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(Editors/reporters: Honorees are based in Marin, Napa, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo, Sonoma, Siskiyou and Yolo counties.)
SACRAMENTO – A diverse group of businesses and organizations and the city of San José are being honored Thursday, March 18 as 2009 IPM Innovators by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) for controlling insects, weeds, rodents and other pests with a combination of natural and preventive strategies and pesticides less toxic than traditional treatments.
"From vacuuming cockroaches infesting a café to building bird and bat houses to attract natural predators that eat insects and rodents in vineyards and parks, this year's honorees exemplify pest control strategies we call integrated pest management, or IPM," DPR Director Mary-Ann Warmerdam said today. "IPM is more protective of public health and safer for the environment whether you have a pest problem in a home or office building, agricultural fields, garden or park."
Warmerdam will present the IPM Innovator Awards at 1:30 p.m. in the Sierra Hearing Room on the second floor of the California Environmental Protection Agency in Sacramento. The public is invited.
The recipients are:
Since IPM Innovator awards were initiated in 1994, more than 100 California organizations have been recognized for their efforts to reduce risks associated with pesticide use and for sharing their research and methods with others. Candidates are evaluated in seven categories: innovation; value; effectiveness; supports research; organizational education; outreach; and leadership.
A brief description of the 2009 IPM Innovators follows:
ATCO Pest Control
This business established in 1985 provides pest control services in Marin and Sonoma counties. Marin County government buildings are one of owner Richard Estrada's clients and the Civic Center designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the buildings he services. ATCO works closely with the center's staff to balance historic preservation with inventive IPM strategies to address unique pest challenges at the spectacular complex.
For example, the Civic Center and café had a history of cockroach infestations. Previous pest control companies had routinely used harsh insecticides. ATCO cleared the facility of cockroaches using baits, vacuums and monitors. The company continues to closely monitor for pests and uses least-toxic baits as needed. ATCO has also implemented a process in which rodents are controlled in the landscape without the use of rodent poisons. As a result, raptors and other predators are not adversely affected by secondary poisoning.
ATCO utilizes mechanical methods and equipment such as vacuuming, steam, trapping along with bait and organic materials to control rodents, cockroaches, bed bugs and other pests without traditional pesticides. More information about the business is available at www.Atcopestcontrol.com or by calling ATCO President Richard Estrada II at 415/328-0799.
Central Coast Vineyard Team
The team was honored for its Sustainability in Practice (SIP) certification program that requires growers to use a variety of practices that protect air and water quality, food safety and worker health. Since SIP's 2008 implementation, certified acreage has increased from 3,700 acres to more than 10,000 acres. To date, more than 50,000 cases of wine have been produced from SIP-certified vineyards.
The team is a nonprofit grower group that promotes sustainable winegrape growing. Although the team is based on the Central Coast, SIP certification is open to any vineyard regardless of region. The collaborative partnership includes growers, wineries, consultants, researchers and natural resource professionals working to increase use of environmentally friendly farming practices.
DPR presented the team with an Innovator Award in 1997 for developing a Positive Points System to evaluate IPM success in vineyards. More information about the team is available at www.vineyardteam.org or by calling Executive Director Kris O'Connor at 805/369-2288.
Clark Pest Control
The West's largest pest control business is shifting from more traditional pest control methods to IPM, including heat to manage drywood termites and bed bugs. Clark recently launched a large-scale IPM program for its residential accounts in which technicians replace regular perimeter spraying of pyrethroid pesticides with site evaluation and customized pest control. Pyrethroid pesticides have been detected in urban waterways at levels toxic to small aquatic organisms. Clark also has been exploring alternatives to pyrethorids for pest control.
The company uses IPM methods to service buildings with Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification, including California Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Sacramento where DPR is based.
Clark helped develop GreenPro, a pest management certification program, and was one of the first companies to become certified in California and nationally. It also has the highest number and percentage of GreenPro- certified technicians. More information about the business is available at www.clarkpest.com or by calling technical director Darren Van Steenwyk at 209/368-7152, ext. 235.
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
For more than 30 years, the alliance known as CAFF has helped growers reduce their environmental footprints with farming practices that protect and preserve natural resources and earn them a living.
CAFF offers field days and grower meetings throughout the Central Valley so growers, University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisers and researchers, and others can share IPM-related practices. Examples include a project in Fresno, Madera and Merced counties that resulted in a significant reduction in traditional, broad-spectrum pesticide applications on cotton and an effort in Colusa, Sutter and Yuba counties that reduced pesticide runoff from almond, peach, walnut and prune orchards.
CAFF also conducts extensive outreach efforts to educate Californians about where their food comes from and develops markets for regionally grown products. More information about the alliance is available at www.caff.org or by calling Program Director Marcia Gibbs at 530/756-8518, ext. 34.
Marrone Bio Innovations
Pam Marrone founded the company to discover, develop and market environmentally friendly and effective natural products for pest management, including organic weed control. The company's products include biopesticides that reduce or replace traditional, more toxic chemicals; reduce sulfur applications; control invasive species; and lower emissions that contribute to smog. Marrone and her staff regularly present their research at scientific meetings.
The company's efforts include development of a biopesticide to control invasive zebra and quagga mussels fouling freshwater ecosystems and a microbial-based weed killer for rice and cereal crop production. It is screening new microorganisms and plant extracts against nematodes, weeds, insects and plant disease.
Marrone also offers an accredited, educational course for crop care professionals about the successful use of biopesticides in IPM programs. More information about the company is available at www.marronebioinnovations.com or by calling Julie Versman, vice president of marketing, at 530/750-2800.
Prather Ranch
Organic production manager James Rickert has applied his great-grandfather's practice of integrating animals and crops with the help of modern technology to run his family's organic strawberry plant nursery and cattle operation in Siskiyou County. Strawberry plant cultivation is rotated with irrigated pasture intensively grazed by the cattle to rebuild the soil and preserve biodiversity. Soil fertility is sampled routinely to monitor nutrient levels.
