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The agent you name in your financial power of attorney should be financially responsible. You should sit down with the agent you appoint for your financial power of attorney and discuss your financial affairs. You should inform your agent about your bank accounts, loans, credit card accounts, investments, insurance policies, bills, and anything else you would like for them to handle on your behalf.
The agent you name to act on your behalf in your advance medical directive should be a person who will be able to make potentially difficult decisions about your medical care. Make sure your chosen agent is aware of your wishes for care.
Finally, make sure any agent that you appoint is able to handle the duties of the job and willing to act on your behalf.
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Bon Odori 2012 Festival
A setting sun is poised on the horizon's edge. Flickering lantern's reveal themselves, drifting on a river, each light warm with a loved one's memory. The water itself is ablaze, with the sun and lanterns casting their fiery glow. The light illuminates the river waves and the hearts of those across this quiet land.
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So, what do Bing Crosby, Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, and Jimmy Stewart have in common? They all appeared in Cecil B. DeMille's 1952 epic The Greatest Show on Earth, which critics widely regard as the worst movie ever to win a Best Picture Oscar. (It's pretty bad, though with plenty of camp appeal, like DeMille's Biblical spectacles. Certainly, it's not a better movie than fellow 1952 nominees High Noon and The Quiet Man, or Singin' in the Rain, which didn't even get a Best Pic nod.) Heston, in one of his first major roles, stars as the boss of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus; Lamour is a circus performer; her Road movie pals Hope and Crosby have cameos as spectators; and Stewart (pictured) plays a clown with a Terrible Secret who never removes his makeup. (Is it that he's actually a member of Kiss?)
Many of you guessed that this week's quiz was Oscar-related but assumed that the five performers had all hosted or won honorary Oscars. (Actually, Hope and Stewart won honorary prizes; Crosby, Heston, and Stewart all won competitive Oscars; and Lamour never even scored a nomination.) Reader Nicole Odekirk guessed that the five were "the only Republican members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences." (Ha!) Snarky Michael Markowitz, who knew the right answer, also cited several other supposed commonalities, including these: "A search of all reviews of all their work yields not one reference to the words 'pitchy' or 'dawg.'" And: All of them had the middle name 'Hussein.'"
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On November 10, 1995 internationally recognized peace activist Ken Saro Wiwa along with 8 of his colleagues from Ogoniland – a small ethnic community in the Niger Delta – were hanged by a military tribunal after they were convicted on trumped up charges. Wiwa was fighting for the Ogoni peoples' rights regarding the environmental and economic destruction of their land due to Shell's oil extraction in the region.
Watch this video that detailed the case against Shell.
Wiwa v Shell was settled on June 8, 2009 for the sum of $15.5 million. This is considered a victory for the plaintiffs, the Ogoni people and those working to hold the extractive industry accountable for their role in human rights abuses throughout the world.
After watching the video, please help spread the word:
- Post a link to www.WiwavShell.org and the campaign video on social networking sites you use, like myspace, facebook, twitter, etc. (you can use the "Spread the word" plug-in at the bottom of this page)
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- Check out the other pages on this site to learn more and to find other ways you can support the case.
The multinational corporation Shell financed, armed, and otherwise colluded with the Nigerian military forces that used deadly force and conducted massive, brutal raids against the Ogoni people of the Niger Delta. Shell was also involved in a strategy that resulted in the executions of nine Ogoni leaders who were working for environmental justice and human rights, including internationally-acclaimed writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa. The Center for Constitutional Rights, EarthRights International and other human rights attorneys sued Shell for their role in the repression of the Ogoni and the executions of the "Ogoni Nine". The case will go to trial on May 26th, 2009 in New York City.
The film was produced by Rikshaw Films for EarthRights International and the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Special thanks to filmmaker Glenn Ellis, for extensive footage from two important documentaries made by Catma Films, The Drilling Fields (1994) & Delta Force (1995), and to photographer Ed Kashi, for use of his photographs.
Royal Dutch Shell, the 3rd largest company in the world, is a Dutch company with their headquarters in London. Last year Shell earned record profits of over $31 billion.dsc00907
Shell was the first oil company to extract oil from the Niger Delta in 1956 and operates in Nigeria under the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) – the largest private sector oil and gas company in the country.
Shell extracts between 700,000 and 1 million barrels of oil per day from Nigeria depending on levels of instability in the region equating to nearly half of Nigeria's daily oil extraction.
Shell boasted their 'success' in Nigeria in a briefing note issued in 2008 to 'celebrate' 50 years of extracting oil in Nigeria. According to the briefing, SPDC's operations in the Niger Delta are spread over some 30,000 square kilometers and include a network of over 6,000 kilometers of flowlines and pipelines, 90 oil fields, 1,000 producing wells, 73 flowstations, eight gas plants and two major oil export terminals at Bonny and Forcados.
What they do not say is that most of the 6,000 kilometers of pipeline snake through local communities throughout the Delta above ground, and are old, rusted and constantly break, leaking oil into drinking water and the creeks where villagers fish, wash their clothes and fetch water for cooking. Shell does not reveal that those communities were never asked if the company could operate on its land nor were they compensated. And throughout the region Shell is burning gas flares some of which have burned 24 hours a day, seven days a week for over 40 years causing major respiratory problems, cancer and acid rain that has corroded roofs of houses and destroyed crops.
Read The Other Shell Report for more information on the worldwide activities the company does not report
Shell's Environmental Devastation in Nigeria
Royal Dutch Shell, plc (Shell) began oil production in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1958 and has a long history of working closely with the Nigerian government to quell popular opposition to its presence in the region. From 1990-1995, Nigerian soldiers, at Shell's request and with Shell's assistance and financing, used deadly force and conducted massive, brutal raids against the Ogoni people living in the Niger Delta to repress a growing movement in protest of Shell.
On November 10, 1995, nine Ogoni leaders (the "Ogoni Nine") were executed by the Nigerian government after being falsely accused of murder and tried by a specially-created military tribunal. Those executed were internationally acclaimed environmental and human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, prominent youth leader John Kpuinen, Dr. Barinem Kiobel, Saturday Doobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel Gbokoo, Paul Levera, Felix Nuate and Baribor Bera. The detention, trial, and executions of the Ogoni Nine were the result of collusion between Shell and the military government to suppress opposition to Shell's oil operations in Nigeria. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), EarthRights International (ERI) and other human rights attorneys sued Shell for human rights violations against the Ogoni. The case will go to trial on May 27, 2009 in federal court in New York City.
