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Sometimes, common sense is better than the letter of the law.
This concept came through in blaring fashion Tuesday when Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed had his one-game suspension for repeated flagrant hits reduced to a $50,000 fine by appeals officer Ted Cottrell.
Had the NFL's original discipline been enforced, Reed would have missed Sunday's game at the San Diego Chargers and been docked a whopping $423,529 — the amount of his game check — for a helmet-to-helmet hit Sunday night on Pittsburgh Steelers receiver Emmanuel Sanders at the end of a 20-yard catch.
Guess the appeals process can work — and fast.
Cottrell, a former longtime NFL defensive coach, ruled that while Reed's repeated flagrant fouls need to be addressed — that was his second helmet-to-helmet shot this season and third case dating to December 2010 — the play Sunday did not warrant the stiff penalty imposed by NFL rules-enforcer Merton Hanks.
In other words, that was not a half-million dollar hit.
"I do not believe your actions were so egregious as to subject you to a one-game suspension without pay," Cottrell wrote to Reed.
Cottrell, appointed jointly by the league and NFL Players Association to handle appeals, heard the case on Tuesday morning via a conference call that included Reed.
He concluded that even as the league cracks down on violent hits in the name of safety, Reed's transgression was not such a wicked example that the book needed to be thrown.
Sanders wasn't injured on the play, immediately popping up after the hit.
Even some Steelers players didn't view the hit as dirty.
While Reed indeed made helmet-to-helmet contact, he argued it was inadvertent. It's not like he launched himself at Sanders. And it's completely plausible he didn't aim to strike a blow to the head.
Reed, no doubt, went for the big blow, rather than wrapping up — which in itself might be problematic for a player who is playing with a torn labrum in his shoulder.
In any event, the reduction backs up the contention expressed Monday by Ravens coach John Harbaugh that Reed wasn't reckless on the play.
"I think John and his coaches do an excellent job of teaching the right, safe and legal way to play football," Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome said in a statement, "and we believe Ed clearly tries to play within the rules on every down."
Newsome, the Hall of Fame tight end, knows all about rules that are designed to enhance safety. He helps write the rules, as a key member of the league's competition committee.
He also knows the NFL had to act — given the league's war on dangerous hits by repeat offenders.
Oct. 17, 2010 was a turning point in the crackdown, when Steelers linebacker James Harrison, Atlanta Falcons cornerback Dunta Robinson and New England Patriots safety Brandon Meriweather all laid concussion-inducing hits on would-be pass catchers. After that, the NFL threatened suspensions for repeat violators — and debate bloomed.
Defenders typically contend it is difficult to adjust their strike zone against moving targets in a split-second. Bang-bang plays happen.
Still, with the issue of concussions and their often tragic aftermath exploding — including in the courts — the NFL must send messages.
Reed's hit was nothing like the blows that prompted a determined shift after that Sunday in October 2010. In fact, it wasn't even one of the two most punishing hits by a Ravens safety on Sunday.
Those would have been the smashing (and legal) sideline hit that Marcus Pollard put on Jerricho Cotchery near the end of game, and the thumping (and legal) blitz by James Ihedigbo that resulted in a seven-yard sack of Byron Leftwich.
Yet Reed drew a flag, as deserved.
Cottrell, though, put the penalty into perspective with the common-sense decision that allows the ball-hawking Reed to play Sunday.
That's too bad for Philip Rivers, the interception-plagued Chargers quarterback who won't catch a break.


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Winds of change blow on gadget factories in China
CHENGDU, China: One day last northern summer, Pu Xiaolan was halfway through a shift inspecting iPad cases when she received a beige wooden chair with white stripes and a high, sturdy back.
At first, Pu wondered if someone had made a mistake. But when her bosses walked by, they nodded curtly. So Pu gently sat down and leaned back. Her body relaxed.
The rumours were true.
When Pu was hired at this Foxconn plant a year earlier, she received a short, green plastic stool that left her unsupported back so sore that she could barely sleep at night. Eventually, she was promoted to a wooden chair, but the backrest was much too small to lean against. The managers of this 164,000-employee factory, she surmised, believed that comfort encouraged sloth.
But in March, unbeknown to Pu, a critical meeting had occurred between Foxconn's top executives and a high-ranking Apple official. The companies had committed themselves to a series of wide-ranging reforms. Foxconn, China's largest private employer, pledged to sharply curtail workers' hours and significantly increase wages — reforms that, if fully carried out next year as planned, could create a ripple effect that benefits tens of millions of workers across the electronics industry, employment experts say.
The changes also extend to California, where Apple is based. Apple, the electronics industry's behemoth, in the last year has tripled its corporate social responsibility staff, has re-evaluated how it works with manufacturers, has asked competitors to help curb excessive overtime in China and has reached out to advocacy groups it once rebuffed.
Executives at companies like Hewlett-Packard and Intel say those shifts have convinced many electronics companies that they must also overhaul how they interact with foreign plants and workers — often at a cost to their bottom lines, though, analysts say, probably not so much as to affect consumer prices.
Even with these reforms, chronic problems remain at overseas factories. Many laborers still work illegal overtime and some employees' safety remains at risk, according to interviews and reports published by advocacy organisations.
An inspector's push
"This is a disgrace!" shouted Terry Gou, founder and chairman of Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer and Apple's most important industrial partner.
It was March of this year and Gou — seen by activists as a longtime obstacle to improving conditions inside his factories — was meeting with his top deputies in Shenzhen, China. In 2011, The New York Times had begun sending Apple and Foxconn extensive questions about working conditions in factories manufacturing Apple products. The resulting articles in late January detailed problems ranging from excessive overtime and underage workers to sometimes deadly hazards. An explosion in Pu's Foxconn plant that killed four workers.
In January, Apple publicly released the names of many of its suppliers for the first time. Additionally, the company made the unusual move of joining the Fair Labor Association, one of the largest workplace monitoring groups. Auditors from that association were soon inspecting Apple's partners in China, starting with Foxconn.
Now, Gou was learning the results of those examinations. Foxconn was still failing to stop illegal overtime, the association's lead inspector told Gou and his lieutenants, according to multiple people with knowledge of the meeting. The company was failing to keep student interns off night shifts. Foxconn had not put sufficient safety policies into practice and had exposed potentially hundreds of thousands of workers to at least 43 violations of Chinese laws and regulations.
But the inspector was not done.
He turned to the only Apple executive in the room, the senior vice president for operations, Jeff Williams. Apple needed to change as well, the inspector said. Apple, to its credit, had been working for years to improve conditions in overseas factories, but the company was treating such problems too much like engineering puzzles, the inspector said.
