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Seventeen-year-old Arely Vasquez may not know what college she is going to attend or what she'd like to major in, but a couple things are for certain: She will be going. And she credits N.C. State University's Juntos program and its summer summit for keeping her motivated to do what it takes to get accepted at a top-tier school.
The N.C. Cooperative Extension Service at N.C. State offers Juntos as a way to give Latino parents and students like Arely the knowledge, resources and motivation to stay in school and go on to college.
For the past three years, Juntos has been augmented with a 5-day, grant-funded summer summit at N.C. State. Program leaders include Dr. Andrew Behnke, Cintia Aguilar and Diana Urieta. All are with NCSU's Department of 4-H Youth Development and Family and Consumer Sciences.
This year's summit, held July 4-8, attracted 90 rising 8-12 graders. Participants came from six counties: Alamance, Orange, Sampson, Wake, Wayne Counties. All counties have implemented the six-week Juntos curriculum, and related 4-H clubs are offered in Sampson, Wayne and Yadkin counties. A new club is just beginning to take shape in Orange County.
During the summer summit, students spent time in workshops and other educational activities. They learned about two of NC State's largest colleges – the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the College of Engineering – and they went on a walking tour of campus.
They also heard from a panel of N.C. State Latino students; attended workshops on such diverse topics as self-identity, paying for college and how medicines are made; took part in a Zumba session and a soccer clinic with members of the Carolina Railhawks; and visited the Contemporary Art Museum and N.C. History Museum in Raleigh.
Diana Urieta, who helps coordinate the summit, said the summit's goal is to get participants "excited about higher education."
"The way we do that is each year we try to bring different colleges in to talk to the students, and we try to develop in them an identity of who they are," she said. "We try to do that the first day and the second day – who am I? And where do I fit in as far as education?"
This year's theme, Urieta said, was "Building Our Future." "The idea is that … you didn't start building your future here," she said. "And you're not going to end here at the summit. It's an ongoing process, but the summit will give students tools that will lead to success in their educational journey."
Juntos is Spanish for together, so it is fitting that teams from each of the participating counties worked together to paint a bench to bring back to their respective counties for use in a public place. Each group had to decide where to put their bench and how to decorate it.
They also took part in another community service activity when they visited the Museum of History by helping museum staff members understand which sorts of information there would be helpful for Latino students and their families, Urieta said.
Adding community service components to the summit reinforces one of the points that Juntos emphasizes: "Participants learn through the Juntos program that to get into college, they need to do community service and to be involved in extracurricular activities – they can't just depend on good grades," Urieta said.
Participant Judit Nava of Yadkin County said the summit helped motivate her to study hard so she can go to college. In the fall, she plans to study community translating and office administration at Surry Community College.
Sampson County high-schooler Luis Aguilar, an aspiring physical therapist, said the program has helped allay some of his fears about college. And Arely Vasquez , of Wayne County, also said that Juntos has given her a good idea about what it's like in college – something her parents haven't had the chance to experience.
"My parents got to the 8th or 9th grade and had to quit to go to work. But they want me to take advantage of the opportunities they didn't have, so that's one reason I've been involved in the Juntos program," said the rising senior, who went to the summit two years in a row.
"It's been very inspiring to be honest. Every year I leave with new ideas. It creates motivation," she said. "You meet a lot of new people, and we do exciting projects. We also get a feeling of what college life is like – and we know that there is something good that is waiting for us in the future."
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Principles of self-organization play an increasingly central role in models of human activity. Notably, individual human displacements exhibit strongly recurrent patterns that are characterized by scaling laws and can be mechanistically modelled as self-attracting walks. Recurrence is not, however, unique to human displacements. Here we report that the mobility patterns of wild capuchin monkeys are not random walks, and they exhibit recurrence properties similar to those of cell phone users, suggesting spatial cognition mechanisms shared with humans. We also show that the highly uneven visitation patterns within monkey home ranges are not entirely self-generated but are forced by spatio-temporal habitat heterogeneities. If models of human mobility are to become useful tools for predictive purposes, they will need to consider the interaction between memory and environmental heterogeneities.
1. Introduction
Individual human displacements have a strong impact on many collective social phenomena, such as the spread of epidemics [1–3] or cultural traits [4]. The availability of quantitative mobility data has increased in recent years through the widespread use of global positioning systems [5] and the ability to track cell phones [6–8]. These new data show that human displacements do not follow memory-less processes, like the well-known Markovian random walk [9], rather they exhibit ultra-slow diffusion and unusual, long-lasting recurrence properties owing to the tendency of individuals to frequently revisit a small number of familiar locations [7,8].
Whether unifying principles that govern the movements of humans [8] and, more generally, of living organisms [10] exist is a hotly debated issue. As with the distribution of city sizes [11] or the dynamics of individual tasks [12], scaling laws prevail in human mobility data [5,8,13]. In physical systems, scaling laws are often the outcome of self-organization principles. Self-attracting or reinforced walks [14,15] are non-Markovian stochastic walks that tend to revisit with higher probability locations visited in the past. Recently, a new reinforced walk model with preferential return to previously visited sites, in analogy with preferential attachment rules used in network science [16], could reproduce many empirical human visitation patterns [8]. However, it is also important to quantify the dependence of individual displacements on more complex external factors—for instance, transportation [1] and social networks [17], or the spatial distribution of facilities or resources [18].
In this contribution, we show that the scaling laws characterizing recurrence in human movements are similar to those exhibited by some foraging animals, which suggests that these patterns are not unique to humans and may be generated by a more generalized set of cognitive mechanisms. We present evidence that, like humans, other animals also live in heterogeneous habitats where some areas are more valuable to them than others. Recurrent patterns of movement, in particular home range behaviour, actually characterize the ranging of a very large number of animal species [19,20]. Here, we use radio telemetry data to show that the mobility and visitation patterns of capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus) foraging for fruit in a tropical forest are not only comparable to human cell phone users qualitatively, but also exhibit scaling laws that are strikingly similar in both the short and long time regimes. In addition, monkeys' movements are not entirely self-organized, but also strongly driven by spatio-temporal variations in resource distribution.
2. Results
The data for our analyses come from a study on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, in which the movements of four radio-collared capuchin monkeys belonging to different social groups were tracked using an automated telemetry system over the course of a six month period, from November 2004 to April 2005 (see [21] for details). The locations for each individual were estimated every Δt0 = 10 min and discretized into square cells of size 50 × 50 m, a scale that corresponds roughly to the measurement error and was taken as the spatial resolution. Unless indicated, we considered all available positions (night and day) in the analyses.
