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A huge defensive effort helped the Waikato Chiefs overcome the Canterbury Crusaders 28-19 in a ferocious all-New Zealand Super XV clash in Hamilton yesterday that had all the hallmarks of an international Test.
Flyhalf Aaron Cruden and captain Craig Clarke both scored first-half tries after charging down Crusaders kicks as the defending champions survived sustained periods of second-period pressure from the seven-time winners to earn a crucial triumph.
The victory extended the Chiefs' lead at the top of the New Zealand conference to 10 points before they enjoy an extended hiatus until June 28 because of a bye week and the international break.
Tom Taylor slotted an early penalty for the Crusaders, before Cruden charged down his rival for the All Black flyhalf shirt, Dan Carter, to run through and touch down for the opening try under the posts in the 12th minute.
Cruden converted, but the Crusaders were back ahead when open-side flanker Matt Todd drove over from close range in the 18th minute after some effective work by the visiting forwards.
Cruden slotted another a penalty to level the game at 10-10, before second row Clarke used all of his gangly frame to charge down a clearance from winger Tom Marshall, scoring the Chiefs' second and earning them a 15-10 lead.
A Taylor penalty shortly before halftime sent the teams into the interval with the Chiefs clinging on to a 15-13 lead.
More forward pressure after the break set up two Crusader penalties which Taylor kicked with Cruden adding one of his own to cut the deficit to 19-18.
The Chiefs were then left bravely hanging on as the Crusaders parked themselves in the hosts' 22 for an extended spell, with heroic defending by Bundee Aki holding All Black No. 8 Kieran Read up over the line.
Aki then showed his attacking prowess as the Chiefs took the game to the Crusaders and the powerful center finally found a hole in the visitors' backline to cross for a 70th-minute try.
Cruden converted to extend the lead to 25-19 and the flyhalf kicked a late penalty on the hooter to deny the Crusaders a losing bonus point.
Winger Tom English scored his first two tries in the Super XV as the Melbourne Rebels claimed a maiden win over the New South Wales Waratahs yesterday.
English touched down in the corner for tries in the ninth and 75th minutes as the Rebels, led by another immense display by their skipper and No. 8 Scott Higginbotham, edged a scrappy contest in front of their fans at AAMI Park.
While Australia coach Robbie Deans will be delighted by another powerful Higginbotham performance, he will have concerns over Waratahs center Berrick Barnes, who hobbled off in the 52nd minute after slotting his fourth penalty of the game.
A depleted Rebels side meant fullback Jason Woodward took on the kicking duties, and he and Barnes traded early penalties, before English broke his Super Rugby duck by stretching for the corner for the game's opening try.
Woodward converted from the touchline and added a penalty, but Barnes kept the Waratahs in touch with two penalties, before Israel Folau struck four minutes before halftime.
Barnes slotted the conversion to make it four kicks from four, sending the Waratahs into the halftime break 16-13 ahead.
The versatile back notched another after the break before departing and Woodward slotted two more to tie the scores.


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The term, 'perennial plant', means simply that the plant returns following severe freezes, to grow again the next year. Trees are cold hardy tested perennials by nature, some trees that are evergreens and do not go dormant, but merely slow down during various seasons, and other shade trees enter dormancy and shed the leaves. Tree growth of shade trees may stop altogether in extremely cold climates, but in the spring, will surge with buds that open to flower and leaf out.
Great difficulties arise in assigning a plant, 'perennial', mainly because the primary determining factor, temperature range varies from year to year; and every century extreme cold temperatures may erase certain plant populations that have survived in areas before for decades or sometimes even centuries. A perennial plant may be a survivor, thus a perennial for a given growing area, then suddenly may become extinct in that growing area. The USDA has constructed a zone map that reveals averages of temperatures reached by the location in your State. This map is a nursery tool used to predict whether a perennial will live (cold hardy) in your area.
Agaves are a diverse genus of over 200 species of rosette, spear-like, leafed evergreen perennials. Agave typically grows as low shrub-like plants in dry or well-drained soils of the Southern part of the U.S. from New Jersey down to Florida, and then West to California. Many Agave species, such as Agave americana or Agave tequilana, have sharp recurved, protective teeth running along both sides of the blade of its semi-curved, lance-shaped leaves, with a sharp needle-tip lance at the end. There are Agave species, like Agave attenuata, and Agave stricta, that do not have sharp-teeth at all, but are smooth. The color variations of Agave plants range from shades of green, to silvery-grey, bluish-green, top yellow or white stripes, such is the case with Agave americana 'media-picta'. The bloom of mother Agave plants are a beautiful array of pendulent bell-shaped, creamy-white flowers soaring high above the mother plant on a flower stem that may reach 20 feet or more for some agave species. The bloom period of a mother Agave plant is during the summer and the flower stalk is magnificent to behold, however, this event means the cycle of life ends for mother Agave and begins again for her Agave offspring. Agave plants are an excellent choice for rock gardens or well drained soils that lend themselves well to terracotta or cement planters. Agaves are fairly slow glowers so expect higher prices on these sunloving garden jewels at retail garden centers. Huge specimen agaves can be quickly delivered by semi-trucks. Recommended Agave cultivar plants are: Agave 'Victoria-Reginae'; Agave americana; Agave americana 'Marginata'; Agave americana 'Media-Picta'; Agave angustifolia 'Marginata'; Agave attenuata 'Boutin Blue'; Agave bovicomuta; Agave celsii 'Nova'; Agave colorata; Agave desmettiana 'Variegata'; Agave desmettiana 'Zebra Stripe'; Agave 'Felipe Otero'; Agave franzosini; Agave geminiflora; Agave lechguilla; Agave parryii; Agave parryii 'Compacta Variegata'; Agave potatorum 'Verschaffeltii'; Agave pygmaea; Agave salmiana; Agave stricta 'Pueblensis'; Agave 'Shark Skin'; Agave sisalana 'Variegata'; Agave toumeyana; and Agave tequilana 'Weberi Blue.'
The ancient Egyptians in 1500 BC grew the Aloe for healing, and while the Pharaoh held all the Jews in captivity, aloes were used as cosmetics and for the sacred healing power of this mysterious perennial. The Book of John, in the New Testament Bible, John 19-39, records that Jesus' body was wrapped in linen cloths and aloes after the corpse was removed from the crucifiction cross before burial. Aloes are evergreen perennial plants that grow as shub-like, climbing or tree-like plants. The aloe plant leaves are fleshly, succulent, long tongue-shaped groups of rosettes, or as star-patterned limbs. Most forms of the aloe, 300 species genus, have toothed leaf blades with soft to piercing hard teeth. Aloe saponaria and Aloe vera are the two most commonly found containerized aloes in homes and gardens. Aloe vera plant extracts have long been used by mothers on their children for fast relief for minor cuts and burns. Aloe saponaria is cold hardy down to freezing temperatures and is widely grown in Southern gardens for the beautiful, coral-colored, tubular blossoms and for the making of medicated soap. Most aloe plants are small, 1-3 foot tall and width, however, a few tropical aloe species, such as Aloe marlothii grow into large, 120 foot succulent trees. Aloe plant varieties may vary enormously in color from yellow, red to blue-greens, or to spotted or striped with random variegation. Recommended cultivars of Aloes are: Orange Aloe.(Aloe acutissima 'antaramorensis') ,Blue Aloe (Aloe acutissima) ,Aloe aristata 'Montana' Tree Aloe (Aloe bainsii) Aloe brevifolia Red Aloe (Aloe camronii) Climbing Aloe (Aloe ciliaris) Kokoerbom(Aloe dichotoma) Aloe distans 'Yellow Teeth'Aloe 'Dorian Black' Aloe ellenbeckii White Aloe (Aloe glauca) Aloe kedongensis Bergaalwyn (Aloe marlothii) Gold Tooth Aloe (Aloe nobilis) Tiger Aloe (Aloe nobilis 'Variegata') Aloe petricola Spiral Aloe (Aloe polyphylla) Coral Aloe (Aloe strata) SoapAloe (Aloe saponaria) Aloe traskii Medicinal Aloe (Aloe vera) Partridge Breast (Aloe 'Variegata') Aloe verdoorniae Aloe 'White Teeth'.