"Long-term solutions require a messier, more human approach," that inspector, Auret van Heerden of the Fair Labor Association, told Williams. Instead of concentrating on writing more policies, Apple needed to listen better to workers' complaints and advocacy groups' recommendations.
Some of those suggestions surprised Williams, say people who worked with him. Since 2007, Apple had built one of the most extensive auditing programs in the electronics industry, inspecting more than 800 facilities. It was a point of pride for both Williams and the company's top leadership.
When Williams, who declined to comment for this article, returned from that March meeting to California, changes began. Among them, say people with firsthand knowledge, was the hiring of roughly 30 professionals into Apple's social responsibility unit in the last year, which tripled the size of that division and brought high-profile corporate activists into the company. Two widely respected former Apple executives — Jacky Haynes and Bob Bainbridge — were recruited back to help lead the unit, reporting ultimately to Williams and the chief executive, Timothy D. Cook who visited factories in March.
"Everyone knows Bob and Jacky," said a former Apple executive. "It sends a message that Jeff and Tim expect everyone to get on board."
"They know now if they don't participate, it is the same as saying nothing," Ma said.
Foxconn has also shifted. After the meeting with the Fair Labor Association, Foxconn announced that by July 2013, no employee would be allowed to work more than an average of 49 hours a week — the limit set by Chinese law. Previously, some Foxconn employees worked schedules that approached 100 hours a week. No other major manufacturer has pledged to abide by China's work-hour laws in such a public manner. Foxconn, which is based in Taiwan, also promised to increase wages, so employees' total pay would not decline despite fewer hours — the equivalent of a 50 per cent raise for many workers, analysts say.
A more human touch
Almost 200 miles southeast of the factory where Pu received her new chair is another plant that is experimenting with improving workers' quality of life — and shows the trade-offs of such gains.
The factory, in Chongqing, makes computers for Hewlett-Packard, a company with little of Apple's glamour. It is operated by Quanta, a little-known Taiwanese manufacturer.
Inside the plant, amid thousands of workers in bright white uniforms, are occasional flashes of pink worn by people like Zhang Xuemei, a bubbly 19-year-old with glinting earrings whose sole job is to chat with co-workers.
For eight hours a day, Zhang collects complaints about the factory's free meals and dorms. She listens to workers who are divorcing, homesick or arguing with managers. When she finds someone suffering, she refers them to the company's full-time doctor or professional counsellors.
Quanta's 10-story dormitories feel like a college campus. There is a free movie theater, television rooms, a large martial arts gym, two spacious karaoke bars, a huge cafeteria and an aerobics hall playing a Chinese remix of "Gangnam Style."
Neither Quanta nor Hewlett-Packard claims it has solved every labor woe. And the amenities are partly selfish: one of the biggest problems for Chinese factories is that workers are constantly leaving. Hewlett-Packard hopes that by improving living conditions, turnover and training costs will fall.
Change is hard
Hewlett-Packard also makes products at Foxconn factories, as does almost every major electronics firm. Foxconn, more than any other company, has proved that Chinese plants can deliver obsessive attention to quality. The company has helped make China into a manufacturing juggernaut through strict discipline that is visible everywhere, from the salutes employees give visiting executives to morning calisthenics for workers.
That discipline, say former Apple executives, is one reason every iPhone is put together so well.
It is also one reason the reforms enjoyed by employees like Pu — who received the new chair — have not spread quickly. Though Foxconn has trained managers to treat employees more gently, foremen still use profanity and intimidation, workers say.
"The managers speak in a manner that often feels like a threat," said Mou Kezhang, who works in iPad quality assurance at the Foxconn factory in Chengdu.
Foxconn, in a statement, said it had "always been among the fastest to adopt change and reform." Its policy, the company said, is "to treat employees with respect and if we find any transgressions, they are immediately investigated and addressed."
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NHL, NHLPA discuss contracting issues on Sundayby Corey Masisak
Members of the NHL's negotiating committee met Sunday with representatives of the National Hockey League Players' Association to again discuss the parameters of a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
The meeting at the League's Manhattan office, which lasted approximately 90 minutes, was focused on player-contracting issues.
Among the discussion points in the meeting were maximum contract length, variance on year-to-year salary within a contract, length of entry-level deals, salary arbitration and the timeline for restricted and unrestricted free agency.
"I think it is fair to say while there was a candid discussion on those issues and each side explained their position to the other, I don't think there was any progress on any of those issues," NHL Deputy Commissoner Bill Daly said. "We had substantially revised our player-contracting proposals over the course of the summer and in the offer we made to the players to save the 82-game season. We had limited them to what we consider very few tweaks to the system that we think will make the system better, will help us grow revenues in our view and obviously should heighten player salaries over time. Those are important issues to us. We've communicated that from Day One to the Players' Association.
"I would have hoped during the course of the past week they would have shown some movement on those issues toward us, knowing what our fundamental concerns are. And the message we basically got this week was, 'We know what your contracting proposals are and we're not prepared to agree to them.' From my perspective, we have some proposals on the table and the response at least at this point is, 'We can't accept them.' That does leave us in a difficult place."
The NHL and NHLPA have been without a CBA since Sept. 16.
Daly, NHLPA special counsel Steve Fehr and Los Angeles Kings forward Kevin Westgarth had what was deemed an informal lunch Saturday after four straight days of meetings, during which they discussed many of these same issues.
Both sides got back together Sunday in a more formal setting with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHLPA Executive Director Don Fehr taking part.
"From the beginning, it is sort of been, 'We want it, because that is our view of the world and we'd like to have it,' " Fehr said about the NHL's player-contracting proposals. "It just shifts all the risks against the players. It flies in the face of something really important.
"Players have two interests here. Interest No. 1 is how big the [players'] share is and that's not agreed upon yet either but the parties have at least moved on that. The second one is how does an individual player negotiate his piece of the pie, and the answer is that players will have vastly fewer rights, vastly less leverage for a vastly longer portion of their career under the NHL proposal."
Daly disagreed with Fehr's assertion that the NHL is unwilling to negotiate on specific contract issues, but also made it clear that this part of the CBA is very important to the NHL clubs.
"We think the system will operate better," Daly said. "Obviously, I think everyone knows that we've had concerns for a while about contracts that we feel are circumvention of the system and the cap and certainly that is definitely an issue we need to clean up. The other issue is allocating more dollars to more established players. That has been an important issue for us from Day One. It is something we hear from our general managers regularly. They believe they are forced to make talent assessments too early in a player's career, and it would be better for the game and their teams and the product and ultimately the revenues of the product if they could make those decisions a little later in a player's career. We're talking about one year, guys -- we're not talking about moving heaven and earth."