2.1. Basic movement properties
Short time-scale properties of monkey movement paths followed similar scaling forms as those of human cell phone users [8] (figure 1a,b). For example, the distributions of the displacement Δr between consecutive telemetry fixes are good fits to a power law, (Δr)−1−α with α ≃ 1.7 in the range of 50 m < Δr < 350 m, for all four individuals (sample sizes = 1619, 1998, 3072 and 2097). This exponent, as well as β and η below, was obtained by using a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation with uniform priors and the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm. For each measure, we evaluated the likelihood of a given value of the exponent of the bounded power law given the data. The exponent value is the average obtained from the posterior support distribution. We also calculated the maximum-likelihood estimate (MLE), obtaining practically the same value.
Similarly, the waiting time Δt, defined as the number of consecutive fixes found in the same 50 × 50 m cell multiplied by the temporal resolution Δt0, follows a power-law distribution, P(Δt) ∼ (Δt)−1−β with β = 0.8, the same value as reported for humans [8,13] and other primates [22]. The exponents α < 2 and β ≤ 1 play central roles in continuous time random walk (CTRW) models of anomalous transport [13,23] and of biological Lévy flights [22,24,25].
However, as in the case of humans, monkey trajectories are incompatible with a random Lévy walk description at large timescales, as they exhibit strong recurrent patterns of movement. For example, the root mean squared displacement (RMSD) virtually asymptotes within one day, rather than following a classical power-law growth with time (figure 1c,d). This arrested or ultra-slow diffusion is a manifestation of home range behaviour [19,20]. Likewise, the average number S(t) of distinct cells visited during a time interval t (figure 1e) increases through time as tμ with μ smaller than the waiting time exponent β, which is what would have been expected for a CTRW [8,23]. One finds μ = 0.6, remarkably close to what was measured by Song et al. for humans [8]. Another intriguing aspect of recurrence is the highly uneven visitation pattern among cells (figure 1f). Within the six month data collection period, the probability P(n) of finding a cell that has received n visits by the same individual (i.e. has been entered n times) is not well described by a Poisson distribution or a bell-curve centred around a characteristic value. Instead, it follows a power law, P(n) ∼ n−η with η = 1.0 (η = 1.8 in humans [8]). Whereas most sites were visited once or twice, it is not rare to find popular activity 'hotspots' or 'hubs', with 30 or more visits. In contrast, a random walker bounded in a closed domain would visit all sites more or less equally frequently. For all the properties described earlier, the four individual monkeys showed very similar exponent estimates. The number of distinct cells visited by the animals during the six-month period was 568, 488, 606 and 531, respectively.
2.2. Recurrence and environmental forcings
Like humans, many animals have sophisticated memory skills [26] and home ranges can emerge from frequent returns to previously visited locations [27]. In principle, home ranges could even be completely self-organized, arising as a result of the walker's history. Random walks biased towards the centre of mass of all previously visited sites, or such that, at each step, there is a finite probability of returning to a randomly selected site visited in the past, exhibit arrested or very slow diffusion [20,28]. In the context of human mobility, the results of figure 1 have been reproduced by assuming that the probability of choosing a given site is proportional to the number of previous visits to that site ('preferential attachment'), and assuming that the probability of taking a random step (to a unvisited site) decays algebraically with the number of sites already visited, S(t) [8]. An advantage of this latter approach is that it builds up uneven visits and power-laws for the distribution P(n).
What these models and those belonging to a much broader class based on preferential attachment mechanisms ignore is environmental heterogeneity. A mobile agent may be inclined to visit a place not because it is familiar but because of some intrinsic quality of the location, (e.g. food content). Heterogeneity is implied in the relationship between the quality of habitat cells and the probability of cell revisit. Capuchin monkeys' home ranges typically contain millions of tree stems that belong to more than 200 species (M. C. Crofoot 2005, unpublished data), vary in size by two orders of magnitude [29] and only episodically produce fruit [30]. Consequently, the cells in our analyses varied widely in the content of monkeys' primary food, ripe fruit. During the day (from 04.00 to 20.00 h), animals are awake and active [21], and their primary activities are feeding and foraging with relatively rare periods of prolonged resting (M. C. Crofoot 2005, unpublished data). During the day, a waiting time of Δt = Δt0 = 10 min (one fix, the minimum observable value) is assumed to correspond to a 'transit' through a cell. Given a series of consecutive fixes in a same cell, the time elapsed between the first and the last fixes, Δt − Δt0, can be taken as a proxy of the ripe fruit content within the corresponding cell. An individual will tend to spend more time feeding in a tree that has more fruit and we consider Δt = Δt0 as the threshold above which one can tell that a feeding event occurred. Figure 2 shows a positive correlation between the number n of daytime visits received by a cell and the average duration of a visit at that cell, 〈Δt − Δt0〉n (the average being taken over all visits among cells with n visits). The latter quantity can be approximated by a scaling law: 2.1with γ ≈ 0.3. Although other functional relations may fit the data, the crucial point is that large n cells have, on average, longer waiting times and, most likely, higher food content. A similar, and even clearer, relationship is observed if all night and day positions are taken into account (γ ≈ 0.4 in this case). Sleeping trees also represent resources, as not all trees are suitable for sleep at night.
Similarly, the time elapsed between two consecutive daytime visits to a site depends on the results of the initial visit. We denote MFRTΔt as the mean first return time to a cell where the waiting time was Δt at the last visit. As shown by figure 2b, the MFRT tends to decrease with increasing patch quality (Δt). For Δt ≤ 100 min, it approximately follows the scaling law: 2.2with δ ≈ 0.3. Note that the unaveraged first return time is a variable known to fluctuate widely in simple models such as the random walk [31]. Similarly, here the error bars in figure 2b increase with Δt, which may be due to the fewer available observations at larger Δt (figure 1b). Averages obtained from less than five observations were discarded.
These results show evidence that, in addition to being non-random, movement choices are driven by resource availability, with larger food patches visited more often. Equation (2.2) also holds if night and day positions are aggregated (γ ≈ 0.4). Hence, a new waiting time is not randomly drawn at each cell visit, as assumed in CTRW models. Rather, the situation here is analogous to systems with quenched site disorder [31]. In trap models, though, the frequency of visits to a site by a memory-less random walker is independent of the waiting time (γ = δ = 0).