Fern plants are a beautiful landscape choice or a container perennial, because of the delicate graceful foliage. Fern plants are native to the U.S., and found growing on every continent on the Earth. Some ferns grow well as cold hardy plarts in some areas bordering arctic conditions. A gardener can find a fern perennial to buy in practically any nursery or mail order operation.
Florida tropical perennials are restricted for growing in many States, because of the lack of cold hardy resistance. Some gardeners prefer to plant Florida perennials in greenhouses, or to grow as an annual. Many recommended plants are: Desert Rose, Adenium obesum; Allamanda cathartica; Giant Yellow Shrimp, Barleria micans; Hallmark, Bulbine fruiticasa; Clerodendrum ugandense; Bleeding Hearts, Clerodendrum thomsoniae; Bat Faced Heather, Cupha ilvea; Sapphire Showers, Duranta erecta; Euryops; Bolivian Sunset, Gloxina sylvatica; Iochroma cyaneum; Jatropha integerrima; Ixora; Lantana camara; Orthosiphon stamineus; Pentas; Russelia equisetiformis; Russelia equisetiformis aureus; Stachytarpheta urticifolia; Stachytarpheta mutabilis.
Flowering Vine perennials grow fast to cover fences, lattices, walls, and not only offer rewards of flowers, but many interesting flowers in colors of red, blue, white, pink, and yellow. If planted and grown in the sun, the flowering vines require little care of vine maintenance. Recommended flowering vines to plant are Coral Vine, Antigonon leptopus; White Coral Vine, Antigonon leptopus 'Alba'; Jekyll Island Vine, Bignonia capreolata; Tangering Beauty, Bignonia capreolata; Night Blooming Jasmine, Cestrum Nocturnum; Bleeding Hearts, Clerodendron thomsoniae; Lavender Trumpet Vine, Clytostoma callistegoides; Carolina Jasmine, Gelsemium sempervirens; Heart Vine, Ipomoea batatas; Chinese Jasmine, Jasminum polyanthum; Brazilian Firecracker Vine, Manettia inflata; Mailbox Plant, Mandevilla x Amblilis; Red Mandevilla, Mandevilla sanderi; Peaches and Cream, Mandevilla 'Peaches and Cream'; Pink Mandevilla, Mandevilla splendens; White Passion Vine, Passiflora; Blue Passion Vine, Passiflora x Alato-Caerulea; Red Passion Flower, Passiflora coccinea; Lady Banks Rose, Rosa banksiae; Blue Glory Vine, Thunbergia battiscombei; White Sky Vine; Thunbergia grandiflora; Confederate Jasmine, Trachelospermum jasminoides; Blue Wisteria, Wisteria sinensis; White Wisteria, Wisteria sinensis 'Alba';
Groundcover perennial plants are beautifully colored and fast growing, to keep soil erosion under control. Recommended groundcover plants are: Ajuga reptans 'Burgundy Glow', Burgundy Glow; Allium tuberosum, Society Garlic; Arachis glabrata, Perennial Peanut; Ardisia japonica 'Variegata', Ardisia japonica 'Variegata'; Aspidistra elatior, Cast Iron Plant; Aspidistra elatior 'Variegata', Aspidistra elatior 'Variegata'; Apsidistra lurida 'Milky Way', Apsidistra lurida 'Milky Way'; Asystasia gangetica, Ganges Primrose; Curculigo capitulata, Palm Grass; Ficus repens 'Variegata', Creeping Fig Vine; Ficus repens 'Variegata', Ficus repens 'Variegata'; Houttuynia cordata 'Chameleon', Chameleon; Liriope; Liriope muscari 'Big Blue', Border Grass; Liriope muscari 'Royal Purple', Liriope muscari 'Royal Purple'; Liriope muscari 'Super Green Giant'; Liriope muscari 'Variegata'; Liriope muscari 'Silver Dragon'; Lysimachia congestiflora 'Eco Dark Satin', Golden Globes; Ophiopogon intermedius 'Aztec'; Ophiopogon japonicus nana, Dwarf Mondo Grass; Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Ebony Knight', Black Mondo; Persicaria capitatum, Jump Seed; Persicaria microcephala, Red Dragon; Setcreasea pallida, Purple Heart; Setcreasea pallida, Pale Puma; Pseuderanthemum alatum, Chocolate Soldiers; Rubus calycinoides, Emerald Carpet; Scuttelaria longifolia, Red Fountain Sage; Spilanthese oleracea, Eyeball Plant / Toothpaste Plant; Trachelospermum asiaticum, Asiatic Jasmine; Tulbaghia fragrans, White Fragrant Garlic; Tulbaghia violacea, Society Garlic; Tulbaghia violacea 'Tricolor', Tricolor, Society Garlic; Vinca major 'Maculata', Periwinkle; Vinca major 'Variegata', Periwinkle; Vinca major 'Wojo's Gem'.
Herbacious perennial plants freeze during the winter, but return in the following spring to produce flowers of many colors and rare forms. Recommended cultivars are: Bee Balm, Monarda didyma 'Jacob Cline'; Blue Butterfly Flower, Clerodendrum ugandense; Blue Woodland Phlox, Phlox divaricata; Brunfelsia Pauciflora; Buckeye, Red, Aesculus pavia; Butterfly Bush, Buddleia lindleyana; Cestrum aurantiacum; Cigarette Plant, Cuphea micropetala; Clerodendrum bungeii; Cone Flower, Echinacea paradoxa; Cuphea 'Allyson'; Devil Star Lily, Clerodendrum puniculatum; Echinacea 'White Swan'; Echinacea purpurea; Firebush, Hamelia patens; Flowering Maple, Abutilion x hybridrum; Gaillardia 'Pin Wheel'; Lestrum fasciculatum 'Newellii'; Liatris spicata 'Blazing Stars'; Liatris spicata 'Floristan'; Lions Head, Leonitus leonarus; Obediant Plant, Physostegia virginiana; Orange Shrimp Plant, Justicia ovata; Orange Tongue Plant, Justicia leonardii; Phlox maculata 'Alpha'; Pink Tongues, Justicia carnea; Platycodon grandiflora; Plumbago auriculata 'Monott' PP7822; Princess Flower, Tibouchina urvillenana; Purple Butterfly Bush, Buddleia davidii 'Lochinch'; Red Cigar Plant, Sinningia sellovii;Red Prince, Weigela florida; Red Shrimp Plant, Justicia brandegeana 'Red'; Mouth of Hollywood, Rehmannia Elata; Rudbeckia hirta 'Becky Mix'; Ruellia brittoniana 'Katie'; Ruellia elegans; Scarlet Butterfly Lily, Odontonema cuspidatum; Shasta Daisy, Leucanthemum x superbum 'Alaska'; Shower of Gold Shrub, Galphimia glauca; Tecoma stans 'Yellow Bells'; Turks Cap, Malvaviscus drummondi; White Tongues, Justicia carnea; Yellow Creeping Jenny, Lysimachia nummularia 'Aurea'; Yellow Shrimp Plant, Justicia brandegeana 'Yellow'; Yellow Tongue Plant, Justicia aura.
