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Airbnb Fights City Hall Over San Francisco Registration Rule
July 8, 2016
Airbnb recently filed suit against San Francisco over a new rule governing short-term rentals, which the city's Board of Supervisors approved last month. An Airbnb-supported law adopted earlier this year requires short-term rental hosts to register with the city, but it's estimated that only about 20 percent of them have done so. The new rule requires services like Airbnb to enforce the law.
Yahoo to Have Giant Patent Garage Sale
June 9, 2016
Yahoo reportedly has notified potential buyers that it plans to auction off about 3,000 patents and will be accepting bids until mid-June. The intellectual property for sale includes patents for its original search technology. The patents "cover strategic areas such as search, e-commerce and online advertising," said Andreas Scherer, managing partner at Salto Partners.
Supreme Court Snubs Google's AdWords Appeal
June 7, 2016
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear Google's appeal of a lower court ruling in a suit alleging the company used deceptive practices in the sale and placement of advertising through its AdWords program between 2004 and 2008. Google, a unit of Alphabet, sought to overturn the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals September 2015 ruling that the lawsuit could go forward as a class action case.
Facebook AI Digs Deep Into User Content
June 3, 2016
Facebook on Wednesday introduced DeepText, an artificial intelligence-fueled text analytics engine. "Text is a prevalent form of communication on Facebook," wrote Facebook software engineers Ahmad Abdulkader, Aparna Lakshmiratan and Joy Zhang in a post describing its capabilities. "Understanding the various ways text is used on Facebook can help us improve people's experiences with our products."
Report: Smartphone Ad Blockers Picking Up Steam
June 1, 2016
At least 419 million people around the world are blocking advertising on their smartphones, according to a report PageFair released Tuesday. Most of those people -- 408 million of them -- are using ad-blocking browsers, notes the report. The use of ad blockers doubled in 2015, and the use of mobile ad-blocking browsers increased 90 percent during the same year.
Yahoo Bids Could Seriously Underwhelm
May 24, 2016
Bids for Yahoo's core assets were expected to come in at between $2 billion and $3 billion, far below prior estimates that it could fetch $4 billion to $8 billion at auction, according to a news report published last week. Verizon, which remains the leading candidate for Yahoo's assets, and other contenders met with CEO Marissa Mayer at the company's Sunnyvale, California, headquarters
Tweets May Soon Breeze Past 140-Character Limit
May 19, 2016
In an effort to better monetize its platform and boost user traffic, Twitter may relax the 140-character limit on individual tweets by no longer counting photos and Web links. The tweak could take place within two weeks, according to a report that cited an unnamed source who asked for anonymity because the decision had not yet been made public. CEO Jack Dorsey hinted at the move earlier this year.
Google Boots Ads for Predatory Payday Lenders
May 12, 2016
Google on Wednesday announced that it would ban advertising for payday loans in its ad systems. Starting July 13, the company will prohibit ads for payday loans and related products where funds are due within 60 days of the date of issue, as well as ads for loans with an APR of 36 percent, said David Graff, Google's director of global product policy.
Reddit Tech Forum May Ban Sites That Circumvent Ad Blockers
May 11, 2016
A forum on Reddit, /r/ Technology, on Monday announced it was considering blocking links to websites that require visitors to turn off their ad blockers before viewing content on the site. "It has come to our attention that many websites such as Forbes and Wired are now requiring users to disable ad blockers to view content," said creq, the moderator of the site. "We see this as a security risk."
Adblock Plus to Websites: 'We've Got Your Back'
May 6, 2016
Adblock Plus, which has been in the forefront of online ad blocking, this week announced the beta of Flattr Plus, which promises no less than to revolutionize Web monetization. Users decide how much money they want to have distributed among their favorite sites, and the Flattr Plus algorithm automatically divvies up the proceeds among the sites they engage with the most.
Hulu May Offer a Live TV Broadcast Option
May 2, 2016
Hulu reportedly is in talks to launch a cable TV-like service early next year. Hulu, which is a joint venture of Walt Disney, 21st Century Fox and Comcast's NBCUniversal, is said to be negotiating with Disney and Fox to deliver live broadcast and paid channels, including ABC, ESPN, Disney, Fox, Fox News, FX and Fox Sports. Other programmers and content providers apparently have discussed potential partnerships with Hulu.
Microsoft Curbs Cortana in Windows 10
April 30, 2016
Microsoft has decided to restrict its Cortana digital assistant to operating with the Edge browser and Bing search engine in Windows 10. "As Windows 10 has grown in adoption and usage, we have seen some software programs circumvent [its] design and redirect you to search providers that were not designed to work with Cortana," said Ryan Gavin, Microsoft's general manager of search and Cortana.
BlockIQ Escalates War on Ad Blockers
April 28, 2016
As consumers turn to ad blockers to avoid advertising on their mobile and computer screens, marketers and content providers who depend on pitches to pay the bills are searching frantically for ways to counter the pesky programs. BlockIQ offers them one. BlockIQ, owned by AdSupply, which recently merged with Adaptive Medias, has launched BlockBypass.
Google Fattens Up Entertainment Programming Search Results
April 21, 2016
Google will begin listing live air times for TV shows in its search results, Danial Alegre, president of global partnerships announced Wednesday at the National Association of Broadcasters trade show in Las Vegas. This new feature will allow users to search for movies and TV shows. Results will show availability on broadcast and cable TV channels, as well as streaming and online rentals.
Publishers vs. Brave Software: Battle for the Ad Viewer
April 14, 2016
Brave Software is a startup that has ratcheted the ad-blocking game to a new level, and it is raising a lot of stink in the online community. For many people, Web-based ads have become an intolerable, costly distraction. That has led to a variety of ad-blocking approaches. The use of ad-blocking software is growing, because users feel they are being attacked by distracting Web-based ads.
Facebook Entices VR Content Creators With Open Source Surround Cam
April 13, 2016
Facebook on Tuesday unveiled a high-quality 360-degree 3D camera suitable for creating virtual reality content. The Facebook Surround 360 system, which made its debut at the F8 developers conference, includes a production-ready camera -- which costs about $30,000 to build and looks like a flying saucer from a science fiction movie -- and software for controlling the camera and for stitching and rendering what the camera captures.
Marketers Poised to Run the Customer Experience Show, Survey Says
April 12, 2016
Marketing will shape the customer experience by 2020, based on a recent Marketo study of nearly 500 chief marketing officers and senior marketing executives worldwide. The Economist Intelligence Unit conducted the research on behalf of Marketo. Eighty-percent of the respondents believed their departments would exercise significant influence over business strategy by 2020.
Publishers Put Brave Ad-Blocking Browser on Notice
April 11, 2016
A group of newspaper publishers last week sent what amounted to a cease-and-desist letter to Brave Software, which offers the HTTPS Brave browser with built-in ad blocking and tracking protection. Brave has offered to let publishers make money off blocked ads by partnering with them "for a lower fee than they pay their third-party data-tracking partners," CEO Brendan Eich said.