Unlike supermarkets, gas stations or other human facilities, resources in natural ecosystems tend to be ephemeral. Trees produce fruit transiently and often asynchronously, with the fruiting periods of individual trees lasting from a few weeks to a couple of months [30]. Capuchin monkeys' hotspots, in particular, are not permanent. Figure 3a shows the positions of the 5 per cent most visited sites by a single individual during the day in successive non-overlapping time periods (of about two weeks) with S = 200 visited sites each. These cells are rarely the same from one time window to the other. The fluctuating cloud formed by the visited cells suggests a flexible use of space, despite the stability of the overall home range. Defining hotspots as the most frequently visited 10 per cent of sites, the probability Πhs(m) that a cell which is a hotspot during a time window i is also a hotspot during time window i + m decays rapidly with m (figure 3b). The average number of visits Nhs(m) received by a cell in time window i + m, given that this cell was a hotspot in time window i, also decays with m (figure 3c). Very similar curves are obtained if night and day data are aggregated.
3. Conclusions
We have shown that the individual movement patterns of humans are similar to those of capuchin monkeys. Most notably these patterns exhibit ultra-slow diffusion (indicating the presence of a home range) and history-dependent recurrence properties obeying scaling laws. In monkeys, we have presented evidence that these non-random walks are caused by the use of memory, a behaviour that is not unique to humans nor evolutionary novel. These results suggest, but do not prove, that similar cognitive mechanisms may govern the movements of many animals. Testing such hypothesis would require data analysis for a variety of species.
Our analyses also indicate that monkey movements are driven by environmental heterogeneities. Monkey ranging patterns are thus not 'self-quenched' into a routine emerging from initially random movements that would be re-inforced and dominated at large time by frequent revisits to a small number of known locations, a mechanism proposed for human mobility [8]. Similarly, it is likely that human movements are not entirely self-organized, as this would imply that the locations of activity hotspots would be uncorrelated with environmental factors. In the real world, many hotspots would clearly be shared because of some intrinsic property of the location: e.g. schools, transit hubs or office buildings. A difference is that many human resources last over long timescales, such as homes and workplaces [6]. Yet, others are transient (such as restaurants, trendy night-clubs or fashionable shops) or seasonal (such as swimming pools and ski-resorts). A place can also be abandoned for another not because it is depleted but because the appetite for that resource has been temporarily sated.
Despite the similarities between human and monkey movements, there are important differences. In humans, the home range size fluctuates widely from one individual to another, ranging between 1 and 1000 km approximately [6,8]. In contrast, the nearly identical home range sizes found for the four monkeys (figure 1c,d) suggest a narrow size distribution, probably owing to comparable habitats, energetic needs and locomotor capacities. This is consistent with the fact that the home range of a capuchin group overlaps with a relatively small number of other home ranges [21], which probably limits intergroup interactions to nearest neighbours or next-nearest neighbours. This property is not shared by all animal species, though. Territorial prides of Serengeti lions occasionally make long-range contacts with other prides as well as with nomadic individuals, producing a denser network of contacts with the 'small world' property that characterizes many human social networks [32].
Similar to random diffusion models of animal movements with intermittent central attraction [33], several models of human mobility with preferential return to home have been introduced recently, showing that recurrence can have marked effects on spreading processes in large populations [1–3]. These latter models typically assume a known set of locations that can be visited and Markovian, individual-dependent transition rates between locations. Developing parallel modelling frameworks that adequately represent both self-organization and environmental forcing will be critical to the success of human movement models for purposes such as controlling the spread of infectious diseases. These alternate models should incorporate cognitive mechanisms that many vertebrates use, e.g. spatial representation mechanisms (cognitive maps or travel cost discounting) and temporal mechanisms (episodic memory) [34]. How scaling laws emerge from the interplay between memory and landscape features remains elusive.
This work was conducted as a part of the 'Efficient Wildlife Disease Control: from Social Network Self-organization to Optimal Vaccination' Working Group supported by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, a centre funded by the NSF (grant no. DEB-0553768), the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the State of California. Funding for the data collection was provided to M.C.C. by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the Frederik Sheldon Travelling Fellowship from the Harvard University. Required permits were obtained from the Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente, Panama and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. All research complied with the laws of the Republic of Panama and the United States.
- Received August 28, 2011.
- Accepted October 5, 2011.
- This journal is © 2011 The Royal Society


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Win 7 will boot until just before User icons show, then hangs.
My win 7 laptop seemed to hang at user logon, no mouse or keyboard response.
I did forced shutdown.
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It goes to the point where I see windows screen, I never see a logon icon.
How long should I wait ?
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When the lap top gets to a later point in the process, there is momentary blue screen for core dump and then immediate rest and reboot.
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For good or ill, the Internet keeps growing, with 4.5 million new domain names added in the first three months of 2011. That brought the total to 209.8 million domain name registrations, a 2.2 percent increase in growth from the last quarter of 2010, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief from VeriSign.
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VeriSign warned that the expansion of new generic TLDs, approved by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, could provide an expanded target space for hackers. "As the DNS expands to make room for more TLDs, it is vital to remain vigilant against cyber threats that increasingly target the DNS," the company said in releasing the report. "If the DNS is compromised, the entire Internet is at risk." TLD operators must be prepared to defend against attacks with the ability to quickly detect and mitigate them in the cloud before the malicious traffics reach their networks.
The top gainers so far this year were .com, .de (Germany), .net, .uk and .org.
Overall, the country code TLDs grew by 81.7 million so far this year, which helped .uk, for the United Kingdom, push out .org as the fourth-largest TLD. Two other country code TLDs, .nl (Netherlands) and .eu (European Union) moved up one spot each to seventh and eighth, respectively, pushing .cn (China) from seventh to ninth.
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Local governments vow to fight insurance rate increase
Local governments in Southeastern North Carolina are lining up against proposed homeowners insurance rate hikes.
Homeowners insurance rates in the three-county Wilmington area could jump up to 35 percent, with coastal areas again being hit the hardest, under an industry request filed with the state Department of Insurance earlier this month.
The N.C. Rate Bureau, which represents all companies writing homeowners insurance in the state, requested a statewide average rate increase of 25.3 percent – varying by territory – with a requested effective date of August.
On Tuesday, the Wilmington City Council unanimously approved a resolution opposing "the 35 percent or any rate increase" because it is "unjustified and unnecessary."
Council members also encouraged residents to contact the N.C. Department of Insurance.
"This is a very serious issue that everyone needs to weigh in on," said Councilwoman Laura Padgett.
Also Tuesday, the Brunswick County Commissioners unanimously passed a resolution opposing any proposed homeowners insurance rate hike.
County officials said they want to create a united front against any increase.
Brunswick Commissioner Marty Cooke said the coastal counties are being looked at in an unfair light, especially since they've paid extra to build their houses to withstand storms. "I had a constituent tell me that his insurance is higher than his property taxes," he said.