Environmental devastation
The environmental devastation the oil company has caused to Ogoni lands in the Niger Delta was a primary reason for the Ogoni movement against Shell. In 2006, the Niger Delta Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Project (an independent team of scientists from Nigeria, the U.K. and the U.S.) characterized the Niger Delta as "one of the world's most severely petroleum-impacted ecosystems." Their report noted that the Delta is "one of the 10 most important wetlands and marine ecosystems in the world.
Millions of people depend upon the Delta's natural resources for survival, including the poor in many other West African countries who rely on the migratory fish from the Delta." Of the nearly 27 million people living in the Niger Delta, an estimated 75 percent rely on the environment for their livelihood, often farming and fishing for market or subsistence living. Shell's operations in the Delta have led to the deep impoverishment of the Ogoni people and surrounding communities in the Delta.
Gas flaring
Natural gas is a byproduct of oil drilling. In much of the world, this gas is either used for energy or re-injected into the well. In Nigeria, Shell and other oil companies burn it in a process known as gas flaring. Nigeria flares more gas than any other country but Russia; at least 20 billion cubic meters of gas are burned per year, enough to meet the energy needs of Nigeria and neighboring countries. The gas burned in flares is not the clean natural gas used for heating or cooking; the gas is contaminated with toxic compounds and the flares send huge toxic plumes into the air. The chemicals, which end up in local waterways and fields through soot and precipitation, include carcinogens such as benzene, a deadly chemical that can cause convulsions, chromosomal damage and birth defects. Many of the flares are located adjacent to Niger Delta communities. According to the World Bank, gas flaring in Nigeria, which generates no useful energy, has contributed more greenhouse gases emissions than all other sources in sub-Saharan Africa combined.
The Nigerian government first moved to end gas flaring in 1969 when it ordered corporations to set up infrastructure to utilize associated gas. Shell and other oil companies ignored this order. The Nigerian government passed the Associated Gas Reinjection Act in 1979 that required oil companies to submit a detailed plan for utilizing all gas with an ultimate goal of ending flaring by 1984. Since then, Shell and other companies have continued flaring, choosing to pay a fine rather than clean up their operations. Shell was again ordered to stop flaring in 2005 when Nigeria's Federal High Court declared gas flaring as a gross violation of the neighboring communities' human rights. Shell and other oil companies continue to make excuses. As of December 2008, there were over 100 flare sites still operating in Nigeria.
"I and my colleagues are not the only ones on trial… Shell is here on trial and… there is no doubt in my mind that the ecological war that the company has waged in the Delta will be called to question…"
– Ken Saro-Wiwa's closing statement at the trial of the Ogoni 9
Oil spills
An estimated 1.5 million tons of oil has spilled in the Niger Delta ecosystem over the past 50 years. This amount is equivalent to about one "Exxon Valdez" spill in the Niger Delta each year. Many of the spills have taken place in sensitive habitats for birds, fish and other wildlife, leading to further loss of biodiversity and, in turn, further impoverishment of local communities. The spills pollute local water sources that people depend on for drinking, cooking, bathing, laundering and fishing. They also release dangerous fumes into the air, sometimes rendering villages uninhabitable and causing serious illness for those who are unable to relocate. Many of the oil spills can be attributable to poorly maintained infrastructure such as aging pipelines.
Environmental groups in Nigeria and Europe have filed a lawsuit against Shell in the Netherlands for its history of oil spills and lack of cleanup in Nigeria. According to the Nigerian environmental group involved in the suit, cleanup of oil spills is often very superficial, sometimes involving little more than turning the land so that the oil remains just beneath the surface of the soil.
An estimated 1.5 million tons of oil has spilled in the Niger Delta ecosystem over the past 50 years. This amount is equivalent to about one "Exxon Valdez" spill in the Niger Delta each year.
A pattern of Greenwashing
Despite Shell's dirty record in Nigeria and elsewhere, the company continues to try to falsely portray itself as "green" in its advertising, a practice known as "greenwashing." The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has found that Shell's environmental claims violated advertising rules. In 2007, Friends of the Earth filed complaints about a Shell ad featuring an oil refinery emitting flowers that was accompanied by a claim that its carbon dioxide waste was used to grow flowers. The chairman of ASA called it "a ridiculous claim" and Shell was forced to pull the ad. In 2008, the ASA banned Shell's ad that claimed it was building a "profitable and sustainable future" through its development of the largest oil refinery in the U.S. and its petroleum mining in a Canadian oil sands deposit.
The case against Shell
Beginning in 1996, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), EarthRights International (ERI), Paul Hoffman of Schonbrun, DeSimone, Seplow, Harris & Hoffman and other human rights attorneys have brought a series of cases to hold Shell accountable for human rights violations in Nigeria, including summary execution, crimes against humanity, torture, inhuman treatment and arbitrary arrest and detention. The lawsuits are brought against the Royal Dutch/Shell group and Brian Anderson, the head of its Nigerian operation.
The cases were brought under the Alien Tort Statute, a 1789 statute giving non-U.S. citizens the right to file suits in U.S. courts for international human rights violations, and the Torture Victim Protection Act, which allows individuals to seek damages in the U.S. for torture or extrajudicial killing, regardless of where the violations take place. The cases also allege that Shell violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and violations of New York state law.
Shell has made many attempts to have these cases thrown out of court, which the plaintiffs have defeated. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has set a trial date of May 27th, 2009. The plaintiffs eagerly await their day in court to hold the defendants accountable for their injuries and the deaths of loved ones.
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Factsheet Nigeria is on fire: Broken promises
Natural gas is often released during the extraction of oil in Nigeria. Shell sets this gas on fire. These gas flares produce a
large amount of greenhouse gas. Furthermore, they waste an enormous amount of energy that Nigeria could put to good use.
In this factsheet, Milieudefensie [Friends of the Earth Netherlands] presents an overview of Shell's broken promises.
Nigerian policy on gas flaring Gas flaring began in the late 1950s, when oil was first
extracted in Nigeria and the country was still a British colony. The British government was aware of the
undesirability of the situation but took no action (1).
Gas flaring has been theoretically prohibited in Nigeria since 1984. It is possible to obtain an
exemption from the ban on gas flaring; however, the requirements for this special permit are unknown. The
flaring permit held by Shell has not been made public, so it is not possible for local people to determine the
grounds on which it was granted to Shell. Moreover, the fine for flaring gas is too low per cubic metre to
motivate oil companies to stop flaring gas.
The Nigerian government is faced with conflicting interests in this matter. It is required to protect its
people from the consequences of flaring. But at the same time, the government works with Shell in a joint
venture and earns profits from oil production.
