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Meningitis can be bad. Suppose that a given city suddenly had a surge of cases. Its health officials immediately would alert physicians and warn people to watch for symptoms and, if any appear, to see a doctor. Just as quickly, authorities would ask why has this sudden increase occurred? What might have caused it? What must be done to avoid any future outbreak?
Divorce is bad. In all my years as a priest, I have never seen a divorce that has been joyful. Resigned? Yes. Relieved? Yes. Satisfied? Yes. But joyful, in the true sense of the word? Never. This includes the separating partners as well as the children. God bless the children. One truly heartbreaking experience of my priesthood has been the sight of children traumatized by their parents' divorce.
American Catholics divorce at a lower rate than others in the society but often enough. At this moment, these divorces are coming when, throughout the culture, regard for institutional religion is declining. Fewer divorced Catholics in this country are taking cases to Church tribunals. Many drift away, certainly if they remarry.
Go back to the hypothetical meningitis epidemic. The Church must care for its divorced members. It cannot forsake, however, what Jesus taught about marriage. Marriage is lifelong, ending only in a spouse's death. No human authority can break it apart.
Also critical is the Church's teaching that every person has the right to marry, if he or she is eligible for marriage. (Obviously basic in this teaching is the eons-old standard that marriage is between one man and one woman.) The Church must enable a member who is eligible for marriage and wishes to marry — in the Church.
Diocesan tribunals, while empowered by Church law to resolve many conflicts, acting under a tried-and-true philosophy of justice, are available to Catholics who suspect that they never were validly married and wish to remarry. The data of the number of Catholics now turning to tribunals after divorce is striking. So many Catholics do not go to tribunals, true, but this is one side of the coin. The number of cases is swamping some American tribunals. The number of declarations of nullity (annulment actually is an incorrect, misleading term) is huge. The Vatican, incidentally, it is said, finds both these figures not just intriguing but appalling. For this reason, it oversees tribunals carefully and is emphatic about standards, beginning with fairness.
To divert for a moment, Time magazine several years ago did an interesting study of Catholics in this country who are divorced and tribunals. Picking up the old spin that knowing somebody and contributing something speeds the way and guarantees a favorable judgment, Time wryly observed that an awful lot of Catholics must have an awful lot of control over an awful lot of Church authorities, and an awful lot of Catholics must give an awful lot of money to the Church. Why? Time thought that tribunals seemed to grant so many positive decisions.
Why do marriages fail so often in America? It was not always the case. Go to the front of the process. How well prepared, and with what attitudes, are Catholics approaching marriage today? This implies a Church priority — and each Catholic's concern.
Blessed Karl I, Austria's last emperor and Hungary's last king, and his fiancee, Princess Zita, made separate spiritual retreats before their wedding in 1911 to think deeply about how to bring God into their marriage and how to assist the other in growing spiritually.
Charming, old-fashioned, mildly funny, slightly too much, people nowadays react when hearing this story. Their reaction reveals a big, big problem.
Msgr. Owen F. Campion is OSV's associate publisher.
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By RAELYNN RICARTE
News staff writer
October 4, 2006
Hood River County could lose $2.8 million for schools and roads next year and, while officials remain hopeful the federal funds will be extended, they are preparing for the worst case scenario.
"I don't think you can take away half a budget and either tax your way back up or cut by that much. So, we'll be looking at the situation closely and probably trying to meet somewhere in the middle," said Dave Meriwether, county administrator.
The Secure Rural Schools and Self Determination Act has not yet been reauthorized by Congress. But Oregon delegates have laid two bills on the table that raise at least some funds for the program.
U.S. Reps. Greg Walden, R-Ore., and Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., believe the government needs to keep its historical commitment to timber-dependent counties.
Congress passed laws in 1908 and 1937 that allowed counties with a tax base reduced by federal forests to receive a share of timber receipts. The money was to be used for public education and infrastructure improvements.
However, by the mid to late 1990s, a series of environmental regulations had reduced harvests by more than 90 percent in many areas, and 70 percent nationwide.
Consequently, payments to counties declined drastically and House Resolution 517 was passed in 2000 to stabilize the funding base. The formula for distribution of monies was based on an average of the top three logging years in each county between 1986 and 1999.
The federal government has spent $1.6 billion during the last six years to support HR517. The money has helped 4,400 rural schools and prevented the closure of numerous isolated facilities. In addition, more than 780 rural counties were able to make infrastructure improvements. Also, many search and rescue operations and habitat improvements were paid for by these federal dollars.
Two-thirds of Hood River County's money — $1.7 million and half the current budget — has been used to pave, stripe and construct the county's roads.
One third of it — $580,000 — pays for public education. The dollars dedicated for schools go into the state coffers and are divvied up between all 36 counties.
In 2006 — the first time in history — a presidential budget included funding for HR517. However, the Bush Administration proposed selling off more than 300,000 publicly owned acres on 2,934 parcels to raise money for the county payments. Roughly 400 of the nominated acres lay within the Mount Hood National Forest.
Although these properties were largely sited in or near developed areas, conservation groups disagreed with the sale of public lands. And, following a national outcry, the idea was abandoned.
Walden has now come forward with a plan that he believes will eliminate the threat of wildfire and provide about $130 million in new revenue over the next 10 years for counties.
The Forest Emergency Recovery and Research Act has been co-sponsored by U.S. Reps. Brian Baird, D-Wash., and Stephanie Herseth, D-S.D. House Resolution 4200 has already garnered the approval of the full House. The legislation streamlines the regulatory process to remove burned or bug-infested trees before they decay and lose their marketable value.
"With enactment of my forest health bill, we can help fund the county payments program while at the same time improve the conditions in our forests after a fire," said Walden.
The House has also approved the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act proposed by DeFazio. House Resolution 4761 expands domestic off-shore oil and natural gas production. In addition to providing about $250 million over five years for HR517, the bill is intended to decrease America's dependence upon foreign petroleum products.
The Secure Rural Schools Act has gathered 136 House and 30 Senate bipartisan cosponsors from across the country. The Senate version, Senate Bill 267, still awaits action by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, on which U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Gordon Smith, R-Ore., are seated.
Meriwether said the county is anxiously awaiting the outcome of the federal legislative session that begins Nov. 13. He said there is a movement to extend HR517 by only one more year. And the county, facing this high level of uncertainty, is starting to look at all of the available options.
He said a reserve fund of $7.5 million is banked for road work emergencies — but should not be used to cover ongoing losses.
"It doesn't make sense to spend it and then try to figure out what to do. We are going to start doing some serious planning," Meriwether said.
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Musing: Transitioning to Being Home
Yeah right.
The reality has been that two big transitions at the same time - me being home and Alex starting kindergarten - is an awful lot to handle. There's just so much that's new, like juggling homework and dinner prep in the afternoon. I have time to cook dinner every night, but I don't have a laundry routine anymore. I just do it when the basket is full, but I nearly forgot to wash the kids' sheets yesterday.
I do sense that things are starting to settle down a little. I finally was able to itemize all of the items we've set aside for charity, and will be dropping them off for a fund-raiser garage sale tomorrow. It will feel fabulous to have all of those things out of the house.
I am also gradually cleaning and organizing here and there, but I do find myself wishing I had larger blocks of time to do these things.
And that brings me to something I wasn't expecting: shopping burnout. Already. One of the things I was so excited about with this transition to being home was that I could go shopping any day of the week, whenever I wanted. And I felt like I had to - after all, one of my jobs now is to shop smart and save my family money so that the loss of my income doesn't hurt that much. But over the last few days, I've come to realize something that I've learned previously: it's too stressful to try to catch every deal.
So I'm going to cut back on the shopping trips, be okay with missing a few deals, and focus on getting my home in order rather than stockpiling so that I don't have to pay full price for something if we run out. The chances of that happening are minimal anyway, since I've been couponing for a while and we have a pretty good stash of most things. And I'll still shop some - just not as much.
