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Just ahead of Earth Day 2013, the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research (HIIMR) hosted an Earthday Symposium on Marijuana and Environment. The event, held on the Humboldt State University Campus on April 19 and 20, 2013, attracted policymakers, grassroots environmental organizations, activists, scientists, students, and community members.
According to a description of the symposium on the HIIMR website, "We are at a critical juncture regarding marijuana policy in the United States, where the shifting legal and political landscape requires policymakers, environmental organizations, researchers, and growers to adapt quickly. Panelists will share their expertise and insights around the multitude of environmental issues related to the marijuana industry – whether it be climate harming reliance on indoor growing nationwide, or the local Northern California issues of fish and wildlife protections, land use policy, water quality, forest degradation, and other environmental impacts."
The Symposium was sponsored by:
The HSU Sociology Department, the Environment and Community Program, the Environmental Protection Information Center, the Salmonid Restoration Federation, and the Humboldt Institute for Interdisciplinary Marijuana Research.
Related KMUD News Post:
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Use the players below to hear or download the audio from each of the presentations/panels. The audio was provided by KMUD News Correspondent, Eric Black.
Earthday Symposium on Marijuana and Environment
Friday, April 19,10:30 – 12:30 pm-Stories from the Frontlines:Reporting on the Culture and Practice of Marijuana Agriculture
Mikal Jakubal, Plants for the People
Kym Kemp, Reporter, Lost Coast Outpost
Emily Brady, author of Humboldt Life on America's Marijuana Frontier
Kerry Reynolds, KMUD
Note: the sound at the start is a bit rough on this clip but clears up quickly.
2:00 – 2:50 pm-Sustainable vs Unsustainable Practices
Craig Benson, Redwood Community Action Agency
2:00 – 2:50 pm-Impacts on Cultural & Natural Resources from Marijuana Cultivation on Tribal Lands
Troy Fletcher, Executive Director, Yurok Tribe
Josh Saxon, Executive Director, Salmon River Restoration Council
Mark Higley, Yurok Tribe
3:00 – 3:50 pm-Ecological Data:What Do We Know? What Do We Need To Know?
Brad Job, Bureau of Land Management
Sarah Schremmer, Sociology Department, HSU
Scott Bauer, Department of Fish and Wildlife
3:00 – 3:50 pm-Timberland Impacts: Trespass, Conversion, and Solutions
Gary Rynearson, Green Diamond Resource Company
Noah Levy, Sanctuary Forest
Tom Shultz, Humboldt Redwood Company
4:00 – 4:50 pm-Legislative Update on Marijuana PolicyPanelists:
Ellen Komp, CalNORML
Mason Tvert, Executive Director, SAFER (Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation)
4:00 – 4:50 pm-The Impacts of Marijuana Agriculture on Public Lands
Larry Glass, S.A.F.E Alternatives for our Forest Environment
Andrew Orahoske, Environmental Protection Information Center
5:00 – 7:00 pm–Keynote Speaker:
Samantha Miller, Pure Analytics
Saturday, April, 20,10:00 – 11:15 am - BSS Native Forum Room 162, HSU-Environmental Impacts of the Marijuana Industry: Worst Case Scenarios
Mourad Gabriel, Wildlife Disease Ecologist, UC Davis
11:30 – 12:30 pm–Symposium Roundup:Confronting the Environmental Problems of Marijuana Agriculture: Strategies and Solutions
Tony Silvaggio, Mow and Sow
Tyce Frasier, Put em in the Sun
Other Resources:
HSU Earth Day forum begins today...Times Standard Article
Green Rush Google earth tour
HIIMR First Annual Speakers Series:
HIIMR Speakers Series-audio/video
Cannabis in California: Ending the 100-Year War
California NORML's (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) conference marking the 100th anniversary of marijuana prohibition in California. This two-day event, held January 26 & 27 at Ft. Mason Conference Center in San Francisco, explored the history, causes and costs of the war on cannabis, and strategies for ending it.
Thanks to KMUD volunteers we are able to present audio recordings from most of the sessions from the conference below. Big thanks to Sue Moloney for the initiative! Want to see pictures? Here's a link to photos from the conference, posted on the CAnorml website.
These recordings are presented "as is", some variations in audio levels are included at no extra charge.
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Ellen Komp, CalNORML- Cannabis before prohibition
Author Mike Gray - The US goes Drug Crazy
Dale Gieringer, CalNORML - Prohibition in California
Michael Aldrich, Amorphia
Michelle Aldrich, CMI
Gordon Brownell, original CalNORML director
Debby Goldsberry, Cannabis Action Network co-founder
Dennis Peron, Prop. 215 author
Stephen Gutwillig, Drug Policy Alliance
Rob Kampia, MPP
Paul Armentano, NORML
Senator Mark Leno - Legislative solutions
Michael Levinsohn - Child Protective Services issues
Omar Figueroa - Criminal defense strategies
James Anthony - Cultivation rights and local ordinances
Moderator: Bill Panzer, California NORML
Supervisor John McCowen -
Federal Sabotage of Mendocino's Ordinance
Henry Wykowski - Taxation and federal law
Betty Aldworth, NCIA - Lobbying strategies from the states
Joe Elford, ASA - Rescheduling lawsuit and federal focus
Khurshid Khoja, Emerald Growers Association - Challenges to regulation of cultivation
Moderator: Liana Held, Liana Limited
James Slatic, MedWest - The investor perspective
Troy Dayton, The ArcViewGroup - Funding cannabusinesses
Steve DeAngelo, Harborside Health Center -
Standing our ground
David Lampach, Steep Hill Lab - Setting industry standards
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Ft. Mason Conference Center, San Francisco
MODERATOR: Lauren Vazquez, Fired Up Lawyer
Alison Holcomb - Winning in Washington
Mason Tvert - Colorado's Success Story
Graham Boyd - Polling in CO & WA
and what it means for the future
Richard Lee - Language lessons from Prop 19
Tamar Todd, DPA - Likely federal responses to WA and CO
Rep. Tom Ammiano - Medical marijuana legislation in 2013
Dan Rush, UFCW - Lobbying & legislation
Larry Bedard - The CMA and legalization
Don Duncan, ASA - 2013 opportunities
Kristin Nedeval, Emerald Growers Association -
Regulation of distribution; opportunities after legalization
Beau Kilmer, RAND Corporation
Dale Sky Jones, Oaksterdam University; CCPR - Coalition
for Cannabis Policy Reform
Joe Rogoway - Drafting Issues; A Legal Perspective
Amanda Reiman, DPA - Key components; managing the federal response to WA and CO
John Gilmore - A funder's perspective
Marsha Rosenbaum, DPA - Meetings parents' concerns
Deborah Small, Breaking the Chains - Cannabis
legalization as a path to racial justice
Ann Lee, RAMP - Helping
conservatives to embrace legalization
Kyndra Miller - Women's role in future elections
Nate Bradley, LEAP - Winning over law enforcement
Stacia Cosner, SSDP - Bridging the gap between
movement leadership and grassroots activists
Lanny Swerdlow - Starting Brownie Mary Democratic Clubs
Robert Jacob - Running for local office
Kandice Hawes - forming NORML and NWA chapters
Mikki Norris & Chris Conrad - Tell Michelle campaign, Legalizing Industrial Hemp, Pot POWs
Ed Rosenthal - Green Aid, The Medical Marijuana Legal Defense and Education Fund
According to a press release from the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services, dated Nov. 2, 2012:
More than a ton of used marijuana grow soil that had been illegally dumped on the bank of the Eel River near Ferndale was cleaned up and hauled away last week. Approximately 30 bags of soil were taken to Wes Green Landscape Materials in Arcata, one of the local facilities that will accept spent soil like this for a fee. Soil that has been used in marijuana growing operations is often high in added nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium, said Melissa Martel, director of the Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Environmental Health (DEH). It becomes detrimental to the environment when it's allowed to filter into waterways. "It's bad for the rivers because it starves the river of oxygen, harms river organisms and can cause fish die-off," Martel said. "It can also stimulate blue-green algae blooms during certain times of the year in creeks or slower-moving bodies of water."
Blue-green algae looks like green, blue-green, white or brown scum, foam or mats floating on the water, she said. These floating algae masses, or "blooms," can produce potent natural toxins. Dogs and children are most likely to be affected because of their smaller body size and tendency to stay in the water for longer periods. Human activities can dramatically affect nutrient levels and water flows in rivers, streams and lakes, Martel said. People are advised to be conservative with the use of fertilizers and pesticides on their lawn, garden or agricultural operation and also to recycle spent soil that has been used for intensive growing by tilling it back into gardens or protecting it from rainfall to avoid nutrient runoff.
