active volunteer for the Republican party.
Survivors include: her four daughters—Cheryl W. Green of New York, NY, Alanna Wright-Jones of Colorado Springs, Patricia Wright of Roslyn Heights, NY, and Joanne Wright Deshmuk of Sudbury, MA; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Memorials are suggested to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, 322 Eighth Ave., 7th fl, NY, NY 10001. 866-232-8484. http://www.alzfdn.org.
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10 Questions We Hope Dr. Phil Asks DMX Today
What in the world is going on with DMX? That's the No. 1 question that Dr. Phil will try to answer later today when the rapper makes an appearance on The Dr. Phil Show. From X's past drug use to his down-and-out rap career, we're hoping he peels back more layers this time around. Check out 10 questions we hope Dr. Phil grills DMX about on his show.


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