Hopefully within a couple of weeks, I'll be feeling much better about the state of things around here. Especially because there's a moment every day when I pause and give thanks for how lucky I am to be able to stay home now. I've spent time in Alex's classroom and seen how great his teacher is, I've attended every meeting at school that's been open to parents, and I've been able to reassure myself that he's in a good environment that I can help to make even better. Those things would have been much harder to achieve if I still worked at an office downtown, and I would have been incredibly stressed out. So I'm very glad and grateful that we worked hard to be able to make this happen, because it was well worth it!
*Previously: Coping with Drugstore Game Burnout


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Interestingly, Scott Hanselman just made a blog post about this very issue. Note how the page in its entirety was downloaded using his mobile data plan, but it's still in no way viewable. --Buggz (talk) 08:27, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
184.108.40.206 07:57, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
prompting mobile views = prompting people viewing the website from a mobile browser ("mobile views" is web designer terminology, not mainstream speech) -- 18.104.22.168 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
- Right, let's reword that (which you can do yourself, by the way, but I'll admit that from the main page it's not obvious for a newcomer). - Cos (talk) 11:45, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
Chainsaw Suit also made almost the same joke: http://chainsawsuit.com/2013/01/23/view-the-desktop-version-of-this-site/
It reminds me very much of the way tapatalk-enabled forums act. They keep prompting you to use the app, which - if you have the app - will not open the page you were on.
What can we learn from this?[edit]
I've learned that there are a billion things in the world that still need to be improved and sometimes if you seeking inspirations for new inventions they sometimes stare you right in the face (Thank you Mr. XKCD). Software engineers among us, lets help them improve their designs and avoid their mistakes ok? - e-inspired 126.96.36.199 19:17, 27 February 2013 (UTC)


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University of Georgia: Student Faces Charges for Complaint about Parking Services
Category: Free Speech
Schools: University of Georgia
On August 17, 2010, University of Georgia graduate student Jacob Lovell e-mailed UGA Parking Services with a joking complaint about what he perceived to be its poor job of providing parking for scooters. Parking Services reported his e-mail to UGA's judicial affairs office. On September 3, 2010, Associate Dean of Students Kimberly Ellis notified Lovell that the university had charged him with "disorderly conduct" and "disrupt[ing] parking services when he sent an email to them that was threatening." After FIRE wrote UGA President Michael F. Adams, explaining that Lovell's grievance was protected by the First Amendment and that administrators could be held personally liable by a court for such a violation of students' constitutional rights, UGA finally withdrew the charges, but Lovell had been under the threat of significant punishment for a month.
University of Georgia Letter to Jacob Lovell, September 3, 2010
Protecting speech on college campus
March 15, 2011
Should the University of Georgia be a campus where anyone – no matter how thin-skinned – can invoke disciplinary mechanisms for speech they find offensive? UGA's current anti-harassment provisions lack the precision the U.S. Supreme Court requires for the regulation of speech, "our most precious" freedom. UGA's policies are as flawed as the infamous University of Wisconsin and University of Michigan policies federal courts found to be unconstitutionally vague and overbroad. President Michael Adams' recent announcement that UGA's restrictive Non-Discrimination and Harassment Policy (NDAH) is being reviewed is a positive development. But last month's revelation that student affairs officials want […]» Read More
Free Speech, Dangerous Speech, and Scootergate (Video)
January 13, 2011
In the aftermath of the unconscionable events that took place in Arizona this weekend, there's been a lot of heated discussion about tone, rhetoric, and the consequences of "inflammatory" speech. Unfortunately, commentators have occasionally confused their anger and condemnation of some of the more overheated rhetoric in our political culture with an argument against free speech itself. There is irony in this because free speech exists in large part so we can criticize, discuss, and parse through issues–including the accuracy of rhetoric, the tone of discussion, and the consequences of ideas. While a discussion about tone, rhetoric–and, most of all, […]» Read More
Student gets in trouble for e-mail on scooter parking
September 26, 2010
Put this in the "what-were-they-thinking" category. "They" are officials at the University of Georgia, who took exception to a mocking e-mail sent by a student complaining about the location of available parking for scooters on campus. As reported by FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the school actually invites students to send positive and negative feedback to Parking Services, so student Jacob Lovell sent an e-mail Aug. 17 that said the following (note that I took out some language not allowed on the Post Web site): "Why isn't there any scooter parking near Aderhold, according to your parking […]» Read More
Foul e-mail nearly costs grad student
September 25, 2010
University of Georgia officials have called off disciplinary proceedings against a graduate student who sent an irate and profane e-mail to parking services, complaining about the lack of scooter parking on campus. "Why isn't there any scooter parking near Aderhold, according to your parking map," graduate student Jacob Lovell wrote Aug. 18 in an e-mail to UGA's Parking Services Department. "There's like a billion places to park on north campus and over by the Georgia Center, but nothing anywhere close to Aderhold. What the hell? Did you guys just throw darts at a map to decide where to put scooter […]» Read More
University of Georgia punishes student for parking complaint
September 22, 2010
Think twice before you make a complaint about parking at the University of Georgia. When student Jacob Lovell submitted an email to the UGA Parking Services, he was then threatened with charges of "disorderly conduct" and "disruption" by the associate dean of students, Kimberly Ellis. (Click here for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's press release.) "Specifically, it is alleged that Mr. Lovell engaged in disorderly conduct and disrupted parking services when he sent an email to them that was threatening." The email was sent to "firstname.lastname@example.com," which solicits comments from patrons "both positive and negative." Here's the email […]» Read More
UGA Professor Calls for School to Reform Speech Codes in 'Atlanta Journal-Constitution'
March 21, 2011
For University of Georgia (UGA) journalism professor William E. Lee, UGA's decision to review its current Non-Discrimination and Anti-Harassment Policy is a step in the right direction. Not so that the screws can be tightened on free speech, as is too often the case, but so that UGA officials can put the policy in line with the First Amendment. In his guest column in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Lee reminds readers that "UGA's current anti-harassment provisions lack the precision the U.S. Supreme Court requires for the regulation of speech, 'our most precious' freedom," and points out that "UGA's policies are as […]» Read More
Free Speech Awakening at University of Georgia?