Staffers with DEH's Solid Waste Local Enforcement Agency Program perform a variety of services, including investigating illegal dumping. Martel says DEH has seen an increase in the amount of waste in general that is discarded illegally adjacent to rivers, in wooded areas, along roadsides and in other areas throughout the county. Samoa, Loleta and parts of Blue Lake have been particularly hard hit, she said.
There are things people can do to help keep the environment free of excess trash and other waste products. "We encourage people to handle things the right way," Martel said. "The best management method for spent soil is reuse. Growing vegetable crops in this high-nutrient soil, or mixing it with other soil, may result in high yields. Some gardeners prefer not to use it if they don't know the strength or type of nutrients it contains. Otherwise, you can pay a fee to use a compost facility like Wes Green Landscape Materials or one of the county's transfer stations.
"When something is dumped inappropriately, it costs agencies and property owners time, resources and money," Martel said. "We'd like to make sure waste is properly handled from the beginning. If people see others in the act of illegal dumping, law enforcement should be called immediately." So, what should people do if they see that illegal dumping has already taken place? "Every situation is different depending on the type of waste we are talking about," Martel said. "If they found a TV, they could take it to a transfer station or e-waste collection event. If they found a bag from a fast-food restaurant, they could put it in a garbage receptacle. They can always call us at the Division of Environmental Health if they need to talk to someone to find out the correct place to dispose of something."
For more information, contact the Division of Environmental Health at 707-445-6215 or 1-800-963-9241.
According to a Press Release from the City of Arcata:
In honor of National Pollution Prevention Week, wildlife disease ecologist Mourad Gabriel will give a presentation entitled "Silent Forests: Impacts from Poisons Associated with Illegal Marijuana Cultivation on our Public and Tribal Lands" at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center on Thursday, September 27 at 7 p.m. The Interpretive Center is located at 569 South G Street in Arcata.
Gabriel and his colleagues are finding an alarming rate of rat poisoning deaths in fishers, a near-endangered member of the weasel family that live in some of the most remote forests in California. He and his colleagues are concerned about how pesticides and rodenticides used by illegal marijuana growers on remote public, private and tribal lands are affecting both the forest watersheds and the entire forest food chain, from rodents to carnivores like martens, spotted owls and the Sierra Nevada red fox.
Mourad Gabriel completed both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees focusing on wildlife diseases at Humboldt State University. While completing his M.S., he co-founded MGW Biological, an environmental consulting firm, as well as Integral Ecology Research Center, a non-profit scientific research organization where he is the president and senior ecologist. Gabriel is completing his Ph.D. this fall at the University of California Davis in comparative pathology and has authored several scientific manuscripts focusing on infectious and non-infectious diseases affecting wildlife of conservation concern. He lives in Northwestern California where he and his wife, also an ecologist, try to spend as much time as possible enjoying our public lands.
Gabriel's talk will be videotaped and aired at a later date on Suddenlink/Access Humboldt Channel 10 and will be available for on-demand viewing online at: www.cityofarcata.org.
U.C. Davis wildlife disease ecologist Mourad Gabriel with pesticides found at an illegal marijuana cultivation site in a secluded forest area. Rat poisons are often used to protect young marijuana plants in remote illegal marijuana grow sites. The poisons are killing different animals in the forest food chain, many of which are already nearing endangered status.
U.C. Davis researcher Mourad Gabriel with one of his research subjects, a Pacific fisher. Fishers, a weasel-like forest carnivore, are being found with alarmingly high levels of rat poisons and pesticides in their bodies. These increasingly rare animals live deep in forests and are exposed to pesticides used by illegal marijuana growers.
A Pacific fisher in its natural element. Fishers and other animals in the forest and watershed food chain are unintended casualties of illegal pot farming. (Photo courtesy of Rebecca Green, Hoopa Tribe.)
According to a press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Ofice, dated Feb. 29, 2012:
On Feb. 28, 2012, at approximately 9:00 a.m. the Humboldt County Sheriffs Community Response Unit and Humboldt County Drug Task Force acted on a citizen's information of a possible large commercial indoor marijuana grow approximately 12 miles down Johnson Road, off Bald Hills Road, Northwestern Humboldt County. The deputies and agents drove to the area and located an approximate 40 foot by 80 foot wooden structure powered by a commercial generator. The officers also saw a residence was located nearby. The officers obtained a Humboldt County Superior Court search warrant based on their observations. The officers located approximately 3000 growing marijuana plants being grown indoors under forty one thousand watt light bulbs. The plants were approximately four inches to three feet in height. The officers searched the nearby residence and located and arrested three suspects Bradley Jon Hagen, 27 years old and his brother Sean Thomas Hagen, 30 years old both from Chula Vista, California and Steven Robert Columbo, 35 years of age from Marysville, California.
The officers were able to connect the marijuana grow to the residence in a variety of ways, including determining that the generator which powered the marijuana grow also powered the residence. The officers could see the generator powering the marijuana grow was leaking oil and diesel. The area where the marijuana grow was located drains into the Klamath River basin. California Fish and Game, Humboldt County Environmental Health, Humboldt County Code Enforcement was notified and responded to the scene to contain the spill and try to determine the extent of the damage. Yurok Tribal Environmental Health was also notified, but did not respond to the scene.
The officers located 146 one pound bags of sealed marijuana bud packaged for sale estimated to be worth $292,000.00 dollars, along with several pounds of concentrated cannabis (Hash) which is currently estimated to be worth 8,000 a pound, approximately 100 pounds of marijuana leaves, $8,000.00 cash, three pistols, four rifles and a shotgun. All three suspects were booked into the Humboldt County Correctional facility on charges of cultivation and possession for sale of marijuana. Their bail was set at $75,000.00.
Anyone with information for the Sheriffs Office regarding this case or criminal related activity is encouraged to call the Sheriffs Office at 707-445-7251 or the Sheriffs Office Crime Tip line 707-268-2539. If you live in the City Limits of Eureka the Eureka Police Problem Oriented Policing Unit can be reached at 707-441-4373.
The photos below show suspects from right to left: Bradley Jon Hagen, Sean Thomas Hagen and Robert Columbo:
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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – A Malaysian church is taking possession of a hospital window that has attracted hundreds of people who believe it bears an image of the Virgin Mary.
Prayerful crowds of Roman Catholics have gathered outside the Sime Darby Medical Center in a suburb near Kuala Lumpur since last weekend after an image believed to resemble the Virgin Mary was spotted on the hospital's seventh-floor window.
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HooHaa TB Race Cartoon - Week Four
7 comments:
- Just John said...
That's Ok; my bug will have its day...and there will be destruction in its wake!
- November 15, 2008 at 11:12 PM
I gotta say I look forward to your HooHaa Cartoons each week!! Thanks for making the race even more entertaining!
- November 16, 2008 at 5:34 AM
- Paul Myers said...
The "Discovery" function that GC.com has on its site is the worst imo. It encourages icon hunters to get a bunch of icons, but do nothing to help the bug along in the process. I get really frustrated, especially when I see discovery logs that say, "Saw this beautiful coin in a geocache, but didn't have one to trade, so just discovered it."
IT'S A FREAKIN' TRAVELER, YOU DON'T HAVE TO TRADE FOR IT!!! OK. My rant's over now.
- November 16, 2008 at 9:44 AM
- tonka_boy said...
I kinda like the idea of "discovering" a TB. It keeps me in the lead!
- November 16, 2008 at 4:56 PM
- P.J. said...
I just wish the person who has mine would place it somewhere!
A 'lil HooHaa
- November 16, 2008 at 5:52 PM
Okay, I had someone visit the cache mine is in the other day, but didn't log a discovery. So today, I was back out in that area to finish what I started on Halloween. I took with me a baggie with a small TB note in it to put my TB in. Guess what? Another cacher found the cache today, didn't log a discovery and passed on grabbing the TB.
I should have dropped it in the WWFM a few days after I first placed this as it's first cache.
- November 16, 2008 at 6:28 PM
- Just John said...
I understand why people will log a find, and not take a trackable; I sometimes feel awkward if I don't have something with me to leave in its place. However, webfoot is right; the owners of trackables want to see them travel!
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Chinese PC virus may have hidden agenda
An insidious computer virus recently discovered on digital photo frames has been identified as a powerful new Trojan Horse from China that collects passwords for online games -- and its designers might have larger targets in mind.
"It is a nasty worm that has a great deal of intelligence," said Brian Grayek, who heads product development at Computer Associates, a security vendor that analyzed the Trojan Horse.
The virus, which Computer Associates calls Mocmex, recognizes and blocks antivirus protection from more than 100 security vendors, as well as the security and firewall built into Microsoft Windows. It downloads files from remote locations and hides files, which it names randomly, on any PC it infects, making itself very difficult to remove. It spreads by hiding itself on photo frames and any other portable storage device that happens to be plugged into an infected PC.
The authors of the new Trojan Horse are well-funded professionals whose malware has "specific designs to capture something and not leave traces," Grayek said. "This would be a nuclear bomb" of malware.