The ranch is the only organic strawberry plant supplier to the general public in California. The nursery sells approximately two million plants for commercial organic strawberry growers and the general public annually throughout the United States. Prather Ranch also sells seeds online to home gardeners and to commercial growers through Seeds of Change, Johnny's Seeds, Mountain Valley Growers and others.
The combination of IPM practices and organic production addresses food safety and worker safety concerns, helps reduce pesticide emissions and prevents runoff of pesticides in an environmentally sensitive area. University of California Extension agents, agricultural colleges and many other groups tour the livestock processing facility and innovative strawberry nursery operation. The ranch has been featured in many publications and Rickert speaks about his practices at numerous conferences, field days and meetings. More information about the ranch is available at www.pratherranch.com or www.pratherranchnursery.com or by calling Rickert at 530/941-0810.
City of San José
This city of one million people and home to Silicon Valley has made an overall commitment to environmental protection and sustainability, including IPM. Its pesticide management plan was adopted in 2002 to reduce pesticides in urban runoff known to be toxic to aquatic life in creeks and the San Francisco Bay. The city's Pesticide Management Committee is comprised of representatives from major departments and meets monthly to discuss pest management issues to coordinate IPM projects and to share ideas. Staff members who handle pesticides receive safety and IPM training.
The city uses a variety of IPM practices to reduce pesticide use, including goats and sheep for weed control on parklands. By 2009, the grazing program had expanded to nearly 600 acres and avoided the use of approximately 77 pounds of pesticides. Barn owl and bat boxes have been installed in city parks and community gardens to control gophers, mosquitoes, gnats and other pesky insects. To control the destructive tussock moth, the city removes cocoons from trees by power washing, followed by releases of parasitic wasps.
The grazing program and owl and bat boxes are extremely popular with the public and provide a valuable way to communicate the city's IPM message. The grazing program alone was featured by 11 different media outlets in 2009. San José conducts outreach about IPM practices through collaborative efforts with local and regional agencies. More information about San José's IPM efforts is available at http://www.sanjoseca.gov/esd/stormwater/pesticides.asp or by calling James Downing, supervising environmental services specialist, at 408/277-2765.
Spring Mountain Vineyard
Spring Mountain's IPM strategies, developed in collaboration with University of California scientists, include introducing beneficial insects and birds into the vineyard's management practices to eliminate the use of herbicides and insecticides. For example, the vineyard builds and installs birdhouses for bluebirds that eat blue-green sharpshooters and uses sheep to graze on grasses between the vine rows.
The vineyard property has been opened to UC Berkeley researchers for vine mealybug and native bumble bee and bee studies, to UC Santa Cruz for bluebird studies and the Napa County Resource and Conservation District for numerous erosion control studies and research into soil particulates in streams for fish habitat. In 2006, Spring Mountain received permission from the Napa County Agricultural Commissioner to control mealybugs with an aggressive bio-control program rather than insecticides.
Through various trials, it was determined that two insects were effective: Crypotolaemus, a beetle commonly known as the vine mealybug destroyer, and Anagyrus, a parasitic wasp. This approach controlled the spread of the vine mealybug at Spring Mountain and is now being copied in vineyards around the state. More information about the program is available at www.springmountainvineyard.com or by calling Ron Rosenbrand, vineyard manager, at 707/967-4188.
One of five departments and boards within the California Environmental Protection Agency, DPR regulates the registration, sale and use of pesticides to protect people and the environment. For more information about DPR and previous IPM Innovators, see www.cdpr.ca.gov.
*A map of the meeting location may be found at www.calepa.ca.gov/EPAbldg/Location.htm. All visitors to the Cal/EPA building are required to sign in and receive a security badge. Valid picture identification may be required. Please allow up to 15 minutes for this process.
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I've got an idea for the forums - how about compiling a "Garth Sessionography"? In other words, compile a complete listing of Garth's recording sessions (such as a guy named Keith Flynn from the UK has done for Elvis Presley's recording sessions - htttp://www.keithflynn.com - and he keeps the site updated when new session or song information is found).
As for Garth, when I got the "Limited Series"; "Blame It On My Roots" & "The Ultimate Hits" CD sets, I immediately wondered about the session information and when each session took place and who the players/producers/engineers were. I know the info is in the CD inserts but - it would be cool to have a site we could go to that has all of that info. I know there's the "Music Database" on here but - I haven't looked through it completely so - I don't know what type of info is there and what isn't there.
How difficult would it be to undertake something like this? What are others' thoughts about this?
And, as far as keeping this site going, I would hate to see it shut down after I just got back on here after over a decade away. :(


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"Dr. Doom" Marc Faber told CNBC on Tuesday that he owns gold even though the precious metal may be heading south.
"I don't think [gold] will go up right away, and we maybe have a correction of 10 percent or so on the downside," the publisher of The Gloom Boom & Doom Report said in a " Squawk Box" interview.
"But I see that governments will print money … so I want to have gold as an insurance policy."
In his January Market Commentary, Faber puts a price range on his gold call:
"... perhaps down to between $1550 and $1600 … I intend to increase my gold position on any further weakness although I am concerned that U.S. dollar strength could be a headwind for a strong gold rally."
As for the dollar, Faber said on CNBC, "In the beauty contest over the ugliest currency, the U.S. dollar is not winning." Still, he added, "I'd rather be in dollars at the present time than say, euros."
Faber also predicted a rather gloomy 2013 for stocks around the globe, pointing out what he sees as a "deterioration in the technicals of the [U.S.] market" and last year's huge increases from multi-year lows. On Friday, the S&P 500 Index closed at a five-year high.
"Money will shift from some of the relatively high-valued markets into markets that had a horrible performance," he said. "So as an investor, if you need to own stocks, then I'd be in Vietnam, in China and in Japan."