Representatives from both sides will be in Toronto on Monday for the Hockey Hall of Fame induction ceremony, and both Daly and Fehr said they expect a discussion on future negotiating sessions.
Fehr said he would like the location of the meetings to shift to Toronto, the location of the NHLPA's main office.
"I always like to look at the glass half full and not half empty, so I like to be optimistic," Daly said. "I don't know exactly where they are on economics. I hope we're getting closer in that regard. With respect to these issues, they are important issues and we heard from the players how important it is to them today. They heard from us how important they are to the clubs, but they are not a lot (of issues). If we can find some way to address our concerns on these issues, we can move this process forward."


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Voting online: still a rare exception
It takes a storm of historic proportions to push voting technology into the digital age.
On Saturday, New Jersey said it will permit voters displaced by Superstorm Sandy to vote electronically. Though voters have to confirm their e-vote with a follow-up mail-in ballot, county clerks said they were sending ballots to storm victims that could be cast by e-mail or fax.
"This has been an extraordinary storm that has created unthinkable destruction," Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno said in a statement about the decision. "To help alleviate pressure on polling places, we encourage voters to either use electronic voting or the extended hours at county offices to cast their vote."
After Hurricane Katrina smashed into New Orleans in 2005, the Louisiana government implemented similar measures.
Only in disaster
In California, only overseas and military personnel protected under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act can cast ballots via e-mail. Otherwise, no state precincts allow voters to cast their ballots via e-mail, and the state hasn't considered building a secure Web portal for voters.
Why does it take a catastrophe for any state to tap an everyday communication medium as a means to vote?
There are several explanations, depending on whom you ask.
Nick Judd, managing editor of tech-in-politics site TechPresident, points out that ballots are supposed to be secret and untraceable back to the voter, and that if votes are sent by e-mail, they'll create a record in the server that the provider - or even the government with a warrant - could access.
(In the cases of ballots from overseas military personnel, voters must waive their right to a secret ballot so the vote can be processed.)
Another concern: E-mail is not dependable. Servers can fail. And with encryption and security measures varying among e-mail providers, ensuring a secure transaction is tricky.
All of which raises some philosophical issues about voting online.
"The question is whether these risks outweigh the benefits," said University of Pennsylvania security researcher Matt Blaze. "And whether the technical and procedural safeguards that are in place are adequate to mitigate (those risks) under these rather unique circumstances."
Secure website
An alternative to voting by e-mail is a government-administered secure website that voters could access to submit ballots.
Many of us bank and shop online, daily sending reams of crucial personal information over the Internet. So it would seem to follow that governments could create similar infrastructure for voting.
But David Jefferson, a cybersecurity researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, argues strongly against a government voting portal. In a recent essay, he said that online security experts are nearly unanimous in their opposition to such a system. He argues that e-commerce transactions and voting - while seemingly similar on the surface - are very different behind the scenes.
"People have the illusion that e-commerce transactions are safe because merchants and banks don't hold consumers financially responsible for fraudulent transactions that they are the innocent victims of," he points out.
"Instead, the businesses absorb and redistribute the losses silently, passing them on in the invisible forms of higher prices, fees and interest rates. Businesses know that if consumers had to accept those losses personally, most online commerce would collapse."
No recompense
For online ballots, the equivalent would be a lost or altered vote. But unlike spreading costs around within a large bank, polling places can't compensate for erroneous votes.
Some supporters of online voting argue that vote tampering already occurs in the in-person and mail-in balloting procedures we now use, so we may as well modernize it.
"Then the question becomes, 'How many votes can we afford to lose?' " said Pamela Smith, president of the election-watching outfit Verified Voting Foundation. "I think it's none."
TechPresident's Judd is skeptical that a secure online voting portal is really possible, and isn't sure it's needed anyway.
"There's not a whole heck of a lot voter fraud now, from what we can tell," Judd says.
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Dec 8 (Reuters) - Free agent outfielder Jason Bay has signed a one-year contract with the Seattle Mariners in a bid to turn around his career, the American League team said on Saturday.
Financial terms were not disclosed but Seattle media reported Bay would earn $1 million with up to $2 million more possible in incentives.
The Canadian-born three-times All-Star, 34, played the past three seasons with the New York Mets, but hit only .165 with eight home runs and 20 runs batted in for 70 games last season.
"I am glad we were able to put this together and bring Jason back to the Northwest to continue his baseball career," Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik said in a statement.
"Jason has a history of being a productive Major League player and has participated in postseason play. We look forward to adding his experience to our young group of players.
Bay was an All-Star with Pittsburgh in 2005 and 2006 and with Boston in 2009. (Reporting by Gene Cherry in Raleigh, North Carolina; Editing by Ian Ransom)


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William Reed Newell was born May 22, 1868 and attended Wooster (Ohio) College, graduating in 1891. After studies at Princeton and Oberlin Seminaries, he pastored the Bethesda Congregational Church in Chicago until 1895, when Moody invited him to become the assistant superintendent of Moody Bible Institute under R.A. Torrey. In this position Newell demonstrated his extraordinary gift of Bible exposition. Great audiences in Chicago, St. Louis and Toronto flocked to hear his city-wide Bible classes, leading to the publication of his widely-known commentaries, especially Romans Verse-by-Verse, Hebrews Verse-by-Verse, and The Book of Revelation.
During this period, Newell wrote the beloved Gospel hymn At Calvary. He was called into the presence of the One he gladly owned as his King on April 1, 1956. Few men have had a clearer grasp of the magnitude of God's grace in Christ or have been able to convey it with such lasting results.
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Be quiet please!
Which is the correct definition?
Be quiet please!
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It's not really a request to be quiet. It's really a rude way to tell someone to be quiet... along the lines of "shut up".
put a cork in it; stuff a cork in it, cork it, stow it, shut your piehole, shut it, shut your face. all express the same meaning, with a varying degree of rudeness and vulgarity, naturally. so, buyer beware
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B. Smyth Arrested After Getting Loud With Cop During Traffic Stop
R&B singer B. Smyth was arrested during a traffic stop last weekend when he got loud with an officer, telling him that he was going to have sex with his wife. Oh, boy.
B., B., B. -- Brandon Smith on all legal docs and to his mama -- if there is one thing you don't do during an encounter with a cop, it's mouth off. And you don't say you are going to mess around with his wife. That's asking for trouble.