March 1, 2011
Something good for free speech might be happening at the University of Georgia (UGA), and I don't mean the quiet retirement of the "Party in the UGA" orientation video. At the beginning of this academic year, UGA brought us Scootergate (video), in which a student was brought up on charges after he sent some negative feedback to UGA Parking Services. (After FIRE intervened, UGA dropped the charges.) UGA also literally brought us the speech police—between August 1 and September 27, 2010, eight police reports were filed for "acts of intolerance," mainly involving constitutionally protected expression, such as the words "Dick and […]» Read More
FIRE Highlights UGA's 'Scootergate' in New Video
January 13, 2011
When University of Georgia (UGA) student Jacob Lovell wrote a frustrated e-mail to the school's Parking Services about the lack of places on campus to park his scooter, he had no idea that his e-mail would lead to formal charges from the university for disruption and "conduct that causes or provokes a disturbance." Only after FIRE got involved did UGA back down from the charges, concluding there was insufficient evidence to justify them. Now, FIRE has chronicled Lovell's travails in our newest video, "Scootergate!" The video is a humorous treatment of Lovell's case, since it has to be counted among […]» Read More
Greg Introduces FIRE's New 'Scootergate!' Video on 'Huffington Post'
January 13, 2011
FIRE President Greg Lukianoff writes in The Huffington Post today about the significance of free speech in light of the recent debates over "hate speech" following the tragic shootings in Arizona. Greg emphasizes how granting the power to censor often leads those in authority to censor any criticism of themselves, and points to the case of University of Georgia student Jacob Lovell, whose experiences are profiled in our newest video, "Scootergate."» Read More
January 13, 2011
On August 17, 2010, University of Georgia graduate student Jacob Lovell e-mailed a complaint to UGA Parking Services concerning limited scooter parking. Although Parking Services specifically asks students for both "negative & positive" comments, Lovell spent nearly a month under the threat of punishment after submitting his complaint.» Read More
Victory for Free Speech Nets Victory for Scooter Users at UGA
October 13, 2010
Here's a fun development after FIRE's victory on behalf of University of Georgia (UGA) student Jacob Lovell, who faced charges of "disorderly conduct" and "disruption" for e-mailing UGA Parking Services a complaint about campus scooter parking on campus. As the Athens Banner-Herald reports, Lovell was far from alone in registering his dissatisfaction with scooter parking, and UGA has finally listened. The Banner-Herald reports: Scooters will get more parking spaces, many of them conveniently placed near UGA buildings where students congregate, such as the Miller Learning Center and Snelling Hall, a UGA dining hall. Parking officials hope scooter riders like the […]» Read More
University of Georgia in the News After Trying to Punish Student for Parking Complaint
September 29, 2010
As one might expect with a case stemming from a complaint over parking accommodations that resulted in the threat of disciplinary charges for University of Georgia (UGA) student Jacob Lovell, much of the public's reaction to UGA's behavior has been along the lines of: really? As in, UGA really thought Lovell's e-mail constituted a threat? See Washington Post blogger Valerie Strauss, who opens with: Put this in the "what-were-they-thinking" category. And closes with: The case was closed. But why was it ever opened? Similarly, Becca Nadler, blogging for Saxaspeak (a blogging arm of the Georgetown University paper The Hoya) begins: […]» Read More
Victory in Georgia: Student Cleared of Charges for Complaint about Campus Parking
September 22, 2010
Today's press release tells the curious tale of University of Georgia (UGA) student Jacob Lovell, who wanted to find parking for his scooter when he drove to class. Not finding enough parking close enough to class, he e-mailed UGA Parking Services with his complaint about its service. His flippant and joking e-mail mused, "Did you guys just throw darts at a map to decide where to put scooter corrals?" and otherwise made fun of the department for what he perceived to be its poor job of providing parking for scooters. The response from Parking Services, in its entirety: "Your e-mail […]» Read More
Victory in Georgia: Student Cleared of Charges for Complaint about Campus Parking
September 22, 2010
ATLANTA, Sept. 22, 2010—The University of Georgia (UGA) has withdrawn charges of "disorderly conduct" and "disruption" filed against a student after he sent a mocking e-mail to UGA Parking Services to complain about the lack of parking spaces for scooters on campus. Although Parking Services specifically asks students for both "negative & positive" comments on its performance, student Jacob Lovell spent nearly a month under the threat of punishment after submitting his e-mail. UGA backed down after Lovell came to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) for help. "Jacob Lovell just wanted to park his scooter on campus, and […]» Read More


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By Nathan Lerner
Few social issues have proven more controversial than same-sex marriage. The matter has inspired a heated debate, replete with political implications.
As part of this year's QFest, the evocatively-titled "Married in Spandex" addresses the volatile issue. Rather than attempting a comprehensive overview, the documentary focuses on a specific pair of lesbians, Amanda Kole and Rachel Turanski. The 20-something lovebirds from West Philly decide to get legally hitched. To achieve their goal, the couple heads to Iowa to tie the proverbial knot.
Mt. Airy filmmaker, Sharon Mullally, provided a pivotal contribution to "Married in Spandex." She served as project advisor and editing consultant to the film. Mullally explained how she became involved with the film.
"My good friend, Melissa Thompson, is a wonderful producer, director and editor. She moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., a couple of years ago. She is the editor of 'Married in Spandex' and contacted me to ask if I'd be a post-production consultant for the project."
(Running from July 7 to July 18, the 17th edition of Philadelphia QFest — Queer Festival — will screen 107 films about lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered issues. There will be 43 feature films, nine documentaries, and 55 short films — comedy, drama, documentaries, shorts, horror and thrillers from more than 28 countries.)
Mullally, who requested that her age not be mentioned ("Can you just say I'm a baby boomer?"), talked with Melissa and then met with (Producer/Co-Director) Allison Kole and (Co-Director) Devin Gallagher to discuss aspects of the production.
"For example, how many cameras to use to cover the wedding and how to get the best possible sound in that situation. I viewed a few rough cuts and gave the production team feedback."
Mullally has worked primarily on social issue documentaries. "It's the work that keeps me excited and gives me a sense of fulfillment. As an 'out' lesbian in Philadelphia, I was thrilled to be asked to work on 'Married in Spandex.' Rachel and Amanda are a wonderfully unique young couple. Their entertaining personal story opens up the dialogue inside and outside of the LGBTQ community about the debate around gay marriage."
It's always difficult to find funding for independent documentaries, Mullally explained, so the challenge is to create a film with the highest production values possible on a limited budget. "And 'Married in Spandex' looks and sounds great!" she insisted. "The entire production team, together with Rachel and Amanda, balanced the fun and quirky aspects of the film with the exploration of the controversial issue of gay marriage, and were able to maintain the sense of warmth created by this young couple and their family and friends."
Mullally noted the changing attitudes towards same-sex marriage. "The passage of the gay marriage legislation in New York is an indication that the American public is much more accepting of gay marriage than in the past. It's especially interesting in New York that the legislation was passed with support from Republicans in the state government.
"I just think that most straight Americans have realized that people they care about are gay, and it doesn't make any sense to refuse them the benefits — personal, spiritual and financial — that are given to heterosexuals."
By contrast, Mullally expressed disappointment about the direction of the gay marriage dispute here in Pennsylvania, "Isn't Pennsylvania described as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between? Unfortunately our state is going backwards politically right now. Fearful people, who are uncomfortable with anything different than themselves, are pushing an agenda of continued discrimination. Things look pretty discouraging here right now."
Regarding "Married in Spandex," Mullally insisted that "it's so much fun and is wonderful at showing different types of families and fostering the love that exists in spite of obstacles within these families. The characters are hilarious and very relatable. After spending time with them for 55 minutes on screen, I think most people would want to join in the wedding celebration…"
Mullally, who has lived in Mt. Airy and Germantown for most of her adult life, cannot say enough good things about her community. "It's a beautiful area with wonderful houses, and in the last several years, there are lots more local amenities like restaurants, coffee shops and bookstores.
"I can get on the train and be in Center City in 20 minutes, and it's a friendly, progressive area. I feel totally comfortable as an 'out' lesbian in this neighborhood, and I feel like there's so much diversity here that people make fewer assumptions about who we are. That's a good thing!"
For more information on QFest, visit www.qfest.com or call 267-765-9800; you can follow the festival on Twitter: @QFEST and Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/qfestphilly. "Married in Spandex" will be shown on Saturday, July 16, 5:15 p.m., at the Ritz Bourse. All films will be screened at the Ritz East Theatre 1 and 2 and the Ritz at the Bourse.
Nathan Lerner, the Director of Davenport Communications, sees over 200 feature films a year. He welcomes feedback at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Dark Knight (PG-13)
Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman
Release Date: July 18, 2008
Runtime: 2 hr. 32 mins.
Genre: Action/Adventure
With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. The triumvirate proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a rising criminal mastermind known as the Joker, who thrusts Gotham into anarchy and forces the Dark Knight ever closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante.
The Dark Knight is extraordinary, an amazing piece of filmmaking that rockets the Batman legacy to heights never imagined, fueled by Heath Ledger's amazing re-invention of The Joker.