Local people oppose gas flaring. In Iwhrekan, Nigeria, the case was brought to court. The court ruled in
favour of local residents in 2006 and ordered the flaring to be stopped. But Shell and the state-owned
oil company appealed the decision, whereby the court granted them one year to stop the flaring.
Unfortunately, this did not lead to a halt in the flaring.
Shell announced it would appeal to a higher court and the judgement cannot be enforced until that case is
decided. In the meantime, the judge handling the case has been transferred to northern Nigeria.
Repeated promises from Shell
Shell has promised to extinguish the flares as the result of pressure from the Nigerian people,
government and environmental organisations. But Shell has not yet kept these promises. A list:
In 1996 Shell, promised it would stop flaring in 2008.
In 2000 the Nigerian Minister of Environment stated that an agreement had been reached with the oil
sector to end flaring in 2004. Oil concerns in Nigeria stated later dates. In its annual report, Shell Nigeria
restated 2008 as the final year (4). The accounting firm KPMG, however, expressed doubts about the
accuracy of the data in the report (5). Moreover, it turned out that projects did not proceed as planned in
that year.
Shell Nigeria nevertheless stated in 2002 that everything would work out and that the flames would
be extinguished in 2008 (6).
In 2003, too, Shell stated its commitment to the final year of 2008 (7). But further on in its report, it
emerged that boosting oil production took precedence over gathering the gas. Flaring would be increased instead of decreased. Shell placed the blame for lagging investments on its partners in the joint venture who refused to co-finance investments, as well as on local people who would block entrance to the installations.
In 2005, Shell hinted that it might not meet the 2008 deadline and this time gave the reason as the inadequate performance of subcontractors.
Nevertheless, Shell repeated its old promise. But in the same report, Shell stated that it unfortunately could not meet the 2008 deadline due to insufficient financing. It planned to discuss its options with the Nigerian authorities (8).
But the delay turned out to be less serious than expected. In the 2005 Annual Report, 2009 was listed as the new target (9). Shell was optimistic about the progress it had made (10).
In 2007, the promise to definitively stop flaring in 2009 was emphasised (11).
In mid-2009, Shell Vice President of Communications Nick Wood stated that three billion dollars had been invested in gas gathering installations, but that at least three billion more needed to be invested (15). In other words, Shell was not even at the halfway point in its planned adaptations. The only way that the deadline could still be met was to shut off the oil flow to the gas flares. Shell stated that this was not possible because the Nigerian government had ordered oil production, and thus income from oil, to remain steady. The 2009 deadline was not met.
Although the 2009 deadline was not met, gas flaring by Shell in Nigeria appears to have declined. Shell reported lower emissions in 2007 and 2008.
According to Shell, flaring was reduced by 30 per cent between 2002 and 2008 due to its own measures such as exporting LNG (liquefied natural gas) and using gas in electric power plants.
The main reason, however, is the result of closing down the oil flow in Ogoniland by government order.
That occurred following large-scale local protests against Shell pollution (12).
It is not clear whether all the problems really can be blamed on unrest in the region. It could also be that Shell is afraid that the government will actually hold the oil industry to its promise to stop the flaring.
Given that in many locations Shell has not yet attended to gathering the gas, this would mean that the oil flow would have to be temporarily shut off. This is a message that Shell would rather not communicate to its shareholders. The 'rebels' are thus a convenient scapegoat.
The government recently agreed a truce with the rebel groups. A large group of rebels in the Niger Delta recently took advantage of an amnesty ruling and surrendered their weapons. This has offered opportunities for a normalisation of the situation. It is feared that Shell plans to again open these sources as soon as possible, and thus to carry on with the flaring.
(1) The Climate Justice Programme / Friends of the Earth
Nigeria 2005, Gas Flaring in Nigeria: A
Human Rights, Environmental and Economic Monstrosity
(2) Shell website 2009, interview with Jeroen van der Veer
Jeroen van der Veer, former Shell CEO stated in 2008: 'We are
simply carrying on with the offshore company, the LNG
installation and with investments in the Niger Delta as well.
Gas flaring must be completely stopped there. We very much
want to do this but it also must be made possible.'
(3) EIA 2005 country analysis brief Nigeria, http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/nigeria.html
(4) SPDC (Shell Nigeria) 2001,People and the Environment Annual Report 2000; p. 1,38
'Flares out in 2008 on course. We remain committed to eliminating all unnecessary flaring of gas from our facilities by
2008. Good progress is being made towards achieving this target through the various projects in which we are involved to gather and put the gas currently flared to economic use.'
(5) KPMG 2001, Accountants report on 2000 Shell Nigeria
Annual Report 'Limitations exist in the completeness and quality of gas metering at the flow stations and these could affect the accuracy of the reported data for gas flaring.'
(6) SPDC (Shell Nigeria) 2003, People and the Environment Annual Report 2002
'Also, we flared approximately 10 per cent more gas than planned as a result of delays and slippage in a number of
associated gas gathering projects. In addition, a number of factors including community disturbances, facilities shut downs and sabotage, contributed to our inability to effectively implement planned gas/oil ratio (GOR) controls in 2014.' 'We will make every effort to optimise project planning in order to ensure that the 2008 date for ending routine flaring is met.'
(7) SPDC (Shell Nigeria) 2004, People and the Environment
Annual Report 2003 'Eliminating all routine flaring by 2008 is a major corporate commitment.'
'However, in 2003, the volume of associated gas (AG) flared was 700 million scf/d. This was more than the amount flared in 2002 (570 million scf/d), due partly to increased production and delay in commissioning the Offshore
Gas Gathering System (OGGS).' '(…) however, flowstation upgrades were behind plan due to budget pressure and some access problems to sites affected by community disturbances.'
(8) SPDC (Shell Nigeria) 2005 People and the Environment Annual Report 2004, Quote from Basil Omiyi, Managing Director
'The second is the delay in fulfilling our commitment to end continuous gas flaring by 2008. Whilst past underfunding by partners is the main cause of this delay, some projects also suffered from poor contractor performance.'
'In 1996, SPDC made a commitment to end continuous flaring of associated gas by 2008 and, subsequently, the Nigerian Government also adopted this date as a flares-down target.(…)' 'Over the last five years, a significant investment (of over $2billion) has been made by the joint venture to develop major associated gas gathering (AGG) projects to collect gas from our fields scattered across the Niger Delta (…)" '(…) This will leave 17 low production flowstations for which no firm and economically viable gas gathering solution has so far been determined. Further investigations are still required; if no viable solutions are found, we intend to shut in production from those fields during 2008.' 'We very much regret that we will not be able to meet the flares-down target of 2008 and we are discussing with the relevant Nigerian authorities the available options . The original flares-down target of 2008 was predicated on the joint venture's programme being fully funded to deliver the required AGG projects. This was not achieved. For example, between 1996 and 2004 the budget approved by the Federal Government was in total some $4 billion less than that agreed by the partners as necessary to support the joint venture programme, including funding of the AGG projects .'
