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Maine lobster processors, long in Canada's shadow, look to boost industry, keep jobs in US
The Canadian Maritimes have long dominated the lobster processing industry, but Maine officials are hoping an upcoming bond referendum will allow the state to claw back the revenue, taxes and jobs it has been sending north of the border for years.
Maine's lobster processing industry, virtually nonexistent a quarter century ago, has grown steadily in recent years, and state officials are taking notice. In 2013, Maine lobstermen caught 126 million pounds of lobster and Canada received nearly 60 million pounds from the state for processing. Industry officials say they need more money and manpower to ensure the state can compete.
"There's a multiplying effect because if the product is produced in Maine, then it's generating work and dollars and taxes," said Luke Holden, owner of Cape Seafood in Saco.
The November bond referendum would dedicate $7 million in public money to Maine seafood and lobster processing. Sen. Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, said he threw his support behind the referendum after meeting with lobster industry workers, who told him the biggest barrier to adding value to Maine's lobster industry is the state's lack of processors.
"You can't have value added when all your processing is in Canada," Jackson said. "It's a big part of our economy and a big part of what we do in our state."
Maine's lobster meat processing industry consists of about 15 companies that processed about 20 million pounds of meat last year. Canada, meanwhile, has about 25 companies dotting provinces including New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and processed about 150 million pounds in 2013.
The meat ends up in store-bought products ranging from frozen tails to pre-packaged lobster rolls and salads.
Canada's industry generates about $600 million in export value every year, according to Geoff Irvine, executive director of the Lobster Council of Canada. Maine officials declined to estimate the state's export value but agreed it's much less, with less volume and much of the product shipped to Canada for processing.
The push for more stateside processing has not gone unnoticed in Canada. Jerry Amirault, president of the Lobster Processors Association of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, said as much as 75 percent of processed lobster ends up on the U.S. market, and Canadian processors feel a need to maintain their share of the production.
"We understand the interdependency," Amirault said. "It's a change in circumstance."
Holden, of Cape Seafood, has seen the change develop over time. His father processed lobster in Maine 30 years ago when, he said, the industry had "not a lot of players, not a lot of sophistication, not a lot of rules or regulations." Holden supports the push for the bond.
"It keeps the work and the money in the state versus just catching the lobster in Maine and kicking them up to Canada, which is where the majority of process grade lobsters go," he said.
In St. George, Kyle Murdock opened one of Maine's newest lobster processing businesses — Sea Hag Seafood — in 2010. The facility processed about 900,000 pounds of meat last year and will likely exceed 1 million in 2014, he said.
Murdock said continued growth in Maine's lobster processing sector could be the key to the industry's future.
"It gives you more control of your product," Murdock said. "The Maine taxpayer is spending their tax dollars to market a product that is processed in Canada."


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It's such a rare thing to see kids at a conference. So when I spied a large group of teens huddling in the Parc 55 hotel, I thought it might be a good idea to stick with them. I wasn't disappointed.
Video: Kids Call for Equity at DML 2012
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Back then I had just released a new Darwin's World adventure and it was also the time of many personal changes, many of which have prevented me from doing much on the game front. First, I left my full time job and became a freelancer. It's been a big success for me, but I took on a lot of projects over the last 3 years, so time for games has been short. Also, I had another kid, my fourth, so there's that.
Despite my lack of time, the site has remained in operation and people continue to buy games and use the web apps I developed years ago. I'm really surprised how active it remains despite that I haven't released any new books or added new features in nearly three years. Thanks everyone!
Now that I'm firmly back into self employment mode, I'm hoping to get back to games. But I also need to change this site to reflect my current life. RPGObjects is not just my publishing name, it's also my business name, as well as the identity of most of my online activities (github, g+, etc...). So my immediate goal is to clean up this site and have a place for everything that matters. While I hope to post new blogs about gaming or some new book I'm editing, I also want somewhere to post about android development or an upcoming event I'm speaking at (like Devfest MN).
I have some goals I hope to achieve in 2016 both in publishing as well as for this site, but I'll leave that for another post.
In the meantime, just a reminder, I still exist.
It's not ideal. When I saw it works, I don't mean it's flawless. But it's usable. Which is important to me since I spend a good deal of time these days on my phone and tablet.
Anyhow, I've been trying my best to clear my plate the last year so I can do more blogging and work on other projects. Getting this site working on mobile was one of those steps. Except a total resigned sometime in the not to distant future.
Gencon approaches and I want to continue with my gencon blogs I started last year. This is year 21 for me!
If you find something not working on the website due to these changes, please let me know asap (webmaster at rpgobjects.com).
The main reason I pick this one as my winner was its unique design and the fact that I kept thinking of great adventure ideas to fill it.
A also choose two Runner Ups:
Tiogshi Laj's Sacrifice Halls:
It was a little on the busy side, but it seemed to used such a wide variety of tile sets.
John Reiher's Swamp Castle:
Super clean design and also gave me ideas for an adventures.
In addition, I changed the tile placement icon from a blue box to the tile(s) currently selected. Those tiles should standout from the other tiles on the map as they are slightly transparent (except on IE).
I think there will be 1 or 2 more updates before I drop the Beta tag to Tiamat. I'll blog about the ramifications of that in the not too distant future.
Also, remember, I'm still running the Tiamat Map Building Contents until December 1st.
So here it goes, the 1st official Tiamat Map Making contest!
The Prize:
1. FREE Miniature Map export of the winning map.
2. $5 credit added to your Tiamat balance.
How to Enter:
1. Create a map no larger 30 x 60 (the default size of new maps).
2. Make the map Public.
1. Contest ends Dec 1st.
2. Make no more than 3 maps public.
3. Please do not use another person's public map as your submission. I can detect this and you will be disqualified (and magically cursed).
I created a new Tutorial Video: Creating a Map Start to Finish.
The "select tile after placement" option is straightforward. The auto save feature will save your currently opened map periodically to a map called AUTO SAVE.
I wanted to make an adjustable tile palette size, but it proved to problematic for a number of reasons. So I moving on to other items and will revisit it later (i.e. multi tile selection).


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The NCAA And The So-Called Student-Athlete
The NCAA And The So-Called Student-Athlete
Sports fans love to designate certain games as "the greatest ever," the "match of the century" and so forth. Well, I would like to state that a piece in the October issue of The Atlantic Monthly, which was released online Tuesday, may well be the most important article ever written about college sports.
The author is Taylor Branch, who is best known for winning the Pulitzer Prize for his work on civil rights. Essentially, in eviscerating the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Mr. Branch provides ample evidence that our "student-athletes" are themselves lacking in their rights as American citizens. They are, he says, the "heir[s] to Dred Scott."
The author calls the NCAA itself "a classic cartel." He writes that the contrived concept of amateurism is a "cynical hoax," and that the fact that college athletes make fortunes for their millionaire coaches and conscienceless universities is simply "tragedy."
He points out, for instance, that the term "student-athlete," which is thrown around so wantonly by the NCAA and its journalistic enablers, was essentially created for no educational reasons — but only as a smokescreen to keep players from being able to sue for worker's compensation if they are injured playing for dear old alma mater.
It was crucial, for legal reasons, not to let athletes enjoy the status of other university employees; hence they must be "students," without the common rights of laborers.
Mr. Branch found evidence that the NCAA, which is allegedly a nonprofit, spent a million dollars chartering jets. At the same time, it appears to have spent less than 1 percent of its revenue trying to enforce its rulebook.
Not surprisingly, the real culprits –– the big schools and their coaches –– are virtually never severely punished. Instead, says the author, the NCAA goes after "powerless scapegoats," like the impoverished athletes themselves, or honest professors who dare to volunteer how athletic departments cheat to keep their athletes academically eligible.
In fact, Mr. Branch points out, the NCAA wouldn't dare punish big-time offenders harshly for fear that the major conferences will leave the NCAA and start their own basketball tournament. Only the television money paid by CBS to broadcast March Madness keeps the NCAA in clover.
At the end of the day, the whole point of the NCAA –– despite its sanctimonious educational claptrap –– is to protect the unjust concept of amateurism, so that its client athletic departments get free labor.
As Mr. Branch explains at length — as I have mentioned often before — all this may come crashing down, as lawsuits against the NCAA are finally approaching judgment. In the meantime, I commend to you this exceptional article entitled simply, "The Shame of College Sports" — which begins with the disgrace of the NCAA.


