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As cell phones and other wireless communication technology have edged towards ubiquity, there have been persistent concerns that the long-frequency and low-power radiation it produces may pose unrecognized health risks. Sporadic studies have suggested the possibility of everything from mild effects on mental function to an increased risk of cancer. To look into these risks, the UK government joined forces with mobile equipment manufacturers to fund the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme (MRTH), giving the group a mandate of evaluating what's known and funding research into what needs to be known. The group has just released an interim report (PDF) with a clear conclusion: the only clear health risk posed by a mobile phone involves using it while driving.
The report itself is a model of careful consideration. It notes the risk of the MTHR being viewed as biased due to the funding provided by manufacturers, but the report also describes the organization's structure as designed to prevent interference with research. The authors of this report also have an extensive list of achievements, suggesting that the group has attracted a scientifically competent panel of experts. The body is structured as a series of discussions of known or potential health risks (including cancer and electromagnetic sensitivity), biological mechanisms, distractions during driving, and the ability of the government to effectively communicate risk and safety information.
Each of these topics is explored via a summary of the current state of knowledge, what that means in terms of health risks, and what studies might still need to be performed. The good news for our wireless world is that very few studies have shown any real health risks. This is clearest in the cases of influences on brain function and hypersensitivity to electric fields associated with these devices; studies have clearly indicated there's nothing behind these phenomena. Although extremely rare cases can't be ruled out, they're clearly not a real public health risk.
The relationship between phone use and cancer is more complex. The studies that show the strongest link appear to suffer from systematic reporting bias, while those with a cleaner data set show a link that is either barely or not at all significant. Still, the report recognizes that cell phone use has only become prevalent within the last decade, and many cancers can take longer than that to develop. As such, they urge continued vigilance, but they also emphasize that there is no clear reason for concern at this point.
A related issue is the current lack of evidence that energy at these wavelengths can influence living tissue. The MTHR has funded research in this area, and the report indicates that there remains little evidence of a unique effect of wireless transmission; previously reported results may reflect nothing more than a stress response to heating caused by this radiation.
A topic the Programme felt was worth studying further was the public's perception of the risks involved in cell phone use. They noted studies that showed a complex interplay of factors that influenced how people registered relevant messages from the government, scientists, and pressure groups. Those factors included things ranging from general trust in authority to people's level of cell phone use. The MTHR suggests that, should risks be identified related to wireless use, the government will need to know how best to accurately convey them, and suggests further areas of study that may improve our ability to get the right message out.
In the end, the group's conclusions are clear: "None of the research supported by the Programme and published so far demonstrates that biological or adverse health effects are produced by radiofrequency exposure from mobile phones." That's not to say phones are risk-free, however, as the report notes that their use while driving impairs performance and increases the risk of accident. Given the radical difference in risk level, any concerns regarding the radio emissions appear to be the product of misplaced anxiety.


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NEW ORLEANS -- To avoid disruptions from the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras, a federal judge in New Orleans has postponed a trial for claims spawned by BP's massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier announced during a hearing Friday that he is moving the start of the trial from Jan. 14 to Feb. 25. The trial is designed to identify the causes of BP's deadly well blowout and assign percentages of fault to the companies involved in the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon drilling project.
The NFL's Super Bowl is Feb. 3 at the Superdome. Mardi Gras is Feb. 12, but parades begin weeks earlier.
Barbier, however, refused to postpone a Nov. 1 deadline for businesses and individuals to opt out of a multibillion dollar settlement between BP and private plaintiffs' attorneys over economic damage claims from the spill. He also said he won't delay a Nov. 8 fairness hearing on the proposed settlement.
Some plaintiffs' attorneys who didn't have a hand in brokering the deal had urged Barbier to extend the opt-out deadline, saying their clients need more time to decide whether it's in their best interest to participate. Barbier said some claimants or their lawyers have a "fundamental misunderstanding" about how the process works.
"There is clearly sufficient _ more than sufficient _ transparency in this settlement," he said.
Barbier said he was disturbed to hear reports that some attorneys with large stables of clients are advising them to opt out of the settlement en masse. The judge said it would be "highly inappropriate" for a lawyer to make that determination without individually assessing and analyzing each client's claim.
Barbier also offered a word of caution for claimants who are thinking of opting out of the deal.
"Opting out will mean you're opting to go it alone in individual lawsuits against the defendants," he said, warning that it could take years for individual cases to be resolved.
Earlier this week, BP and the lead plaintiffs' attorneys on the case urged Barbier to disregard objections to the proposed settlement and give it his final approval.
More than 200 people and groups formally objected to the deal, while 983 potential claimants had asked to opt out as of Oct. 19. More than 100,000 plaintiffs could benefit from the deal.
Brent Coon, a Beaumont, Texas-based attorney who says he represents about 14,000 clients with spill-related claims, has urged Barbier to amend the settlement terms so that claimants won't have to decide whether to opt out until the claims administrator has determined how much money they are eligible to receive.
"There's no reason why there should be pressure on claimants to make this decision," Coon said.
BP, which estimates it will pay $7.8 billion to resolve claims through the uncapped settlement, agreed to continue paying claims though a court-supervised process before the judge decides whether to give final approval.
Barbier said claimants have been paid or received offers worth a total of roughly $1.1 billion since a court-supervised process replaced the Gulf Coast Claims Facility overseen by claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg.
"It's actually been pretty remarkable, in my opinion, how this has worked," Barbier said.


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Some of you may have noticed that we released Couchbase 1.8 earlier today, and a new set of smart clients for various languages. For me personally this is a milestone, because libcouchbase is now a
supported client for the C language.
So why do I care about that? Well, libcouchbase started out of my needs to easily test various components of the server. Since I did most of my development on the components on the server implemented in C, it made sense for me to use C for my testing.
I've received some questions on how libcouchbase work in a multithreaded context, so I should probably start off by clarifying that: libcouchbase doesn't use any form of locking to protect it's internal data structures, but it doesn't mean you can't use libcouchbase in a multithreaded program. All it means is that you as a client user must either use locking to protect yourself from accessing the libcouchbase instance from multiple threads at the same time, or just let each thread operate on it's own instance of libcouchbase. One easy way to solve this is to have a "pool" of libcouchbase instances each thread pop and push its instance to whenever they need to access a Couchbase server. Access to this pool should be protected with a lock (but I guess you figured that out ;-)
In this blog post I'll create a demo program you may use to upload JSON documents into a Couchbase server. You'll find the complete source available at https://github.com/trondn/vacuum if you would like
to try the example.
The idea of this program is that it will "monitor" a directory and upload all files appearing there into a Couchbase cluster. I'm pretty sure most of you start thinking: "how do we do that in a portable way?". That's not an easy task to do, so I'm not even going to try to do that. I'll try to write it in a semi-portable way so that it shouldn't be that hard to implement on other platforms. That means that I'm using the following limitations:
- I'm using opendir and readdir to traverse the directory. This can easily be reimplemented with FindFirst and FindNext on Microsoft Windows.
- Monitor of the directory means that I'm going to scan the directory, then sleep a given number of seconds before running another scan. I know some platforms supports subscribing of changes to the filesystem, but I'm not going to spend time on that (at least not right now ;-)).
- To avoid file locking or accessing the file while others are writing the file, the clients should write the file into the directory with a leading "dot" in the filename, and then rename the file when they are done. The program ignores all files starting with a dot.
So let's jump to the code. The first piece of code that might be interesting to look at would be where we create the libcouchbase instance in main():
instance = libcouchbase_create(host, user, passwd, bucket, NULL); if (instance == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "Failed to create couchbase instance\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }
The above code snippet creates the libcouchbase instance. There is no way you can use a static structure for this, because doing so will make it incredible hard to maintain binary compatibility. I like to be able to fix bugs within the library and release new versions you may use without having to recompile your program, and by hiding the internal datastructures from the clients makes it easier to ensure that the client don't depend on their size. The first parameter to libcouchbase_create is the name (and port) of the REST port for the couchbase server (default: localhost:8091). The second and third parameter is the credentials you'd like to use to connect to the REST port to get the pool information (default is to not authenticate). The forth parameter is the bucket you'd like to connect to, and if you don't specify a bucket you'll end up in the "default bucket". The fifth argument is a special object you may want to use if you are going to use "advanced" features in libcouchbase. Most users will probably just use the defaults and pass NULL here.