(9) SPDC (Shell Nigeria) 2006,People and the Environment
Annual Report 2005
'But reduced funding of the joint venture programme in past years (including funding of the gas gathering projects) and
poor contractor performance on some projects mean that some gas gathering projects will be completed only in 2009.'
'It is expected that a further $1.55 billion will be spent to meet the 2009 flares-down target.'
(10) Royal Dutch Shell, Annual Report 2005, p1
'In Nigeria, for example, we made good progress in the programme to end continuous flaring.'
(11) SPDC (Shell Nigeria) 2007,People and the Environment Annual Report 2006
'SPDC intends to shut in production from any fields where there is no prospect of a solution for gathering the associated
gas by 2009.'
(12) Royal Dutch Shell, Annual Report 2008.
'In 2007, total flaring in Exploration & Production dropped again. Nearly 80% of the drop in 2007 came in Nigeria, most of this from the closing down of production wells with a high gas content in the Niger Delta onshore, as a result of the security situation.' Violence continued to block access to all remaining sites where gas-gathering equipment is needed in the Niger Delta, causing further delays in ending continuous flaring there. Flaring levels in Nigeria were the same as in 2007, as further progress with the programme to end continuous flaring was blocked by ongoing government funding and security problems.'
(13) Buitenhof [Dutch TV programme] 2009, interview with Jeroen van der Veer
(15) Shell 2009, Nick Wood, Vice President of Communications, Exploration and Production in official web chat: 'Doing
business in Nigeria: challenges and questions', 23 July 2009
'The only other way of stopping flaring is by not producing oil in the first place. At a time when Nigeria's oil production – and thus government revenue – is already badly hit by the ongoing violence, shutting-in production to reduce flaring would further cut revenues for social and infrastructure development.'
Author: Milieudefensie, April 2010
Peter Voser, Shell CEO the Shell Sustainability Report
And Last but not Least, the Royal Dutch Shell CEO has a word with regards to the Shell Sustainability Report:
Statement on UNEP's Ogoniland Environmental Assessment Report
source: http://www.unep.org/NEWSCENTRE/default.aspx?DocumentID=2647&ArticleID=8815
Nairobi, 18 July 2011 – In response to reports mainly in the Dutch media over the past 48 hours, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) wishes to clarify several points.
- The forthcoming launch of its independent Environmental Assessment of Ogoniland report is on track and its release has not been delayed as a result of security concerns.
- UNEP's report contains the findings and recommendations from its two-year assessment of the environmental and public health impacts of oil contamination in Ogoniland, Nigeria, conducted at the request of the Government of Nigeria.
- An extensive peer review of the findings has been carried out by external scientists. The study represents an unprecedented effort to examine the location, nature, extent and implications of oil contamination in Ogoniland.
- In early July 2011, UNEP informed the relevant authorities in Nigeria that the report will be ready for publication as of the last week of July, and proposed that the launch takes place in the capital Abuja.
- Once the report has been released, it will be made available to the public and the national and international media via the UNEP website.
- Claims that the independent report either exonerates some stakeholders or blames others for the oil spills are wrong – as has been previously publicly stated.
- UNEP hopes the report and its findings will catalyze cooperation and a response to decades of oil-related environmental challenges and provide for the people of Ogoniland the opportunity for a sustainable future.
- During 14 months of fieldwork in Ogoniland and its surrounding creeks, UNEP teams collected samples of soil, water, sediment, air and plant and fish tissue for analysis. The samples have been tested for more than 400 substances, or analytes, such as petroleum hydrocarbons and heavy metals.
- Community input and assistance was a key element of the project and UNEP deeply appreciates the community support, particularly the widespread contribution of local knowledge of oil contamination stretching back over several decades.
- UNEP had Community Liaison Assistants liaising closely with local communities in Ogoniland, and as part of the project, extensive consultations and discussion groups have been organized by UNEP. The main local academic partner was the Rivers State University of Science and Technology.
- At the project's peak, some 30 local staff were employed with UNEP's project team based in Port Harcourt, who worked alongside international experts. The UNEP project team was supported in the field by voluntary community representatives.
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Every year when the air turns crisp and the leaves begin to fall, one can count on a superabundance of pumpkin-flavored things popping up on grocery store shelves and menus cross America. Similarly, the classic plaid motif reappears in early Autumn and dominates storefronts and e-commerce home pages much like the omnipresent pumpkin theme. Call it plaid, checkered or windowpane. I prefer this black and white excel-lent geometric pattern to the typical red/green tartan: it is a little less Christmas-y and a lot more sleek.
Wearing: Cooperative tunic - similar, Helmut Lang blazer - similar, Steve Madden boots - similar
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This is one way the drug discovery process should speed up in the coming years.
New Computational Technique Can Predict Drug Side Effects
ScienceDaily - December 13, 2007 - Early identification of adverse effects of drugs before they are tested in humans is crucial in developing new therapeutics, as unexpected effects account for a third of all drug failures during the development process. Now researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have developed a novel technique using computer modeling to identify potential side effects of pharmaceuticals, and have used the technique to study a class of drugs that includes tamoxifen, the most prescribed drug in the treatment of breast cancer. Their study is currently available on line at PLoS Computational Biology.
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Originally posted by greeneyedleo
I can not stand Obama...at all....
However, I wouldn't hold this against him ever...unless there is something proven that Obama is at fault over.
I myself have some relatives that I would never EVER help out...even if they were on their last dying leg. But, I have very valid reasons for it.
Obama is not responsible for his ADULT brother's life. The brother is responsible for his life.
Originally posted by nyk537
I agree with you wholeheartedly.
However, most of Obamas supporters are the far left leaning liberal types who believe in a government where everyone is provided for. They want Universal health care, baby bonds, etc., etc… So how would that look on Obama to his base that he won't help his own brother? I mean this is the guy they want to "save" the country and provide for everyone.
Just a thought....
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Originally posted by nyk537
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He makes no mention of his step-brothers mother in his book though. Which if my count is right, would be wife #4 for his father.
Not to say any of this has any relevance on Obama himself or the type of person that he is, but it is still something people look at.
I don't believe a question about his brother would be out of line though.
Originally posted by schrodingers dog
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You are no doubt correct that "some" people such as Dubyakadub, do care about things like this.
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If there are no legal requirnments then don't say it.
Being the President for the United States of America is just a job, like any other. Work life; personal life.