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These photos were all taken during our stay at Mantobeni - a private game reserve beside Kruger Park. We had game drives/walks and a visit to a village with our guide Dries and our tracker Walter. They were great at finding animals and at stopping for us to take photos.Read More


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This is a from scratch development for AmigaOS4.x that aims to be an improved version of Thore Boeckelmann's diskimage.device for AOS3.x. Thore's DiskImageCtrl program doesn't work with this device for this reason. This should not be a problem however as there is now (as of v52.2) a ReAction GUI that provides the same functionality as this program and more. Some new features of this device are: no hardcoded limit on the amount of useable device units, large file support, CD audio tracks and support for many more diskimage formats through an extensible plugin interface. After installing a new version of diskimage.device you should always perform a soft reboot as this is the only way to make sure that the new device version has been loaded. DiskImageGUI tries to be within reason backwards compatible with older device versions, but this might not always be perfect, so it's not recommended to use a newer DiskImageGUI with an older device version (or vice versa). Requirements: - AmigaOS >= 4.1 - capsimage.device (IPF plugin) - http://softpres.org - z.library >= 52.1 (CSO, DAA, DAX, DMG, ISZ, UIF and VMDK plugins) - http://aminet.net/util/libs/z_library.lha - bzip2.library >= 53.1 (DMG and ISZ plugins) - included with MUI 4.0 - expat.library >= 4.1 (DMG plugin) - http://os4depot.net/share/development/library/misc/expat-ppc.lha - mpg123.library >= 52.1 (MP3 audio tracks) - http://os4depot.net/share/library/audio/mpg123_lib.lha - libFLAC.so (FLAC audio tracks) - http://os4depot.net/share/development/library/audio/libflac.lha - libwavpack.so (WavPack audio tracks) - http://os4depot.net/share/development/library/audio/libwavpack.lha - Vorbis and ogg shared objects (Ogg Vorbis audio tracks) - http://os4depot.net/share/development/library/audio/libvorbis.lha http://os4depot.net/share/development/library/audio/libogg.lha - CBM1541FileSystem (D64/G64 files) - http://os4depot.net/share/driver/filesystem/cbm1541_fs.lha - SAMDOSFileSystem (SAD/DSK files) - http://os4depot.net/share/driver/filesystem/samdos_fs.lha - XISOFileSystem (XISO files) - http://os4depot.net/share/driver/filesystem/xiso_fs.lha Recommended: - AISS (DiskImageGUI) - http://masonicons.info/ Supported Disk Image Formats: - adf (Amiga Disk File) - adz (gzipped adf file) - bin - ccd (CloneCD) - cso (Compressed ISO) - cpr (same format as dsk) - cue - d64 (C=64) - daa - dax - dmg (Apple disk image format) - dms (DiskMaSher) - dsk (CPCEmu, non-EXTENDED images only) - flac (with embedded cue file) - g64 (C=64) - gi (untested) - hdf - img - ipf (needs capsimage.device) - iso (CD/DVD) - isz - mdf (Daemon Tools/Alcohol) - mds (Daemon Tools/Alcohol) - nrg (Nero) - raw - sad (Sam Coupe) - toast (Roxio Toast) - uif (MagicISO) - vdi (VirtualBox) - vmdk (VMWare) - wv (with embedded cue file) - xiso (X-Box ISO) Compressed disk images are supported through (if available): - xadmaster.library - xpkmaster.library It is also possible to create/mount password encrypted diskimages using the "Crypt" plugin. Usage: For usage instructions see the diskimage.guide file in the archive. Changes: 53.4 (13-Jan-2015) - Rewrote TD_ADDCHANGEINT/TD_REMCHANGEINT implementation to be more compatible with trackdisk.device/scsi.device. - TD_REMOVE/TD_ADDCHANGEINT/TD_REMCHANGEINT are now implemented as quick commands. - Fixed a memory leak in the FLAC decoder. - Fixed a memory leak in the VDI plugin. - Made DiskImagePlugin structure compatible with 680x0 version. - Updated German DiskImageGUI catalog. 53.3 (20-Sep-2014) - Updated Italian catalogs. - The MDS plugin now checks the signature and version fields before trying to read the session data and returns ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED for version 2.0 and newer MDS files. - Moved the code for opening the MDF file to the end of the MDS_OpenImage() function. See diskimage.guide/Changelog in the archive for a complete list of changes.
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It has helped that Blogger is linked to Google, so putting Timespanner in Google will usually point you here, without much trouble, but -- folks keep think Timespanner is two words. Even when I say it isn't.
So -- the card. Which I think looks great, and was prepared by Words Incorporated at Blockhouse Bay, who also prepare periodicals I'm involved with such as the Avondale Historical Journal, NZ Legacy, Point Chevalier Times, and publications such as Point Chevalier Memories, Wairaka's Waters, The Zoo War, A Doctor in the Whau, They Trained Beside the River, and the St Ninian's of Avondale 150th anniversary booklet.
Brom there does great business cards.
An update: Just realised today the image is that of the Eagle (lower right), one of the Waitemata paddle steamers. It comes from my postcard collection.