In Carolina Beach, the town has put a notice on its website encouraging residents to express opposition to the proposed increase. Town Manager Michael Cramer said he plans to send a letter to the Department of Insurance expressing opposition. Additionally, the town council will likely consider a resolution opposing the increase in February, he said.
Kure Beach Mayor Dean Lambeth said the town will likely send a letter to residents explaining the proposed increase.
"It's absolutely ridiculous," the mayor said. "I don't know why they want such an increase because it doesn't make any sense to me."
On Thursday, the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen will consider a resolution opposing the increase, said Town Manager Tim Owens.
Neither New Hanover County nor Pender County Commissioners have considered a resolution opposing the increase.
The last time North Carolina insurers went to state regulators for an increase, they asked for 30 percent, but got an average 7 percent statewide. That went into effect last summer and was the fifth increase in homeowner insurance premiums granted by the state since 2002.
The amount of an increase homeowners could see would be determined by whether they have separate policies for wind and hail.
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CHAPEL HILL – Television and film star Andy Griffith, one of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's most famous alumni, plans to donate his personal collection chronicling his successful career to the university's Southern Historical Collection.
Griffith and university officials today (Sept. 9) announced the donation, which will create a new Andy Griffith Collection, at a news conference on the UNC campus.
"I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill," Griffith said. "The Southern Historical Collection is an impressive repository of great value to the people of North Carolina, our Southern region and beyond, and I am glad to help expand and enhance such an important resource."
Griffith, one of television's most personable and enduring star performers, is in Chapel Hill to help dedicate the newly renovated Memorial Hall, in which he gave his first theatrical performance as a UNC undergraduate.
Griffith was among the principals at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday and will participate in other celebratory events, including a grand opening gala with singer Tony Bennett, this weekend. Griffith was honorary chair of the Memorial Hall Transformation Steering Committee, which helped raise more than $5 million for the public-private partnership that made the renovation possible.
UNC's Southern Historical Collection, likely the world's largest collection of manuscript and related material documenting the American South, celebrated its 75th anniversary this year. The collection, located in Wilson Library, contains more than 15 million items in 4,900 collections with sizes as diverse as a single item and half a million. Materials date primarily from the mid-18th century to now. Included are long runs of intimate family correspondence, sets of 50-volume diaries, 80,000 photographs, 3,500 oral history interviews, general store account books, scrapbooks, office files, videotapes and other items.
In 1930, UNC officially established the Southern Historical Collection, with a founding endowment gift from Sarah Graham Kenan. Throughout its history, items have been acquired largely as generous gifts from individuals like Griffith, as well as families and organizations. The collection documents the lives and careers of thousands of people, including UNC alumni or students U.S. Sen. Sam J. Ervin; journalist Charles Kuralt; novelist Walker Percy; historian and novelist Shelby Foote; novelist Gail Godwin; and N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Susie Sharp.
The Griffith collection will include manuscripts, recordings, television and film footage and other memorabilia documenting a 55-year career. Currently, those materials are scattered in locations including Griffith's home in California.
"Andy Griffith is a North Carolina treasure and a national folk hero. This generous donation will ensure that his legacy is forever intertwined with a university that is proud of his accomplishments and grateful for all that he has given back," said Chancellor James Moeser. "The Southern Historical Collection is the perfect place for the university to lovingly document his distinguished career. And we are delighted to celebrate this announcement as part of our Memorial Hall celebration, making another strong connection between the performing arts and a vital part of our academic community, the library."
The Southern Historical Collection already has some Griffith materials – mostly 16 millimeter reels of television footage and feature films – as well as materials from actress Frances Bavier, "Aunt Bea" on "The Andy Griffith Show." Griffith's items were part of a 2001 biographical exhibit in Wilson Library that attracted the most visitors of any exhibit in recent years. The library has commercially produced recordings from Griffith in the Southern folklife and North Carolina collections.
Walter C. "Tim" West, curator of manuscripts and director of the collection, said he expected the new Griffith materials to attract strong interest among the general public, the thousands of Southern scholars who visit the collection annually and the university community.
"We have been pleased with the response to past efforts to spotlight our early holdings of Andy Griffith materials and expect such interest to grow when this new collection is completed," he said. "We are honored that Andy is entrusting such valuable and culturally important materials to the Southern Historical Collection. They will have a good home on the campus where he learned his craft."
A native of Mount Airy, Griffith graduated from UNC in 1949, earning a bachelor's degree in music. He was president of the campus glee club and a member of the Carolina Playmakers and the music fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1978. He established the Andy and Cindi Griffith Scholarship in the departments of dramatic art and music. In 1993, Griffith helped the university celebrate its Bicentennial Observance by providing the voiceover for public service announcements focusing on Carolina's role as the nation's first public university.
Griffith's best-known Chapel Hill connections included his 1953 monologue, "What It Was, Was Football," performed in Kenan Stadium and later recorded and distributed through Capitol Records, selling more than 800,000 copies.
His career highlights include starring in the Broadway hit, "No Time for Sergeants" and playing Will Stockdale, a role that he reprised in the movie of the same name in 1957. Also that year, he appeared in Elia Kazan's "A Face in the Crowd" playing Lonesome Rhodes, generally considered his greatest film performance. "The Andy Griffith Show" debuted in 1960, starring Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor and was on the air for eight years, becoming television's top-rated program in its final year.
Griffith went on to do several movies, television specials, made-for-television movies and series including "The Headmaster," "Salvage 1" and the long-running "Matlock" series, which began in 1986 with Griffith playing Ben Matlock, a criminal defense lawyer. In 2003, the network TV Land donated a bronze statue for Raleigh's Pullen Park that depicted a carefree moment from the opening sequence of "The Andy Griffith Show," the sheriff walking to the fishing hole with his son Opie.
Griffith also recorded three music albums. One of those, "I Love to Tell the Story," won a Grammy Award in 1997.
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Utah Applies To Become A Drone Testing Site
(KUTV) Could drones soon be invading the skies over Utah? The Governor's Office of Economic Development is hoping that will be the case.
Currently the FAA is looking for six testing sites across the country for the unmanned aircraft and Utah is one of 25 applicants.
The FAA is expected to make a decision by the end of the month.
"I'm very excited," said Marshall Wright the director of the state's Aerospace and Defense department. "The economic draw would be for aerospace companies to settle here in Utah."
But don't call them "drones" to Wright. He prefers the word, "Unmanned Aerial Systems".
"A drone is a one purpose event," said Marshall. "These are systems that can be used over and over again. So they are not drones."
If Utah gets the bid the aircraft would be tested at four proposed sites. Those include Promontory, Delta, Milford, and Green River.
Wright believes Utah meets all the qualifications the FAA is looking for.