The next thing we need to do is to set up some callback handlers to be able to figure out what happens. In the example we're only going to use one operation (to load data into the cache) so we'll need to set up a handler to catch the result of storage operations. Unfortunately we may also encounter problems, so we need to set up an error handler (we'll get back to work in a bit).
libcouchbase_set_storage_callback(instance, storage_callback); libcouchbase_set_error_callback(instance, error_callback);
Now that we've created and initialized the instance, we need to try to connect to the Couchbase cluster:
libcouchbase_error_t ret = libcouchbase_connect(instance); if (ret != LIBCOUCHBASE_SUCCESS) { fprintf(stderr, "Failed to connect: %s\n", libcouchbase_strerror(instance, ret)); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); }
Due to the fact that libcouchbase is fully asynchronous, all that happened above was that we initiated the connect. That means that we need to wait for the server to be connected to the Couchbase cluster and connect to the correct bucket. If our program should do other stuff now would be the time to do so, but since we don't have any other initialization to do we can just wait for it to complete:
One of the "cool" features we've got in libcouchbase is that it provides an internal statistics interface, so we may tell it to collect timing information of the operations with the following snippet:
if ((ret = libcouchbase_enable_timings(instance) != LIBCOUCHBASE_SUCCESS)) { fprintf(stderr, "Failed to enable timings: %s\n", libcouchbase_strerror(instance, ret)); }Our program is now fully initialized, and we can enter the main loop that looks like pretty much like:
while (forever) { process_files(); sleep(nsec); }
So how does our process_files() look like? I'm not going to make the example too big by pasting all of it, but the first piece in there looks like:
if (de->d_name[0] == '.') { if (strcmp(de->d_name, ".dump_stats") == 0) { fprintf(stdout, "Dumping stats:\n"); libcouchbase_get_timings(instance, stdout, timings_callback); fprintf(stdout, "----\n"); remove(de->d_name);< } continue; }
As you see from the above code snippet we'll ignore all files that starts with a '.' except for the file named ".dump_stats". Whenever we see that file we dump the internal stats timings by using the timings_callback (I'll get back to that later).
The next thing we do is to try to read the file into memory and decode it's JSON before we try to get the "_id" field to use as a key. If all of that succeeds, we try to store the data in Coucbase with:
int error = 0; ret = libcouchbase_store(instance, &error, LIBCOUCHBASE_SET, id->valuestring, strlen(id->valuestring), ptr, size, 0, 0, 0); if (ret == LIBCOUCHBASE_SUCCESS) { libcouchbase_wait(instance); } else { error = 1; }
The &error piece here is quite interesting. It is a "cookie" passed to the callback, so that I may know if I encountered a problem or not. You'll see how I'm using it when I discuss the storage_callback below.
This is basically all of the important logic in the example. I promised that I would get back to the different callbacks, so let's start by looking at the error callback:
static void error_callback(libcouchbase_t instance, libcouchbase_error_t error, const char *errinfo) { /* Ignore timeouts... */ if (error != LIBCOUCHBASE_ETIMEDOUT) { fprintf(stderr, "\rFATAL ERROR: %s\n", libcouchbase_strerror(instance, error)); if (errinfo && strlen(errinfo) != 0) { fprintf(stderr, "\t\"%s\"\n", errinfo); } exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } }
As you see from the above snippet libcouchbase will call the error_callback whenever a timeout occurs, but we just want to retry the operation. If we encounter a real error we print out an error message and terminate the program.
The next callback we use is the storage_callback. It is called when the store operation completed, so it is the right place for us to figure out if an error occured while storing the data. Our callback looks like:
static void storage_callback(libcouchbase_t instance, const void *cookie, libcouchbase_storage_t operation, libcouchbase_error_t err, const void *key, size_t nkey, uint64_t cas) { int *error = (void*)cookie; if (err == LIBCOUCHBASE_SUCCESS) { *error = 0; } else { *error = 1; fprintf(stderr, "Failed to store \""); fwrite(key, 1, nkey, stderr); fprintf(stderr, "\": %s\n", libcouchbase_strerror(instance, err)); fflush(stderr); } }
As you see we're storing the result of the operation in the integer passed as the cookie. The observant reader may see that we might as well could unlink the file and remove the memory from within the callback (if we provided that information as the cookie instead ;))
The last callback to cover is the timings callback we're using to dump out the timing statistics.
static void timings_callback(libcouchbase_t instance, const void *cookie, libcouchbase_timeunit_t timeunit, uint32_t min, uint32_t max, uint32_t total, uint32_t maxtotal) { char buffer[1024]; int offset = sprintf(buffer, "[%3u - %3u]", min, max); switch (timeunit) { case LIBCOUCHBASE_TIMEUNIT_NSEC: offset += sprintf(buffer + offset, "ns"); break; case LIBCOUCHBASE_TIMEUNIT_USEC: offset += sprintf(buffer + offset, "us"); break; case LIBCOUCHBASE_TIMEUNIT_MSEC: offset += sprintf(buffer + offset, "ms"); break; case LIBCOUCHBASE_TIMEUNIT_SEC: offset += sprintf(buffer + offset, "s"); break; default: ; } int num = (float)40.0 * (float)total / (float)maxtotal; offset += sprintf(buffer + offset, " |"); for (int ii = 0; ii < num; ++ii) { offset += sprintf(buffer + offset, "#"); } offset += sprintf(buffer + offset, " - %u\n", total); fputs(buffer, (FILE*)cookie); }
When you request the timings from libcouchbase it reports all of the timing metrics collected by calling the timings callback. As you can see from the API you'll get the minimum, maximum value for the range, and the number of operations performed within that range. These metrics are not to be considered as exact numbers, because they depend on when what you do in your client code from the time you call the operation until you call libcouchbase_wait for the operation to complete.
So let's run the go ahead and run the program. I've prepopulated /var/spool/vacuum with a number of JSON files, to have the program do something.
trond@illumos ~> ./vacuum sleeping 3 secs before retry..
From another withdow I execute the command:
trond@illumos ~> touch /var/spool/vacuum/.dump_stats
And when the timer expires in first window, it prints out:
Dumping stats: [ 60 - 69]us |######################################## - 18 [ 70 - 79]us |## - 1 [240 - 249]us |## - 1 ---- sleeping 3 secs before retry..
Hopefully this blog revealed how easy it is to use libcouchbase to communicate with a Couchbase cluster. We've got various clients for other programming languages like PHP and Ruby built on top of libcouchbase, so I can promise you that you'll see more functionallity added!


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Matjaz needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 158 designs submitted by 38 freelance designers.
We are offering our customers the chance to build and configure their own location based service. Constructing of the service is as easy as building something from Lego bricks. Tracking in the field is done by GPS enabled smart phones.
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- should indicate the service is about maps, building (constructing), tracking
- logo should also be usable as an icon for the application
- we are looking for a logo that would clearly represent our company (what we do). And since we are offering our users the ability to build (configure) their own location based service perhaps the logo should include some kind of map and some simple tools (hammer, saw,...) that would suggest building(constructing). Or perhaps instead of tools something that would imply the simplicity of building - like a Lego brick. Of course we are hoping to get more creative suggestions from 99designs.
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Warming world demands action now
The election is over and it's time to get down to business. Our leaders in Washington might look to their counterparts at the local level for models of pragmatism. Mayors don't have time for lofty theories and endless debates — they're too busy picking up the trash, plowing the snow and protecting their citizens. If they don't do these things well, they hear about it as soon as they walk out the front door. So ask the mayors in the path of Hurricane Sandy if we should be arguing about climate change, or doing something about it. As New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, Sandy "should be enough to compel all elected leaders to take immediate action."
The billions of tons of greenhouse gas pollution we put into our atmosphere each year is causing artificial changes in our climate. The evidence can be seen in temperature records and atmospheric pollution readings, in ice cores and statistical analysis. The 1980s were the hottest decade recorded … until the 1990s, which were hotter … until the 2000s, which were hotter still. And the latest scientific assessment is that the climate has so far only seen 10 percent of the warming that will occur this century if we do nothing.