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With retailers, consumers and governments increasingly concerned about ethical and social standards, SMETA is becoming an even more essential as a way for organizations to prove they are working in an ethical manner, irrespective of size, sector or geography. It is the world's most commonly used ethical audit format and covers four pillars: labor standards, health and safety, business ethics and the environment.
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Support responsible sourcing practices and sustainable production systems through a standard evaluation method that reinforces your brands' credentials.
Need help with SMETA?
LRQA is a Nestlé approved supplier able to deliver SMETA audits. If you have specific concerns about your supply chain or wish to review how you can improve your business practice, LRQA can work with you to provide both a SMETA audit, and potentially develop a program that addresses the underlying issues, putting scalable solutions into practice.
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Our technology enables us to audit your business remotely, and with the launch of the Sedex Virtual Assessment Tool, you can continue to demonstrate your ethical and sustainable business practices even when on-site audits are not available. As a Sedex Affiliate Audit Company (AAC), LRQA can provide all the technical support you need to successfully complete your audit remotely, including a virtual site tour and assessment of a site's documentation and management systems.
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We hope that everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday, ate tons of food, drank lots of, uh, water, and that you are all back at it running off that home-made pumpkin pie. Better yet, maybe you've decided to follow up your Thanksgiving feast with an ultra event, and while the end of the year sees a thinner and thinner list of event options, we have a few to take a look at for the weekend of Saturday, December 5 and Sunday, December 6. So, lets get started.
San Francisco, California plays host to the championship events of the North Face Endurance Challenge. The sold out events (50 mile, 50k, half-marathon and 10k) take place just north of San Francisco in the visually stunning Marin Headlands. Although a majority of the course is run on run-able fire roads (very little technical single track), the course is rated 5 out of 5 stars for elevation change and overall difficulty. As always, this will be one of the most competitive ultra events of the year. The women's field is especially deep this year. Check out Karl Meltzer's website for odds on the race. [Trail Goat Note: iRunFar's very own Bryon Powell will be on hand TNF's Endurance Challenge.]
How about a post-Thanksgiving PCTR event….the Woodside Trail Run (10k, 17k, 35k and 50k) on Saturday, December 5. Starting in Huddart County Park in Woodside, California, the course takes runners through the towering redwoods, lush ferns and beautiful trails of Huddart Park, King's Mountain, Bear Gulch and Wunderlich Park. The 50k has 4,530 feet of elevation gain.
The High Desert 50k Ultra (and 30k) takes place on Sunday, December 6 in Ridgecrest, California and is the USATF Southern California Association 50k Championship event. The course is a loop route over rolling desert terrain on jeep roads, single-track trails and sandy washes over the Spangler Hills south of Ridgecrest. It offers great views of the Southern Sierras. Nine aid stations are located about every three miles.
Looking for a timed run (3, 6, 9, 12 and 24 hours)? Check out Run Like the Wind 2009 [broken link removed] hosted by the Schrodi Memorial Training Fund and the Lee Mannix Center for Canine Behavior. The course is a mulchy, soft, flat 1k loop trail that is completely canopied by trees.
Anything else going on this weekend that you might be participating in ? Let everyone know by leaving a comment, and check back next week for another edition of TWIR.


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February 20, 2012
Millions without hearing aids could benefit
Johns Hopkins experts estimate nearly 23 million have untreated hearing loss
Though an estimated 26.7 million Americans age 50 and older have hearing loss, only about one in seven uses a hearing aid, according to a new study led by Johns Hopkins researchers.
The finding adds clarity to less-rigorous estimates by device manufacturers and demonstrates how widespread undertreatment of hearing loss is in the United States, the study investigators say.
"Understanding current rates of hearing loss treatment is important, as evidence is beginning to surface that hearing loss is associated with poorer cognitive functioning and the risk of dementia," said study senior investigator Frank Lin, an otologist and epidemiologist. "Previous studies that have attempted to estimate hearing aid use have relied on industry marketing data or focused on specific groups that don't represent a true sample of the United States population," added Lin, an assistant professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
To address the data gap, Lin and Wade Chien, also an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins, used data from the 1999–2006 cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a research program that has periodically gathered health information from thousands of Americans since 1971. During those cycles, participants answered questions about whether they used a hearing aid and had had their hearing tested.
The researchers' new findings, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine online Feb. 13, showed that only about one in seven individuals age 50 or older (14 percent) use hearing aids; use rose with age, ranging from 4.3 percent in individuals 50 to 59 years old to 22.1 percent in those 80 and older. Overall, another 23 million could possibly benefit from using the devices, Lin said.
Lin says that many people with hearing loss likely avoid the use of hearing aids, in part because health insurance often does not cover the costs, and because people do not receive the needed rehabilitative training to learn how to integrate the devices into their daily lives. But another major reason, he says, is that people often consider hearing loss inevitable and of minor concern.
"There's still a perception among the public and many medical professionals that hearing loss is an inconsequential part of the aging process and you can't do anything about it," Lin said. "We want to turn that idea around."
Lin and his colleagues currently are leading a study to investigate the effects of hearing aids and cochlear implants on the social, memory and thinking abilities of older adults.
Funding support for this study was provided by the National Institutes of Health.


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Jackson, Mississippi – Documents filed in Federal Court Friday by the State of Mississippi show that serious health and safety concerns were primary motivating factors in passing a law that threatens to close that state's last abortion clinic. That law, which requires that abortionists be Board Certified or eligible as Ob/Gyns and that they maintain local hospital privileges, was challenged by Jackson Women's Health Organization in Federal Court to block its implementation after admitting that it could not comply with the law.
The brief, submitted by Special Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Bryant, cited the recent closure of Alabama's New Woman All Women after the Alabama Department of Public Health discovered 76 pages of violations, including "evidence that clinic staff failed to respond to complaints of post-surgical complications." New Woman All Women was owned by Diane Derzis, who also owns the Jackson Women's Health Organization.
Instead of remedying the violations, Derzis agreed to close the abortion clinic and disaffiliate from any one that might attempt to relicense the facility.
The State's brief also cited a lawsuit filed in 2011 by abortionist Joseph Booker, a former employee of the Jackson Women's Health Organization (JWHO) who sued the clinic "alleging that Derzis had instituted numerous practices that jeopardized the health and safety of patients, including:
Permitting untrained staff to perform and interpret ultrasounds, despite the fact that accurate ultrasound are vital to the medical safety of patients. Pressure from the JWHO administrator to administer RU486 abortion pills in a manner that is "dangerous" and not approved by the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Belief that JWHO does not carry malpractice insurance. JWHO is jeopardizing patient safety by not using a "local doctor who has hospital admitting privileges" when administering RU486 because of the "real risk of severe hemorrhage" and "the risk of ectopic pregnancy" associated with the drug.
The State noted that as the Supreme Court abortion rulings currently stand, "the right to abortion services belongs to the women who access those services – not to the physicians who provide them." Parker has claimed that his right to perform abortions is jeopardized by the new law, when no such Constitutional right exists.
The State's Exhibits are devastating to the abortion clinic's arguments that abortion is so safe that hospital privileges are unnecessary.
A declaration submitted by John Thorp, Jr., M.D. notes that hospital privileges make it more likely that abortionists can effectively care for patients. He stated that 73% of hospitals report inadequate on call coverage by specialists, especially Ob/Gyns. Dr. Thorp also concluded that hospital privileges prevents patient abandonment by itinerate physicians. Dr. Thorpe backed up his statements with impressive qualifications, including a 57-page Cirriculum Vitae.
A declaration by James C. Anderson, M.D. states that the new law "will most likely improve the quality of care…and enhance patient follow-up care after an abortion."
Anderson continued, "As stated earlier, I have worked in local Emergency Rooms across Virginia for over thirty years. When women have come to the Emergency Room with complications related to an abortion, never once have I received a phone call initiated by the provider conveying information about the abortion, the young woman's condition or potential complications. I have always had to evaluate the situation, come to my own conclusions, and initiate what I thought was appropriate treatment. This definitely created some time delays that were not in the patient's best interest. I have called many abortion clinic physicians but never once has the provider come to the Emergency Room to assume care. I have always had to call a staff physician. This then creates another delay since the staff physician is taking care of his/her own patients, but now much change his/her schedule to assume the care of someone else's patient. These delays can have life-threatening implications when dealing with hemorrhage or infection."
Dr. Anderson cites the cases of 35 abortion clinics and providers from recent news stories as "illustrative of the need for state regulation of abortion practice and conformity to standards of care in medicine." Those cases include many in which Operation Rescue had involvement, such as that of Ann Kristin Neuhaus in Kansas, Feliciano Rios and Andrew Rutland in California, Rapin Osathanondh in Massachusetts, Alberto Hodari in Michigan, and ten abortionists in Texas who were discovered to have committed violations during an undercover investigation conducted in 2010 by Operation Rescue and The Survivors, and other cases.
Judge U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III, who is an appointee of President George W. Bush, will hear oral arguments at a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, July 11, 2012.
"We are guardedly optimistic that the judge will uphold this much needed safety rule on Wednesday, and are very confident that the law will eventually be cleared by the courts for enforcement since similar laws in other states have been upheld as Constitutional," said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue and Pro-Life Nation.
"The states have a right to protect women, and that is what Mississippi is trying to do. It is ridiculous to argue, as Jackson Women's Health Organization has, that it is in the best interest of women to keep an abortion facility open that cannot ensure that patients receive safe and timely emergency care. If they can't comply with even this minimum safety law, then they should not be allowed to continue to endanger the health and safety of women."
View Court Documents free at AbortionDocs.org