Yucca is a genus of evergreen plants, with approximately 40 species that grow in dry, desert-like areas. However, this is a common misconception, because members of the Yucca family can be found growing in 30 of the States in America, from New Jersey, down to Florida, and west to California. Yuccas can be grown as small shrubs or yucca trees, up to 30 feet tall, depending upon the yucca species. Yucca has lance-shaped leaves growing in a rosette pattern, on a woody stem or trunk-like frame. Yucca plants may vary dramatically in color from shades of green, to white or yellow stripes, to blue-green hues, as with Yucca rostrata, a jewel for any garden. Most yucca plants are stiff and sharp pointed, like the Spanish Bayonet (Yucca aloifolia), while some yuccas have flexable soft leaves, such as Golden Garland Yucca (Yucca flaccida). The flower blooms of yucca grow in summer, and develop into a beautiful, creamy-white pendulum of bell-shaped flowers that tower 8 feet above the mother plant. Yuccas are very adaptable and are among the oldest living trees in the world. The Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia), Yucca filimentosa (Bear Grass or Adam's Needle) is among the most cold-hardy and widely grown varieties. The strong, stringy filament (fiber), that run a course from the needle tip, down the margin of the leaf, was used by native Americans for making into garments and possibly the treating of war wounds. The roots of Yucca were also used to make soap. The primary use for yucca plants in todays landscapes are for their ornamental beauty, like we find in Yucca flaccida 'Golden Sword', in terracotta pots or in ground landscape plantings. Some people use Yucca aloifolia 'Spanish Bayonet', Yucca treculeana 'Spanish Dagger', or even Yucca brevifolia 'Joshua Tree', as security hedges for their beautiful and exotically bazaar, stiff leaves, hence the nickname, Burlars' Nightmare. Yucca plants are typicall sunlovers, growing in well drained soils, but are adaptive and often grow faster in moderately moist areas, such as the Southeastern U.S.. Recommended yucca cultivar plants are: Yucca aloifolia; Yucca brevifolia; Bear Grass, Yucca filamentos; Bright Edge, Yucca filamentosa; Golden Garland, Yucca flaccida; Golden Sword, Yucca flaccida; Ivory Tower, Yucca flaccida; Variegata, Yucca flaccida; Silverstar, Yucca elephantippes; Soft Leaf Yucca, Yucca recurvifolia; Spanish Dagger, Yucca treculeana; Rigida, Yucca rostrata; Linearis, Yucca rostrata; HesperYucca paviflora; Cordyline 'Baueri.'


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Just-departed "Saturday Night Live" alum Andy Samberg is heading across the pond for his next television show.
His first TV project post-"SNL" will be a six-part comedy series on BBC Three called "Cuckoo."
In the show, which will co-star Welsh comic Greg Davies, Samberg's character Cuckoo is a "slacker full of outlandish, New Age ideas" — a "squared-jawed, self-appointed spiritual ninja" who has unexpectedly married Davies' character's hippie daughter, the network said.
THe show's executive producer Ash Atalla told The Hollywood Reporter of his high hopes for the sit-com.
"I imagine [President Barack] Obama and [British Prime Minister David] Cameron will be watching closely," he remarked.
Meanwhile, Samberg is starring in "That's My Boy," out Friday, in which he plays sleazy ne'er-do-well Adam Sandler's successful son.


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Galileo satellites moved to pad for Friday launch
The two Galileo satellites and their upper stage have been enclosed within their protective fairing, and moved to join the Soyuz rocket on the launch pad.
The halves of the fairing were sealed together around the satellites, their supporting dispenser and Fregat-MT upper stage on Friday, within the Upper Composite Integration Stand of building S3B of Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana.
Yesterday, the Upper Composite was moved to the launch site, for vertical mating to its three-stage Soyuz ST-B rocket.
The 4.1 m-diameter fairing protects the satellites from the stresses of launch and flight through the bulk of the atmosphere. It will be ejected about three and a half minutes into the flight, when the upper stage reaches the top of the atmosphere.
Fregat, modified to carry extra propellants, will fire for the first time about 10.5 minutes after launch, raising the satellites up to orbital velocity and their operating altitude of 23 222 km.
As it climbs, Fregat will spin slowly in 'barbecue mode', to keep the temperatures of the satellites even.
From launch to final deployment, when the dispenser releases the satellites sideways in opposite directions, will take three hours and 44 minutes.
The launch is scheduled for 18:15:00 GMT (20:15:00 CEST) on 12 October.
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This follow-up launch marks a major step for Europe's own satellite navigation system.
Four is the minimum number of satellites needed to achieve a navigational fix on the ground, with one satellite each to measure latitude, longitude, altitude and provide a time reference.
So once this second pair of satellites has been commissioned and tested, the quartet will form a completely operational mini-constellation that will be used to validate the Galileo system.
The performance of the satellites in space together with the worldwide ground infrastructure serving to maintain Galileo's service accuracy will be assessed in depth, to prepare the way for the launch of further satellites and then deliver initial services by mid-decade and finally build up to full operational capability.
These two new satellites are also the first to carry search and rescue antennas to pinpoint aircraft and ships in distress as part of the international Cospas–Sarsat system.


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LOS ANGELES -- The new scoreboards at Dodger Stadium didn't do the Dodgers and outfielder Carl Crawford any favors in the third inning of Friday's 3-0 win over the Pirates.
With Mark Ellis at the plate, Crawford was thrown out at second base by Pittsburgh catcher Russell Martin. The count was 2-2 and Ellis took a pitch for a ball as Crawford, who reached on a fielder's choice, took off toward second. Crawford slowed down as he approached the bag, believing Ellis had walked, and was tagged out.
According to Dodgers manager Don Mattingly, first-base umpire Gerry Davis told Crawford it was a full count. The right field scoreboard did not display the count at the time due to a malfunction.
"The umpire at first told him it was 3-2," Mattingly said after the game. "That's when the board wasn't working or something. So the umpire at first basically apologized to me. He looked over and said it was his fault. It's amazing how we rely on those scoreboards."
It was the second time Crawford was caught stealing in four games to open the season. He was thrown out trying to steal third by Giants catcher Buster Posey in the first inning on Opening Day in a 4-0 victory.


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Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced a number of policy adjustments on Sunday evening in areas such as medical insurance and education, outlining a strategic shift in his approach to nation building.
Individuals must still do their best, but the community and government must do more to reduce the pressures on individuals, he said at the annual National Day Rally.
In one of the key changes announced in the evening, Lee said that the government is revamping the country's medical insurance system to move towards universal and life-long coverage.
The coverage of MediShield, a low-cost basic medical insurance scheme, will no longer stop for people who turn 90. It will also be expanded to include even those with pre-existing illnesses. The benefits will be increased so patients will pay less out of their own pockets.
There will be no choice to opt out under the scheme, which is to be renamed MediShield Life.
The premiums will likely be higher, but Lee said the government will step in to help those who cannot afford it.