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We have reached the moment for action. There's a new national conversation under way about how best to bolster our defenses against the extreme weather events that have become a fact of life in our warming world. Mayors and governors who are now figuring out how to rebuild neighborhoods, transit systems and beaches need national support to create the infrastructure necessary to protect their coastlines.
But building protective walls against the sea is not enough. The global climate affects nearly every aspect of our lives, and it will be impossible to build our way out of the problem. We simply can't account for the almost endless list of impacts — from storms, disease patterns and agriculture to migration, rising seas and geopolitical instability. We have no choice but to get serious about cutting the greenhouse gas pollution that is causing the problem.
New sea gates to protect New York Harbor could cost more than $10 billion. That's one project for one city. At the same time, government spending must be reined in for the good of future generations — so how are we going to pay for the protective measures we need? One emerging conversation is focused on putting a price on carbon, to discourage emissions and using the proceeds to pay for resilience. There is already opposition to this idea, but let's agree on a basic proposition: If we are to deal with this challenge efficiently and effectively, we must address the cause, not just the symptoms. A carbon fee linked to a carbon limit and some of the revenue dedicated to storm resilience would allow us to work on both in a single stroke.


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Nicholas Ray faced a roomful of film students. They had come to learn from the director who'd made James Dean an icon in "Rebel Without a Cause" and a gunslinger of Joan Crawford in the distaff western "Johnny Guitar." Ray began a mock exercise in filming a scene and the reverential students waited for his instructions — and they waited. Ray fell inexplicably silent. Minutes passed, then hours, and finally the students left, bewildered by the tall, frail man with an eye patch and wild, white hair.
Stories of an artist's downfall occupy much of Patrick McGilligan's "Nicholas Ray: The Glorious Failure of an American Director," arriving for the filmmaker's 100th birthday on Aug. 7. In 20-plus films ranging from workmanlike to brilliant, Ray demonstrated a compassion for flawed protagonists and a commitment to realism, from teen angst to Eskimo hunters. His work has been praised by European critics since the 1950s; now, McGilligan burnishes his legacy in America (where many of his best films remain unavailable on video), even while documenting in unsavory detail his implosion via drink and drugs.
Ray had a gift for personalizing his films even when they were hired-gun jobs. Early noirs and westerns, notably 1950's "In a Lonely Place," with Humphrey Bogart playing a writer accused of murder, and 1952's "The Lusty Men," starring Robert Mitchum as a displaced rodeo cowboy, show Ray's empathy for desperate loners and outcasts. They are fitting metaphors for his own outsider status in Hollywood, where his sensitive persona never quite found its place.
By the time Ray became a film director in his 30s, he was a full-fledged bohemian trained by Thornton Wilder, Frank Lloyd Wright and Elia Kazan. He'd cut his teeth in New York's leftist theater of the 1930s, lived in artist communes and traveled the backroads recording Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and other folk artists for the Library of Congress. Most important, he'd become a protégé of producer John Houseman, who brought Ray to Hollywood.
"Rebel Without a Cause," released in 1955, was his apex. The project had been in development for years, but Ray made it his own, a Shakespeare-sized tragedy set in teenage USA, where adults were the true delinquents. He hung out with street gangs in pursuit of authenticity and mentored Dean and 16-year-old Natalie Wood. His Chateau Marmont bungalow was alive with cast rehearsals and legendary parties.
"Rebel" is Ray's masterpiece, a watershed moment in youth culture. But for Ray, the moment was short: Dean's sudden death in a car crash wiped out plans for a film partnership, and Ray was never quite the same. He made a few more good films — the controversial "Bigger Than Life" with James Mason and the cult gangster flick "Party Girl" — but more mediocre ones. Stress and substance abuse mounted; Ray was fired off one picture, then collapsed while shooting 1963's "55 Days at Peking," his last. Its star Charlton Heston said that by now, Ray "wasn't so much directing as acting the role of director."
In a long, sad denouement, Ray taught at universities and filmed experimental shorts while living on booze and candy bars and crashing on friends' couches, running up bar tabs and phone bills. The once-dashing young man became "The ghost of Beethoven," as a friend described him. An innovative film collaboration with his students dragged on for years, unfinished. His final project, "Lightning Over Water," was made with the great German director Wim Wenders, chronicling Ray's 1979 death from cancer.
Parallels between Ray and fellow Hollywood outcast Orson Welles are occasionally drawn, but the analogy is thin: While Welles was the author of his own outsize tragedy, Ray could be quiet, sometimes receding into the background of his own story. Ray had traumas — among them, finding actress wife Gloria Grahame in bed with his 13-year-old son from a prior marriage — but it was difficult to tell what his demons were or why they destroyed him. His talent for lying didn't help, either; many finer points of Ray's life and work (even the truth about his lost right eye) remain frustratingly fuzzy.
Ray called himself "the best damn filmmaker in the world who has never made one entirely good, entirely satisfactory film." McGilligan's biography is similarly contradictory; it wants its subject to be accepted as a major postwar director but acknowledges in its very title that but for all the lasting influence Ray had on the Truffauts and Scorseses, he never quite made the cut.
Ryfle is co-writing a biography of film director Ishiro Honda to be published by Wesleyan University press.


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Two Supreme Court cases about police searches of cellphones without warrants present vastly different views of the ubiquitous device.
WASHINGTON — Two Supreme Court cases about police searches of cellphones without warrants present vastly different views of the ubiquitous device.
Is it a critical tool for a criminal or is it an American's virtual home?
How the justices answer that question could determine the outcome of the cases being argued Tuesday. A drug dealer and a gang member want the court to rule that the searches of their cellphones after their arrest violated their right to privacy in the digital age.
The Obama administration and California, defending the searches, say cellphones are no different from anything else a person might be carrying when arrested. Police may search those items without a warrant under a line of high court cases reaching back 40 years.
What's more, said Donald Verrilli Jr., the administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, "Cellphones are now critical tools in the commission of crimes."
The cases come to the Supreme Court amid separate legal challenges to the massive warrantless collection of telephone records by the National Security Agency and the government's use of technology to track Americans' movements.
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Once and future King
Once and future king
A bank built upon decades of disciplined growth is poised to "come out of this crisis stronger than it went in."
To paraphrase Dr. John, he was in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time. Kelly King had spent 36 years, his entire career, at BB&T Corp., playing a key role in turning a sleepy Eastern North Carolina bank into one of the nation's largest financial holding companies. But when he finally got the top job in January 2009, assuming the CEO title his friend John Allison had held for nearly 20 years, the banking system was in crisis. With the economy wallowing in the worst downturn since the Great Depression, running the bank was like running a gantlet — bashed by forces beyond his control and forced to bend to the government's mercurial demands. Then, not six months into the job, he had to pull the trigger.
Within days, the letters started arriving. They accused him of incompetence and, worse, bad faith. Just another selfish executive out for his own gain and aggrandizement, the writers said, no better than a Wall Street scoundrel. The decision that brought the hate mail — cutting BB&T's durable dividend from 47 to 15 cents a share — was the hardest of his career. "I knew it was the right decision," he says, "I knew it then, and I know it now." Truth is, he had little choice. Not only were regulators pressuring any bank that had taken bailout money to limit payouts, but the sluggish economy was dragging down earnings. "In looking forward, we could see that our problem loans were going up — less than the industry average, but they were going up."
The irate shareholders didn't give a damn: They wanted that dividend back. For nearly four decades, roughly from the time King entered its management-training program, investors had been able to count on a rising payout from BB&T. But while it has weathered the storm better than competitors — one of only three large regional banks in the U.S. to turn a profit in every quarter of the financial crisis — BB&T still faces challenges. Earnings declined 51.3% last year. The economy remains weak. Through the end of the first quarter, problem loans had continued to rise. Robust profitability gains might not return until next year or even the year after. Reaching the top, Kelly King still has a long row to hoe.