"We believe very strongly that Utah should be one of those sites," said Wright. "We have a legacy in aerospace. We have the industry to support itthis is the right kind of climate. We have the terrain."
Wright says there are about 70 companies already involved in making drones and colleges like UVU are developing and testing the aircraft.
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These days, children are charged with the decision of what they want to be when they grow up much earlier than in years past.
A group of students at Woodstown High School decided the summer before their freshman year to pursue their interests in the field of communications, even if just for their high school careers.
"Woodstown hosts the Communications Academy," said academy teacher Paul Kranz. "They get a little bit of everything — radio, television, advertising, news, and they make short films."
When Kranz read that 2002 Woodstown High School graduate Mario Cerrito had recently completed filming his first feature, "Deadly Gamble," he reached out to the writer/director/producer and asked him to visit the academy students.
"I thought it would be good for them to talk to him," Kranz said of his students. "Hear a little bit about the real world."
Cerrito began by telling each class that he never even thought about going into the film industry until well after high school.
"I didn't take this class," he said. "I wasn't interested. I liked to watch movies but as far as the production end, I didn't care."
After graduating from Woodstown, Cerrito attended community college for a while, but didn't finish. He entered the workforce doing construction, bartending and even selling cars, but was never happy.
"I was always creative and liked to tell stories, so in 2007, I wrote a 90-page script called 'Cornfield Massacre,'" Cerrito told the class.
With no knowledge of what to do with his first script, he put it away and forgot about it.
One day a few years later, Cerrito's girlfriend found the script and gave it a read.
"She said 'This is really good. You should try to get this made,'" he said.
So, he took to the Internet, connected with an actress who introduced him to a director and the project was born.
Sadly, because of a falling out between Cerrito and the director, the film hasn't been made yet, but the determined film maker didn't quit.
He began filming "Deadly Gamble" in October 2013 and recently completed editing.
"Now it's time to look for distribution," he said.
Kranz said Cerrito's story is a "good example" of what it's like to get started in the film industry.
"As an indie film maker, you're not going to go right to Hollywood," Kranz said. "You have to start from scratch."
Academy student Chance Vandover asked Cerrito how difficult it is to find people to help fund a film project.
"That's 99 percent the hardest part," Cerrito said. "It's hard to find someone who will just take a chance on your project."
Cerrito said "someone is pulling strings for him somewhere" because he connected with a businessman from Chicago who read the script and decided to back the film.
The budget for "Deadly Gamble" was approximately $25,000, which is considered extremely low, Cerrito said.
Academy student Matt Craig asked a question that gave Cerrito an opportunity to explain more about how budget can dictate what kind of movie you make.
"Do you write all horror movies, stories?" Craig asked.
Cerrito wrote a script in 2011 for a movie titled, "Chasin' Brandy."
"It's about a couple. The guy is poor and the girl is from a rich family with all the luxuries," he explained. "The girl's mom doesn't like the guy because he's poor. She totally judges him."
The twist in the story comes after Brandy — the girl — breaks up with Chase, her poor boyfriend, because her family will cut off her college tuition if she continues to see him. Depressed, Chase is sitting on a park bench when an old woman approaches him and asks for money.
"He only has two dollars but he gives it to her," Cerrito said. "She sees the goodness in his heart and gives him a magic wishing stone."
So, Chase uses the stone to turn himself into a puppy that Brandy's mom instantly falls in love with.
The happy ending is that the woman finally realizes the kind and loyal puppy is actually Chase — who does turn human again — and sees the error in her ways.
Though "Chasin' Brandy" would make a cute film, Cerrito turned the script into a book because the budget to produce a movie with dog-to-human transformations and animals actors would carry a budget of approximately $5 million.
Academy seniors hosted the Woodstown High School Film Festival on May 9 and several students entered films they made on no budget at all.
Haley Vassiljev, a senior who plans to attend college as a radio/TV/film major in the fall, created a silent story film inspired by the story "The Storm" by McKnight Malmar.
"I tried to take as many details from the story as I could," Vassiljev said.
The short film was shot in black and white and entirely using a tri-pod.
"I had my mom model for me and stand where I would be standing," she said.
After watching the film, Cerrito told Vassiljev he has seen films that are not even as well-made and beautifully shot as hers win film festivals.
"Thank you so much," said the hopeful, future film maker.
Though he didn't sugarcoat the fact that being successful in the film industry is not easy, Cerrito told the students to "go where their heart is" and "do something they love doing."
"This is a dream come true for me," he said. "It was a dream and now it's coming true."
Cerrito has been hired to direct the upcoming feature film "The Stall" which starts production later this month.
For more information or to order a copy of "Chasin' Brandy," visit Amazon.com or barnesandnoble.com.


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Almost one hundred ancient pole reversals of the earth's magnetic field are indicated with the alignments of iron-rich minerals in the sedimentary rock layers of the so-called geologic column (which actually varies widely), with one reversal about every five-hundred thousand years (according to the mainstream uniformitarian geologic timeline), back to about 5 million years ago, and deeper in the geologic column, back to "600 million years ago," one reversal every ten million years, yet mainstream geologists having no explanation for that change of frequency.
The earth's magnetic field strength is rapidly declining, measured down 7% through the last 150 years, and magnetisation of iron-rich minerals in Roman pottery indicates the magnetic field strength 2,000 years ago was twice what it is today (conforming with the now measured decline rate), so how could the earth be billions of years old?
When you consider that ancient lava flows (such as from Steen Mountain) indicate reversals of the earth's magnetic field during the time it took for those lavas to have cooled to rock, it's obvious that the ancient reversals were rapid, during Noah's Flood actually, the rapid sedimentation on the continents at that time thus proven with the model of runaway plate tectonics during Noah's Flood explained here http://globalflood.org.
And because the much greater magnetic field strength of the earth just four thousand years ago (perhaps four times what it is today) buffered the earth from cosmic rays which transform N14 to C14 in the atmosphere, carbon 14 dates from that timeframe are greatly exaggerated, in addition to that fact that much more volcanism during the Ice Age (which followed Noah's Flood) diluted the C14/C12 ratio by carbon 12 in the CO2 gas which belched into the sky. So clearly the biblical model fills the bill, darwinism and its timeline found greatly lacking once again, further demonstrated here http://genesisveracityfoundation.com.


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Find Time for Prayer in Busy Family Life
September 1, 2015
Pope Francis' remarks at the General Audience.
Dear Brothers and Sisters:
In our continuing catechesis on the family, today we reflect on the importance of devoting time to prayer. We all know how important prayer is, yet it seems so difficult to find time for it. Perhaps we need to ask if we truly love God, as he asks us to, with all our heart, and all our mind and all our strength. For the heart of prayer is the love of God, the source of our life, who constantly "caresses" us with his own love.