TMZ got its mitts on the arrest report, which indicated that Smyth, 21, was pulled over for tailgaiting in Coral Springs, Fla., on Sunday, Dec. 22. Smyth was not interested in accepting the traffic citations, instead saying he was pulled over in a case of racial profiling.
He cursed at the cops and said he was going to sleep with one of their wives. We suspect his language was a bit more colorful when he said that, though.
Smyth would have been ticketed and free to go on his merry way, but he was insistent about NOT leaving the gas station in which he was stopped, so he was arrested for trespassing.
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I've blogged before about the expense of keeping an elderly refrigerator or freezer in use simply because it still works.
I bet you wouldn't be doing that if you realized you were paying up to $150 per year in energy costs to keep it humming.
Well, it's the last month many energy providers, including Connexus Energy and Dakota Electric Association, not only will haul away and recycle your refrigerator for free but give you $35.
But there are still plenty of ongoing refrigerator and freezer "bounty" programs (Xcel's program is ongoing, as far as I can tell) though your ability to participate depends on your utility company.
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Fitness Industry standards require that all fitness professionals must renew their certification(s) qualifications every 2 years or less. If a certification is expired the Instructor will have up to one year after the expiration to renew these qualifications from the certification(s) expiry date. After one year, all certifications are considered expired and these qualifications can no longer be renewed. To re-instate any certification the Instructor will be required to complete the required certification program and exam competencies again. Each individual must purchase their own Certification package (we don't allow sharing due to copyright and liability reasons). Instructors with multiple certifications have ONE renewal date for all. One certification renewal fee automatically renews all levels of qualifications with WaterART Fitness. WaterART does not transfer certifications from other organizations.
To meet liability insurance requirements, Certified Instructors, Trainers and Specialists must obtain one of the following every two (2) years:
Option 1: Complete a minimum of 16.0 CEC hours (either onsite CEC workshops or quizzes for DVDs or programs)
Option 2: Complete another level of WaterART Certification prior to your existing Certification expiration. In doing so, the candidate receives more qualifications as well as a complimentary upgrade of existing qualifications for two years. Click here full list of certifications.
Full Details of Option #1) Complete a minimum of 16.0 CEC hours (either onsite CEC workshops or quizzes for DVDs or programs) Each Instructor must obtain 16 CECs hours (Continuing Education Credits) within the 2-year certification period prior to their expiry date to qualify for renewal (i.e. if the expiration date is August 24, 2020, CEC hours must be achieved between August 24, 2018 and August 24, 2020). Any additional hours within that two year period may not be carried over to the next renewal period. Candidates may complete onsite CECs workshops OR home study quiz hours (All DVDs have corresponding quizzes). Quizzes never expire from date when purchased; however, candidates may not reuse the same quiz for different renewal periodAll CEC hours that have been obtained or registered directly with WaterART Fitness, are kept on file. Once the candidate has obtained these hours, all certification levels will be renewed for 2 years from the expiration date with the submission of this renewal form with payment. You may simply go online, phone or fax in your application. If submitting NON WaterART Fitness hours (up to 8 hours ) a candidate must submit a renewal form with payment and appropriate paper work (see criteria below). If you prefer pre-approval see link. These hours could be from the following any approved courses through reputable educational providers such as a University, College, FPAO/OFC, ACE, APFA, NFLA. YMCA, coaching, nutrition, lifestyle coaching, adult learning courses, anatomy, biomechanics, injury risk, University transcripts for Exercise Science courses etc. When submitting NON WaterART hours for your Certification renewal, all paperwork must be submitted together or there is a preview fee of $35.00 + applicable taxes.
To submit NON WaterART CECs for a maximum of 8.0 credits you submit the following (scan & email or mail):
Certificate of course completion (this should include date of onsite training, hours of training, location of training name of workshop and Master Trainer/presenter /official signature
Short agenda or overview itemizing hourly breakdown of the course ( we need to see that you have completed enough hours)
Instructor biography of Master Trainer/presenter/official signature or teacher of program
Pay a review fee for Non WaterART hours OR submit full payment with mandatory WaterART 8.0 CEC hours with renewal of certification fee.
Please note that WaterART Fitness does not accept
pre-choreographed training programs since this does not allow for individual
modifications nor self paced exercise designWaterART Fitness does not accept NON WaterART home study programs because of they have not been approved by our insurance provider. WaterART Fitness does not accept emergency safety hours as part of the CEC renewal hours ( as you need this in addition to your 16.0 CEC hours)Non WaterART hours will only be reviewed once we have received all of the above paper work or pre-review payment OR all paperwork ( a minimum of 8.0 CEC WaterART & maximum of 8.0 Non- WaterART and Certification renewal payment). Candidates may only utilize their CECs for one renewal period however, there is no time limit on utilizing quizzes;however, once submitted they may not be re-utilized.
Full Details of OPTION # 2) Complete another level of WaterART Certification.
Achieving another level of qualification will renew and update all Certifications for 2 years from passing date of the newest certification level. WaterART Certification programs are available via home study education or onsite training events. Certification programs are divided into 2 categories:
1) Comprehensive Certifications
2) Specialty Certifications
Comprehensive Certification requires completion of BOTH a theory exam and a practical assessment to become fully Certified. All candidates have up to six months from purchase date or onsite training date to complete without penalty except the Basic Instructor Certification which must be completed within 4 months.
Specialty Certification Requires: All candidates who are currently WaterART Certified need only to complete the theory component of the exam process to renew and achieve qualifications as long as their present Certification(s) are current. Any candidate NEW to WaterART Fitness completing either a Land or Water Certification for the first time will be required to BOTH theory and practical assessment to become fully Certified, Instructors with a Certification for water only and who wish to become Land Certified will be required to do a land practical. The same applies to land only Certified instructors if they wish to become Water Certified. If you have applied or trained for a new Certification but do not complete this before your current WaterART Certification expiry date you will be required to pay a LATE renewal fee and complete a new practical assessment.
If you have multiple Certifications, all of your Certifications use the same renewal date. Therefore, one renewal will re-qualify the candidate with all Certifications every 2 years. When successfully completed another level of certification before the expiration date no fee will be required, and candidates will automatically be issued electronic Certification Diplomas from the passing date. If hard copies are required, a charge of $15.00 shipping fee is required. Additionally, all candidates will need to maintain their own Emergency Safety Qualifications such as either a CURRENT Life-guard Qualification OR a valid CPR/FIRST AID/AED. This is written on the Certification Diploma as dates typically do not coincide.