At 61, he may be one of the last of a Tar Heel archetype — the tobacco-schooled striver who traded tending the golden leaf for harvesting greenbacks. A generation ago, it seemed like every other corporate chief had grown up on a tobacco farm. King's family had one outside Zebulon, east of Raleigh. Working that patch cultivated a deep desire to escape. Summers, he would toil six days a week. "I had some kind of allergy, and almost every night, I was throwing-up sick. But you didn't have any choice. It wasn't like, 'Hey, Dad, I don't want to do this.'"
He saw sales as his way out. Companies always needed salesmen. Starting in high school, he took a series of part-time jobs where persuasion paid off — first peddling men's clothing, then appliances. As an undergrad at East Carolina University, he hawked vacuum cleaners door-to-door. "I once made a sale a night for 17 straight nights, and our vacuums weren't cheap — $500 back then." Finishing his bachelor's in business in 1970, he enrolled in the MBA program. Graduating first in his class, he interviewed with Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble. He didn't consider banking until a classmate, Henry Williamson, suggested BB&T. They joined the bank together in the summer of 1972. Scott Reed, another young MBA out of UNC Chapel Hill, started then, too.
That BB&T little resembled the bank of today, which has assets of $165.8 billion and offices in 12 states, from Maryland to Texas. Based in Wilson, where its roots reached back to 1872, it was a sleepy outfit that mostly did farm loans. Banking was stubbornly boring back then; most bankers didn't fancy themselves innovators. They were burghers more likely to have low golf handicaps than a grasp of high finance. Outwardly typical, BB&T had begun to upgrade. A year before hiring King, it had hired Allison, a Carolina graduate who would earn his MBA at Duke. Ken Chalk, another ECU MBA, soon arrived. Often, guys like this feel a need to compete and one-up each other, but these five bonded over baseball, backyard barbecues and banking. They didn't know it then, but they all would spend their careers at BB&T — five friends working side by side for more than three decades.
If their relationships were placid, work life wasn't. BB&T gurgled with conflict in the '70s as two senior executives fought for control. One, Vincent Lowe, wanted modernization. The other, Al Wiley, resisted. "Mr. Wiley was from the old school — very dictatorial and autocratic," King recalls. "Those two were really going at it, battling it out all the time." The CEO, Thorne Gregory, was oblivious. "Thorne was a prince of a human being but didn't know squat about banking," King says. Born into the business — his father had been one of the organizers in 1906 of Bank of Halifax, which merged with BB&T in 1968 — his real love was politics. Gregory served five terms in the General Assembly, where he had chaired, among other things, the House banking and finance committees. "He spent most of his time in Raleigh," King says
As Raleigh city executive, King regularly lunched with his boss, who one day asked if he thought everything was OK at BB&T. King was aghast. "I said, 'No, no, it's not OK, Thorne. You've got Wiley and Lowe fighting it out, and a number of us are getting frustrated. You could lose some key people.'" Gregory seemed surprised. "He looked at me as innocent as a 5-year-old and said, 'What should I do?' I'm like 28 years old, but I said, 'You should get us in a room and get the feedback.' I had to go back to Vincent and tell him. I had to call the other guys and say that Thorne wanted to meet with us. We all could've been fired on the spot."
At the meeting, Gregory listened, poker-faced. Soon, he fired Wiley and named Lowe chief operating officer. "Vincent organized all five of us under him." In 1982, Gregory died unexpectedly. Lowe stepped into his job and made Allison COO. That could have curdled cohesion but didn't: Nobody disputed Allison's smarts. (He reads philosophy for fun and, in retirement, teaches at Wake Forest University.) Besides, Lowe was in his mid-40s, and they figured he would probably be chief executive for the next 20 years.
King doesn't deny he had designs on being the boss somewhere someday. The ambition that led him to leave the farm still burned. It had earned him a good job, a nice salary and a house on a lake. He was married, with his first of two children. He was also miserable. "I went through this period of deep introspection. I thought about life. About death. I wanted to understand all the pieces and why they weren't working for me. I was in an unhappy marriage — that was part of it. When I got through with it all, I pulled over to the side of the road one day and cried like a baby and said, 'God, I don't understand who you are or what you are, but I've decided that something is greater than me.'" He had been raised religious but attended church mostly to maintain appearances. "I had a shallow faith." The crisis changed him. He joined a Bible study with Reed. He would eventually teach Sunday school.
Belief is one of the few things that divided what would come to be known as the "Gang of Five." King, Reed, Williamson and Chalk were Christians, but Allison became a proponent of philosopher Ayn Rand. Today, Rand's Objectivism, with its emphasis on rational self-interest, draws attention for its celebration of capitalism. Just as central to her thinking is rejection of religion, which she considered the negation of reason. When asked about Allison's views, King says: "We're 180 degrees apart on that, but on business matters we're 99% alike." The precept on which he and Allison had the greatest unanimity was the need to expand. Banking was headed for greater deregulation. BB&T needed scale to compete. Once Allison became CEO in 1989 — Lowe, too, had died unexpectedly — the five friends aligned behind that goal.
Thus they marched across the South, doing about 60 bank and thrift acquisitions. Their approach resembled those of competitors: seize opportunities as they arose and squeeze efficiencies out of acquired banks. If there was a difference, it was discipline. BB&T was intent on not overpaying and seldom did. It didn't covet any particular part of the country for its own sake; the five didn't need to have a presence in California or New York to show that they mattered, avoiding such costly missteps as Charlotte-based Wachovia's acquisition of Golden West Financial. The key deal came in 1995 with Southern National Corp. The banks were roughly the same size, but what was billed as a merger of equals ended up looking like a friendly takeover. Allison remained CEO, with King, Williamson, Reed and Chalk clustered around him. The only noticeable difference was that they moved the headquarters from Wilson to Winston-Salem. The Twin City's days as the state's commercial center were past, but it sat athwart the thriving urban crescent that stretched from Charlotte to Raleigh.
As much as is possible in modern banking, BB&T developed a niche, says Dick Bove, a bank analyst with Stamford, Conn.-based Rochdale Securities. It focused on lending to small and medium-sized Southeastern companies. "Wachovia and Bank of America were selling uniform products through uniform delivery systems," he says, while BB&T developed a suite of products tailored to its target customers. In addition to basic banking, it offered insurance and receivables factoring, among other things. "BB&T's customer base wasn't the guy making a lot of rotten mortgages. It wasn't the speculative home builder. It was businesses operating in their home market." It also was conservative in underwriting its loans, which is why it managed to chug through the financial crisis without a money-losing quarter. "They dramatically outperformed other banks," Bove says. "Wachovia isn't in business anymore. Bank of America lost staggering amounts of money. SunTrust [based in Atlanta] can't seem to find a profit." For 2009, BB&T reported net income of $877 million, $1.15 a diluted share, compared with a profit of $1.5 billion, $2.71 a share, in 2008.
Another tenet of the five's management philosophy was orderly succession. They didn't want to retire simultaneously and leave their bank floundering. COO Williamson left in 2004, succeeded by King. Chief Financial Officer Reed exited in 2005. Chalk, the chief lender, resigned in 2008. Allison surprised many people, announcing in August of that year that he would step down, though he would remain chairman through 2009. "I didn't even know when John planned to retire," King says. The logical successor, he had participated in every major decision of the past 25 years. Yet that didn't fully prepare him for the mess he stepped into.
The financial crisis had erupted earlier that year when regulators forced Bear Stearns' sale to JP Morgan Chase. In September, they rattled markets around the world by letting Lehman Brothers fail. The next month, they ushered Wachovia into a deal with Wells Fargo. Credit markets dried up that fall. "It was scary," King recalls. "There were days where money was not moving. You knew that it was critical enough that it could create a downward spiral that would be really bad for everybody. Once you create a massive panic, everybody is going to be at every bank's door. Then I don't care how strong you are. If all of our clients show up tomorrow morning and want all of their money, we don't have it."