In his commentary, Faber wrote that he's leaning toward the bearish camp but with this caveat:
"I am also mindful that corporations and wealthy individuals are cash rich and since there are very few promising investment opportunities aside from equities, they might one day shift their considerable liquid assets into stocks."
Faber, living up to his "Dr. Doom" nickname, told CNBC that he doesn't like any particular asset class, though he said he has a diversified portfolio. "I'm not liquidating everything, but I have a lot of cash."
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My Written Journey Back To My Roots and Heritage : From England to Australia
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My Love of Writing : Family Letters
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That's interesting Debra...Years ago they seemed to take more care with their writing than we do now. My own grandfather had the most beautiful hand writing I've ever seen - each letter was exactly the same size. He said he was taught to write on graph style paper.ReplyDelete
Thank you Ann, for your comments and shared thoughts on your own grandfather. Handwriting is definitely a dying art but one which my family treasured. Even my daughter takes special care with her schoolwork, which is comforting to me! xReplyDelete
- Anonymous26 September 2011 at 00:12
Hi Debra,ReplyDelete
I really enjoyed this post. My Grandad used to write, not prose but notes and lists. He was a linguist and wherever he went he had his vocabulary ready, in his beautifully neat style.
We would go birdwatching and he would list the date, the location and the birds observed. I used to sit beside him, watching him. Now those lists are everything to me.
Many thanks,
Steve Garnett
Hi DebraReplyDelete
A lovely post - and full of very moving thoughts about your family. It took me back to when my family and I left Oxfordshire for London when I was 12 - and I spent a lot of time sending letters to my best friend and reading hers to me. I now wonder whether all that letter writing helped me to develop my own love of writing. Today with emails and texts that letter-writing art is sadly lacking.
- Anonymous24 October 2011 at 02:46
Interesting post - my sister (born 1969) has a love of old pens and collects them. I am a few years older, and so had to have an ink pen for school work (always managed to mess up the nib with lumps of paper) but I won a Top Notch Inkpen in a raffle a few years ago, and my partner will not sign anything without using this pen - I didn't make much of an attempt to get used to it. I prefer a rubber-coated ballpoint as it makes my handwriting nicer (like it used to be before typing everything atrophied my hand writing). Use it or lose it, I reckon! JoReplyDelete


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Sunday, May 19, 2013
Artsy Vegan Buffet Dinner in My 'Hood!
Community members and arts supporters from all over the city pay $35 for a ticket to MemFEAST. Money from all the ticket sales — plus some generous donor contributions — totals at $5,000. In return for their $35 ticket, patrons get a massive and awesome vegan dinner. And while they're eating dinner, artists make presentations for art projects that they could create with that $5,000. After the presentations are through, the patrons vote for their favorite art project. The winner gets the $5,000 to make their art project a reality.
I love the MemFEAST concept, and I've attended the event every year. The meal hasn't always been all vegan (the first two years featured a mostly vegan menu with one or two meat dishes for the omnis). But for the past two years, Chef/farmer Miles McMath has been preparing the food. And he makes everything vegan! Crosstown Arts, the arts organization that represents my neighborhood in Memphis, is probably the most vegan-friendly arts organization in town. They always have vegan options at their events, and many times, all of the food is vegan. Lucky me!
This year's MemFEAST event happened on Saturday night. Each year, the location has changed, but this year may have been my very fave. The party was held outdoors on the V&E Greenline, a 1.8-mile bike and pedestrian path on an old rail track. It was like a lovely garden party!
Here I am (with new hair!)
And here are my friends Cassi and Greg, who are both vegan as well, checking out the menu before dinner.
Each table had multiple bottles of Ginger-Basil Aqua Fresca.
And look at these adorable decorations! Old airplane-sized liquor bottles with flowers!
The buffet was AMAZING!!! It started with antipasto — Heirloom Bean Hummus, Olive Tapenade, Raw Veggies, Portobello Mousse, and Burnt Naan (The naan had a light grilled flavor and was among my favorite things).
And there was French Lentil Caviar, Beet Tartare, Pickled Spring Vegetables, and Rustic Bread.
But the real icing on the cake was the vegan slider bar! I had one of each! There were Edamame & White Bean Burgers with Field Lettuce, Spring Onion, and Chow Chow, Redneck Reubens made from Vegan Andouille, Kimchee, and Creole Remoulade, Green Lentil & Quinoa Burgers with Vindaloo Vegetables, and Tamarind Chutney, Hominy-Green Chili Burgers with Avocado, Salsa Roja, and Lime Crema, and Sweet Tater Logs with Chipotle Ketchup.
And at the end of the buffet (and I failed to take a picture) were Curry Spiced Tofu with Broccoli Rabe and Basil-Mint Pesto, Sweet Corn & Farro Risotto with Green Butterbeans and Arkansas "Feta" (my fave!), and Springtime Soba Noodles with Ginger Miso Broth, Pok Choi, Daikon, and Shoots.
And let's not forget dessert! Brownies and Raw Peach Cobbler with Green Wheat Freekah Crust.
I tried everything on the menu. So needless to say, my plate was a little overstuffed. I took a picture of Greg's much tidier, less gluttonous plate.
After dinner, we were so full! But the artists' presentations helped get our minds off our very full bellies. Five artists gave presentations, and the winner was Jeannie Tomlinson Saltmarsh, who proposed the installation on the greenline of metal fish sculptures that move with the wind.
We stayed for awhile after dinner and drank more wine. Look how lovely this little garden party was after dark!
Another successful MemFEAST has come and gone, and this one was definitely the best so far.
13 comments:
- xvavaveganx said...
Wow, a Feast indeed! Looks like a beautiful event with beautiful food! Everything looks really delicious but I"m really eying those desserts ;) The event looks really lovely and it looked like a beautiful night. Glad you enjoyed it!