Note that the WP Membership program is separate to your Certification(s) or Qualifications.
Here are some examples of 8 hours (correspondence or onsite) which must be specific to WaterART Fitness.
You may also purchase Quizzes and DVD's. Each quiz is worth 2.0 hours of CEC's Note: Each individual must purchase their own as we don't allow sharing of CEC's/Quizzes/DVD'S.
Please note - you may retrieve YOUR qualifications if you are certified by WaterART. Here's how. The log MY ACCOUNT ( top right hand corner of website) . Your user name is your email address. If you have changed your email - you need to email us- so we may update your profile. Do not create a new account. If you have forgotten your password - you simply click the forgotten password link and it is automated or emailed to your email address.
Online On Time Certification Renewal Payment click here
Online LATE Certification Renewal payment click here
Gold Certified Instructor Club when you get 5 levels of certification you get listed as a Gold Certified Instructor on our Website.
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Certification Renewal Form (PDF) Download (to scan and email)
Certification Renewal Check List & Binder of forms for NON-WaterART Hours
Full Details for WaterART Fitness International Guidelines & WaterART-Standards for Certification


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The procedures in this section describe a sample virtual configuration that joins an LDAP directory and a MySQL database. The LDAP directory is the primary data source, that contains most of the user information. The MySQL database contains additional information about the users. The resulting configuration is illustrated in the following figure.
You can use the sample data provided in install-path/resources/ldif/Example.ldif to duplicate this example, or you can substitute the sample data with your own data.
This configuration can be broken into three sections:
Configuring and testing the LDAP data view
Configuring and testing the JDBC data view
Configuring and testing the join data view
For simplicity, all the commands in this section assume that the Directory Proxy Server is running on the local host in /local/dps. The commands also assume that the following environment variables have been set:
pwd.txt, a file containing the administrator password.
cn=Directory Manager
The tasks in this section assume the following information:
A Directory Server instance is running on host1, on port 4389.
Data in the Directory Server is stored under the suffix dc=example,dc=com. To duplicate this example, create a Directory Server instance, create the suffix dc=example,dc=com, and import the sample data in install-path/resources/ldif/Example.ldif.
Create an LDAP data source named myds1 for the Directory Server instance.
% dpconf create-ldap-data-source myds1 host1:4389
Enable the data source, and allow write operations to the data source.
% dpconf set-ldap-data-source-prop myds1 is-enabled:true is-read-only:false
Create an LDAP data source pool named myds1-pool.
% dpconf create-ldap-data-source-pool myds1-pool
Attach the LDAP data source to the LDAP data source pool.
% dpconf attach-ldap-data-source myds1-pool myds1
Specify that the data source should receive 100% of the bind, add, search, and modify operations from that data source pool.
% dpconf set-attached-ldap-data-source-prop myds1-pool myds1 add-weight:100 \ bind-weight:100 modify-weight:100 search-weight:100
Create an LDAP data view for the data source pool, named myds1–view, with a base DN of dc=example,dc=com.
% dpconf create-ldap-data-view myds1-view myds1-pool dc=example,dc=com
As a user under dc=example,dc=com, search all entries in the LDAP data source to verify that you can read from the data view.
% ldapsearch -p 1389 -D "uid=kvaughan,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com" -w bribery \ -b dc=example,dc=com "objectclass=*"
You must use the credentials of a user under dc=example,dc=com. If you want to use cn=Directory Manager, you must define a data view to handle that DN.
As a user under dc=example,dc=com, modify the userPassword attribute to verify that you can write to the data view.
% ldapmodify -p 1389 -D "uid=kvaughan,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com" -w bribery dn: uid=kvaughan,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com changetype: modify replace: userPassword userPassword: myNewPassword
A default ACI in Directory Server allows users to modify their own passwords.
The following tasks assume that a MySQL database is installed, running and populated with data, and that the MySQL database has the following characteristics:
Database name : sample_sql
Database URL : host2.example.com:3306/
JDBC driver URL : file:/net/host2.example/local/mysql/lib/jdbc.jar
Driver class : com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
Database user : root
Database password file : mysqlpwd.txt
The following table describes the tables in the database, and their composite fields. You need this information to set up the JDBC data view.
MySQL Table
Create a JDBC data source named mysql1 for the SQL database.
% dpconf create-jdbc-data-source -b sample_sql \ -B jdbc:mysql://host2.example.com:3306/ \ -J file:/net/host2.example/local/mysql/lib/jdbc.jar \ -S com.mysql.jdbc.Driver mysql1
You can set the number of connections for JDBC data source using the num-connection-incr(5dpconf), num-connection-init(5dpconf), and num-connection-limit(5dpconf) JDBC data source properties.
Specify the user name and password file for the SQL database.
% dpconf set-jdbc-data-source-prop mysql1 db-pwd:sqlpwd db-user:rootUser
The sqlpwd and rootUser are the password and username of the authenticating user and these credentials are stored in the database. You must configure the proxy server with username and password when configuring a JDBC data source.
The db-vendor property of the JDBC data source should be set using set-jdbc-data-source-prop if a third party JDBC driver, which is other than the one provided by DB Vendor, is used to connect to the RDBMS back-end. This data is used to construct vendor specific SQL statements, whenever possible, to improve performance. For more information, see db-vendor(5dpconf).
Restart the proxy server.
% dpadm restart /local/dps
Enable the data source, and allow write operations to the data source.
% dpconf set-jdbc-data-source-prop mysql1 is-enabled:true is-read-only:false
(Optional) Set monitoring-inactivity-timeout, monitoring-interval, and monitoring-mode for better monitoring of the open connections and data sources. .
For more information, see monitoring-inactivity-timeout(5dpconf), monitoring-interval(5dpconf), and monitoring-mode(5dpconf)
Create a JDBC data source pool named mysql1–pool.
% dpconf create-jdbc-data-source-pool mysql1-pool
Attach the JDBC data source to the data source pool.
% dpconf attach-jdbc-data-source mysql1-pool mysql1
Create a JDBC data view for the data source pool, named myjdbc1–view, with a base DN of o=sql.
% dpconf create-jdbc-data-view mysql1-view mysql1-pool o=sql
Create a JDBC table for each table in the MySQL database.
% dpconf create-jdbc-table employee1 EMPLOYEE % dpconf create-jdbc-table country1 COUNTRY % dpconf create-jdbc-table phone1 PHONE
The name of the table in the SQL database is case sensitive. Make sure that you use the same case that is used in the SQL database.