Blendle Bets Readers Will Micropay for Good Journalism
March 25, 2016
Blendle, a Netherlands-based news aggregation site that draws comparisons to Spotify, on Wednesday announced its beta launch in the U.S. Blendle made its debut with the participation of several major new organizations and financial backing from Axel Springer and The New York Times. The 5-year-old company, which recently expanded into Germany, has opened the beta phase to 10,000 users.
Google Reports Web Traffic Encryption Progress
March 18, 2016
Google this week launched a section of its transparency report to track the progress of efforts to encrypt the Web, by both the company and third-party sites estimated to account for about 25 percent of Web traffic. The report will be updated weekly with information about progress the company has made toward implementing HTTPS by default across its services.
Instagram's New Algorithm Promises Most Favorable Sorting
March 17, 2016
Instagram on Tuesday announced plans to dump chronological posts in favor of algorithmic recommendations. Users miss about 70 percent of the content that flows through their feeds, which the company attributed to its growth and its system for ordering content. The new algorithm, which will begin rolling out in the coming months, will weigh the content by relevancy to the user.
Opera Desktop Browser Comes With Ad Blocking Baked In
March 11, 2016
Opera on Thursday announced that new version of its desktop browser will have ad blocking built in. Users can block ads in other browsers, but only through add-on programs called "extensions." With ad blocking built in, Opera's Web engine can perform the task better than extensions. "People care about speed in a Web browser," said Krystian Kolondra, SVP for global engineering at Opera.
Malvertisers Use Digital Fingerprints to Avoid Detection
March 4, 2016
In the world of computer security, fingerprints are found in more places than where the tips of hands touch. That's because the term is applied to any data set that can be used to make a unique identification. Antifraud programs online retailers use can identify customers by the structure of the files on their computers. In fact, the technique works so well, malicious actors use it.
German Authorities to Examine Facebook's Data Practices
March 3, 2016
The German Cartel Office on Wednesday announced the launch of an investigation into Facebook over allegations that it abused its market position by infringing data protection rules, specifically in connection with the terms of service on the use of user data. The office, or Bundeskartellamt, is looking into whether Facebook's terms of service violate data protection provisions.
The Flip Side of the Shiny Internet Coin
March 3, 2016
There are two sides to every coin -- a good side and a bad side. One side helps you and the other side hurts you. The Internet is a great example: The good side lets you learn anything, about anything, anytime, any place. The bad side targets you with scams. They are running rampant, and there is not a damn thing we can do about it. How can this be, you may ask? Isn't this illegal?
Google Killed the Laptop Star
February 29, 2016
Anyone who went to business school recognizes the basic tenet that you use marketing to build demand in order to sell products. Through the 1990s, there was impressive marketing surrounding laptops. Apple aggressively marketed this class, as did Microsoft, and it seemed every other brand on TV was trying to convince us we needed a new PC. PC marketing dropped off a cliff in the last decade.
Facebook Gives Marketers a Blank Canvas
February 27, 2016
Facebook on Thursday yanked the drapery off its Canvas, inviting marketers to splash it with their best promotions. The new platform will provide brands with a new medium for storytelling, and it will return ad pages up to 10 times faster than mobile Web pages do, the company proclaimed. It's a big screen ad experience for the small screen, compatible with both Android and iOS devices.
Facebook Gives Us More Ways to Push Each Other's Buttons
February 24, 2016
Facebook on Wednesday rolled out a new set of options for its 1.5 billion monthly users to use when responding to posts in their News Feeds. The six "Reactions," as Facebook has termed them, allow users to make more nuanced responses to posts rather than simply clicking on Like. The additional options are Love, Haha, Wow, Sad and Angry.
Time Scoops Up MySpace With Viant Buy
February 13, 2016
Time on Thursday announced an agreement to acquire the assets of Viant Technology. The deal will let Time combine its premium content, subscriber data and ad inventory with Viant's first-party data and targeting technology. "We're going to be able to deliver both data-driven capabilities and premier content in a single platform," Time spokesperson Jill Davison said.
New SourceForge Owners Start Trust Repair
February 11, 2016
SourceForge on Tuesday announced that it has pulled the plug on its DevShare program amid growing rebellion from software developers and a change of ownership. SourceForge Media announced the termination notice with a promise of other policy changes coming soon. DevShare was an opt-in revenue-sharing program for developers that was started in 2013.


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Antimicrobial protein protects grapevines from pathogen
Engineered grapevines produce a hybrid antimicrobial protein to block infection
Your evening glass of wine will still be available—despite the potential attack of a bacterium that causes Pierce's Disease and poses a significant threat to the California wine industry's valuable grapevines—thanks to LANL research.
Goutam Gupta, from the Lab's Bioscience Division and the Center for Bio-security Science, along with researchers at the University of California at Davis (UCD), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, have created specially engineered grapevines that produce a hybrid antimicrobial protein that can block Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) infection.
Vineyards may rely less on chemicals to fend off bacterium
By helping the vine fight the microbe with specific proteins, the scientists envision vineyards requiring less reliance on chemicals as growers seek to fend off the bacterium and the glassy-winged sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis) insect that carries it and transmits widely to the grapevines.
The key to the project's success is the fact that early in an X fastidiosa infection, a specific protein on the outer membrane of the microbe interacts with cells of the grapevine. By interfering with that interaction between microbe and vine, scientists can help the vines show resistance against the disease and go on to produce healthy grapes.
"One thing got us started: with almost any pathogen, the major problem is drug resistance," said Goutam Gupta, the corresponding author of the PNAS paper. "We wanted the plant to clear itself of the pathogen without relying on drugs before it is infected, much as the body's immune system naturally recognizes a pathogen and takes action to defeat it."
Finding the hybrid gene
It's been a long process, Gupta said, involving five years of work, with the initial protein's creation happening two years in, thanks to the efforts of former LANL postdoctoral researcher Meghan Norvell.
Then Anu Choudhary stepped in and partnered with UC Davis to do more testing, and now Paige Pardington "has taken things to a new level," said Gupta, finding where the hybrid anti-Xf gene is expressed in the plant and at what level. "This enables us to evaluate how well the hybrid anti-Xf strategy worked," he said.
Identifying pre-symptomatic plants
In a separate effort, Paige Pardington has also developed research tools for identifying pre-symptomatic plants, i.e., the plants infected by Xf but are yet to show disease symptoms.
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The team inserted the hybrid gene into grapevines and observed the plants' response to Xf infection. "The hybrid protein apparently creates pores in the membrane of the Gram-negative bacterium, Xf," said Gupta, thus allowing the plant to fight back the infection. Sap from the engineered plants successfully killed Xf in laboratory tests, and the whole plant did not exhibit symptoms of Pierce's disease after exposure to the Xf bacterium.