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Saturday, 26 May 2012 07:36 AM EDT
The anniversary of the day 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished on his way to school dawned with his suspected killer in police custody, but it ended with a muddled portrait of the man who confessed to strangling the little boy and dumping his body in the trash.
A former neighbor who knew Pedro Hernandez as a teenager says he was someone you wouldn't want to cross — a reserved but "pent-up" young man. But the pastor of his church says Hernandez, now 51, is simply a shy and timid man who faithfully attends Sunday services.
Now on suicide watch at Bellevue Hospital, Hernandez was arraigned Friday via video link from a hospital ward on a charge of murder. His court-appointed lawyer, Harvey Fishbein, told the judge that Hernandez is bipolar, schizophrenic and has a "history of hallucinations, both visual and auditory."
Hernandez, who was a teenage convenience store clerk at the time Etan went missing, now lives in Maple Shade, N.J. He was arrested Thursday after making a surprise confession in a case that has bedeviled investigators for 33 years. Hernandez told police he lured Etan into the basement of a convenience store with a promise of a soda, choked him to death, then stuffed his body in a bag and left it with trash on the street a block away.
The legal proceeding lasted only about four minutes. Expressionless, wearing an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs, Hernandez didn't speak or enter a plea.
A judge ordered Hernandez held without bail and authorized a psychological examination to see if he is fit to stand trial.
The prosecutor who appeared in court, Assistant District Attorney Armand Durastanti, said it was 33 years ago Friday that 6-year-old Etan Patz left his home on Prince Street to catch his school bus. "He has not been seen or heard from since. It's been 33 years, and justice has not been done in this case," Durastanti, said.
Etan disappeared on May 25, 1979, on his two-block walk to his bus stop in Manhattan. It was the first time his parents had let him walk the route by himself.
Next to the bus stop was a convenience store, where Hernandez, then 18, worked as a clerk. Police interviewed him this week, acting on a tip.
Etan's remains were never found, even after a massive search and a media campaign that made parents afraid to let their children out of their sight and sparked a movement to publicize the cases of missing youngsters. Etan was one of the first missing children to be pictured on a milk carton.
Hernandez's confession put investigators in the unusual position of bringing the case to court before they had amassed any physical evidence or had time to fully corroborate his story or investigate his psychiatric condition.
Police spokesman Paul Browne said investigators were retracing garbage truck routes from the late 1970s and deciding whether to search landfills for the boy's remains, a daunting prospect.
Crime scene investigators also arrived Friday morning at the building in Manhattan's SoHo section that once held the bodega where Hernandez worked. Authorities were considering excavating the basement for evidence.
They also were looking into whether Hernandez has a history of mental illness or pedophilia.
Browne said letting Hernandez remain free until the investigation is complete was not an option: "There was no way we could release the man who had just confessed to killing Etan Patz."
Legal experts said that even though police have a confession in hand, they are likely to work hard to make certain Hernandez isn't delusional or simply making up the story.
"There's always a concern whether or not someone is falsely confessing," said former prosecutor Paul DerOhannesian.
As Fishbein arrived at the courthouse, he asked reporters to be respectful of some of Hernandez's relatives there, including his wife and daughter.
"It's a tough day. The family is very upset. Please give them some space," Fishbein said.
Etan's father, Stanley Patz, avoided journalists gathered outside the family's Manhattan apartment, the same one the family was living in when his son vanished.
Former SoHo resident Roberto Monticello, a filmmaker who was a teenager when Patz disappeared, said he remembers Hernandez as civil but reserved and "pent-up."
"You always got the sense that if you crossed him really bad, he would hurt you," Monticello said, although he added that he never saw him hit anyone.
Monticello said Hernandez was also one of the few teenagers in the neighborhood who didn't join in the all-out search for Etan, which consumed SoHo and the city for months. "He was always around, but he never helped. He never participated," Monticello said.
Hernandez, who moved to New Jersey shortly after Etan's disappearance, suffered a back injury that has kept him on disability for years, according to police.
The Rev. George Bowen Jr., pastor at Hernandez's church in Moorestown, N.J., said he attended services regularly.
"I would judge him to be shy and maybe timid. He never got involved in anything," Bowen said.
He said Hernandez's wife, Rosemary, and daughter, Becky, a college student, went to see him Thursday morning after he was taken into police custody.
"They were just crying their eyes out," Bowen said. "They were broken up. They were wrecked. It was horrible. They didn't know what they were going to do."
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Hernandez gave a detailed confession that led police to believe they had the right man. He also said Hernandez told a relative and others as far back as 1981 that he had "done something bad" and killed a child in New York.
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COLUMBIA, Mo. – Growing up in Ohio, Maty Mauk stood on the sideline at Kenton High School watching older brother Ben star at quarterback while father Mike coached the Wildcats to consecutive state championships in 2001 and 2002.
Football ran in the family, and Maty jumped right in. At Kenton with his dad still the coach, he broke national prep records in passing yards (18,932), touchdown passes (219), completions (1,353) and total offense (22,681).
The gaudy numbers led to a scholarship to play quarterback at Missouri, where Mauk hoped he would have the opportunity to play in pressure situations. Last Saturday would probably qualify as one, when the redshirt freshman trotted unexpectedly onto the field with a two-point lead in the fourth quarter at Georgia.
Mike Mauk says he wasn't nervous as he watched from the stands of Sanford Stadium with his wife, Gwyn, and nearly 93,000 others. He wasn't surprised, either, when his son and protege led two touchdown drives to stave off the Bulldogs' comeback and win 41-26.
"It's something that ever since he's been a young kid starting to play athletics — you enjoy competition, you enjoy playing against the best," said Mike Mauk, who with his wife travels to all of the Tigers' games. "That's what competitors enjoy doing."
Maty Mauk figures to be involved in more of these situations as he leads No. 14 Missouri (6-0, 2-0 Southeastern Conference) into its game Saturday against No. 22 Florida (4-2, 3-1) in place of James Franklin, who sprained his right shoulder at Georgia and is out for at least three weeks. At 6 feet and 200 pounds, Mauk gives up 2 inches and 30 pounds to Franklin, but he likes to run, so he says don't expect anything different in the team's play calling.
"Last year, I kind of struggled," Mauk said. "I didn't know as much. But now I know that playbook like the back of my hand, man."
He'll be surrounded by a physically and statistically healthy offense, one that's producing 45.7 points and 515.7 yards per game. Mauk started practicing with the first string this week after taking "mental reps" with it all season.
Teammates told him to just be confident in himself and to not try to do too much. Even former Missouri quarterback and current Kansas City Chiefs backup Chase Daniel requested Mauk's phone number to pass along some advice.
"He's probably going to make some mistakes like all kids do," coach Gary Pinkel said. "But the big thing is you don't want him to be a robot out there. You want him to do what he does and play quarterback the way he plays quarterback."
Quarterbacks coach Andy Hill said not much fazes Mauk, who has a "cool demeanor" that likely arose out of the trials and successes he went through in high school. Occasionally, however, that attitude can lead him astray.
In just his first few weeks on campus in August 2012, police arrested Mauk on suspicion of leaving the scene of an accident on a scooter. Mike Mauk said that incident turned into a growing opportunity for his son, who communicates with his parents almost daily.
Regardless, the elder Mauk says he's proud of Maty and everything he's been able to accomplish since the day he was born. That's why the quarterback's parents still make every effort to watch their son play, and will do so again — this time with older brother Ben — Saturday in Columbia.
"He likes people, enjoys being around people," Mike Mauk said. "And sometimes, maybe he's got his guard down too much. But at the same time, I think he's learned some things and situations that have occurred that have helped make him a better person. That's what most of us go through in our lives."