Your hair looks SOOOOOOOOO good! Beautiful cut, you look amazing! I wish I could pull off short hair :)
- May 20, 2013 at 8:48 AM
- Jennifer Manriquez said...
My. Mouth. Is. Watering.
P.S. Your hair looks so cute!
- May 20, 2013 at 9:39 AM
- Patricia Sjöberg said...
I am drooling, that food looks so delicious! I wouldn't mind a few recipes!
- May 20, 2013 at 10:37 AM
- Sheridan & Drew said...
OH MY GOSH - mouth watering!! I love the sound of this event - so neat to support local artists in this way and all of that FOOD! I wish I could have gone!!
- May 20, 2013 at 10:45 AM
- foodfeud said...
The reubens sound amazing. With kimchee. The art project sounds beautiful too! What a wonderful project.
- May 20, 2013 at 12:27 PM
- GlutenFreeHappyTummy said...
Oh my gosh LOVE your hair!!! It's so cute. :) and WOW what a feast!! Yum!
- May 20, 2013 at 12:37 PM
- Dana said...
Love the haircut!
I am really amazed at how vegan friendly memphis is becoming. I think it's really jumping ahead of a lot of cities in the south. I guess I'm going to have to make a pilgrimage next time I go see my parents! I'm dying to try Imagine.
- May 20, 2013 at 1:48 PM
- Babette said...
What a feast!
- May 20, 2013 at 7:29 PM
- Claire said...
Those brownies...YUM. Keyboard droolin'.
- May 20, 2013 at 8:48 PM
Dang, wish I lived in Memphis! The menu sounded outstanding. The chef should come out here to the San Francisco bay area sometime and help with a fundraiser - he seems really talented and creative. Hope you had a really great time; and ps another vote for your cute hair cut.
- May 20, 2013 at 9:24 PM
Man, that food! What an excellent event. I've been to something similar, but they only served soup and neither was vegan :/
- May 21, 2013 at 5:45 PM
- vegan.in.brighton said...
Slider bar!! So rad! That looks like a wonderful evening and your new hair is cuuute.
- May 21, 2013 at 6:14 PM
- Appetite Affliction said...
Woah hello vegan food heaven!!
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WASHINGTON - Unable to corral his restive troops around a debt ceiling plan, Speaker John A. Boehner announced Tuesday he would bring a bill to the House floor to allow continued federal borrowing with no strings attached.
A vote is set for Wednesday on the measure. Boehner will need to rely on Democrats for passage since many GOP legislators continue to oppose any effort to lift the ceiling on federal debt.
[Updated at 8:38 a.m. Feb. 11: Boehner subsequently announced that the vote would take place Tuesday night due to a snow storm expected to hit Washington Wednesday.]
Democrats are expected to back the debt limit increase, which the Treasury has said needs to pass by Feb. 27 to continue paying the nation's bills and avoid a catastrophic debt default.
With the House about to recess for more than a week, Boehner was racing the clock to devise a plan. Republicans had wanted to tie the debt ceiling increase to a demand for changes in some government policy, but they failed to agree on what to ask for. That inability underscored the difficulty Boehner continues to have in leading his majority.
Republicans shelved a last-ditch effort to tie the debt increase to legislation that would have reversed a 1% cost-of-living adjustment for younger retired military personnel after finding it did not have enough support to pass. Many lawmakers want to undo the cut, but were unwilling to vote for the debt ceiling increase even with the repeal measure attached.
The House GOP leadership team announced the fallback position at a private morning meeting of House Republicans on Tuesday.
"We will be bringing up a 'clean' debt limit bill tomorrow," said a source in the room, unauthorized to speak publicly about the closed meeting. "Boehner made clear the GOP would provide the requisite number of Republican votes for the measure but that Democrats will be expected to carry the vote."
[Updated at 8:10 a.m.. Feb. 11: Asked if the move was a sign of the GOP's weakening political leverage after last fall's government shutdown, Boehner said, "When you don't have 218 votes, you have nothing."]
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No pie in this punkin's future, just a new home!
My poor little blog has been neglected lately and I've sure missed keeping up with all my blog friends- but I've been so busy with some projects in and around the house for the past couple of weeks I haven't had much time for my computer.
One of the more enjoyable projects I've been working on was making a few more fabric pumpkins to add with my other fall decor. It's a really cute pattern and very easy to make. I've enjoyed sharing a few of them with my blog friends every Fall and this year will be no different- I'm giving away the pumpkin in the picture above and all you have to do to be entered into the drawing is leave a comment. Oh, and in your comment- tell me what you like best about Fall... a visit to an apple orchard? Pumpkin patches and corn mazes? Cool crisp mornings and the changing of the leaves? The drawing is open to everyone, even if you've never left a comment before. I would love to hear from you, too! Just be sure to leave an email address in your comment if you don't have a Blogger or Wordpress profile.
The winner will be announced on next Tuesday's post and hopefully I'll also have some pictures of my nephew's wedding- which is this Saturday- to share with you then, too. On the other hand, I may be so caught up in the moment I forget to take a single picture. (Which is highly possible when it comes to things like that...)
And just for a laugh, I wanted to share some pictures someone sent me in an email... I'm sure some of you have already seen them but I wanted to share it with everyone because I think they're really cute.
Happy Tuesday, everyone!


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U.S. Coast Guard calls off search for 2 missing after oil platform fire
In this aerial photograph, a supply vessel moves near an oil rig damaged by an explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico, Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. (AP / Gerald Herbert)
Michael Kunzelman, The Associated Press
Published Saturday, November 17, 2012 7:12AM EST
Last Updated Saturday, November 17, 2012 8:09PM EST
NEW ORLEANS — The Coast Guard on Saturday evening called off its search for two workers missing after a fire broke out on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, sending an ominous black plume of smoke into the air reminiscent of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that transformed the oil industry and life along the U.S. Gulf Coast.