No bank seemed immune, and their stocks were plummeting. BB&T's slid from about $40 to about $25 a share in the last quarter of 2008. (As of early June, it had recovered somewhat, trading at $30.52 a share, up about 20% in 2010. For the last five years, it's down 25% but has outperformed the Dow Jones bank-stock index.) The government's solution to the crisis was the Troubled Asset Relief Program — direct investments in the biggest banks. Regulators didn't want a replay of the Great Depression. "They said, 'We're going to give this money to the healthy banks so they'll make more loans,'" King says. "There's never been one short sentence with so many inaccuracies in it. It was no gift. The investment was pretty doggone expensive. They didn't give it to the healthy banks — they gave it to the biggest banks. Then they said they were going to give it so we'd make loans. The healthy banks were already making loans."
King believed that ailing banks should have been forced to file for bankruptcy and sound ones shouldn't have been forced to take the money. He worried that TARP would stigmatize BB&T, which turned out true: "I'd talk to people and they'd say, 'I thought you guys were a good bank, but you took TARP, didn't you?'" It received $3.1 billion, handing over preferred stock in exchange. Why didn't King just refuse? "I think if we had said we weren't going to do it, they would've said, 'Then we'll judge you to be undercapitalized.' Once they do that, then they can proceed to close you down." A Treasury spokeswoman wouldn't comment on his contention. But at the time, officials said banks needed an infusion of federal funds to bring calm. Later events proved them right. Markets did settle, and no other company failed in the chaotic fashion of Lehman. But the price of intervention was that sound banks such as BB&T had to swallow the same bitter medicine as shaky outfits like Citigroup.
To leave TARP, banks had to raise capital by selling common shares. King also elected to cut the dividend. He knew shareholders would protest but saw little choice: In addition to pressure from regulators, internal projections showed loan losses rising. Here, the salesmanship he had been practicing since boyhood came into play. He had to pitch his plan both to institutional investors and to existing large shareholders. "Daryl Bible, my CFO, and I locked ourselves in a room from 7 o'clock in the morning until 7 o'clock at night. We were on the phone with large institutions that could potentially buy a lot of our stock. We'd talk to them for 30 or 45 minutes and answer their questions. Simultaneously, I had my other executives divide up the top several hundred of our shareholders and call them and tell them what was going on. Mostly they understood. They didn't like it, but with the exception of one or two, took it in stride." In May 2009, BB&T raised $1.7 billion. It exited TARP the following month.
The government's dealings with BB&T weren't done. A few months later, regulators called again — only this time their entreaties weren't unwelcome. They wanted BB&T to bid for Colonial BancGroup in Birmingham, Ala. Colonial's CEO had already approached King about a deal, but he had passed: Colonial looked like a tar pit of bad real-estate loans. Besides, King suspected he might have another, better chance if regulators seized the bank. That's what happened in August. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. "effectively put it into an auction," he says. "We found out about it one Friday night and had until the following Tuesday to make our bid. That Thursday night, they told us we had it."
BB&T would own Colonial, with 350 branches and 4,500 employees, in less than 24 hours. By the close of business that Friday — Aug. 14 — those folks would be working for an out-of-state company that many of them knew only as an abbreviation. But two weeks earlier, King had made a bet, laying plans in case BB&T managed to snag Colonial. "We had 500 people on standby. We told them, 'We're working on a potential deal, and we want you to have your suitcase packed. You could be gone two or three weeks.' We had charter planes lined up. When we got the call, people went to the planes." On Aug. 14, the FDIC sent an e-mail to Colonial employees, informing them of the deal. "The minute that that e-mail went out, our people walked up to the doors of all of those branches and said, 'Hello, I'm from BB&T.'"
If regulators were boogeyman during the financial crisis, they became BB&T's buddy with Colonial. The FDIC agreed to absorb the losses on a big slug of Colonial's riskier loans. Responsible for losses on only part of the portfolio, BB&T got the branches and $20 billion of deposits. The deal gives it a total of 1,800 branches and more than 30,000 employees. A possible downside is a significant expansion of the bank's Florida presence. Real estate, in a place dedicated to vacationing and retirement, accounts for a big part of the economy, which could delay recovery. And Florida is an extreme example of the challenges that BB&T faces throughout the sunny swath of America where it operates. More so than, say, New England, the Southeast hasn't recovered from the recession. Unemployment in Florida and the Carolinas, for example, remains higher than the national rate.
Thus BB&T's provision for loan losses has risen over the last several years. "They have lots of commercial real estate on their books, and it's possible that the commercial real-estate risk hasn't peaked yet," says Jaime Peters, an analyst with Morningstar. That could continue to hamper profits. But the bank, she says, will be well positioned when the region's economy does improve. "BB&T is one of the few banks that will come out of this crisis stronger than it went in. They've built up their capital. And the sunshine that brought all the growth to Florida hasn't gone away."
So in many ways, as far as he's come, King is back in that tobacco field. You break your back planting, hoeing, worming, suckering, topping and pulling, but you can't work the weather, which ultimately controls your crop. Still, you do your best to make it thrive under any and all conditions. BB&T has been well-tended. Credit that to Kelly King and four close friends.


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Forests disappearing since 2000? Google cloud maps global changesPublication: NBC News Date: November 14, 2013 View Article
In this era of big data, anyone can now see how and where the world's forests are changing thanks to a new mapping project made possible, in part, by the computing resources of the tech giant Google.
The map compiles 100-foot-resolution satellite images of Earth's land area taken each season, every year between 2000 and 2012, to paint a picture of where trees were lost or gained. Globally, the map shows that 888,000 square miles of forest were lost between 2000 and 2012. In the same period, 309,000 square miles were gained.


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Aros wrote:I think 9-7 is most realistic. That's giving them plenty of respect. But based on what I've seen on the road this year, I just can't see more than that.
Actually, scratch that. 8-8 is most realistic IMO. I hate to say it, but there she be.
gargantual wrote:Rooting for the AFC? Meaning so whoever goes into the playoffs instead of us get beat?
Not sure what you meant (and not saying there's anything wrong with that either I guess).
MontanaHawk05 wrote:I went with 10-6. Pete is all about "finishing strong" and it's a great time to do that. Wilson's newfound pocket presence and red-zone efficiency should prove to be propulsive benchmarks for this offense. We'll be able to outscore NFC West offenses at home that we couldn't on the road with a young offense, and our defense won't have to deal with another scoring machine like Tom Brady or Matt Stafford this year.
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Despite malpractice payouts, sheriffs still use jail doctor
More than $1 million has been paid out in Illinois since 2010 to settle lawsuits filed against Dr. Stephen A. Cullinan, a Peoria physician who has been sued dozens of times for substandard care in jails throughout the Midwest.
Despite a history of lawsuits and payouts, Cullinan's company, called Health Professionals Limited, is still used by sheriffs throughout Illinois, some of whom have accepted campaign contributions from the firm. While the state is supposed to make public malpractice settlements involving physicians, at least one settlement is missing from an Illinois Department of Professional Regulation database that is supposed to keep consumers informed about physician discipline and malpractice cases.
The most recent settlement came Nov. 28, when Cullinan settled a case in Sangamon County for $737,500, according to figures recently made public by the Department of Professional Regulation. Although the department does not make public any details of settlements, the settlement timing corresponds with the resolution of a federal lawsuit filed by the family of Maurice Burris, who died in 2007 after a perforated ulcer went untreated in the Sangamon County jail.
Cullinan could not be reached for comment. Kathy Gallo, Health Professionals contact person listed on the company's website, said that she doubted the company would have a comment but would forward a message to the firm's legal department. Cullinan, who co-founded the firm, which is now a subsidiary of Correctional Healthcare Companies, is the company's regional medical director.
It's not clear whether Cullinan or an insurer paid the Burris settlement. Malpractice insurance isn't mandatory in Illinois, and the state does not make public whether a doctor is insured.
Six months before Burris died, Jason Waggener, an inmate in the Macoupin County jail, was found sitting in a pool of blood with a compound fracture to his lower leg, which appeared gangrenous. He had broken his ankle and suffered a head injury three days earlier after suffering a seizure in the jail. Rather than send him to an orthopedic surgeon, as an emergency room physician recommended, authorities returned Waggener to the jail, where he became delusional, removed his splint and walked around, according to Waggener's lawsuit against Cullinan and the county. His leg was ultimately amputated below the knee.