Barack's relation status with his famly falls under personal life, therefor is none of the publics business.
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#15536 closed Uncategorized (invalid)
ModelForm validation regression in 1.2 when using TimeField with choices
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This is my test case models.py:
from django.db import models from django import forms TIME_CHOICES = ( ("09:00:00", "9 AM"), ("17:00:00", "5 PM") ) class TestModel(models.Model): time = models.TimeField(choices=TIME_CHOICES) class TestForm(forms.ModelForm): class Meta: model = TestModel
This is what happens with Django 1.1.4:
>>> f = TestForm({"time": "09:00:00"}) >>> f.errors {}
and this is what happens with Django 1.2.5:
>>> f = TestForm({"time": "09:00:00"}) >>> f.errors {'time': [u'Value datetime.time(9, 0) is not a valid choice.']}
It looks like in 1.2 the supplied time is being converted into a datetime instance before being compared to the valid choices. It would be great to see this incompatible change from 1.1 fixed or documented.
Change History (9)
comment:1 Changed 8 years ago by
solution: using datetime.time instances for the choices seems to work on both 1.1 and 1.2.
comment:2 Changed 8 years ago by
|Uncategorized → Forms
|blocker regression added
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If it's a TimeField, it shouldn't be converting anything to datetimes. Since this is a regression, it's a blocker for the 1.3 release.
comment:3 Changed 8 years ago by
thanks for the quick reply. sorry, i didn't phrase things as precisely as i should have. when i used the word 'datetime' i was referring to the entire datetime module, not just to the datetime.datetime type.
so to put it more precisely, it looks like the ModelForm is converting the TimeField into the correct corresponding datetime.time type, but does this before comparing it to the valid choices (which are ISO time strings). the solution i'm using right now is to just use datetime.time instances in my TIME_CHOICES.
finally, i strongly suspect (but haven't tested) that the same will happen with DateFields (converted to datetime.date instances) and DateTimeFields (converted to datetime.datetime instances).
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Ok - after a closer look, this is a case of an error in your code that is now being caught.
This change was introduced by r12098 -- the introduction of model-based validation. This improved the validation of inputs across the board, including the case that you have described.
In your specific example, the error that has been caught is the fact that "09:00:00" *isn't* a valid value for a Date. It may be a valid form input, but it isn't a valid database value. As you suspect, this same change will affect other fields -- because a string isn't a valid value for a date field of any stripe.
Django's backwards compatibility guarantee doesn't apply to bugs -- it only applies to features when used correctly (or as documented). In this case, it appears that you were relying on an undocumented looseness in Django's handling of dates. r12098 improved the validation of these values, and your code has been caught in the crossfire.
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I hope I'm not going to get on anyone's nerves by reopening this, but I think you misunderstood something: Of course "09:00:00" isn't a valid value for a Date. However, my example uses a TimeField, not a DateField. As far as I can tell (http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/ref/forms/fields/#django.forms.TimeField.input_formats), "09:00:00" is a valid value for a time. Thoughts?
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Apologies -- I mistyped in my explanation.
No, "09:00:00" is not a valid value for a time. It's a valid *string* that can be converted into a Time value *on a form*, using the format you describe (which is, as you will note in the forms documentation). You're dealing with a Model. It's the model validation that is failing.
comment:7 Changed 8 years ago by
It seems like setting the time to a valid string directly on the model works fine:
>>> t = TestModel() >>> t.time = "09:00:00" >>> t.save() >>>
This is what happens when I give an invalid time string:
>>> t.time = "09" >>> t.save() Traceback (most recent call last): File "<console>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/vasili/.virtualenvs/testing/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 431, in save self.save_base(force_insert=force_insert, force_update=force_update) File "/home/vasili/.virtualenvs/testing/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/base.py", line 495, in save_base rows = manager.filter(pk=pk_val)._update(values) File "/home/vasili/.virtualenvs/testing/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/query.py", line 446, in _update query.add_update_fields(values) File "/home/vasili/.virtualenvs/testing/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/sql/subqueries.py", line 249, in add_update_fields val = field.get_db_prep_save(val) File "/home/vasili/.virtualenvs/testing/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 202, in get_db_prep_save return self.get_db_prep_value(value) File "/home/vasili/.virtualenvs/testing/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 920, in get_db_prep_value return connection.ops.value_to_db_time(self.to_python(value)) File "/home/vasili/.virtualenvs/testing/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 908, in to_python _('Enter a valid time in HH:MM[:ss[.uuuuuu]] format.')) ValidationError: Enter a valid time in HH:MM[:ss[.uuuuuu]] format.
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Replying to russellm:
Apologies -- I mistyped in my explanation.
No, "09:00:00" is not a valid value for a time. It's a valid *string* that can be converted into a Time value *on a form*, using the format you describe (which is, as you will note in the forms documentation). You're dealing with a Model. It's the model validation that is failing.
If I understand correctly, you're saying that choices for a TimeField need to be datetime.time values. However, if I set my choices like so:
TIMES = ( (u'00:00:00',u'All Day'), (u'12:00:00',u'Noon') )
I find that while forms reject the '12:00:00' value (same error as above: 'Value datetime.time(12, 0) is not a valid choice.'), they don't reject the '00:00:00' value. This is strange. Based on the first case, it seems like what 3point2 was suggesting is happening: Django converts the '12:00:00' value from the form to datetime.time(12, 0) and then compares it to the valid choices (which are in string format), and throws an error since the two don't match up. After all, if this was simply a model validation issue, wouldn't the error message say 'Value "12:00:00" is not a valid choice.'? But then if you submit '00:00:00' on the form, no error is thrown--which doesn't agree with your explanation *or* 3point2's. So what is going on here?


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Formerly of Neustadt. At Kensington Village Nursing Home, London on Monday, May 19, 2008 in his 89th year. Husband of the late Elizabeth (TEMPER) ULMER and father of Helga CAIRNS and her husband Wayne of Point Clark, Erwin ULMER and his wife June of Brighton, Peter ULMER and his wife Cheryl of London, Joe ULMER Jr. of Ajax, Anne BURT and her husband Brian of London and Barbara BALL and her husband David of South Carolina. Brother of John ULMER of Durham. Remembered by 11 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild. Predeceased by his sister Magdelena SITTER and his sister-in-law Inge ULMER. Friends may call at Saint Paul's Lutheran Church, Neustadt on Wednesday, May 21 for visitation from 12: 00 noon until the time of funeral service at 2: 00 p.m. Interment in Saint Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Neustadt. Memorial donations to Hanover and District Hospital or Heart and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated and may be made through the Garrett Funeral Chapel, Neustadt.