A heart filled with the love of God can make even a silent thought or a small gesture of devotion a moment of prayer. The Holy Spirit teaches us to pray, to call God our Father, and to grow daily in his love. Our families need to ask for the gift of the Spirit! Through prayer, even in the busiest times, we give time back to God, we find the peace that comes from appreciating the important things, and we encounter the joy of God's unexpected gifts. Through daily prayer may our homes become, like the house of Martha and Mary, places where Jesus always finds a warm welcome.
I greet the English-speaking pilgrims and visitors taking part in today's Audience, including those from England, Denmark, Malta, China, Dubai, Nigeria, Canada and the United States of America. Upon all of you, and your families, I invoke an abundance of joy and peace in the Lord Jesus.
God bless you all!
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Reciprocity: Admission on Motion
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Update on MCLE Course for Reciprocity Applicants
The MCLE Board has approved instruction courses under Rule 1A:1. See Reciprocity Course on Virginia CLE's website.
Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia Part 1A, Rule 1A:1.
Rule 1A:1. Admission to Practice in This Commonwealth Without Examination
(a) Reciprocity – Any person who has been admitted to practice law before the court of last resort of any state or territory of the United States or of the District of Columbia may file an application to be admitted to practice law in this Commonwealth without examination, if counsel licensed to practice law in this Commonwealth may be admitted in that jurisdiction without examination.
(b) Application – An applicant for admission to practice law without examination in this Commonwealth shall:
(1) File with the Secretary of the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners (the Board) an application under oath on a form furnished by the Board;
(2) Furnish a certificate, signed by the presiding judge of the court of last resort or other proper official for every jurisdiction in which the applicant is or has been licensed to practice law, stating:
i. that the applicant is in good standing, and if not the reasons why;
ii. the length of time the applicant has been or was licensed in that jurisdiction; and
iii. any restriction or condition placed on the applicant's license to practice law in that jurisdiction.
(3) Certify in writing under oath that the applicant has completed 12 hours of instruction approved by the Virginia Continuing Legal Education Board on Virginia substantive and/or procedural law within the preceding six-month period;
(4) Certify in writing under oath that the applicant has read and is familiar with the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct;
(5) Complete the Applicant's Character and Fitness Questionnaire and furnish a report of the National Conference of Bar Examiners, or such other report as the Board may require, concerning the applicant's past practice and record, and pay the fee for such report; and
(6) Pay the filing fee as fixed from time to time by the Board.
(c) Board Review – Upon receipt of a completed application, the Board will determine in accordance with the regulations issued by the Supreme Court whether the applicant has established by satisfactory evidence that he or she:
- Is a proper person to practice law; and
- Pursuant to Code § 54.1-3931, has been admitted to practice law before the court of last resort of any state or territory of the United States or of the District of Columbia for at least five years; and
- Has practiced law for at least three of the immediately preceding five years and has made such progress in the practice of law that it would be unreasonable to require the applicant to take an examination.
The Board may require the applicant to appear personally before the Board, the Character and Fitness Committee (the Committee) of the Board, or a member of either the Board or the Committee, and furnish any such additional information as may be required. If the applicant's license to practice law in any other jurisdiction is subject to any restriction or condition, the Board shall determine whether the nature of such restriction or condition is inconsistent with the general practice of law and, if so, shall deny the application. If the Board determines that the applicant is qualified to be admitted to the practice of law in this Commonwealth without examination, the Board shall approve the application and shall notify the applicant of its decision.
(d) Admission – Upon notification by the Board that the applicant's application has been approved, the applicant may be issued a certificate, pursuant to Code § 54.1-3931, to practice law in this Commonwealth if:
- A member of the Virginia State Bar who is qualified to practice before the Supreme Court moves the applicant's admission to practice law in this Commonwealth in open court;
- The motion is granted; and
- The applicant takes and subscribes to the oath required of attorneys at law.
(e) Active Membership – Upon payment of applicable dues and completion of other membership obligations set forth in Part 6, Section IV of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia, the applicant shall become an active member of the Virginia State Bar. An attorney admitted pursuant to this Rule shall be deemed subject to the same membership obligations as other active members of the Virginia State Bar, and all legal services provided in Virginia provided by an attorney admitted pursuant to this Rule shall be deemed the practice of law and shall subject the attorney to all rules governing the practice of law in Virginia, including the Virginia Rules of Professional Conduct. The rules set forth in Part 6, Section IV, governing how members may change their status to associate, judicial, disabled, retired or emeritus shall apply to attorneys admitted pursuant to this Rule.
(f) An attorney admitted to practice law in this Commonwealth without examination under prior versions of this Rule is no longer subject to the requirement that he or she intends to practice law full time as a member of the Virginia State Bar.
Adopted by the Supreme Court of Virginia November 1, 2013. Effective February 1, 2014.
Amended by the Supreme Court of Virginia October 31, 2014, to remove by examination in paragraph (a) Reciprocity. Effective immediately.
Rule 1A:3. Revocation of Certificates Issued to Attorneys Admitted Pursuant to Rule 1A:2.
Following receipt of evidence that a person who was admitted to practice pursuant to Rule 1A:2 prior to July 1, 2000, has been disbarred pursuant to Part Six of the Rules, the Supreme Court will revoke the certificate issued to that person.
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Five nominees for Orange Rising Star Award
Only Brit Academy Film award to be publicly votedLONDON -- Michael Cera, Noel Clarke, Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Hall and Toby Kebbell will put themselves at the mercy of a public poll to secure this year's Orange Rising Star Award, dished out during the upcoming Orange British Academy Film Awards.
Created in honor of casting director Mary Selway after her death in 2004, the award is the only Orange BAFA award to be voted on by the public.
A jury including actors James McAvoy and Kelly Macdonald and chaired by BAFTA chairman David Parfitt chose five nominees from a long list of recommendations put forward by the film industry and BAFTA membership.
Previous winners include McAvoy, Eva Green and last year's winner, Shia LaBeouf.


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Training camp is only weeks away, and as it gets closer, I'm starting to think about the Griffins roster. We pretty much know what the Wings are gonna look like, even what the lines will be, but I haven't spent a lot of time thinking about GR. All of these guys will be at Red Wings training camp, including those on AHL contracts, as the Wings generally invite all Griffins to camp.
Thomas McCollum
He is very important to Detroit, and highly regarded. This means nothing. He will have to earn his spot as a starter if he wants it. He started last season at full force and was very impressive, but struggled through the grind of an AHL season. He was even sent to Toledo for a confidence booster (proven to work with other players in the past, but less effective for Thomas). He never fully regained his early season form, but he did improve toward the end. He will need to have an impressive camp to assure the number one spot and to get his career back on track.