By studying how the code is constructed and how it's propagated, Computer Associates has traced the Trojan to a specific group in China, Grayek said. He would not name the group.
The strength of the malware shows how skilled hackers have become and how serious they are about targeting digital devices, which provide a new frontier for stealing information from vast numbers of unwary PC owners. More than 2.26 million digital frames were sold in 2007, according to the Consumer Electronics Association, and it expects sales to grow to 3.26 million in 2008.
The new Trojan also has been spotted in Singapore and Russia and has 67,500 variants, according to Prevx, a security vendor headquartered in England.
Grayek said Mocmex might be a test for some bigger attack, because it's designed to capture any personal, private or financial information, yet so far it's only stealing passwords for online games.
"If I send you a package but it doesn't explode, why did I send it?" he said. "Maybe I want to see if I can get it out to you and how you open it."
The initial reports of infected frames came from people who had bought them over the holidays from Sam's Club and Best Buy. New reports involve frames sold at Target and Costco, according to SANS, a group of security researchers in Bethesda, Md., who began asking for accounts of infected devices on Christmas Day. So far the group has collected more than a dozen complaints from people across the country.
The new Trojan isn't the only piece of malware involved. Deborah Hale of SANS said the researchers also found four other, older Trojans on each frame, which may serve as markers for botnets -- networks of infected PCs that are remotely controlled by hackers.
There is W32.Rajump, which deposits the same piece of malware that infected some of Apple's video iPods during manufacturing in October 2006. It gathers Internet Protocol addresses and port numbers from infected PCs and ships them out, according to Symantec. One destination is registered to a service in China that allows people to conceal their own IP addresses.
Then there is a generic Trojan; a Trojan that opens a back door on PCs and displays pop-up ads; and a Trojan that spreads itself through portable devices like Mocmex does.
How all this malware got onto the photo frames and what it's doing there is unclear. Trojans can download other Trojans, which is part of how botnets are controlled.
While SANS is investigating the infections, the retailers are saying little.
Sam's Club said it has found no infected frames, and its distributor, Advanced Design Systems, did not return calls.
A few Target customers complained about frames distributed by Uniek, a store spokesman said. Target is no longer selling those frames, but that's because they didn't sell well over the holidays, he said. Target has found no infections, he said, but is watching for them.
Best Buy said one line of its Insignia frames -- also now discontinued -- was infected during manufacturing but would not provide details.
Costco did not return calls seeking comment.


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Annual, biennial, perennial herb, rarely dioecious, taprooted or rhizome generally slender
Leaves simple, generally opposite; stipules generally 0; petiole generally 0; blade entire, sheath generally 0
Inflorescence: cyme, generally open; flowers fewmany or flower solitary and axillary; involucre generally 0
Flower generally bisexual, radial; hypanthium sometimes present; sepals generally 5, ± free or fused into a tube, tube generally herbaceous between lobes or teeth; awns generally 0; petals generally 5 or 0, generally tapered to base (or with claw long, blade expanded), entire to 2several-lobed, blade generally without scale-like appendages (inner surface), generally without ear-like lobes at base; stamens generally 10, generally fertile, generally free, generally from ovary base; nectaries generally 0; ovary superior, generally 1-chambered, placentas basal or free-central, styles 25 or 1 and 23-branched
Fruit: capsule or utricle (rarely modified, dehiscent), generally sessile
Seeds: appendage generally 0
Genera in family: 85 genera, 2400 species: widespread, especially arctic, alpine, temp, n hemisphere; some cultivated (Agrostemma, Arenaria, Cerastium, Dianthus, Gypsophila, Lychnis, Saponaria, Silene, Vaccaria ).
Annual, biennial, perennial herb, ± erect, rarely dioecious, taprooted or rhizomed
Leaves petioled or not; blade linear to oblanceolate; vein 1
Inflorescence: cyme, generally terminal, sometimes axillary, open to dense; flowers fewmany, generally erect, generally with pedicels 540+ mm
Flower generally bisexual; sepals 5, fused, tube prominent, 425 mm, 213 mm diam, cylindric to bell-shaped, rounded, hairs various or 0, veins generally 10+, lobes or teeth 113 mm, < tube, triangular to linear; petals 5, 648 mm, claw long, blade entire or 26-lobed, appendages 06 at junction of claw and blade; basal lobes present or 0; stamens generally fertile, fused with petals to stalk; ovary chamber 1 or ± incompletely 35, styles 35, 135 mm
Fruit: capsule, cylindric to ovoid; stalk 07 mm, generally glabrous; teeth 3, 6, or 10, ascending to recurved
Seeds many, gray to red, brown, or black
Species in genus: 500 species: n hemisphere
Etymology: (Greek: Probably from mythological Silenus, intoxicated foster-father of Bacchus, who was covered with foam, from sticky secretions of many species)
Reference: [Hitchcock & Maguire 1947 Univ Wash Publ Biol 13:173; Showers 1987 Madroño 2940]
Perennial 3050(70) cm; caudex simple or few-branchedSee the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Stem erect, puberulent throughout, glandular above
Leaves gradually reduced upward; lower 58 cm, 712 mm wide, oblanceolate; upper 16(8) cm, 26 mm wide, lanceolate
Inflorescence axillary and terminal
Flower: calyx 915 mm, glandular-puberulent, 10-veined, lobes 23 mm; petal claw glabrous, appendages 46, blade 46-lobed, white to pink; stamens included to slightly > petals; styles 3(4), generally included
Fruit elliptic to ovoid; stalk 34 mm, puberulent
Seed 12 mm, brown
Chromosomes: 2n=48
Ecology: Sagebrush, subalpine coniferous forest
Elevation: 15002500 m.
Bioregional distribution: High Cascade Range, n&c High Sierra Nevada, Modoc Plateau, White and Inyo Mountains
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The true extent of child abuse and neglect is unknown but reports to state agencies indicate over 3 million reports concerning maltreatment of over 6 million children are made each year. Confirmed reports involved over 679,000 children in 2013. Yet, only 32% of the children known to be harmed by maltreatment in the community are investigated by child protective services. The perplexing dilemma in surveillance and service delivery is how to identify those who need help without spuriously including those who do not. This entry focuses on the definition of maltreatment and provides an overview of the history, etiology, and consequences of child abuse and neglect as well as the current trends and dilemmas in the field. To afford some perspective for the reader, some international data and information are provided.
Keywords: child abuse, child neglect, child maltreatment, definitions of maltreatment, etiology of child maltreatment, consequences of child maltreatment, evidence-based practice, disproportionality, cultural competence
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Yen Trade Whacks Easy-Money Crowd
We mentioned yesterday that a lot of traders got caught in the flood when the easy yen trade reversed course in the wake of the Italian elections. This was a bet predicated on two promises from officialdom: Mario Draghi's promise to do "whatever it takes" to safeguard the euro, and Shinzo Abe's promise to debase the yen. Ipso facto, sell the yen and yen-denominated assets, buy the euro and euro-denominated assets.
But it all went haywire in the aftermath of Italy's parliamentary elections, when a former prime minister and a comedian took more than half the vote. It was a stunning rebuke to the established order, and at this point nobody knows exactly what the ramifications will be.


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Former Broncos support Denver Health
With so many former Denver Broncos in the house, it could have passed for a team reunion. But Haven Moses, Billy Thompson, Dave Studdard, Randy Gradishar, Louie Wright and Ron Egloff weren't at Hyde Park Jewelers in Cherry Creek Shopping Center to reminisce about their glory days on the gridiron. They were there to help raise money and awareness for men's health initiatives at Denver Health Medical Center.
The athletes were among the 300 high-powered gents that showed up for Men's Night Out, an event hosted every other year by Hyde Park's owner and cofounder, Michael Pollak. Pollak is a member of the Denver Health Foundation board and started Men's Night Out with the blessing of foundation director Paula Herzmark; it is believed to be one of the largest events of its type in the nation.
The theme this year was "Mad Men," inspired by the popular TV show.
"What a great night this is," observed David McReynolds, chair of the Denver Health Foundation board and the founder/president of Columbine Health Plan of Colorado. "It's a wonderful way to show off Denver Health, and to build awareness for our men's health initiatives." By chance or by design, McReynolds was dressed in Broncos orange and blue: A navy pinstripe suit that he accessorized with an orange Hermes tie.
While there was no fee to attend the party, guests had several incentives to contribute money to the cause. Those making a $100 donation to Denver Health were given a Hyde Park gift card of equal value, and those giving $50 could spin a wheel of fortune for prizes that ranged from jewelry to grab bags.
Events like this are an ideal place to network over cocktails and a bite to eat. The latter included tasty treats from TAG, Elway's Cherry Creek and Kona Grill.