Chief Petty Officer Bobby Nash told The Associated Press that the search was ended at about 5:25 p.m. CST.
Coast Guard officials said in a news release Saturday that helicopters were searching for the missing workers from the air, while a cutter searched the sea.
The blaze, which started Friday while workers were using a torch to cut an oil line, severely burned at least four workers. Their burns were not as extensive as initially reported, said Leslie Hoffman, a spokeswoman for Black Elk Energy, which owned the platform.
Officials at Baton Rouge General Medical Center said Saturday that two men remained in critical condition, while two men remained in serious condition. All four, who are being treated in a burn unit, are employees of oilfield contractor Grand Isle Shipyard and are from the Philippines. The hospital said it and Grand Isle Shipyard are trying to reach the men's families in the Philippines.
Meanwhile, officials said no oil was leaking from the charred platform, a relief for Gulf Coast residents still weary two years after the BP oil spill illustrated the risk that offshore drilling poses to the region's ecosystem and economy.
It's unclear whether the missing men worked for a contractor. Grand Isle Shipyard employed 14 of the 22 workers on the platform at the time of the incident, WWL-TV in New Orleans reported. A man who answered the phone at the company's Galliano, La., office on Saturday said no one was available to comment.
The images Friday were eerily similar to the Deepwater Horizon blaze that killed 11 workers and led to an oil spill that took months to bring under control. The fire came a day after BP PLC agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the 2010 spill and pay a record $4.5 billion in penalties.
There were a few important differences between this latest blaze and the one that touched off the worst offshore spill in U.S. history: Friday's fire at an oil platform about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Grand Isle, Louisiana, was put out within hours, while the Deepwater Horizon burned for more than a day, collapsed and sank.
The site of Friday's blaze is a production platform in shallow water, rather than an exploratory drilling rig like the Deepwater Horizon looking for new oil on the seafloor almost a mile (1.6 kilometers) deep.
The depth of the 2010 well blow-out proved to be a major challenge in bringing the disaster under control.
The Black Elk platform is in 56 feet (17 meters) of water — a depth much easier for engineers to manage if a spill had happened.
A sheen of oil about a half-mile (800 meters) long and 200 yards (180 meters) wide was reported on the Gulf surface, but officials believe it came from residual oil on the platform.
"It's not going to be an uncontrolled discharge from everything we're getting right now," Coast Guard Capt. Ed Cubanski said.
Hoffman, the Black Elk Energy spokeswoman, said Saturday that there were still no signs of any leak or spill at the platform site.
BP's blown-out well spewed millions of gallons (liters) of oil into the sea, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River on the east side of the river delta. The crude fouled beaches, marshes and rich seafood grounds.
After Friday's blaze, 11 people were taken by helicopter to area hospitals or for treatment on shore by emergency medical workers.
The production platform owned by Houston-based Black Elk Energy is on the western side of the Mississippi River delta. The Coast Guard said 24 people were aboard the platform at the time of the fire.
Cubanski said the platform appeared to be structurally sound. He said only about 28 gallons (106 liters) of oil were in the broken line on the platform.
David Smith, a spokesman for the Interior Department's Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement in Washington, said an environmental enforcement team was dispatched from a Gulf Coast base by helicopter soon after the Coast Guard was notified of the emergency. Smith said the team would scan for any evidence of oil spilling and investigate the cause of the explosion.
Black Elk is an independent oil and gas company. The company's website says it holds interests in properties in Texas and Louisiana waters, including 854 wells on 155 platforms.
John Hoffman, Black Elk's president and CEO, said in an email early Saturday morning that he was leaving Houston for Louisiana to assist in the investigation and help the families of the missing and injured workers.
"My entire focus is the families and workers. Nothing else matters at this point," he wrote.
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Richmond, Va. - Three players scored in double figures and freshmen came up big as the UC Santa Barbara women's basketball team overcame a eight-point first half deficit to defeat non-conference opponent Richmond 51-49 Monday at the Robins Center. Jordan Franey drained three key free throws late in the game to seal the victory, UCSB's first in its last six contests.
The win upped the Gauchos' season record to 2-5, while the Spiders, who were coming off of a five-game road trip, dropped to 3-7.
Down 49-48 with 1:46 left in the game, Franey, a freshman forward, was fouled by Richmond's Danielle Bell. Franey made good on both shots from the charity stripe, putting the Gauchos up 50-49. With 15 seconds left, Franey collected a huge offensive rebound off of a missed jump shot from LaShay Fears. Franey was fouled by the Spiders' Sarah Williams and made one of two free throws with 11 ticks left on the clock to account for the final score.
Williams missed a three-pointer with two seconds remaining as the Spiders did not record a field goal in the final five minutes of the game.
UCSB struggled early as it turned the ball over three times to help Richmond start the game with a 7-0 run. The Gauchos got on the board with a three by Franey with 17:44 remaining in the opening half. Richmond jumped to its biggest lead of the game at 15-7 as Christina Campion sunk a jumper with just under 15 minutes left in the half. The Gauchos started to crawl back into the game and sheared the deficit to one point (22-21) when Fears nailed a three-pointer at 6:50. The Spiders, who finished with 12 points off of 12 Gaucho turnovers in the half, went into the locker room up three at 28-25.
Poor shooting plagued Richmond in the second stanza as it went from shooting at a 41% clip in the first half all the way down to 24%.
The game was tied three times in the second half, the first coming when Jessica Wilson hit a layup with 17:28 left in the game to knot the score at 30-30. An offensive rebound and putback by freshman Ariana Gnekow gave UCSB its first lead of the game at 32-30. Gnekow struck again by hitting a three-pointer with nine minutes left to put UCSB up by seven, its largest lead of the game.
With the Gauchos up 42-38, Richmond went on a 10-1 run as Bell buried two consecutive three-pointers and a pair of layups to bring the score to 48-43 with under five minutes to play. However, UCSB quickly tied the game at 48-48 as Fears hit a three-pointer and then stole the ball on Richmond's ensuing possession, leading to a layup by Jenna Green.