Antimicrobial gene could protect other plants
The antimicrobial gene may also protect other economically important plants from Xf-related diseases, and a similar strategy may be effective against a broad range of pathogen-induced plant and human diseases, Gupta said. X. fastidiosa is implicated in
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A group of anti-war groups has been given the right to sue the federal government over infiltration and spying by the military (not the FBI). The 9th Circuit Court of appeals ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, giving them standing to sue over a range of First and Fourteenth Amendment violations.
According to the National Lawyers Guild, this is an unprecedented ruling, which makes me wonder if it will hold up on appeal.
A federal appeals court involving antiwar activists who were secretly infiltrated by US military spies has ruled in favor of the activists, marking the first time a court has endorsed the people's ability to sue the military for violating their First and Fourth Amendment rights.
"Declassified documents obtained by Students for a Democratic Society and Port Militarization Resistance,"reports Democracy Now, "revealed a man everyone knew as 'John Jacob' was in fact John Towery," who was assigned by the government to spy on the Washington state-based antiwar groups.
Towery was dispatched from a "fusion center," or intelligence center, as part of the Department of Homeland Security's post-9/11 anti-terrorism surveillance powers.
In October, the Senate Homeland Security subcommittee reviewed more than 600 reports that had come out of these so-called fusion centers and found the giant bureaucracy surrounding the program produced almost nothing that had to do with countering terrorist threats.
In a potentially precedent-setting decision, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a Guild lawyer's challenge to military spying on peace activists can proceed. The ruling marks the first time a court has affirmed people's ability to sue the military for violating their First and Fourth Amendment rights.
"This has never been done before," said NLG member attorney Larry Hildes, who is handling the case. "The U.S. government has spied on political dissidents throughout history and this particular plot lasted through two presidencies, but never before has a court said that we can challenge it the way we have."
Given the current Supreme Court's zeal for dismissing cases based on standing, I have to wonder if this will survive an appeal. Chief Justice John Roberts has a real fetish for limiting who can and cannot sue the government, so I won't be at all surprised if the court were to overturn this ruling and dismiss the case.


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Our economy has been going through cycles – up & down – since the depression in the 1920's. Cycles start and cycles end – we are trained to expect things to 'return to normal' at some point. 'NORMAL' was back to growth and abundance – with some adjustment, it was business as usual.
We will not return to rapid growth and abundance this time within the span of a cycle or two. We ARE back to normal, but it is a new normal. What you see in the economy today is the new normal. It is more modest with less return and growth than we have enjoyed in the past. So, it is time to quit holding our breath - waiting, and get back to business at this level and pace.
We may have been distracted by the economic implosion and missed the structural change that has taken place. Seth Godin calls it "the forever recession" which is the end of the industrial age and local markets. Now it's best mix of price-quality-value for goods & services and the extensive access to information and communications for finding them.
The reality of all of this shows up in a recent conversation with a guy launching a start-up – his planning uses what is today for scale and scope and being flexible for opportunities as developed.
Good point of view for all of us, don't you think?
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The simple tag on a collar is the best chance for a dog to get home again. Failing that, it helps to have good neighbors.
Recently while out walking with our Skip, we noticed a little dog trotting off leash behind a young man who was talking on his cell phone. My first instinct was to silently scold him for talking on his phone instead of attending to his dog. No dog should be trusted off leash unless her human companion is totally attentive; even then, I don't recommend letting a dog run off-leash in town.
Then the dog suddenly darted across the street toward us. I yelled, "Hey, call you dog!" The young man shrugged, "That's not my dog. She started following me a while ago." He described the place where he first encountered her. It was more than a half mile away.
What should we do? I briefly panic, even though (as a volunteer for the local Humane Society) I know what to do. Our website (adairhumane.org) even has a list of tips for people who have found or lost dogs. It's Sunday, when the shelter is closed, which complicates things a little. But there are a few steps we can take before we need to think about the shelter anyway.
First, we check for ID. The little dog had a collar (yay!) but it had no tags on it (boo!). That's unfortunate. Even if she only had a Kirksville city tag, the police (animal control) could have easily traced the number back to her people. By the way, that Kirksville city tag is required by law for dogs living within the city limits and is FREE with proof of rabies vaccination from the Kirksville police station. (While the tag is free, the fine for an animal who is picked up by Animal Control without a tag is steep. Get tags for your animals!)
Our little lost friend has no city tag and no other ID on her collar. So what's the next step? Luckily she is small and very friendly, so I pick her up and start walking. We are only two blocks from our house. Once we get there, I grab a leash, attach it to her collar, and walk several more blocks toward the neighborhood where the little dog apparently started her journey.
I walk our dogs in this neighborhood fairly often, but still this pooch is not familiar to me. I have no idea where she lives and neither does she. So I start looking for people to talk to. It's a warm spring morning, but we don't meet too many other pedestrians. I see a family getting out of a van and ask them if they know the dog. They are just visitors to the neighborhood, though, and they don't know her. A teenager comments that the dog is cute and he would keep her -- an innocent little remark, but I see this all the time on the Kirksville Swap Meet (Facebook group) and it bugs me: people find dogs and then offer them free to a good home. I always think (and sometimes type), "Let's not rush things, people! This dog is lost! She is not yours to give away!"
So we are still walking and looking for people. Then I spot a man out in his yard with his daughter. We head straight for them. The lost dog seems excited. "Do you know this dog?" I ask. The man looks toward his daughter. "It could be Nancy*. What do you think? She looks a little like her, but we haven't seen her in a few months, since she was a little puppy." [*Name has been changed to protect the innocent.]
I kneel on the ground in front of the dog and try out the name. She seems to respond to it, but then again she is a very friendly puppy. The man offers to call his neighbor and find out if she is missing her dog. Perfect! But she doesn't answer her cell phone. He tells me where she lives and works, and we are off again with a new plan: we'll see if anyone is home, and if not I will take little Nancy to my house and call the owner at work.
Here's your happy ending: we call the man's neighbor and get a description of the dog she left in her yard that morning. It sounds like a match. She comes over to collect her little friend ten minutes later. She is extremely grateful that we tracked her down. We are relieved to have the problem solved. This all happened a few weeks ago. We just walked by her house the other day and saw little Nancy in her yard. I'm glad to know that she is home where she belongs.
But what if this had been a false lead? Then what? Our next move would have been to hang FOUND posters with the dog's basic info on telephone poles in the neighborhood. We also would have posted a description of the dog on Kirksville Lost Pets (Facebook group). We would have kept the little one in our kitchen overnight. We would have called the shelter first thing on Monday morning to file a Found Pet report and let them know that we might need to drop her off later, if no one responded to our posts or posters. Anyone responding to the posts or posters would have been asked to provide details about the animal so that we could be sure that she really belonged to them.