He also singled out the pioneer generation, in their late 60s and above. The government will create a Pioneer Generation Package to help pay for their MediShield Life premiums.
This generation has "paved the way for us to live better lives than themselves," and "lived with fewer safety nets." "We must take care of our pioneer generation in their golden years," he said.
The Ministry of Health will be conducting a public consultation exercise before deciding on the details of the scheme.
The government is also tweaking a Community Health Assist Scheme to open it up to younger Singaporeans so that outpatient services will be more affordable for them.
The government will also increase subsidies for those with more serious conditions who need to visit Specialist Outpatient Clinics. Means-testing will be used to determine who can qualify.
Singapore's 3M medical cost financing system, comprising Medisave, Medishield and Medifund, has been known for its efficiency. Medisave is a compulsory savings system, while Medishield is a low-cost basic medical insurance scheme. Medifund, an additional safety net, is an endowment fund set up by the government to help those who are unable to pay for their medical expenses.
The system encourages people to save to cover their own medical costs while also giving those at the bottom the basic safety net. But some have said that the elderly and those at the bottom were facing pressures from the quickly rising cost of life.
Health Minister Gan Kim Yong has said earlier that the government will do more to give Singaporeans greater assurance that they will be able to receive the necessary treatment when they need it, while emphasizing that healthcare is a collective responsibility.
"Each of us must also do our part -- adopt a healthy lifestyle, save up for rainy days, spend our healthcare dollars wisely when we need to," Gan said.
Lee said on Sunday evening that the government is making three important policy shift. It will do more to give every citizen a fair share in the nation's success, raise incomes and wealth of the low-income. It will also strengthen the social safety nets. More will be done to keep the paths upwards open to all, by bringing every child to a good starting point, and ensuring that the less privileged are not shut out.
In education, primary schools will be required to reserve places for children with no prior connection. The current process gives priority to siblings and children of alumni.
Primary schools cannot be "closed institutions," Lee said.
There will also be changes to the primary school leaving examination, which is used as a key assessment tool for deciding who goes to what streams of middle school and a source of stress for students and parents.
The exams will do away with fine distinctions in the score and use bands instead. Lee said the move was to the remove the fine distinctions and ease excessive competition to chase every point.
"An A is still an A, whether you score 91 marks or 99 marks," he said, adding that it would take several years for the changes to be implemented.
He also announced that Singapore will move the airbase at Paya Lebar to Changi so that the area can be freed up for homes and industry. It will also allow the height restrictions to be removed around Paya Lebar so that more exciting plans can be developed for the eastern part of Singapore.
The current port operations at Tanjong Pagar, which is also near the downtown area, will be moved to Tuas in the western part of the island state. The area will be freed up for waterfront developments.


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The Aldrich Alert
A Publication of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
by Gary Aldrich - Volume 2, Issue 15
This article appeared on TownHall.com on Thursday, March 21, 2002.
In political movements, there is nothing quite as disturbing as a turncoat. Ive always been registered as a Republican, and I suppose because of my law enforcement background, I found myself in agreement with the conservative wing of the GOP.
Over time, this subset of the Republican Party has been labeled the Right-Wing. Hillary went so far as to call us the Vast Right Wing, and claimed we had a conspiracy. For a short time, one of the members of the so-called Vast Right Wing Conspiracy was believed to be David Brock.
His participation in the movement was interesting, and often spectacular. His Troopergate stories were a source of shock and dismay as the country learned just how sleazy Bill and Hillary Clinton had been while Clinton was Governor of Arkansas.
From my fifth floor FBI office in the White House, Brocks 1993 Troopergate stories rang true. I didnt welcome the details, especially coming at Christmas time. The presidents sleaziness was not something I wanted to hear about at this time of the year. For three of the five years I was assigned to the White House, I was invited to help decorate the First Ladys Christmas tree. But in 1993, because of constant Clinton Administration troubles, I declined the invitation.
There had been Waco, and Fosters death, and the unfair firing and prosecution of Billy Dale. I believed the Clinton White House was headed for serious trouble. I was especially worried about national security, which had taken a back seat to political correctness. In many ways, it was no longer safe to work in the White House. I found the poor condition of the administration to be a shame and believed that the Clinton people had broken well founded policies, and even some federal laws, in order to bulldoze their flawed agenda into place.
After Vince Fosters death in July of 1993, I was hastily summoned to the walk-in safe in the office of the Director of Security, the now infamous Craig Livingstone. Later, it would be revealed that Craig managed to secure 1,000 confidential FBI files containing raw personal data about the lives of former Reagan and Bush employees. But, during the remarkable meeting with Livingstone, in the safe with the door closed, I learned it was a well-known fact that Vince Foster and Hillary Clinton had been having a love affair while working together in Little Rock.
When Brocks Troopergate stories were released, they included all the details on Foster and Hillary, including the when, the where, the how and the why. Brock had included everything but a "blue dress" in his salacious exposé. With what I already knew, added to Brocks numerous details including the location of the lonely mountain cabin where the trysts took place - there seemed to be enough evidence to convince a civil court that there had indeed been an affair.
I continued to work in the Clinton White House until the summer of 1995, but I left the White House and the FBI in disgust. My decision was not made because of the reckless womanizing of Bill Clinton, which I was already aware of, or the imperious behavior of a First Lady who ran much of the day-to-day operation of the White House. The FBI expected me to be a silent partner in a dangerous fraud, and I refused. The FBI background investigations had degenerated into a sham, designed to make the rest of the government, and the country, believe Clinton had brought high-quality people to staff the Defense Department and his Executive Branch agencies. It was an enormously dangerous lie, and I knew it.
My fellow law enforcement and security associates also knew it. We believed Clinton had endangered the nation with a low-quality, low-class bunch of unethical misfits he believed were fit enough to hold high positions of trust and confidence. There were many people in Congress who also knew of the mediocrity of the Clinton staff. One such individual was Phil Larson.
Larson had left the Clinton White House to work for the House Oversight Committee. He knew about the national security problems and had talked to me many times concerning the danger. Also working with Larson were Barbara Comstock and Barbara Olsen. I was to learn later that all three had befriended David Brock. Larson, Comstock, Olsen and I met together many times before I left the FBI, and also after I resigned. I provided a wealth of information to the committee Congressmen enabling them to perform their function the oversight of the executive branch, especially the White House and the FBI.
Soon after I left the White House, I revealed to Larson that I intended to tell the rest of the country what I had witnessed in the White House by writing a book. Larson encouraged me to call David Brock, also a frequent visitor to the committee offices. He told me Brock, too, was writing a book about the Clinton White House.
I called Brocks office and met with him at the American Spectator Magazine. I told him I was writing a book, and we talked about publishers, Brock's new book and other related matters. In his new book, Brock claims that he called me, and that he didnt know I was writing a book. This is just one of many lies in Brocks new book.
Admittedly, the first time I ever heard that Bill Clinton was leaving the White House without his Secret Service agents was from the lips of David Brock, but at first I thought this allegation too fantastic to be true.
But, I also knew Bill Clinton was reckless, and I knew he was obsessively chasing women. How much of a stretch would it be to believe he would order his Secret Service agents to stand down while he spent an hour or two away, in privacy, with a woman he did not want to invite into the White House? After all, he was quick to break any rule or law that stood in his way. I soon got my answer after interviewing several people at the White House who were in a position to know. Some were eyewitnesses to Clintons wandering about without Secret Service agents present.