After re-invigorating the Batman movie franchise by taking him back to his beginnings three years ago, director Christopher Nolan again tweaks the superhero movie genre and turns it on its ear with this riveting and brilliantly executed sequel. You could safely say this is The Godfather II of comic-book movies because at its dark heart it really plays like a crime movie, more L.A. Confidential than Iron Man. Joining a triumvirate to eviscerate crime in Gotham City, Batman (Christian Bale) teams with Lieutenant Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and crusading D.A. Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) to triumph over evil. But as a true anarchist, The Joker (Heath Ledger) is unleashed by the mob and determined to cause holy bat terror for no apparent reason other than his own enjoyment. Right from the beginning, Batman and his colleagues realize they are not dealing with any rational criminal and must use all their ingenuity to combat him. The film explores the extreme damage one determined person can have on an entire society, an apt analogy to the real world where local terrorists can create havoc beyond human belief. Things also get complicated when a love triangle develops between Batman's alter-ego Bruce Wayne, Harvey Dent (who truly has a dark side ) and Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal).
Bale is back in a role that fits him like a glove--the perfect Batman and suave Bruce Wayne. Fans can also take comfort that Morgan Freeman, as scientist Lucius, and Michael Caine, as loyal butler Alfred, are both back along with Oldman whose role as Lt. Gordon has been considerably beefed up for the better. Eckhart's complex turn as Dent is the most intriguing of all, as his eventual predicament sums up the film's most salient point: There is a fine line between justice and revenge. Gyllenhaal does what she can to ratchet up Rachel (a role played originally by Katie Holmes)--Bruce Wayne's true love, now romantically involved with Dent. But as good as this cast is--and it doesn't get much better in the genre--The Dark Knight is Ledger's film, a fitting finale for an all-too-short but enormously impressive career. The late actor took on the daunting task of filling Jack Nicholson's shoes but makes his Joker one of the most memorable of all previous Batman baddies (and that includes Jack's). It's a fearless performance, bitingly alive and ironic--a clown on crack, as it were. This a movie villain that might even scare Hannibal Lecter. Ledger's posthumous performance may be headed toward the bittersweet moment of a certain supporting Oscar nomination, if not the award itself.
Perhaps it's the fact that Christopher Nolan got his feet wet directing small gems like Memento that The Dark Knight feels so intimate in its theme--even though the film itself is played on such a large scale. Nolan has created a dark, creepy Gotham City where anarchy reigns, justice is confused and the criminals and the crime fighters are seemingly interchangeable at times. Nolan's boldest move has been to film six major action sequences in the IMAX format, giving this sequel a scope that few other movies out there have. He has also jettisoned the tired overuse of CGI trickery for good old-fashioned stunts--including a spectacular sequence in which a giant Big Rig is flipped, as well as numerous high-flying chases from Gotham to Hong Kong. There is also the addition of a new mode of transportation for Batman--the Batpod, a heavily armored two-wheeled all-purpose driving machine that makes the Batmobile look like a Honda. Ultimately though, Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with brother Jonathan Nolan, has more on his mind than mere gadgets and movie mayhem. The Dark Knight's true power comes in the way this darkest of knights puts a mirror up to society and shows us we are all potentially on the eve of destruction--unless we summon the elusive will to stop it.
Bottom Line
Hollywood.com rated this film 4 stars.
With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. The triumvirate proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a rising criminal mastermind known as the Joker, who thrusts Gotham into anarchy and forces the Dark Knight ever closer to crossing the fine line between hero and vigilante.


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TORONTO - Despite the wishes of hockey fans across Canada, an elusive first playoff series between the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs since 1979 doesn't appear likely ? at least in the first round.
It's even less likely after the Canadiens beat the Leafs 4-3 Saturday night at Air Canada Centre to extend their lead in the Atlantic Division standings to five points.
Toronto (36-28-8) dropped its fourth in a row, while Montreal (39-26-7) won for the fourth time in five games.
Of course the result was not without the kind of entertainment and controversy that would make a Habs-Leafs playoff series must-see viewing. Back-and-forth action was prevalent all game long, and then Tomas Plekanec's winning goal came under questionable circumstances.
A little over nine minutes into the third period, James van Riemsdyk was penalized for goaltender interference when he steam-rolled Carey Price, even though replays showed Montreal defenceman Andrei Markov knocked the Leafs winger into him. Plekanec scored short side exactly two minutes later to cap off an ugly night for James Reimer.
Max Pacioretty, Rene Bourque and Brian Gionta also scored for the Habs. Joffrey Lupul, Tyler Bozak and Nazem Kadri had the Leafs' goals.
Reimer, making his fourth straight start in place of the injured Jonathan Bernier, finished with 32 saves on 36 shots. Price stopped 33 of the 36 that came his way in a game that was mostly even throughout.
A turnover by Phil Kessel led to Montreal's first goal just 5:47. Kessel coughed the puck up to David Desharnais, who then found Pacioretty with plenty of space.
Pacioretty's shot went just under Reimer's glove for his 31st goal of the season, just two short of a career high.
Just over a minute later, David Clarkson fumbled the puck in the offensive zone, and Jake Gardiner was caught out of position when Brian Gionta found Bourque. Bourque's shot then beat Reimer clean at 6:52 to make it a 2-0 Habs lead.
Reimer might like to have those first two goals back, but he also did his part to reverse the tide of the game by robbing Pacioretty with a big glove save midway through the first. If the 26-year-old's confidence was hurting from a rough season, comments made by Randy Carlyle earlier in the week and other factors, that didn't show as he flashed the glove with flare to a big cheer from the crowd.
Lupul went down the ice on the next shift and scored, taking a pass from Mason Raymond and firing a laser of a shot past Price at 11:02 to cut the deficit in half.
Reimer and Price traded saves as their teams traded scoring chances for several minutes before the Leafs tied it up thanks to some strong work from Kessel. Reigning Norris Trophy winner P.K. Subban fell after Kessel knocked him off the puck, and the Toronto winger then managed to find Bozak all alone in front to make it 2-2 at 18:03.
All it took was another turnover by the Leafs to stunt their momentum and give the Habs a 3-2 lead at 19:07. Along the boards in the defensive zone, Kadri tipped the puck right to Bourque, who fed Gionta for a shot that went off Toronto defenceman Tim Gleason's stick and in.
The Leafs got three excellent chances to get it back in the second period. Price stopped one, his left post stopped one and the right post another.
A give-and-go with James van Riemsdyk and Kessel required Price to make a sliding save early in the period on a quick shot. Thirteen minutes in, Gardiner clanked a shot off the post, and 17 minutes in, Morgan Rielly pinged a shot off the opposite post.
Toronto finally tied it late on an early-third-period power play after Plekanec hooked Gardiner. After Raymond cycled the puck along the boards, Lupul stationed himself behind the net and found Kadri wide open in front for his career-high 18th goal of the season at the 2:49 mark.
That goal broke Montreal's streak of 25 consecutive penalties killed, which dated to March 6 against the Coyotes in Phoenix.
The Habs took the lead for good on Plekanec's goal that followed van Riemsdyk's penalty.
NOTES ????????? Referee Greg Kimmerly was honoured before working his 1,000th career NHL game. Director of officiating Stephen Walkom presented the Toronto native with a Tiffany crystal, and then captains Dion Phaneuf and Gionta gave Kimmerly sticks signed by the Leafs and Habs. ... Dave Bolland returned for the Leafs after missing 56 games with a severed tendon in the back of his left ankle. ... With Bernier scratched for the fourth straight game with a groin injury, Drew MacIntyre backed up Reimer. ... Bourque returned to the Habs' lineup after five games as a healthy scratch, replacing Ryan White. Defenceman Douglas Murray was in for Jarred Tinordi.


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International Paper Co. will close its paper mill in Courtland, Ala., in several stages through the first three months of 2014.
Memphis-based International Paper Co. announced Wednesday it will close a paper mill in Courtland, Ala. because of declining demand for the kind of paper products made there.
(Daily News File/Lance Murphey)
The Memphis-based company announced the closing Wednesday, Sept. 11, and estimated 1,100 workers will lose their jobs in the North Alabama town east of Muscle Shoals.
Four other U.S. paper mills that produce the same uncoated freesheet paper products as the mill in Courtland will remain open.