Create a JDBC attribute for each column in each table.
Creating a JDBC attribute maps the MySQL column to an LDAP attribute.
% dpconf add-jdbc-attr employee1 uid ID % dpconf add-jdbc-attr employee1 sn SURNAME % dpconf add-jdbc-attr employee1 userPassword PASSWORD % dpconf add-jdbc-attr employee1 roomNumber ROOM % dpconf add-jdbc-attr phone1 telephoneNumber NUMBER % dpconf add-jdbc-attr country1 countryName NAME
It is not necessary to create JDBC attributes for the phone1 user_id and country1 id columns, because these columns only contain the values that are present in EMPLOYEE.ID for which an LDAP attribute uid is already created.
Create a JDBC object class for the LDAP person object class.
In this step, the employee1 table is identified as the primary table, and the country1 and phone1 tables are identified as secondary tables. The creation of a JDBC object class also requires a DN. In this example, the DN is constructed from the uid attribute and the base DN of the data view.
% dpconf create-jdbc-object-class mysql1-view person employee1 country1 phone1 uid
Define the join rules between the primary table and the secondary tables.
A join rule is defined on the secondary table and determines how data from that table is linked to data from the primary table.
% dpconf set-jdbc-table-prop country1 filter-join-rule:ID=\${EMPLOYEE.COUNTRY_ID} % dpconf set-jdbc-table-prop phone1 filter-join-rule:USER_ID=\${EMPLOYEE.ID}
Specify the super class for the JDBC object class.
The super class indicates the LDAP object class from which the JDBC object class inherits attributes.
% dpconf set-jdbc-object-class-prop mysql1-view person super-class:top
Before you can test the JDBC data view, you must enable write access to the data view by configuring ACIs. By default, write access to non-LDAP data views is denied. For the purposes of this example, it is sufficient to add one global ACI that allows users to modify their own passwords.
As the Proxy Manager, add a pool of ACIs to the JDBC data source and add a global ACI that allows users to modify their own entries.
% ldapmodify -p 1389 -D "cn=proxy manager" -w password dn: cn=mysql1,cn=virtual access controls changetype: add objectclass: acisource dpsaci: (targetattr="*") (target = "ldap:///o=sql") (version 3.0; acl "enable all access for all users "; allow(all) userdn="ldap:///uid=kvaughan,o=sql";) cn: mysql1
Create a connection handler to handle connections to the o=sql domain.
% dpconf create-connection-handler mysql1-handler
Enable the connection handler and configure it to handle all binds from users in the o=sql domain.
% dpconf set-connection-handler-prop mysql1-handler is-enabled:true \ bind-dn-filters:"uid=.*,o=sql"
Configure the connection handler to use the pool of ACIs added previously.
% dpconf set-connection-handler-prop mysql1-handler aci-source:mysql1
As a user under o=sql, search the JDBC data source to verify that you can read from the data view.
% ldapsearch -p 1389 -D "uid=kvaughan,o=sql" -w mypwd -b o=sql "objectclass=*"
You must use the credentials of a user under o=sql.
As a user under o=sql, modify the userPassword attribute to verify that you can write to the data view.
% ldapmodify -p 1389 -D "uid=kvaughan,o=sql" -w mypwd dn: uid=kvaughan,o=sql changetype: modify replace: userPassword userPassword: myNewpwd
Create a join data view named myjoin1–view.
Specifying the LDAP data view as the primary data view, and the JDBC data view as the secondary data view.
% dpconf create-join-data-view myjoin1-view myds1-view mysql1-view o=join
Define a join rule on the secondary data view.
The following join rule specifies that the uid attribute of entries from the secondary data view should match the uid attribute of entries from the primary data view.
% dpconf set-jdbc-data-view-prop mysql1-view filter-join-rule:uid=\${myds1-view.uid}
If the filter join rule is set on the join data view, you need to set a virtual transformation rule on the secondary data view to be able to add an entry on the join data view.
dpconf add-virtual-transformation secondary-view-name \ write add-attr-value dn uid=\${uid}
Without setting this rule, addition of entries to join data view would not be possible.
Define the set of attributes that can be read from and written to the primary data view through a join data view.
% dpconf set-ldap-data-view-prop myds1-view viewable-attr:dn \ viewable-attr:cn viewable-attr:sn viewable-attr:givenName \ viewable-attr:objectClass viewable-attr:ou viewable-attr:l \ viewable-attr:uid viewable-attr:mail viewable-attr:telephoneNumber \ viewable-attr:facsimileTelephoneNumber viewable-attr:roomNumber \ viewable-attr:userPassword % dpconf set-ldap-data-view-prop myds1-view writable-attr:dn \ writable-attr:cn writable-attr:sn writable-attr:givenName \ writable-attr:objectClass writable-attr:ou writable-attr:l \ writable-attr:uid writable-attr:mail writable-attr:telephoneNumber \ writable-attr:facsimileTelephoneNumber writable-attr:roomNumber \ writable-attr:userPassword
These definitions apply only in the context of the join view. By default all attributes can be read and written if you access the LDAP data view directly.
Define the set of attributes that can be read from and written to the secondary data view through a join data view.
% dpconf set-jdbc-data-view-prop mysql1-view viewable-attr:dn \ viewable-attr:objectclass viewable-attr:sn viewable-attr:roomNumber \ viewable-attr:userpassword viewable-attr:jobtitle viewable-attr:countryName \ viewable-attr:telephoneNumber % dpconf set-jdbc-data-view-prop mysql1-view writable-attr:dn \ writable-attr:objectclass writable-attr:sn writable-attr:roomNumber \ writable-attr:userpassword writable-attr:jobtitle \ writable-attr:countryName writable-attr:telephoneNumber
These definitions apply only in the context of the join view. By default all attributes can be read and written if you access the JDBC data view directly.
As the proxy manager, add a global ACI that allows anonymous access to the join data view.
% ldapmodify -p 1389 -D "cn=proxy manager" -w password dn: cn=myjoin1,cn=virtual access controls changetype: add objectclass: acisource dpsaci: (targetattr="*") (target = "ldap:///o=join") (version 3.0; acl "anonymous_access"; allow(all) userdn="ldap:///anyone";) cn: myjoin1
Configure the connection handler to use the pool of ACIs added previously.
% dpconf set-connection-handler-prop default-connection-handler aci-source:myjoin1
As an anonymous user, search the join data view.
In this step, we search Kirsten Vaughan's entry to see whether data from both join views is retrieved.