A free throw by Spider Augustina Zygaite gave Richmond a 49-48 advantage before Franey made the three free throws to ice the win for UCSB.
Green led all scorers with 14 points, posted a game-high nine rebounds, and added three blocks. Franey, who has scored in double digits in five of seven games this season, finished with 11 points and six boards, while Gnekow had a career-best 10 points to go along with seven rebounds. Fears had four steals.
For Richmond, Bell had 12 points and Williams totaled 11.
The Gauchos hit the boards hard and had 14 offensive rebounds that led to 13 second-chance points.
UCSB returns home to host a pair of non-conference games this week. Weber State visits the Thunderdome Dec. 7 (7 p.m.), while Loyola Marymount comes to town Dec. 9 (3 p.m.).


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The number of mobile workers across the globe will reach 1.3 billion by 2015 but research commissioned by ClickSoftware Technologies indicates that companies are not ready to tap this trend.
Forty-six percent of CIOs surveyed believe current corporate strategy does not deliver on the 'Mobile Dream.' However, 74 percent of CIOs believe mobile customer service is important for the companies.
IDG Connect surveyed respondents from CIOs in the UK, France and Germany and findings of the survey reveal that BYOD (bring-your-own-device) has played a significant role in increasing the number of mobile workers.
Much of the growth in this space has been driven by BYOD as users frustrated with the pace of their own IT departments have configured personal devices to make them more productive in the workplace.
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Sixty-six percent of CIOs find it easy to ensure quality and service standards are maintained in the field. Eighty percent in the retail sector in contrast to 30 percent of CIOs in the public sector find it easy to maintain quality and standards.
"CIOs understand the challenge and need to incorporate an enterprise mobility platform into their business strategy, but don't know where to start," said Dr Moshe BenBassat, chairman and CEO of ClickSoftware. "The technology and users are moving so quickly, but control needs to be regained by the CIO."
Dr. BenBassat advises CIOs to adopt a new approach that provides end-to-end support for the back office through to the mobile worker, regardless of the devices used.


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Crafting Rebellion.
Twigg Studios. It's relatively simple to make and looks so pretty. Just remember to use energy efficient light bulbs and not the regular ones that get really hot! :)
Gardners to Bergers.
This Lil' Birdie and anyone one else making this to decide.
Life of a Cheap Chickadee.
Moments with the Montano's.
Nifty Thrifty Things!
A Step in the Journey! Also check out her ornament cake balls.
Talking Dollars and Cents. Try her strawberry muffins and vegetable ground beef soup too!
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- French Canadian meat pie, by Adventures in Dinner
- Giant double chocolate cookies, by Lady with the Red Rocker
- Wicked good and easy pork chops, by A Pinch of Joy
- Christmas morning breakfast casserole and Peanut butter chocolate chip bars, by Homegrown Beanes
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WASHINGTON — Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has hired a well-known lawyer and military justice expert to represent him as the Army investigates how and why the soldier left his post in Afghanistan five years ago, before being captured by the Taliban.
The Pentagon says Eugene R. Fidell, who teaches military justice at Yale Law School, has spoken with the Army officer handling the case, Maj. Gen. Kenneth R. Dahl.
Bergdahl has completed his initial reintegration into the Army after his release May 31, when he was turned over to Army special forces in exchange for five Taliban detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention center. He is now assigned a desk job at U.S. Army North, at San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston in Texas.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. soldiers returning from Afghanistan posted a YouTube video complaining that they had to pay Delta Air Lines $2,800 out of pocket to check extra bags, prompting an onslaught of online comments critical of Delta and at least one boycott effort
The video went online late Tuesday. By Wednesday — nearly 200,000 views later — Delta posted a blog message saying it had revised its bag fee policy for troops. The airline was allowing troops traveling coach class three free bags, but was imposing a $200 fee on a fourth bag. Now Delta, in a statement attributed to an anonymous customer representative, says fourth bags will be free.
In the video, two soldiers who identified themselves as staff sergeants said their Army orders authorized them to bring up to four bags with them. After an 18-hour layover, they said, they learned of the bag fees when they checked in at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport Tuesday for a 7:15 a.m. flight to Atlanta.
One sergeant said his fourth bag was a weapons case containing an M4 carbine rifle, a grenade launcher and a 9 millimeter pistol that he used in Afghanistan.
It"s not unusual for returning soldiers to check weapons when flying on a commercial airline if the weapons have been certified as unloaded, said Joe Davis, a spokesman for the Veterans of Foreign Wars" Washington office.
"A $200 bill for extra baggage by a government-contracted airline is the worst welcome home any soldier could receive," Davis said.
"We know this is a business issue and that the troops will be reimbursed if they are authorized additional baggage in their orders, but the shock of even being charged is enough to make most servicemen and women simply shake their heads and wonder who or what it is they are protecting."
Army officials said Wednesday they were trying to identify the soldiers in the video and their unit. One sergeant in the video said the unit was returning from Afghanistan to Fort Polk in Louisiana.


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Broncos coach John Fox isn't interested in building for the future.
Fox said shortly after signing his new three-year contract extension that the Broncos' only priority is to win the Super Bowl in 10 months, and they've built a team they think can win right now.
"I'm proud of what our teams have accomplished, but our expectations are much greater as we pursue the Super Bowl championship that our fans deserve," Fox said. "We got closer this past year, but we came up short. So right now all the eggs are in the basket for '14 and doing everything we can to bring that championship back here to Denver."
The Broncos have made no secret of the fact that they're all about winning now, spending big money to attract Aqib Talib, T.J. Ward, DeMarcus Ware and Emmanuel Sanders in free agency. They know they're running out of time before Peyton Manning is past his prime, and they want to win now. Adding three years to Fox's contract is nice, but Fox isn't thinking years ahead. He's thinking about winning in 2014.