Former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb also is a member of the Denver Health Foundation board and he was at the event, too, mixing and mingling with a crowd that included Dr. Chris Carey; retired CIGNA HealthCare president Daryl Edmonds; CBS Outdoor general manager Dan Scherer; MDC/Richmond American Homes president David Mandarich; attorney Ernie Blake; Dr. Morris Clark; restaurant consultant John Imbergamo; Pura Vida health club owner J Madden; and Greg Schmidt of Saunders Construction.
While Scherer was enjoying the party with buddy Mark Plummer, their wives were enjoying a girls night out at the Wynonna and Naomi Judd concert at Broomfield's 1stBank Center. "We heard Wynonna at Western Fantasy, and that was enough country to last us for a while," Scherer confided to David McReynolds.
Several members of the Denver alumni chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi were there to support their fraternity brother, Elbert D. Brown Sr., who served 17 years on the foundation board and remains an active supporter of Denver Health. The delegation included Elbert D. Brown Jr., Mark Brown, George Washington, Burtram Bruton, Leonard Newson and Ron Frierson.
Others supporting the cause were Eric Lee, president/CEO of the Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce; developer Chris Frampton, whose wife, Yvette Pita Frampton, is vice-chair of the Denver Health board; Jon Duvall; Nathan Jenkins; Parker McClure; attorney Steve Farber; Dr. Larry Chan; Mark Gershein; Steve Chotin; Bruce McGrath; Chris Kelly; Pocky Maranzino; and Lee Alpert.
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DINN of Burntisland, Scotland then Texas
James DINN (b. abt. 1842) was born in Burntisland, Scotland and came to the U.S. when he was 8 years old. Settled in Nueces County, Texas, Padre Island, Texas, Live Oak County, Texas, Jim Wells County, Texas.
Married Elizabeth CURRY (b. abt. 1849)29 Dec 1867. The marriage ceremony was performed on a boat, in the Corpus Christi Bay, Nueces Co., Texas.
Parents of James DINN were James DINN and Jane CLARKE of Burntisland, Scotland.
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Great Day
Competitors were literally 'flying' downwind with fins fully clear of the water before disappearing into troughs only to re-emerge again a few seconds later, an airborne 'speed blur'! It was totally 'full on' for the racers who came ashore with 'wicked' stories of heroic efforts to hold on while hitting speeds of up to 30 knots. A few competitors stepped it up today and dominated in the radical conditions.
In the men's blue fleet, 2003 Mistral World Champion, MIARCZYNSKI won with room to spare and took back the overall lead from young gun Nicolas LE GAL (FRA). LE GAL had a torrid time finishing 15th, now happily discarded, and so clings on to second place for now.
The other young gun, Fabian HEIDEGGER (ITA) who did well on Saturday, also sailed his throw out finishing the day's blue fleet race in 15th, but still hangs onto third overall. JP TOBIN (NZL), João RODRIGUES (POR) and Ivan PASTOR (ESP) are all square in fourth overall, the three sailed top five performances today. TOBIN, who rounded the bottom mark in second place during the race, fell on the jibe in the tricky conditions, but still recovered quickly enough to finish fourth. Not bad at all!
Next to start were the women. The breeze was building still further. Up went the 'Y' Flag and on went their lifejackets. The growing seas looked pretty gnarly! Straight out of the trap was the heroine of the day, Lucy HORWOOD (GBR) who revelled in the conditions using her vast Formula Windsurfing experience to take the bullet. Alessandra SENSINI (ITA) took second and picked up some points on the overall scoreboard where she sits in third, just behind Barbara KENDALL (NZL), who finished eighth in Sunday's race. Regatta leader ALABAU sailed her discard with an OCS but retains the overall lead.
Lay Day
Everyone has a well-earned rest day on Monday, some to re-group and plan strategy, others to chill. The battle for the top step on the podium is well and truly on. Points are extremely close and just about anyone in the top five could take it. The men's fleet will now be split into gold and silver Fleets. Racing resumes on Tuesday.
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Explore the dramatic rock formations, cliffs and trails of the most visited site in the Shawnee National Forest. Millions of years in the making, the Garden of the Gods provides spectacular views unlike anywhere in the Midwest. See Camel Rock, Anvil Rock, Devil's Smoke Stack and other magnificent rock formations in this hiker's and photographer's wonderland.
CITY:Karbers Ridge
The Shawnee National Forest is famed for its awesome Garden of the Gods, and is home to the Rim Rock Recreational Trail (the forest has a system of 403 miles of equestrian/hiking trails). Hikers are greeted by magnificent jutting walls of rock covered with emerald-green moss, and paths that meander through canyons under the forest canopy. Nestled between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, the stunning Shawnee National Forest landscape features rolling hills, lakes, creeks and rugged bluffs. If you're into climbing than a must-see is Jackson Falls, located near the town of Ozark in the Hidden Springs Ranger District in Shawnee National Forest. The climb takes place on 60 feet of sandstone cliffs and boulders that include numerous freestanding towers.
Nestled in the beautiful hills of the Shawnee National Forest, Timber Ridge offers something for everyone, from families and honeymooners to outdoor enthusiasts. Enjoy some Southern hospitality while staying in a real log cabin or one-of-a-kind tree house. Each of the units, including the tree house, is equipped with a bathroom, kitchenette, heating and air conditioning. Physical Location: Karbers Ridge, IL 62955 GPS: 37°33'52.18?N 88°20'17.03?W
Wander along the Ohio River and step into the large cavern, steeped in history of river pirates. Enjoy the spectacular river views from the lodge perched atop the overhanging bluffs. Cabins, picnic areas, camping and showers available.
CITY:Cave In Rock
A nature lover's dream, Rim Rock offers cabins with all the amenities in the heart of the Shawnee National Forest, adjacent to the popular Rim Rock Recreational Trail and Garden of the Gods. Rim Rock's is within short driving distance of all Southern Illinois has to offer, and features its own private hiking trail on its 77-acre site.
Located near the town of Ozark in the Shawnee National Forest, Jackson Falls offers arguably the best rock climbing in southern Illinois. There are roughly 60 climbing areas along the sandstone bluffs and freestanding boulders, each with multiple named routes on them. There are over 500 named routes in all. Most of the routes are 50-60 feet in height. The whole area sits in a very scenic glen. Most of the routes at Jackson Falls are sport routes, though there are a number of traditional routes, and a few areas suitable for setting up a top-rope. There are also many excellent bouldering opportunities here.
The Little Grand Canyon trail is located within the Shawnee National Forest. Experience the easy 3.6 miles of beauty it offers as you ride your bike or hike these fun trails that meander past lush wooded canyons, riverside bluffs, songbirds, woodpeckers and deer; while hawks and vultures soar high above the cliffs. Explore towering rock walls, eroded sandstone canyons, craggy bluffs and moist bottom lands, too.
Cave-in-Rock State Park Lodge and Cabins
Lodging nestled in the Shawnee National Forest on Pirates' Bluff, units have a private balcony providing a breathtaking view of the Ohio River. Duplex cabins include a large living area containing two queen beds and Sat TV/VCR, Bath has full tub and shower facilities. Within walking distance to the "Cave" of Cave-in-Rock, and the Ohio River free ferry to Kentucky Amish Country is nearby. Kaylor's Restaurant located in the cabin complex, is open seven days a week and offers an outstanding view of the river. Offers year round lodging. Concessionaires: Annie and Marty Kaylor.
If you want to truly experience the Shawnee National Forest, and Southern Illinois, then the River-to-River Trail in Illinois is for you. The Trail spans 160 miles of Illinois from Battery Rock on the Ohio River to Devil's Backbone Park in Grand Tower Illinois on the Mississippi River, and it can take up to 2-3 weeks to complete in its entirety. With a combination of plains, bayous, bluffs and upland forests, there's something for everyone to feast their eyes on. And, with difficulty levels ranging from easy to hard there's a path for everyone in your party to enjoy.
CITY:Karbers Ridge
We offer 2 cabins and 131 campsites. Enjoy the biking/running trails, bird/eagle watching, hiking, horseback riding trails, hunting, rock climbing, rappelling and the Shawnee National Forests.
Lusk Creek Canyon is the most well known whitewater run in Southern Illinois. The creek starts out in woodland bottoms with relatively minor gradient but soon is surrounded by rocky hillsides and cliffs. These cliffs rise out of the water to heights over one hundred feet. After the canyon section, the cliffs recede and the creek is surrounded by forest for the final mile. Rapids on this creek are at low to moderate levels and are mostly Class II in nature. However, this is not a good beginner run. This creek flows through forests before entering the canyon.
The American Fluorite museum is located on the site of the Rosiclare Fluorspar and Mining Co., which was once the largest fluorspar mining company in the U.S. It features photographs, ore specimens, mining paraphernalia and colorful dioramas.