% ldapsearch -p 1389 -b o=join "uid=kvaughan"
Note that the returned entry includes the attributes from both the LDAP data view and the JDBC data view.
As a user under o=join, modify the userPassword attribute to verify that you can write to the join data view.
% ldapmodify -p 1389 dn: uid=kvaughan,ou=people,o=join changetype: modify replace: userPassword userPassword: myPassword


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Back in my halcyon youth as a multi-sport athlete at Peñasco High School (when I could consume half a million calories a meal at no detriment to my then svelte physique), Dandy Burger in beautiful downtown Española was a frequent dining destination–particularly after the then "not so mighty" Peñasco Panthers suffered a loss (and there were many of them).
On the rare occasion in which we actually won a game, our coaches would "treat us" to chicken fried steak at some "fancy" restaurant. We didn't have the heart to tell them we preferred Dandy Burger. Frankly, I still do. It's hard to resist stopping for a green chile cheeseburger and a bit of nostalgia every time we drive through Española.
The food at Dandy Burger was never quite good enough to lessen the pain of a loss then and is even less capable of doing so today when the losses I experience are more costly (as in a poor performing 401K…or is that now 4.1K). Still, I always have a contented sense of nostalgia when I see the familiar anthropomorphic burger that symbolizes this popular neighborhood hangout.
Dandy Burger's "mascot" is a cartoonish, tuxedo- and top hat-wearing, cane-wielding, burger-headed anthropomorph resembling Jeeves the butler on the restaurant's signage. The burger's entire countenance (resembling the ubiquitous smiley face) occupies the top half of the bun. It'll put a smile on your face, especially if it portends a meal.
Most of those memories are of the standard "Dandy Burger" or the more prodigious "Big Jim Dandy" with double meat, two very good burgers, particularly if ameliorated with green chile. These burgers are dressed with unfailingly crisp onion, lettuce, pickle and mustard but you can pretty much have them any way you want. The meat patties are obviously not hand-formed and fresh ground, but they're charbroiled to perfection.
The green chile is neon green and only of medium piquancy. All other ingredients are fresh and delicious though at times I've wished for salad dressing, so profuse is the lettuce on each burger. If you want piquancy on your burger, ask for a couple of plastic tubs of salsa. Dandy Burger's salsa is the most piquant item offered by the restaurant. It'll enliven your burger.
Rio Arriba county, and in particular Española, are home to some of the best green chile cheeseburgers in New Mexico. Dandy Burger's offerings compete with both the Stop and Eat burgers less than a quarter mile away or the LotaBurger about a mile north. All three can quell hunger far better than the Peñasco Panthers defense of days gone by could stymie their opponents.
Even better than Dandy Burger's burgers are the standard hard-shelled tacos, sloppy (cheese, lettuce, chopped tomato) concoctions which include a beans and meat mixture with a piquant bite. You don't necessarily need the plastic tubs of hot sauce to heat up these beauties; they've got some bite on their own. My Kim has long contended that these tacos are among the very best in Rio Arriba county.
Chicharrones are one of the favorite "condiments" in Northern New Mexico where these pork crackling cubes are used on almost everything but dessert. They're especially good on burritos. Perhaps nowhere in the Land of Enchantment will you find a burrito quite as engorged with chicharrones as at Dandy Burger where each tortilla encased treasure is packed with them. Alas, some of the chicharrones are more fatty than they are meaty, but that's pretty much par for the course.
Dandy Burger's shakes are always cold, a wonderful blessing on a sweltering summer day when Española's pavement is baking everything on the road.
Dandy Burger
215 San Pedro Plaza
Espanola, New Mexico
(575) 753-4234
LATEST VISIT: 17 February 2013
BEST BET: Green Chile Cheeseburger, Taquitos, Tacos, Milk Shakes, Frito Pie, Chicharron Burrito


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Jim Snyder
Monday, 21 April 2014 02:48 PM
The focus of the Keystone XL debate has shifted from a fierce lobbying war in Washington to Lincoln, Nebraska, where the state Supreme Court has been asked to weigh a legal challenge to the pipeline.
The U.S. State Department, which is responsible for reviewing whether the project is in the nation's interest, said April 18 that it would delay making a recommendation until legal questions about the way the route was approved through the prairie state are resolved. That could spare President Barack Obama from having to decide on a project that splits supporters of his in the environmental and labor movements before an important congressional election in November.
"Once again, the administration is making a political calculation instead of doing what is right for the country," Terry O'Sullivan, general president of the Laborers' International Union of North America, said in an e-mail. "It's clear the administration needs to grow a set of antlers, or perhaps take a lesson from Popeye and eat some spinach."
If the seven-member state Supreme Court upholds a lower court decision, TransCanada Corp., the Calgary-based company that wants to build Keystone, will need to apply to the Nebraska Public Service Commission. The commission by law has seven months for its pipeline reviews.
"Effectively, this likely postpones the decision until after the U.S. mid-term elections," Robert Kwan, an analyst with RBC Capital Markets, a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada, said in a research note yesterday.
Share Drop
TransCanada fell 3.3 percent to C$49.62 as of 10:30 a.m. in Toronto, the biggest drop in more than two years.
The State Department said the possibility of a new route coming out of that process justified hitting the pause button. The announcement drew a strong reaction from all sides -- including pledges from congressional leaders to force a decision sooner by legislation.
"President Obama is going to try to prevent this project from going forward," Senator John Hoeven, a North Dakota Republican, said in an April 18 interview. "He's trying to defeat it by delay."
Hoeven said a bill he authored to require Keystone approval is about four votes shy of the 60 needed to advance legislation in the Senate. The announcement may put pressure on a half dozen colleagues who support the line but have opposed his bill to give the administration time to reach a decision.
'Some Complexity'
Senate Democrats are trying to retain a slim majority in the midterm elections and the list of incumbents at risk include several in states where support for Keystone is strong, including Senator Mary Landrieu, a Democrat from Louisiana and chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Landrieu is among 11 Democrats who signed a letter earlier this month that urged Obama to approve the pipeline by May 31.
David Domina, an Omaha lawyer representing the landowners who brought the lawsuit against the pipeline, said the case won't be argued before the Nebraska high court until September or October. After that, a decision wouldn't come until months later, he said.
"It's a case that involves some complexity," Domina said.
Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning's office didn't respond to a request for comment on how quickly the court could hear the case.
January Decision
Pipeline opponent Jane Kleeb predicted the case will take at least until January to be resolved and, if the landowners win, the commission's decision wouldn't come until July 2015 at the earliest because of the seven-month requirement. Meanwhile, she said, a permit for the portion that goes through South Dakota is due to expire in June and a renewal could add more time to the clock.