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All▼ claims against the Estate of Konrad ULMER, carrying on business in the Province of Ontario, who died on or about September 9, 2006, are required to be filed with the undersigned on or before the 14th day of March, 2008, after which date the estate will be distributed having regard only to claims then received.
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All▲▼ claims against the Estate of Konrad ULMER, carrying on business in the Province of Ontario, who died on or about September 9, 2006, are required to be filed with the undersigned on or before the 14th day of March, 2008, after which date the estate will be distributed having regard only to claims then received.
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Dated this 30th day of January, 2008
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FISHER, William Frederick " Bill"
Founder And Chairman Emeritus Of Fishercast Global Corporation (Formerly Fisher Gauge Ltd.)
On Wednesday, March 19, 2008, in his 91st year. Beloved husband of Shirley (ORDE.) Loving father of Paul, Douglas and his wife Michele, Susanne MATHERS and her friend Robert CALVER and Jane ULRICH and her husband Todd. Loved grandfather of Eric, Mandy, Andrew and Andrea Fisher, Jordan and Mary FISHER and Blake and Devon ULRICH. Dear brother of Eileen REED and her husband Bram of Pickering. Brother-inlaw of Jean FISHER and Dorothy FISHER. Predeceased by sister Jessie FISHER and brothers Chester and Frank. Uncle of many nieces and nephews. Bill will be lovingly remembered by his family, Friends and business associates inter nationally. Friends will be received at the Comstock Funeral Home and Cremation Centre, 356 Rubidge Street, Peterborough on Monday, March 24th, 2008 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A funeral service will be held at Murray Street, Baptist Church, Peterborough on Tuesday, March 25th at 1: 30 p.m., Ray HENDRIKS officiating. Interment Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough. In memory of Bill, donations to United Way of Peterborough, The James Fund or Rhema Christian School would be appreciated by the family.
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Tool maker became an inventor to found a firm that led the world
After apprenticing at General Electric in Peterborough, Ontario, he went out on his own and developed a process that was soon in demand. At its peak, his company had five plants in the U.S., Canada, and Britain
By Allison LAWLOR, Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S9
Halifax -- An industrial innovator whose mind never seemed to sleep, William (Bill) FISHER created machines that have been used to make everything from monopoly pieces and bicycle gears, to car parts and the blades for jet engines.
A tool maker by trade, Mr. FISHER founded Peterborough, Ontario-based FisherCast Global, previously known as Fisher Gauge, in 1942. Over the next few decades he turned it into an international player specializing in precision die casting, which involves forcing melted metal at high speed into exactly-designed moulds. At its peak, the company had more than 700 employees and five plants in Canada, Britain and the United States.
"He was so passionate about what he did," said his daughter Jane ULRICH.
Mr. FISHER wasn't just passionate about his job. He was a perfectionist, who often got his best ideas in the middle of the night. He never went far from his work. Initially, he lived across the street from the Fisher Gauge plant, and later in a house behind the plant. The installation was just 30 metres from his backdoor, so it wasn't a surprise for employees working the night shift to see him hunched over the drafting table in his office at 3 a.m.
"He would get these brain waves at ungodly hours," Ms. Ulrich said. "His mind was always going."
One of the secrets to his success was an absence of stress. "He didn't worry because he wasn't in it for the money," she said. "He just never dreamed it [the company] would get to the size it did. It was so much bigger than he thought it would become."
He often said that if things didn't work out, he could always get a job again at Canadian General Electric Company (now GE Canada), where he started his career.
Born in England' industrial Midlands, Mr. FISHER fell in love with tools as a child and dreamed of following in his father's footsteps. His father, Fred, was a tool maker first in Britain and later in Canada. In 1923, the family emigrated to Canada and settled in Peterborough, where the elder Mr. FISHER got a job at Westclox, the makers of the Big Ben and Baby Ben alarm clocks.
Bill FISHER's dream came true. He left high school at 15 and apprenticed at General Electric. Earning 15 cents an hour, he learned what he called "the industrial facts of life." Within 10 years he was making gauges and other components for GE equipment destined for the front lines in the Second World War.
Mr. FISHER's first workshop was in an old chicken coop located behind his family home. He then moved his shop into the basement, just metres from his mother's laundry area.
After founding Fisher Gauge, he initially designed and manufactured tools and gauges for other companies in town. Early on, Canadian General Electric asked him to tackle the problem of attaching a disk to a thin shaft. It was just the kind of challenge he liked. His answer was to develop a hot-chamber, die-casting system that joined the two components with injected molten metal to precise tolerances. In the end, the assembly formed the core of an electric watt-hour meter.
By the mid-1950s, the North American meter industry had adopted the process. During the next 20 years, Mr. FISHER travelled the world, selling machines to leading meter companies. He continued to work on developing the process for a wide range of applications. In the late 1950s, both the telephone and automotive industries were looking for metal parts cast in zinc alloy, which led the company to adapt its hot-chamber, die-casting system and produce proprietary zinc alloy.
As Mr. FISHER's business grew, he asked his brothers Frank and Chester, who also apprenticed as tool makers at GE, to join him. (Interestingly, their father also signed on as a tool maker after retiring from Westclox.)
In 1954, Chester took over the management of Fisher Gauge, while Bill focused on what he loved best: finding solutions to problems.
"He was more of an innovator and an inventor," said Greg WALLING, current president of FisherCast Global. "He wasn't a paper pusher."
Mr. FISHER was the first to admit that selling was not his strong point.
"I was the world's worst salesman. I'd just go in and talk technically," he once said. Even so, the approach often worked. "If you can solve the problem for them, they don't care whether you're a salesman or not."
Fisher Gauge saw huge growth with the sale of zinc castings. In 1964, it opened a casting factory in Watertown, New York and the company went on to ship billions of castings for use in everything from car doors and games to window fixtures and telephone cables.
In parallel with the growth of the casting business, Mr. FISHER ventured into the aviation industry. In 1960, General Electric engineers in Massachusetts invited him to help with the machining of jet-engine blades. He came up with a solution in which the blade is encapsulated in zinc, and the capsule allows it to be gripped without damage for machining. The capsule is broken off when machining is complete. Later, when Rolls Royce engineers were struggling to make blades for the first Concorde passenger jet, Mr. FISHER was called to Scotland.
A precise man, Mr. FISHER loved his daily routines. He walked home every day for lunch and would follow his meal with a 30-minute nap, always making sure he did not sleep for a minute more or less.