When my book was released in the summer of 1996, I was pounded by the media and the White House for not having evidence presumably DNA evidence to prove Clinton was a reckless womanizer. While I was being bombarded by insults and attacks about the credibility of my charges - many lodged by David Brock - my publisher received a visit from a Clinton White House employee who claimed to have had conversations with two Secret Service agents who were complaining loudly about Clinton leaving them behind while he left the White House grounds to engage in sexual trysts with other women. With the evidence I had already provided, along with the new evidence supplied by yet another White House insider, the publisher was convinced I was telling the truth. Other facts in my book started to fall into place, and slowly, I was vindicated.
Meanwhile, for reasons only known to David Brock, he persisted in a media campaign to destroy my credibility and my book. Brock did not know a thing about me, or my book, or my sources. He had not worked inside the Clinton White House as I had. I didnt rely on Brock when I wrote my book. I didnt trust him, and therefore I didnt give him a drop of information about what I knew concerning the Clinton White House.
In spite of his attempt to ruin me, my book, Unlimited Access, became a New York Times #1 bestseller. And, in spite of all the attention he garnered for himself at my expense, Brocks Hillary-book bombed. He admits in his new truthful book that his Hillary-book was a commercial disaster. I believe this is one of the few truthful statements he makes in a 336 page mean-spirited, non-indexed screed against his former friends. The other truth contained in his new book is his admission over and over again, that he lies. In fact, he begins the book admitting that while he attended college he was caught in a big lie.
In his new book, Brock repeats the lies he uttered when Unlimited Access first came out. No amount of evidence that my book was a truthful, fact-filled documentary about a sleazy, corrupt, reckless, lying president and his friends will ever convince Brock. He also holds fast to lies he has told about so many others, all conservatives. The only lies he is willing to confess concern those lies he used to tell about various liberals like Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Brocks new book is entitled Blinded by the Right. I believe Brock is blinded, but not by the Right. His huge ego and an over-inflated view of his investigative talents and writing ability blind him. But most of all, David Brock is blinded by a lust for fame and fortune.
Brock claims in his new book that hes now driven by the need for love and his desire to be compassionate to others. Oddly, he slashes and burns everyone he has ever met, right up to the present day. Hes still trying to destroy many good-hearted people from both sides of the political aisle. These too-trusting folks welcomed him into their homes and gave him a place at their dinner table, maybe because they liked the way he wrote. But, perhaps they also felt slightly sorry for this sad young man who was obviously wracked and tortured by a lifestyle he claims he did not choose. He lied about that, too by keeping himself in the closet.
Gay or not, Brock could make a lifestyle change to be honest and tell the truth. He instead chooses to take money in return for broken friendships and betrayed loyalty. Brock continues to repeat shameful, hurtful lies about others in his new book, even as he laments living in a lonely world filled with political treachery. Brock will soon exhaust his supply of friends about whom to lie, (after all, who could trust him now?) and when that happens, hell be consigned to the remainder table" of life, where he and his boorish books belong.


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Zeta-Jones, Douglas and her parents, Patricia and David Jones, spent 90 minutes Friday touring facilities at the Children's Hospital for Wales in Cardiff.
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WARSAW — Avoiding a last-minute breakdown, annual U.N. climate talks limped forward Saturday with a modest set of decisions meant to pave the way for a new pact to fight global warming.
More than 190 countries agreed in Warsaw to start preparing "contributions" for the new deal, which is supposed to be adopted in 2015.
That term was adopted after China and India objected to the word "commitments" in a standoff with the United States and other developed countries.
The fast-growing economies say they are still developing countries and should not have to take on commitments to cut carbon emissions as strict as those of industrialized nations.
"In the nick of time, negotiators in Warsaw delivered just enough to keep things moving," said Jennifer Morgan of the World Resources Institute, an environmental think tank.
The conference also advanced a program to reduce deforestation and established a "loss and damage" mechanism to help island states and other vulnerable countries under threat from rising seas, extreme weather and other climate problems.
The wording was vague enough to make rich countries feel comfortable that they were not going to be held liable for climate catastrophes in the developing world.
The United States and other wealthy countries also resisted demands to put down firm commitments on how they plan to fulfill a pledge to scale up climate financing to developing countries to $100 billion by 2020.
That money is meant to help developing countries transition to cleaner energy sources and adapt to shifts in climate that can affect agriculture, human health and economies in general.
"I think we had a good outcome in the end. It was quite a tough negotiation," U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern said.
The U.N. climate talks were launched two decades ago after scientists warned that humans were warming the planet by pumping carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, primarily through the burning of fossil fuels. So far the talks have failed to reduce those emissions.
Historically, most emissions have come from the industrialized nations, but the developing world is catching up fast, driven by rapid growth in major countries including India, Brazil and China — the world's top carbon polluter.
Although China has invested heavily in renewable sources, the country is reluctant to promise emissions cuts internationally because it still gets almost 70 percent of its energy from coal, which produces the highest emissions of all fuels.
The talks were paralyzed for hours Saturday until China and India dropped demands for a reference to an article in the 1992 U.N. convention on climate change that says only developed countries are required to make commitments to cut emissions.
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Experian TAPSSM (Total Annual Plastic Spend)
What is Experian TAPS?
Experian TAPSSM is the first industry-unique algorithm that accurately estimates a consumer's spend on all general purpose credit and charge cards over the last 12 months.
How Can Consumer Spending Data Help My Business?
By providing clients with just this single piece of information, Experian TAPSSM will enable lenders to dramatically enhance marketing and account management strategies by helping them:
- Target high spending consumers with your best offer or customized rewards program
- Assign the credit limit your customers need and want
- Assign the correct APR in underwriting to maximize wallet share and interchange revenue
- Retain profitable accounts and identify customers where there is additional wallet share to capture
- Combine with income to identify potential debit users
Learn more about Experian TAPSSM by selecting a topic below.
- Overview
- TAPS is the first ever commercially available spend algorithm built from credit data
- Experian TAPSSM uses longitudinal credit data to estimate the last 12 months of consumer spend on credit and charge cards
- It calculates consumer spending data, separately, on each trade line, then aggregates those trade lines to provide a snapshot of an individual's annual spend
- Validated on the accounts of multiple card issuers and networks
- The TAPS model discriminates consumer spend, accurately and independent of balances with R2 of 0.75-0.87
- TAPS is complementary to Vantage Score, credit line and utilization and thus can rank within sub-segments.
- The consumer spending data provided by Experian TAPSSM is designed to give the client the ability to...
- Target higher spending customers or prospects
- Prioritize marketing investment
- Assign credit lines based on actual spending need
- Gain a sharper understanding of what drives consumer spending
- Retain customers that contribute to your bottom line
Clearly, all customers don't have equal value. Given the new economic environment, the ability to separate and differentiate the highest spending consumers allows you to focus capital where it counts.
You can deliver better service, provide superior rewards, and even offer significantly higher credit lines - when you know the total spend they generate, not just on your accounts but on "off us" accounts as well.
Know your customers and prospects
Experian can provide an overview of your current situation, clearly illustrating the consumer spending data and spend behavior of your prospect pool or portfolio. Understand how your existing line assignment, product offerings, and APRs influence your customers' card preferences.
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Refine your prescreen universe to target those prospects that meet your spend criteria while developing offers that improve response.
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Identify and invest in those segments that have spend to shift. Fine tune retention and cross sell strategies to negotiate for the spend you know is there.