International Paper chairman and CEO John Faraci said the Courtland mill closing is "driven by demand decline for uncoated freesheet paper products in the United States."
Those products are papers used in copiers and computers as well as business forms and envelopes. They are also used in textbooks as well as commercial printing in general and stationary.
International Paper isn't getting out of the business, which, like other divisions of the company, is based in Memphis. But it is seeing a decline in the North American market that led to the decision to close one of the five mills in the U.S.
The company began seeing a decline in uncoated freesheet starting in 1999 and that has accelerated with electronic billing and filing and online publishing gaining in consumer acceptance and use.
"Permanently closing the mill best positions the business."
–Tim Nicholls International Paper senior vice president
In its latest quarterly earnings results announced in July, company officials announced they had established a $28 million reserve to cover what could be credit exposure from the bankruptcy of National Envelope Co.
The printing papers division also posted an earnings decrease of $73 million for the quarter.
National Envelope cited the same shift to online billing and filing when it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in June. It marked the second bankruptcy filing by the Texas-based company in three years.
"We explored numerous business and repurposing options for the Courtland Mill, but concluded that permanently closing the mill best positions the business for the future," said Tim Nicholls, International Paper's printing and communication papers senior vice president. "IP's printing papers business remains a valuable and strategic part of IP."
International Paper expects to take a pre-tax noncash asset write-off and accelerated depreciation charge of $550 million and severance and other shutdown charges of $125 million across the rest of the 2013 calendar year and into the first quarter of 2014.
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LEWISTON, Maine - Freshman Stephen Morton scored 18 points and the Engineers grabbed first place in both relays as MIT finished third overall at the New England Division III Track and Field Championships. MIT, which has the most top-three finishes in meet history, yielded the top spot to Williams College, winners of a fourth consecutive regional crown.
Morton secured the Engineers' top individual finish of the day with a second-place run in the 200-meter dash. A tough draw in prelims nearly cost the rookie a chance in the event final, but once there, he split 22.58 to steal second in a tight race. Morton also jumped 45'10.5" to finish third in the triple jump.
Omari Stephens and sophomore Jake Ruzevick also secured third-place finishes at Saturday's championship. Stephens followed up a career-best split in the 55-meter hurdles to finish third in the pole vault. Stephens vaulted 14'5.5" to finish just ahead of teammate Greg Tao, who vaulted a career-high 14'2.75" to take fourth. Ruzevick earned his Bronze in the 1000-meter run, running a personal-record 2:31.12 to top both his seed time and place.
The Engineers had numerous personal bests against the field, including Anthony Teixeira's 7.92 clip in the high hurdles. Teixeira's time led to a fourth-place finish, while Stephens grabbed sixth after closing in 8.06. In the early part of the meet, Chris Bateman led a strong team performance in the long jump, posting a personal record of 21'8.75" to finish fourth. Morton jumped 21'7.25" en route to fifth, while Teixeira finished eighth.
The Engineers secured their top-three finish in the team standings and placed some heat on Williams and Tufts after a clean sweep in Saturday's relays. MIT led wire-to-wire in winning the 4x800m with a time of 7:56.63. The Cardinal and Gray secured another sizable win in the distance medley relay, finishing in 10:32.63 to close four seconds ahead of second-place Brandeis.


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Midway through last season, a young CCRI women's basketball team started to put it all together. The Lady Knights finished strong in the regular season, won the region championship and lost a close game to Lackawanna in the district tournament semifinals.
With a strong nucleus back and ready to go from day one, it's like last season never ended.
"We started to hit on all cylinders in the second half of last season," said head coach Kate Lynch. "It's always a wild card when you come back from the summer. You don't know if they've worked out and done everything they should, but honestly, they came in and just picked up where they left off."
That's adding fuel to expectations that were already high.
The Lady Knights finished last season with a 19-12 record, despite the fact that they began the year with only one returning player.
The young players that dominated the roster are now veterans, and they're ready for more. CCRI has seven sophomores on its roster, four of whom are in the starting lineup.
That alone should make the Lady Knights a contender. If they needed anything extra, their loss to Lackawanna in the District N tournament provides plenty of motivation.
"The girls are working really hard every single day," Lynch said. "Last year, we did a lot of good things, but everybody was really disappointed in how the season ended. The sophomores are very determined and focused on getting us back there."
Leading the way for CCRI is sophomore Jahira Smith. The 5-foot-7 guard from Brooklyn, N.Y., burst onto the scene last season and earned second-team All-American honors after averaging 16 points per game and leading the team in assists.
She's been even better so far this season. Smith has averaged 20.2 points per game.
"The sky's the limit for her," Lynch said. "Hands down, I think she'll be a first-team All-American. She's very confident and she's been working hard. I think she's going to have a great year."
Smith plays shooting guard for CCRI, and she'll be joined in the backcourt by Treedy Ward, a 5-foot-5 sophomore from Boynton Beach, Fla. At small forward, Warwick native and former Bay View stand-out Jessica Randall returns after a strong debut season last year. She averaged nearly 12 points per game.
The other sophomore in the starting lineup is Nyjah Porcher, who hails from New Britain, Conn. She also stood out as a freshman, averaging just under 10 points per game.
Those veterans have CCRI a step ahead of where it was last year.
"It's been a lot easier," Lynch said. "They've really taken a leadership role and they've kind of de-briefed the freshmen on what they need to do and what's expected of them."
Freshman Alison Littles, from Holyoke, Mass., rounds out the starting lineup. The 6-foot-1 center gives the Lady Knights an added dimension. She's already averaging 15 rebounds per game, and she was just two blocks away from a triple double in one game this season.
"She's just been a rebounding machine," Lynch said. "She's going to be a big key for us."
The Knights have three other sophomores in the fold, along with two other freshman. Guard Monique Plummer gives CCRI another veteran presence in the backcourt, while fellow sophomores Lindsay Nash and Jenna Ayala can provide a lot of help in the frontcourt. Freshman guards Alexia Barros and Ahnyya Jackson are looking to make a big impact, as well.
It all adds up to a team that's poised for big things.
"I think everybody has bought in and really believes in what we can do," Lynch said. "Every single game, we're working hard with a goal in mind."
And it's working so far. The Lady Knights are 6-0 and have scored more than 100 points four times. The competition will get tougher, but the Lady Knights expect to be ready.
They're aiming high.
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Arrogance ran rampant in the ranks of the electrical contractor in the early 1900s. As far as some were concerned, electricity was the "most powerful factor in the advancement of civilization." In the contractor's opinion, "darkness [was] a shutter to one's soul," so who better than he to throw open the windows and let the light in? Pretty heady stuff coming from the guys who just wired houses for a living.
There's a certain amount of pride to be derived from any job well done, but maybe that pride can go to your head. Maybe you can overstate the importance of a job. And maybe that's why those early contractors believed they were offering an invaluable service as they brought electricity to American homes. Yet in light of how far the country has come with the help of the men that designed and built its electrical infrastructure, who could begrudge the early electrical contractor his vanity? Maybe their big-headed claims really weren't that far from the truth.
Most homes in the first decades of the 20th Century were not built with electricity in mind. In 1901, the year of EC&M's birth, electric heat and air conditioning were more than forty years away. Today's electric kitchen, with its coffee machine, microwave, and George Foreman grill, was far from conceivable. And the personal computer? Well, let's just say the integrated circuit was yet to be dreamed of. In fact, it was the wiring of residences that increased demand for electric appliances, spurring manufacturers to create new and greater domestic toys. Many of the "necessities" we now take for granted were years from being patented, but none would have been possible were it not for the electrical contractor's vision of electrifying America.
It was with this very goal that many contractors of the early 1900s started out. Bringing electricity to residential housing created enough work to sustain a contractor in every town, but the overabundance of work wouldn't last forever. The work was so popular that every man with the slightest knowledge of electrical wiring was calling himself a contractor, prompting the Electrical Contractor-Dealer in 1919 to prophesize the possible market saturation the current trend could lead to and the dangers it could create. "The volume of business in [a] territory might be sufficient to support one concern but so limited as to cause everybody to lose money if two or more concerns were in the field," George Loring wrote.