Lake Glendale Beach & Campground
Beautiful beach located on the shore of an 80 acres lake in the heart of the Shawnee National Forest. Beach open Memorial Day-Labor Day, 7 days a week. Concessions available
Lodging nestled in the Shawnee National Forest on Pirates' Bluff, units have a private balcony providing a breathtaking view of the Ohio River. Duplex cabins include a large living area containing two queen size beds, satellite TV and VCR. Bath includes full tub and shower facilities. Within walking distance to the "Cave" of Cave-In-Rock, the Ohio River free ferry to Kentucky Amish Country is nearby. Garden of the Gods, Tower Rock, Rim Rock and all the rest of the natural wonders Southern Illinois has to offer are minutes away. Kaylor's Restaurant is right in our cabin complex, is open seven days a week and also offers an outstanding view of the river. We offer year round lodging for Southern Illinois travelers. We now have two private homes available with full cooking facilities.
CITY:Cave In Rock
Little Lusk Trail Lodge & Campground
Centrally located in the Shawnee National forest, campgrounds have all the hookups; lodge has 6 rooms; beach, fishing, horseback riding at its best; box stalls for horses; hunters welcome; great hiking & mountain biking.
The Chocolate Factory prides itself in offering quality gourmet chocolates in a wide variety of mouth watering flavor, formulated with only the finest ingredients. Our irresistible silky smooth blended chocolates make delicious rich candies for any occasion!
34 Ranch Horseman's Campground
34 Ranch offers the largest privately-owned horseman's campground in Southern Illinois. Located in Hardin and Pope Counties in the midst of the beautiful Shawnee National Forest. Open year round. One cabin is primitive without plumbing. The other two have both baths and kitchens. The ranch also has 250 modern campsites and can accommodate RV's. Rents out cabins and one trailer. Owner: Tom Luchies.
A-frame cabin located along the Ohio River National Scenic Byway overlooking the Ohio River on Tower Rock Road west of Cave-in-Rock. Managed by Anne and Marty Kaylor, concessionaires at Cave-in-Rock State Park Lodge.
Features 5 cabins and a lodging facility on the highest hilltop in Pope County, overlooking and literally surrounded by the beautiful Shawnee National Forest. Most cabins have private baths, kitchenettes and charcoal grills outside.
Four Historic Lock-keepers houses, recently renovated for overnight rentals overlooking the Ohio River. Period furnishings, fully equipped kitchens, front & back porches, TVs and phones.
Nestled in the heart of the Shawnee National Forest. Excellent deer and turkey hunting. Only 6 miles to the Ohio River and Golconda Marina, but still tucked away in the forest. Just above Lusk Creek. Come visit our little piece of heaven in the Shawnee.
War Bluff Valley Wildlife Sanctuary
Nestled in the uplands of the Shawnee National Forest, supports mature oak-hickory woods, river bottom forests, young forests and old field habitats. More than 530 types of plants, including a rich variety of wildflowers and 20 types of ferns. 10 walking paths give access to the area.
This fascinating pioneer village includes the original Saline County Pauper Farm (now a three-story museum), an old jail, an 1859 one-room schoolhouse, the Cain Church, several 1800s log cabins, a barn and country store.
Dixon Springs State Park is one of several state parks in the Illinois Shawnee Hills. Park visitors may enjoy the varied wildlife, take a swim in the outdoor pool or simply soak up the relaxing atmosphere of the moss-covered boulders, craggy overhangs, and rushing brook.


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Meet the Fonda: They shoot mothers, don't they?
Published May 12, 2005 in issue 0419 of the Hook
If you've heard anything at all about Monster-in-Law, you know it's essentially a distaff version of Meet the Parents, with Jane Fonda in the equivalent of the role played by Robert De Niro (coincidentally her co-star in Stanley and Iris, her last film, 15 years ago).
Mother doesn't make her entrance for over a quarter of an hour, giving us time to get acquainted with her son, Dr. Kevin Fields (Michael Vartan), and the woman he falls in love with, Charlie (Jennifer Lopez). Charlie, although she has some artistic and designing ability, works as a dog walker, cater waiter and, as Viola (Fonda) will later say with con-temp-t, "a temp."
Viola is a Barbara Walters clone, a legendary TV journalist who's gotten all the "gets." When the network replaces her with a perky young blonde, she has an on-air meltdown while interviewing another perky young blonde and is institutionalized for several months.
Waiting when she gets out is her trusty but sassy assistant, Ruby (Wanda Sykes, firmly establishing herself as the new Thelma Ritter– and if you don't know who that is, stop reading and go rent All about Eve).
Soon Kevin brings Charlie home to meet his mother and proposes right in front of her. Viola needs all of her own and Fonda's acting skills to keep her composure until the newly-engageds leave. Then Ruby tries to calm her down: "What you need is a project– or another husband. Why don't you marry another gay guy? That was fun." (Viola divorced her third husband when she caught him sleeping with her second husband.)
From then on it's war– undeclared at first, but later declared, though with Kevin none the wiser. He keeps trying to excuse his mother– a combination of Auntie Mame and Cruella de Vil– as "a little difficult" and "a little eccentric." Charlie wins the first round, in which Viola throws a lavish engagement party to intimidate her. Viola wins the second by faking another breakdown so she can move in with the kids and drive Charlie crazy.
Viola uses Kevin's old girlfriend Fiona (Monet Mazur) as a kind of attack dog to get rid of Charlie. She also sends Ruby to get some dirt on her son's fiancée but is disappointed with the result: "She's had fewer lovers in her entire life than you had on the closing day of Woodstock."
But there are several skirmishes to go before an ending that's not too simplistic, actually spelling out some details instead of just saying love conquers all. It involves an appearance by Elaine Stritch, a perky old blonde.
Monster-in-Law is irresistible fun, even if it's not as downright hilarious as Meet the Parents. While J.Lo is still a better dramatic actress (Selena and Gigli, although the latter wasn't supposed to be a drama) than a comedienne (The Wedding Planner and Maid in Manhattan), she gets better each time she attempts comedy and certainly gets the romantic moments right.
As for J.Fo, since Klute, she's always been able to do anything as an actress. This is her first time playing an "old broad" (a relative term once Stritch appears) and she does it with a spirit as perfect as her timing. Vartan does everything expected of a lovable hunk in this kind of thing, and Sykes couldn't be better.
Charlie is established early on as an orphan, so there won't be any Fockers for Kevin to meet in a sequel, but surely someone can come up with more lives for Viola to meddle in, with Ruby at her side. They're the most memorable couple in Monster-in-Law.


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The state's largest public-employee union is continuing to hold Gov. Cuomo's justice center for the mentally handicapped hostage to an absurd, $4 million-plus demand for health-care bonuses for its members, The Post has learned.
The Civil Service Employees Association says it won't negotiate a schedule of penalties to be imposed on state workers who abuse the mentally infirm until the state agrees to give 1,700 of its members bonuses of up to $3,000 for agreeing to drop out of the state's costly health-insurance plan. The bonus program is designed to reduce state costs and is meant for workers who can be covered by a spouse's insurance policy.
But the 1,700 for whom the CSEA wants bonuses would, upon dropping out, be covered by the health plans of other state workers, so there'll be no cost savings to the state if they leave its health-care plan.
The "CSEA is putting politics ahead of the most vulnerable population in the state,'' a senior Cuomo administration official told The Post. "They promised [Cuomo Secretary] Larry Schwartz that they would agree to the table of penalties before the end of the legislative session. Not only didn't they do it, they're refusing to come to the table until we give them the bonuses. There hasn't been a single meeting since the session ended.
"I think it is outrageous and I think the public would think it's outrageous if they heard it,'' the source continued.
The Justice Center for the Protection of People with Special Needs, a major Cuomo initiative, was passed by the Legislature last month in an effort to crack down on abuses of mentally handicapped and others being cared for in both state-run and privately operated but state-funded facilities.
The law created a new agency with criminal prosecutorial authority, as well as administrative authority to bring disciplinary actions against state workers, including CSEA members. But the legislation left it to the state and the CSEA to develop a schedule of penalties through collective bargaining.
When The Post first disclosed the CSEA's initial bonus demand in late May, union officials denied that they had linked the payments to Cuomo's Justice Center proposal.
State lawmakers are tentatively eyeing the weeks of Nov. 12, Nov. 26 or Dec. 3 to return to the Capitol for a post-election legislative session to raise their own pay.
The lawmakers, who have not had a pay hike since 1999, are afraid to raise their salaries before the election because they feel such a vote could lead many of them to be defeated at the polls.
"In this economy especially, the pay raise is a third rail,'' said a senior lawmaker.
Cuomo and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) have backed the hike, which is expected to bring the current "base'' pay of lawmakers from $79,500 a year to just over $100,000.
Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos (R-Nassau) has ducked questions on a potential raise.