The Illinois County Risk Management Trust, Macoupin County's insurer, paid $339,880 to settle the case, with the county paying a $5,000 deductible, according to records obtained through a formal request to the sheriff's office and county board. In a December interview, Macoupin County sheriff Donald Albrecht had said that he did not know how much the county paid Waggener, who is now on parole for aggravated criminal sexual abuse. Similarly, officials at the county board last month said they could locate no records regarding the settlement memorialized in federal court records.
Albrecht, a Democrat, is one of at least four sheriffs in Illinois who have accepted campaign contributions from Health Professionals while contracting with the company to provide medical care for inmates. The company, which tends to back Republicans ranging from Aaron Schock to Ray LaHood, gave Albrecht $400 before Waggener lost his leg and an additional $1,100 after he sued. Albrecht could not be reached for comment this week, but he said last month that Cullinan still provides care for inmates and that he believes the doctor does a good job.
Counties throughout Illinois contribute to the risk-management trust that insures Macoupin County. It's not clear how much Cullinan or his insurer paid Waggener, but state records show that the doctor settled a case for $130,000 at about the same time as the Macoupin County lawsuit was resolved in 2010.
If anything, records kept by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation understate the seriousness of Cullinan's record in settling malpractice cases. In Indiana, Cullinan last year told the state Professional Licensing Agency that he had settled a malpractice case in Oklahoma in 2009 for $17,500 after an inmate whose criminal charges were ultimately dismissed alleged that he had not gotten prescribed medication or proper treatment after he was injured when another inmate attacked him. Cullinan also told Indiana authorities that Health Professionals settled the Waggener case for $255,000.
Cullinan's public file at the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation contains no mention of malpractice settlements of either $255,000 or $17,500. The department is supposed to make public any malpractice awards or settlements. Susan Hofer, department spokeswoman, said that the department's public database went online in October.
"We are in the process of going through older cases to add this type of information to the site," Hofer wrote in an email message.
Cullinan was ordered to appear before the Indiana Medical Licensing Board in 2009 after he failed to disclose a $10,000 fine levied earlier that year by authorities in Michigan who found that he had withheld prescribed psychotropic drugs from mentally ill patients without examining them or their charts or notifying the prescribing physician. Cullinan was supposed to disclose any discipline taken by another state as part of a license renewal process. The Indiana board in a 3-2 vote renewed Cullinan's license after a lawyer for Health Professionals' parent company testified that Cullinan's staff filled out the renewal form and that the doctor had not tried to deceive the board.
In a written explanation about the Michigan matter, Cullinan told Indiana authorities that Health Professionals had implemented procedures to "ensure continuity of medications" when someone with a prescription gets arrested. But Cullinan and his company have failed to provide prescribed drugs to inmates in Illinois and elsewhere, before and after Michigan fined the doctor, according to lawsuits filed against Cullinan and his company.
Cullinan and his company last year settled a lawsuit filed by the mother of Roy Wireman, Jr., who suffered seizures and died in an Indiana jail in 2009 after failing to receive prescribed Xanax. It's not clear why the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation public database contains no record of the Wireman settlement that court records show was reached in September.
In Illinois, Cullinan and his firm are defendants in a federal lawsuit filed last fall by the family of Robert Awalt, an epileptic who died in the Grundy County jail in 2010 after he was denied anti-seizure medication that had been prescribed.
During a 2004 meeting called by judges and others concerned that inmates in La Crosse County, Wis., weren't getting prescribed medication, a Health Professionals physician acknowledged giving inmates "drug holidays" to see if they could go without prescriptions. Three months later, a La Crosse County judge ordered jailers to take an inmate out of the jail to a county mental health clinic each day because a Health Professionals doctor refused to provide a prescribed psychotropic drug commonly used to treat schizophrenia.
Michael Goldberg, a Chicago lawyer who represents physicians accused of malpractice, said that the Department of Professional Regulation can discipline doctors for gross negligence if the department can show either a single egregious mistake – amputating the wrong limb, for instance – or if a doctor keeps repeating the same mistake. Repeated failure to provide drugs could qualify, Goldberg said.
Cullinan has, presumably, already been investigated by the Department of Professional Regulation, given that malpractice settlements and discipline levied in other states are supposed to trigger investigations in Illinois where, until recently, Health Professionals held state contracts worth millions of dollars.
Since 2007, the state has paid more than $96.5 million to Cullinan's company for health care provided to the Department of Juvenile Justice and the Department of Corrections, which until last summer contracted with Health Professionals for medical care in four prisons, including Vandalia Correctional Center, Southwestern Illinois Correctional Center, Centralia Correctional Center and Taylorville Correctional Center. The Department of Corrections re-bid the contract in August and no longer uses Health Professionals. Stacey Solano, corrections spokeswoman, said that the department had no dissatisfaction with the company.
An unattributed quote on the website of Correctional Healthcare Companies, the parent firm of Health Professionals, touts Cullinan's company as a money-saver for jail administrators:
"We look at HPL as preventative. What we pay is a fraction of what you'd pay with a lawsuit."
In Sangamon County, which is self-insured, taxpayers paid $60,000 to Burris and nearly $300,000 to attorneys who handled the lawsuit filed by his family. The county terminated its contract with Health Professionals nine months after Burris died and one month after Sheriff Neil Williamson received a report from a consultant who concluded that health care was still lacking in the jail, despite Burris' death.
"The report was influential, I would say," Williamson said. "We lost faith, and we were wanting to go in a different direction."
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Billy Gilman Drops Powerful New Music Video for 'The Choice'
We previously reported that former country child protege Billy Gilman had united 18 of the biggest names in country music to sing on his song 'The Choice.' With the song, Gilman is teaming up with the organization Soles4Souls to bring shoes to kids across the globe who don't have any. The artists are donating 100 percent of the proceeds from the song's digital downloads directly to the cause. This week, Gillman released a music video to further the reach of the charitable single.
Incredibly, one song download translates to one pair of shoes for a child in need. You won't see any celebrity cameos in the music video aside from Gilman, but country fans will hear some very familiar voices, including Alan Jackson and Reba McEntire — the first two voices heard on the track — as well as Keith Urban, LeAnn Rimes, Rodney Atkins, Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Montgomery Gentry, Steve Holy, Wynonna Judd, Richie McDonald, Ronnie Milsap, Craig Morgan, Kellie Pickler, Diamond Rio, Randy Travis, Josh Turner and even Kenny Rogers. Just try to pick them all out!
The video shows a young boy — who seems to have everything he needs and more — donating his fiery red Chuck Taylor shoes in a shoe drive. The footage then follows those shoes as they make their way onto a plane, into an African village and onto the feet of a child in need.
According to the video, half of the people in the world do not even own a pair of shoes and 300 million of them are children. Gilman and his country crew are working toward donating 500,000 pairs of shoes through the sales of their song. The song is available for download on iTunes.
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Events for New Members or First-Timers
Helpful information for first time attendees of the Annual Conference is available on the Annual Conference First Timer Page. This page includes details on the structure of ALA, program and meeting suggestions by job type, and informtion on orientation programs.
SATELLITE REGISTRATION: ALA will have three satellite registration areas for pre-registered attendees to pick up their credentials prior to the convention center. Onsite registrants must go to the Washington Convention Center to register. Satellite registration will be located at the Washington Hilton, Marriott Crystal City and Fairmont Hotel on Thursday, June 21
LIBRARY/INFORMATION SCIENCE STUDENTS: Come learn about the ALA's many divisions at Cafe ALA, sponsored by the New Members Round Table. This free event is open to all, regardless of membership in ALA or NMRT. See Cafe ALA for details.
- 1 ALA Ambassadors Help Make the Connection
- 2 Conference 101 Programs
- 3 Learn More about Library Tech Services at the ALCTS Open House
- 4 YALSA Member Happy Hour
- 5 Coming to D.C.? Not sure where to eat or what to do?