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This Data Processing Addendum (the "Addendum") is executed by and between GoDaddy Payments, LLC ("GoDaddy", "we", and "us") and you ("Customer") and is annexed to and supplements our GoDaddy Commerce Services Agreement (collectively, the "Terms of Service"). Unless otherwise defined this Addendum, all capitalized terms not defined in this Addendum will have the meanings given to them in the Terms of Service.1. Definitions
For the purposes of this Addendum, the following terms and those defined within the body of this Addendum apply:
- "Business" has the meaning set forth in Section 1798.140(c) of the CCPA.
- "Controller" means: (i) the natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the Processing of Personal Data; and (ii) if and as applicable, a Business.
- "Data Protection Laws" means all applicable data privacy, data protection, and cybersecurity laws, rules and regulations to which Processing of Personal Data is subject to under this Addendum. "Data Protection Laws" may include, but are not limited to, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 ("CCPA") and the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 ("GDPR").
- "Personal Data" means "personal data" or "personal information" relating to a data subject Processed by GoDaddy under the Agreement.
- "Process" or "Processing" means any operation or set of operations which is performed on Personal Data or sets of Personal Data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination, or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction.
- "Security Incident(s)" means the breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to Personal Data in GoDaddy's possession or control.
GoDaddy is an independent Controller of Personal Data. Under no circumstance shall Customer and GoDaddy be regarded as "joint controllers" within the meaning set forth in GDPR Article 26 or any similar concept arising under Data Protection Laws.3. Compliance with Data Protection Laws
Each party shall Process Personal Data in compliance with Data Protection Laws.4. Information Security
GoDaddy shall use commercially reasonable efforts to implement and maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect Personal Data.5. Security Incidents
Upon becoming aware of a Security Incident, GoDaddy shall provide written notice to Customer without undue delay as required by Data Protection Laws. Except to the extent caused by Customer, GoDaddy shall be solely responsible for remediating the Security Incident.6. International Transfers of Personal Data
If Personal Data originating in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and/or the United Kingdom is transferred by Customer to GoDaddy in a country that has not been found to provide an adequate level of protection under Data Protection Laws, the parties agree that the transfer shall be governed by the Standard Contractual Clauses, which are attached hereto as Exhibit A and incorporated herein by reference. The parties agree that: (i) the audits described in Clause II (g) of the Standard Contractual Clauses shall be carried out by GoDaddy completing a data protection questionnaire of reasonable length not more than once annually upon the Customer's written request; and (ii) GoDaddy will Process Personal Data in accordance with the data processing principles set forth in Annex A of the Standard Contractual Clauses, and hereby exercises the option under Clause II(h) of the Standard Contractual Clauses to this effect.7. Customer's Obligations
Customer hereby confirms that: (i) it has and relies upon an adequate legal basis, including without limitation consent where required, to collect, Process, and transfer Personal Data to GoDaddy; and (ii) Customer has collected and Processed Personal Data it provides to GoDaddy in accordance with Data Protection laws.8. Limitations of Liability
Neither party will be responsible for any consequences resulting from the other party's failure to comply with Data Protection Laws in relation to the Personal Data that it shares with the other party. The liability of each party under this Addendum will be subject to the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in the Terms of Service. Customer agrees that any regulatory penalties incurred by GoDaddy in relation to the Personal Data that arise as a result of, or in connection with, Customer's failure to comply with its obligations under the Terms of Service and Data Protection Laws will count towards and reduce GoDaddy's liability to the Customer under the Terms of Service.9. Entire Terms of Service; Conflict
This Addendum does not supersede or replace any data processing addenda entered into between Customer and GoDaddy, including if applicable, the controller-processor data processing addendum entered into between Customer and an affiliated entity of GoDaddy with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. Except as amended by this Addendum, the Terms of Service will remain in full force and effect. If there is a conflict between any other agreement between the parties including the Terms of Service and this Addendum, the terms of this Addendum will control.EXHIBIT A
Standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data from the Community to third countries (controller to controller transfers)
Data transfer agreement between Customer (Hereinafter "data exporter") and GoDaddy Payments LLC (Hereinafter "data importer") each a "party"; together "the parties".Definitions
For the purposes of the clauses:
- "personal data", "special categories of data/sensitive data", "process/processing", "controller", "processor", "data subject" and "supervisory authority/authority" shall have the same meaning as in Directive 95/46/EC of 24 October 1995 (whereby "the authority" shall mean the competent data protection authority in the territory in which the data exporter is established);
- "the data exporter" shall mean the controller who transfers the personal data;
- "the data importer" shall mean the controller who agrees to receive from the data exporter personal data for further processing in accordance with the terms of these clauses and who is not subject to a third country's system ensuring adequate protection;
- "clauses" shall mean these contractual clauses, which are a free-standing document that does not incorporate commercial business terms established by the parties under separate commercial arrangements.
The details of the transfer (as well as the personal data covered) are specified in Annex B, which forms an integral part of the clauses.I. Obligations of the Data Exporter
The data exporter warrants and undertakes that:
- The personal data have been collected, processed and transferred in accordance with the laws applicable to the data exporter.
- It has used reasonable efforts to determine that the data importer is able to satisfy its legal obligations under these clauses.
- It will provide the data importer, when so requested, with copies of relevant data protection laws or references to them (where relevant, and not including legal advice) of the country in which the data exporter is established.
- It will respond to enquiries from data subjects and the authority concerning processing of the personal data by the data importer, unless the parties have agreed that the data importer will so respond, in which case the data exporter will still respond to the extent reasonably possible and with the information reasonably available to it if the data importer is unwilling or unable to respond. Responses will be made within a reasonable time.
- It will make available, upon request, a copy of the clauses to data subjects who are third party beneficiaries under clause III, unless the clauses contain confidential information, in which case it may remove such information. Where information is removed, the data exporter shall inform data subjects in writing of the reason for removal and of their right to draw the removal to the attention of the authority. However, the data exporter shall abide by a decision of the authority regarding access to the full text of the clauses by data subjects, as long as data subjects have agreed to respect the confidentiality of the confidential information removed. The data exporter shall also provide a copy of the clauses to the authority where required.
The data importer warrants and undertakes that:
- It will have in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect the personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access, and which provide a level of security appropriate to the risk represented by the processing and the nature of the data to be protected.
- It will have in place procedures so that any third party it authorises to have access to the personal data, including processors, will respect and maintain the confidentiality and security of the personal data. Any person acting under the authority of the data importer, including a data processor, shall be obligated to process the personal data only on instructions from the data importer. This provision does not apply to persons authorised or required by law or regulation to have access to the personal data.
- It has no reason to believe, at the time of entering into these clauses, in the existence of any local laws that would have a substantial adverse effect on the guarantees provided for under these clauses, and it will inform the data exporter (which will pass such notification on to the authority where required) if it becomes aware of any such laws.
- It will process the personal data for purposes described in Annex B, and has the legal authority to give the warranties and fulfil the undertakings set out in these clauses.
- It will identify to the data exporter a contact point within its organization who is authorized to respond to enquiries concerning processing of the personal data, and will cooperate in good faith with the data exporter, the data subject and the authority concerning all such enquiries within a reasonable time. In case of legal dissolution of the data exporter, or if the parties have so agreed, the data importer will assume responsibility for compliance with the provisions of clause I(e).
- At the request of the data exporter, it will provide the data exporter with evidence of financial resources sufficient to fulfil its responsibilities under clause III (which may include insurance coverage).
- Upon reasonable request of the data exporter, it will submit its data processing facilities, data files and documentation needed for processing to reviewing, auditing and/or certifying by the data exporter (or any independent or impartial inspection agents or auditors, selected by the data exporter and not reasonably objected to by the data importer) to ascertain compliance with the warranties and undertakings in these clauses, with reasonable notice and during regular business hours. The request will be subject to any necessary consent or approval from a regulatory or supervisory authority within the country of the data importer, which consent or approval the data importer will attempt to obtain in a timely fashion.
- (h) It will process the personal data, at its option, in accordance with:
- the data protection laws of the country in which the data exporter is established, or
- the relevant provisions of any Commission decision pursuant to Article 25(6) of Directive 95/46/EC, where the data importer complies with the relevant provisions of such an authorisation or decision and is based in a country to which such an authorisation or decision pertains, but is not covered by such authorisation or decision for the purposes of the transfer(s) of the personal data, or
- the data processing principles set forth in Annex A.
Data importer to indicate which option it selects: Annex A
Initials of data importer: Acknowledged and agreed by the data importer;
- It will not disclose or transfer the personal data to a third party data controller located outside the European Economic Area (EEA) unless it notifies the data exporter about the transfer and
- the third party data controller processes the personal data in accordance with a Commission decision finding that a third country provides adequate protection, or
- the third party data controller becomes a signatory to these clauses or another data transfer agreement approved by a competent authority in the EU, or