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A Quick Mountain Bike Tip to Improve Technical Climbing article by Gene Hamilton
Climbing is an often over looked skill in mountain biking, we often assume more power will do the job, which is not always true. This article is about picking a line that works! For physical climbing skills Andy Winohradsky wrote a great article on climbing skill here: http://betterride.net/?p=1426
One instinct, especially when not looking far enough ahead is to avoid obstacles. This often leads to "micro-managing the trail" and taking twisty paths that are much longer and often harder to ride than going over the obstacle. When turning, your rear wheel tracks inside of your front wheel so you can hang the rear wheel or derailleur up on a rock, you can lose traction as you try to cut across the fall line and then turn back up it, your pedal clips a rock as you apply power or your line itself has less traction causing you to stall. In the photo below it is actually easier, faster and more efficient to go straight up the rock (in this case the rock acts as a paved ramp, great traction!) than weave around it in the lose sand.
Have you ever made it part way through a rock garden by avoiding obstacle one and two and then get trapped behind obstacle three, or stall while trying to wiggle between obstacle two and three? This often happens because we are not looking far enough ahead and will instinctively avoid obstacles if there is a clear path to the right and/or left of the obstacle. Unfortunately this sets us up for failure, often if we tackle the first obstacle the rest of the rock garden will be easy! Check out my amazing drawing skills in this Paint document I created!
I see this all the time on Rustlers Loop in Fruita. Instead of going up the "gut" of a rock move riders avoid the rock (avoiding the rock is faster and easier for 7-10 feet) then they have to wheelie while turning over a bigger edge of the same rock (something that is nearly impossible to do). Going straight up the rock (which often looks tricky or rough) is faster and easier in the long run run. Both examples above require simple, core skills, nothing "special", an effortless wheelie, correct weight placement and good vision skills.
Lastly, weaving takes our momentum across the fall line (the fall line is the path a ball would roll) instead of up it. Once our momentum is going sideways it is often really hard to getting it going straight up again, you can lose your balance, spin out or simply stall as you try to head up the hill again.
When climbing technical sections the fastest and easiest path is often the straightest! Avoid the temptation to weave as it usually ends poorly. Focus on the line with the fewest direction changes and the best traction.
Note: I use the word "often" in this how to mtb article because there are way too many variables in mountain biking to say, "always do …", in this case, sometimes a weaving path is better, it all depends on the trail.


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Interesting stuff, but a couple of quibbles regarding this part:
"A ship entering a planetary atmosphere will always generate a bright IR signature at the point of re-entry, but once in the atmosphere, it can stay hidden if it doesn't use rockets and isn't already locked on radar."
To argue semantics, "point of re-entry" kind of implies that this is a "Blink, and you will miss it" kind of a deal. It isn't. During the several minutes of this portion of the reentry phase, a shuttle will be radiating a lot of IR. Afterwards, when maneuvering at speed in the upper atmosphere (basically, SR-71 territory), heat build-up might be comparitively less but is still significant in engineering and detectability terms. Even allowing for exceptional insulation and some very clever means of heat-dispersal, it suggests to me that the shuttle may be a pretty good IR source all the way to touch-down.
Plus, thinking on this, it has just occurred to me that current radars are pretty good at tracking clouds and weather systems. With this in mind. it seems conceivable that a more refined system "might" be able to detect and track the trail of super-heated and hyper-disturbed air that a spacecraft leaves behind it on reentry.


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Apartnership between a community leadership group and BCR "a place to grow" has resulted in a spiffy renovation of BCR's music and exercise room.
Thirteen participants in the Burbank Neighborhood Leadership Program raised funds to complete the makeover, which included patching holes in the walls, adding a chair rail and painting the walls. Members also updated the soundproof covers and purchased exercise equipment, yoga balls, a sound system, exercise mats, a flat-screen TV and Wii system that will lead BRC clients in exercise inside when it is too hot to exercise outdoors during the summer.
BCR is a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation that began in 1963 and provides day activities and extended day care programs for children and adults with developmental disabilities.
Four groups use the room on a rotating basis every day, said Lonna Dunson, BCR executive director. They exercise, listen to music played on the piano and rehearse for their annual holiday program in the room.
"The leadership class did so much more than we ever dreamed of," Dunson said. "They were resourceful in knowing who to contact to get things done, were efficient, and are just nice people to work with."
Maria Diliberto, program supervisor at BCR, thought the change was "fabulous," she said.
"I think that the clients always deserve the best," she said. "And the more they are able to do here, the more self-confidence they have going out into the community."
The leadership program is part of the Connect with Your Community Initiative and Burbank's Park, Recreation and Community Services Department. Participants meet once a week for educational workshops starting in January. They must complete one community project during their semester, said Viviana Ardila, community resources coordinator with the city of Burbank and supervisor of the leadership class. They graduate in June.
The group raised $2,300 with two events, said project chair Elle Fernandez. They had a coffee and doughnut sale and a Picnic Around the World in which members cooked a special dish that represented the country they were from originally. They sold tickets to family and friends. They also raised more than $1,600 in in-kind donations of labor and materials.
For more information on the Burbank Neighborhood Leadership Program, call Viviana Ardila at (818) 238-5322. To contact BCR, call (818) 843-4907.
Pavelka scholarships presented
The Burbank Police Officers' Foundation board of directors presented the Matthew Pavelka Scholarship Awards on May 15 to Dena N. Hillo of Bellarmine-Jefferson High School, Valery I. Vasquez of Burbank High School, Teadora Taddeo of John Burroughs High School, Kevin R. Mark of Providence High School, and Paige E. Slor of the Burbank Police Officers' Assn.
The $500 scholarship award will be payable upon proof of completion of quarter/semester at a public or private recognized junior college, accredited college or university that offers academic or vocational courses leading to a secondary degree.
Cleaners collects for troops
Owners of Flair Cleaners in Burbank commemorated Armed Forces Day and Memorial Day with the second annual Flair Care Packages drive, held in conjunction with the USO Greater Los Angeles Area. Items brought to the cleaners, such as snacks, hygiene supplies and music CDs were given to military personnel stationed here and abroad. In return, customers who donated received a certificate for 50% off their next cleaning bill.
The business also cleaned up to five shirts, blouses or pants for active duty military and veterans at no charge over Memorial Day weekend. These programs are in addition to Flair's year-round military discount and complimentary flag cleaning.
"Our family has a long-standing commitment of supporting our military that started with free flag cleaning and substantial discounts for servicemen and women more than 50 years ago and continues to this day," said owner Gary Futterman.
Muir receives top choir honors
John Muir Middle School's Vocal Music Assn.'s "Guys & Dolls" received a Superior trophy at the Music in the Parks competition at Universal Studios Hollywood on May 12. This is the highest that can be awarded in any category. They also went on to receive the Overall Trophy for Choirs at Universal Studios Hollywood.
Founded in 1980 by Dr. James R. Wells, the Educational Programs Network hosts more than 220,000 music students each year at festivals like this one held in the United States and Canada.
Road Kings ready to crackle
Get ready to see and hear the blast when the Burbank Road Kings Car Club celebrates its 60th anniversary with a cracklefest, where drag racers make a beautiful but loud noise firing up their nostalgic drag-racing top-fuel cars, at the 23rd annual Picnic in the Park and Charity Car Show from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 10 at Johnny Carson Park, 400 Bob Hope Drive.
Special guests attending are drag racing legends Tommy Ivo and Don Prudhomme and NHRA Funny Car winner Jack Beckman.
Proceeds go to charities such as high school auto shop scholarships, Boys & Girls Club and the Burbank Police and Fire Museum.
Spectators and car entries are free, with donations appreciated. Breakfast is served from 7 to 10:30 a.m. with lunch beginning at 10:30 a.m. For information, call (818) 842-KING.
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Yeah, this sounds exactly like what people need in their retail experience:
"At Sony Style Comcast Labs, trained staff show consumers how to unlock the full potential of their devices by demonstrating how Comcast's advanced delivery services integrate beautifully with Sony's hardware products and entertainment content." —Stan Glasgow, President and COO, Sony Electronics US
Anyone who is feeling masochistic tomorrow and wants to check this place out, please let us know how it is. It's located on the ground floor of the Comcast Centre at 17th and JFK Boulevard.
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PHILADELPHIA - March 16, 2009 - Sony Electronics Inc., a world leader in consumer electronics and technology, and Comcast Corp. (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK), the nation's leading provider of entertainment, information and communications, are partnering to open a unique retail experience in the Comcast Center: Sony Style Comcast Labs. Sir Howard Stringer, chairman and CEO of Sony Corporation, and Brian L. Roberts, chairman and CEO of Comcast, conceived the idea as a destination where consumers could learn about emerging technologies and experience new digital devices.
The co-branded retail store and technology lab, which opens to the public tomorrow, will showcase the latest innovative products and services from both companies and preview future Comcast technology, products and services.
"This is another great example of innovation and consumer technology being showcased in Philadelphia by Comcast. Comcast has attracted great partners like Sony that continue to benefit our citizens with cool products," said Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter.