A modest, unassuming man, Mr. FISHER's only real luxury was his 12-metre cabin cruiser which he loved to tour Georgian Bay in every summer with his wife Shirley. The one trip he never got to do was to take his boat to Florida. Seldom absent for more than a two weeks, he just couldn't pull himself away from his shop for the three weeks required to cruise south on the Intracoastal Waterway.
The last of the FISHER brothers, he retired in 1998. (Chester had died of cancer in 1992, and Frank died from a bee sting at 36.) He himself suffered a series of strokes and then a heart attack. For all that, he moved no further away than the house over the back fence. From there, he would watch FisherCast employees take their coffee breaks. Knowing they had 11-minute breaks, he would time them. If he saw some taking 13 or 14 minutes he would ask that his daughter Jane, who sits on the company's board of directors, talk to their managers about the problem. The company remains family-owned, but professionally managed.
Mr. FISHER received many awards during his career, and in 1986 he received an honorary law degree from Trent University.
William Fredrick FISHER was born on December 18, 1917, in Birmingham, England, and died on March 19, 2008, in Peterborough, Ontario He was 90, and suffered from congestive heart failure. He leaves his wife, Shirley, and his children Paul, Douglas, Susanne and Jane. He also leaves his sister, Eileen, eight grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
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DescriptionPhantom Breaker: Battle Grounds is 2D side-scrolling brawler set in a Japanese fantasy world and a spin-off of the fighting game Phantom Breaker. The player selects one from four young female characters: the student Mikoto, oracle Waka, Maid Itsuki or ninja Yuzuha. They fight against various monsters, robots, etc. and try to find the mysterious Phantom who has kidnapped the sister of one of the girls.
The game consists of several levels where large groups of enemies need to be defeated by stringing together moves into combos. As its origins are in one-on-one fighting, there are a larger amount of moves. Girls have access to weak, medium and strong attacks combined with special moves. They can also dash, break of cancel guard and jump between the foreground and the background to dodge. Each heroine uses her own weapon, like a spear or a sword. Through fights experience points are earned to access new skills from a small skill tree between levels.
Next to the single-player mode there is a cooperative mode, an arcade mode focused on clear times and high scores, and the competitive battlegrounds mode against other players.
The later PS4 release, called Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds - Overdrive introduces new skills and abilities for character customization, such as air dash attack, shadow attack and triple jump. Some of these are found in new, secret alternative routes that require certain conditions to unlock. These also lead to new items (such as Out Range and Aura items) and enemies. With the new abilities, some levels now have more enemies on the screen at once, but there are also more item drops. The game music has been re-arranged as well.
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Matt Slauson had it all planned out. Coming off his rookie season as an offensive lineman for the New York Jets, he was going to have a big, fancy wedding at a hotel. He and his bride would buy their dream home and travel next spring or summer, maybe both.
They ended up getting married at a city park with invitations and decorations made by his wife. They found the perfect place to spend the rest of their lives but didn't even bid on it. They scrapped hopes for a vacation.
This holiday season, Slauson is facing the same budget crunch as many sports fans. He's scrimping and saving, putting as much as he can into a rainy-day fund for NFL players because he knows a storm is fast approaching - a possible work stoppage. A similar cloud looms over the NBA.
"It absolutely concerns me," Slauson said. "If this lockout wasn't a possibility, then I would have been able to get our future house. It was out by a lake and a 20-acre plot, just a really nice place. Unfortunately, we couldn't move on it. I almost did, but I thought, I just can't. I couldn't in all good conscience do it because I don't know how long a lockout might last."
The NFL and NBA players' associations have been warning members for years to get ready for the possibility that their paychecks could evaporate in 2011. With the new year fast approaching, the unions have ratcheted up their message.
NBA players were told there's a 99 percent chance the 2011-12 season will be disrupted. NFL players received a letter this month urging them to set aside three game checks to help carry them through a likely delay next fall.
"Your whole mind-set is different because you know that in all likelihood there will be a lockout," Knicks guard Roger Mason said. "So I think in everything you do, from your day-to-day spending to the holidays to summer vacations, [you think about it], for sure."
Ed Butowsky is a wealth manager who works with many pro athletes. At the invitation of the NFL and NBA, and individual teams, he's spoken to more than 20 clubs and at rookie gatherings, explaining the threat a lockout poses and urging them to use it as an opportunity to get their finances in order.
"Are they are aware? All. Are they prepared and doing things? It's on a case-by-case basis," said Butowsky, managing partner of Chapwood Investment Management. "Some of these people, because of their spending, are a train wreck waiting to happen. It's not crazy spending, they just spend too much money. Throw on top of that the lockout potential and now you could have a catastrophe."
The superstars shouldn't have to worry about paying their bills. The athletes affected most by a lockout would be guys like Slauson - those on the low end of the salary spectrum, players on their way in or out of their league, backups or newly minted starters yet to cash in on their status.
Many realize any day could be their last as a pro athlete, so they're always looking to save. As Kansas Chiefs fullback Mike Cox put it: "My wife and I always prepare like there's a lockout every year."
For Jacob Bender of the Washington Redskins practice squad, it's meant more trips to grocery stores than to restaurants.
For New York Giants tight end Bear Pascoe, who has gone from practice squad to active roster in both of his NFL seasons, it was buying a truck and paying it off "so I won't have to worry about it."
Frank Zombo wasn't drafted coming out of Central Michigan. Although he's now a starting linebacker for the Green Bay Packers, he refuses to take anything for granted.
"There is no 'save my last two paychecks,' " he said. "I've been saving everything."
Slauson was a sixth-round pick in 2009. He received a four-year deal that started at $335,000, slightly over the league minimum, plus a $100,000 signing bonus, chump change in the pro sports world, especially living in the New York area.
If a new collective bargaining agreement isn't reached before the existing deal expires March 4, the lockout would begin and the Slausons would say goodbye to their New Jersey apartment.
"We're going to take our stuff here, put it in storage and break our lease," Slauson said. "I wouldn't be able to afford to keep that place if I'm not getting paid. So, we'd be moving back to Nebraska."
NFL players are only paid during the regular season. Slauson already has put about $25,000 - the equivalent of his single-game salary - into that rainy day fund set up by the players association. For peace of mind alone, it was a better investment than, say, a first anniversary trip across Europe.
"Now I can just focus on daily stuff and not have to start another whole new account for savings," Slauson said. "I give it to them, and I don't have to think about it anymore."
Dallas Mavericks rookie Dominique Jones is worry free, too. His financial planners have had the lockout in mind since the day he began getting paid.
"We went over my whole budget so my bills will be paid all the way till not this February coming up, but the next February," he said. "We feel the lockout should be over by then."