- data subjects have been given the opportunity to object, after having been informed of the purposes of the transfer, the categories of recipients and the fact that the countries to which data is exported may have different data protection standards, or
- with regard to onward transfers of sensitive data, data subjects have given their unambiguous consent to the onward transfer
- Each party shall be liable to the other parties for damages it causes by any breach of these clauses. Liability as between the parties is limited to actual damage suffered. Punitive damages (i.e. damages intended to punish a party for its outrageous conduct) are specifically excluded. Each party shall be liable to data subjects for damages it causes by any breach of third party rights under these clauses. This does not affect the liability of the data exporter under its data protection law.
- The parties agree that a data subject shall have the right to enforce as a third party beneficiary this clause and clauses I(b), I(d), I(e), II(a), II(c), II(d), II(e), II(h), II(i), III(a), V, VI(d) and VII against the data importer or the data exporter, for their respective breach of their contractual obligations, with regard to his personal data, and accept jurisdiction for this purpose in the data exporter's country of establishment. In cases involving allegations of breach by the data importer, the data subject must first request the data exporter to take appropriate action to enforce his rights against the data importer; if the data exporter does not take such action within a reasonable period (which under normal circumstances would be one month), the data subject may then enforce his rights against the data importer directly. A data subject is entitled to proceed directly against a data exporter that has failed to use reasonable efforts to determine that the data importer is able to satisfy its legal obligations under these clauses (the data exporter shall have the burden to prove that it took reasonable efforts).
These clauses shall be governed by the law of the country in which the data exporter is established, with the exception of the laws and regulations relating to processing of the personal data by the data importer under clause II(h), which shall apply only if so selected by the data importer under that clause.V. Resolution of disputes with data subjects or the authority
- In the event of a dispute or claim brought by a data subject or the authority concerning the processing of the personal data against either or both of the parties, the parties will inform each other about any such disputes or claims, and will cooperate with a view to settling them amicably in a timely fashion.
- The parties agree to respond to any generally available non-binding mediation procedure initiated by a data subject or by the authority. If they do participate in the proceedings, the parties may elect to do so remotely (such as by telephone or other electronic means). The parties also agree to consider participating in any other arbitration, mediation or other dispute resolution proceedings developed for data protection disputes
- Each party shall abide by a decision of a competent court of the data exporter's country of establishment or of the authority which is final and against which no further appeal is possible.
- In the event that the data importer is in breach of its obligations under these clauses, then the data exporter may temporarily suspend the transfer of personal data to the data importer until the breach is repaired or the contract is terminated.
- In the event that:
- the transfer of personal data to the data importer has been temporarily suspended by the data exporter for longer than one month pursuant to paragraph (a);
- compliance by the data importer with these clauses would put it in breach of its legal or regulatory obligations in the country of import;
- the data importer is in substantial or persistent breach of any warranties or undertakings given by it under these clauses;
- a final decision against which no further appeal is possible of a competent court of the data exporter's country of establishment or of the authority rules that there has been a breach of the clauses by the data importer or the data exporter; or
- a petition is presented for the administration or winding up of the data importer, whether in its personal or business capacity, which petition is not dismissed within the applicable period for such dismissal under applicable law; a winding up order is made; a receiver is appointed over any of its assets; a trustee in bankruptcy is appointed, if the data importer is an individual; a company voluntary arrangement is commenced by it; or any equivalent event in any jurisdiction occurs then the data exporter, without prejudice to any other rights which it may have against the data importer, shall be entitled to terminate these clauses, in which case the authority shall be informed where required. In cases covered by (i), (ii), or (iv) above the data importer may also terminate these clauses.
- Either party may terminate these clauses if (i) any Commission positive adequacy decision under Article 25(6) of Directive 95/46/EC (or any superseding text) is issued in relation to the country (or a sector thereof) to which the data is transferred and processed by the data importer, or (ii) Directive 95/46/EC (or any superseding text) becomes directly applicable in such country.
- The parties agree that the termination of these clauses at any time, in any circumstances and for whatever reason (except for termination under clause VI(c)) does not exempt them from the obligations and/or conditions under the clauses as regards the processing of the personal data transferred.
The parties may not modify these clauses except to update any information in Annex B, in which case they will inform the authority where required. This does not preclude the parties from adding additional commercial clauses where required.VIII. Description of the Transfer
The details of the transfer and of the personal data are specified in Annex B. The parties agree that Annex B may contain confidential business information which they will not disclose to third parties, except as required by law or in response to a competent regulatory or government agency, or as required under clause I(e). The parties may execute additional annexes to cover additional transfers, which will be submitted to the authority where required. Annex B may, in the alternative, be drafted to cover multiple transfers.ANNEX A - DATA PROCESSING PRINCIPLES
- Purpose limitation: Personal data may be processed and subsequently used or further communicated only for purposes described in Annex B or subsequently authorised by the data subject.
- Data quality and proportionality: Personal data must be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date. The personal data must be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purposes for which they are transferred and further processed.
- Transparency: Data subjects must be provided with information necessary to ensure fair processing (such as information about the purposes of processing and about the transfer), unless such information has already been given by the data exporter.
- Security and confidentiality: Technical and organisational security measures must be taken by the data controller that are appropriate to the risks, such as against accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access, presented by the processing. Any person acting under the authority of the data controller, including a processor, must not process the data except on instructions from the data controller.
- Rights of access, rectification, deletion and objection: As provided in Article 12 of Directive 95/46/EC, data subjects must, whether directly or via a third party, be provided with the personal information about them that an organisation holds, except for requests which are manifestly abusive, based on unreasonable intervals or their number or repetitive or systematic nature, or for which access need not be granted under the law of the country of the data exporter. Provided that the authority has given its prior approval, access need also not be granted when doing so would be likely to seriously harm the interests of the data importer or other organisations dealing with the data importer and such interests are not overridden by the interests for fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject. The sources of the personal data need not be identified when this is not possible by reasonable efforts, or where the rights of persons other than the individual would be violated. Data subjects must be able to have the personal information about them rectified, amended, or deleted where it is inaccurate or processed against these principles. If there are compelling grounds to doubt the legitimacy of the request, the organisation may require further justifications before proceeding to rectification, amendment or deletion. Notification of any rectification, amendment or deletion to third parties to whom the data have been disclosed need not be made when this involves a disproportionate effort. A data subject must also be able to object to the processing of the personal data relating to him if there are compelling legitimate grounds relating to his particular situation. The burden of proof for any refusal rests on the data importer, and the data subject may always challenge a refusal before the authority.
- Sensitive data: The data importer shall take such additional measures (e.g. relating to security) as are necessary to protect such sensitive data in accordance with its obligations under clause II.
- Data used for marketing purposes: Where data are processed for the purposes of direct marketing, effective procedures should exist allowing the data subject at any time to "opt-out" from having personal data used for such purposes.
- Automated decisions: For purposes hereof "automated decision" shall mean a decision by the data exporter or the data importer which produces legal effects concerning a data subject or significantly affects a data subject and which is based solely on automated processing of personal data intended to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to him, such as his performance at work, creditworthiness, reliability, conduct, etc. The data importer shall not make any automated decisions concerning data subjects, except when:
- (i) such decisions are made by the data importer in entering into or performing a contract with the data subject, and
- the data subject is given an opportunity to discuss the results of a relevant automated decision with a representative of the parties making such decision or otherwise to make representations to that parties, or
- where otherwise provided by the law of the data exporter.
Data Subjects: The personal data transferred concern the following categories of data subjects:
- Prospects, customers, business partners and vendors of Customer (who are natural persons)
- Employees or contact persons of Customer's prospects, customers, business partners and vendors
- Employees, agents, advisors, freelancers of Customer (who are natural persons)
- Customer's Users authorized by Customer to use the Services
Purposes of the transfer(s): The transfer is made for the following purposes: GoDaddy will Process Personal Data to perform its obligations and exercise its rights under the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
Categories of data: The personal data transferred concern the following categories of data:
- Contact information
- Identification information
- Financial information
- Transactional information
- Other data collected that could directly or indirectly identify you.
Recipients: The personal data transferred may be disclosed only to the following recipients or categories of recipients:
- Financial institutions involved in a transaction
- Suppliers, contractors, and other third parties involved in the operation of GoDaddy's business
Sensitive Data (if appropriate): The personal data transferred concern the following categories of sensitive data: N/A
Contact points for data protection enquiries:
- Data Importer: As set forth in the Section 27 of the Universal Terms of Service Agreement
- Data Exporter: As set forth in the Customer's Account