Of the many future technologies on display, the following will be unveiled to Philadelphia consumers for the first time:
1) The Future of High-Speed Internet: 100 Mbps surfing and downloading live.
2) The Future of Home Phone Service: the enhanced cordless telephone - forget smart phones, this one is a genius with email, IM, text and Yellow Pages.
"Consumer electronics are becoming increasingly advanced, and the strategy behind the Sony Style stores has always been to create a comfortable environment where consumers interact with and educate themselves about the latest technology," said Stan Glasgow, president and COO of Sony Electronics in the U.S. "At Sony Style Comcast Labs, trained staff show consumers how to unlock the full potential of their devices by demonstrating how Comcast's advanced delivery services integrate beautifully with Sony's hardware products and entertainment content."
"Innovation has been the cornerstone of all that we do at Comcast and this new interactive space is the perfect showcase for our current and future technology," said Tony Werner, Comcast's chief technology officer. "We're thrilled to have this unique space anchor our corporate headquarters as a clear demonstration of innovation. It's also a terrific, hands-on way for consumers to experience how all our products work together."
Sony Style Comcast Labs feature the best of Sony's electronics and the most innovative service offerings from Comcast. Sony Electronics offerings include BRAVIAÒ high definition LCD televisions, VAIO® PCs, a (alpha) DSLR and Cyber-shotÒ digital cameras, HandycamÒ camcorders, PSPÒ and PlayStationÒ 3 game consoles and emerging technologies like OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) TVs. Comcast will showcase all of its products and services from voice to video and Internet and demonstrate how they each work together seamlessly for the consumer.
Shoppers will have opportunities to make informed purchase decisions about what best fits their needs via personalised service and product demonstrations from in-store Sony Electronics and Comcast representatives.
The Sony Style Comcast Labs is located the heart of The Market at the base of the Comcast Centre in Philadelphia at 17th and JFK Boulevard.


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BVRC provides opportunities for those wishing either to continue music making or get started on a new musical adventure. Come visit, play and maybe stay with us here in beautiful Northwest Arkansas.
The consort is a chapter of The American Recorder Society, a national organization of recorder enthusiasts.
We often join the Aeolus Consort in Little Rock for workshops and mass playing sessions.


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Wonder if Klaassen has a locker?
Besic has signed on loan for Middlesborough.
True. I wonder if they have many foreigners in their team? Great experience for him though. Will make him grow up quick too.
Didn't work for Sandro.I think Germany will be a different kettle of fish. Don't most German's speak English anyway?
Yeah, that was my reading of his comments. Sounded to me like there was other options and that the club think it'll be tough for a young lad to be alone in a country where he doesn't speak the language, which seems a perfectly reasonable explanation.
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Daily Sound Off: The real problems with payrollFriday, May 28th, 2010
Here's today's Daily Sound Off:
I work for the payroll department in my LCO. I wanted to explain some things about how Census payroll works and why people are getting paid late. I would appreciate if my name were left out of this, but feel free to publish some or all of the information contained below.
As you may know, in order to get paid for a day's work a Census employee must submit a daily payroll form that we lovingly refer to as a "308." The 308 contains several redundancies to help catch potential errors. For instance, the employee must mark both the date worked and the day of the week worked, and if these do not match the 308 will not be processed until the office can determine what date the employee actually worked. The employee also must enter the number of hours worked and the times worked, and if these do not match the employee will be paid for the lesser of the two numbers. Finally any expenses incurred must be explained and any over $5 must be accompanied by a receipt; in order to save taxpayer dollars we regularly reject claims for ridiculous things that the employee does not need to complete their assignment.
The reasons that we're having so much delayed payroll come down to the problems with processing these time sheets. First of all, as I mentioned before, if there are any errors with a paysheet, that sheet may be placed into a problem file to be dealt with later. Ideally we deal with all problem 308s in their appropriate pay period, but the first three weeks of NRFU were not ideal. You've heard of all the paperwork new employees have to fill out? All of that has to be processed by the admin department *before* an employee can be paid. Admin departments basically had to begin processing one to two thousand hiring packets plus five to ten thousand pay sheets starting at the end of the first day of training and be finished by the following Monday. For many LCOs, that just didn't happen. That's why we all put in overtime that week – to try to get as many people paid as possible.
Now, from the perspective of someone whose job it is to process paysheets, the thing about problem 308s is that some are very easy to deal with and some are very difficult, but almost none of them would exist if the employees themselves took the time to fill these things out right. Everyone who works for the census was tested on the ability to read and count and everyone who works for the census was hired basically to enter information on forms, and filling out pay sheets does not require any skills beyond these. And yet we continuously have problems with people who apparently cannot count to 40 – who either claim overtime with under 40 hours a week worked, or claim no overtime with more than 40 hours a week worked. We continue having problems with people who apparently cannot glance at a calendar long enough to verify both the date and the day of the week. So while we try to get these errors fixed, a large portion of the employees who are getting paid late are being delayed because they made mistakes on their paperwork that we cannot easily deal with.
Of course the other problem we're facing is that we can't process payroll that we don't have. I've heard numerous stories of FOSes and CLs who don't submit 308s on time. I understand from the Crew Leaders' position that they have a lot to do, but most of our CLs get their 308s in on time. The maybe 5% who don't account for 90% of the phone calls we get from enumerators who have missed several days' pay from their checks.
This is a personnel problem. We simply don't have a good way to motivate large numbers of temporary employees to do their jobs promptly and correctly. Every job has its share of lazy or incompetent employees. The Census does work to terminate these, but if we have to give each CL who brings payroll in late (or never) at least two warnings, that's at least three weeks of delayed payroll before we can replace the person, which is why we're getting stories from across the country of whole crews who haven't been paid for two or three weeks of working. Rumor around the office has it that the terminations for unsatisfactory performance are going to start coming fast and furious starting next week, although we've already got a decent pile going now.
Now, the admin department gets well over a hundred calls a week inquiring about missing hours or days. In the vast, overwhelming majority of cases – including every single call I have personally handled – these hours or days are already processed and on their way to the employee on the next pay period. I understand that it is difficult for many people, especially those whose only job is the Census, to have to wait three weeks instead of two to be paid for a particular day's work. Some people may be counting on being paid on time. I think that the situation would have been helped immensely if we had issued a blanket disclaimer at training or even during the hiring process that it is normal for it to take up to four weeks to be paid for any particular day worked. Somehow, people formed an expectation that a gigantic government bureaucracy staffed entirely by people with virtually no experience would be fast and efficient at handling paperwork, which makes me wonder if none of these employees who are calling us up or going to the media because their pay is a week late have ever tried to mail a letter or get a driver's license. Anyhow, we try to stay cheerful but a certain fatalism develops when all we can do is tell people, essentially, that their check is in the mail.
I can say that fortunately our department is now caught up with payroll on a weekly basis, and it is only when CLs or FOSes bring 308s in late that we process them late. However, payroll is already on a delayed basis by design – so if I work on a Monday, that 308 gets processed by the LCO and "closed" the following Monday, which means that a direct deposit will be issued the week after that, usually on a Wednesday – a delay of up to 17 days. So people who missed hours on their last paycheck were actually missing hours for the week of May 9-15 – which was basically the second week of actual work, and third week of employment, and at that point we had many but not all of our glitches ironed out. By that point we had issued directives to FOSes and CLs about how and when to fill out and bring in 308s and started getting positive responses, which should be reflected in even fewer errors in next week's checks.
However, the heart of this issue is actually in how the Census approaches the hiring process. While the recruiting process stretches over two years, the hiring process is basically crammed into a week. Queens LCOs had to hire 1600 – 2200 employees over the week of April 19th, for a training session that started April 26th. This has obvious problems. First of all, we were asking people – many of whom had taken the test months ago, in the fall or even summer – to drop everything and come in for training with a week's (or in some cases, a day's) notice. This is pointless and disrespectful and also resulted in the loss of many promising candidates. Basically, we weeded out everyone who had a job, or responsibilities, or the ability to plan, or the self-respect to demand to be treated courteously by an employer; then we hired whoever was left. Certainly we found some people who were competent and hard-working and just down on their luck or hit by the economy, but the overall caliber of employees is lower than what it would have been if we had given people adequate notice or contacted them in a timely fashion after they took their test.
The second problem is, as I have said, the logistical difficulty of processing 2000 new hires at once. If we had hired people on some kind of rolling basis we could have gotten their paperwork filed and their payroll started up before they had to start working. If we had started hiring and taking care of administrative matters in, say, March or even April 1st, as most test-takers were promised, then we could have gotten people trained, processed, and into payroll before NRFU even began. This would have eased the burden on admin, but also on NRFU and the people who had to get training sites for thousands of people all during one week. This would also have reduced the number of people who were verbally hired but never contacted again, or who attended training but were never assigned a CL, or who were assigned a CL but never any work.