"Pipeline dies under its own weight," she said in an e- mail.
Shawn Howard, a spokesman for TransCanada, said the permit doesn't expire.
John Kilduff, partner at Again Capital LLC, a New York- based hedge fund that focuses on energy, predicted the project would probably win the U.S. blessing -- though that could take awhile.
"The Obama administration is probably looking for a way to not approve it but, given the studies, it is going to get approved," Kilduff said. "It's just a matter of timing it right with the elections to ease the wrath of the environmentalists."
Costs Rise
David McColl, an analyst at Morningstar Inc., said the delay would raise the costs to build the pipeline, though probably not to a level that would kill it.
"The cost could become prohibitive when the toll for the pipeline equals the cost to move by rail" McColl said in an e- mail April 18. "This would require a significant cost increase, likely well north of $10 billion -- we don't think this is likely to happen."
Without Keystone XL and other pipelines aimed at allowing Canadian crude to earn world prices, Canada's economy is losing about C$50 million a day, according to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. In addition, surging oil production from Alberta's oil sands region risks becoming a "significant issue" as volumes quickly catch up to transportation capacity in the next three to four years, Alberta's Finance Minister Doug Horner said in an April 9 interview.
Western Canada Select, the Canadian heavy crude benchmark, on April 17 traded at an $18.25 per barrel discount to West Texas Intermediate. The discount has been as much as $42.50 in recent years.
Alternative Pipelines
In the meantime, railways have stepped in to help meet the rising demand from Canadian oil producers to get their fuel to the U.S. Gulf Coast and other coastal regions of North America.
Companies including Cenovus Energy Inc. and MEG Energy Corp. are among companies with expanding oil shipments by rail as they boost production. Cenovus has shipped crude to California and even Asia, while MEG Energy transports oil to the Gulf Coast.
Both TransCanada and Enbridge Inc. are proposing alternative pipelines to Keystone XL. TransCanada is considering a C$12 billion pipeline from Alberta to Canada's Atlantic Coast called Energy East, while Enbridge is awaiting a decision by Prime Minister Stephen Harper for the company's controversial C$6.5 billion Northern Gateway line from Alberta to Canada's Pacific coast.
Landowners' Case
The Nebraska court is reviewing a case brought by three landowners along the proposed route who challenged a state law that gave Governor Dave Heineman the power to approve the project. A lower court invalidated the law, saying such decisions rest with a special commission established in 1885 to take politics out of the taking of land for railroads.
Until last week, the State Department said the court case wouldn't affect its ongoing review to determine whether Keystone was in the nation's interest to build.
A senior State Department official, who spoke on a conference call with reporters on the condition of anonymity, said the delay was prudent given the route could change if it is rejected in Nebraska. The governor and a majority of the state legislature support the project, however.
"Agencies need additional time based on the uncertainty created by the ongoing litigation in the Nebraska Supreme Court which could ultimately affect the pipeline route," the State Department said in a statement.
Politically Difficult
Critics said the delay allows Obama, who has said he will make the final call after the State Department review is complete, to punt a politically difficult decision.
"It's shameful that as we begin spring construction season, that hundreds of my constituents will be denied an opportunity to go to work on a project that will help secure America's energy future solely because the president wants to placate his political base in an election year," Representative Lee Terry, a Nebraska Republican, said in a statement after the State Department announcement.
The pipeline's path in Nebraska, one of three states the unbuilt northern leg of Keystone would cross, was thrown into doubt in February when a state judge invalidated legislation that let the Republican governor approve the path.
The judge said that only the state Public Service Commission -- an agency created to take politics out of decisions involving the taking of land for private projects -- had that power.
Critics of Keystone, a $5.4 billion project that was first proposed by TransCanada in 2008, argue its a risk to the climate because it would encourage production of Alberta's oil sands, which releases more greenhouse gases than the production of more conventional types of crude.
National Interest
The State Department, which has jurisdiction because the project crosses an international border, was completing its review to decide if Keystone was in the national interest. It was weighing the project's environmental, economic and diplomatic impacts. Eight federal agencies had until about May 1 to weigh in -- a deadline that is now indefinitely pushed back.
On Jan. 31, the department released an lengthy environmental review that found Keystone probably wouldn't significantly contribute to climate change because the oil sands in Alberta would be developed with or without the pipeline.
Environmentalists contend Keystone is a linchpin to oil sands development.
"This decision is irresponsible, unnecessary and unacceptable," Landrieu said in a statement that called the move "nothing short of an indefinite delay."
--With assistance from Susan Decker in Washington, Divya Balji and Katia Dmitrieva in Toronto, Andrew Mayeda and Theophilos Argitis in Ottawa, Naureen S. Malik in New York and Jeremy van Loon in Calgary.
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Roots of the Local Food Movement
"A Victory Garden is like a share in an airplane factory. It helps win the war and pays dividends too."
– Claude R. Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture
The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that 20 million Americans rose to the call for patriotism and planted a victory garden during World War II.
Canning, home gardening, and vegetarianism have once again become political actions. Just as Eleanor Roosevelt encouraged victory gardens by planting one at the White House, the Obamas have helped to restart the home gardening trend by planting the first White House vegetable garden since the Roosevelts'.
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YES! Magazine's latest issue: How to build resilience now for hard times ahead.
Of course, the locavore movement emphasizes local food security for different reasons than wartime propaganda campaigns did: a changing climate, an end to cheap oil, and a difficult economy, rather than the need to feed and maintain armies.
Still, the parallels are striking: Americans are eating locally not just to develop the resiliency and self-sufficiency of their communities, but to do their part in a larger struggle—this time, the global climate crisis.
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A couple of weeks ago we brought you some shots from "Cemetery Junction," the new movie from Ricky Gervais. Today we bring you the trailer.
Gervais co-wrote and directed "Cemetery Junction" with Stephen Merchant ("The Office"). It stars Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson, Matthew Goode and a slew of young unknowns in a story about three young men trapped in a small town in 1970s England. Gervais called this new movie his "Saturday Night Fever."
The trailer isn't as funny as you might hope -- though to be fair, it isn't really trying -- and those accents are thick. But it's Gervais, so we remain enthusiastic.
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Set the oven to 350 degrees. Slice the yams thinly, the thickness of a potato chip. Place the sliced yams on a cookie sheet covered with aluminum foil. Then, lightly sprinkle olive oil on the sliced yams. Place the yams in the oven for 15 minutes.
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