- 6 Using Past Lives to Launch Your Library Career
- 7 Launch Yourself!: Discover how an ALA internship leads to leadership in the profession
- 8 Advice from Sally Decker Smith, an ALA Ambassador
ALA Ambassadors Help Make the Connection
First time attendees: ALA wants your first Annual Conference to be extraordinary. Stop by the Ambassador's Booth in Registration, or the ALA Membership Pavilion at booth 2525 in the exhibits, to talk with a long-time conference goer. ALA Ambassadors help you make connections to programs, people and places before conference so that your time there can be well spent. Ask the questions YOU need answered before you go. And at conference, ALA Ambassadors can be identified their Name Tags – stop anyone anytime in the halls to ask.
Conference 101 Programs
ALA Divisions and Round Tables will be sponsoring Conference 101 programs throughout the weekend. These 101 programs will help you plan how to 'do' conference based on the kind of work you do, or the type of library where you work. Get expert advice on programs to attend, exhibitors to visit, parties to frequent, and ways to get the most out of conference. Visit Conference 101 for a full list. Plan to do at least one of these great networking and information events.
Learn More about Library Tech Services at the ALCTS Open House
Enthusiastic, active ALCTS members will help you consider Your ALCTS Experience, whether begining a new one, jumpstarting a lapsed one, or enhancing an existing one. Everyone is welcome to this fun, informal affair, including:
•first-timers at an ALA Annual, who might be looking for guidance
•newer, not-yet-active ALCTS or ALA members looking for opportunities
•long-time, die-hard ALCTS members looking for inspiration and energy
Members representing ALCTS' sections, discussion and interest groups, publishing, leadership, program events, and continuing education will be available to discuss their experiences and give practical advice on how to develop your own involvement. Special feature: Expert advice on how tech services specialists can get the most out of Annual 2007. Come on over to room 151A at the Washington Convention Center on Friday, June 22 from 7 to 9 pm. Dessert and beverages will be served.
YALSA Member Happy Hour
Friday, June 22, 5:00-7:00 p. m. Old Dominion Brewery, which has the
convenience of being located right at the Convention Center. Join members and those interested in joining YALSA to mingle at this informal Happy Hour! Please go to the private room for half price appetizers and discounted spirits!
Coming to D.C.? Not sure where to eat or what to do?
Take a look at the handy guide What to Do and See in Washington, D.C. (PDF), created by the YALSA Local Arrangements committee.
Using Past Lives to Launch Your Library Career
Join us to learn how others have launched their careers with skills they learned in previous careers. Topics covered will include highlighting these skills in the job search, in resumes and interviews, as well as, using the skills on the job.
Panel members have had a variety of job experience, including working as a bouncer, truck driver, secretary, fundraiser, manager, and sports marketer. Panel Members are Aaron Dobbs, Alanna Aiko Moore, Bruce Stoffel, Maureen Barry, and Liorah Golomb.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
JW Marriott Hotel in the Commerce Room
Launch Yourself!: Discover how an ALA internship leads to leadership in the profession
If you are looking to get involved in ALA, this program is for you! ALA is driven by the many voices of its members. Committees are the primary avenue through which these voices are empowered. This event will explore the ALA internship program. You will hear from interns and committee chairs. Witness the success stories of past interns who have launched themselves into greater roles within our profession and association.
Sunday, June 24, 2007 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Advice from Sally Decker Smith, an ALA Ambassador
As you walk around your first ALA, most likely feeling a little overwhelmed by the entire experience, you might think that everyone there knows everyone else, except you, particularly if you are the only representative from your library. You might dread meals alone to the point that you skip them, or pick up some fast food to eat in your room. Resist the temptation to impersonate a hermit... these Suggestions for New-Bees might help.


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Late Night at Bolton Valley
Date: Jan 16 2015
"What's everyone doing on Friday night?"
It's arguably the most commonly uttered phrase in the post-Wednesday workplace. You've had a long week. You're tired of the daily grind and all you want is to have a little fun, maybe get outside and exercise and enjoy some cheap F&B. Sound familiar? We're here for you. Come over to our house and join in the fun.
Back by popular demand, Late Night at Bolton Valley will now occur every Friday night! We'll keep our doors open and the lifts running until 10 p.m. - That means you'll have an extra two hours of night skiing at the start of your weekend. Lift tickets will be just $19 from 7-10 p.m.
Not good enough? Say no more. Let's throw in weekly drink specials on tap at the James Moore Tavern and dinner service until 10pm. We'll also have live entertainment every Friday from 9pm to midnight.
Still want more? Deal. Over at Fireside Flatbread, late night food until at least 11pm.
So come play at our house on Friday nights! The trails in our backyard are buried in snow. What line will you choose?
Music Line Up:
Dec. 12 - Mike Pederson
Dec. 19 - Zach Nuggent (from Dead Sets)
Dec. 26 - 80's Night with Supersounds
Jan. 2 - Bear Jam with Britt Kuserow
Jan. 9 - Chad Hollister
Jan. 16 - Justice VT
Jan. 23 - 80's Night with Supersounds
Jan. 30 - Chasing Days
Feb. 6 - Bandanna
Feb. 13 - Radio Flyer
Feb. 20 - Zach Nuggent (from Dead Sets)
Feb. 27 - 80's Night with Supersounds
March 6 - A Fly Allusion
March 13 - Full Cleveland
March 20 - Woedoggies


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The People's Choice Awards are going down tonight and we are so excited for the performances! Among those taking the stage are Jason Aldean, girl power lover Alicia Keys, and our Latina Diva Christina Aguilera! Kelly Cuoco will be hosting again, which is exciting because she always looks stunning, and she's nominated again for The Big Bang Theory. Obvi the best part of this awards show is that you get to pick the winners. So who's on the list of possible Latino winners tonight?
Sofia Vergara is up for Best Comedic TV Actress
Christina Aguilara, Demi Lovato, and Jennifer Lopez all up for Best Celeb Judge
Cameron Diaz for Best Comedic Actress
Demi Lovato for Favorite Pop Artist
Pitbull for Favorite Hip Hop Artist
Bruno Mars for Favorite R&B Artist
And lastly Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato are nominated for Fave Music Fan Following with the Selenators and the Lovatics
Who are you most excited to see tonight?
Be sure to catch the awards tonight at 9 p.m. on CBS! Love fashion? The red carpet show starts at 8!
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Ancho Chicken Enchiladas
Happy Cinco De Mayo, everyone!!
I've been diligently eating Mexican food on Uno, Dos, Tres, and Quatro De Mayo all week, in order to fully prepare for the big day today (including multiple batches of my favorite homemade salsa and margaritas, of course, plus a surprise birthday lunch at one of my favorite local taco spots on Tuesday). But then when I arrived in Salt Lake City yesterday for a conference, I was stoked to find out that my friends here already had plans for us to eat even more Mexican food today and tomorrow. So heck, I figure I might as well round things out and enjoy the final leftovers of these ancho chicken enchiladas on Sunday to make this a veritable Mexican food feast WEEK!
My kind of way to begin the month of May, right there. ? ? ? ?
Also, I'm convinced you need these enchiladas in your life this weekend too.
As many of you saw on my Instagram stories, I made a big batch of these enchiladas early in the week to have on hand for various Mexican food fiestas throughout the week. But this particular recipe — a riff on my favorite chicken enchiladas recipe — happens to be made with one special ingredient…
…ancho chile powder!
Do you have this one in your spice cabinet? If not, I highly recommend picking up a little jar. Ancho chiles are simply roasted poblano chiles, and their flavor when ground up into spices is extra earthy and smoky and ?. Heads up – different brands can vary with their levels of spiciness (heat). But in general, ancho chile powder is slightly spicier than traditional American chili powder, and I love the extra kick it brings to this recipe.
As always with me and homemade enchiladas, I will urge you to take the extra time (which you can also multitask with prepping the enchiladas) to make homemade sauce to go on these enchiladas…which is always worth it. And hey, while you're at it, go ahead and make a double batch so that you can use it in another recipe later in the week. It's so delicious and so versatile!
To make the enchiladas, just prepare your sauce ahead of time (or on the side), and then sauté some chicken (or you can use pre-cooked shredded chicken, see note below) along with some onions, diced green chiles, and beans to go in your enchilada filling. Then roll it up with cheese in some tortillas, line them up in a baking dish, smother lots of extra enchilada sauce and cheese on top…
…and bake them until the cheese is nice and melted and the tortillas are a little bit crispy around the edges…
…then dish them UP.