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Are you assigning high lines to customers that never spend enough to use them? Are you eliminating your card from true consideration by establishing a line that doesn't come close to meeting the real need? TAPS provides the ability to right size a credit line generating profit not just mitigate risk.
- Capture the spend you didn't know you were missing
Are you capturing the share of spend that you want?
- 65% of spend opportunity comes from only 20% of all the accounts in the US.
- The lowest 40% of spenders have limited spend to tap
Are you building your portfolio with a limited view to your customers' real potential? The best card issuers capture a significant share of total spend. Are you wasting capital on customers that while low risk, do not spend? How do you get your fair share? Experian TAPSSM shows you what you're missing and provides important insights that allow you to maximize your investment dollars.
Experian TAPSSM uses balance data to estimate the annual spend on every credit card. It then aggregates trade lines to provide a clear snapshot of an individual's annual spend across all their general purpose credit cards.
Experian TAPSSM is strongly correlated with income, deposit balances and net worth.
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- FCRA compliant
- Can be used for adverse action
- Validated on the accounts of multiple card issuers and network trade lines
- Available via batch processes and on line credit reports (online coming soon!)
- It's calculated at the individual level
- Calculate a lender's wallet share for each consumer through the use of Experian subcodes
- Returns 5 data elements: total spend, pay rate, client spend, other spend, wallet share
- It's not aggregated by zip code (geo-modeled) or inferred –it uses actual individual data
Features: Wallet share
Experian TAPSSM can also calculate a lender's wallet share for each consumer through the use of Experian subcodes
Note: The algorithm is not "predicting spend" –it interprets the last 12 months of longitudinal credit history and calculates a proxy for historical spend. Therefore, it is not a model per se, but more like a complicated attribute.
Features: Returns 5 data elements
Experian TAPSSM returns 5 fields
Total Spend Pay Rate Client Spend Other Spend Wallet Share
- Total Spend: Sum of total spend over the last 12 months for an individual
- Pay Rate: The proportion of a consumer's average monthly balance that is spend (spend/ avg bal / 12)
- Client Spend: Sum of total spend over the last 12 months for an individual on the clients trade lines only. a.k.a "On Us" Spend
- Other Spend: Total Spend –Client Spend, a.k.a "Off Us" Spend
- Wallet Share: Client Spend / Total Spend
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- Rank order prospects by spend and optimize targeting
- Optimize line assignment by giving larger lines to customers that will use it
- Optimize risk based pricing assignment by incenting larger spenders with lower rates
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- Optimize fee waiver and retention programs by identifying broader interchange income and wallet share opportunities
- Augment Line programs similar to Underwriting
- Augment Line programs similar to Underwriting
Experian TAPS can be used for the basis of adverse action.
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How Starbucks could get its customers to use fewer paper cups
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How Starbucks could get its customers to use fewer paper cups
[Editor's note: This is part of a month-long series on food sustainability by Marc Gunther. Coffee's been one of the recurring themes of the series. Marc also wrote about fair-trade coffee, as well as the steps Starbucks and Thanksgiving Coffee are taking to ensure ethical sourcing, last week.]
Starbucks generates 4 billion paper cups a year. Yikes! That's about 12 cups for every man, woman and child in America. The company has been working hard with an array of partners to build a system that would enable these cups to be recycled.
There is a way to reduce some of that waste: Charge customers 10 cents for every paper cup they use. As it happens, the company already does just that. It just doesn't do it in an effective way. The result is Starbucks is missing a big opportunity to have a lighter environmental footprint.
Let me explain. Starbucks now offers its customers 10 cents off the price of any beverage if they bring their own mug. It doesn't make a big deal out of this. But according to information on its website, on a page headlined "Make A Difference," the company says:
"Join the movement. Bring a reusable travel mug and get a 10 cent discount on any Starbucks beverage, anytime. One person can save trees, together we can save forests."
And that sounds great – except that, if Starbucks really wanted to save trees, it wouldn't offer discounts to people who bring mugs. It would charge a dime to everyone who does not.
Notice I'm not suggesting Starbucks change its prices; I'm only recommending that the company change the way it talks about its prices.
Right now, if a tall coffee has a list price of $1.60, the company will sell it to me for $1.50 if I bring my mug. Instead, it should set the price at $1.50 and charge 10 cents extra for the paper cup.
For some context, try reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman or Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein. They're a pair of marvelous books about behavioral economics which explain, among other things, how our biases can shape the choices we make. People tend to work harder to avoid losses (the 10-cent charge for a paper cup) than they do to pursue gains (the 10 cent discount for bringing your mug).
To test my theory, I reached out to Amy Krosch, my favorite student of behavioral economics. Amy is a doctoral candidate in social psychology at NYU and formerly an associate director at the Center for Decision Sciences at Columbia. [Disclosure: Amy will soon marry my daughter Sarah!]
"I think your intuition is totally correct," Amy told me by email. "Making the default $1.50 and requiring people an extra 10 cents for a to-go cup should be more useful in encouraging people to bring their own cups. The 10 cent savings probably only appeals to people who would already have brought a cup anyway."
There are probably several processes at work in such a strategy, but the strongest are likely loss aversion and social norms.
Loss aversion suggests that peoples' subjective value of 10 cents is greater when it is being taken out of their pocket than added to it. Kahneman & Tversky's Prospect Theory suggests "losses loom larger" – that is, losses hurt more than gains feel good. On the flip side, it has been shown that when the amounts are small, gains actually "loom larger" than losses. However, in the cup situation, people who buy coffee daily or multiple times a day would likely see the loss in terms of money spent over time -- and your manipulation would probably be more effective for them.
Overlooked by the behavioral econ theory is the strong influence of social norms. The social norm to do the "green thing" can be incredibly powerful in such situations (as anyone publically shamed at the grocery store for forgetting their reusable bags knows; a situation portrayed for comedic affect in Portlandia.) If everyone in line at the Starbucks has a reusable cup, you're going to feel bad if you didn't bring one -- and you're going to remember your reusable cup!
This approach works, as we know, with taxes on plastic bags. So the question is, why won't Starbucks do this? I'm afraid the answer is that because the company knows it will work.
I recently moderated a panel about food packaging with Jim Hanna, director of environmental impact for Starbucks. The event took place at Cooking for Solutions, a great conference about food and sustainability run by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. I asked Hanna why the company didn't replace its small discount for mugs with a small charge for cups, without changing the actual prices. After all, the company doesn't like to see images of what some call "branded trash."
Jim told me (and I'm paraphrasing here) that Starbucks wanted to protect its relationship of trust with its customers, and it didn't want to "penalize" them for not bringing a mug. Some customers also might misinterpret a 10-cent charge for cup as a price increase, even if the coffee price dropped at the same time.
"It comes down to the relationship that we've built with our customers over the past 40 years," Jim said. The company does not want to suggest to its customers that there's something wrong with their daily habit of drinking a beverage in a disposable paper cup -- even though there is, kinda, sorta, something wrong.
I write this not because I'm cynical about Starbucks, but because I admire the company. It's been a leader around issues of social and environmental responsibility like Fair Trade. [See my recent blog post, Brewing a green cuppa joe at Starbucks and Thanskgiving Coffee.] But I can't understand why Starbucks won't at least test out this new way of talking about prices, and see how customers react.
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Opera Software has sued a former designer, claiming that work he did for the company ended up in a project at rival Mozilla, according to Norwegian press reports today.