The push to bring electricity to homes may have modernized residences in America's cities and towns, but most farm houses in rural areas still went without. The problems inherent to bringing power to the countryside had slowed the electrification of farms and farmhouses. The distance between farms and the sparse population of rural areas made it difficult to build cost-efficient distribution lines. Even with technological advances, one mile of rural line cost more than $2000 in 1935. With power grids already in place, distributing electricity to homes in a residential area was relatively simple in comparison. To combat this problem, President Franklin Roosevelt created the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) in 1935, making the initiative a federal responsibility. As with residential electrification, the rural wiring project was a springboard for countless budding electrical contractors.
In 1938, Chester Church was 26 years old and out of work, but he wouldn't stay unemployed for long. The REA had made its way to his hometown of Erie, Pa., and with it came the opportunity for steady work. Bringing electricity to farm houses was not a new idea to Church. With only one year of training from Academy High, he had begun wiring nearby farms at the age of 16 — nearly 10 years before the REA initiative. With the help of his brother-in-law Al Murdock (whom Church trained), he went to work on farms in nearby Franklin Center, Pa.
In retrospect, the 89-year-old Church says he can appreciate the importance of the work he and Murdock were doing, but at the time the chance to earn a living was his motivation.
"It was just work," Church says. "It was just a paycheck, but I was bound and determined to get to the top. And I did with Murdock."
Before the REA, much of the sparse electrical work that went on in rural towns was done by local crossroads mechanics who had little or no knowledge of the current National Electric Code. Some homeowners undertook the task of wiring their farms without any electrical training. With the standardization of rural electrical installations in 1937, however, wiring methods became more dependable. All the while, the electrical contractor was reaping the benefits of the government's program. Farmhouse wiring created $14,278,000 in revenue for contractors in 1939 — $1,320,000 more than all residential wiring that year.
Yet no sooner had the REA initiative begun to gain momentum, than the United States found itself embroiled in World War II, putting all non-essential projects on hold. With the bombing of Pearl Harbor on that infamous day in December 1941, the nation turned its attention to winning the war against fascism in both the European and Pacific theaters of war. Increased demands stateside for raw materials in military construction brought residential and commercial installations to a halt, while increased demands overseas for enlisted men depleted the workforce back home.
Church was among those who left his work in the states behind to join the war effort overseas. He had begun working full time for General Electric in 1939, and though his foreman pleaded with him to stay, he enlisted with the Navy's Construction Battalion (C.B.) in May 1943. He never saw action, but his knowledge of electrical systems made him a valuable asset to the C.B. While stationed at Guadalcanal in the South Pacific, Church built electrical lines, wired tents, and worked on electrical installations at the military's airport on the island.
Despite thinning the domestic workforce, the war offered new opportunities for those who remained behind. Though new construction all but disappeared in the early '40s, there was plenty of work to be found in industrial plants. Existing plants had to be modernized to accommodate the massive defense production the war demanded. After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, Americans were questioning their safety at home and work, so the installation of emergency air raid and blackout equipment was crucial to the continued operation of munitions plants during the war.
The construction of military vessels created an equally lucrative opportunity for contracting firms willing to adjust to the changing market. Before the onset of WWII, E-J Electric had devoted a large portion of its resources to motion picture theater and studio work. Once the United States entered the war, however, few contractors had the luxury of working on such comparatively trivial installations. Beginning with a contract to electrify four 176-ft PC Subchasers for Jefferson Boat & Marine in Jeffersonville, Ind., E-J moved into a market that would help the company stay afloat during the war.
Though the majority of electrical contracting needs was in government work, opportunities for private work still existed in limited supply. For those that could find new construction work, the economic structure of installations changed drastically when Price Administrator Leon Henderson passed a new regulation in 1942 offering specialized price control. A price ceiling kept prices of materials and labor at their March 1942 level. On jobs that were worth more than $500, contractors were to supply materials and labor at actual cost. The new regulations all but eliminated profits, but for electrical workers struggling to find any work at all, the work would have to do.
When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, World War II came to an abrupt end. And so did the electrical contractor's duty to American military forces. There were no more ships to wire or bases to electrify; contractors were free to return to private installations, and there was more than enough work to go around. For the nearly four years the United States had waged war against the Axis powers, the need for domestic electrical work had steadily built, and it was time to turn attention back to the job of bringing power to all Americans.
Upon returning from Guadalcanal in May 1945, Chester Church had little trouble finding work. However, the idea of going back to General Electric no longer appealed to him; it was time for him to see if he could take the new skills the Navy had taught him and start his own business.
"By this time, I had a First Class Electrician rating," Church says. "That's one thing the Navy did for me — they sent me to school for 3-phase, 4-wire training. I had an idea that Al [Murdock] and I could start a business and make a go of it."
And they did. Learning of advances in wiring technology wasn't the only thing Church gained by serving in the Navy. The country was proud of its veterans, and many Americans thanked the boys for their service by throwing jobs their way. For Church, advertising his new business was unnecessary; just putting "veteran" on his business cards was more than enough to build a respectable client base. One citizen of Franklin Center, Pa., gave Church and his partner Murdock a job wiring his house and barn specifically because they were veterans. He even went so far as to promise to get the other area farmers to hire the pair, as well.
"Because we were both veterans, they gave us all the work we wanted," Church says. "The reason they gave jobs to the vets is because they thought we served the country well. It was kind of payback, I guess."
But relying on a military service record and friendly townspeople wasn't a luxury all electrical contractors had. Though there were plenty of jobs, there were more than enough contractors to take the work. It was becoming increasingly important for electrical workers to distinguish themselves from their competition, and competition had begun to come from unexpected places. Department stores like Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward gave contractors a scare when they began selling wiring supplies at discount prices, and contractors worried it was only a matter of time before the stores began installing electrical systems. Their fears proved to be unfounded, but the lesson was learned: Providing good service and high-quality workmanship were admirable business practices, but they were wasted efforts if no one knew your name.
The electrical contractor could no longer settle for being just a tradesman; he had to be a salesman, as well. Contractors began hanging banners displaying their company name from the buildings they worked on. Others employed the local newspaper to spread the word of their qualifications.
With the growth of the business came an increasing demand for workers. When the Twentieth Century Fund predicted that 60 million Americans would be in the workforce by 1950, the question became how to get the men into jobs that fit their skills. Church and Murdock found the answer in union labor.
The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) was founded by Henry Miller in 1891. Ten delegates representing 286 members gathered for the first time in St. Louis on Nov. 21, 1891. From this humble beginning, the union grew to include more than 225,000 wiremen by 1941. Most electrical contractors at the time did not employ union labor, but 80% of the electrical construction in America in the early '40s went to the remaining 20% of electrical contractors who had union shops. It was becoming increasingly evident that the electrical contractor would have to learn to work with the union to succeed.
Church and Murdock had only been in business for themselves for little more than two years before they became a union shop. Up to that point, the Pennsylvania Electric Company (Penelec) had given the pair all the business they could handle. The fledgling contractors spent much of their time converting residential electric ranges and hot water tanks from 110V to 220V services. In 1948, Penelec came to Church and suggested he join Local 56 of the IBEW. It was up to him and Murdock, but the jobs from Penelec would dry up if they refused to go union. As far as the two were concerned, the decision to join didn't take much thought.
"We joined the union, and that was the best thing we ever did, because we went big then," Church says. "We could bid on any job that there was."
The partnership between the union and the electrical contractor was far from a happy one, however. The unions demanded better wages, improved working conditions, and shorter work weeks — and in most cases they got their way. Wiremen had organized themselves, and if the contractor wanted capable workers, he now faced a united front. Yet the subject was so taboo, "the average employer would no more write his frank views on the labor problem in a letter than he would set fire to his thumb," wrote Earl Whitehorne of Electrical Contracting in 1941.