I love serving mine with some fresh avocado, cilantro, and maybe some extra sour cream or cotija cheese on top. But feel free to go with whatever on earth sounds delicious to you. And enjoy every last bite.
Perfect for Cinco de Mayo, or Mexican-food-filled birthday weeks, or any day you're craving some seriously delicious enchiladas.
Enjoy, amigos!
Ancho Chicken Enchiladas
Enchilada Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons avocado oil or vegetable oil, or any other neutral oil
- 1 small white onion peeled and diced
- 1.5 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts diced into small 1/2-inch pieces (*or see substitution below for using pre-cooked shredded chicken)
- salt and pepper
- 1 4-ounce can diced green chiles
- 1 15.5-ounce can pinto beans, rinsed and drained
- 8 large flour tortillas
- 3 cups Mexican-blend shredded cheese
- 1 batch Ancho Enchilada Sauce see below
- chopped fresh cilantro for topping
Ancho Enchilada Sauce Recipe:
- 2 tablespoons avocado oil or vegetable oil, or any other neutral oil
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose or gluten-free flour
- 4 tablespoons ancho chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano
- 2 cups chicken or vegetable stock
To Make The Enchiladas:
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Prepare your enchilada sauce.
- In large saute pan, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add onion and saute for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add diced chicken and green chiles, and season with salt and pepper. Saute for 6-8 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until the chicken is cooked through. Remove from heat and set aside.
- To assemble the enchiladas, set up an assembly line including: tortillas, enchilada sauce, beans, chicken mixture, and cheese. Lay out a tortilla, and spread two tablespoons of sauce over the surface of the tortilla. Add beans in a line down the middle of the tortilla, then add in a spoonful of the chicken mixture, then sprinkle with 1/3 cup cheese. Roll up tortilla and place in a greased 9 x 13-inch baking dish. Repeat with the remaining ingredients. Then spread the remaining enchilada sauce on top of the tortillas, and sprinkle on the remaining shredded cheese.
- Bake uncovered for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and serve immediately, garnished with chopped fresh cilantro if desired.
To Make The Ancho Enchilada Sauce:
- Heat oil in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Add flour and whisk together over the heat for one minute. Stir in the remaining seasonings (chili powder through oregano). Then gradually add in the stock, whisking constantly to remove lumps. Reduce heat and simmer 10-15 minutes until slightly thickened.
- Use immediately or refrigerate in an air-tight container for up to 3 days. (I like to use mason jars or Weck jars to store this sauce.)
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26 comments on "Ancho Chicken Enchiladas"
These look fabulous and love the recipe for the sauce. It's cold and rainy in NJ today so might have to make these to warm up!!
These look INCREDIBLE! Homemade sauces are perfect because I can control the heat. Can't wait to try this one! I also love the idea of using avocado oil; I have yet to cook with it but need to get some! Thanks for the inspiration! :)
Hi I commented a couple of days ago about the ads on your website, and how annoying they were…
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PS- Totally making these for dinner tonight!!
I love the combo of ingredients for the filling!! These look incredible!! Can't wait to make them!!
Wow these look AWESOME!!
There is literally no better food that Mexican Food. Thank God I live in the southwest!
So pretty! I love the color and I bet the taste is delish!
yum yum made these and they were so good, and easy ! Thanks.
I always love trying new enchilada recipes and these will certainly be my next to try! They look fantastic!
Just stumbled across this recipe and am wondering what other uses you've found for that enchilada sauce!


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Bananas are the new apple.
Not that apples have been totally displaced as healthy. The old saw of "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" is still as true as it ever was.
After all, roughage is roughage, whatever the form.
And the visual of apples being offered as gifts or bribes is an ancient one.
However, at Wimbledon, it was not apples tucked under the referee's perch, but a couple of bananas, that the TV cameras briefly espied.
Who ate them? We'll never know. I did learn that bananas eaten shortly before exercise are most beneficial.
Daughter Tamela has had me on a breakfast menu of yogurt, pineapple, strawberries and blueberries, flax seed and yes, bananas.
All this is to make me healthy, wealthy and wise. Tamela is an optimist of the first order.
I have become a pseudo expert on the care and shelf life of bananas, simply because, I hate mushy bananas.
Mushy bananas are well, they are mushy. Great for smoothies, banana pudding and that delicious addition to anyone's diet, banana bread, but yucky bananas eaten straight out of the peel are an affront to the palate.
I am not alone. In one supermarket, bananas were grouped into a pile of "Eat Later" and "Eat Now."
Are the organic bananas priced at a third more per pound healthier? Sweeter?
The modern history of bananas is brief but interesting. Minor Keith, Brooklyn born, went to Costa Rica in the 1870s to work on a railroad project for his uncle Henry Meiggs.
Looking for an inexpensive way to feed his workers, he planted banana cuttings next to the railroad tracks. In that tropical climate,they grew swiftly and were found to indeed be a nutritional part of the crew's diet.
By the 1920s, bananas were touted in the United States as a beneficial first food for infants and from there, the consumption of bananas took off worldwide.
United Fruit, a company that dominated the economic as well as the political life of Honduras, Guatemala and Costa Rica, initiated one of the most successful PR ads with its cartoon character Senorita Chiquita Banana based on the celebrated entertainer, Carmen Miranda.
The machinations of the companies like United Fruit and Dole which interfered with the governments of these Central American countries gave us the catch phrase, "Banana Republic."
Banana, the fruit with the bland almost innocuous but immediately identifiable flavor, has created many myths along the way.
For years, comedians have depended on a pratfall caused by a slippery banana peel to bring a laugh from the audience.
Fact: It takes a good while for a banana peel to rot before it becomes slippery.
Myth: Sailors refused to allow bananas on board, claiming they brought the ship bad luck.
Fact: Spiders and other stinging insects were wont to hide in the fingers of bananas unloaded from freighters. But, it was the stevedores who were bitten, sometimes, fatally who had the problem.
All this so we can have an extra bit of potassium and whatever benefits they offer to our daily diet.
Just, please, even if I have to keep them in the refrigerator and they turn a disgusting black, don't let my bananas be mushy.
Annelore Harrell lives in Bluffton and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – A league-leading 64
athletes represented MIT on the 2012 New England Women's and Men's
Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Spring Academic All-Conference Team.
The Engineers finished the year with a conference-high 138 honors
followed by WPI at 110.
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 2011 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.
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, WPI, and MIT.
Spring sports sponsored by the NEWMAC are: baseball, women's lacrosse, women's rowing, softball, men's tennis, and men's and women's track and field.
WPI secured the second-highest number of honorees with 54, followed by Springfield (39), and Smith (27). The following is a list of MIT's NEWMAC Academic All-Conference recipients:
Zach Carr
Aric Dama
Nick Davis
Grant Iwamoto
Andrew Jeanguenat
Sean Karson
Brandon Lowe
Bryan Macomber
Ricardo Perez
Jon Rea
Henry Zhu
Erica Du
Laura Lu
Molly McShane
Kaitlyn Nealon
Meghan Wright
Leah Alpert
Anna Christensen
Emily Creedon
Katie Harrington
Nydia Ruleman
Biafra Ahanonu
Troy Astorino
Andrew Cooper
Vlad Firoiu
Tymor Hamamasy
Elia Harmatz
Max Nelson
Brian Oldfield
Neel Patel
Michael Walsh
Track and Field
Justin Bullock
Brendan Ensor
Matthew Falk
Jared Forman
Yida Gao
Kyle Hannon
Jacob Jurewicz
Jay McKenna
Jordan Mizerak
Gilbert O'Neil
Daniel Ronde
Stephen Serene
Jeremy Sharpe
Tyler Singer-Clark
Logan Trimble
Chinedum Umachi
David Way
Matthew Weaver
Track and Field
Kaitlin Allen
Kristine Bunker
Marie Burkland
Martina de Geus
Abigail Klein
Jaclyn Konopka
Lauren Kuntz
Margaret Lloyd
Leslie Meyer
Tania Morimoto
Claire O'Connell
Melissa Showers
Alexandra Taylor
Louise van den Heuvel
Katherine Wymbs