Also, there simply has to be a less resource-intensive way to handle payroll than having each employee hand a piece of paper to their CL each day, to be handed to the FOS each day, to be brought into the office each day, to then be audited by one clerk and then entered into the payroll system by another clerk and then sent to a different agency entirely for final processing. We did payroll exactly the same way in the 2000 Census, and guess what? We've had ten years and the internet since then. We have secure banking, we have ebay, amazon, paypal (all of which, I realize, we also had in 2000). Why can't we have a server that the employee can log on to to enter their information; that the CL can log on to to approve the hours worked and digitally sign; that can automate the auditing process and eliminate the need for a separate data entry process? I believe I was promised a paperless society when this whole internet thing started, so what gives?
In short, we in payroll are struggling to get everyone's pay processed correctly and on time, but the system for doing so is incredibly inefficient, incapable of surviving the level of human error presented by barely-trained temporary Census employees, and compressed into a set of arbitrary and irrational time-frames that make actual prioritization of tasks or long-term planning impossible. So some of us are doing the best we can, some people aren't doing well at all, and are being fired ASAP, but ultimately I think we have to blame the planners. There's really nothing any of us on the ground can do to remedy the systemic problems that come from an unnecessarily paper-heavy and error-prone operation in which everything is rushed and the right hand never seems to know what the left hand is doing.


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That's how folks are honoring National Book Week on Facebook — grabbing the book closest at hand and posting that random phrase.
I thought I would go one step further and talk up one of my favorite books. Not my 'desert island book' — A Prayer for Owen Meany, which I have lauded here before — but a book by Mario Puzo that did not achieve the commercial success of the Godfather saga.
I have read and re-read The Fourth K countless times since its 1990 publication. Although it was a commercial failure, Puzo called it his "most ambitious novel." I would argue it is his most imaginative.
The novel follows the Presidency of Francis Xavier Kennedy, the fictional nephew of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy. On an Easter Sunday at the end of his first term of office, the Pope is assassinated and Kennedy's daughter is taken hostage and murdered. Soon after, a nuclear device is discovered in midtown Manhattan.
The crises have a fundamental effect on the President's approach to governing, and impact his decision to seek re-election. But many question his ability to lead after his daughter's death and attempt to invoke the 25th Amendment.
It's an exciting, edge-of-your-seat read, and I think it would make an incredible film.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland football team announced its 2012 season awards during the annual awards banquet on Sunday. Head coach Randy Edsall and his staff handed out 11 total awards, including the Ray Krouse Memorial Award, sponsored by Capital One Bank, for the team's Most Valuable Player which was presented to Stefon Diggs.
In his inaugural campaign, Diggs totaled 1,896 all-purpose yards, which is the second-highest single-season total in school history and the most by a freshman. His 172.4 all-purpose yards per game ranked second in the ACC. He scored six touchdowns receiving, two on kickoff returns and one throwing. On the season he was named ACC Rookie of the Week three times and Specialist of the Week twice. He finished second in the voting for ACC Offensive Rookie of the Year by the coaches and was named second-team specialist.
The complete list of award-winners is below:
Bennett Fulper: The George C. Cook Memorial Award for the senior with the highest academic average.
Ryan Schlothauer: The George Boutselis Memorial Award for the player who both lettered in football while attaining the highest GPA on the team and has adhered to the goals of the student-athlete ideal.
Justin Gilbert: The Public Service Award for the student athlete that has committed to serving and having a positive influence in the community.
Matt Furstenburg: The Dr. John E. Faber Award for Iron Man, which is named after Dr. John E. Faber, who coached men's lacrosse for 35 years and finished his coaching career with a record of 249 wins and only 57 losses, including national championship teams.
Kevin Dorsey: The A.V. Williams Award for Outstanding & Conspicuous Sportsmanship Award for the student athlete that best displays outstanding & conspicuous sportsmanship during the course of the year.
Joe Vellano: The Alvin L. Aubinoe Unsung Hero Trophy for the student athlete that best displays the true meaning of teamwork without regard for his personal goals.
A.J. Francis: The James M. Tatum Memorial Award for Lineman of the Year.
Matt Furstenburg: Special Teams Player of the Year Award.
Darin Drakeford: Defensive Player of the Year Award in memory of Herman Grabenstein.
Stefon Diggs: Offensive Player of the Year Award in honor of Larry Grabenstein.
Stefon Diggs: Ray Krouse Memorial Award for Team's Most Valuable Player.
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The US Department of the Treasury said it would press Japan to refrain from competitive devaluation, while stopping short of accusing it of manipulating the yen in a report on exchange rates.
The Treasury is to pressure Japan to adhere to international commitments "to remain oriented towards meeting respective domestic objectives using domestic instruments and to refrain from competitive devaluation and targeting its exchange rate for competitive purposes," the department said in its semi-annual currency report to the US Congress released in Washington on Friday.
The report also declined to name China a currency manipulator.
"This is a shot across the Bank of Japan's bow," Kit Juckes, a global strategist at Societe Generale SA in London, said in an e-mail. "Everyone still supports Japan's fight against deflation, but the US would much rather the yen did not weaken significantly further."
The Bank of Japan surprised markets on Thursday last week by doubling monthly bond purchases to almost match the US Federal Reserve's monetary easing, and by setting a two-year horizon for achieving its goal of 2 percent inflation.
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said there is no time limit to the stimulus.
The yen has depreciated against all 16 of its most-traded peers since Thursday last week, declining 2.2 percent to the US dollar, 3.5 percent to Europe's 17-nation common currency and 2.8 percent to Australia's dollar.
"Yen moves have been too rapid for the US to applaud Japan's battle to end deflation," said Yasuhide Yajima, chief economist at NLI Research Institute Ltd in Tokyo, an affiliate of Nippon Life Insurance Co, Japan's biggest life insurer. "Japan will have to show fiscal plans and means to strengthen growth to make it clear it's not depending only on weakening the yen to revive the economy."
Juckes said until recently, the US had been supportive of Japan's policies.
"How could they not be after years of calling for them to combat deflation?" Juckes said. "Now, with the yen falling so far, so fast, the Treasury has changed its tune."
The US would be "watching to make sure that the focus of Abenomics is on stimulating the domestic Japanese economy and not its external sector," Truman said, referring to the policies of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
In the report, the Treasury declined to name China a manipulator, while saying that the yuan "remains significantly undervalued."
"Intervention appears to have resumed, and further appreciation of the RMB against the dollar is warranted," the Treasury said, using another term for the Chinese currency.
The Treasury said it would press China for policy changes and greater exchange-rate flexibility.
"The Obama administration's "refusal to label China a currency manipulator once again demonstrates President Obama's deep-seated indifference to a major, ongoing threat to American manufacturing's competitiveness, and to the US economy's return to genuine health," Alan Tonelson, research fellow at the US Business and Industry Council, which represents about 2,000 domestic manufacturers, said in a statement.
US Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew traveled to China last month and said he pressed the country's new leadership on the exchange rate.
A market-determined yuan is in China's interest, and "they recognize the need to do it for internal reasons as well," Lew said during his two-day visit.


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In addition to light sensors, gyroscopes, and accelerometers, did you know most tablets and smartphones have a built in magnetometer? Its immediate benefit might not be obvious, but as this video demonstrates, it could let you use magnets to interact with your devices instead of boring old fingers or styluses.
It turns out the hardware already built into these devices is able to distinguish the strength and position of a magnet with a usable amount of accuracy. And as researchers Andrea Bianchi and Ian Oakley from the University of Madeira and Carnegie Mellon Europe have discovered, it allows you to build physical objects that can interact with a smartphone or tablet in ways a regular stylus can't. For example, with magnets in each tip, a drawing app could recognize when a stylus was being used to draw or erase. Although, weren't we all taught that magnets and electronics don't mix? [Andrea Bianchi via Make]


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A family friendly event focusing on the joys of Jewish food and culture. Come enjoy traditional kosher foods, food trucks, live Jewish entertainment, Israeli dance instruction, shopping, Mitzvot oportunities, special area for children. Children under 12:FREE, Adults: $5, 2 for … Read More


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LONG BEACH, Calif., March 22 (UPI) -- Officials at a California aquarium said a couple of young penguins have taken a liking to a mouse-chasing iPad app designed to amuse cats.
The Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach said penguins Jeremy and Newsom, who are still too young to get caught up in the excitement of the upcoming mating season, have found "enrichment" with the free "Game for Cats" iPad app, ABC News reported Friday.
The game features a mouse running around the screen that lets out a squeak when tapped by a paw -- or in this case, a beak.
"Newsom set the penguin high score of 1,600 for the game," the aquarium said on its website.
A YouTube video of Newsom playing the game has been viewed more than 167,000 times.