Jordan Pearce
I love Pearce. I really do. He's got a great attitude. Last fall at training camp, when we asked for his autograph, he was genuinely surprised and flattered. Of course, in a purely hockey sense, that doesn't mean squat. Odds are he will not make GR. With Thomas and JoeyMac also at camp, it would take a disaster or an injury. But if either get called up, Jordon will get a chance to play for GR, as they like to have a goalie balance due to the many back to backs.
Joey MacDonald
I can tell you this with full confidence: when Joey makes his first start, the cheers will be deafening in the Van. He was a fan favorite when he played here and set every goaltending record in GR, and we've longed for him ever since. No goalie is JoeyMac. Even with Jimmy Howard, we longed for Joey. He'll likely split starting duties with Thomas McCollum. I would guess he'd be the #1 call-up if Ozzie or Jimmah gets injured, depending on McCollum's play.
Brendan Smith
There is talk of him jumping straight to the NHL, but I don't see it. Probably partially because I don't want to. We are so excited to finally be able to see him in GR. We've been waiting for a defenseman to be what Ericsson was. All that I know about him everybody else knows, so I don't have much more to say. We're just so excited to see him.
Logan Pyett
Although he's on an NHL contract, Pyett is a career AHLer at best. He's a great guy, and a pretty decent d-man. He has a tendency to give up the puck right in front of our net when pressured, and this seems to get worse as the season goes on. However, he is still a backbone of the GR defense. He has a good first pass (when he doesn't cough it up) and makes appearances on the pp. He'll likely be a fixture.
Travis Ehrhardt
Hopefully he's worked hard this offseason, because he needed it. He was another newbie who struggled with the grind. He spent a lot of time in Toledo, and when he was in GR he was usually scratched. I think he could be a good d-man if he can catch up to the game. I do think he should change his name, because it's a pain in the butt to type. He'll likely be on the edge of GR's lineup again.
Sebastien Piche
He had a great camp last year (I thought) but did not follow that up with a good season. In fact, I don't remember seeing him much. I don't see him AHL ready, but who knows.
Sergei Kolosov
One of the best d-men last season, Kolosov will be back and probably on the top pairing. He's a solid defensive d-man, which an intimidating size when he chooses to use it (which is less often then I'd prefer). He could make the NHL in the semi-near future, but not as a Wing.
Brian Lashoff
Another up and coming d-man I'm fond of. I've seen very little of him, a whopping 6 games, but I've liked what I've seen. He should spend this season in GR.
Doug Janik
Pretty much unliked by Red Wings fans everywhere, he actually makes a pretty good AHL d-man. He does this really annoying thing where he comes out from behind our net with the puck, centimeters from the corner of the net, giving the crowd and his goaltender a heartattack almost every shift. But he will still likely anchor the top pairing.
Chris Minard
I honestly have no idea who this guy is. He's played 40 NHL games, 35 of which were with Pittsburgh. This makes me sad. But hey, Darryl Bootland was drafted by Colorado, so I won't write him off. He had 38 points in 40 games with Springfield last year, so he should be good for offense.
Jamie Johnson
He played with Rochester last year and had 71 points in 80 games. He also had 6 points in 7 playoff games. Hopefully he will also inject some offense into GR. Again, I can only give numbers on him.
Cory Emmerton
Cory struggled a little last season, with only 12 goals in 76 games. He was supposed to be a major player last year, so that number was disappointing. Hopefully he can have a better season and not become the next Evan McGrath.
Brent Raedeke
He's only played 2 games in GR, so again, I can't say much about him. He'll likely play at least some of the season in GR.
Joakim Andersson
He did a wonderful Axelsson impression last year, fleeing to Sweden before even playing a game for GR. I have about as much interest in him playing with the Griffins as he does. Not much at all.
In GR, the wing positions are pretty much interchangeable, so I'll do them all together.
Ilari Filppula
It'll be fun to see the name Filppula on a Griffins jersey again, but part of me thinks it will just be a disappointment. He's the Steffan to Niklas, the Fedor to Sergei. I hope he's at least as good an imitation as Steffan. Either way, we can just call him Val and pretend.
Jordan Owens
He finished last season with GR, so he's not new. However, by the last 17 games, I had sorta stopped paying attention. It was too painful, and I was busy punching out the drunk guy who sits behind me on Fridays and spills his beer on us (okay, I never did that, but I thought about it a lot). Anywho, Jordon only had 5 points in those 17 games, but is that really his fault? The team had disintegrated by then.
Willie Coetzee
Another guy I liked in camp last year, if only because it's a lot of fun to yell his name. Any name with three e's and a z is pretty much a win. He didn't play in GR last year, though he did make a brief appearance at the end of the season. I like what I saw then too. I hope he makes the team. He's a quick player with good hands.
Jan Mursak
Possibly one of the most underrated Griffins last year. He played solidly throughout the season, and was often the best player on the ice for GR. He scored 24 goals and had 48 points. He will be in GR, and probably on the top line.
Francis Pare
Frankie struggled without his other half, Francis Lemieux. He had a great season on an AHL contract in 08-09, which got the attention of the big club. That year, he scored 24 goals and had 48 points. His production fell to 16 goals and 39 points last season in 14 more games. He is still fast and a good puck-handler, but he will need to find another line that works for him.
Tomas Tatar
Tatar, aka Tots, is currently the story of GR. He doesn't get as much ice time as we feel he should, but he still managed to get 16 goals and 32 points. He's speedy and surprisingly gritty for his size. He also seemed to get better as the season progressed. If the Wings make it far in the playoffs this year (I should say when) and if the Griffins don't, he will be a black ace. I could also see him getting some NHL time this year depending on injuries. The best thing about Tots is that he wants to be in GR, and he plays like it every night.
Greg Amadio
He played with GR a few seasons ago, going back and forth between GR and Muskegon. He's a tough guy, not expected to get a lot of points or ice time. I liked him when he was here because he beat up on the Wolves. Hopefully he'll do the same this season to the Admirals (Milwaukee) and Bulldogs.
(Let me just take this brief moment to express how idiotic I find it that there are two teams in the AHL with the same name – Norfolk and Milwaukee.)
All of the above are currently on the roster as listed on griffinshockey.com. There are a few other prospects who could be in GR after training camp, or even later in the season.
As we all know, it is possible that Ritola will be back there. I have issues with Ritola. He causes me great amounts of pain. I don't want to talk about it.