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Bloomberg reports that three U.S. senators want the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the connection between major national charities and telemarketers — including InfoCision Management Corp. of Akron — for possibly abusing tax-exempt status or breaking the law. "I am writing to ask that the FTC investigate reports that telemarketers acting on behalf of well-respected charities are deploying deceptive tactics to induce individuals to donate money that is kept mostly, and sometimes entirely, by the telemarketer," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Democrat, wrote to the FTC on Nov. 30. "These practices are unethical and in some circumstances may be illegal." Sen. Charles Grassley, an Iowa Republican, says Congress and the Internal Revenue Service "should consider writing stricter rules to prevent highly profitable nonprofits from avoiding taxes," Bloomberg reports. Sen. Herbert Kohl, a Wisconsin Democratic, says the U.S. Department of Justice and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should probe possible nonprofit abuse. In September, Bloomberg Markets reported that InfoCision, a large charity telemarketer, raised money for the American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association and other national charities "while falsely telling potential contributors that 70% of the money raised went to the charities," even though the actual percentage is far less. The Cancer Society and Diabetes Association approved the scripts for InfoCision, Bloomberg Markets reported. Sen. Kohl tells Bloomberg, "This particular scheme is one that needs to be looked at closely by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice to make sure it can't happen again." FTC spokesman Frank Dorman declined to comment to Bloomberg. Greg Donaldson, national vice president for corporate communications for the Cancer Society, tells the news service, "We welcome the chance to clarify the facts and will cooperate fully." InfoCision's chief of staff, Steve Brubaker, tells Bloomberg that the company has been a dependable partner to some of America's best charities for decades and takes its obligations to them and to potential donors seriously. "Our legal counsel has asked us not to comment on the merits of these claims other than to say we vigorously dispute these allegations and will respond accordingly in the proper judicial forum," he says. At the time of the original Bloomberg Markets story, Mr. Brubaker offered a five-paragraph response to the allegations. You can find that statement here.
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Heart to heart: Former Vice President Dick Cheney is writing a book about his battles with heart disease — an idea he hatched in Cleveland. The Associated Press says the 71-year-old Mr. Cheney is collaborating with his cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, and with his daughter, Liz Cheney. The book is scheduled for next fall. Mr. Cheney, who received a heart transplant in March, tells the AP that the idea for the book came from Dr. Reiner after they appeared together at the Cleveland Clinic for a conference on heart treatment. As the former VP explained, the Clinic wanted him to speak because in his case "They've done everything they can to a patient." Detroit Rock city: Cavaliers owner/Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert has expanded his downtown Detroit real estate portfolio with the purchase of the 333,000-square-foot One Woodward Building. Crain's Detroit Business reports that Mr. Gilbert's Rock Ventures LLC announced the purchase of the building, confirming previous rumors that the former home of the Michigan Consolidated Gas Co. was under contract to be sold to the company. A real estate source familiar with the deal said the purchase price was $8.5 million, Crain's Detroit reports. It's the 10th building Rock Ventures has purchased since the beginning of 2011. Crain's Detroit says Mr. Gilbert "stands as the second-largest private owner of downtown real estate, behind General Motors Co." Rock Ventures' downtown Detroit portfolio features 2.5 million square feet of office space. The unprofitable $9 beer: Forbes.com takes a look at what apparently has become a complicated part of the sports business world: selling beer at stadiums. From the story: Once upon a time, a local beer distributor could hook up with a stadium concessionaire like Aramark or Levy and get his brand added to the mix. No more. You want your suds poured at the ballpark? You need to be a sponsor. The competition can be fierce — unlike staples like hot dogs or soda, where clubs tend to make a deal with a single brand, beer isn't exclusive. … Sports sales executives, under big pressure these days to bring in added sponsorship dollars, face the challenge of convincing beer and spirits distributors that a full-blown sponsorship is worthwhile. At the baseball Winter Meetings in Nashville, one of the speakers was beer industry veteran Matt Borgard, director of venue sales for Crown Imports, the importer of Corona. "Pushing his brand into Cleveland's Progressive Field or Atlanta's Georgia Dome means setting up portable Corona 'Beaches' around the venue, a tie-in to the company's 'Find Your Beach' ad campaign," Forbes.com reports. "The exposure is vital, because few beer brands sell enough at games and concerts to turn a profit, even with the high markups on the prices. Distributors aren't that impressed with your annual attendance numbers — they know that a lot of those people aren't drinkers."
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17-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Sunday, September 8, 1912: Went to Sunday School this afternoon. Had Harvest Home services at church.
Her middle-aged granddaughter's comments 100 years later:
Harvest Home was one of my favorite Sundays when I was a child. Do any churches still have Harvest Home services?
I loved to gather fruits and vegetables for the beautiful display in the front of the church—and then during the service I enjoyed looking at the interesting squash, pumpkins and other vegetables. And, it always made me feel good that the food would be given to needy families after the service.
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Fine, so it was someone in Bryce Harper's stable of handlers, but still, it's a nice sentiment. "That's a clown question, bro" has taken on a life of it's own and a Denver brewery named a beer using the famous retort to join in on all the fun just as Harper was in town to play the Rockies.
In the days after Harper's quote, Denver Beer Co. brewed a small, special batch of Canadian lager and named it, "Clown Question Bro." They tapped the first keg Monday afternoon, in time for the Nationals' arrival in Colorado.
Harper, who has applied for a trademark on the phrase, heard about a local police woman who was killed on duty, leaving behind a 12-year-old daughter and suggested the brewery donate a portion of the proceeds to a memorial fund for the daughter. The brewery agreed and a heartwarming story was born.
Good on you Bryce, your next Shirley Temple's on us.
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so I bought the gear , now looking for top roping spots.....
This weekend we tried the kalkbay crags..... was so much fun but not that easy.