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Manchester City secured third place in the Premier League and automatic entry into the Champions League with a 2-0 final-day victory at Bolton.
Goals from Joleon Lescott and substitute Edin Dzeko either side of half-time were enough to overcome Bolton at the Reebok Stadium.
It was just the result City were looking for and capped a superb season with the FA Cup now installed in their trophy cabinet.
City were forced to make a late change with Pablo Zabaleta replacing Micah Richards who was apparently injured in the warm-up.
They almost made the breakthrough in the fourth minute when David Silva cut the ball back into the path of Carlos Tevez. The Argentina striker rattled in a shot from close range but it was blocked by Zat Knight.
Bolton responded five minutes later with Vincent Kompany being pulled back for a challenge on Daniel Sturridge. Lee-chung Yong picked out Gary Cahill only for the defender to send the header wide.
The home side kept up the pressure when Kevin Davies saw his effort shave the post after a corner from Lee.
City were again forced on the back foot in the 19th minute when Sturridge released Galatasaray-bound Johan Elmander and he thumped in a shot that was superbly turned over the bar by goalkeeper Joe Hart.
Hart then reacted quickly to turn away a header from Kevin Davies in a good spell of pressure by the home side.
However, City should have taken the lead in the 33rd minute when Dedryck Boyata delivered a superb ball to the back post.
Gareth Barry found himself unmarked but only succeeded in sending his header against the bar.
City suddenly had the momentum and Carlos Tevez saw his shot blocked after a galloping run by Yaya Toure in the 38th minute.
The ball broke to Silva only six yards out but he sent his shot high into the crowd.
The visitors eventually made the breakthrough in the 43rd minute from a set piece. Adam Johnson swung in a corner and Lescott delivered a looping header over goalkeeper Jussi Jaaskelainen and into the net.
Sturridge saw his effort go the wrong side of the post in the 51st minute but back came City.
Toure and Silva linked up only for the Spanish forward to find Jaaskelainen's body with his shot.
Mancini made his first change in the 61st minute with Dzeko replacing Adam Johnson. The Bosnian made an instant impact putting City 2-0 ahead a minute later after Barry played the ball into the area.
Gary Cahill got in a terrible muddle and failed to make a routine clearance, leaving Dzeko to smash the ball home for only his second league goal since arriving from Wolfsburg in January.
City maintained the momentum and Tevez wriggled his way into the area but his shot was blocked.
Elmander was given a round of applause by the home fans when he came off in the 71st minute with Tamir Cohen given a run-out.
Bolton were struggling to get any kind of a foothold in the game and found themselves reduced to 10 men four minutes from time.
Former City striker Sturridge, on loan from Chelsea, was given a straight red card for a challenge on Dzeko.
It completed a miserable day for the home side who slumped to a fifth successive defeat after a bright start to the campaign.