Trond Werner Hansen, who left Opera as a full-time employee in 2006 but later worked for the Norwegian browser maker as a consultant from 2009 to 2010, faces a $3.4 million damage suit filed by his former employer, Dagens Naeringsliv (DN) reported Monday.
In the lawsuit, Opera alleged that Hansen shared confidential information, including work he did while at the company, with Mozilla, where he worked as a contractor in 2012.
"Opera is of the opinion that the former employee has acted contrary to his contractual and other legal obligations towards Opera," said Ole Tokvam, a partner with Bing Hodneland Advokatselskap DA, the firm Opera has hired for the lawsuit. "Among other things, we claim that he is in breach of the duty of loyalty and his contractual and statutory confidentiality obligations."
Last summer, Hansen presented a prototype of an iPad-capable browser, dubbed "Junior," at a Mozilla event. Alex Limi, who works in product design strategy at Mozilla, also spoke at the June 2012 event.
Junior was characterized as "an iPad browser that makes browsing more fun, more ergonomic and re-thinks browser user experience from the ground up."
Junior was envisioned as WebKit-based.
Tokvam declined to discuss the case further, but DA reported that the issues at the root of the lawsuit included similarities in the search button placement and location of users' bookmarks in the work Hansen did at and for Opera, and what he prototyped in Junior.
Hansen did not immediately reply to a message posted to his Facebook account, but DA quoted him as saying that the ideas he used in Junior were his own. "My ideas were never sold or transferred to Opera. I've always had an awareness of what is regarded as Opera's property and what is mine," Hansen told the publication.
Hansen also said that while at Opera, he struck a deal under which he would develop his own browser, but that that never came to pass. "I did not feel my ideas bore fruit, and I also notified management about [that]," he said. "I feel that my ideas had value [and] I would like my ideas to reach users."
Mozilla, which was not named in the lawsuit, did not reply to a request for comment.
An initial hearing in the case is currently scheduled for late August in Oslo, Tokvam noted.
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DETROIT -- Jim Leyland was combing around his office and taking phone calls Friday morning before the Tigers' home opener. He wasn't getting settled into his office again after the offseason. He was looking for Jose Valverde's phone number.
There's no guarantee he'll manage Valverde again, but Leyland wanted to at least congratulate the former closer on being back in the organization and get an idea where he's at pitching-wise.
When the 2012 season ended, it appeared Leyland was saying so long to Valverde for good. In this case, situations change.
"I'm really happy for him. I'm happy for us," Leyland said. "I think it's a really simple thing, to be honest with you. I think if you look at the entire situation, common sense tells you that when you've got a high-profile agent like Scott Boras and you're a free agent, it probably dictates -- at least, most people are thinking -- really big dollars and a long-term contract. And I think the simple denomination there is we weren't ready to do that. So obviously, it didn't turn out that way.
"I think this is a great situation. It's a no-brainer to take a look, see what's there."
In Valverde's case, it's the situation Boras was anticipating all along, even if it unfolded more slowly.
"We were patient," Boras told MLB.com in a phone conversation Thursday night, "and we thought there would be a need in the organization."
Boras said that Valverde had other offers, but that the familiarity with the Tigers and the opportunity to fill save situations on a contending team made it an obvious choice.
Boras said that he expects Valverde to report to Tigers extended spring training this weekend and pick up his throwing program. He has been throwing bullpen sessions every other day in the Dominican Republic, but he hasn't been throwing to hitters.
That could happen soon enough in extended spring games next week. From there, Valverde could be ready to face Triple-A hitters at Toledo within a few outings.
Leyland agreed with the assessment from team president/general manager Dave Dombrowski that Valverde had gotten away from his splitter last year and become a one-pitch pitcher. Statistics on fangraphs.com and STATS show that transition actually began in 2011, when he went from almost an even split to 80-20 in favor of fastballs.
The signing did not cause a ton of reaction within the Tigers' bullpen. Joaquin Benoit, Valverde's closest friend on the team, said he didn't know anything about the plan and that he hasn't spoken with Valverde since January or February. Octavio Dotel said the signing was a "good thing."
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Sandy Hook: Sources say 911 tapes reveal inundated dispatchers as shooting unfolded
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The head of the Newtown Police Union said that the order for first responders to wait before entering Sandy Hook Elementary School was directed toward ambulance personnel, not police officers.
Union president Scott Ruszczyk said it is "standard protocol not to send in unarmed people to a scene that is not secure."
Questions about the police department's response to the mass shooting surfaced after two sources told Hearst Connecticut Newspapers on Wednesday that 911 calls between the school and emergency dispatchers indicated someone at police headquarters ordered officers to "wait until you go into the building" where gunman Adam Lanza killed 26 people, 20 of them first-grade students.
Ruszczyk said he knows for a fact that the order was directed at medical personnel "because I spoke to the person who gave it." Ruszczyk said the person was a Newtown sergeant, but he declined to name him, saying he was not authorized to speak to that aspect of the investigation.
"I want to defend our union members," he said. "I know the quality of the people who were there."
Previously, a Newtown law enforcement source who was at the scene of the second-deadliest school shooting in the nation's history said officers who had entered the building told dispatchers they had found bodies, but not to send the EMTs in because they had not yet located the gunman.
NEWTOWN -- There are no anguished cries of children in the controversial 911 telephone recordings of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
But there is the sound of two apparent rifle shots, according to sources who have listened to about nine calls made to Newtown police on the morning of Dec. 14, 2012.
The most disconcerting sound between the school and Newtown police may be the apparent order from headquarters for police responders to "wait" before entering the school, Hearst Connecticut Newspapers has learned.
"Wait until you go into the building," one person says from police headquarters toward the end of the five-minute shooting spree. "I'm not going to send them in yet."
Both sources said it was unclear why the apparent order was given to delay police from going into the school.
A Newtown law enforcement source who was at the scene, however, said the order to wait was directed at ambulance personnel, and that police entered the school as soon as they arrived.
The law enforcement source, who declined to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about the investigation, said officers in the building told dispatchers they had not yet located the shooter, so sending in medical personnel would have put more lives in danger.
Messages left for Danbury State's Attorney Stephen J. Sedensky III and Newtown Police Chief Michael Kehoe were not returned. State police spokesman Master Sgt. Donna Tadiello said she couldn't talk about the 911 tapes and was unable to reach either Col. Dan Stebbins or Public Safety Commissioner Reuben Bradford Wednesday evening.
"At this point, I'm not able to make a comment," Tadiello said.
The first call came around the time Adam Lanza, 20, shot his way into the school at about 9:45 a.m.
"Somebody's shooting in here ... Sandy Hook School, please!" says one of the first calls to Newtown police headquarters at 3 Main St., located 3.1 miles from the school.
Another early call comes from a woman who says she's in a classroom at the front, left side of the building. In all, the sources said the recordings run about 40 minutes.
The flood of frantic calls from land lines -- cellphones automatically connected with the State Police in Southbury -- apparently deluged the two emergency dispatchers in Newtown. At one point in the recordings, the dispatchers fail to answer a call and the phone rings for 30 seconds or more, the sources recalled.
At another point, Rick Thorne, a school custodian who has declined comment on the shooting but who has been hailed for alerting staff to Lanza's assault-weapon rampage, is disconnected by dispatchers.
"It was weird that they hung up on him," said one source who listened to the recordings. Another source who heard the 911 recordings agreed.
Both sources said they were not sure of the context in which Thorne was disconnected.