Chester's son Al, who now runs the business with Murdock's son Jess, characterized the relationship more harshly.
"It used to be the contractor and the union were enemies," he says. But with the vast changes in the makeup of the electrical workforce over the last 50 years, the contractor and the union have learned to work together in a more amicable relationship.
The newfound bond has created an unlikely friendship in Chester's opinion.
"[Al and Jess] don't have any problems with the union they way we did," he says. "We had to live up to their owners, and now I get a kick out of the way they talk back to them."
Not only did the increasing workload create a need for more workers, it called for improved efficiency. Electrical contracting was no longer just a mission to bring electricity to America. It had evolved into a thriving business sector. As the bottom line took precedence, contractors were looking for better and faster ways of doing business.
For many contractors, estimating was — and still is — one of the more time-consuming tasks of the job. Not only was it tedious work, but it also created countless chances for mistakes. Without estimating software, the contractor has to trust his ability to transfer figures from one piece of paper to another; just one transcription error could throw off the entire estimate. The likelihood of mistakes troubled Wallace Brausell, former CEO of Fisk Corp., Houston, and he watched the steady improvements in automated estimating with interest.
"Any time you allow people to write numbers down, you increase the possibility for mistakes a thousand-fold," he says.
To combat the problems inherent to manual estimating, Ralph E. Johnson, of Sturgeon Electric Co., Denver, developed the Estimatic Automated Estimating System in 1965. Though far from the computer-aided techniques of today, it was a giant leap forward. By feeding coded standard assemblies into electronic counters and recorders that automatically transferred the information to punched paper tape, estimates traveled by way of Western Union Telex telegraph lines to computers at another location. The rough estimate could be returned by the same method in less than 24 hours for final adjustments by estimators.
Predesigned assemblies used in these calculations took another step forward in 1973 with CELEST (Computerized ELectrical ESTimating). Instead of redrawing similar plans several times, estimators could refer to the hundreds of predesigned construction assemblies in the program that included material cost in dollars and the man-hours needed for each particular assembly. The contractor was well on his way to drastically reducing estimating time, and the growing technology that made it possible was the computer.
Few technological advancements had the impact on electrical contracting that the computer did. Not only did it improve estimating techniques, it became a tool for making business run smoother. Computer technology ushered in advances in production schedules, the ability to track productivity, and computer invoicing. By the mid-'80s, electrical contracting businesses that had yet to computerize their operations were virtually nonexistent — except for Church and Murdock.
"We operated quite a long time without computers," says Al Church. "A lot of people couldn't believe that we didn't have computer operations for estimating and other tasks. We converted about six years ago. We were doing about $10 million a year, and we didn't have computers."
According to Jess Murdock, Church's partner, the business simply didn't need to convert. "We were kind of dragged kicking and screaming into the computer age," he says. "And the reason is we had several competitors who were doing about the same volume we did. We were operating with two secretaries and no computer, and they were operating with five to seven secretaries and a couple of computers. We couldn't see a whole lot of sense in switching over."
Despite their hesitation, it proved to be a good move. "By the time we did switch over, it was almost mandatory," Murdock says. "It's worked out well; we've had some glitches, but we've gotten used to it."
Tony Mann, president of E-J Electric Installation, who became the third-generation of Manns to work for the company in 1986, finds it hard to imagine working before the dawn of the computer age.
"When I came in to the business, fax machines were just starting to be used commercially," he says. "The process was much slower. But then again, with all the fast-tracking today, they still built the Empire State Building in 13 months."
For all the broad improvements the computer brought to electrical contracting, it isn't the only technological advance to bring change to the business. Tools have come a long way from the days when Al Murdock first wired farmhouses in Erie, Pa. with his partner Church. In particular, his son Jess points to the bender as one instrument that has improved dramatically over the years.
"The benders and the drills have improved so much over everything we had to work with when I started in 1970 as an apprentice," Murdock says. "With today's benders, all you have to do is throw the pipe in and hit a button, and the thing bends it for you. Before that, we had to measure all the angles and measure the rise on the bender. It's increased productivity tremendously."
Keeping up with the changes in tools can be expensive, but as far as Church and Murdock are concerned, it's vital to the business. "We buy a lot of tools. There's no doubt about it," Al Church says. "We both worked for other contractors when we were apprentices. A couple of them were really stingy on tools, and I think we both saw the light on that. We see a big difference in productivity with good tools. When a guy needs a new tool, if it's out there, we try it without a doubt."
Throughout all the changes computers and tool improvements have brought about, however, the most important parts of installations haven't changed, according to Brausell.
"There are only certain ways you can actually get power to an area," he says. "First of all, it has to be protected from human contact, because if it isn't, you get the shit knocked out of you. The other thing is, it has to be as efficient as possible, and there have been no innovations in the last 40 or 50 years that I'm aware of that have been better than wiring cable and bus duct."
Those aspects of technology aren't the only things to remain similar over the years. Electrical contracting began in many cases as a family business built on personal relationships. Despite attempts by bigger roll-up companies to absorb smaller contracting firms for the purpose of specialization, the family nature of the business has remained intact. And for people like Chester Church, keeping the business in the family was extremely important.
"You build a business, and you're always happy if your son takes over," Church says. "That's what happened here — two sons took it over, Al and Jess."
Al Murdock, on the other hand, had no intention of encouraging his son Jess to follow in his footsteps. In fact, he went so far as to discourage him.
"My dad wanted me to go to college and do something different," Murdock says. "He used to tell me that there were a lot better ways to make a living than being an electrical contractor. I didn't know he was right," he says with a laugh.
For Mann, taking over the business from his father Bob, carried with it not only a sense of pride, but also one of pressure.
"There's always pressure to succeed when you're succeeding successful people," he says. "But it made a difference that it was family, because when you come aboard, people realize that you're there because you're a family member, and you have to prove yourself even more than if you came in as an outsider."
In the case of Al Church and Jess Murdock, the pressure didn't come from their fathers or coworkers, but instead from the community. With the poor track records of other second-generation businesses dogging them from the beginning, the pair even struggled to get financial backing from their bonding company and local bank.
"Everyone said we wouldn't make it six months," Murdock says. "And then six months went by, and five years went by and we still heard rumors, and then 10 years went by, and people decided we were here to say. I haven't heard any of those rumors for a long time."
Brausell attributes electrical contracting's enduring nature as a family enterprise to the fact that construction in general is a business of personal relationships.
"A general contractor firm doesn't do business with sub-contracting firms — it's people from the general contractor that do business with people from the sub-contractor," he says. "It's very much a people business."
There's no doubt things have changed since the early days of electrical contracting. Wiring techniques, tools, and the size of the industry have all seen vast improvements in the last 100 years. Yet, through it all, the basic tenants around which contractors like Chester Church and Al Murdock built their business remain intact today. Maybe that vaunted sense of pride and purpose the early contractors felt as they "electrified America" wasn't so unfounded after all. Maybe it's the ordinary American who has taken them for granted all along.


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Ask any historian: Nothing beats metaphors born of presidential scandal. When our highest elected officials transgress, their sins become symbols. Teapot Dome wasn't just a crooked oil deal perpetrated by Warren G. Harding's underlings, but Corruption in the Halls of Government; Watergate wasn't just a break-in/coverup, but the End of the Public's Trust in Elected Officials; Iran-contra wasn't just the Reagan administration's nutty attempt to fund opposition to socialist Sandanistas in Nicaragua with money from illegal arms sales, but the Final Flowering of America's Cold-War Mentality. These great ethical lapses define 20th-century presidential politics, just as President Bill Clinton and intern Monica Lewinsky's illicit White House canoodling defined... or, at least, defined... uh... something or other... wait... what were we supposed to learn from that whole Lewinsky thing again?