The possibility of a lockout is a big part of why Jones is playing in the NBA instead of at South Florida for his senior season. He feared the 2011-12 season would be compromised, delaying the start of his career - and the start of his paydays.
Milwaukee Bucks guard Brandon Jennings has been getting paid to play basketball since leaving high school, spending a year in a European league before being the 10th overall pick of the 2009 draft. He will receive a big raise once he becomes a free agent, but he's locked up through the 2011-12 season and doesn't want to spend money he hasn't made. He's still driving the Ford Edge he bought when he moved to Milwaukee, still living near the team's practice facility.
"Right now, I'm really keeping a good budget, a tight budget," he said. "That's because you never know how long the lockout is going to be, so you've got to save up."
Tom Condon of Creative Artists Agency represents Peyton Manning, Drew Brees and many more guys who won't miss any meals if they miss a few paychecks.
However, their huge salaries mean they would be missing out on the most money. So Condon's advice to them is simple: Pay attention.
"We tell them they need to involve themselves in the process, the entire process," Condon said. "They need to participate in the education process, need to understand the issues by working through the NFLPA, and we talk to them about conserving their resources and saving their money. We don't give any financial advice. The players have their financial advisers who are guiding them. We only make sure they understand what is potentially at stake."
Browns kicker Phil Dawson is a free agent after this season, which he said makes him part of "a huge group of NFL players going into this offseason like, 'What in the world?' "
He has been saving up, but worries that not enough players have done the same.
"Ultimately, that will be our weakness - if guys are desperate," he said. "If we got a bunch of knuckleheads who have gone through all their money, that hurts our position. Hopefully, guys will be smart with their money and be able to budget wisely and be able to absorb any work stoppage that may come."
Broncos linebacker Jason Hunter thinks he's ready. After all, he's followed the NFLPA advice about saving some paychecks, perhaps a bit too literally.
He puts them in a safe.
"That's the best way not to spend," he said. "When you get your checks, don't cash them."


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The government has not dropped the deportation cases against the immigrants, however. The detainees have been freed on supervised release while their cases continue in court, officials said.
But the decision angered many Republicans, including Representative Robert W. Goodlatte of
"It's abhorrent that
A spokeswoman for
Officials said the releases, which began last week and continued on Tuesday, were a response to the possibility of automatic governmentwide budget cuts, known as sequestration, which are scheduled to take effect on Friday.
"As fiscal uncertainty remains over the
Immigration officials said Tuesday that they had no plans to release substantially more detainees this week, though they warned that more releases were still possible depending on the outcome of budget negotiations.
They refused to specify exactly how many detainees were released, or where the releases took place. But immigrants' advocates around the country have reported that detainees were freed in several places, including Hudson County, N.J.; Polk County, Tex.; Broward County, Fla.;
While immigration officials occasionally free detainees on supervised release, immigration advocates said that the surge of recent releases — so many in such a short span of time — was extraordinary.
Under supervised release, defendants in immigration cases have to adhere to a strict reporting schedule that might include attending appointments at a regional immigration office as well as wearing electronic monitoring bracelets, officials said.
Advocacy groups, citing the cost of detaining immigrants, have for years argued that the federal government should make greater use of less expensive alternatives to detention for low-risk defendants being held on administrative charges.
One such group, the National Immigration Forum, estimated last year that it cost from $122 to $164 a day to hold a detainee in the federal immigration system. In contrast, the organization said, alternative forms of detention could cost from 30 cents to $14 a day per immigrant.
Among those released in the past week was Anthony Orlando Williams, 52, a Jamaican immigrant who spent nearly three years in a detention center in Georgia. "I'm good, man," he said. "I'm free."
Mr. Williams, in a telephone interview from Stone Mountain, Ga., said he became an illegal immigrant when he overstayed a visa in 1991. He was detained in 2010 by a sheriff's deputy in Gwinnett County, Ga., when it was discovered that he had violated probation for a conviction in 2005 of simple assault, simple battery and child abuse, charges that sprung from a domestic dispute with his wife at the time. He was transferred to ICE custody and has been fighting a deportation order with the help of Families for Freedom, an immigrant support group in New York.
Mr. Williams was released last Friday. "That was a long, long, long run," he said of his detention, adding that he has an appointment this Friday at an immigration office in
Human Rights First, another advocacy group in New York, which has been pressing for reform of the immigration detention system, said that 96 percent of immigrants enrolled in ICE's alternatives-to-detention program attended their final hearing in 2011. That figure was up from the year before, in which 93 percent attended their final court hearings, said the group, citing statistics provided by B.I., a private contractor that provides monitoring and supervision services to ICE.
Immigrants' advocates applauded the releases but pressed the Obama administration to do more, including adhering more closely to its declared enforcement priorities and leaving alone immigrants accused of low-level crimes and administrative immigration violations.
"It shouldn't take a manufactured crisis in Washington to prompt our immigration agencies to actually take steps towards using government resources wisely or keeping families together," said Carolina Canizales, a leader of United We Dream, the nation's largest group of young illegal immigrants.
But Senator
"It is clear the administration is using the sequester as a convenient excuse to bow to political pressure from the amnesty groups," he said. "With this new action, the administration has further demonstrated that it has no commitment to enforcing the law and cannot be trusted to deliver on any future promises of enforcement."
Other Republicans, however, shrugged off the releases, saying they expected that the administration would use the excuse of sequestration to take attention-grabbing action and that they were prepared for more in the coming days.Continue reading the main story


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New York Attorney General Announces Settlement with UBS Over Fee-Based Accounts
The New York State Attorney General announced a $23.3 million settlement with UBS Financial Services for inappropriately steering customers into the fee-based accounts of its InsightOne brokerage program. It is the largest settlement involving fee-based accounts. UBS has agreed to reimbuse customers $21.3 million and pay a $2 million penalty.
In the lawsuit, the AG charged that UBS placed thousands of traditional brokerage customers into the fee-based accounts by falsely promising comprehensive and sophisticated financial advice. In addition, the complaint charged that UBS was aware that the fee-based accounts were unsuitable for many customers who engaged in infrequent trading. The press release gives a number of horror stories, including a 91-year-old customer who was charged more than $35,000 for four trades over two years.
The D.C. Circuit recently vacated a SEC rule that would have exempted brokerage firms offering fee-based programs from regulation as investment advisers.


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Everything was broken from that point on and using the backup file to resurrect the prior installation of Mambo was so convoluted and ridiculous a process that I just converted to Joomla altogether. I've been planning to make the switch for months but was too damned chicken to do it.
The Joomla install appears to be functioning well.
I'll be switching to a different template and fixing all the broken windows over the next few day.