All of this trouble could have been avoided had the dog's owner just attached a simple tag to her collar.
My dogs carry three forms of ID: their Kirksville city tag (because it's the law), another tag that features the dog's name, our name, and our home and cell phone numbers, and finally a microchip. The microchip is the back-up ID, in case the dog slips out of his collar, but it's not a perfect form of ID, since most people can't read it. (You need a special device.) A found dog has to be taken to a veterinary clinic or the animal shelter to find out if she even has a microchip. And even then it's not fool-proof since people routinely move and forget to update their microchip registry.
The simple tag on a collar is the best chance for a dog to get home again. Failing that, it helps to have good neighbors.


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Dawn E. Baker, 49, of 106 Abbot Rd., St. Marys, died Wednesday, March 4, 2012 at her residence following an illness of the past several months. She was born July 29, 1962 in Ridgway, daughter of the late Robert and Marion Stewert Hoffman.She was a lifelong resident of the area and a graduate of Johnsonburg High School, Class of 1980. She was employed at MPP in St. Marys.She is survived by fiance Melvin Shelander of St. Marys; two daughters, Brandi (Francis) Elmquist of Weedville and Heather Cathers of Ridgway; one son, Robert (Tara) Cathers IV of Bradford; two stepsons, Melvin and Aric Shelander, both of St. Marys; three grandchildren, Jayden, Jaxen, and Jamryn Elmquist; one sister, June (Brock) King of Texas; and two brothers, Paul Elmquist of Florida and Bobby Elmquist of Arizona. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by a brother, Jimmy Elmquist; and a sister, Paula Lowry.Funeral and committal services for Dawn E. Baker will be private and held at the convenience of the family. Burial will be in Parklawn Memorial Gardens in Ridgway.There will be no visitation.The Lynch-Radkowski Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.Online condolences may be offered at www.lynch-radkowski.com.


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Soccer Does a Woman's Heart Good
Playing Three Times a Week significantly improved several cardiovascular risk factors and endurance
The World Cup has sparked a love affair with soccer for many American viewers. Playing the game recreationally can be good for the heart, especially in women, a new study found.
Researchers at the University of Exeter in the U.K. asked a group of otherwise sedentary women with mild to moderate high blood pressure to play soccer three times a week. The activity significantly improved several cardiovascular risk factors and endurance in the women, according to the study, published in the August issue of the Scandinavian Journal...


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Hi Marisa and Jordan,
I saw on the forum that are members of all different country's
Is it possibly that under the picture and the name, you also can see in which country you live?
It is just a idea..... But I really like that all different country come here together.
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For anyone but the Broncos?
If mania is what you want, get Justin Bieber to play QB.
If physical specimen is what you want, let your tight end play QB....I'd put Heath up against him in a heart beat.
If magic is what you want, get a magician to play QB.
If Arians comes up with a smart game plan, the Steelers could end Tebow mania forever!


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) recently announced the 2009-10 NEWMAC Winter Academic All-Conference Team. Twenty-five MIT athletes were recognized by the conference for their performance in the classroom.
Honorees must have met the following criteria: earned a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5/4.0 scale or 4.35/5.0 scale after the 2009 fall semester, achieved a second year academic status at his or her institution, and been a member of a varsity team for the entire season.
Winter sports sponsored by the NEWMAC include men's and women's basketball and men's and women's swimming & diving.
The NEWMAC consists of 10 highly selective institutions committed to academic excellence: Babson College, Clark University, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, Springfield College, Wellesley College, Wheaton College, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
MIT secured the highest number of honorees, followed by Springfield College and WPI with 14 each. The following is a list of MIT's representatives on the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference Team:
Men's Basketball
Billy Bender
Jamie Karraker
Arni Lehto
Patrick Sissman
Women's Basketball
Elizabeth Burton
Marissa Good
Sally Simpson
Kristen Whaley
Men's Swimming and Diving
Brett Boval
Michael Dobson
Alex Lue
David Parell
Eric Roselli
Toomas Sepp
Ryan TerBush
Jeff Zhou
Women's Swimming and Diving
Lauren Cipicchio
Carrie De Boer
Jennifer de Bruijn
Katie Everett
Sydney Giblin
Lauren Hernley
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A "jealous and domineering" man threw his fiancee off a high-rise balcony in Sydney in a fit of rage over her plans to leave him, a court has heard.
Simon Gittany, 39, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Lisa Harnum by pushing her off the balcony of their apartment in Sydney's CBD on July 30, 2011.
He appeared in Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday for a hearing to decide whether there is enough evidence to commit him to stand trial.
Prosecution lawyer Daniel Noll told the court that Gittany's "controlling, jealous and domineering" behaviour towards Ms Harnum escalated in the period leading up to her death.
He said Gittany was angered by Ms Harnum's plans to leave him.
Security camera footage had shown him violently dragging her back into their 15th-floor apartment before he had picked her up, taken her to the balcony and dropped her to her death, Mr Noll said.
Supporting the crown's case had been evidence from a witness crossing Hyde Park who had seen a person throwing what he thought was luggage from the balcony.
Evidence from Ms Harnum's mother and friends would expose the fraught nature of the couple's relationship, Mr Noll said.
Text messages between the pair would show the controlling attitude of Gittany, who also used security cameras to monitor Ms Harnum, he told the court.
Gittany's lawyer, Tony Bellanto QC, said the relationship was a "hot and cold" one but there was no evidence Ms Harnum feared violence at the hands of Gittany.
"One cannot exclude the fact that she was at an emotional low ebb," he said, noting she had the eating disorder bulimia nervosa and had been "devastated" when Gittany had recently kicked her out.
Mr Bellanto told the court that the night before Ms Harnum's death the couple had agreed it was best to break up and for her to go home to Canada.
He said the next day his client had seen her packing her bags and suggested they didn't break up, which sparked an argument.
Mr Bellanto said Gittany stopped Ms Harnum at the door and they both began shouting and that he suddenly saw her running past him towards the balcony and step over the railing.
He said his client's evidence was that "I was grabbing at her ... then she was gone".
Mr Bellanto said the Hyde Park witness's account was consistent with the defence case that Gittany had tried to stop his fiancee from falling.
He also said the male scream the witness heard was an anguished Gittany, not that of a murderer who would not bring attention to himself.
"The screams were a natural response to losing his partner in that way," Mr Bellanto said.
In a text message from Gittany to Ms Harnum's mother he wrote there was nothing he could do to save her and they "loved each other immensely".
"My life has also ended as she was my life," he wrote.
Magistrate Clare Farnan is expected to rule on Friday whether to commit the case to trial.