"There's a shooting going on," Thorne says during one of the first calls to police. "I keep hearing shooting."
In one of the last calls, Thorne says, "I'm standing in a corner not knowing what to do. I'm a custodian. The shootings happened five minutes ago."
These recordings are among the historic record of the Newtown murders.
Recordings of 911 calls are routinely released after most major criminal incidents, but Sedensky is attempting to keep the recordings private in a case pending before Judge Eliot D. Prescott at state Superior Court in New Britain.
The 911 recordings from Newtown are the kind of information that public records advocates and the media say are crucial in examining the police response to the state's worst mass murder.
The 20 first-graders and six adults in the school were killed by multiple gunshots from Lanza's Bushmaster XM-15 military-style rifle before he shot himself with a 10-mm Glock handgun.
Lanza fired 154 bullets in the school, according to an interim report issued by Sedensky and Chief State's Attorney Kevin T. Kane on March 28.
Last week, families of the slain children and educators reviewed a 40-page summary of the slaughter and were told that Sedensky will release the document to the media Monday.
But recordings of first responders at the scene, who described the carnage in graphic detail, will be kept secret until at least next May as part of a bill that passed on the last day of the legislative session in June.
There are also thousands of pages of investigative details in the possession of the state Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection.
Prescott, who listened to the 911 recordings on compact disc, is scheduled to rule Monday on Sedensky's appeal of a September decision by the state Freedom of Information Commission, which ordered the release of the recordings.
The recordings remain under seal in the New Britain Superior Court clerk's office, pending a hearing on Monday in Prescott's courtroom, allowing members of the public to comment on the issue of releasing them.
Following the hearing, Prescott is expected to listen to the recordings and rule on the dispute.


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But enough about acting…how about the way Julie Christie owned the carpet last night? The pantsuit with the sequin detail totally made my life. Sexy and sassy and appropriate…why can't my mother dress like this? Why must she insist on Elvis inspired denim suits and runners with rhinestones?
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The tearful father of three disabled children found dead in New Malden watched his wife appear at court this morning charged with their murder.
Tania Clarence, 42, was arrested on Tuesday night after police found the bodies of Olivia, 4, and Ben and Max, 3 at their home in Thetford Road.
She appeared at Wimbledon Magistrates' Court this morning for a two minute hearing.
She wore a long-sleeved grey shirt and was also in tears, glancing towards the public gallery as she confirmed her name, address, and date of birth.
Mrs Clarence is accused of murdering the children at some point between Sunday, April 20 and Wednesday, April 23.
Husband Gary, an Investec executive, hugged relatives as he entered the public gallery before the hearing.
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Thursday, April 21, 2011
Now is the winter of my discontent
I did have a good audition a few days ago and today the sun is shining through the clouds, at least. I cling to the hope that some day the clouds will dissipate and a warm breeze will blow; that sorrow will turn to dancing; that joy comes with morning.
7 comments:
- Chantal said...
I am feeling pretty melancholy myself today. I hope the other shoe doesn't drop for you. Take Care.
- April 21, 2011 at 12:38 PM
- De said...
Audition! What a magical word. I hope that the chance to do some work that you love will strengthen you.
The image you created, of a woman surrounded by mismatched shoes, is so whimsical. I am picturing it...
Good news about the insurance, etc. Fingers crossed it continues in the right direction.
- April 21, 2011 at 12:58 PM
- Magpie said...
Here's hoping for good.
- April 21, 2011 at 1:00 PM
- Kat said...
There is sunshine somewhere there behind the clouds. It will come. You'll see.
Prayers for you!
- April 21, 2011 at 4:05 PM
- Rima said...
Glad to hear you are getting back into acting, PM! Sending good vibes for the house closing . . .
- April 21, 2011 at 6:14 PM
- kaye said...
I hope that sun busts out soon! I can't wait to see what role you will be playing :)
- April 21, 2011 at 7:17 PM
- Emily said...
You've had a tough run of things lately. I've been there before. Moving always seems to feel like that... Hang tough, my friend.
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Funny how things sometimes flow together.
There I was at my desk. I had just read a review of a local performance of one of the great old classic plays of the American theater, Our Town by Thornton Wilder. The dramatic nexus of that play comes when Emily Webb, dead far too soon after her marriage, is given the chance to return to earth to relive one day of the life now ended. She chooses her 12th birthday, but is quickly frustrated by her inability to break through the routine-ness of everyday life to urge her family to an appreciation of life, a noticing of what is going on around them. Her classic quote: "Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute?"
I had some of my favorite "classical sacred" music playing in the background, meaning Jimmy Buffett. The first lines from his post-Katrina anthem to New Orleans, "Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On."
I bought a cheap watch from a crazy manFloating down CanalIt doesn't use numbers or moving handsIt always just says nowNow you may be thinking that I was hadBut this watch is never wrongAnd If I have trouble the warranty saidBreathe In, Breathe Out, Move On.
The watch is never wrong, because it always calls one to life in the present, now.
And…I was picking up my favorite reading of the moment, A Journey of Grace, the autobiography of Herbert Chilstrom, the first presiding bishop of the ELCA. I have just reached the point of his election as bishop of the former Minnesota Synod of the Lutheran Church in America. So far I have read about his up-bringing, education and experience as a parish pastor. The parish pastor part really connected with my own experience as a parish pastor, and stirred up the memory of how fulfilling and satisfying that was. Okay, I will even put it more simply and bluntly—what fun being a pastor was! I had 38 years as a parish pastor, and it wasn't enough.
So now I want to play Emily Webb on you. Interns, supervisors: appreciate this opportunity you have. Enjoy it. Don't get your nose so close to the grindstone that you miss out on the miracles God is doing around you all the time. May your watch always say now!
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The masochists among us, who start praying for a white Christmas in November, may reconsider in future years.
We not only got the biggest white Christmas in recent memory, but we are now buried in the white stuff. Those who have shoveled themselves out nearly every day the past week may soon be praying for spring more fervently than they did for a snowy Christmas.
Monticello had a healthy helping of the white stuff on the ground early in the week. But it snowed intermittently most of December 24. From early afternoon on Christmas Eve until about 5 a.m. on December 26, 36 hours later, snow fell from the dark skies continually.
The Sno-tel measuring station at Camp Jackson on Blue Mountain showed 5" of water in 28" of snow on Christmas Eve. By midnight on Christmas day, (30 hours later), Camp Jackson was reporting 43" of snow containing 7.5" of water. Two and one-half inches of water in a single storm is rare here in the desert.
In terms of next year's run-off, it is a blessing. From a shoveling perspective, it was a disaster. Shovel off the walk and the driveway and the next time you look out, they are both buried again. That has been the routine all week.
Some who opened doors early Friday morning (those without covered porches) were greeted by drifts half way up the doorway. Our drift was only 42" high, but that was after the top third fell backwards into the living room.
The San Juan County Sheriff's department reported no bad accidents on Christmas day. Actually personnel there were incredulous that anyone bothered to ask. "Nobody could get outside to have an accident," they replied. "Duh"?
Since most of us could not afford many presents this year, it was nice the Big Weather Guy in the sky substituted lots of the fluffy white stuff to compensate a little for the lousy economy. When it all melts and fills our reservoirs next summer, we will be glad we got it.
It is hard to tell how much snow we got because of the drifting, but for those who have been on the back-end of a shovel most of the week, it is the deepest whitest Christmas day anyone can remember.
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