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At SEAS, we take pride in working according to the highest standard. We put a lot of effort into speaker design, using materials and techniques which give the best audible results even if this leads to time consuming and challenging production processes.
Many critical parts are produced in-house; some of them by special purpose machinery designed and built by ourselves.
A by-product of this approach is that we are quite flexible in complying with the changing demands of our customers.
Many customers wish for a special version of a driver. This could be a different impedance. A different color of the diaphragm (for example we offer black aluminium cones). It could be glass fiber voice coil former for a higher mechanical Q (less mechanical damping). We look forward to take care of your request.
Quality is the key word in every aspect of our activity. We closely monitor the quality of the parts and materials which we purchase, and of the parts and operations made in-house. We use sophisticated equipment and highly trained and experienced personnel to check that our finished products meet their specifications.
We also try to act towards our customers and suppliers in a way which contributes to the total quality of SEAS.
All SEAS products are of course manufactured in compliance with the regulations in EU's RoHS directive.


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According to Feldstein the earliest work of Ingels was a bit disappointing – but they knew the talent was there. Once they began the horror line of comics they quickly discovered Ingels was a master of composition specializing in decomposition – NO ONE could draw rotting corpses like good ole Graham, prompting them to nickname him Ghastly. This moniker stuck, and he began signing his art "Ghastly" with issue #10 of The Haunt of Fear in the story "Grave Business."
The Haunt of Fear was Ghastly's signature book – he drew the lead character, The Old Witch, and the feature story in each issue. He also took over the cover duties starting with issue #11. This cover is, to me, one of the creepiest of all the EC covers. There are much more graphic and gory covers, but there is just something disturbing about this old man burying his wife in the dirt cellar of the basement. It's the face of the old lady, perfectly placed as the focal point of the picture, that is so creepy – killed by her own husband, he is standing there with a shovelful of dirt about to toss it over the face of his wife of decades. Morbid, creepy, and effective – pure EC.
Ghastly Graham Ingel's work drips off the page. You can always tell his style immediately – it oozes across the page. It doesn't need any color to emphasize his work – in fact, the black and white reprints of his work actually enhance the impact of the stories. He wasn't afraid to use darks and shadows and spotted the blacks on his page perfectly. The line quality had a painterly feel to it, and it was a natural progression for him to begin cover chores as well as interior art.
Ghastly was raised a devout Catholic, and apparently struggled internally with his work in horror comics. He began drinking heavily. According to the Digby Diehl book "Tales from the Crypt" (a fantastic resource, by the way), Ingels began having trouble meeting deadlines because of his drinking, so Gaines and Feldstein gave him early deadlines to ensure he'd have his work in on time.
After EC stopped publication Ghastly found himself out of work. Like many folks who are so successful they become associated with their line of work, Ingels became associated with horror comics and it was difficult for him to find work in other fields. He eventually stopped drinking and moved to Florida, where he took up teaching art to students in the area. He focused on teaching art and had nothing to do with EC comics, turning his back on that part of his life completely. Feldstein even had to track him down and force him to accept royalty payments for his previous work.
Graham died on April 4, 1991. Shortly before he passed away he made peace with his past and did a series of commissioned paintings of his old pal, the old witch. Ghastly was one of the most influential artists of the entire EC stable - his style just screamed horror. Take a look at any Bernie Wrightson work and you can definitely see Ghastly's dripping influence.
Here's to you, Ghastly - you were the best.


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One billion people use Facebook around the world. Its reach is undisputed and unparalleled, but its impact on one specific community has opened up doors to a new world – for the deaf.
Christina Teani, 34, of South San Francisco is a teacher for special needs students. She understands putting in that extra bit of effort because she was born with what she calls "an invisible disability" - unable to hear without wearing a hearing aid.
"You can often feel like that sometimes you are not good enough, you don't feel like you're part of a group," Teani explained. "Human relationships are all about intimacy, getting to know people, feeling like you belong in a group and if you're not able to connect, you emotionally feel left out."
But her life has changed, much like it has for her deaf friend, Sarah McBride of Palo Alto.
"With Facebook, I'm able to communicate with my friends through chat," she said.
These women say the social media site has opened up a whole new world to them, offering up not only quick chats with friends, but the ability to share memories through pictures and videos – especially satisfying for them because it's one of the first times they've been able to communicate the same way the hearing community does.
So when the opportunity came up to visit the company that made it happen, they didn't hesitate. Together with friends, they took tour of Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park to celebrate the changes they've experienced in their lives.
"That's what I like about Facebook," Teani said. "We're all on the same playing field we haven't had before."
Kathy Sussman, a teacher to deaf children for more than four decades, said watching her kids struggle with a disconnect to the outside world was frustrating – aggravating, even.
"Because these kids are smart, they have every opportunity, but there was that piece that created a barrier for them. Now those barriers are coming down," she said.
One of those barriers was the difficulty of expressing even the most basic of emotions.
"Nervous or sad or something. TTY doesn't show any of the emotional. Now on Facebook, I can put a happy face or a sad face, or a heart shape."
TTY or tele-typewriter was the device deaf people relied on for decades to communicate with one another. It would flash lights instead of ring. The device features a keyboard with up to 30 characters, display screen and a modem. The user types in the letters which turn into electrical signals; at the other end, those signals turn back into letters that pop up on a display screen, sometimes printing out the message on paper. These women said the process made it difficult to connect deeply with others.
"I find that I am learning things about people that I've gone to school with all my life, that I had no idea about," Teani said.
Many expressed one thing: for them, being deaf is not and was never a handicap, just a different life with a different perspective.
Teani and McBride agree that Facebook has helped marry two worlds they once felt was distant.
It's enabled a big change witnessed by McBride's 13-year-old daughter, Samantha.
"She's deaf so she got isolated and it was hard for everyone to communicate with her," the teen said about her mother. "I've seen her happier because she's made more friends."


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Letter to President Roosevelt Regarding Old-Age Pensions
After President Roosevelt came into office millions of hopeful Americans wrote letters to President, offering advise and requesting help. Appeals for old-age pensions were especially frequent, and often quite poignant. This is a fairly typical example of the letters sent to the White House during the Depression. It is a letter sent by Mrs. M. A. Zoller on behalf of her aged mother. In the letter she informs the President that her mother will be 82 in August and has no means of support, and she appeals for the President's help. Attached to the letter was an "adlet" from the 1932 election agitating for old-age pensions and implying that the election of President Roosevelt would help the cause of such pensions. Mrs. Zoller is attaching the flyer as a reminder to the President of his "promise" to the electorate. The use of these types of petitions was very common during this period, as many of the organizations promoting old-age pensions regularly printed such material and encouraged their supporters to send it to members of Congress and to officials of the Administration.
Letters to the President from the general public would be routinely referred to the Cabinet agency with jurisdiction of the subject matter. This letter was stamped by one of the President's Secretaries, who wrote in pencil "Labor" on the top and send it to the Department of Labor. The letter was received at Labor at 2 p.m. on July 19, 1933. The brief response from the Office of the Secretary, sent the following day, read:
July 20, 1933
Mrs. M.A. Zoller, Sr.,
Your petition, addressed to the President, on Old Age Pensions, and your letter, have been referred to me. We are in favor of Old Age Pensions and are glad to have your letter.
Very Truly Yours
The front of this 3 x 5.5" clipping promotes the cause of "Old Age Dependent Pensions."
The design of this clipping was to be used as a form to lobby politicians. Mrs. Zoller provided
the petition on behalf of her mother and, to make the point clear, wrote in that "She will be 82--
August 9, 1933--Is a widow--no Income. Needs help now."


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Update: The city passed the resolution Wednesday with a vote of 5-1. David Ward voted against. Steve Bonkowski was absent.
The City Council will decide Wednesday whether to add its voice to the national conversation on gun control.
The council is set to consider a resolution advocating the reinstatement of a federal ban on assault weapons, a federal ban of high-capacity ammunition clips, and state and federal legislation requiring criminal background checks for all gun sales. You can read the full resolution here.
If approved, the resolution will be sent to the island's state and congressional representatives. It would not change any regulations within the city.
Councilwoman Kirsten Hytopoulos introduced the resolution after hearing from islanders about a need to take action on gun violence issues in the wake of the Newtown, Conn. school shooting. A number of cities have passed similar resolutions, she said.
"I feel pretty confident in the values of the community and what I've heard," Hytopoulos said at a Jan. 9 council meeting. "I feel pretty comfortable bringing this forward, I think it's not considered controversial by most in this community."
The council will also consider a resolution supporting a countywide tax to pay for mental health and chemical dependency treatment programs, and a resolution endorsing a letter by regional mayors advocating increased transportation funding at the state level.
The council will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at City Hall.
Bainbridge Sportsmen's Club President Alan Kasper distributed an open letter to the council detailing his stance on the issue. You can read Kasper's letter here (PDF), and feel free to offer your own thoughts in the comment section.
Photo: Sharla Musabih of North Kitsap holds a candle at a prayer vigil organized at Battle Point Park Dec. 15, in the wake of the Newtown, Conn. shooting. (Tad Sooter photo)