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Ridgway wrestling won 37-23 over Oswayo Valley Tuesday night at Ridgway Area High School. Only six matches were wrestled on the mat with each team winning three bouts. Ridgway won four matches via forfeit while Oswayo Valley only won one match via forfeit which would be a difference in the Elkers winning the dual. T.J. Schlimm opened the dual by winning by forfeit at 145 pounds for a 6-0 Ridgway lead. Zac McKnight would double Ridgway's lead with a pinfall victory over Daniel Mehl in the 152-pound bout at 2:40. McKnight had a takedown in the first period to take a 2-0 before adding three more points in the second period for a 5-0 edge before securing the pin to give Ridgway a 12-0 lead. Oswayo Valley scored their first points of the dual by winning a technical fall at 160 pounds over Mike Popson of Ridgway. Colebert was dominant throughout the bout, scoring a takedown 20 seconds in and then setting two sets of three back points to take an 8-0 lead after the first period. Colebert led 14-0 after the second period and then added another three points in the third period to take a 17-0 technical fall in 4:45. This put the Green Wave within seven at 12-5. Dalton Sheasley would respond for the Elkers with a 12-1 major decision over Kyle Wilcox of Oswayo Valley. Sheasley took down Wilcox midway through the first period and then added a set of three back points for a 5-0 lead entering the second period. Wilcox opened the second period in the down position and was able to keep the period scoreless entering the third period. Sheasley opened the period down and scored a reversal and three back points for a 10-0 lead before Wilcox earned an escape. Sheasley added another takedown for good measure to take the major decision victory.


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"Thank you fans and friends & odds and ends. And now for you gals and guys, a few words to the wise. You Jims and Sals are my best pals. And to look your best for the big contest, just be yourselves and have a ball. That's what it's all about after all. So forget about the camera and think about the beat. We'll give the folks at home a real big treat. Don't worry about where the camera is, just keep on dancin', that's your biz." ~Vince Fontaine (Grease)
Welcome to another exciting episode of T-SQL Tuesday. I'm Robert Davis, and I'll be your guest host for this month – July in case you're not keeping track of such trivialities. We have a very special program planned for you this month. We present to you a T-SQL Tuesday #008: Getting' Schooled. This month's topic will be all about learning and teaching.
We return to our days of youth to take a fresh look at learning. How do you learn? How do you teach? What are you learning or teaching? Or the coup de grace post would be learning something new and telling us about it.
To participate your post must go live between 00:00:00 GMT on Tuesday the 13th of July and 00:00:00 GMT on Wednesday the 14th.
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Miguel Deciderio Eslava was born on May 6, 1797 and died on January 3rd, 1881. He was a partner at "Murrell and Company," the agents for most Confederate Blockade Runners which entered and left Mobile, Ala. during the Civil War.
He married Louise Malvina Delphine De Lanzos (born 1803, died 1870, buried at Church Street Cemetery). She was a native of New Orleans and daughter of Captain Manuel De Lanzos and Gertrudis Guerrero, one of the former Spanish Commanders of Mobile, during the Colonial Period.
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DANBURY -- Lululemon Athletica, a national clothing retailer with a unique culture, is one of several new retailers expected to open in coming months at the Danbury Fair mall.
Officials with Lululemon said they hope to open the store next month.
Carla Gable, a community connector with the retailer, said the company had opened a showroom with a limited selection of apparel on Mill Plain Road last summer to test the market prior to opening a full location.
"We open showrooms to become part of the community and to share our culture, work with local athletes and provide a retail location that is unique to the area," Gable said. "We are open only part of the week so that we can be out in the community meeting our neighbors and participating in local yoga and fitness classes."
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Hello , I have a question , How much does it hurt the value of a car not the original color? The color is supposed to be Daytona Yellow.. What is everyone using for body and A-arm bushings? Poly or Rubber? Also are the original fuel and brake lines being used ? Clean and clear them or just replace with all stainless lines? I want to get started on this project .I would like to get the bushings and or lines before tear down... My car is a VanNuys built Z/28 Born with Engine,Trans and Rearend BV code ... Standard interior, console, gauges, AM-FM Blue dot Thanks Rob
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I wouldn't do stainless lines ever. What problem are you trying to fix with the stainless?
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A state certified or registered contractor's license is required for the following jobs:
Florida Statute requires:
"When property owners act as their own contractor, they must supervise the work being performed. Any person working on your building who is not licensed must be employed by you, which means that you must deduct F.I.C.A. and withholding tax and provide workers' compensation for that employee."
Acting on a tip about alleged unlicensed contracting, investigators from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation came to Cedar Key recently. When their work is completed, some violators could face criminal charges.
According to James Patton, Regional Program Administrator for DBPR, on Friday, Sept. 2, investigators from the Gainesville branch office visited several construction job sites where unlicensed contracting was suspected.
The City Commission and Community Redevelopment Agency are continuing the budget process and the end is in sight, with a meeting tonight at 6 p.m. and the final meeting at 6 p.m. Sept. 26.
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Posters will be on display at the Florida Farm Bureau 70th Annual Meeting, Oct. 6-8, 2011.
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Did you know that enough diapers are picked up annually to supply every child in the U.K.? Or, that each year, enough cigarette butts are collected to fill 100 Olympic sized swimming pools?
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That fateful day in September, ten years past, Anne and I were on a trip up the coast. The plan was to spend two weeks at our leisure on a journey, sight seeing, exploring, thinking, writing, doing our art.
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Ultrasound breast cancer imaging device created at the Karmanos Cancer Institute one step closer to FDA approval
Jan 28, 2013, 06:05 ET
DETROIT, Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- SoftVue, the whole breast ultrasound imaging device created by two scientists from the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine, is currently undergoing review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for market clearance. It's anticipated that this first application clearance could come this spring, with several other FDA submissions to follow over the next couple of years. This promising imaging tool has the potential to aid in detecting breast cancer earlier, especially in women with dense breasts.
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Peter Littrup, M.D., and Neb Duric, Ph.D., of the Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine, and their team have been working to perfect the SoftVue technology for more than a decade. The Karmanos Cancer Institute spun off a company in 2009 called Delphinus Medical Technologies to help secure funding to bring this device closer to commercialization. Since then, Delphinus has grown to 19 employees, many of whom are engineers, and plans are underway to gradually increase the sales staff once the first FDA market clearance is obtained.
"We are pleased to see the progress of SoftVue over the past 12 years, first with the concept followed by the prototype created at Karmanos a few years later," said Gerold Bepler, M.D., Ph.D., president and CEO of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. "After years of dedication and hard work by co-creators Peter Littrup, M.D., and Neb Duric, Ph.D., along with their team, we are delighted that Karmanos has the first commercial-grade SoftVue system to offer to our patients. Information obtained from this new SoftVue system will continue the next round of clinical research for use in diagnostic breast imaging.