Landon Ferarro could find himself in GR, if he has a good camp and if Detroit allows it. Right now I'm just hoping he can make it through at least one day of camp without getting injured.
Jamie Tardif is not listed as on their roster, but I don't believe this. He was their captain last season and he is a great leader and character guy. He is signed to a Detroit contract as well, so he will be in GR.
Aaron Downey will be at camp, but I'd be surprised if Detroit gives him a spot in GR at the expense of a prospect that deserves it.
Other guys to consider and watch through camp: Mitchell Callahan and Andrej Nestrasil. Both had a decent prospect tournament last year, and have the potential to crack the lineup, especially if other guys falter.
Matt would like me to talk about Kindl a little bit here. I honestly don't know what he'll do this season. I dislike him in the same way I dislike Ritola, and have similar feelings as I did with Jimmah. However, I was dead wrong about Jimmah (very glad I was). Kindl has been in GR for what seems like forever. If I think about last season honestly, I can say he had a much better season than the previous two. He was pretty dependable on a horrible team. I'd say he might be NHL ready, but not ready for no supervision. When he plays, he will need to be watched. This is why they brought in Salei.
I would be surprised if Babs ever willingly plays Kindl and Ericsson together. Kindl is not as ripe as he should be after three full seasons in GR, and not nearly as good as Big E when he graduated to the NHL. I'm guessing he'll have to fight to get into the rotation regularly. When he is in, I'll still cringe every time he touches the puck, but probably more from habit than from a legitimate concern. I expect him to step up and at least not be a liability, though I'm prepared for the opposite. I've seen him do both.


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bug bitten on 11/12/2012
Even though the hotel was very nice and very clean and never saw any bugs there, shorty after I came home we started having a bed bug problem.
we had not stayed at another hotel for a long time.
our luggage was on the floor next to the bed and our shoes were in their closet for three days.
It will never happen again as I will always protect my luggage with protective plastic.
Jae Won Lim on 07/25/2010
Sheraton Suites Chicago Elk Grove (Starwood Hotels) 3 1/2 Star Ratings
121 Northwest Point Boulevard
Elk Grove Village, IL, 60007
(847) 290-1600
Sheraton Suites Elk Grove confirmation code: C224667008
I slept there on July 22, 2010 - July 23, 2010.
I stayed in room 440 (w/two double beds) and I woke up in the morning and found a bed bug on my bed sheet. I killed the bug and it was already full of my blood. I took some pictures of the bedbug that I killed in that hotel room.
I went dow
n to the lobby with the bug and reported that I was bitten and killed a bed bug. He wasn't very surprised. He simply told me he is very sorry and that he'll let the housekeeping know about it. It was the worse hotel experience in my life.
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[W]e continue to hear from constituents, academics, providers, and investors that there are specific provisions of the Rule that may cause market disruptions and limit the ability of segments of the market to reasonably access advice … In order to have a successfully implemented rule, it is vital that the proposal doesn't limit consumer choice and access to advice, have a disproportionate impact on lower- or middle-income communities, or raise the costs of saving for retirement … We urge the Department to continue to seek a balanced approach to both consumer protection and access to retirement investment advice for all Americans.
Sound familiar? More than a dozen Senate Democrats recently raised similar concerns. And back in July, House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans called on the department to withdraw its proposal because:
Our nation's workers, small business owners, and retirees deserve better than this proposal, which will result in less financial advice and higher costs for those saving for retirement. Like its flawed predecessor, this regulatory proposal should similarly be discarded.
While some would rather silence critics of this regulatory scheme, a better approach would be to heed these bipartisan concerns and change course. With so much at stake, let's hope the secretary is listening and willing to do just that.
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The Athens Referral Factory BNI chapter continues to dominate our traffic lights report. For the month of January they were up 5 points for a whopping score of 85! Cobb Barrett Business Builders jumped from 3rd to 2nd and they have added 4 new members in the past 6 months. Congrats and welcome to the new folks 🙂
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text: Abramoff/Wade Prosecutor Moves On; Second Scandal Prosecutor to be Promoted Share Tweet Pin-it Bookmark Comment ByPaul KielPublishedMarch 13, 2006, 6:11 PM EST If you're a DOJ lawyer looking for a promotion these days, seems one of the best things to do is be in the midst of a major corruption investigation.The prosecutor who has headed the office at the center of a number of high-profile GOP corruption investigations - Jack Abramoff, David Safavian, Michael Scanlon, and Mitchell Wade - is moving on. He's been there since May of 2004.Kenneth Wainstein, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, has been tapped to be Assistant Attorney General for National Security.You might remember that another key prosecutor in the Abramoff case, Noel Hillman of the Justice Department's Public Integrity Sector, was recently nominated to a federal judgeship in New Jersey, sparking calls for a special prosecutor. I wouldn't be surprised if that effort was renewed. Wainstein's office is at the center of the Abramoff investigation, along with a number of other agencies, including the DoJ's Public Integrity - Abramoff and Scanlon both pled guilty in the U.S. District Court in D.C. And it is his office that is prosecuting David Safavian. His office is also busy carrying on the investigation into crooked defense contractor Mitchell Wade's full-fledged corruption; as the Post reported a couple of weeks ago, that investigation has spread into the Department of Defense.(Ed. Note: Thanks to TPM Reader KM for the tip.)


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Suniel Shetty and wife Mana are launching two new business ventures — a lifestyle store in the city and lavish villas at Khandala, under their company S2.
"My wife's lifestyle store is called R-House. In January, it will open in Worli, next to the Four Seasons Hotels," says Suniel, adding,
"We'll stock affordable high-end quality products. This is a brand that Mana wants to build. Maybe 10 per cent of the products will be imported, but the rest will be Indian."
Mana has tied up with around 70 interior designers from across the country to promote smaller Indian industries.
"Mana is working with local designers from the interiors of the country to get the best of what those places are popular for," says Suniel, who is planning to open international franchises of the stores in Europe, America, Dubai and Singapore.
Suniel says, "It's unfortunate and ironic that we travel to Europe and America and end up buying products made in India. We are going to promote Indian products. This is to prove that our products are as good as those from any part of the world."
The other project called Discovery in old Khandala comprises 21 luxurious villas for nature-lovers. They have been designed by John Abraham's father and brother.
"It's an exclusive project. Each villa covers an area of 6,500 square feet. This is my flagship project and we want the right kind of people to live here. It's very nature-friendly, as the house and water are heated with solar power," he says.
However, these high-end villas come with a fat price tag. "The prices will start at R7 crore," says the actor. Both the projects will be launched in a grand manner in January with the couple's friends from the film industry, corporate world and bureaucracy in attendance.