Even Ken Gormley, who spent nine years writing a new 789-page review of the Lewinsky affair called The Death of American Virtue, isn't sure what Monica means. "It would remain unclear to many of those who participated in the drama, on both sides of the political aisle, exactly what it had accomplished," Gormley writes of Clinton's impeachment of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's recommendation and subsequent acquittal.
Gormley's book, based on original interviews with Clinton v. Starr all-stars – including the president, the prosecutor, Lewinsky, Clinton harassee Paula Jones, FBI informant Linda Tripp, Whitewater conspirator Susan McDougal, and Republican Sen. Henry Hyde – is exhaustive and exhausting, but packs enough narrative punch to transport a reader back to a time when the economy was booming, "Friends" was on the air, and a chief executive's semen ended up on his intern's dress even though (according to Clinton's untruthful testimony) they had never been alone together. ("Even Monica Lewinsky," who perjured herself trying to protect the president, "concluded that Bill Clinton had lied under oath," Gormley writes.)
How did an inquiry into Clinton associate James McDougal's shady Arkansas real estate ventures turn into a wince-inducing investigation of Slick Willie's love life? Clinton and Starr, "two unusually talented Southerners who grew up in modest circumstances, each with ambitions to rise to great heights in public service, were born of the same time and place in American history," Gormley writes. "The story of how their paths collided so forcefully,... is the story of how politics and law combined and exploded like gasoline touched by a torch." Gormley, a former student of Nixon special prosecutor Archibald Cox who wrote a book about Watergate, offers a procedural not unlike Manson prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi's "Helter Skelter," setting aside tabloid gossip to focus on legal process – in this case, the unprecedented constitutional crisis that threatened Clinton's second term and handed George W. Bush the presidency.
Did Starr, hired to investigate a criminal land investment scheme, rightly expand his inquiry to charge Clinton for lying about sex, or was he a conservative Christian on a witch hunt? Had Clinton and Lewinsky, hiding behind a very limited definition of "sex," perjured themselves by denying their dalliance under oath? These questions have no clear answers and, in the absence of Pentagon Paper-level wrongdoing and a decade removed from late '90s partisan rancor, it's to Gormley's credit that he can sustain a long narrative, leisurely mediate on constitutional arcana at length, and remain neutral.
Well, mostly neutral. Gormley admits in an afterword that he "came to disagree with the course taken by [Republican] Chairman Hyde during the failed impeachment effort." It's an explicit, if last-minute, admission of a pro-Clinton bias lurking in the condescending way Gormley quotes anti-Clinton sources in dialect or turns them into caricatures. "He'd embarrassed hisself [sic] by doing what he did," says Paula Jones, portrayed as an Arkansan hick who "sipped Diet Coke" and "munch[ed] on fried provolone sticks dipped in ranch dressing" during an interview with Gormley, "a compromise lunch that was unhealthy but sufficiently small." The paranoid, megalomaniacal Linda Tripp is forever "husky-voiced" and "sneaking in puffs of a cigarette." Gormley is kinder to Lewinsky, but frequent, unsympathetic references to White House "females" remind readers that Clinton, impeached for lies he told about women on the strength of women's testimony, still emerged from his trial as nothing less than presidential. Gormley's muted sexism reflects the disturbing reality of Clinton's eight years in the White House: A likely sex addict became president and, whether or not he committed high crimes and misdemeanors, treated women poorly with no regard for the consequences.
This makes Gormley's title a bit of a head scratcher. "The Death of American Virtue" makes one expect an indictment where none is forthcoming. Gormley doesn't imply that Clinton's sleazy behavior signaled the end of public morality, and never concludes that Starr's prosecutorial overreach amounted to a triumph of power over principles. So when did American virtue die, and did someone kill it?
Gormley doesn't know, but maybe it's our very inability to take lessons from the Lewinsky scandal that signals a wavering of our moral compass. For, during that dark time in American history, whether in the Oval Office, in the Office of the Independent Counsel, in the media, or in the halls of Congress, there were no real good guys, and no real bad guys. There were just human beings making mistakes.
Justin Moyer is a freelance writer in Washington, D.C.


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Citizen Surveillance Helps Boston Investigation
The spread of technology from security cameras to smartphones in every pocket, has proved helpful to criminal investigations—including the one focused on this week's Boston Marathon explosions, Joel Schectman reports on digits. Photo: Getty Images.
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Q. What is the maximum number of multi-conductor cables (for control circuits only) permitted in an 18-inch wide by 4-inch deep ladder type cable tray? The outer diameter of each conductor is 0.5 inches and there will be no equipment-grounding conductor installed within the cable tray. Does the number of allowed cables change if the cable tray has a solid bottom? If so, what is the new number?
Answer: B
Explanation: First, convert the outer diameter of the ½-inch cable to square inches. Why? Because the NEC calculations for determining maximum raceway and cable tray fill are based on the square inch areas of conductors. A simple, but easy formula to use in converting an outer diameter dimension to square inch area is:
Per 392.9(B) of the 2005 NEC, a maximum allowable fill of 50% of the total cross sectional area of a ladder or ventilated cable tray is permitted. The total cross sectional area of cable tray in this example is:
18 inches x 4 inches = 72 inches
50% of 72 inches = 36 inches
36 inches ÷ 0.19635 square inches = 183.34
The 0.34 must be dropped. Rounding up to 184 would be slightly more than 50% fill. Therefore, the total number of cables allowed in the tray is 183.
Per 392.9(D) of the 2005 NEC, a maximum allowable fill of 40% of the total cross sectional area of a solid bottom cable tray is permitted.
40% of 72 inches = 28.80 inches
28.80 inches ÷ 0.19635 = 146.67
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Tremor unnerves East Texans; no damage reported
TIMPSON, Texas - A sharp earth tremor hit a rural East Texas area, causing little reported damage but unnerving residents.
The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the 4.1 magnitude earthquake at 4:52 p.m. CDT Monday centered about 2 miles west-northwest of the town of Timpson. That's about 150 miles east-southeast of Dallas and 60 miles southwest of Shreveport, La.
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Admit it; many of us get satisfaction by seeing villains get what they deserve, but there are times when the "villains" getting their comeuppance are actually innocent. That's the case with one British animator, Dom Del Torto, and his MacBook Pro that was stolen from his London flat. The police's search for fingerprints was unsuccessful and it seemed as if the investigation was going nowhere. Del Torto was understandably upset that his laptop was taken right from his home, so he took it upon his hands to catch the thieves by using Hidden App – a $15 security app that can pinpoint your MacBook's current location and send you pictures taken by the computer's webcam so you can see who's using it.
Del Torto ended up tracing his MacBook, but by the time he found it, one months later, it was no longer in London – it was in Iran. Now, this is where it stops being a tale of a stolen laptop and starts becoming material for Reddit's /r/justiceporn. The animator somehow found it amusing that his laptop made such a lengthy trip that he made a Tumblr called "Dom's laptop is in Iran," and posted pictures of the alleged thieves sent to him by Hidden App.
"It seemed to me that a laptop that went missing from London and turned up in Iran was like a space probe landing on a distant planet and beaming back proof of intelligent life," he wrote on the Tumblr. He originally made the blog for his friends, but it quickly went viral. The bad news? Unlike the redditor who posted pictures of the actual thieves that stole his iPhone (and then were arrested), Del Torto inadvertently posted pictures of innocent people. How Del Torto knows the new owners of his laptop are innocent wasn't explained in the post.
Thankfully, Del Torto didn't post their address or their names (if he managed to get them), and he censored part of their faces. He ended up pulling down all the pictures from his blog after the people in the images reached out to him, and he ultimately issued a public apology, telling them they could keep their laptop to make up for what he did. "The innocent new owners of my laptop have been in touch and are mortified about the story and are keen to return the laptop," Del Torto wrote. Given the huge error of judgement on my part in sharing the story and failing to respect their privacy I have asked them to keep it by means of an apology."
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