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With SoftVue, the breast is submerged in warm water and an ultrasound transducer ring surrounds the breast without touching it. The SoftVue system transmits and receives ultrasound signals around the entire breast that allow it to capture detailed, three-dimensional images.
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Once market clearance is received for the first FDA submission, other SoftVue systems will be produced for other medical centers that will take part in clinical studies needed to secure further FDA approvals for SoftVue. Up to now, SoftVue studies were only for diagnostic purposes, showing the quality and safety of this technology compared to other ultrasound breast cancer imaging devices.
The company plans to carry out clinical trials involving approximately 15,000 - 20,000 subjects to support an FDA Pre-Market Approval Application, which, once approved, will give Delphinus the green light to sell SoftVue for breast cancer screening in the United States. William Greenway, Delphinus' CEO, anticipates that could take until 2015, depending on the number of people participating in the clinical studies at various medical centers, as well as funding to manufacture the systems.
"Once we secure this first FDA clearance, we'll receive signed commitments from other health centers that have expressed interest in SoftVue," said Greenway. "The approximate cost for the SoftVue machine is $400,000, comparable to mammography. We anticipate that we'll need another $15 - $17 million in venture capital to carry out the trials and produce the machines, which will be manufactured in Michigan."
How to Access SoftVue
Mammography is still the gold standard in breast cancer screening; however, for hospitals and medical centers such as the Karmanos Cancer Institute where SoftVue will be available, SoftVue will serve as a follow-up to breast cancer screening upon initial FDA market clearance.
Currently, SoftVue is available at the Karmanos Cancer Institute and Karmanos patients may sign up to be part of the ongoing clinical studies. Once the first FDA clearance is secured, additional SoftVue systems will be produced and placed in other medical centers interested in this technology.
For more information on SoftVue technology contact Delphinus Medical Technologies at 734-233-3088. For patients interested in participating in SoftVue's clinical studies for breast cancer screening, call the Karmanos Cancer Institute at 1-800-KARMANOS (1-800-527-6266.)
About the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
Located in mid-town Detroit, Michigan, the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute is one of 41 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the United States. Caring for nearly 6,000 new patients annually on a budget of $265 million, conducting more than 700 cancer-specific scientific investigation programs and clinical trials, Karmanos is among the nation's best cancer centers. Through the commitment of 1,000 staff, including nearly 300 physicians and researchers on faculty at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, and supported by thousands of volunteer and financial donors, Karmanos strives to prevent, detect and eradicate all forms of cancer. Its long-term partnership with the WSU School of Medicine enhances the collaboration of critical research and academics related to cancer care. Gerold Bepler, M.D., Ph.D., is the Institute's president and chief executive officer. For more information call 1-800-KARMANOS or go to www.karmanos.org.
About Delphinus Medical Technologies
Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc, is a Michigan-based company and a spin-off of the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (KCI). Delphinus has succeeded in building a three-dimensional, whole-breast ultrasound imaging device using a safe (non-ionizing), comfortable (non-compressing), and reliable (operator independent) patented technology.
The system is not dependent on the skills of the operator and it is fast, with exam times of approximately one minute. Furthermore, SoftVue does not require expensive room preparations making it easy to install in any clinical setting. KCI has transferred all the UST intellectual property to Delphinus Medical Technologies through a worldwide license to commercialize the SoftVue technology.
Delphinus is located in the Michigan LifeScience and Innovation Center at 46701 Commerce Center Drive, in Plymouth, MI. Delphinus has subcontracted with partners to produce its commercial system.
Delphinus's business model is based on the sales and service of the SoftVue system to hospitals and imaging clinics throughout the United States and the rest of the world. The company plans to use dealer sales organizations in the U.S. for the distribution of the product. In the rest of the world the company will partner with large distributors, or imaging Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) looking for an entry into the breast cancer screening market. Delphinus plans to do final assembly and testing of SoftVue through subcontracted manufacturing.
SoftVue has not received market clearance from the FDA at this time.
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Yes, the miners story was something BIG for our little country....Chile was or is in the news around the world....first time in our history....was a hit much more bigger than the day when Neil Amstrong arrives to the moon. (not joking)
Man, news on the 33 miners really got the whole world paying attention.
As Piñera said: This will erase the bad image Chile had throughout the world because of Pinochet.
BTW I lost your address, I must have erased it without noticing.
Would you resend it to me please?
Yes, the Toros went to third division....Thats true.....
Believe me ...I ve never been in the hotel centinela....but Barbara Walters was there.....I was only outside..Nothing fancy or super there...but,.its pretty nice the atmosphere, but we have much better places....Termas Puyehue is much better.
Too bad about the "Toros", I heard they went to third division now.
Have you heard of Hotel Centinela in Puerto Octay?
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Ok.....Sure Rafael....Deal.
I know....California is much more than LA, 3 months ago I was in SF.....was incredibly nice city, lot of shopping, nice views, nice people....really beautiful city.
Palm Springs sounds good too....I associate it to golf inmediatly.
You know....I love America because is safe, cheap and have very good standars for tourists (hotels,restaurants,etc)....and good prices.
Believe me Chile is a really expensive country right now....I spend 0.0 dollars on clothes here, and lot of things too.....Ridicoulous expensive!
Let's do something, next time you come to the States you bring me a bottle of Flaño and I will have for you something you can not get in Chile, something that will give you an olfatory experience for sure, and we swap. Is that a deal?
Yes California is something else, unfortunately most people believe California is LA, and have a wrong concept of the state, but the rest of the state is absolutely gorgeous. Here in the Palm Springs area we do not have winters, and during summer the temperature may reach 50 degrees centigrade in the shade, but this is an oasis in the middle of the desert and it is something worth visiting, the main crop of the area are dates, and you see palm trees everywhere.
Yes, Prada Infusion d Homme is a little bit feminine, but in my opinion is a very chic scent, well made and give me an olfatory experience. Thats what I search, something to catch my senses.
Thanks for your offer....You live in a very beautiful state, gorgeous!
I learn english in my school, but I dont speak very good,lol....Most of people in USA think I m russian or french.....
Give me an adress and I will send you a Flaño, dont worry.
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Host Country: China
Location: Sichuan Province
Project Developer: Chengdu Oasis Science & Technology Co. Ltd. and UPM Umwelt-Projekt-Management GmbH
Registration: 2012
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Test Patterns
I began my viewing with a couple of test discs, the first of which was Joe Kane's Digital Video Essentials. Looking at the RP-133 test pattern, I noticed movement in the multi-burst portion of pattern when using my reference Kenwood DV-5900M. The Kenwood was outputting a 480i signal through component cables. On the Kenwood, I also noticed borders around the horizontal bars within bars portion of pattern. When looking at the multi-burst vertical pattern, I noticed that horizontal edges of signal from the Kenwood were cut off. When testing the Marantz DV9500 with the Pb & Pr sweep, 0.5 to 5.75 MHz, the Marantz maintained resolution throughout the entire pattern and the Kenwood turned solid gray about two-thirds of the way through the pattern. Overall, the Marantz appeared to be much more stable on the high-resolution patterns, providing a much clearer picture.