Are there any other places that are good for a biginner to toprope?
( so I can hike to the top attach my rope then hike down and we can climb?
is peers cave any good and lakeside?
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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual or perennial herb < 60 dm, generally ± branched, generally erect; sap milky
Leaves generally basal and cauline, alternate, sessile, generally reduced upward
Inflorescence: heads ligulate, 210 mm diam; involucre 520 mm, generally bell-shaped; phyllaries in 36 series; receptacle naked or with fragile bristles < 5 mm
Flowers: corollas readily withering; ligules yellow or white, generally ± purple-striped below
Fruit generally fusiform, straw-colored to purple-brown, truncate; veins 15 (5 generally prominent, 10 sometimes obscure); outer pappus ± 0 or of 06 smooth, persistent bristles, inner 1232 bristles fused at base, readily deciduous, minutely barbed below
Species in genus: 21 species: w North America, s South America
Etymology: (Greek: soft hair)
Reference: [Williams 1957 Am Midland Naturalist 58:494517]
Perennial 3060 cm, from rhizome or caudex, glabrous to tomentose
Leaves linear to obovate, entire to irregularly lobed; basal withering early
Inflorescence: heads 68 mm diam, base generally tapered; involucre 1012 mm; outer phyllaries generally 1/2 inner, generally lanceolate
Flowers: corollas 1320 mm, white, outer corollas exserted 814 mm
Fruit 1.32.5 mm, minutely spiny, straw-colored to purple-brown; outer pappus of irregular teeth, bristles 0
Chromosomes: 2n=18
Ecology: Open coastal sage, chaparral, sand dunes
Elevation: < 2000 m.
Bioregional distribution: South Coast Ranges, South Coast, Channel Islands, Transverse Ranges.Varieties intergrade.


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Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has confirmed that he's the father of a new baby amid feverish media speculation.
Talking to reporters at a news conference to promote the music from his latest film, Khan said late Wednesday that the news was "extremely personal."
There's been much speculation in Indian media over the last few weeks that Khan and his wife became parents to a baby boy via a surrogate and that the actor knew the baby's gender ahead of the birth - an act that is illegal in India to prevent the practice of aborting female fetuses due to a cultural preference for sons.
Khan did not give any details Wednesday and did not mention the baby's gender, but said he would share more publicly when the speculation settles down.
Khan said he wanted everyone, including government officials who are investigating whether he knew the baby's gender before the birth, to work with the same "alacrity in finding out and doing the enthusiastic investigation they are doing upon my baby upon other things which they should be lending their thoughts to right now."
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As a further sign the insurance-pricing cycle is beginning to shift, Moody's Investors Service says some companies are reporting strong growth in excess and surplus lines business, generally a sign that standard-market carriers are tightening underwriting and shedding business.
Moody's makes the observation in a Special Comment released today that reports 2011 U.S. property and casualty net income for Moody's-rated companies was down 33 percent compared to 2010, due largely to catastrophes.
Regarding activity in the E&S space pointing to a market turn, at the National Association of Professional Surplus Lines Offices 2011 annual conference held this past October in San Diego, some E&S executives, commenting to NU Online News Service about the state of the pricing cycle, said they would need to see standard carriers entering traditional E&S markets before they would say a hard market is approaching.
"That, to me, is really what we need to see before I'll say it looks like a hard market's coming," Judy Patterson, a property underwriter at specialty-insurer Beazley, said at the time. "It's nice to get some rate increases, but it's not a hard market until we have that influx of new-business opportunities, and we haven't seen that."
Linc Trimble, senior vice president, head of Excess Casualty (U.S.) for Bermuda-based Torus Insurance Holdings Ltd., agreed in October, and said as the economy improves, there should be enough premium and profit in standard carriers' traditional markets and they would begin to pull back.
With several reports now showing improvement in the economy, and with Moody's latest observations about business moving back to the E&S space, evidence beyond rate increases seems to be building toward a market turn.
Rates have continued to increase as well, according to Moody's. In its Special Comment, the ratings agency says, "Rate increases continue to gain traction, broadening to include nearly all lines of business, with even professional liability beginning to turn."
Moody's adds that pricing surveys and conference calls show that pricing as "passed an inflection point," and most commercial-lines insurers are reporting rate increases "that they believe to be in excess of their loss trends."
Moody's says it expects rate increases to continue in 2012, boosting industry-premium growth.
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Insider trading takes place in a quarter of all public company deals, according to a new study.
That was a key conclusion of a study conducted by two professors from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a professor from McGill University. The research looked at hundreds of transactions that took place between 1996 and 2012.
The authors looked at movements in stock options to determine if unusual activity occurred 30 days before a deal's announcement. Investors use stock options as a way to lock in a set price at which they can buy stocks at a future date.
The professors said the chances of investors trading correctly ahead of news is literally "about three in a trillion." Translation: virtually impossible.
In a sign that regulators are not keeping pace with the problem, the study found the Securities and Exchange Commission litigated only about 4.7% of the 1,859 M&A deals included in the sample.
The government has made headlines in recent years, cracking down on insider trading in cases that involved such names as SAC Capital's Steve Cohen and Galleon and its founder Raj Rajaratnam.
But according to the study, the government has a lot of catching up to do.
"It takes the SEC a bit more than two years, on average, to prosecute a rogue trade," the authors found.
The average such trade was worth about $1.6 million.
The news comes as yet another high-profile insider trading trial begins in Manhattan, this time of Rajaratnam's younger brother, Rengan
Rengan is taking his chances in going to trial, after his older brother was convicted of several charges of insider trading. Rengan will be pitted against the office of Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, who has won 80 insider-trading convictions since August 2009. His office has not yet lost a trial.
But this time might be different.
The lawyer in the case, Daniel Gitner, has a stellar reputation as a trial lawyer and has so far managed to have four of the seven charges dropped against the younger Rajaratnam.
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