I then placed the Silicon Optix Test Disc into the Marantz. On the opening test screen, the color bars were stable, with no movement in the higher frequency portion of the pattern. On the "Diagonal Jaggies" de-interlacing test, the Marantz did well, showing only signs of jagged edges at less than 10 degrees; with the three-bar test, only the bottom bar showed any signs of being jagged. On the motion adaptive de-interlacing waving flag test, the Marantz did very well, with the flag flowing smoothly. The bridge showed good detail in the bricks and grass, with noticeably more resolution than the Kenwood. On the noise reduction tests, the Marantz again did a great job. Overall, the picture was extremely close to still frame. On the simulated digital transmission, there was very slight smearing behind the roller coaster. On the 3:2 detection test, the Marantz locked onto the signal but moiré pattern in the stands was visible for perhaps half a second before it did so. The last portion of the test disc is comprised of various cadence tests on which the Marantz DV9500 performed very well, with only the occasional minimal jagged edge.
Music and Movies
I then switched to real source material and played a DVD from Season One of "Alias," something my wife appreciated much more than the test discs. While the characters were in an industrial park with larger tanks, I noticed mild jagged edges on a steel band that went around the tank. These were more noticeable when paused and much less so during playback. While the recording quality of the "Alias" discs was not extremely consistent, when watching any of the better recorded segments, the Marantz seemed to be well balanced across the color spectrum, with no noticeable aberrations.
While watching "The Incredibles" (Walt Disney Home Entertainment), I saw no signs of the chroma bug. The color fields were uniform, with very clean transitions and no noise. Overall, while viewing several rental discs and a few from my collection, the blacks were slightly better with the Marantz than with my Kenwood and the Marantz's picture was consistently sharp and stable with smooth, accurate colors.
I began the audio portion of my review by listening to some regular old red book CDs. I first played Janet Jackson's "Go Deep" from the Velvet Rope album (Virgin Records). This track is rich with solid, detailed bass that the Marantz replayed better than any other player I have had in my system. The midrange was relaxed and natural, with highs that fell only slightly shy of what I have heard on the best and most expensive CD players in terms of airiness and extension.
Moving on to Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms (Warner Brothers) album, the classic demo track "Your Latest Trick," the clean midrange did well with Knopfler's voice. The high end of the cymbals was clean and clear, with the entire package combining for a solid, well-placed soundstage.
When switching to SACDs, I pulled out some other SACDs I had on hand. Most played without a glitch. Bill Evans Trio's Portraits in Jazz (Fantasy Jazz) "Come Rain or Come Shine" had noticeably more depth and detail, with better imaging on its stereo SACD track than on standard CD track. I noticed a more solid body and more texture in the bass on the SACD track.
The Dave Brubeck Quartet's Jazz at Oberlin (Fantasy Jazz) opens with "These Foolish Things," in which Paul Desmond's alto saxophone sounded absolutely amazing and was well placed in the soundstage. "Stardust" also features great saxophone playing and sounds, with Brubeck kicking up the piano towards the end. Even though the original recording is not great, there is a sense of involvement and cohesion that is revealed. On "How High the Moon," the Marantz maintains good rhythm and pace and great synergy within the entire quartet. Again, Desmond's sax playing stands out, but the rest of the quartet is working together like a well-oiled machine and I could hear a good amount of detail from each instrument, as well as a cohesive picture of the entire quartet.
Moving to DVD-Audio discs, I played Simple Minds' Once Upon a Time (EMI Records), which I had just received. The track "All the Things She Said" brought back high school memories as I listened to this track, which had obviously been heavily processed (as many were in the '80s). The track was very clean-sounding, as was the entire disc. I noticed more details in the many synthesizer lines than I remember from the original, along with a large, smooth soundstage. "Sanctify Yourself," another hit from the '80s, was equally clean and detailed, with a large soundstage.
I then played Dorian Michael's Acoustic Blues (AIX Records) album. This album was recorded, mixed and mastered in 96kHz/24 bits. The track "All Dressed Up" had great detail throughout, but especially with the guitar and bass tracks. It was very easy to imagine myself in the room with the musicians as I listened to the notes from the strings slowly decay and the music resonate from the instrument bodies. The drums were also solid with good weight and detail to help make a very cohesive mix, full of texture and life.
Lastly, the Insane Clown Posse's The Wraith Shangri-La (Psychopathic-DTS) "Ain't You Bidness" confirmed that the Marantz does deep and powerful just as well on DVD-Audio as it did on CD. Additionally, this track is fast-paced and complex, something the Marantz had no problems with, keeping all the details intact and in the right place.


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Here in Wasilla, a town of strip-mall sprawl and eccentric backwoods dwellers, people still talk about the time in 2004 when an irate resident contacted Ben Stevens, state Senate president, to question his vague explanations for taking consulting fees from an oil field-services company.
"Your [sic] just more valley trash," the senator wrote back. The grammar was wrong, but the name stuck.
News accounts of the exchange swiftly spawned bumper stickers and T-shirts proclaiming: "Proud to Be Valley Trash." Everyone now uses the phrase, even Sarah Palin, Wasilla's suddenly famous resident and former mayor, to contrast this lake-dotted countryside with more-sophisticated Anchorage 45 miles away.
In a way, Wasilla and the entire Matanuska-Susitna Borough – generally called the Mat-Su Valley, or "Mad-Zoo," by some wags – is having the last laugh. Mr. Stevens is now keeping a low profile; he and his father, US Sen. Ted Stevens, are among those embroiled in a federal corruption investigation allegedly involving, among other things, bribery and unreported gifts from the oil-services company VECO Corp. Meanwhile, Wasilla's most powerful resident has leapt from the mayor's office to the governor's seat to the national stage as the new GOP nominee for vice president.
Most Mat-Su Valley residents are thrilled to see one of their own tapped for the White House. They say Governor Palin and her husband are regular folks who work with their hands, fish, hunt, and ride snowmobiles on trails that wind through the state's commercial farms, verdant forests, jagged mountains, and high-altitude glaciers.
Raymie Redington, a local dog musher and part-time commercial fisherman, finds in the governor a kindred spirit who will be good in the White House. "We need somebody in there who's been around and done something a little different, not sitting in an office," says Mr. Redington, while taking a break Sunday from ferrying tourists riding dog-pulled carts at the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race headquarters.
His wife, Barb, who keeps a photo of her granddaughter posing with the governor, regularly encounters Palin shopping alone at Wal-Mart – or has until now. "She's one of those types that ain't too good to talk to you," she says.
Even the town's name may favor Palin. The city is named after a revered Denaina Athabascan leader, Chief Wasilla, whose name translates into "breath of fresh air," according to one account on the state's webpage. Palin supporters touted her as a "breath of fresh air" in scandal-plagued Alaska when she ran for governor in 2006.
The Mat-Su region has been steadily gaining some of the political clout long held by Anchorage, the state's business center and home to 4 in 10 Alaskans. Wasilla is also the home town of state Senate President Lyda Green (R). And House Democratic leader Beth Kerttula is the descendent of farmers who settled in nearby Palmer as part of a New Deal agricultural colony.
If Palin moves to the White House, the next governor could also be from the valley. Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg, who is from Palmer, would rise to the top spot if Palin is elected vice president and if Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell wins his bid to become Alaska's new US House member.
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The Matanuska-Susitna Borough – about the size of West Virginia, with some 80,500 residents sprinkled from the outskirts of Anchorage to the shadow of Mount McKinley – grew a whopping 35.7 percent from 2000 to 2006, according to census figures.
Wasilla is still a small town of about 7,000 people, but rapid change is altering the character of a place that got its start by the Alaska Railroad tracks as a supplier for gold- and coal-mining operations in the surrounding Talkeenta Mountains.
Its biggest attraction is economic, says state Representative Kerttula. Home prices are cheaper than in Anchorage, and access to the big city is easy. About 30 percent of Wasilla residents commute to work in Anchorage, according to state figures.
The anything-goes attitude is also part of its draw. Many residents boast that they have escaped the stifling regulations and frou-frou trappings of the big city they dismissively call "Los Anchorage."
Such antigovernment attitudes helped launch Palin's political career as a "hard-core conservative" who resisted controls on business.
"Zoning, you used to be not even able to say the word," says Michelle Church, former director of a local land-use planning group and now a borough assembly member from Palmer. During Palin's time as mayor, the very idea caused opponents to pack public meetings, she says. "Every time someone would go up and speak in favor [of zoning], these guys would yell, 'Lock and load!' "
But a local revolt broke out about five years ago over proposed coal bed methane drilling in residential and recreational areas of the borough, signaling a shift in public attitudes.
Opposition to the plan, pushed by Colorado-based Evergreen Resources Inc., united right-wing property-rights advocates and left-wing environmentalists. Both factions worried about noisy machinery, truck traffic, and water pollution. Palin, who by that time was a rising Republican star with a plum job on the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, turned whistle-blower on fellow commissioner Randy Ruedrich, also the state GOP chairman. She charged, in part, that he'd used his post to advocate for Evergreen Resources' coal bed methane drilling.
Mr. Ruedrich was forced to resign in late 2003 from the conservation commission – which was supposed to regulate coal bed methane development in Mat-Su Borough – and later paid a $12,000 fine for misusing his office. Evergreen Resources was sold in 2004 to Pioneer Natural Resources, which dropped the coal bed plans.
Mixed views of Palin
Turning in Ruedrich endeared Palin to the public statewide, says Steve Haycox, a cultural historian at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. "She is dedicated to the highest and best possible of democratic principles, and what she saw offended her," says Mr. Haycox.
It established Palin's reputation as a corruption foe, in contrast to her earlier hands-off-business philosophy. She's now got an image of a Big Oil-battling populist, often working on the issue in concert with Democrats.
But Ms. Church, the borough assembly member, says Palin made a cynical political calculation to take on Ruedrich during the coalbed-methane furor. "She's very smart and very politically shrewd. I think she just looked at the opposition and the audience and figured there was no way they could come out clean on this, and she bailed," Church says.
Between the coalbed-methane revolt and the arrival of new residents who expect development to be orderly, the valley has evolved, Church says. Her group, Friends of Mat-Su, used to be "perceived as this total ... anti-development group – until coal bed methane," she says. Now many parts of the borough are clamoring for growth controls, she says.
Not everything in Wasilla has changed, though.
Victor Kohring, one of the state legislature's most conservative members, was handily re-elected in 2006, despite being one of six lawmakers whose offices were raided that summer by FBI agents. Now he is in prison, one of three former state lawmakers convicted in a still-unfolding bribery and corruption scandal. On June 30, the day he began serving his sentence, he stood for three hours by the side of the highway that runs between Wasilla and Anchorage, next to a large sign that said "Thanks, Alaska!"
"Traumatic as it has been," he told Anchorage Daily News reporter Kyle Hopkins that morning, "I've been getting just a ton of very positive comments and support from people."


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In coming weeks, all residents in Mammoth will be receiving a letter from the Town of Mammoth Lakes notifying them of the existing codes as they relate to TOT, or Transient Occupancy Tax.
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The TOT tax makes up more than 60 percent of the revenue that drives the town and includes everything from paving roads and paying employees to snow removal and police protection. What is likely to follow the TOT enforcement process are future discussions on whether or not single family homes should be included as permitted nightly rentals.
As it stands, current town codes prohibit the nightly rental of most single family homes within the town of Mammoth's Transient Occupancy Tax. Nearly all nightly rentals are limited to hotels and condominium units with a business license and TOT certificate.
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Actually, it would be nice to know which solars are bonded with which lunars...
Back to the Dragon Blooded.. why not a Sidereal? That would give this group a certain.. guidance, and some ability to influence and guide a group likly to end up ruling the west. (Yes, I think this group can and will end up ruling over some part of the west.. this many celestials together? It's almost a certainty.. and going to be a night mare for any wild hunt, especially if we can build up forces.. and breed our own dragon blooded *winks*)
It's the other way around, actually. :) Each Lunar is supernaturally bound to one Solar shard because Luna wanted it that way; the Unconquered Sun didn't see fit to make it a two-way street. :)
Honestly, it might get difficult for a Sidereal PC. Arcane Fate kills a lot of playability in a mixed circle, and even donning a Resplendent Destiny has its drawbacks if it comes down to Essence expenditure.
And since you've got the conviction flaw, you won't be able to use your perfect defense either, because fighting a solar is directly opposed to cleansing corruption.
Now, I find that statement quite far-fetched. Solars are heroes, not saints.
Ok, a brief summary of what we have so far:The Great Triangle - Solar - Zenith caste Krule - Solar - Night caste Voichin - Solar - Twilight caste Rhapsody - Lunar - Full Moon casteThufir Hawat - Lunar - Full Moon casteCorinthi - Solar - Eclipse caste Seraph - Solar - Dawn caste Asku -Lunar - No Moon
:: peeks:: why all the fighting?
Nope, solars ARE saints. They're the chosen of the unconquered sun, the being that ultimately determines what is holy. They are by their very definition righteous and good, regardless of their actions. (unless something turns them into a creature of darkness, which is sad indeed. Until then they count as holy, especially if they know a holy charm.)
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